Around Town

Guided, educational bike ride at Catamount

Chittenden

County Forester

Ethan Tapper will be leading an educational bike ride through the Catamount Community Forest in Williston as part of the Catamount Outdoor Family Center’s Spring Launch Party.

The ride will take place Saturday, May 13 from noon to 2 p.m.

It is an opportunity to learn from Tapper about this summer’s adaptive silviculture for climate change project, which will work to make a 25-acre area in the northwestern corner of the Catamount Community Forest more adaptive and resilient to climate change.

To join the ride, bring your mountain bike to the Catamount Outdoor Family Center’s parking area at 592 Governor Chittenden Rd. The ride will take place on relatively flat, graded terrain over a total distance of about one mile.

More information is available at www.catamountoutdoor.org/2023/05/04/ethan-tappers-forestry-ride/.

Rotary welcomes Hunger Free Vermont executive director

The Williston-Richmond Rotary Club will host guest speaker Anore Horton, executive director of Hunger Free Vermont, at its weekly breakfast meeting on Thursday, May 18 at 7:15 a.m.

Hunger Free Vermont runs programs to improve food security for vulnerable Vermonters and advocates to transform social and economic policies to permanently end hunger in the state. Horton will speak about these efforts and share ways to get involved.

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