June 14, 2012 - The Essex Reporter

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JUNE 14, 2012
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Indian Brook closed 2 days for treatment
By JASON STARR
The Essex Reporter
Indian Brook Reservoir will be
treated for milfoil overgrowth this week
as state biologists drop the aquatic
herbicide triclopyr onto shoreline
sections of the water. This will be the
first time Indian Brook has ever been
treated for the invasive plant, which has
been the subject of increasing park-user
complaints, according to Essex Parks
and Recreation Director Mark Berry.
The treatment is scheduled to begin
this Thursday, closing the reservoir to
swimmers and boaters through Friday.
Updated information about the timing
of the treatment and closure will be
posted at the park and town offices this
week, Berry said.
Milfoil grows from the bottom of
the reservoir and reaches the surface,
favoring areas close to shore that are
also popular with swimmers. It crowds
out other plant species and blocks
light from feeding plant life below the
surface. The Essex Selectboard and
Vermont Department of Environmental
Conservation Watershed Management
Division approved a five-year mitigation
plan in December.
“Milfoil has been on the upswing the
last four or five years,” said Berry.
The Department of Environmental
Conservation is experienced treating
other Vermont lakes with triclopyr. The
chemical will be sprinkled in flake form
over problem areas, causing the plant’s
life cycle to accelerate. By mid-July,
park users should notice less milfoil as
the plants die and fall to the bottom of
the lake, Berry said.
The mitigation plan includes followup treatments and, eventually, divers
removing the plant debris from the
bottom of the lake.
After each treatment, people who use
the reservoir for drinking water supply
are asked to refrain from preparing food
or drinks from the source until state
tests determine the triclopyr is below
a level of 75 parts per billion. Also,
irrigation with Indian Brook water will
be restricted for at least four months.
In another first for Indian Brook,
season passes are restricted this season
– See BROOK on page 2a
Division I Champions
Susan Overfield
Photo by Oliver Parini
Librarian earns
top honor
Essex Free Librarian named
Vermont Librarian of the Year
By ELSIE LYNN
The Essex Reporter
Susan Overfield, has been the director of the Essex
Free Library for 33 years. Nearly a month ago, on May
22, she was awarded the Sarah C. Hagar Award at the
118th annual Vermont Library Conference held at St.
Michael’s College. The award is often referred to as the
Vermont Librarian of the
Year and is given to one
librarian for outstanding
“She is an
service and contributions
to the field of librarianship
extremely giving
in Vermont.
person in her day“Over her 30-plus
years, Susan has brought
to-day life and this life, heart, warmth and
knowledge to the library,”
extends into her
said
Caitlin
Corless,
work. It makes her Assistant Librarian II
happy to be able to at Essex Free Library.
“Susan has made our
share these books
library more than just a
to put books. She
with other libraries place
has created a community
center here, where she
and to connect
truly cares about her
readers with the
library staff, the people
come into the library,
books they desire.” who
and the community as a
whole.”
As a child, Overfield
Caitlin Corless
explained,
she moved to
Assistant Librariant
nine
schools
in five states
Essex Free Library
within 12 years. The first
place she’d go in each
new community was the
library.
"It was a place where I knew how to find my way
around and quickly be among 'old friends' in each new
town," Overfield recalled. "This recognition was not only an honor, it was a
tremendous and startling surprise," she added. "It is
very humbling to be honored for doing a job, for these
many years that I really and genuinely enjoy!"
Nearly 25 years ago, the Essex Free Library was
– See LIBRARIAN on page 3a
Jordi Begin celebrates championship victory with ace pitcher Alexis Perry. Three days after a storm halted play on Friday night, Begin
resumed her fourth-inning at-bat with a two-strike, two-out home run to give Essex the lead on the way to its 6-3 win over BFA-St. Albans
in Poultney. See full story on 1b.
Photo by Josh Kaufmann
By JOSH KAUFMANN
for the Essex Reporter
BFA-St. Albans created more scoring chances than it had
a right to expect against two-time Gatorade Player of the Year
Alexis Perry and undefeated Essex, but the Hornets dominated
the second half of the two-part Division I softball championship
game and finished off their sixth title with a 6-3 victory Monday
evening.
The Comets were done in by superb Hornet defense in the first
3 2/3 innings Friday night before a thunderstorm ended play for
the night, and by a combination of Perry’s renewed strength and a
devastating home run by Jordi Begin just seconds after the game
resumed Monday afternoon.
Begin, who ended Missisquoi’s season on Wednesday with a
towering home run for a walkoff win in the 11th inning, cleared
the fence on Monday’s blast to dead center field, putting the
Pat O’Connor goes beyond Little Fenway
By PHYL NEWBECK
For The Essex Reporter
In Vermont Pat O’Connor is known principally as the man
behind Little Fenway — the miniature replica ball park he
constructed at his home in Jericho. The field is the site of numerous
fundraising events including an annual wiffle ball tournament to
raise money for the Travis Roy Foundation. O’Connor constructed
Little Fenway in 2000 and followed it with Little Wrigley in 2007.
These days, O’Connor is taking his talents to a full-sized stadium
as the principal owner of the New Bedford Bay Sox of the New
England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL).
The NECBL was founded in 1993 and the Bay Sox joined the
league in 2009 after moving from Torrington, Conn. The league
consists of college players from across the country, playing a
42-game schedule starting in early June and culminating with
playoffs in early August. O’Connor described the league as the
Triple A of collegiate baseball, just below the level of the Cape Cod
League, which would be the collegiate equivalent of the majors.
Roughly 80 NECBL players have made it to the major leagues
including Stephen Strasburg who played for Torrington, Andre
Ethier, Joe Nathan and Andrew Bailey.
O’Connor said he had been looking for a new venture when
this opportunity arose and the combination of baseball and New
England proved too tempting to resist. In an attempt to bring Pat O'Connor holds the microphone for Travis
major league spirit to the ballpark, he hired former Red Sox Rick Roy at the 2011 Travis Roy Foundation's
Miller as his manager.
– See O'CONNOR on page 3a Wiffleball Tournament. File photo by Oliver Parini
Comets into a quick hole.
Shortstop Jessica Barnett was awaiting a 2-2 pitch Friday
night when the wind suddenly picked up and blew the Northeast
Sports Network broadcast tent over the fence and into center
field. Before the field could be cleared, the first clap of thunder
was heard, and play was halted. After a half hour of torrential
rain, which began 40 minutes after officials saw lightning during
warm-ups, the rest of the title game was rescheduled for Monday.
Stepping onto the field three days later, Begin took one ball
to run the count full, fouled off two pitches, then crushed the
next offering over the fence in center field for a 3-2 lead. Barnett,
who had tied up the MVU semifinal with a homer before Begin’s
winner in extra innings, came within a few feet of following her
teammate over the fence Monday. But after Barnett settled for a
triple that had the Essex crowd sensing an early kill, BFA pitcher
Chelsea Abbott — who also has a 2011 Gatorade award to her
– See CHAMPIONS on page 1b
Local family embarks
on mission trip
By JOYCE L. CARROLL
Summer vacation: it’s the
time of year for soaking up the
sun, out-of-state site seeing, and
heeding the call to adventure. For
one Essex Junction family, the call
to adventure comes with a call to
duty. Thodd and Lori Van Allen
and their two teenaged children
will join a Vermont contingent on a
mission trip to Mozambique in July.
Organized by Volunteers in Mission
(VIM), the international outreach
arm of the United Methodist
Church, the trip will involve partial
construction of a two-room medical
school for healthcare workers and
nursing students, many of whom
are employed at the Chicuque Rural
Hospital. A Methodist missionary
founded the 100-year-old medical
facility.
The prevalence of AIDS in the
region has created a shortage of
healthcare workers, some of whom
have become infected with the HIV
virus themselves.
The mission trip is not the first
experience of its kind for Thodd,
an elementary art teacher at both
the Jericho Elementary School and
Brewster Pierce Memorial School in
Huntington. He accompanied a VIM
team to Ghana in 2005 to assist with
the construction of an elementary/
middle school. The experience, he
said, was a life-changing one.
“One of the things I said was,
‘I want my children to experience
another culture to see (and
appreciate) what they have’ … It’s
amazing what they (Ghanaians) do
with what little they have,” he said.
When the opportunity for this
more recent trip presented itself
last fall, Thodd and Lori sat down
with their two children Kevin, 16,
– See MISSION on page 3a
2a
Q&A
With ...
Jeff Smith
The Essex Reporter • June 14, 2012
want college to be a new thing
for our students; I want it to be
just part of what they do as they
go through high school.”
Recently, Smith spoke about
his efforts at EMS, and why
it is important for students to
continue education after high
school.
Q: Why is it important to
teach middle school students
about colleges?
A: It’s important for our
students to know that there are
a lot of different colleges out there. Sometimes
students don’t know about all of them and by
actually seeing pennants on the wall it might
trigger something later in high school when
they are looking more specifically at colleges.
There are over 4,100 colleges in the U.S.
We have 214 colleges represented at EMS.
Q: Why do you collect information
about so many colleges?
A: Students need to find an educational
program that is best for them. I don’t want
them to limit themselves when they are
looking for colleges; they might miss a good
option for them by just not knowing what’s
out there. It’s my goal to plant a seed for them
to know what’s out there and encourage them
to consider many options.
Q: Why is it important for students to
continue education after high school?
A: I don’t want to limit kids to only thinking
about college, but any further education after
high school. Alternative options to college can
be anything from technical schools to military
training; it’s really whatever the students
passion is and how they can get education in
that area after high school.
It is important for the students’ future
success financially and with family. Our
kids are going to be competing in a global
market. We need to give our kids as much of a
competitive edge as we can.
Q: How did you get started with this
project?
A: I started about five years ago. I would
just write to schools and they would send
something back. One year I put posters up
with all the information and location of the
schools. I probably had 100 posters around
the school. I don’t do that any more — it was
a little too much. I enjoy it; it’s a passion of
Essex Middle School guidance counselor
“Children are the world’s most valuable
resource and its best hope for the future,”
John F. Kennedy once said.
Jeff Smith, of Williston, has spent the
past 11 years as a guidance counselor at
Essex Middle School working to equip
sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders with the
knowledge they need to succeed. He spends
the majority of his time with seventh- and
eighth-graders helping them select their high
school courses and talk about their four-year
plan at Essex High School. Smith also teaches
health to sixth-graders.
Five years ago, Smith took on a project
designed to encourage students at EMS to
start thinking about education after high
school.
“It’s good for the kids to learn that there
are a lot of options for them after high school,”
Smith explained. “No matter what they do
after high school, it’s important for them
to continue their education in some sort of
fashion.”
To date, Smith has collected and plastered
onto the EMS cafeteria walls 214 college
pennants; there are 30 different states
represented featuring both public and private
colleges. Smith also highlights two colleges
each week on special bulletin boards around
the school; here, students can learn more
information about the school and look at a
map that locates the campus. New college
information is available weekly, and is
reported on the EMS morning announcements.
Smith earned a bachelor’s degree from
Whittier College, a small liberal arts school
in Whittier, Calif., in 1984, and earned
his master’s degree from the University of
Northern Colorado in 1990.
“I’m just trying to plant the seed to start
thinking about college,” said Smith. “I don’t
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Q: How do students respond to the
college information you’ve put up?
A: Kids will come to me and request
colleges that I haven’t put up yet. The
students are invested in it, and so are parents.
They’ll see their alma mater on the wall and
get excited. Students also connect with their
parents’ alma maters, and engage through
those types of associations.
It’s amazing, the kids are so respectful of
the posters and the pennants on the wall.
Q: How do you select the schools and
colleges represented at EMS?
A: I think it’s close to 70 percent of Essex
High School graduates go on to a four-year
college. On the school profile page on the EHS
website, they list all the colleges that accepted
last year’s EHS graduates. I use that list and
write to those schools for information because
I know that EHS students were interested in
them.
Sometimes I find colleges from parents
and colleagues.
Q:
What
makes
this
project
rewarding?
A: As a guidance counselor it’s been nice
for me because it’s another way to connect
with students in an educational capacity. I
always encourage the students to utilize their
guidance counselors at EHS because they are
experts at the college search; I’m starting that
seed.
Q: Do you have a special memory
from your five years of collecting this
information?
A: One time, I wrote to an art school in
Illinois, and I got a handwritten letter back
from a person in the admissions department
who was an Essex Middle School student
about 10 years ago.
Q: What are your future plans with
this project?
A: I’m going to keep going!
BROOK
will be evaluated in the fall.
“I would expect fewer Indian Brook
passes sold this year,” Berry said. “We
don’t have a target number. That’s what
we’re trying to figure out.
“It was growing way beyond what we
felt was good for the park,” he added.
The possibility of capping season pass
sales, with Essex residents having first
crack at them, is under consideration.
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only to residents of Essex — part of a
Parks and Recreation effort to determine
the optimal number of users for the park.
As part of the capacity study, park
users will be asked to fill out surveys this
summer about how crowded is too crowded
at Indian Brook. The pass sale restriction
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O'CONNOR
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“I thought that would give us
some credibility,” O’Connor said.
“He’s someone with great experience
but he also is a community-minded
guy and my vision for the club is
aligned with his.”
O’Connor is busy putting
together his front office team and
hopes that like Little Fenway, it will
grow and attract folks interested in
volunteering their efforts.
O’Connor hopes his new
venture won’t negatively impact
his work at Little Fenway and
Little Wrigley. He has several
major events scheduled at those
fields including a tournament to
raise money to fight T1 diabetes
in June, his annual Travis Roy
Foundation tournament and a new
tournament to raise funds for the
son of Northeast Kingdom teacher
Melissa Jenkins who was tragically
killed this winter. O’Connor said
his new commute isn’t a bad one and
he plans to travel
back and forth for
the duration of
the season, while
continuing
to
work for IBM.
The NECBL
uses wooden bats
and the teams
are comprised of
freshmen, sophomores and juniors
who come mostly from Division
I schools and have either been
drafted by major league teams or
expect to be drafted. Players come
from all over but O’Connor has
made an effort to sign some local
talent to help build the fan base.
Five members of the Bay Sox live
within an hour’s drive of the park.
O’Connor said he may have some
emotional conflict when his team
plays the Vermont Mountaineers,
but he’ll have to root against the
Green Mountain squad. The two
teams face off in New Bedford on
June 24 and in Montpelier on June
29.
The team only has a three-year
forward
to
planning
v a r i o u s
events during
the
season
to build up
his fan base.
On June 8
he hosted an
exhibition
game against a collection of
military all-stars. Former Boston
College and Patriot quarterback
Doug Flutie played for the military
squad and former Red Sox Bill
“Spaceman” Lee was on the home
team’s roster. O’Connor is also
planning a Little League night, a
bingo night for seniors and an event
for alumni of the Tabor Academy
which Travis Roy attended as a
fund-raiser for the Travis Roy
Foundation.
“Each night will have a special
feature and give-away,” he said.
“If you get people to come to the
games and give them good value
and entertainment, they’ll come
back.”
“I really think the foundation
of this is having fun.”
Pat O’Connor
lease but O’Connor is in it for the
long haul. He said his experience
with Little Fenway is what drew
him to the NECBL.
“Over the last 10 years,” he
said “I learned that if you bring
people together to have fun on a
diamond, good things will happen
and you’ll build community.” In
recent years, the New Bedford
team has struggled financially
and attendance has been down
but O’Connor hopes to turn that
around. “I did some research on
the area,” he said “and thought it
would be a perfect project toward
building a community on the South
Coast.”
The team is a non-profit
organization and O’Connor looks
O’Connor said the South Coast
of Massachusetts is known for its
baseball camps and clinics, but
many of those are financially out
of reach for residents. He plans
to partner with area business to
sponsor five or six free clinics for
area children.
The businesses
will provide the funds to allow
O’Connor to hire coaches.
“That’s our vision of how to get
people to appreciate what the Bay
Sox are about,” he said, noting that
area businesses have been very
enthusiastic about the idea.
One event which O’Connor is
very proud of is set for Opening
Day. All the kids entering the
ballpark will receive a free baseball
and after the game, players will
stick around to autograph them.
“I really think the foundation
of this is having fun,” O’Connor
said. “I can strive to break even
financially and everything we’re
able to gain in terms of fan base
and support I can put back into
the community and hopefully
make a difference in people’s lives.”
Heart & Soul updates Essex
Kevin, Lori, Thodd and Kristyn Van Allen prepare for their
mission trip to Mozambique in July.
Photo by Joyce Carroll
MISSION
from page 1a
and Kristyn, 13.
“It seemed like the right
time. Lori and I discussed it.
We asked how the kids felt
about it. Then we sort of told
them we were going,” Thodd
said.
“I think it will be
interesting to go and see
how other people don’t have
all we have. I flip flop on how
great of an experience it will
be but, at the same time,
going across a big ocean is
kind of scary,” Kristyn said.
Her older brother added,
“I think it will be a great
opportunity to learn and
understand about other
people and apply that to
our lives here.” Moreover,
he said, it would provide an
opportunity for family and
personal growth.
While Thodd, Kristyn
and Kevin have the summer
off, for Lori, the two-week
trip will mean taking
personal vacation time from
her job at the Stern Center
in Burlington.
The Van Allens are
members of the First
United Methodist Church
of Burlington. The local
church has had a long
relationship
with
the
director of the Chicuque
Rural
Hospital.
This
upcoming trip will involve
13 people from around the
state and beyond, including
another teen, a 13-yearold from New Hampshire.
The construction of cement
blocks will dominate their
day’s work — they will work
alongside of a local mason.
In their downtime, the
family hopes to take in some
of the sights, with hopes of
spotting some native African
animals, and enjoying the
coastline of Mozambique.
The country, said Thodd,
is now a stable one, having
gained its independence
in 1975, and most recently
holding
presidential
elections in 2006. The official
language is Portuguese.
The anticipated cost of
the medical school building
is $20,000. While the church
has a scholarship program
to cover some of the personal
travel expenses, much of
the fundraising has been
left to participants of the
mission trip. Opportunities
to help finance the trip have
included youth pancake
breakfasts, a first-night
beef stew dinner and
opportunities to sell goods
(Kristyn makes earrings
and Thodd greeting cards)
on the church grounds of the
Shelburne United Methodist
Church situated across the
green from the Shelburne
farmers’ market. While the
Van Allens are members of
the First United Methodist
Church of Burlington, the
church in Shelburne also
has
some
parishioners
participating in the trip.
Community
members
wishing to contribute to the
cost of the trip can send a
check to team leaders, Ann
and Larry Barber. Checks
should be made out to
FUMC-VIM and mailed to
The Barbers, 99 Walker Hill
Road, Williston, Vt. 05495.
What is the Heart and Soul of Essex?
Heart and Soul of Essex is a citizen led initiative that
received a $100,000 planning grant from the Orton Family
Foundation to celebrate local history, identify common
values, and search for a unified vision. Heart and Soul
of Essex is going to do this by offering many ways for all
members of the community to make their voice heard over
the next two years.
What is the Community Advisory Team (CAT)?
CAT is a diverse group of youths and adults who live
or work in Essex. The team includes residents, town
and village representatives, planners, public and private
sector partners.
Who is part of CAT?
Ally Vile, Andrew Cimonetti, Brad Luck, Bridget
Meyer, Darby Brazoski, Diana Orr, Doreen Gianelli,
Gabrielle Smith, Grace Yu, Irene Wrenner, John Alden,
Katherine Sonnick, Kyle Riester, Liza Kilcoyne, Lori
Houghton, Mark Mendes, Polly McEwing, Sharon
Pitterson-Ogaldez, Trevor Lashua, Vasanthi Meyette and
Karin Hammer. Project Coordinators are Liz Subin and
Susan McCormack.
LIBRARIAN
from page 1a
located across the street in
the small building that is
now part of Public Works.
As the book collection
grew, there was a demand
for more space. Overfield
looked across the street and
decided that the old brick
church (where the library
is currently located) would
make a wonderful library.
In 1987, voters approved
funds to renovate the church.
Overfield worked with town
planners and architects to
make the move happen and
she was involved in every
step of the process.
Over the years, Overfield
has developed a wide
collection, one that expanded
from approximately 9,000
titles in 1990, to more than
34,000 tiles in 2012. She
developed a large collection of
book sets, and regularly sends
them out to other libraries
(through inter-library loan).
Through these inter-library
loans, Essex Free Library
provides the books for many
book
discussion
groups
throughout the state, and
has one of the highest interlibrary
loan
circulation
statistics in Vermont.
“This is truly a reflection
of Susan’s character,” said
Corless. “She is an extremely
giving person in her day-today life and this extends into
her work. It makes her happy
to be able to share these
books with other libraries
and to connect readers with
the books they desire.”
Most
libraries
in
Chittenden County are part
of the Homecard Library
System, which allows library
card holders to check out
books at other libraries, not
just from their hometown
libraries. Overfield was
instrumental in creating the
Homecard system, initiating
conversations with other
librarians to make happen.
On
a
daily
basis,
Overfield
oversees
all
library
programming,
Save the date for the Heart and Soul launch party
On Tuesday, Sept. 25 Heart and Sould will host a
community wide party at Champlain Valley Expo to
launch a year of fun and interactive activities that will
help us celebrate the past, explore the present and choose
the future.
Look for Heart and Soul around town this summer.
More info: www.heartandsoulofessex.org.
plans the summer reading
program, and spends her
days interacting with people
of all ages. She rotates
between the main desk, the
library stacks and office,
and the children’s room.
She also facilitates a
monthly noontime book
discussion that has a regular
following.
Overfield is also key in
Essex Free Library’s annual
book and plant sale, as well
as the annual craft fair and
bake sale. Overfield and
the Friends of the Library
gather volunteers, local
crafters, community bakers
and gardeners for both
events.
As part of the nomination
process for the award,
community members sent
in letters of their support,
including letters from Board
Williston-Essex Network
Transportation Study (WENTS)
Public Meeting #1
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most receive care at no cost.
To find out if PACE is right for you or someone
you care about, please call us at (802) 655-6700
or visit www.pacevt.org/champlain
of Trustee members, Friends
of the Library, patrons and
library staff.
"Probably
the
most endearing part of
receiving this award is the
amazing and admirable
company
of
librarians
I've been chosen to join and
the stealth and sincerity on
the part of so many staff,
patrons and friends who
knew about this honor weeks
before I did," said Overfield.
"I've always said, what a
great work environment –
the delightful combination
of great books and wonderful
people that come into the
library."
“Susan is well loved by so
many,” added Corless. “We
are all very excited that she
is being recognized with this
award that she so greatly
deserves.”
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The Program of All-inclusive
Care for the Elderly
Who can
join PACE?
• 55 years old or older • Able to safely live at home with support of PACE services
• Live in the Rutland or Burlington areas • Eligible for a nursing home level of care
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Because PACE provides and is responsible for all of your care, you may be financially
responsible for any care you receive outside the program that is not approved by the
PACE health team.
www.ccrpcvt.org
The meeting is free and open to the public and refreshments will be
served. The Study is sponsored by the Town of Williston, Town of
Essex, Village of Essex Junction, and Chittenden County Regional
Planning Commission (CCRPC). Questions? Call Diane at 865.1794.
4a
Opinion
Perspective
A lifetime of VSO support
The widening
gyre: school and
political reform
WILLIAM J. MATHIS
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
William Butler Yeats called this center Spiritus Mundi,
the set of values, beliefs sanctions and behaviors that hold
us together. His fears of collapse were grounded in the
horrors of World War I, the Russian Revolution and the
violence of the Irish revolution. In a later age, Joan Didion
referred to this spirit as our national narrative — the
framework of our values, identity, spirituality and hope.
What is this spirit that unites us? It is the resonating
harmonic of the American Dream. We believe that any child
can grow up and be successful by dent of education and her
own hard work. We glory in our tales of seven presidents
who grew up in log cabins. Our major presidential
candidates both invoke and pay homage to the dream.
Our fulfillment was always imperfect. Yet, across the
20th century, we codified our vision of who we are, what
we could be, and what we must be. Laws were passed that
we would educate all children, assure adequate food and
clothing, provide employment at a living wage, ensure
affordable and decent housing, guarantee that economic
opportunity would be free and fair, regulate the gilded age
hegemony of moneyed oligarchs and great inequalities,
make medical care available to all, and protect people
against the misfortunes of unemployment, sickness and
old age. These were the things we believed and to which
we aspired. As James Truslow Adams said in 1931, “. . .
it is a dream of a social order in which each man and each
woman shall be able to attain the(ir) fullest stature.” In
the minds of many, this is the true definition of American
exceptionalism.
Today, angry denial and dead-locked disputations are
the primal values. With a long slow recession, severe under
and unemployment, increasing economic gaps, and the
hollowing out of our middle-class, our grasp on the dream
is drifting away. Will the center hold?
The wealth disparity between the top 1 percent and the
bottom 90 percent is now greater than it was in the great
depression. Six percent of the nation’s population lives below
half of the poverty line (that’s $11,000 a year for a family of
four). Meanwhile, the average CEO is given $9.6 million per
year — which would take the person making the median
national wage 244 years to accumulate. Talk radio defenders
of these inequalities affirm Yeats, “The best lack all conviction
while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
In this strange land, schools are blamed for these social
and economic disparities. Tubs are thumped about our
middling international test scores — even though they are
not related to the health of the economy in any meaningful
way. What is not said is that if we look at only the schools
where our affluent children go, the United States has the
highest test scores in the world.
Further, lamentations about “failing schools” obscure
the fact that achievement for all students has improved
over the past 30 years, and the achievement gap was
actually closing until No Child Left Behind-type testbased accountability systems turned our attention toward
market variables and away from social and civil variables.
Then the gap quit closing.
Most troubling is that the growing income gap in our
society is now reflected in widening gaps in our test scores.
Over the past 25 years, the achievement gap between our
wealthiest and our poorest has grown by as much as 40
percent.
In today’s reform narrative, schools are supposed to
single-handedly overcome poverty. But paradoxically, the
very means of our salvation are eliminated or reduced
in statehouses and in Washington. Instead of support,
they substitute punishments (such as the federal school
“turnaround” strategies) and chant vague claims that
market forces will improve our schools. Alas, market forces
have scant success in resolving social problems, says the
director general of the World Health Organization.
The cold fact we must face is that the achievement gap is
the symptom of our social and economic breakdowns more
than the measure of the failings of our schools. A Century
Foundation report by RAND researcher Heather Schwartz
found that poor students attending school with more
affluent students registered gains four times greater than
is typically found for effective educational innovations. The
huge and positive effects of equitable funding have been
well documented for 25 years. The science is clear — as
long as there are large wealth and equality gaps, the result
will be large achievement gaps.
Our widening gyre — our great danger — is that the
manic drumbeat of our tribes is louder than the voice of our
knowledge. We no longer hear each other. Yet, 72 percent
of Americans still hear and hold the American Dream. We
must build on this base. If we don’t embrace this greater
national narrative, if we don’t make it real, then we must
ask Yeats’ question: What rough beast is slouching toward
Bethlehem to be born?
On Sunday June 10,
the Essex High School
Baccalaureate
ceremony
was held at St. Michael’s
College.
Special
appreciation
and thanks must go out
to the 2012 Baccalaureate
committee (Sandy Willey,
Martha McGraw, Jeanne
Barnes, Lisa Rundle, Scott
Pennington, Daniel Barnes,
Mollie Cogdill, Kate Rundle,
Jack Valley and Dan Etter).
They put many hours into
planning and coordinating
the ceremony and the result
was fantastic!
Further
appreciation
and thanks to Rita Brown,
the Yearbook Club (Carrie
Fogg), Dave Rich, Ben
Lawrence, Glory DouglasReinstein, Shirley Smith,
Jen
Hao
and
Kevin
Conchieri. Each of you was
extremely important to the
success of the evening.
Thank you to our area
clergy for their spiritual
contribution, The reverends
Ryan Gackenheimer, Ken
Hitch,
Mark
Mendes,
Joseph Moore, Charles
Ranges
and
Richard
Tinney.
I wish there were
also room to list the
performers and presenters
because
they
deserve
special recognition. We
were treated to beautiful
music (instrumental and
vocal), dance and readings,
and their talent left the
audience in awe.
The
EHS
students
shared their special gifts
with their peers, family
and community and it was
truly a night to remember.
Thank you!
William J. Mathis is managing director of the National
Education Policy Center, a member of the Vermont State
Board of Education, and a former school superintendent.
Kate Mitchell
EHS Baccalaureate
committee member
Barbara and David Wessel, right, of Essex Junction are honored by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) at a recent
meeting of the Champlain Valley Friends of the VSO. The Wessels were proclaimed members of the VSO’s Crescendo
Society, which honors the lifetime support of the orchestra’s most generous contributors. The award, a custom-designed piece
by Simon Pearce, was presented by VSO board chairman Brian Harwood, left.
“Barbara and David have made such a profound difference during their time with the VSO, helping make classical music
accessible to all Vermonters,” said VSO development director Mike Peluse. “Their passion, energy and tenacity have pushed
us to new heights and they always have something new to teach us.”
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Letters to the Editor
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for a night to
remember
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Suzanne Lynn
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Missing longtime
library volunteer
On June 1, the Brownell
Library family lost our 24year veteran volunteer
Gilbert Marshall. He was
92 years old.
He began his work at
the library covering books.
He created a wooden
marionnette of Pinocchio
and handmade quarter
round screens for the
library's attic. He built
bookcases for our fledgling
book sale. He created our
building plan maps for use
in our renovated library. He
has been artist of the month
with his optical illusions
and drawings. His memoir
“Farm Boy of the 20s” is in
our collection; check it out.
In the last decade
we sent box after box of
paperback books out to
his residence at Shelburne
Bay. Every book returned
perfectly
covered.
We
retrieved the last box on
Friday.
He was an extraordinary
man. We will miss him
sorely.
Penny Pillsbury
and the staff at
Brownell Library
The spiraling
cost of living
in Essex
People in Essex on town
water and sewer service will
receive the following notice
from the Town of Essex:
“Dear
Water/Sewer
Customer:
The Town of Essex
Selectboard has adopted
increased sewer and water
rates and fees for the period
following the spring 2012
billing (FYE 2013). The
reasons for the rate/fees
increase are:
E-mail:
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The Essex Reporter is
owned and published
by Angelo L ynn and
Emerson Lynn of Lynn
Publications, Inc. and
is a member of the
Champlain Valley
Newspaper Group
The Essex Reporter
makes every effort to be
accurate.
If you notice an error,
please contact us at
878-5282, or by e-mail at
[email protected].
Note “correction” in the
subject line.
1) The need to put the
sewer and water funds on
a firm financial footing
by increasing the funds
set
aside
for
system
depreciation /elimination
of past deficits;
2) The need to continue
the
meter
replacement
program for more accurate
verification
of
usage
and billing as well as
establishing the groundwork
for future administration of
accounts and billings;
3) The need to make
a loan repayment to the
Village of Essex Junction
in connection with the
wastewater treatment plant
refurbishment project in
2013 and to raise rates
incrementally
over
the
next 3 years in connection
with this project to avoid a
significant rate increase in
2016.”
Neighbors, what does
this really mean in our
language,
rather
than
gobblety-gook
about
a
“set aside for system
depreciation/elimination of
past deficits”? Translation:
“Set aside” means we pay
early for something we
don’t owe yet. We are going
to pay three or four years
ahead of time, starting now,
so that the Town of Essex
can store up for expenses
that haven’t happened yet.
We are also going to pay,
in advance, for new water/
sewer meters that are more
accurate. More accurate
meters mean we pay more.
Our sewer rates have
gone up about 25 percent in
the past four or five years,
and they are going to go up
another 40 percent in the
next two or three. We are
not avoiding a significant
rate increase in 2016, we
are we paying a bill that the
town will owe the village
four years ahead of time.
If you plan to move before
then, you will not see the
benefit of your prepayment.
For those who have to
connect to sewer in the
near future, surprise, it will
now cost you a fee of $3,500
instead of $2,500. Doesn’t
matter if you have lived
here all your life or that you
were forced to connect to
the sewer system as in my
neighborhood so that the
town could develop lots it
received in a tax foreclosure
with its partner developer
on lots too small for septic.
A large percentage of
our water pipes are made
of crumbling old asbestos,
meaning replacing pipes
and the roads they are
underneath. Will we be
asked to pay for that cost
ahead of time also? What
other costs are looming?
Why do these discussions
of increased costs come in
dribs and drabs with so
many meetings that an
average person could not
possibly attend them all or
keep up with the spiraling
cost of living in this town?
Question:
Will
this
“prepayment” for a sewer
plant upgrade and new
meters
be
specifically
deposited for these uses
or will our prepayment be
deposited in the capital
fund to be used willy nilly,
perhaps to donate more
money to a village fire
truck? Don’t you wish you
knew about this water/
sewer increase at Town
Meeting Day when we
increased the town budget
by 3 or 4 percent and
contributed $250,000 to the
village to help them buy a
fire truck? If there were
past deficits in the sewer
budget, why wasn’t that
brought up in the town
budget discussions so we
knew where we stood?
Sharon Zukowski
Essex
Grateful for dog
catchers
I want to thank all my
neighbors, both known and
unknown to me, who have
helped me recapture my
little dog the numerous
times he has escaped.
Some brave strangers have
reached down and caught
him not knowing whether
he would snap at them or
not. You are wonderful
people to take the chance:
Amy on Lamoille Street,
Trisha Kennedy, the little
boy on Lamoille whose
name I do not know, the
gentleman who stopped his
car at East and Maple one
evening and caught the
dog for me, the jogger on
Maple who captured him on
Friday.
I honestly believe this
little shelter dog would
have ended up in a tragedy
had it not been for your
kindnesses. I am installing
an invisible fence next
weekend and hope these
incidents will end. Again,
thank you sincerely from
the bottom of my heart.
Patricia Eno
Essex Junction
5a
Essex Junction Senior Center
One of the highlights
of the summer is the
Senior Picnic to be held
at the Maple Street
Park Wednesday, July
25 at 12 p.m. See Joan
at the Maple Street
Rec. Office to make
reservations and remit
$2. Space is limited.
Keep in mind the
various activities that
will occur July 4. These
activities will take place
at the Maple Street
Park culminating with
Fireworks at 9:30 p.m.
The community of
Essex Junction will hold
the 11th annual Block
Party and Street Dance
Saturday, July 21 from
4 to 9 p.m. Fun for the
kids, and many choices
of food!
Transportation
is
provided to a Picnic
in the Park (Sand Bar
State Park) Thursday,
Therese
Magnant
Essex Junction
Senior Center
Aug. 2 fro m 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. Bring a brown
bag lunch, a chair, a
sun hat and enjoy the
beach and swimming.
Cost to residents is $5
and non-residents $8.
Register with the Essex
Parks and Recreation
Department (878-1342).
Seated
Yoga
is
ongoing
throughout
the
summer
every
Wednesday from 10 to
11 a.m.
The Senior Center
will be open every
weekday throughout the
summer from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. Bridge, Skipbo,
Cribbage, and games
such as Wii, Mahjongg,
Obituaries
PAUL E. PARIZO
ESSEX JUNCTION —
Paul Ernest Parizo passed
away on Wednesday, May
30, 2012 in Essex, Vt. He was
born on September 24, 1964 in
Burlington, Vt. son of MaryAnn (Holland) Parizo and the
late Bernard Parizo. Paul
was a licensed electrician and
had been employed by both
Omega Electric and Peck
Electric.
Paul graduated
from Essex Junction High
School in 1983. He worked
for Henry’s Market in Essex
Junction and Hannaford’s
in Essex before becoming an
electrician.
A true Vermonter and
a kid at heart, he loved the
outdoors and spent much
of his leisure time hunting
and riding anything with
speed. He spent much of his
adult life in Essex Junction
surrounded by numerous
good friends with whom he
shared many hours of great
fun. He worked hard and
played harder.
Paul is survived by his
two sons, Tyler Parizo and
partner Emily Landreth;
Brett Parizo; a grandson,
Benjamin Parizo all of NC;
mother Mary-Ann Parizo
of Essex Junction; a sister
Mary Jane Gryk and her
husband Anthony of South
Windsor, CT; their children
Shawn and Brian Gryk; and
his grandmother Zelia Parizo
formerly of Essex Junction
and now of Burlington;
cousins Kathleen, Charlotte,
and Larry Clohessy of
Rochester, N.Y. He was also
predeceased by his paternal
grandfather, Ernest Parizo.
Visiting hours were held
on Tuesday June 5, from 5-7
p.m. at A. W. Rich Funeral
Home, Essex Chapel, 57
Main Street, Essex Junction,
VT 05452. There will be
no funeral services held.
Inurnment will be private
and at the convenience of
the family. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions in
Paul’s memory may be made
to Essex Meals on Wheels, PO
Box 8442, Essex Junction, VT
Paul E. Parizo
05451. Memories and online
condolences are welcome at
www.awrichfuneralhomes.
com.
REV. FRANCIS M.
HOLLAND
Rev. Francis M. Holland,
passed into eternal life with
the Lord on June 9, 2012
Father Holland was born on
Jan. 4, 1926 in Northfield,
Vt. His parents, John M.
Holland and Alice E. Cain
Holland, predeceased him.
Father Holland received
his early education at St.
Monica’s Elementary School
in Barre and St. Michael’s
High School in Montpelier.
He
also
attended
St.
Thomas Minor Seminary in
Bloomfield , CT; St Michael’s
College in Winooski Park, Vt.
and St. John’s Seminary in
Brighton, Mass.
Father Holland was
ordained on Jan. 5, 1952
at the Cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception in
Burlington by Bishop Ryan.
Father
Holland
did
ministry in a number of
parishes throughout the state
as an associate pastor and
pastor in Cambridge, Milton,
Essex Junction, Burlington,
Winooski, Bennington, St.
Johnsbury and White River
Junction.
During
his
lifetime,
Father Holland served on
the Presbyteral Council for
the Diocese. He was also
at one time or another the
Director of the following
programs: Vermont Newman
Apostolate,
Diocesan
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and pool can be played
any day . Tuesdays,
Penny Bingo is played
from 1 to 4 p.m. There
are
magazines
and
books to read and
always a jigsaw puzzle
waiting to be put
together. If you wish to
relax, visit with friends
and a cool air-condition
area come to enjoy your
home away from home.
The
senior
vans
operate from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Monday
through Fridays. If you
need
transportation
anywhere in the Village
or Town of Essex call
878-6940 the previous
day between 9 and 11:45
a.m. Reservations for
church on Sundays and
the following Mondays
must be made on prior
Fridays.
Permanent Deacon Program;
Vermont
Vietnamese
Community; The Society
for the Propagation of the
Faith; Vermont Worldwide
Marriage Encounter; The
Vermont Home Schooler
Community
and
State
Chaplain for the Knights of
Columbus.
Father Holland served
as Chaplain to Champlain
College,
Johnson
State
College and the University of
Vermont. Father also served
on the faculty of Cathedral
High School, Rice High
School, Bennington Catholic
High School, Champlain
College and Lamoille Union
High School.
Father Holland was very
active in retreat ministry
for priests, religious sisters
and high school and college
students. He served as
a
credentialed
spiritual
director to a large number
of clergy and laity alike,
having been awarded four
Masters degrees as follows:
St. John’s Seminary (Masters
Degree in Divinity); St.
Michael’s College (Masters
Degree in Guidance and
Counseling and a Masters
Degree in Religious Studies)
and Creighton University,
Omaha Nebraska (Masters
Degree in Spirituality).
He accepted a six-month
assignment in volunteer
ministry at the University
of Nairobi in Kenya. He also
accepted another assignment
Wonderland
Fusion 802 performed “Wonderland,” a dance production based on “Alice In Wonderland” last
Saturday, June 2. The students ranged in age from 3-years-old to adults. Students come from
all over Chittenden County.
Pictured in the front row from left to right: Melissa Timbers, Clarise Fearn, Owen Boutin,
Nicola Boutin and Annelise Boutin Pictured in the middle row from left to right: Alanna Pinard
Brace, Melissa Gingras and Bridget Doherty Pictured in the back row from left to right: Chris
Bowe, Kerstin Anderson and Nikolas Kaim.
Photo contributer
Arrangements are under
the direction of the Ready
Funeral and Cremation
Service, South Chapel, 261
Shelburne
Road,
South
Burlington, VT. To send
online condolences, visit
www.readyfuneral.com.
Rev. Francis M. Holland
as acting chaplain to the
Marist Brothers Community
in Rome, Italy for a period of
five months.
After being granted senior
priest status in 2005, Father
Holland remained active
in a number of parishes
throughout the state.
In addition to his parents,
four brothers, Timothy, John,
Lawrence, and Daniel and
a sister, Mary, predeceased
Father Holland.
A Mass of Christian Burial
will be celebrated by Bishop
Matano at the Cathedral of
the Immaculate Conception
in Burlington Vermont on
Saturday June 16, 1012 at
10 a.m. Interment will be in
the family plot in Northfield
Cemetery. Visiting hours
will be held on Friday, June
15, 2012 from 5 to 7p.m. at
the Cathedral. In lieu of
flowers, Father requested
that donations be made to the
Diocesan Vocations Office, 55
Joy Drive, South Burlington,
VT 05403.
RICHARD E. SWEENEY
ESSEX
CENTER/
PLATTSBURGH,
N.Y.
— Richard E. Sweeney,
81, a longtime resident of
Essex Center and formerly
of Plattsburgh, N.Y., died
Friday, June 8, 2012, in the
Vermont Respite House
in Williston, following a
courageous
battle
with
cancer.
Richard was born in
Colchester on Oct. 8, 1930,
the son of George and Anna
(St. Amour) Sweeney. He
graduated from Winooski
High
School
in
1950.
Following graduation, he
served his country for the
United States Air Force.
On Aug. 2, 1952, Dick was
married at St. Francis Xavier
Catholic Church in Winooski
to Lorraine (Allen) Sweeney.
Dick was employed in
Plattsburgh for over 30 years
as a civilian with the United
States Air Force, retiring
in 1985 as Assistant Chief
Supply Officer. He was a
member of the American
Legion, Post 0091, the
Winooski Senior Citizens,
and a past member of the
Knights of Columbus and the
Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. Dick was an
avid New York Yankees fan.
He was recently quoted, “The
only way the Red Sox will
win another game is because
they now have a ‘Sweeney’ on
the team.” He enjoyed coin
collecting and golfing with
his friends.
Dick is survived by his
wife of 59 years, Lorraine
Sweeney;
sister,
Sylvia
Dubuque of South Burlington;
sister-inlaw, Toni Sweeney
of Winooski; nephew, Craig
Dubuque; special cousins and
caregivers, Debbie and Jeff
Smail, and Aline Gamelin;
and many cousins and
friends. He was predeceased
by his parents; and his
brother, Gerald Sweeney.
A Mass of Christian
Burial was celebrated on
Wednesday, June 13, 2012, at
11 a.m. at St. Pius X Catholic
Church in Essex Center.
Graveside services, with
military honors accorded
Mr. Sweeney, will be at St.
Francis Xavier Cemetery
in Winooski on Saturday,
June 16, 2012, at 11 a.m.
There was no visiting hours.
Arrangements are with the
LaVigne Funeral Home
and Cremation Service, 132
Main St. in Winooski. In
lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be made
to the Vermont Respite
House, 99 Allen Brook Lane,
Williston, VT 05495.
NEFCU is…LOCAL
Essex Automotive Services
NOT A MOMENT
TO SPARE
If you ever find yourself driving
around on a compact spare tire, be
sure to follow the auto manufacturer’s
use recommendations. That is, do
not use a space-saving tire longer
than is absolutely necessary. While
a compact spare’s tread may seem
to be holding up nicely, there are
other factors that should guide you
toward limited use. For one, a spacesaver tire has about half as many
plies as a regular tire, which greatly
compromises its cornering ability
and puncture resistance. Moreover,
a compact spare’s relatively small
contact patch reduces its stopping
ability and traction, making handling
less predictable. In addition, a
compact spare’s smaller diameter
makes the differential work
harder, which can cause lubricant
breakdown and consequent wear.
Spare tires are designed for
temporary and limited use in the
event of a flat. Do you know where
your spare is? Is it inflated? Do you
know how to remove it? At ESSEX
AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES, your
safety is our number one concern.
We know how important your
car’s performance and safety are,
and want you to trust us with your
automotive needs. We’re located
at 141-147 Pearl St, Essex Jct.
When you bring your car to us we
guarantee your satisfaction with our
work. We offer same day service,
and free customer shuttle. Ask us
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no appointment needed. We feature
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HINT: A compact spare tire’s
reduced size reduces the effectiveness
of ABS and traction-control systems.
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financial institution. It’s a reflection of the community. Which is
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Essex Area
Religious
Directory
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, ProTeens and Prayer meeting 7 p.m.
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Thursday
Local concerns
meeting - June 21
Luncheon. The Green Mountain Chapter of
Topic:
the Air Force Association. Guest speaker:
Major General Michael D. Dubie, Adjutant General of the State of Vermont.
Elks Club, 925 North Avenue, Burlington,
12 p.m. Contact Joel Clark: 868-9034.
rative art collection of nudes by a number of local artists. Free and open to the
public. Refreshments provided. Lille Fine
Art Salon, One Lawson Lane, Burlington,
6-8 p.m. Contact: 617-894-4673.
Note: please park on Foster Road and
not adjacent to the Fire Station.
Fire Station Conference Room, 190
Sand Hill Road, Essex, 7 p.m. Contact:
[email protected]. Concert. The Catamount Brass Quintet. Ad-
CHRIST MEMORIAL CHURCH- Route 2A, Williston,
just north of Industrial Ave. Wes Pastor, Senior
Minister, 878-7107, Proclaiming Christ and Him
crucified Sundays at 8:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. www.
cmcvermont.org
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE (CHRISTIAN),
Route 2A and Morgan Parkway, Williston. Pastor:
Nate Patnode. Sunday meetings: Bible study 9:30
a.m., Worship service 10:45 a.m. Available weekly
activities for all interested. Family oriented community
dedicate to helping all grow in a relationship with
Jesus Christ. More info: www.willistonnazarene.org.
Contact Pastor: [email protected]
or 802-878-8591. 30 Morgan Parkway, Williston, VT
05495
ESSEX ALLIANCE CHURCH- 37 Old Stage Road
in Essex Junction. Sunday morning services at 7:45,
9, 10:15 and 11:30 a.m. Phone: 878-8213. www.
essexalliance.org
ESSEX CENTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCHPlease 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. Sunday worship at 8:15 and 10 a.m.
Childcare provided at 10 am service. We offer a
variety of small groups for prayer, Bible study, handson ministry, and studying contemporary faith issues.
119 Center Rd (Route 15), Essex Center. Rev.
Mitchell Hay, pastor. 878-8304.
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH- (ELCA)273 VT. Rte. 15 – Between Jericho and Underhill
– 899-3932. Sunday Worship - 9:00 a.m./Sunday
School for all ages - 10:30 a.m.. gslcvt@myfairpoint.
net All are welcome. Rev. Dan Steinbauer, Interim
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. Handicappedaccessible 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!
mission by donation. Part of the Hyde
Park Opera House Centennial Celebration, presented by the Lamoille County
Players. Hyde Park Opera House, Hyde
Park, 7 p.m.
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Friday
Reception. “There’s Something in the Water,”
is an exhibit of photography by Stephen
Beattie. Runs through July 30. Gallery
160, 160 East Main Street, Richmond,
5-7 p.m. Contact Kelly Funk: 578-1449.
life experience stories which are crafted
into engaging narratives and shared
with the group. Led by Recille Hamrell.
Free and open to all adults. Dorothy
Alling Memorial Library, 21 Library
Lane, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Contact: 878-4918
World Affairs will honor Senator and
Mrs. Patrick Leahy. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 6
p.m.
Homeland Security. A local Colchester met-
Open house. Studio tours, demonstrations,
al band will perform at Metal Monday.
Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m.
exhibitions and refreshments. BCA Center, Church Street and Print and Clay
Studio, 250 main Street, Burlington, 4-8
p.m.
Reception. “Macro/Micro: Photographic Extremes” is a world of bursting colors and
perplexing shapes. Refreshments will be
served. Free and open to the public. Runs
through July 1. Darkroom Gallery, Essex
Junction, 5-7 p.m.
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Saturday
Introductory group rides. Free. Experienced
riders will explain the rules of the road
to novice cyclists and teach them how to
ride safely in groups. Riders must wear
helmets and have bikes in good working condition. Those under 18 must be
accompanied by an adult. Parking lot,
Dorset Park, South Burlington, 10 a.m.
Contact GMBC Advocacy Chair Viola
Chu: [email protected].
Open meditation. Free and open to the
public. First Congregational Church,
Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Contact: 802318-5329 or [email protected]
Demonstration. Soft sculptured doll making
ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF VERMONT - 182 Hegeman
Ave, Suite 1, Colchester, VT 05446. Join Imam Islam
Hassan ([email protected]) 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
[email protected] or Facebook.
Run for empowerment. Fundraiser for
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 Setpember through June. 195
Vermont Route 15, Jericho (the red barn across from
Packard Road). 899-2558
Summer music jam and BBQ. Featuring the
ST. THOMAS 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 wwwlstthomasvt.com or
call 899-4632
Monday
Shape and share life stories. Prompts real
Annual dinner. The Vermont Council on
HOLY FAMILY- ST. LAWRENCE PARISH- Pastor:
Reverend Charles H. Ranges, S.S.E.
Rectory
Address: 4 Prospect Street. Phone: 878-5331. Holy
Family Mass Schedule: 28 Lincoln Street. Sundays,
8 a.m., 11 a.m. & 7:30p.m.. St. Lawrence Mass
Schedule: 158 West Street. Saturdays, 4 p.m. and
Sundays, 9:30a.m.. Sacrament of Reconciliation:
St. Lawrence, Saturdays, 3:15-3:45p.m. and by
appointment. Daily Mass, 8:30a.m.@Holy Family
Church.
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
or tea. Cost is by donation. Hosted by
St. Thomas Knights of Columbus Council
#7810. Parish Hall, St. Thomas Church,
Underhill, 8-11 a.m. Contact: 899-4632.
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with Amy Felske. Free and open to the
public. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft
Center, 85 Church Street, Burlington, 1-3
p.m.
Bread & Puppet open house. Featuring music and theater presentations. The Bread
& Puppet Museum, Route 122, just off
Route 16, near Interstate 91, Glover, 2
p.m.
Women Helping Battered Women. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 9 a.m. Register
with Michelle: [email protected] or
802-658-3131 x1077.
AARP Safe Driver Course. Refresher course
open to drivers 50+. No tests. Fee: $12
AARP members, $14 nonmembers. Seniors Center, Winooski, 8:30 a.m. Register: 655-6425.
Ward Brothers and Nobby Reed. Tickets:
$20 available at Lang Farm Nursery.
Cash bar. The Barn at Lang Farm, Essex,
5-10 p.m. Contact:316-2180 or [email protected]
Russian-English Conversation Group. Join
the group and practice foreign language
conversation. Fluency is not required.
Administrative Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Contact Elena
Carter, FFL Outreach Department: 8657211.
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Sunday
Father’s Day breakfast. Buffet-style breakfast includes juice, fruit, eggs, pancakes,
sausage, bacon, home fries and coffee
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Tuesday
Public meeting. Talk about issues and share
ideas of how to improve travel in Williston, Essex and Essex Junction. Williston
Town Hall, 7900 Williston Road, Williston, 7:30-9 p.m. Contact Diane: 8651794 or ordiane@thirdsectorassociates.
com.
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Wednesday
Chittenden County Regional Planning
Commission Annual Meeting. Albany
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 261 Mountainview Drive, Colchester,
7 p.m.
Look Good —Feel Better Program. Free
program that teaches female cancer
patients techniques to help restore their
appearance during chemotherapy and
radiation treatments. American Cancer
Society, 55 Day Lane, Williston, 3-4:30
p.m. Contact Peg Allen: 802-655-2000
or the American Cancer Society: 1-800227-2345.
Brown Bag Book Club. This month: “The Tiger’s Wife,” by Tea Obreht. Coffee, tea,
juice and dessert provided. Free and
open to all. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, 21 Library Lane, Williston, 12:301:30 p.m. Contact: 878-4918.
Spring small business workshop series.
Free. Guest speaker: Beau Thebault, career business developer and operations
entrepreneur. TD Bank, Burlington, 8:3010 a.m. To register: www.vtsbdc.org.
Home sharing orientation. Two informational meetings about home sharing.
Refreshments provided. Registration required. Space limited. HomeShare office,
next to Shaw's Supermarket, South Burlington, 12 and 5:30 p.m. Contact: 802863-5625 or [email protected]
Summer solstice sunset stroll. Walk along
the bike path and watch the sun set
over Lake Champlain and look for signs
of wildlife. Delta Park, Colchester, 7
p.m. Contact: 802-863-5744 or [email protected].
Winooski faith community dinner. Featuring special entertainment. O’Brien Community Center, 32 Mallets Bay Avenue,
Winooski, 5:30 p.m.
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Friday
Stowe Wine and Food Classic. Benefits
VT 289/VT 2A intersection
improvements.
Discussion of existing traffic
operations, safety and
related issues.
Reception. “NUDE@LILLE” features a figu-
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Thursday
Big Night silent auction. All funds raised
will sustain programs of the HowardCenter. Coach Barn, Shelburne Farms,
Shelburne. Contact Martie: 488-6911 or
[email protected]
Copley Hospital’s charitable healthcare
and the Vermont Foodbank’s long-term
Irene recovery efforts. Through June 24.
Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe. Visit: www.
stowewine.com Chittenden County Relay for Life. Teams
will camp out at a local school, park or
fairground and take turns walking or
running around a track or path. Each
team is asked to have a representative
on the track at all times during the event.
Champlain Valley Expo, 105 Pearl
Street, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m.
Benefit Golf Tournament. Supports the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Champlain Country Club, Swanton, 8 a.m.
To register, contact the Ronald McDonald House Charities: 802-862-4943 or
[email protected]. Dinner and Champagne toast. “Dogs and
Diamonds.” Live music, giveaways and
food. Tickets: $100 couple, $60 single.
Available at One Federal, Eaton’s Fine
Jewelry or Franklin County Humane Society. One Federal Restaurant, St. Albans,
6:30 p.m. Contact: 802 524-9650
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Saturday
Strawberry festival. Offering food tastings,
music, activities, and discounts on peak
seasonal fruits, vegetables and baked
goods. Sam Mazza’s, Colchester, all day.
Pet Parade. Bring the family pet or a stuffed
animal for a parade around the library. Music with Raphael Groten. Face painting. All ages welcome. Sign up for the
“Dream Big—Read!” summer reading
program. No pre-registration. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, 21 Library
Lane, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Contact:
www.williston.lib.vt.us.
Anniversary gala. The Essex Children’s Choir
celebrates 25 years with “Many Voices,
One Orchestra.” Features collaborating
ensembles Counterpoint and Maple Jam.
Admission: $25 adults, $12 children/students. Breeding Barn, Shelburne Farms,
3 p.m. Tickets available through www.
flynntix.org, or 802-86-FLYNN.
Shape and share life stories. Prompts real
life experience stories which are crafted
into engaging narratives and shared
with the group. Led by Recille Hamrell.
Free and open to all adults. Dorothy
Alling Memorial Library, 21 Library
Lane, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Contact: 878-4918
Car seat safety inspection. Certified child
passenger safety technicians will check
for correct fit, proper installation and
missing parts. Free and open to the public. Fire Department, Williston, 10 a.m.-1
p.m. Visit: www.beseatsmart.org.
BBQ. Chicken, baked beans, coleslaw, rolls
and dessert. Features local music. Advance tickets: $10. At the door: $12.
Baptist Building, Main Street, Fairfax,
5-7 p.m. Contact: 644-5094.
Bone marrow drive. Learn more about becoming a donor and participate in a
cheek swab. Main Street Landing, 60
Lake Street, The Board Room, Floor 2,
Burlington, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Contact: 802777-2440 or [email protected]
Flea market. For the North Hero Volunteer
Fire Department Women’s Auxiliary.
Through June 24. Camp Ingalls, South
End Road, North Hero, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Yard, plant and bake sale. Items included:
perennials, gently used furniture, toys,
games, hard-cover books, appliances,
tools, DVDs. Our Lady of Providence,
Winooski, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Contact: 6552395.
Ongoing
Bingo. Sponsored by the Whitcomb Woods
Residents Association. Whitcomb Woods,
128 West Street, Essex Junction. Mondays at 6 p.m. Contact: 879-1829.
Booth space available. Flea market to benefit VT Soldiers Angels has 10x10 booth
space available. Cost: $30 per space.
For anyone selling crafts, food and “garage sale” items. Flea Market: June 9,
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Community Father’s Day breakfast.
June 17
All invited.
Cost: $6 adults,
$3 children.
Sponsored by the
Ladies Auxiliary.
VFW Post 6689, 73
Pearl Street, Essex
Junction, 9-11 a.m.
Contact: 878-0700.
Lincoln Place in Essex Junction. Contact:
[email protected].
Beattie. Runs June 1-July 31. Gallery
160, 160 Main Street, Richmond, 5-7
p.m. Contact: 802-434-6434. Camp openings. Summer Musical Theater
Camp for kids ages 9-14. Basics of musical theater, costume making, set painting, character development and stage
presence developed. Runs July 30-Aug.
3. Visit: www.shelburneplayers.com/
bulletinboard.html or contact Shelburne
Parks and Recreation: 985-9551.
Exhibit. “The Thread” is a forty-year retro-
Cell Phones for Soldiers. Local residents
Family Support Group. Outright Vermont
can support these collection drives by
donating their old cell phones at A. W.
Rich Funeral Home, 57 Main Street, Essex Junction. Collections accepted 9
a.m.-5 p.m. Contact: 849-6261.
Computer Classes with Carrie. Saturdays.
Learn about computers and their functions with an individual consultation.
Free. Champlain Senior Center, 241
North Winooski Avenue, Burlington,
8:30-11 a.m. RSVP: 802-658-3585.
Donations needed. Our Lady of Providence is having a yard, bake and plant
sale on June 23. Items needed: perennials, gently-used furniture, toys, games,
hard-cover books, appliances, tools,
DVDs. No clothes, shoes or electronics
more than two years old. Contact: 6552395.
English as a Second Language Classes.
Improve your English conversation skills
and meet new people. Wednesdays.
Pickering Room, Second Floor: Intermediate/Advanced. Administrative Conference Room: Beginners. Fletcher Free
Library, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Contact
Elena Carter, FFL Outreach Department: 865-7211.
English Country Dance. Every first and
third Friday. Live music. Cost: $8 adults,
$5 student. All dances taught and
prompted. No experience needed.
Bring a snack to share. Elley-Long Music
Center, 223 Ethan Allen Avenue, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. Contact Martha
Kent: 802-879-7618 or [email protected].
Essex Art League. Meets the first Thursday of the month. A yearly calendar of
meetings is available on the Essex Art
League’s website: www.essexartleague.
com. Congregational Church, Main
Street, Essex Junction, 9-11 a.m.
Essex Parks and Recreation programs.
Includes: Zumba, Lifeguard Certification Class, Summer Track and Field
Team, Adult Beginner Tennis, Fall Soccer
Registration. Pre-registration required.
Contact: 878-1342.
Essex Rotary Meeting. Essex Rotary Meetings are held on Wednesdays at 12:10
p.m. at The Essex. Serving the communities of Essex, Essex Junction, Jericho and
Underhill.
Every Woman’s Craft Connection. Twice
a month on Thursday evenings. Essex
Alliance Church Community Center,
7-9 p.m. Contact Deb Schonberg: 8795176.
Exhibit. “Pictures and Words at whim in
backyard and workroom.” Photographs
by Fred G. Hill. Through June 30. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington. Contact Barbara: 865-7211
Exhibit. “Macro/Micro: Photographic Extremes” is a world of bursting colors
and perplexing shapes. Through July 1.
Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction
Exhibit. “There’s Something in the Water” is
a display of photography by Stephen
spective of work by Carol E.S. MacDonald. Runs through Aug. 28. VCAM/RETN
Art Space, 208 Flynn Ave. #2-G, building behind Flynndog Gallery, lakeside
loading ramp, last door, Burlington, 5-8
p.m.
holds support group meetings for family members of youth going through the
process of coming out. One Sunday
evening and one Wednesday morning
each month at Outright Vermont. Contact: 865-9677.
Final Cut Pro Open Lab. Saturdays. Three
tracks of exercises for beginners, intermediates and advanced users.
Complete each track and advance according to comfort level. Vermont Community Access Media, 208 Flynn Avenue
2-G, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Contact: 802651-9692 or www.vermontcam.org.
French-English
Conversation
Group.
Join the group and practice foreign
language conversation. Fluency is
not required. Sundays. Local History
Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington,
4-5:30 p.m. Contact Elena Carter, FFL
Outreach Department: 865-7211.
Genealogy. Let the experts find that missing
ancestor. Resources available for New
England and New York. Vermont Genealogy Library, Hegeman Avenue, Fort
Ethan Allen, Colchester, Tues: 3-9:30
p.m. and Sat: 10 a.m.-4p.m. Contact:
802-238-5934 or http://www.vt-fcgs.
org.
Italian conversation group. Open to all
interested in learning/hearing the Italian language. Room 101, St. Edmunds
Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester.
Every second and fourth Wednesday of
the month, 7-9 p.m. Lupus Support Group. Third Saturday of
the month. Brownell Library, Kolvoord
Community Room, Essex Junction, 9:3011:30 a.m. Contact: [email protected].
Open registration. The Kelly Brush Century
Ride benefits adaptive athletes and
supports spinal cord injury prevention.
Riders can choose from 25, 50 or 100
miles, with options to ride 65 or 85
miles. Ride date: Sept. 8. Registration:
www.kellybrushfoundation.org
Outdoor performances. Every Tues. and
Thurs. Part of the Imagine City Hall Park
Project. Free and open to the public.
Through June 28. City Hall Park, Burlington, 12-1 p.m.
Poetry Writing Group. First and third Thursday of the month. Share poems with a
group. Led by Janie Mardis, a social
worker and lecturer at UVM. Champlain
Senior Center, 241 North Winooski Avenue, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. RSVP: 802658-3585.
Weight loss support group. Monday meetings. Cafeteria, St. Joseph’s School, 20
Allen Street, Burlington, 6:15-7:30 p.m.
Contact: 655-4102 or TOPSGroup2@
gmail.com.
VCAM Access orientation. Twice a month
on Sat. Vermont Community Access Media, 208 Flynn Avenue 2-G, Burlington,
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Contact: 802-651-9692
or www.vermontcam.org.
June 15
Adult Movie. “Moonstruck”
is about Loretta Castorini — a
bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New
York — who finds herself in a
difficult situation when she falls for
the brother of the man she agreed to
marry. Rated PG. Brownell Library,
Essex Junction, 6:30-8:15 p.m.
Contact: 878-6955.
Lego
Fun
and
Games.
Participate in some fun and friendly
building with LEGOs. Grades K
and up. Brownell Library, Essex
Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Contact: 8786956.
June 19
Library Trustees Meeting.
Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7
p.m. Contact: 878-6955.
June 20
“Dream Big, Read!” Stitch-In.
Local members of The Embroiderers’
Guild of America create embroidered
bookmarks using a variety of
needlework techniques. All ages.
Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10
a.m.-12 p.m. Contact: 878-6955.
Ongoing
Knitting.
Project
finishing
night. First Thursday of the month
(May 3). All levels of proficiency
welcome. Brownell Library, Essex
Junction, 6:30 p.m. Contact: 8786955.
Mount
Mansfield
Scale
Modelers. Informal gathering of
model enthusiasts. All skill levels
welcome. Third Thursday of each
month. Kolvoord Community Room,
Brownell Library, Essex Junction,
6:30-8:30 p.m. Contact: 878-0765.
Story Time for 3-5-year-olds.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Picture
books, songs, rhymes, puppets and
math activities for preschoolers.
Final session: May 16. Brownell
Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30
a.m. Contact: 878-6956.
Story Time for Toddlers.
Tuesdays. Picture books, songs,
rhymes and puppets for toddlers
with an adult. Final session: May 15.
Brownell Library, Essex Junction,
9:10-9:30 a.m. Contact: 878-6956.
Summer Reading Program for
Adults. “Between the Covers” begins
with the Summer Solstice. Reading
lists available and a Raffle SignUp on each library visit. Brownell
Library, Essex Junction
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Brownell Library.
Residents: registration begins
June 18, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. For non-Village
residents: registration June 19, 9 a.m.-5
p.m. All children receive a “Dream Big!”
reading record. Every time a record is
brought in, all books read or listened
to will be counted and special stickers
given. Check out the “Dream Big!”
t-shirts available for sale. All programs
are free, but space is limited for some
events. Register in person or by calling
878-6956.
June 18 and onward
Adopt a Beanie Pet. Want a pet of your
own? Adopt one of our cute critters for a
week. Keep a daily journal to share with
the library. Sign up at Youth Desk. For
grades 2 and up.
June 20
Chess for kids. Join chess lovers from
the Teen Advisory Board for an hour
of play. Chess sets provided. Every
Wednesday through July. For grades
3-8. Pre-registration provided. Brownell
Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m.
Pajama story time. Wear pj’s
to the library and hear bedtime
stories. For ages 3 and up. Preregistration
required.
Brownell
Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7 p.m.
June 21
“Booked for Lunch” series. Bring a
bag lunch and listen to a librarian read
stories about a different theme each
week. This week: “Darkness.” Dessert
provided. Grades K and up. Brownell
Library, Essex Junction, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.
“Dream Big” craft series. A different
project each week based on themes
of dreams and nighttime. This week:
“A Flock of Bats.” Grades 1-5. Preregistration required.
June 22
High School Booklust. Share the
books you lust after and the books
you loathe. Snack provided. Brownell
Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m.
Jeh Kulu dance and drum theater.
Celebrate the rhythms of West Africa
outside on the library lawn. All ages.
Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-7 p.m.
Dungeons and Dragons. Embark
upon imaginary adventures. A DM
serves as the game's referee and
storyteller, while also maintaining
the setting in which the adventures
occur and playing the role of the
inhabitants. Grades 6 and up. Brownell
Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m.
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Junction, was named to the newly formed
Vermont Tax Advisory Board on May 10, 2012,
by Commissioner of Taxes Mary Peterson.
The board is designed to foster “open and
transparent collaboration to help government
agencies, businesses and individuals work
together in a positive manner,” Commissioner
Peterson said in the letter appointing Professor
Walsh.
“The Vermont Tax Advisory Board
represents the type of innovation and
transparency that is important to our
state and Governor Shumlin,” Secretary of
Administration Jeb Spaulding said in a press
release issued by Tax Commissioner, Mary
Peterson.
Professor Walsh’s research interests
are the economics of education, with focus
on competition in education, sorting among
schools and peer
externalities.
Among
his
other research
topics
include
occupational
choice
and
occupational
switching.
He
teaches
Economics
of
Health
Care,
Principles
of Dr. Patrick Walsh
Macroeconomics,
Photo contributed
Principles
of
Microeconomics
and Public Finance. He earned his BA from
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and
his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
The 10-member Tax Advisory Board will
meet quarterly.
Vt. mathematics team places fifth at
Penn State Regional Competition
This year the Vermont All Stars
team placed fifth out of 35 teams in the
Regional ARML B-division at Penn State
University. The team was composed of
Zach Farr and Jack Venuti of BFA, St.
Albans; Tyler Gray of Canaan Memorial
High
School;
Vignesh
Rajendran,
Matthew Wu and Charles Wu of Essex
High School; Grace Cheng and Zhili
Feng of Lyndon Institute; Kenny Micklas
of Mount Abraham Union High School;
Jae Hong Kim, Liren Wang and Xin Wei
of St. Johnsbury Academy and Vivian
Huang, Tristan Ohlson and Kevin Wang
of South Burlington High School. Jean
Ohlson, a mathematics teacher at South
Burlington High School, was Coach of the
Vermont All Stars.
The American Regions Mathematics
League's (ARML) annual competition
brings together students from across the
nation. Since its inception in 1976, ARML
now involves almost 2,000 students and
teachers from almost every state.
The contest is written for high school
students, although some exceptional
junior high students attend each year.
The competition consists of several
events, which include a team round, a
power question (in which a team solves
proof-oriented questions), an individual
round, two relay rounds (in which a
contestant solves a problem and passes
his/her answer to another team member,
who uses this answer to solve another
problem), and a super relay. In all, about
120-plus teams participate. A team
consists of 15 students, high school age
or lower. The competition takes place the
weekend immediately following Memorial
Day. Most teams arrive on campus Friday
afternoon, stay in University dorms,
and leave the day after the competition.
The competition begins early Saturday
morning at Penn State, the University of
Georgia, and the University of Iowa, and
in the early evening on Friday at UNLV.
Each year one student from Chicago
and one from another ARML team is
chosen to receive the Douglas Cameron
Baker Memorial Award, given in memory
of Douglas Cameron Baker, a former
member of the Chicago ARML team. The award is given to two deserving
ARML students who best exemplify
the qualities that Douglas brought to
the contest: an enthusiasm for the
competition, and enjoyment of the social
interaction with other students and a
love of mathematics. This year Kevin
Wang of South Burlington High School
was the national winner and received a
cash award of $250. Kevin, along with
Essex High School's Matthew Wu, were
first place winners in the 2011-12 Annual
Talent Search sponsored by the Vermont
State Mathematics Coalition. Kevin will
be attending Harvard University this fall.
Young Writers Project is an independent nonprofit dedicated to helping
students improve their writing skills that work directly with youths
through youngwritersproject.org, publishing their best works in this and
eight other newspapers and on Vermont Public Radio’s Web site, vpr.net.
The organization works directly with teachers through its Schools Project,
providing digital classrooms and teacher training in using technology
and ways to engage students in individualized, supportive, peer-to-peer
learning.
YWP depends on donations from individuals, businesses and foundations.
If you are interested, please go to youngwritersproject.org/support.
YWP is now accepting
photos and art. The best of
the best will be published
weekly. Email a jpeg of the
artwork along with your
name, grade and school to
Geoff Gevalt at ggevalt@
youngwritersproject.org.
This week’s prompts:
saying goodbye and just
before
Letter
to
readers
from Geoff Gevalt and
Susan Reid
Dear Readers,
This will be the last
appearance
of
Young
Writers Project’s student
writing in this space
until the second week of
September. We hope you’ve
enjoyed
the
students’
writing – and art – and
hope you will continue
to follow student writing
highlighted each week on
youngwritersproject.org
and on Vermont Public
Radio.
YWP has many people
to thank for this, starting
with this newspaper. They
give over to the students
valuable space that would
ordinarily carry news, and
the editors and publishers
do so because they value
the importance of writing
and the importance of
affirming students’ best
efforts. Please thank them
by continuing to buy this
newspaper.
YWP has many financial
supporters who help keep
this nonprofit going and
make this feature possible.
They include: Bay &
Paul Foundations, A.D.
Henderson
Foundation,
Green Mountain Coffee
Roasters,
FairPoint
Communications, Vermont
Community
Foundation,
Vermont Country Store,
Vermont
Business
Roundtable,
Windham
Foundation, Jane B. Cook
Charitable Trust, Main
Street Landing, National
Life Group, Queen City
Printing, Key Bank and
Physician’s
Computer
Company.
Finally, we want to
thank all of the writers
and photographers who
submitted work this year,
who took a creative risk and
took a chance in the hope of
being selected.
This past year, we
received
an
estimated
9,000 writing submissions
and
published
over
1,000 students’ work in
our 14 media partners’
publications.
Students,
keep
on
writing! And swing over
to youngwritersproject.org
if you want to read – or
contribute – some amazing
work.
— Geoffrey Gevalt,
YWP founder and
director, and Susan Reid,
publications coordinator
SAYING GOODBYE
We are the believers
By Leah Kelleher
Grade 7, Albert D. Lawton
Intermediate School
Boots crunch down upon
the ground,
Steps in rhythm,
Steps in sync.
Hair whips back in a long,
Thin,
Braid.
Eyes serious,
She steps in the battlefield.
Brave and bold,
A tear streams down her
dust-covered face.
Is this her fate?
Or is it too late to see her
family,
Again?
Brother John with the
prosthetic leg,
Momma and Papa on that
very day,
Getting that news,
Their daughter was going
away,
For a long time soon,
Perhaps forever.
Legs shaking,
Hands aching,
Guns blaring,
Fatigues tearing,
Gone.
The woman stands
weeping,
Letter in hand,
A saddened demand,
Essex Children’s Choir members: Standing on the ground, from left to right: Ana Dragon of
Jericho, Tessa Goodrich of Essex Town, Oscar Williams of Charlotte, Thomas Buckley of
Colchester, Anna Anderson of St. Albans, and Vivek Lasserre of Essex Town.
Posing in the gazebo, from left to right: William Ridecc of Montpelier, Sarah Reed of
Williston, Yana Kalinin of South Burlington, Shanti Boyle of Essex Junction, Ellen Seyller
of Essex Town, Madeline Siocombe of Cambridge, Emily Johnson of Essex Town, Lucy
Mathews of Hinesburg, Lillia Nelson of Essex Junction, Liam Patullo of Burlington, Andrew
Codding of Lyndonville, Nathan Bamberger of Williston, Allison Weston of Essex Town,
and Elise Holway of Burlington. Missing from the photo: Cassie Besso of Jericho Photo contributed
Essex Children’s Choir celebrates
25 years with anniversary gala
Essex Children’s Choir celebrates
25 years with “Many Voices, One
Orchestra” to be held at the Breeding
Barn on Shelburne Farms Saturday,
June 23 at 3 p.m.
Featured
soloists
are
tenor
Wayne Hobbs and baritone Benjamin
Dickerson. The program also features
collaborating ensembles Counterpoint
and Maple Jam. Admission is $25 for
adults; $12 for children and students.
For more information visit www.
essexchildrenschoirofvermont.org
Essex blood donors receive gallon pins
Essex and Essex Junction
residents recently received gallon
pins from American Red Cross
Blood Services, New England
Region.
Joseph Bousquet, of Essex,
donated his 15th gallon of blood.
Daniel Arthur-Bashaw, of Essex,
donated his 18th gallon of blood.
Brandy Darrah, of Essex
Junction, donated her first gallon
of blood.
Katherine Henry, of Essex
Junction, donated her 10th
gallon of blood.
For her daughter back.
The day falls to night,
Though we have yet to
finish this fight.
Young men and women,
Risk their lives,
To let us be free,
To survive.
The courage they hold,
Let’s this country grow old,
So let’s think of them now,
On this beloved day,
In this very room,
I am here to say,
Weep for our loved ones,
And pray with their
families.
For this is the country,
Of faithful believers.
My only option
By Char Ouellette
Grade 9, Essex High School
I'm not going to lie
and say that I
understand this.
Because I don't.
I'm not going to make
excuses
to make myself feel
better.
I'll say the truth
Nicholas Kent, of Essex
Junction, donated his 13th gallon
of blood.
David Riester, of Essex
of blood.
Barry Woodworth, of Essex
Junction, donated his 43rd gallon
of blood.
Nancy Radley, of Essex
Junction, donated her 98th
gallon of blood.
James Girouard, of Essex
of blood.
and nothing but the
truth
because only I know
how I truly feel.
I'm not the only one that
matters here,
but I'm lost,
and I don't know what
else to do.
I've lost friends.
I've shed oceans of tears,
and I've made plenty
of mistakes, too.
But even I know that this
couldn't go on,
and I'm through with
feeling this way.
This wasn't at all what I
thought it was,
and you're not at all who
I thought you were.
There's no simple way to
explain this,
but now,
goodbye is my only
option.
JUST BEFORE
Just Before
By Lena Sauter
Grade 5, Camels Hump
Middle School
As the ski racer before
me kicks out
of the start,
silly worries
start running through
my head,
like soccer players
who keep sprinting after
the
ball every time they miss
the goal.
What if I fall?
What if I miss a gate?
What if I am really slow?
What happens then?
My head is spinning,
My legs are like jelly;
Butterflies flit around in
my stomach.
My vision fades as
I hear the countdown:
Racer ready? 3, 2, 1 …
Yet sick and blurry-eyed,
I know I love the feeling
of shooting down
that course.
So I push myself out of
the starting gate
And ski down with what
suddenly feels like
Finesse to me.
Photo of the week by McKenna Bahr of Underhill
9a
EHS student receives 2012
Young Naturalist Award
Thirteen
student
scientists, including Essex
High School student Markie
Palermo, explored through
the American Museum
of Natural History’s 15th
Annual Young Naturalist
Awards,
a
nationwide
science-based
research
competition for kids in grades
7 through 12 supported by
Alcoa Foundation.
This year’s winners
included students from
Arizona,
California,
Maryland,
Michigan,
New
York,
Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
Vermont, and Virginia who
were recognized on June 1
at an awards ceremony and
luncheon at the Museum
and spent the day at behindthe-scenes tours at the
Museum. Each winner also
received a cash award of up
to $2,500.
“The Young Naturalist
Awards are a superb
example of students using
the scientific process to
engage in creative and
original investigations of the
world around them,” said
Ellen V. Futter, President
of the American Museum of
Natural History. “We are
proud to help foster a love of
science and nature in all the
participants and especially
in the outstanding winners,
who are to be congratulated
for their exceptional work.”
Markie Palermo, an
11th-grader
at
Essex
High School from South
Hero, Vt., found that the
eggs of native brook trout
populations in the Lake
Champlain basin were being
fertilized by non-native
brown trout producing tiger
trout, infertile hybrids.
Palermo’s investigation
came
out
of
concern
that native brook trout
populations were declining
in the Lake Champlain
Basin. She hypothesized
that this was occurring
because brook trout eggs
were being fertilized by
stocked
brown
trout,
producing a sterile hybrid
tiger trout. The DNA of the
three types of trout collected
from the Lake Champlain
area was assessed using
six genetic markers to
determine whether this was
the case. The results showed
that the proposed tiger trout
did have DNA alleles that
were consistent with both
brook trout and brown trout.
“One of the many effects
that the study itself has had
on me was in highlighting
my ongoing (and disturbing)
observation that introducing
non-native
species
of
anything (be it plants,
animals, insects, etc.) into
a new environment can
have disastrous effects on
that habitat and throw the
ecosystem way off-balance,”
noted Palermo. “In this
example, if stocking Lake
Champlain with non-native
brown trout is resulting in
the production of a sterile
tiger trout, this means that
not only is there a whole
new species of fish in Lake
Champlain that came out of
this, but also the longevity
of the native brook trout
species is in danger.”
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Essex student Markie Palermo (right) receives her 2012 Young Naturalists Award during a
ceremony June 1 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Presenting the
award certificate were (from right) Christopher Raxworthy, associate curator in the Department of
Herpetology and associate dean of Science for Education and Exhibitions; and Peter Hong, vice
president and treasurer of Alcoa Corporation.
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The Thomas Fleming School.
CCSU Superintendent of Schools Dr. Michael Deweese delivers a celebratory message.
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Jamaal Hankey plays, “Star Spangled Banner”
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Sports
B Section
The Essex Reporter •
June 14, 2012
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Essex clinches Division I title
SPORTS
SHORTS
Joe
Gonillo
I
Essex players wait at the plate for Jordi Begin after the senior's go-ahead home run minutes into the resumption of the Division I softball final Monday.
The run helped send Essex to their 6-3 victory.
CHAMPIONS
"I was just going after
from page 1a
credit and matched Perry from start to finish
in the final — stranded Barnett at third with a
strikeout to keep the score 3-2.
Suddenly down to nine outs just minutes
into the resumption of the game, though, that
one run looked huge to the Comets.
Essex coach Bill O’Neil said Begin’s gamechanging hit was impressive.
“For a kid to go in with a 2-2 count and two
outs, and all she’s got to do is throw one by
her and you’re out of there. Instead she pulls
one over the fence, and then Jess almost hits
another one over the fence. I think that rattled
them a little bit.”
The Comets threatened to respond when an
error put Maria Lowe aboard to start the top of
the fifth, but Perry backed Begin’s homer with
the kind of overpowering effort from the circle
that had been missing Friday night. Perry
followed the error with six straight outs — two
on strikes and the other four on routine infield
plays.
By the time Abbott finished at the plate
with her second double and third hit in three
at bats — her blast to right hitting the base of
the fence on the fly, about five feet short of a
home run — Essex had pushed three more runs
across the plate. Abbott came home on Caitlyn
Abbott’s RBI ground out, but all the Hornets
cared about at that point was racking up outs,
and they closed out the win moments later on a
pop-up to short.
O’Neil and BFA’s Bert Berthiaume agreed
that the 68-hour weather delay ended up
working in the Hornets’ favor.
“It’s a whole new experience for these kids,”
said Berthiaume, whose team had a delayed
completion in its semifinal win over Brattleboro.
But the Comets stayed home for that one while
Brattleboro had to drive the length of the state
and back within 24 hours.
it and I knew it was out
of my reach if I didn't
dive. I didn't think
I had a chance."
Lauren Gilbert, EHS outfielder
This time, the break hit after the Comets
had spent 3 1/2 innings continually threatening
to break out offensively, and gave Perry some
much-needed time off.
“We had to wait two days and then come
back, and it was tough for them,” Berthiaume
said. “Essex has had a great season, and they’re
a great team, but they were on the ropes on
Friday. I would like to have been able to finish
it out.”
O’Neil said the shift in play and confidence
during the break was stark.
“From Friday to here, how do you explain?
I didn’t think things went well for us last week.
We got deep in the game with Missisquoi. I
thought we were not quite on, but we got out
of it … Jordi stepping up and doing that just
changed the whole complexion.”
O’Neil said Perry was not at her best in the
long semifinal battle against Missisquoi or in
Friday’s night’s portion of the final.
“Wednesday 11 innings, then one day of
rest. She really didn’t feel well on Wednesday,
and she didn’t feel well Friday.”
Essex junior Lauren Gilbert agreed that
Essex benefitted from the weather delay.
“I thought it helped just because we were all
stressed. It gave us time to calm down.”
The Comets’ real chance to earn their
eighth title had come at the start, when BFA
took advantage of Perry’s fatigue and put six of
its first 15 batters on base.
Kathryn Howrigan’s two-out single and Allie
Doe’s double to the fence in left produced a 1-0
lead in the top of the first. Samantha Dussault
followed with a hard grounder into the hole
that shortstop Jessica Barnett did well just to
reach, but the Hornet turned the infield hit into
the first of the team’s three game-saving plays
in the Friday night portion. Faking a late throw
to first, Barnett wheeled and fired to the plate
as the BFA runner slid in. Catcher Kymberly
Svarczkopf did her part to prevent the run
by blocking the plate and getting the inningending tag down as the runner came up short.
BFA’s Eli Millman topped that play with
an infield catch, taking away a bunt single
from leadoff hitter Emily Lounsbury to start
the bottom of the first. Lounsbury popped a
bunt past the drawn-in third baseman for an
apparent single, but Millman turned dove back
and toward the line, and somehow collected the
ball as she hit the ground. Two quick Abbott
strikeouts later, and the Comets’ 1-0 lead was
intact going into the second.
Perry got Essex’s offense started in the
second with a double, courtesy runner Ashley
Gehsmann was bunted to third by Begin, and
a wild pitch scored Gehsmann. Again, Abbott
shut the door with back-to-back strikeouts.
Millman followed her Web Gem with some
equally big offense, reaching on a one-out infield
single when she beat the shortstop’s throw in
the third. Celsey Lumbra drove Millman home
with a rocket of a double to the right-center
fence, and after 1 1/2 innings the undefeated
Hornets were behind for the second time, 2-1.
But again Essex came back with the tying
run in the home third, and again shut down
a Comet threat in the top of the fourth with a
spectacular defensive play.
Samantha Poratti singled to start the bottom
– See CHAMPIONS on page 3b
Hornets fall to Rebels
The Hornets lost to the South Burlington Rebels
9-7 in the Division I boys’ lacrosse championship on
Saturday, June 9.
“We played a little too tentatively,” lamented
coach Dean Corkum. “It wasn’t our day—we had
glimpses of greatness, just not consistent enough.”
Thomas Vanzo led Essex with two goals, with
James Olsen, Bradan Merrill, Ryan Forbes, Lucas
Martin and Derek McAdoo also scoring. Pat Abbott
kept the game close with nine saves.
The loss was the Hornet’s first defeat by a
Vermont opponent this season—and the first loss
out of three games against South Burlington.
“Anytime you go 16-3 is a good season,”
Corkum said. “We talk about carrying on the
legacy of previous teams—a legacy of hard
work, commitment, selflessness and good
sportsmanship—and this team carried on the torch
very well.” Senior attack Michael Farmer cradles the ball in the Division I championship. The loss
was the Hornet’s fourth defeat in its six consecutive years in the title game
t doesn’t get any better than
this. Our last week of school
and summer vacation will be
on by the time you read this
column. No snow days this year—
thank God. Summer is here. Open the
pools, find your bathing suits, clean
up the B-B-Q grills, dust off the porch
furniture, read a book, sign-up for a
camp, go for a run, and enjoy the next
ten weeks or so.
The post season ended for a few
teams last week as boys’ lax and
girls’ softball played in championship
games.
Lacrosse
The boys’ lacrosse team played
its way into its sixth straight state
final last week. Talk about a run. You
are witnessing one of the best in the
history of the sport in our state. The
Hornets clipped CVU 6-3 in the semi’s
at home in a highly contested defensive
battle. Essex grabbed the lead early,
and it held the entire game. Luc
Martin, Luc LeBlanc, Thomas Vanzo
and Conor Kiely each scored in less
than four minutes to break open the
game. Steve Morse and Mike Farmer
extended the lead to 6-1 early in the
fourth quarter. Pat Abbott made 18
saves in the 6-3 victory. In Saturday’s championship game,
Essex went toe-to-toe with South
Burlington. Tied at 2, then at 4, Essex
could not gain the lead in the second
half. Thomas Vanzo scored twice.
Ryan Forbes, James Olsen, Lucas
Martin, Bradan Merrill and Derek
McAdoo connected as well, but the
Hornets fell 9-7. Abbott stopped 9
shots. This, their only loss in Vermont
all spring, stung a bit. Essex finished
16-3. Congratulations on a fine season,
gentlemen.
Softball
The softball team advanced to the
state finals with an extra-innings win
over MVU last week. It was one of the
most exciting softball games I have ever
seen … and I missed the end. Trailing
1-0, shortstop Jess “Nomar“ Barnett
socked a solo homerun to tie the
game in the middle innings. The
run was crucial as the teams were
tied 1-1 after seven innings. Very
late in the game, and in the evening
– after at least a 30-minute thunder
and lightning delay – first baseman
Jordi "The Giambino" Begin crushed
a game-winning, walk-off, two-run
homerun to punch the Hornets’ ticket
to the championship against long-time
rival BFA. The girls started the game
Friday evening and were tied 2-2 in
the bottom of the fourth inning when
the game was suspended on account of
the weather. It was picked up Monday
at 5 p.m., with Begin at bat with two
outs and a 3-2 count. They are 18-0.
Track and Field
The track and field team continued
its stellar season with a trip to Saco,
Maine for the 2012 New England
championships last week. Our bus
driver, Leonard, from First Student,
was outstanding! The food, the
weather, the hotel, the kids, did I
mention the seafood?, and the bus
ride were all fantastic. Vermont
Pavel Dvorak ran a better meet
last year. Highlights include: Nikki
Braceras’ seventh place finish in the
two-mile run in a near personal record
of 11:15.90. She won her heat, beat
half of the runners in heat two, and
almost medaled. Marvelous way to
end her high school running career!
Emma Sopchak jumped 5’ 0” in the
high jump and tied for 14th; Mariah
Neverett finished 21st in the 100m
HH with a personal best of 15.73. She
ran – get this – the third fastest in
Essex track and field history, trailing
only records held by Sarah Dahl ‘86
at 14.88 and Katie Polakowski ’10 at
14.88. Mariah barely edged out Essex’
Dawn Main Heminway’s 15.74 run
in ’93. Incredible! Jake Dowman was
22nd in the 800m, running 2:03.08;
Grady Ward placed 26th in the two
mile with a time of 10:29.23; Tom
Carton was 26th in DISC with a toss
of 128’ 7”; fellow sophomore Kira
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300m LH running 48.81; Shivani Sharma placed 21st
Isabella Esposito placed running 10:03.22. The boys’
30th in SHOT with a put 4x8 team of Micah Lemmelof 31’ 2” to lead all VT’ers. Hay, Dowman, Alex DeWitt,
Katherine Furland went and Ward placed 23rd
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Rosy Gallo jumped 13’ 7.5” Eschholz, a highly talented
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for 31st place. The relays 41.74. finished as follows: the girls
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Fall sports
Fall sports sign-ups
were last week. Hopefully
you, and/or your son/
daughter know if you are
set or need a physical for the
fall season. If you missed
sign-ups for ANY reason,
you should have already
contacted
and
spoken
with your varsity coach
(or AD Mr. Hockenbury)
for information. Don’t just
assume the coach knows
you are trying out for the
sport. Get all the details
about paperwork, physicals,
due dates, practice dates,
and anything else you might
have missed. Showing a little
maturity goes a long way.
Most of that information is
right on the EHS Athletics
web site. Working out over
the summer will help too. Middle school sign-ups
were this week as coaches
visited EMS, ADL, and
Westford. Information was
sent to the island schools.
Think about this you
Islanders, come to Essex to
enjoy the best of academics
and athletics. If you have
any questions, give me a
call or send me an email
[email protected]
Looking forward
A
parent/athlete
meeting will be held on
Sunday, August 12 at 7
p.m. in the high school
auditorium. How’s this for
easy: participation forms
are available on the EHS
Athletic web page http://
www.ccsuvt.org/ehs/
athletics/ . Simply click on
the link on the right side
of the page under Forms
and Policies. They can be
completed
electronically,
printed, signed, and turned
in over the summer. As EHS athletes, you
have a plethora of get-inshape opportunities right
here in town for a week, a
couple of weeks, a month,
or all summer through Mike
Landsberg, Leo Labonte,
and Chris Polakowski. So if
you are not in shape come
August, it might just be your
own fault. The Speed, Power and
Performance
Center
at
Essex Middle School will
begin as early as Monday,
June
18.
Applications
are being accepted for
individuals and Teams to
help develop the bio-motor
abilities needed to succeed
in sports requiring speed,
power, agility and strength.
Training will be based on the
premise that an explosive
athlete will need: A general
strength base for both the
prime movers and stabilizer/
synergist muscles, technical
improvements on running
form during acceleration and
maximum speed running,
power development using
both specialized strength
development and ballistic
movement,
functional
development of a strong
and stable core and overall
general
development.
Contact Chris Polakowski
at [email protected]
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Classics and Philosophy.
Nicholas
Chester
Duff, son of Eve Duff of
Essex Junction graduated
from St. Michael’s College,
105th
commencement
exercises held on May 14.
Duff earned a Bachelor of
Arts, summa cum laude, in
French.
Kathleen
McNeish
Murphy,
daughter
of Alice McNeish and
Francis Murphy of Essex
Junction graduated from
St. Michael’s College, in
Colchester, during the
105th
commencement
Murphy earned a Bachelor
of Arts in English.
Emily Marie Pratt,
daughter of Susan and
Thomas Pratt of Essex
Junction graduated with
a Bachelor of Science,
summa cum laude degree
in
Mathematics
and
Economics.
Erin Adler Thompson,
daughter of Jack and
Mary Thompson of Essex
Junction graduated from
105th
commencement
exercises held on May
14. Thompson earned a
Bachelor of Arts, summa
cum laude, in English.
Sarah Louise Valyou,
daughter of Corey and
Heather
Valyou
of
Westford graduated from
105th
commencement
Valyou earned a Bachelor
of Arts, cum laude, in
Psychology.
Marian
Amanda
Yandow, daughter of Jane
and Thomas Yandow of
Essex Junction graduated
from St. Michael’s College,
105th
commencement
Yandow earned a Bachelor
of Arts, magna cum laude,
in English and Elementary
Education.
Hilary S. Frink of
Westford,
graduated
from McDaniel College in
Westminster, Md. during
the 142nd commencement
Frink earned a Bachelor
of Arts in Political Science
and International Studies.
Paulina Smolinski, of
Westford, made the spring
2012 semester Dean’s List
at DePaul University, in
Chicago, Ill.
Meghan
Tremblay,
a 2009 graduate of Essex
High School, was named to
the spring 2012 semester
Dean’s List at Northeastern
University
in
Boston,
Mass. She is majoring
in Communications and
minoring in Spanish.
Robert Gess, of Essex,
graduated
from
Bard
College at Simon’s Rock, in
Great Barrington, Mass.,
with an Associate of Arts
degree in Liberal Arts.
Michael D. McIntyre,
of
graduated from the
Costal Carolina University,
of the third,
was
bunted
to
second
from page 1b
by
Mueller,
took third on
a passed ball and scored on Lounsbury’s
triple down the right-field line. Elise Contois
appeared to drive in the go-ahead run with a
fly to right field, but the ball held up in the
steadily increasing wind and Lounsbury was
called out for leaving third before the catch,
setting off a prolonged protest from the Essex
faithful.
The inning-ending outfield double play
turned out to be the first of two within a span
of less than five minutes, the second more
stunning than controversial.
Abbott belted a shot into the headwind
that reached the fence in center for the first
of her two straight doubles, and speedy junior
Eva Clark came on as a courtesy runner for
the pitcher. Shanley Howrigan sliced a ball
toward the right-field line, but Gilbert was
the only person in the park not willing to
admit that Howrigan had hit an RBI single
or better.
The right fielder sprinted toward the line
and dove, catching the ball as she landed
hard. Clark, having gone halfway to third on
the fly ball, had to go back to second to tag
up. It took Gilbert a moment to get off the
ground, but when she did her throw was hard
and true, reaching third base ahead of Clark
to end the inning.
Instead of a 3-2 lead with one out and a
runner on, the Comets were headed back onto
the field with the score tied at 2-2.
Gilbert said she had no idea the ball was
catchable, but had no alternative to trying
with the go-ahead run on the line.
“I was really nervous,” she said. “I was
just going after it and I knew it was out of my
reach if I didn’t dive. I didn’t think I had a
chance.”
It took her a moment to recover because
the landing was anything but smooth, she
said Monday night, happily showing off the
missing skin on her.
O’Neil said the defensive effort Friday
night was the only reason the Hornets were in
position to take advantage of the resumption
on Monday.
“A great catch,” he said of the play by
Gilbert, who as the flex player competes only
in the field and made the most of that role.
“Not only that, but she threw the kid out at
third.”
Given new life by the delay and a huge lift
by Begin’s homer, the Hornets gave O’Neil
and their fans plenty to cheer for throughout
the game’s completion — which took less than
45 minutes.
Essex dug the Comets’ hole significantly
deeper in the bottom of the sixth with a twoout burst, as Begin, Barnett and Svarczkopf
scored in succession. Begin struck middle
ground with a walk to keep the inning alive
after Comet catcher Kathryn Howrigan had
in Conway, S.C., at the
commencement ceremonies
held on Saturday, May 5.
McIntyre received a BS in
Business Administration.
Abigail Loranger, of
Essex, graduated from the
the University of Southern
Mississippi
during
a
commencement ceremony
on Saturday, May 12.
Loranger
received
a
Bachelor of Arts degree.
Jordan T. Barnes,
of Essex, graduated from
St. Anselm College, in
Manchester, N.H., on May
19. Barnes received a
Bachelor of Arts in History
with a minor in Spanish.
David O’Leary, of
Essex Junction, has been
named to the Dean’s
List for the spring 2012
semester at Johnson State
College in Johnson, Vt.
O’Leary is a junior.
Amanda Frawley, of
Westford, has been named
to the Dean’s List for the
spring 2012 semester at
Johnson State College in
Johnson, Vt. Frawley is a
sophomore.
Miranda
Brugger,
of Essex Junction, has
been named to the Dean’s
Brugger is a senior.
Dylan Giambatista, of
Essex Junction, has been
named to the President’s
Giambatista is a senior.
Emily Nye, of Essex
Junction, has been named
Johnson State College
in Johnson, Vt. Nye is a
senior.
Laura Weber, of Essex
Junction, has been named
Johnson State College in
Johnson, Vt. Weber is a
senior.
Brian L. Evans, son
of Maureen and Robert
Evans of Essex Junction,
has been named to the
spring
2012
semester
Dean’s List at Hamilton
College in Clinton, N.Y.
Evans, a rising sophomore,
is a graduate of Essex High
School.
Cali
Cornacchia,
of Essex Junction, was
named to the spring 2012
semester Dean’s List at
Ohio Wesleyan University
in Delaware, O.H.
Melissa
Guziak,
Ohio Wesleyan University
in Delaware, O.H.
POTSDAM, NY
The following students
were named Presidential
Scholars for the spring
2012 semester at Clarkson
University.
Cassandra J. Miller,
named
a
Presidential
Scholar for the spring
2012 semester at Clarkson
University in Potsdam,
N.Y. Miller is a senior
majoring in aeronautical
engineering
and
mechanical engineering.
Kyle Z. Hancock, of
Essex Junction, was named
a Presidential Scholar for
at Clarkson University in
Potsdam, N.Y. Hancock is a
junior majoring in chemical
engineering.
Daniel M. Hill, of
Westfprd, was named a
Presidential Scholar for
at Clarkson University
in Potsdam, N.Y. Hill is a
junior majoring in chemical
engineering.
Kyle R. Perline, of
a Presidential Scholar for
at Clarkson University
in Potsdam, N.Y. Perline
is a senior majoring in
mathematics and physics.
Stephanie
L.
Cameron,
of
Essex
Junction,
was
named
to
the
spring
2012
Clarkson University in
Potsdam, N.Y. Cameron
is a freshman majoring in
digital arts and sciences.
Eric
H.
Dietsch,
Clarkson University in
Potsdam, N.Y. Dietsch
is a junior majoring in
Kristopher
M.
Saladin, of Essex Junction,
was named to the spring
2012 semester Dean’s List
at Clarkson University in
Potsdam, N.Y. Saladin is
a freshman majoring in
Austin Noel Harris, of
to the spring 2012 semester
Dean’s List at Keene State
College in Keene, N.H.
Courtney
Michelle
Lachaussie,
of
Essex
Junction, was named to
David Geer Valley, of
to the spring 2012 semester
Matthew Lasko, of
Essex Junction, graduated
with a BA from Assumption
College,
in
Worcester,
Mass., during the 95th
held on May 12 from
Assumption College with a
Bachelor of Arts degree.
Alan He, of Essex
Junction, graduated in
the spring of 2012 with
a BA in Political Science
from Colgate University in
Hamilton, N.Y.
Kelly K. Malone, of Winooski,
graduated from the University
of Vermont during the 209th
held on May 20. Malone
earned a BA in English. She
is currently employed at The
Essex Reporter.
Photo contributed
Joanna Taatjes, of Westford,
was recognized at the annual
Prize Day at the University of
Connecticut School of Law with
two awards: The William F. Starr
First Year Award recognizes the
highest GPA of her class, and
the Aspen Law and Business
Award for academic excellence
in the Evidence course. Taatjes
is a 2006 graduatae of Essex
High School and a 2010
graduate of Bowdoin College
in Maine. She has accepted a
summer associate position at
a law firm in Portland, ME, and
will return to UConn Law in the
fall to finish her law degree.
Photo contributed
CHAMPIONS
Jordi Begin passes second on her trip around
the bases following her go-ahead home run
minutes into the resumption of the title game.
made a phenomenal catch on a foul pop-up
halfway up the third-base line, just in front of
the team’s dugout. Barnett dropped a single
in behind second base, sending pinch-runner
Karyn Svarczkopf to third, and O’Neil elected
to pinch-hit with Gehsmann. Frequently
entering as a runner to utilize her speed,
Gehsmann did the same as a batter when
she hit a bouncer to shortstop. BFA’s Allie
Doe charged the ball and fired a bullet across
the diamond, but Gehsmann just beat the
ball to the bag for an RBI infield hit, scoring
Svarczkopf. Barnett followed her across the
plate when a pitch got away, and Poratti’s RBI
single into center field drove in Gehsmann for
a 6-2 lead.
Facing a pitcher and team that had not
given up four runs in a game, let alone inning,
all season, the Comets went down swinging in
the seventh.
Abbott, for the third time in as many
chances, slammed a ball deep into the outfield,
collecting her second double. Howrigan
followed with a single into center field, putting
the first two runners at the corners. Perry got
the first out on strikes, but Caitlyn Abbott
picked up an RBI with a grounder to short
scoring her sister. Barnett then settled under
a pop-up, ending the game and wrapping up a
perfect 19-0 season for the Hornets.
“We bounced back and had a chance,”
Berthiaume said. “But we couldn’t get a break
today. They hit the ball, pitched the ball and
caught the ball. They deserved everything.”
O’Neil, whose team earned its first title
since 2009 (another undefeated season that
was Essex’s third championship squad in a
row), said much of the credit also belongs to
his assistant coaches — Randy Wells, Bernie
Couture, Brent Farnham and Mike Thweatt.
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Agenda
From principle Laurie
Singer
Happy summer ADL
families. Thank you for
sharing your students
with us over the last school
year. You can expect a
letter from me in early
August with information
about the upcoming school
year. Some dates to post
for
August
calendars
include our New Student
Orientation,
which
includes
all
incoming
sixth-graders and any
students new to seventhand eighth-grade, from
1-2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug.
28; the first day of school
on Wednesday, Aug. 29
(arrive no later than 7:45
a.m.), and Open House on
Thursday, Sept. 13 at 6:30
p.m. One last reminder
for families is to be sure
students have physicals
before school begins. An
up to date physical is
mandatory to try out for
fall sports. Every year we
have very disappointed
students in the office
making calls home because
they have no physical on
file and appointments are
impossible to schedule in
September. See everyone
in August.
PE at Maple Street Pool
ADL
physical
education students have
started their annual trek
to Maple Street Pool for
a cooperative learning
experience
with
the
Recreation
Department. Students come to the
gym, change up, report
for attendance and run to
the pool. Once at the pool
they are led in a dry land
endurance and a strength
work out, followed by
a work out in the pool
working
on
different
swimming strokes. The
last rotation is an aquatic
safety skills work out,
where students work on
“reaching rescues” and
self help skills for water
safety. A short open
swim follows and then the
students run back to ADL
to change up for their next
class. This is all done in a
44 minute period. Thanks
to the EJRP for such a
fabulous partnership.
Eighth-grade science
with R. Bisson
Students finished the
Unit of Study on Newton’s
Three Laws of Motion
and entered their CO2
Dragsters in official single
elimination heats. The
objective was to cover the
50-foot track in record time. The two finalists from each
class will compete in the
“finals,” which will be held
on Wednesday, June 13, in
front of the entire student
body.
WESTFORD
Westford school welcomes new
principal
On June 5, the Westford School Board
announced Morrison (Marcie) Lewis as
the newest principal of Westford School.
Lewis will begin work on July 1, 2012.
Currently serving as principal at
the Lyman C. Hunt Middle School in
Burlington, Lewis has broad experience at
both elementary and middle school grade
levels. She also brings a deep experience
in school counseling.
“We are pleased to have Ms. Lewis
join the Westford School community and
look forward to her sharing her skills,
experience, knowledge and passion as the
school’s new principal, Westford School
Board Chair Mark Drapa said. “We
appreciate the involvement of students,
parents, faculty, staff and community
members for their important participation
in the search process. Special thanks
go out to the commitment of the Search
Advisory Committee members.”
Mater Christi School graduates
students
Mater Christi School held its
eighth-grade graduation ceremony on
Wednesday, June 6. The ceremony
included Mass celebrated by Fr. Ray
Doherty, SSE, St. Michael’s College,
and a member of the MCS Board of
Trustees. The graduation speaker was
Dr. John Lavoie, an alumnus; graduation
certificates were presented to the students
by Dorothea Penar, Chairperson of the
MCS Board of Trustees, assisted by Paul
Jette, MCS principal.
The ceremony was followed by a
reception for family
and friends of the
graduates, and then
the MCS Class of 2012
enjoyed a dinner dance
at the Hampton Inn.
Mater
Christi
School
graduation
class of 2012
Lawton eighth-graders focus on their tour guide on the ‘Freedom Trail’ during their trip to Boston.
The students also attended the Electricity Show at the Museum of Science and then explored and
made discoveries around the Museum.
Photo contributed
Morrison (Marcie) Lewis
Photo contributed
Lucy Anderson of Shelburne, Emily
Lyman of Burlington, Sarah Sem of
Jericho, Colby Audette of Colchester,
Heather McCabe of South Burlington,
Savannah Sherman of Colchester,
Natalie Benoit of Shelburne, Samantha
McDowell of South Burlington, Alexis
Sirotta of Colchester, David Boerman
of Shelburne, Isabelle Miquel of Essex
Junction, Marisa Sylvester of Burlington,
Megan Collins of Burlington, Warren
Ouelette of Shelburne, August Tallmadge
of Colchester, Cameron Cousino of Essex
Junction, Connor Plante of Burlington,
Claudia
Tarrant
of
Colchester,
Benjamin Cutler of South Burlington,
James Raymond of Hinesburg, Andrew
Trainor-Clark of Burlington, Emma
Forgione of South Burlington, Matthew
Sadler of Burlington, Robert Treadwell
of Burlington, Abigail Harrington of
Colchester, Ariel Salmon of Essex
Junction, Taylor Williams of Essex
Junction, and Makenna Higbee of
Underhill.
Mater Christi School
students of the class of
2012 toss their caps into
the air at the close of
graduation ceremonies
on June 6.
Photo contributed
ETSD News
Essex Town School
District staff members
gathered
on
Tuesday,
June 5 to honor retiring
staff members.
Several
orchestra students from
Founders Memorial School
entertained the audience
in honor of the retirees.
Rachel Preston from the
Essex PTO presented the
retirees with copies of their
favorite childhood books,
which will be donated to
the Learning Center of the
school in which the retiree
worked.
The retirees included
four teachers and one
administrator with the
following years of service:
Ethel Goldstein, Grade
5 Teacher at FMS, 18 years
Terence
Keating,
Director
of
Student
Support Services at the
Central Office, 8 years
Joan Mallory, Grade 6
Teacher at EMS, 34 years
Ann Rathbone, Grade 4
Teacher at FMS, 23 years
Susan Wargo, Speech
Language Pathologist at
EES, 24 years
Superintendent Mark
Andrews
recognized
the retirees collectively
for their many years of
service and noted that
their dedication to Essex
students has made a
difference now and into the
future.
Thank you
Teachers!
Superintendent Mark Andrews speaks, at the podium, about retiring ETSD staff and teachers on
Tuesday, June 5. Retirees (seated) left to right: Joan Mallory, Terence Keating, Ann Rathbone,
Susan Wargo, and Ethel Goldstein. School Board Chair Brendan Kinney looks on from the
background.
Photo contributed
Pet of the Week
Chubbs
4 year-old Neutered Male
REASON HERE: Owner moved and could not take him.
CHILDREN: Ages 8+
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equal in size! Despite his size, Chubbs is very playful and active,
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independent for you. However, if you’re
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but it has been determined that the test
was a false positive. Further and more
reliable testing confirmed that he is in
fact negative, but potential adopters
should be aware of his history and
know that subsequent tests with their
own veterinarian may show this faint
positive as well. A full medical write up is
available for review with our staff.
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802-862-0135
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Mater Christi
Mater Christi School
eighth-graders receive
awards
This year many eighthgraders at Mater Christi
School received awards at
the school’s Recognition
Night
held
Thursday,
May 31. Local recipients
include:
The President’s Award
for Educational Excellence
was awarded to Isabelle
Miquel and Ariel Salmon of
Essex Junction; Sarah Sem
of Jericho; and Claudia
Tarrant of Colchester.
The
President’s
Award for Educational
Improvement was awarded
to Makenna Higbee of
Underhill;
and
Taylor
Williams of Essex Junction.
The National Daughters
of the American Revolution
Good Citizenship Award
was awarded to Claudia
Tarrant of Colchester.
The John J. Hartnett
Award for outstanding
performance in sports and
academics was awarded
to Claudia Tarrant of
Colchester.
The Joseph McNeil
Memorial
Award
for
outstanding performance in
Photos of the week
the MCS sports programs
was awarded to Savannah
Sherman
and
August
Tallmadge of Colchester.
The Jhamille Renton
Memorial Award goes to a
student who exemplifies a
love of life and sincere care
for others. This year the
award was presented to
Sarah Sem of Jericho.
The
Kristen
Laure
Charlebois Award goes to
one or two students who
exhibit a genuine love of
reading. This year the
award was presented to
Ariel Salmon of Essex
Junction.
Jordan Dumouchel, left, Elise Carney, center, and Chloe Lemmel-Hay, right, recently were
recognized as Essex Middle School Scholar Leaders. They were presented with their
awards in a reception held at Norwich University sponsored by the New England League of
Middle Schools and the Vermont Association of Middle Level Education. Photo contributed
Eighth-grade students at Mater Christi School are shown after the Recognition Ceremony, pictured
from left to right: Isabelle Miquel of Essex Junction, Abigail Harrington of Colchester, Alexis Sirotta
of Colchester, Samantha McDowell of South Burlington, Makenna Higbee of Underhill, Claudia
Tarrant of Colchester, and Emily Lyman of Burlington. Photo contributed
Summit
Scoop
Last day of school
Students
will
be
dismissed
for
summer
vacation at noon tomorrow,
following a “step up” visit to
their next-year classrooms.
A third-grade talent show,
a Summit tradition, will
kick off Friday’s activities.
Lunch will be served at 11
a.m. and bag lunches will
be available, though parents
are invited to send in a lunch
from home. Since children
will eat in their classrooms,
provide a peanut-free lunch
for
designated
nut-free
classrooms. Dismissal will
take place on the playground
at 12 p.m.
Arts Integration Project
As part of a year-long
project with art teacher
Lisa Foley, Susan Filipek’s
first-grade class read “Sky
Tree,” by Thomas Locker.
Inspired by the book,
Filipek’s students observed
the maple tree in the front
yard over the course of the
school year. Students used
a digital camera twice a
week to document the tree,
also capturing seasonal
and weather changes. The
first-graders became keenly
aware of the simple changes
that took place with the
maple tree while learning
how to use a digital camera,
and how to frame a photo
without using a tripod.
Dave Davidson arranged for
Filipek’s students to Skype
with two first-grade classes
in Hawaii who were also
documenting trees on their
school grounds. Visit www.
ccsuvt.org/summit/art-roomnews-events to view this
project.
Reading garden
At the 60th anniversary
celebration, the PTO donated
a tree for the new reading
garden.
Rachel
Boyers
and
Allison
Coeynman
coordinated the purchase of a
Golden Raindrop Crabapple,
delivery and planting of this
addition to the playground.
On Saturday, June 2, the
Playground
Committee
hosted a building day to
construct benches for the
reading garden. Thank
you to the following for
contributing to this project:
Rob Conklin, Gracie Engel
Peirce, Matt Diem, Brian
Bean, Justin Gural, Raj
Chawala, Andrew Jordan,
Jason McLeod, Jan Frivoll,
Mike Pierce, Steve Ducham,
Richard and Rachel Boyers,
Tracey Williams, Christine
Diem, Casey Carmolli, Kim
Bean and Kim Moino.
Conclusion
Every year is special
at Summit Street School,
though this year was even
more so with multiple
celebrations honoring the
60th Anniversary. As we
conclude another successful
academic year, the Summit
community
reflects
especially on the new
energy infusing the Natural
Playground project, and an
increased use of technology
in the classrooms. While
more digital stories are
shared on the expanded web
page, virtual field trips are
taking Summit students far
beyond the classroom walls.
From the kick-off indoor
barbeque to the superb
Dance of the Decades,
Summit’s 60th year has
been genuinely memorable.
Kudos and heartfelt thanks
to Summit’s professional
and support staff for their
commendable service, with
special recognition of Renee
Comeau, Sue Macmillan
and Kathy Heikel, dedicated
teachers who retire at the
conclusion of this school
year.
Essex
Junction
appreciates your dedication
to the children.
THE LOCAL NEWS
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Lawton students jump for joy into the Maple Street Pool on a hot day during their PE class. The Essex Junction Parks and Recreation Department partners with the ADL Physical
Education Department to provide an aquatics unit for 10 days at the end of school each year.
The Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School eighth-grade Team Alchemy stands in front of
Quincy Market in Boston after walking, learning and discovering on the ‘Freedom Trail’ earlier
in the day.
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Qualified applicants must meet all Federal
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NOTICE
PROPERTY OWNERS
ESSEX AND ESSEX JUNCTION
Annual Notices for Change of
Assessment have been mailed to ONLY
PROPERTIES THAT HAVE HAD
VALUE CHANGES. The Abstract of
Individual Lists (Pre-Grand List) has
been lodged in the Town Clerk’s Office
for your inspection. The values therein
plus any changes will become the
Official Grand List. Persons dissatisfied
with their values may file grievances.
GRIEVANCES MUST BE IN
WRITING, and must be received in
the Assessor’s Office no later than
Friday, June 15, 2012.
For those persons who wish to discuss
their values, hearings will be on June
15, 2012 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm. Call
878-1345 for an appointment.
POLICE REPORT
EssEx PolicE REPoRt
Emergency 911 • Non-emergency 878-8331
81 Main Street, Essex Jct., VT 05452 • www.epdvt.org
June 4 - 10, 2012
Monday, June 04
0041 Intoxication on Maple St.
0220 Assist rescue on Park St.
0723 Assist fire department on Button Dr.
1030 Suspicious vehicle on Lost Nation Rd.
1111 Larceny on Kellogg Rd.
1129 Fraud on Center Rd.
1149 Larceny on Thasha Ln.
1346 911 hang up on Gentes Rd.
1427 Suspicious person on Main St.
1431 Unlawful mischief on Greenwood Av.
1445 Arrest on a warrant on Railroad St.
1648 Hit and run accident on Kellogg Rd.
Tuesday, June 05
0608 Burglary alarm on Pearl St.
0753 Larceny on Colchester Rd.
0835 Motor vehicle crash on Jericho Rd.
0848 Debit card fraud on Upper Main St.
0916 Late reported hit and run accident on Pearl St.
1110 Motor vehicle complaint on Lincoln St.
1203 Wild animal complaint on Essex Highlands
1225 Attempted fraud on Center Rd.
1251 Late reported hit and run accident on Center Rd.
1323 Larceny on Sand Hill Rd.
1432 Motor vehicle crash on Main St.
1449 Contraband on Founder Rd.
1738 Larceny on West St.
1919 Domestic complaint on Pearl St.
1946 Assault on Central St.
2023 Welfare check on Park St.
2027 Weapons violation on Cushing Dr.
Wednesday, June 06
0722 Late reported suspicious activity on Ethan Allen Av.
1131 Larceny on Main St.
1221 Motor vehicle complaint on Foster Rd.
1239 Motor vehicle complaint on River Rd.
1502 Unlawful mischief on Sand Hill Rd.
1621 Motor vehicle crash on River Rd.
1625 Motor vehicle crash on Essex Way
1742 Motor vehicle crash on Essex Way
1851 Motor vehicle crash on Lincoln St.
1912 Vandalism on Pearl St.
2045 Domestic complaint on Sage Cr.
2104 Suspicious vehicle on River View Dr.
2108 Welfare check on Saybrook Rd.
2134 Domestic complaint on Greenfield Ct.
Thursday, June 07
0204 Suspicious vehicle on Main St.
0244 Burglary alarm on Prospect St.
0514 911 hang up on Giles Dr.
0652 Welfare check on Cascade St.
0745 Theft from a vehicle on Main St.
0808 Suspicious vehicle on Valleyview Dr.
0848 Burglary alarm on Forest Rd.
0949 Larceny on Baker St.
1017 Larceny on Pearl St.
1235 Motor vehicle crash on Upper Main St.
1349 Passing stopped school bus complaint on Greenfield Rd.
1449 911 hang up on Railroad Av.
1501 Burglary on Kimberly Dr.
1621 Suspicious person on Pearl St.
1623 Motor vehicle complaint on Route 289
1745 Domestic animal complaint on Countryside Dr.
1805 Motor vehicle crash on Colchester Rd.
1822 Disorderly conduct on Pinecrest Dr.
1910 Assault on Maple St.
1938 Threats on Pinecrest Dr.
1959 Fireworks complaint on Jericho Rd.
2042 Noise complaint on South St.
2210 911 hang up on Woodside Dr.
Friday, June 08
0009 Intoxication on Maple St.
0613 Welfare check on Susie Wilson Rd.
0955 Domestic complaint on Pearl St.
1111 Unlawful mischief on Brigham Hill Rd.
1118 Motor vehicle complaint on Pearl St.
1332 Late reported hit and run accident on Indian Brook Rd.
1341 Motor vehicle crash on Morse Dr.
1455 Suspicious person at Five Corners
1633 Suspicious phone calls on Sand Hill Rd.
1641 Vandalism on Lincoln St.
1704 Fraud on Wolff Dr.
2024 Suspicious vehicle on Main St.
2147 Suspicious activity on Susie Wilson Rd.
Saturday, June 09
0040 Intoxication on Franklin St.
0630 Thefts from a vehicles on Briar Ln.
0931 Burglary on Rivendell Dr.
0945 Theft from a vehicle on Woods End Dr.
1025 Theft from a vehicle on Maple St.
1109 Suspicious activity on Pearl St.
1208 Suspicious person on Thompson Dr.
1230 Attempted burglary on South St.
1246 Burglary alarm on Sand Hill Rd.
1331 Domestic animal complaint on Upland Rd.
1402 Burglary alarm on Maple St.
1456 Suspicious person on Hillcrest Rd.
1619 Assault on Maple St.
1723 Suspicious person on Lavoie Dr.
1740 Motor vehicle crash on Brigham Hill Rd.
1801 Theft from a vehicle on Acorn Cr.
1920 Burglary alarm on River Rd.
2103 Fireworks complaint on Jericho Rd.
2123 Illegal burning on Saybrook Rd.
2300 Theft from a vehicle on Thasha Ln.
Sunday, June 10
0212 Motor vehicle crash on Brickyard Rd.
0308 Tenant / landlord dispute on Pearl St.
0711 Domestic animal complaint on Maple St.
0738 Theft from a vehicle on Maple St. Ext.
0850 Burglary alarm on Founders Rd.
1020 Domestic animal complaint on Old Stage Rd.
1022 Thefts from vehicles on Killoran Dr.
1205 Motor vehicle complaint on Brigham Hill Rd.
1206 Motor vehicle complaint on Pearl St.
1236 Juvenile complaint on Maple St.
1500 Burglary alarm on Greenwood Av.
1519 Juvenile complaint on South St.
1745 Domestic complaint on Franklin St.
1804 Theft of services on Main St.
2018 Burglary alarm on Towers Rd.
2138 Stolen bicycle on Brickyard Rd.
For more information about these and other incidents, visit www.
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ACROSS
1. Jamaican spiritual
movement
6. Sports official
9. But not least?
13. Like puppy-hating
de Vil
14. Gone by
15. New _____, capital
of India
16. Harsh or corrosive
in tone
17. Daughter’s brother
18. Like Bird flu
19. *She holds a record
17 Oscar nominations
21. *She escapes the
Wicked Witch
23. International help
24. Heaven’s Gate, e.g.
25. Dog foot
28. *Yugoslavian
dictator
30. Expel from a
country
35. Mountain divide
between Europe and
Asia
37. *Cruise and Hanks
39. Extend subscription
40. Ruptured
41. Old photograph
color
43. Seawards
44. Forcefully urge
46. Home for students
47. *Denim innovator
48. Capital of Bahamas
50. Start of a hole, pl.
52. Bo Derek in 1979
53. T on a test
55. ___ stop
57. *Wheelchair-bound
physicist
61. *MC famous for
parachute pants
64. Home to largest
mammal
65. *Blanche
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CROSSWORDS DOWN
1. Consumer electronics
maker
2. Rainbows, e.g.
3. Edible fat
4. _____ firma
5. Even though
6. Wood file
7. Big head
8. Dipping meal
9. Russian left
10. Different spelling for
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67. Silent performers
69. Chopin’s instrument
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70. A belief or
philosophy
71. High society
72. Inactive
73. *First baseball
player to reach 3,000
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11. *____ of Iran
12. Like Tim of “A
Christmas Carol”
15. One who darts
20. Changes to a
manuscript
22. Not new or
borrowed or blue
24. Fruit _______
25. *Russia’s 2-time
President
26. Pleasant odor
27. Time _____, pl.
29. Three-____ sloth
31. Bell sound
32. Early stages of
illness
33. *”Superman” to
Kidder’s Lane
34. *a.k.a. Samuel
Clemens
36. *General Robert E.
and director Spike
38. Seabiscuit’s father,
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BRIDAL DOLL,
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e.g.
42. Single-cell
protozoan
45. Hispanic American
49. Crematorium jar
51. *Known as the
“Queen of Disco”
54. Finno-_____ family
of languages
56. Upside down frown
57. Shoshonean people
58. Turns blue litmus
red
59. Raised mark on skin
60. *His last word was
“Rosebud”
61. Cannabis plant
62. Male version of
Emily
63. Intersecting nerves
or vessels
66. North American
country
68. Many tennis games
make one of these
7b
NEVER out of
original box, queen
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Making a pass at
dealing with gas
Baby arugula, fig, goat cheese
salad with orange vinaigrette
By Dr. Lewis First
Parents have recently seemed full of hot
air complaining to me about the large amount
of gas their children tend to pass in public.
This week, in honor of the ECHO exhibit
Grossology that is with us all this Fall, let me
see if I can pass judgment rather than wind
on the topic of passing gas.
Gas is produced during the process of
digesting your food. When you swallow food,
you also swallow air which contains gases
such as nitrogen and oxygen. Once these
gasses are in your body, they have to escape,
which they can do from above via a strong
burp or belch, or below through an equally
memorable body function. In addition, as
your food is broken down by the bacteria in
your intestines, other gases are released
which contain sulfur and ammonia, which can
give a not-so-pleasant odor to the passing of
these gaseous substances.
If your child’s body tends to be more vocal
about passing gas than you would like, try the
following:
For babies, burp your baby in a vertical
position, which will keep the air upright
and make the burps easier to get out. Try a
different bottle or nipple if you are not breastfeeding, which may reduce the amount of
air your baby is drinking along with their
formula.
For older children, slow down the pace of
eating at the table, or your children will take
in more air than they should by eating too
fast. Chewing gum or drinking carbonated
beverages increases the amount of air or gas
in the body.
As to foods, onions, fried foods and some
veggies such as cauliflower, cabbage, and
broccoli, can cause gas, as can dairy products
if your child is unable to digest the milk sugar
Recipe from Clear Brook Farm, food styling and photography by Tracey Medeiros
By Dr. Lewis First
lactose properly. Then there are the perennial
favorites — baked beans. To reduce their
gassiness, soak them in water for a few hours.
This will get the gas out and yet not detract
from their nutritious protein content.
Hopefully tips like this will allow you to
toot your horn and celebrate the passing of
this onerous — or should I say odorous —
habit.
Lewis First, M.D., is chief of Pediatrics at
Vermont Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen
Health Care and chair of the Department
of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont
College of Medicine.
4 servings
Ingredients:
For salad:
1 (4-ounce) fresh goat cheese log, cut
into 4 disks
Extra-virgin olive oil, as needed
2 bunches organic baby arugula
6 to 8 fresh ripe black Mission figs,
quartered
1/2 cup toasted walnuts, chopped
For vinaigrette:
3 tbsp orange juice
1 1/2 tbsp white wine or apple cider
vinegar
1 tsp sherry
4 to 5 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt and freshly ground black
pepper, to taste
Method of preparation:
Preheat oven to 375 F.
Brush goat cheese rounds with
olive oil and place on a lightly greased
baking sheet. Bake until just warmed
through, about 5 minutes.
Combine arugula, figs, and
walnuts in a large bowl.
In a small bowl, whisk together
orange juice, vinegar, sherry and
olive oil. Season with salt and pepper,
to taste. Toss salad with vinaigrette.
Divide among salad plates and place
cheese round in center of each salad.
Enjoy picnic season safely Avoiding poison ivy this season
Elena
Simon, M.D
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With
the
summer
months approaching, more
people will be enjoying
picnics
and
barbecues
with family and friends.
However, these warmer
weather events that many
people look forward to also
present opportunities for
foodborne bacteria to thrive.
Londa Nwadike, the
University
of
Vermont
Extension
food
safety
specialist, offers these food
safety tips to clean, cook,
chill and separate foods
to help prevent foodborne
illness from joining the
picnic.
Prepare food safely
Wash hands before
handling food and use clean
utensils and containers.
Melons
should
be
washed thoroughly before
cutting as bacteria can be
present on the rind and then
be transferred to the flesh
through cutting. Rinse all
fresh fruits and vegetables
under running tap water
and dry them with a clean
cloth towel or paper towel
before packing them in the
cooler.
Do not prepare foods
more than one day before
your picnic unless freezing
them. Any cooked foods that
need to be stored should be
cooled rapidly in shallow
pans to prevent rapid
bacterial growth.
Packing and
transporting food safely
Place cold food in a cooler
with ice or frozen gel packs.
Ensure that cold products,
including mayonnaise-based
foods, cut melons and meats
stay below 40 F to prevent
bacterial growth.
Consider
packing
beverages in one cooler and
perishable food in another.
Securely
wrap
raw
meat, poultry and seafood
to prevent their juices
from cross-contaminating
prepared and cooked foods
or foods that will be eaten
raw, such as fruits and
vegetables.
Grilling food safely
Marinate foods in the
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kitchen counter or outdoors.
Don’t reuse marinade that
was used on raw meat on
cooked meat.
Use a food thermometer
to ensure that food is cooked
thoroughly. Poultry should
be cooked to 165 F; ground
beef, pork and eggs to 160 F;
and steaks and fish to 145 F.
Don’t reuse platters
or utensils that have
previously held raw meat,
poultry or seafood to handle
cooked food as this spreads
bacteria in the raw meat
to the ready-to-eat food.
Instead, use a clean platter
and utensils for the cooked
food.
Serving food safely
Do not let cold foods sit
out for more than one hour.
Cooked foods should be
kept hot and not allowed to
sit out for more than one
hour.
Keep foods covered to
prevent contamination by
insects. Many insects carry
harmful bacteria on their
bodies.
Summer in Vermont is a
great time of year for outdoor
activities like enjoying a
walking trail and letting
your dog running through the
woods. Or, you might have
finally found time to attack
that overgrown area in the
backyard. Whatever you like
to do, nobody wants to return
home from an enjoyable day
only to discover days later
they are experiencing the
effects of poison ivy.
Make sure you know
what poison ivy looks like. A
common saying is “leaves of
three, beware of me,” since
poison ivy often has clusters
of three leaves. It can grow
as a vine or as a bush, and is
often found along borders of
woods or on river banks. The
poison ivy plant has green
leaves in the summer, which
turn red in the fall. In the
springtime, yellow, green or
white flowers may grow on
the plant, followed by white or
green berries. Both poison ivy
and its close relative, poison
sumac, thrive in Vermont and
cause skin rash.
This rash, called allergic
contact dermatitis, develops
when our skin comes into
contact with the oil from
poison ivy.
This oil is
called urushiol. The oil is
transferred to the skin by
touching the poison ivy plant,
by touching an object that
has rubbed against poison
ivy, or from particles of oil in
the air landing on skin. Once
an object comes into contact
with the poison ivy plant, the
urushiol oil stays on it until
properly washed off, or until
all of it rubs off. The oil can
stay on an object as long as
one year later!
How do you know if you
have a poison ivy rash?
The typical poison ivy
rash will look like a line of
red bumps on the skin that
touched the plant. It usually
starts with blisters that may
weep, and, perhaps most
famously, itch. With time, the
rash will dry out and become
less irritated; it can take up to
30 days to resolve.
You might not remember
coming into contact with
poison ivy by the time you
develop the itchy rash.
One reason is that poison
ivy triggers a delayed
hypersensitivity
reaction:
in other words, it can take
several days for the body
to respond to the urushiol
irritant with a rash. Another
reason could be that you
actually did not touch the
poison ivy plant. Your clothes
may have brushed against the
plant and then you touched
the oil on your clothing; or
your pet ran through the
plant and you touched the oil
on your pet’s fur; or you were
digging in the garden and
later touched the tool which
had the oil on it.
The rash from poison ivy
is not contagious. You will
not spread the rash to other
areas of your own body by
scratching it, but you might
worsen the rash by irritating
the skin as you scratch it,
or even cause a bacterial
infection in addition to poison
ivy. If you notice new areas of
rash popping up, these areas
could have come into contact
with the oil later than the
original affected areas of skin.
Poison Ivy Tips:
• Wash with soap and water
immediately after exposure
(the oil can cause a rash after
five minutes to two hours of
exposure on the skin).
•
Clean
under
your
fingernails.
• Wash all clothes, gardening
tools, bedding, shoes and
shoelaces, and pets that
might have come in contact.
Rubbing alcohol can also be
helpful in washing tools.
• Calamine lotion, oatmeal
baths, cool compresses and
baking soda with water (3:1)
can be helpful against itching.
• See your doctor if a large
area of your skin is involved.
Steroid pills might be used
if more than 25% of your
body, or large areas of the
face, hands and genitals are
affected.
• If you know you are going to
be working in an area where
poison ivy may be present,
wear long sleeves and long
pants and socks as well as
gloves. You might consider
using a barrier cream
for anticipated exposure,
although research does not
clearly suggest these creams
prevent rash. Always wash
your skin, tools and clothing
with afterwards!
• Never burn poison ivy
plants, because you or
someone else could breathe
in plant particles and develop
an internal reaction.
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By TRACEY MEDEIROS
Clear Brook Farm is
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the owner, Andrew Knafel,
started with one greenhouse
and an acre of organic
vegetables. Today, Knafel
continues to grow certified
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close to 225 varieties of
vegetable starts for the home
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utmost importance to him,
much of what Knafel does is
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farm’s produce is sold at the
on-site farmstand; winter
and summer CSA shares are
also available.
Q: Why did you pick
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property?
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looking to purchase a piece
of property that would be
good for a farmstand. I also
wanted a farm that had good,
healthy soil. Clear Brook
Farm had both and the price
was reasonable, as well.
Q: Why do you grow
and sell bedding plants?
A: Economically, growing
bedding plants is good for us.
It is a way to make money
early in the spring, before the
produce starts to come in. I
also enjoy growing bedding
plants. With this whole
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are really into having their
own vegetable gardens. Our
certified organic vegetable
start selection has been
growing every year and
we now offer close to 225
varieties of vegetable starts
for people who want to have
their own produce garden.
Q: What produce do
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vegetables and greens. It
is important to us to have
the produce we offer on a
consistent basis. We focus
on the esthetics of food
production, food sales and
food display.
At our farmstand we
try to offer high-quality
food products from all over
the country. I’m always
seeking out really good fresh
produce items, as well as
locally baked goods for our
customers. We have a lot
of local food products from
Vermont, New York and
Massachusetts; New York
is only three miles from our
farm and Massachusetts is
just 12 miles away.
Q: What type of CSA’s
do you offer?
A: Our farm offers a few
CSA options. The first is a
low-income senior CSA that
is funded through the Federal
government and NOFAVT. The low-income senior
CSA has been available for
about 10 years. This offers
food products to seniors at
affordable prices.
We are also initiating
a pilot CSA program this
year that is tailored to
the Bennington Hospital
community. It will involve
regular pickups or drop-offs
of our local, fresh produce
right at the hospital.
We haven’t done a full
summer CSA because we are
so busy at our farmstand,
but we are trying it this year
on a small scale to see if we
can manage both. For our
summer farmstand CSA, we
offer our customers a monthly
bonus if they prepay in the
spring. The bonus might
include a free bag of mesculn
greens, or half-dozen ears of
corn every month as a reward
for signing up early for the
CSA. Our summer farmstand
CSA members are given a
gift card, which is worth the
monetary amount paid. Each
time the customer uses the
card at the farmstand, we
deduct the amount spent
from the gift card.
We also offer a winter
CSA that has been in
existence for about six years.
We have about 225 members
for the winter share. It starts
when our farmstand closes
in mid-October, and ends in
mid-January. It is not a full
winter CSA because we take
about six weeks off.
Q: Why is the winter
CSA important?
A: It is very important to
me that my employees are
treated well and that the
farm contributes to the local
economy by hiring people
from the area. I was looking
for a way to keep the main
people who work on my
farm employed throughout
the winter. The winter CSA
is more of a profit sharing
plan and keeps my main
employees employed yearround.
We work hard to offer a
wide selection of food items
to our winter members.
Our offerings are not just
kale, potatoes and winter
squash. We offer items like
greenhouse greens during
the entire winter CSA, as
well as unusual vegetables
like kohlrabi. My latest
favorite vegetable for the
winter CSA is a kohlrabi
variety called “kossak.” It is a
giant kohlrabi and will reach
a diameter of up to eight
inches. It stores really well
and the interior is sweet and
tender. This variety is super
tasty and crunchy — it is
fantastic!
Q: Why is farming
rewarding?
A: I love the work, being
outside and growing food. I
find it rewarding to know that
my job as a farmer is helping
to keep our community
healthy. There is nothing like
putting seeds in the ground
and watching them grow.
Farming reinforces eternal
optimism — even in the midst
of difficult times. Thirty
percent of the time my crops
do not meet my expectations
— I am always striving for
improvement. However, it is
extremely gratifying to see
our customers’ reactions when
they visit the farmstand.
It brings a great deal of
satisfaction for us to hear how
much people appreciate and
enjoy the quality and variety
of produce that we grow.
Oliver Levis, owner
of
Earth
Sky
Time
Community Farm, will be
featured in next week’s
“Meet Your Local Farmer”
column, along with his red
cabbage and carrot slaw
with honey, citrus and
cilantro. Tracey Medeiros, of Essex,
is a freelance food writer, food
stylist, recipe developer and
tester. Medeiros is the author
of Dishing Up Vermont (Storey
Publishing, 2008). Countryman
Press will be publishing her
second book, The Vermont
Farm Table in the spring of
2013. Reach Tracey at: www.
traceymedeiros.com or via
e-mail at: traceymedeiros@
comcast.net.
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JUICY BERRIES!
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on what's in season
and what is
coming soon!
Also in season,
radishes,
rhubarb,
scallions
and lettuce
Paul Mazza's Fruit & Vegetable Stand
182 River Rd., Essex 135 Poor Farm Rd., Colchester
879-3760 7 am - 8:00 pm 879-0102 7 am - 8:00 pm
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something that
would improve
my life, if it doesn’t
cost too much.”
– Mark Seward
Rutland, VT
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