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Meet the new CVFRS Corporate Board Corporate President Tom Cosinuke grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from Westtown School and Gettysburg College. Tom has been lucky to live in Vermont for the past 35 years. He is married to a seventh-generation native Vermonter Annie Kelton but is nevertheless still a flatlander. Tom joined Charlotte Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services (CVFRS) three years ago. In addition to consistently attending local training programs he has also attended three Addison County and Lamoille County fire schools. Tom is also certified in both water and ice rescue. In addition, he has passed the CPR for health care workers program. By day, Tom is a chartered financial consultant and is part of team of financial planners and investment advisors serving clients in 18 states.

Corporate Vice President Meg Gilbertson joined CVFRS in 2010.

She is a volunteer emergency medical technician and has certifications in ice and water rescue. She has served in a number of roles with CVFRS, including secretary, assistant chief and chief of rescue and is currently vice president of the corporate board. She works full time as the aquatic invasive species management coordinator for the Lake Champlain Basin Program and New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission.

Meg coordinates management efforts to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species in the basin with federal, state, provincial and local partners in Vermont, New York and Quebec. She has worked for LCBP since 2003. Meg has a B.A. in environmental studies and geology and a M.A. in public administration from the University of Vermont. Meg grew up vacationing on

Lake George every summer, has a great love for water, the great outdoors and fieldwork and lives in Burlington with her husband and son and their dog, Osa.

Corporate Treasurer Frank Koster joined CVFRS in 2016. He moved to Charlotte in 2009 to assume the role of chief investment officer for Dwight Asset Management in Burlington. Dwight was sold to an out-of-state institution in 2012, and Frank has elected to end his 38-year career as an institutional asset manager by starting a private equity fund, focused on Vermont, with his next door neighbor here in Charlotte. Although a native flatlander (Cincinnati, Chicago and Milwaukee), he and his family love Vermont and all things outdoors.

Community Member Julian Kulski has served as a CVFRS community board member since 2014. He graduated from SBHS and UVM. He and his wife, Lisa Boyle, have lived along Charlotte’s southern frontier since 2001. They also share common town roots, having lived in Charlotte as children and as Thompson’s Point camp dwellers. Julian volunteered with Charlotte Fire in the 1990s, while Lisa served in the 1970s and ‘80s as EMT and crew chief on Charlotte Rescue. Julian has worked as an airline pilot since 1979, currently flying Boeing 777 for United Airlines.

Corporate Secretary Bryan LaBarge has been a member of Charlotte Fire since February 2013 and of Charlotte Rescue since April of this year. Bryan is certified in Fire I, Fire II, airport fire fighter, hazmat, water rescue tech, ice water rescue tech, incident command systems 100-800, aircraft rescue and firefighting operator, mobil water supply, pumper

Charlotte Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services Corporate Board: Top row, left to right, Julian Kulski, Bryan LaBarge, Meg Gilbertson. Front row, Dick St. George, Fritz Tegatz, Tom Cosinuke, Frank Koster and Devin St. George. Courtesy photo operator, public telecommunicator I/II, fire instructor I, and emergency medical technician and has spent several hundred hours in training in various other classes for emergency services. Bryan currently is serving with the Vermont Air National Guard as a fire fighter for the United States Air Force and is working full time as a state fire fighter at the Burlington International Airport. Bryan has been a resident of Charlotte for many years, attended CCS and graduated from CVU in 2003. Bryan currently lives in town with his girlfriend, Sarah Willette, and their two dogs, Maddie and CoJack, who he enjoys spending his free time with.

Member at Large Devin St. George is a Charlotte native, who attended both CCS and CVU. He has also earned a B.S. in electrical engineering technology from Vermont Technical College. Devin has served with CVFRS since 2003, when he started as a junior firefighter.

He has since risen to the rank of captain with the Fire Department. He holds the certifications of firefighter II, fire instructor I, extrication technician instructor, ice rescue instructor and water rescue technician. He also serves as a volunteer rescue member, where he is in the process of earning his EMT

see CVFRS page 17

Budget presentations continue

Heather McKim STAFF WRITER

At its Oct. 9 meeting, the Selectboard heard budget proposals for the next fiscal year from five town agencies.

The Listers Office proposed a budget of $61,720, down $6,327 from this year, largely because of reductions in the cost of paying for appraisals next year.

Planning and Zoning projected a drop in anticipated revenue from $53,000 this year to $48,000 next year primarily because of reduction in permit application fees; it also anticipates a reduction in expenses of about $10,500 because of reductions in computer-related expenses

and in the cost of reviewing applications for waste water permits.

The Cemetery Commission requested an increase in its budget from $15,000 this year to $21,700 next year, largely to complete the refencing of the West Burying Ground (Barber Hill) Cemetery.

The commission expects to replace the cemetery fence facing Greenbush Road this fiscal year, then replace the fencing on the other three sides next year. To help fund the project, the commission is offering complimentary copies of Larry and Linda Hamilton’s book, Fences in the Landscape Talk. Are We Listening? to the first 25 people who make donations of at least $25 to support the project.

In reviewing its work this year, the

commission also reported that it had righted a significant number of headstones this year, which together with other changes in the landscape made mowing easier and reduced mowing costs from $5,500 to $2,800.

The Conservation Commission proposed a budget of $6,450, which is $300 above this year’s budget. The proposed budget includes $1,000 for education and outreach to help the commission communicate more effectively with other groups within the town. In addition, the commission noted that the current-year budget item of $1,000 for the Larry Hamilton commemorative calendar, which will feature all-seasons photographs of Charlotte’s “Big Trees,”

will be rolled over into next year for completion.

Finally, the Trails Committee requested a level-funded budget of $1,500. During the past year, the committee completed a large VTrans-funded scoping project, which included three public meetings, to determine the best route for the Town Link Trail off State Park Road and from Co-Housing to the West Village.

The committee was also very active in community outreach, posting on Front Porch Forum and a writing a regular column for The Charlotte News. The committee also asked for $5,000 to be put into the Trails Reserve Fund to be used for matching funds for further trails development.

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The many faces of the East Charlotte

Tractor Parade Photos by Peter Monty

The 17th Annual East Charlotte Tractor Parade was held on Oct. 8. Food vendors, a petting zoo and more were set up. More than 100 tractors rolled passed Spears Corner Store this year.

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Letter More on the Mt. Philo viewshed I read with interest Rep. Mike Yantachka’s commentary (9/20) criticizing the Public Utility Commission’s decision to reject an application for construction of a largescale commercial solar array in the iconic Mt. Philo viewshed. My reaction to the decision was quite different from Mike’s: Finally the PUC “build everywhere” policy seems to have been modified to consider land-use planning in reviewing large-scale commercial solar and wind applications.

Mike’s premise seems to be that large-scale commercial solar array and wind turbine developments are so important to society that, unsightly or not, locations selected by developers should not be questioned. As Mike points

out, we are used to seeing arguably unsightly utility poles and convenience stores. However, there are procedures which review the siting and design of utility lines and convenience stores, such as the proceeding several years ago for the upgrade of the VELCO transmission line, and local zoning and planning which regulate commercial construction.

The bottom line is that there are plenty of sites for large-scale solar development which are not in the Mt. Philo viewshed. Yes, Vermont should be making a contribution to reducing global carbon emissions but respectful of our unique landscape and the touristindustry jobs which depend on it.

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Around Town Edd Merritt CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Congratulations:

to Charlotte resident and Middlebury physician Dr. Jeanne AnderssonSwayze who, as a member of Heart to Heart International’s Disaster Response Team, went to both Florida in September and Puerto Rico recently to give medical aid to storm victims. Her team in Puerto Rico headed inland to small and often remote towns. She ended in Jayuya, a mountain town with approximately 17,000 people, where she said that a challenge was the lack of access to services due to lack of power. Although physicians were challenged by long hours and a shortage of needed items, the townspeople often came to offer volunteer help in whatever way they could. Dr. Andersson-Swayze said to ignore reports saying that Puerto Ricans expect others to pull them out of the crisis. “Although the island is suffering, the people there are compassionate and hard working.” to Charlotte resident and UVM physician Dr. James Hudziak who was featured in an article in the October 12 Burlington Free Press on the university’s Wellness Environment, known as WE. Dr Hudziak, chief of child psychiatry at UVM, said that by developing WE as a living and learning environment, it provides a space where if they “offer young people healthy foods, healthy choices, they’ll make them.” In a recent class titled “Healthy

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Brains, Healthy Bodies,” Dr Hudziak began the section on neuroscience by tossing a brain-shaped football around the auditorium. He said he began WE as a way of ending what he saw as the growth of damaging cultures on campus and, instead, promoting healthy activities. to Eric Lampman, son of Champlain Chocolates’ founder Jim Lampman, who appeared on October 4 Fox 44 News.

Eric took viewers through the Champlain factory explaining how, where and what goes into their various products, noting that maple syrup has been a longtime ingredient in many of them. He said that his father began using the syrup from the business’s start after conferring with a Charlotte neighbor and maple tapper Dave Allen. The company continues to use Dave’s syrup. to the CCS fifth and sixth grade spelling team that finished third in the CVSD Spelling Bee and to the seventh and eighth grade team that went down to the wire before losing in a suddendeath final round.

Sympathy:

is extended to family and friends of Alice M. Hill of Vergennes who passed away October 5 at the age of 87. She was born in Charlotte, the daughter of Arthur and Cecile Roberts. Raised and educated in Vermont, she moved to Connecticut,

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Pease Mountain on Oct. 12. looking west. returning to Vergennes after her husband died in 2015. Surviving members of her family include Suzanne and George Roberts, both of Thompson’s Point. The family asks that those wishing to make donations in her memory consider giving to Saint Peter Church, 85 South Maple Street, Vergennes, VT 05491. is extended to family and friends of Dr. Roger Duvoisin of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who passed away at the age of 90. A neurologist, Dr. Duvoisin played a leading role in the discovery of the genetic basis and the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. He was the first fellow of the Parkinson Disease Foundation and served as Director of the Parkinson Clinic at Columbia University’s Neurological Institute. His surviving family includes his daughter Jeanne Blackmore of Charlotte. is extended to family and friends of Mahlon Haines III of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, who passed away September 26 at the age of 76. After retiring from a career in the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Haines spent a good deal of time in Charlotte.

Sharing his passion for cooking, he became active in the Senior Center, preparing lunches and serving on the board of directors. Those wishing to contribute donations in his name are encouraged to do so to the Humane Society of Harrisburg, 7790 Grayson

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Road, Harrisburg, PA 17111 (www. hunanesocietyhbg.org).

Town Bites: CCS needs leaves

It’s the time of year when leaves fall and we pick them up. If you want to bag them and give them to somebody else to use, please consider dropping of bags of leaves at the northwest corner of Charlotte Central School fields, near the compost shed. Please do not drop off oak leaves (tannins resist rotting) or pine needles (they’re too acidic). Any other deciduous foliage will work well to make compost for the student gardens.

Shredding them beforehand will speed up the process.

Yantachka votes against placing wind turbines farther away from homes Charlotte legislator Mike Yantachka voted against a regulation that would require wind turbines to be placed away from residences by at least ten times the height of the turbine. He agrees that there are a number of reasons to have a setback when designing the projects, but he said with regard to sound standards “I don’t think it’s necessary.” Mike spoke as one of eight legislators on the Committee on Administrative Rules. The regulation was presented as part of a proposed rule on wind turbine noise from the state Public Utility Commission.

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Apple Season

Photos by Lynn Monty

Apple season is a highly anticipated time of year in our area. Kids are back in school, the days are cooler, and Vermont’s apple orchards are brimming with fresh, juicy apples, just waiting to be picked.

Donuts, cider, pies and live entertainment greeted visitors at nearby Shelburne Orchards as always this year.

According to the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers, our state produces around 1,000,000 bushels of apples annually— that’s about 40 million pounds. More than 50 percent of those apples are McIntosh, but there are more than 150 varieties

grown here in our state.

“Apples have always been an important part of Vermont’s agricultural economy and working landscape,” said Anson Tebbetts, Vermont’s secretary of agriculture. “We are seeing a lot of growth in the hard cider category, and of course apples play a big role in attracting tourists to the state this time of year.

We appreciate all our apple growers do to create opportunity in our rural communities.”

To learn more about Vermont’s apple industry visit vermontapples.org.

According to the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers, our state produces around 1,000,000 bushels of apples annually—that’s about 40 million pounds.

Shelburne Orchards owner Nick Cowles on the job surrounded by hundreds of people enjoying the day.

Alex Bunten of Charlotte gives tractor rides at Shelburne Orchards this fall.

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Charlotte Library hosts climate change discussion Carrie Fenn SOLAR COMMUNITY ORGANIZER SUNCOMMON

During a month wrought with hurricanes, wildfires and shocking announcements from the EPA, a group of Champlain Valley residents have been meeting to try to make sense of our changing climate and how these changes affect our communities.

Through a grant administered by PLACE (Public Libraries Advancing Community Engagement), the Charlotte Library has hosted two events coordinated

by Marty Illick, executive director of Lewis Creek Association, and Suzy Hodgson, from the UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture. The first of the

series, titled “Community & Climate” and moderated by Jonathon Silverman, allowed participants to explore what the Charlotte environs means to them personally. The discussion was centered around selected readings from Bill McKibbon’s memoir, Wandering Home, as well as positive steps our communities are taking in regard to climate action and ways we can improve.

The second part of the series, “Our Changing Climate,” held on Oct. 10, featured two documentaries produced by the UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture. The films presented two farms that are taking steps to adapt to the changing climate. Participants reflected on the farmers’ reactions to their new reality, noting how fragile plants are and the difficulty farmers face with unpredictable

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growing seasons and cycles of drought and flooding. Further discussion focused on the effects of temperature increases in Vermont on public health.

“Strategies for a Resilient Community,” the third part of the series, will be held on Oct. 24 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the library.

Readings from Bringing It to the Table

by Wendell Berry and Food, Farms & Community by Lisa Chase will be featured as discussion points. Reading packets can be found on the Charlotte Library website.

For folks interested in learning more about Vermont’s reaction to climate change, energy and efficiency, the Charlotte Energy Committee is hosting two more events at the library. The first, on Nov. 15 at 7 p.m., will be led

by Bill Kallock of the Charlotte Energy Committee. Bill will present information

Charlotte Repair Café set for Nov. 11 Cathy Hunter CONTRIBUTOR

If you are anything like me you have some things around your home that are no longer functional but you can’t bear to part with them. Perhaps you have a favorite sweater with a few too many holes or a toaster or other appliance with a frayed electric cord or a bicycle with dysfunctional brakes. Do you hate the idea of sending these items to the landfill and don’t have the time to research who can fix them? Transition Town Charlotte has a solution for you!

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on heat pump technology and efficiency.

The second, on Nov. 29 at 7 p.m., will focus on solar energy for homes and businesses.

For those interested in learning more about energy policy in Vermont and beyond, Carrie and Peter Fenn will be hosting an open house on Oct. 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. at their home on Lake Road.

Charlotte’s State Representative Mike Yantachka, of the House Energy and Technology Committee, and David Hill, from the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, will be on hand to answer questions. Information on going solar with SunCommon will also be available. RSVP to Carrie at carrie.fenn@suncommon.com for address and more information on the event.

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Church there will be a “Repair Café”— an opportunity for community volunteer fixers to come together and help those of us with things to fix.

Repair cafes have become popular around the world as a way to reform our throw-away culture and bring people in communities together for fun and fixing.

Things that can be repaired by our fixers include clothing, knitted items, small kitchen appliances, bicycles, lamps, cords and plugs, dull knives and tools, small furniture, garden equipment, the tension on sewing machines, and a host of other things that need mending, adjusting or gluing. We can’t guarantee your item will get fixed, but we think you will learn something and have a good time.

Here’s how it works. Gather your beloved but broken items and let us know what you are seeking to get fixed by registering for the event online.

Transition Town Charlotte, the organizer of this event, is a Vermont nonprofit organization that works to strengthen the local economy, reduce our environmental impact, and creatively build our resilience for a future with less cheap energy and a changing climate. Co-sponsors include the Charlotte Grange, the Charlotte Library and the Charlotte Congregational Church. Although there is no charge for the fixing, donations to the Charlotte Food Shelf will be appreciated. Coffee, tea and sweets will be provided by donation, and lunch will be for sale.

For more information or if you are interested in joining our fixers please contact Ruah Swennerfelt at ruahswennerfelt@gmail.com or 802425-3377 or 802-922-2259.

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Town Fresh off the track

Trails talk: Part 4

Small towns and community trails Laurie Thompson CHARLOTTE TRAILS COMMITTEE

Justine Dorsey of Charlotte with Star. The Dorsey family bought this race horse from Ballyclare Farm in Virginia, where he had ended up directly off the track. Justine has been working with him and hopes to ride trails and do hunter/jumper activities. Star is putting on weight and becoming much more acquainted with life off the track. Many track horses meet a less than desirable fate after their winning days are over, so Justine felt compelled to retrain Star and get him into respectable shape. Star is boarded at Country Cedars Farms.

Photo by Mike Dorsey

Upcoming Mee�ngs in the Town of Charlo�e: Selectboard: Oct. 23 at 7 p.m.

Conservation Commission: Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.

Planning Commission: Nov. 2 at 7 p.m.

Energy Committee Meeting: Nov. 7 at 7 p.m.

Zoning Board of Adjustment: Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.

Conservation Commission: Nov. 28 at 7 p.m.

Some key challenges facing many rural American communities today are strengthening and diversifying the economy and attracting the next generations to live in these communities.

To address these challenges, small towns across the country are creating bike/ pedestrian trails to promote local, healthy, environmentally friendly community living.

As noted in an article, Riding the Trail to Revitalization: Rural and Small Town Trail-Oriented Development, by Angela Moreno-Long, January 20, 2017, “The benefits of trails extend beyond just fitness and leisure—trail-based economic development, also known as Trail-Oriented Development (TrOD), is a tool which capitalizes on trails as community amenities and leverages the placemaking and development potential adjacent to trails. TrOD invests in cycling and pedestrian infrastructure to provide high quality transportation and recreation options, create desirable destinations, and ultimately contribute to a livable community.”

Every town has a unique set of variables, so there are a wide variety of approaches to trail-oriented development depending on the goals and size of a community.

In Charlotte, most of our economic development centers on farm tourism and small businesses. Connectivity within the town between these farms, businesses and downtown village with a bike/pedestrian trail, the Charlotte Town Link Trail, can enhance our community.

The Town Link Trail, when it goes from Mount Philo into West Charlotte Village and then on to the beach, will connect our inns (Mt. Philo Inn, Inn at Charlotte, Old Lantern Inn) with farm tourism (Charlotte Berry Farm, Pelkey’s Blueberry Farm) with our stores (Brick Store, Little Garden Market) with our community facilities (Library, Post Office, Senior Center, Town Beach, ball fields). The Town Link Trail will also provide connectivity to our county bus, rail (recent news shows that train travel may return in the near future) and ferry system so residents don’t have to drive yet can still get to Burlington, Middlebury, across the lake and to other

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Attracting the next generations to Charlotte to keep our community vibrant is a worthy activity to pursue as we plan for our future. A VPIRG report from October 2014 titled “Millennials in Motion” states: “Over the last decade, Young Americans have experienced the greatest changes: driving less; taking transit, biking and walking more; and seeking out places to live in cities and walkable communities where driving is an option, not a necessity. Now is the time for the Nation’s transportation policies to acknowledge, accommodate, and support Millennials’ demands for a greater array of transportation choices.”

I recently received an email from a new Charlotte resident who is part of the Millennial generation. In his email he notes, “I recently moved here and purchased a large family home from a couple retiring to a smaller property.

We’re in our thirties and spent the last decade living in a large city where walking and biking are the norm. One of the hardest things about moving to Charlotte is, paradoxically, how hard it is to go for a walk! The traffic speeds are very high and in many places, like Ferry Road, it’s not safe to walk a dog, let alone a baby stroller. We’ve been surprised at how far we need to drive to begin a walk.

I think your assumption that the (Town Link) trail will make the community more attractive, and valuable, to the next generation is very correct.”

The Charlotte Town Link Trail will make our community stronger. The trail will help attract more Millennials and GenX’ers while providing a safe, healthy route for exercise, community gathering, economic connectivity and transportation within our town and to regional bus, rail or ferry transportation.

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Rotary Halloween Parade set to roll Oct. 29

and design your best vehicle with these favorite building blocks. For grades 2–4.

Registration required.

Info and Interest for Adults

News Margaret Woodruff October 15–21: National Friends of Libraries Week. A huge thank you to all of the Friends of the Charlotte Library for the assistance, support and advocacy you provide.

Float from the 2016 Rotary Club of Charlotte-Shelburne-Hinesburg’s Halloween Parade.

Courtesy photo John Hammer CONTRIBUTOR

The Charlotte-Shelburne-Hinesburg Rotary Club will host its very popular Halloween Parade once again on Sunday, Oct 29, at 2 p.m. in Shelburne. It is the only parade of its kind in the area and draws participants and onlookers from all the adjacent towns. This is the 35th year for the Rotary’s management of this popular annual event, and they are already looking forward to greater participation this year.

Flatbed trucks and trailers covered with hay bales are massed on Church Road in front of the parade. They are available as “come-as-you-are floats” on which costumed children from the community can ride and take their own part in the parade.

The parade begins at Shelburne’s Church Street and Falls Road intersection and runs south through the neighborhoods and returns back along Mt. Philo Road.

Neighborhood and company groups from Charlotte, Shelburne and Hinesburg often enter floats on which children have

the opportunity to dress up and play out their Halloween fantasies. Candy often plays a part. There are also walking groups who suit up and participate in the hijinks. Prizes are offered. Information may be obtained from Float Chair Judy Christensen at Judith.Christensen@uvm. edu before October 22.

At the conclusion of the parade, participants and spectators are invited to carefully cross Route 7 to the Shelburne Community Plaza where individual costume judging will take place in the gym. Over at the firehouse, there will be free hotdogs and drinks while a band plays in the corner. A few games will also be played on the fringes of the plaza.

Besides having fun, a critical consideration is the safety of parade participants and onlookers. The main problem in the past has been that candy, thrown from the floats and meant for the crowd, has landed too close to trucks.

Kids tend to dart out to get “that special piece of candy.” Adult supervision is requested in helping to maintain safety of all concerned.

Seed Library Update

Thank you to everyone who participated in Seed Library activities this year. If you grew out heritage seeds from the Library this season and are planning to save them…… great! We hope you will plant those next year and save seeds again.

It’s fun and very satisfying to know that you are helping maintain a precious gene pool of vegetables, herbs and flowers that have evolved naturally to be hardy and appreciated in this area. They are open pollinated and not hybrids, so they need no human intervention to reproduce true. We just need to keep planting (and enjoying) them to keep those varieties going.

We will be simplifying and reorganizing the Seed Library this winter. Watch for informative articles in The Charlotte News to “plant seeds” for next season’s activities. If you would like to help with the Seed Library, please contact Linda Hamilton (ferntip@gmavt.net).

Kids Programs & Activities

Tuesdays at 2:15 p.m. After School Story Explorations. Take the bus from CCS and explore the world of stories!

For kindergarten and 1st grade students.

Registration required.

Thursdays at 3:15 p.m. Coding Club.

Beginners will learn to code with Scratch through guided video lessons to make their own simple games. Members with more experience will plan and create their own using skills they’ve learned. Chromebooks and earbuds provided, or BYO. For 4th grade and up. Registration required.

Fridays at 10:30 a.m. Preschool Story Time. Join us for stories, songs, crafts and fun as we discover the wonder of books and the tales they tell. For children ages 3–5 who are comfortable in a story-time setting with or without parent/caregiver.

Registration required.

Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 3:15 p.m.

Afterschool Program: Coding for Kids.

Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 3:15 p.m.

Afterschool Program: LEGOs That Go! Cars, trucks and more. Discover

Wednesday, Oct. 18, at 6–8 p.m. Artist Open House. Join Mickey Davis, our current artist displaying glass artwork, for a question and answer session about her fused-glass art. Her work is also presently displayed at the Shelburne Museum, the Montpelier and Williston Welcome Centers, the Charlotte Senior Center and Ann Roche Furniture. Come in for cider and sweets and enjoy.

Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. Climate Change & Our Community, Part 3: Strategies for a Resilient Community.

This public program shares adaptive strategies for managing environmental challenges that affect your homes and communities. With inspiration from Wendell Berry and others, we’ll generate ideas that can take root in our own backyards, school yards and public institutions. Reading packet available at the circulation desk. Co-sponsored by the Pierson Library in Shelburne, the Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg, the Champlain Valley Union High School ENACT Club, the Lewis Creek Association and the UVM Extension Center for Sustainable Agriculture.

Registration required. Supported by a grant from NOAA, NSF and Califa.

Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. Sense and Sensibility Book Discussion. Part two of our multi-media Austen experience features the 1995 movie with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet as Sense and Sensibility, respectively. Refreshments served and conversation encouraged.

Tuesday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. Great Decisions: Prospects for Afghanistan & Pakistan. Join us to discuss yet another hot-button area of American foreign policy. Major internal conflict has plagued Afghanistan for four decades. Today, war with the Taliban persists, and tensions between the U.S. and Pakistan have gradually escalated. Does the U.S. face a no-win situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Reading materials available at the circulation desk. Registration suggested.

Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m. Don Stevens: Native American Folk Art and Folk Lore. Don Stevens is Chief of the Nulhegan band of the Coosuk Abenaki. He shares the art and legend of the Abenaki in this interactive presentation. Cosponsored with the Charlotte Historical Society.

Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. Great Decisions: Nuclear Security. Nuclear nonproliferation was a top priority for the Obama administration, but major threats persist from both state and non-state actors with the Trump administration. In a fractious world, which way forward for U.S. nuclear security policy? Reading materials available at the circulation desk.

Registration suggested.

The Charlotte News • October 18, 2017 • 9

Town Benefit concert for Hurricane Irma a success

Halloween in Steamboat Springs

By Jorden Blucher We four proceed into the night minds masked by alcohol, our laughter and voices stretching before us.

Dressed not as ourselves we make our way into the mayhem of sports fans and pirates.

Kitchen passes in hand we play wingman as best three married men can.

The crush of the crowd grows as creatures of the night emerge, their dress revealing their inner-most secrets.

An old man, his nightly ritual to sit at this bar alone, looks up from his beer stein, eyes sparking, barely clothed maidens talking through him.

He appears so happy for a moment before being masked again by the crowd.

We make our way out to the wild yet seemingly quiet streets to another bar where calm is shattered by the band and yelled conversations.

With time growing short, our wingman duties complete, we head for home in the cool mountain night.

About 150 people attended a benefit concert at The Old Lantern on Oct. 6 to benefit victims of Hurricane Irma on St. John and St.Thomas islands. Josh Panda, one of Vermont’s premier rock and roll artists, performed. About $8,000 was raised at the event for St. John Rescue and the Reform Church of St. Thomas, both of which have been providing food, supplies and support to victims of Hurricane Irma.

Photo by Lee Krohn

Get involved in town government!

The Selectboard is looking for interested citizens to fill the following vacancies: Planning Commission—1 vacancy with a term ending in April 2019 West Charlotte Village Wastewater Advisory Committee—1 vacancy with a term ending in April 2018 Energy Committee—1 vacancy with a term ending in April 2019 Trails Committee—1 vacancy with a term ending in April, 2019 Conservation Commission—1 vacancy with a term ending in April 2021 Interested applicants should email, call or stop by the office for more information.

Dean Bloch, town administrator Charlotte Town Office P.O. Box 119 Charlotte, VT 05445 Email: dean@townofcharlotte.com Phone: 425-3533

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Town

Puff the magic mushrooms Staff report Audubon Vermont teacher/naturalist Gwen Causer said it’s been spectacular weather for all sorts of edible mushrooms.

“The rain we had in early September is paying off now,” she said.

This image captured by Melissa Write of large puff mushrooms at her home in Addison is similar to many posts on social media that have sparked a unintentional contest of sorts as to who has the biggest soccer-ball-type mushroom on their front lawn.

Kids love dissecting these because when they pop them open mysterious

smoke (mushroom spores) appears. But why are they so big, plentiful and popular this year? Well these humor-inciting finds love sunshine. Add to that, more rain means more mushrooms in general.

Ari Rockland Miller, Vermont’s expert mushroom forager, said the white flesh of these mushrooms is edible. But the jury is out on those of us who have issues with texture. Puff mushrooms have a consistency a bit like Styrofoam.

Make sure to note these are much tastier at the start of the season—by late fall they are better used to dish up some fun conversation rather than on any plate for eating.

Charlotte Public Safety Log

As submitted by the Shelburne Police Department

Wednesday Sept. 9 - Sept. 17 Saturday, Sept. 9

It’s been a spectacular fall for all sorts of edible mushrooms like these puff mushrooms.

Photo by Melissa Write of Addison

01:51 Medical Call GUINEA RD, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

Sunday, Sept. 10

07:36 Fire Assist PINE HAVEN SHORES RD; BLUE LINX, Shelburne.

Charlotte Fire assisted Shelburne Fire and a commercial fire alarm activation.

17:29 Medical Call LAKE RD, Charlotte.

Caller reported a medical emergency.

Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient refused transport to the hospital.

Monday, Sept. 11

04:46 Medical Call FERRY RD, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

09:10 Fire Call THOMPSONS POINT RD, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a vehicle fire. Charlotte Fire, Rescue and Ferrisburgh Fire were dispatched. The fire was extinguished, no reported injuries.

Tuesday, Sept. 12

13:32 Medical Call HINESBURG RD, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

16:05 Medical Assist WAKE ROBIN DR; WAKE ROBIN, Shelburne.

Charlotte Rescue assisted Shelburne Rescue at a medical call. The patient was transported to the hospital by Charlotte Rescue.

Thursday, Sept. 14

08:50 Medical Call HARBOR RD, Shelburne. Charlotte Rescue assisted

Shelburne Rescue at a medical call. The patient was transported to the hospital by Charlotte Rescue.

12:54 Rescue Call HINESBURG RD; CENTRAL SCHOOL, Charlotte.

Elevator emergency call, no one on line. Charlotte Fire and Rescue were dispatched. The elevator alarm was determined to be accidental.

20:12 Fire Alarm PLOUFFE FARM LN, Charlotte. Caller reported fire alarm activation. Charlotte Fire and Rescue were dispatched. The alarm was determined to be a false alarm.

Saturday, Sept. 16

14:59 Medical Assist SHELBURNE RD; TOWN OFFICE COMPLEX, Shelburne.

Charlotte Rescue assisted Shelburne Rescue at a medical call. The patient refused transport to the hospital.

15:21 Medical Assist OCKERT LN, Shelburne. Charlotte Rescue assisted Shelburne Rescue at a fire alarm call. No injuries were reported.

16:58 Medical Call ETHAN ALLEN HWY, Charlotte. Caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

17:34 Medical Call MOUNT PHILO RD, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue and Shelburne Rescue were dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital by Shelburne Rescue.

Sunday, Sept. 17

18:52 Medical Call ETHAN ALLEN HWY, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

The Charlotte News • October 18, 2017 • 11

Town

Food Shelf News Kerrie Pughe CONTRIBUTOR

Holiday preparations

Please join us in preparing Thanksgiving baskets for approximately 30 Charlotte families. We’ll meet in the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry on Friday, Nov. 17, from 8 until about 10 a.m. This is a festive occasion and all are welcome. The baskets will be distributed to families in need the following morning. Please also mark your calendars for Friday, Dec. 15, same place and time, to assemble the Christmas/Holiday baskets. Bring your friends and just show up—we love the help!

The Holiday Wishing Trees will go up soon at the Charlotte Congregational Church and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. Everyone is welcome to pick a wish tag from the tree that indicates a child’s holiday toy wish. You may wrap the gifts and attach the wish tag and then drop the gifts back at the church before the Dec. 15 basket preparations.

Gift idea

As the holiday season approaches, consider a donation to the Food Shelf in honor or memory of friends and loved ones. Checks may be mailed to the address indicated below. We will mail a confirmation/acknowledgment to any address provided on nice holiday themed stationery/cards.

Some statistics and financial information

We held our annual volunteers meeting on Sept. 21 at the Charlotte Senior Center. Thirteen regular volunteers attended, and we shared some statistics and financial information and discussed new ideas of how to better provide for the community. For fiscal year September 2016 through August 2017, our revenue from grants and donations totaled $36,612. Our expenditures totaled $28,523. Expenditures included

purchases from the Vermont Foodbank, Costco, Hannaford and other food shopping, as well as Shoe In program and children’s clothing purchases and fuel/utility/other emergency assistance.

We have accumulated some cash we hold in a CD for emergency purchases.

For example, our aging commercial refrigerator/freezer may need to be replaced soon. During the fiscal year, we provided food and assistance to an average of 20 families each winter month and an average of 13 families each summer month.

Thank you

Thank you to the Shelburne Market coffee bar and the Charlotte Organic Coop for your ongoing support. Thank you to Jeannette Thibault and Margaret Berlin for your support this month.

Happy birthday to Hannah Stein, and thank you to Annika Gruber for the eight filled-to-the-brim grocery bags given in Hannah’s honor. And thank you to Heidi Pecott-Grimm for the fresh eggs.

Thanks to the many gardeners this fall.

Our table was filled with many local varieties of vegetables. CCS secondgrade students in Kris Gerson’s class harvested cherries, squash and different varieties of cherry tomatoes. Thank you for the beautiful presentation as well! Valerie Graham dropped off fresh zucchini from her garden. John and Sue Lavigne brought in eggplants; John also helped harvest the Congregational Church garden bounty of tomatoes, broccoli, eggplant and peppers. Thanks also to the anonymous gardener for the box of yellow squash. Thank you to Abby Foulk for delivering veggies and to Bill Doris for picking up at CCS. It was a colorful final harvest of red onions, potatoes and squash.

A recent note to the Food Shelf said, “Thank you very much for being there for the needy.” All of the Food Shelf volunteers would like to thank all of our supporters. Volunteers cannot do this work without the support of a dedicated community that thoughtfully makes sure there is food on the shelves when it is needed!

Grange sale/Children’s Winter Wear Program Thank you to the Grange members and Food Shelf volunteers who helped outfit kids in need with winter outerwear during the Grange sale. We appreciate all the donations from the community!

We were able to fully outfit seven

children for the upcoming winter months.

Good and cheap

The Food Shelf took advantage of a wonderful opportunity offered by Workman Publishing in New York. At a special discounted price available only to nonprofit organizations serving people in need, we ordered 36 cookbooks titled Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4 a Day by Leanne Brown.

The cookbook features 152 recipes for families on a tight budget, specifically on the SNAP/Food Stamp program. It is filled with delicious, healthful recipes backed by ideas that will make everyone who uses it a better cook. Volunteers are looking forward to distributing the books.

Will you volunteer?

We are looking for volunteers who can act as substitutes on our distribution days as well as volunteers to help us stack shelves once a month. Please call Karen Doris at 425-3252 if you can help. This is a wonderful opportunity to work with a small group of committed individuals who are making a difference at a local level.

Wish list

We appreciate donations of healthy after-school snacks for children such as dried fruit, granola bars, instant oatmeal packs, butter-free popcorn, saltfree nuts, canned fruit in juice, peanut butter, juice boxes (no sugar added) and low-sodium soups. In addition we need spaghetti sauce, crackers, Cheerios and Rice Krispies cereal, pancake mix and tea. Thank you!

New Facebook Page

Click “Like” on our new Facebook page Charlotte Community Food Shelf and Assistance to see photos and get updates on all the Food Shelf activities.

Donations

much for considering donating today.

Checks may be mailed to Charlotte Food Shelf & Assistance, P. O. Box 83, Charlotte, VT 05445.

Donated food drop-off locations

All nonperishable food donations may be dropped off at the Charlotte Library, the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church (main entrance) or at the Food Shelf during the distribution mornings. We request that all fresh foods be dropped off at the Food Shelf before the Wednesday distribution hours or before 7:30 a.m. on the Thursday distribution mornings.

The Charlotte Food Shelf is located on the lower level of the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry.

Distribution days/times are posted in this newspaper and on the bulletin board in the Charlotte Congregational Church Hall. You may also call the Food Shelf number (425-3252) for a recording of the distribution times.

We are open to all community residents. Privacy is very important and respected in our mission of neighbor helping neighbor. For emergency food call John 425-3130. For emergency assistance (electricity, fuel) call Cindi at 425-3234. For more information call Karen at 425-3252.

Important Upcoming 2017 Charlotte Food Shelf Distribution Dates

Wednesdays, Oct. 25, Nov. 8 and 29, 5–7 p.m.

Thursdays, Oct. 26, Nov. 9 and 30, 7:30–9 a.m.

Friday, Nov. 17, 8–10 a.m., Thanksgiving basket set up by volunteers Saturday, Nov. 18, Basket distribution times to be announced

We are a volunteer organization, so all donations you make to the Food Shelf go directly for food or assistance to our local neighbors in need. Thank you so

Katie Manges

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Rokeby Museum donates items to Charlotte Historical Society Dan Cole CONTRIBUTOR

Jane Williamson of Rokeby Museum contacted our historical society about items she had received pertaining to the Dean family of East Charlotte that she felt were more appropriate to our museum.

Included was a remarkable portrait album in a heavy leather binding, with gilded edges and a bronze hasp and lock. They were gratefully accepted, even though we have some work to do to identify the old photographs.

Using these items, here is a story about Lindley Richard Dean, born December 28, 1887 in Charlotte, which was revealed using as the starting point one of the items: his composition book for his freshman English class at Dartmouth in his first college semester in 1905.

Lindley’s father was James Richard Dean, born September 12, 1858, in Charlotte, and his mother was Mary Alma Collins (she went by “Alma”), born January 27, 1861, in Monkton, daughter of Lewis L. Collins and Louisa J. (Nye) Collins. One of the artifacts received from Rokeby is a quilt square she worked with her initials and an elaborate vining embellishment.

His grandparents were Joshua Meader Dean, born April 29, 1823, in Lincoln, Vermont, and Lucy Miles, born May 13, 1819, in Stanwell, Middlesex, England.

It was the fusion of two Quaker families of East Charlotte and Monkton. Lucy was a daughter of Lindley’s greatgrandparents Henry Adolphus and Mary (Hagen) Miles. Henry had been baptized Anglican, but at age 20 and after his father died, he became a member of the Society

of Friends in England, emigrating to Monkton via Canada. In the 1840s Henry was a member of the Vermont Peace Society, an articulate Quaker preacher and author who in the 1850s founded the Vermont Free-Produce Movement to boycott all goods produced by slave labor. After the Civil War he became a leader in the Freedman’s Aid Society.

When Lindley’s parents were married, Henry and Mary (Hagen) Miles sent their grandson and new wife a letter (another of the items received) on December 30, 1881, expressing their joy in their own marriage of over 64 years and their prayers for James and Alma in their union. Unfortunately, it was to be a short union as James died in 1893 in his 35th year.

Lindley’s older brother, Lewis James Dean, never seemed to know what he should do after graduating from high school. He was a rural mail carrier in Charlotte for many years, married and moved to southern California where he took several jobs, including mail carrier, pipe fitter and caretaker at a public school.

Lindley, however, was one of those rare souls who knew what he wanted to be from his earliest days—a teacher. In his first college essay for Mr. Emery’s English class, he wrote that he desired teaching to be his life’s work; he wanted to be a molder of youth. He went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth in 1909, his Master of Arts from Princeton in 1910, and his Ph.D. in classical languages from Princeton in 1914.

He taught briefly at Princeton before being accepted at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece,

James Richard Dean from the portrait album.

Joshua Meader Dean from the portrait album.

Courtesy photos

where he was a fellow of the School of Archeology for 1914-1915. He returned to take a position as a professor of classical languages at Dartmouth. While at Dartmouth, he had to sign up for the military draft for World War I. Lindley continued in his great-grandfather’s footsteps when he claimed exemption from service as a conscientious objector due to membership in the Society of Friends.

Not surprisingly he transferred to a similar position at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Earlham College is a private liberal arts college established in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends.

Here he met and in 1920 married fellow

teacher Belle Wierman Bream from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He taught at Earlham from 1918 through 1921 when he became the Eliam E. Barney Professor of Classical Languages at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where he served from 1922 to his retirement in 1963 at age 75.

Lindley Richard Dean fulfilled the dreams of his Charlotte childhood to be a life-long teacher and helped shape the lives of thousands of youths; he died as a professor emeritus in Granville, Ohio, on May 20, 1976, in his 89th year, and is buried with his wife in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg.

Letter to James Richard and Alma Collins Dean from Henry and Mary (Hagen) Miles

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The Charlotte News • October 18, 2017 • 13

Education

An interview with Elaine Pinckney and Meagan Roy Submitted by the Champlain Valley School District Board of Directors Dear CVSD community, We are off to an amazing start. The process and early outcomes of consolidating the governance of our schools to create the Champlain Valley School District (CVSD) are surpassing our hopes. While the transition has required tireless hours from the central office staff, it has been both positive and smooth. More important, we are beginning to realize the multiple opportunities from this merger, opportunities that will positively impact student learning—and that is what gets all of us excited. To better explain the learning opportunities that we are capturing, we went right to CVSD Superintendent Elaine Pinckney with some questions.

Q: Tell us, what are the primary outcomes you hope to gain from the merger?

Elaine: Our goal for this merger is to provide the most effective education system—one that provides all of our students the greatest educational opportunities, ensures equity across all of our schools and provides operational efficiencies that will reduce costs over time.

Q: Those are certainly noble goals. What are some concrete steps you are taking to achieve them?

Elaine: We are focusing on best practices in all areas and providing opportunities to learn from each other, both at the teacher and administrator level. We are developing ways to better understand the differences that exist across the district, to evaluate the efficacy of our practices and to come to agreement about what must be the same,

The Potato Assassin

He lifted the knife. It was a smooth, cold, bone blade counter weighing a heavy, steel blade. He dropped the knife, slicing through the skin and grinding the flesh until he got through the victim.

Then with a few last slices to make sure it wasn›t going to be too big to swallow, he dropped the potato into the stew. The job was done, and his reward for the murder was to be able to eat that night.

He was the notorious hitman of fruits, the murderer of meat, the killer of carrots and other vegetables, the butcherer of bananas, and, the potato assassin. Dun… dun… dun!

Will Sprigg Grade 6

I Am So Energetic

I Am So Energetic I interrupt a lot.

I Am So Energetic I could run around the world.

I Am So Energetic I feel like I just drank 100 gallons of coffee.

in the name of equity, and what can be different. In the process we believe that our system will mature into one that provides the best opportunities for our students in the most efficient way.

Q: You mention “provide all of our students the greatest educational opportunities,” can you tell us more specifically how you are working to meet that goal?

Elaine: The first opportunity is to a worldclass education. Our focus on learning proficiencies, learning design and growth indicators opens the door for each and every student to develop the skills, knowledge and dispositions required in a complex world.

Our commitment to personalization ensures that all students will develop to the full extent of their interests and abilities.

Q: How are you proposing to balance equity of resources and opportunities among schools, while maintaining the individuality that makes each of the schools special?

Elaine: We are having deep discussions about which areas and practices are fundamental to a quality education and which are discretionary. We have developed systems to understand how our resources are allocated. This has led to discussions about the best way to structure a particular component—from class size and configuration, to intervention models, to administrator structure. This in turn has led to discussions about the efficacy of particular models or structures. It brings us back to effectiveness and efficiency: the best educational system at the best cost.

Since we were also curious about the opportunities our merger will offer special

I Am So Energetic I could play in a world cup soccer game. ​I Am So Energetic I could carry the whole school. ​​​​​​​ Sawyer Carr Grade 6

Leaves

Two different leaves from two different trees flow down to lie on the ground. They have been released into the open world: Many places to see. Many places to go.

But it starts right there on the muddy, autumn ground. As the two leaves lie next two each other, ready to travel, to see the world, they are ready for the harsh wind to blow, to take them to new, fresh places.

It stops. No wind just stillness. As they sit and wait for something to happen, they realize that the world is different than they thought. It’s not all about changing and moving. Sometimes it’s about looking around and trying to find the happiness you already have in the moment.

Estelle Emmons Grade 6

education, we next spoke with Meagan Roy, CVSD’s director of special services.

Q: What opportunities from the merger have been captured immediately and what opportunities from the merger are on the horizon?

Meagan: Special education has the advantage of having begun the work of consolidation more than two years ahead of the full consolidation of the district, so we’ve been able to realize these opportunities already. I would say the biggest opportunity we’ve had is being able to move forward a common vision for instruction and intervention. Our work toward consolidation has meant unifying our practices and programming across the district. Secondary to this, but related, is that we’ve been able to look closely at special education staffing patterns across the district and have begun the (much slower) process of creating equity.

Q: What is remaining the same, even though we have merged, that is noteworthy to tell us?

Meagan: In special education, the part of our work that we›ve not changed is our belief that decisions regarding special education are best made when they are done by those closest to the student, and therefore we’ve maintained a strongly building-based leadership and decision-making structure.

We have identified high-level standards of practice that outline our beliefs about what works for students and ensure that decisions are in alignment with those practices, but beyond that, decisions are local.

Next month’s article will explore the impact the merger has had on our finance

system and budget process.

On the topic of finances, don’t miss CVSD’s community budget forum on Tuesday, Nov. 7, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at CVU. This will be a great opportunity to understand CVSD’s budget process and financial outlook, especially now that we are consolidated. In adddition, this will be an ideal time to engage with the principals and board members around what you value most in our schools. In order to make it accessible to families, childcare and kid food will be provided. Since we really want to hear what is on your mind, we are also providing an online CVSD community input form for those who cannot attend. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Kind regards, The CVSD Board of Directors CVSD Community Budget Forum Come Share What Is On Your Mind Tuesday Nov. 7, 2017, 6–7:30 p.m. CVU High School, Rm. 160 Family friendly: childcare, and food for children provided.

-Discuss what you value most in your school.

-Learn about CVSD’s financial outlook -Gain understanding of our updated budget process.

-Hear principals review the state of their school.

CVSD Community Input Form. We Want to Hear Your Thoughts Until Nov. 26 you can give us your input online at tinyurl.com/ CVSDCommunityInputForm Follow us online at cvsdvtorg or at facebook.com/ ChamplainValleySchoolDistrict/

14 • October 18, 2017 • The Charlotte News

Sports

Machavern Wins Drivers’ Championship

Dillon Machavern The Fox Factory 120 at Road Atlanta marked the end of the 2017 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge season; the first year of the GT4 technical specifications. Some would say the duo of Machavern and Murcott had a solid lead heading into the weekend. Others crunched the numbers and thought it too close for comfort.

During the season announcers nicknamed the pair and referred to Dillon Machavern and Dylan Murcott during broadcasts and interviews as the Dillon’s, D2 , a pair of twenty-somethings. The crew joked that it made radio communications between the pit box and the driver easy because there was always a Dillon/Dylan behind the wheel.

With 10 challenging rounds of competition over a 10-month season in the books, the pathway to the championship wasn’t easy for Machavern and Murcott or the RS-1 crew. Along the way, the pair campaigned the No. 28 RS1 Porsche GT4 MR to 4 podium finishes, a victory at Virginia International Raceway and 3 second place finishes at Mosport, Lime Rock Park and Road America, a trio of fourth place finishes at Daytona, COTA and Laguna Seca, and three bumps in the road at Sebring, Watkins Glen and Road Atlanta.

The team’s resolve was tested on the

final day of competition. During qualifying and after posting a time to place them 4th on the grid, the No. 28 suffered an engine failure. As the cockpit filled with smoke, the crew and drivers were not going to let the season end that way. The team immediately undertook the daunting task of swapping out a motor in record time to get the No. 28 to the false grid. The No. 28 would start the race from 13th. The goal was to race for position, take care of the car and but by all means bring it home to the checker. Sounds easy but proved a challenge for both drivers. Murcott drove the opening stint reporting issues early on but brought the car to pit lane during the second full course caution in 9th. A spectacular pit stop by the crew for fuel, tires and driver change had Machavern up to P2 when the field went back to green flag racing. The directive, simply maintain and bring the car to the checker. Problems with the replacement engine and a failing catalytic converter put the car in protection mode, limiting the performance of the car thus forcing Machavern to give back positions and slip back to P9 by the time the checker was displayed. “The hardest part of racing is letting cars pass you. It’s not in your DNA but the team communications were clear, bring it home to the checker.”

Machavern said.

At the end of the day, Dillon Machavern of Charlotte and Dylan Murcott of Ancram, NY were the 2017 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Series Grand Sport (GS) Drivers’ championship, the top class in the series, in the No. 28 RS1 Porsche Cayman GT4 MR with a total of 279 points, a slim 13 and 14 points respectively ahead of the second and third place teams. RS1, in its first season competing in GS, earned the Team Championship and Porsche the Manufacturers’ Championship.

“This title is absolutely incredible,” Machavern said. “It’s a huge team effort for all the boys at RS1. They worked so hard all season and today just showed what they’re willing to do in order to take home a title.”

The entire season was telecast on FOX Sports 1 and is available at IMSA.com and on IMSA’s YouTube Channel.

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State golf titles elude CVU

Both men and women Redhawk golfers came close in the Division I state championships. The men played 18 holes over the par 71 Green Mountain National course, losing to Essex by only three strokes. Andrew Wilkinson and Ben Grambling led CVU with 84s.

Evan Forrest shot one stroke behind them and Hank Caswell came in at 87.

Six school teams participated at the division I level.

CVU women landed fourth of 10 teams at Proctor-Pittsford, a par-70 course. Elana Godbout and Gabriela Torrens-Sperry each stroked 110.

Medalist Julia Dapron of Burr and Burton had an 82.

Early October saw the last goal against CVU women

Still undefeated as the season nears its end, the Redhawk women’s soccer team is not only victorious, defense is the team’s real strength. If memory serves me, they have only been scored upon twice this season. After their 3-0 shutout of Essex, their record stands at 11-0. Three different players, Hanna Swett, Sydney Jimmo and Charlotte Hill, hit the Hornet net, Charlotte’s on a penalty kick. In goal, Maryn Askew earned the shutout.

Soccer men go one win and two losses in last three games

Coming back after being shut out by St Johnsbury and losing a tight 2-1 game at Burlington, the Redhawks tipped Colchester on Nicholas Durieux’ goal with just under four minutes left in the first half. Both goalies were quite even in their saves, CVU’s Isaac Cleveland 8, the Lakers’ goalie 9. That game, following losses to St. Johnsbury and Burlington, stands the Redhawks at 9-3 on the season. A few days prior, BHS earned a split with CVU for the season with two goals from Bienfait Badibanga. A well-played and tight match between these two rivals, players from both teams high-fived their opponents at the game’s end, despite a

brief scuffle in the BHS stands.

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Woods Trail Run brought runners from throughout New England and New York to Thetford Academy. As a team, the CVU women came out on top.

Consistency, not individual speed, was the name of the game. Ella Whitman finished eighth, followed closely by Alice Larson in ninth and, all told, five runners within the top 35. Scoring 74, the Redhawks were 47 points ahead of second-place Burlington. Sadie Holmes and Isabelle Mittlestadt represented Charlotte in the race, finishing close to each other—Sadie finishing in 45th place and Isabelle in 47th.

On the men’s side, another Vermont school was the winner. U-32 again nudged BHS into second. CVU finished ninth out of 50 men’s teams. They averaged just over eighteen and one-half minutes over the 5-kilometer course.

Charlotte’s Seamus Higgins, Sean Gilliam, Skyler Heininger and Andrew Silverman ran for the Redhawks.

Four in a row for field hockey

CVU field hockey stands at 7 wins and 4 losses after two recent victories.

Behind Flynn Hall’s hat trick and Bella Rieley’s two goals, CVU topped U-32 8–2. They followed that with a 3–0 shutout of rival Middlebury.

Three different players scored for the Redhawks, and goalie Kristy Carlson was called upon to make only one save.

Keeping the ball at midfield and in the Tiger zone was the name of the game.

Football fumbles in the Kingdom

Ouch! Fifty-seven to 13 brought CVU down at St. Johnsbury Saturday night.

The Hilltoppers sped out to a 50-0 lead in the third quarter before CVU got on the board with two touchdowns, too late. One of them saw Charlotte’s Zaq Urbaitel score on a 31-yard run.

The week before, the Hawks flew away from Wolf country in South Burlington with a 20-6 win in a game that was knotted at 6-6 at halftime. Led by a couple of interceptions that resulted in touchdowns, two by Charlotte’s Andrew Tieso broke the deadlock in the third quarter. The two-week split brings CVU’s season record to 3 wins, 4 losses.

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Coaches vs. Cancer

CVU field hockey hosted a Coaches vs. Cancer game and fundraiser on Oct. 17 at CVU. Courtesy photo Alyssa Chase from the CVU field hockey team submitted this image of her team that organized a Coaches vs. Cancer game and fundraiser for the American Cancer Society this week. The team played and ran two fundraising activities—a sale and a 50/50 raffle—during the varsity game.

“We’ve also started an online fundraising campaign so that friends and family near and far can support this great cause even if they cannot come to the game,” Chase said..

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CVU girls volleyball with coach Mike Detch. The team is currently 9 and 2 in the season.“Wearehavingafabulousseasonandenjoyingthecontinuallyincreasinglevel of play in the state of Vermont,” Coach Mike Detch said. “We have two games left in the season and then we head into playoffs. I am very proud of the team. Not only are they great athletes but they are also great people too.We have participated in several volunteer organizations throughout the year and have given back to the community in many ways.”

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Fused glass with Mickey Davis Staff report Maxine (Mickey) Davis is exhibiting fused glass work at the Charlotte Library throughout the month of October. The opening is at 6 p.m. on Oct. 18 at the library, and Davis will be there to answer questions about the artwork.

“Color and whimsy. That’s my passion,” Davis said. “Color permeates my art, and together with my sense of whimsy I try to bring forth playfulness and humor

to my viewer.”

Davis trained in art at the University of Vermont, St. Michael’s, Champlain College, CCV and Burlington College, as well as through the Osher Life Long Institute at Coastal Carolina University. After working exclusively with painting mediums, her direction channeled into glass, which she has been doing exclusively since 2007.

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Last year we were able to donate over 54,000 diapers, bringing our nine-year total to over 250,000 diapers.

Dee Physical Therapy, located in South Burlington, Shelburne and Hinesburg, has been collecting diapers annually around the holiday season for families in need who are temporarily living in COTS shelters. (COTS, the Committee on Temporary Shelter, serves the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in Vermont.) We are hoping to make the Dee PT Great Diaper Drive 2017 the biggest donation year to date.

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Fire Chief Dick St. George joined the department in 1982 while still in high school as a third-generation member alongside his sister. Several years later he left CVFD but served on other area departments until he moved back to Charlotte in 1995. He has served the department and community in every position from firefighter to chief. Dick is a nationally certified fire instructor in multiple fields, including water and ice rescue, thermal imaging, motor vehicle extraction, large vehicle extrication and compressed air foam. He also works bloodhounds for search and rescue operations. Dick works for a familyowned construction company, which allows him the flexibility to respond for calls and trainings. He has five children who also have served on Charlotte Fire as firefighters and officers and on Charlotte Rescue as EMS personnel. His wife, Dawn, is a member of the department auxiliary.

Rescue Chief Kevin Romano has served since September of 2016 and lives here with his wife and daughter. His career started in fire and rescue in 1999 in Shapleigh, Maine, as a firefighter/

of 80,000 diapers! Donations will be accepted from Oct. 25 through Dec. 18.

In the past we have had donations from local companies, such as Hannaford and Seventh Generation, as well as from patients, coworkers, political figures and neighbors.

With your participation, we hope to achieve our goal.

Diapers can be dropped off at any of our three locations. If the drop-off sites are inconvenient, we are willing to travel to you to pick up donations. Our three drop-off sites are Dee Physical Therapy at 23 San Remo Drive, South Burlington; Dee Physical Therapy at the Field House, 166 Athletic Drive, Shelburne; and Dee Physical Therapy at 52 Farmall Drive, Hinesburg.

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Staff report Charlotter-owned Vermont Works Management Company LLC, in partnership with Big Path Capital, hosted the first Vermont Investors Summit on Oct. 16 at the new Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center.

The event was designed specifically for local companies seeking early and growth-stage funding to meet with socially minded investors from Vermont and elsewhere. Selected companies showcased their unique investment opportunities, and investors gained insight into the larger Vermont innovation ecosystem.

The evening featured a multi-round “speed dating” session, a keynote speech

by Anna-Marie Wascher, the CEO and founder of Flat World Partners, a next generation investment firm focused on

forward-looking investment strategies, and a reception featured local food and beverages. The summit was opened with remarks by Gov. Phil Scott.

The summit coincided with Vermont Innovation Week, sponsored by BTV Ignite. Sponsors of the Investors Summit included Vermont Works Management Company, Big Path Capital, LaunchVT, Milk Money VT, Merritt & Merritt, Champlain College, the University of Vermont and Vermont Technology Alliance, the Sustainable Innovation MBA at UVM, VSECU, the Vermont Community Foundation, the Vermont Community Loan Fund, the Small Business Administration, Noble Fresh and others Vermont Works plans to hold this event annually. For more information visit vermontworks.org or contact Aditi Datta at aditi@vermontworks.org.

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Other jobs held in the field of public safety include working in four different states as a paramedic and paramedic supervisor. He has also held ranks from lieutenant to chief in other services throughout Maine. He is very proud of serving as a task force leader for EMS through FEMA through a sub-contracted service. All in all, he has seen a lot in his career, but if he had to choose he would stay with the small-town department because “that is where you see the most passion from your members.”

Selectboard Liaison Fritz Tegatz said in an effort to make more educated decisions in this position, he joined the department as a member. “Being an active member gives me a more accurate perspective on the operations to better represent the taxpayer as their representative on the board. I look forward to continuing participation in this role.”

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Essential Elements Carol Alfred CONTRIBUTOR

Although I would not describe my childhood as uniform, it was uniformed, beginning when I entered 1st grade at St. Bernard’s Grammar School for Girls. At first I was excited to wear the plain navy-blue jumper, white blouse with Peter Pan collar, white socks and gold ribbon tie. Yet, that excitement faded with each year of wear. And although it was always a treat in August to open the plastic bags containing each new jumper and blouse and to breathe in their new uniform smell, I was sick of the drab, formless uniform long before the end of 6th grade.

Luckily, I graduated to a new uniform in 7th grade: navy, grey and white plaid skirt with accordion pleats, white Oxford blouse and white or navy knee socks. Again, I was excited to wear my new uniform for the first time.

After all, it was visual confirmation of a rite of passage, evidence I was one of the senior elite of the school. However, this uniform soon lost its luster. It may not have been as shapeless as its predecessor, but its mostly navy and white color scheme was one I had grown to hate. In fact, other than blue jeans, navy has hardly existed in my wardrobe since I left 8th grade and St. Bernard’s School.

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A childhood of uniforms brown dress topped off by a dark brown felt beanie. Although this dress was even more bag-like than St. Bernard’s jumper and the beanie was a total fashion blunder, I am happy to say it did not ruin my love of brown.

Maybe this is because I wore it for only two years, crossing the bridge to fullfledged Girl Scout and, of course, to the official Girl Scout uniform. Now my uniform dress was bag-like and green. My hat was a more fashionable beret. But the biggest plus of the uniform was its dark sash that became a billboard of my scoutly activities and accomplishments, where I labored over sewing each badge I earned.

I left Girl Scouts and its uniform behind after two years, mostly because of my participation on the YMCA swim team. Here I would don the simplest uniform of all, what was called a racing tank suit: a black one-piece of a remarkably flimsy fabric. It lacked darts, lining or structure of any kind.

Many girls tied a shoelace through its straps in the back, across the shoulder blades, in an effort to keep the front up and over the breasts. This included girls like me who had no breasts.

Our desperation was largely due to the then-standard racing dive off the starting block: extremely shallow, you hurled yourself more onto the surface of the water than into the water. This skimming motion virtually peeled the front of the tank suit down to your lower ribs. None of us left the pool without a frenzy of yanks upwards on our suits. Next, you reached for the plain white racing cap that completed the swim team uniform. It was rubbery and rectangular and came off with a loud SNAP, as well as with a shower of water and strands of damp hair.

I left swim team after four years. I was tired of smelling of chlorine, plus I had won a spot on the team I had coveted since 1st grade: the cheerleading squad for the St. Bernard’s Boys CYO basketball team. Heaven could be no better than selection to that team and the chance to wear its uniform! The top to the uniform was a precursor of today’s muffin top: short, fitted and sleeveless, it stopped just above the gold cummerbund that wrapped around

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“P.E. required girls to wear arguably the ugliest uniform of all: baggy, onepiece ‘bloomers.’

Not only hideous in style, but even worse, navy blue.”

the waist of the wide-pleated skirt. A white Oxford shirt went underneath the muffin top, and white socks, sneakers and gloves completed the outfit. The uniform only disappointed in its color scheme: white and the dreaded navy blue.

The one uniform that didn’t disappoint was my Amvets Marching Unit uniform. I didn’t last long in the group, but its uniform explained why I joined in the first place: swashbuckler cream-colored blouse, green semimini skirt, orange sash and white GoGo boots with orange tassels. Not to mention the decorative white rifle I carried and twirled … well, almost twirled.

I wore the last uniform of my childhood in high school gym class.

Although I attended the public high school and was no longer required to wear a uniform to school, P.E. required girls to wear arguably the ugliest uniform of all: baggy, onepiece “bloomers.” Not only hideous in “style,” but even worse, navy blue.

The art of manliness The house has been clutter free for two and half weeks!

No, I did not ship the Jorden Blucher boys off to boarding CONTRIBUTOR school. I just happened to listen to a podcast (Number 214 from the Art of Manliness) with author Caroline Webb, who wrote the book How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life. It was a fascinating interview that touched on a lot of great ideas and changed the way I run the house and how I approach each day. Here is what I learned.

The rule of three. Not three strikes and you’re out. Rather, pick three things, yes, just three, that you want to get done on a given day and focus on those things above all others. There is a good chance you’ll be so productive you’ll be able to do more than three things, so you should. The key is to not be too ambitious. For example, if you’re going to tackle cleaning the oven then don’t also put down washing the windows. On a given day I may have the following: clean bathrooms, sweep/mop floors, write.

I always try to get some writing done during the day, and by putting it on the list I am sure to get in at least 30 minutes to an hour.

Set your intentions. Think about what you are ultimately trying to achieve, and, for lack of a better term, write a mission statement. This seems like a rather odd thing to do for us stay-at-home types, but amazingly it makes a difference. It does not have to be anything fancy—just what you want to focus on an ongoing basis. I wrote mine in about five minutes and posted it on a note card by my desk.

Keep the house uncluttered and clean, be a writer. Model how a Christian man should act by living for Jesus, acting in his image and being selfless. Along with Erin work to provide for our family and bring a united front for the welfare of the household.

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The space between duck and deer season Bradley Carleton CONTRIBUTOR

The space between duck and deer season leaves me wanting to wrap myself up in a cozy blanket in front of the outdoor fire pit, sipping a glass of merlot and celebrating the north wind nipping at my nose. I can smell the lake turning over its detritus from its depths, accompanied by a bittersweet symphony of high-flying migratory Canada geese navigating by the stars. The acrid smell of wood smoke encircles my nostrils and taunts me to stay out all night, like my primitive ancestors on watch for sabre-toothed tigers. Orion’s belt in the night sky calls to my roots and makes me wish that I knew how to navigate by the stars.

Tomorrow morning I will awaken well before the first purple light on the horizon and sneak into the moonlit woods, crawling under the barbed wire fence by rolling on the ground, my gun unloaded and waiting for me on the other side. I will creep up the hill of the cow pasture, being conscious of my footing on uneven ground, tracked by the large bovine footfalls. Approaching the woods edge, careful not to trip on the loosened shale rock, I climb under a piece of random shrubbery, unidentifiable in the dark.

A barred owl hoots in the distance and a tom turkey on his night perch screams in panic. There’s my sign. The turkey is about 100 yards away judging by the echo in the now barren trees. He’s holed up with his harem on the other side of the ridgeline.

The call means that I will have to close the gap by walking downhill through the woods in the dark and place myself on the flat plateau below the roost where I am predicting that they

will fly down to reconnoiter and debate the morning’s agenda. I will pick my way cautiously trying not to step on any fallen sticks. The 30-year-old L.L. Bean boots with the soft soles serve me well as I traverse the plateau and choose the base of an old oak with a concave trunk.

I tuck myself in to my hide and decorate the area in front of me with clipped shrubbery.

As I am shoving the last branch into the moist soil, its leaves providing me with a brown leafy curtain of camouflage, I hear the first fly down cackle and the flapping of mighty wings.

A turkey leaving its roost sounds like someone throwing a bowling ball at a brush pile. Crashing branches, cackling calls as if the bird is saying “Ouch!

Ouch that one hurt!” They are not the moist graceful fliers, but their wings are mighty and protect their flanks like a Viking’s shield filled with stiff ribbed feathers.

The rest of the birds fly down one after another and begin chattering their “ki-ki-run” call to assemble the troops.

The old tom calls them to attention, declaring his dominance, and demands that they all line up for a head count. As he is barking out their orders, from the base of my tree I throw in a lonesome lost hen cluck. The Boss gobbles back vociferously telling me to join the ranks and stand at attention.

When I do not obey his orders, he screams at me again. I cluck back, imagining my intention is to tell him I am lost and he needs to come find me.

This aggravates him, and he declares that if I don’t immediately join the ranks he will seek me out and punish me for insubordination.

I cluck gently again. He says nothing now. I have been warned. He marches in from my right, his chest puffed up in

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regal splendor and his tail fanned out in a grand display of authority. He is looking for me but doesn’t see me from the shadows of the oak.

He screams again behind a burning red bush.

My gun is up and my cheek is on the stock, my bead waiting to find his blazing red and blue head.

After what seems like several minutes, his head finally peeks around the corner of the bush.

I breathe in through my nose. The smell of wood smoke mixes with the musty earth as we look in each other’s eyes. In this moment we are connected

by our instincts. We are brothers.

As my index finger begins to pressure the trigger, I whisper “Thank you” out loud.

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continued from page 18 Plan for the fires. Not the kind where you get to roast s’mores but the ones that always seem to pop up when you have children. You do this by taking a moment to troubleshoot at the start of the day. For example, when one child has an epic meltdown as we are trying to leave for school I am simply going to go sit in the car and say serenity now, serenity now, over and over, while sipping my coffee.

Do something physical. This one is pretty self-explanatory. Run, walk, hike, bike, do burpees, jumping jacks or yoga.

Something to get your heart rate up.

Positively prime your mind. Think of positive outcomes more than negative ones and your mind will start associating more positive thoughts with the things you need to do. For me, that means to tell myself that there is enough time in the day, which is something I have always struggled with.

Since I’ve put this plan into action, however, I have been working very hard to ignore the parrot of negativity squawking on my shoulder and have been telling myself I do have enough time. Time for at least ten minutes of exercise, time for the run I have planned and time to get everything done on my list. It has taken a bit of effort, but it is certainly paying off.

There is no foolproof plan to making life run perfectly smooth, and perfect isn’t fun anyway. But this is the best I have found thus far, and the best part is that it is straightforward and simple. Having to stick to only three tasks a day helps me focus and not get too overly ambitious. I have found that I am far calmer because the house is not cluttered and the laundry is all put away, and I am able to finish my list each day. I have found that I have extra time to get more things done than I had planned. I feel more accomplished at the end of each day.

Erin also feels calmer and I like to think the boys do as well. They certainly are not beating on each other as much as they were before I started this. But that could just be a coincidence.

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“I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” Well, come on all of you big, strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again He got himself in a terrible jam Way down yonder in Vietnam So put down your books and pick up a gun, We’re gonna have a whole lotta fun.

By Country Joe and the Fish I admit that I watched all the sessions of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Vietnam history. A young adult of the 1960s, I was there during the war and played a small a part in “Rolling Thunder” on an aircraft carrier bombing the north. But that was not the reason I found the series fascinating. My fascination stemmed from the in-depth coverage of the absurdity of what and how we carried out our supposed mission and the fact that we who were directly involved never heard the complete story, particularly about those from my ship, mostly pilots, who died as we bombed Hanoi. We lost 12 planes in the time I was on the “Bonnie Dick” either on Yankee Station or off Hainan Island.

The irony in Country Joe McDonald’s bottom line above hits it on the head.

The pilots on my ship usually got together after their missions and talked about how they felt. I would attend these meetings. They often described their evasions from enemy fire as if they were games. They smiled and joked about dodging missiles. They described it as a sporting event. It seemed to be their version of a touchdown run. (Sports, from dropping bombs to catching

passes, seem to be tied together in this country at levels from high school through college through pros as we begin each game with a military color guard. Games or war, we can’t seem to differentiate.) A friend on board said he thought that a number of these pilots had been on high school football teams and never quite made it to the college ranks, so they became bomber pilots and fulfilled their desires to be sports heroes.

I was never certain whether they really believed what they said, but it kept them going back for more.

Air strikes also took the human element out of the picture. These planes were dropping bombs from thousands of feet up and never really seeing the people they killed. Only when they themselves were shot down did humanity enter their conscience.

I can remember listening to one our pilots on his radio after he was shot out of his plane over North Vietnam.

He was not injured, because the bullet hit his ejection seat, and his first radio communication described in very unemotional terms what he saw on the ground where he was going to land— including the NVA soldiers waiting for him. When he realized he was about to be captured, his talk suddenly turned maudlin, as if all at once he knew he was about to come in contact with people he had been shooting at and who cared less about his life and more about their own and their friends and comrades he had killed. One minute he was up in the air.

The next minute he was landing in an enemy-held rice patty.

It was this sort of real-life war experience, the human side of what our politicians only talked about in inhuman terms, something only those who were in Nam experienced first hand, that kept what soldiers went through a real mystery. Most often they did not share it directly with those to whom they returned. However, when they did, it often cropped up in the returnee’s

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psyche and behavior. And people on the home front, at least those who did not experience it themselves, often failed to recognize it as Nam fallout.

Burns and Novick help make the connection between the Mekong Delta and life on the streets of Chicago. How many times in the film did we hear Johnson, Nixon, McNamara and other Washington jerks tell us that we were winning a war and we should keep pouring young citizens into it (unless you suffered near-death injuries like bone spurs or if you managed to sneak into the Air National Guard). However, those closest to it probably did sense the danger and the gut-wrenching terror of knowing that with the next step they could end in claymore Heaven.

In his book The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien combines physical objects with the psychological baggage that war buries in those fighting it and which they carry with them if they are fortunate enough to live beyond their terms of duty. He says that generalizing about war is like generalizing about peace.

“Almost nothing is true.” Ironically, however, he says that one is never more alive than when they are nearly dead.

“After a firefight, there is always the immense pleasure of aliveness.” For others, Nam was a cancer. Once there, it was a death knell; they didn’t come home.

One of the elements in Burns and Novick’s series was their ability to bring the personal tragedies on both sides into focus. For the individuals involved on the battlefields, war is senseless. Their own lives are all that are at stake, and as they see their friends fall, they immediately pull out their “short-timer calendars” and begin x-ing out the days.

For too many the tragedy occurred, and they missed the last x.

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ACROSS 1. Wet nurses, overseas 6. Auction actions 10. Agenda 14. Japanese-American 15. Brown family member 16. Comme ci, comme ca 17. ___ live one 18. Knock for a loop 19. Blood-related 20. Have many secrets 23. Arrives at 24. Belief 25. Whalebone 29. “___ show time!”

30. Baby carrier?

33. Favorite 34. Spot remover?

37. Colonel’s insignia 39. Ambiguous expressions 42. Preserved, in a way 43. Wheedle 44. Chapter 11 issue 45. “May I help you?”

46. Symbol of strength 48. Social strata 50. Natl. Humor Month 51. Look 53. Looks twice 61. Fine things 62. Taro variety 63. Send on

64. Authority 65. Norse goddess of fate 66. Quibbles 67. Knock off 68. Cheese ___ 69. Play too broadly DOWN 1. Word with phase or retention 2. Entangle 3. Like some salts 4. Principal 5. Fodder 6. Stupefy 7. Sudden attack

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8. Cudgel 9. Illuminated, in a way 10. Hymn 11. Trickster of myth 12. “Yeah, right!”

13. All alternative 21. Packed 22. City near Oberhausen 25. Fussbudget 26. Revere 27. Vuitton 28. Hamburg’s river

29. Itty bit 30. Cousin of a bittern 31. Church property 32. Exploits 35. “Darn it!”

36. “Peace Piece” artist 38. Contributes 40. Antiparkinsonian agent 41. Surpass 47. Eager 49. Punish with an arbitrary penalty

50. Test, as ore 51. Indian caste 52. Key material 53. Blocks 54. Viva-voce 55. Vulcan’s Chimney 56. Emanation 57. Bulls or Bears 58. Big top?

59. Set aside 60. Gael’s tongue

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Join Liesje Smith for a new session of Moving Better, Living Better Through Dance Friday mornings from 9:30–10:30.

Session Dates: October 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17 and December 1. For generations, dance was held in the center of social gatherings of all kinds. Dance provided the opportunity to develop incredibly valuable skills such as sequencing movement, being precise in expressivity and rhythm, and engaging socially through movement. All of these qualities are critically important in sharpening neuro-pathways of the brain that enhance our quality of life, no matter what our age. These learning challenges, when taught in a group with good music, can be irresistible! And these classes provide all the good things other movement classes offer, such as building strength, stamina, flexibility and postural stability, so you’re getting your workout. Liesje Smith, dancer, performer and certified Rolfer, is an inspiring and experienced teacher who brings an opportunity for you to develop the above skills in a fun and inspiring atmosphere. Registration necessary. Fee: $60 per session or $10 per class.

The last Fall Hike of the season with Marty Morrissey will be Tuesday, Oct. 24, to Silver Lake Trail & Loop Trail with a 9 a.m. departure from the Center. A full description and details of each hike are available at the host desk. Please bring water, food and good hiking or walking shoes. Registration necessary. No fee.

It’s that time of year again to help make Halloween Treats! Just stop by the Center and pick up the ingredients and instructions for you to mix up a batch of fudge at home.

Then mark your calendars for October 25 when all are welcome to come around 1 p.m. and spend the afternoon telling stories, wrapping up fudge and assembling popcorn balls.

Acrylics for Fall with Lynn Cummings will take place Tuesday mornings from 9 to noon. Dates: October 31, November 7, 14 and 28. Learn a whole new way of approaching painting: intuitively painting in acrylics and using acrylic mediums to create texture and interesting effects. We’ll use fluid acrylics and inks on watercolor paper, as well as heavy body acrylics and mediums on canvas or wood panels.

Drawing and previous painting skills not required. Be sure to leave your email address when you register. You will be emailed the supply list with an option to rent a kit from the instructor. Registration necessary. Fee: $112.

The Friends of the Charlotte Senior Center invite you to its Annual Meeting after the luncheon on November 1 beginning at 1 p.m. This is an opportunity for everyone to become better acquainted with the workings of our organization and to consider how they can become more active as volunteers. An update of our financial position will be given, questions will be answered, and the election of board members will take place. Hope to see you there.

Join Michael Strauss for a very special presentation after the luncheon on Nov. 8 titled Thinking and Making at Hand: An Exploration of Visual Thinking in Drawing, Painting and Poetry. Explore the role of visual thinking in observation, reflection, problem solving and creation in both art and science. See what common activities arise in the process of creating a drawing, a painting or a poem. A poet and a painter may employ different mediums to express the same snow-blown afternoon in January, but sometimes they find a way to capture the moment in such a way that their respective visions still manage to stir a reverberation, a connection. Come and see how such correspondences can be experienced.

Monday Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

No reservations required.

Oct. 23 Chicken noodle soup Green salad, dessert Oct. 30 Manhattan clam chowder Green salad, pumpkin cake Wednesday Lunch Served at noon. Reservations required, call 425-6345 Oct. 18 Company beef casserole: Beef, noodles, tomatoes, cheeses Sukey’s apple cake Oct. 25 Turkey tetrazzini, Liz’s fall dessert

Left and below: Lemon Fair Sculpture Park where Frank Ittleman treated us to a personal guided tour. Courtesy photos

The harvest is bountiful and Mother Nature is clothed in her finest dress and most colorful jewels. She beckons us to join her in her country lanes, broad fields and shadowed woods. Now is the time for reflection and fellowship, and what better place to do that than over an Autumn Tea Luncheon. Join Liz Fotouhi and Friends on Friday, Nov. 3, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. as we celebrate autumn with seasonal confections and the poetry of Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost. As always, bring in your favorite poems to share, all are welcome, and the dress is casual!

Registration necessary. Max. 24. Suggested donation: $5.

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Fall Hike with Marty Morrissey on Sept. 26 to Owl Head, Elizabethtown, New York. It was a hot day and the foliage had only started to change.

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Community Events Art exhibit: Maxine (Mickey) Davis is exhibiting fused glass work at the Charlotte Library through October. There will be an opening at 6 p.m. on Oct. 18 at the library. Davis will be there to answer questions about the artwork.

Public safety day: Charlotte Fire and Rescue Services will be hosting a fun and educational day for all ages at the Charlotte Fire Station from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 21. Visit with public safety providers and watch live demonstrations that will include K-9, CPR, vehicle extrication, fire demos and more. For questions or more information contact Rescue Chief Kevin Romano or Assistant Chief Rob Mullin at 425-3111.

Tai chi: Mixed-level tai chi classes for beginners to those familiar with the form run from Oct. 16 through Dec. 6 at the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:15 a.m. to noon. Classes are progressive, starting at the beginning of the form and adding moves as the class progresses. Suggested donation is $5 per class. To register email Mary West at igolflikeagirl@gmail.com or call 9220498 to leave a message.

Tech training: Are you the parent or guardian of a 6th through 12th grader?

Are you trying to manage your student’s use of technology? Please join us from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Champlain Valley Union High School auditorium on Oct. 19. This technology training workshop is free and open to the public. No registration required. Speaker Erin Walsh uses brain science, stories and humor to explain how technology is changing the ways kids grow up, socialize and make decisions. She provides practical tools and strategies that help families build on their strengths. Presented by Connecting Youth, a program of Champlain Valley School District. For more information ANSWERS TO THIS ISSUE’S PUZZLES FROM PAGE 21:

contact Lynn Camara at 985-1932 or email connectingyouth@cvsdvt.org.

more information or to register call 4827194 or email access@cvsdvt.org.

Discussion: An open house with discussion on legislative updates and energy policy with Mike Yantachka and David Hill will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 22 at the home of Peter and Carrie Fenn. Please RSVP to carrie. fenn@suncommon.com.

Discussion: A discussion on efficiency and heat pump technology will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Charlotte Library on Nov. 15, hosted by Peter and Carrie Fenn. Please RSVP to carrie. fenn@suncommon.com.

Discussion: A climate change discussion on strategies for a resilient community, the third part of the “Our Changing Climate” series, will be held on Oct. 24 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Charlotte Library.

Monster Bash: The Mahana Magic Foundation’s Monster Bash is an adultonly, evening filled with food, dancing and costumes. All proceeds from the Monster Bash benefit the Mahana Magic Foundation, which offers support to children who are coping with the fear and uncertainty of having a parent or caregiver with cancer. Previous years’ events raised close to $41,000. Tickets are now on sale for the event at The Old Lantern in Charlotte on from 7 to 11 p.m. on Oct. 27. For more information visit mahanamagic.org.

Virtual hike: “Secrets of Mt. Philo” will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at CVU on Nov. 8. Take a virtual hike up Mt. Philo to learn the history of Vermont’s first state park. No hiking boots necessary. Judy Chaves is the instructor for this CVU Access workshop. The fee is $20. For

Pie season: Apple pies will be on sale at the Charlotte Congregational Church on Fridays from 3 to 5 p.m. Homemade with Vermont apples. $16 each. Freeze one for Thanksgiving dinner and enjoy one for dessert Friday night! At the top of the hill on the Charlotte Hinesburg Road. You can also call and reserve one at 425-3264.

Teen yoga: Yoga to Prevent Sports Injury for Teens/Tweens, with Rowan Beck, will be held on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Honest Yoga in the Blue Mall at 150 Dorset Street in South Burlington.

Participating athletes will increase their endurance, speed and focus, allowing them to feel relaxed during competition.

Farm yoga: Yoga Roots is continuing to offer Vinyasa yoga Monday mornings from 9:30 to 10:30 at Adam’s Berry Farm through the fall. Ten percent of all proceeds will be donated to the Charlotte Land Trust. Sign up online yogarootsvt.com or call 985-0090 for more information.

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Founded in 1978, Naylor and Breen Builders, Inc is a leader among construction companies in Vermont, we perform a wide variety of commercial and residential new construction and renovations, from multi-phase commercial to high end residential to substation infrastructure.

We are seeking full time Experienced Carpenters with the potential for growth within the company. In this role, you will have experience in most aspects of commercial and residential rough and finish carpentry and roofing. Applicants should have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation. Travel within Vermont or New Hampshire will be required.

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Services: GARDENING. Could you use some help with your garden? Sunnyside Gardener is now open for the season. We can assist you with planting, weeding, edging, mulching, vacation watering and care. Now in our ninth year of operation.

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The News is look ing for wr iters, photographers and drivers to join the communit y of Char lotters. I f you’re interested in supplying news stories or photography, please email editor in chief, Lynn Monty, at lynn@ t h e c h a r l o t t e n e w s . o r g . Fo r p a p e r distribution contact Vince Crockenberg at vince.crockenberg@gmail.com.

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Recommended for Children 6 and Up Food Available For Purchase

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