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Unemploymentrate decreases in Vermont

MONTPELIER—TheVermont Department ofLabor announced Dec. 20that the seasonally ad-justed statewide unem-ployment rate for No-vember was 5.3 percent, adecrease of thr ee-tenthsof a percent from the Oc-tober rate.

Compared to a yearago, the rate is lower byfive-tenths of a per cent-age point. The curr entcomparable national rateis 8.6 per cent which r e-flects a decr ease of four -tenths of a per cent fr omthe previous month.

Over the past threemonths, V ermont’s sea-sonally-adjustedstatewide unemploymentrate has declined by six-tenths of a percent.

“This is obviouslygood news for Vermont asone measur e of our eco-nomic health. This is the3rd consecutive monthreporting a decline in theunemployment rate,”said Labor CommissionerAnnie Noonan. “We may,however, see an increasein unemployment claimsduring the upcomingwinter months fr om sea-sonal layof fs. Ther e hasalso been some delayedhiring in the ski industrydue to the warm weatherthis season.”

“Vermont businesses inmany industries ar e hir -ing, particularly in manu-facturing, computer andweb d esign, h ealth c are,engineering, r etail, foodservices a nd h ospitality.Vermonters who ar e un-employed or looking tochange jobs shou ld comeinto a Department of La-bor r egional of fice andwork with our staf f foremployment assistance...Our goal at the Depart-ment of Labor is to find ajob for every unemployedand under-employed Ver-monter,” said Noonan.

Henry Hunsdorfer, 8, of Shoreham, Vt., joined his grandfather and brother for an afternoon of skiing at the Middlebury Snow Bowl.He has been skiing for two years and loves every minute of it.

Photo by Lou Varricchio

Snow Bowlnow openDec. 28-29 snowstormdelivers the goodsBy Lou [email protected]

HANCOCK — A simple change in theweather makes all the dif ference in theworld of skiing.

That change in the weather occurr edDec. 2 8-29 a nd t he s taff o f M iddleburyCollege’s Snow Bowl were almost danc-ing in the snow.

The popular V ermont alpine destina-tion is located atop the Gr een Mountainrange a few miles east of Middlebury ,along Route 125.

Peter Mackey, the Snow Bowl’s veterangeneral manager, was smiling after thesnowstorm p assed t hrough AddisonCounty.

“We opened Dec. 6, but this was ourfirst significant snowfall of the season,”he said. “We’ll sure take it. And it’s onlyabout a week late than most years.”

More than 10 inches of white stuf fhelped transform the Snow Bowl from atawny November m ountainside into analpine wonderland bedecked by snow-covered spruce, pine and fir trees.

See SNOW BOWL, page 10

By Lou [email protected]

MIDDLEBURY—Vermont’s local historical societiesand museums are getting a shot in the arm during the newyear thanks to a program started by the Vermont Histor-ical Society. The Barre-based statewide organization an-nounced that its V ermont Collections Car e MentoringProgram will provide local volunteers, and paid staffers,with high-level training.

According to Mark Hudson, executive dir ector of theVermont Historical Society , “Vermont’s local historicalsocieties and museums play a critical role as the stewardsof the cultural fabric of our state.” And that most town-based historical gr oups r ely on dedicated volunteers.With specialized training in how to present and preserveVermont history, the local gr oups can impr ove and en-hance their various cultural offerings

“While these or ganizations do a r emarkable job withlimited resources, the dedicated staf f and volunteers of-ten lack the specialized training, experience, and

See TRAINING, page 10

Local historical societies, museums to receive training

Jackie Calder, museum curator of the Vermont Historical Society based in Barre, provides advice on pre-serving and handling fragile textiles. VHS’ Vermont Collections Care Mentoring Program will provide lo-cal volunteers, and paid staffers, with high-level training when it is rolled out statewide starting in 2012.

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RUTLAND—It’s eight months befor e str ong legs r un sothat weak legs may someday walk, but plans for the 59th An-nual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl ar e well underway with theannouncement of the head coaches for the two Shrine teams.

Mike Beliveau from Souhegan High School will serve asHead Coach for New Hampshire while Mike Norman of Rut-land High School will lead the Vermont Shrine team.

The summer classic brings together the finest high schoolfootball players in New Hampshire and Vermont in a gamewhere the real winners are the children in the Shrine Hospi-

tals. The 2012 game will be played Saturday, Aug. 4, on Dart-mouth College’s Memorial Field.

In announcing the Head Coaches, W ayne Shepar d, thegame’s General Chairman, said "We welcome both Coach Be-liveau and Norman to our elite team for 2012. The Board ofGovernors appr eciates the selfless time and commitmentthat this position requires as they prepare their teams for an-other challenging game."

Both coaches have been a part of the Shrine Bowl befor e.Coach Beliveau was Head Coach for New Hampshire in 2000and was involved in the highest scoring game in Shrine Bowlhistory. His team scored 40 points, while Vermont scored 47.

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to the Shrine Bowl having been Head Coach for Vermont in1998 and 2001. His ’98 Vermont team was a 21-13 winner andhis ’01 squad fell 21-0.

Coach Beliveau graduated from Bridgewater State wherehe played four years of varsity baseball. He came to NewHampshire in 1987 as Recr eation Dir ector for the town ofAmherst and as assistant football coach at Milfor d HighSchool. He became an assistant coach Souhegan in 1992 andtook over as Head Coach in 1995. In the last 14 years, histeams have been involved in 10 state championship finalsand have won four state titles.

Coach Norman has a bachelor’s degree and masters in ed-ucation from Norwich University. He began his coaching ca-reer in 1987 at Dartmouth as an assistant under BuddyTeevens. He returned to Norwich in 1988 for a five year stintas an assistant and offensive coordinator. He took over thereigns as head coach at Rutland in 1994 and over a span of18 seasons has had seven state championships. Today he isboth head coach of football and athletic director for Rutland.

Over 200 players fr om Vermont and New Hampshir e, allgraduating high school seniors, have been nominated bytheir respective head coaches. Screening committees,chaired by the two head coaches, will select the two 36-manteams. The two teams will be announced in February.

Formal practice for the summer classic will begin July 26at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H.

The Shrine Game has raised over 4.5 million for the ShrineHospitals in 58 years. The hospitals which benefit from theShrine Maple Sugar Bowl ar e the Shrine Childr en’s Hospi-tals in Springfield, Mass., and Montreal, Que., and the ShrineBurns Institute in Boston.

The game is sponsored by Bektash Shrine Center of Con-cord, Cairo Shrine Center of Rutland and Mt. Sinai Center ofMontpelier.

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By Dr. Leonard [email protected]

It’s never too late or too early to plan for your backyar dgarden in Vermont. This new year, we look at New England’sdistinctive tr ees and shr ubs that ar e Cary Award winners.Named for a Massachusetts nurseryman, and administer edby the Tower Hill Botanic Gar den, the awar ds are given toseveral winners each year as judged by a panel of pr ofes-sionals.

These ar e either new plant intr oductions, or others thataren't new but deserve wider use in landscapes. The twowinners for this year include a rose and a yucca—shrubs, butwhich are often grouped under perennials even though theirtops generally don’t die back to the ground in winter.

Adam’s needle yucca or Little Spanish Bayonet plant (Yuc-ca filamentosa) has an interesting and different habit, consist-ing of long swor d-shaped leaves with sharp tips (use eyeprotection when working ar ound them, and keep childr enaway). Flowers in June and July ar e on stalks to 7 feet highabove the basal leaves, which are only up to 2 feet high. Thelarge and creamy white bell-shaped flowers are held in largeopen clusters of several dozen flowers, making quite theshow. The sweet scent of flowers attracts a pollinator in na-tive areas—the small yucca moth.

Although evergreen in winter, in colder climates such asmuch of Vermont, the leaves may get quite a bit of br own-ing from winter injury. This damaged growth dies back thenext season in these climates as new growth emerges. It willgrow to USDA zone 6 in the north and in pr otected sites inthe warmer part of zone 4.

Adam’s needle has been used medicinally and the leaves,with their white curly threads or filaments along the edges,

have given rise to the species name. Na-tive peoples used the str ong leaf fila-ments to weave into fabrics.

This species of yucca, with its darkgreen leaves, is native to Florida, whilesimilar species ar e seen in Mexico andthe U.S. southwest. It has gained popu-larity with the intr oduction of severalcultivars (cultivated varieties) with var-iegated leaves. ‘Color Guard’ has brightyellow centers in leaves, ‘Gold Heart’has cr eamy yellow centers, while‘Bright Edge’ has wide yellow edges tothe shorter leaves. ‘Golden Sword’ alsohas bright leaf edges, only with largerleaves. ‘Variegata’ has white leaf edges.

With such striking habit, it lends it-self to a specimen in borders. It is a per-fect choice for Mediterranean, Spanish,Southwestern, and contemporary stylegardens. It is a good choice for urban gardens as well, toler-ating poor soils, soil compaction, pollution, and winter saltspray from roads.

Give well-drained soil and full sun, although it will toler-ate a few hours per day of shade. Once established, the longtap root makes it quite drought tolerant. This means too,that you should place it where it will stay as it resents mov-ing. It is difficult to get all the roots, and those left will re-sprout to form new plants. In fact, root cuttings are a mainmethod to propagate this plant.

The other Cary winner for 2012 isthe now well-known Knock Out ros-es. These have become the top sell-ing roses nationwide as they are rel-atively hardy, disease resistant, andlong blooming. Knock Out is actu-ally a group of 7 different named se-lections w ith f lower v ariations o fpink or yellow. The original intr o-duction, from the year 2000 and theWisconsin botanist William Radler,has reddish pink and single flowers.They ar e r eliably har dy to USDAzone 5 (-10 to -20 degr ees F mini-mum in winter).

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Other gr eat tr ees and shr ubs for New England can befound on the Cary Award website (www.caryaward.org).

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Say “Happy Christ-mas” as a holidaygreeting. That’s how

I greeted folks this seasonsince David Warner, an ac-complished English actor Iworked with this fall,signed “Happy Christmas”for my sister on an auto-graphed “A Christmas Car-ol” video case.

In the now classic 1984CBS-TV production, Mr.Warner plays Bob Cratchitand George C. Scott playsScrooge. It’s my favorite take on the Dick-ens classic. Dickens crew goes about HappyChristmasing throughout the piece. I likehow it sounds.

Saying Happy Christmas mingles HappyHolidays and Merry Christmas, so the folkswho don’t like Merry Christmas are gettingthe Happy part of Happy Holidays and los-ing the Merry part of Merry Christmas.That should do it, right? That should satisfythose folks who think Christianity is prob-lematic. That should make them happy—course, far as I’m concerned they all canpound sand.

I could care less some folks and organiza-tions want “Christmas” dropped in the sea-son’s greeting. I’ll enjoy the events as I will.Merry, Happy Christmas, whatever, it’s notthe words—it’s the feeling, no?

Then there are those who harp and stewover Christmas being “too commercial-ized”. Is that good reason to slide over be-ing filled with joy these last couple ofweeks in December? I say, nope.

You want to be a Scrooge, you want to goagainst the uplifting feelings this time ofyear offers to infuse us with, go ahead. Butdon’t blame it on commercialism. Blame iton yourself. Blame all things on yourself.Blame all low feelings, low blood sugar, lowtestosterone on you, cause all lows are yourfault mister and missus man and womenwho loath this time of year.

Santa has a bad little girl and bad littleboy list, right? Right. I say it’s too late forthis year, but next year, do away with anycopy or graphic connected with Santa andChristmas that shows the bad little girl andlittle boy lists, cause there’s no such thingas a bad little girl and boy. All kids are

good. It’s the adults whosuck. Many of us anyway.

Joy is your fault, and sad-ness is your fault. Period.End of thought, but, not endof column.

We can take a pass on be-ing bitches the rest of theyear, but not Dec. 10 throughJan. 6. We should not getpasses for being negativeduring that stretch, becausewhether you’re Christian, oragnostic, or atheist, or Jew-ish, or any one of the other

sects one can be; we need to see the endingof the year as glorious, if only because, wemade it to the end of the year.

Don’t follow the Dow Jones. Don’t waketo CNN or FOX. Don’t think back, thinkahead. Don’t like only Newt or only Oba-ma, like ‘em both. Don’t get angry at theperson ahead of you at the grocery storewho for five minutes has watched thecheck-out kid tally their haul, all the whileknowing they have to pay, yet haven’t eventhought of getting their wallet out let aloneswiping their credit card, thus taking an ex-tra three minutes completing their transac-tion (give me strength)

Do don’t all the many things and morethat allow us to make excuses for our feel-ing stressed, depressed and ill dressed.

Do enjoy life's final weeks of the year. Ornot. And if you don’t enjoy them, please un-derstand, you’re the doer of the don’t.

I know it’s not always easy rejoice in life.The thing is, it should be.

I shouldn’t put my wanting you to have agreat time this last week of the year on you,you feelings are generally none of my busi-ness. Thing is, my business is to assure mytime is great, and you making sure yourtime is great, will help with my making mytime great. We’re very closely connected …us humans are, don’t you think?

Happy Christmas and New Year, ‘til yourheart finally stops, which it will. And justbefore it does, you want to be rememberinga life of fine Christmases.

Rusty DeWees tours Vermont and NorthernNew York with his act “The Logger.” His col-umn appears weekly. Reach him [email protected].

Greetings for one and all

In a now pretty much vanished Ver-mont, it was the practice of politicos toexplain (slowly, of course, with an

analogy even we could handle with some ef-fort) that the state’s economy was like athree-legged milking stool, blissfully un-aware, apparently, that the stool had goneout when vacuum-pump milking came in,quite a few terms-in-office (and no time-in-the-barn) earlier.

The three legs were agriculture, manufac-turing, and tourism: A-M-T.

There was, during the Hoff years, an ef-fort to make education an economically seri-ous fourth leg. It was aborted.

There are still occasional, and now quiteinaccurate, references to the A-M-T economy,but mostly, the new intelligentsia nowprefers a Venn diagram to a wood stool.Now the three overlapping circles are E-S-Eor environment, society, and economy.

The Federal Bureau of Economic Analysisisn’t yet into such Venn diagrams or such tri-partite subdivisions of Gross State Product,and its 2010 breakdown of Vermont’s $26 Bil-lion GSP (50 of the 50 states in total GSP, 34of the 50 in GSP per capita) suggests a newthree-legged stool. You might call it G-M-R.

First, at over $3 billion, the state and localgovernment category, now the largest leg.

Second, in durable- and-non-durable cate-gories, totaling near $3 billion, is manufac-turing.

Third, well below $3 billion, is real estate. If you take the tourism as the sum of the

present accommodations and food servicesplus arts, entertainment, and recreation, thatnow non leg is near $1.5 billion.

Vermont agriculture, now a non leg at lessthan $.4 billion, is now a smaller fraction ofGDP at 1.6 percent than administrative andwaste services (no comment by your HumbleScribe on that pairing) at more than $.4 bil-lion and 1.9 percent.

Two governmental or quasi-governmentalcategories not counted withinsState and lo-cal government are health care and social as-sistance at over $2 billion and 9.4 percent,and educational services at almost $.5 billionand 2.1 percent.

Not shown as a BEA category is eEduca-tion, which, at well over $2 billion on the

www.usgov-ernment.comwebsite; thiswould be anew fifth legafter the BEAamounts forgovernment,manufactur-ing, real es-tate, healthcare and social assistance.

As both supporters and critics of the GrossDomestic Product template agree, it includesboth internal transfers (think both Napoleonand Adam Smith for their “nation-of-shop-keepers” comments) and external earningsfrom external sales (think ag, manufacturingor services) and yes, tourism (think the“keep-Vermont-green-bring-money” slogan)even though real economists deny it the fa-vored primary-sector label as a source ofwealth generation.

Amateur economists like your HumbleScribe argue—heretically—that $20 previous-ly earned out-of-state and brought in tospend by a visiting tourist is just as primaryas a hundredweight of milk produced in-State and sold to, say, a Boston bottler-dis-tributor with an urban-consumer customerdestination.

By that logic, Vermont’s GDP should in-clude the out-of-state revenues brought infrom out-of-state sources by Vermont’s rap-idly growing passive-income sector, the in-coming (pun intended) funds composed ofdividends, interest, and capital gains in-flowing to trust-funders and retirees.

To keep the comparison clean, we’ll ex-clude government-mandated tax outflow ortransfer-payment inflow from the measure.

Let’s just posit that mostly out-of-state-sourced dividends, interest, and (capital)gains (but not in-state rents) if counted as aprimary sector of the state economy wouldbe, at about $4.5 billion or almost 18 percentof total state income, by far larger than anycomponent of the BEA analysis. The new 1stool leg: D-I-G.

Former Vermonter Martin Harris lives in Ten-nessee.

What ever happened to thethree-legged stool?

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Middlebury welcomes 2012MIDDLEBURY—Addison County’s biggest New

Year ’s Eve event was held Saturday, Dec. 31, at the MUHSathletic fields on Creek Road.

The annual fir eworks display, sponsored by the Mid-dlebury Recreation Department, started at 6:30 p.m.

Following the festivities, public skating was held at thetown’s Memorial Sports Complex. Both events were freeto residents and non residents.

Summer start for Painter Hills construction MIDDLEBURY—The Town of Middlebury will begin

the Painter Hills water line and road improvement proj-ect this summer , accor ding to the Middlebury SelectBoard meeting held Dec. 20.

A decision was also made to award the job to low bid-der, Phelps Engineering.

The cost of the project is estimated at $22,076. According to the pr oject plan, the Painter Hills water

main and related hydro valves and fire hydrants will bereplaced.

In addition to the water system, neglected culverts willbe replaced and in some cases cleaned.

The project will also include a Juniper Lane cul-de-sac,and better grading at the Gr ey Ledge and Painter HillsRoad area. The Board has also asked Phelps Engineeringto recycle the existing paving material.

Police investigate Monkton camp break inMONKTON—Vermont State Police detectives ar e in-

vestigating a burglary which took place in Monkton. Anunknown individual or individuals for ced entry into asecured camp and pump house owned by John P. Lavi-gne, 66, of Charlotte.

Two hasps were damaged while breaking into the campwhich ar e v alued a t ap proximately $ 15. N othing w asstolen from the camp.

It is suspected copper pipes were the target as cabinetsin the kitchen near the kitchen sink wer e left open. Thepump house was entered which also contains piping. Theowner said he had plastic piping in his camp and not cop-per pipe.

Anyone with information or leads is asked to contactVSP New Haven at 1-802-388-4919.

Middlebury Fire Dept. callsMIDDLEBURY—The Middlebury Fire Department re-

sponded to the f ollowing calls during t he month of De-cember:

Dec. 26: Fire alarm at Mary Johnson DaycareDec. 20: T echnical r escue assist for man down in the

woods in SalisburyDec. 19: Car and pedestrian accident on Court Street.Dec. 18: Transformer fire at 139 Chateau Rd.Dec. 15: Electrical fire at 23 S. Gorham Ln.Dec. 15: Person stuck in elevator at 30 South V illage

Green.Dec. 14: Fire alarm at 75 Main St.Dec. 6: Four car MVA with roll over on College Street.Dec. 4: Illegal burn at 30 Ossie Rd.Dec. 4. One car MVA with injuries 4863 Case St.Dec. 4: Fire in the bag house at the Middlebury College

bio mass plant.Dec. 2: Assisted at a controlled fire.Dec. 1: Fire alarm at 66 Main St.

Vergennes man stopped on Route 7CHARLOTTE—A V ermont State Police tr ooper

stopped Edward Wildasin, 26, of Vergennes on U.S. Route7 in Charlotte Dec. 11. Police said Wildasin was travelingat 92 miles per hour in a posted 50 miles per hour zone.

Police also said Wildasin was operating his motor ve-hicle while intoxicated.

Wildasin's BAC Level was .085 per cent, accor ding tothe police report.

Wildasin was issued a citation to appear in ChittendenCounty Court on Dec. 27.

Car stop nets marijuanaNEW HAVEN—A Vermont State Police tr ooper con-

ducted a motor vehicle stop of Dylan Racine, 21, of Bristolon Plank Road in New Haven for defective equipmentDec. 7. During the stop, police said Racine was found tobe in possession of marijuana. Racine was cited into theAddison Criminal Division for possession of marijuanaand subsequently released.

Police investigating Bridport grand larcenyBRIDPORT—Vermont State Police are currently inves-

tigating the theft of approximately $1,800 U.K. pounds,the equivalent of $2,814 U.S. from the residence of NicolaM. Hayes-Allen, 63, in Bridport.

Hayes-Allen initially noted the money was missing onOct. 24, 2011 but did not notify authorities until Dec. 20.

The victim felt she may have misplaced the moneywhich had been hiding in her residence.

After having looked through her house thoroughly sherealized she had not misplaced the money and it wasmost likely stolen.

The case is active and T roopers ar e pursuing leads.Anyone with information is asked to contact VSP NewHaven at 1-802-388-4919.

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SALUTE TO VOLUNTEERS—During the new year, the Addison Eagle will salute local volunteers performing their assigned tasks and com-munity service activities. For January, we salute all the firefighters, staff and families of the Middlebury Fire Department founded in 1808.Pictured are Michael Farnsworth and Sean Sullivan demonstrating the proper use of firefighting gear for students at St. Mary’s School.

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RUTLAND—The RuralVermont Boar d of Dir ectorsannounced it has named An-drea Stander as the or gani-zation’s new dir ector.Stander is a long-time cen-tral Vermont community or-ganizer and political ac-tivist.

Prior to being named Di-rector for Rural V ermont,Stander served for a year asthe executive director of theVermont League of Conser -vation V oters after havinghelped organize the Get Outthe Gr een V ote initiativeduring the 2010 election cy-cle.

From 2007 to 2010, Andreahelped lead the develop-ment team at the V ermont

Public Interest Resear chGroup as well as coordinatemember communicationssuch as the VPIRG newslet-ter and Annual Reports.

A Vermont r esident since1997, Stander has alsoworked with the NorthernForest Alliance as media co-ordinator and with the V er-mont Arts Council as com-munications dir ector. Shewill officially begin herwork with Rural Vermont onJan. 2.

Rural Vermont is a non-profit advocacy gr oupfounded b y f armershat a d-vocates, activates, and edu-cates for living soils, thriv-ing farms, and healthy com-munities.

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MONTPELIER—The Vermont Republican Party held itsannual organizational meeting in Montpelier last month.

Pat McDonald was r e-elected to the post of Party Chair ,and the Vermont Republican State Committee members alsochose the following Vermonters to serve as Vermont GOP of-ficers: Paul Carroccio, vice-chairman, Mark Snelling, treas-urer, Steve Webster, assistant treasurer, Rob Roper, secretary,State Sen. Randy Brock, at-large delegate, and Mary Daly, at-large delegate.

Prior to voting, delegates were energized by remarks fromLt. Gov. Phil Scott, Auditor Tom Salmon, Senator Bill Doyle,

Representative Don Turner, and McDonald. National Committeewoman Susie Hudson and National

Committeeman George Schiavone gave an update on the na-tional political scene.

New Executive Director Mike Bertrand also addressed theaudience. Bertrand indicated that a key message for the par-ty in 2012 will be r eturning balance to the V ermont StateHouse and ending one-party rule.

“We have got to return some sense of balance to Montpe-lier,” said Bertrand. “The simple tr uth is that V ermonterswant elected leaders to act in the best interests of all Vermon-ters, and to develop sound policy solutions to our shar edproblems. One party rule is not what Vermont needs at thiscritical time.”

GOP blame one-party rule in Vermont

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The course will include pr eparationfor the FCC Technician Class license aswell as cover material required for theFCC General Class license. Topics cov-ered include basic electr onics, entry-

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There will be live demonstrationseach class night.

The classes start Monday, Jan. 2, andends with the FCC license exam (alllevels) on Monday , Mar ch 5. The textfor the technician level is “Ham RadioLicense Manual Revised” 2nd editionavailable for purchase on the first nightof the course for $27 or fr om atwww.arrl.org for $29.95.

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By Justin St. LouisWEST HAVEN—The 2011

stock car racing season wasone with many importantmoments in Devil’s BowlSpeedway. The West Haventrack closes out one era asanother begins, but not be-fore a look back at the topfive stories of the year.

5. W eather abbr eviatesracing: Mother Natur ewreaked havoc on V ermontin 201 1, and Devil’s Bowlwasn’t spared as seven raceswere lost including the finalfour events. Track manage-ment has of fered Thor, theGreek god of thunder, a 2012season’s pass in exchangefor taking racing season off.

4. Spring Gr een is an in-stant classic: The American-

Canadian Tour Late Modelshad a spectacular Devil’sBowl debut at the SpringGreen, and fans were treatedto a thriller. Eleven leadchanges highlighted the raceincluding a 40-lap slugfestbetween Craig Bushey andeventual winner Brian Hoar.ACT opens the 2012 Devil’sBowl season with the 112-lapSpring Green on May 6.

3. Youth movement at theBowl: Watch out, veterans.Hunter Bates was a two-di-vision star , scoring a mid-year Modified victory twoweeks before his 16th birth-day and later locking up theLate Model championship.Sixteen year -old JesseyMueller and fourth-genera-tion racer Bobby Hackel

were Modified winners, and14 year -old Joey Laquerr e,another fourth-generationdriver, finished thir d in hisfirst Late Model start. Sev-enteen year-old Eddie Brunograbbed his first Bomberchampionship with thr eewins.

2. Proctor cleans house atNASCAR banquet: Devil’sBowl was sanctioned byNASCAR in 2011, and Mod-ified veteran Ron Proctorwas the chief beneficiary .The Devil’s Bowl Speedwayand Vermont State Champi-on picked up nearly $1 1,000in prize money and a tr uck-load of tr ophies, helmets,and other goodies at theNASCAR Whelen All-Amer-ican Series Awards Banquetin Charlotte, N.C.

1. A new era begins atDevil’s Bowl: Devil’s BowlSpeedway founder C.J.Richards and family guidedthe track to success for over40 years, but Devil’s Bowlwas sold in October to localbusiness owners and formerracers Mike and AlayneBruno. Devil’s Bowl will re-main an asphalt half-milewith NASCAR sanction, butchanges include a switch toFriday night racing duringthe summer months and thereturn of the iconic “358”Modified class.

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RUTLAND—U.S. Sen.Bernie Sanders (I) launchedhis second annual State ofthe Union essay contest toengage V ermont’s highschool students on the majorissues facing the country.

“I hope this essay contestwill provide an opportunityfor Vermont’s students to ex-plore current issues in depthand help develop their criti-cal thinking about some ofthe problems we face as a na-tion,” Sanders said.

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mont’s high school studentsto write an essay of 250words to 500 wor ds abouttheir view of the “state of theunion” while the pr esidentprepares his State of theUnion speech for delivery inlate January to a joint sessionof Congress.

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“We need our young peo-ple to be engaged. W e needtheir passion and their ideasto help solve the pr oblemsthat confront us. That’s whatdemocracy is all about,”Sanders said.

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The deadline for studentessays submissions is Fri-day, Jan. 6, 2012. Essaysshould be e-mailed to [email protected]. More information isavailable by visiting:www.sanders.senate.gov/stateoftheunion/


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Before we can contemplate the scale ofour universe, we must first come to gripswith the sheer magnitude of our homegalaxy, known to us as the Milky Way.

The Milky Way Galaxy is thought to beeither a barred spiral or spiral or whirlpooltype galaxy—mor e or lessdisk shaped with swirlingor tightly cocked armscomposed of interstellargas, dust, stars, planetsand other celestial objects.

It’s by no means simpleto determine what ourgalaxy would look likewhen viewed fr om above(or below) it, especiallysince our solar system isembedded within it. Butastronomers have extrapo-lated the size and generalshape of the Milky W aybased upon our edge-on view of thegalaxy’s center as seen from Earth.

So, based upon these extrapolations, as-tronomers believe the vast disk of theMilky Way to be appr oximately 100,000light years or 30 kiloparsecs in diameter(you can figure out the Milky Way’s metriclength based upon the formula of one lightyear equaling 9.5 x 1,015 meters). While theMilky Way’s disk is gigantic is scale, it’sonly about 1,000 light years thick which issurprisingly very thin in comparison.

If you constr ucted a scale model of ourgalaxy, it would closely resemble—at leastin basic concept though not in flavor—apizza pie.

Within our galactic pizza-pie is a top-ping and cr ust composed of interstellardust, gases, 200 billion stars, more or less,various celestial objects, and 50 billionplanets—with 500 million being Earthlike.We haven’t factor ed-in the number ofrogue planets adrift in the Milky W ay.There may be twice as many of these fr ee-floating, sunless/solar system-less planetsas there are stars.

Based upon deep space images in boththe visible and infra-red realms of the elec-tromagnetic or EM spectr um, most of theMilky Way’s stars appear situated withinthe disk of the galaxy. Also, some stars or-bit below, above, and alongside the galac-

tic plane. On the edges,galactic boundaries ar e notso neatly defined.

In a ddition t o e xtrapolat-ing how many stars are inour galaxy, astrophysicistshave figur ed out the age ofthe Milky Way, too.

Physicists first calculatedthe abundance of the ra-dioactive elements thorium-232 and uranium-238 in thegalaxy (an educated guess),then back-tracked the origi-nal abundance of these ele-ments. The r esulting age—

more or less—of the Milky Way ranges upto 16 Ga or Gya, a whopping long time ago.

That’s all well and good, but what’s a“Ga” or “Gya”, you ask? Suf fice it to saythat “Ga” is astr onomical shorthand forwhat’s known as a Giga annum, and “Gya”is short for Giga years ago, a unit of time.Identical to “Gya” is “Bya” ( Billion yearsago) to make it easier . Ann less confusingterms—that is, if millions and billions ar eless confusing—the age of our galaxy issomewhere b etween 8 00 m illion a nd 1 3.5billion years old, possibly much higher asnoted in the “Ga” shorthand.

Since the 1990s, r esearch in the UnitedStates has revealed that certain isotopes ofthe element beryllium may provide an evenmore accurate way of determining the ageof the Milky W ay. Mor e about berylliumabundance in our early galaxy in a futur ecolumn.

Lou Varricchio, M.Sc., lives in Middlebury,Vt. and was a science writer at the NASA AmesResearch Center in California.

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Seeing Stars

While working families str uggle to makeends meet in this sluggish economy, there isa bright spot on the horizon for V ermont’slowest-paid workers: On Jan. 1, the state’sminimum wage incr eases 31 cents to $8.46,raising wages for 23,000 low-wage workers.The modest bump in pay is the result of for-ward-thinking state policy that adjusts theminimum wage upwar d each yea r to keeppace with the rising cost of living.

As a r esult, Vermonters who do the har dwork of cleaning and securing of fice build-ings, pr oviding day car e and serving foodwill not fall further behind as prices forfood, gas and utilities continue to rise.

The increase not only helps hard-workingVermonters pr ovide for their families, butalso boosts the overall economy. WhenFranklin Roosevelt first established the fed-eral m inimum w age d uring t he G reat D e-pression in 1938, he emphasized that astrong wage floor is "an essential part of eco-nomic recovery." The same is true today.

When low-wage workers have more mon-ey in their pockets, they have little choicebut to spend it immediately on basic neces-sities like gr oceries, clothing and schoolsupplies. And as demand for goods andservices grows, businesses expand and hire;the incr eased spending r esulting fr om theminimum-wage bumps in Vermont and sev-en other states on Jan. 1 will lead to an ad-ditional $366 million in economic outputand create the equivalent of more than 3,000jobs, accor ding to an analysis by the Eco-nomic Policy Institute. That’s a shot in thearm our economy desperately needs.

The minimum-wage increase is especiallyimportant when so many better-paying jobsin sectors like constr uction, manufacturingand finance have disappear ed, and manyfamilies are left supporting themselves withlower-paid service-sector jobs. An analysisby the National Employm ent Law Pr oject

finds that while the majority of jobs lost dur-ing and after the recession were in mid-wageoccupations, r oughly thr ee-quarters of thejobs added since job growth resumed are inlow-wage occupations.

And things ar en’t going to impr ove anytime soon: The Bureau of Labor Statistics es-timated that seven of the 10 occupationswith the most job growth between 2008 and2018 will be low-paying positions. While weknow our economy will have an incr easingnumber of positions in home health car e,food pr eparation and customer service,these jobs don’t have to pay poverty wages.At one time, the manufacturing jobs that wenow yearn for wer e danger ous, low-wageand undesirable. But we turned them intogood jobs, with safer work places, higherpay, and a voice for workers.

Vermont and seven other states have tak-en a step in the right dir ection by indexingthe minimum wage t o keep up with infla-tion. But while more than 1.4 million work-ers will see their wages increase Jan. 1, mil-lions more must depend on the stagnant fed-eral minimum wage of just $7.25, or $15,000a year for full-time work. The American peo-ple know this isn’t right: A national poll con-ducted in November found that mor e thantwo-thirds of Americans support raising theminimum wage to $10 an hour. It’s a deeplypopular idea that can help boost the econo-my while not adding to state or federalbudget deficits.

It’s time for politicians in W ashington,D.C., to take a cue from the people of Ver-mont and raise and index the minimumwage.

Christine L. Owens National Employment Law Project

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A bright spot for Vt.’s working families

By Alex [email protected]

AccuWeather reports while we are still afew weeks away fr om the of ficial start ofwinter, unusual warmth in the Central andEastern states has people wondering whatthe winter will be like, now that the new yearis nearly upon us.

Some people in the East are saying it willbe like the 1989 when a mild November wasfollowed by wicked December cold. Othersare saying it may be a year without a winterin the East. Folks in the Northwest may al-ready have their answer.

With Old Man Winter and La Nina givingsome early signs, ther e ar e some changescoming to the AccuWeather.com W interForecast. However, some aspects of the orig-inal forecast will likely remain unchanged.

The pr ojection of a weaker La Nina thisyear compared to last year is on target so far.However, the La Nina is even weaker thanoriginally thought. This October La Nina hasbeen rated at a magnitude 8.3 while duringOctober 2010, La Nina was rated at 18.2 mag-nitude.

La Nina is a cooler-than-average tongue ofsea surface temperatures in the southern Pa-cific O cean. W hen t his o ccurs, i t c auses anorthward bulge in the storm track over thenorthern Pacific Ocean. Corr espondingly,the storm track dips over the United States.

Where this dip occurs is critical and de-pends, in part, on the intensity of La Ninaand other weather patterns. A str ong LaNina may override most of the other pat-terns and have mor e definitive r esults. Aweaker La Nina is mor e likely to be influ-enced by other weather patterns, yielding awide variety of potential outcomes for dif-ferent parts of the country.

One of the key players thus far this fall hasbeen the lack of a Greenland Block. This is anorthward bulge in the storm track overGreenland that produces a southward dip inthe storm track over the Eastern U.S.

According to Long Range Weather ExpertPaul Pastelok, "Without this block, the dip inthe storm track would be in the western U.S.rather than the eastern U.S. The Northwestwould be cold and stormy , the East warmand the Ohio Valley stormy."

This has generally been the case so far dur-

ing November with some exceptions.Pastelok feels the Greenland Block is still

a potential wild card for the winter."A lack of Arctic sea ice and the warm sur-

face it pr oduces could cause the Gr eenlandBlock to show up for a several-week periodwith little notice."

Such a visit could drive arctic air the stormtrack southwar d for multiple weeks in theMidwest a nd E ast, t ipping t he b alance to -ward more snow.

Without the Gr eenland Bock storms ar emore likely to "cut" northwar d towar d theGreat Lakes with only limited opportunities

snow in the I-95 Northeast. This would meanbouts of severe weather in the south-centralU.S.

"The idea of cutting storms would have agood side too, bringing rain to needy ar easin eastern and central T exas and the south-central U.S. in general," Pastelok said.

Unfortunately, much of the Southwestwould still be drier than average.

As for the W est, the nasty cold alr eadyshowing up in Alaska and the storms that arekicking into high gear in the Northwest ar esigns of a typical La Nina pattern.

One thing Pastelok suspects will happen

is that Arctic cold will continued to pr esssouthward in the west, driving the stormtrack southward as the winter progresses.

This will tend to drive powerful, mois-ture-rich storms into Or egon and northernCalifornia for one or more periods this win-ter. A pattern such as this could deliver amonth's worth of rain (or snow) during a sin-gle week.

Winter 2011-12 officially arrived Dec. 22 at12:30 a.m. EST.

Alex Sosnowski is senior expert meteorologistfor AccuWeather.com.

Winter 2011-12: What’s in store, weatherwise?

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ESSEX JUNCTION CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH - 61 Main St., Essex Junction - 878-8341 FERRISBURGH/NORTH FERRISB. FERRISBURGH METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday worship 9:30am NORTH FERRISBURGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 227 Old Hollow Rd., North Ferrisburgh, VT 802- 425-2770. Rev. Kim Hornug-Marcy. Sunday worship 10am, Sunday School 10am, Nursery Available. www.nfumchurch.org CROSSROADS CHAPEL - 41 Middlebrook Rd., Ferrisburgh, VT 05456. (802) 425-3625. Pastor: Rev. Charles Paolantonio. Services: Sunday 10am. FERRISBURGH CENTER COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH - Rt 7, Ferrisburgh - next to the Town Offices / Grange Hall. New Pastors Rev. John & Patrice Goodwin. Worship time is now 10:45am. HINESBURG LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH - 90 Mechanicsville Rd., Hinesburg. Sunday Service at 10:30am. Pastor Hart, info: 482-2588. ST. JUDE THE APOSTLE - 10759 Route 116 Hinesburg. Masses: Sat. 4:30pm; Sun. 9:30am UNITED CHURCH OF HINESBURG - 10580 Rte. 116, Sunday Worship & Sunday School 10am. Pastor Michele Rogers Brigham - 482-3352. LINCOLN UNITED CHURCH OF LINCOLN - Sunday worship service 9:45, Church school 11:15am, united Student Ministries for grades 7-12, 6:30pm Sunday evenings. 453-4280 MIDDLEBURY CHAMPLAIN VALLEY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY - Sunday service & church school, Sunday 10am CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY - Middlebury. Middlebury Community House, Main and Seymour Sts, Sunday Service and Church School-10am; Wednesday-7:30pm. THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MIDDLEBURY (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sunday 10am worship service THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER- DAY SAINTS - Sunday Sacrament 10am-11:15am EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WORSHIP - Service in Middlebury area: call 758-2722 or 453-5334. HAVURAH, THE JEWISH CONGREGATION OF ADDISON COUNTY - Saturday morning Shabbat services, 388-8946 MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH - 97 South Pleasant St., Middlebury. Sunday morning worship & church school 10am, Wednesday evening Bible Study, 6:30pm. 388-7472. MIDDLEBURY FRIENDS MEETING - (Quakers), Sunday worship & first day school 10am (meets at Havurah House) SAINT MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - Saturday, 5:15pm, Sunday 8am, 10am ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - (On the green in Middlebury). Reverend Terence P. Gleeson, Rector. Sunday Eucharist 8 & 10:30am Child care & Sunday school available at 10:30am service. Wednesday at 12:05pm Holy Eucharist in the chapel. www.ststephensmidd.org or call 388- 7200. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 10am Grades K-5: Activities, Grades. 6-8 & 9-12: Church School Classes, Refreshments & fellowship time: 10:45am-11am. Sunday morning worship service 11am. Nursery provided both at 10am & 11am. MONKTON MONKTON FRIENDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday service & Sunday school, 8:45am NEW HAVEN ADDISON COUNTY CHURCH OF CHRIST - 145

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

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

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Wednesday, Jan. 4MIDDLEBURY — Trivia Night at Two Brothers Tavern at

7 p.m. $2 per person goes to winning team.Friday, Jan. 6

MIDDLEBURY — Shake up the intimate Byers Studio atTown Hall Theater in the first THT Cabar et of 2012 withLoose Change at 7 p.m. Cash bar. Tickets, $10, available bycalling 802-382-9222 or at the box of fice Monday-Saturday,noon–5 p.m.

MIDDLEBURY — Jam Man Entertainment at T wo Broth-ers Tavern at 10 p.m. Free

MIDDLEBURY — Welcome in the new year with an OldeTyme Yankee Pot Roast at the VFW on Exchange Street atnoon. Suggested donation is $4. Bring your own place set-ting. Open to all age 60 and over, reservations required. CallMary at CVAA 1-800-642-5119 x607.

Saturday, Jan. 7MIDDLEBURY — In the Pocket (r ock, blues, r eggae cov-

ers) at Two Brothers Tavern at 10 p.m. $3.Sunday, Jan. 8

MIDDLEBURY — “Faust” Live in H.D. television at theTown Hall Theater at 1 p.m. Tickets are $24 and available bycalling 802-382-9222, or at the box of fice Monday-Saturdaynoon–5 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 9MIDDLEBURY — Addison County Right to Life will meet

at 7 p.m. St. Mary's Parish Hall. V isitors are welcome. Forinformation call 802-388-2898

Tuesday, Jan. 10NEW HAVEN — Tai Chi Class, 11:30 a.m.12:15 p.m. at the

Lincoln Library. Fr ee (donations ar e appr eciated) Open toanyone 50 and up. Call Cindy 1-800-642-5119 ext. 1028.

MIDDLEBURY — Karaoke Night at T wo Brothers Tavernat 9 p.m. Free.

Wednesday, Jan. 11MIDDLEBURY — Trivia Night at Two Brothers Tavern at

7 p.m. $2 per person goes to winning team.Thursday, Jan. 12

MIDDLEBURY — D.J. Dizzle at Two Brothers Tavern at 10p.m. Free

Friday, Jan. 13MIDDLEBURY — Russian pianist Rustem Hayr oudinoff

returns to the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series at8 p.m. in the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Tick-ets are $25 for the general public; $20 for Middlebury Col-lege faculty, staff, alumni, emeriti, and other ID card hold-ers; and $6 for Middlebury College students. For more infor-mation, call 802-443-6433

MIDDLEBURY — Happy Hour with the Benoits (folk &blues covers) at Two Brothers Tavern at 4:30 p.m. Free.

MIDDLEBURY — Reggae Night with D.J. Dizzle at T woBrothers Tavern at 10 p.m. Free

Saturday, Jan. 14MIDDLEBURY — Karaoke Night at T wo Brothers Tavern

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By Gia Christian

ACROSS1 Office malfunction

6 Empty the Recycle Bin,

e.g.

11 Hit the snooze button too

many times

20 Campus town near

Bangor

21 “The Bells of St. __”

22 Persona non grata

23 Advice to a nervous skier

25 Hot air in the conference

room?

26 “Don’t let it get cold!”

27 Hi-fi component

28 Where a herd is heard

29 H.S. proficiency tests

30 Fashion giant

31 Prepares, as mussels

35 Crewmate of Spock and

Sulu

37 Cheats on a test, in a way

40 R.E.M.’s “The __ Love”

41 Flu 9-Down

42 Mil. mail drops

43 “Eat my wake!” e.g.?

48 Gravy, on menus

51 High-pitched barks

53 Hosp. drama locale, usual-

ly

54 Japanese golfer Aoki

55 Something in the oven

57 Comparatively crafty

58 Bath salt fragrance

61 Small-scale

63 Spokesceleb for Fiat

64 Post-WWI Treasury secre-

tary

66 Girl in a Beach Boys hit

67 Menlo Park wizard, initially

69 “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

genre?

73 Wee lad

74 Not hoodwinked by

77 Big name in little suits

78 Singer Winehouse

80 No longer on speaking

terms

84 Remove paint from

85 D’Artagnan’s chronicler

88 Nicholas Gage bestseller

89 “I __ a loss for words!”

91 Urgent offshore signal

92 Barrel support

93 “__ Rosenkavalier”:

Strauss opera

94 Halloween carving of a

Yankee hero?

99 “Sounds good to me!”

100 Reject as false

101 Geometry class calculation

102 Trojan War warrior

104 “Try to __ my way”:

Beatles lyric

106 Like some braids

108 Melbourne greeting

109 Resistance units

110 Serious conflict

112 Eucalyptus lovers

114 Place to hoist a pint

117 First punch of an old

Roman bout?

120 Northern African quip?

122 Covent Garden notable

123 Concrete hunks

124 “Storage Wars” network

125 Like a couch potato

126 Long-eared critters

127 Online VIP

DOWN1 Monologue bit

2 Bizet’s “Toreador Song,”

e.g.

3 Snakes’ renewal process

4 Like some phone nos.

5 Comfort food in a deep

dish

6 Arabian chief

7 Rani’s spouse

8 Skunk cabbage and philo-

dendron

9 Indication

10 Eerie ability, for short

11 Transitive vb. follower

12 Meat-yielding calves

13 To be, in Arles

14 Measure again

15 Nestlé’s __-Caps

16 Chaise __

17 Peak in the 59-Down

18 Big name in fashion

19 Hardy heroine

24 Reform Party founder

Perot

30 Put to rest, as rumors

32 Ship’s hdg.

33 Atmospheric prefix

34 “Divine” showbiz nickname

36 “Yay!”

37 Low isles

38 European automaker

39 Multitalented court clown?

41 Quite a long stretch

44 Fictional Stone Age red-

head

45 Not as friendly

46 Considers carefully, with

“over”

47 __ alai

48 Nattily dressed Broadway

character?

49 Dietary std.

50 Stand in good __

52 “No more seats” sign

56 Plains Indian

59 European peaks

60 Places for chickens

62 Certain tax shelter, for

short

65 Nair rival, once

67 Rough wool cloth

68 Seating request

69 Bon Jovi of rock

70 Far from verbose

71 Village celebrity?

72 Small group of trees

75 Bird by the beach

76 Eastern island capital

78 Much junk mail

79 Kind of conspiracy

81 Like venison

82 Ruler of anc. Rome

83 Port of Senegal

86 Saucony rival

87 D.C. hundred

90 Fade

95 Work the kinks out of

96 Former Giants pitcher

Robb

97 African scavengers

98 Pitching coach’s aid

100 Appetite

103 Undemanding classes

104 Mold

105 Nestle securely

106 Monastery resident

107 Wedding dances

108 “The __ Menagerie”

109 Eyes, in Oaxaca

111 “__ girl!”

113 Songstress Lane

114 Two-thumbs-down reviews

115 Salon style

116 Answering machine cue

118 Bert Bobbsey’s twin

119 Suffix with access

120 Webelos’ org.

121 Loud bird

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Snow Bowlfrom page 1

Mackey said a similar snowfall had occurr ed justbefore Thanksgiving but the Snow Bowl was stillclosed at the time.

“We lost 15 inches of the November snow thanksto rain and warmer temperatures,” he said. “But wemade up for lost time this week.”

On Dec. 30, the Snow Bowl had three trails and onelift open for its enthusiastic customers.

On top of the still-closed Allen Trail, snow gunswere erupting to get the trail ready for January ski-ing.

Water fr om two artificial ponds, located behindthe main lodge, are siphoned via pumphouse equip-ment and forced, through hoses, to the Snow Bowl’sarray of snowmaking gear.

More than 500 skiers and snowboarders rushed tothe Snow Bowl to take advantage of the fr esh Dec.28-29 snowfall.

On Thursday morning, the parking lot was packedwith vehicles.

ACTR’s Snow Bowl-edition shuttle van also ap-peared bearing skiers to the main lodge—the carlessor those who simply prefer to leave their vehicles intown seem to like the no-fuss bus service with itsstorage space for skis and snowboards.

Mackey said news of the snowfall traveled up anddown the Eastern Seaboar d. His of fice r eceived atelephone call fr om a Maryland woman wondering

if ther e was enough snow; she was planning a 10-hour drive just to ski at the Bowl.

As Mackey pointed out the snowmaking guns onthe ridge top behind the lodge, young people wer elining up for a ski lesson while adults, and accom-plished youngsters, were queuing up for lift chairs.Everyone seemed cheerful and strangers wer e talk-ing to strangers about the near-perfect skiing condi-tions.

“The Snow Bowl is small enough to feel like a com-munity,” he said. “We have many locals but also col-lege alumni and other visitors. They like it her e.Prices are reasonable and the skiing is terrific. Par-ents feel secure with their children here.”

Mackey said snowmaking is key for survival inmany East Coast ski resorts.

The technology of making snow works best whenthe humidity is below 50 percent, he said. “The dri-er, the better,” for making fake snow, he said.

But the snowmaking process does not come cheap. Compressed air adds to the cost of faux snow, but

the Snow Bowl’s twin ponds—now fr ozen—haveample juice, liquid H2O below the ice caps. Obvious-ly, water is the main ingredient of both natural andman-made snow.

“Overall, I am happy with the snow we’ve r e-ceived,” Mackey said. “The for ecast is if fy throughNew Year ’s Day. But we’ll see how it goes.”

In the ski world, unlike the world of commutingby car to work, the good news is always cold temper-atures and bad weather—lots of snow that is.

Trainingfrom page 1

technical skills needed to address issues associated with cultural her-itage collections,” Hudson noted.

The new mentoring pr ogram will make pr ofessional mentorsavailable to volunteers with oversight fr om VHS and the local his-torical group or museum.

“Local historical societies and museums are encouraged to identi-fy their most critical need or challenge r elating to collections man-agement and care. They may then apply for help from a mentor whois trained and experienced in their area of need, ” according to JulieNelson, VHS’ marketing and community relations coordinator.

Nelson said mentors conduct visits to the historical society or mu-seum. There they meet with paid staf f and volunteers, and get tobetter understand the needs.

“Their on-site observations, accompanied by a follow-up writtenreport, will provide expert guidance to that organization,” she said.

Nelson said that several challenges face local historical groups.“Typical issues associated with collections care can include regis-

tration and cataloging, storage, environmental controls, security, ex-hibitions, emergency planning, and conservation,” she added.

Nelson said that for a group or museum to be eligible for the pro-gram, it must be a member of the V ermont Historical Society. Onlyinstitutional membership qualifies for the mentoring assistance.

Applications are considered on a first-come, first-served basis andorganizations may apply once per year.

For mor e information or to r equest an application, contact LisaEvans at 802-479-8522 or send an e-mail inquiry [email protected].

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FOR RENT: One week at thelargest timeshare in the world. Or-ange Lake is right next to Disneyand has many amenities includinggolf, tennis, and a water park.Weeks available are: Mar. 18-25,Mar. 25-Apr. 1, Apr. 1-8, Apr. 8-15& Apr. 22-29, 2012. (Sun. to Sun.)$850 inclusive. Email:[email protected]

VACATION PROPERTY

BRISTOL, VT Newly Renovatedapt. $725/mo. no smoking, refer-ences, security, 1st & last monthrequired. Trichia 802-349-7011

APARTMENT

HAS YOUR BUILDING SHIFTED?Contact Woodford Bros., Inc. forstraightening, leveling, foundationand wood frame repairs at 1-800-OLD-BARN,www.woodfordbros.com,MAHIC#155877; CTHIC#571557;RICRB#22078

CONTRACTOR

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L OANS A VAILABLE

Hometown Chevrolet 152 Broadway Whitehall, NY • (518) 499-288 6 • Ask for Joe

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CLOVER STATE HOME IMPROVEMENT

Replacement Windows Vinyl Siding • Asphalt,

Standing Seams & Metal Roofs

Roll Off Containers As well as construction of Additions & Garages

Snow Removal

2935

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Phone: 802-877-2102 Cell: 802-316-7166

Email: [email protected] www.cloverstate.com

Place an ad for your business in the Eagle’s Service Guide. Call (802) 388-6397 for information & rates.

SERVICE GUIDE WINDOWS/SIDING

Owned and Operated by Richard Brunet Since 1981

Marcel Brunet & Sons, I nc.

Windows & Siding

Vergennes, Vt. Siding • Additions Roofs • Garages

Replacement Windows Decks • Free Estimates!

800-439-2644 877-2640 29039

SEPTIC SERVICE

CLARK SEPTIC

SERVICE Complete Septic System Maintenance & Repair

Systems Installed Prompt Service 388-0202 453-3108

Serving Addison County & Beyond! 29141

GLASS

Glass • Screens • Windshields

DESABRAIS GLASS

388-9049 Auto • Home Commercial

Boardman Street, Middlebury, VT

29201

CHIMNEY SWEEP

COMPLETE CHIMNEY

CARE

Brian Dwyer 1-800-682-1643 388-4077

Cleaning • Repairs Stainless Steel Lining

Video Camera Inspection

Member of VT, NYS & National Chimney Sweep Guilds

29040

LUMBER/SHAVINGS

West Central VT Lumber

Locally Made Shavings & Bedding 10 Yard Truck Load

Available For Delivery JUMBO BAGS 30 GAL PAPER BAGS $3. 00 each

BRING YOUR OWN BAG $2. 00

Call Norman for more details 247-3144

Don’t Wait To Long, Get Your Order in, Winter is Coming!

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SCRAP METAL

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GUT JUNK? WILL PAY YOU CASH PER

CAR, TRUCK, SUV, OR VAN FREE REMOVAL OF ALL

SCRAP M ETAL CALL: RICK OR DYLAN @

802-377-9597 NO HOUSEHOLD TRASH

FLOOR CLEANING

Stripping Waxing • Buffing Carpet Cleaning & Water Removal

FLOOR & UPHOLSTERY

CLEANING

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[email protected] 1900 Jersey St.

South Addison, VT Phone or Fax: 802-759-2706

Cell: 802-349-6050

Chris Mulliss

INSULATION

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AIR SEALING & INSULATING

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Dense Pack Cellulose Blown In Insulation

Complete Air S ealing 802-545-2251

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Weybridge, VT 05753

20916


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Middlebury, VT 802-388-1000

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29221

VERGENNES Masterly renovated and expanded Otter Creek-front home exudes quality craftsmanship and attention to detail. Permitted accessory apartment.

$359,000 MLS 4 051260

WALTHAM Log home on over three acres, with a pond and detached garage and workshop. Private location, but just minutes to center of town.

$199,900 MLS 4 075059

VERGENNES Convenience of in-town living, and walking distance to city amenities. Large light-filled rooms, spacious shed and cozy back yard.

$180,000 MLS 4 098069

ADDISON Spacious living room, eat-in kitchen, mudroom entry with laundry, three bedrooms and 2- stall barn with tack room and fenced pasture. Mountain views.

$152,500 MLS 4 111031

BRANDONQuaint Farmhouse with lots of nice features, including first floor laundry and mudroom. Open kitchen/living area with wood floors and natural light.

$220,000 MLS 4 069912

HINESBURG Very private setting with pond, woods and spacious lawns. Only 5 minutes from center of Hinesburg & 15 minutes to Burlington. VT Castings stove.

$332,900 MLS 4 092184

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STARKSBORO Sunny, light-filled home with partially finished basement, back deck off of the dining room, pine flooring, fireplace in living room and basement.

$225,000 MLS 4 076294

29212

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