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Two issues dominated the Selectboard meeting of April 27. The first was what would seemingly be a simple renewal of agricultural leases for land in the Charlotte Park and Wildlife Sanctuary and the adjoin-ing Galbreath parcel. Five years ago a contract for both was entered into with Clark Hinsdale III’s Nordic Holstein, LLC. The language in the contract gives the term of the lease being five growing seasons and end-ing on December 31, 2015. It goes on to say, “The par-ties shall have the option of renewing the lease for an additional five-year period.” Certain procedures and decision deadlines are specified for contract renewal. However, a sticking point arose over the interpretation of the word “option” in that some in the room felt the word allowed for renewal without opening a bidding process. Others, including a number of farmers in the audience who wished to partake in the bidding, felt that the sense of the contract was to allow for competition for the continuing five years.
Sue Smith of the Park Commission was present in the original negotiations and stated that it was her recollection that the contract “was intended to be a ten-year lease and that the five years was in case things didn’t go well.” Robert Mack interpreted it as saying that the Selectboard “had the right to review [the con-tract], take the comments from the [park] committee; you (the Selectboard) also have the rights to … make a decision on whether to put it up for bid another five years for everybody to bid or you can renew it. The easy way for the board is to put it up for bid.”
A third approach was suggested that now that Nordic Holstein, the current leasee, has submitted a timely request for renewal, the Selectboard has until Oct. 1 to decide. The Selectboard will now seek legal advice and address the question at the May 18 regular meeting.
The second issue arose when it came time to appoint candidates for the positions on town committees, com-missions and boards. Six positions were uncontested and were rapidly approved. However, the two open positions on the Planning Commission had four appli-cants. Two were identified for selection in executive session.
From left to right: Charlie Tipper, Erick Crockenberg, Tad Cooke—the team behind the New Moran
Plant in Burlington. Crockenberg and Cooke are from Charlotte.
Charlotters discuss their
plans for Burlington’s
New Moran project
Joseph Oliveri CONTRIBUTOR
In 1986, the Moran Municipal Generation Station, a 30-mega-watt coal processing plant on the Burlington waterfront, was decommissioned and replaced by the McNeil Generating Station, a wood-burning facility. The six-sto-ry, 66,972 square foot building was left unclaimed, but not forgotten.
On the Fourth of July, 2010, Charlotte natives Tad Cooke and Erick Crockenberg, then juniors at the University of Vermont, noticed the abandoned plant while sitting by the waterfront. After learning what the dilapidated building used to be, Cooke and Crockenberg decided something needed to be done.
Their master plan was, and
still is, to completely renovate the Moran to accommodate a smatter-ing of Vermont-inspired cultural hallmarks, all with an eco-friendly, zero-energy framework. A nano-brewery, an art gallery, a cafe, res-taurant, and more are all included in the outline.
“If there’s one thing that inspires us about Moran,” Cooke explained, “it’s that this is our generation’s opportunity to have that kind of positive legacy on the waterfront and for the city and state.”
The two raised nearly $20,000 through a Kickstarter campaign, and finally got permission to begin the renovation after presenting over 80 different proposals to city offi-cials up until 2013. By then, they were still students at UVM, but had seemingly come miles from where their brainchild to give the Moran Plant a new purpose first began, despite their project’s challenges.
“Things go from being a real-ly simple idea to—really, really,
quickly—becoming much more involved,” Crockenberg said, admitting that being at the helm of the Moran project is “A role that we never really predicted.”
“It’s almost a strength that you have when you’re young,” Cooke adds. “You don’t have a lot to lose.”
Their biggest advance this year came in March, when a 70-percent vote in favor of several waterfront projects, including the New Moran, secured the population’s support.
Friends since middle school, both Cooke and Crockenberg have always been the type to venture outside the box, together.
While studying at UVM, Crockenberg says the college’s Rubenstein School of Environment “wasn’t exactly what we were look-ing for,” so they transferred to a program where they designed their own academic regime.
Throughout college, the two had
Moran Plant Renovators Hope to Spread ‘Creative Energy in the Community’
In Old Lantern Fire Call, More
Than Prayers Answered
Brett SigurdsonTHE CHARLOTTE NEWS
Lisa Gaujac was volunteering at Christ the King in Burlington Tuesday morning when Father Richard O’Donnell stopped to remind her it was St. Florian’s Feast Day. As he often does, O’Donnell, the state chaplain for the Professional Firefighters of Vermont, told her to say a prayer for Florian, who is known as the patron saint of firefighters. Gaujac laughed it off.
When she left the church around noon, Gaujac received a call that an ember from a neighbor’s burn pile had sparked a fire at the Old Lantern, the restaurant she owns with husband Roland. As she rushed home, she called O’Donnell. “I get him on the phone,” she recalled, “and I say, ‘Father Rich, use your direct line to St. Florian. I need him right
now.’” Gaujac told this story to Charlotte
Volunteer Fire Chief Chris Davis over the racket of motorized saws and moving machinery, part of the mop up process after the fire was knocked down.
“The fire department in conjunction with the saints on high, you know—it all works out,” she said, laughing.
There was no doubt some serendip-ity involved in the response to the fire, which caused an unknown amount of damage as of press time to a ten-by-ten foot area of the popular Charlotte inn.
Davis had arrived just before noon to help about ten other fire volunteers from CVFS and Shelburne Fire contain an unpermitted fire that had begun to creep into the nearby brush and woods about 150 yards to the south of the Old
Fire continued on page 8 A firefighter pulls off siding at the Old Lantern after crews contained a fire
that broke out at the Charlotte inn Tuesday afternoon.
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Benjamin Franklin once said, “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” If you hope to one day be associated with the first category, keep reading.
The Charlotte News will host its fourth annual writ-ing competition this month, and if you are an unpublished writer we want your submission. Writers who are self-published or who have published only locally (in the pages of The Charlotte
News, for instance) are still eligible.The rules are easy:Send us a fictional or narrative non-
fiction (personal biography or memoir) story that responds to the following prompt:
I wish someone had told me…
• 1,000 words max. • Double-spaced with your full name and the story
title at the top.• Email it to [email protected] with
“TCN Writing Contest” in the subject heading. • Submission must be received by Sunday, May
17, at 5 p.m.• Submissions can be simple, serious, humorous or
outrageous. We want it all. The judges will select a winning
story based on its originality, how it develops and reads, and whether the piece engages the reader emotion-ally. Judges’ decisions are final.
To ensure objectivity in the com-petition, writers’ names will be removed by the editor before the stories are sent to the judges.
Prizes have been generously donated by Horsfords, Spear’s Corner Store and the Old Brick Store. The winning submissions
will be published in The Charlotte News in June. Well, what are you waiting for? This story isn’t going
to write itself. Good luck!
Enter the 2015 Charlotte News Writing Competition
Never Say NeverAlex Bunten
EDITOR IN CHIEF
CariBBeaN sea—Flying fish skim through the troughs of 12-foot swell. A south-westerly wind pushes the following sea into flustered white caps. The keyboard sticks to my fingers as we rollick and yawl through 98-percent humidity.
When hired for this posi-tion nearly five months ago, I never imagined I’d be filing an editorial through a satel-lite phone on a yacht deliv-ery 500 miles north of the British Virgin Islands with a couple Charlotters. Surely this is National Geographic On
Assignment type stuff, not our hometown Charlotte News, right? Well, you’d be surprised—Charlotters go pretty far.
I’m reminded of when I started high school at CVU. There were new requirements. Two years of a foreign language was one that really baffled me. I had studied French at CCS and was yet convinced of its highfalutin charms. Why would a Vermonter with no intention of ever leaving the borders need a foreign language?
Reasoning with my teenage self, we collectively decided that if pushed into such a linguistic corner, we’d take Latin. In the end, it didn’t hurt my SAT score, and I was proudly able to recite “Happy Birthday” (two rounds, the second always preceded by “once more, with vigor!”) and the “Pledge of Allegiance” in Latin. I could hacky-sack much better, too. Go figure.
Then, of course, where do I go for my first trip abroad (other than Canada)? France. How fitting.
I couldn’t have seen my folly yet, being still a teen. Now, however, just having moved home after living abroad for ten years, it’s clear. The amount of times I could have used a solid background in language was numerous. Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
Surely I’m not alone in occasion-ally wanting to go back and kick my
teenage self, but it’s not healthy to dwell on the past. Onward we must tread. But onward to where? Kids brought up in Charlotte rarely stay. Almost by necessity, they have to seek a life and adventure elsewhere.
With graduation coming around soon, it’s a worthwhile exercise for both parents and soon-to-be gradu-ates to think about all the unexpected things they might do in life—both after they leave the nest and after the nest is empty—recognizing that even the most fanciful dream could come to pass. Never say never.
I’m not advocating scaring your dear mother on Mother’s Day with wild ideas, but it’s good to be hon-est with yourself, even if you find that honesty doesn’t agree with your future self.
From The News’ perspective, it’s the unexpected life paths of Charlotters that help us stay in print. This town is full of interesting people and stories. And we thank you for so often sharing them with us.
Whether you are helping to resur-rect the Moran Plant in Burlington (page 1), taking young Charlotters to New York City for some life per-spective (page 4), or crewing a boat from the Caribbean to Rhode Island (hopefully next issue), we want to hear from you.
If you want to really test your met-tle against other local writers, be sure to get involved with our upcoming writing competition (details below).
And remember, even if you aren’t over the borders or out to sea, every-day is an adventure, it just depends on how you tell the story
The crew of the Namaste before setting sail. The author is in the middle.
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Legislative Report
by Representative Mike Yantachka
Barrie DunsmoreCONTRIBUTOR
Voices
The legislature is in the final stretch of the session and instead of winding down, we seem to be winding up as bills deal-ing with some of the more difficult issues reach the floor. Differences of opinion seem to become more pronounced even as everyone strives to adhere to the rules of civil debate. Contention instead turns to use of parliamentary strategies such as amendments, roll call votes, and some-times interminably long floor speeches.
The work on the floor ran into the evening on both Thursday and Friday as numerous amendments and 16 roll calls were requested on the Senate health care bill, S.139. Moreover, many of the bills passed earlier by the House will be com-ing back from the Senate with changes. Several of these will have to be resolved by a conference committee, including the budget.
Two bills this session generated a large volume of emails and constituent con-tacts: the firearms regulation bill which strengthens enforcement capabilities for illegal use of guns, and the bill passed by the Senate with a provision to eliminate the philosophical exemption from vacci-nating children. The vaccine issue came up very late in the session with a Senate amendment to a House bill that was passed earlier, so it is not certain whether the House will actually take action on the floor before the session ends sometime in the next two weeks. However, having passed the health care bill on Friday, the House Health Care Committee decided to begin to consider S.98, the vaccine bill on Tuesday. The Vermont House rarely takes up a bill without exhaustive testimony from all sides of an issue, and this will give the public an opportunity to weigh in.
Existing law allows three types of exemptions from the immunization requirements for children to attend school: a medical exemption, a religious exemp-
tion, and a philosophical exemption. The use of the philosophical exemption by parents who believe that vaccines pose a higher risk than the diseases they are sup-posed to prevent is opposed by the medi-cal community who see it as a threat to the health of the general public. Vaccines are important and have been successful in practically eliminating many diseases and reducing the incidence of many oth-ers in the general population.
Recently, I have heard many first per-son accounts of adverse reactions to vac-cines, which give me pause when faced with the question of whether the philo-sophical exemption should be eliminated. Supporters of keeping the exemption are concerned that if a child has an adverse reaction to a vaccine, or if there is a pos-sibility that such a reaction occurred, that it should not be dismissed automatically as having nothing to do with the vaccine. This is probably a rare occurrence, but it does become the overriding concern for parents who are faced with it. Parents need to be reassured that they are heard and listened to when they have serious concerns.
While each side is convinced that their position is right, we in the Legislature take our responsibility seriously to allow testimony from all sides of any issue before taking a firm position to change or not change a law. We need to let the process work before we make such a decision. I am looking forward to an open process that will lead to the correct decision.
I continue to welcome your thoughts and questions and can be reached by phone (802-233-5238) or by email ([email protected]). You can find this article and past articles at my website, MikeYantachka.com.
Difficult Decisions on Vaccines
When he visits this country in September, Pope Francis will be carry-ing a message that will put him on a collision course with America’s climate change deniers. This just might be a game changer.
Late last month, the Vatican hosted a summit meeting of the Pope’s top advisers, the head of the United Nations, religious leaders of different faiths, Nobel laureates and respect-ed environmental scientists. This was the latest step in Pope Francis’ campaign to take up the battle against climate change.
In June, the Pope plans to issue an encyclical dealing with environmental degradation and its impact on the poor. An encyclical is one of the highest forms of papal communications to the
church. The Vatican has signaled that this one will frame the debate in moral
and religious terms. And it will call for a sweeping new agree-ment to cut global warming carbon emissions, at the next U.N. environmental confer-ence in December in Paris.
Pope Francis will person-ally enter the fray in September when he speaks to the United Nations General Assembly and when he addresses a joint meeting of the United States Congress.
House Speaker John Boehner caused the White House great angst, when he invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to speak to Congress, in opposition to the Iran nuclear talks. So it’s ironic that the Speaker’s invitation to have the Pope speak to Congress, may bring him more grief than the
Netanyahu invitation.Most Republican members of
Congress claim not to believe that global warming is largely man-made. And at last count, of the dozen or so Republicans running, or thinking about running for the 2016 presidential nomi-nation, none is so far willing to admit that climate change has been scientifi-cally proven.
So it’s no surprise that Pope Francis is already under attack from those who evidently fear his intervention on this subject. The Heartland Institute, is part-ly funded by the billionaire Koch broth-ers, who consider any mandatory action to deal with climate change, bad for business. Heartland’s president Joseph Bast said in a statement, “Though Pope Francis’ heart is surely in the right place, he would do his flock and the world a disservice by putting his moral authority behind the United Nations unscientific agenda on the climate.”
The conservative writer Maureen Mullarkey was much less gentle. According to the Times she wrote, “Francis sullies his office by using demagogic formulations to bully the populace into reflexive climate action.”
Thirty percent of the members of Congress, including John Boehner, are Roman Catholics, the largest single reli-gious group. When it comes to climate change issues, it remains to be seen what impact the Pope’s passionate pleas will have, not just on their votes but on their consciences.
This commentary originally appeared
on VPR on April 30, 2015. Barrie
Dunsmore is a journalist who covered
foreign affairs for ABC News for 30 years.
His commentaries are also featured in the
Rutland Herald/Montpelier Times Argus.
He lives in Charlotte.
Pope’s Plea Could Frame Global Warming Debate
Paramedic Under Attack: Demand Fair Treatment for Stewie
The CVFRS Corporate Board abrupt-ly decided to remove Charlotte Rescue Paramedic David Stewart (who we all know as “Stewie”) at an emergency meet-ing held at the Charlotte Senior Center on April 30. The meeting had been called in order to address an unrelated issue concerning the resignation of the newly appointed Rescue Director. No notice or warning was given regarding discussions concerning the employment of Stewie. In addition to the hardship imposed on David, to whom many in this community owe their life or the wellness of a loved one, this hasty and ill-advised action threatens to leave Charlotte Volunteer Rescue without the ability to meet the needs of the community.
By terminating Stewie this way, the CVFRS Corporate Board has violated its own written personnel policy in two ways. First, the policy sets out a process for progressive discipline by which manage-ment clearly articulates perceived prob-lems, outlines a timeline for the specific changes expected, and clarifies the way that failure to meet specified expectations will result in termination.
Second, the CVFRS personnel policy includes extensive provisions to insure employees have an opportunity to address issues regarding their performance. The Corporate Board has not provided Stewie with details surrounding the reasons for his removal, and has prevented his direct supervisors from initiating the process
of progressive discipline. The Corporate Board evokes “at will” status of its employees to circumvent its own policies. This is wrong and grossly unfair.
Dave Stewart has been a paramedic for over fourteen years, the last five of which have been served at CVFRS. There are several people now living in Charlotte and neighboring towns who would not be alive today had Stewie not been there to perform his paramedic duties. He truly “rescued” them. During the past five years he has been on hundreds of calls, at all hours, including responding during non-assigned hours. His patient care and professionalism have been well noted by families and individuals he has treated. More importantly, Stewie lives in our town. He is one of us, cares deeply for our well-being and is respected widely by members of Charlotte Rescue. His treatment by the CVFRS Board is grossly unfair and unfitting for someone who has given so much to our community.
Please email John Howe ([email protected]) and support fair treatment for a valued first responder.
John Howe
Acting Rescue Chief
Pam Dawson
Former Acting Rescue Chief
It was an excellent sale this year! Huge thanks again go to Steven Wisbaum from Champlain Valley Compost Co., who supplied 10 cubic yards of his Charlotte “black gold,” and to all of the people who supported CCS and their gardens by purchasing the compost.
Even with a greater quantity for sale, we had to turn away drop-in customers. We apologize. Next year it will be first come, first served.
Thanks go to hardworking shovelers Alicia Kroll and her son Zane, Deirdre Holmes, Kit Perkins, Maureen Delaney,
Alice Trageser and Abby Foulk. Sixth graders Stella, Sophia, Elyse
and Courtney gave expert tours of the school compost shed, explaining how they “farm” the microorganisms that decompose school lunch food scraps into rich humus. That compost is used in the school kitchen gardens.
Enjoy Spring and gardening every-one!
Abby Foulk
Charlotte
Thanks for Great Compost Sale
This is Spring!Come try it on!
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Two CVU students and two for-mer CCS teachers share their experience touring New York City schools
Tom ScatchardCONTRIBUTOR
“Megan, I have a feeling we’re not in Vermont anymore.”
Lauren Hanley didn’t actually say this to Megan Mahoney, but she certainly could have as the two CVU freshmen (Lauren from Shelburne, Megan a CCS grad) explored Brooklyn and Manhattan over April school vacation. The subway car leaving Times Square after seeing Phantom of the Opera on Broadway (packed with one person per square foot [really!]), or the two gun-carrying secu-rity guards at a high school they were visiting were clear give-aways that they weren’t anywhere near Hinesburg Road.
The two adventurous teens were visit-ing Brooklyn schools and exploring the many dramatic differences (and more subtle similarities) of life in the big city, accompanied by me and Ebeth Scatchard, both of us retired CCS teachers. The idea for the excursion to New York came from
our interest in helping Vermont students understand at a young age that all kids don’t live the cozy and secure lives with which they and most of their friends have been blessed. Megan and Lauren got an up-close-and-personal picture of city life while spending four days living in a Brooklyn rental apartment and traveling all over the city via subway.
Thanks to the efforts of Brett Cluff (who is an administrative liaison in the New York school system and son of for-mer teachers Lynn and Greg of Charlotte), the four Vermont travelers were able to visit two of the city schools.
The first was The School For International Studies in Brooklyn, which is where the two uniformed, armed guards were checking photo IDs of all adult visitors. In contrast to what the security suggested, the Cobble Hill neighborhood of the school was beautifully tree lined (flowering, in fact!), with well-manicured brownstones and mothers wheeling baby carriages. The high school itself was undergoing renovations, particularly to its sports area, which was paved, and about the size of the southern section of the CVU parking lot (one of the dramatic dif-ferences, compared to the multiple sports fields and open spaces of Vermont).
Lauren and Megan shad-owed two senior girls in AP history and statistics classes, and also spent two periods in culi-nary classes. One of girls had just won a prestigious scholarship to culinary school in Italy. Both were African-American, as was the vast majority of the school popula-tion—another of the ways city schools were different from Vermont. The girls found the classes were run quite a bit like they are at CVU, but the
hall passes were much more strict. Each class allowed one bathroom pass per year.
The second school they visited was MS 88, with a hugely diverse eth-nic population, and a large English as Second Language student body. This was a 1,300-student middle school with an innovative curriculum that emphasized student leadership. The three floors were divided into three academic themes of Technology, Medicine, and the Arts. In addition to the school’s broad range of curricular opportunities, stemming from the large staff, the energy and enthusiasm of students and staff was astounding. It had been a failing school ten years earlier, but new leader-ship has transformed the school and has brought in new sources of fund-ing (such as the Gates Foundation—Bill Gates visited the school for a day this year).
The students loved attending MS 88, and Megan and Lauren imme-diately could sense the positively charged vibe within the school. One of the teach-ers explained that the many immigrant families and the diversity of the students helped provide the “joyous” atmosphere in the school. Another teacher said the visibility of the students in the school’s handicapped classrooms helped each of the students “be a good person.”
The very powerful 9/11 Museum, a Broadway musical, shopping around Times Square, seeing Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty (even though our ferry could never land because of a bomb scare) were excellent tourist/learning experi-
ences to balance the more personal expo-sures at the two schools. And the consis-tent kindness of strangers on the streets and subways, who helped poor, confused Vermonters navigate the city jungle, was a great example of the similarities between urban and rural environments.
A takeaway from four days living the city life seems to be that the urban stu-dents, subway riders, and people walking the streets seem generally content, and
have adapted to the crowds, trains, constant action and vast range of daily options, just as Vermonters have adapted to the cold weather, driving cars everywhere, placid setting, and more limited options.
Lauren and Megan noted it would have been interesting to see schools and areas that were much more different from Vermont in terms of income disparity, but that would have created a whole different level of concern around safety of
schools, neighborhoods and transportation. Their desire to be exposed to the “rougher” side of the city shows a commendable
awareness of the real-world challenges and inequities they will see when they’re “not in Vermont anymore,” an attitude one hopes will remain with them as they progress in education and life.
As a way to further share this effort to expand Vermont’s cultural awareness, if people have questions about this trip, or comments or ideas, they could be sent to The Charlotte News, or any of the authors.
Ebeth Scatchard, Lauren Hanley and Megan Mahoney contributed to this arti-cle.
The Other Side of the City
(From left) Tom Scatchard, Lauren Hanley and Megan
Mahoney.
Megan (left) and Lauren meet students at the School for International Studies in Brooklyn. Photos: courtesy.
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Chair Mark McDermott: 425-4860Vice Chair Erik Beal: 425-2140 Kristin Wright: 425-5105Clyde Baldwin: 425-3366Susan Nostrand: 425-4999
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Administrator Jeannine McCrumb: 425-3071; [email protected] Jeffrey McDonald: 425-4429 Vice Chair: Peter JoslinMembers: Gerald Bouchard, Paul Landler, Charles Pugh, Donna Stearns, Marty Illick
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CorreCtion
In a Town Bite from our last issue titled “Karen Frost helps Burlington City Arts host a free film series on architectural design,” we mistakenly noted the next film in the second season of the Architecture + Design Film Series, Maya Lin: A Clear, Strong Vision, will be shown in October 2015. That film was already shown as part of the first season in 2013. The third season is still in the planning stages. It kicks off in September. We apologize for the error.
Two Injured in Rte 7 CrashThe Charlotte Fire Department and Emergency
Medical Services responded to a two car crash that occurred at 11:23 on April 27, 2015 in the northbound lane of U.S. Route 7 in Charlotte.
Jim Podrasky of Burlington had pulled off of the northbound shoulder and attempted a U-turn to head southbound, in front of Kathleen Fox of Charlotte. Fox applied the brakes of her Volvo XC-7 station wagon in order to avoid Podrasky’s Honda Odyssey, however her vehicle hit the left front side of Podrasky’s vehicle.
Both individuals were wearing seatbelts dur-ing the accident, and only Podrasky was evalu-ated for possible head and neck injury after being extricated from his totaled vehicle. Fox’s Volvo sustained right front end damage, however she was uninjured and declined medical treatment. During the accident, Route 7 was reduced to a single line for 45 minutes.
The Vermont State Police is continuing to investigate the crash.
Charlotte Goes Green (Up Day)
Joe GallagherCONTRIBUTOR
It was a beautiful weekend with sun-shine and warm temperatures, and once again, Charlotte residents showed what they are made of, demonstrating their commitment to keeping our town clean, safe and beautiful!
Thanks to Rachel Stein and Abby Foulk for introducing a recycling com-ponent this year to Green Up Day. In addition to green bags for trash, blue or clear bags were provided to residents who wanted to separate out bottles and cans for recycling. Recycling this mate-rial, rather than adding it to the landfill, is another step forward in our efforts to protect the environment. There was great interest in and appreciation for this effort, and we hope to expand upon it next year. Thank you to Rachel, Abby and Mort Wasserman and to Aubuchon Hardware in Shelburne for donating bags for this effort.
Thanks to Abby Foulk for coordinat-ing the compost sale generously donat-ed by Champlain Valley Compost, to
Margaret Woodruff for coordinating the seed library, and to Sue Smith for coordi-nating the cleanup of the Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge.
Thanks also to the volunteers at the Quonset Hut who help to make all of these won-derful things happen. To Ruah Swennerfelt and her gang—Ted Montgomery, Raven Davis, Catherine Bock, Nancy Severance and Mike Yantachka— for managing the e-cycling effort.
Thanks to Kathy Gallagher, Walter Gundel, Kate Lampton, Joe Messingschlager, Carol Hanley, Bunky Bernstein and John Quinney for their help at the Quonset hut, greeting residents,
hauling trash from vehicles and taking on other odd jobs necessary to make it all happen. Special thanks to Leslie and Junior Lewis for generously providing the trucks for collection and hauling the materials to the drop-off centers—couldn’t get it done without them—and to Spears Corner Store, Old Brick Store and Charlotte Library and Town Hall for distributing bags in advance of the weekend.
Thank you, Charlotte residents, for caring so much! I hope to see you out there again next year!
Masha Thurber helps her father, Andrew, pick up
trash along Ferry Road.
Stacey Sheehan and her daughters
Hailey and Riley clean up a ditch
along Williams Hill Road near CCS.
The trio was among many Charlotte
volunteers who picked up trash along
the road Saturday, May 2.
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When the two were announced it pre-cipitated a number of audience comments questioning the process. Marty Illick asked for an “explana-tion how you go about deciding. This is a new thing that the town and Selectboard is under-taking, entertaining people subbing or tak-ing the place of exist-ing commissioners who are interested in continuing. It feels like a concern to me if you are not going to give an explanation on how you go about your deci-sion-making. There is no protocol for doing this ... and you’re going to cause controversy and maybe reduce the volunteerism.”
Her comments were echoed by a num-ber of others. The Selectboard, taking the position that the selec-tion process is just like that of filling a job, went on to select Jeff MacDonald and Charles Pugh to terms ending in April 2019. The other two candidates, Linda Radimer—who was an incumbent mem-ber of the board, and Annie Geratowski, will be approached to ascertain their interest in applying for an empty position on the Zoning Board of Appeals. Other appointees are listed at the end of this article.
The rest of the meeting included grant-ing Susan Smith a highway access permit and license agreement allowing under-ground utilities installation within the town right-of-way adjacent to 5166 Lake Road. In another road matter, a permit application was approved to the Vermont
Agency of Transportation requesting authorization for town mowing wild parsnip within the Route 7 right-of-way adjacent to the park.
Two applications for road use were granted. The first was to Vermont Cares for its 17th annual (fourth in Charlotte)
Champ Ride on June 13. This recreational ride will include about 100 riders out
of Burlington and will use a number of roads shown on the map at http://bit.ly/1R6n36H. The second will be a road closure for the 13th annual Charlotte Central School (CCS) PTO Champ Run.
Permission was granted to close Hinesburg Road between Church Hill and Mt. Philo roads for the period of 8:15 to 10:15 a.m. on June 7. The run/walk format calls for participants in the 5- and 10-km run to head north from CCS along Mt. Philo Road to McGuire Pent Road (5 km) and west along Lime Kiln Road (10km) before return-ing to the school. The latter is a community fund-raising event for extra curricular activi-
ties at CCS.In two separate actions, Josh Flore was
reappointed Town Constable for the two-year term ending on June 30, 2017, and Stacy Beaulieu was granted his request to hold a private party on the Lake Road Ball Field green. The party will be held from 1-4 p.m. on July 11 and will not impact the public’s use of the beach.
The next regular Selectboard meeting will be held on May11.
Appointments mAde At
April 25 selectboArd
meeting
For terms ending in 2016 Larry Hamilton (Tree Warden), Roger Richmond (to be appoint-ed Deputy Tree Warden by Hamilton), Larry Hamilton (Fence Viewer) and Robin Reid (Community Safety Committee).
For terms ending in 2017
Laurie Thompson (Trails Committee) and Chad Clark (Community Safety Committee).
For terms ending in 2019 Robin Pierce (Design Review
Committee), Jeff McDonald and Charles Pugh (both Planning
Commission)
VTrans Reports Vandalism at Charlotte Train StationVermont State Police last week received a complaint from the Vermont Agency of Transportation
about graffiti and vandalism at the Charlotte train station on Ferry Road. According to a police
report, a trooper responded to the complaint and noted a significant amount of graffiti painted on
the structure, which includes swastikas and anti-Semitic and racist statements. As of Tuesday, the
graffiti had been covered. Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to call VT
State Police at 802-878-7111.
TownBitesby Edd Merritt
Maddy Hyams lives
through Nepal’s earth-
quake
Fearing that she might die from Saturday’s massive earthquake in Nepal, Charlotter Maddie Hyams (above), a social service volunteer liv-ing with a host family for a year in Lekhnath, felt firsthand the effects of the shocks. She fled the host’s home as its roof started to collapse, even though its outside walls, made of stone, remained solid.
Maddy plans to cut her stay short as she wends her way back to the airport in Katmandu, hoping to get a flight home this Saturday. Her host family does not have sufficient funds to rebuild its home and is currently living in a shed. Although more than 5,000 people died in the quake, Maddy made it through unscathed, calling her mother, Kristen DeStigter, 20 minutes after the earth-quake hit. Buildings down, people liv-
ing in tents, food and fuel shortages rampant throughout the country are all things she has noticed.
She was quoted on WCAX TV as saying that, “the airport is mayhem, so that is going to be the biggest obstacle for me.”
Maddy returned home to Charlotte earlier this week.
Broadway play ‘Fun
Home’ garners a dozen
Tony nominations for
best new musical
Vermont cartoonist Alison Bechdel wrote a somewhat autobiographical play Fun Home, which opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York and includes among its cast Oscar Williams (above, second from left), son of Zoe and Tom Williams of Charlotte.
It is one of three shows (out of a possible 35) to get nominated for 10 or more Tony Awards. It was also nomi-nated for “Best Direction of a Musical,” its music for score and orchestration, and its staging for scenic design and lighting. Fun Home has the “critical bona fides,” according to an article in the April 29 New York Times, hav-ing been a Pulitzer Prize finalist last year and being based on a best-selling graphic novel.
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Bernie Sanders entered the 2016 race
for the president last week with an email
to supporters stating, “For many months
I have been traveling from coast to
coast across our country, and have had
the opportunity to meet with thousands
of good, hard-working, and remarkable
people … [who] are deeply concerned
about the future of our country.”
While not on official presidential
campaign business, Sanders has stopped
in Charlotte on a few occasions to speak
with locals.
When Sanders was campaigning for
a U.S. Senate seat, he spoke at Jeff and
Tammy Hall’s farm on August 8, 2006.
He was joined by country music legend
Willie Nelson, a fellow champion of
small farm agriculture and cofounder of
Farm Aid concerts, who was performing
in Shelburne that night.
With 200 attendees gathered for the
“political rally with a twist,” the joint
speakers addressed issues such as “abys-
mally low” milk prices, according to
Charlotte News reporter Edd Merritt.
Punctuated by the mooing of two nearby
Holsteins, Sanders called for action in
Congress with a specific request for $4
billion of emergency aid to support fam-
ily farms.
Nelson urged voters to help keep
Sanders in Washington. “So long as we
keep Bernie there, the better off we’ll
be,” he said.
Sanders returned to speak in Charlotte
on Feb. 19, 2012, this time as a senator.
Speaking at the Senior Center to a stand-
ing-room-only crowd, he con-
tinued to voice concerns about
the economic recession and a
growing disparity between the
earnings of the top one percent
and the bottom 50 percent in the
United States. He’s made these
issues a cornerstone of his 2016
campaign.
Sanders also empathized with
the issue of affordable hous-
ing, advocating for greater taxes
for the wealthy, shutting down
Vermont Yankee and defeating
the Tar Sands oil pipeline. All
the while, Sanders endeavored
to present these political issues
without “getting political”—
a difficult task, according to
Merritt, who also covered this
visit.
While it remains to be seen if Sanders
will return to Charlotte on an official
campaign stop, he’s set to formally
announce his candidacy on May 26 in
Burlington.
As Sanders Looks Toward Presidency,
A Look Back at His Time in Charlotte
(Above) Bernie Sanders speaks to a full room at the Charlotte Senior Center in 2012. (Left) The Charlotte News covered Sanders and Willie Nelson when they visited town in 2006.
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Lantern, on land owned by Robert Mack. Standing at the brush fire, Assistant Fire Chief Dick St. George turned to get a tool off a nearby truck and saw flames rush-ing up the side of the banquet hall.
“That changed the whole thing,” said Davis. “That’s when we got all of the rest of the departments here to help us.”
About 40 firefighters from Hinesburg, Burlington, Monkton, Ferrisburgh and Vergennes aided in the fire—a standard response for these conditions, explained Davis.
“That is typical,” said Davis, “when you have a large building and its this hot out. We weren’t sure how serious it was.”
The fire crept in between the two layers of wall, under the floor and up the face of the building, reaching part of the interior ceiling. CVFS called in a ladder truck in the event firefighters had to cut the roof open, but the fire was knocked down within 20 minutes, Davis said, and mop-up continued through the afternoon.
“The damaged was minimized, the fire was put out quickly, and it can be rebuilt,” said Davis.
Given the dry conditions and high winds blowing toward the Old Lantern, fire officials believe embers from the brush fire may have ignited on dry leaves near the base of the Old Lantern. Charlotte firefighters, however, weren’t alone in battling blazes caused by dry condi-tions—several communities around the state reported out-of-control brush fires. On Tuesday, the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation ordered fire wardens to cease issuing burn bans until May 19.
Gaujac embraced Davis when she saw him. “Thanks you so much,” she said,
relieved. “I am so appreciative.” “I’m so glad we were here,” said
Davis. “That could have happened tonight, and no one would have seen it until it was big enough for a car to see from the road.”
Gaujac’s brother, a fire captain in New Haven, called on her drive home from Burlington to tell her that it would be all right, that area crews were on the scene at the Old Lantern. “He said when the call came on the
radio everyone dropped what they were doing to come up,” said Gaujac. “When they heard the Old Lantern is on fire, they all just flew up from everywhere.”
Still, she said she felt trepidation upon arriving at the Old Lantern and seeing a dozen heavy equipment trucks lined up outside of her restaurant, but she knew she was in good hands, she said.
Once she saw the damage was repa-rable, Gaujac immediately began looking to the future—as she spoke to Davis, her contractor was already inspecting the damage. She expects the repairs will be finished soon, and that none of the 60 weddings she has planned this year will be affected.
As they finished off their conversa-tion, Gaujac and Davis showed it wasn’t so much the fortune of saints that helped put out the fire—just the kindness of neighbors.
“We are so lucky,” Gaujac again told Davis.
“We all are,” said Davis.“We have the best volunteer fire force
in the world,” said Guajac.“Well you’re the best innkeeper in
town,” said Davis, laughing. “So we’ve got to keep you going.”
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(Above) Firefighters from surrounding towns help put out a brush fire on property adjacent to the Old Lantern. Fire officials believe embers from the fire started the blaze at the inn. (Right) A firefighter cuts away part of the wall burned by flames.
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Bluemle’s Book Receives Zolotow Honor
On April 25, author Elizabeth Bluemle of Charlotte traveled to Madison, Wis., to accept a 2015 Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book Award for her children’s book, Tap Tap Boom Boom. The annual prize recognizes outstanding writing in a picture book for children up to seven years old.
This is yet another reason to celebrate, as Bluemle’s book was well received at its release in 2014. Tap Tap Boom Boom, illustrated by G. Brian Hara and published by Candlewick Press, has already received a spot on the 100 Best Children’s Book List and the New York Times Editor’s Choice list, as well as a New York Times Book Review in 2014.
It’s the story of a sudden thunder-storm that draws strangers together to become friends. It is filled with playful, rhythmic language that cel-ebrates the sensory experience of a downpour. According to a Publishers Weekly review, Bluemle tells a story that appeals to young children “with plenty of hullaballoo, subtle atten-tion to the senses, and an affirmation of the way misfortune can lead to small miracles.”
Bluemle is a co-owner of the Flying Pig Book Store in Shelburne, and has four other children’s books published by Candlewick Press: My Father the Dog, Dogs on the Bed, How Do You Wokka Wokka?, and Tap Tap Boom Boom, My Father the Dog and How Do You Wokka Wokka?
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Moran continued from pg. 1
“talked about working and starting some-
thing that combined food and energy
together,” as Cooke explained, “hopeful-
ly, working in an area
that brought together
that intersection and
trying to make that
system work better.”
After graduat-
ing, it became clear
that their path had
led them to full-time
involvement in the
New Moran.
To further bol-
ster funding, pub-
lic support, and to
combat the “unin-
formed buzz,” as
Cooke describes
Burlington’s low
level of aware-
ness of the project,
the duo formed the
Champion’s Council,
a 30-member network
of Burlington part-
ners that act as ambassadors and sponsors
for the New Moran. Champion’s Council
members include Jerry Greenfield, of Ben
& Jerry’s fame, and John Killacky, head
of the Flynn Center for the Performing
Arts.
At an event promoting the New
Moran in February, hosted by ArtsRiot,
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger
acknowledged the project’s importance,
and voiced his full support for Cooke and
Crockeberg’s efforts.
“There’s a great story already, what
Tad and Erick have done,” Weinberger
said. “There’s a long way to go before the
end of the story, before this story has the
finish that we all hope it does.”
Cooke and Crockenberg have also been
joined by Charlie Tipper, a Burlington
resident who had
his own plans
for the plant, and
joined forces with
the Champion’s
Council.
Crockenberg
points out that
the New Moran is
poised to be a fresh
representative of
the Burlington
waterfront itself,
and will likely
garner newfound
exposure for near-
by businesses, like
the Community
Sailing Center.
Cooke says this
will help “connect
the threads,” and
make the commu-
nity that shares it stronger.
There is no denying that their efforts are
the result of a passion for environmental
consciousness, and a desire to implement
that on a community level. But Cooke and
Crockenberg are quick to attribute their
success at building their tightly-knit team
and securing their resources to their roots.
“I think Charlotte was a special place to
grow up,” Crockenberg recalled. Smaller
and more remote than other surrounding
towns.
Living in Charlotte, “resulted in this
really, really, close-knit group of friends.
Because Charlotte was kind of a place that
was farther away, it made it all that much
more important to reach out.”
“Sometimes, you develop values with-
out really realizing it,” Cooke says.
While Cooke and Corckenberg’s main
objective is to advance the project slowly
but surely, they do have some specific
plans for the future, after the New Moran
is ready for the public.
“A really nice, healthy vacation,”
Crockenberg said, laughing.
Information on the Moran Plant and
tips on how to get involved can be found
at moranplant.org.
A rendering of the New Moran project in Burlington. The project is part of a bigger initiative to revitalize the city’s waterfront.
ProPerty transfers
March 25: Green Mountain Habitat
for Humanity to Arkanglo Dau and Ayat
Ding, .3 acre with dwelling, 105 Albert’s
Way, $130,159.
March 31: Numondo America LP
to Vermont Agency of Transportation,
3.73 acres, 5507 Ethan Allen Highway,
$31,000.
April 1: Sara Shays to Jared Ulmer and
Laurel Lackey, 3.01 acres with dwelling,
2225 Spear Street, $280,000.
April 6: Gary and Mary Thibault to
Vermont Land Trust, Vermont Housing
and Conservation Board and Vermont
Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets,
77.93 acres, Carpenter Road, $135,000.
April 6: Gary and Mary Thibault to
Joseph and Emily Donegan, 80.43 acres
with dwelling and barns, 1506 Carpenter
Road, $345,000.
Christopher Fisher to Vermont Agency
of Transportation, .07 acre easement,
5532 Ethan Allen Highway, $9,327.
‘There’s a great story
already, what Tad
and Erick have done.
There’s a long way to
go before the end of the
story, before this story
has the finish that we
all hope it does.’
—Mayor Miro Weinberger
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OutTakes Commentary by Edd Merritt
Who’s the fairest mom of all? To answer that question you send a boy to do a man’s job for Mother’s Day and he comes back with something from his col-lege years as a literature major that just crawled into his brain out of context—not unlike the Fugs’ joint that, on their 1968 recording, just Crawled into my Hand,
Honest! As is increasingly the case, I leapt to Google for information that might help me form my idea. Computers benefit the writer’s research, because they allow him to search history with speed, ease and precision in a way that the old desk encyclopedias could never deliver.
With that excuse up front, let me get on with the topic.
I saw an ad in the Free Press for a con-cert by Loreena McKennitt, who is com-
ing this October to the Flynn Theatre. Now I happen to be fond of Celtic music and, in fact, assumed from her musical tastes that she grew up on the highland islands themselves. It turns out, however, that in reality she is the next best thing, a Canadian of Scottish and Irish descent,
born in Morden, Manitoba, minutes from the North Dakota border and not far from Winnipeg.
Of course, I turned to YouTube to lis-ten to her music and discovered early on that she wrote melody and chords to an Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem called The
Lady of Shalott, changing a few lines of verse to suit her musical needs. Naturally, given the upcoming day dedicated to mothers and given that “Shalott” and Charlotte seem entwined, I decided to pursue the lyrics.
The ballad was based on Arthurian leg-end around Sir Lancelot, Queen Guinevere and Galahad. In the poem, Shalott is an island in the river leading to Camelot, and its “Lady” lives in the tower of a castle
on the island where she is isolated from all except the farmers on Shalott. Only they know of her and any-thing about her. She suffers a curse that doesn’t allow her to see the world directly. Instead, she views a busy road to Camelot through a mirror and weaves images of what she sees on her loom.
Now, you may ask, how many Charlotte mothers view their world on the Champlain shores through a mirror? Sometimes, when I find myself at the checkout counters of Spears’ or the Old Brick, catching bits of
conversa-tions, I’m
of a mind that a number do. The mir-ror may be a school. It may reflect a landscape or a solar array. It may be the neighbor’s pasture or this manure pit that cropped up overnight and brought its wonderful odors with it. It may be collect-ing points such as the Senior Center, the marinas or the village stores; the ideas for quilting patterns that adorn Town Hall. Tables in the shade outside Pizza on Earth add zesty pepperoni to town gossip.
Tennyson, however, called the Lady of Shalott’s images “shadows of the world,” and felt they presented poor substitutes for seeing things directly. He wrote:
There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colors gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.
It is Sir Lancelot heading down the road that first brings reality into view for the Lady of Shalott. His presence urges her to hop in a boat and begin to float down the river from the island toward the towers of Camelot castle. She ends up dying along the way, leading readers to feel that in doing so she preserves her innocence.
Her curse, on the other hand, is that
of many artists and musicians whose dilemma is their inability to simply live in the world and enjoy it. They must create their own reality and either build upon or lose that of others. In the Lady’s case, all the knights of Camelot, except Lancelot, were stricken with fear when seeing her float by. Lancelot, however, recognized her for her presence and beauty, the innocent features that kept her artistry alive.
And they crossed themselves for fear,
All the knights of Camelot:
But Lancelot mused a little space;
He said, “She has a lovely face:
God, in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.”
So moms, on this day dedicated to your position in the world, keep your own tal-ents alive, let your Lancelot recognize and appreciate them. Then proceed to:
. . .gather at the river
The beautiful, the beautiful river
Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God.
“Shall We Gather at the River?”, Robert Lowry
And while you’re at it, tip a top hat and seat yourself to be served as “hot mama” for the day. You deserve it.
“The Lady of Shalott”—not “Charlotte”—by John William Waterhouse
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It is 2:30 a.m. and I’m sitting under a small maple at the bottom of a steep hill where, last night, I put a big tom turkey to bed. I sat for two hours in the dusk listen-ing to him gobble and the juvenile jakes respond out of respect for the boss. I knew which tree he was roosted in and bid him a good night before retiring myself to a night of fitful rest.
Now I sit here in the dark among the trilliums glowing in the three-quarter moonlight, waiting for his first vocaliza-tion for the day.
Birdsong begins at 4:40 a.m. with rob-ins and chickadees and increases to a cre-scendo at 5:10 a.m., when the symphony is punctuated by a roaring gobble from above. The woods go quiet, then a boister-ous outbreak of lighter-throated gobbles arise from the jakes, answering that should the king lose his throne today, there are four stalwart knights willing to assume his royal duties.
For the next half hour vociferous gob-bles echo through the wooded hillside.
Then the sound of beating wings and the first bird flies off the roost gliding all the way through the woods to the middle of the field where the manure pile sits. Then another and another. Soon there are 15 birds walking around the field sizing one another up and singing the praises of another spring day. But one remains in the tree.
The deep throated one.He bellows out to the others that his
majesty is not yet ready to make his royal entrance. Then, at 6 a.m. he finally thrums his mighty pinions and glides to the ground in the woods to my right. His form is obscured by a large outcropping of rock. He continues to gobble on the other
side of the rock every few minutes. I can hear that the powerful vocals are getting closer.
I squint toward a small pine blow down and recognize the red and blue head at about 60 yards to the left of the rock. Suddenly, he puffs up his chest and spreads his magnificent fan, then spins like a football player doing a victory dance in the end zone.
I raise my gun to my shoulder and turn to face him. I wait.
It takes him a full 15 minutes to close the distance to 40 yards. He jumps up on the rock outcropping and roars a resound-ing gobble to the peasants below.
My shotgun bead is on his head. He stands and spits at me, then struts and spins and gobbles again.
I know that my ammunition and shot-gun can reach the 40 yards to him having verified that the pattern of my pellets is tight enough to take this bird. And yet I wait. What am I waiting for?
I want to watch. I want to watch this majestic animal display his finery and strut and gobble in passionate fashion. I am in wonderment.
When I realize that he will not proceed any closer, I make the choice to slip off the safety and pull the trigger. Slowly.
At the sound of the shot, he jumps straight up into the air and executes a perfect mid-air barrel roll, landing on his feet.
Next, the most amazing thing happens. I expect him to curl up in a ball and meld with my own spirit, when, astonishingly, he ruffles his feathers, shakes his whole body like a dog shaking off water after a bath, and walks away behind the rock.
I shake my head and wonder what I did wrong. The answer comes to me slowly. Nothing.
The king was meant to reign over his kingdom for another day. I bow my head and give thanks. Long live the king!
Bradley Carleton is Executive Director of Sacred Hunter, a non-profit that seeks to educate the public on the spiritual con-nection of man to nature and raises funds for Traditions Outdoor Mentoring, which mentors at-risk young men in outdoor pursuits.
Grassland Birds: Timing Is Everything
How to be bird friendly this spring
Holly Sullivan
CONTRIBUTOR
One of the loveliest signs of spring is the return of migratory birds. Grassland birds will soon arrive in Charlotte, if they haven’t already, to nest and breed a new generation. The eastern meadowlark’s sweet, easy whistle and the bobolink’s excited chatter have been an integral part of the warmer months. But for how long?
Grassland bird populations such as the bobolink, meadowlark, savan-nah sparrow and northern harrier are declining faster than any other bird group in North America due to loss of habi-tat. This is true for the grassland birds in the Champlain Valley as well. How many of this new generation will survive to return next year depends largely upon how we manage our grassland today.
Historically the Champlain Valley’s pastures and fields have provided key breeding and nesting habitat. The past 50 years have seen the adoption of more intensive land management practices. Haying is more frequent, and corn and other crops are being planted in what were traditionally hay fields. More and more homeowners with grassland bird habitat mow their property for aesthetic reasons. As a result, there has been a
large-scale loss of breeding habitat and a corresponding decline in bird popu-lations. To help change this situation and make a difference in grassland bird survival, there are bird-friendly practices you can employ.
It is all about timing. Timing your haying and mowing activities is every-thing. Cutting fields in June can result
in 100 percent of the active nests failing, 80 percent by machinery and 20 percent by gulls, crows and mammals that then have easy pickings. The longer you can wait, the better the survival rate of the nestlings. Waiting until two broods have been raised is ideal. To learn more about grassland birds and what you can do, visit the Charlotte Conservation Commission’s link on the town’s website, charlottevt.org. The
website contains a wealth of information on grassland bird friendly practices, as well as programs that are available for farmers to offset the cost of delayed hay-ing.
Note: This is as an edited version of an article that appeared last year in the News.
Holly Sullivan is a member of the Charlotte Conservation Commission.
A male bobolink perches on a branch. Early mowing has led to a loss of breeding habitat for grassland birds like this.
'Timing your haying and mowing activities is everything. Cutting
fields in June can result in 100 percent of the active nests failing'
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CVU coach Scott Bliss named to Vermont hall of fame
RunVermont Hall of Fame will induct four new members on May 22. Champlain Valley Union’s track and cross-country coach Scott Bliss is one of them along with Vermont City Marathon leaders Howie Atherton, Jim Strouse and John Scheer. Scott has coached at CVU for 17 years, winning 12 state and three New England championships. A coach who trains alongside his runners, Scott is reputedly building a Redhawk running dynasty to compete with the school’s previous moniker under Peter Coffee as “soccer central.”
New CVU football coach honored
Mike Williams, who will take over the reins of CVU’s football program in the fall, was named coach of the year by the National Football Foundation Vermont Chapter for his success at Fairfax High School last year. Fairfax was one of two schools in the state recognized for its high level of sportsmanship.
CVU scores sixth among 30 high schools in Burlington Invitational Track Meet
Burlington High School’s fields and track were the sites of the BHS Invitational Track Meet last Saturday. The weather cooperated and two new records were set, one of them by the Redhawk men’s 4X100 relay team consisting of Zach Akey, Richard Baccei, Jeremiah Corey and Tawn Tomasi. Their new meet record was a time of 44.71 seconds. As a combined team of men and women, CVU finished sixth with Essex taking the top spot. Charlotte’s Sadie Otley finished among the top six in the 100-meter sprint and the 300-meter hurdles. Tawn Tomasi was third in both the men’s 100 meters and 200 meters, while Tyler Marshall and Tyler VanDyk placed second in the 1,500-meter run and the pole vault respectively. Max Riley
threw the discus to a third-place finish.
Redhawk base-ball gets back
on the winning track
Champlain Valley’s baseball team retained its winning ways with a victory over MMU on Saturday, 5-2 after
shutting out South Burlington 7-0 on Thursday. The last loss to mar their 5-1 record was an 11-inning pitching duel to these same Rebels April 22 in a game that took two days to complete. The Hawks turned things around by shutting out South Burlington 7-0 to end the April schedule. Mount Mansfield Union was the latest victim as the Redhawks scored three runs in the fifth inning to loosen a tie game and go on to win 5-2. Sam Mikell and Shea Ireland each had RBI doubles in the fifth, and Rayne Supple continued his strong batting going 2-for-4 and contributing two RBI’s. Charlotte pitcher Will Potter gained the win. On April 28 Mikell and Thomas Stevens combined to pitch 5 innings of no-hit ball to topple Spaulding 17-1. This time Potter went 3-for-4 at the plate with an RBI.
Redhawks and Rebels send 38 runners across home plate
Home plate on the CVU softball field breathed a sigh of relief after the April 30 game with South Burlington, which the Rdhawks lost 24-14, despite Elizabeth Boutin’s five hits at five at-bats. The Potters, coach Paul and catcher/infielder Claire, have helped CVU double its winning record over last season with two victories out of six games under its belt.
CVU golfer Carter Knox finds the greens to his lik-ing
As the meet medallist twice, shooting a 71 at West Bolton golf course and a 79 at Vermont National, Carter Knox has led the CVU team to one win and
one second-place finish. At Bolton the Hawks topped Mount Mansfield by 28 shots and then hit only 6 strokes more than South Burlington at the National Course.
Both men’s and women’s tennis teams hit the win column
With the women playing in Jericho and the men in Shelburne, CVU’s net minders topped Mount Mansfield, the women blanking MMU 7-0, the men only losing one match, going 6-1. On May 1 Stephanie Joseph took over where her older sister, Kathy, left off by winning the number one-seed match 6-1, 6-0. Charlotte s o p h o m o r e Hadley Menk was half of a winning doubles pair. Following its 5-2 win over South Burlington on May 4, the team stands undefeated with 6 wins.
On the men’s side, Charlotte p r o d u c t s co-captain Nathan Comai and Ethan Leonard both won their singles matches, while Ben Hyams lost out to his MMU opponent 6-2, 6-0. After losing to South Burlington 6 matches to 1, the men’s record now stands at 4 wins, 3 losses.
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A CVU baseball player makes a throw to first during the team's 5-2 win over Mount Mansfield Union on April 22. The win came after a 7-0 shutout of South Burlington the day before. Photo courtesy of VT Sports Images.
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Food Shelf News
Food Shelf Struggling to Make
Donation GoalsKerrie PugheCONTRIBUTOR
Will you consider a donation today? The Food Shelf is struggling to meet our donation goals this year. Compared to last year, the same seven months ending March 31, donations to our food shelf are down by $3,422. We are run entirely by volunteers so all donations go directly for food or assistance to our neighbors in need. If you are a customer of yourfarmstand.com, you may make a donation to the Food Shelf as part of your online order, otherwise checks may be mailed to:
Charlotte Food Shelf and AssistanceP.O. Box 83Charlotte, VT 05445
The VermonT FoodbankThe Charlotte Food Shelf is a net-
work partner of the Vermont Foodbank. The mission of the Vermont Foodbank is “to gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in Vermont will go hungry.” Through programs and a network of 225 food shelves and meals sites, the Vermont Foodbank helps feed as many as 153,000 Vermonters each year. The Charlotte Food Shelf pays an annual member fee to be part of this network (about $75 this year). In addition, food donated to the Foodbank is passed to our food shelf free of charge with the exception of a small delivery fee per pound of food.
The Foodbank is able to buy food in bulk with the cash donations it receives. Our food shelf can order what we need from the Foodbank and pay the dis-counted bulk price. Since the beginning of this year we have bought $3,650 worth of food from the Foodbank. Your donations will help us continue to make these purchases.
LeTTer carriers’ Food driVeDid you know one in four people in
Vermont visit a food shelf each year? Join us Saturday May 9 to help @
StampOutHunger. Leave a bag of non-perishable food items by your mail-box to be collected by your letter car-rier who will deliver it to hunger-relief organizations like us!
Thank You Thank you for the support from James and Kathleen Manchester, the Ladies of the Lake Red Hats, the Charlotte COOP, Jeannette Thibault, Lynn and Greg Cluff, Katherine Lampton, and the Carmel Hill Fund.
PLanT a rowThanks in advance to all of you gar-
deners planning to plant an extra row for the food shelf this coming growing season. We appreciate the fresh veg-etables!
wish LisTWe need after-school snacks for chil-
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Looking For summer VoLunTeersCan you help us? We need substi-
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donaTed Food droP-oFF LocaTionsAll non-perishable food donations
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7:30 a.m. on the distribution mornings or before the Wednesday distribution hours.
The Charlotte Food Shelf is located on the lower level of the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry. Distribution days/times are posted in this newspaper and on the bulletin board in the Charlotte Congregational Church Hall. You may also call the Food Shelf number (802-425-3252) for a recording of the distribution times.
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Book Review
The CharloTTe News • May 7, 2015 • 15
TheLiterary 'Lotte
Georgia EdwardsCONTRIBUTOR
Orhan Turkoglu’s beloved grandfather is found dead after immersing himself in a vat of fabric dye. The funeral for his Dede is held in the ancient village of Korad, Turkey, where, in 1990, “Time and prog-ress are two long-lost relatives who send an occasional letter.” After the last hired wailer has left, Kemal’s will is read. He has bypassed his son, Mustafa, and left his textile factories, as well as an aged sketchbook, to Orhan. In a shocking twist, the family home has been left to Seda Melkonian—an unknown woman living in Los Angeles.
Orhan travels from Istanbul to California to try to regain the family home for his father and Auntie Fatma. He finds 90-year-old Seda living in the Armenian Ararat Home for the Aging. She is will-ing to sign away ownership of the family home if he leaves and does not come back. Orhan, however, is determined to learn what Seda meant to his grandfather. When he shows her a drawing of a mulberry tree from Kemal’s sketchbook, Seda is visibly moved and breaks her silence.
Seda, a Christian Armenian, and Kemal, a Muslim Turk, were childhood friends whose youthful bond turned into first love. Their relationship was doomed from the start by political, religious and ethnic bor-ders. During the last years of the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey), Armenians were persecuted, deported and murdered as ene-mies of the state. In 1915, the couple sepa-rated when Kemal was conscripted into the Turkish army. Seda and her female
relatives, along with thousands of oth-ers, were forcibly expelled from their homeland in a death march through the Syrian Desert.
The couple’s story plays out against the larger backdrop of the Armenian Genocide. It is a story of suffering and survival, and long-kept family secrets of betrayal and murder. Orhan realiz-es Seda’s revelations are also part of his inheritance. She has given him the answers he sought, but at what cost?
Ohanesian’s book moves seamlessly between 1915 and 1990, as her beauti-fully descriptive language and skillful movement of time create a profound and emotive narrative. While the novel contains haunting subject matter, it also offers wonderful moments of hope. Themes of resilience in the face of great loss, and empowerment following trag-edy, recur throughout the book.
Up to 1.5 million Armenians were sys-tematically annihilated by the Ottoman government. Turkey still denies the geno-cide. Ohanesian has a very personal con-nection to this painful chapter in history: her great-grandmother successfully fled Turkey during the Armenian extermina-tion. In a recent interview with NPR, the author stated, ”We are not what is done to us or what has happened to us, but how we respond to it.” She was inspired to respond to her great-grandmother’s story with this novel.
Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline OhanesianBe My Guide:
An ExcerptRachel Bergstein
CONTRIBUTOR
Uncle David always said that the Star of David was named after him. Sarah always believed it was true. When I didn’t fall on the floor laughing, Sarah would look me in the eye and say, Isn’t that just darn funny, Rebecca? Her being five and my being nine made us think differently. So when I didn’t laugh, Sarah would make her pouty face at me (which I really hated).
“Willa, come see this,” Uncle David exclaimed, keeping his eye on the paper. Aunt Willa carried her pot she was cleaning over and looked over his shoul-der. They looked at each other, terrified expressions planted on their faces. Aunt Willa dropped her pot and picked Sarah up. Uncle David grabbed my hand and I was yanked to our room. Aunt Willa put Sarah down and Uncle David brought me to my bed. The three of us sat down.
“They’re coming. We are going out to defend ourselves because we can’t see any more Jews fall at the feet of Nazis. You and Sarah have to run. Take care of her, but whatever you do, don’t tell her what is really going on. The Holocaust is an awful thing for a young child to know about,” Aunt Willa said, wiping tears.
I gaped at them. A nine-year-old tak-ing care of a five-year-old. I started to cry. Our parents had been killed from the Holocaust. Uncle David and Aunt Willa were all we had left for family.
“Rebecca, take her to Canada. Canada is safe from the Nazis,” Uncle David said, stroking my back.
“How do I get there?” I asked. Aunt Willa got up and walked to Sarah. Sarah was getting restless and needed atten-tion.
“I have a friend. His name is Mel. He owns a boat that can take you to Canada. He is a friendly man with a great big heart. You must take Sarah now, Rebecca.” I turned around to Aunt Willa. She placed Roxanne, Sarah’s favorite doll made of an old sock, yarn, buttons, and cloth, in Sarah’s arms.
“Aunt Willa? What are you doing?” Sarah questioned as Aunt Willa kissed Sarah and held her tight, tears streaming down her pale, freckled cheek. We all got up and headed for the front door.
“Be safe, Rebecca. Remember to go directly to Mel. He is in South Poland. Go, please,” Aunt Willa pleaded. Uncle David tossed a silver compass at me which I caught. They waved at us as I took Sarah by the hand and headed for the forest.
“Rebecca, what’s going on?” Sarah whined.
“Shh. Sarah, you have to trust me, okay?” I said soothingly. She opened her mouth and shut it quickly. She nodded and turned around, probably looking for Aunt Willa and Uncle David. I pulled her along with me, thinking it would be nice to never look back and be sorry…
Rachel is a sixth grader at CCS.
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Wednesday, May 13Sherried mushrooms served over polentaTossed saladHomemade dessert
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Enjoy a collection of lec-tures, performances and spe-cial events showcasing the diverse interests of our com-munity on Wednesday after-noons beginning at 1:00 p.m.
May 13: CCS Musicians. Some of Charlotte Central School’s finest musicians will delight you with a variety of special songs that they have been working on all semester in anticipation of their Spring performances. A rare treat indeed!
May 20: Jazz it Up! with the CVU Singers. Wind down the school year with singers from CVU as they celebrate the year’s work at one of their very favorite venues! The pro-gram will consist of a ‘best of’ repertoire from one or more of the choral groups at CVU. Old favorites, spiritu-als, contemporary a cappella and more are all possibilities as we finally welcome spring-time together!
––––Please look for the new
summer program of activi-ties, classes and events as an insert in the next issue of the Charlotte News. In the mean time, here are a few offerings to conclude our spring pro-
gramming.Getting Ready for an Active
Summer – Fitness for every body with Ginger Lambert begins Friday mornings from 9:15–10 a.m. Dates: May 8, 15 and 22.
We all have different body types and fitness experience but know that being strong and fit helps us to live our lives to their full potential. Using timed intervals and a series of stations this class will incorporate body weight, light weights, and other car-dio/strength building tools to boost strength, cardiovascular fitness, agility, and flexibil-ity. Some active games will
be included to make this a fun and interesting workout. Joint and ligament issues will be taken into account. Every exercise can be modified for any ability or level of fit-ness. If you have been look-ing for a class that challenges you but doesn’t leave you in the dust, then this is for you. Registration required. Fee: $10/class.
––––While our first annual Oscar
Celebration has passed, there are several other nominated films that it is our privilege to enjoy. Mark your calendars for a showing of Birdman on Thursday, May 14 from 1–4
p.m. Registration required. No fee.
––––The last Spring Road Hike
in the Champlain Valley with Marty Morrissey will depart on Tuesday, May 12, and head to Niquette State Park in Colchester. Please meet at the Center ten minutes prior to our 9 a.m. departure with water, good hiking or walking shoes and a snack or lunch. This park is on Raymond Road, just off Rt. 2 en route to the Lake Champlain Islands. From the parking lot we will follow a service road to the lake and then up to a ridge and back to the entrance. There are views of Mallets Bay from the ridge. The total distance is two miles. Registration required. No fee.
––––Save the date! Our Annual
Plant & (New) Gardening Tools Sale will be held on Saturday, May 23. You will find buds, blossoms and bar-gains. If you have gardening tools, pots, seedlings or plants to donate they will be accepted at the Center on Friday, May 22. Hope to see you there!
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Library Contact Information
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Second Annual 6 x 6
Reading Challenge
We are a bit later with our start this year, but our zeal for reading remains unchecked. As we wrote last year, the Reading Agency of England & Wales started the “Six Book Reading Challenge” as part of its larger mission to “give everyone an equal chance in life by help-ing people become confident and enthu-siastic readers.”
In good library tradition, we are bor-rowing this idea for the Charlotte com-munity. Together with the CCS Library, we invite everyone in town to read six books in the next six weeks—6 x 6. You can select whatever strikes your fancy, you can read to others, you can be read to—the parameters are wide as long as you’re reading. Even in this high-tech-nology world we live in, reading remains a key building block for learning and development, and, in addition, has even been credited with calming nerves, sharp-ening brains and staving off Alzheimer’s
disease. There’s no reason not to read, so join us!
Pick up your reading log and 6 x 6 sticker at CCS or the Charlotte Library.
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For more information about these and other programs, visit our website: charlot-tepubliclibrary.org.
Wednesday Night Knitters,
Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
Scrabble Friday for Adults, Friday,
May 8, 10:30 a.m. Start from scratch or reacquaint yourself with this favor-ite word game with tournament player Susanna Kahn.
Mystery Book Group, Monday, May
11, 10 a.m. Our continental mystery tour continues as we read Maigret & the Hotel
Majestic by Georges Simenon. Copies will be available at the circulation desk to check out for reading before our meeting. Coffee and refreshments provided.
Know Your Chances Book
Discussion, Wednesday, May 13, 7
p.m. Join Jane Kearns, Director of the Hartness Library at Vermont Tech & Community College of Vermont, and Lauren Olewnik, Instruction & Reference Librarian, Castleton College, for a book discussion of Know Your Chances:
Understanding Health Statistics. Authors Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwarts wrote this accessible book to “help you … become a better consumer of health messages, and foster better communica-tion between you and your doctor.” The book is a quick read and is freely avail-able online on the PubMed Health book-shelf at: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0050876/.
Transition Town Garden Planting,
Saturday, May 30, 9 a.m. Our fourth annual garden, including potatoes, toma-toes and other good things, gets planted today! Get your hands dirty and share in the community project, “More Food, Less Lawn,” that includes the CCS Garden and the Charlotte Congregational Church
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The Charlotte Senior Center’s ANNUAL PLANT SALE
Plant drop-off on Friday, May 22 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Donations of garden tools in good condition, flower pots, gardening books & plants accepted. Call Judy Peabody 985-8801 or Roberta Whitmore 425-3978
Sat. May 23 9 a.m. to noon
MAY 7 thuRSday
EVENT: Way to Go! Vermont chal-lenges you to ditch your car and choose to bus, bike, walk, telecommute, or carpool for two weeks, from May 4th through the 15th. Sign up today at www.waytogovt.org. Contact: [email protected] or call 800-685-RIDE.
EVENT: At Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main Street in Middlebury. Ethiopian educators Mr. Adane Kebebew and Ms. Tadelech Assefefa will share their per-spectives on education—here and in Ethiopia at 6:30 p.m. Info: (802) 388-4964 www.vermontfolklifecenter.org.
EVENT: 6:30 p.m. Cabot Creamery Cookbook Event with Melissa Pasanen at the Flying Pig Bookstore. Sample cheeses and cider. RSVP: 802-985-3999 or [email protected]
EVENT: An evening of tea-tasting and learning about China’s famous green teas presented by John Wetzel of Stone Leaf Tea in the program Spring Tea Travels to China 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol.
FILM: Thursday, May 7, at 7 p.m. Screening of Banana Land: Blood, Bullets and Poison at Merrill’s Roxy Cinema, 222 College Street, Burlington, hosted by the Peace and Justice Center. This documentary examines the supply chain between Central America and the U.S. and uncovers the practices that have sustained this industry for over a century. Suggested $10 donation. Tickets at the door or at the Peace & Justice Store, 60 Lake Street in Burlington. This event is sponsored by City Market.
MAY 8 fRiday
MUSIC: Speilpalast Cabaret transports audiences back to the Weimar German kabarett of the 1920’s. May 8-23 Main Street Landing Theater, Burlington. Tickets $30 in Advance/ $35 Day of Show. Flynn Regional Box Office at 153 Main Street in Burlington, (802)86-FLYNN (802)86-FLYNN, or www.fly-nntix.org.
EVENT: Friday, May 8, at 5 p.m. “TO: the North Korean people” a presenta-
tion by Liberty in North Korea at the Peace & Justice Center, 60 Lake Street, Burlington. The North Korean people are overcoming one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. This event is free; there will be opportunity to contribute to send a message to North Korea after the presentation.
MAY 9 SatuRday
CLASS: Maximizing Your Use of Census Records. Vermont Genealogy Library, 377 Hegeman Ave. (Across from State Police), Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, Vermont. 10:30 to noon $5.00. http://www.vtgenlib.org 802-310-9285 for more info.
HIKE: Champlain Area Trails 14-mile "Grand Inn-to-Inn Hike" from the Westport Hotel to the Essex Inn. The hike starts at 11:00 a.m. at the Essex County Fairgrounds. Suggested donation $5 per person or $10 per family. Register at www.champlainareatrails.org, at check-in, or call 518-962-2287.
THEATER: On Mother’s Day week-end, the Burlington Branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) presents Most Dangerous Women, a play celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the international women’s peace movement. May 9, 7 p.m. and May 10, 2 p.m. at North End Studio A, 294 N. Winooski Ave. in Burlington. Tickets are $5 and available at the Peace & Justice Center store or online through Brown Paper Tickets, brownpapertickets.com/event/1364812, or at the door.
MAY 10 Sunday
EVENT: Celebrate Mother’s Day at Shelburne Museum noon to 4 p.m. Special activities for the whole family. http://shelburnemuseum.org (802) 985-3346 ex. 3318
MAY 15 fRiday
EVENT: Night at the museum for adults. 5:30 to 8:00 pm at the Vermont History Museum at 109 State Street in Montpelier will be the forum for Drinking about Vermont history, an evening of sam-pling Vermont craft beer. Tickets: $35 each; $25 for Vermont Historical Society
members. Tickets: vermonthistory.org/calendar (802) 828-2180.
WORKSHOP: Addison County Economic Development Corporation and the Vermont Small Business Development Center are co-sponsoring a seminar on “Marketing in the Digital Age” on Friday, May 15, from 9–11:30 a.m. at the Ilsley Public Library Community Meeting Room in Middlebury. $49. Info/register: 802-388-7953, vtsbdc.centerdynamics.com/workshop.aspx?ekey=51350004.
MAY 16 SatuRday
TALK: The Flying Pig Welcomes Comic Book Writer Jeremy Holt (and Shacksbury Cider!) 3-5 p.m. For ages 18 and up. (21 and up - ID required - for cider.) RSVPs encouraged: 802-985-3999 [email protected]
CHILDREN’S/FAMILY EVENT: Saturday Story Time at Phoenix Books, 191 Bank St., Burlington. Saturdays May 16 to August 29 11 a.m. Free. www.phoe-nixbooks.biz 802-448-3350
MAY 17 Sunday
TALK: Harvey Amani Whitfield: “The Meaning of Slavery in Vermont” Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington. 4:00 p.m. Free. [email protected] 802-863-5403
RIDE: Sunday, May 17 Ride: Vergennes Voyager: Two distance options. 9:45 a.m. Vergennes High School, east parking lot. Leader: John Bertelsen, 864-0101 / [email protected].
MAY 19 tueSday
CELEBRATION: SCHIP’s 10th year anniversary: 3 to 5 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church, Shelburne. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to Tricia Coyle 802-425-2980 or to Louise Piche 802-985-3177
WORKSHOP: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, May 19, 21, 23, Building Empathy and Eliminating Oppression: A Deep Look at Racism and Religious Prejudice workshop at the Peace & Justice Center, 60 Lake Street, Burlington. This three-part series aims to educate and create an open, honest dialogue about race and racism in our society today. Register online (pjcvt.org under upcom-
ing events) or call 802-863-2345 ext. 6. $150 for public and $115 for current PJC members and volunteers. No one turned away for lack of funds. 802-863-2345 ext. 6 or [email protected].
MAY 20 wedneSday
EXPO: Vermont Chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIAVT) and the Construction Specifications Institute (CSIVT) present ACX 2015—Vermont’s Architecture & Construction Expo—at the Hilton Hotel & Conference Center, Burlington, Vermont. Wednesday and Thursday. Contact: Carol Miklos [email protected], 802 425 6162 Keynote Speaker: Alex Wilson, Resilient Design Institute, Topic: «Resiliency: A New Design Criterion for Buildings» For more information and to register: ACXVT.COM. Fees: $75 - $225.
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Community EvEnts
CONCERT: Hinesburg Artist Series Spring Concert, with guest conduc-tor Roy Kelley (pictured) and the Hinesburg Children’s Choir. Monday May 18, 7:30 p.m., CVU. Former Burlington High School music educator Roy S. Kelley will return to Vermont to guest conduct at the Hinesburg Artist Series Spring Concert. He was the choral director at Burlington High School until 1967. Rufus Patrick who conducts the South County Chorus was Mr. Kelley’s student. Burlington High School alumni who were students of Roy Kelley and would like to sing in the concert should contact Rufus Patrick [email protected]. The con-cert is free, donations welcome.
to the following Charlotte students at Rice Memorial High School who earned placement on the Honor Roll for the third quarter: First Honors—Caroline Breen, Moira Brown, Connor Gorman; Second Honors—Saige Alpeter, Henry Atkins, Daniel “Briggs” Boardman, Hana Couture, Arielle DeSmet, Avery Kidd, Anna Schibli, Tyler Vutz;
Honorable Mention—Alexa Pughe.
is extended to family and friends of Benjamin F. Schweyer who passed away April 21 at the age of 89. Members of his surviving family include his nephew Ben Nostrand of Charlotte.
is extended to family and friends of Caroline A. Rovnak of Burlington
who passed away April 19 at the age of 75. Her surviving family includes her daughter Karyn Lunde and Karyn’s son, Henry “Gus” Lunde, both of Charlotte.
is extended to family and friends of Colleen Ann “Rusty” (Palmer) Paquette of Georgia, Vermont, who passed away April 24 at the age of 74. Her surviving familyincludes her grandson Jordan Paquette and Jordan’s wife, Renee, of Charlotte.
is extended to family and friends of A. Gould Susslin, D.M.D. who passed away April 28 at the age of 88. Dr. Gould practiced dentistry in St. Albans for 34 years. His surviving family includes his daughter Nana Boffa and grandchildren Cole and Seth Boffa of Charlotte. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in his name to either the St. Albans Watershed Association, P.O. Box 1567 St. Albans,VT 05478 or to the Hard’ack Association, c/o Tim Hulbert, 375 Lake Road, Suite2A, St. Albans, VT 05478.
Charlotte Zoning Board of Adjustment. Pursuant to Title 24 and the Charlotte Land Use Regulations, the Zoning Board of Adjustment will meet on Wednesday, May 20th, for the following: 7:00 p.m. – ZBA-15-02: Appeal by Kristen DeStigter of the Zoning Administrator’s interpretation of Section 4.11 (A) (1) Home Occupation I. The property with respect to which the appeal is taken is owned by Rebecca and Christopher Fortin and is located at 2737 Lake Road. Documents associated with this appeal are available for review during regular Planning and Zoning office hours. Participation in the hearing is a prerequisite to the right to appeal any decision related to an application.
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Regular Church Services
SATURDAYSSt. Jude Catholic Church, Mass, Hinesburg, 4:30 p.m.
SUNDAYSCommunity Alliance Church, Hinesburg, Gathering Place, 9 a.m.,
Sunday School, 9 a.m., Worship, 10:15 a.m. Information: 482-2132.
Charlotte Congregational Church, Worship, 10 a.m., Sunday School,
10 a.m. Information: 425-3176.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mass, 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Information:
425-2637.
St. Jude Catholic Church, Mass, Hinesburg, 9:30 a.m. Information:
482-2290.
North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church, Hollow Road, Worship,
10 a.m., Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. Information: 425-2770.
Cross Roads Chapel, Ferrisburgh Ctr. Rt. 7, Sunday Worship 10 a.m.
Information: 425-3625.
Assembly of God Christian Center, Routes 7 and 22A, Ferrisburgh,
Sunday worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Sunday School, 9 a.m.
Information: 877-3903.
All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Farm Road, Shelburne.
Sunday Service 9 a.m., Evensong Service 5 p.m. 985-3819
Trinity Episcopal Church, 5171 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 8:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. “Space for Grace” (educational
hour), 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist (with child care and Sunday School).
985-2269.
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Fuss, Muss and MuddleSome days, mail, magazines and
local newspapers pour in from all directions. Soon I’m swamped. Any feng shui expert would advise, “Stop! Rectify this unhealthy mess immedi-ately.”
Every week I throw out the piles. Then I do the same in the kitchen and refrigerator, tossing out, tidying up, and putting myself in a strict mindset. Often I resent the time spent, but anything less does not finish the job.
Now, my study, where I write, is another matter.
I have the habit of finishing a piece of writing and hur-rying on to the next without following my rule about filing or tossing the previous piece. If I do, another pile is thinned down and organized. Then I congratulate myself effusively. As I look around, I see another area mysteriously over-loaded. Will this ever end?
I am crazy about paper: little writing
pads from conferences and attractive notebooks at Staples. I think it’s an obsession worthy of a DSM-5 label. Oh my, what to do with all those notes and thoughts on small pieces of paper. I forget to date them, then relocate them in a week or two and wonder what in the world I meant.
Next, I rationalize my messy desk and convince myself I’m entitled to one hodgepodge area in the house; I can always shut the door to my office. However, this is one more flimsy excuse. This week I’m into serious fil-ing, with colorful folders marked with tabs and organized by subject. Think of my future pleasure when I can locate them easily.
Once, on the way out of Staples, I couldn’t resist several pads and note-books on sale. Now I’m back where I began. It just dawned on me: this start-ed when I was a child. Even with my modest 15-20 cents allowance I could purchase items for my desk at Landey’s store. There was enough money left over to purchase a few one-cent can-dies. I was always satisfied I had gotten my money’s worth. I never lacked for pencils and erasers.
My older sisters and brothers were serious about their homework; I felt
almost like a scholar if I had the proper equip-ment.
Many of you must go through this clut-ter dilemma. I wonder if you have a secret solution. I remem-ber my practical sis-ter-in-law saying she fetches the mail and stands by a barrel in the garage to toss much of it unopened. “But what if you’re throw-ing out checks?” I ask, alarmed. She just shrugged and smiled. The next day I opened an unmarked envelope
with a $125 refund.I will continue trying to remedy my
present situation and report on any progress. Don’t hold your breath. I wel-come any suggestions you might have on paring down.
'I have the habit of finishing a piece of writing and hurry-ing on to the next without following my rule about fil-ing or tossing the previous piece.'
New Charlotte Fire Volunteers Attend TrainingThree new volunteer members of Charlotte Volunteer Fire Service recently attend-ed the annual Addison County Regional Fire School in Vergennes. They are (from left) Skip Lucia, Tom Cosinuke and Fritz Tegatz.
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