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Rutland plantto generateown electricity By Joe [email protected]

RUTLAND—Located onRipley Road in Rutland,the Rutland PlywoodCorp. recently received apermit to generate powerutilizing waste steam, andwill sell electricity to theSustainable Priced EnergyDevelopment Program(SPEED). SPEED is a stateinitiative looking to sup-ply some 20 percent of thestate’s power by 2017.

Founded in 1957, Rut-land Plywood is one of thepremiere suppliers ofhardwood plywood, in-cluding engineered hard-wood composites, coloredhardwood veneer compos-ites and densified hard-wood composites. Indus-try solution products in-clude outrigger and cranepads, beverage industryplatforms, productionboards for concretepavers, gun stock compos-ites and cores for snow-boards and skis.

The plywood manufac-turing company receivedthe certificate of publicgood from the Public Serv-ice Board, approving theinstallation of 400-kilo-watt capacity turbine ,which will be connected tothe power grid. The com-pany uses wood-fired boil-ers to generate steam forits mill production, andutilizes wood-waste fuelto supply the boilers.

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LUDLOW—Stan Hart, the former head writerfor the Carol Burnett television show, is picturedabove as he directs three local thespians at theLudlow Town Hall auditorium in preparationfor the nine-skit program scheduled for Nov. 4at the auditorium.

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NEW HAVEN—All-natural vegetable farmersSam and Maura Lester came to Vermont after see-ing cultivatable land on their native Long Islanddisappear and be replaced by upscale houses.

As farm land shrank on the island located eastof New York City, the price of vegetable and po-tato farming increased. The couple decided to pullup roots and replant here in Addison County.

Sam came from a multi-generation Long Islandpotato farming family, so it was a tough decisionto make, but the island’s agricultural heritagecontinues to disappear. Who wants to be the lastman standing?

“We wanted to see what Vermont had to offer.We found this wonderful place in New Haven anddecided to make our big move. We just opened tothe public in August,” said Sam, “having just con-cluded our first, full year.”

The Lesters transported a tractor, wagon, tools,and even Sam’s antique Ford Model A pickuptruck from New York to their new home in Ver-mont.

The Lesters worked the flat-terrain farmsteadalong U.S. Route 7 for the past year. They enrichedits clay with natural organic material, plantedseeds, and watched the first crops come in despitea crazy year of heavy spring rains and TropicalStorm Irene.

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Lesters celebrate first harvest

Maura and Sam Lester of the new Lester Farm in New Haven. The 15-acre vegetable farm is likely the largest farm of itskind along the U.S. Route 7 corridor.

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RUTLAND — One of theunexpected consequences ofTropical Storm Irene is thecancellation of the personalfirewood lottery for the 2012season by the Vermont De-partment of Forests, Parksand Recreation (FPR).

The popular program al-lows Vermonters to cut up tothree cords of designatedstanding trees for personaluse firewood from statelands for $10 per cord. Thetrees are measured andmarked by FPR staff, asgroups of hardwoods closeto Vermont State ForestHighways to make cuttingand hauling by hand easier.

Safety is an importantconcern in both the planning

and access of these firewoodareas.

As FPR staff assessed theimpact of Irene on roads andtrails, it was discovered thatareas scheduled for fire-wood cutting have beenheavily impacted as far asaccessibility and safety ofroads and bridges.

Some of the areas will berepaired in the constructionseason of 2012, which willpresent further conflicts foraccess on narrow forestroads.

FPR officials decided tocancel the 2012 lotterywhich was expected to takeplace in January.

The department will con-tinue to supply firewood forneedy Vermonters throughthe “Wood Warms” pro-gram.

The program supplieslogs directly from FPR tim-ber sales to nonprofit com-munity organizations whichprovide volunteer labor tosaw, split and deliver woodin their communities. Thisprogram has provided up to100 cords of firewood peryear for low income citizens.

FPR anticipates the fire-wood lottery will return asroads and stream crossingsare repaired. In the mean-time,

Vermonters are encour-aged to contact local fire-wood vendors and to avoidbringing firewood frommore than 50 miles fromhome to lessen the chance ofimporting invasive insectpests.

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Iam not an overly engaged sportsfan, but the sport I have alwaysliked best is Major League Baseball

(and its Minor League farm team sys-tem).

Sorry, but football is a tad too rough formy civilized sensibilities; it looks toomuch like messy combat.

On the other hand, baseball is refined,with its roots in the olde English sport ofcricket and the even more ancient game ofrounders. To me, baseball supremely em-bodies the better angels of America’s na-ture.

This year ’s MLB World Series—betweenthe mighty St. Louis Cardinals and the jug-gernaut Texas Rangers (the remnants ofthe former Washington Senators)—doesn’tseem to be attracting the media attentionor audiences on the Eastern Seaboard.Turn on the radio and the sports news isabout—football. How outrageous; there’sa World Series going on.

St. Louis, Mo. and Arlington, Texas maynot be giant metro areas to your averageNew Yorker or Bostonian sports fan. Nomatter, 2011 post-season baseball hasn’tbeen better in years. Personally, I was sor-ry to see the Yankees lose in the post-sea-son. I know my rival Red Sox fans wereheartbroken, too.

The big series, underway as this is beingwritten, promises the same excitement.But who’s watching when New York,Boston, Baltimore or Chicago teams aren’tinvolved? The numbers aren’t there whenit comes to watching this midwestern se-ries. Just try finding a local radio stationthat’s broadcasting the 2011 World Series.

My earliest memories of World Seriesgames go back to the early 1960s.

I still remember watching a mono-chrome television set showcasing theamazing L.A. Dodgers pitcher Sandy Ko-ufax knock out the Minnesota Twins backin 1965. But it was the previous Series thatfirst captured my young imagination—the1964 World Series with the then in-declineNew York Yankees against the rising pow-erhouse St. Louis Cardinals.

The Yankees, even with Mickey Mantle,Roger Maris and Whitey Ford on the team,couldn’t defeat the likes of pitcher BobGibson of the 1964 Cardinals in the end.The Yankees’ long slide—not reversed forwell over a decade—began during that wa-tershed ‘64 World Series.

This engaging story of sport was told byhistorian David Halberstram in his award-winning book, “October 1964.” And whata year ‘64 was—it was a year of civil tur-moil and simmering changes in Americanlife. Perhaps baseball’s more recent re-placement by football as the nation’s “pas-time” began with that season of ‘64? Nomatter, something profoundly changed inAmerica (and in baseball) back in 1964.

Don’t get me wrong, many Americansstill love the sport of baseball, but the gutsand gore of football seem to appeal to to-day’s more blood-thirsty, unforgiving au-diences—the same audience that fannedother sports that, a generation earlier,were dismissed as so much blue-collarstuff.

Well, you can keep the lot—just give mea dusty diamond, a green field, a hot dogand cola, and the long shadows of a latesummer afternoon. It’s what fields ofdreams are made of.

Lou Varricchio

World Series, seriously If you like historical ironies, considerthis one: New Orleans acquired itspresent nickname—the Big Easy—in

1970 from the James Conaway eponymousnovel.

That’s about when public education’spresent fall, from previous grace,began as measured by such simplecriteria as taxpayer cost versus stu-dent-achievement results.

Now it’s the Big Easy’s publicschools which are uniquely postingthe most remarkable productivitygains. Since Hurricane Katrina, theEasy’s schools have been reorgan-ized to teach as effectively as pub-lic schools did before the variouspublic-ed “innovations”.

New Superintendent John Whitecredits ‘characterization’. “In othercities, charter schools exist in spiteof the system. Here, they are thesystem,” said White.

A lengthy Wall Street Journal descriptionof New Orleans’ recent K-12 achievements,covered rather less well but in differing de-tail in other media, credits them almost en-tirely (without specifically saying so) to re-adoption of pre-70s public education norms:stick to the basics, test, promote-when-Pro-ficient, maintain intra-classroom order, andadopt (modestly) larger class size.

Over the last five years, New Orleansschools have made more yearly progress to-wards to the 2001 No-Child-Left-Behind ob-jective of almost-all-students-proficient- by-2014 than any other district in the country.That’s because, in my opinion, only charterschools have the statutory freedom to re-construct those once-accepted norms.William of Greenpoint (he attended NewYork City public schools when they were in-ternationally acclaimed) would have repliedto the “why go back to the pre-1970 model?”question with the best and simplest answer:“Because that’s where the productivity is.”

Where the productivity isn’t, at the mo-ment, is in the non-charter sector.

Federal test scores have been stagnantsince the ‘70s and the 2001 proficiency by -2014 campaign has used up ten of its 14 years

without significant result at the local schoollevel. Instead, considerable highly-skilledprofessional- educator energy is now beingdevoted to a new argument: explaining whythe tests are unneeded, unwanted, and un-productive.

William of Ockham(see last column forthese two simple-an-swer-best Williamicons) wouldn’t havepointed to an explana-tion used in his owntime: the poor carpen-ter blames his tools,which is the aphorismunderlying the newedu-trend: adminis-trators evaluatingteachers via studentscores.

There’s ample evi-dence that today’s

teachers could teach the testable content aswell as their predecessors did, if: a. theywere permitted to, b. they wanted to, and c.they were able to control their classrooms.

Right now in the Big Easy all three condi-tions prevail.

Elsewhere “teaching-to-the-test” is thenew pejorative-of-choice, and the achieve-ment tests themselves are blamed for disen-gaged “students” faring poorly on them.

The anti-test argument has been accordedlots of column-inches in Vermont newspa-pers.

Here’s a typical Vermont pull quote fromanother Addison County newspaper: “Wearen’t teaching our children how to be well-rounded individuals; we’re teaching themhow to be test takers.” And in the article it-self is this remarkable quote: “…Our bestteachers were literally forbidden to do thejob they were trained to do.” (Both quotednames redacted by me for compassionatereasons).

Here I foolishly thought that the basic jobof grade-school teachers was to teach basicskills in basic numeracy and literacy?

Former Vermonter Martin Harris lives inTennessee.

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Mt. Abe student joinsVermont Air GuardBy Lou [email protected]

BRISTOL — On Sept. 23, Sara Sayles, daughter of Toddand Katie Sayles of Bristol, joined the Vermont Air Nation-al Guard.

Those interested in joining the Air Guard who have nev-er served before must be between the ages of 17 and 40.Sayles was required to pass a written examination calledthe Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery as well asan Entrance Physical Examination. Using the results fromher ASVAB test and physical, the local recruiter reviewedpositions available within the local unit to match Sayleswith some areas of interest. Once the job was selected—tactical aircraft maintenance—she was then scheduled toenlist and join the Air Guard. Everything prior to swearingin is just preliminary processing and did not obligate herto join.

After her graduation from Mt. Abe next June, Sayles willgo to Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB in Texas, fol-lowed by two technical schools for tactical aircraft main-tenance.

“Todd and I are very proud of Sara,” said Katie Sayles.“It was a big decision for her and a big realization that ourlittle girl is not so little anymore.”

For new Air Guard members like Sayles, the commit-ment involves working one weekend a month and twoweeks a year for a minimum period of six years. Basic Mil-itary Training is held at Lackland Air Force Base in Texasfor approximately eight weeks, followed by TechnicalSchool. Upon completion, she will join VTANG's AircraftMaintenance Squadron as a crew chief.

A boy born Oct. 3, Liam Michael Kulnowvick, to Ryanand Sonya (Fleming) Kulnowvick of Shoreham.

A boy born Oct. 3, Alyksander-John Dieter Berkner, toJake Berkner and Pamyla Carbo-Hendricks of Salisbury.

A girl born Oct. 7, Irie Marie Shedd, to Gary Shedd andMorgan Rivers of Brandon.

A girl born Oct. 9, Alexandria Marie Ryan, to Matthewand Christina (Roy) Ryan of Cuttingsville.

A boy born Oct. 10, Kingston Wayne Popp, to Adam andRebecca (Taylor) Popp of Bristol.

A boy born Oct. 11, Ethan James Lynch, to Shane andMichelle (Tumulty) Lynch of Montpelier.

A girl born Oct. 13, Pyper Rae Ezzo, to Justeen Hurlburtand Coty Ezzo of Port Henry, NY.

A girl born Oct. 13, Isabela Bartola De La Cruz, to Juanand Kirsten (Hall) De La Cruz of Panton.

A boy born Oct. 13, Christopher Lee Cram Jr., to SheenaMahoney and Christopher Lee Cram Sr. of North Claren-don.

A girl born Oct. 14, Evelyn Beatrice VanDeWeert, toJoseph and Ashley (Norton) VanDeWeert of Crown Point,N.Y.

A boy born Oct. 15, Shawn Lawrence Thurber Jr., toShawn Thurber Sr. and Mikela Dietrich of Middlebury.

If you have questions, or to submit birth announce-ments, please call Billie Preston at 802-388-6397 or emailat [email protected].

Candace Regan BurkleWEYBRIDGE — Candace Regan Burkle, 59, passed away

of leukemia, peacefully in her home, surrounded byfriends and family, Oct. 12, 2011.

Phyllis Burke CunninghamMIDDLEBURY — Phyllis Burke Cunningham died

peacefully Oct. 14, 2011, with family by her side.Phyllis B. CunninghamMIDDLEBURY — Phyllis B. Cunningham, a longtime

Addison County schoolteacher, died Oct. 14, at HelenPorter Nursing Home.

Christina A. ForbesEAST MIDDLEBURY — Christina A. Forbes, 42, died

Oct. 8, 2011, after a brave battle with cancer.Helen May MillsBRANDON — Helen May Mills, 79, died Oct. 15, 2011,

at her home in Brandon.Helen M. PrestonVERGENNES — Helen M. Preston, 89, died Oct. 6, 2011,

at Ringer Home Care in Vergennes.James Guy TowlePANTON — Col. (retired) James Guy Towle of Panton

passed away in his home at age 79 surrounded by friendsand family Oct. 12, 2011.

Edna I. WalterVERGENNES — Edna I. Walter, 79, died Oct. 16, 2011, at

her home in Vergennes.Kathryn Shirley (Heitman) WestROCKLAND, Mass. — Kathryn Shirley (Heitman) West

died October 2011. She was born Nov. 1, 1924, in Shoreham. Lynton Dove WhiteWARREN—Lynton Dove White, 75, of Warren died at

home Oct. 4, 2011.

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AWARD WINNERS—Former Vermont State Sen. Tom Bahre (Addison County) joined Deb Wright, owner of Wright Choice Alpacas of Castle-ton, to exhibit her award-winning animals at the recent 2011 Green Mountain Alpaca Fall Spectacular and Fiber Event at the Cham plainValley Expo. Wright’s animals won several prestigious place awards at the event including performance, halter, among other clas ses. Shebegan raising alpacas in 2001 with the original purchase of three animals. The Castleton farm, on Howland Road, is situated on land ownedby Wright’s family since the 1930s.

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BRIDPORT—Members representingthe Vermont Working Landscape Part-nership (VWLP) launched the Revital-izing Vermont’s Rural Economy cam-paign this week. The campaign is fo-cused on achieving the five goals out-lined in the Partnership’s Action Plan,Investing in Our Farm and Forest Fu-ture.

The Partners gathered at Jericho Set-tlers Farm, where they were welcomedby Christa Alexander.

Marie Audet of Blue Spruce Farm inBridport encouraged her fellow farm-ers, saying, “Here I am today a dairyfarmer, and I’m feeling optimistic. Weare not in this alone. Our farms are vi-tal to our communities, and we are anintegral part of our state’s charm. Let’sembrace this Action Plan and let’s becreative to support our workinglands.”

Alexander noted that the farm sup-ports the productive use of over 200acres and provides income for threefamilies, while providing high qualityfood for the local community. Alexan-der said, “The most exciting part of theAction Plan for me is the VermontAgriculture and Forest Products De-velopment Fund to pull together allthe various efforts to invest in Vermontagriculture and forest enterprises andaggressively support the many entre-preneurs who want to build businesseshere in Vermont.”

Paul Costello, executive director of

Vermont Council on Rural Develop-ment, noted that the Action Plan repre-sents a jobs strategy that builds fromVermont’s brand identity and our fun-damental values. He noted, “All Ver-monters benefit from the workinglandscape, and we should all con-tribute to keeping it strong. What wepresent today is not just a vision – it’san implementable Action Plan.”

The Five Goals outlined in the Ac-tion Plan are:

•Build a major campaign to cele-

brate the distinctiveness of the work-ing landscape that is Vermont.

•Target strategic investmentthrough a Vermont Agriculture andForest Products Development Fund.

•Designate and support “WorkingLands.”

•Develop tax revenue to supportworking landscape enterprise devel-opment and conservation.

•Create a State Planning Office andactivate the Development Cabinet.

Campaign hopes to revamp rural economy

Paul Costello, executive director of Vermont Council on Rural Development, joins ChristaAlexander, Marie Audet, and others at the Jericho Settlers Farm to kick off the Revitalizing Ver-mont’s Rural Economy campaign.

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MIDDLEBURY—The Addison County RelocalizationNetwork, the Addison County Economic Development Cor-poration and the Addison County Regional Planning Com-mission are launching a local money conference to bring to-gether the regional capital community and Champlain Val-ley entrepreneurs with businesses involved in food, agricul-ture and forestry.

The conference, “Financing the Working Landscape,” isscheduled for Nov. 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at theAmerican Legion in Middlebury.

The networking event is designed to educate entrepre-neurs and students about different types of capital and howto prepare their businesses for capitalization. It will also ex-plore alternative strategies for financing and showcase en-trepreneurs currently looking for capital.

The conference is sponsored by the Vermont Farm Viabil-

ity Program, the National Bank of Middlebury, Co-opera-tive Insurance, Yankee Farm Credit, Worth Mountain Con-sulting and the VSJF Flexible Capital Fund.

Event organizer Jonathan Corcoran of ACORN said, “Lo-cal capital is the third and critical capacity we need to de-velop along with local food and energy. This conference, Ihope, will be a catalyst for engaging and mobilizing a mixof local and regional capital to re-energize our agriculturaland forest economies. There are some exciting opportunitiesemerging in and around Addison County.”

Admission is $25 for the conference (students: $15) withadvanced registration before Oct. 31 ($30/$20 thereafter).Admission includes a local foods lunch prepared and servedby the student chefs at the Glass Onion Restaurant at theHannaford Career Center in Middlebury.

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UVM: among top ‘bikefriendly’ campusesUVM ranked 20 of 26By Lou [email protected]

BURLINGTON—Vermont earned another feather in itscap as a bike friendly place. This week, the League of Amer-ican Bicyclists selected the University of Vermont as one ofthe nation’s most “Bicycle Friendly Universities”. Theaward was presented at the Association for the Advance-ment of Sustainability in Higher Education conference inPittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 11.

UVM’s placement by the League is unique since only 26institutions of higher learning received the award.

Stanford University was the sole institution to receive theLeague’s platinum award, the highest campus honor.

“It does say something about how quickly in the past fewyears things have turned in a more positive direction for cy-clists on campus,” said UVM’s Professor Luis Vivanco whowas instrumental in applying for the award. He is also anavid bike promoter on campus.

Vivanco said UVM has drastically improved bikingamenities in recent years.

Andy Clarke, president of the League of American Bicy-clists, said UVM is “a model for universities and communi-ties nationwide.”

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Welch calls for release oflow-income heating fundsBy Lou [email protected]

BURLINGTON—With the U.S. Department of Energy re-porting an increase in the price for heating fuel this winter,Vermont U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D) sent a letter to the De-partment of Health and Human Services calling on the de-partment to immediately release as much Low Income HomeEnergy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding as possibleunder the current stop-gap spending bill which expires Nov.18.

With continued uncertainty over the final FY2012 fundinglevels for LIHEAP, release of these funds means states willhave the opportunity to help those with greatest needs now.The funding level of $3.4 billion for LIHEAP in the currentFY2011 spending bill would provide funding for seven mil-lion households. Ordinarily, the funds would be releasedthroughout the year.

“Even in good economic times, LIHEAP is a critical life-line for countless Vermonters,” said Welch. “Now, withwages stagnate, a tough economy, rising fuel prices and Ver-monters struggling to recover from Tropical Storm Irene, itis even more critical. Winter is upon us in the northeast andwe need to get the money to those who need it now.”

The DOE’s Energy Information Agency projects averagehousehold heating expenditures will reach record highs thiswinter, with predicted increases of three percent for naturalgas, seven percent for propane, and eight percent for heat-ing oil.

The National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association an-ticipates 9.4 million households will seek assistance withtheir energy costs through the LIHEAP program this winter,up from 8.9 million last year.

MIDDLEBURY—Middlebury Col-lege senior Jane Handel recorded amatch-high 21 kills and a team-leading22 digs last week as Middlebury Col-lege pulled out a 3-2 victory over Ply-mouth State University in a non-con-ference women’s volleyball match atFoley Gymnasium.

The match was close the entire way,as the score indicates. PSU took the

first and third sets, needing extrapoints to earn 26-24 and 27-25 deci-sions. Middlebury answered with vic-tories in the second (25-22) and fourthsets (25-19), and finished off the matchwith a 15-12 verdict in set five. Mid-dlebury improved to 14-6 on the sea-son, while PSU had a five-match win-ning streak stopped and fell to 17-9.

Handel had just one error in 54 at-

tempts for a .370 attack percentage.Sophomores Megan Jarchow and AmyHart also reached double figures inkills with 14 and 13, respectively, andjunior Julia Gibbs registered 55 assists.Junior Caitlin Barrett finished with 21digs, and Middlebury posted morethan a dozen blocks, led by juniorMadeline Firestone with five.

Panther women take five set at Plymouth

Janus Forum debateBy Jeff [email protected]

BURLINGTON—In progressive Vermont, it’s an articleof faith that spending a little extra for a bag of premiumcoffee beans with a Fair Trade label is a price worth pay-ing.

A new Janus Forum debate, titled Fair Trade Coffee: HowFair is Fair?, will hold that axiomatic belief up for scruti-ny, with informed experts arguing for and against theproposition.

The debate, which is free and open to the public, will beheld from 4-5:30 p.m. on Oct. 20 in Ira Allen Chapel.

Loraine Ronchi, senior economist for African Agricultureand Rural Development at the World Bank and Food Court5, will argue in favor of fair trade.

Colleen Haight, an assistant professor of economics atSan Jose State University and economics program officer atthe Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason Univer-

sity, will argue against it.According to Ronchi, writing in a paper titled "Fairtrade

and market failures in commodity markets," published bythe World Bank, the rationale behind Fair Trade is that "…market power and a lack of capacity in producer organiza-tions 'marks down' the prices producers receive."

On her website, Haight writes a countering opinion:"While Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in consumerfamiliarity and sales, strict certification requirements areresulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee grow-ers and lower quality coffee for consumers."

The debate will be moderated by Marselis Parsons, for-mer news director and evening news anchor at WCAX-TV.

The Fair Trade debate is the eighth in the Janus Forumseries, which was launched in 2008. The goal of the debatesis to stimulate reasoned discussion on important social andeconomic issues facing society. The debates stress the con-trast and relative effectiveness of solutions that rely onfreedom of individual choice as opposed to governmentalor regulatory-based approaches to problems.

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WEST HAVEN—Christmas is going to come early for driv-er Ron Proctor. According to statistics released by NASCAR,Proctor will receive almost $11,000 in bonus money when thesanctioning body sends out its season-ending checks nextmonth.

In the first season that Albany-Saratoga and Devil's Bowlspeedways ran under a NASCAR sanction, Proctor won thetrack championships at both speedways, a bonus of $3,000for each track. Because the 2011 season was the first year thatProctor held a NASCAR license, he was also eligible forRookie of the Year awards in both Vermont and New York,which put another $2,000 in his pocket.

In addition, he earned $2,000 for winning the VermontState Championship, and will receive a total of $995.47 fromthe individual point funds at the two tracks.

The bottom line is that Proctor will receive a check for$10,995.47.

Proctor has been competing with the Champlain ValleyRacing Association for over 25 years, and recorded his firstmodified victory at Albany-Saratoga in 1985, but the 2011campaign was obviously the best of his career.

While Joe Williams came out of the box with four wins inthe first five weeks of the season at Albany-Saratoga, Proc-tor was getting his car dialed in, and once he found the rightsetup, he was virtually untouchable. He got his first win ofthe season on June 10, which allowed him to become just thesecond driver in the history of the historic Malta track to wina feature in four consecutive decades, joining Jack Johnsonon that elite list.

Proctor finished the season with four wins, and when the

final results were tallied, he finished with a four-point ad-vantage over Williams, with Vermont teenager Hunter Batesthird in the point standings. Cody Sargen had the best sea-son of his young career and although he didn't win a feature,he finished fourth in the NASCAR modified point standings,with John Proctor fifth.

Dan Petronis won the pro late model championship at Al-bany-Saratoga, finishing the season with a three-race win-ning streak to take home his first title ever. Frank Monroewon track title in the Renegade division, while Mark Lind-blade was crowned champion in the Bomber Warriors divi-sion.

Monroe visited Victory Lane five times during the 2011campaign, and Lindblade had three wins under his belt.

The INEX Legends also ran a full campaign at Albany-Saratoga Speedway, with teenager Matt Pappa dominatingthe division, winning nine features.

While Proctor had a very good season at Albany-SaratogaSpeedway, he had a great one at the rain-plagued Devil'sBowl. Proctor also won two features at the Bowl, and neverfinished out of the top five. In addition to two wins, he hadfour seconds, a third, a fourth and one fifth to easily outdis-tance Jessy Mueller for the NASCAR Modified point title atthe Bowl, which lost its final four races of the season to rain.

Following Proctor and Mueller in the final standings wereBates, Mike Bruno and Mike Bush.

Bates, who did double duty in both a modified and a prolate model at the Bowl, picked up the first pro late model ti-tle of his career, and did it without getting a victory. In thenine events that were run, Chris Wilk, who finished second

in the points chase, had three victories and Bruno had five.Kayla Bryant also had a solid campaign in the pro late

model division, and finished third in the points standings.Bill Duprey earned the track title in the Renegade division,

finishing six points ahead of Monroe, and Eddie Bruno eas-ily won the Bomber Warriors title.

Complete points standings and finishes from both Albany-Saratoga and Devil's Bowl are available at the CVRA web-site at www.cvra.com.

Guest ViewpointBy Jack McMullen

IBM’s plant in Essex Junc-tion is vital to the economyof Vermont. As the state’slargest private employer, theplant accounts for about 5percent of Vermont’s 2010GDP of $26.4 billion.

In 1996 IBM was consider-ing where to make the nextround of capital investmentin its semiconductor manu-facturing business. U.S. Sen.Patrick Leahy, then-Con-gressman Bernie Sanders,and Gov. Howard Dean hadan opportunity to makeIBM-Burlington the place forsuch investments.

According to a former col-league who, until very re-cently, was one of the mostsenior IBM corporate execu-tives, Vermont was the com-pany’s first choice for the ex-pansion because of the Ver-mont plant’s excellent man-ufacturing performance andits fine record of innovation.IBM didn’t even ask for orexpect the kind of out-landish incentives the com-pany got from New YorkState to entice it to invest inFishkill.

Our state’s senior electedofficials 15 years ago had lit-tle comprehension of howmajor U.S. corporationsmake important capital in-vestment decisions.

They failed to put togeth-er an effective plan to ad-dress IBM’s concerns. So faras it is publicly known, noapproach was made to IBM’smost senior executives atcompany headquarters inArmonk, N.Y., who have theultimate say about wheresuch investments are made.

The company’s major re-quests were four-fold:

•Completion of the circhighway

•Lower power rates com-mensurate with its high in-dustrial usage

•Relief from excesses ofthe Act 250 process and fromharassment by the Town ofEssex and especially Willis-ton, holding the company upfor fees and approvalswhenever it needed to makechanges at the site

•Some assistance in train-ing insufficiently preparednew workers.

None of these requestswere fulfilled. Not surpris-ingly, IBM has made no newcapital investment of anysize at. the Essex Jct. site inthe years since.

According to Moody’s re-view of a City of Burlingtonbond issue, IBM employed5,400 at the IBM-Burlingtonsite in 2009, down from apeak of 8,500 in the mid1990s. More ominously, IBMdownsized its engineeringstaff at the site and has beenallowing the plant to obso-lesce. It now produces main-ly lower cost commoditychips instead of the high val-ue custom chips it made inits heyday.

Meanwhile, PC World re-ports that since 2000 IBM hasinvested more than $10 bil-lion in New York State whereIBM chose to make its future.

New York State invest-ments, capped by IBM’s re-cent $3.6 billion commit-ment to a new nanoscaleprocess facility there, are thelargest IBM has made any-where in the world.

With the initial $2.5 billiondollar investment in Fishkill

more than a decade ago,knowledgeable observerspredicted the fate of IBM-Burlington was sealed. Theonly question is how rapidlythe Essex Jct. facility willphase down.

Its eventual extinctionwill have been caused inlarge part by the failure ofpolitical leaders to respondto clear signals from thelargest private, taxpayingemployer our state is everlikely to have.

In the 1990s, then-Con-gressman Sanders launcheda very public campaign crit-icizing IBM for changing its1960s-era pension plan to re-main competitive with nim-bler, newer entrants into thesemiconductor business. Iam told by the same sourcethat IBM’s then-CEO, LouisGerstner, reacted to Sandersdemagoguery with a state-ment something like: “Don’tthe politicians in Vermontrealize there are more than adozen other states vying forour business?”

This display of pique atthe apex of IBM was kepthidden from the politicaland business establishmentsin Vermont. IBM’sspokesman here continuedto reassure anyone whoasked that IBM had no plansto close its local plant and,while always assessing itsoptions, was in Vermont forthe long haul.

Behind this soothing pic-ture presented to Vermont,the company has been de-signing and implementingits alternative future – andVermont is not likely to havemuch part in it.

(Jack McMullen of Burling-ton is managing principal of

the Cambridge MeridianGroup, Inc., a strategy consult-ing firm serving Fortune 500and technology-oriented com-panies, and a director of theEthan Allen Institute. He ranfor the U.S. Senate in Vermontin 1998.)


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MIDDLEBURY—Dr. James L.Fitzsimmons is a real-life IndianaJones. The Middlebury College assis-tant professor and author is aMesoamerican archaeologist; he leadsan exciting life exploring the remainsand cultures of ancient American civi-lizations.

Fitzsimmons received his Ph.D. fromHarvard University and has taught atthe University of New Hampshire and

the University of South Dakota. Hisarea of interests include the anthropol-ogy of death, the rise of Mesoamericancivilizations, and the origins of writ-ing.

According to college news reports,Fitzsimmons is spearheading an ar-chaeological project at the ancientMayan site of Zapote Bobal inGuatemala.

Mayans occupied the site betweenthe years 250 and 850.

Also known as Hiix Witz—or JaguarHill to ancient Maya priests and war-

riors—this site has already yielded hi-eroglyphic texts for decoding.

On Oct. 29, in Middlebury’s Ma-haney Center for the Arts, Room 221, at4:30 p.m., Fitzsimmons will greet thepublic to present some of his recentfindings as well as discuss how theClassic Maya viewed power and theboundaries of their kingdoms.

This free event sponsored by the col-lege will include many examples of theancient Mayan civilization.

For more details about the presenta-tion, call the college at 802-443-3168.

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HINESBURG — Residents of Hinesburgwere counting down to the Oct. 22 openingof Kinney Drugs new outlet in town. Kinney,a leading healthcare organization in NewYork and Vermont, completed building itsnew store at the intersection of FarmallDrive and Route 116. Construction had beenunder way since early this year on the11,550-square-foot prototype Kinney Drugs.

“This new state-of-the-art drugstore willbring convenient pharmacy and healthcareproducts and services to the residents of theHinesburg area. Kinney Drugs is an employ-ee owned company whose associates takegreat pride in delivering exceptional cus-tomer services to the communities weserve,” said Bridget Ann Hart, president andchief operating officer of Kinney Drugsbased in Gouverneur, N.Y.

The pharmacy department of the newstore includes a drive-through window, apharmacist consultation area and an expan-sive range of health care products and serv-ices. In addition, the new store also includesa selection of beauty care, cosmetics, gro-ceries and beverages, pet supplies, clothing,full seasonal offerings, a digital photo cen-ter, and a convenient checkout system.

Kinney Drugs has 16 locations in Vermont. The company’s foundation recently do-

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Middlebury Family center is now open in there newly renovated space @ Vt Sun. Middlebury Family Center is a new licensed childcare licensed to care for children infants through school age! They are located at 812 Exchange Street in the VT Sun Building. Middlebury Family Center has great family friendly hours from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm and soon to come second shift care from 2:30 pm-11:30 pm. Middlebury Family Center is also open 8 am to 3 pm Saturdays and Sundays. Friday nights at MFC is parent’s night out. (Drop your child off for a fun filled evening while you have a date night). Middlebury Family Center is proud to have joined Vt Sun in offering Kid- Fit! Kid-Fit is a program that offers age appropriate fitness activities such as swimming, dance, fitness games, sports, and more! Along with the Kid- Fit program come healthy meals included in enrollment. As a benefit of being enrolled at Middlebury Family Center each child becomes a member of Vt Sun. Middlebury Family Center and Vt Sun strive to keep families healthy starting at a young age. Schedule your tour of Middlebury Family Center by calling 802 - 388-6325. Middlebury Family Centers newest sevice is holiday shopping drop off- childcare Saturdays and Sundays 8am-4pm. Drop your child off for a fun filled day of swimming,crafts,sports and more while you go holiday shopping. Black Friday drop-off care also available from 7am - 3pm. Call 802 - 388-6325 All of our services are open to the public. You don’t have to be enrolled to use our drop-off services.

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The state bridge project, which involved a 10percent town funding match, involved a tempo-rary bridge with slight rerouting of northboundtraffic onto Route 116.

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Robinson practiced law for 18 years at Langrock Sperry &Wool in Middlebury and Burlington, with a civil practicethat included workers’ compensation, family law, employ-ment law, negligence and injury cases. She served as co-counsel in the case of Baker v. Vermont, the landmark casethat led to Vermont’s passage of a first-in-the-nation civilunion law, and led the successful quest for full marriageequality for same-sex couples in Vermont.

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‘Botany of Food’ workshop in Vergennes VERGENNES—Did you know that corn is a grass and an

artichoke is in the sunflower family? The Willowell Founda-tion invites the public to find out what they are eating at theBotany of Food, a workshop with Teena Hayden, agricultur-al consultant and Panton resident.

The workshop will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from7 to 8:30 p.m., in the Congregational Church at 30 South Wa-ter St., Vergennes. Suggested donation is $10 to support theWillowell farm to school garden.

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Quartet to soothe string lovers in MiddleburyMIDDLEBURY—On Friday, Oct. 28, the popular Hugo

Wolf Quartett will soothe string lovers at Middlebury Col-lege’s Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall at 8 p.m.

Having developed from an ensemble known only to cham-ber-music-lovers to one of the most sought-after string quar-tets of its generation, the Hugo Wolf Quartett left the cam-pus audience on the edge of their seats when last in Middle-bury.

These “new stars on the quartet heaven” (Der Standard,Vienna) perform works by Mozart and Schoenberg, plusSchubert’s G Major quartet.

This free Performing Arts Series concert is made possiblewith generous support from the Institute for Clinical Scienceand Art, in memory of F. William Sunderman Jr. and CarolynReynolds Sunderman. Free; no tickets required. 802-443-3168 or www.middlebury.edu/arts.

Shoreham Telephone sold to OtelcoSHOREHAM—Otelco Inc., parent company to OTT Com-

munications, and a wireline telecommunication servicesprovider in Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, NewHampshire and West Virginia, announced that it has com-pleted its previously announced acquisition of ShorehamTelephone Company, Inc. for approximately $4.5 million incash, plus certain purchase price adjustments.

Shoreham Telephone, a privately owned company locatedin Shoreham, Vermont, has provided telecommunicationssolutions to residential and business customers for nearly acentury. The company offers a complete set of voice, dataand Internet services to its customers in middle Vermont. Asof September 30, 2011, the company serves approximately5,019 voice and data lines (or access line equivalents).

“We are excited to add Shoreham and Vermont to our serv-ice area in New England,” said Mike Weaver, President andChief Executive Officer of Otelco. “Shoreham has similarroots to Otelco as a rural wireline telecommunications serv-ices provider. This year, they have substantially improvedtheir broadband offering with significant capital invest-ment.”

Tom Hanks space-miniseries author tospeak on Castleton campus

CASTLETON—Acclaimed space historian AndrewChaiken will present a talk titled, “Space Explorationfrom Earth to Mars,” at Castleton State College’s 1787Room on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m.

Chaiken is the author of the book that inspired actor-producer Tom Hanks' award-winning HBO miniseries“From the Earth to the Moon.”

The author is a graduate of Brown University, servedon NASA’s Viking mission to Mars, and researched at theSmithsonian’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies.

This event is free and open to the public but tickets arerequired. For more information please call the Fine ArtsCenter Box Office at 802-468-1119.

Andrew Chaiken


LUDLOW—With less than a month to gountil Okemo Mountain Resort’s target open-ing day of the 2011-12 winter season, the an-ticipation among skiers and riders is risingto a fevered pitch.

October marks the announcement ofmany magazine reader survey results andtop-10 lists, and Okemo is, once again, re-ceiving accolades.

In its annual Top 30 Reader Resort Survey,Ski named Okemo Mountain Resort one ofthe top 10 resorts in the East. Okemo rankednumber four overall and placed among thetop 10 in 12 of 20 categories listed in the newWinter Vacation Issue.

Okemo was ranked second in the East forGrooming and third for Service, Lifts, Fam-ily Programs, and On-Mountain Food. Theresort’s Snow, Weather and Digital Pro-grams ranked fourth. Dining made the fifthspot and Okemo made the top 10 for TerrainParks and Overall Satisfaction.

The readers of SnowEast have also recog-nized Okemo with the magazine’s ReaderSurvey Award for Favorite Snowgrooming.

In other recent Top 10 lists, Forbes listedtheir top picks in an online article and slideshow titled “10 Best Ski Resorts for Fami-lies.” Okemo Mountain Resort claimed thefifth position in the top-10 list and Okemowas the first eastern resort named.

Also cited was the fact that Okemo Moun-tain School raised nearly $8,000 during a

benefit golf tournament at Okemo ValleyGolf Club. Proceeds from the tournamentwent to local flood relief efforts. The partic-ipants were connected with the school and

the greater Okemo community. Okemo Mountain Resort is slated to open

for the 2011/2012 ski and snowboard seasonon Nov. 19.


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During September and October, the LesterFarm produce barn was open for business,and local residents were surprised to seeone of the largest locally grown selections ofvegetables.

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ESSEX JUNCTION CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH - 61 Main St., Essex Junction - 878-8341 FERRISBURGH/NORTH FERRISB. FERRISBURGH METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday worship 9:30am NORTH FERRISBURGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 227 Old Hollow Rd., North Ferrisburgh, VT 802- 425-2770. Rev. Kim Hornug-Marcy. Sunday worship 10am, Sunday School 10am, Nursery Available. http://www.gbgm-umc.org/ nferrisburgumc/ CROSSROADS CHAPEL - 41 Middlebrook Rd., Ferrisburgh, VT 05456. (802) 425-3625. Pastor: Rev. Charles Paolantonio. Services: Sunday 10am. FERRISBURGH CENTER COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH - Rt 7, Ferrisburgh - next to the Town Offices / Grange Hall. New Pastors Rev. John & Patrice Goodwin. Worship time is now 10:45am. HINESBURG LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH - 90 Mechanicsville Rd., Hinesburg. Sunday Service at 10:30am. Pastor Hart, info: 482-2588. ST. JUDE THE APOSTLE - 10759 Route 116 Hinesburg. Masses: Sat. 4:30pm; Sun. 9:30am UNITED CHURCH OF HINESBURG - 10580 Rte. 116, Sunday Worship & Sunday School 10am. Pastor Michele Rogers Brigham - 482-3352. LINCOLN UNITED CHURCH OF LINCOLN - Sunday worship service 9:45, Church school 11:15am, united Student Ministries for grades 7-12, 6:30pm Sunday evenings. 453-4280 MIDDLEBURY CHAMPLAIN VALLEY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY - Sunday service & church school, Sunday 10am CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY - Middlebury. Middlebury Community House, Main and Seymour Sts, Sunday Service and Church School-10am; Wednesday-7:30pm. THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MIDDLEBURY (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sunday 10am worship service THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER- DAY SAINTS - Sunday Sacrament 10am-11:15am EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WORSHIP - Service in Middlebury area: call 758-2722 or 453-5334. HAVURAH, THE JEWISH CONGREGATION OF ADDISON COUNTY - Saturday morning Shabbat services, 388-8946 MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH - 97 South Pleasant St., Middlebury. Sunday morning worship & church school 10am, Wednesday evening Bible Study, 6:30pm. 388-7472. MIDDLEBURY FRIENDS MEETING - (Quakers), Sunday worship & first day school 10am (meets at Havurah House) SAINT MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - Saturday, 5:15pm, Sunday 8am, 10am ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - (On the green in Middlebury). Reverend Terence P. Gleeson, Rector. Sunday Eucharist 8 & 10:30am Child care & Sunday school available at 10:30am service. Wednesday at 12:05pm Holy Eucharist in the chapel. www.ststephensmidd.org or call 388-7200. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 10am Grades K-5: Activities, Grades. 6-8 & 9-12: Church School Classes, Refreshments & fellowship time: 10:45am-11am. Sunday morning worship service 11am. Nursery provided both at 10am & 11am. MONKTON MONKTON FRIENDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday service & Sunday school, 8:45am

NEW HAVEN ADDISON COUNTY CHURCH OF CHRIST - 145 Campground Rd., 453-5704. Worship: Sunday 9 & 11:20am; Bible classes: Sunday 10:30am, Tuesday 7pm. Watch Bible Forum on MCTV-15 (Middlebury) or NEAT-16 (Bristol) NEW HAVEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Church services 10am on Sunday. All are welcome. NEW HAVEN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH - Sunday services, 10am & 7pm ORWELL FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Sunday worship service, 10:00am. Contact: Rev. Esty, 948-2900 SAINT PAUL’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - Sunday services 10:30am Mass, 468-5706 RICHMOND RICHMOND CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - 20 Church St., Richmond • 434- 2053. Rev. Len Rowell. Sunday Worship with Sunday School, 10am; Adult Study Class, Sunday 8:30am RIPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 388-2510 SALISBURY SALISBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sun. worship svc., 10am SHELBURNE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SHELBURNE - 127 Webster Road, Shelburne • 985-2848 TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 2166 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. 985-2269 Sunday Services: 8am & 10am. Bible Study 9:00am • Sunday School: 9:50am. The Reverend Craig Smith ALL SOULS INTERFAITH GATHERING - Rev. Mary Abele, Pastor. Evensong Service and Spiritual Education for Children Sun. at 5pm. 371 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne. 985- 3819 SHELBURNE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 30 Church St., Shelburne • 985-3981 • Rev. Gregory A. Smith, Pastor, 8:00am - Holy Communion Service • 9:30am - Family Worship Service with Sunday School SHOREHAM ST. GENEVIEVE/ST. BERNADETTE - Combined parish, Saturday mass 7:30pm, May 1-Oct. 31. (See Bridport) SHOREHAM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH- UCC - Sunday worship and Sunday school 10am. Pastor Gary O’Gorman. 897-2687 STARKSBORO THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STARKSBORO - 2806 Route 16, Starksboro. Sunday worship 11am. Chat, Chew & Renew, a pre-worship fellowship and discussion time 10am-10:45am. Sunday mornings in the Fellowship Hall on the accessible first level. All are welcome. First Baptist is an American Baptist church yoked with The Community Church of Huntington for support of its pastor, The Rev. Larry Detweiler [email protected]; 802.453.5577. SOUTH BURLINGTON NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH SBC - 1451 Williston Rd., South Burlington. 863-4305 VICTORY CENTER - Holiday Inn, Williston Road, South Burlington • 658-1019 BURLINGTON UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH - Pastor Paul Lyon • 860-5828. Sundays: 10am & 6pm. Wednesdays: 7pm. at 294 North Winooski Avenue. SUDBURY SUDBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Sunday worship service and Sunday school, 10:30am

SOVEREIGN REDEEMER ASSEMBLY - Sunday worship 10am VERGENNES/PANTON ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHRISTIAN CENTER - 1759 U.S. Route 7, Vergennes, VT • 802-877-3903 • Sunday school 9am, Sunday worship #1 10am, Sunday worship #2 6pm, Youth, adult gathering 6pm CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH - Sunday worship svcs. 10am & 7pm CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF VERGENNES (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sunday, 9:30am NEW WINE COVENANT (CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST) - Sunday worship 10am PANTON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH - Sunday school from 9:30am-10:15am Pre-K to adult, Sunday worship service 10:30am ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Main and Park Streets, Vergennes. Rector: The Rev. Alan Kittelson. Sunday Services 8am and 10am; childcare provided at 10am. All are welcome. For information call 758-2211. ST. PETER’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - Saturday 4:30pm, Sunday 10:30am VERGENNES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 10:30 am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH - 862 US Rt. 7, SUNDAY : 9:45am Bible Hour For All Ages Including 5 Adult Classes; 11:00am Worship Including Primary Church Ages 3 to 5 & Junior Church 1st - 4th Graders; 6pm Evening Service Worship For All Ages. WEDNESDAY 6:30pm Adult Prayer & Bible Study; AWANA Children’s Clubs (3yrs to 6th grade); JAM Junior High Group (7th & 8th grade); Youth Group (9th - 12 grade). Nursery is provided for children up to 3 years old. Classes are provided for children age 3 and up. 802-877-3393 WEYBRIDGE WEYBRIDGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Worship and Sunday School 10am. Daniel Wright, Pastor. 545- 2579. WHITING WHITING COMMUNITY CHURCH - Sunday school 9:45am, Sunday Service 11am & 7pm WILLISTON CHRIST MEMORIAL CHURCH - 1033 Essex Road, Williston. 878-7107. St. Minister Wes Pastor. Services: 8:30am and 10:30am TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH - 19 Mountain View Rd., Williston. 878-8118 CHRIST MEMORIAL CHURCH - 1033 Essex Rd., Williston 878-7107 CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE - 30 Morgan Parkway Williston, VT 05495 • 802-878-8591 [email protected] CAVALRY CHAPEL - 300 Cornerstone, Williston. 872- 5799 MARANATHA CHRISTIAN CHURCH - 1037 S. Brownell Rd., Williston. 862-2108 IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY - Route 2, Williston878-4513 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH - Route 2A, Williston 878-2285 WILLSTON FEDERATED CHURCH - 44 North Willston Rd., Williston. 878-5792

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Guest ViewpointFor the past few months, I’ve heard and seen several peo-

ple talk about keeping our dollars close to home—support-ing our local residents and encouraging them to come out tothe Hinesburg Harvest Market and now the Hinesburg Li-ons Winter Farmer ’s Market.

I just can’t be quiet anymore because these same peopleare the people that I rarely, if ever, saw supporting these lo-cal vendors, who showed up week after week, rain or shineat the Hinesburg Lions Farmers Market. I felt very sad as Isaw local residents pass by without supporting these won-derful, hard working farmers, bakers and crafters.

Some of you have used the excuse that it’s too hard to getin and out of the current venue. Well, first, I went down justabout every single week and not once did I have trouble get-ting in or out of the market.

Drivers going both north and south were very courteous. Second, the Lions have spent hours going to meetings try-

ing to change our location to lot number 1, just north of theHinesburg Police Station. In fact this past spring, I thoughtit was a done deal and I had the paper work all completewith our new address. I even contacted many of the vendorssaying that we’d be moving, only to be told by the town thatwe could move there only temporarily. We would have toleave for the park to be built sometime in the future, andthen move back after the grass is established.

The selectboard said it might take 5-10 years for them toget the lot completely ready for a market. Then, this pastsummer, while we were taking down the market, I noticedthat a new soccer field is being leveled, and made behind theHinesburg Town Hall. How can some things be done soquickly and others take so long?

The Hinesburg Lions is a total volunteer organization thatis here to support our community and help its residents inmany ways. All the money that we make goes right back intoour town for scholarships, food shelf, eye glasses, hearingaids, emergency needs, etc. By not supporting these farm-

ers, bakers and crafters this summer, you were not keepingyour dollars close to home or supporting your local people.

I want to make it clear to everyone: many other farmersmarkets hire managers and staff to put markets together andover see all the problems or work that needs to be done, likecontacting vendors, setting guidelines, getting and possiblypaying for entertainment, setting up meetings, setting upand taking down the market, advertising, etc., etc. All thismoney that the hired managers and staff receive, goesstraight into their pockets.

The money that Lions make goes right back into yourtown, Hinesburg, because we are volunteers.

We’re always looking for new members and would loveto see you at our meetings at 7:30 p.m on the second andfourth Tuesday of each month at Papa Nicks or at 6:30 p.mfor dinner and the meeting.

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21 Bench warmer

22 Potentially comforted by a

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25 Loosen, in a way

26 Rescued orphan in

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27 Cutlass maker

28 Eagle’s org.

29 Be inclined

30 1994 World Cup host

31 Carts without fixed sides

33 “Take __ from me ...”

34 Place for a complainer?

39 Community character

40 Boxer’s greeting

43 Catch sight of

44 Blue gem, briefly

45 Worry-free

46 Scrape

48 Kept talking, and talking ...

49 Spread here and there

50 Some electron tubes

51 Is inclined

52 Mailing ctr.

53 Johnson of “Laugh-In”

56 Run to Reno, maybe

57 Forty-niner after a lucky

strike?

59 Double-minded

60 Rep.’s opponent

61 Dolphin’s home

63 Is in need of

65 Critic’s pick

66 Data

68 Christian path to salva-

tion?

72 Celtic, for one

74 Inert gas

75 Show stoppers

76 Hag

77 Be half-asleep

78 Chaucerian estate manag-

er

80 San Antonio landmark

81 Treat with carbon dioxide

82 Quality

84 Word with land or sea

85 Seem less important

87 “You betcha!”

88 Many an Indian

89 Stagehand splitting his

sides?

92 Surface statistic

93 Aromatic compound

95 Three abroad

96 Spell opening

100 Sleep lab letters

101 Vintage autos

102 Hyperion, for one

104 Challenging winds

105 Riot figures

107 Like a baseball player

who couldn’t find his way

to the field?

110 The Urals divide it

111 Like a jack-o’-lantern’s

eyes

112 Time of merriment

113 Completely absorbed (in)

114 Striking hammer parts

115 “Help!” film director

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5 Blackthorn fruit

6 Genuine, for real: Abbr.

7 Befitting offspring

8 Alike, to Alain

9 Big brass

10 Snaky fish

11 Boston-to-Nantucket dir.

12 Indeed

13 Tears apart

14 “We have met the enemy

and he __”: Pogo

15 Some microwaves

16 Ineptly prepared mess hall

offering?

17 Taxpayer’s crime

18 Take a turn for the worse

20 Is called

23 Stretch with no hits

27 Porridge, essentially

31 State under oath

32 “Still Falls the __”: Edith

Sitwell poem

33 “You’re in for __!”

35 Cash in

36 Exploits

37 Twisty-horned antelope

38 Like many beaches

39 Always, in verse

40 Began energetically

41 Texas city near Dyess Air

Force Base

42 Man at the altar yet

again?

45 Baby carrier?

47 Payroll service giant, ini-

tially

48 Civil War cannon, e.g.

49 Paint droplet

51 Inquisitor __ de

Torquemada

52 Iced, as cake

54 Italian seaport

55 Main courses

57 Avant-__

58 South American plain

62 “__ my love a cherry ...”

64 Filter out

67 Iroquois tribe

69 Food that’s French for

“flash of lightning”

70 “The Sound of Music”

family name

71 Former Colorado governor

73 “__ b?”

77 Spanish surrealist

79 Coin first minted under

Louis IX

80 It might be a whole lot

82 Dickens’s Darnay

83 Offer one’s services for a

fee

84 Certain NCOs

85 Mardi Gras event

86 Boston’s TD Garden, e.g.

90 Web-footed mammals

91 Triangular house sections

93 Spine-tingling

94 “Alas!”

97 Upward thrust

98 Rouen remainder

99 Sirius, for one

101 Breathing: Abbr.

102 Gilded metalware

103 One of the Karamazovs

104 Comic strip drooler

106 __ kwon do

107 Mountain pass

108 T-shirt size

109 49ers’ org.

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Thursday, Oct. 27MIDDLEBURY—Middlebury C ollege’s Theatre D epart-

ment opens its 2011–12 season with “Big Love”, an emotion-ally ex travagant comedy by OBIE A ward-winning pla y-wright Char les Mee. Performance at 8 p .m. in Wright Me-morial Theatre on Chateau Road.

MIDDLEBURY—D.J. Dizzle at Two Br others Tavern, 10p.m. Free.

Friday, Oct. 28MIDDLEBURY—The int ernationally-acclaimed Viennese

ensemble Hugo Wolf Quartett will perform in the MahaneyCenter for the Arts. The concert is sponsored by a generousfoundation, and is being pr esented free and open t o thepublic. No tickets are required, first come, first served seat-ing.

RUTLAND TOWN—Deadnberry M ortuary Haunt edHouse at Garden Time, Toute 7, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Pre-pare to be scared, as our tour guide leads you through theDeadnberry Mortuary. Witness the horrifying, twisted worldof E. Lie Deadnberry and his long condemned mortuary. $7Adults, $5 Children under 10. For more information call 747-0700

MIDDLEBURY—Middlebury C ollege’s Theatre D epart-ment opens its 2011–12 season with “Big Love”, an emotion-ally ex travagant comedy by OBIE A ward-winning pla y-wright Char les Mee. Performance at 8 p .m. in Wright Me-morial Theatre on Chateau Road.

VERGENNES—Friday N ight F licks pr esents “MonsterHouse”. Although no adults will believ e them, thr ee chil-

dren r ealize a neighbor's house is r eally a monst er. Theymust find a way to stop the house and save the neighbor-hood. Free. Rated PG.

MIDDLEBURY—The Annual Halloween Dance hosted byAddison Central Teens at M iddlebury’s Town Hall Theater.Wear a costume and save two bucks at the door! 8 p.m. Tick-ets, $7/$5 if in costume, are available at the door.

MIDDLEBURY—D.J. Benn (Dub St ep, House, Elec tronic)at Two Brothers Tavern, 10 p.m. Free.

Saturday, Oct. 29RUTLAND TOWN—Deadnberry M ortuary Haunt ed

House at Garden Time from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Prepare to bescared, as our tour guide leads you through the Deadnber-ry Mortuary. Witness the horrifying, twisted world of E. LieDeadnberry and his long condemned mortuary. $7 Adults,$5 Children under 10. For more information call 747-0700

VERGENNES—Pumpkins in the Park, Main St. 6:45 p.m. to7:30 p.m. Anyone may bring their carved and/or decoratedpumpkin with a candle and r egistration f orm t o the Ver-gennes City Park by 6:45 p.m. for our 5th annual “PumpkinGlow” at 7 p .m. F irst, second and thir d place r ibbons andcertificates will be a warded. C ostume parade . I nfo: 802-388-7951 x 1.

MIDDLEBURY—Mozart’s D on Giovanni, will be br oad-cast live at Town Hall Theater at 1 p.m. Tickets are $24. Tick-ets may be purchased by calling 382-9222, at the THT BoxOffice or at the door.

MIDDLEBURY—Middlebury C ollege’s Theatre D epart-ment opens its 2011–12 season with Big Love, an emotion-ally ex travagant comedy by OBIE A ward-winning pla y-

wright Charles Mee. Performances at 2 p .m. and 8 p .m. inWright Memorial Theatre on Chateau Road.

MIDDLEBURY—Spooktacular: Halloween Celebrationon the Town Green from 2 p .m. to 4 p .m. Once again theBetter M iddlebury Partnership in cooperation with theTown of Middlebury will be celebrating Spooktacular.

VERGENNES—Real Vocal String Quartet performs at Ver-gennes Opera House. 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 Student/Senior$15 General and available by phone at 877-6737 or at Clas-sic Stitching or on the Opera House website.

MIDDLEBURY—Fourth Hallo ween Bash with the HorseTraders at Two Brothers Tavern. Prizes will be a warded forbest costumes. 9 p.m. $3.

Sunday, Oct. 30RUTLAND TOWN—Deadnberry M ortuary Haunt ed

House at Garden Time from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Prepare to bescared, as our tour guide leads you through the Deadnber-ry Mortuary. Witness the horrifying, twisted world of E. LieDeadnberry and his long condemned mortuary. $7 Adults,$5 Children under 10. For more information call 747-0700

VERGENNES—The Vergennes Amer ican L egion JuniorAuxiliary Unit 14 will be hosting a F amily Halloween Cos-tume Karaoke Dance Party from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ver-gennes Legion. This event will feature snacks, games, andlots of dancing and singing for the whole family. After theparty it ’s Trunk or Treat in the par king lot from 4 p.m. to 5p.m.

MIDDLEBURY—Mozart’s D on Giovanni, will be br oad-cast live at Town Hall Theater at 1 p.m. Tickets are $24, $10for students. Tickets may be purchased by calling 382-9222,at the THT Box Office or at the door.

VERGENNES—Vergennes D orchester L odge F&A M isholding it's last Sunday of the month breakfast 7:30 a.m. to10 a.m. They will be ser ving all y ou can eat, pancak es,French toast, bacon, sausage, home fries, scrambled eggs,juice and coffee.

Monday, Oct. 31MIDDLEBURY- Vermont A dult L earning Or ientation

12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Learn about free tutoring in basic read-ing, writing, math, GED, high school diploma, college prep,English f or speak ers of other languages , and w ork r eadi-ness. Call to register for the session of your choice. Commu-nity Services Building. For more information call 388-4392.

Tuesday, Nov. 1MIDDLEBURY- Monster Hits Karaoke at Two Brothers Tav-

ern, 9 p.m. Free.

Local students at St. LawrenceCANTON, N.Y.—St. Lawrence Univer-

sity welcomed students from AddisonCounty as members of the class of 2015:

Katherine C. Brown of Bristol. Browngraduated from Mount Abraham UnionHigh School in Bristol.

Willard M. Meyer of Bristol. Meyergraduated from Mount Abraham UnionHigh School in Bristol.

Zelie S. Wright-Neil of Leicester.Wright-Neil graduated from MiddleburyUnion High School in Middlebury.

Luke M. Lendway of Orwell. Lendwaygraduated from Fair Haven Union HighSchool in Fair Haven.

Shanyn A. Leduc of Salisbury. Leducgraduated from Middlebury Union HighSchool in Middlebury.

Harriette S. Willis of Salisbury. Willisgraduated from the Hotchkiss School inLakeville.

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• Equipment Installation & Financing

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