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The Shelburne Craft School and the Champlain Housing Trust have teamed up to bring the joy of the arts to children and families who live at Harbor Place.
Harbor Place, which operates from the former Days Inn on Shelburne Road, is a transitional housing facility for individuals and families experiencing homelessness and part of the state’s for emergency hotel housing voucher program.
Heather Moore, executive director of the Shelburne Craft School, said the partnership will play a crucial role in expanding art services to all those who call Shelburne home, even those who might be there temporarily.
“The families and the children are so grateful to have access to the arts, as well as the staff, and even folks that are staying there that are not part of the art but are just walking by. I’ve probably been thanked 45 times in the hour that I’m there for just being there,” Moore said.
Harbor Place is owned and operated by Champlain Housing Trust, a community land trust that supports communities through the development and stewardship of permanently affordable homes and related community assets, according to its mission statement.
“All of our guests at Harbor Place are high risk. They have first-hand experience with homelessness and mental health issues and addiction,” Kristen Ciambella, the
See HARBOR PLACE on page 12
JoeJoe! Shelburne’s DuBrul gets All-Conference
Although some conventional telltale signs foreshadow the beginning of spring — warmer weather, longer days and the faint smell of buddings blossoms in the air — for the Philo Ridge livestock team, spring is much more important than just a summer precursor: It marks the beginning of lambing season.
Around the week of March 15, just days before the spring equinox, the centuries-old
Old Black Barn that sits on the edge of Mt. Philo Road in Charlotte will transform into a haven for 50 birthing ewes and a whole new world for the 100 or so baby lambs that will be born in the days to follow.
The land where Philo Ridge Farm sits has a rich agricultural history with roots that were tended initially by the Indigenous Western Abenaki tribe. The Williams family established the first farm on the land in 1840, which would be purchased by the Foote family in 1878. The Footes would operate the farm for the next six generations.
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In 2012, Diana McCargo and Peter Swift, longtime neighbors of the farm, purchased the property from the Foote family in 2015 and their vision came to fruition under the name Philo Ridge Farm.
In tune with the farm’s nose-to-tail butchering philosophy, everything grown and raised at Philo Ridge is sold at their market and used in the kitchen, including byproducts — both meat and wool — from their Romney
See LAMBS on page 7
LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITERThe pair of volunteers reach Lewis Creek just after sunrise in the summer, plastic bottles in hand. While one takes notes and plays lifeguard, the other wades out into the water, turns upstream and fills the bottles.
The one wading passes the bottles up to their buddy before scrambling back up the bank, careful to avoid slippery rocks and poison parsnip. Packing the bottles into a cooler, the team then heads home.
That’s how it usually goes for members of the Lewis Creek Association, a local environmental group that has been working to protect and restore Vermont waterways since 1990. It does a mix of policy advocacy and on-the-ground restoration in and around streams — replanting riparian buffers, removing invasive species — especially along its namesake, which stretches 33 miles through Addison and Chittenden counties.
The state says the work of groups like the Lewis Creek Association fills crucial gaps. Towns along the creek greenlight funding for the organization every year. However, the association says it is struggling to maintain
and grow its network of volunteers for some of its initiatives, putting its future at risk.
“Without our programs and general work, things would look quite different,” said Kate Kelley, the association’s program manager. Waterways would be choked with invasive species, riverbanks would be eroding into the creek and the state wouldn’t be able to track water quality throughout local watersheds, Kelley said.
Ten years ago, about 40 community members spent 300 hours volunteering in one of the group’s key programs to pull invasive plants out of a local bay, Kelley said.
Last year, she said, only eight showed up, and the group instead relied mostly on seasonal workers from a government program. Even then, the workers and volunteers combined could only muster 172 hours of work.
The consequences of that trend could be felt on a much broader plane than the immediate area of the creek. Will Eldridge, an aquatic habitat biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, says the association and its work has given his agency vital support.
“In general, we … don’t really have a lot of staff support, the capacity to do a lot of work,”
Eldridge said. “So, we rely heavily on Lewis Creek Association to do that ... they’re in the watershed. They are landowners. They live there, (and) that’s important for credibility and connections.”
The dynamic between neighbors is easier to navigate than that between locals and the state, he said.
“We’re at a different level so we rely heavily on watershed groups and partners to be that local voice in the community,” he added.
Those volunteers taking water samples with plastic bottles end up providing data that tells state scientists key information about how rivers look and move and the kind of habitat they provide
for wildlife. The association and the state work together to identify restoration projects and decide which ones are most important.
The association does a lot more than just collect data and decide on priorities. Take the invasive plant program that’s been losing volunteers, for example. It’s focused on freeing up waterways choked by the invasive European frogbit, a lily pad-like plant.
Before the program started 14 years ago, almost half of Charlotte’s Town Farm Bay was covered with the plants, the group says. Volunteers pulled nearly 50 tons of the invasive species out of the bay in just the first three years of the program. Now, frogbit only covers about five percent
of the bay’s surface. That makes recreation better for people and habitat better for other plants and animals.
“Definitely the frogbit stewardship has been a wildly successful program and has significantly increased the water quality in the bays of Charlotte,” said longtime Charlotte Selectboard member Matthew Krasnow. “It’s just an incredible work. The general advocacy for clean waters and the LaPlatte River watershed and the Holmes Creek and the Lewis Creek watersheds is almost entirely credited to the work that (the Lewis Creek Association)
Shelburne Museum has hired Jason Vrooman as the Stiller Family Foundation director of education.
He was previously chief curator and director of engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Prior to that position, Vrooman w as curator of education and academic programs at the college.
In his role leading education and academic programs, Vrooman partnered with faculty across the curriculum to incorporate art, led trainings and tours for local teachers and students, expanded access to and diversified membership in Middlebury’s student museum guide program and promoted physical accessibility. He also developed an internship program preparing students for ethical and equitable careers in the arts.
“I believe deeply in art’s ability to spark joy, deep personal reflection about our place in the world, and meaningful conversations between people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Shel-
burne’s efforts to promote diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion and belonging are impressive,” he said. “I look forward to supporting this work by striving to ensure that all visitors feel welcome when connecting with the museum’s incredible collections, exhibitions, grounds and programs.”
Vrooman holds a Ph.D. from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, a Master of Art from the Williams College and a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College.
Two prominent cliff sites on the Green Mountain National Forest’s Rochester and Middlebury ranger districts are once again temporarily closed to protect critical nesting habitat for peregrine falcons.
Beginning on Wednesday, March 15, the Rattlesnake Cliff Area in Salisbury and the Mount Horrid/Great Cliff Area in Rochester are closed until Tuesday, Aug. 1. While it seems like the depth of winter, falcons are already migrating back to Vermont to their nesting sites, and the closure of these areas as well as their cliff access trails prevents disturbance to the falcons while they nest and raise their young.
Peregrine falcon populations suffered declines due to the use of DDT in the 1940s but have rebounded since their reintroduction in the 1980s. Even though peregrines are now considered a recovered species in Vermont, it is critical to minimize human disturbance so that the species’ recovery continues. Across Vermont, 2022 was a successful year for peregrines — 29 nesting pairs produced 63 young that fledged from their cliff nests. Although the number of nesting pairs was lower in 2022 than in some recent years, the number
of young produced per nest was above the 10-year average.
Trail and habitat monitoring in 2022 determined that there is still human disturbance near nesting sites during the closure periods. This disruption can cause the falcons to abandon their nests or interrupt the care of their young.
Hikers should obey the closure
signs posted on the trails leading to the cliff overlooks. Disturbance of peregrine falcons and/or these nesting grounds is a violation of federal law and carries a fine of up to $5,000 and six months in prison.
Report any harassment of nesting peregrine falcons to 1-800-75ALERT.
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March 20 at 8:33 a.m., a caller reported a retail theft from Tractor Supply. Police were unable to locate the individual and the case is under investigation.
March 20 at 2:34 p.m., police located an elderly person who had been reported missing but was found in South Burlington and returned home.
March 20 at 9:37 p.m., police mediated a dispute between guests at the Quality Inn.
March 21 at 3:50 p.m., a Wake Robin Drive resident reported a theft of items from his residence. The case is under investigation.
March 21 at 7:01 p.m., police stopped an erratic motorist driving on Shelburne Road.
March 21 at 9:59 p.m., police stopped a vehicle on Shelburne Road and Long Meadow Drive and transported the driver to the police station. They later arrested McKenzie Warden, 23, of Vergennes for driving under the influence, first offense.
March 21 at 11:45 p.m., a one-car collision was reported on Spear Street with injuries. The patient was transported to the hospital.
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March 23 at 8:29 p.m., Shelburne police escorted an unwanted individual creating a disturbance out of the Village Mobil.
March 24 at 4:05 p.m., a theft of items out of an individual’s vehicle was reported on Bay Road, and the case remains under investigation.
March 24 at 9:12 p.m., a small trash fire was extinguished on Harbor Road.
March 25 at 4:25 p.m., police responded to a call of a “strange acting” woman walking along the roadway near Ethan Allen Highway and Nature’s Way. Police transported her to her care home in Burlington.
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Recently the Senate and House completed work on many bills to meet crossover deadlines. Any bill missing crossover will wait for action next year. In the coming week Senate bills will be acted on and sent to House committees for further consideration.
Many constituents from Chittenden and other districts provided input when legislation was developed. Some bills being considered by the full Senate during coming days or already passed to the House are described here.
Health care professionals, nurses, doctors and other providers continue to be targets of violence in emergency departments and other facilities. The Violence in Health Care Facilities bill, S.36, better defines violent activities, clarifies authority of public safety officials to deal with violence, and asks for updates on how better to deescalate violence in health care environments. The bill is now in the House.
Vermont’s mental health care continues to mature from an institutional to a community based system of care, crisis response and support. Trained public safety officers may work collaboratively with qualified mental health professionals in response to community mental health crisis situations.
S.47 updates an older 1967 statute about transport of mental health patients. The bill provides guidelines for when and how public safety and mental health professionals can transport mental health patients who may be in crisis. Use of the least restrictive means to deescalate patients and then transport them to safety is included in the bill. If restraints are used, soft restraints must be the first option. This is especially important for youth who may experience trauma or feel stigmatized when a mental health crisis intervention takes place.
Other bills that touch both judiciary and health and welfare committees deal with competency to stand trial, insanity as a defense, ending child marriage, community justice centers, diversion and expungement and setting limits on hospital liens. Some of these bills may ease wait times for people caught in a backlog of judicial cases.
The COVID-19 epidemic highlighted the importance of access to child care for working parents and businesses. It also highlighted the need for financial stability of child care businesses and their workers, who are among the lowest paid professionals in the state.
The child care bill, S.56, was voted out of Senate health and welfare, finance and appropriations committees last week. Goals of the legislation are to expand
access to child care for families with kids up to age 5, stabilize child care centers and their workers and provide assurance for businesses that workers will have places for their kids during the work week. Among other significant policies, the bill includes expansion of family, Child Care Financial Assistance Program payments; incentives for child care workers; readiness grants for improvements to child care centers; and 12 weeks of parental leave for a parent with a birth or adoption.
The bill also includes reports regarding the agencies of education and human services governance and administration of child care and early education. These sections of the bill provide for continued work on both child care and pre-kindergarten. The bill as amended will be considered by the full Senate during this week.
The omnibus housing bill, S.100 will have wide-ranging effects on town zoning regulations, Act 250 processes, public and private creation of rental apartments and homes for purchase, fair housing, fire codes and new and existing state-sponsored programs. The Senate committees on economic development and natural resources worked together to find compromises on some of the more controversial parts of the bill. S.100 is to be considered by the full Senate this week.
S.25 focuses on the elimination of PFAS and toxic chemicals from personal care products, some textiles and athletic turf. Banning toxic chemicals like PFAS in consumer goods is critical for human health and the environment. The bill unanimously passed Senate committee on health and welfare and finance. It will be considered by the full Senate.
A related bill already passed to the House, S.73, provides protection to both career and volunteer firefighters who are exposed to toxic chemicals through their work. When passed, the bill extends worker compensation and financial support for firefighters.
Other bills passed for full Senate consideration include: the Energy Efficiency Modernization Act, which provides further flexibility for programs at statewide efficiency utilities; proposals to strengthen environmental protection; and an update to a 25-year-old animal welfare law to improve response times to complaints of animal cruelty.
H.411 has passed both the House and Senate and was sent to the governor for his signature. This extends flexibility in health
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When people say they love traveling, they think they mean it but I’m sure they don’t. I’m certain they like going different places, but actually getting there? Not a chance, especially if you’re flying, particularly in economy, where, as I’ve suggested before, you’re treated like an inconvenient sack of meat.
I tried to begin this piece as I sat on a runway at Albany International Airport but there wasn’t room enough for my laptop unless it was standing on end.
But no matter, there’s plenty of room back in the terminal, where we were disgorged when the flight suffered a failure to launch for a variety of incomprehensible reasons, one of which was something amiss with the co-pilot’s shoulder harness. Really. On the brink of takeoff, after taxiing out onto the runway, we waited 45 minutes for a truck to deliver “a part” but when flying machine Triple-A didn’t show, the pilot — the one safely fastened — announced we needed to deplane to a chorus of moans worthy of the delta blues.
with two frazzled counter jockeys who’ve been working for 36 hours since the snowstorm canceled every flight the day before. I find them empathy-deprived but try not to be the next in a line of angry (almost) travelers anxious for their pound of flesh. I also know that any maladaptive behavior at an airport might land the offending near-passenger on a no-fly list.
I stop myself from musing how wonderful that would be and plead my case.
When we of the malfunctioning shoulder harness finally get to Atlanta, we’re immediately struck by how huge the airport is — like two time zones huge, enough to have scattered over 93 million across the globe last year.
When we of the malfunctioning shoulder harness finally get to Atlanta, we’re immediately struck by how huge the airport is — like two time zones huge, enough to have scattered over 93 million across the globe last year.
During the delay, which eventually lasted eight hours, we traversed the terminal with the rest of the losers, placated by a $60 food voucher and a complimentary hotel room in Atlanta, at a time when our long-gone connecting flight will have landed south of the border without us. Considering the day began well before dawn in a blinding nor’easter, we were pretty wired before getting out of Vermont, which took three hours.
But we figured vanquishing travel challenges early in the trip meant smooth sailing from then on. Hysterical, right? The airline demons of course had other plans.
Perhaps to quell any disturbances before they begin (See Spirit Air), when a flight is cancelled — or “delayed” indefinitely — the disenfranchised immediately cue up for two hours awaiting a momentary audience
anticipation of sleep.
The desk clerk stares at our voucher for too long. As his lips begin to move, I can’t make out what he’s saying but I know it’s bad. I resist reaching over and covering his mouth with my hand. He grimly speaks words like “wrong” and “hotel” as though we should know you can’t throw a rock in Atlanta without hitting a Holiday Inn.
So, after another van ride, we find ourselves in the right hotel, with another dour staff, specifically reserved for people who don’t want to be there. I can honestly say I don’t remember a single thing about it.
The baggage carousel is the size of Thunder Road and when we retrieve our single checked bag it’s somehow put on weight. Like the great herds we wander a bit, looking for the one exit among hundreds leading to the shuttle area, and since the airport staff is majestically indifferent, we fight with each other regarding whether to pick door number one or door number two.
Moving like Walking Dead extras we inadvertently stumble on the shuttle area to find 100 other marooned and three, eight-passenger vans. For the first time, we get lucky. Just as we’re mounting the curb a van emblazoned with “Holiday Inn,” where we’re destined to spend the night, pulls up and opens the door right next to us and in we go. After the day we’ve had, this simple stroke of karma feels off-the-charts wonderful.
There’s a long line at the hotel counter. We don’t care. The packaged sandwiches are yellow. We don’t care; we pick bananas. Clorox Central smells like a freshly decontaminated slaughterhouse. We don’t care. I imagine Temple Grandin around the corner with one of those pneumatic bolts, the last thing a beef cow sees before winding up on a Styrofoam tray. I still don’t care. It’s almost midnight and as we approach the front desk, I’m giddy with the
We eventually, as Siri might say, “arrived.” Our hotel is a block from the Plaza de la Constitucion — better known as the Zocalo — the central plaza of Mexico City, and according to some, the entire country, frequently the site of important cultural and political events. So, when Mexican President Andres Manuel Obrador calls for a political rally ahead of next year’s election, we decided to stroll over and have a look, knowing the opposition would be there as well.
The crowd is colossal, as breathtaking as the city’s altitude, which at 7,400 feet requires several days acclimation. Although the traffic here is legendary, routinely gridlocked as you’d expect in a metro area with over 22 million residents, nothing prepared us for what we see. Hundreds of thousands, from every state in the country, inundated the plaza, representing every political party, social justice movement and ideology under the sun.
The plaza is full of people. Streets in every direction are a sea of humanity with giant video screens providing access to the overflow crowd many, many blocks removed from the plaza. Amid the chants, drums, Mariachi music and extraordinary Indigenous dancing, enveloped by clouds of ritual incense, we’re overwhelmed and awed.
Whatever particular river of people we find ourselves in, that’s the way we go, like pieces of driftwood on an outgoing tide.
Political differences aside, we see no animosity toward other people no matter how they roll. Against all odds we feel pretty safe. In fact, it’s about as safe as we’ve felt since we left Vermont, which seems like months ago.
and Border Leicester flock of sheep.
A few weeks prior to lambing season, the sheep are sheared — which livestock staff say is an art form in itself — and the wool and pelts are delivered to Green Mountain Spinnery in Putney where it is spun into yarn that is sent off to partners like Peggy Hard in Shelburne Falls, Mass., where it is weaved into customs blankets, and Swan’s Island Company in Maine where other wool products are crafted.
When lambing begins, Isabelle Lourie-Wisbaum, the farm’s livestock lead for nearly four years, said the birth process takes only about 45 minutes, and the hope is that the livestock team doesn’t need to help at all.
“The goal is that they’re good mothers and they can get them out by themselves and clean them off by themselves and the lambs figure out how to nurse by themselves,” she said.
Normal delivery for lambs is when the two front feet appear with the head resting between them. Most of the mothers give birth to two, sometimes three, lambs at a time.
Once born, the mother will lick the afterbirth off the lamb, initiating a bonding process between her and the baby. It doesn’t take long for the lambs to begin using their wobbly legs to hunt for their mother’s teat.
The first milk the lamb will nurse during this process is called colostrum, a thick, yellow milk that is rich in necessary calories, minerals and antibodies that the lamb will need in its first days. Lourie-Wisbaum explained that since lambs are born without an immune system, the “instinct to get (colostrum) is so strong.”
Once the birthing process is over, the team moves the mother and the newborn lambs to their own private pens inside the barn where the livestock team will dip their umbilical cords in iodine to prevent infection, weigh each lamb in order to track growth and performance throughout the season, punch an ear tag to aid in identification, and administer a mineral booster shot of selenium and vitamin E to reduce the chances of disease, Lourie-Wisbaum explained.
This entire process sets the stage for a healthy lamb as they prepare to transition to the main flock where the lambs will learn to socialize with other sheep and how to locate their mother within the crowd.
“As soon as they’re born, they start making little noises and mom starts talking back and they know by sight, by sound and by scent,” Lourie-Wisbaum said. “It’s an issue if you shear after ewes have given birth, the lambs won’t recognize their mom.”
The lambs are weened sometime in July and the process of breeding happens again in the fall, beginning an entirely new lambing cycle.
Year-round, the flock is intently guarded while out to pasture by Odyssey, a llama who’s held the watcher role for more than six years and plays an integral part in the sheep’s existence on the farm. As for the lambs, Lourie-Wisbaum explained that Odyssey tolerates their youthful shenanigans only for so long before his patience runs thin.
“When he’s laying down, lambs will jump on his back and it’s pretty funny,” she said.
But the farm’s livestock manager, Ed Pitcavage said the llama takes his job very seriously, and no incidents of dead or lost sheep have happened since he’s been on duty.
“Coyotes, skunks and even pigeons, he’s looking at them straight on and just stares,” Pitcavage said.
Besides the identification ear tags, the livestock team has a yearly tradition of naming the lambs based on a theme that is usually picked by Lourie-Wisbaum. This year, it’s trees.
“Last year was a car theme. The year before that it was mountains. We did cheese the year before that,” Pitcavage said.
He explained that because the sheep are out to pasture most of the year, the barn remains relatively empty while the sheep roam the 700 acres of pasture that surround the farm, making them relatively hidden from the public that frequents the market and kitchen.
The livestock team is planning to do a tour of the sheep barn on April 23 to give people a better sense of the sheep and the key role they play on the farm.
“We’re going to have the market open that day too. So, you could grab some food or buy other products, but it’ll be (the livestock team) doing a deeper tour so people can get into the barn and see what’s in here,” Pitcavage said. “We don’t really open it up the rest of the year from the first week of May until Thanksgiving when they’re out on pasture.”
Lambing season initiates a new beginning for the Philo Ridge team and an exciting new cycle that continues to add to the farm’s overall mission.
“At our heart we are grass farmers, tending healthy fields of diverse grasses, forbs and legumes in a perennial pasture system,” reads their website. “Our livestock are an integral part of this healthy pasture system.”
For more information on the sheep barn tour visit philoridgefarm.com.
Age Well and St. Catherine’s of Siena Parish in Shelburne are teaming up to provide a meal to go for anyone age 60 and older on Tuesday, April 11.
The meal will be available for pick up in the parking lot at 72 Church St. from 11 a.m. until noon and is available for anyone 60 or older.
The menu features baked ham with raison sauce, sweet potatoes, Capri blend vegetables, wheat roll with butter, Congo bar and milk.
To order contact Kathleen at agewellstcath@gmail.com or call 802-503-1107. Deadline to order is Wednesday, April 5. More information at agewellvt.org.
Pam Blair, a retired psychotherapist and an experienced life coach, will co-lead a group for those grieving the loss of a loved one at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne the first and third Saturdays of every month from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Donations are gladly accepted. Register at allsoulsinterfaith. org. Find more information about the group leader at pamblairbooks. com.
The Richmond Congregational Church, 20 Church St., hosts a blood drive on Wednesday, April 5, noon-6 p.m.
Appointments are required. Call 800-733-2767 or go online to redcrossblood.org to make an appointment. Email dthomas@ gmavt.net with questions. There are plenty of slots between the hours of 1:30 and 4:30 p.m.
Preparations are underway for the All Souls Interfaith Gathering annual Easter egg hunt on Sunday, April 9, at noon.
During the festivities, candyfilled Easter eggs are hidden for children to find.
Easter activities will begin with a sunrise meditation at 6 a.m. on the sledding hill east of All
Souls, followed by Sunday morning meditation at 9 a.m.
A community brunch will be held in the gathering hall at 10 a.m. The Easter music and spirit service will take place at 11 a.m. in the sanctuary. Festivities culminate with the Easter egg hunt at noon on the west lawn.
Community members are welcome for all or part of the day’s festivities. For more information, call 802-985-3819 or visit allsoulsinterfaith.org.
Peg Maffitt has been involved in hospice and end-of-life care education for 30 years. With her experience and awareness of the fragility of life, she has created “my little red file.”
This file includes important documents that your family would need to know immediately, including a completed advance directive, will, birth certificate, Social Security card, passwords, and more.
During the workshop on Saturday, April 8, 10 to 11:30 a.m.,
Gary Mace, 73 of Shelburne, died on Saturday, March 18, 2023.
In his quiet, self-effacing way, Gary touched many people, more than he will likely ever know. He was a devoted husband, father, brother, grandfather, uncle, brother-in-law and friend, and if you asked, he showed up in so many ways for the people around him. He will be deeply missed. Gary was born on Nov. 26, 1949, in Colchester, to David and Elizabeth (Goodrich) Mace. He grew up the youngest of three. As a military family they lived all over the world in places such as Guam, Scotland and France. But Gary was always a Vermont boy.
He spent many summers at his grandparent’s farm in Williston and attended Lyndon Institute in the Northeast Kingdom for high
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Maffitt will help participants create an index for your own little red file. There will be an optional second session.
Cost is by donation to Vermont Ethics Network to cover book fees. Register by Friday, March 31.
The Argosy Foundation and Erik Angel Entertainment present a live — and lively — interfaith comedy show with Usama Siddiquee, Ashley Austin Morris, Erik Angel and Tehran Von Ghasri on Wednesday, April 12, at 7 p.m.
school. He graduated from University of Vermont with a degree in art in 1972 and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Shortly after graduating, he met his best friend and love of his life, Harriet (Gluck) Mace.
Together Gary and Harriet would go on to start a hand engraving business, Mace Engravers, which they ran together for 47 years in Burlington, grow a beautiful family with their boys, Justin and Adam and, over the years, build a huge network of personal and professional friends, who have been forever touched by their endless generosity and kindness.
If you ever met Gary and Harriet, you’d understand. You would likely find them together, walking Shelburne Farms, at the engraving shop, visiting their boys and beloved grandchildren or simply in their garden picking fresh vegetables for their daily salad. Happiness was simple: Be with the ones you love, help where you can and keep showing up and doing the right thing.
While humble, Gary was a true Jack of all trades. At Lyndon Institute he was president of his class and co-captain of his high school’s football, basketball and track teams, and received a scholarship to Maryville College in Tennessee to be a quarterback on the football team. After one year he returned to Vermont and transferred to UVM.
He was an avid gardener and
would produce incredible meals every summer from his vegetable garden. If something was broken, he could likely fix it. He built and remodeled his home and camp on Lake Iroquois and restored a 1971 Land Rover.
Gary was a master hand engraver who did inscriptions and artful designs for jewelers all over the country. In addition to the countless pieces of jewelry that passed through his hands, his work can be found on the Vince Lombardi (Super Bowl) trophy, clock dials and gun stocks. Perhaps most noteworthy was the humility with which he so expertly practiced his craft.
Gary was a great bow hunter and looked forward to hunting season each year as he got to spend several days with his closest friends at their “deer camp” in Pawlet. Other than being with his wife, children and grandchildren, Gary was truly his happiest on his long weekends in Pawlet. More than anything, Gary loved his family and friends.
He is survived by his wife Harriet; their sons, Justin and his wife, Robin, and grandsons Brody and Ryder, and Adam Mace and his wife, Shauna, and their two daughters, McKenna and Riley; his forever-loving sisters, whom he adored, Norma Dion and her husband Bob, and Davey DeGraff; his brother-inlaw and sister-in-law, Lenny and Brenda Gluck; and several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his brother-in-law, Jerry DeGraff; and nephew, Matt Hauke. His family holds fond memories of him at their house, camp and on visits to Jacksonville and Philadelphia. If you ask his grandchildren, they will tell you tales of driving the boat on Lake Iroquois, tubing, fishing and drawing with Papa Gary. Every chance he had to see his grandchildren and their many activities, he was there with a proud smile on his face. He always made time for those he loved and gave so much. To have known Gary was a gift, and his family will be forever grateful.
A celebration of Gary’s life was held on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, from noon-3 p.m. at All Souls in Shelburne.
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Donald “Peanut” Albert Bean, died peacefully at the age of 98 on Sunday, March 12, 2023.
Donald was born in Burlington on Nov. 28, 1924, to parents Victor Bean and Aurea Angers. He was one of eight children with five brothers and two sisters. He is survived by William and Margaret Therrien and Eleanor Francis).
Donald served in World War II in Europe as part of the U.S. Army’s Company B 1258th Engineer Combat Battalion.
After the war, he married Jean Fraser and together they had three
children, Richard, Douglas and Patricia (Pat) and her husband, Dean Laforce; three grandchildren, Katelyn, Lauren, Dillon; and two great-grandchildren, Evangeline and Grayson.
Donald worked for the Shelburne Museum, where he helped move the Ticonderoga. He was a member of the Shelburne Fire Department.
Donald was a beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be remembered for his loyalty and devotion to his family, his patriotism and his service to his community. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
There will be a service for Donald on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at 9 a.m. at St. Catherine of Siena in Shelburne. Burial will be announced at a later date.
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JoeJoe DuBrul of Shelburne, who attends Norwich University, has been named to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference’s All-Conference team.
He joined his Norwich teammate, Donovan Lewis Jr. of Savannah, Ga., on the team.
DuBrul’s second semester tenure with the Cadets saw him land on the conference’s All-Rookie Team.
Norwich also received the conference’s Team Sportsmanship Award, voted on by coaches from around the league.
DuBrul joined the Cadets in the second semester and made an immediate impact. The Shelburne native averaged 12.3 points and 5.5 boards, tallying double-digits
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in a late January showdown against Rivier University, going 7-12 from the floor with a 5-8 mark from beyond the arc. He registered a pair of double-doubles on the season, as well, including a 10-point, 12-rebound performance in Norwich’s season-ending blowout win over Anna Maria College.
DuBrul was a member of the 2020 Vermont Division I basketball championship at Rice Memorial High School.
Lewis Jr., the sixth all-time leading scorer in program history, finished his final campaign at Norwich at 12th in points per game with 13.5, while also ranking 12th in field goal percentage with 49.8 percent.
named to the second team as a defenseman and Grace Ferguson was named second team goalie.
The Champlain Valley girls’ basketball team added some extra hardware after coming home with the Division I state championship trophy this season.
Addi Hunter was named to the Metro Division first team and Elise Berger earned a spot on the second team.
Hunter was also named to the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association all-star roster for the North-South Senior All-Star Classic. Teammates Shelby Companion and Elise Ayer were also named to the team.
The team fell to the North 78-72. Companion had nine points and Ayer added eight points in the loss.
Three Champlain Valley players suited up one more time as part of the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association all-star roster for the North-South Senior All-Star Classic.
Alex Provost, Sam Sweeney and Logan Vaughn were all named to the North roster. In the Division I/II matchup, North fell to the South 92-85 with Provost chipping in eight points.
CVU coach Mike Osborne, who led the Redhawks to the program’s first DI state title, was named the DI coach of the year.
Two Champlain Valley-Mount Mansfield girls’ ice hockey players have been named to the Vermont Girls Ice Hockey Coaches Association’s all-star team.
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has been doing over these many years.”
That explains why Charlotte and Shelburne have both been regularly giving between $2,600 and $2,700 each year to the group since 2012 to support its work in the area, according to Kelley.
However, that money can only do so much to bolster a group strained by an aging and shrinking circle of volunteers.
The core group of volunteers is getting older and less able to take on the grunt work that keeps the association’s programs going. The association is also struggling to recruit new volunteers, especially young ones.
“Just speaking for myself, I’m just not that into technology. I just don’t use Facebook. I don’t have an Instagram account. I don’t understand what Twitter is — and yet that’s how we need to connect with younger people,” said Andrea Morgante, the association’s founder and board president. “Younger people are, I’m sure, just as concerned about the environment ... I don’t doubt that there’s volunteers out there and there’s people — it’s just like there’s
Bushweller, Everett, Riley Erdman and Sasha Miller were all named to the Academic All-Star team, made up seniors with a minimum cumulative 3.5 grade-point average.
The Vermont Boys Hockey Coaches Association recently announced its all-league teams and Champlain Valley was well represented.
Alex Zuchowski was named to the third team as a defenseman and Jason Douglas earned a spot as the third-team goalie.
CVU’s boys’ alpine ski team won its third straight DI state title and then brought home some extra honors after the all-state teams were announced.
Sebastian Bronk, Ari Diamond, George Francisco, Ray Hagios and Jake Strobeck were all named to the team. Alden Endres earned an honorable mention.
For the girls, Addison Bartley, Rachel Bialowoz, Ella Lisle, Dicey Manning and Carly Strobeck were all named to the all-state team. Elizabeth Nostrand was named an honorable mention.
Champlain Valley earned multiple spots on the DI Nordic All-State teams after a successful year on the slopes.
Stella Laird was named to the girls’ team, while Corinna Hobbs was named an honorable mention.
Matthew Servin was named to the boys’ team, while Jack Crum, Owen Deale and Anders Johnson all earned an honorable mention.
this split between us old fogies and young people.”
One recent way association leaders have tried to mend that divide is by launching an account on Instagram with the support of UVM students. That’s on top of its more traditional recruitment methods: a website and accompanying newsletter and, of course, word of mouth.
Anyone can get involved, even if they don’t have the time or interest to get waistdeep in the creek.
“It’s a nice antidote to a feeling of powerlessness that I think (as) citizens, we all have at various points,” said Louis DuPont, a longtime volunteer and association board member. “You look at the news and hear the news — it can be fairly overwhelming ... it’s a way to salvage a productive relationship to the world.”
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community building and engagement manager with the Champlain Housing Trust, said. “So right now, Harbor Place is transitional housing, meaning it’s temporary. They’re there with vouchers through the state, and the goal is once they leave (Harbor Place) to get them into permanent housing.”
When Champlain Housing Trust bought the Days Inn property in 2021 for $7.345 million, funded with a grant from the American Recovery Plan Act, the trust moved people who were housed at the former Harbor Place across the street to the hotel last August. The former Harbor Place is now being converted into nearly 100 affordable rental and homeowner units.
From contentious zoning battles to public hearings regarding safety concerns, the Champlain Housing Trust’s affordable housing initiatives in Shelburne have not always been warmly welcomed by neighboring residents, especially those abutting the Days Inn property.
“I think it kind of humanizes the folks there. My experience when you’re dealing with this demographic, people tend to ‘other’ them, and they are just as an integral part of the Shelburne community as anyone else,” explained Ciambella.
“They say kids are adaptable? But still, (not having a home) is not a traditional childhood so to be able to give them something like arts and crafts, coloring books, it kind of normalizes a not normal situation,” she continued.
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her hour-long monthly sessions, she sees groups of preteens, some elementary-aged students along with infants and toddlers. “So, I try to bring enough crafting stuff for all the different ages,” she said.
From air-dried clay projects to paints and marker exercises, the kids see a new activity every single month.
“At the end, I get to divide up the art supplies that I bring and just give them away,” she said. “You’d think I was handing out bars of gold, these kids are so grateful and excited to continue to do art in their rooms.”
This year, the $3,000 allocated to the project was raised through the fifth annual HeART Show put on by local artist Ashley Campbell.
“Artists create these hearts around Valentine’s Day and people bid on them and then (Campbell) gives the money to nonprofits. We were recipients for some of that money this year,” Moore said.
She also explained that the project has seen overwhelming support by the Shelburne Craft School’s board members including the newest selectboard member, Andrew Everett, who’s been president of the school board for two years.
“Shelburne is a pretty wealthy town so it serves a relatively affluent clientele, and we are always looking for ways to diversify the folks that can use the programs and the facilities,” he said. “So, getting out into the community and kind of using the craft school brand to do programs elsewhere.
“With regard to the location,
it’s obviously been a contentious issue in town. I think it’s just a way to get beyond the back and forth of the politics and just focus on the kids,” Everett said.
Aside from the impact this program makes on kids, it also offers a way for adults to socialize and get to know one another in a way that they might have not before.
“It’s a nice way to bring the folks that are in there with children together too because they might not necessarily know that somebody else has a 3-year-old and then they play together,” said Moore.
Along with the $3,000 in donated funds, Moore noted that multiple board members are donating specifically to keep this program up and running — an expense that doesn’t cost much to maintain.
“Whenever I get money for it, it goes right to those kids,” she said. “I’d like to make kits so that every kid that comes into Harbor Place gets a kit when they move in. So paper, markers and pens, that kind of thing.”
In addition to the Harbor Place partnership, the craft school has partnered with five other organizations to bring the joy of crafting to everyone and anyone. Since
being hired last July, Moore said that the community connections and partnerships have more than tripled with the intention of growing those numbers to reach even more members of the Shelburne community.
With nearly 75 children living at Harbor Place every year, the hope is that this program can continue to grow the relationship that the community has with the facility to “get the kids and families there more access to good things,” Moore said. “I have to say, it’s such a joyful thing. I thought I would have hired a teacher to do it for me by now, but I just love it so much. It’s just really fun.”
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March 21 - April 20
Requests from friends, associates and family this week can have your nerves on end, Aries. You may have to escape the crowds to recharge. Plan a getaway in the next few days.
April 21 - May 21
You are awesome at staying on track when you need to be, Taurus. That is what makes you a potentially ideal tness guide. Try to inspire others to be regimented as well.
May 22 - June 21
There is nothing wrong with putting rose-colored glasses on from time to time and looking at the world in a more positive way. A more positive outlook can be helpful, Gemini.
June 22 - July 22
Cancer, be sure that your generous nature does not come at the expense of your own well-being. You tend to put other people’s needs before your own quite often.
July 23 - Aug. 23
Leo, for some reason you are having problems nding balance in your life right now. You may have to experiment a little bit to see if new strategies might work.
Aug. 24 - Sept. 22
Let others in on some of your secrets, Virgo. You can’t hold everything in all of the time, and you have been shouldering a lot of responsibility for some time.
Sept. 23 - Oct. 23
Libra, the personalized touches you put on any project will showcase your personality and passion. Think about embracing a crafty task to really showcase your talents.
Oct. 24 - Nov. 22
Scorpio, friends are lining up to be quite helpful of late. When you gure out how much you’re getting done with the assistance of others, you may be more welcoming of it in the future.
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Overcome resistance to listening to another person’s side of the story, Sagittarius. Embrace this person’s desire take the lead on something at work or in your home life.
Dec. 22 - Jan. 20
A changing environment has you guring out how to adapt your schedule and your skills, Capricorn. With a support team in your corner, you can achieve quite a bit.
Jan. 21 - Feb. 18
Spending is a tad out of control this week, Aquarius. Money is ying out of your wallet at a rapid rate. You may need to be a bit more choosy with your spending moving forward.
Feb. 19 - March 20
Wait a few more days before making major decisions as your emotions are high right now, Pisces. You want a level head to prevail.
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