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Busy January at the Chamber
This week, the Central Vermont Chamber
held its annual meeting. In the new normal
of COVID, this masked, hand sanitized, socially
distanced event had approximately 30
local businesses represented as we elected
our 2022 Board of Directors, officers and discussed
what’s next in the world of business in
Central Vermont.
We started the evening off with a panel discussion about
the future of business. Our panel, consisting of Lieutenant
Governor Molly Gray, Agency of Commerce and Community
Development Secretary Lindsay Kurrle, and Central Vermont
Chamber Public Policy Committee Chair Matt Musgrave. The
panel discussed topics such as the need for housing, the need
to repair our aging infrastructure, broadband access as well as
workforce development.
We would like to take the chance to thank our outgoing
board members, Joe Choquette III (Mark 3 public affairs),
Leslie Sanborn (R&L Archery), Denise Russo (Yankee Farm
Credit) and Ed Larson for their time, expertise and dedication
that took our chamber through the ever-changing COVID
landscape these past two years. We would especially like to
thank Kim Bolduc (Bolduc Metal Recycling) for leading our
board as she transitions to a new role on our board that is
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
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There are two things that disappointed me about the film
adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
First: there isn’t a single cat in the entire movie.
What it lacks in cats, however, it makes up for in psychology
and melodrama. This is a mature film about family strife,
regret, and unhappiness.
Tennessee Williams explores one of the grimmest truths of
humanity: how easy it is to feel all alone in this world even
when you are surrounded by your loved ones.
The story takes place during one sweaty night at the sprawling
Mississippi plantation of Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives).
Big Daddy built an agricultural empire out of nothing and he’s
mighty proud of it.
The whole family is meeting at the palatial plantation house
for Big Daddy’s 65th – and final – birthday. He has been diagnosed
with terminal, painful cancer.
The most impressive aspect of the movie is Burl Ives’s soulful
performance. Big Daddy has more earthly accomplishments
than most, but he laments all the precious time he
wasted.
Big Daddy boasts that he still has passion for women
(meaning he doesn’t mind that Viagra won’t be invented for
another 40 years) but he knows that his lust is just a frustrating
dead end.
Big Daddy tells his son that he wants to find a woman and
shower her with expensive gifts so that she will spend time with
him. What an honest, depressing take on the aging male mind.
His ultimate fantasy is to pay a young woman for affection, and
he knows as well as we do that it’s not even going to happen.
Big Daddy’s slightly more realistic goal is to make amends
with his angry drunken son Brick (Paul Newman). Since his
best friend died, Brick has become cold, distant, and downright
selfish. He won’t even touch his long-suffering wife
Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor).
The most interesting aspect of the film is the relationship
between Brick and Big Daddy. They clearly love each other
and favor each other above all others. They don’t even have
any particular grievance or grudge. They just can’t communicate.
And the years without talking has pushed them further
and further apart.
hopefully less hectic.
We could not hold these events without the
support of our sponsors. We would like to thank
Northfield Savings Bank and Casella for their
ongoing support. We would also like to thank
Community National Bank, UVM Health Network
(CVMC), Bolduc Metal Recycling, Green
Mountain Power, Kingsbury Companies, Leahy
Press, Leslie Drown Real Estate, Norwich University, Noyle
Johnson Insurance, Passumpsic Bank and Union Bank for
supporting this event.
Our last order of business for the evening was to vote in our
incoming board members. Matt Musgrave (Associated General
Contractors of Vermont) and Deena Smead (Leahy Press)
were elected to second terms and we welcome Gary Karnedy
(Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer), Stephanie Frost (Kinney
Drugs), Tony Matz (Northfield Savings Bank), and Elena
Biledeau (Community College of Vermont) to our board of
directors for 2022.
Next on our horizon is our annual St. Patrick’s Day Roast,
where we gather for breakfast and lightly roast a deserving
Central Vermonter. We will announce this year’s victim soon.
For more information about this event or any other event,
please visit our website at www.centralvt.com.
Vermont Public Service Department Announces the
Release of Comprehensive Energy Plan
“The Comprehensive Energy Plan provides recommendations
for achieving state energy goals equitably, affordably,
reliably and in an environmentally sound manner,” according
to Commissioner June E. Tierney at the Department of Public
Service. “The development of the Energy Plan informed and
is designed to be consistent with the recently released Climate
Action Plan,” she added.
The plan draws on input provided by Vermonters who
shared their insights over the past year in public hearings and
online events. Vermonters provided direct feedback on the
draft plan issued in November which helped to shape the final
product. “The engagement of Vermonters and Vermont organizations
in development of this plan was critical, and really
helped policy decision makers address the difficult choices
when setting energy policy goals. We look forward to continuing
to engage Vermonters as we implement the plan,” added
T.J. Poor, Director of Planning at the department.
The CEP is updated every six years. The 2022 update focuses
on strategies and options for reducing demand and
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converting remaining thermal and transportation loads to
highly efficient electric technologies, such as heat pumps and
electric vehicles. It contains strategies that can facilitate the
electric system meeting these increased demands in a manner
that encourages increased electrification while ensuring that
Vermonters can continue to pay their electric bills. The CEP
continues to maintain a role for renewable fuels to lower the
carbon content of hard-to-electrify energy service needs.
The CEP covers all energy sectors (electric, thermal, and
transportation), and it sets new goals for each sector. In the
Electric Sector: meet 100% of energy needs from carbon-free
resources by 2032, with at least 75% from renewable energy.
In the Transportation Sector: meet 10% of energy needs from
renewable energy by 2025, and 45% by 2040. In the Thermal
Sector: meet 30% of energy needs from renewable energy by
2025, and 70% by 2042
The 2022 Comprehensive Energy Plan may be downloaded
from the Department of Public Service CEP website: 2022
Plan | Department of Public Service (vermont.gov).
I wonder how many parents and adult children out there are
like that: loving each other intensely and yet unable to forge a
positive relationship.
And that brings me to the second thing about “Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof” that disappointed me: the way-too-happy ending.
[Spoiler Alert] In the final act, Maggie and Brick reconcile,
Big Daddy and Brick are communicating freely, and Brick
even turns down another glass of bourbon. The ending is
totally inconsistent with the rest of the film in substance and
tone.
It is true that rich, great-looking Brick had no real problems
and that the anger and isolation was all in his head. But in real
life, when your brain is making you depressed, it is not easy
to break the cycle of negative thoughts and snap out of it.
Despite the Hollywood ending, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is
more interesting and better acted than I was expecting and
well worth watching. I still would have liked to see a few more
cats, though.
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