Shelburne News - 10-27-22

Chittenden Solid Waste District asks voters for new sorting facility

Current recycling operation ‘extremely inefficient’

COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER

Congratulations, you tossed your empty milk jug into your blue bin and left it outside with other recyclable materials to be picked up by a hauler. You’ve done your part.

That jug is off to Williston — to the bustling, frenetic facility off Industrial Avenue where employees use outdated tech nology in a musty, dark and confined build ing to sort through hundreds of tons of recy clable material every day to package and sell to a volatile commodities market.

If it sounds wildly over-capacity, it’s because it is. The Chittenden Solid Waste District Materials Recovery Facility, or MRF, is “extremely inefficient,” executive director Sarah Reeves said, processing 48,000 tons of materials in a facility equipped to handle only 25,000 tons a year.

“It is beyond maximum capacity,” Reeves said. “Very, very few MRFs in the country do this this way. This is not at all best practice,

Rabies on the rise throughout Chittenden County

LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER

The Department of Health is urging residents in Chittenden County to take extra precautions due to a greater than expected number of ground-dwelling animals in the county testing posi tive for rabies.

The advisory comes after 10 animals have tested positive for

rabies in the county since July 10, including eight raccoons and two skunks. The total includes five animals in South Burlington, two in Burlington, and one each in Char lotte, Shelburne and Colchester.

According to state public health veterinarian Natalie Kwit, this development should raise an alarm in the county. Data from the health department show that, in a typical year, the department could expect

to see about one to two rabid animals from Chittenden County, usually bats.

“It’s important that residents take reasonable precautions, such as avoiding contact with wild animals, reporting animals that are acting sick or aggressive, and vaccinating their pets for rabies, so they can enjoy being outside and appreciate wildlife from a safe distance,” Kwit said.

Kwit was able to confirm that two more animals have tested posi tive for rabies since last week, bringing the total to 12 animals.

In response to this uptick in cases, U.S. Department of Agricul ture Wildlife Services has taken additional measures, including hand vaccinating over 700 raccoons, skunks and foxes for rabies before releasing them back into the wild during their routine

annual fall trapping program that ended on Oct. 14.

The USDA will continue their rabies surveillance in Chittenden County by submitting animals to the Vermont Health Department laboratory for rabies testing.

If you see a wild or stray animal acting strangely, or are concerned about a rabies exposure, call the Vermont Rabies Hotline at 800-4RABIES.

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McDade, Augie Lang, Henry McLean, Jack Dore, Owen Daley and Jack Miner. Not pictured, Jack Stoner.

Local thespians to star in award-winning play

Warwick headlines ‘celebrated comedy’

For its fall show, Burlingtonbased theater company Girls Nite Out offers Christopher Durang’s Tony-Award-winning “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”

The celebrated comedy takes audiences on a touching, funny and certainly memorable journey that explores the complicated and often dysfunctional relationships among a trio of middle-aged siblings. It playfully blends a bit of melancholy with a hot list of relat able, contemporary themes, including celebrity, aging, climate change and what constitutes a cherry orchard.

Orchestrated by veteran direc tor Nan Murat, the production features a small but stellar cast of local talent, including well-known local actor Jennifer Warwick of South Burlington. She stars in the role of Masha, one of three siblings at the center of the play’s storyline who’s described by the playwright as “a glamorous and successful actress who goes galli vanting around the world.”

Formerly of Shelburne, Warwick, the co-founder of Girls Nite Out Productions, has played many iconic characters in several Vermont productions, including Miss Hannigan in “Annie,” Jeannie in “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” Mama Morton in “Chicago,” Asaka in “Once on this Island,” Tanya in “Mamma Mia,” Vulva Savannah in “Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens,” and M’Lynn Eatenton in the Girls Nite Out 2010 inaugural production of “Steel Magnolias.”

Rounding out the cast are

Raquel Aronhime as Sonia, Kris Johnson as Vanya, Shannen Dando as Nina, Nate Beyer as Spike and Janet Stambolian as Cassandra. Behind the scenes is an experi enced and dedicated crew, includ ing co-producers Stambolian and Wendy Duval, stage manager Kathryn Barickman, set designers/constructors Ann Vivian and Cathie Covey, costume designer Susyn Dees and sound/light technician Bryan Moreau.

The production will have a nine-show run at the Main Street Landing Black Box Theater on Burlington’s waterfront. Perform ances will be at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday to Saturday, Nov. 9-12 and Nov. 16-19, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13. Tickets at girls niteoutvt.com or 802-448-0086.

Fleeting fall

Movie night

Multicultural movie night for kids featuring “Moana” is Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. Popcorn and refreshments will be provided.

After the movie, the group will take a few minutes to talk about Polynesian culture.

The event is co-sponsored by the Shelburne Equity and Diver sity Committee.

Friends book sale

Join the Friends of Pierson Library for their big book sale in the historic town hall on Saturday, Oct. 29, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 30, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Halloween parade and crafts in the afternoon.

PHOTO BY JONATHAN COUTURE

Jennifer Warwick

LEE KROHN

A last gasp of fall at Shelburne Farms.

Pierson Library

Dynamic Dates connects kids, adults, raises money for school projects

ABIGAIL CARROLL COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE

What do making slime, riding bikes, play ing basketball and walking to the country store for a creemee have to do with funding grant projects?

At Shelburne Community School, those are among the adventures students can enjoy through the Dynamic Dates fundraiser, which raffles off adventures from teachers and staff to kids at the school. The school then used the proceeds from those raffles to help match grant funds for new supplies and other things.

This year, the school is putting on almost 45 events for 121 students who won raffles, hosted by dozens of staff. Raffle tickets were 50 cents each, or $10 for a full sheet of tickets. Organizers and participants this year raised more than $4,450 to go toward funding proj ects that teachers and staff will present to the school’s parent-teacher organization.

Organization member and parent Liz Carney ran the fundraise, which has been going on for more than 10 years.

For her, the event is especially important emerging from COVID-19 shutdowns last year, and she sees it as a way to rebuild community within the school.

“I think it’s really important for us to be cultivating joy and joyful time with each other,” she said. “This is definitely an event that taps into that.”

She noted how excited kids get about the event. Some students go all in on one adven ture prize; others try their luck with several by buying tickets for as many event categories as they can.

Carney said the fundraiser is about making connections first, money second. The money goes toward things teachers and staff care about, like snowshoes for the athletic depart ment or new books for classrooms, but also benefit students, too.

The parent-teacher organization helps help secure grant funding for the rest of the costs.

The adventures similarly hold dual purposes.

“It’s as much about spending time with these teachers as it is like doing the activity,”

Carney said. Fostering relationships between kids and the staff is important, such as having the teacher or staffer who run the event hand deliver cards to the winners, she said.

Strengthening connections between students and staff is exactly why principal Brett Cluff got involved. Cluff is new to Shel burne Community School oversees grades five through eight.

He’s hosting three Dynamic Dates this year: a game of horse on a basketball court and two Twitter takeovers, in which the student winner can post a picture on the school’s account with a friend.

“We don’t often get invited or asked to kind of get our heads out of the sand and just connect with kids in different ways,” Cluff said. “We try to whenever we can, but the business of running a school right now is very challenging. I leapt at the opportunity to connect with some kids that I didn't know in a different way.”

He’s known for playing basketball at recess with everyone, so he decided as one of his raffle offerings to host a game of horse, a game in which participants earn one letter of the word horse for every shot they miss — whoever spells it out first loses.

“Not only are you raising money, but what you’re really doing is building school community,” said Alice Brown, a staff member who runs the school’s branch of the districtwide Connecting Youth mentoring program.

Brown used to chair the parent-teacher group and helped run the fundraiser for many years. When she ran it, they sold tickets for only 25 cents. But she said the biggest change over the years has been how much organizers have been able to fundraise, from $800 in the early years to nearly $4,500 this year.

The events and the simplicity behind them, though, have stayed the same.

Brown is still involved, and she loves to offer her own dynamic dates. This year, she’s hosting a bike-riding trip and a slime-making session.

“Instead of the person acting like a teacher or a parent or whatever, their job is they’re just acting like somebody to do something fun with,” she said. “It’s a really special thing.”

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For one Dynamic Date, sixth grader Reid McAvey brought his friends Frank, Nicholas, Wilder and Colin to play H-O-R-S-E with Shelburne Community School principal Brett Cluff. The hotly contested game lasted over two days, with Colin ultimately coming out on top.

Shelburne Police Department statistics, Oct. 10-23

Total reported incidents:

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Pending investigations:

Oct. 10 at 3:15 p.m., a two-car crash was reported with injuries on Bostwick Road and Wake Robin Drive.

Oct. 11 at 9:49 a.m., an unwanted guest was creating a distur bance at Harbor Place. The

individual left the scene prior to the officer’s arrival.

Oct. 12 at 8:15 a.m., a two-car crash was reported on Shel burne Road with injuries. The patients refused transport to the hospital.

Oct. 12 at 2:50 p.m., a caller reported items were stolen from a residence at Wake Robin Drive. A theft report was taken, and the case is under investigation.

Oct. 12 at 6:23 p.m., a caller reported she was being harassed by a male while she was smoking in the parking lot at Harbor Place. A report was taken, and the case is being investigated.

Oct. 12 at 7:22 p.m., a pedestrian, identified as Nathan Miner, 60, of Shelburne was struck by a car driven by Craig Simmons, 46, of Shelburne, who was traveling north on Shelburne

Road. Miner later died of his injuries on Oct. 17.

Oct. 13 at 1:02 a.m., a caller reported a theft of items from her car.

Oct. 13 at 1:54 a.m., a one-car collision was reported on Spear and Elmore streets. The vehicle was stolen from Burlington, and no one was with the vehicle when the police arrived.

Oct. 13 at 8:05 a.m., a caller reported his vehicle stolen from the Westview Drive area. A report was taken, and the vehicle was entered into NCIC as a stolen vehicle. The vehicle was later found and returned to its owner.

Oct. 13 at 1:55 p.m., a retail theft was reported at Kinney Drugs.

Oct. 13 at 4:38 p.m., a two-car crash was reported earlier in the day.

Oct. 14 at 8:31 a.m., a caller

reported a two-car crash on Shelburne Road.

Oct. 14 at 8:45 a.m., police deter mined a resident of Wake Robin Drive had died. The officer investigated and deter mined the death was not suspi cious, but is still under investi gation. The identity of the deceased has not been released.

Oct. 14 at 10:05 a.m., a theft from Automaster was reported to police.

Oct. 14 at 12:02 p.m., a Mount Philo Road resident reported an unresponsive family member. The police and EMS determined the patient was deceased and the medical examiner’s office was notified.

The officer investigated and determined the death was not suspicious, but the case is pending further investigation.

The identity of the deceased has not been released.

Oct. 14 at 12:30 p.m. a caller reported finding a large number of needles on the prop erty of Modern Design.

Oct. 17 at 8:30 a.m., a caller reported his car was vandal ized.

Oct. 17 at 5:28 p.m., Joshua Poirier, 44, of Winooski, was arrested for an outstanding warrant at the Harbor Place motel.

Oct. 18 at 12:36 p.m., a retail theft was reported at Kinney Drugs. The individual was issued a trespass notice and released.

Oct. 19 at 2:19 p.m., a two-car crash was reported on Shel burne Road with no injuries.

Oct. 19 at 9:50 p.m., a caller reported her daughter was assaulted by the daughter’s boyfriend. The case is under investigation.

Oct. 20 at 8:45 p.m., Shelburne fire and rescue extinguished a car fire on Wildwood Court and Wildwood Drive. No injuries were reported.

Oct. 20 at 10:10 p.m., a caller reported a man trying to enter a motel room through a window at the T-Bird Motel. Police determined he was not a guest but was transported to the hospital “for a reported spider bite,” police said.

Oct. 21 at 7:30 a.m., a Martindale Road resident called the police on his upstairs neighbor for making stomping noises on a regular basis. Police informed him that he needed to contact his landlord.

Oct. 22 at 8:12 p.m., someone called police to tell them that someone was blowing leaves onto the Route 116 roadway. Officers checked the area but couldn’t find any debris.

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Fact check: Article 22 protects maternal health

Guest Perspective

Rep. George Till

I serve as the division chief of general OB/GYN at the University of Vermont Medical Center, the division that provides termination of pregnancy services. I’m outraged by the reckless and dangerous misinfor mation about Article 22 — the Reproductive Liberty Amend ment — that’s being propagated by its opponents.

One irresponsible opposition talking point concerns the safety and health implications of pregnancy termination. Abortion is an extremely safe medical procedure and less than 0.3 percent of abortion patients in the United States experience a complication that requires hospitalization.

The risk of dying from a legal abortion in the first trimester — when more than 90 percent of abortions in Vermont are performed — is less than four in a million, making pregnancy termination one of the safest of all medical procedures. Accord ing to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the nation’s leading science-based, data-driven public health organization, carrying a preg nancy to term is 33 times more likely to result in maternal death than having an abortion.

I’ve also seen misinformation about the long-term health effects of abortion on women. An expert panel convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineer ing and Medicine in 2018 concluded that having an abortion does not increase a person’s risk of mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder. The National Cancer Institute published a report categorically dismissing any causal link between abortion and breast cancer. Abortions performed in the first trimester pose virtually no long-term risk of problems such as infertility, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, congeni tal malformation or future preterm or low-birth-weight delivery.

Currently, no UVM medical staff member is required to participate in pregnancy termina

tions. Despite information to the contrary being fed to Vermonters, nothing about Article 22 changes this. Partici pation in termination by hospital and medical staff will continue to be completely voluntary.

Research shows that those most likely to seek abortion care, including women of color, poor women and those with chronic health conditions, are also more likely to encounter serious complications during pregnancy.

It is no surprise that the states with the highest maternal

By enshrining these rights in our Constitution, we will ensure that individuals and their doctors remain free to make evidence-based decisions that work for their health, for their lives and for their futures.

mortality in the country are the states with the most nonevidence-based restrictions on contraception and pregnancy terminations. The result of legislatures restricting access to reproductive rights is an overall increase in maternal morbidity and mortality.

A recent publication showed the maternal mortality rate increased most significantly in states that enacted the most restrictive abortion laws. In 2017, states that restricted abortion had a maternal death rate that was nearly double those that had passed laws protecting access to abortion.

In 2019, researchers looked at maternal mortality data from 38 states and Washington, D.C., and found that gestational limits on abortion significantly increased maternal mortality. They found that laws restricting abortion based on gestational age increased maternal mortality by 38 percent.

Banning abortion nationwide would lead to an astounding 21 percent increase in the number of pregnancy related deaths overall and an appalling 33 percent increase among Black women, according to research from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

In 2010, Indiana had a maternal mortality rate below the national average. In 2011, Indiana began its war on women, and in particular on Planned Parenthood, causing 16 of 28 clinics to close. The state has placed multiple nonscience-based restrictions on clinics, abortion providers and on women seeking an abortion. The result is a maternal mortality rate which nearly tripled. It now stands at about double the national average, commensurate with the rates in many developing countries. The current maternal mortality rate in Indiana is 43.6 per 100,000 women.

Meanwhile, in California, rated as the most abortion tolerant state, we see the lowest overall maternal mortality in the country, less than one-tenth of the rate of maternal mortality in Indiana at 4 per 100,000.

This is the main point: pregnancy terminations are very safe procedures, and the earlier in pregnancy they are done, the safer they are. The result of legislatures restricting access to reproductive health care, including abortion, is a large overall increase in maternal morbidity and mortality.

In November, Vermont voters will have the opportunity to protect reproductive liberty by voting yes for Article 22. The language in Article 22 does not expand or change — in any way — the reproductive care that has been available to Vermonters since the early 1970s. By enshrin ing these rights in our Constitu tion, we will ensure that individ uals and their doctors remain free to make evidence-based decisions that work for their health, for their lives and for their futures.

Rep. George Till is a boardcertified obstetrician-gynecolo gist who has served in the Vermont Legislature since 2008. He represents Chittenden-3 and the towns of Jericho and Under hill.

Cruelest of all seasons upon us: trapping

Guest Perspective

Brenna Galdenzi

The recreational trapping season in Vermont started on Oct. 22 and runs through March 31. This includes the use of baited steel-jawed leghold and body-grip ping kill traps, as well as cage traps that are set underwater that drown multiple animals at once.

Traps inflict tremendous fear and suffering upon the trapped animals who are, all too often, not even killed humanely. Drowning, bludgeoning and strangling are all legal methods of killing trapped animals in Vermont.

Not surprisingly, Vermont trappers have fought recent efforts to restrict the method of kill to gunshot only.

Traps not only injure, but also maim, and kill their unintended victims. Untold numbers of non-targeted animals like owls, eagles and

even turtles are caught every year. They are cavalierly referred to by trappers and Vermont Fish & Wildlife as “incidental takes.”

Moreover, wildlife officials do not even require trappers to report these kills. It’s certainly a public relations disaster for them to have to disclose these kills, so it’s in their best interest to keep it out of sight. But that is not in the best interest of transparency.

Wildlife is a public trust resource, yet wildlife is too often managed for the benefit of privileged special interests.

Thanks to public records requests that Protect Our Wildlife submits, we know about some of these incidental takes that were investigated by law enforcement. One such record documented a black bear who had been caught by the face in a body-gripping kill trap that was likely set for a bobcat.

The poor bear was probably hungry, and when the desperate animal went to investigate the trap, it paid with its life.

While we can’t protect bobcats, otters

and other wildlife from traps, we can protect our pets. Trapping occurs on private lands (landowner permission is required), public lands including state parks, and even national wildlife refuges in Vermont with no warning or signage. Trappers are not even required to set their traps off trail.

A dog was trapped on Christmas Day last year in a body-gripping kill trap set on a public trail in Bristol. Kill traps that are set in shallow water present a danger to dogs right through March 31. Cats who are allowed outdoors are at greatest risk, since a baited trap set for a coyote or other wild animal will just as easily trap a cat.

Trapping is considered a recreational

activity for about 900 licensed trappers who cite tradition as a reason why they trap.

Trapping is not rooted in modern science that values the vital role that predator species like bobcats, foxes and otters play in our ecosys tems. Bobcats, for example, prey on rodents like white-footed mice and chipmunks that may carry Lyme disease.

We should be protecting predator species, not killing them for recreation or to sell their fur to China.

Brenna Galdenzi is president of Protect Our Wildlife based in Stowe. More about trapping can be found at protectourwildli fevt.org.

Letters to the Editor

It’s long past time for a change in Washington, D.C.

To the Editor:

In case you haven’t noticed, the world is on fire. The economy, our health, the border, the military, international relations, all a mess. All self-inflicted wounds since 2021. Literally nothing is better since the Democrats took over, and the possibility of nuclear war has gone from unthinkable to quite possible because the U.S. has become an agent of chaos rather than a voice of reason.

Economically, we’re facing fuel, food and baby food shortages. What the hell? This is America. We, the people, haven’t changed, it’s just that we have poor leadership.

If you liked $5 gas, then you’ll like $10 gas twice as much if you keep accepting the same incompetence by continuing to vote the same way.

Please consider Gerald Malloy for U.S. Senate and Ericka Redic for U.S. House to change the destructive course we’re on. Both will bring much-needed common sense to Washington, something not so common in Washington these days. Remember the old adage: diapers and politicians need to be regularly changed for the same reason.

Bill Supple Shelburne

Article 22 maintains and protects current rights

To the Editor:

I’ve been a Vermont nurse for 35 years and have worked in three Vermont hospitals. I strongly support Prop 5/Article 22, an amendment to Vermont’s Constitution that says “an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.”

Opponents of Prop 5, including some candidates for elected office, are sharing false information, such as Article 22 will

require health care workers to participate in abortion procedures even if they have objections of conscience. This is not true.

Article 22 will have absolutely no impact upon facility policies related to staff conscientious objection, policies that have been in place for years that allow staff to not participate in procedures such as abortion or blood transfusions — unless there are absolutely no other staff available and the patient’s health or life are in jeopardy.

Prop 5 will make no changes to these hospital policies. Article 22 is about curtailing state-imposed restrictions, not about dictating hospital policies. It will simply maintain and protect our current rights to personal reproductive auton omy through a constitutional amend ment.

The fact that even candidates for elected office are providing inaccurate information about a fundamental right should make us more certain that nobody, other than a medical provider and the pregnant individual, should be involved in making such a personal decision.

Vote yes for Prop 5/Article 22.

Rep. Mari Cordes RN Lincoln

Cordes represents the Addison-4 district in the Vermont House.

What happened to free speech in Shelburne?

To the Editor:

On Oct. 15 at 11 a.m., five signs were put up to oppose Article 22. By the next morning, every sign was taken down — including one from private property.

Be an informed voter. If Article 22 is defeated, women living in Vermont will still have access to abortion because of Article 47, which was passed in 2019.

We are all entitled to free speech.

Jeanette Voss Patricia Brochu Daniel Bean Colleen Heaslip Shelburne

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this this way. This is not at all best practice, and it reduces the quality and value of these recyclables. We need more space.”

It’s why they’re asking voters to approve a $22 million bond next month so they can build a new state-of-the-art facility where optical sorting provides a streamlined process, taking the burden off employees and giving them room to create a more refined product to sell.

The new facility would double the size of the existing facility, and would use opti cal technologies to sort the materials, with employees overseeing and calibrating the machinery.

“This is critical for ensuring high quality of the materials that go to market and will also help us to be able to kind of weather the labor issues and the labor shortages,” Reeves said. “Right now, we do not have full staffing at the month. This will help to kind of weather that condition.”

‘Highly, highly inefficient’

Built in 1993, the materials recovery facility “was at the cutting edge at the time it was built,” said Ethan Hausman, head of business outreach with the solid waste district.

But now, the facility is full to the brim with materials and “up to the ceiling with equip ment, out to the walls — and even beyond the walls — with equipment,” he said, forcing them to store bales of material outside.

Half of the facility’s glass processing equipment, meanwhile, is situated outside, which severely limits their ability to convert that glass into a new marketable product since they can only produce the material in drier weather.

Every day loads of materials are dropped on the tip floor to be pushed into quarters and taken by a conveyer belt to be sorted on the second story of the building.

Employees at the facility are the primary

sorters, expected to pick plastic bottles, milk jugs and other containers off a fast-moving belt delivering an endless stream of materi als to sort through — “a very, very hard job,” Reeves said.

“They can’t possibly read everything the first time around. So, the materials that they miss get scooped up and it gets put back in again,” Reeves said. “Highly, highly inefficient.”

As a result, materials can get packaged into the wrong bales — or are just lost in the stream, piled up or scattered on the floor.

“There are numerous examples of how it is now out of date after 30 years,” Hausman said.

But with a new facility, technologies and more space will help them handle the tremendous number of materials they have to process and will help organize the materi als to create a more refined product to sell to buyers.

Plastic, Hausman said, has been a “hot commodity” in the past year, fetching $1,500 a ton at market, “probably propped up by the fact that raw material people need to make new plastic, which has been very expensive.”

Created in 1987, then Chittenden Solid Waste District services each municipality in Chittenden County, including Shelburne, South Burlington, Charlotte, Hinesburg and others. It generates revenue from the sale of its products, and from the tipping fees from the haulers.

To make this happen, voters will have to approve the debt. But complicating matters is the fact that the vote will not appear on general ballots mailed out to the public.

Due to an election law change in the Legislature that did not allow special election ballot items for regional municipalities to be

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Ethan Hausman, business operations manager with Chittenden Solid Waste District, shows a tour group where bales of recyclables are kept due to a lack of appropriate storage.

Tiger & Buster

Don’t forget to register for a meal to go in Shelburne Nov. 8

Age Well and St. Catherine’s of Siena Parish in Shelburne are once again teaming up to provide a meal to go for anyone age 60 and older on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

The menu is roast pork with sauce, mashed red potatoes, butternut squash, wheat roll with butter, apple crisp with topping and milk. The meal will be avail able for pick up in the parking lot at 72 Church St. from 11 a.m.-noon.

To order contact Sheryl Oberding at soberding@yahoo.com (preferred) or 802825-8546.

The deadline to order is Thursday, Nov. 3. More at agewellvt.org.

Hinesburg police to hold drug take-back event

The Hinesburg Police Department, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration, will host a medication takeback event on Saturday, Oct. 29, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Kinney Drugs, 10218 Vermont Route 116 in Hinesburg.

Drop off any unneeded or expired medi cations for safe disposal.

If you have medication that needs to be disposed of immediately, simply drop off prescriptions or non-prescription drugs at the Hinesburg Police Department.

Social Band offers series of concerts in November

Social Band marks the turning of the seasons with a program of choral works and poetry that speak to the sense of alertness and awakening that can go hand-in-hand with the shorter days and lower tempera tures.

“Awake, You Sleeper!” will feature new works by Social Band members Bruce Chalmer and Michael Kellogg, as well as the group’s perennial styles of Renaissance music and American shape-note tunes along with a dose of poetry, robust harmony and camaraderie.

Upcoming concerts include:

• Sunday, Nov. 13, 3 p.m., Charlotte Congregational Church

• Saturday, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m., College Street Congregational Church, Burlington

• Sunday, Nov. 6, 3 p.m., United Church of Hinesburg

• Saturday, Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., Rich

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Suggested donation is $18 at the door. More at socialband.org.

Audience members must wear masks.

Register ahead for Age Well meals

The Age Well meal pickup for Thursday, Nov. 3, is from 10-11 a.m., Charlotte Senior Center, 212 Ferry Road, and features beef burgundy with mushroom sauce, egg noodles, carrots, potato dinner roll with butter, Halloween orange date cake and milk.

You must have pre-registered by Monday, Oct. 31, with Kerrie Pughe, 802425-6345 or kpughe@charlotteseniorcen tervt.org

The meal on Thursday, Nov. 10 — register by Nov. 7 — will feature roast pork with sauce, mashed red potatoes, butternut squash, wheat dinner roll with butter, apple crisp with topping and milk. The meal on Thursday, Nov. 17 — register by Nov. 14 — consists of roast turkey and gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sliced carrots, cranberry sauce, wheat dinner roll with butter, pump kin pie with cream and milk.

Check the website for last-minute cancellations at charlotteseniorcentervt.org.

Knights of Columbus host pancake breakfast with all the fixings

Join the Knights of Columbus DeGos briand Council # 279 on Sunday, Nov. 6, for an old-fashioned pancake breakfast, 9-11:30 a.m. at St. Joseph’s cathedral, 29 Allen St., Burlington.

The feast includes bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, blueberry pancakes, and french toast. Coffee, juice, butter and real Vermont maple syrup are included.

Admission is $10 and $25 for a family of four. Funds raised will benefit seminarians or religious aspirants. Upcoming breakfast dates include Dec. 11, Jan. 8, Feb. 12, March 12, April 16 and May 14.

Contact David Ely, davidely1986@ mail.com or (802) 862-5109, for more infor mation.

Historical society to host talk on Abenaki survival

On Sunday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m. at the Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington Vera Longtoe Sheehan speaks on “Erasure, Eugenics, and Ethnocide, and the survival of the Abenaki.”

Spooky seance

Spirits of Rokeby Museum return Halloween weekend

Returning to Rokeby Museum on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, is “Spirits of Rokeby,” a participatory dramatization of an actual séance 170 years ago.

Gather for hot cider and a short introduction to spiritualism before a “spirit” of Rokeby guides you into the historic house to experience a staged reading of séances. The event is drawn from transcripts in Rokeby’s archive of the Robinson family, who lived on the site of the museum for over 170 years.

“The second-generation Robinsons practiced Spiritualism and attended several séances in Ferrisburgh and Vergennes,” said museum director Lindsay Varner. “Their encounters with spirits were recorded by a family friend and are preserved in the museum’s collection.”

Tickets are $20 and on sale at the museum or at rokeby.org. Limited seats are available.

The free event is open to the public with ample parking and refreshments provided.

Visit cchsvt.com or email sarah.morganhouse@comcast.net for more information.

Poets tap into the ‘lure of mythology’ at Pierson Library

Explore the lure of mythology through poetry and art in the Pierson Library, 5376 Shelburne Road, on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 3 p.m.

Join poets in person or online for a reading of new positive poems written in response to the traveling Indigenous art exhibit, “Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology.”

All ages and experience levels of poets and listeners are welcome. Family friendly, positive poetry submissions

from poet-readers on the theme of “the lure of mythology” are due Friday, Oct. 28, to poartryproject@gmail.com. Regis tration required for all participants at poartry.org.

Senior center hosts Monday Halloween munch

The next Monday Munch at the Char lotte Senior Center is Oct. 31, 212 Ferry Road, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and it follows a Halloween theme.

The special Halloween munch features lunch but also a costume contest (costumes are optional). Wear your Halloween costume, mask or hat. Halloween treat bags and hopefully no tricks. The meal will consist of assorted sandwiches, potato salad and pumpkin pie cupcakes.

A $5 donation is appreciated.

A Shelburne Halloween

The Shelburne Halloween Parade presented by the CharlotteShelburne-Hinesburg Rotary starts at 12:45 p.m. as floats line up at the shopping park. The parade begins at 2 p.m. from Falls Road on Sunday, Oct. 30

For questions about the parade or to register a float in the parade, contact Richard J. Fox at 802-4480118 or rfox@foxlawvt.com.

Bring your family and your best costume for judging between noon-1:30 p.m. before the parade in the town center activity room.

Activities after the parade include trick or treating carnival games at the town gym, free food at the fire station with the Rotary, and a fun craft activity at the Pier son Library, from 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Bolton Valley after school ski program

This popular program offers kids in grades five to eight a fun evening of night skiing with friends at Bolton Valley Resort. Participants can ride the bus that leaves from Shelburne Commu nity School at approximately 2:25 p.m. and return from Bolton at 8 p.m.

Two different sessions; kids can register for one. Each session consists of four Wednesday nights. Options include the choice to purchase a lift ticket, lessons, ski or snowboard rental equipment, and helmet rental. Pricing reflects the cost per session (four dates). Session A dates are Feb. 1, 8, 15 and 22; Session B dates are March 8, 15, 22, 29.

Registration will open for seventh and eighth graders at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Regis tration for fifth and sixth graders will open at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9 for any remaining spots on the bus.

Space on the bus is limited and may fill quickly. See the website for complete program details or call the office with any questions.

Oxygen Advantage breathwork

How we breathe impacts how we feel, move and sleep. Oxygen Advantage is a breathing program centered around improving oxygen uptake through functional breathing and simulation of highaltitude training.

In addition to practicing exer cises to increase breathing func tion, you will also learn more about the science of breathing and techniques to increase

concentration, emotional resil iency and performance. Add respiratory stamina to your train ing program and develop a personalized breathing toolkit. Dress comfortably and be prepared to stand, move and sit.

Learn more about Nicole Carpenter and the class at thebre athandbalance.com. Ages 14 and up. Minimum 5 people. Registra tion closes Tuesday, Nov. 1.

Session dates are Sundays, Nov. 6, 13 and 20, 10 a.m.-noon, Shelburne Town Gym. $95.

CPR/AED certification class

Heartsaver AED teaches the basic techniques of adult CPR,

relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for adults, children and infants, and how to use an automatic external defibrillator.

Upon completion and passing of the course, participants will receive a certification good for two years. Minimum of two, maximum of eight participants. Registration closes on Friday, Nov. 4. The class will be held on Saturday, Nov. 12, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at the Shelburne municipal building and taught by the Shelburne Rescue Staff. The fee is $65.

Check out all the fall and winter programs at shelburnevt.org or call 802-985-9551.

Shelburne Recreation

LEE KROHN

A scene from last year’s Halloween parade in Shelburne.

‘Morgan’s Message’ resonates with CVU sports teams

LAUREN READ CORRESPONDENT

Two years ago, Neva Williams approached her Champlain Valley High School teammates and coaches with a story.

During a team Zoom meeting, Williams shared the story of Morgan Rodgers, a Duke University lacrosse player who committed suicide after battling anxiety and depression.

A nonprofit created after her death to raise awareness about mental health and help remove the stigma around asking for help, Morgan’s Message had spread her story to Williams.

The 2022 CVU graduate passed the message along to her Redhawks lacrosse teammates and it resonated with the athletes and the coaching staff.

“When Neva brought it to us and we took it to the lacrosse team, it was just like a light ning bolt,” said lacrosse and field hockey coach Tucker Pierson. “It resonated with everyone. Everyone was like, ‘oh, like this is us.’”

First the CVU girls lacrosse, then the field hockey team, signed on to become ambassadors for Morgan’s Message, spread ing the story about a fellow athlete and mental health.

After Williams graduated, senior Danielle Gamelin took the reins as the team’s ambassador, hoping to help remove the stigma around mental health by leading by example with her teammates.

“I think we all thought it was so impor tant to spread the message of mental health and student athletes,” Gamelin said. “We have more people becoming ambassadors, it’s going to keep on going.”

The field hockey team has continued its commitment this season, prioritizing mental health as a group.

“We’ve been working really well together to make sure that everybody feels

heard and being vulnerable about our own struggles has also been really helpful,” said captain Miranda Oppenheimer. “I think it brings people together and knits the commu nity tighter.”

The Redhawks teamed up with South Burlington to host a Morgan’s Message game this season, continuing to spread the message across the field.

“We wear the Morgan’s Message shirts and so do they. When we’re warming up, it’s like we’re not just two teams playing against each other, we’re like one cohesive group of people behind one message,” said captain Tess Everett. “It’s kind of bringing the idea that this is more than a game, it’s more than a competition and we can play against each other, but we can also all stand for something as a community.”

While the team’s on-the-field play is not a central part of the Redhawks focus on mental health, the group has translated its off-field closeness and camaraderie into success on the field.

“I do think that being able to like hold each other closer now is causing us and allowing us to trust each other on the field and lean on each other more,” Oppenheimer said. “I think that we’re really good at talking to each other and that’s one of our strong suits this year. I just think that’s helping us stay tight knit.”

The field hockey team has a 10-2 record with two games left in the regular season and is hoping the focus on communication will help as they enter the playoffs.

No matter what happens in this playoffs, CVU will continue to spread Morgan’s Message. The team has two juniors, Maddy McDade and Sophie Madden, to take over as ambassadors when Gamelin graduates.

“I want it to continue and I want it to spread to others teams,” Gamelin said. “I think it’s so important that everybody knows that it’s OK to not be OK.”

Nathan Miner

Nathan Miner, 60 of Shelburne, died unexpectedly on Monday, October 17, 2022, after being hit by a car on Oct. 12.

He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Theresa (Bouvier) Miner; his mother, Martha (McKinstry) Abare; his brothers, Patrick, David and Zane Miner; a special niece, Sarah, nephew, Cory and cousin, Hilda; as well as other nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was predeceased by his father, Donald Miner; and stepfather, Robert Abare.

Nathan lived in Harrington Village in Shelburne. He was always willing to help anyone in any way he could.

He loved all animals, especially the dogs in his building, and his two cats, Nola and Max. He enjoyed the outdoors, and, in the spring, you could find him at his favorite fishing holes.

He also enjoyed visiting people in the local parks or sitting at the train station, watching the trains go by.

There will be a funeral service at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Shelburne, on Saturday, Nov.

5, 2022, at 12:30 p.m. followed by a reception in the parish hall. Burial will be private at a later time.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to his widow, Theresa, 75 Harrington Ave., Apt 110, Shelburne VT 05482 to help her defray expenses.

PHOTO BY AL FREY

CVU's Danielle Gamelin passes the ball by South Burlington's Sam Crane during a game in October 2021 in Hinesburg. Gamelin has taken over the role of ambassador for Morgan’s Message, a nonprofit that works to remove stigmas around mental health, at the school.

Undefeated girls’ soccer team heads to quarterfinals

READ CORRESPONDENT

Boys’ soccer

Division I quarterfinals: No.

2 Champlain Valley versus TBA, Oct. 29, 2 p.m.

Champlain Valley fell in the final minute of the last game of the regular season and settled for the No. 2 seed in the DI boys’ soccer playoffs.

The Redhawks lost to South Burlington, 2-1, on Oct. 22 after South Burlington scored the game winner with 36 seconds remaining in regulation.

The Wolves took the top seed and CVU moved into the No. 2 spot.

The Redhawks will now await the winner of No. 7 St. Johnsbury and No. 10 Brattleboro in the quar terfinals. CVU faced St. Johnsbury twice in the regular season, winning both matchups. They did not play Brattleboro.

Girls’ soccer

DI quarterfinals: No. 1

Champlain Valley versus TBA, Oct. 28, 3 p.m.

The Champlain Valley girls’ soccer team wrapped up an unde feated season with a win over BFA-St. Albans in the final game of the regular season.

The Redhawks got a goal from Chloe Pecor and another from Zorah Ngu for 2-0 win. Anna Morton added an assist and Emma Allaire and Ella Polli combined to get the shutout.

CVU now enters the DI tourna ment as the top seed and awaits the winner of No. 8 Mount Anthony and No. 9 Essex in the quarterfi nals. The Redhawks saw Mount Anthony Union once in the regular season, winning 7-1, and played Essex twice, winning both matchups.

Field hockey

DI quarterfinals: No. 1 Champlain Valley versus TBA, Oct. 28, 3:30 p.m.

The Champlain Valley field hockey team ended the regular season on a seven-game winning streak and will look to carry that momentum into the postseason.

The Redhawks beat Middle bury on Oct. 20, 8-0, to finish the year with a 12-2 record and the top spot in the division.

Claire Marcoe (two goals), Miranda Oppenheimer, Emily Gay, Carly Strobeck, Julia Lamo rey, Sophie Madden and Marlie Cartwright all scored for CVU.

Champlain Valley will now await the winner of No. 8 Mount Mansfield and No. 9 Rutland in the quarterfinals. The Redhawks played each team once and won both games.

Football

DI quarterfinals: No. 1 Champlain Valley versus No. 8 Burlington-Burlington, Oct. 29, 1 p.m.

Champlain Valley wrapped up a successful regular season with a 42-14 win over BFA-St. Albans on Oct. 22 to set up its push to the state championship game.

CVU opened up a 21-0 lead at halftime and continued to roll in the second half. Ollie Cheer threw for 252 yards and five touchdowns and added a 47-yard rushing TD.

Jack Sumner caught two TD passes, while Alex Provost, Billy Bates and Dylan Frere all had touchdown passes.

CVU will face the SeaWolves on Saturday at home. The two teams faced off in the third week of the season, with CVU coming out on top 42-20. It will be the first step in the Redhawks’ goal of

returning to the DI title game.

If CVU wins, it will face the winner of No. 4 Essex and No. 5 St. Johnsbury in the semifinals.

Boys’ volleyball

DI quarterfinals: No. 2

Champlain Valley versus No. 7 BFA-St. Albans, Oct. 27, 6 p.m.

The boys’ volleyball team wrapped up the regular season with a 3-1 win over Essex on Oct. 21, finishing with a 10-2 record

and the No. 2 seed.

The Redhawks will take on No. 7 BFA-St. Albans in the quarterfi nals Thursday. The two teams met twice in the regular season, with CVU coming out on top both times.

With a win, CVU will advance to the semifinals to face the winner of No. 3 Essex and No. 6 Rice.

Girls’ volleyball

DI playdowns: No. 2 Cham

plain Valley versus No. 15 Randolph, Oct. 25, 6 p.m.

The girls’ volleyball team lost its first game of the season, falling to Essex 3-0 on Oct. 21.

With the loss, the Redhawks took the No. 2 seed while unde feated Essex took the top spot in the postseason.

CVU take on Randolph in the first round of the postseason Tues day after press time. The two teams met once this season, with the Redhawks getting the 3-0 in.

AL FREY

Forward Chloe Pecor celebrates with teammates Riley Erdman (12) and Erin Fina (11) after the CVU girls’ soccer team wrapped up an undefeated season by beating BFA-St. Albans. The girls head to the Division I quarterfinals Friday.

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Rabies on rise in Chittenden County

LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER

The Department of Health is urging residents in Chittenden County to take extra precautions due to a greater than expected number of ground-dwelling animals in the county testing posi tive for rabies.

The advisory comes after 10 animals have tested positive for rabies in the county since July 10, including eight raccoons and two skunks. The total includes five animals in South Burlington, two in Burlington, and one each in Charlotte, Shelburne and Colchester.

According to state public health veterinarian Natalie Kwit,

this development should raise an alarm in the county. Data from the health department show that, in a typical year, the department could expect to see about one to two rabid animals from Chittenden County, usually bats.

“It’s important that residents take reasonable precautions, such as avoiding contact with wild animals, reporting animals that are acting sick or aggressive, and vaccinating their pets for rabies, so they can enjoy being outside and appreciate wildlife from a safe distance,” Kwit said.

Kwit was able to confirm that two more animals have tested positive for rabies since last week, bringing the new total to 12 animals.

Town of Shelburne, Vermont

SHELBURNE SELECTBOARD

Pursuant to 24 VSA § 4442, the Shelburne Selectboard will hold a public hearing at a special meeting that begins at 7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at Shelburne Town Offices and via Zoom to consider the following amendment to the Zoning Bylaw:

Purpose: The purpose is to modify aspects of Article XXII- Shelburne Road Form-Based Overlay District (SR-FBOD), by removing in its entirety the Mixed Residential Character District (MRCD) and all references thereto from the SR-FBOD.

Geographic Area affected: Mixed Residential Character District of the Shelburne Road Form-Based Overlay District.

Articles/Sections of Zoning Ordinance affected: Article XXII – Shelburne Road Form-Based Overlay District, remove in its entirety the Mixed Residential Character District (MRCD) and all references thereto from the SR-FBOD.

Place where text may be examined: The full text is available for review in the Shelburne Planning and Zoning Office during regular business hours, on the Town website, and via email agravitz@ shelburnevt.org.

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In response to this uptick in cases, U.S. Department of Agri culture Wildlife Services has taken additional measures, including hand vaccinating over 700 raccoons, skunks and foxes for rabies before releasing them back into the wild during their routine annual fall trapping program that ended on Oct. 14.

The USDA will continue their rabies surveillance in Chittenden County by submitting animals to the Vermont Health Department laboratory for rabies testing.

If you see a wild or stray animal acting strangely, or are concerned about a rabies expo sure, call the Vermont Rabies Hotline at 800-4-RABIES.

part of the general election mailing, according to Jen Holliday, the district’s director of public policy and communications.

“You have to as a voter actively request our ballot, or it’s available at the poll if you’re an in-person voter, which of course has decreased this year signifi cantly, because everyone’s getting it in the mail,” she said. “We’re looking at all forms of media to try to help us get the word out.”

The project would cost $26 million, Reeves said, and the bond would be covered by its antici pated revenue and would not affect property taxes.

“We will pay for the debt

service through our operational revenues and through the sale of recycling,” she said. “We will not be sending our member cities and towns any assess ments.”

Voters can request a mail-in ballot from the Vermont Secretary of State’s website at bit.ly/3TS2boG

If approved, construction would begin in November 2023, with an estimated completion for July 2025.

“This is really to increase the capacity and provide a better working environment for the employees and then also to provide flexibility into the future,” Holliday said.

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ARIES

March 21 - April 20

This should be a very interesting week, Aries. Money

will be at the heart of it. Figure out what you want to do with the extra cash that you have accumulated.

TAURUS

April 21 - May 21

Treat everyone with a bit of caution, Taurus. Some person in your circle may need a little extra support this week, and your calm and even approach could be just what's needed.

GEMINI

May 22 - June 21

this week has the potential for a few bumps in the road that could be avoided if you simply slow down a bit. Think things through or you could trip yourself up.

CANCER

June 22 - July 22

An exciting few days lie ahead, Cancer. You may be tempted to spend much more than you usually would. Have fun, but keep track of your finances.

July 23 - Aug. 23

Leo, even if you have plans to hang out with friends, something at home could crop up that will need your immediate attention. Be flexible and at the ready.

VIRGO

Aug. 24 - Sept. 22

Virgo, find balance where you feel out of sync. Maybe you have been having relationship woes or seem out of touch with family. Make an effort to respond to these feelings.

LIBRA

Sept. 23 - Oct. 23

Libra, even if your best plans do not work out, that doesn't mean you have to scrap everything and sulk. Make the most of what worked and build on that.

SCORPIO

Oct. 24 - Nov. 22

Scorpio, you may find yourself in a situation that tests your levelheadedness in a big way this week. It could throw off your equilibrium when your plans go awry.

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SAGITTARIUS

Nov. 23 - Dec. 21

Sagittarius, focus on communication in the days to come. The ability to communicate effectively will be a true asset as you work more with others.

CAPRICORN

Dec. 22 - Jan. 20

A problem that arises may initially seem insurmountable, Capricorn. But you're more than capable of overcoming this obstacle. Look to Pisces for help.

AQUARIUS

Jan. 21 - Feb. 18

Are you ready to take action and get to work, Aquarius? An unexpected home project has fallen into your lap, and it will take some effort to get it all done.

PISCES

Feb. 19 - March 20

You could wind up learning something simply by letting the wind take you where it will, Pisces. Firm plans are unnecessary this week.

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Maverick eastern red bats take to the skies

Outside Story

Conrad Baker

Swift and silent, a lone bat traces the contours of the woods’ edge at dusk, floating through canopy and meadow. In the last daylight, a sharp-eyed observer might catch a glimpse of white armpits, indicating that this is no barn bat or attic bat. This is an eastern red bat.

Eastern red bats, Lasiurus borealis, are mavericks. Where flocks of little brown bats huddle en masse in caves and human-made structures, eastern red bats roost in breezy treetops and are mostly solitary. One of the few occasions that brings red bats together is migration. During their southward journey in October, two bats might suddenly find each other and engage in a brief aerial romance. The female will store the male’s sperm through the winter, delaying fertilization until spring.

Mothers raise their pups alone. The pups cling to their mother all day. She leaves them to catch flying insects in the early evening, returning frequently to allow the pups to nurse. After about a month, pups are flightworthy. A few weeks later, they are fully fledged mosquito and moth killers.

Throughout the summer, an eastern red bat consumes its weight in flying insects every night, including such pests as mosqui toes, spongy moths, and eastern tent caterpil lar moths. Red bats are quick and agile and adeptly intercept flying prey. In common with other northeastern bats, they use echolo cation, emitting extremely high-pitched “barks” normally inaudible to humans. The sound of a bat’s bark reflects off nearby obstacles and flying insects, allowing the bat to “see” through its ears. When a promising insect echo catches the bat’s ear, the bat barks faster, playing a high-stakes game of “Marco Polo” with the prey. The closer the bat becomes to potential prey, the more frequent its barks, allowing it to pinpoint the insect’s movements. As the bat closes the gap, the barks become a brilliant vibrato — a “feeding buzz.” The coup de grace comes when the bat either snatches the insect out of the air like a poodle receiving a frisbee or reaches out with

a wing to flick the morsel into its mouth.

Although most insects have poor odds against a bat that has locked onto them as prey, Tiger moths, including the parents of our beloved woolly bear caterpillars, have a remarkable defense. They have specialized tymbal organs, drumstick-like structures which vibrate madly when the moths detect a bat’s feeding buzz. The sudden noise from the tymbal organs disorients the bats just enough to give the moths a fighting chance of escape.

While many other bat species spend their winters hibernating in caves and other shelters, eastern red bats are adapted to the cold. They have fully furred tails, which they can partially wrap around themselves, like half an umbrella. Not only does this warm them, but it keeps their core dry in rain – and serves as camouflage. An eastern red bat dangling from a twig by one foot looks for all the world like a dead leaf, rattling in the wind.

But even eastern red bats have their limits. Starting in October, when days shorten and nighttime temperatures dip consistently into the low 30s, eastern red bats in the northern parts of their range head south. Surprisingly, little information is available about their wintering grounds, but there seems to be a consensus that bats from Canada and the northeastern United States head south, with some of them traveling as far as Mexico.

According to journals and records from before the industrial revolution, swirling swarms of red bats were once common on the East Coast during the fall. They share a simi lar migration route with many birds, including warblers.

Gone are the days of large-scale red bat migrations. Now, these bats are normally seen alone, or in small migrating groups. This might be due to light pollution and habitat fragmentation spreading red bat populations out, however, rather than evidence of a steep population decline. Eastern red bats are listed as secure throughout their range in the north eastern United States, although the general decline in flying insect populations is a note worthy change for all northeastern bats.

Conrad Baker is an environmental educator at Letchworth State Park in the Genesee Valley in western New York. Illustra tion by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol.