July 31, 2014 - The Essex Reporter

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‘Ripe for redevelopment’
Pearl Street developer
assesses village
prospects
By JASON STARR
The Essex Reporter
As we await an Environmental
Commission decision on Milot Real
Estate’s application under Vermont’s Act
250 land use regulations to redevelop
at Five Corners, reams of supplemental
evidence have been pouring in for
consideration. The commission has not
yet scheduled a session to deliberate
the latest evidence, according to
Environmental Commission Coordinator
Stephanie Monaghan. She expects an
August deliberation.
Meanwhile, Milot’s director of
development, Brett Grabowski, has toured
the property for sale at 8 Pearl Street,
next door to his proposed four-story
commercial/apartment building at the
corner of Park and Pearl streets. Milot
bought the corner lot — a former People’s
Bank branch — for $950,000 in December.
Milot’s interest in 8 Pearl Street
is preliminary, Grabowski said, and
any acquisition and redevelopment
there would stand on its own rather
than be incorporated into the adjacent
proposal. Residents have argued that
the commercial/apartment building will
overwhelm the corner lot.
“We’re confident we are going to get
a permit to do what we want, but the
price was right no matter what we end up
doing,” Grabowski said.
The Five Corners area is presently
peppered with mixed-use real estate that
is for sale. Although rumors of changes
at IBM’s Essex Junction plant with its
roughly 4,000 jobs have swirled this
summer, Grabowski sees strong long-term
demand for residential and commercial
space in the village. He said growth at
Essex’s Keurig Green Mountain plant
and the recent doubling of the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Service
Center down the road from IBM make the
village an attractive target for real estate
investment.
“The properties in the village are
ripe for redevelopment,” he said. “That’s
why I purchased the property on the
corner. The zoning regulations are very
accommodating for redevelopment and
high-density projects, which is where that
should be occurring… We’re really looking
forward to starting (construction), and I
think it’s something the area really needs.
“I think the demand for that location
is going to be there even with the absence
of IBM,” he added. “I think the economy
is pretty resilient and it will absorb those
4,000 jobs.”
In a June 17 letter to the
Environmental Commission, Essex
Junction Development Director Robin
Pierce expanded on the push for
redevelopment in the village center.
“The village has seen very little private
investment in the last 25 years,” he wrote.
“This project has the potential to bring
stores and residents to the Five Corners
as the first step in putting the heart back
into the village center, which is currently
a vehicle-centric area and is recognized by
– See DEVELOPMENT page 3a
St. Mike’s cuts
staff, boosts
enrollment
College prepares for
recruiting challenges
By JASON STARR
The Essex Reporter
The third annual Essex Half Marathon kicks off Sunday at Essex High School.
KIM MARTIN
O’Connor tops Essex Half
Marathon field
By ANTHONY LABOR
The Essex Reporter
Teage O’Connor was the first person to cross the finish
line during the Third Annual Essex Half Marathon on
Sunday.
The 30-year-old finished with a time of one hour, 15
minutes and four seconds. His time was over four minutes
better than anyone else in the marathon that had a field of
124 people in the stormy conditions.
“We had some thunderstorms about half hour into the
race and rain the rest of the way,” said Essex Junction Parks
and Recreation Assistant Director Brian Roy. “Everyone was
in good spirits though and turned out to be a great race day.”
Jon Buell finished second overall in the race with a time
of 1:19:43. Richard Carrick came in third with a time of
1:25:12.
Meg Lout was the first female to finish the race and was
fourth overall with a time of 1:25:50.
Eighteen-year-old Jonah Lavigne finished fifth overall
with a time of 1:25:51. It was the second straight year he
finished fifth in the race with a time of 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Rounding out the overall top 10 were Peter Feehan
(1:26:35), Todd Archambault (1:26:40), Logan Brunet
(1:27:05), Matthew Davis (1:27:12), and Phil Oldham
(1:27:29).
Brunet was taking part in the Half Marathon for the
second straight year. He finished 19 spots better than last
year’s 26th place finish and took over 22 minutes off his time.
Alex Dewitt rounded out the men’s division top 10 with
a time of 1:28:03. He also competed for the second straight
year. He finished around the same spot as last year, as he
finished ninth last year with a time of 1:27:43.
The women’s top 10 behind Lout were Linda Andrea
Wigger (1:29:11), Katherine Kardashian (1:32:01), Kathleen
Mack (1:34:34), Julie Kelly (1:40:27), Rose Of Shar Monahan
(1:42:05), Emily Saul (1:43:41), Ruth Taylor (1:44:20),
Karissa McDonough (1:47:58) and Shelby Farrell (1:48:28).
Kelly competed in last year’s race as well. She finished
the race two minutes quicker this year, as she also finished
sixth in the women’s division last year.
Monahan was another runner who competed for the
second straight year. The 17-year-old also finished two
minutes better this year than she did in 2013.
Margaret Barch and Beverly Briley were the youngest
A funny thing happened on St. Michael’s
College’s way to downsizing: It recruited its
largest incoming class in 10 years.
In an April report in the online
publication Inside Higher Ed headlined
“Shrinking as a strategy,” college President
Jack Neuhauser and members of the board
of trustees described plans to cut faculty and
staff in preparation for declining enrollment.
As part of the plan, the college offered
early retirement packages to approximately
25 faculty and staff members in the spring,
and filled only a quarter of those positions
for the upcoming school year. A second wave
of attrition is planned for next spring.
According to Sarah Kelly, vice president
for enrollment and marketing, the college
is anticipating a “perfect storm” of factors
cutting into its ability to recruit the class
sizes it prefers. The ideal student population
for St. Mike’s is 2,000, she said. The college
ended last year with about 1,900 students,
and Neuhauser has advised his staff to
prepare for a drop in enrollment over the
next few years to about 1,600.
A task force of faculty, staff, alumni and
trustees that completed its work in 2013
identified a host of present-day challenges
to attracting students. They include
competition from online college courses,
scrutiny on the practicality of a liberal arts
degree, the increasing cost of traditional
higher education, an awakening to the
realities of student loan debt and a regional
decline in the population of college-aged
students.
“The president said: ‘What are we going
to do to prepare?,’” Kelly recalled in an
interview last week. “We can’t pretend it’s
not happening. We want to be in control of it
and do it in an intentional way.”
– See MARATHON page 3a
– See ST. MIKES page 3a
A gathering of folks
Festival comes to
Elley-Long
By JASON STARR
The Essex Reporter
Revelers of all ages danced into the
night at the Elley-Long Music Center
in Fort Ethan Allen on Saturday,
participating in the 31st annual
Champlain Valley Folk Festival
during its first visit to Elley-Long.
Once a three-day festival on
the shores of Lake Champlain that
attracted the likes of Pete Seeger and
Dave Van Ronk, the festival’s scope
has shrunk in recent years. It was
a half-day event this year with an
afternoon performance by Canadian
Dancers participate in the 31st annual Champlain Valley Folk folk band, Finest Kind, and an
Festival on Saturday at the Elley-Long Music Center in Fort evening contra dance to the music of
Ethan Allen.
JASON STARR Massachusetts-based Wild Asparagus.
About 300 people attended, organizers
said, with the festivities wrapping up
about midnight.
“It’s a very special event that
people have been coming to for years,
and there are new people who join
us every year,” said Barbara Mines,
the secretary of the festival’s board of
directors. “There’s nothing like it.”
The festival started in 1983 in an
outdoor venue in Ferrisburgh with
multiple stages and performances,
and bounced around from the
Burlington waterfront to the
University of Vermont and back to
Ferrisburgh. Last year, as downsizing
began, it was held at the Rockpoint
School, a private alternative school
near Burlington’s North Beach.
Elley-Long received high praise
as the festival venue Saturday, with
its spacious wood dance floor and
concert hall acoustically tailored to
its main function as the Vermont
Youth Orchestra’s headquarters. The
building’s smaller practice rooms
served as jam session spaces, and a
potluck dinner filled the time between
shows.
“For a one-day event, Elley-Long is
perfect,” said Finest Kind bassist Ann
Downey, an Ottawa resident whose
mother lives in Jericho. “To have
everyone in one place is perfect, and
what a lovely-sounding room.”
It’s unclear whether the festival
will remain at Elley-Long in future
years.
“Our goal is to make it a weekend
like it used to be,” Mines said.
Board president Barry King said
the downsizing was necessary due to
a lack of volunteers to put on a big
event, rather than a lack of festivalgoers.
“We are all volunteers,” he said.
“We need more people to get back to a
weekend.”
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“Most people have pulled an all-nighter
– driving across country, cramming for
a test, etc. So when you talk about sleep
deprivation, most people will nod their
heads and think they know what you’re
talking about. But they don’t, I mean,
not really,” explained Alexis Dubief, a
mother of two boys.
“When you have a baby, this little
7-pound love nugget is immediately
the most important thing in the entire
world,” she continued. “You’re constantly
obsessing – is everything OK? Is
this normal? Am I doing a good job?
Honestly, it’s exhausting!”
Dubief and her husband, Yves,
moved to Essex Junction eight years ago
from California when he was offered a
position at the University of Vermont as
a professor of mechanical engineering.
Before moving to Vermont and having
their two boys – Duncan, 7, and Brice, 5
– Dubief used her Technical Writing and
MS in Finance degrees as a Software
Product Manager at a subsidiary of
Apple computers.
“I was in charge of a cool little
software product called Bento that
enabled users to create simple database
applications on a Mac,” she described. “It
was pretty nifty, but sadly was taken off
the market so I can no longer walk into
a Mac store and say, ‘Look - I designed
that!’ Although I can still point at my
kids and say that, so...”
Dubief admits that being a stay-athome-mom – or SAHM for short – is not
her natural state.
“I am a terrible homemaker (ask
anybody who has been to our home),” she
said. Which is part of the reason why she
started her website, troublesometots.
com.
“This website started out as a way for
me to play with Wordpress, social media,
SEO, etc. It was an engaging project
for me to noodle on when the kids were
napping.”
But sleep was evasive for the Dubief
family in the early months of their sons’
lives. And that’s how topics on baby
sleep and sleep deprivation became the
focus of troublesometots.com.
Since she first started blogging in
2011, Dubief is now on target to reach
over 1 billion page views this year. She
also launched her first book “Precious
Little Sleep” funded through Kickstarter
this year.
She recently elaborated on her
experiences as a tech-loving SAHM who
knows an awful lot about sleeplessness
and babies.
Q: What is it like to be that
extremely deprived of sleep?
A: Tired babies cry a lot. They’re
fussy. Soothing a fussy baby is
exhausting. Getting an overtired baby
to fall asleep (much less stay asleep) is a
huge challenge… You limp into bedtime
ready for a well-deserved break, but your
non-sleeping baby is going to continue
their non-sleeping ways at night.
While it’s normal and expected for a
newborn to need a lot of night care for a
few months, people don’t always realize
that this can continue for many months.
Now your 8-month-old is up every 1-2
hours all night long. The grandparents
have gone home and the neighbors have
stopped dropping off casseroles – there is
no end in sight. You aren’t sure how you
got here exactly and you are definitely
not sure how and when things will get
better. The pit of sleep deprivation can
be dark and deep. And unlike most of
our previous experiences with sleep
deprivation (á la studying for finals) it’s
not a discrete event, it just goes on and
Alexis Dubief, of Essex Junction, is the author
of troublesometots.com and is currently
working on her first book “Precious Little
Sleep.”
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on.
I don’t mean to suggest that babies
aren’t delightful, because they so totally
are. But when things go south on the
sleep front, it can be challenging to enjoy
the delightful part of babyhood because
you’re too tired to fully embrace the joys
of baby.
Q: Why did you start
TroublesomeTots.com?
A: I started blogging about kids and
sleep because we had a terrible go of
it (both of my little dudes had terrible
reflux, which made our transition to
parenthood unusually rocky) and I
learned a ton through that process that
I felt I could share with others. At heart
I’m a researcher, so digging through
baby sleep books and academic research
is something I’m pretty comfortable
with. Fundamentally, all I do is read
a lot, ask many questions, and distill
it down into basic ideas that I share
online.
I never expected to have any readers.
Now millions of people from all over the
world visit my site every year. Honestly,
it’s thrilling!
Q: Why did you want to write this
book “Precious Little Sleep”?
A: Last summer a highly reputable
book agent reached out to me and
we started to go after a traditional
publishing opportunity. For most
authors this would be an amazing
opportunity. I spent last summer
researching “traditional publishing.” I
reached out to many authors (many of
them NYT bestsellers), read everything
I could get my hands on, talked to
my agent. Eventually I came to the
conclusion that it wasn’t for me. It was
too slow, too restrictive, and in many
ways they weren’t really offering me
anything. The only reason I could get a
traditional publishing contract was that
I had a platform (my website) and they
felt I could use it to market my book.
I felt I could do the same thing, more
quickly, on my own. Time will tell if this
was a wise or foolish decision.
I still have an agent and she feels
the traditional publishing opportunity
that I turned down is still on the table.
But after Kickstarter, I’m 100 percent
committed to the path I’m on.
I never believed I could or should
write a book. Nor was I convinced the
world needed another baby sleep book.
One parenting-author famously (OK it’s
not famous, but it’s such a great quote
it should be famous) said: “There are so
many baby sleep books, they’re giving
them out by the cord. Like firewood.”
So the whole thing really started
when the agent called. Could I write a
book? Should I write a book? Is this a
terrible idea that will end in humiliation
and disgrace?
Last September I started working
– See DUBIEF page 3a
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Alexis and Yves Dubief’s sons,Duncan, 7, and Brice, 5, play in their backyard in Essex Junction.
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DUBIEF
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on it, figuring I would see what
happened. Admittedly it’s been a slow
slog – I write when my youngest is at
preschool (which is only a few hours,
a few days a week). But it’s come
together. I’ve shared it with others
and gotten strong feedback. So I keep
chugging away at it. And here we are.
Q: What’s left in the process
before it is available to parents or
parents to be?
A: I’ve got to finish my manuscript
(about 20,000 more words) this
summer and then I start working
with external editors. I’ve got a few
lined up, including a good friend and
highly qualified local editor, Caroline
Webster. There are different kinds
of editing (manuscript, copy editing,
proofreading) and each one will give
me feedback that I’ll have to work
through the draft. After all of those
iterations I’ll share with beta readers
(essentially blog readers who have
offered to help) for feedback. Does the
book cover all the key points? Does it
make sense? Is it funny enough?
Then it goes off into interior layout
and design, illustration, and cover
design. My initial goal was January
2015, but sadly I think March is
probably more realistic.
Jewell), video production (Champlain
College student and Essex Junction
resident, Devin Renca), etc. I didn’t
have the requirement of only hiring
other Essex Junction residents, it just
happened that way. You could do it
cheaper, but it’s hard. If your project
isn’t fully funded you walk away with
nothing. So you’re taking a financial
risk. If you come into the project
understanding these issues and
still feel it’s the right decision, then
definitely give it a go.
Q: How did you find the
Kickstarter campaign model?
Would you recommend it to others?
Any tips or tricks to a successful
campaign?
A: Kickstarter is a ton of work. I
spent three months getting ready to
launch my campaign and then little
else other than work on the campaign
for the month that it was live. I’m
Yves Dubief, Alexis Dibief's husband, reads to
both surprised and delighted that my
sons , Duncan, 7, and Brice, 5.
campaign was successful (reaching 170
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percent of my target goal). My readers
and friends were amazingly kind and
supportive and the whole process has
Q: How many readers to you have
been fantastic. But I can’t recommend
on your website?
it to everybody, as there are some
A: My site gets about 500,000 page
things that people considering
views a month. About half are from the
Kickstarter should know:
U.S. and the rest are from all over the
1) Your Kickstarter project amount
place (Canada, UK, Australia, China,
must be far larger than what you
etc.). Honestly I don’t blog frequently
need to complete your project. Why?
(about 1-2 times a month) but I’m lucky
Because you’ll need to pay Kickstarter,
in that my topic is “evergreen.” The
Amazon, and whatever rewards you
posts I wrote last year are still useful
have promised to your backers. My
to people having babies today. If some
campaign generated an amazing
new piece of research comes out that
$17,000 but after expenses I’ll only
impacts something I’ve written in the
have $10,000 to put towards my book.
past, I would go update it to reflect the
Which is still amazing, but people are
new knowledge but otherwise they hold
often surprised that I don’t have a
up over time.
$17,000 book budget.
Between maintaining the blog,
2) I think some people think
trying to write a book, staying present
Kickstarter is a place where you launch
on social media, it’s easily 20 hours a
your campaign and kind people will
week. Not easy as a SAHM. Mostly I
come fund it. This is almost never true.
squeeze it in during the brief moments
The people who backed my
when my kids are happily playing
campaign were close friends and blog
Legos together.
readers. Without blog readers the
As for topics, it’s pretty easy. I get
Kickstarter campaign would have been
tons of emails a day all of which are
a huge failure. Less than 3 percent
questions. So I’ve got a really good idea
of my funds came from people who
of what my readers are interested in
found me on Kickstarter. The average
hearing more about.
Kickstarter backer is a young hip
Q: Of all the advice you give to
dude and those people tend to be most
parents what is the most important
interested in certain categories of
thing?
projects: cool gadgets, design, comic
A: There is nothing you can’t
books, etc. Unless your project is going
handle. Sometimes we start getting
to be highly appealing to hip young
dudes (and even then it’s no guarantee) panicky, we loose faith in ourselves.
Don’t. You can and will figure out
you shouldn’t count on random people
how to make things better for your
on Kickstarter to make your project a
whole family. You are infinitely capable
success.
of this. Come up with a plan and do it.
3) It costs money to put a
And remember, there is nothing you
Kickstarter campaign together. I
can’t handle.
spent $600 on mine: graphic design (a
— Elsie Lynn
great Essex Junction designer, Carisa
Police Beat
MEN ARRESTED FOR BREAKING INTO VEHICLES
Essex Police responded to the area of 139 Iroquois Ave for a report of someone
breaking into a vehicle on July 23 at around 12:30 a.m. Officers were on scene within
a minute.
A search of the area revealed that the complainant’s vehicle had the passenger
window smashed out. Lieutenant Beaulieu and Officer Kitchen located two males
hiding behind an air conditioner and a row of trees nearby.
The men were identified as Todd Sprano, 38, of Burlington and Dustin Smith, 17,
of Mineville, N.Y. Both men were taken into custody and released on a citation.
Police are continuing the investigation into this incident.
Non-disinfected wastewater results in $22,625
penalty for Village of Essex Junction
The Department
of Environmental
Conservation’s Compliance
and Enforcement Division
(CED) announced on
Tuesday afternoon
that it formally settled
environmental violations
involving the Village of
Essex Junction. Essex
Junction operates a
wastewater treatment
facility, which released
1,954,853 gallons of nondisinfected wastewater
into the Winooski River.
The settlement includes a
$22,625.00 penalty.
A CED investigation
revealed that during
construction activities at
the facility last summer,
operators moved a
panel, which controls the
application of hypochlorite
for disinfection. On Aug. 2,
2013, a dial on the control
panel was unknowingly
moved by masonry workers,
causing a discharge of
approximately 559,505
gallons of treated, but nondisinfected wastewater.
A facility operator later
discovered the dial was set
at zero and re-set it. Facility
operators discussed the
issue, but did not advise the
masonry workers or take
any action to prevent the
issue from recurring. Before
the end of the workday,
the panel was hit again
and not discovered until
the following morning,
causing a discharge of
approximately 1,395,348
gallons of treated but nondisinfected wastewater.
A rigid foam panel was
installed over the control
panel shortly thereafter. The
village notified the Agency
of Natural Resources of the
Aug. 3 event on Aug. 5, but
did not notify the Agency of
the Aug. 2 event. In a separate unrelated
event, a tank containing
sodium bisulfate used for
de-chlorination had not
been re-filled, and the level
dropped below the pump
suction line during the
morning hours of Oct. 28,
2013. As a result the facility
discharged approximately
70,000 gallons of effluent
above the permitted chlorine
residual effluent limit. Once the investigation
was completed, CED
notified the Village of the
violations and the Village
agreed to settle the matter.
The settlement was
reduced to an Assurance
of Discontinuance, and
adopted as an order by
the Environmental Court.
In it, the Village of Essex
Junction agreed to pay a
$22,625.00 penalty.
MARATHON
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runners in the marathon at 14-years-old.
Barch finished the race with a time of
2:13:36 with Briley coming right behind
her with a time of 2:21:26.
Female age group winners included:
Monahan (19-and-under), Wigger (20-29),
Lout (30-39), Kelly (40-49), Daria Dooling
(50-59, 1:57:12) and Martha DeGrazia
(60-69, 1:55:32).
Male age group winners included;
Lavigne (19-and-under), Carrick (20-29),
O’Connor (30-39), Oldham (40-49), Tom
Barnes (50-59, 1:48:01) and RJ Simms
(60-69, 1:53:21).
ST. MIKES
maintaining efforts to attract full classes
and transfers to campus. The goal is to
have 520 freshmen at the school each fall.
“We thought we’d get fewer (this
year),” Kelly said, “but that didn’t happen.
That’s the irony.”
The incoming class is roughly 600,
with an additional 30 incoming transfer
students. That is approximately 100
students more than entered the school
last fall.
“We will still prepare to get smaller,
but continue to recruit the best we can,”
Kelly said.
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“There are schools that aren’t going to
be here in 20 years,” the college’s director
of marketing and communications, Becky
Watson, added. “We want to continue to
be here.”
Both Watson and Kelly are in their
first years on the job. They stressed that
although the college is preparing for a
tougher recruiting environment, they are
Editor’s Note: For a complete list
of results, find this story at www.
essexreporter.com.
Incoming freshmen enroll at St. Michael’s College in Colchester earlier this summer. The school
has attracted its largest incoming class in the last 10 years, college officials say. CONTRIBUTED
DEVELOPMENT
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many as a place to avoid.”
Pierce’s letter addresses the impact to
traffic congestion at Five Corners expected
from the proposal, saying the project will
not worsen traffic delays and that the
building will attract fewer cars than did
the People’s Bank branch that closed in
2010.
Residents of nearby School Street voiced
concerns during the commission’s spring
public hearing that national standards
used to estimate traffic into the former
People’s Bank are unreliable because of
the amount of walk-up traffic the bank
attracted. School Street residents expect
the project will impede their ability to
make westbound turns onto Pearl Street.
Charlie Baker, executive director of
the Chittenden County Regional Planning
Commission, agreed with Pierce’s
assessment his June 16 letter to the
commission.
“In our professional opinion, this
project does not have a negative impact on
congestion at Five Corners,” Baker wrote.
Pierce also notes that the Five Corners
bypass road — the Crescent Connector —
that is on schedule to be built next year is
estimated to decrease Five Corners traffic
volume by 11 percent.
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The Champlain Valley Exposition in
Essex will host the 10th annual Vermont
Dressage Days competition Aug. 9-10.
The event is expected to attract more
than 100 dressage riders from across
Vermont, New England and New York,
all competing for top honors in 50
classes. It is the only northern Vermont
event sanctioned by both The United
States Equestrian Federation and The
United States Dressage Federation,
as well as the American Quarter Horse
Association.
The event is a benefit for Women Helping
Battered Women and The Vermont
Humane Federation. Spectators are
welcome. Parking is free and there is no
admission fee. The event runs from 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
By DENISE SMITH
With the State of Vermont and the
Environmental Protection Agency once again
discussing new pollution limits for Lake Champlain
and how to achieve them, the current state of
the lake and Vermont’s waters in general is
once again being hotly debated. The Secretary of
Agriculture was in St. Albans last week to consider
the possibility of additional regulation for farms
with fields identified in 2011 as critical sources of
pollution in Missisquoi Bay.
The problem in Lake Champlain, and in most of
the surface waters in Vermont, comes from water
landing on the ground and moving swiftly, and in
some cases with extreme force, into the rivers and
streams taking with it everything on the ground.
My job, and the job of many other extremely
dedicated people, is to help ensure that the water
that traverses multiple properties is as close to
clean as possible when it reaches the nearest
conduit to Lake Champlain.
Vermonters, and especially anyone who lives in
the Lake Champlain Basin, can all agree that clean
water is extremely important, and Lake Champlain
in particular is a tremendously valuable asset that
provides drinking water for human and animal
populations, and financial resources to the state. No
one wants a dirty lake, so why does the conversation
about how best to protect it deteriorate so quickly?
The simple answer is that because water has
no political boundaries and impacts everyone.
Because it flows over privately held land, we
have to regulate and enforce policies on private
properties to ensure that water is not taking so
many pollutants with it that it overwhelms the
natural ecological system. This means the state and
federal governments have to pass laws and enforce
the Clean Water Act.
Most recently Vermont passed the Shoreland
Protection Bill, a statewide bill that regulates
what people can do along their shorelines on lakes
and ponds. This bill impacts anyone who owns
waterfront property. It is not a water quality bill
as much as it is beneficial to lakeshore habitat and
ensuring better erosion control along shorelines.
However, owners of properties along most of the
lakes and ponds were against it because it regulates
what they can do on their own land, even though it
will help in protecting those lands. One of the most
significant reasons for not supporting the bill is that
“the farmers” were exempt from it.
The stated reason for not including farms in
the shoreland bill is that they have other laws
that regulate them and their interactions with
land and water. The most touted rules are the
Accepted Agricultural Practices (AAPs) and the
medium- (defined by 200+ cows) and large-farm
(defined by 700+ cows) permits. How are those
rules enforced? This is where the conversation once
again breaks down and leads to extremely difficult
dialogs between neighbors, friends and the State
of Vermont about how we address reporting or
enforcing the laws that deal with the discharges
into our lakes and streams.
We all need clean water; it should be the most
apolitical discussion on the planet. The only right
answer is to work toward solutions that stop
the input of pollution into our waterways. Many
farmers and water quality groups in our watershed
have been implementing various practices that are
helping, but it is not enough. We are short on funds,
political will and enforcement.
The state’s TMDL plan may start to get at
it, creating pain for everyone in the watershed,
but even then the question of how to pay for it
hasn’t been answered, and outside the watershed,
legislators are balking at footing the bill.
We all love Lake Champlain and what it
represents. We all need clean water to live. We all
want clean water for our children. How we get there
is to come up with the right suite of regulations,
conservation and stormwater practices, and money
to implement them. Then we all need to make sure
the rules are followed.
Denise Smith of St. Albans is the executive director
of the Friends of the Northern Lake Champlain.
Progressing past the Circ
By BRIAN SEARLES
Over the past months there have been many attempts
to link the Circumferential Highway (Circ) project in
Chittenden County to the global businesses decisions of
IBM that may affect the Essex Junction plant.
That the Circ is being used for political posturing is
not surprising or new. What is surprising is the lack of
facts in the narrative that is being put forward.
The Circ was a dinosaur of a project that languished
for over 30 years. In the meantime, cost estimates had
ballooned, nearly doubling to $200 million. And in the
end every stakeholder, including IBM, agreed it was best
to move in another direction with a realistic plan that
addresses Chittenden County’s transportation concerns
for nearly half the cost.
When Governor Shumlin took office in 2011, no
construction had taken place on the Circ project in nearly
18 years. Yet between 1993, when the four-mile segment
in Essex was opened, and 2011, nearly $32 million
was spent on the Circ. Significantly, during that time,
transportation investments changed direction. Urban ring
roads fell out of favor nationwide, new capacity projects
became limited, average daily traffic fell, new technology
in intersection control and demand management
emerged. A sharper understanding of environmental
concerns was shared by all, and federal dollars became
more constrained. A bloated $200 million investment in
outdated technology was simply not in the cards.
As a result, the Chittenden County Regional Planning
Commission led a task force at the Governor's request
By ROB ROPER
Much focus lately, both from our politicians and
our media, has been on IBM, the potential sale of its
Essex facility and the question of what will happen to
its 4,000 employees. The Greater Burlington Industrial
Corporation (GBIC) has proposed, among other measures,
making a $4.5 million cash payment — the entire newly
formed Enterprise Investment Fund — to either IBM or
the plant’s buyer to keep jobs here in Vermont.
Eyebrows also raised when we learned Keurig Green
Mountain decided to open its new cold-pod factory in
Atlanta — home of new partner (and large and growing
shareholder) Coca Cola — and not in Vermont despite
years of encouragement and investment by the state
through the Vermont Employment Growth Incentive
Program to expand here.
These are certainly important developments deserving
of attention, but another story that got less press and
deserves more consideration is the decision of Burlington’s
Benway’s Taxi to close its doors after 30 years, laying off
approximately 70 employees this summer. The company’s
owner, Wanda Robar, blamed new healthcare laws,
burdensome regulations and the generally high cost of
doing business in Vermont as the reasons for shutting
down.
A story that got little if any attention was the closing
of the iconic West Danville General Store after over 100
years of operation. Weybridge General Store owner, Doug
Tschorn of Arlington, stated that he might be next after
Vermont’s increase in the minimum wage goes into effect.
Tschorn explained, “We’re a small family business. We’ve
had the store for 30 years, and it was so much easier
to operate in the past than it is today because of the
pressures from the state.”
While a number of companies have made headlines
recently because they are moving out Vermont, such
as Kennametal, Huber & Suhner, Energizer, Plasan
Composites, these are companies with a national or
international footprint. Their decisions are based on
global as well as local factors. Benway’s, general stores,
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that included all of the Circ stakeholders. The group met
for 30 months and re-examined the problems that needed
to be fixed using all of the new available tools to create an
array of projects designed to have a much more positive
impact on traffic issues than the Circ ever promised.
The task force included membership of state and federal
transportation partners, the Circ towns, GBIC, the
Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, the
Conservation Law Foundation, the Vermont Natural
Resources Council, IBM and others.
In the end, the Task Force voted unanimously to
approve 34 projects with an estimated cost of about
$100 million, half the cost of the Circ. Twelve are shortterm (3-5 year horizon) projects such as the Crescent
Connector in Essex Junction and Exit 16 improvements
in Colchester; 19 are medium-term (5-10 years) such
as a grid street system near Exit 12 off Interstate-89
in Williston and Severance Corners improvements in
Colchester; and three are longer-term projects (more
than 10 years) that include major work on Exit 12 and
improvements to Redmond Road and Mountain View
Road, both in Williston.
In addition to costing half as much, these projects
differ from the Circ in another important way: They will
actually be completed. The 34 projects have all been
approved by the Vermont Legislature and are part of the
state's capital program. Several even received funding in
the 2015 budget.
Those are the facts. And that’s progress of which
Vermont and Vermonters should be proud.
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and other similar small businesses, however, are
Vermont grown, Vermont based, and state policy has
a great deal to do with their fate. While 70 employees
doesn’t sound like much next to 4,000, there are a lot
more Benway-like companies in Vermont than IBMs.
A recent report by the Small Business Association
noted that 59 percent of Vermonters are employed by
small businesses as compared to 49 percent nationally.
That’s 156,750 of our friends, neighbors and relatives, a
number nearly 40 times the size of IBM in Essex. There
are over 60,000 sole proprietorships in Vermont. So, if
our economic environment is showing signs of failure for
the mom & pop operations of Vermont, we really ought
to take note and take action. They are the real backbone
of our economy, not to mention the true Vermont brand.
When you think “Vermont” do you think IBM, or do
you think locally produced maple syrup purchased at a
small general store?
CNBC just released its latest ratings for the best
states for business, and Vermont scored an overall
42nd — a ten state drop from our 32nd place ranking
in 2013. Many organizations publish such ratings,
and Vermont is regularly found in the bottom ten, but
CNBC’s ranking formula is pretty sophisticated, and it
is one Vermont has done comparatively well on over the
past five years (ranking mostly in the 30’s rather than
the 40’s).
CNBC tabulates their rankings based on 56
input measures within 10 weighted categories: cost
of doing business (Vermont: 41), economy (Vermont:
23), infrastructure and transportation (Vermont: 49),
workforce (Vermont: 50), quality of life (Vermont: 2),
technology and innovation (Vermont: 37), business
friendliness (Vermont: 31), Education (Vermont: 2),
cost of living (Vermont: 40), and access to capital
(Vermont: 31).
Vermont’s most positive attributes appeal to
individuals and families: a stellar lifestyle, and good
schools for kids. Our most negative characteristics —
poor infrastructure and inadequate workforce — are
deal breakers for large multi-national corporations,
and there’s not a lot we can do in the short term about
either on the scale an IBM is looking for. In light of
this, policies dumping millions on large multinational
corporations while punishing small mom and pop
operations with higher minimum wage requirements,
higher property taxes, and threats of things like
mandatory paid sick leave, and a very high (as much
as 18 percent) payroll tax to pay for single payer
healthcare appear backwards.
Vermont’s priority should be to enact policies that
will help keep the small scale businesses we have here
growing and thriving. Second, we should be putting
policies in place that will attract 4,000 good-paying jobs
spread across hundreds of small businesses rather than
a few big ones.
Boston, New York and Montreal are filled with highpaying, low-environmental-impact, small-scale firms
in finance, software, law, communications, design,
entertainment, etc. Let’s start asking what we have to
do to get them here.
Rob Roper is president of the Ethan Allen Institute.
5a
Vermont unlikely
to host
immigrant children
By KATIE JICKLING
VTDigger.org
Vermont does not have adequate
facilities to house some of the
undocumented immigrant children
from Central America being held
at the U.S. border, the Shumlin
administration said Monday.
“Unlike Massachusetts, Vermont
does not have a hosting site that
meets Health and Human Services’
Criteria,” said a letter from
Gov. Peter Shumlin to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services. HHS guidelines suggest
the need for a 90,000-square-foot
facility that could house about
1,000 children.
The federal government has
no timeline for when the children
might arrive, or how long they could
stay, said Sue Allen, the governor’s
spokeswoman who is coordinating
efforts in the state. Although some
Vermonters have offered to open
their homes, foster care or adoption
is not an option, the letter stated.
Massachusetts has identified two
sites — Camp Edwards military base
in Bourne and Westover Reserve Air
Force Base in Chicopee – as possible
sites. Should the federal government
send children there, Vermont has
offered to assist in any way that’s
needed.
The Shumlin administration
has also identified potential sites to
house 75-100 children.
“Every space we have, there are
problems that come with it,” Allen
said.
Nevertheless, she said the
administration would be willing to
help however it can.
Larry Crist, Red Cross regional
executive for Vermont and the Upper
Valley of New Hampshire, said
Shumlin called on the Red Cross to
assess possibilities for the placement
of the children.
“We have, to the best of our
knowledge, not found anywhere
that meets that and the other
requirements that were involved,”
Crist said. “In other words, there just
isn’t any place in Vermont that was
big enough.”
Colchester Community Band performs at St. Mike’s
The Colchester Community Band will perform a
free chamber music concert at St. Michael’s College on
Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts
Center. A reception will follow the
concert.
Conductor Jacob Morton-Black
has led the band this summer with
developing the program of music
and overseeing rehearsals with
community members.
The Community Band is grateful
for the local support, which has
enabled the band to expand their
music library. Special thanks for donations this year
from the Colchester-Milton Rotary Club, Colchester
Lions Club, Vermont Information
Processing and Karen Nichols.
In kind donations from Earl
Wertheim UPS, Mrs. Minor
Colchester High School, Vermont
Youth Orchestra Association,
St. Michael’s College, Marilyn
Cormier and Mark Litchfield. If
interested in making a donation
to the community band contact
morblack@aol.com.
Obituary
ESSEX JUNCTION — Raymond Ernest
Gosselin, 85, died at his home on May 5, 2014 of
natural causes. Raymond was born in Springfield,
Vt. on March 11, 1929, the son of the late Onesime
and Yvonnne (Rabideau) Gosselin. Raymond
graduated from Springfield High School in 1947 and
in 1957 moved to Essex Junction, to begin a career
at IBM where he
worked until he
retired in 1985.
Raymond
enjoyed square
dancing and
contra dancing
and was an avid
collector of books
and information.
Raymond
is survived
by his sister,
Loretta Otis,
of Springfield,
Vt.; his brother,
Edward and his
wife, Daisy, of
Weathersfield,
Raymond Ernest Gosselin
Vt.; and his
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United Way Volunteer
Volunteer once a week, once a month or once in
a while. The listings below are a sample of the 300+
volunteer needs from more than 250 agencies found
online at www.unitedwaycc.org. More information
available at 860-1677, Mon.-Fri. from 8:30 a.m.-4:30
p.m.
READ TO US
RSVP of Chittenden County is looking for RSVP
Read to Me Volunteers to help build literacy skills
so children are ready for kindergarten. Volunteers
read to children in local Head Start classrooms or
childcare centers run by and for New Americans.
Training and ongoing supervision are provided.
References and background check required.
Contact Phet Keomanyvanh at 861-7821 or phet@
unitedwaycc.org.
BUILD A FENCE
Ethan Allen Homestead needs a group of 10-15
volunteers to help build a fence around their historic
garden on Sept. 3. Tasks require walking, lifting and
digging and being outside all day. Contact Dan O’Neil
at 865-4556 or ethanallenhomestead@gmail.com.
SUMMER CAMP
Camp Exclamation Point, Inc., has volunteer
opportunities for camp counselors and certified
lifeguards for a one-week camp Aug. 15-23 at their
beautiful lakeside site in Thetford. Most of the 100+
campers are in grades 3 to 5 with others in a Teen
Leadership Program. Excellent meals and training
provided. Contact John O’Farrell at (413) 384-2623 or
campexcl@gamil.com.
ON THE BOARD
Essex CHIPS, School Based Mentoring and Teen
Center is seeking energetic and committed adult and
youth volunteers to serve on their Board of Directors.
CHIPS promotes the making of healthy choices
through youth-adult partnerships, youth leadership
and civic engagement. CHIPS runs an after-school
drop-in Teen Center and other youth programs. Board
members attend monthly meetings and take part in
various fundraising and community outreach events.
Contact Adriane Schubert at 878-6982 or adriane@
essexchips.org.
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brother, Ronald, and his wife, Susan, of Winooski,
Vt. as well as many nieces and nephews. He was
predeceased by his parents; his sister, Lorraine
Archambault, and her husband, William (Jake);
brother-in-law, John Otis; his sister, Janet Routhier,
and her husband, Norman (Lefty); and a special friend
Mary.
Raymond will be buried with his parents on Aug.
1 at St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery in Springfield, Vt.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Brownell
Library, 6 Lincoln Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452.
Obituary Submission Guidelines
We welcome submitted obituaries. Send
obituaries of 300 words or less to news@
essexreporter.com. Photos are encouraged.
Obituaries are subject to editing. Please submit
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We also offer the option of paid space if you
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Sara Holbrook Community Center is looking for
a volunteer to help with planting and weeding their
garden on the first Monday of the month for about
3 hours. Contact Kathy FitzGerald at 862-6342 or
KFitzgerald@saraholbrookcc.org.
TEEN CENTER
Essex CHIPS, School Based Mentoring and Teen
Center is in need of volunteers to support staff during
drop-in hours for middle and high school youth at
the Teen Center. Tasks include helping with snacks,
organizing structured activities, and helping maintain
the space. Interview and background check required.
Contact Adriane Schubert at 878-6982 or Adriane@
essexchips.org.
VIDEO PRODUCTION
Big Heavy World has volunteer opportunities for
a web video production assistant and a documentary
videographer and non-linear editor. Work includes
editing video from studio and live performances or
continuing a video project of filming and editing
small segments showing what goes on in the office,
on the crew, etc. Experience with Mac digital video
editing or basic digital
video and nonlinear
editing concepts is
needed. Contact Jim
Lockridge at 865-1140
or jim@bigheavyworld.
com.
Essex Automotive Services
THE ROAD AHEAD
Prompted by the fact that 90% of automobile crashes are caused by driver error, vehicle manufacturers are
forging ahead with plans to shift responsibility from the driver toward
new safety systems. Perhaps the
most promising of these is “forward
collision warning” (FCW), which
utilizes sensors or cameras to keep
constantly checking the distance between it and the vehicle in front of it.
If the system calculates that a crash
is imminent, it will alert the driver
with visual and audible warnings. It
may also get the brakes ready to provide maximum stopping power and
tighten the seat belts in anticipation
of a crash. Some systems will go a
step further by activating the braking system if the driver does not.
Today’s informative column has
been brought to you as a public
service. If you check your fluid, and
it is low, keep in mind that your
power steering fluid level needs to
be monitored, since if it continues
to lose power steering fluid, you
may have a crucial leak, and
should be fixed as soon as possible.
We will be happy to answer any
questions you may have. At ESSEX
AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES, you
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your car. Call 802.879.1966 today,
or bring your car to 141-147 Pearl St,
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HINT: According to Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety tests, vehicles equipped with
forward collision warning systems are in 7%
fewer crashes, while those equipped with the
automatic braking system reduce crashes by
14% to 15%.
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Essex Area
Religious
Directory
C alendar
31 Thursday
Community Breakfast. The American
Build a Balloon Car. Discover the power
of air. Watch air pressure demonstrations and construct your own air-powered
balloon car. Presented by Create-It Lab,
mobile creativity lab. Ages 8 and up.
Registration is required. Dorothy Alling,
Memorial Library, 2-4 p.m. Free. Information: 878-4918.
CHRIST MEMORIAL CHURCH- Route 2A, Williston, just
north of Industrial Ave. Wes Pastor, Senior Minister, 8787107, Proclaiming Christ and Him crucified Sundays at
8:30a.m. www.cmcvermont.org
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTS - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 73 Essex Way, Essex Junction - All Welcome! Sacrament
Meeting - Sundays at 10 AM. Come learn about the restored
gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s awesome! Family History Center
- Sundays 1 - 3 PM, Thursday 7 - 9 PM. Come find your
ancestry! The FHC has website resources (such as www.
familysearch.org), including free access to ancestry.com,
microfiche and microfilm readers, and a staff of capable
genealogists. For more info, call 802-879-9142, email
essexwardvt@gmail.com, or check out www.mormon.org
DAYBREAK COMMUNITY CHURCH - 67 Creek Farm
Plaza, Colchester VT. 05446 802-338-9118 www.
daybreakvermont.org or brentdaybreak@gmail.com Sunday
Service at 10:30am Lead Pastor, Brent Devenney
ESSEX ALLIANCE CHURCH - 37 Old Stage Road in Essex
Junction. Sunday Services: 7:45 am, 9 am, 10:15 am and
11:30 am. Phone: 878-8213. www.essexalliance.org.
ESSEX CENTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Please
join us for worship that combines the best of traditional
and contemporary music and spirituality. We are a safe
and welcoming space for all people to celebrate, worship,
ask questions, and put down spiritual roots. Adult Bible
Study at 8:30 am. Service at 10:00 am with Sunday School
and childcare provided. We offer a variety of small groups
for prayer, Bible study, hands-on ministry, and studying
contemporary faith issues. 119 Center Rd (Route 15) Essex
Center. Rev. Mitchell Hay, pastor. 879-8304.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ESSEX
JUNCTION - UCC, A Welcoming Community, Accepting and
Serving All in the Spirit of Christ. 1 Church Street, Essex
Junction, VT 05452. Telephone (802) 878-5745, Fax: (802)
872-8236; Email: welcome@fccej.org Senior Pastor, Rev.
Mark Mendes. Associate Pastor, Rev. Ryan Gackenheimer.
Summer Worship One Service 9 am, June 1 – August 31.
Communion: first Sunday of every month. School Year
Sunday School, Jr & Sr High Youth Groups. Heavenly
Food Pantry - Last Thursday of the month except in Nov.
& Dec., when it is the 3rd Thursday, 2-6pm. Essex Eats
Out Community Dinner-1st Friday of the month, 5:30-7pm.
Music includes Senior Choir, Praise Band, Junior Choir,
Cherub Choir, Handbell Choir, Men’s Acappella and Ladies’
Acappella groups.
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 130 Maple
Street, Essex Junction. 878-8071. 1 mile south of the Five
Corners on Maple Street / VT. Route 117. Worship Sundays
at 9:30 a.m. with concurrent Church School Pre-K to High
School. Handicapped-accessible facility. Adult Study Group
Sundays at 11:00 a.m. Adult Choir / Praise Band / Women’s
Fellowship / Missionally active. Korean U.M.C. Worship
Sundays at 12:30 p.m. Come explore what God might be
offering you!
HOLY FAMILY - ST. LAWRENCE PARISH, Essex Junction,
- Mass Schedule, Saturday Vigil: 4:00pm - St. Lawrence,
Sunday Morning: 8:00am - St. Lawrence, 11:00am - Holy
Family, 7:30pm - Holy Family. For more information visit our
web page http://www.hfslvt.org.
ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF VERMONT - 182 Hegeman Ave,
Suite 1, Colchester, VT 05446. Join Imam Islam Hassan
(imam@isvt.org) for the five daily prayers. Timings at ISVT
homepage www.isvt.org The call for Friday Jumah prayers is
exactly at 1:00PM followed by Khutbah and prayer. Additional
Friday night lectures between Magrib and Isha prayers.
Weekend Islamic classes on Sundays 9:45AM-1:30PM for all
children 4 years and older during the school year. Interested
non-members always welcome. (802) 655-6711 or salam@
isvt.org or Facebook.
MT. MANSFIELD UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
FELLOWSHIP - Visit www.mmuuf.org. Services are held at
9:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Sunday of each month
from September through June. 195 Vermont Route 15,
Jericho (the red barn across from Packard Road). 899-2558.
ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 4 St. James Place
(off Rt. 2A at the Fairgrounds Gate F) 802-878-4014 www.
stjamesvt.org The Rev. Ken Hitch v office@stjamesvt.org
8:15am Holy Eucharist Rite II (no music) 10:30am Holy
Eucharist Rite II (with music) 9:20am Adult Ed: Bible Study
10:15 am Godly Play.
ST. PIUS THE TENTH CHURCH - 20 Jericho Road, Essex,
878-5997. Pastor: Rev. Richard W. Tinney. Masses: Mon.Thurs. 8:30 a.m.; Saturday 4:30 p.m., Sunday 8:30 and
10:30 a.m. Confessions Sat. 3:30 p.m. 4 p.m. www.together.
net/~stpius.
ST. THOMAS CATHOLIC CHURCH - 6 Green St., Underhill
Center. Father Charles R. Danielson, Parish Priest.
Weekend Masses: Saturday-4:30 p.m., Sunday-8:30. Daily
Masses: Check with www.stthomasvt.com or call 899-4632.
Franklin County Chamber of Commerce
presents the next installment of their
“Strategies for Success” business seminar
series called “How Interns Can Help
Your Business.” Presenters Kathy Lavoie
and Roxanne Vought discuss the benefits
of opening your business to students or
recent graduates interested in learning a
new skills or expanding upon a desire to
learn more about your specific business
operations. The seminar will also cover
how to get started in posting advertisements, expectations and types of work;
and whether or not the position should be
paid or unpaid. St. Albans Free Library,
St. Albans, 3:30-5 p.m. Free to Chamber
members; $10 non-members. Information: www.fcrccvt.com or 524-2444.
Trivia Mania. Nectar’s presents Trivia Ma-
nia, a pub style trivia game. Questions
are displayed on the TVs and are read
aloud. Categories range from pop culture, history, science, literature and more.
Entertainment provided by Top Hat DJS.
All ages. Nectars, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m.
Free. Info: 658-4771.
bon Center presents an informative class
about the large variety of gourmet and
medicinal mushrooms found in Vermont. Ari Rockland-Miller, co-founder of The
Mushroom Forager, makes mushroom hunting accessible, safe and entertaining. Join
Rockland-Miller for his colorful presentation
introducing the region’s most distinctive and
delicious species. A foray in the rich woods
that surround the Audubon Center will follow the class. Pre-registration is required.
Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-3 p.m. $25
members; $30 non-members. 434-3068 or
vermont@audubon.org.
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Community Band presents an evening of
Chamber Music at St. Michael’s College
conducted by Jacob Morton-Black. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College
Campus, 7-8 p.m. Free. Information:
881-2567.
Trivia Night. Trivia buffs gather for a meeting of the minds. Hotel Vermont lobby,
Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Contact:
651-5012.
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County and Vermont Department of
Health will co-host a Chittenden County
community conversation as a follow-up to
the Governor’s community forum on opiate addiction in June. This meeting will
convene partnerships to begin building
a coordinated, community-wide strategy
to address heroin and opiate addiction
in Chittenden County. Vermont Commons
School, South Burlington, 8:30a.m.-12
p.m. Free. Contact Susan: 861-7823.
Friday
Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness
Falls. Paranormal historian Thea Lewis
highlights haunted happenings throughout
Burlington. Meet at the steps in City Hall
Park 10 minutes before start time. Preregistration is required. City Hall Park,
Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Tickets: Flynntix.org.
Peace and Popcorn. The Peace and Justice
Center will be hosting the next installment
of it’s casual series of peace and social
justice films from the their video library.
The film is chosen by night-of participants. Good films and good company.
All are welcome. Peace & Justice Center,
Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Information: 8632345, x2. Festival of Fools. The Festival of Fools is a cu-
rated festival of street theater, celebrating
circus arts, music and comedy for family audiences. Four main stage locations surrounding the Church Street Marketplace and
City Hall Park will feature continuous street
theater from internationally acclaimed performers. Church Street Market Place and
City Hall Park, Burlington; Friday 12-9 p.m.,
Saturday 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m., and Sunday
11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Free. Information: www.
vermontfestivaloffools.com
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Wildlife Department will be hosting a
public meeting on the status of waterfowl population and waterfowl hunting
season. Vermont waterfowl hunters are
encouraged to attend one of these meetings and share their preferences and
opinions with other waterfowl hunters
and wildlife personnel. Memorial Hall,
Essex Center, 7-9 p.m. Free. Information:
828-1000. Zentangle Beyond Basics Class. The
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will be sponsoring a blood drive. Blood
supplies are low at this time, and any
help is greatly appreciated. Donors
can enjoy pies and other desserts after
donating. Donors will receive a coupon
for a movie ticket at the Essex Cinema,
and coupons good towards Turkey Hill
ice cream. Donors must be at least 17
years old, weigh over 110 lbs., and be
in good health. Covenant Church, Essex
Junction, 1-6 p.m.
“Pop-Up” Gastronomy: A New England
Terroir. The Echo Lake Aquarium
and Science Center presents the third
installment of its popular “Pop-Up”
Gastronomy dining experiences. The
inspiration for this installment is drawn
from New England’s culinary landscape
that both acknowledges its history and
forges its own unique identity. The multicourse dinner will explore the regional
bounty of New England including the
meat, seafood, cheeses and vegetables
found throughout the region through the
lens of the cultures that have shaped it.
The event will be limited to 100 people.
Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center,
Burlington, 6-10 p.m. $65 ECHO members; $75 non-members. Tickets: www.
echovermont.org
Sunday
Community Breakfast. The Ladies Auxiliary
to the Veterans of Foreign Wars will be
hosting a community breakfast. The menu
will include all your breakfast favorites.
Plenty of food for everyone. All are
invited, both members and non-members.
VFW Post 6689, Essex Junction, 9-11
a.m. Adults $7 and children 10 and
installment of their summer concert series.
The band plays at clubs and events
around Chittenden County. Their music
ranges from rock to pop to country with
an emphasis on cover songs. Bring lawn
chairs or blankets and picnic dinner.
Great music all with the beauty of Malletts Bay as a backdrop. Lower Bayside
Park, Colchester, 7 p.m. Information:
http://colchestervt.gov/Recreation/
SummerConcertSeries.html
Fun & Funky Burlington Business Association Summer Social. The Burlington Business Association invites area
professionals to come network with
BBA members over Switchback brews
and local food. Top Hat Entertainment
will be on hand providing music and
entertainment. Switchback Tap Room,
Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $25-$35.
Information: 863-1175 or director@
bbavt.org.
Ongoing
Essex Community Justice Center’s
Citizen Advisory Board Meetings.
Meetings take place on the second
Wednesday of all even numbered
months. The Community Justice Center
provides restorative responses to crime
and conflict in the greater Essex area.
The Citizens Advisory Board advises
the Community Justice Center on policy,
direction and programming in an ongoing capacity. Community Justice Center,
Essex Junction, 5:30 p.m. Contact Kate:
662-0001 or at kate@essexcjc.org.
Harriet Farnsworth Powell Historical
Museum. The museum contains vintage
photographs and collections of everyday
objects from Essex Junction and Essex
Town. Self-guided walking tour offered.
Open through October. Harriet Farnsworth Powell Historical Museum, Essex,
Thursdays 6:30-8 p.m.; Sundays, 1-4
p.m. Free. Contact Eva: 879-0849. Writers for Recovery. The Turning Point Cen-
ter of Chittenden County are offering a
series of free summer writing workshops
focusing on stories of addiction and recovery for individuals and their families.
The series aims at leading the writer to
explore their experiences of addiction,
recovery and family relationships in
the shadow of addiction. Led by local
author, Gary Miller and documentary
filmmaker, Bess O’Brien, the series will
engage the writer to explore their own
story, while working at their own pace.
Writers will have the option of including
their work for display during Burlington’s
Annual Celebrate Recovery Event, which
will be held in September. Every workshop will begin with pizza. Workshops
run on Wednesdays, through Aug. 20.
The Turning Point Center of Chittenden
County, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Information: writersforrecovery@icloud.com
or 861-3150.
To view more ongoing events go to:
www.EssexReporter.com/calendar
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Blood Drive. The Jericho-Underhill Lions Club
Duct Tape Regatta. The North Hero
Historical Society presents the Duct
Tape Regatta. Teams must race boats
constructed of only cardboard and duct
tape over a 600-foot course. Rowers
must be 8 or older, and must be wearing
PFDs. The whole family can join in the
boat construction. Make a boat of any
size or shape, using just two components:
duct tape and cardboard. Boats can be
raced by any number of rowers. Open
registration and inspection begins at 9
a.m. First race begins at 10 a.m. Hero’s
Welcome, North Hero, 9 a.m. $25. Information: www.HerosWelcome.com/links.
html or 372-4161.
Wednesday
Waterfowl Meeting. The Vermont Fish &
Saturday
Artists’ Mediums will be hosting this
advanced Zentangle, which builds upon
many of the techniques learned in the
Introduction to Zentangle class. Learn
how to weave one tangle into the next
to create an organic looking piece that
grows together as one. More complex
tangle patterns, shading techniques and
tangle enhancers will be explored. All
materials will be provided with a class
fee. Space is limited, sign up in advance.
Artists’ Mediums, Williston, 2:30-4:30
p.m. $40. Information: 979-1236.
Tuesday
Community Conversation on Opiate Addiction. The United Way of Chittenden
Happy August!
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Monday
Chamber Music Concert. The Colchester
Patrick Fitzsimmons Band in Concert.
The Colchester Parks and Recreation Department presents the Patrick Fitzsimmons
Band in the second installment of their
summer concert series. Bring lawn chairs
or blankets and picnic dinner. Great
music all with the beauty of Malletts Bay
as a backdrop. Lower Bayside Park,
Colchester, 7 p.m. Information: http://
colchestervt.gov/Recreation/SummerConcertSeries.html
Legion Post 91 will be hosting its weekly
community breakfast. The menu will
include a buffet of all your breakfast favorites including eggs, breakfast meats,
coffee, juice and more. American Legion
Post 91, Colchester, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
$7. Information: 872-7622. Wild Mushrooms of Summer. The Audu-
How Interns Can Help Your Business. The
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH- (Fundamentalindependent.) 61 Main St., Essex Junction, 878-8341.
Pastor James Gangwer. Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship
Service 11 a.m. Sunday evening worship 6:30. Wednesday
evening youth groups; Awana, Pro-Teens and Prayer
meeting 7 p.m.
under $3. Information: 878-0700.
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Thursday
Bayside Concert Series: Last Words. The
Colchester Parks and Recreation Department presents the Last Words in the third
Mission Possible Urban
Scavenger Hunt.
The United Way of Chittenden
County is excited to announce the
return of Mission Possible. Mission
Possible is a fundraising event
designed to help raise awareness
and motivate the community to get
involved. This event is open to the
public and twenty participating teams
of two will have the opportunity to
help raise funds for the community and
compete in entertaining mental and
physical challenges. The scavenger
hunt will take teams all over town to
explore and puzzle their way through
the exciting mapped out course while
also learning more about specific
local non-profit programs. Prizes
provided by various local businesses
will be awarded directly following the
scavenger hunt and snacks and lunch
will be provided to all participants.
All proceeds raised from the event will
benefit The United Way of Chittenden
County and local partner agencies.
Burlington Waterfront, Burlington,
9 a.m.-1 p.m. Information:
MissionPossibleVT.com or facebook.
com/missionpossiblevt.
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Friday Night Family Fun Series: Very Merry Theater
Come to Maple Street Park and enjoy an evening of fun and entertainment with family and friends. Bring a chair or blanket and get ready to
experience the Very Merry Theater. This is a unique touring theatre company for children and teenagers perform classical drama and literature
including works by Shakespeare, Dickens and Twain, as well as great Broadway musicals, for all to enjoy.
If there is inclement weather, the performance will be held at the Essex High School auditorium. Maple Street Park, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m.
Free. Information: www.ejrp.org/friday-night-family-fun-series.html.
Colchester Farmers’ Market. Wednesdays.
The market will take place rain or shine,
and will feature local farmers, artisans,
food vendors, and often music. Limited
parking is available at Burnham Library,
with additional parking at Our Lady of
Grace next door. 4-7 p.m.
Five Corners Farmers’ Market. The market
features local farmers artisans, food vendors and entertainment. Fridays from 3:307 p.m. on Lincoln Street in Essex Junction.
More info: 5cornersfarmersmarket.com.
Essex Rotary Meeting. Essex Rotary Meet-
ings are held on Wednesdays at 12:10
p.m. at The Essex. Serving the communities of Essex, Essex Junction, Jericho and
Underhill.
Creative Tuesdays. Artists exercise their
imaginations with recycled crafts. Children under 10 must be accompanied by
an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:15-5 p.m. Contact: 865-7216.
Bingo. Sponsored by the Whitcomb Woods
Residents Association. Whitcomb Woods,
128 West Street, Essex Junction. Mondays at 6 p.m. Contact: 879-1829.
Beginner yoga classes. Tuesdays. In lieu of
a fee, please bring a non-perishable item
or monetary donation for the Richmond
Food Shelf. Richmond Free Library, 201
Bridge Street, Richmond, 6-7 p.m. Contact: ldiamond@uvm.edu or 318-5570.
BTV FLEA. Burlington's South End Arts District
will add a monthly Sunday flea market
to its line-up of destination events
through October. The market will feature
an eclectic mix of vintage household
goods, local artists, wood-fired pizza
and tours of the nearby Switchback
Brewing Company. Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace, Burlington, 12-4 p.m.
Contact: 488-5766 or info@VintageInspired.net.
Essex Eats Out Community Meals. Essex
Eats Out seeks to build community connections by providing healthy, free meals
in a warm, safe and inclusive atmosphere. Meals will be served: first Friday
at First Congregational Church; second
Friday at Holy Family/St. Lawrence
Parish Center; third Friday at St. James
Church; fourth Friday at Essex United
Methodist Church; and fifth Friday when
applicable at St. Pius X Church. 5:30-7
p.m. each week. Transportation available. Call Dawn Thursday by 9 a.m.
to schedule Friday transit: 878-7622.
Information: essexeatsout@gmail.com or
www.essexeatsout.org.
Bagpipe and Drum Lessons. The St.
Andrew’s Pipeband of Vermont offers
instruction for bag piping and drumming
as an encouragement and incentive for
attracting new members. The instructional program is designed to integrate
and transition a piper or drummer into
the “parade” band at a level of basic
competency. St. James Episcopal Church,
Essex Junction, Wednesday evenings.
Free. Contact Beth: 343-4738.
Drop-In Pottery Wheel Class. Spend Friday
nights with our pottery instructors learning the basics of wheel working. Try the
wheel and have some fun with other
beginner potters. Through demonstrations
and individual instruction, students will
learn the basics of preparing and centering the clay and making cups, mugs
and bowls. Price includes one fired and
glazed piece per participant. Additional
fired and glazed pieces are $5 each.
No registration necessary but space is
limited. First come, first serve. BCA Print
and Wheel Studio, Burlington, Fridays
8-10 p.m. $12. Contact: 865-7166.
Drop-In Life Drawing Class. This drop-in
life drawing class is open to all levels
and facilitated by local painter Glynnis
Fawkes. Spend the evening with other
artists, drawing one of our experienced
models. Bring drawing materials and
paper. No registration necessary. Ages
16 and up. BCA Center, Burlington,
Mondays 6:30-8:30 p.m. $8. Contact:
865-7166.
Free Yoga for Survivors. H.O.P.E. Works is
offering a free and confidential traumainformed yoga program for survivors
of sexual violence. Meets on the first
Saturday of each month. Registration is
required to attend. Laughing River Yoga,
Burlington, 1:30 p.m. Free. Contact: 8640555, x19 or atsarah@hopeworksvt.
org.
Drs. Angus, Librizzi & Blasius
www.vtbraces.com
137 Iroquois Ave.
Essex Jct, VT
879-6464
1 Kennedy Drive
So. Burlington, VT
862-7569
Burlington Writers Workshop. A free
writing workshop for all Vermonters.
Meets every Wednesday in downtown
Burlington. Free and open to the public.
Participants must register at meetup.
com. More info: burlingtonwritersworkshop.com.
Cell Phones For Soldiers. Local residents
can support these collection drives by
donating their old cell phones at A. W.
Rich Funeral Home, 57 Main Street, Essex Junction or at the American Legion,
3650 Roosevelt Highway, Colchester.
Collections accepted 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Contact: 849-6261.
Local Libraries
Colchester-Milton Rotary meeting. Thurs-
days. Serving the communities of
Colchester, Milton and the Champlain
Islands. Hampton Inn, Colchester, 12 p.m.
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Highlighted Events below
require registration in advance.
Programs are free, and space is
limited for some events. Come to the
library to register or register online.
Go to the calendar and find the
program you want to register for.
There will be a link for registration.
Each child may be registered for a
maximum of 12 programs.
Thursday, July 31
Mystery Word Week. Find the
Mystery Word in a book to win a
free small ice cream from Sam’s
Scoop Shop in Essex Junction. One
hundred winners, for Independent
Readers only. Word announced
Monday. Runs through Aug. 1.
Brownell Library.
Cool Chemistry: How cool is
cold? Join physicist Anita de Waard
for this supercool event. Learn why
hypothermia can make you feel
like a beetle, play with super cold
liquid nitrogen, and use a banana
as a hammer. All ages. Essex Free
Library, 1p.m.
Teen Art with Tina Logan.
Spark a reaction around a
controversial topic or social
awareness message through mixed
media. Final pieces will be displayed
at the library. For grades 6 and up.
Brownell Library, 1-4 p.m.
Friday, August 1
Teen Writing Day. Someone
has to write “the next great thing,”
why not you? Join other writers
your age from EFL and the
Burnham Library in Colchester for
a day of creative energy and workshopping. Come back in the evening
at 7 p.m. to read from your work,
open mic-style, with your friends
and an audience you invite at the
culminating YA Coffee House. Meet
at Burnham Library in Colchester,
3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, August 5
DCF Book Group. Come and
discuss the exciting DCF book
“Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s
Library” by Chris Grabenstein.
Pizza will be served. Grades 4-8.
Essex Free Library, 6:30 p.m.
Ongoing
Fresh from the Garden, Good
Food for Kids. Every Tuesday
we walk up to our garden plot at
Summit Street School to tend the
plants, pull weeds and harvest
vegetables as they ripen. We return
to the library to prepare tasty dishes
from the vegetables we picked in our
garden. Learn food prep techniques
and taste something new. For
children in grades 1-5. 9:30 a.m.-12
p.m.
Creative Writing Club. Let
your imagination take off with
creative writing. Using prompts,
games and other exercises,
we’ll experiment with different
techniques to create our own stories
and poems. Writers can contribute
to Essex Free Library’s upcoming
literary journal. Ages 9 and up.
Wednesdays through August. Essex
Free Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Chess for Kids. Join teen chess
lovers from our library for an hour of
play. We provide the chess sets and
you provide the strategy. Continuing
every Friday through Aug. 15. For
all ages. If younger than 9, bring an
adult. Brownell Library, 3-4 p.m.
Adopt a Beanie Pet. Beginning
June 18. Want a cool pet of your
own? Adopt one of our cute critters
for a week. Keep a daily journal to
share with us. For kids entering
grade 2 and up. Brownell Library.
Musical Story-time. Rock out
and read every Friday of the month.
Play your own instruments and sing
along. Essex Free Library, 10:30
a.m.
Drop-in story-time. Mondays.
Reading, rhyming, and crafts
each week. All ages welcome. No
registration required. Essex Free
Library, 10:30 a.m.
Toddler story-time.
Wednesdays. Stories, songs and
crafts for ages 18 months-3 ½ years.
Essex Free Library, 10:30 a.m.
Registration required.
Preschool story-time. Books,
songs, rhymes and crafts for ages
3.5-5 years. Free and open to the
public. No registration required.
Essex Free Library, Thursdays at
10:30 a.m.
Drop-In Story Time for Kids
of All Ages. Twice a month on
Fridays. Babies, Toddlers and
Preschoolers are welcome to come
listen to Picture Book Stories and
have fun with Finger Plays and
Action Rhymes. No registration
required. Brownell Library, 10-10:45
a.m.
Drop-In knitting group.
Connect with other knitters and
tackle new knitting projects. Both
beginner and advanced knitters
are welcome. Essex Free Library,
Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m.
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Pet of the Week
Honey
6 year-old Spayed Female
Reason Here: Moving and couldn’t take
Summary: Could you use some extra sweetness
in your life? Try adding a little Honey! Walk by this
friendly feline’s Tokyo cage and you’re not likely to
get very far. It may be the captivating way she looks
at you or her sing-song mewing that stops you in
your tracks...or perhaps you just have to do a
double-take to check
out the size of her
feet! Our staff and
volunteers give this
polydactyl pussycat
two thumbs up and
she gives four thumbsup in return! Come
meet this attentiongrabbing gal today.
Experience with:
Dogs - Has been around.
Hissed at.
Cats - Should not live
with.
Humane Society of Chittenden County
802-862-0135
Around the Garden
with Sarah Salatino
of Full Circle Gardens
30% Off
This Week’s Plant of the Week:
Tall Garden Phlox
Stars of the perennial garden, phlox are long
blooming, hardy and long-lived. They come in
a range of heights from two to five feet and
colors from pure white to red, with nearly every
shade of pink, lavender, salmon and purple in
between. Asking only full sun to partial shade
and rich, moist soil, they’ll reward you with
years of bloom and attract butterflies, moths
and hummingbirds.
Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln Street, Essex Junction. Contact: 878-6956.
Essex Free Library, 2 Jericho Road, Essex. Contact: 879-0313 or
essexfreelibrary@essex.org.
68 Brigham Hill Rd.off Old Stage Rd.
Essex Jct. 879-1919 Mon-Sat 9-5 Sun 11-4
www.fullcirclegardens.com
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Engagements
What’s bugging
our animals?
and completely empty the stock tank
periodically to rid it of any mosquito
larvae. Keep horses stalled during peak
mosquito feeding times of dusk and dawn
uring the hot summer months,
and use mosquito repellants on them.
both large and small animals can
Most products that repel mosquitoes
suffer unwanted attention from
will also repel biting flies. Many horse
biting flies and mosquitoes. These flies
owners will attach insect proof facemasks
are not only the typical “house flies” we
to their horses, to help prevent clusters
see, but species such as black flies, deer
of flies gathering around their eyes.
flies, and horse flies. In many cases, the
Since wild birds are the source of WNV
mosquitoes and flies prefer to “strike”
infection to mosquitoes, discourage them
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you. There are many things you can do
in at peak feeding times of these pests, do
to protect your horse from these pesky
what you can to help eliminate standing
insects.
water, and talk to your veterinarian
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about preventatives and repellents for our
by removing standing water (where
animals’ protection. For more information
mosquitoes breed), if possible add fish
on biting insects and disease in our
that eat mosquito larvae to water sources, animals, visit www.vtvets.org. By M. KATHLEEN SHAW, DVM
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July 31, 2014
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Joe
Gonillo
W
hat a wonderful summer
we have had and it is not
slowing down. It’s August, so
full steam ahead. Let’s hope it keeps
going for at least another month.
Usually that first week —or half
week — of school is a scorcher. Sadly,
saw my first two Back-to-School ads.
My stomach got weak for a second. A
couple of deep breaths and a swig of
pink lemonade calmed things down.
Good thing I was sitting on my front
porch. Anyway lots of swim meets,
Legion and little league news and
soccer playoffs to follow. That and a
comfortable chair by the pool.
The Essex Junction 9- and 10-year-old little league baseball team poses with its state championship banner after defeating Bennington last week
in St. Albans. ANTHONY LABOR
Essex Junction captures state title
There was a point in time during the
District III Tournament pool play the
Essex Junction 9- and 10-year-old little
league baseball team looked like it was
on the verge of being eliminated.
After losing to Fairfax, Essex Junction
ended its pool play with a 3-1 record,
which tied them with Fairfax and
Lamoille. The top two teams advanced to
double elimination and Essex Junction
moved on with a better run-differential
than Fairfax.
Essex Junction never looked back
from there.
They blew through the rest of the
District III Tournament on their way
to the state tournament held in St.
Albans. Three games later, Essex
Junction emerged as the Vermont
State Champions after a 9-0 win over
Bennington on July 22.
“We had two or three one-run games
where the defense really saved us
throughout both tournaments,” said
Essex Junction manager David Bostwick.
“They were down a couple of times, but
really showed a lot of resiliency. I’m
super proud of them.”
Patrick Herrin pitched a gem for
Essex Junction, as he got out of a couple
of jams throughout the game to hold
“We just need to keep doing
what we have throughout
the district and state tournaments.
We need to throw strikes
and let the defense play like they
are capable.
It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
David Bostwick
Bennington scoreless in the complete
game effort.
“Patrick pitched a phenomenal game
today,” said Bostwick. “We had other
pitchers ready to go today, but he was
just on a roll, so no way I could take him
out.”
Eli Bostwick scored the first run of
the game in the top of the first when
he scored on an RBI triple by Andrew
Goodrich to put Essex Junction up 1-0.
Post 91 advances
to championship
By ANTHONY LABOR
The Essex Reporter
The Essex Post 91 American
Legion team has played a
solid five games through the
start of the Vermont State
Tournament.
Essex won four of its
five games throughout the
tournament heading into
Tuesday night with its only
loss coming in a 5-4 game
against Addison County last
Saturday.
After the loss, Essex
came back from a four-run
deficit against Lake Region
on Sunday to advance to the
championship round.
“The team has been
pretty impressive so far
throughout the tournament,”
said Essex Post 91 manager
Paul Morgan. “We have
shown a lot of guts coming
back from games even in the
loss.”
Essex moved on to face
Addison County in the
championship Tuesday
evening. Addison County
took down Colchester on
Tuesday morning to advance.
Colchester and Addison
County started a game
Sunday evening that was
suspended due to darkness.
The two finished out the
game Tuesday morning.
Addison County
hasn’t lost a game yet during
the tournament meaning
Essex will have to beat
them twice to be crowned
champions. Addison County
only needs one win for the
title.
Essex kicked off the
tournament as the No. 1 seed
in the north and took on No.
4 south seed Bellows Falls
Post 37.
Essex won 10-3 behind
a strong offensive showing
from the team and a solid
outing by Jacob Benson.
Benson pitched eight innings
giving up three runs on four
hits with eight strikeouts.
Hayden Smith led the
way offensively, as he went
3-for-4 with an RBI and
three runs scored.
Josh Baez and Davis
Mikell each tallied three hits
and scored two runs.
Jacob Gaboriault, Patrick
Brodeur and Elijah Baez
each scored a run in the
game.
Essex capitalized on a
number of Bellows Falls
errors, as it scored four
unearned runs to secure the
lopsided victory.
Essex followed up with
another strong outing from
its starting pitcher against
Brattleboro.
Mikell pitched a complete
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They broke the game open in
the third inning with five runs. Matt
Correria, Bostwick, Goodrich, Matt
Cincotta and Nick Taylor all scored in the
inning to give the team a 6-0 lead.
Correiria and Bostwick scored in the
fourth to make it 8-0 before Jackson
Moore finished the scoring in the fifth.
With the win, Essex Junction moves
on to the Little League World Series East
Regional on Friday in Cranston, R.I.
Essex Junction will open the regional
tournament with a game against the
Scarborough, Maine on Sunday. They
will also play Cranston, R.I. on Monday,
Braintree, Mass. on Wednesday and
will end pool play against Connecticut
on Thursday. The top two teams from
each pool will play in the semifinals on
Aug. 8 with the winners playing for the
championship the following day.
They will look to continue their strong
play with aggressive pitching, solid
defense and patient hitting to make some
noise in the tournament.
“We just need to keep doing what we
have throughout the district and state
tournaments,” said Bostwick. “We need
to throw strikes and let the defense play
like they are capable. It’s going to be a lot
of fun.”
Junior Voyageurs
capture MJLL
Championship
BY ANTHONY LABOR
The Essex Reporter
The Vermont Junior
Voyageurs didn’t take long
to make an impact in the
Montreal Junior Lacrosse
League.
The Voyageurs finished
their first season in the
league with a championship,
as they won a best of three
series against the Montreal
Shamrocks 2-0 over the
weekend.
“The team played great
this weekend, especially on
Saturday,” said Voyageurs
coach Trevor Wagar.
“Saturday everyone played
their game to a T and
Brandon (Scharaga) did very
well in net.”
The Voyageurs opened up
the series with an 11-6 win
over the Shamrocks on Friday
at the Essex Skating Facility.
They followed with an
11-5 win on Saturday in
Montreal to become the
MJLL champions.
“The team collectively
played as good as I have
seen them play to date,” said
Wager. “This is a product of a
team we can practice with all
season and make adjustments
along the way.”
After years of playing just
exhibition games, the Junior
Voyageurs got a taste of
league play that ended with a
championship.
They are hoping to join an
even more competitive league
next year.
“It was good to have the
feel of being in a league this
year,” said Wagar. “The
MJLL this year and a little
defunct because of a lack of
players. We are hoping next
year to join a league with
other teams around Quebec,
Onondaga and maybe even
Rochester. I think that would
make the season even more
legitimate.”
Even though the numbers
– See VOYAGEURS on page 2b
TEST
The Town of Essex Swim Team
competed in Leagues on Friday and
Saturday in Middlebury. The final
scores came in Monday morning just
in time for the column. The Edge took
first place totaling 2,260.5 points
with TEST in second after scoring
2,003. BTC was third (1,570), BCC
fourth (1,295.5), Middlebury fifth
(1,044.5) and Vergennes sixth (1,040).
St. Albans and Winooski finished in
seventh and eighth.
The Edge took first scoring 1,379.5
to TEST’s 923 in the girls’ scoring.
BCC slid in third (806), BTC fourth
(736), and Vergennes squeaked by
Middlebury 459-458. TEST boys
easily claimed first with 1,080 points.
A highlight of first-place finishes
include Austin Oliver 12-and under
50 Butterfly, 100 IM; Jake McIntyre
14-and-under 100 IM, 200 Free;
Ashley Warren 18-and-under 100
IM; Caleb Workman 12-and-under
200 Free; Kira Hancock 18-andunder 100 Back, 50 Free, 100 Free,;
Kevin Hancock 18-and-under 50
Back, 100 Back; Ross Macy 14-andunder 200 IM, 50 Butterfly; Claire
Toomey 10-and-under 50 Free, 25
Back; Allison Monty 10-and-under 25
Breast; Ally Cady 10-and-under 25
Free; Katrina Nunez 14-and-under
50 Butterfly, 100 Free; Casey Keenan
14-and-under 50 Back, 100 Free; Lucy
Miquel 12-and-under 50 Butterfly;
Amanda Sinkewicz 18-and-under 50
Butterfly.
Relays: G 10-and-under 100
Free - Ella Newman, Monty, Cady,
Toomey;18-and-under 200 Medley and
200 Free - Charlotte Brace, Amanda
Sinkewicz, Warren, Hancock.
Boys 14-and-under 200 Medley and
200 Free - Jacob Hammond, Keenan,
McIntyre, Macy broke the meet record
in the 200 free with a time of 1:45.64.
Boys 18-and-under 200 Medley Andrew Gadbois, Austin Hayes, Sean
Chamberlain, Hancock. 18-and-under
200 Free — Gadbois, Chamberlain,
Matt Bergeron, Hancock.
Congrats on the golds and second
place in leagues. Still not sure how
you can leave a meet and not know
who won. Where is Pavel Dvorak
when you need him? States are this
weekend down south in White River
Junction at the Upper Valley Aquatic
Center. Good Luck Team!
Pete Picard received the Golden
Whistle Coach’s Award for exemplary
coaching this season. The Champlain
Valley Swimming League (CVSL)
recognizes coaches annually, not only
for their performace ‑ TEST went
through the summer undefeated
- but for dedication to the league,
mentoring swimmers, and also
for supporting other teams. Pete
actually got a golden whistle and
his name inscribed on a plaque.
Congratulations!
Soccer
The 2014 Women’s Summer Soccer
league semi’s were postponed Sunday
evening because of nasty weather.
Both games were played, weather
permitting, on Wednesday at 6 in the
Williston Recreational Park. Finals
may be Sunday evening.
Still assigning sub-varsity games
for the fall. If you would like to ref or
officiate, please email me at jgonillo@
ccsuvt.org asap. Pay is $45 for a high
school game and $75 for a middle
school double header.
Pros
Major League Baseball Hall of
Fame ceremonies were Sunday in
Cooperstown, N.Y. Joe Torre was
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Essex softball wraps up regional
The Essex 11- and 12-year-old
softball team finished its play in the
Eastern Regional Tournament in
Bristol, Conn. this week.
Essex finished the tournament
with a 1-3 record, as they went
up against the best teams in the
northeast.
“Going down to Bristol was
an incredible experience, which I
am sure the girls will remember
forever,” said Essex manager Jim
Svarczkopf. “Some other coaches
said their teams play over 90 games
between middle school, travel teams
and little league, which is a lot
more than the 30 games we might
get in. The disparity of experience
is challenging to overcome.”
Essex played three of the
tournament’s first eight games to
kick things off.
They started with a tour of
ESPN studios followed by a practice,
dinner, opening ceremonies and
ended the day with their first game
under the lights against the host
Connecticut team.
Connecticut came away with a
17-3 victory. Maddie Reed led the
offense with a two-run double in the
game.
Essex had a quick turnaround
with an early afternoon game the
next day against Maine. After going
ahead 2-0, Essex ended up falling
even played their second. The girls
were tired, but they battled right to
the end of every game.”
With a day off on Monday, Essex
found the win column with a big win
over New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Essex scored early and often on its
way to a 16-3 victory.
Maddie Catella led off the game
with a home run to center field.
Johnson, Rachel Yandow and Jamie
Morin also scored in the inning to
give Essex the early 4-0 lead.
They tallied three more runs
in the second with Abbey Gleason,
Logan Pollard and Grace Wiggett all
scoring.
Johnson and Catella scored a run
in the top of the third to take a big
9-1 lead. They scored seven more
runs in the final two innings with
big hits from Jamie Morin, Kristy
Svarczkopf, Gleason, Appenzeller
and Yandow.
Gleason and Appenzeller split
the duties in the game with each
pitching three innings. Appenzeller
got the win without giving up an
earned run with seven strikeouts,
while Gleason struck out five.
“It was a great time just being
down in the tournament and we all
had a lot of fun,” said Svarczkopf.
“We learned a lot and came back
with many ideas to help the future of
Essex softball.”
“We had a tough schedule to
deal with. We had three games
in before a lot of teams even
played their second. The girls
were tired, but they battled
right to the end of every game.”
Jim Svarczkopf
to Maine 10-2 behind a seven-run
fourth inning.
Reed and Kirsten Appenzeller
scored the two runs in the game for
Essex.
Essex was back in action
on Sunday when they took on
Massachusetts. It was another tough
one for the team from Vermont, as
they fell 10-1 in the game.
Abi Johnson scored on a ground
out by Logan Pollard for the team’s
lone run.
“We had a tough schedule to deal
with,” said Svarczkopf. “We had
three games in before a lot of teams
Four feet to first
Amelia Moriarty, of Jericho, makes her first of three attempts
at the high jump during the St. Johnsbury Academy State
Track Meet on July 26 in St. Johnsbury. Moriarty placed first
in the 13- to 15-year-old age group with a jump of 4 feet.
TOM THOMPSON
SHORTS
from page 1b
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Thomas, Greg Maddox, Tony La Russa and Bobby
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Many moves to be made.
Rescue
Two years ago Sand Hill Pool lifeguard Adam
Slocum saved the life of a very young swimmer at
a TEST swim meet. The Vergennes swimmer went
under, Adam jumped in and pulled her to safety.
Essex Rescue, Fletcher Allen and Dartmouth
Hitchcock all played a part in this story that ended
happily for Peyton Jones and her family. LG training
and CPR does pay off.
POST
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game shutout, as he led Essex to a
3-0 win. He gave up three hits in
nine innings of work with only two
walks and 13 striekouts.
He helped his own cause at the
plate, as he went 2-for-3 with two
RBIs.
Josh Baez continued to run
the bases well in the game, as he
finished with two runs scored and an
RBI. Essex lost the only game of the
tournament on Saturday in a tight
5-4 game against Addison County.
They gave up four runs in the fifth
in the loss.
Hayden Smith and Mikell each
scored two runs in the game, but
Essex couldn’t find the tying run.
“We had one bad inning in the
loss,” said Morgan. “We scrapped,
but just couldn’t knock across the
tying run.”
Sunday.”
Deagan Poland went 2-for-4 in
the game with three runs scored and
an RBI.
Josh Baez tallied three RBIs and
scored a run.
Joey Robertson scored two runs
and had an RBI in the game from
the leadoff spot.
Essex will have to show the same
fight it did in the final four innings
of Sunday’s game to move on as
champions of the tournament.
“We have played close games
all year and that has really helped
prepare for the tournament,” said
Morgan. “We just need to throw
strikes and defend and be aggressive
on the bases. If we do that, we
should be fine the rest of the way.”
The loss knocked Essex into
the loser’s bracket and put them
in a must-win game against Lakes
Region on Sunday.
After falling behind 4-0 through
two innings, Essex rallied in the
sixth inning scoring three runs
and taking the lead with a tworun seventh. They scored one in
the eighth and three in the ninth
on their way to a 9-4 win to knock
Lakes Region out of the tournament.
Benson pitched a gem in relief,
as he threw 6 2-3 innings of shutout
ball with 10 strikeouts.
“We have had some really good
performances offensively and
pitching throughout the tournament,
but Jake Benson really sticks out to
me,” said Morgan. “He pitched real
well in our opener and really saved
us with his relief appearance on
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Personal notes
Baby notice. William (Will) Jeffrey Hammond was
born at 6:06 a.m. on Saturday, July 26. He checked
into the world at 7.1 pounds and 19.25 inches. Mother
Jessie and father Jeremy are well too. His parents
are highly successful Hornet coaches in basketball
and track and field respectively. Jessie was a threesport star with the Hornets, while Jeremy teaches
Humanities at CHS. So happy for both of them.
Congratulations! FYI…I am available to babysit at
any time. Mom thinks Will has a shot as a shooting
guard for the Knicks. Dad might be happy with junior
in left field at Fenway or quarterback for the Pats.
Happy Birthday to Milton’s Chloe Mae Rushford,
who turns 12 this week. She is another one of
my talented nieces. Also birthday wishes to my
highly successful sister-in-law Sandy Bechtel who
celebrates a beauty of a b-day this week and was the
envy of Tour de France cyclists in the Swiss Alps a
few weeks ago.
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Ballet dancers have a new opportunity this year through
the teaching of Alyssa Pettingill at her Aspire community
studio on River Road in Essex Junction. Pettingill has
partnered with the Essex Junction Parks and Recreation
department to offer students two 10-week programs of
classical ballet. Pettingill will teach all of the ballet classes,
ranging from Ballet II to Intermediate Adult Ballet.
The 10-week sessions range from $135 to $160 and
began on June 16. Fall classes will begin in September.
Pettingill is establishing these classes under her new
school — Élan Academy of Classical Ballet.
Pettingill, originally of Dover, N.H., attended the
University of New Hampshire where her father was a
theater professor. She graduated UNH with a BA in
Theater and Dance in 1993, and has logged decades of
professional dance experience.
In 2009, Pettingill, her husband James, son Davin, and
daughters Anniella and Siobhan, moved to Essex Junction.
“We really love the wonderful community and beauty of the
area,” she said in a recent interview.
Before this summer, Pettingill taught classical ballet,
pointe, jazz and tap in several studios in Massachusetts, for
the Movement Center in Williston and Colchester, and for
the Richmond Dance Studio.
She recently elaborated on her personal experience as a
dancer and professional experience as a ballet instructor.
Q: Where and when did you learn ballet?
A: I began my classical ballet training in 1978 with
Larry and Colleen Robertson in Lee, N.H. They had both
danced for the San Diego Ballet and the Houston Ballet,
and Larry was a soloist with the Boston Ballet before
coming to UNH to run the Ballet program at the University.
I was one of
their original
students when
they started
their own
school in NH.
I spent
summers
in intensive
training at
Boston Ballet,
studied with
Richard Rein
at Portland
Ballet, and
performed with
the Robertson’s
company,
SeaCoast Ballet
Company, for
six years. Through SeaCoast Ballet Company I had many
opportunities to perform classical repertoire, such as Snow
Queen and Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker, Lilac Fairy
in Sleeping Beauty, Hermia in A Mid-Summer Night’s
Dream, The Can Can Doll in La Boutique Fantasque, Les
Sylphides, Pas de Quatre, as well as original works. After graduating high school I had a full scholarship to
the Milwaukee Ballet, and that summer was accepted on
full scholarship for the 1988-1989 season with a traineeship
to the Pennsylvania/Milwaukee Ballet under the direction
of Robert Weiss. I performed over 30 Nutcrackers and many
outreach performances, but the eventual dissolve of the
Pennsylvania/Milwaukee Ballet and an injury that kept
me off pointe for a time led me to acquire work in summer
stock theater performing in musicals.
I decided to attend UNH to get my BA and round out
my opportunities as a performer by studying jazz, tap
and all aspects of theatrical performance. By my senior
year I had been awarded the Gary O’Neil “Triple Threat”
scholarship for musical theatre.
Q: When did you begin teaching? Why types of
dance do you teach?
A: I actually started teaching when I was still
in college, at Dover Center for the Arts. I moved to
Massachusetts and didn’t return to teaching until my
early 30s when my first child was one-year-old. I taught
ballet and pointe primarily, but also jazz and tap for
many years at Gotta Dance in Billerica, Mass., and
Centerstage Dance Academy in Tyngsborough, Mass. I
taught for the Movement Center (formerly in Williston)
and in Colchester from 2010 until this past June, and for
Richmond Dance Studio when it first opened. Q: What ages do you teach?
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the first
season
you’ve
offered ballet
through
ERJP?
A: I taught
Ballet Fitness
at Aspire last
school year,
but this is
my first year
starting my
own school,
Élan Academy
Q: Where else do you teach?
A: This is it. The perfect opportunity to collaborate with
EJRP to develop my own academy, and I am devoted to it
solely. I am tremendously excited to offer a comprehensive
classical ballet program, and wonderful performance
opportunities for all of my students. Q: What is the most challenging aspect of learning
ballet?
A: I suppose that depends on the student. For some it
might be the discipline required, for some the repetition, for
others it may be the physical demands such as flexibility
and turning out the leg from the hip throughout all
movement. Some may be gifted physically and struggle with
picking up combinations or the necessity of multi-tasking so
many muscles at once, but it is a wonderful process for all,
and every single challenge can be mastered with practice and
devotion. I truly believe there is nothing which builds selfconfidence as much as overcoming a physical challenge and
creating a beautiful way to express oneself.
Q: Why do you enjoy teaching ballet?
A: I have a passion for the art form, for music, and
unending gratitude for the caliber of my own training, which
I feel utterly compelled to share with future generations.
Every aspect of technique, musicality, expression and story
telling is incredibly important to me and to see others
becoming equally inspired is immensely gratifying.
To see dancers improve, to see things “click” for them,
but mostly to see them shine from within when performing
is an amazing gift. To see them bring my choreography to
life on stage, to give something artistically and watch others
run with it, it’s more than satisfying, it’s knowing I am doing
what I was meant to do. Q: Are you working on a performance?
A: I am choreographing the second act of The Nutcracker,
Clara’s Dream, for our first performances the weekend of
Dec. 6 and 7 at Essex High School. Auditions for Élan Ballet
Theatre are open to all Élan students taking two or more
classes per week, and will be held Sept. 6 from 2-4:30 p.m. at
Aspire in Essex Junction.
— Elsie Lynn
WHO’S PAST? An exhibition of mixed media/collage by
artist Graziella Weber-Grassi. Graziella explains, “The plentiful
encounters with hundreds of family portraits during my many
visits of flea markets and garage sales always left me in an
unsettled, skeptical and often sad emotional state…These
unknown personalities and their obscure past deserved my
humble attempt of bringing new life to them as the past, present
and future are only separated by a split second.” Exhibit runs
through Aug. 31. Vintage Inspired, Burlington. Gallery hours:
Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 12-4 p.m. Artist
information: http://graziellawebergrassi.sqsp.com/
“WORLD IN YOUR HAND.” Art on Main presents “World in your
Hand” which showcases work by Essex Junction photographer,
Cal Williams and pottery by Plainfield farmer Leslie Koehler. Cal
Williams is a self-taught photographer, active in the craft since he
borrowed his brother’s camera and purchased his first roll of film
over 50 years ago. Potter Leslie Koehler received a degree in Art
History from the University of Massachusetts focusing her studies
on Japanese Ceramics. After graduation she held a yearlong
apprenticeship, then traveled first to Alaska, then to Africa where
she worked with traditional potters to learn the artistic skills of
indigenous cultures. The exhibit will be on view through Aug. 17.
Art on Main, Hinesburg. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: www.artonmain.
net or 453-4032.
“BREAK IT! BUILD IT!” Taking BCA’s popular summer camp as
its point of departure, “Break It! Build It!” is an exhibition focusing
on artists who embody the DIY spirit. Artists in the exhibition
break, crush, destroy and manipulate everyday objects to build,
invent and create their work. From altered couches to hacked
iPods and installations using raw construction materials, “Break It!
Build It!” will challenge the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and
examine the ways destruction may be a necessary component
of construction. Runs through Sept. 13. BCA Center, Burlington.
Gallery hours: Tuesday- Thursday 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday and
Saturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Monday.
Information: www.burlingtoncityarts.org/BCACenter/
Upcoming Events
THIRD ANNUAL LABELS FOR LIBATIONS. Magic Hat
Brewing and the South End Arts and Business Association
(SEABA) are partnering for a third year to launch the “Labels for
Libations” contest. Local artists can submit designs for Magic
Hat Art Hop Ale’s 22-ounce bomber. One design will be chosen
for the label art and the proceeds from local beer sales benefit
SEABA. The program supports Vermont’s arts scene by allowing
local artists to submit their creative label designs. Entries are
due by Aug. 15. Information: www.magichat.net/seaba/
ARTIST RECEPTION. There will be an Artist’s Reception for
the photo exhibition “XY - Masculinity in Photography” at
Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction on Aug. 8 from 5-7 p.m. This exhibition includes depictions of nudity and strong social
commentary that may be disturbing to some people. It is not
recommended for those under 18 years of age. Refreshments
will be served.
LYRIC THEATRE AUDITIONS. Lyric Theatre Company will
be holding auditions for their production of the Mel Brooks
musical “The Producers” on Aug. 25-28 from 5:45-10 p.m.
at Williston Central School. Lyric’s production will feature a
cast of 34 with stage ages ranging from 18 to 60 plus. Those
auditioning must register between 5:45 and 6:15 p.m. Lyric
Production Supervisor Kathy Richards, Artistic Director Corey
Gottfried, Music Director Carol Wheel and Choreographer
Donna Antell will lead the team. Information: www.
lyrictheatrevt.org.
Editor’s Note: To learn more about the Élan
Academy of Classical Ballet visit: www.facebook.com/
elanacademyofclassicalballet.
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Public Hearing Notice
For more info please call
Don Therrien at 802-658-0021
Email dont@rsdcompanies.com
Or stop by 156 Ave B in Williston
Members of the public are encouraged to speak during the Public
Comments agenda item at the beginning of the meeting on any topic
that is not on the agenda, during a Public Hearing, or, when recognized
by the Chair, during consideration of a specific agenda item.
Information and plans regarding these applications are available at
the Community Development Department in the Municipal Offices
at 81 Main Street in Essex Junction during regular business hours. An
on-line illustration of the proposed project may be available on the
Town website www.essex.org under Maps/Plans.
This meeting will be taped by Channel 17.
Fastenal, the fastest growing
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APPLIANCES parts. Free. 802-5245265
A copy of the Ordinance Changes is
available for Public Inspection at the
Essex Free Library, the Brownell Library,
municipal offices at 81 Main Street and
Lincoln Hall in Essex Junction and the
Public Works offices at 5 Jericho Road in
Essex Center. It is also available on the
Town website at www.essex.org.
NOTE: Pursuant to 24 VSA Section 4464(a)(1)(C) Participation
during the public hearing before the Essex Planning Commission is a
prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.
Very well maintained log home in the village. 2278 sq. FT,
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and municipal pool. Just off Maple Street in Essex. $325,000.
For info call Mary 802-878-5728
GARAGE SALE: 22
Beech St. Essex Jct.
Countryside off rt.15.
Sat. August 2, 9-3.
Large multi-Sale:
kitchen items, wom-
• Excellent Benefits
• Dental & Health Ins.
• 401K plan
• Paid Holidays & Vacations
• Uniforms
• Second Shift Differential
3.JAMMR,LLC-SITE PLAN-PUBLIC HEARINGProposal to construct a 4,800 s.f. office building and 4 ministorage buildings totaling 7,600 sq. ft. @13 Corporate Drive in
the RPD-I zone. Tax Map 72, Parcel 3, Lot 13.
5.
YARDSALES
ens clothing, couch,
chairs, twin bed set,
video stand, books,
records, something
for everyone!
First and second shift available. Must have
knowledge of preventative maintenance and
light mechanical repairs for medium and
heavy-duty trucks. This person must be a
team player and have their own tools.
•SITE PLAN: Richard Struble- request to reapprovealapsedsiteplanapproval#PC:2012-10
for a 6,400 s.f. industrial building located at 50
Gauthier Dr. in the I1 zone. Tax Map 9, Parcel
3-23,Lot50.
Minutes (8-14-14)
HOUSEHOLD
ITEMS FOR SALE.
4 foot kitchen table
and chairs, double
sized air mattress,
mid-sized car cover,
miscellaneous camping items, and totes.
Call 876-7203. Leave
a message if no one
answers.
We have an immediate opening
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Williston location.
CONSENT AGENDA:
•SITEPLANAMENDMENT-TwincraftSoap-36
River Road: Proposal to fit-up approximately
15,000 sq. ft. of its existing 68,150 sq. ft. warehouse
space to accommodate light manufacturing for the
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The Selectboard of the Town of Essex
shall hold a public hearing at 7:35 pm on
August 18th, 2014 at the Town offices,
81 Main Street, Essex Junction, Vermont
to consider changes to the Stormwater
Ordinance, Chapter 10.20. The changes
involve revisions to Section 10.20.15,
definitions, and Section 10.20.90,
which establishes the policies and
procedures for transfer of responsibility
of previously issued and expired State
of Vermont stormwater permits in the
impaired waterways of the municipality.
Questions regarding the changes to the
Stormwater Ordinance may be directed to
Dennis Lutz, P.E., Public Works Director
at 878-1344 or at dlutz@essex.org.
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Thursday paper
Small specialized Essex Junction
medical billing company seeks part
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NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO THE
ESSEX JUNCTION MUNICIPAL CODE
In accordance with V.S.A. Title 24, Sec. 1972, notice is hereby
given to the residents and those interested in lands in the
Village of Essex Junction that on July 22, 2014 the Trustees of
the Village adopted the following ordinance as an amendment
to the Municipal Code (new text is underlined.)
VILLAGE OF ESSEX JUNCTION
MUNICIPAL CODE
CHAPTER 19.
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING STORMWATER
PERMIT TRANSFER AUTHORITY FOR EXPIRED
AND UNPERMITTED DISCHARGES TO IMPARIED
WATERWAYS
PURPOSE: To establish and transfer responsibility for State
of Vermont issued Department of Environmental Conservation
Authorization to Discharge Permits under General Storm Water
Permits and for Unpermitted Discharges to Impaired waterways
within the Town of Essex, Inclusive of the Village of Essex
Junction (the “Town”) to NPDES MS4 General Permit 3-9014
SECTION 1901. The Village of Essex Junction shall
incorporate all provisions of the Essex Town Title 10.20
Stormwater Ordinance, as amended. When conflict occurs
between Village Land Development Code and the Ordinance
10.20, the Town Ordinance shall govern.
This ordinance shall become effective on the 20th day of
September 2014 unless 5% of the qualified voters of the
Village, by written petition filed with the Village Clerk no later
than September 5, 2014, request that the voters of the Village
disapprove the amendment at a duly warned annual meeting or
special meeting.
Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont, the 22nd day of July, 2014.
Susan McNamara-Hill, Village Clerk
Questions about this amendment may be addressed to the
Village Manager, 2 Lincoln Street, Essex Junction, VT, or by
calling 802-878-6944 or email admin@essexjunction.org.
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Essex Police Report
2040 Accident on Essex Way
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July 21 - 27, 2014
Monday, July 21
0040 Disabled Vehicle on I289
0648 Accident on I289
0837 DLS on I289
0902 Welfare Check on Sand Hill Rd
0916 Citizens Dispute on Main St
1102 Motor Veh Complaint on Jericho Rd
1116 Accident on Mohawk Ave
1129 Parking Problem on Bixby Hill Rd
1145 Motor Vehicle Complaint on
Colchester Rd
1206 Accident on Maple St
1209 Trespass Notice Request on
Saybrook Rd
1232 Theft on Upper Main St
1504 Trespass Notice Req on St James Pl
1616 Welfare Check on Central St
1638 Alarm on Alderbrook Rd
1642 Late Reported Accident on Essex Wy
Logwood Circle
2046 Arrest for Trespassing on Lincoln St
2109 Unsecure Premise on S Summit St
2149 Citizens Dispute on River Rd
2250 Suspicious Person on Railroad Ave
2303 Alarm on River Rd
Tuesday, July 22
0226 Citizens Dispute on Central St
0731 Parking Problem on Pioneer St
0800 Accident on Browns River Rd
0816 Alarm on River Rd
0942 Accident on Jericho Rd
1028 DLS on Park St
1115 Alarm on Juniper Ridge Rd
1219 Late Reported Accident Stanton Dr
1243 Found Property on West St
1245 Accident on Center Rd
1316 Trespass Notice on East St
1533 Suspicious Circumstance on Main St
1555 Accident on Pearl St
1614 Traffic Hazard on Susie Wilson Rd
1827 Family Fight on Gaines Ct
2221 Alarm on Old Stage Rd
Wednesday, July 23
0021 Susp Circumstance on Summit St
0028 Two Arrested for Unlawful Mischief
and Petit Larceny
0827 Suspicious Circumstance on Old
Stage Rd
0939 Late Reported Accident on Pearl St
1030 Motor Veh Complaint on Essex Way
Colchester Rd
1628 Accident on Park St
1824 Assisted the Fire Department on
Essex Way
1834 Motor Vehicle Complaint on Pearl St
2032 Accident on Susie Wilson Rd
Thursday, July 24
0821 Traffic Hazard on Fort Parkway
0928 Theft on Corporate Dr
1103 Trespassing Violation on Lincoln St
1157 Motor Veh Complaint on Essex Way
1223 Found Property on Abnaki Ave
1417 VIN Verification on Main St
1519 Late Reported Acc. on Killoran Dr
1621 Trespass Notice Request on
Frederick Rd
1650 Accident on Essex Way
1658 Accident on Main St
1806 Phone Problem on Tanglewood Dr
1810 Assisted Rescue on Gentes Rd
1904 Traffic Hazard on River Rd
1920 Alarm on River St
1951 Violation on an Abuse Prevention
Order on Central St
2014 Assault on Park St
Friday, July 25
0228 Suspicious Person at Sand Hill Park
0832 Welfare Check on Hiawatha Ave
0842 Welfare Check on Railroad Ave
0942 Unlawful Mischief on Carmichael St
1034 Vandalism on Beech St
1214 Phone Problem on Greenbriar Dr
1357 Fraud on Railroad St
1427 Found Property on Elm St
1551 Traffic Hazard on Pearl St
1617 Untimely on Lincoln St
1735 Utility Problem on W Hillcrest Rd
1853 Alarm on Pearl St
1859 Susp Circumstance on Railroad Ave
1921 Suspicious Circumstance on
Mansfield Ave
2103 Alarm on Browns River Rd
2253 Phone Problem on Butternut Ct
2315 Two Charged with Domestic Assault
on Sand Hill Rd
Saturday, July 26
0334 Alarm on Susie Wilson Rd
1301 Susp Circumstance on Lincoln St
1319 Citizens Dispute on Pinecrest Dr
1338 Accident on Colchester Rd
1439 Alarm on West St
1529 Vandalism on Fairview Dr
1553 Phone Problem on Main St
1758 Noise Complaint on Main St
1823 Threatening on Main St
1933 Noise Complaint on Pearl St
1955 Susp Circumstance on Center Rd
2016 Welfare Check on Frederick Rd
2136 Citizens Dispute on Pearl St
2203 Suspicious Vehicle on Essex Way
2328 Noise Complaint on Main St
Sunday, July 27
0424 Alarm on Educational Dr
0554 Suspicious Circumstance on
Logwood Cir
0910 Domestic Assault on Baker St
1220 Trespass Notice Req on Ira Allen Dr
1316 Juvenile Problem on Central St
1431 Motor Vehicle Complaint on Pearl St
1641 Alarm on Center Rd
1737 Citizens Assist on Countryside Dr
1747 Welfare Check on Susie Wilson Rd
1849 Accident on Susie Wilson Rd
1854 Suspicious Person on Center Rd
1946 Alarm on Colchester Rd
2033 Alarm on Pearl St
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Warnings Issued: 60
Fire/EMS Calls Dispatched: 53
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Vermont 4-H horse show attracts 103 competitors
More than 100 Vermont
4-H’ers turned out for the
Vermont 4-H State Horse
Show, July 10-13 at the
Addison County Fair and Field
Days site in New Haven. The
annual event, sponsored by
University of Vermont (UVM)
Extension 4-H, attracted 79 4-H
equestrians and 24 4-H club
members who took part in a
special Horseless Division.
The overall winners from the
Essex area in the 4-H divisions,
based on points earned from
fitting and showmanship,
judging, quiz bowl, general
knowledge test and 4-H project
class, were:
ADVANCED BEGINNER:
Reserve Champion –
Madeleine Larson, Essex
JUNIOR (ages 8-13):
Reserve Champion – Faith
Ploof, Essex Junction
SENIOR (ages 14-18):
Champion – Kaelyn Jenny,
Essex
As Senior 4-H Champion,
Jenny was the recipient of the
Paul Quinn Memorial Award,
given annually in honor of
Quinn, who was a strong
supporter of the Vermont 4-H
Horse Show for many years.
Jenny also was named the
4-H Showmanship Champion
At the Vermont 4-H State Horse Show, held July 10-13 at the Addison County Fair and Field Days site in New Haven,
the 4-H’ers participated in a horse-judging contest. WENDY SORRELL/UVM EXTENSION
with the Reserve 4-H
Showmanship Champion Award
going to Allison Bachmann
for their top placements in
the fitting and showmanship
competition.
In the English riding classes,
based on combined scores in
equitation, trail, pleasure and
either road hack or hunter under
saddle classes, the winners
included:
BEGINNER:
Reserve Champion – Bella
Joly, Essex Junction
Winners in Gymkhana (speed
pattern racing and timed games
on horseback) were:
In the Horseless Division,
participants without horses
demonstrated their knowledge
of everything equine through
quiz bowl, judging and general
knowledge contests. Winners
were:
JUNIOR (ages 13 and under):
Reserve Champion – Eva
Joly, Essex Junction
JUNIOR (11-13):
Champion – Hannah Lang,
Essex
In addition to championships,
several special awards were
presented at the event.
The Overall High Point 4-H
Champion trophy went to the
competitor with the highest
overall score in the 4-H Division
contests at the show. This
award is given annually by the
Ackerman family of Jericho
in memory of their daughter
Caitlin’s horse, Designated Hit.
Kaelyn Jenny of Essex was this
year’s recipient.
Kaelyn also earned the Jim
Wallace Memorial Pleasure Class
Award for her first-place finish in
that class. The award honors the
memory of Wallace, a 4-H parent
and longtime volunteer at the
state 4-H horse show.
The 4-H Club Award was
presented to the Starry Nights
4-H Club of Jericho. This award
is given to the 4-H club whose
members perform the best at the
Vermont 4-H Horse Show (based
on the top three scores in each
category) in general knowledge,
judging, quiz bowl, general
knowledge test, fitting and
showmanship as well as the 4-H
project classes.
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Waterfowl Fishing for food
meetings held
New location
for Essex meeting
Public meetings on the status of waterfowl
populations and waterfowl hunting seasons for the
State of Vermont and Lake Champlain zone in New
York will be
held Aug. 5
in Whitehall,
N.Y., and Aug.
6, in Essex,
Vt. The annual
meetings are
being held
by the New
York State
Department of
Environmental
Conservation
and Vermont
Fish & Wildlife
Department. The Aug. 5
meeting will
be held at the
Skenesborough
Rescue Squad
building. The August 6 meeting will be held at
Memorial Hall, 5 Towers Road. Both meetings will
run from 7 to 9 p.m. Vermont and New York waterfowl hunters are
encouraged to attend one of these meetings and
share their preferences and opinions with other
waterfowl hunters and Vermont and New York
wildlife personnel. Under Federal regulations, waterfowl seasons,
bag limits and shooting hours in the Lake
Champlain Zone must be uniform throughout the
entire zone. Therefore, waterfowl seasons in New
York’s portion of the Lake Champlain Zone must
be identical to the waterfowl season in Vermont’s
portion of the Zone.
Comments received at the August meetings, as
well as input and recommendations from the Vermont
Fish & Wildlife Department and the New York
Department of Environmental Conservation, will be
reviewed by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Board. Eating wild-caught fish
can be healthy for you
and the environment
Fishing is a favorite summer pastime among
Vermonters and visitors to the state for good reason –
fish tastes great. While anglers may enjoy fishing as a
chance to get in the outdoors with friends and family,
many also appreciate the benefit of bringing their
catch home for a nutritious meal.
Vermont anglers can hook many of the traditional
fish like trout, bass and salmon that are beloved by
chefs. But many other fish species such as yellow
perch, crappie and pumpkinseeds are also abundant in
Vermont’s waters and are easy to catch. These species
are often referred to as panfish because they are
delicious when pan-fried.
“Well-regulated fishing
can be one of the most
ecologically-friendly
and sustainable ways
for people to gather
“In general,
food,” said Eric Palmer,
director of fisheries for the
Vermont’s wild fish
Vermont Fish & Wildlife
Department. “Vermonters
are generally very
are safe to eat
conscious of what they eat
and where it originates.
When you catch a perch
from a Vermont pond, you
if you follow
can be assured it is local,
organic, free-range and
these few simple
absent added hormones or
antibiotics.”
By purchasing a fishing
guidelines.”
license, anglers also
help the environment.
Eric Palmer, director of
These funds support the
fisheries for the Vermont
Vermont Fish & Wildlife
Fish & Wildlife Department
Department’s efforts to
improve fish habitat. The
department also monitors
fish populations and sets
harvest limits to ensure that a species will not be overfished.
As for potential health risks associated with
eating fish, Palmer noted that most Vermont fish are
perfectly safe to eat.
“People hear reports on the news on initiatives
to reduce runoff into Lake Champlain, so they often
mistakenly assume that fish caught there are unsafe,”
said Palmer. “These efforts are focused on reducing
excess nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus,
rather than on issues with mercury and PCBs that can
sometimes make fish unsafe to eat.”
The Vermont Department of Health issues
guidelines on which fish species are safest to eat. “In
general, Vermont’s wild fish are safe to eat if you
follow these few simple guidelines,” said Palmer. The Department of Health’s guidelines for eating
wild Vermont fish are available at www.tinyurl.
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Health/Food
Bacon, tomato
and basil rice salad
Submitted by NANCY MOCK
OF COLCHESTER
Ingredients:
2 c. Jasmine rice, uncooked
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
6 strips bacon, cooked, drained and chopped
2 Roma tomatoes
1/2 c. fresh basil leaves
4 oz. whole-milk mozzarella cheese, cut into
1-inch cubes
1/2 c. vinegar
1/2 c. extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp salt
Directions:
1.Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil until hot in a pan
over medium heat. Add in the minced garlic
and toss quickly to sauté, for 1 minute. Add
in the uncooked Jasmine rice and stir to coat
it in the oil. Stir often over medium-low heat
for about 3 minutes – do not allow the garlic
to burn. Add in 3 cups of water and stir. Cover
and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer
the rice for 15-20 minutes until cooked.
2.Spread the cooked rice out on a baking sheet
and cool. Remove the seeds from the tomatoes
and dice. Place diced tomatoes in a large
bowl along with the chopped bacon. Place
the basil leaves in stacks of 4-5; roll up from
the long edge and slice crossways into thin
strips. Run the knife through the slivers a
few times to chop them up and then add them
to the bowl along with the cubed mozzarella.
Stir the cooled rice into the bowl and toss the
ingredients to combine.
3.Pour the vinegar and 1/2 c. of oil into a small
jar. Screw on the lid and shake to combine the
two. Pour the vinaigrette over the ingredients
in the bowl and toss to coat and combine. Stir
in the black pepper and salt to taste.
4.Serve at room temperature or chilled. Makes
about 4 cups.
See more of Nancy’s recipes on her blog at
nanmock.blogspot.com.
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Editor’s Note: Five Corners Farmers’ Market takes
place every Friday through September from 3:30-7:30 p.m.
on Lincoln Place off Railroad Ave. in Essex Junction.
CORRECTION
In the July 17, 2014 edition of The Essex Reporter the name of the Five Corners Farmers’ Market vendor
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correct name is “Adventures in Granola” which is operated by Partners in Adventure. We apologize for this error.
Soothing answers
to diaper rash questions
So many parents have been
asking me for some rational tips
on diaper rashes. Let me see if I
can soothe these parents with a
few pointers.
Essentially all babies will
get a diaper rash at some time
or another. It appears as red
irritated bumps and larger
confluent red areas of skin down
in the diaper area. Diaper rash
is not a sign of poor parenting.
It can result from irritation from
stool and urine, introduction
of new foods, irritation from a
new product, a bacterial or yeast
infection, sensitive skin, chafing
and even use of antibiotics.
The good news is that diaper
rashes are generally easy to
treat by simply using an overthe-counter diaper ointment
that will protect the skin, such as petroleum jelly or zinc oxide.
If the rash appears in the groin creases, it may mean infection as
well as irritation of the skin around baby’s bottom, suggesting an
antifungal prescription ointment may be needed. Just have a chat
with your infant’s health care professional, who can help with
diagnosing and treating all types of rashes.
Of course the best way to deal with a diaper rash is to prevent
one from occurring.
I recommend the following:
Change diapers often. In doing so, wipe the bottom with a soft
cloth and rinse with warm water. Don’t scrub, which can irritate
the skin. Avoid disposable wipes, which contain alcohol and
perfumes that can irritate the skin. Wash your hands before and
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after changing diapers so germs
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Avoid tight-fitting diapers.
They do not allow air in to dry
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cause chafing and irritation.
There is no proof that one type
of diaper is better than another,
be it cloth or disposable.
When possible, let your
baby go bare-bottomed. Place
them on a large towel in the
buff and allow them some time
at home in their birthday suit or
in a very loosely fitted superabsorbent diaper.
Use a mild detergent.
Also, avoid fabric softeners or
antistatic sheets that can cause
irritation and rashes on young
sensitive skin.
If the rash lasts for more than two or three days, is
accompanied by fever, blisters, pus, involves groin creases, or you
are simply concerned, please have your baby’s doctor look at the
rash. It may represent a yeast or bacterial skin infection requiring
other anti-infective treatment.
Hopefully tips like these will give you the bottom line when it
comes to protecting your child from the dreaded diaper rash.
Lewis First, M.D., is chief of Pediatrics at Vermont Children’s
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J ericho / U nderhill
What do steer and black flies have in common?
Introducing the
Black Fly Collective
By PHYL NEWBECK
For The Essex Reporter
On Aug. 9, the Black Fly Collective
will present an afternoon of art, food
and music in the backyard of Gaye
Symington and Chuck Lacy, of Jericho
Center. The group describes itself as “a
way for talented people to come together
in support of each other’s work” as well
as “a foundation for the continual growth
of this work.” Collective members include
musicians, photographers, writers and
videographers. The gathering is an
opportunity to introduce some of their
members (many of whom are graduates
of Mount Mansfield Union High School)
and their artistic endeavors to the
community.
In 2012, Symington and Lacy held
a backyard steer roast featuring grassfed beef from a farm in Hardwick. The
steer was grilled whole on a customwelded roaster. This year, the couple is
contributing the steer and the grounds,
but they’re letting the local artists take
charge of the rest of the event. The roast
will take place from 3 to 10 p.m. and in
addition to the steer, there will be grilled
walnut-oat veggie burgers, salads, ice
cream and non-alcoholic drinks. Guests
may bring their own adult beverages and
chairs and/or blankets are recommended.
Advance tickets are $20 but children 10
years of age and under are admitted free
of charge.
Richmond musician and filmmaker
Mary Lacy painted this mural on Gaye Symington and Chuck Lacy’s barn in Jericho Center. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
Joseph Rittling said the Black Fly
Collective was started roughly six months
ago. “I got the initial idea a year ago,”
he said. “When a lot of my friends had
graduated and were doing some cool
individual projects. It was a way that we
could help each other with those projects.”
The Black Fly Collective includes artists
working in a variety of media but Rittling
said they fit together well. “There’s been
a learning curve about how to best help
each person out and we’re still learning,”
he said. “Our only qualifier is to find
people who are doing valuable work. We’re
open to all sorts of media. It makes the
project more interesting and dynamic to
have variety.”
Connor Gallagher, of Jericho, is
one of the Black Fly Collective artists.
Formerly a marine science instructor at
the Catalina Marine Institute, he recently
made the decision to return home. “I got
into making films and videos which had
been a passion of mine in the past,” he
said. “I made some underwater videos and
shared them with friends.” On his return
to Vermont, Gallagher joined Rittling
in forming a marketing agency to create
Achievements
Alexandra Caroline
Orsky of Underhill, was named
to the fall 2013 and spring
2014 semester Dean’s Lists at
Washington University in St.
Louis, Mo. Alexandra is enrolled
in the university’s College of
Arts & Sciences.
Lindsey D. Wyatt, of
Jericho, received awards during
St. Lawrence University’s
Moving-Up Day ceremony, which
was held on April 26 in Canton,
N.Y. Lindsey was presented with
the Beta Beta Beta Outstanding
Senior, which is given to the
graduating senior biology
major who has outstanding
achievements in academics,
research and departmental
service. She was also presented
with the Outstanding Beginning
Student Prize (Chinese), which
is awarded to the students in
elementary language classes
who have not studied the
language before and whose
performance in the course has
been most outstanding. Lindsey
is majoring in neuroscience. A
member of the Class of 2014 at
St. Lawrence, Lindsey graduated
from Mount Mansfield Union
High School. Lindsey was also
named to the fall 2013 Dean’s
List and graduated from St.
Lawrence University with a
degree in neuroscience Summa
Cum Laude.
Brandon Griggs, of
Jericho, was awarded the Visual
Arts Award for outstanding
efforts by the Division of
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Communication and Creative
Media at Champlain College
in Burlington, Vt. Brandon is a
Graphic Design & Digital Media
major.
Sophy Walsh, of Underhill,
was awarded the Emergent
Media Center Award for
outstanding efforts by the
Division of Communication and
Creative Media at Champlain
College in Burlington, Vt. Sophy
is a Graphic Design and Digital
Media major. Sophy graduated
from Champlain College in
Burlintgon, Vt. during the 136th
commencement ceremony on
May 3 with a bachelor’s degree
in Graphic Design and Digital
Media.
Colby Lahaie, of
Underhill, was awarded the
LCDI Leadership Award
for outstanding efforts by
the Division of Information
Technologies and Sciences
at Champlain College in
Burlington, Vt. Colby was
named to the spring 2014
semester Dean’s List at
Champlain College and
graduated from Champlain
College during the 136th
commencement ceremony
on May 3 with a bachelor’s
degree in Computer and Digital
Forensics.
Matthew Prahl, of
Underhill, was awarded the
Outstanding Student Award
for outstanding efforts by
the Division of Information
Technologies and Sciences
at Champlain College in
Burlington, Vt. Matthew is
a Computer Networking and
Information Security major.
Matthew was named to the fall
2013 and spring 2014 semester
Dean’s Lists at Champlain
College in Burlington, Vt.
Matthew is majoring in
Computer Networking and
Information Security.
Lauren Rocheleau, of
Jericho, graduated as a member
of the Honor Society for Nursing
at Colby-Sawyer College in
New London, N.H. Lauren was
also named to the 2014 spring
semester Dean’s List at ColbySawyer College.
Dakotah Patnode, of
Jericho, received recognition
during the 4th annual
Champlain College Core
Division Celebration of
Excellence. The award ceremony
recognizes outstanding work
in multiple core classes across
multiple years at Champlain
College in Burlington, Vt.
Dakotah received recognition for
work in Rhetoric II. Dakotah is
an Early Childhood/Elementary
Education major. Dakotah
was also named to the fall
2013 semester Dean’s List at
Champlain College.
Jacquelin Chin
Smolinski, of Jericho,
graduated from Clemson
University with a Bachelor of
Science Industrial Engineering.
Cynthia McCormack,
of Jericho, received a 2014
Nursing Scholarship from New
England Federal Credit Union.
Each year, NEFCU’s Nursing
Scholarship Program provides
three scholarships of $3000 each
to qualified applicants. Cynthia
is currently attending Norwich
University and is a student in
the Master of Science in Nursing
Education program.
Robert Mathieu, of
Underhill, earned a Bachelor of
Science Business Administration
in Finance Cum Laude from
Coastal Carolina University in
Conway, S.C. this spring.
Meghan Bartlett, of
Jericho, was named to the fall
2013 semester Dean’s List at St.
Anselm College in Manchester,
N.H.
Chris Provost, of Jericho,
graduated from the Community
College of Vermont in
Montpelier, Vt., on June 7 with
an Associate of Science degree.
Caitlin L. Ackerman,
of Jericho, graduated from
Champlain College in
Burlington, Vt. during the 136th
May 3. Caitlin was named to the
fall 2013 President’s List.
Samantha Frances
Brehm, of Jericho, graduated
in Early Childhood/Elementary
Education. Samantha was
also named to the spring
videos for businesses. He hopes to use
those marketing skills to help promote
local creativity, as well. “Its art meeting
business,” he said. “We’re hoping the steer
roast will bring people to see the art but
also just get together for a great time.”
Mary Lacy, a member of the Black Fly
Collective and the artist of the rooster
mural, which adorns the Symington/
Lacy barn, specializes in murals
and portraiture. Lacy has had some
commissioned work in California and
was living in New York City when she
decided to return home to Jericho in
December. “So far all my work has been
individual pieces,” she said. “I wanted to
do something bigger so I started a series of
chickens on businesses in Jericho.” Right
now, Lacy is more interested in visibility
than the profitability of her work so she
was thrilled to be able to collaborate with
Gallagher and Rittling. She sees the steer
roast as a launching party designed to
introduce the collective to the community.
For the steer roast, the Lacy/
Symington barn will be turned into
gallery space. In addition to the outside
mural, Mary Lacy is working on an
interior one and the barn will be filled
with the photographs and paintings of
collective members as well as a screen to
showcase some of their latest videos. “It’s
an opportunity for people to be introduced
to what we’re doing,” said Rittling. “A big
part of the collective is to help local artists
get noticed. There are a lot of different
things but it’s all spread out and we want
to bring it to the forefront.”
Advance tickets are available at www.
steerroastvt.com. No tickets will be sold at
the door.
Congratulations
To all of these achievers!
Email your achievments to
news@essexreporter.com
Champlain College.
Nick Scott Hayes, of
Jericho, graduated from
in Computer Information
Technology.
Darren J. Kennedy,
of Jericho, graduated from
in Criminal Justice. Darren
was also named to the fall
Champlain College.
Kate E. Sharrow, of
Jericho, graduated from
Burlington, Vt. during the
136th commencement ceremony
on May 3 with a bachelor’s
degree in Psychology. Kate
was also named to the spring
Champlain College.
Thomas R. Francis,
of Underhill, graduated
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May 3with a bachelor’s degree
in Game Programming. Thomas
was also named to the fall 2013
and spring 2014 semester Dean’s
Lists at Champlain College.
Elizabeth Johnston,
of Underhill, graduated
from Castleton College in
Castleton, Vt. during the 227th
May 17 with a Bachelor of Arts
in Health Science.
Alexis Ochoa, of Jericho,
graduated from Castleton
College in Castleton, Vt. during
the 227th commencement
ceremony on May 17 with an
Associate of Science in Nursing.
Hannah Schultz, of
Jericho, was named to the spring
the University of Hartford in
Hartford, Conn.
Abigail D. Wintersteen,
of Jericho, was named to the fall
2013 and spring 2014 semester
Dean’s Lists at St. Anselm
College in Manchester, N.H.
Abigail is a nursing major and a
member of the class of 2016.
Phillip Prahl, of Underhill,
was inducted into the Phi Alpha
Theta national honor society
at the University of Vermont
in Burlington, Vt. Phi Alpha
Theta aims to promote the
study of history through the
encouragement of research,
good teaching, publication
and the exchange of learning
and ideas among historians.
Phillip graduated during the
University of Vermont’s 213th
commencement ceremonies on
May 18 with a Bachelor of Arts
in History from the College of
Arts & Sciences.
Brian Michael Nicewicz,
of Jericho, was named a
Presidential Scholar at Clarkson
University in Potsdam, N.Y.
for the spring 2014 semester.
Brian is a freshman majoring in
mechanical engineering.
Raychel Z. Rieder,
of Jericho, was named a
Raychel is a senior majoring in
engineering and management.
Richard S. Sawyer,
of Underhill, was named a
Richard is a senior majoring in
mechanical engineering.
Benjamin B. King, of
Jericho, was named to the spring
Clarkson University in Potsdam,
N.Y. Benjamin is a sophomore
majoring in civil engineering.

July 31, 2014 - The Essex Reporter

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