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National Dog Biscuit DaySAVE ON ALL DOG BISCUITSSTOREWIDESUNDAY February 23rdAN OPEN LETTER FROMLLOYD HUTCHINS IN BARREpage 2 The WORLD February 19, 20201284 BARRE-MONTPELIER ROAD BERLIN, VT In The Twin City PlazaHi Folks,The Hutchins Family has been providing Central Vermonterswith new roofs since 1946 [74 years].A couple of years ago, we decided to start offering sheetmetal roofing products to the independent contractor and tothe do-it- yourself property owner.The first thing we did was to invest in modern sheet metalshop equipment and to add “sheet metal” to our companyname.These new machines allow us to manufacture high quality“architectual sheet metal” items for you, from a variety ofkynar colors, at reasonable prices.We can supply you with shop made drip edge, valley, ridgecap, vented ridge cap, snow belt, stepflashing, windowcasing & drip cap, and “J” channel; all made to yourspecifications and color choice.We also offer a standing seam roofing materials “cut &drop” program.At your jobsite, we rollform the standing seam pans, cut therequired lengths and supply the shop-made accessoriesyou ordered, allowing you to complete your roofing project.We have the “standing seam” tools you may need, availablefor rent.Plus: 74 years of answers for your “how-to-do-it” questions.So, call Hutchins Sheet Metal for a quote on yourarchitectual sheet metal needs.Call Randy at 800-649-8932 or randy@hutchinsroofing.comONE DAYONLYOneStopCountryPetSupply.comE-mail us!Classified & DisplayADSNow Placing YourClassified Or Display AdIs Even Easier!Our E-mail address issales@vt-world.comPlease include contactperson & payment info( Only)479-2582 or1-800-639-9753SPECIALIZING IN ROOFING OF EVERY TYPESuppliers ofStanding Seam MetalCustom • FabricatedRoof FlashingFREE ESTIMATES802-476-5591 Call Today Toll Free! 1-800-649-8932HUTCHINS ROOFING& SHEET METAL CO.Family Owned Since 194617 West Second St., Barre www.HutchinsRoofing.comCapstone Community ActionAdvocates for State Funds forAnti-Poverty ProgramsAt a packed Public Hearing in Barre, participants andadvocates for one of Vermont’s unique anti-poverty programsspoke passionately about the need to help low incomeVermonters establish economic security and grow small businesses.In 2018 66,000 Vermonters – one in nine—lived in poverty.Advocates argued that at a time when income inequality inthe U.S. hit the highest level in fifty years, it is critical that theState of Vermont fully fund programs that can build laddersof economic opportunity and security. Capstone CommunityAction programs such as the Micro Business DevelopmentProgram (MBDP) and the Individual Development Accounts(IDA) also known as the Vermont Matched Savings programhave been proving to be successful at relieving poverty andsupporting the economy. These cuts would eliminate twocritical anti-poverty programs operating statewide.Capstone Community Action staff, board, and participantsprovided input on the Governor’s recommended FiscalYear 2021 State Budget to share the importance of the MBDPand IDA programs at the public hearing hosted by the StateHouse and Senate Appropriations Committee on Mondayevening.“Since 1988, Capstone Community Action has implementeda Micro Business Development Program (MBDP)which has been embraced by Community Action Agenciesthroughout Vermont and across the country,” stated StevenPappas, board chair of Capstone Community Action. “Thefive Community Action Agencies across the state have supportedmore than 10,000 Vermonters to become self-sufficientand helped launch or expand more than 2,100 Vermontbusinesses. With MBDP support, clients find economic selfsufficiencyand dignity in self-employment. The MBDPprogram helps Vermonters develop businesses and offersfinancial coaching, credit counseling, as well as asset buildingthrough the Vermont Matched Savings (formerly IDA)program.”“They [Capstone Community Action] have helped a lot ofsmall businesses, like my mom’s catering business,” statedInayat Yuridullah, son of Afghani Ayoubi, Pak-Afghan’sowner. He represented his mother who was delivering herfood products to vendors. “She needed a lot of help when shefirst started with marketing, legalities, licensing and paperwork…without the help of Capstone, she would have haddifficulty, especially as an immigrant coming to this country.”Capstone Community Action was founded in 1965 andworks to alleviate the suffering caused by poverty and to createeconomic opportunity for people and communities.Capstone Community Action strives to help build strongcommunities. Serving some 13,000 Vermonters each year,Capstone programs include housing counseling, homelessnessintervention, savings and credit coaching, businesscounseling, workforce development, home weatherization,and child and family development programs in Early HeadStart / Head Start. Capstone seeks to break down barriersthat prevent people from thriving to offer the hope peopleneed, the dignity everyone deserves and a better communityfor all.• • •Governor Scott Announces PlanningGrants to Municipalities to Jump-Start Local Innovation and VitalityGovernor Phil Scott today announced $468,552 inMunicipal Planning Grant awards at Central VermontMedical Center in Berlin. Of the 51 municipalities thatapplied, 31 towns and cities will receive planning grants todevelop solutions that address local community issues.The Governor highlighted three planning grants awardedwithin Washington County: Berlin, Middlesex and Waitsfield.Berlin is working to create a new, mixed-use and walkabletown center in the area encompassing the Berlin Mall and theCentral Vermont Medical Center. Middlesex and Waitsfieldare also pursuing projects to create lively, walkable and economicallyvibrant town centers.“Reinforcing town and village centers is critical to growingour economy. Like so many towns in Vermont, Berlin,Middlesex and Waitsfield rely on the work of planning commissioners,select board members and other volunteers tostrengthen their communities for future generations,” saidGovernor Scott. “I’m pleased we can support their effortsthrough these grants.”“These funds will help towns focus on building, enhancingand making connections in the community to develop thetown centers of the future where both businesses and residentscan thrive,” said Bonnie Waninger, executive directorof the Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission. “InBerlin, the grant will help make progress towards creating anew town center in the mall area with a wide range of usesincluding new housing and a childcare center.”Other municipal grants awarded will fund a wide range ofprojects in municipalities large and small throughoutVermont, including a study to resolve the childcare shortagein Randolph, evaluating the potential for inter-town firefightingin and around St. Johnsbury, and recovering fromthe loss of Green Mountain College in Poultney. Severaltowns will use grants to revise zoning regulations and takeother steps to improve local housing opportunities.The Municipal Planning Grant Program is administered bythe Community Planning and Revitalization Division in theDepartment of Housing and Community Development andhas been funding local initiatives since 1988. More informationabout the program is available at: https://accd.vermont.gov/community-development/funding-incentives/municipal-planning-grant.Summaries of all 2020 grants are available here: https://accd.vermont.gov/sites/accdnew/files/documents/CD/CPR/MPG/CPR-MPG-FundedProjects-FY20.pdf.The State also prepared a short annual report with casestudies of completed Municipal Planning Grant projects.
®Announcing the 2020Discovering CommunitySummer Institute August10-13, 2020, Alumni Hall,Barre Civic CenterRegistration is now open for the Vermont Folklife Center’s2020 Discovering Community Summer Institute. TheInstitute will bring together educators from across the statefor a four-day intensive course from August 10-13, 2020 atAlumni Hall in Barre’s Civic Center. This year, the whole ofdowntown Barre will provide an exciting site for experientiallearning. With an emphasis on place-based education andmedia-making, the course will serve as both a project incubatorand a professional development program.Stories and storytelling are at the center of this experience;as one participant observed, “The personal gain ofrealizing that there are millions of stories in our own backyardsthat are ten times more interesting than PeopleMagazine is something that I will cherish.” The Institutebuilds on the Vermont Folklife Center’s many years of collaborationwith educators on community-based projects, theever-expanding array of digital devices with audio and visualrecording capabilities, and the do-it-yourself editing andproduction opportunity that digital technology affords.Past participants hail from a broad spectrum of roles in theK-16 system, including classroom teachers, special educators,librarians, guidance counselors, and administrators.The diversity of attendees ensures a rich opportunity toexplore a variety of models and ensures a collaborative spaceto visualize diverse applications. By engaging with culturalresearchers, community-based artists, media specialists, andfellow educators, participants gain access to the power ofethnographic field research and digital audio, video and photographyas storytelling tools. With Barre as a microcosm,the Discovering Community Summer Institute will modelsimple strategies for deepening students’ relationships totheir own communities.Participants may take the course for three graduate creditsthrough Castleton University or a professional developmentcertificate. Included in the cost of the Institute are 8 hours ofongoing support from VFC education staff in the form of inclasscoaching, workshops and technical assistance throughoutthe 2020-21 school year. For registration, tuition or otherinformation, visit www.vermontfolklifecenter.org or feel freeto contact us at 802-388-4964 or education@vermontfolklifecenter.org.Check out the Institute webpage here: https://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/summer-institute; see a testimonial.The Vermont Folklife Center seeks to broaden, strengthenand deepen our understanding of Vermont and the surroundingregion; to assure a repository for our collective culturalmemory; and to strengthen our communities by buildingconnections among the diverse peoples of our state.• • •Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Leahyand Others Press TrumpAdministration to Fully FundPandemic Preparedness andResponse EffortsSenator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and three other senatorsurged the Trump Administration to fully fund pandemicpreparedness and response efforts in light of the globalCoronavirus outbreak, which has infected tens of thousandsof individuals and killed more than 500 worldwide. Alsosending the request were U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI),Patty Murray (D-WA) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ). Leahy isthe Vice Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, andPeters, Murray and Menendez serve as the Ranking Membersof the Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsCommittee, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor andPensions, and the Committee on Foreign Relations, respectively.In a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB)Director Mick Mulvaney, the senators expressed concernthat the Trump Administration’s annual proposed fundingcut for pandemic preparedness and response efforts couldthreaten the government’s ability to effectively combat thespread of the deadly virus. The Trump Administration hasrepeatedly proposed dramatic cuts to programs and officesthat spearhead efforts to respond to this and other pandemics,including a 2020 budget proposal that cut critical pandemicresponse programs by nearly 20 percent.“As we have learned from past public health crises such asthe Ebola, SARS, and H1N1 outbreaks, pandemics requirean aggressive, coordinated response across the federal government,”the senators wrote. “In light of the current novelCoronavirus outbreak and the persistent threat of globalpandemics, we urge you to fully fund infectious disease andpandemic preparedness and response efforts in your fiscalyear 2021 proposed budget. A failure to do so would not onlybe a danger to the health and welfare of all Americans, butalso a threat to our national security.”On January 30th, the World Health Organization (WHO)declared the Coronavirus outbreak a public health emergencyof international concern, a designation reserved forextraordinary events that pose a public health risk by threateningto spread internationally. While the immediate healthrisk to the American public from 2019-nCoV is consideredlow at this time, as deaths and infections from Coronaviruscontinue to rise, the U.S. government has sought to dramaticallyescalate its response efforts, which has required someagencies to tap into additional funds. Just last week, theDepartment of Health and Human Services (HHS) notifiedCongress that it may need to reallocate over $130 million tobe able to continue response efforts to Coronavirus, indicatingthat current funding levels may be insufficient.Leahy, Carper, and Others Introduce the Clean Economy Act of 2020Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Tuesday joined SenatorTom Carper (D-Del.) and other senators in introducing theClean Economy Act of 2020, to empower the EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) to set a national goal of net-zerogreenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2050. The billwould also promote American competitiveness and healthiercommunities, while fostering a fair and growing economy.The Clean Economy Act also requires the EPA to setinterim national greenhouse gas targets for 2025, 2030, and2040. This net-zero plan prioritizes public health, lowercosts, and economic growth. To do this, the Clean EconomyAct requires other federal agencies to implement policiesthat increase the ability of the United States to reduce greenhousegas emissions while staying globally competitivethough investments in innovation, worker training, andstrong labor standards. The EPA net-zero by 2050 plan prioritizesinfrastructure investments that are more resilient toa changing climate. It also builds on existing state, local andprivate sector climate programs. The bill was drawn toNovello nowcarries all yourfavorite brands:THEALLNEWGoing on now!Summer of Savings!LIFTRECLINERSYou have to see it for yourself!Our beautiful, newly remodeled store features the area's LARGEST MattressShowroom, a STYLISH new Stressless Gallery, & Amish Furniture department.STARTING AT$699■ 50 to Choose From■ Wall-away andRocker Recliners■ Power Recliners■ Lift Assist ReclinersIncludes table, bench & 4 side chairs. Regular $999Now Just... $899Two great furniture stores, One incredible location! 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The Clean Economy Actrecognizes the reality that climate action is both a necessityand an economic opportunity.”The EPA net-zero by 2050 plan prioritizes infrastructureinvestments that are more resilient to a changing climate.Additionally, the EPA plans on building up existing State,local, and private sector climate programs. While doing so,this act also addresses the cumulative environmental effectsin economically distressed communities, communities ofcolor, and indigenous communities.Turn YourTax RefundInto the Best SeatIn The HouseRECLINERSAS LOW AS$399Summer Sizzle!Shop now during the Summer of Savings for great prices throughout the store.QUEENstart at justIn Stock and Ready To Go!HURRY IN FORTHE BEST SELECTION!$399THE BRAND NEW&more!February 19, 2020 The WORLD page 3
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