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RE: ESTATE OF
THRESHER, DONALD ROY
LATE OF: BERLIN, VT
Notice To Creditors
To the creditors of DONALD ROY
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The claim may be barred forever if
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Dated: February 11, 2020
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Dear Editor:
Did you know that patients fighting cancer need more
blood than patients fighting any other disease? Cancer
patients use nearly one-quarter of the nation’s blood supply.
In fact, five units of blood are needed every minute to help
someone going through cancer treatment. Yet, only 3% of
people in the U.S. give blood.
To help ensure patients have the strength and support to
fight cancer, the American Red Cross and American Cancer
Society are teaming up this February to encourage people
Give Blood to Give Time. Individuals are invited to honor
their loved ones by making a blood donation appointment or
financial contribution at GiveBloodToGiveTime.org.
According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 3 people
in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. A
loved one’s cancer diagnosis may leave families and friends
feeling helpless. But when someone donates blood or platelets
or makes a financial gift, they are helping to give patients
and their families time, resources and the hope they need to
fight back.
All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for
patients, and more people are needed to donate blood regularly
to help meet the need. On behalf of the Red Cross and
American Cancer Society, I encourage you to Give Blood to
Give Time in support of cancer patients and their families.
With warm regards,
Maria Devlin
Chief Executive Officer
American Red Cross
New Hampshire and Vermont Region
My Health Care Future
By Mary Alice Bisbee
I’ve just watched five TV ads that the Partnership for
America’s Health Care Future is sending out all over the
country! They certainly don’t have my health care future in
mind!
This huge conglomerate supported by hospitals, insurance
companies and other for profit entities is only trying to
defeat Democratic politicians who are supporting a REAL
Medicare for All plan in the upcoming election. No matter
who you vote for, remember that until we are ALL willing to
fight for ALL of us, regardless of how different we are or how
affluent we are, we will not have a vibrant economy and an
equitable health care system for all of us. I think it was
Benjamin Franklin who said “Divide and Conquer”. If
By Lu Nelsen, policy associate, Center for Rural Affairs
The last decade has seen a drastic shift in the way the U.S.
generates electricity.
We have shifted from relying primarily on fossil fuel burning
power plants to a thriving clean energy industry that
supplies renewable, low-cost electricity to consumers. A
combination of demand from customers and diminishing
technology costs have helped wind and solar projects sprout
up across the country, and with them has come a range of
economic benefits.
Renewable energy systems have created new jobs and
career fields, especially in rural areas that tend to host projects.
Utility-scale systems also offer land lease payments to
landowners, providing a new source of income for families
dealing with volatile agricultural markets. Many communities
in the Midwest and Great Plains have also seen an
increase in tax revenue, especially from wind generation.
• • •
“Medicare for All” is socialism, then I guess I am a socialist,
a Democratic Socialist, that is. Capitalism certainly hasn’t
done me much good, so far. Now that Corporations have the
same rights as real people, Citizens United, I guess we all are
supposed to listen to what organizations like Partnership for
America’s Health Care Future tell us is the right thing to do.
That seems to be the good Fascist thing to do!
Mary Alice Bisbee is a 7th generation Vermonter , a college
grad with a masters degree, who has worked as a stay at home
wife and child caregiver, deli worker, social worker, desk clerk,
waitress, day care worker, librarian and shop clerk over 83
years on this planet, in Vermont, Massachusetts, New York,
New Jersey and Florida and is now retired without a pension.
Fakers and Takers
Republicans have long pushed the idea that lots of people
on Social Security Disability are “fakers and takers” who
don’t deserve those benefits. That push intensified when the
number of Social Security recipients increased significantly
after the financial crash in 2008, prompting calls to reduce
the number of recipients to save money and to rid the rolls of
the undeserving. . But the fact is that disability benefits are
not easy to get. Most applications are denied.
Nevertheless, a recently proposed regulation would
require that some recipients prove continuing disability
more often than they do now. It specifically targets disabled
workers between 50 and 65 who were awarded benefits not
solely because of their disabilities, but because their disability
coupled with being lower-skilled made successful
employment unlikely.
Conservatives are offended by benefits for people whose
impairments are less severe but who nonetheless have virtually
no place in the labor market. But the idea that this rule
will save significant money is a farce. Even if the projected
savings of $2.8 billion over 10 years is realistic, implementing
these extra examinations will cost upwards of $1.8 billion
over that period. This is virtually a wash, especially when
you take into account of the anxiety recipients will experience
as they face losing benefits and the ability to provide for
themselves.
Will recipients subject to the new rule have the ability,
capacity, and resources to prove their continued eligibility?
Potentially, tens of thousands of people could lose their
benefits.
Charlie Murphy
Bennington
Renewable Electric Grid Making Economic Impact in Rural Areas
This expansion has been tied to available electric transmission
capacity to carry power from where it’s generated to
the homes and businesses of consumers. But the grid was
designed when centralized, fossil fuel burning power plants
were the primary source of generation. As we have shifted to
renewable energy spread out across a wide geographic area,
the transmission system has required careful planning and
upgrades.
We know the expansion of the clean energy economy
must coincide with an expansion of the electric transmission
system. By building out our electric grid, we can ensure
there is sufficient capacity to allow consumers across the
country to access reliable clean energy.
The benefits of renewable energy can provide significant
economic opportunity for rural America, as long as we have
the infrastructure in place to support development.