The Bridge, May 15, 2014

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IN THIS ISSUE:
Connecting Montpelier and nearby communities since 1993 | May 15- June 4, 2014
TEAR DOWN, BUILD UP ACT 250 REVISIONS ON BERLIN POND
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A
t the invitation of The Bridge, mayors
John Hollar of Montpelier and Tom
Lauzon of Barre met together in City
Hall (Montpelier) and talked about a range
of municipal issues. Nat Frothingham and
Jerry Carter from The Bridge interviewed the
two mayors and what follows are excerpts
from the questions and exchanges between
the mayors.
Tom Lauzon was first elected as Barres
mayor in 2006 and re-elected in 2008, 2010,
2012 and 2014. Mayor Lauzon said that this
would be his last term as mayor. When he
ran for mayor in 2006, Lauzon contended
that Barre wasnt going anywhere. Very
little was being built. The citys grand list
values were in decline and there were very
few incentives to build and enlarge the citys
grand list.
John Hollar was first elected mayor in 2012
and re-elected in 2014. Although his first
race of Montpelier in 2012 was uncontested,
Hollar ran on a promise to do three things:
to jump-start projects that had been dor-
mant, to deal with our declining infrastruc-
ture, and to deal with the citys high prop-
erty tax rate.
The Bridge: John, if you were sitting in a
caf and talking to somebody from out of
town and drawing a distinction between
Montpelier and Barre, what would you
say?
Hollar: I would say that Barre has a lot
going for it...you look at all of the activity
here and what I hear from people is that you
better get on your toes and start keeping up,
because were not keeping up with what is
going on with Barre. Theyve obviously got
a lot of energy, theyve got downtown devel-
opment, theyve got state investment, and
Toms brought a lot of development, so for
me Barre is sort of setting the bar in terms of
activity and not being complacent.
The Bridge: Do you think that Montpe-
lier has been complacent?
Hollar: I dont think that we are compla-
cent, and I dont think that we have had
the same level of focus that Barre has had. I
think that it is a little easier here [in Mont-
pelier], because we didnt have some of the
challenges that Barre has had, but I think
that change is difficult in Montpelier.
The Bridge: So, John, the focus that you
talk about in Barre, what does that focus
in Barre look like (from Montpelier's per-
spective)?
Hollar: Well for me, its about making sure
that we continue to look at ways to develop
our economy and ways to bring new invest-
ment into our community. That is the big-
gest challenge, because when you have those
expenses that are rising at a flat grand list,
you have this tax rate gap that is going to ex-
acerbate the problem over time, so you have
to make sure that you got that investment to
enable you to keep up with the needs of a de-
clining infrastructure of a 200-year-old city.
Lauzon: Let me just say thisit gives me
great satisfaction when my neighbors in
Montpelier and my friends in Montpelier
call me up and say, You are kicking our ass.
How are you doing this? And I think that is
an exaggeration on their part. It is not about
kicking anybodys ass. It is about doing the
best job that I can for Barre.
I mean, I love Montpelier. Karen and I are
here at least once a week. We come over, we
go to the movies, we dine, and the seven
miles doesnt mean a whole lot to us, because
we have restaurants here that we enjoy. Now,
finally, we have restaurants in Barre that we
enjoy and vice versa. We see a lot of friends
dining over in Barre and that gives me a lot
of satisfaction.
I mean, lets face it; we are different mu-
nicipalities, so there is always going to be a
certain amount of competitiveness and I love
beating John, but it is all friendly.
The Bridge: John, how would you de-
scribe Barre to someone who is from out
of town? What would you tell them?
Hollar: Alright, so we obviously have some
inherent differences. We have state govern-
ment and we have a state capital here.
Lauzon: The differences primarily are eco-
nomic. Maybe that is the elephant in the
room. The demographics in terms of median
income is hugely different in Montpelier than
it is in Barre. And like John said very kindly,
we have a lot of the challenges in Barre that
they dont have in Montpelier . . . When
you look at our crime rates, [theyre] not
terribly different between
the two munici-
palities. Were
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MAYORS MIX IT UP
Hollar & Lauzon talk about money, roads, taxes, development, and current & future projects
by Nat Frothingham and Jerry Carter
Mayor of Montpelier John Hollar..
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I said, I relate everything back to numbers ...
we are 67 percent on free or reduced lunch
in Barre, and here in Montpelier you are
flipped. I dont even think that there are 30
percent in Montpelier.
Hollar: So yes, obviously there are demo-
graphic and income differences, but there
is also just the stability of our employment.
We are fortunate to be the home of the state
capital, which guarantees that we are going
to have a stable workforce and that creates a
different economic climate here.
The Bridge: You said, Tom, that you were
focused on Barre with laser intensity. You
talked about a 10-year plan. What does
that look like? Whats coming up?
Lauzon: We tend to roll projects out pretty
quickly. Everybody goes so gaga over City
Place. but that is so yesterday to me. Its
built and its occupied and I dont even want
to talk about it anymore, even though we
still have to cut the ribbon.

Were focused on Summer Street Center
which is the redevelopment,
basically, of an entire city
block using TIF (Tax
Increment Financ-
ing District) funds.
As our city becomes
more successful, we
have all of a sudden
di scoveredHol y
C o w ! w e
need more places to park. We are
going to develop a 100-vehicle parking lot.
And through the Central Vermont Com-
munity Land Trust, we are developing 35
units of new, high quality subsidized hous-
ing units. Our issue is not affordable hous-
ing in Barre. It is not the quantity of housing
in Barre, it is the quality.
The Bridge: John, whats on your agenda?
Hollar: There are three significant projects
that we need to get off the ground, continue,
or complete. They are the Taylor Street de-
velopment, which is going to consume a lot
of time; and we are working with a developer
in the state to potentially site a new garage,
with some retail development as part of that
project; finishing the bike path going east
of town past Granite Street toward the civic
center is another project that we will be
shepherding through; and then making sure
that the District Heat System is up and run-
ning in the fall as promised. There are other
[projects] of less significant scale that we are
thinking about. And then, we are dealing
with our infrastructure. We still have to
make sure that where we are investing at a
level that we need to [in order] to have a sus-
tainable infrastructure, which we [currently]
dont have.
We are underspending by perhaps half a mil-
lion dollars a year in terms of what we need
to do to maintain safe and adequate streets,
sidewalks, bridges and retaining walls. Be-
yond that, we have an aging, I would say be-
yond aging, elderly municipal water system
that we are going to have to deal with. Weve
got a great water treatment plant that has an
enormous amount of excess capacity, but as
a result of the size, and the cost of paying off
that bond, we have not been able to keep
up with the maintenance and replacement
of the distribution system and the pipes,
which is why you see these periodic geysers
coming out of the ground with breaks. It
is a longer term problem that we have to
deal with.
Lauzon: I would like to say that is an
area that we have under control. When I
took office, the city of Barre was spending
$175,000 to pave streets on an annual basis,
and that was it. So, one of the first things
that we did in the 10-year planwe are in
Year Six currently of the 10-year plan that I
developed and rolled outand it was really
simple: we have 39 miles of streets in the
city, and it costs roughly $1 million to pave a
mile of street, so we need $39 million dollars
if we are to go all the way around.
Hollar: Let me just jump back in here and
talk about two other things that I left out,
because there are two other priorities that I
forgot to mention. One is unique to Mont-
pelier and that is our Net Zero Montpelier
initiativeto make Montpelier a net zero
in terms of climate emissions and reliant on
renewable energy by 2030. That is an enor-
mous commitment.
The other one is housing. We do have a
shortage of both affordable housing and
market rate housing. It has been a commit-
ment of the city for several years, but we
havent really seen any growth there, so we
have a council that has renewed that focus
this year.
The Bridge: How do Vermont cities cre-
ate the infrastructure to help promote a
growing creative economy and create op-
portunities for young people?
Hollar: My view is that you make this an
attractive place to live... creating the ameni-
ties and making this a place where people
will say, Wow this is a place where I want
to live, and to make sure our schools excel,
which they are, is what draws entrepreneurs
to live here, especially people who can tele-
commute. In my view, the best thing that we
can do for economic development is focus on
quality of life issues.
Lauzon: Slightly different viewpoint. Yes,
you have to focus on quality of life issues, but
more importantly you have to focus on op-
portunities. So, what are we doing in Barre?
I have been to the Makers Space up in
Burlington and I would predict that within
six months we will have that space in Barre.
Because it is important to provide people
with those opportunities. There is already
great quality of life here. . . Ben & Jerrys
started in a garage in Burlington, Dealer.
com started in a used car dealership in Wil-
liston, and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
started in a little shop in Main Street. We
have got to work hard at providing those
types of opportunities. If you want young
people to stay here, then create opportunities
for them. It doesnt have to be $5 million, it
has to be $20,000 so that somebody can start
their own design shop. It is not a big number.
Hollar: The irony here is that Tom is prob-
ably a little bit more conservative than I am,
but I just dont fundamentally agree that
government has a significant role in deter-
mining whether businesses decide to come
here or not. What we can do is set the con-
ditions that make this a place where people
want to be. I mentioned some of them, but it
is housing, it is workforce, it is education and
it is infrastructure that is the primary role of
government.
People have choices, especially people who
have money to invest, in where they want to
live, and what we can capitalize on here in
Montpelier is that we have such a unique and
vibrant downtown community.
Mayor of Barre Tom Lauzon.
Photo by Jeff Blair
Continued from cover
Act 250 Revision: One Small Step by C.B. Hall
Primo Maggio: Barres Old
Labor Hall Marks Ten Years
of May Day Celebrations
by Emily Kaminsky
A
substantial revision of Vermont's
1970 environmental law, Act 250, is
headed to Governor Peter Shumlin's
desk after final passage in the Legislature
on May 5. The reform measure, House bill
823, cleared that chamber on a 92-44 vote
on March 13, but was amended in the Sen-
ate, which finally passed it on May 1 on a
voice vote. The House concurred with the
Senate changes on a voice vote four days
later, removing the need for a Senate-House
conference in the rushed final days of the
legislative session. Shumlin is expected to
sign the bill.
The legislation adds a provision to Act 250 dis-
couraging strip development, with the intent
of shifting the focus of future development
from lower- to higher-density areas. The bill
defines strip development as linear commer-
cial development that meets at least three of
seven criteria, including lack of connection
to any existing settlement except by highway.
...lack of coordination with surrounding land
uses and limited accessibility for pedestrians.
The bill deletes an Act 250 definition of
so-called rural growth areas, substituting
language that emphasizes historic patterns
of settlement. The effect is to force develop-
ment outside of cities and villages to use
land efficiently, rather than sprawling across
the landscape. The measure will move Ver-
mont a tiny step closer to the longstanding
pattern of development in many European
countries, where villages are clearly bounded
geographic entities, with nothing but farm-
land and forests in between them.
The law will expedite review of projects in
the state's 24 designated downtowns, ease
requirements for Act 250 review of housing
projects and incorporate language that pro-
motes walking, bicycling and transit.
Some feared that this [bill] was prohibit-
ing development, said Rep. Rebecca Ellis
(D-Waterbury), who carried the bill on the
House floor and addressed the concerns
of development interests who opposed the
measure. That was a misunderstanding.
This promotes smart growth while allowing
development to occur.
Six of Washington County's 15 House
membersa higher proportion than in the
chamber as a wholevoted against the bill.
The six included Adam Greshin (I-Warren)
who stated in an email interview, I was
happy with the part of the legislation that
encouraged development in our downtowns
and village centers. But I was less comfort-
able with the new definition of strip devel-
opment that, when read carefully, will make
it virtually impossible for any development
at all along our rural roadsides. In many of
our economically depressed rural communi-
ties, raising the bar for development is not
helpful.
Barre Mayor Thom Lauzon saw the legisla-
tion as a means of realizing urban Vermont's
potential.
Anything that encourages development in
downtowns rather than outlying areas, we're
all in favor of, he said, articulating his
city's perspective. He placed the legislation
in a wider historical framework. It's going
on a decade since a major mall project has
happened in the whole Northeast. Develop-
ers are turning more to downtowns. The
days of hell-for-leather development clus-
tered around interstate highway exits, he
said, are over.
The bill shows that people recognize that
it's time to do something about strip de-
velopment, said Kate McCarthy, sustain-
able communities program director at the
Vermont Natural Resources Council, which
she described as very pleased with the
result of the give-and-take on the bill. It
ensures that strip development is limited on
our landscape. At the same time, it bolsters
development in our downtowns, where we
want to see it... That makes it a balanced
bill. We would have liked to see a bit more
strength in dealing with strip development,
but all in all it's a good compromise.
Testifying against the measure, Montpelier
realtor Tim Heney took the position that
downtown development is all very well, but
in practice often consists of more hope than
substance, since developers need what Ver-
mont downtowns lack: plenty of parking.
In an interview for this article, Heney also
saw the strip development definition as prob-
lematic. Unfortunately, he said, it... defines
some forms of development that are not strip
development as strip development. I don't
look at Gallison Hill Road in Montpelier,
where Cabot Cheese is located, as strip devel-
opment. But this bill potentially does throw
such [industrial] areas into the strip develop-
ment definition. It goes beyond what I believe
those who wrote it intended. I don't see this
helping out any project that I have going in
Montpelier.
McCarthy expressed less skepticism as to
the law's ultimate impact. When you have
strong development of housing in down-
towns, it's easier to walk to work, she said,
referring to the bill's provisions facilitat-
ing urban residential construction. Down-
towns and other compact areas mean that
we can have more creative solutions to trans-
portation than the status quo. And we need
to move in that direction.
The legislation cannot have the desired ef-
fect unless Vermont's governments can ad-
dress the ancillary issue of transportation.
Just as the lack of alternatives to the pri-
vate automobile has thrown spanners into
the works for initiatives as varied as Barre's
prospective food co-op and Redstone Com-
mercial Properties' proposed hotel on Mont-
pelier's Carr Lot, a modernized Act 250
will have a problematic future without an
effective plan for transit and other transpor-
tation options to get the masses to, from,
and around all those revitalized downtowns.
O
n May 1, over 800 people joined the
Vermont Workers Centers march
for health and dignity in Mont-
pelier. That same night, over 150 people at-
tended the Barre Historical Societys annual
Primo Maggio event, a celebration of Barres
Italian socialist heritage with food, film and
song at the Old Labor Hall. What unites
these two events is the significance of May 1
to the labor movement. May Day, or Primo
Maggio in Italian, is the international work-
ers holiday celebrated by labor movements
worldwide since 1890.
Now in its 10th year, the Primo Maggio
event honors the history and ideals of the
Italian socialist immigrants who built the
building over 100 years ago. Primo Mag-
gio is the heart and soul of our efforts now,
says Ruth Rottenberg, president of the Barre
Historical Society. Primo Maggio was core
to the Italian socialist tradition. We honor
that tradition by doing things in the spirit of
the holiday. While we dont stomp on grapes
the way they did, we honor them by carry-
ing on with Primo Maggio events featuring
food, lectures, music and dance, she says.
This years Primo Maggio event featured a
film by Peter Miller called The Internatio-
nale, focusing on the history of the song
popular with labor movements across the
world. Millers film was followed by discus-
sion, a group singing of the Internationale
and other songs in tribute to folk musician
and activist Pete Seeger.
Attendees this year came for different rea-
sons. For some, it was a way to celebrate the
international workers holiday. Northfield
residents Goldie Watson and Stanley Os-
borne, both active in unions locally, were
enjoying their first Primo Maggio event.
The labor movement is important for the
people of Vermont. We have another gen-
eration coming on, and I dont want things
to be worse for them. Unions are of one of
the things that hold the line on benefits and
rights, Watson says.
Sue Morris of Marshfield was drawn to the
event because of the film. My mother used
to sing it when I was growing up. They
were part of the communist party, she says.
Morris had been to the Old Labor Hall
previously for Italian dance classes, and her
daughter was married at the hall.
Others attended this years Primo Maggio
mostly to pay homage to their ancestors
who built the hall with volunteer labor. Tom
Semprebon emphasized that its all about
the history. I have a picture of the 1911
Primo Maggio. And in this picture is my
grandmother and my grandfather. From the
timing of the whole thing, she was pregnant
with my father, he says. Thats why the
2011 Primo Maggio was a pretty big deal
for my family.
While the hall remained in the hands of the
Socialist Labor Party during the first part of
the 20th century, it had many uses. It was
a dance hall, a venue for boxing matches
and a favorite spot for weddings. It housed
a bottling works for wine and the first Ital-
ian cooperative grocery store in the United
States and the largest grocery store in Barre
at one time. The food store was so successful
that they built an extra building to house
the bakery.
As the partys efforts and membership
waned, it changed hands and in most recent
history served as a tomato packing facility.
In 2004, the building was in foreclosure and
threatened with demolition. Karen Lane,
director of the Aldrich Public Library, was
aware that there were still documents of his-
toric value in the attic. Before she could get
to them, however, the contents of the hall
were emptied out and trucked to the landfill
without any chance of reclamation.
That precipitous event was the beginning
of the modern history of the hall: the Barre
Historical Society was revived, funds were
raised to purchase the building and the
process of restoration has brought the hall
back into use. Lane and her husband, Chet
Briggs, who passed away in early January,
have been major proponents of keeping the
labor hall going. In fact, this years Primo
Maggio seemed to be an informal tribute to
Briggs, whose relationship with the hall was
a labor of love. Briggs served as the Barre
Historical Societys president up until his
passing.
While much of the labor history of the hall
is in the past, the Barre Historical Society
has a vision for keeping the hall relevant
now and into the future. In addition to
ongoing renovations, the society is consider-
ing the possibility of making the top floors
into a labor movement library and reviving
the bakery building to train young bak-
ers. Whatever the future holds for the hall,
the society board is mindful of the need to
continue honoring the halls history. Its a
responsibility of ours to be good stewards
of the building, as well as to document and
celebrate history, says Lane. Thats why we
keep Primo Maggio going.
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t a meeting of the Vermont Pesticide
Advisory Council (VPAC) that reviews
pesticide use and makes recommenda-
tions to the Agency of Natural Resources
(ANR) secretary, the conflict between indus-
trial infrastructure management and pesticide
opponents flowered. The crowded meeting
held at ANR on May 6, brought together
utility and railroad representatives, VPAC
members, and spraying opponents whod used
media like Front Porch Forum to publicize
the hearing. Infrastructure firms tasked with
supplying power and transportation sought
permit recommendations that would allow
inexpensive vegetation control, while spraying
opponents lobbied against chemical controls.
For utilities, vegetation control impacts not
only reliability issues, but also the safety of
crews that work during bad weather to re-
store the power upon which everyone depends.
Rights-of-way pesticide permit requests repre-
sent hundreds and thousands of acres. States
regulate what chemicals may be used, where
they may be applied (how close to water bod-
ies, etc.) and some regulate what level of train-
ing is required to spray which chemicals.
For railroads, the imperative to maintain
rights-of-way includes not only safety and cost,
but also federal Department of Transportation
regulation and control. Federal policy, main-
tained rail representatives, demands weed-free
ballast, or stone beds that lie under track
ties and rails, because organic matter (weeds,
brush, etc.) holds moisture in the stone,
thereby promoting rot in the ties. Vegetation
on tracks, they averred, could result in slip-
page and even derailment on slopes, and was
contrary to best practices.
Against that backdrop, however, are chemi-
cally-sensitive individuals, who can be sick-
ened by the spraying, and drift, of herbicides.
Barre Street resident Barbara Burnett, Granite
Shed Lane office worker Michael Levine and
a Charlotte spraying opponent questioned the
persistence of chemicals in the soil after appli-
cation and the effect of spraying on people and
water supplies. A VPAC member pointed out
that glyphosate-bearing herbicides (commer-
cially known as Roundup) break down after
28 days, but an opponent noted that traces of
glyphosate can be found worldwide and have
been found in mothers breasts and their milk.
VPACs task, noted board chair Razelle Hoff-
man-Contois, is ultimately a risk assessment
exercise with which no one will be fully satis-
fied. Public health advocates must confront
the negatives, attendant with the benefits and
conveniences of industrial society. Industry
must consider more than maintenance costs.
VPAC board members are tasked with inform-
ing themselves as best they can of the most
current science, so they can recommend ap-
propriate action to the agencys secretary, who
may or may not concur with their advice.
In this case, Hoffman-Contois and the board,
seeking compromise, urged Washington
County Railroad to work with advocates for
non-chemical vegetation control. However,
John Snell, a member of Montpeliers tree
board, while maintaining that Roundup-
related molecules are the most prevalent
man-made molecules on the planet, decried
mechanical shredding of vegetation border-
ing the railroad as atrocious, arguing that
human labor could do the job more effectively.
Railroad and utility representatives, however,
talked about costs. Central Vermont Public
Services representative estimated mechanical
right-of-way maintenance costs at quadruple
the cost of selective chemical vegetation con-
trol, and suggested that ratepayers wouldnt
stand for that price differential if it resulted
in rate increases. The recommendation going
up to the secretary is that vegetative control be
non-chemical for this year, from Pioneer Street
to the I-89 underpass.
From the hearing, it seemed that electric utili-
ties, more than the railroads, apply Integrated
Vegetative Management (IVM) techniques,
maintaining that IVM is not only less ex-
pensive, but results in more biodiversity, as
opposed to undifferentiated mechanical cut-
ting that leaves uniformly cut-over areas. IVM
proponents say selective annual spot-spraying
enables less total herbicide use (which has
declined in volume applied in recent years).
As part of IVM procedures, utilities man-
age rights-of-way to be more grassy and less
woodsy, enabling them to use what they con-
sider to be more benign chemicals, like the
glyphosate-type compounds.
In Montpeliers case, the recommendation
from the VPAC for the Agency of Natural Re-
sources secretary is that Washington County
Railroad, for this year, not spray, even with
just the glyphosate compounds, but work
with interested parties to control vegetation
by other means. They requested feedback
from the railroad on what alternative strate-
gies might be viable, and encouraged them to
work with interested parties like the citys tree
board. Theyll also ask utilities and railroads
for annual pesticide use trend data.
As the meeting concluded, a VPAC member
noted the irony that while they ask Vermonts
utilities to use fewer pesticides, retail shelves
are loaded with chemicals awaiting easy pur-
chase, requiring no environmental control.
Following the meeting, The State's Pesticide
Advisory Council added a restriction to the
railroad's application which designates most of
Montpelier's right-of-way as a no-spray zone,
stated a posting on Front Porch Forum by Bar-
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more environmentally friendly alternatives for
removing weeds from the track area and will
be encouraging community involvement going
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ontpeliers police chief joined state-
wide law enforcement entities to
influence a new law approved by
the Legislature that curbs ethnic (or any
other) biases when it comes to pursuit strate-
gies. Montpelier Police Department Chief
Tony Facos testified this legislative session in
both the House and Senate to shape the bill
dealing with police profiling that became law
on May 1, 2014. It seems that policing agen-
cies, in the name of protecting the public,
have to balance the need to assert freedom
to investigate crimes when they have limited
information against the need to protect indi-
viduals from a multitude of profiling biases.
This is a no-brainer, said Facos in a con-
versation with The Bridge on May 5. This
is something we must do as law enforcement
and something the public expects of us. Cur-
rently, there is no hard data showing trends,
because data-collecting methods across the
state have not been uniform. Following this
sessions legislation, police agencies and in-
dividual town constables across the state are
developing ways to conform to bias-free po-
licing policies. VSA 2366 was adopted on
May 1. It authorizes the collection of data
across the state to find out if biases exist when
it comes to traffic stops. Once the data is col-
lected, it will be made public.
This most recent incarnation of the anti-
profiling law is a revised extension of legisla-
tion originally adopted in 2012 that followed
a briefing report done in 2008 titled Racial
Profiling in Vermont: Briefings Before the
Vermont Advisory Committee to the United
States Commission on Civil Rights.
The creation of more detailed proce-
dures, according to the 2008 briefing, is
in response to a strong perception, par-
ticularly among persons of color, that ac-
tual or perceived race, ethnicity, or na-
tional origin is used as the basis for law
enforcement decision-making for traffic and
pedestrian stops.
Part of the reason for revisiting the 2012
legislation was because of wording that was
so concerned with preventing racial profiling
that it would tie the hands of police investi-
gators when it came to pursuing some cases.
For example, It would have a chilling effect
on our ability to investigate human traffick-
ing, Facos said, but he also noted those cases
have so far occurred outside of Montpelier.
The new wording is broad enough to allow
law enforcement to pursue racially sensitive
cases. When stopping motorists, Were not
going to blindly ask: Where are you from?
Why are you here? Facos said. Rather, po-
lice would only move forward on cases where
there were strong reasons to suspect a crime.
The Montpelier Police Departments policy
has also undergone changes. Its policy on
Stops, Search & Arrest; Motor Vehicle Con-
tacts, titled, Biased-based Policing, which
was implemented on March 15, 2012, had
the stated purpose of prohibiting use of race,
ethnicity, gender, or national origin as a rea-
son to restrict liberty. The policy goes on to
dictate that officers treat all individuals with
respect, refrain from stopping drivers based
on race and to only detain a person for the
length of time it takes to meet the objectives
of that which justified the stop. The pol-
icy further defines that officers must record
all details related to traffic stops, including
number of stops, reason for stops and ethnic-
ity of the person stopped, as well as nature of
violation, whether a warning or citation was
issued and any additional information.
The new policy, titled Fair and Impartial
Policing, with the planned implementation
date of May 14, runs five pages, versus the
original policys two pages. The primary pur-
pose of the updated policy is to prevent law
enforcement officers from stopping people
on a wider variety of biases, including race,
ethnicity, gender, immigration status, color,
sexual orientation, gender identity, marital
status, mental or physical disability, religion,
socio-economic level or national origin, but
it allows leeway in those cases where one of
the classifications above is a descriptive factor
concerning a suspect.
One of the main differences between the
2012 policy and the 2014 policy is an in-
creased number of criteria officers must disre-
gard when policing. Also, in the newer policy,
officers are required to answer questions and
furnish their name and identification upon
request. And, in addition, officers are not
to ask people about their citizenship status
when investigating a civil violation.
The agency is required to train its members
on bias-free policing, but is given the power
to exercise freedom to ask about immigration
status if there is reason to believe an illegal
border crossing has immediately occurred
and to take necessary steps to uphold public
safety.
But on a day-to-day basis in Montpelier, offi-
cers will make sure stops are based on actual
conduct that is legal for us to intervene on,
Facos said.
Police Chief Implementing New Policing Policies
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Carr Lot: No Shortage of Opinions by C.B. Hall
M
ontpelier residents got their first op-
portunity for direct input on Red-
stone Commercial Properties' plan
for the One Taylor Street transit center devel-
opment at a May 6 community participation
event hosted by Redstone, the city of Mont-
pelier and Gossens Bachman, the project's
architectural partner.
Upon convening at the Christ Church par-
ish house, approximately 75 attendees were
assigned by program organizers to groups of
10 or 12, each of which then departed for
a leisurely walking tour of the development
sitealso known as the Carr Lotand its
environs, to examine the project, literally, from
different angles.
The theme of the event first in a series of
four, to wrap up in July was the broader
community perspective: how will the one-
plus-acre site, once developed, fit into Mont-
pelier's social, cultural and physical landscape?
This reporter's walking group, led by 1 Taylor
Street Design Committee member John Snell,
focused largely on esthetic and architectural
factors that went far beyond what transit cen-
ter might bring to mind. Will the build-
ingeveryone's shorthand for the structure
to rise at the siteobstruct the view of the
city's steeples? How much rearrangement of
the Winooski's banks will the law allow? What
about putting a mural on the back of the
Capitol Plaza Hotel to spice up the view as
one approaches from the Taylor Street bridge?
However gussied up, the site will nonetheless
remain surrounded by a city that did not jump
off a landscape architect's drawing table. You
can't block everything out, Montpelier's Ron
Wild opined, as group members gazed across
the Winooski at the posterior of the Sunoco
and Shell stations on Memorial Drive. The
river-hugging industrial corridor, he said, is
part of the city's history.
Snell's commentary and his interlocutors'
statements made it clear that the bike path's
route through downtown, whether the build-
ing's upper story should house a hotel, apart-
ments or office space, and whether the site
could shoehorn in a home for the Capital City
Farmers Market (CCFM) are all up in the
air questions, as he put it.
Discussion of the potential for passenger ser-
vice on the railroad tracks that skirt the site
prompted Snell to articulate his focus: while
such a possibility has dim prospects from to-
day's vantage point, having this as a trans-
portation hub is something we don't want to
forget, he said.
Also unresolved is the parking problem, in-
cluding where to put the hundred or so cars
that state employees currently park at the site
each workday. In a May 8 phone interview,
City Manager Bill Fraser characterized as
merely introductory an April 29 meeting
between city and state representatives on the
possibility of building a parking garage across
Taylor Street from the transit center to relieve
the parking shortage. No specifics are yet on
the table, but the state was an interested lis-
tener, he said.
Resolution of the role of the farmers market is
a ways off, too. Contacted at the season's first
outdoor market on May 10, CCFM Presi-
dent Lila Bennett said that a meeting with
Redstone is planned for May 17, but that no
concrete proposal is yet under consideration.
She termed fitting the entire market onto the
One Taylor Street site doable, depending on
what else is there.
Each walking group at the May 6 program
included a note-taker, and an assemblage of
notes on the participants' comments will be
published on the city's website. That com-
pendium was not ready by press time, but
a limited collection of the comments, made
available to The Bridge by Gossens Bach-
man, indicated that esthetic concerns will be
a top priority. Decision-makers reading the
comments will find a laundry list of obvious
concerns such as burying telephone lines and
keeping the view of the Capitol dome clear,
as well as more fanciful suggestions, such as
running a gondola or zip line from the transit
center to National Life.
The compendium of comments also high-
lighted a range of sentiments on the other
big issue facing the project: the interface
with the Capitol Plaza Hotel, owned by the
Bashara family and located adjacent to the site.
Four commenters wanted to hide, soften
or screen the view of the hotel's rear, but
other comments suggested sympathy for the
Basharas, as they face the possibility of a rival
hotel going up next door; one participant was
recorded as saying not a need for another
hotel, another as discerning a need for more
marketing to strengthen CP.
Leading his group through the gathering eve-
ning, Snell emphasized that 1 Taylor Street
is still a virtually clean slate. The transit and
bike path components of the project are the
only real givens - even how many structures
the site will encompass is fodder for debate.
When repeated references to the building at
the transit center prompted this reporter to ask
why the Redstone artist's conception of the site
included two buildings, Snell said, That's just
a drawing, to get the discussion going. Throw
that away.
It's all about listening, Gossens Bachman's
Gregg Gossens described the evening's mis-
sion, before the walking groups set out.
How well project implementers do listen will
become clear once all the drawings are done
and the cranes and bulldozers, at long last, get
into action.
GMTA bus, a not so subtle reminder that one
function of the building will be a transportation
center. Photo by C.B. Hall.
Carr Lot Design Committee member, John
Snell, leading the conversation on the first walk-
through of the empty lot. Photo by C.B. Hall.
One Taylor Street Moving Forward By William Fraser, City Manager
A Message from City Hall
This page was paid for by the City of Montpelier.
T
he Montpelier government along with many dedicated
community members has been working on the One
Taylor Street project for many years. Formerly known
as the Carr Lot, One Taylor Street represents a major eco-
nomic development opportunity in the center of the city while
also addressing transit needs and creating public amenities.
Public Decision Making Process
The next key decisions are the use of the site and the overall
design of the property and the building. The city council
has appointed a steering committee to work closely with the
Redstone and the citys project managers. However, you, the
public, will have major say in the decisions which will have
long term impacts on our community.
Which uses would best serve our city? Should we create hous-
ing units to increase downtown residential options? Should
we build a hotel and welcome new guests to the downtown
to shop and dine? Should we develop more office space to
enhance employment opportunities in the center of the city?
Which will bring the most revenue to the city? Is revenue an
important consideration?
What should a structure look like? Should it maintain a tradi-
tional look to fit in with our current buildings? Should it have
a modern, 21st century style that looks toward the future? Are
there views or areas that should be protected or considered?
What uses should occur on the property? Other than the
building and bike pathshould there be open space, or park-
ing, or gathering space. Should space be green or more struc-
tured for specific uses? Is access to the river important and, if
so, for what purposes?
These questions and more are being addressed through a series
of open community participation events. If you are interested
in this project, please attend these forums and make your voice
heard.
Community Participation Events May 21,
June 10, July 16
The first event was held on May 6 and was attended by nearly
100 people. The crowd was separated into smaller groups
and each group conducted a walking tour of the area sur-
rounding One Taylor Street. Discussions were held at several
pre-identified locations about what might be important con-
siderations at that point. Detailed notes were kept of all the
various comments.
The second event will be held on Wednesday, May 21 at 6:00
p.m. at Lost Nation Theater in City Hall, 39 Main Street. It
is open to all whether or not you attended the first event. The
purpose of this session is to facilitate community input on a
site specific and immediate neighbor scale. This will build on
input generated at the first session.
The third session will be held on Tuesday, June 10 at 6:00
p.m. at the Christ Church Parish Hall, 64 State Street. The
goal of this event is to facilitate community input on a site and
building specific scale. This will build on the previous two
discussions.
The final session will be held on Wednesday, July 16 at 6:00
p.m. at the Bethany Church Fellowship Hall, 115 Main Street.
The goal of this event is to present initial design ideas. This
is intended to be both a celebratory event as well as providing
one more chance for public feedback.
Project History and Summary
This project originally consists of several partsa transit
center which will also include private development (housing,
hotel and office are the options currently under consideration),
a bike/pedestrian path, an new bike/ped bridge over the North
Branch a riverfront park, a tourist information center and
redevelopment of Main Street near Montpelier Beverage and
the Association for the Blind. The city approved an $800,000
bond in 2002 as the local match for this project. The bond
vote was worded as follows:
To see if the voters will authorize the City Council to borrow
a sum not to exceed $800,000 for the Citys share of the ac-
quisition and development of the Capital District Master Plan
Carr Project: the purchase of the so-called Carr Lot and the
construction of improvements thereon for a park and/or pub-
lic transit center and/or a tourist information/welcome center
and/or a public parking lot and/or a transportation path.
Related to the bond vote were earmarks for federal fund-
ing from the Federal Transit Agency (FTA) and the Federal
Highway Agency (FHWA). FTA provided $1,967,357 as
part of an 80%-20% grant. FHWA provided $1,490,250 as
part of a 100% grant and $3,680,000 as part of an 80%-20%
grant. Presently there is approximately $4.9 million remaining
FHWA money and $1.9 million remaining FTA money plus
the citys $800,000 bond money as local match.
The Funding Plan
The city council approved the following plan of action for the
project:
The FTA money has been earmarked for a transit center.
FHWA money is identified for downtown revitalization. We
had originally combined the funding into one project. The
city de-coupled these funding sources. The Transit Center
will be constructed within the $1.9 million FTA funding and
considered as a project on its own. The $5 million of FHWA
money will be used to complete the remaining aspects of the
project. The city has an enhancement grant for the bike/ped
bridge over the North Branch.
After many challenges, the project is now ready to go. En-
vironmental and floodway issues have been resolved, three
of four needed properties have been purchased and a private
development partner, Redstone, has been selected, funding is
in place and the public decision making process underway.
Other Projects
One Taylor Street, of course, is not the only major city project
being pursued this year. District Heat Montpelier is making
final preparations to begin full scale operation on October 1st.
This involves full completion of the states heating plant, final
clean up work from last summers construction, conversion
and testing of all customer buildings and finalizing all grant
requirements.
The bike path which will run from Granite Street/Stone Cut-
ters Way to the Civic Center on Gallison Hill Road and the
river at the Berlin town line near Casellas is in final design and
will begin right of way acquisition this year. Construction of
the path should begin in early 2015.
The River Street sewer replacement project is underway. The
City is using a new technology called directional boring or
pipe bursting. This means that the new pipe is threaded
through the old pipe which minimizes the need for excava-
tion. This, of course, means that traffic flow can be managed
much more easily.
The Barre Street box culvert project (which began last fall) is
being completed now. Unfortunately this requires the outer
end of Barre Street to be closed again. This work is expected
to be over with the street re-opened in early June.
Downtown road and crosswalk painting is scheduled for
around May 17 & 18. The contractor has been delayed by
cold and wet weather which is not favorable for painting.
DPW crews have been painting crosswalks in residential areas
when they are able to do so.
In last months Bridge article, I outlined the citys capital
improvement funding and work plan focusing mainly on
much needed road improvements. Since that article, we
have finalized our work plan for 2014. This list may change
slightly depending on actual bid prices compared to budgeted
amounts. For some streets listed, only portions of the street
will be completed.
As you can see, our Department of Public Works has a very
busy schedule for the short work season.
Road paving:
Baldwin Street, Barre Street, Dyer Avenue, Emmons Street,
Freedom Drive. Gould Hill Road, Greenock Avenue, Heaton
Street, Judson Road, Upper Main Street, Putnam Street, Witt
Place, Woodrow Avenue.
Sidewalks:
Elm Street/Court Street/School Street, Baldwin Street, remove
old section on College Street.
Slope Stabilization:
Cherry Avenue, Hill Street. Elm Street tree removal and
clean up of rock slide area.
Storm Drains:
Franklin Street culvert relocation, Isabel Circle culvert replace-
ment and retention basin, Grandview Terrace and Spring Hol-
low Lane culvert improvements, North Street stream channel
lining. Possibly Granite Street culvert replacement and Ter-
race Street culvert.
Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)
Engineering evaluation and report. Required monitoring. Pos-
sible work on Towne Street and Sunset Drive.
Bridges:
Cummings Street design and planning for 2017 construc-
tion, Granite Street full painting and deck repair, Gould
Hill/Grout/Haggett Roads replanking. Possible deck work on
Spring Street.
Mapping:
Complete sidewalk mapping, complete water system map and
use model.
Thank you for reading this article and for your interest in Mont-
pelier City government. Please feel free to contact me with any
questions, comments or concerns at wfraser@montpelier-vt.org or
802-223-9502.
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rowing up on an organic vegetable
farm in the Upper Valley, Allison
Levin has an eye for produce that is
ripe and ready for the picking. She lives with
her husband and two young children next to
Dog River Farm in Berlin. Occasionally, she
and her family have informally helped Dog
River Farm owner George Gross to glean
excess or non-marketable produce from his
fieldsproduce that is too small, too big,
spotted, or toosunburned to meet the stan-
dards of his wholesale or retail outlets.
Gleaning is an ancient act of agricultural gen-
erosity practiced by farmers for thousands of
years. Its also codified in the Jewish Torah
and features in Christian teachings, When
you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap
to the very edges of your field or gather the
gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the
poor and the foreigner (Leviticus 19:9).
While gleaning occurs informally every day
on Vermonts farms, Theresa Snow of Salva-
tion Farms, a 10-year old professional glean-
ing organization in Vermont, says we could
be doing a lot more to save food from going
to waste. According to her estimates, Ver-
mont loses at least two million pounds of
fruits and vegetables annually that could oth-
erwise be going to people in need. Vermont
fruit and vegetable farmers produce hundreds
of tons of edible, farm-fresh food, but often,
not all of their production is sold, says Snow.
Market fluctuations, as well as production
realities like hail damage or timing, can force
farmers to make a choice between harvesting
one crop or moving on to the next part of
their season.
At first, Levin was gleaning just enough from
Dog River Farms fields to share the bounty
with friends and family. Then, there was
the field of sunburned butternut squash. It
couldnt be sold. And, I just couldnt see it
sitting there. She harvested a whopping six to
eight car trunkloads of squash that season. I
tried to find anyone who could take it and use
it quickly, she said. Thanks to her efforts,
the squash was gleaned and went to people in
need. FEAST, a meals program run by Just
Basics, Inc. in partnership with the Montpelier
Senior Activity Center, has turned produce
Levin has gleaned into delicious meals for
homebound seniors and adults with disabili-
ties. And, Salvation Farms processed and de-
livered the produce to food pantries and other
meal sites.
That was the turning point for Levin. From
then on, gleaning to help those in need be-
came a passion. But, it wasnt until last sum-
mer, when Levin became a volunteer gleaner
with Just Basics Inc. that she experienced first-
hand how important coordination and organi-
zation are to making the gleaning experience
successful for the farmer, the volunteer, and
the recipient of the produce. Theresa Snow of
Salvation Farms agrees, We realized early on
that the future of gleaning in Vermont was
important to our food security; but, that we
need to do it professionally so that we dont
jeopardize that future, explained Snow.
Excited by the prospects and eager to put
her organizational skills to use, Levin sought
out an internship with Salvation Farms and
learned from Theresa Snow how to profes-
sionally run a volunteer gleaning program.
Theres so much more food that we could
be utilizing closer to home than we are, says
Levin. We are doing what we can to mini-
mize our footprint on transportation but its
important to be able to support ourselves
within our own communities. Gleaning is a
relatively easy way to address the challenge.
Levin is now the founder and program co-
ordinator of Community Harvest of Central
Vermont (CHCV), a new initiative designed
to Help everyone eat local by recovering ex-
cess produce from local farms and delivering it
to schools, food pantries and other recipients.
Thanks to a seed grant from the New England
Grassroots Environment Fund, Levin is pilot-
ing CHCVs gleaning initiatives this season
with Dog River Farm and several recipient
sites including the Northfield and Berlin el-
ementary schools, the Montpelier Food Pan-
try, FEAST, and the Central Vermont Com-
munity Action Council food shelf in Barre.
Our goal is to fully utilize the relationships
we have built with farms, organize systems,
and work out kinks so we can expand next
year, she says.
To run her efforts effectively, Levins orga-
nization has become part of the Vermont
Gleaning Collective, an initiative of Salvation
Farms, which has just launched an online
platform that makes it easier for coordinators
like Levin to recruit, register, and coordinate
volunteers, and to track all hours contributed
and every pound that collective member or-
ganizations capture and distribute statewide.
The Gleaners Interface will decrease the time
needed to complete administrative tasks, al-
lowing us to focus our time on being in the
fields recovering surplus food produced on
Central Vermont farms, said Levin. Being
part of the collective, in a way, certifies to our
recipients, farmers, and volunteers that we are
practicing a certain level of organization and
professionalism. Thanks to the partnership,
we are able to use systems that are tried and
vetted, she explained.
Justin Turcotte, the chef at FEAST, looks for-
ward to working with Levin this year, Its a
great way to get high quality produce to people
who wouldnt otherwise have access to it,
he said. And, Jen Evans of Central Vermont
Community Action Councils Barre food shelf
says bringing fresh produce to the food shelf is
the best thing we can do. We always run out
of fresh produce, she said.
Levin expects to start gleaning as early as
late June, although most of the activity will
be August through October. Volunteer op-
portunities are flexible and varied, Folks can
choose from gleaning in the fields to process-
ing, delivering, helping with administration,
or education and outreach. Allison will be at
the Hunger Awareness Montpelier Farmers
Market on July 12. For more information and
to volunteer you can contact her at www.com-
munityharvest.org or 802-229-4281 or commu-
nityharvestvt@gmail.com.
A New Gleaning Initiative Brings
More Local Produce to Those in Need by Emily Kaminsky
Allison Levin tables at the Saturday Montpelier
Farmers' Market. Photo by Emily Kaminsky
T
ucked underneath a large sheet metal
garage on the edge of an open field
at Norwich University lies the most
recent project of the schools architecture pro-
gram: an Airstream trailer.
Built originally in 1969, this Indian River
Globetrotter Airstream is an American icon.
It was purchased last year by the American
Institute of Architects (AIA) as part of a grant
awarded to the architecture program at Nor-
wich University. Norwich received the largest
AIA grant last year in order to pursue this
Airstream project, which was the brainchild
of Aron Temkin, dean of the College of Pro-
fessional Schools at Norwich University. The
idea came to him last year while attending
an AIA conference, and everyone else at the
conference took to it immediately.
Temkin proposed that AIA purchase an old
Airstream, refurbish it and use it as a mobile
exhibit to show off all of the new and innova-
tive things AIA members are doing. With their
work on wheels, the AIA hopes to be able to
reach rural communities that dont have the
same access to architectural exhibits as major
metropolitan areas.
At the end of last summer when Norwich
Professor Tolya Stonorov was approached by
Temkin to take on the restoration, design
and remodeling of the Airstream, she jumped
at the opportunity. This spring, Stonorovs
class spent nine weeks gutting the traditional
interior of the Airstream in preparation for
refurbishing it. They removed the kitchen-
ette, bathroom and bedroom, leaving a shiny
skeleton as their canvas. The exterior needed
some structural attention, and Stonorovs
students took that on, while collaboratively
designing the new interior.
An Airstream is like a haiku, said Stonorov.
Everything in an Airstream must serve a pur-
pose, because it is such a confined and narrow
space. This created some obvious and very
real design constraints that Stonorovs students
had to negotiate when deciding how to refur-
bish the interior.
Stonorov said that two separate design ideas
for the interior quickly emerged. There was
one group pushing a deconstructive, open de-
sign, while the other lobbied for a more rectan-
gular design with specific delineated zones. In
the end, the deconstructionists won out, creat-
ing an open design that celebrates the curves
of the Airstream. Wave-like carved sheets of
plywood flow up the curved wallsthe fine
maple finish of the wood a stark contrast to
the metalwith pragmatic shelving uniting
function and form.
The plywood used throughout the Airstream
by Stonorovs class was locally sourced from
Atlantic Plywood out of South Royalton. Not
only local, it is also certified by the Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC), which means that
all of the trees harvested to create the ply-
wood were replenished and the final product
does not contain the potentially harmful com-
pound urea-formaldehyde. The projects use
of FSC plywood, LED lighting and recycled
materials helped to meet its goal of sustainable
design.
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complete, AIA Vermont will take the Air-
stream on the road throughout the United
States, where it will show off its sustainably-
sourced materials and the many other design
possibilities that AIA members are undertak-
ing. Once a symbol of American possibil-
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will demonstrate the design and architectural
possibilities still to come.
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T
he Berlin Select Board voted on May
5 to oppose a petition seeking to
completely forbid recreational use of
Berlin Ponds surface water. They also voted
to remove No Trespassing signs, and, in
a third action item on the list, they voted
to further investigate old property boundar-
ies with the belief that the town of Berlin
owns a strip of land between the water and
land owned by the city of Montpelier on the
North side of the pond.
The petition, filed this winter by the Citizens
to Protect Berlin Pond requesting to keep
human activity off the water, seeks to protect
the only drinking water source to the city of
Montpelier and most of Berlin. Berlin Pond
supplies drinking water to about 9,000 users,
and water is filtered at a filtration plant. After
filtering, chlorine is added to deaden micro-
organisms.
Until May 2012, the city has actively kept
up ordinances keeping people away from the
water since 1884 by purchasing most of the
land around the pond and exercising its own
authority and using its own police force. How-
ever, five years ago two individuals challenged
the citys authority to prevent people from
using bodies of water by kayaking on the
pond. This led to arrests and court action.
The kayakers successfully argued a body of
water as large as Berlin Pond is governed by
the state and that Montpelier does not own
and cannot control what happens on the pond.
But plenty of others, including the Citizens
to Protect Berlin Pond and the Montpeliers
City Council disagree. Another hearing on
the petition will be held Tuesday, May 27
at the Berlin Elementary School hosted by
the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
Department of Environmental Conservation.
The agency is currently asking for public com-
ment and can be reached by email at Laura.
Woods@state.vt.us, according to a public notice
issued recently.
Most Berlin officials are happy about the
freedom to use the pond, according to Ture
Nelson, chairman of the board of selectmen.
A complete ban on recreational use of Berlin
Pond is too strict, Nelson said on May 8. He
said he and a majority of the board feels that it
is possible to protect wildlife and water qual-
ity while allowing boating and fishing. From
what weve seen, both sides can co-exist,
Nelson said. For the past two years, fisher-
men have had access to the pond and we have
not seen a negative impact on wildlife. There
has been no contamination of the water. Were
talking a couple of kayakers, a couple of ca-
noeists and a few people fishing from the side
of the road.
However, Montpeliers City Council voted
in April to authorize City Manager William
Fraser to write letter support in of the peti-
tion. Other city officials dont like allowing
swimming in the drinking water, either. I
dont support the notion that we need to
allow recreational activity on every body of
water in Vermont. Berlin Pond is a unique
ecological resource that is likely to be de-
graded by the increase in human activity,
stated Montpelier Mayor John Hollar in an
email to The Bridge.
And, it is possible to see both sides of the argu-
ment. Andrea Chandler, a member of the Ber-
lin Conservation Commission, said she can see
why people would want to enjoy the water, but
seeking to protect it is also reasonable. Every
year the demand for more recreational oppor-
tunities escalates and that puts more pressure
on our natural resources. I feel that leaving
a few areas (and one that doubles as a water
supply would seem a logical choice) free from
recreational activity would preserve a unique
resource. I understand the reasons why people
would love to recreate on Berlin Pond but I
also understand why leaving a few places un-
disturbed is also important, Chandler wrote
in an email.
Also apparently seeking a bit of middle ground,
Montpelier filed a request for a rules change,
which could protect the drinking water, but
also serves as more of a compromise than a
complete ban on public use. The current rules
allow fishing, swimming and nonmotorized
boating. The proposed change in rules would
further ban motors with internal combustion
engines, including tools powered by internal
combustion. Use or presence of petroleum-
based fuels would be prohibited as would
ice shanties. Berlin selectmen have not taken
a position on this request for rules change,
Nelson said, but they are not opposed to it at
this point.
The second issue at the May 5th meeting was
to take down No Trespassing signs located
on the 85 feet of Berlin-owned shore land.
The area, located by Paine Turnpike, has no
parking and is not used much, so the action is
more about allowing full access, Nelson said.
As for the third issue addressed by the board,
members are seeking to define additional land
on the north end, which is owned by Berlin,
but has been disused when pond recreation
was not allowed. The town is surveying the
boundaries and performing deed research.
The department has agreed to refund the town
50 percent of the expense, Nelson said, who
estimates costs at $12,000. Deed research is
being performed by attorney Rob Halpert,
while surveying is done by Vermont Land Sur-
veyor of Plainfield by surveyor Paul Hannan.
Berlin Officials Oppose Banning Recreation
from Berlin Pond; Seek to Reclaim Land Rights By Carla Occaso
Tell them you saw it in The Bridge!
F
or Montpelier resident Peter Watt and
his family, theres everything to like
and very little to dislike about where
they live at 4 Hinckley Street in Montpelier.
It was during the 1990s when Watt and his
wife, Mary Beth, discovered Hinckley Street,
one of three quiet streets that swing around
in a small half-circle, beginning off College
Street with Arsenal Drive, then connecting
to McKinley Street that borders on Sabins
Pasture, then connecting to Hinckley which
links back onto College Street.
We had wanted to move onto that street for
years, Peter Watt said in an interview with
The Bridge.
Then Peter, who works as an instructional
assistant at Montpeliers Main Street Middle
School, learned that an older couple who
lived at 4 Hinckley Street was about to retire.
So I wrote them a letter, Peter said. And
they got back in touch to say, Yes, were re-
tiring to our hometown. Come over in three
weeks and talk.
They were the sweetest people in the world,
said Watt about the older couple. So they
invited Watt over. And they talked. And in
six months or so, he said, We had closed
the deal.
That was back in 2000.
Describing that house, Peter said, I would
say it was midsized. It has four small bed-
rooms. Its a traditional Dutch gambrel-roof
house from the 1920s. But its beautiful
inside with unpainted orangy-gold varnish
from the 1920s and built-in cabinets with
the original woodwork. Its really a very nice
house that hasnt been changed.
Inevitably, some things have changed dur-
ing the 14 years that he and Mary Beth have
owned the house. They have three daugh-
ters, with their eldest 30, their middle is 28
and their youngest daughter is 23 and some
of their daughters have left the house. Peter,
who is in his 50s, is nearing retirement
another change. And since they bought the
Hinckley Street house 14 years ago, Peter
figures that Montpelier property taxes have
doubled.
For the past five years, Peter and Mary Beth
have opened their house to legislative pages
during the session. The pages get a hous-
ing allowance and the Watts have used that
money to offset their winter heating costs
for the oil and wood. I dont know what we
would have done without it, Watt said.
Putting the Montpelier property tax situa-
tion in perspective, Peter Watt compared his
situation with that of his mother who lives
in Wellesley, Mass., a college town outside of
Boston. We pay more taxes than she did in
her smallish house in Wellesley, he said. But,
despite their rising property taxes, neither he
nor Mary Beth wanted to give up their house
in Montpelier and move out of town.
Its the location, Peter said. We have neigh-
bors on only one side. All of Sabins Pasture is
to the back of it. Its within walking distance
of town. This property is exceptional. But
with property taxes as they are, said Peter,
We have to move out of town.
As he pondered his choices, Watt remem-
bered that the city of Montpelier had been
(and still is) encouraging what is called in-
filling: building between existing houses,
or building apartments above a garage or
building what is sometimes called a mother-
in-law apartment.
We have an extra half lot between ourselves
and our neighbor which we cant build on,
Peter said. It doesnt have sufficient street
frontage. But then there was the existing
garage. As part of their Hinckley Street prop-
erty and under new city regulations, they
could build on the old footprint of the garage
if the garage was taken down.
And as Watt sees it, the existing garage had
little value. Its the bane of my existence, he
said. It has a dirt floor and the rain comes in
under the dirt, and sand (comes in) under the
eaves. One of the garage doors doesnt open.
Its a storage area. Thats all it is. Theres an
attic. But you can only reach it with a tiny
ladder. They used to store lumber up there.
In addition to learning about the new and
more permissive city in-fill regulations, Watt
said that some of the familys best friends
have been talking about downsizing into
much smaller spaces.
But when he talked to Mary Beth about the
idea, at first she was skeptical. We cant
live in that smaller space, she had said. It
was only when Mary Beth took a hard look
at the finances of the idea that she changed
her mind.
What got her on board, Peter said, was
the calculation that we could rent our house
for about what it would cost to cover current
taxes. Then, if we tore down the old garage
we could build a much smaller living space,
something like an apartment on the foot-
print that the garage had occupied. And the
rent from the main house would cover the
taxes on the new space as well.
As Peter and Mary Beth have refined their
idea, theyve put together a budget and done
the math for a simplified living space, some-
what like an apartment that will be built on
the footprint occupied by the old garage.
If theres a single negative to the plan whereby
Peter and Mary Beth leave their larger house,
rent that house and live in a much smaller
house, it may be this: Were going to have to
downsize, said Peter. He continued, I have
a lot of clothing. My wife and daughters are
pretty minimalist. My wife would call me a
recovering packrat, and we have reached the
point where we want to simplify.
But theres one other thing, one other ball in
play. And here he had a gleam in his eye. We
want to travel. My wife and I agree that travel-
ling makes us happy. We can spend more time
together because we wont be working and we
wont be messing with possessions.
Tearing Down, Building New,
Renting Out by Nat Frothingham
A
two-day (May 89) demolition of
their garage on their property at 4
Hinckley Street in Montpelier will
make it possible for Peter and Marybeth
Watt to rent their larger house and move
into a new and much smaller house on the
footprint of the old garage.
Dan Lee and Nick Reed from ReBuild
Deconstruction of Burlingtons nonprofit
ReSource arrived at the Watt property on
the morning of May 8 and by the end of
the day on May 9, the two-man team had
taken down the old garage and removed
both the materials that can be saved and
used and the materials that will be dis-
posed of in a landfill.
Talking by phone to The Bridge after the
garage tear-down was completed, Lee who
was foreman on the job said, What were
doing is diverting usable materials from
the landfill. And were reducing the need
to use virgin materials.
Lee said that the deconstruction service
typically reclaims up to 80 percent of the
volume of materials that result from tear-
ing down a range of structures, including
full houses and barns. The deconstruc-
tion service also goes into a house ahead
of a renovation. Lets say someone is re-
modeling their kitchen or bathroom, said
Lee. We can take the kitchen cabinets,
vanities, mirrors and doors. All the non-
structure materials.
Lee estimated that about 60 to 70 per-
cent of the materials from the Watt garage
might be saved for reuse. He added that
any clean wood that doesnt have paint or
stain on it, we divert from the landfill.
There is a market for those used materi-
als, Lee said. Once the nails are pulled,
this lumber doesnt sit around. A lot of
people are doing home renovations and
want to save money on materials.
And if the wood cant be reused, it can be
taken to the power plant in Burlington
where it is chipped and used as a fuel for
the power plants wood gasification. It be-
comes electrical energy.
When asked if ReBuild Deconstruction is
cheaper than hiring an excavator or a track
hoe to come in and tear down a building,
Lee said, I cant say that were cheaper. But
were competitive.
Then he itemized what any client who hires
the deconstruction service is paying for.
Were charging for labor. Were charging
for transport. Were charging for our tools.
Were charging to get rid of the waste.
Lee mentioned a new solid waste law that
has been recently enacted by the legis-
lature. Under that new law, clean wood
will be banned from the landfill. If they
brought a track hoe in here and put it in a
dump truck, they have to dump it out and
pick through it and get all the clean wood
out. What were doing is all about recycling
and reuse, Lee said.
The nonprofit ReSource organization has
four Vermont stores: a building materi-
als store in Burlington; a household goods
store, also in Burlington; another building
materials store in Barre and a fourth store
in Morrisville. ReSource employs 60 peo-
ple throughout Vermont and is involved in
job skills training, poverty relief and what
Lee called environmental stewardship, as
in green demolition.
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LNTix is a free program that allows 18-to-40-
year-olds to purchase reduced-price tickets to
mainstage productions. In conjunction with
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Family Center of Washington County, the
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matinee performance of each show.
LNT Afterhours is an opportunity to meet
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members after a show, while taking advantage
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8 preview of Lost Nation's current production,
The Last 5 Years, audience members enjoyed a
cabaret-style sing-along at The North Branch
Caf. The May 15 performance will be fol-
lowed by an LNT Afterhours event at Sweet
Melissa's on Langdon Street in Montpelier.
It's no accident that Lost Nation is launching
LNTix and LNT Afterhours with this pro-
duction of Jason Robert Brown's The Last 5
Years. The award-winning musical chronicles
the relationship of a young couple, Jamie and
Cathy, as they navigate life, love and career.
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Musical theater fans are likely familiar with
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themselves with the music. The story follows
Jamie's side of the relationship from begin-
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other waywe live her story from the end
of the relationship to the beginning. Jamie
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just a few moments in the middle of the show.
Aubrey portrays Jamie, the brilliant writer,
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tendency to let career take priority over his
relationship with Cathy. His voice is perfectly
suited to this role, and he navigates with
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Ukulele Sing-Along with Union Elementary 1st
Graders. All are encouraged to attend and join in
singing. 1010:30 a.m. Montpelier Senior Activ-
ity Center. 58 Barre St., Montpelier. 223-2518.
msac@montpelier-vt.org.
Third Thursday: Mary Eddy Bake and Christian
Science. Bring your bag lunch and learn about
Christian Science in Vermont. Noon. Vermont
History Museum. 109 State St., Montpelier. Free.
828-2180. vermonthistory.org/calendar.
Diabetes Discussion Group. Focus on self-
management. Open to anyone with diabetes
and their families. Tird Turs., 1:30 p.m. Te
Health Center, Plaineld. Free. Don 322-6600 or
dgrabowski@the-health-center.org.
Brain Injury Support Group. Open to all survi-
vors, caregivers and adult family members. Tird
Turs., 1:302:30 p.m. Unitarian Church, 130
Main St., Montpelier. 244-6850.
Survivors of Suicide Loss Support. Monthly
group for people aected by a suicide death. Tird
Turs., 67:30 p.m. Central Vermont Medical
Center, conference rm. 1, Fisher Rd., Berlin.
223-0924. calakel@comcast.com.afsp.org.
Grandparents Raising Their Childrens
Children. Tird Turs., 68 p.m. Child care
provided. Trinity United Methodist Church,
137 Main St., Montpelier. 476-1480.
Songwriters Meeting. Meeting of the Northern
VT/NH chapter of the Nashville Songwriters
Association International. Bring copies of your
work. Tird Turs., 6:45 p.m. Catamount Arts,
St. Johnsbury. John, 633-2204.
Ecumenical Group. Songs of praise, Bible teach-
ing, fellowship. Second and fourth Turs., 79
p.m. Jabbok Center for Christian Living,
8 Daniel Dr., Barre. Free. 479-0302.
Transition Town Montpelier: German Timber-
framing: Trade and Traditions. Gerald David
will talk about the trade of timber framing,
explaining the time proven technology used in
joinery and layout. 7:45 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard
Library. 135 Main St., Montpelier. Free.
223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
MAY 16
Central Vermont Council on Aging Assistance.
Sarah Willhoit, information and assistance spe-
cialist with Central Vermont Council on Aging,
can help with questions about health insurance or
other senior services. 9 a.m.Noon. Montpelier
Senior Activity Center. 58 Barre St., Montpelier.
By appt. only: 479-4400.
Yoga Storytime. Chrissy from Studio Zenith
returns to lead mini yogis and their grownups in
playful poses inspired by story and song. Ages
birth5. 10:30 a.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library.
135 Main St., Montpelier. Free.
Rummage Sale. Donations accepted for sale May
1415, noon; no books or electronics please. Sale:
17 p.m. Montpelier Senior Activity Center. 58
Barre St., Montpelier. 223-2518.
Creating Community Through Kabbalah. With
Chaya Adler Poretsky and Rabbi Tobie Weisman.
Trough prayer, singing, learning, meditation and
Sabbath meal we will sow the seeds of physical
and spiritual nourishment for ourselves, our chil-
dren and our community. All are welcome. 7 p.m.
Yearning for Learning Center. Suggested donation
$1530. Must register by 9 a.m.
Call for location directions.
223-0583. info@yearning4learning.org.
MAY 17
Green Mountain Club Work Hike. Stowe. All
abilities. Various distances. Smugglers' Notch.
Spring walk-thru on the Long Trail/Elephant's
Head and Sterling Pond Trails. Wear sturdy
boots, work clothes and gloves. 8 a.m. Meet at
Montpelier High School. 5 High School Dr.,
Montpelier. Leader Fred Jordan: 223-3935.
trails@gmcmontpelier.org.
Montessori School of Central Vermont Open
House. Join us for a tour of our classrooms fol-
lowed by a question and answer period about
our programs. Come learn what Montessori is
all about. Serving children ages 312. 911 a.m.
Montessori School of Central Vermont. 89 Karl
Cir., Berlin. Free. By appt. only: 223-3320.
info@mscvt.org. mscvt.org.
Friends Annual Plant Swap. Bring plants to
swap, make sure to label them. No invasive plants
please. If you want to share some plants, seeds or
extra seedlings drop them o the night before or
early morning. Label plants with names and any
special instructions if possible. 9 a.m.Noon. Ja-
quith Public Library. 122 School St., Marsheld.
Free. 426-3581. jaquithpubliclibrary.org.
Additional Recyclables Collection Center. Ac-
cepting scores of hard-to-recycle items. Tird Sat.,
9 a.m.1 p.m. 540 N. Main St. (old Times-Argus
building), Barre. $1 per carload. 229-9383 x106.
For list of accepted items, go to cvswmd.org/arcc-
additional-recyclables-collection-center.html.
Rummage Sale. Donations accepted for sale May
1415, noon; no books or electronics please. Sale:
9 a.m.2 p.m. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.
58 Barre St., Montpelier. 223-2518.
Learn to Play Piano Naturally. Do You Want
to Learn Pianoand Have Fun? Free public
presentation about the Simply Music method
with Nicholas Mortimer, certied teacher. All
ages. 9:3010:30 a.m. Christ Church. 64 State
St., Montpelier. 595-1220. nicholas@loveplaying-
piano.org. loveplayingpiano.org.
Bike to Brunch: Postal Caf. Join a guided bike
ride to Postal Caf in Worcester with Montpe-
lier Mayor John Hollar. 18 miles round trip. All
participants must provide their own helmet and
bicycle in good working order. Rain cancels. 10
a.m. Ride departs Montpelier High School tennis
courts. 5 High School Dr., Montpelier. 262-6273.
Kids Creating Music. With Bob Brookens. Bob
provides musical instruments for young hands to
learn, and songs to sing during this lively hour.
Ages 18 months4 years. 10 a.m. Waterbury
Public Library. 28 N. Main St., Waterbury. Free.
244-7036. waterburypubliclibrary.com.
Morning Prayer Service/Lunch and Learning.
With Chaya Adler Poretsky and Rabbi Tobie
Weisman. All are welcome. 10 a.mNoon. Beth
Jacob Synagogue. 10 Harrison Ave., Montpelier.
1 p.m. lunch follows at Yearning for Learning
Center. Suggested donation $1530. Must register
by 9 a.m. Call for location directions. 223-0583.
info@yearning4learning.org.
2nd Annual Childrens Fishing Derby and Cabot
Local Business Expo. Enjoy food samples, dem-
onstrations, door prizes, giveaways and music. 11
a.m2 p.m. Behind Harrys Hardware and next to
Cabot Village Store. Main St., Cabot. 563-2291.
Learn to Play Day: Disc Golf. Free clinic for
rst-timers and beginners. Instruction and
equipment provided. All ages, under 18 must
be chaperoned by an adult. No registration
required. 14 p.m.; group instruction begins at
1 p.m. Wrightsville Beach Recreation Area. 369
VT Rte. 12, Middlesex.
wrightsvillebeachvt.com.
Light Third Meal of Shabbos Meditative Mel-
odies. With Chaya Poretsky and Rabbi Tobie
Weisman. Havdalah service, music and bonre.
All are welcome. 79:30 p.m. Yearning for
Learning Center. Suggested donation $1530.
Must register by 9 a.m. Call for location direc-
tions. 223-0583. info@yearning4learning.org.
MAY 18
Spring Bird Walk. With Bob Popp from the
Marsheld Conservation Committee. 811
a.m. Meet at Stranahan Forest Parking Lot.
Hollister Hill Rd., Marsheld. Jaquith Public
Library. 122 School St., Marsheld. Free. 426-
3581. jaquithpubliclibrary.org.
Expanding Our Physical Mind and Our Higher
Mind Connection. With Chaya Poretsky and
Rabbi Tobie Weisman. Experiential learning,
meditation, movement, singing, writing, art. All
are welcome. 10:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Yearning for
Learning Center. Suggested donation $1530.
Call for location directions. 223-0583.
info@yearning4learning.org.
Families of Color. Open to all. Play, eat and dis-
cuss issues of adoption, race and multiculturalism.
Bring snacks and games to share; dress for the
weather. Tird Sun., 35 p.m. Unitarian Church,
130 Main St., Montpelier. Alyson 439-6096 or
alyson@suncatchervt.com.
Dirt Day! A Green Mountain Global Forum
event. Hands-on composting workshop, compost
and seed planting activities, music, local food op-
tions and a showing of Dirt: Te Movie.
4 p.m.; movie 7 p.m. Te Big Picture Teater.
Carroll Rd., Waitseld. Free. 496-2490.
MAY 19
Safety on the Web Computer Workshop.
Information on habits to improve browsing
safety. Participants must bring their own laptop.
34:30 p.m. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.
58 Barre St., Montpelier. Free. 223-2518. msac@
montpelier-vt.org.
Onion River Exchange Potluck. Bring a dish,
plate, utensils. Share food, meet people, and make
exchange connections. Log time if you bring a
dish. 5:30 p.m. ORE Oce. 89 Barre St., 2F,
Montpelier. 552-0082.
Bereavement/Grief Support Group. Open to
anyone who has experienced the death of a loved
one. 6-8pm. Conference Center. 600 Granger
Road, Berlin, VT 05602. Free. 223-1878.
Plainfield Book Club. Tird Mon., 78:30 p.m.
Cutler Memorial Library, 151 High St. (Rte. 2),
Plaineld. Free. 454-8504. cutlerlibrary.org.
Development Review Board Meeting. 7 p.m.
City Council Chambers, Montpelier City Hall.
39 Main St., Montpelier. montpelier-vt.org.
Renewable and Fossil Fuel Energy, Climate
Change and Sustainability: What Needs To
Be Done and What Can We Do? A meeting to
explore forming a discussion group about how,
together, we can reduce our carbon footprint and
adopt renewable sources of energy. 7 p.m. Warren
Public Library. 413 Main St., Warren. Free.
RSVP: 496-3656. programs@warrenlibrary.com.

THEATER,
STORYTELLING &
COMEDY
May 16: Stroke yer Yoke! Comedy open mic
hosted by Sean Hunter Williams. Comics get
5-min. each. Cap of 15 comics per show. Sign-
ups 7:30 p.m.; show starts 8 p.m. Caf Espresso
Bueno. 248 N. Main St., Barre. Free. seanhunt-
erwilliams@gmail.com. espressobueno.com.
Through May 18: The Last 5 Years. Lost Nation
Teater presents the ground-breaking, award-
winning modern musical Te Last 5 Years. An
ingeniously chronicled, and intensely personal
look at a relationship and marriage, told from
both points of view, and from meeting to break-
up - or break-up to meeting, depending on how
you look at it. Montpelier City Hall Arts Center.
39 Main St., Montpelier. Discounts for students
and seniors. 229-0492. lostnationtheater.org.
May 15: 7 p.m. $25.
May 16, 17: 8 p.m. $30
May 18: 2 p.m. $30
May 1618, 2324: Mozarts The Marriage of
Figaro. Presented by Echo Valley Community
Arts. Fri. and Sat. 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m. Plain-
eld Town Hall Opera House. 37 Harvey Hill,
Plaineld. Adults $12; seniors $20; students
$18; children age 12 and under $10. 225-6471.
catamountarts.org.
May 2125: Green Mountain Comedy Festi-
val. Te 6th Annual Green Mountain Comedy
Festival features national headliners Tig Notaro,
Myq Kaplan, DeAnne Smith, Upright Citizens
Brigade and Specter Improv, plus over 100
Vermont comics, improv and sketch per-
formers, and Burlington punk rockers
Rough Francis will open for Tigs two
shows. Montpelier, Barre and Burlington.
greenmountaincomedy.com.
May 23: August: Osage County Read-
ing. MOXIE Productions presents a cold
reading celebrating Tracy Letts 2008 Pulitzer
Prize winning play. Part of Americas Favorites
Reading Series. Read by local talent, this play is
open to all, but please note that this play involves
language and subject manner not appropriate
for children. Copies of the play and movie are
available at the Waterbury Library prior to event.
7 p.m. Waterbury Congregational Church. Main
St., Waterbury. By donation to cover costs. 244-
4168. moxie@pshift.com.
May 2324: Bueno Comedy Showcase! Two
back-to-back comedy showcases with com-
ics from all over Vermont. Part of this year's
Green Mountain Comedy Festival. 8 p.m. Caf
Espresso Bueno. 248 N. Main St., Barre. $8.
Advance tickets: greenmountaincomedy.com.
Info: seanhunterwilliams@gmail.com. espres-
sobueno.com.
May 25: Mass Appeal. Part of Green Mountain
Comedy Festival. Hosted by Joel Chaves with
Bitsy Biron, Kathleen Kanz, Dan Murphy,
Hillary Boone and Ben Orbison. 7 p.m. Sweet
Melissas. 4 Langdon St., Montpelier. Advance
tickets: greenmountaincomedy.com.
May 30: Bread + Puppet: The Birdcatcher in
Hell. 8 p.m. Barre Opera House. 6 N. Main St.,
Barre. Adults $20; seniors/students $15; children
under age 12 $7. barreoperahouse.org.
May 1617, 7 p.m: A Reunion and Celebration
to honor Lorraine Neal will be held on May
18, 5 p.m. A special show will be presented in
the theater, followed by a reception in the lobby.
All alumni and friends of the studio are invited.
Barre Opera House. 6 N. Main St., #4, Barre.
$10 Donation.
May 18: Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio
Reunion
RSVP: 229-4676. reunion@cdandfs.com.
DANCE
May 1618: Contemporary Dance & Fitness
Studio 40th Anniversary Performance. A de-
lightful and impressive performance of jazz, mod-
ern, ballet, hip hop, b-boys/girls, tap by teens,
adults, children. 7 p.m. Barre Opera House. 6 N.
Main St., #4, Barre. $12. Tickets available at CD
& FS: 229-4676 director@cdandfs.com www.
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May 18: Contemporary Dance and Fitness
Studio's 40th Anniversary REUNION! Alumni:
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founder. Performance, reception, open mic,
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N. Main St., #4, Barre. $10 donation. RSVP at
CD & FS: 229-4676. director@cdandfs.com.
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Performing
Arts
The Last 5 Years now playing at
Lost Nation Theater through May
18. Visit lostnationtheater.org.
Photo by Kris Weir.
MAY 20
African Drumming Storytime. Welcoming
Chimie Bangoura of afrikakokoba for some
brilliant beats to get us moving. Story and sound
ow together. Ages Birth5. 10:30 a.m. Kellogg-
Hubbard Library. 135 Main St., Montpelier. Free.
Hike Millstone Hill with Green Mountain Club.
Moderate. 34 miles. Steady pace. Circumnavi-
gate the Barre Town Forest, peering into scenic
quarry holes and climbing lookouts along the way.
12:30 p.m. Call leader, Steve, for meeting place in
Barre City and details: 479-2304.
Restorative Justice Presentation. With the City
of Montpelier Community Justice Center. Hear
stories of restorative justice restoring relations,
increasing safety and fostering understanding,
democracatic ideals and tolerance. 12:45 p.m.
Montpelier Senior Activity Center. 58 Barre St.,
Montpelier. Free. 223-2518.
Library Book Delivery Service. First and third
Tues., 1 p.m. See sign-up sheet near oce for
more info. Montpelier Senior Activity Center,
Navigating the New Vermont Health Care
Exchange. Need help with the Vermont Health
Care Exchange? Meet Nancy Sherman for assis-
tance. 48 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, lobby.
135 Main St., Montpelier. Free.
Home Share Now Info Session. Find out what
home sharing is all about and have your questions
answered. Tird Tues., 5:306 p.m. Home Share
Now. 105 N. Main St., Barre. 479-8544.
Italian Village Music and Dance. Presentation
and concert with Celest DiPietropaolo and Marie
DiCocco. One-hour lecture with videos on the
current status of traditional music and dance in
small Italian villages, followed by a 30-minute
concert. 6:30 p.m. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hub-
bard Library. 135 Main St., Montpelier. Free.
Washington County Stamp Club Meeting.
Monthly meeting. Open to the public. 7:30 p.m.
First Baptist Church. 3 St. Paul St., Montpelier.
Free. 223-2953. edsbobnan9@myfairpoint.net.
MAY 21
Berlins Big Bang. Berlin Historical Society Din-
ner and Program. Maudean Neill talks about the
1932 Dynamite Shack Explosion on Benjamin
Falls Road. Potluck dinner 6 p.m.; program 7
p.m. Berlin Congregational Church Parish Hall.
1808 Scott Hill Rd., Berlin. 223-5306.
Man-to-Man Prostate Cancer Support Group.
Tird Wed., 68 p.m. Conference room 2,
Central Vermont Medical Center. 872-6308 or
866-466-0626 (press 3).
Coffee Program. Join Capitol Grounds owner-
proprietor Bob Watson and coee resources
manager and roaster Christopher Pyatak for an
educational and tasty evening celebrating coee.
6:308 p.m. Joslin Memorial Library. 4391 Main
St., Waitseld. Free. 496-4205.
waitseld@vals.state.vt.us.
Song Circle: Community Sing-A-Long. With
Rich and Laura Atkinson. A variety of instru-
ments to accompany the singers. All ages and
abilities welcome. Song books provided. 6:45 p.m.
Jaquith Public Library. 122 School St., Marsh-
eld. Free. 426-3581. jaquithpubliclibrary.org.
Montpelier School Board Meeting. 79:30 p.m.
Montpelier High School Library. 5 High School
Dr., Montpelier. 225-8000.
MAY 22
Spring Sale. 47 p.m. Trinity Community Trift
Store in the Trinity Church basement. 137 Main
St., Montpelier. 229-9155.
The Address by Ken Burns. Film and panel
discussion. Te story of a tiny school in Putney,
Vermont, the Greenwood School, where each year
students recite the Gettysburg Address. 7 p.m.
Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main St.,
Montpelier. Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Ecumenical Group. Songs of praise, Bible teach-
ing, fellowship. Second and fourth Turs., 79
p.m. Jabbok Center for Christian Living,
8 Daniel Dr., Barre. Free. 479-0302.
MAY 23
Spring Sale. 10 a.m.4 p.m. Trinity Community
Trift Store in the Trinity Church basement. 137
Storytime at the Library. Join us for stories,
songs and silliness! Ages Birth5. 10:30 a.m.
Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main St.,
Montpelier. Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Interview Workshop for Mature Workers.
Preparation, body language/attitude, examples
of experience, answering tough questions, what
not to ask and why. 12:45 p.m. Montpelier Senior
Activity Center. 58 Barre St., Montpelier. Free.
223-2518. msac@montpelier-vt.org.
Reminisce Chats. Join MSAC members over 75
years old in informal chats about the good old
days 1 p.m. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.
58 Barre St., Montpelier. If you need transporta-
tion or have questions, call Mary Alice a day
ahead at 223-8140.
Art and Author Night. With artist David Smith
and authors Cora Brooks and Dan Chodorko.
David Smith shows his Florida Winter paintings:
Postcards from the Keys. Refreshments served.
Art opening 6 p.m.; readings 7 p.m. Jaquith
Public Library. 122 School St., Marsheld. Free.
426-3581. jaquithpubliclibrary.org.
Friday Night Group. For youth age 1322 who
are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or
questioning. Pizza, soft drinks and conversation.
Cofacilitated by two trained, adult volunteers
from Outright Vermont. Second and fourth Fri.,
6:308 p.m. Unitarian Church, 130 Main St.,
Micah@OutrightVT.org.
MAY 24
Hardwick Kiwanis Spring Festival. Bird Walk 7
a.m.; 5K run 9 a.m.; Main Street Parade 11 a.m.;
Festivities with outdoor exhibitors, vendors, craft
fair, rides, games and food until 4 p.m.; Fireworks
at dusk. Hardwick. jjohns47@comcast.net.
Backpack Duxbury with Green Mountain
Club. Dicult. Backpack to Bamforth Ridge
Shelter for overnight stay, with a hike to
Camel's Hump summit the following day on
the Long Trail and then hike out. 2.7 miles to
shelter; 3.7 miles to summit from shelter; round
trip 12.8 miles. For meeting time and place,
contact leaders John and Kathy 229-0725 or
vicepresident@gmcmontpelier.org.
Sugar Social. May 2425. Celebrate an old
fashion sugar on snow with donut, pickle and
hard-boiled egg. Maple bake sale with baked
beans, candy, pies, breads and more. Waterbury
Center Community Church. Rte 100, Waterbury.
244-8089.
Book and Cookie Sale. Plenty of books this
year in all genres for all age groups. Delicious
homemade cookies. Take what you want,
give what you can. All proceeds benet the
Ainsworth Public Library. Rain or shine event.
9 a.m.1 p.m. Ainsworth Public Library. Main
St., Williamstown. 433-5887.
Bike to Brunch: Maple Valley. Celebrate the
start of biking season and enjoy the areas great
cafes! Join a guided bike ride to Maple Valley in
Plaineld (22 miles round trip). All participants
must provide their own helmet and bicycle in
good working order. Rain cancels. Ride departs
10 a.m. Montpelier High School tennis courts.
5 High School Dr., Montpelier. 262-6273.
Family Bicycle Safety Clinic and Ride. In
a family-oriented bicycle safety lesson, learn
how to safely navigate riding on streets. Topics
include starting and stopping, changing lanes,
safely making turns and a guided group ride to
the Dairy Creme for a creemee. All participants
good working order. Best for ages 6+. All kids
must be accompanied by an adult. 10 a.m.
Montpelier High School. 5 High School Dr.,
Spring Sale. 10 a.m.4 p.m. Trinity Com-
munity Trift Store in the Trinity Church base-
ment. 137 Main St., Montpelier. 229-9155.
Teen Financial Literacy Series: Establishing
Credit, Understanding and Managing Credit/
Debit cards. With Ellen Aseltine, assistant
branch manager, Northeld Savings Bank.
Open to all. 10:3011:30 a.m. Kellogg-Hub-
bard Library. 135 Main St., Montpelier. Free.
Milarepa Center Open House. Tour our
center, walk the trails, talk about our upcoming
summer programs and see our retreat cabins.
Please feel welcome to bring friends and family.
Tea and snacks provided. 24 p.m. Milarepa
Center. 1344 US Rte 5 S., Barnet. 633-4136.
milarepa@milarepacenter.org.
milarepacenter.org
MAY 26
How Macs are Organized Computer Work-
shop. Basic structure of MacBooks and how to
nd what you're looking for. Participants must
bring laptop. 34:30 p.m. Montpelier Senior
Montpelier Planning Commission Meeting. 5
p.m. City Council Chambers, Montpelier City
Hall. 39 Main St., Montpelier. montpelier-vt.
org.
Monthly Book Group for Adults. New mem-
bers always welcome. May's book is American
Dervish by Ayad Akhtar. For book copies,
please stop by the library. Fourth Mon., 7 p.m.
Jaquith Public Library, 122 School St., Marsh-
eld. 426-3581. jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.
com. marsheld.lib.vt.us.
NAMI Vermont Family Support Group. Sup-
port group for families and friends of individu-
als living with mental illness. Fourth Mon., 7
p.m. Central Vermont Medical Center, room 3,
Berlin. 800-639-6480 or namivt.org.
MAY 27
Storytime at the Library. Join us for stories,
songs, and silliness. Ages Birth5. 10:30 a.m.
Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main St., Mont-
pelier. Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
Medicare and You Workshop. New to Medi-
care? Have questions? We have answers. Second
and fourth Tues., 34:30 p.m. 59 N. Main St.,
Ste. 200, Barre. Free, donations gratefully ac-
cepted. 479-0531. cvcoa@cvcoa.org. cvcoa.org.
Navigating the New Vermont Health Care
Exchange. Need help with the Vermont Health
Care Exchange? Meet Nancy Sherman for as-
sistance. 48 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library,
lobby. 135 Main St., Montpelier. Free.
Montpelier Design Review Committee Meet-
ing. 5:30 p.m. City Council Chambers, Mont-
pelier City Hall. 39 Main St., Montpelier.
montpelier-vt.org.
Business Wisdom Circle. Lightly structured
networking and mentoring opportunity for
women in business, or aspiring to be. 4:30
6:30 p.m. Vermont Womens Business Center at
CVCAC Building. 20 Gable Pl., Barre. Nomi-
nal fee $10; free coupons available. Register:
479-9813. info@vwbc.org. vwbc.org.
Homing Instinct. Naturalist Bernd Heinrich
reads from his latest book. 7 p.m. Bear Pond
Books. 77 Main St., Montpelier. 229-0774.
bearpondbooks.com.
MAY 28
Bereavement/Grief Support Group. Open
to anyone who has experienced the death of a
loved one. 1011:30 a.m. Conference Center.
600 Granger Road, Berlin, VT 05602. Free.
223-1878.
The Story of the Jews. See highlights of PBS'
Story of the Jews with Simon Schama and Ver-
mont PBS' Tales from a Yiddish Teatre, prol-
ing Montreal's thriving Yiddish performing arts
community. Followed by discussion. Sponsored
by VPT, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, and Beth
Jacob Synagogue. 6:308:30 p.m. Kellogg-
Hubbard Library. 135 Main St., Montpelier.
Free. 279-7518. bjprogramming@gmail.com.
bethjacobvt.org.
Montpelier City Council Meeting. 6:30 p.m.
City Council Chambers, Montpelier City Hall.
39 Main St., Montpelier. montpelier-vt.org.
MAY 29
Book Reading and Signing with Craig Harris.
Author, photographer and percussionist Craig
Harris reads from his book Te Band: Pioneers
of Americana Music. 6:30 p.m. Hayes Room,
pelier. Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org.
The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History.
Join author Richard J. King as he discusses his
latest book, Te Devil's Cormorant: A Natural
History. King takes us back in time and around
the world to show us the history, nature, ecol-
ogy and economy of the worlds most misunder-
stood waterfowl. 7 p.m. North Branch Nature
Center. 713 Elm St., Montpelier. Donations
welcome. 229-6206.
northbranchnaturecenter.org.
Farmers
Markets in
Washington
County
Barre Farmers' Market
(Barre)
Vermont Granite Museum,
7 Jones Brothers Way
Saturday
9 a.m.1 p.m.
MayOctober 2014
Contact: Maayan Kasimov
Phone: 802-225-6574
Market Email: barrefarmersmarket@
gmail.com
Website: http://www.
barrefarmersmarketvt.com
Accepts EBT and debit cards
Capital City Farmers' Market
(Montpelier)
60 State Street
Saturday
9 a.m.1 p.m.
May 3Oct. 25
Contact: Carolyn Grodinsky
Phone: 802-223-2958
Market Email: manager@
montpelierfarmersmarket.com
Website: http://
montpelierfarmersmarket.com
Northfield Farmers' Market
(Northfield)
Northfield Common
Tuesday
3 p.m.6 p.m.
May 13October 7, 2014
Contact: Judy Hewett
Phone: 802-485-8027
Market Email:
northfieldfarmersmarketvt@gmail.com
northfieldfarmersmarketvt.com/
Does not accept EBT or debit cards
Waitsfield Farmers' Market
(Waitsfield)
Rte 100, next to Mad River Green
Saturday
9 a.m.1 p.m.
May 17Oct. 18
Contact: Barbara Conn
Phone: 802-472-8027
Market Email: marketmanager@
waitsfieldfarmersmarket.com
waitsfieldfarmersmarket.com/
Does not accept EBT or debit cards
Waterbury Farmers' Market
(Waterbury)
Rusty Parker Memorial Park,
Main Street
Thursday
3 p.m.7 p.m.
May 15October 9, 2014
Contact: Lorelei Wyman
Phone: 802-279-4371
Market Email: vtwmm@comcast.net
waterburyfarmersmarket.com
Plainfield Farmers Market
Plainfield Village
Friday
4 p.m.7 p.m.
Tentative start datebeginning of June
Contact: Chris Thompson
Phone: 454-9394
For a full list of markets statewide, go to
NOFA-VT at:
http://nofavt.org/find-organic-food/
farmers-market-directory
Music
VENUES
Bagitos. 28 Main St., Montpelier. Free. 229-
9212. bagitos.com.
May 15: Clare Byrne (traditional and contem-
porary folk) 68 p.m.
May 17: Irish Session with Sarah Blair,
Hilari Farrington, Benedict Koehler, Katrina
VanTyne and others. 25 p.m.; Dan Johnson
(folk) 68 p.m.
May 18: Eric Friedman (folk ballads) 11
a.m.1 p.m.
May 20: Old Time Music Session, 68 p.m.
May 21: Papa GreyBeard (blues) 68 p.m.;
Keith Williams, call for time.
May 22: Dale Cavanaugh Benet for Salva-
tion Farms, 68 p.m.
May 23: Art Herttua and Stephen Morabito
(jazz guitar and percussion) 68 p.m.
May 24: Irish Session with Sarah Blair, Hilari
Farrington, Benedict Koehler, Katrina Van-
Tyne and others, 25 p.m.; Je Lathrop (indie
folk/rock) 68 p.m.
Chandler Music Hall. 7173 Main St., Ran-
dolph. Tickets: 728-6464 or chandler-arts.org.
May 16: Te Next Generation. Featuring
young musicians who have studied classical
instrumental or vocal music. 7:30 p.m. $16
advance; $20 day of show; $10 students.
Charlie Os World Famous. 70 Main St., Mont-
pelier. Free. Call for show times: 223-6820.
May 15: Sorry Mom, Siva, DJ Crucible
(metal)
May 16: Te Cop-Outs, Vicious Gifts (punk)
May 17: Nick Farago
North Branch Caf. 41 State St., Montpelier.
Free unless otherwise noted. 552-8105. thenorth-
branch.com.
May 15: James Secor (kora and acoustic gui-
tar) 78:30 p.m.
May 17: Karen Krajacic (progressive folk) 79
p.m.
May 22: Dave Loughran (acoustic classic
rock) 78:30 p.m.
May 24: Liptak/Evans Duo (clarinet and
guitar gypsy jazz) 7 p.m. $2.
May 29: Dave Loughran (acoustic classic
rock) 78:30 p.m.
May 31: Ron Merkin (standards, jazz and
broadway on piano. Piano bar sing-a-long)
79:30 p.m.
Nutty Stephs. 961C US Rte. 2, Middlesex.
Free. Come in costume and get $1 o all drinks,
see themes. 229-2090.
May 15: Jim Tompson (piano) Teme: Clas-
sic Cartoon Characters. 710 p.m.
May 22: Dave Langevin with Ben Roy (piano
and drums) Teme: Superhero Night. 710
p.m.
May 29: Big Hat No Cattle (western swing)
Teme: Cowboys v. Aliens. 710 p.m.
Positive Pie. 22 State St., Montpelier. 229-0453.
positivepie.com.
May 16: Te Main Squeeze (funk) 10:30 p.m.
May 17: Soule Monde (instrumental, organ-
driven funk) 21+. 10:30 p.m. $5.
May 23: Anque. (classic salsa dura) 10:30
p.m.
Sweet Melissas. 4 Langdon St., Montpelier.
Free unless otherwise noted. 225-6012. facebook.
com/sweetmelissasvt.
May 15: Birdshot La Funk. 8 p.m.
May 16: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with
Mark LeGrand. 5 p.m.; Michelle Sarah Band.
9 p.m. Cover.
May 17: Andy Pitt. 5 p.m.; Leatherbound
Books. 9 p.m.
May 20: Andy Plante. 5 p.m.; Open Mic
Night. 7 p.m.
May 21: Wine Down with D. Davis. 5 p.m.;
Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m.
May 22: Seth Yacovone plays Bob Dylan. 8
p.m.
May 23: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with
Mark LeGrand. 5 p.m.; Red Hot Juba. 9 p.m.
Cover.
May 24: Blue Fox. 5 p.m.; Tim Brick Band.
9 p.m.
May 25: Green Mountain Comedy Festival. 7
p.m. Cover.
May 27: Nancy and Lilly Smith. 5 p.m.; Open
Mic Night. 7 p.m.
May 28: Wine Down with D. Davis. 5 p.m.;
D. Davis, Carrie Cook and Peter Lind. 8 p.m.
May 29: Fred Braur. 8 p.m.
May 30: Honky Tonk Hour with Mark Le-
Grand. 5 p.m.; Small Change. 9 p.m.
May 31: Blue Fox. 5 p.m.; Sugar Shack. 9 p.m.
The Whammy Bar. 31 County Rd., Calais. 229-
4329. whammybar1.com. Call for performance
times.
May 16: Miriam Bernardo, Rob Morse,
Michael Chorney.
May 17: Usual Suspects (blues)
May 21: Open Mic
May 22: Chad Hollister
May 23: Al 'n Pete (traditional Celtic)
May 24: Hot Diggity (Artie's B-day Bash)
May 28: Open Mic
May 29: Miles and Murphy (jazz guitar)
May 30: Hillside Rounders
Jun. 4: Open Mic
ARTISTS & SPECIAL
EVENTS
May 17: Elena Moon Park. Performs with
her band from her newly released CD, Rabbit
Days and Dumplings, for a family-fun musi-
cal experience. Proceeds benet Spring Hill
School. Member of Dan Zanes' band. 11 a.m.
Big Picture Teater. 48 Carroll Rd., Waitseld.
$8. rabbitdays.com.
May 18: 20 Years of Song! Montpelier Com-
munity Gospel Choir Spring Concert. Te
ecumenical choir celebrates 20 years of song
with an uplifting and exuberant program, com-
bining soul, jazz, and original and traditional
gospel music. John Harrison, artistic direc-
tor. Free reception follows the concert. 7 p.m.
Trinity United Methodist Church. 135 Main
St., Montpelier. Free, donations welcome. 778-
0881. vtgospel.com. facebook.com/vtgospel.
May 21: Sap Runnin' Contra Dance. All dances
are taught. No experience necessary, partners
not required. Musicians welcome to sit in with
the band. 710 p.m. Pierce Hall. 38 Main St.,
Rochester. Adults $8; youth (under 25) $5.
617-721-6743.
May 27: Capital Ringers Handbell Concert.
Come watch Montpeliers Capital Ringers in
concert at MSAC as they perform this complex,
beautiful art! 55:30 p.m. Montpelier Senior
May 27: Vermont Symphony Orchestra
performs Raising Cane. VSOs Woodwind
Trio presents Raising Cane. Featuring oboist
Ann Greenawalt, clarinetist Steve Klimowski,
and bassoonist Janet Polk. Part of the VSOs
SymphonyKids education program. 800-VSO-
9293 x. 14. Performances at two schools:
Barre Town Elementary School.
70 Websterville Rd., Barre. 9:30 a.m.
Rumney Memorial School.
433 Shady Rill Rd., Montpelier. 1:45 p.m.
Jun. 67: Village Harmony Alumni Ensemble.
Unique world music vocal ensemble includes 18
college-aged and young adult Village Harmony
veterans. Featuring Bulgarian and Macedonian
songs, American shape-note songs and contem-
porary compositions, South African songs and
dances, traditional songs from Caucasus and
a set of renaissance works. $10; students and
seniors $5. 7:30 p.m. 426-3210.
Jun. 6: Marsheld Old Schoolhouse Com-
mon. 230 School St., Marsheld. Folk danc-
ing follows.
Jun. 7: Congregational Church. 26 Prospect
St., Hyde Park.
Montpelier Community Gospel Choir celebrates 20 years of song in this uplifting and
exuberant spring concert. May 18 at the Trinity United Methodist Church, Montpelier.
MAY 30
Sprouting Spring Storytime. Stories to cele-
brate the green world and something for YOUR
garden or windowsill! Ages Birth5. 10:30 a.m.
pelier. Free. 223-3338.kellogghubbard.org.
Italian Traditional Dance. Enjoy and par-
ticipate in easy traditional village dances from
Italy as danced during the time of the stone
cutters and still danced in Italy today. Middle-
sex Town Hall Rt 2-Fri, May 30, 7-10 pm. Free
but donations not refused. 223-1490
MAY 31
Third Annual BirdFest! Bird walks and work-
shops, live raptors, kids activities, bird banding
demo, bird carving, bird art displays and more.
7 a.m.1:30 p.m. North Branch Nature Center.
713 Elm St., Montpelier. 229-6206.
northbranchnaturecenter.org.
Paint, Battery, Fluorescent and CFL Bulb
Collection. Free to CVSWMD residents. 9
a.m. Tunbridge Transfer Station. 64 Recreation
Rd., Tunbridge. 229-9383 x. 102. carlw@
cvswmd.org. cvswmd.org/special--haz-waste-
collections-schedule.
Spring Into Moretown Festival. Live music,
food and plenty of attractions for all ages.
Includes an Energy Fair from the Moretown
Energy Committee, the annual Valley Bike
Swap, car wash staed by Moretown Library
and a church yard sale. 9 a.m.3 p.m. More-
town School and Recreation Fields. VT 100B,
Moretown. For a table/exhibit at the Energy
Fair: jpilliod@veic.org. For Bike Swap info:
mnucci@wilcoxandbarton.com.
Milarepa Center Work Party. May 31Jun.
1. Come for either day or stay over all weekend
and help us revive our center after the long win-
ter. We would love extra hands in the garden,
on projects around the house, chopping wood
and house cleaning. Tree meals will be provid-
ed on Saturday and breakfast and lunch will be
provided Sunday. May 31, 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Jun.
1, 9 a.m.Noon. Milarepa Center. 1344 US
Rte. 5 S., Barnet. RSVP: 633-4136. milarepa@
milarepacenter.org. milarepacenter.org
Bike to Brunch: On the Rise Caf. Join a
guided bike ride to On Te Rise Cafe in Rich-
mond (60 miles round trip). All participants
good working order. Rain cancels. Ride departs
10 a.m. Montpelier High School tennis courts.
5 High School Dr., Montpelier. 262-6273.
Adamant Blackfly Festival. Blacky Jeopardy,
fashion show, parade, pie contest, live music,
great food, family fun! Rain/shine. 10 a.m.4
p.m. Adamant Co-op. 1313 Haggett Rd., Ada-
mant. Free. 223-5760. adamantcoop@gmail.
com. blackyfestival.org.
JUN. 1
Hike Stowe with Green Mountain Club Mon-
pelier. Easy. Four miles. Taylor Lodge via Lake
Manseld and Clara Bow trails. 1 p.m. Contact
leader, Ken, for location: hertzkj@gmail.com.
JUN. 2
Foot Clinic. Nurses clip toe nails, clean nail beds,
le nails and lotion feet. Arrive 15 min. early. 9
a.m.1 p.m. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.
58 Barre St., Montpelier. $15, cash/check to
CVHHH. Reserve 15-min. appts and nd out
what to bring: 223-2518.
Parent Meet-Up. Come meet other parents, share
information and chat over light snacks, coee
and tea. First Mon., 1011:30 a.m. Hayes Room,
Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main St.,
Montpelier. Free. mamasayszine@gmail.com.
Visual Arts
EXHIBITS
Through May 16: Poetry StoryWalk Exhibit.
Tis exhibit matches the poetry of Mary Oliver
and Wendell Berry with the work of local artists
and photographers. Montpelier Senior Activity
Center. 58 Barre St., Montpelier. 223-2518
Through May 22: Fine Art Photography Ex-
hibit. Featuring photographs by Annie Tiberio
Cameron, Sandra Shenk and Lisa Dimondstein.
8 a.m.4:30 p.m.; closed for lunch Noon12:30
p.m. Lamoille County Court House. 154 Main
St., Hyde Park. Free; photo ID required to enter
building. 223-2204. anniecameronphotography.
com.
Through May 22: Evie Lovett, Backstage at
the Rainbow Cattle Co.: The Drag Queens of
Dummerston, Vermont. Plaineld Community
Center, gallery. 153 Main St. Plaineld. Free.
454-1030.
Through May 31: CVCOAs Fifth Annual Art
of Creative Aging. Featuring recent works by
older visual artists living throughout the Central
Vermont region. 34 artists including Anne
Sarcka, Liz LeSeviget, Judy Greenwald and Mark
Markowitt. Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 135 Main
St., Montpelier. Free. 223-3338. kellogghubbard.
org.
Through May 31: Exhibits at Studio Place Arts
It's Black and White, an exhibit that reveals
the stark beauty and dynamic energy of op-
posites. Main Floor Gallery; Tangents: Fiber
Diversied, an exhibit of innovative textile art by
14 Vermont members of the Surface Design As-
sociation. Tird Floor Gallery. Studio Place Arts.
201 N. Main St., Barre. 479-7069.
studioplacearts.com.
Through May 31: Ana Campinile, Lapins Agile.
Studies of feral hares in their element. Tulsi Tea
Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. 223-1431.
Through May 31: Round. An exhibition of
objects of circular shape, from the Sullivan Mu-
seum collection. Sullivan Museum and History
Center, Norwich University, 158 Harmon Dr.,
Northeld. 485-2183. Norwich.edu/museum.
Through May 31: John Snell. Photographs
of animals during John Snells recent trip to
Botswana. Chill Vermont Gelato. 32 State St.,
Montpelier. 229-1751. eyeimagein.com.
stillearningtosee.com.
Through May 31: John Snell, Preview of Com-
ing Attractions. Photographs by John Snell of
spring owers and leaves. Savoy Teater lobby, 26
eyeimagein.com. stillearningtosee.com.
Through Jun. 1: Barbara Leber, Twists and
Turns. A show of paintings in acrylic on
masonite. Blinking Light Gallery. 16 Main St.,
Plaineld. 454-0141. blinkinglightgallery.com.
Through Jun.1: Student Art Show Exhibit.
An exhibit presenting the extraordinary artistic
talents of students in the greater Stowe area,
featuring Stowe Elementary, Stowe High School,
Stowe Middle School, and guest schools Tatcher
Brook Elementary and Harwood High School.
Regular gallery hours: Wed.Sun., Noon5 p.m.
Helen Day Arts Center. 90 Pond St., Stowe. Free.
253-8358. education@helenday.com. helenday.
com.
Through Jun. 1: Linda Maney, Windows,
Doors, and Other Portals. Acrylic, watercolor,
oil, collage and mixed. Green Bean Visual Art
Gallery, Capitol Grounds. 27 State St., Montpe-
lier. curator@capitolgrounds.com. Fans of Green
Bean Visual Arts Gallery on Facebook.
lindamaney.com.
Through Jun. 6: Two Paths, One Vision. August
Burns mediums are painting and drawing; El-
liot Burgs is photography. Using these dierent
modes of expression, they have shared a vision
of the beauty of the human form, and of the
capacity of the human face to convey personality,
mood, and some essential quality of the life lived.
Central Vermont Medical Center lobby gallery.
130 Fisher Rd., Berlin.
Through Jun. 15: Area Artists Show. Tis years
theme is Youve Got Talent! Area artists are in-
vited to submit one example of their best work to
be included in the exhibit. Regular gallery hours:
Fri., 35 p.m.; Sat. and Sun., Noon2 p.m.
Chandler Art Gallery. 71-73 Main St.,
Randolph. 377-7602. slwvt747@gmail.com.
Through Jun. 17: Tom Cullins, Recent Works.
Inuenced by the artist's yearly travels to Greece
and reects the aesthetics of place: crisp light,
intense color, cubist composition and the lure of
negative space. An award-winning architect and
artist, Cullins uses paint and photography to
explore form, light, detail and composition. West
Branch Gallery and Sculpture Park, 17 Towne
Farm Ln. Stowe. 253-8943. art@westbranchgal-
lery.com. westbranchgallery.com.
Through Jun. 17: Rebecca Kinkead, Local
Color. West Branch Gallery and Sculpture Park,
17 Towne Farm Ln. Stowe. 253-8943. art@west-
branchgallery.com. westbranchgallery.com.
Through Jun. 19: Raising Mother. A collab-
orative, multimedia exhibit celebrating the role
of mothers and investigating how individuals
and communities can help them in one of their
most important jobsraising the next genera-
tion. Te exhibit is the result of interviews of
mothers, original art, and photo contributions.
Join this important conversation of how to better
support mothers! Exhibit opening May 15, 15
p.m. Space open Turs. only though Jun.19;
9:30 a.m.2 p.m. Good Beginnings of Central
Vermont. 174 River St., Montpelier. 505-8882.
em.wheeler@goddard.edu.
Through June. 29: Robert Hitzig: Paintings
and Paintings on Sculpture. Te majority of
work on display involves three-dimensional wall
art with painted surfaces, with a few strictly
2-dimensional paintings included. Gallery hours:
Mon.Wed. and Fri., 9 a.m.4 p.m.; Turs., 9
a.m.2 p.m. River Arts Center. 74 Pleasant St.,
Morrisville. Free. 888-1261. riverartsvt.org.
Through Jun. 30: What is This Joy? A tribute to
our fellow creatures and their sacred dance. Pho-
to-based images on reclaimed tiles by Maayan
Kasimov. Art Walk Reception Jun. 6. Mon.Fri.,
3:308 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.2 p.m. Contemporary
Dance & Fitness Studio. 18 Langdon St., 3F,
Montpelier. visualrites.com.
Through Jun. 30: Dianne Shullenberger, Re-
Envisioned. Fabric collages and colored pencil
works. Te Governors Gallery, Pavilion State
Oce Building. 109 State St., 5F, Montpelier.
Through Jun. 30: Recent Collage by Marcus
Ratliff. Gallery hours: WedFri, 10 a.m.5 p.m.;
Sat., Noon5 p.m.; Sun.Tues. by appointment.
Bigtown Gallery. 99 N. Main St., Rochester.
info@bigtowngallery.com.
Through Jul. 2: Kent Shaw, Night Photogra-
phy. Photographs examine the eects of long
exposure times. Most photographs were captured
at night with street lights or stars providing il-
lumination, while others were made using special
lters to reduce the amount of available light.
Morrisville Post Oce. 16 Portland St.,
Morrisville. 888-1261. riverartsvt.org.
Through Jun. 30: Linda Hogan, Photographer
& Lauren Andrews, Aromatherapist. Photogra-
pher Linda Hogan presents her new work, Te Art
of Water; and Aromatherapist Lauren Andrews
will be making individualized body sprays based
on your needs and aromatic preferences. Art
Opening Jun. 6, 48 p.m. Te Cheshire Cat. 28
Elm St., Montpelier. 223-1981.
cheshirecatclothing.com.
Through Jul. 12: Postcards From the Keys.
Florida winter paintings by David Smith.
Reception party and readings by Cora Brooks
and Dan Chodorko May 23; 68 p.m. Jaquith
Public Library. 122 School St., Marsheld. Free.
426-3581.
jaquithpubliclibrary.org.
Through Aug. 3: Corinna Thurston, Pets in
Pencil. Exhibit begins Jun. 3. Tis display brings
pet portraits to life with detailed colored pencil
and graphite drawings. Art Walk Reception Jun.
6, 48 p.m. Tulsi Tea Room.
34 Elm St., Montpelier.
Through Dec. 19: 1864: Some Suffer So Much.
Stories of Norwich alumni who served as military
surgeons during the Civil War and traces the
history of posttraumatic stress disorder. Sullivan
Museum and History Center, Norwich Univer-
sity, 158 Harmon Dr., Northeld. 485-2183.
Norwich.edu/museum.
SPECIAL EVENTS
May 22: Photography Exhibit by Jamie Cope
Begins. Startling, subtle, gracefulan extraordi-
nary revelation of character and feeling, captur-
ing exuberant youth and wise old age. Montpelier
Senior Activity Center. 58 Barre St., Montpelier.
Free. 223-2518. msac@montpelier-vt.org.
May 2425: Statewide Open Studio Weekend.
Open Studio Weekend is a self-guided statewide
celebration of the visual arts, oering a unique
opportunity to meet a wide variety of artists and
craftspeople in their studios, some of which are
only open to the public during this event. Te
tour features the work of glassblowers, jewelers,
printmakers, potters, furniture makers, weavers,
ironworkers, painters, sculptors, quilt makers and
wood carvers. Statewide. vermontcrafts.com/
links/open.html. May 24-25: Open Studios
at SPA. Maggie Neale-Color Musings and many
other studio artists, plus 3 exhibits. Sat., 10
a.m.5 p.m.; Sun., Noon4 p.m. Studio Place
Arts. 201 N. Main St., Barre. Free. 279-0774.
colormuse@gmail.com. maggieneale.com.
May 2425: Open Studios at Annie's Photo
Studio. Visit Annie Tiberio Camerons home
studio. All in-stock 50 percent discount. Bring
your camera and questions for Annie. 10 a.m.5
p.m. 110 Ledgewood Terr., Montpelier. Free.
223-2204. annie@anniecameronphotography.
com. anniecameronphotography.com.
May 24-25: Open Studios with Elissa Camp-
bell. Explore the art of handmade books by
visiting the studio of book artist Elissa Campbell.
10 a.m.5 p.m. Blue Roof Design Studio. 846
Gallison Hill Rd., Montpelier. Free. 229-1342.
elissa@blueroofdesigns.com.
blueroofdesigns.com.
May 27: Teen Art Studio. With architects Otto
and Tolya Stonorov. Get inspired and make art
with professional artists in this free open studio.
Ages 1118. 6:308:30 p.m. Helen Day Art
Center. 90 Pond St., Stowe. Free. 253-8358.
education@helenday.com. helenday.com.
Jun. 6: Randy Allen for Art Walk. Randy Allen's
furniture embodies the natural worldorganic
forms and live edges. 57 p.m. Artisans Hand
Craft Gallery. 89 Main St., Montpelier. 229-
9492. info@artisanhand.com. artisanhand.com.
Jun. 7: Opening Reception: Toothbrush from
Twig to Bristle, in all its Expedient Beauty.
Exhibition oering unique ways of looking at the
toothbrush. Opening celebration features local
vaudville revivalists Rose Friedman and Justin
Lander, special guest performers from Toronto
presenting a short original sound/movement
piece inspired by the toothbrush theme, and local
animator/lmmaker Meredith Holch will present
a new paper movie. Snacks and beverages will be
served. 38 p.m. Te Museum of Everyday Life.
3482 Rte. 16, Glover. Admission by donation.
626-4409. museumofeverydaylife.org.
Looking In by Linda Maney. On
display as part of her exhibit,
Windows, Doors and Other
Portals through June 1 at the
Green Bean Visual Art Gallery of
Capitol Grounds, Montpelier.
Do you know about something great
happening in your community? Submit
your performing or visual arts, dance
and music events to our calendar. Are
there meetings, groups, gatherings of
importance in your community, again,
we want to know!
Submit Your Event! Send listings to
calendar@montpelierbridge.com
Classic Book Club. First Mon., 68 p.m. Cutler
Memorial Library, 151 High St. (Rte. 2),
Plaineld. Free. 454-8504.
Bereavement/Grief Support Group. Open
to anyone who has experienced the death of
a loved one. 6-8pm. Conference Center. 600
Granger Road, Berlin, VT 05602.
Free. 223-1878.
JUN. 3
ADA Advisory Committee Meeting. First Tues.
City managers conference room, City Hall, 39
Home Share Now Info Table. Joel Rhodes
stas an information table to discuss the Home
Share program and answer questions. 10:30
a.m.Noon. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.
Library Book Delivery Service. First and third
Tues., 1 p.m. See sign-up sheet near oce for
more info. Montpelier Senior Activity Center,
Womens Circle. Women and mothers discuss
motherhood, family life and womens health.
Hosted by midwives Chelsea Hastings and
Hannah Allen. First Tues., 68 p.m. Emerge
Midwifery and Family Health, 174
River St., Montpelier.
JUN. 4
Grandparents Raising Their Childrens Chil-
dren. First Wed., 10 a.m.Noon. Barre
Presbyterian Church, Summer St. 476-1480.
U-32 School Board Meeting. School board
meetings are open to the public and community
members are always welcome to attend. 4 p.m.
U32, Rm. 131. 930 Gallison Hill Rd.,
Cancer Support Group. First Wed., 6 p.m.
Potluck. For location, call Carole Mac-Intyre
229-5931.
Montpelier School Board Meeting. 79:30
p.m. Montpelier High School Library. 5 High
School Dr., Montpelier. 25-8000.
JUN. 5
MBAC Meeting. Meeting of the Montpelier
Bicycle Advisory Committee. First Turs., 8 a.m.
Police Station Community Room, 534 Washing-
ton St., Montpelier. 262-6273.
Diabetes Support Group. First Turs., 78 p.m.
Conference room 3, Central Vermont Medical
Center. 371-4152.
JUN. 6
Coffeehouse. Enjoy live music and share your
own. Fellowship, potluck snacks and beverages.
First Fri., 79 p.m. Trinity United Methodist
Church, 137 Main St., Montpelier (park and enter
at rear). Free. 244-5191, 472-8297 or
rawilburjr@comcast.net.
JUN. 7
National Federation of the Blind, Montpelier
Chapter. First Sat. Lane Shops community room,
1 Mechanic St., Montpelier. 229-0093.
Young Adventurers Club Hike with Green
Mountain Club. Warren. Dicult. 5-7 miles.
Mt. Abraham. YAC is a GMC group devoted to
helping parents and kids get outdoors together.
Contact leader, Matt, for meeting time and place:
485-4312.
Central Vermont Humane Society 22nd Annual
Walk for Animals. Help support shelter animals.
Participants are asked to collect cash, checks or
online pledges for shelter animals. Prizes awarded
to highest pledge collectors. Cake, giveaways, dog
training demos and more. Come for the walk, stay
for the fun! 476-3811 x. 110. events@cvhumane.
com. For pledge sheet and registration:
cvhumane.com.
Weekly
Events
ART & CRAFT
Beaders Group. All levels of beading experience
welcome. Free instruction available. Come with
a project for creativity and community. Sat., 11
a.m.2 p.m. Te Bead Hive, Plaineld. 454-1615.
Noontime Knitters. All abilities welcome. Basics
taught. Crocheting, needlepoint and tatting also
welcome. Tues., Noon1 p.m. Waterbury Public
Library, 28 N. Main St., Waterbury. 244-7036
BICYCLING
Open Shop Nights. Volunteer-run community
bike shop: bike donations and repairs. Tues.,
68 p.m.; other nights. Freeride Montpelier, 89
Barre St., Montpelier. By donation. 552-3521.
freeridemontpelier.org.
BOOKS & WORDS
Lunch in a Foreign Language. Bring lunch
and practice your language skills with neighbors.
Noon1 p.m. Mon., Hebrew; Tues., Italian;
Wed., Spanish; Turs., French. Kellogg-Hubbard
Library, 135 Main St., Montpelier. 223-3338.
English Conversation Practice Group. For
students learning English for the rst time.
Tues., 45 p.m. Central Vermont Adult Basic
Education, Montpelier Learning Center, 100
State St. 223-3403.
Ongoing Reading Group. Improve your reading
and share some good books. Books chosen by
group. Turs., 910 a.m. Central Vermont Adult
Basic Education, Montpelier Learning Center,
100 State St. 223-3403.
BUSINESS & FINANCE,
COMPUTERS
Computer and Online Help. One-on-one
computer help. Tues. and Fri., 10 a.m.1 p.m.
Waterbury Public Library, 28 N. Main St.,
Waterbury. Free. Registration required: 244-
7036.
Personal Financial Management Workshops.
Learn about credit/debit cards, credit building
and repair, budgeting and identity theft,
insurance, investing, retirement. Tues., 68 p.m.
Central Vermont Medical Center, Conference
Room 3. Registration: 371-4191.
Always Employed-Free Audio Chat. Helpful
insights to make your employment possible.
Tues., May 20 and 27, 6:157:30 p.m. Christian
Science Reading Room. Corner of State and
Bailey, Montpelier. csrr_mpv_librarian@
myfairpoint.net.
FOOD
Capital City Farmers Market. 53 vendors.
Trough Oct. 25. 9a.m.1p.m. Corner of Elm
and State, Montpelier. 223-2958. manager@
montpelierfarmersmarket.org.
Community Meals in Montpelier. All welcome.
Free.
Mon.: Unitarian Church, 130 Main St., 11
a.m.1 p.m.
Tues.: Bethany Church, 115 Main St., 11:30
a.m.1 p.m.
Wed.: Christ Church, 64 State St., 11
a.m.12:30 p.m.
Thurs.: Trinity Church, 137 Main St., 11:30
a.m.1 p.m.
Fri.: St. Augustine Church, 18 Barre St., 11
a.m.12:30 p.m.
Sun.: Last Sunday only, Bethany Church, 115
Main St. (hosted by Beth Jacob Synagogue),
4:305:30 p.m.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Turning Point Center. Safe, supportive place
for individuals and their families in or seeking
recovery. Daily, 10 a.m.5 p.m. 489 North Main
St., Barre. 479-7373.
Sun.: Alchoholics Anonymous, 8:30 a.m.
Tues.: Making Recovery Easier workshops,
67:30 p.m.
Wed.: Wits End Parent Support Group, 6 p.m.
Thurs.: Narcotics Anonymous, 6:30 p.m.
Sex Addicts Anonymous. Mon., 6:30 p.m.
Bethany Church, 115 Main St., Montpelier. 552-
3483.
Growing Older Discussion Group. Informal,
drop-in group to share experiences, thoughts and
fears about aging. All seniors welcome! Tues., 11
a.m.Noon. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.
58 Barre St., Montpelier. 223-2518. msac@
montpelier-vt.org.
Overeaters Anonymous. Twelve-step program
for physically, emotionally and spiritually
overcoming overeating. 223-3079. Tues.,
5:306:30 p.m. at Episcopal Church of the
Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St., Barre. Fri.,
Noon1 p.m. at Bethany Church, 115 Main St.,
HIV Testing. Vermont CARES oers fast oral
testing. Turs., 25 p.m. 58 East State St., ste. 3
(entrance at back), Montpelier. Free. 371-6222.
vtcares.org.
KIDS & TEENS
Moretown Playgroup. Tykes burn o energy in
a constructive environment. Mon., 9:3011 a.m.
through Jun. 2. Moretown Elementary School.
940 VT 100B, Moretown. 436-3742.
Story Time at the Jaquith Public Library.
With Sylvia Smith, followed by play group with
Melissa Seifert. Ages Birth6. Wed. 1011:30
a.m. Jaquith Public Library, 122 School St.,
Marsheld. 426-3581.
Drop-in Kinder Arts Program. Innovative
exploratory arts program with artist/instructor
Kelly Holt. Age 35. Fri., 10:30 a.m.Noon.
River Arts Center, 74 Pleasant St., Morrisville.
888-1261. RiverArtsVT.org.
Elementary Open Gym and Activity Time.
Supervised kids in grades K6 burn o energy,
then engage their imaginations with art, puzzles
and books. Fri., 34:30 p.m. through May
30. Jaquith Public Library. 122 School St.,
Marsheld. Free. 426-3581. jaquithpubliclibrary.
org.
Te Basement Teen Center. Cable TV,
PlayStation 3, pool table, free eats and fun events
for teenagers. Mon.Turs., 36 p.m.; Fri.,
311 p.m. Basement Teen Center, 39 Main St.,
Read to Coco. Share a story with Coco, the
resident licensed reading therapy dog, who loves
to hear kids practice reading aloud. Wed., 3:30
4:30 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main
St., Montpelier. Sign up ahead: 223-4665 or at
the childrens desk. kellogghubbard.org.
Origami Club. Learn to make magical paper
creations come alive with Kim Smith. Turs.,
34 p.m. Trough May. Kellogg-Hubbard
kellogghubbard.org.
Read with Arlo. Meet reading therapy dog Arlo
and his owner Brenda. Sign up for a 20-minute
block. Turs., 45 p.m. Kellogg-Hubbard
kellogghubbard.org.
Free dinner. Turs., 67:30 p.m. through Jun.
30. Family Center of Washington County. 283
Sherwood Dr., Montpelier. 262-3292 x.115.
familycenter@fcwcvt.org.
Teen Fridays. Find out about the latest teen
books, use the gym, make art, play games and
if you need to, do your homework. Fri., 35
p.m. Jaquith Public Library, 122 School St.,
Marsheld. 426-3581.
Mad River Valley Youth Group. Sun., 79 p.m.
Meets at various area churches. Call 497-4516 for
location and information.
MUSIC & DANCE
Barre-Tones Womens Chorus. Open
rehearsal. Find your voice with 50 other women.
Mon., 7 p.m. Alumni Hall, Barre. 223-2039.
BarretonesVT.com.
Dance or Play with the Swinging over 60
Band. Danceable tunes from the 1930s to the
1960s. Recruiting musicians. Tues., 10:30 a.m.
noon. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 58
Barre St., Montpelier. 223-2518.
Ballroom Dance Classes-Session 2. With
Instructor Samir Elabd. Singles welcome, no
experience needed. Tues., through May 27.
American Tango 67 p.m.; wedding/party
dances, slow dance and Rumba 78 p.m. Union
Elementary School, Montpelier. Registration:
225-8699. Information: 223-292.
Monteverdi Young Singers Chorus Rehearsal.
New chorus members welcome. Wed., 45 p.m.
Montpelier. Call 229-9000 for location and more
information.
Ukelele Group. All levels welcome. Turs., 68
p.m. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 58 Barre
St. 223-2518.
Gamelan Rehearsals. Sun., 79 p.m. Pratt
Center, Goddard College. Free. 426-3498.
steven.light@jsc.edu. light.kathy@gmail.com.
OUTDOORS
Spring Migration Bird Walks. Explore NBNC
and other local birding hot spots for spring
migrants, such as warblers, vireos, thrushes
and waterfowl. Fri., 78:30 a.m. North Branch
Nature Center. 713 Elm St., Montpelier. $10;
free for members. Call for directions to meeting
locations: 229-6206. northbranchnaturecenter.
org.
PARENTING
New Parents Workshop Series: Honoring Your
Birth Story & Birth Healing. New Parents
Workshop Series is intended for expecting parents
and parents of infants less than 1 year of age.
Space is limited. Turs., May 1, 8, 15. 68 p.m.
Good Beginnings. 174 River St., Montpelier.
Free. RSVP: 595-7953. gbcv91@gmail.com.
RECYCLING
Additional Recycling. Te Additional
Recyclables Collection Center accepts scores of
hard-to-recycle items. Tues. and Turs., 12:30
p.m.5:30 p.m. ARCC, 540 North Main St.,
Barre. $1 per carload. 229-9383 x106. For
list of accepted items, go to cvswmd.org/arcc-
additional-recyclables-collection-center.html.
SOLIDARITY/IDENTITY
Womens Group. Women age 40 and older
explore important issues and challenges in their
lives in a warm and supportive environment.
Facilitated by Amy Emler-Shaer and Julia W.
Gresser. Wed. evenings. 41 Elm St., Montpelier.
262-6110.
SPIRITUALITY
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. For
those interested in learning about the Catholic
faith, or current Catholics who want to learn
more. Wed., 7 p.m. St. Monica Church, 79
Summer St., Barre. Register: 479-3253.
Deepening Our Jewish Roots. Fun, engaging
text study and discussion on Jewish spirituality.
Sun., 4:456:15 p.m. Yearning for Learning
Center, Montpelier. 223-0583. info@
yearning4learning.org.
Christian Science Reading Room. Explore
a spiritually based method of treating disease
and alleviating suering based on the teachings
and ministry of Christ Jesus. Tues., Jun. 3 only.
Christian Science Reading Room. 145 State St.,
Montpelier. csrr_mpv_librarian@myfairpoint.
net.
SPORTS & GAMES
Roller Derby Open Recruitment and
Recreational Practice. Central Vermonts
Wrecking Doll Society invites quad skaters age
18 and up. No experience necessary. Equipment
provided: rst come, rst served. Sat., 56:30
p.m. Montpelier Recreation Center, Barre St.
First skate free. centralvermontrollerderby.com.
YOGA & MEDITATION
Christian Meditation Group. People of all
faiths welcome. Mon., Noon1 p.m. Christ
Church, Montpelier. 223-6043.
Yoga and Meditation. With Katy Leadbetter.
Meditation: Mon., 1 p.m. (unlimited).
Introduction to yoga: Tues., 4 p.m. (four-class
limit). Consultation: Fri., 11 a.m. (one per
person). 56 East State St., Montpelier. Free. 272-
8923.
Zen Meditation. With Zen Aliate of Vermont.
Mon., 6:307:30 p.m. 174 River St., Montpelier.
Free. Call for orientation: 229-0164.
Drop-In Meditation Sitting Group. With
Sherry Rhynard. A weekly meditation group
oers ways to nd out more about meditation
and gives support to an existing or new practice.
Turs., 67 p.m. Central Vermont Medical
Center. 130 Fisher Rd., Berlin. Free. 272-236.
sherry@easeoow.com.
Shambhala Buddhist Meditation. Group
meditation practice. Sun., 10 a.m.noon; Tues.,
78 p.m.; Wed., 67 p.m. Shambhala Meditation
Center, 64 Main St., 3F, Montpelier. Free. 223-
5137. montpeliershambala.org.
Confdential*Efcient*Afordable
Karen Hanron, M.A.
802-223-3219
Kreneeh@comcast.net
Medical Billing
& Processing
for Mental Health
Practitioners
Class listings and classifieds are 50 words for $25; discounts available. To place an ad, call Carolyn, 223-5112, ext. 11.
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CLASSES &
WORKSHOPS:
ALLIANCE FRANAISE SUMMER FRENCH
CLASSES FOR ADULTS starting June 9. Classes
include French through Songs, French around
Town, Beginning French Review and Interme-
diate French Grammar. *New this summer:
intensive 4-day session in Advanced French in
the Montpelier area July 28-31! Descriptions
and signup at acr.org. Contact Micheline
Tremblay:michelineatremblay@gmail.com,
802-881-8826.
WRITING COACH. Struggling with beginning,
continuing, nishing? Need tools to start you up
and keep you working from concept to comple-
tion? Art is long, and life short. WRITE NOW is
what we have. Tirty years working in lm, TV,
theater and prose, coaching writers in all genres.
Free initial consultation. Tamarcole21@gmail.com
802-225-6415.
EMPLOYMENT:
COOL HELP WANTED, PART-TIME SUPPORT
Fun, cool, reliable, compassionate, outgoing per-
son wanted to support middle-aged community
member with Downs Syndrome (male) currently
living independently in downtown Montpelier.
Work might include assistance with home main-
tenance, diet and cooking, exercise, and forging
new community connections. Several short shifts
each week. Could eventually/potentially become
a live-in situation, rent-free, for right candidate.
Please submit letter/resume detailing interest and
qualications, along with contact info for three
references, to sister, jannaclar@hotmail.com
CARPENTER POSITION
AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY Full time position
available with Allied Building Contractors for
either Lead Carpenter and/or Apprentice. see list-
ing on Craigslist for more details. apply via email
only. info@alliedbuildingvt.com.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE COORDINA-
TOR - Seeking motivated self-starter to work
w/ international teens. Recruit volunteer host
families, arrange high school placement, provide
support thru school year. Excellent networking
skills and experience with youth. Commission +
travel perks. PT, ex hrs. Apply at www.pax.org.
Questions? Contact kellyc@pax.org.
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Kitchens, baths, additions
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I
want to share something about myself
that is probably more information than
you really want to knowI have a tat-
too on my ass of a whisk. How it got there
is a bourbon-soaked blur of a memory that
I have tried to bury as deep as I could in the
back of my mind. But for the sake of your
entertainment, I will try to recount how it
got there.
I am a simple home cook with delusions of
grandeur. My fantasy is to work in a serious,
professional kitchen wearing a giant toque
and perhaps faking a French accent. My he-
roes are all fancy-pants executive chefs who
transform bones and butter into seductive
sauces. I want to be them.
So, recently, I have been fooling around in
a couple of well-regarded professional kitch-
ens. Thanks to some close friends who own
restaurants, I have found a means to explore
my inner chef. The restaurants shall go un-
named to protect the innocent.
For the most part this has all gone swim-
mingly. I still have 10 fingers. Nothing has
caught on fire, and most of my restaurant
friends are still talking to me. However, I
have suffered some rude awakenings that
have diminished my enthusiasm some.
On Day One, I strutted into the kitchen
swaddled in my brand new chef whites and
plopped my knives down at my station with
authority. The reception from my fellow
line-mates, a grizzled battery of suspicious-
looking characters covered with scars and
burns, was something less than warm. I no-
ticed some raised eyebrows and a couple of
rolling eyes. I was undaunted and ready to
show my stuff by Frenching a rack of lamb
or perhaps whipping up a souffl, when a 10
pound bag of potatoes was presented to me
unceremoniously. Nothing more was said.
As I peeled away, I noticed that there was
a clear hierarchy in the kitchen. There was
an executive chef, wearing a crooked toque,
a chef de cuisine expediting the orders, and
a sous chef who was coaxing fire from the
range like a deranged pyromaniac. He had
no eyebrows. In the corner was a soggy-
looking dishwasher with suds in his hair
and then, there, just below him on the lad-
der, was me. I had no titleperhaps Potato
Boy?
As time went on I began to notice that all
of these kitchen professionals were heavily
inked. Their arms and necks were covered
with tattoos depicting pigs, knives, a couple
of skulls and a serpent or two. It struck me
that tats were an important part of kitchen
culture. In fact, it seemed to me that there
was a correlation between how heavily
inked you were and how much kitchen
cred you had. If you gained kitchen cred,
you were rewarded with the most coveted
title in the kitchen which, surprisingly, was
not executive chef, but rather Bad Ass. If
you became a Bad Ass, you had reached the
culinary pinnacle.
At the time I had no tattoos to show off,
and I began to feel like my milky white
arms were an impediment to being accepted
into the crew. I had no chance of rising to
Bad Ass status sans ink. Something had to
be done.
As I contemplated my bare skin, I wondered
what image would be most impressive to
my colleagues. What icon could I adopt
that would give me some instant kitchen
cred and perhaps simultaneously express my
inner chef? This is a big decision, I thought.
Ink is, after all, forever. Given the pressure
of such a monumental decision and the fact
that I get a little nervous around needles, a
whiskey or two to steal my nerves seemed
like a good idea.
With a little, okay a lot, of liquid courage
in the tank, I wandered down to the local
tattoo parlor. There were boards all over
the walls with sample images, but not many
options that fit the bill. I was thinking
something powerful-looking, like maybe a
flaming potato masher or a razor sharp
cleaver embedded in a skull. Perhaps a pres-
sure cooker about to blow, or even a nude
woman bathing in a cast iron pot would
be cool. Maybe a Jolly Roger with crossed
baguettes instead of swords would be flat-
tering across my chest.
The tattoo artist was growing impatient as I
tried to explain what I was looking for, but
the liquor was hitting me hard and I was
feeling a little light-headed. He offered his
opinions and a swig from a hip flask that
he kept in his pocket. I declined, mumbling
something unintelligible like, another
whisk and Ill be on my ass. After that the
only thing I remember was lying down to
stop the room from spinning and the buzz
of a tattoo needle.
With a pounding head, I awoke the next
morning to find the whisk tat where the sun
dont shine. Something got lost in transla-
tion, but I concluded that I was one step
closer to becoming a Bad Ass Chef.
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T
he American craft beer movement has
come a long way over the last 40 years.
While we celebrate American Craft
Beer Week May 12 to 18, it is only right to
look back and give a nod to some of the brew-
ers, breweries and styles that we have come to
know and love. These pioneers, innovators in
their field, revived a dying industry that had
become ubiquitous with the watered down,
corn-filled lagers typified by Budweiser.
In recognition of these pioneers, Three Penny
Taproom in downtown Montpelier is showing
off some of the industrys most well regarded
forbearers this week with names like Sierra
Nevada, Anchor, Stone and Smuttynose.
These companies bravely ventured where oth-
ers would not and created their own markets
for a lost art of brewing that put a premium
on ingredients and sacrificed nothing for taste.
On the East Coast, Smuttynose Brewing
Company quietly perfected its art in the port
city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. First
opening its doors in 1994, Smuttynose special-
izes in traditional English and German styles.
The Smuttynose pale ale is a homage to the
styles English ancestral past and a friendly
reminder to American pale ale lovers of where
this style came from. Kevin Kerner, manager
of Three Penny, compared the Smuttynose
pale ale Shoals to current American pale ales
like this, It is like listening to Miles Davis
you have to have heard Charlie Parker first, or
at least have to give credit to Charlie Parker for
the invention of Miles Davis.
Shoals, is an extraordinary pale ale, said
Kevin, which is spot-on for an English-style
pale ale. The distinct flavor of the English-
style pale ale receives different reactions when
first tried by fans of the American pale ale.
Instead of the robust rush of hops that greet
people when they take a sip of many Ameri-
can pale ales, English pale ales offer a more
balanced experience. It doesnt get all of the
credit that it deserves because people have
grown accustomed to pale ales where it is a
lot lighter in color, way hoppier, and citrusier.
This [Shoals] is the English-style pale ale, and
there is a really nice balance between the malt
and the hops, said Kevin.
Enjoying a fresh pour of Shoals does not mean
one has to turn their backs to innovation how-
ever. I never fight innovation and I love new
and interesting things, said Kevin, but it is
always nice to go back and be like, Oh yeah,
there is that beer out there.
Sampling beers like Shoals allows people to
better understand the evolution of beer and
the development of certain styles. It helps fos-
ter a respect for the brewing process and high-
lights just how innovative many current brew-
ers are beingtruly pushing the boundaries
of traditional styles and in many cases creating
new and unique styles of their own.
The Smuttynose brown ale, Old Brown Dog
Ale, is also a benchmark in its style. While a
little hoppier than traditional English brown
ales, this American brown ale is a nice middle
ground between dark and light beers. When
people come in here and say that they want
something that is not too light and not too
dark, or how about something that is middle
of the road, or how about an amber ale, we al-
ways point them towards the Old Brown Dog
Ale because it fills that niche, said Kevin.
While it is a great beer for that customer who
isnt sure if they want a darker or lighter beer,
many seasoned beer drinkers tend to shy away
from the style, preferring a hoppier offering
like an IPA or a more robust stout. Scott
Kerner, one of the owners of Three Penny, ad-
mits to being one of these people, Brown ales
are probably my least favorite style, he said.
He qualifies this by sharing a reverence for the
style, which leaves little for mistakes to hide
behind as some other styles do. If I walk into
a place, that is kind of the last style of beer
that I would buy, but it is also a good gauge on
how good a brewery is; so if I walk into a new
brewpub, the first thing I try is a new brown
ale and [if] Im like, This is a really nice
interpretation of the style, then I am probably
going to sit there all day and try all of their
beers. And I know I am going to find one that
I like better than that, said Scott.
Because of their difficulty to brew, many
breweries stay away from brown ales, but not
Smuttynose. They have perfected the style,
and Three Penny is happy to say that it is one
of the few draft lines that never changes here,
said Scott.
Thanks to the American craft beer move-
ment, beer enthusiasts have a wide variety of
brews to sample at local establishments such
as Three Penny this week to celebrate Ameri-
can Craft Beer Week.
American Craft Beer Week:
Interview with Kevin and Scott Kerner
by Jerry Carter
T
raveling 16 hours by nonstop air travel
was not my idea of a good time. My
girlfriends son had taken a job teach-
ing English to young children in Taipei,
Taiwan after graduating from college. Three
months later, we decided to visit him. To be
truthful, I wasnt certain where Taiwan was.
It would be our first trip to Asia. I always
secretly wondered if I had been Chinese in
a previous life, because Ive always been at-
tracted to Chinese culture. Especially the
food. Now here I was, flying over Alaska,
staring at a map, noise-cancelling head-
phones plugged in, wishing I had learned
Mandarin. In preparation, we had watched
Anthony Bourdains The Layover: Taipei. If
you havent seen the episode, he ricochets
from market to landmark and back again in
a blue-eyed mad rush, his senses in hyper-
drive, distilling his experiences into a dis-
tinctly New York colloquial collage.
As I flew into Taiwan, I took inventory of
what I had learned: Taipei is the largest city in
Taiwan, a small island 521 miles from Shang-
hai on mainland China and 1300 miles south-
east of Japan in the East China Sea (otherwise
known as the Pacific Ocean). Historically,
the island has been occupied by the Spanish,
French, Dutch and Japanese, making it a melt-
ing pot of architecture, cultural sensibilities
and food. Wait, did someone say food?
As soon as we settled into our hotel and after
my girlfriends tearful reunion with her son,
the three of us set off for a staple of Taiwan:
beef noodle soup. There are two styles of beef
noodle soup: a clear broth, with house-made
noodles, bok-choy, ginger and tender beef, or
the stronger, more flavorful dark broth. Both
were delicious, satisfying and a meal unto it-
self. And who could argue with prices ranging
from $2.50 to $3.00?
Taiwan is famous for its numerous night mar-
kets. There are more than two dozen in the
Taipei area alone, hawking everything from
clothing, electronics and food, to cell phone
accessories, touristy baubles and pets. The
Shilin Night Market was a bustle of jostling
people, polite though crowded, almost a single
writhing organism bent on tasting as much of
the fare in as short a time as possible. Taiwan
is known worldwide for two distinct creations:
pearl teachewy tapioca balls in bubble tea
which did not appeal to me, and soup dump-
lings, which did. In fact, soup dumplings may
be an epic evolution in food development.
Simply stated, soup dumplings are dumplings
with hot soup inside. But they are much more
than that. They are mind-alteringly enchant-
ing, an aromatic, cascading rush of savory,
mouth-watering flavors and textures that are
so good they could very well be addictive.
At some point, however, the customer leans
forward and wonders: How in the world do
they manage to seal soup inside? What kind
of chicanery and legerdemain is going on?
All without making the outer shell soggy? We
marvelled that there are the same number of
folds in each dumpling. How is this possible?
We learned the first step in preparation is
to make a consomm. Then the stock is ge-
latinized, mixed with meat filling, quickly
wrapped in fresh dough and then steamed to-
gether. Timing is keythe ingredients blend
as the meat cooks, the broth reverts to liquid,
and voila, you have a perfect shell without
sogginess. The dumplings are served in small
bamboo baskets. There are two techniques to
eating: you can dip the dumpling in vinegar,
nibble a tiny hole in the dumpling and let
the soup drain into the spoon and then gulp
it down, or you could gobble the dumpling
whole, allowing it to explode in your mouth
(riskier, since the soup is hot). And how do
they taste? I would have to agree with Anthony
Bourdain: A deeply religious experience.
One of my favorite things to do when traveling
is to intentionally get lost. Put another way, I
explore neighborhoods randomly, seeing what
I can see. When I get hungry, I pop into the
nearest restaurant that looks goodrelatively
clean, relatively full, with delicious-looking
food being served. Frequently, I found myself
in restaurants where no one spoke a word of
English. The menu was only in Chinese. No
problemtheres an app for that! I whipped
out my iPhone and scanned the Chinese words
using Waygo, which instantly translated the
text into English. Yum!
If you travel to Taiwan you will eventually
cross paths with restaurants that offer a local
delight that is somewhat less than delightful,
at least to me: stinky tofu. For many tofu by
itself is enough to strike fear and loathing into
ones heart, but stinky on top of being tofu? As
the Bard said, A little more than a little is by
much too much. The smell of stinky tofu has
been likened to rotten garbage or manure. It is
made from a brine-fermented milk, sometimes
mixed with greens, bamboo shoots, herbs and
shrimp. Preparation of the brine fermentation
varies from a few days to a few months (thats
right, months). It is served cold, stewed, fried
or steamed, accompanied by chili sauce.
I supposed it was an acquired taste, but de-
cided it was one I would not acquire. Instead
I chose to avoid the restaurants offering stinky
tofu and follow the advice from The Analects
by Confucius, a book of pithy Confucian wis-
dom I had purchased from a temple: Confu-
cius say, Do not eat food that has turned and
smells. Good advice. Of course he also said,
Do not keep meat overnight after a public
sacrificial offering, but fortunately I saw no
such offerings during my visit.
When all was said and done, I left with a
distinct feeling I had just touched the sur-
face of the island. I knew I would return to
explore the hidden back streets and alleys in
search of hitherto unknown delicacies. How
else could I stop dreaming of noodle soup
and soup dumplings?
A Taste of NECI: A Culinary Visit to Taiwan
by Darryl Benjamin, NECI writing and marketing core academic instructor
SPARGE: /sprj/ verb. A brewing technique
that extracts the sugar from the grains by exposing
the grains to water.
Photo taken by Jen Sciarrotta
Photos (left to right): No GMO Soybeans foodcart, Shrimp with eyes at night market, Flat Squid on a Stick at Shilin Food Market, Grow your own mushrooms
Photos by: Darryl Benjamin
Darryl eating
beef noodle
soup
Photo courtesy of: Darryl Benjamin
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An Invitation from Bill Kelly
To the Editor:
I lost my youngest brother, Jerry, at age 30 to
suicide 23 years ago. He had struggled val-
iantly with varying degrees of success, for six
years after his first episode of bipolar mania
and hospitalization. Despite our awareness
of his challenges, his death shocked all who
knew him. He was a good man, kind, gener-
ous, wise for his years, and a gifted artist with
a compassionate heart. He chose to leave us
behind, not out of anger, hatred or selfishness,
but from a deep-seated agony that only he
could imagine.
The death of Bill Kellys brother, Jerry, has
inspired Bill Kelly and others to organized a
Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Group.
That Support Group is reaching out to anyone
who has lost someone to suicide and encour-
aging that person or persons to participate
with other survivors in sharing their expe-
rience with others who have experienced a
similar loss.
Meetings of the Central Vermont Survivors of
Suicide Loss Group take place on the third Tues-
day of each month. The meeting in May is
Thursday evening, May 20 at 6:00 p.m. in the
downstairs conference room at Central Vermont
Medical Center in Berlin. For further informa-
tion, please phone Bill Kelly at 223-0924.
Berlin Pond
To the Editor:
It's appalling that in the 21st century we still
have to struggle to protect our water quality,
but that is happening right now, right here.
Two years ago a court case opened Berlin
Pond, Montpelier's only water supply source,
to human recreation, ending 100 years of pro-
tection. The governor and the secretary of the
Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) want to
keep it open, bowing to the demands for ac-
cess by boaters and fishermen.
This raises huge questions: What research has
ANR done to establish that human recreation
will not impact the quality of Montpelier's
drinking water? What resources will they pro-
vide for such research? What is their plan for
follow-up monitoring of the water quality?
Will ANR provide funding for the costly up-
grades of our water treatment plant that will
be required if our water supply is contami-
nated by petrochemicals, human pathogens
or excessive turbidity? These questions must
be answered, and research from other water
districts which have prohibited all recreation
on their water sources must be addressed,
before human recreation on Berlin Pond can
continue. That's the only responsible path
ANR can take.
Clean water is the most critical requirement
for life. Recreation is allowed on many other
water bodies besides Berlin Pond. The human
requirement for clean water trumps the right
of people for recreation in that one specific
place.
The group Citizens to Protect Berlin Pond
has petitioned ANR to prohibit human use
on the pond again. ANR is holding a public
hearing on this petition May 27, from 6 to 8
p.m. at Berlin Elementary School. Please at-
tend the hearing and lend your voice to those
who are advocating for keeping Montpelier's
water as pure as possible. Write or call ANR
and insist that they keep Montpelier's water
source clean. Public comment will be accepted
until June 3.
Page Guertin, Montpelier
Trains at Carr Lot
To the Editor:
The long-awaited Carr Lot development in
Montpelier centered on a transit center needs
to be a platform ready to accommodate sub-
stantial commuter and intercity rail passen-
gers.
While studies for commuter and intercity
rail date from 1989, the decade-long Link
commuter buses, now numbering 18 each
workday between Burlington and Montpelier,
give proof for an estimated 700-plus indi-
vidual commuters making round trips using
the Montpelier transit center each day. The
estimated Montpelier rail boardings of 268
passengers each morning headed to one of
nine stations from Waterbury, to Burlington,
to Charlotte compares to about 90 boarding
Links from Montpelier each workday. Even
more passenger numbers come along when a
natural extension of commuter rail to Berlin
and Barre stations gets added into the mix.
With upgrades to 80 mph speeds from Mont-
pelier Junction to Essex Junction already in
place, and the arrival of Amtrak service from
the Ethan Allen to Union Station in Burl-
ington, within three years commuter and in-
tercity services will really be near a tipping
point. Car travel in Vermont and nationally
is down among all age groups, driver licens-
ing proportions are down 10 percent in the
under-30 crowd, and Vermont and national
public transit, bicycling and walking grow
like topsy. My presentation next month to the
Canadian Transportation Research Forum of
a small metro case study of MontpelierBur-
lington commuter rail estimates (on/off pas-
senger) concludes that commuter rail service
is feasible today. Total MontpelierBurlington
Link commuter bus workday trips recently
reached 450 trips (225 round trip commutes)
with about 90 commuting round trip from
Montpelier and about 135 round trip totals
from Burlington and the Richmond Park and
Ride.
Self-propelled two-car rail diesel units
(DMUs) can accommodate 150175 passen-
gers and a lot of bicycles, versus three to four
times the capacity of a bus, and commuter
rail travel times between Montpelier and Bur-
lington are about the same. The commuter
buses serve three stations, while commuter
rail serves nine, including seven town and city
centers. Commuter rail also provides direct
service to IBM Technology Park.
The costs rest easy on the eyes: less than $1
million with federal support and half the cost
(about $3.5 million a year for all capital and
operating expense) than the governors initial
budget of $7 million for the two Amtrak
trains for the coming fiscal year.
Commuter rail service can fit in with intercity
and Amtrak services, provides almost 100 pas-
senger miles per gallon of fuel, revitalizes the
town and city centers and reduces car travel
and urban congestion. It is rail service for all
reasons!
It is time for the Montpelier transit center
development and to bring on commuter and
intercity railit is back to the future today!
Tony Redington, Burlington
Letters
D
uring the decade that began in 2000
The Bridge leaned heavily on the
skills, expertise and good advice of
Rolf Mueller at Sunlight Computer Services
in Calais. Rolf helped us with our computers.
He put the paper up on the Internet. He gave
us intelligent and timely business advice.
Rolf s many services to The Bridge were much
more than a business relationship. Rolf was a
friend and as time passed Rolf and his wife
Alma became part of the papers extended
family.
I keenly remember all of us visiting Rolf and
Alma at their home in Adamant and seeing
Rolf s magnificent garden and at The Bridge,
Rolf and Alma were often part of our seasonal
celebrations.
Several weeks ago I was in touch with a friend
who told me that Rolf s wife, Alma, had died.
I remember Alma as an extraordinarily lov-
ing, graceful and intelligent person and her
loss was and is distressing.
As part of her valued life Alma was a
dancer who danced with several renowned
professional dance companies including Mar-
tha Graham Dance Company and the Alvin
Ailey American Dance Theater.
Almas first marriage was to Frank M. Wool-
sey III. Together they had two children: Leila
in 1970 and Aaron in 1972. Her husband
Frank Woolsey died in 1974.
Alma met and fell in love with Rolf Mueller
in 1978 and they moved together with the
children to Vermont from New York City in
1980. Alma taught dance at Johnson State
College. She also enrolled in a nursing pro-
gram at the University of Vermont. Rolf and
Alma were married in 1985.
After receiving her M.S.N at UVM, Alma
became a nurse practitioner and worked at
primary care clinics, worked with patients
dealing with addictions, worked at Central
Vermont Hospital and Dartmouth Hitchcock
Medical Center. She was also a home health
and hospice nurse and a clinical nursing in-
structor at Norwich University.
Almas family is holding a memorial celebra-
tion of her life on Sunday, May 25, 2014 at
2:00 p.m. at Waterside Hall at the Adamant
Music School (Haggett Road) in Adamant,
Vermont.
Alma cared passionately about providing care
for all her patients and was an advocate for
quality health care accessibility. Memorial
donations in her memory can be sent to the
Peoples Health and Wellness Clinic, 553
North Main Street, Barre, VT 05641.
In Memory of Alma Mueller
by Nat Frothingham
Dear Friends & Constituents,
100 Years of Full Protection
For over 100 years the water of Berlin Pond, Montpeliers drinking water source, was fully
protected. The filtration plant, built in 1998, was designed to filter water from a fully protected
pond. That water treatment plant cannot filter -- in fact, it cannot even detect -- petroleum!
Full Protection Ended in May 2012
In 2012 our Vermont Supreme Court allowed recreational access to Berlin Pond. That access
includes swimming, fishing, hunting, and boating. That access permits gasoline engines on the
water or ice. Only on boats is gasoline prohibited.
The Immediate Threat to Our Water
Increased or prolonged human contact with Berlin Pond water will inevitably and seriously
diminish the purity of that water even without a petroleum threat. Pollution like this is hap-
pening across the world. Berlin Pond is a small, shallow, silty-bottomed body of water that is
highly susceptible to pollution caused by human contact.
What You Can Do
The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) is reviewing a citizens petition to return
Berlin Pond to full protection. A hearing of public testimony is scheduled for Tuesday evening,
May 27, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Berlin Elementary School in Berlin.
We are facing an uphill struggle to secure approval of the citizens petition for full protection
of Berlin Pond. Your attendance at that public hearing will be crucial to the success of the
petition.
This is your chance to support the protection of water, unquestionably our most important
resource. We need as many people as possible to sign up and speak if you wish (2-minute limit),
but it is essential that we have an overwhelming show of support with numbers.
Vermont Needs to Take the Lead Here
Across the country, there is a fresh water emergency in parts of Virginia and West Virginia,
in drought-stricken western states and where fracking is taking its toll. In all these situation
water supplies are now endangered or soon will be. Vermont must take the lead in protecting
its fresh water.
I have never before made such a plea for your help. But this is a critical matter. If Berlin Pond
is left open our water supply will be forever degraded. And theres even a chance our water
source could be ruined. This would leave us with no alternative source of water or with the
enormous costs of finding an alternative.
It is critical that each of you be present at the public hearing at the Berlin Elementary School on
Tuesdsay, May 27 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The number of people who support full protection
will significantly influence the ANR as they review the petition. Please bring friends.
Call me at 229-0878 if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Rep. Warren Kitzmiller
Open Letter from Rep. Warren Kitzmiller
to Friends and Constituents.
Montpeliers Water Source is in Danger.
I Need Your Immediate Help.
Take an unforgettable female protagonist, the
classic immigrant story of the 20th century
,and a whole lot of ice cream, and you have the
perfect summer novel. The Ice Cream Queen of
Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman starts
in the early 1900's when little Malka and her
family come to America from Russia. Living
in New York City's Jewish tenements, Malka
is abandoned by her family after an accident
with an Italian ices cart cripples her. The
owner of the cart takes her in, and Malka
lives on the fringes of the Dinello family while
learning the business of ice cream. It's not an
easy lifethe Dinellos never accept her as one
of their own, and the poverty in the Italian
neighborhood is not much better than a few
blocks over. But Malka is nothing if not smart
and resourceful. She soon changes her name
to Lillian and as an adult she and her hus-
band start their own ice cream business, only
better: they accidentally invent soft-serve ice
cream and then franchise their stores. Lillian's
rise to fame as America's Ice Cream Queen is
countered with her behind-the-scenes hard-
driving personality and scathing wit.
This novel is a fresh and thoughtful per-
spective of the American immigrant story.
Its about the scrappy woman who overcomes
countless hurdles to achieve great business
success and even fame. Lillian becomes so
popular with the public she even hosts a chil-
dren's Sunday morning television program in
the 70s. Gilman's true gifts as a writer show
through in Lillian's character development.
Gilman said she wanted to create a great
female anti-hero and she has succeeded in
Lillian. A young, poor girl doesn't get rich and
famous without making some enemies along
the way. When Lillian gets into trouble with
the IRS, the dark side of her story becomes
public. Once the tabloids get a hold of her,
she can't rely on her usual charm or even
ruthlessness. Despite it all, the reader will root
for Lillian to come out on top, because we
understand her so well even if we don't like
everything about her.
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street is an
entertaining novel with interesting historical
perspective, a funny but hard-edged protago-
nist and lots of ice cream. Lillian is part Tom
Carvel, part Bob McAllister and part Leona
Helmsley, and all attitude. This is a very en-
tertaining story and a character you will not
soon forget. I recommend reading it by the
lake with a maple creemee in hand!
Bernd Heinrich's newest work, The Homing
Instinct: Meaning &w Mystery in Animal Mi-
gration, unsurprisingly focuses on the topic
of migration. What surprised me, however,
is that the book doesn't start on the subject
of bird migration like the cover suggests. In-
stead, Heinrich opens by writing about new-
born turtles and their hardwired motivation
to fly to the sea. From there, the subject mat-
ter moves into more expected avian territory,
but also visits species of mammals, insects,
reptiles, fish and amphibians.
Much of the book is focused on what tactics
and techniques these animals use to migrate,
from scent trailing and visual mapping, to
being trained by the elders of a species. But
there is a larger theme present throughout
the text that gets directly addressed later on:
What makes a place home to an animal and
what draws us there? This concept of home is
so vastly different species to species, but also
universal in the animal kingdom. Humans
included. Thus, the motive for all of this mi-
gration is explored.
While reviewing this book, a friend and fel-
low Heinrich fan expressed a frustration:
Why do we need to explore these mysteries?
Why can't it just be amazing? After thinking
about it, I agree. But, I don't think Heinrich
kills the magic in this book. That's why he is
so good at what he does. His mission is not to
fill one's head with Latin and scientific terms.
Rather, he is using his knowledge to share
his amazement of nature's mysteries with the
reader. He helps us understand functions and
relationships in natural systems, but doesn't
propose to answer every single question or
categorize every event.
This accessible and relatable work of nature
writing accomplishes not only it's initial goal
of exploring animal migration, it also vali-
dates of Heinrich's style as a whole. It shows
that his hands-on, non-technical approach
can work even when studying huge concepts
in the animal kingdom like migration.
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
by Susan Jane Gilman Review by Claire Benedict
The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in
Animal Migration by Bernd Heinrich Review by Tom Hamilton
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