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By Randolph T. Holhut 

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BRATTLEBORO—What 

started out as a one-man protest 

in the spirit of the Occupy Wall 

Street encampment in Zuccotti 

Park in New York has turned 

into a interesting legal dilemma 

for the town. 

Anthony Gilbert, 37, of Ann 

Arbor, Mich., has been camped 

out on the common since Oct. 7. 

Brattleboro Police have politely 

asked him to leave several times 

over the past week, but Gilbert 

has declined to so. 

On Monday morning, Gilbert 

met with Town Manager Barbara 

Sondag and Police Chief Eugene 

Wrinn, ostensibly to negotiate a 

peaceful end to the occupation 

of the common. 

Instead, Gilbert raised a legal 

question to which the town did 

not have an answer — who has 

legal ownership of the common? 

Gilbert, who said he had studied 

for a year and a half at the 

University of Michigan Law 

School, did some research and 

found that the last legal owner 

of the property was the Centre 

Congregational Church. 

He said that the town never 

signed off on the deed that 

would officially give the town 

ownership. 

“I told [Wrinn and Sondag] 

that the town has no legal authority 

over the common because the 

Centre Congregational Church 

is the last name on the deed,” 

Gilbert said Monday. “I did a title 

search, and there is no record 

of a deed in the town’s name.” 

Municipal employees maintain 

that the town is the owner 

and thus has the right to enforce 

■ SEE COMMON, PAGE A3 

By Thelma O’Brien 


BRATTLEBORO— 

Brattleboro Community 

Television, a nonprofit public 

access television station, has 

trained volunteer producers and 

videographers and has broadcast 

news, opinion, event announcements, 

meetings, and just about 

anything else that anyone would 

By Randolph T. Holhut 


BRATTLEBORO—Wall 

Street came to Main Street on 

Saturday afternoon. 

More than 200 people 

crowded around the Wells 

Memorial Fountain to be part 

of a event held in conjunction 

like disseminated for the past 

35 years. 

Cornelia “Cor” Trowbridge, 

BCTV’s executive director, calls 

the operation, “a little, flexible 

organization with a broad vision 

that connects people with their 

community.” 

And lately that connection has 

expanded. 

In the past decade, BCTV’s 

Get off 

whose 

lawn? 

Protestor says 

that Brattleboro 

doesn’t actually 

own its town 

common and 

can’t force 

him to leave 

with hundreds of others 

around the world in solidarity 

with the Occupy Wall Street 

protest in New York. 

Oct. 15 was designated as 

a global day of protest, with 

events in more than 80 countries 

and nearly 1,000 cities 

worldwide. 

■ SEE OCCUPY, PAGE A2 

By Olga Peters 


BRATTLEBORO—An ad 

hoc committee recently created 

by the Selectboard is studying 

possible new criteria for issuing 

liquor licenses. 

The committee held its 

first meeting on Monday, and 

Selectboard member Ken 

Schneck said the initial goal is 

to “pinpoint what happens in 

the Selectboard’s process and 

[determine] what questions the 

board can ask” people seeking 

liquor licenses. 

Town staff and the state 

Department of Liquor Control 

By Alan Panebaker 

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MONTPELIER—German 

environmental leaders are urging 

Vermont officials to follow 

their country’s lead and drop 

nuclear power. 

In May, the German government 

announced plans to phase 

out all nuclear power plants by 

2022. The decision came in the 

wake of mass anti-nuclear power 

protests across the country after 

the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear 

Power Station disaster. 

The Fukushima incident is 

considered to be the worst nuclear 

disaster since Chernobyl. 

In March, an earthquake and 

subsequent tsunami caused explosions 

and leaks of radioactive 

gas at three reactors that suffered 

partial meltdowns. In addition, 

spent fuel rods caught on fire 

and released radioactive material 

into the atmosphere and the 

Pacific Ocean. 

Expanding the connection 

BCTV turns 35 with 

new energy, equipment, 

and goals for serving 

the community 

■ SEE BCTV, PAGE A3 

(DLC) look at the backgrounds 

of individuals applying for licenses, 

while the Selectboard 

looks at the potential impact of 

a new or existing liquor license 

on the community’s health and 

safety. 

Currently, Selectboard members, 

town staff, representatives 

from local drug abuse prevention 

organizations, and the state 

comprise the ad hoc committee, 

formed at the Oct. 3 meeting. 

Some of the suggested criteria 

at Monday’s meeting included 

a list of best practices, checking 

to see if potential proprietors 

have records in other states, and 

■ SEE LIQUOR, PAGE A4 

German visitors 

urge Vt. to ditch 

nuclear power 

Environmental leaders 

visit Brattleboro, state 

The reactors that emitted 

radioactive contaminants into 

the Japanese environment are 

Mark 1 General Electric models, 

identical to the type used at the 

Vermont Yankee nuclear power 

station in Vernon. 

In a visit to Montpelier on Oct. 

11, which was coordinated by 

the Maryland-based anti-nuclear 

power group Beyond Nuclear, 

Jochen Flasbarth, president of 

Germany’s Federal Environment 

Agency, and Arne Jungjohann, of 

the Heinrich Böll Foundation, 

joined Rep. Tony Klein, D-East 

Montpelier, to discuss Vermont’s 

shift away from nuclear power. 

“It’s an amazing shift in energy 

policy,” Flasbarth said of 

the Vermont Legislature’s decision 

not to renew the Vermont 

Yankee nuclear plant’s operating 

license in 2012. 

Flasbarth said Germany plans 

to transition toward 40 percent 

renewable energy by 2020 and 

■ SEE NUCLEAR, PAGE A5 

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with an event that saw a mix 

of the stalwart demonstrators 

who’ve been marching since the 

1960s, along with toddlers, teenagers, 

and people who were still 

new to the idea of public protest. 

Many of the participants had 

one particular cause or another 

that they supported, but nearly 

all were in agreement on the 

main point of the occupy Wall 

Street movement — curbing corporate 

power. 

Starting early 

Although the stated time for 

Saturday’s event was 2 p.m., a 

handful of early birds showed up 

at noontime to get things started. 

one of them was Treah 

Pichette of Athens, who said 

that the last time she was standing 

at the Wells fountain, she 

was protesting the start of the 

u.S. invasion of iraq in 2003. 

“i’ve been waiting and expecting 

something like this for 

years,” she said. “corporations 

run the world, and the whole idea 

that corporations have the same 

rights as people is ridiculous.” 

Kimberly Seto of Brattleboro 

came with her husband, an unemployed 

union carpenter, and 

their two young children. 

“i’m here to stop the greed,” 

she said. “We were close to 

buying a house, but when the 

housing market collapsed, my 

husband stopped getting work. 

He can’t even afford to pay his 

union dues.” 

She said that she’s “not one to 

go to protests, but i read about 

this on facebook, and saw what 

was going on in new York. We 

voted for [President] obama, 

but he hasn’t been able to do 

anything. it’s time for us to help 

him.” 

Brian Shafford of West 

Brattleboro talked about the 

need to have politicians that were 

accountable to the people. “The 

people in new York are saying 

it better than i can. i’d love to 

be there, but i don’t have the 

means.” 

Kiera lewis of Brattleboro 

came as part of the Vermont 

Workers center’s contingent, 

the group that helped to organize 

events in Montpelier and 

Burlington over the weekend. 

“i’m fed up and here to motivate 

other community members 

to raise our voices and be part of 

the decision process,” she said, 

carrying a sign that read “This is 

What Democracy looks like.” 

Jen Wiechers of Brattleboro 

noted the positive energy of the 

event. “Protests aren’t my thing, 

but this isn’t a protest, it’s a 

movement that’s more positive. 

it’s different, and a long time in 

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daughters 

five-year-old Ted Scheltema 

of Guilford held up a sign 

“Democracy, not Plutocracy.” 

His mother, nicole Petrin, said 

her two children were excited 

to come. 

“He really wanted to hold a 

sign,” said Petrin. “This was his 

first protest, but being here is going 

to make a difference for their 

whole lives.” 

Another mother, Aurora 

nunez of Hartford, conn., was 

in town to visit her son, who attends 

Marlboro college. 

“i’m here to be supportive 

of this movement,” she said. 

“Things are really out of control. 

Working people can’t survive, 

and more and more people are 

falling out of the middle class. 

This might be the time that people 

finally realize what has happened 

to their country.” 

The mother-daughter tandem 

of Teri and Jodi Bates of 

Rockingham said they knew 

exactly why they needed to be 

there. 

“The state of this country is a 

mess and all the politicians are 

crooked,” said Teri. “They don’t 

govern, they’re worried about 

their next election. everybody’s 

sick of the same old, same old.” 

“This is beyond just rich and 

poor,” said Jodi, Teri’s daughter, 

who was holding a “Honk 

if You’re one of the 99%” sign. 

“This is about fairness and 

seeing the economy work for 

everybody.” 

Reviving the 

dream 

Ron Pickering of Brattleboro 

led the Vermont Afl-cio from 

1993 to 2003. 

“i watched so many jobs disappear 

in that time, ” he said. 

“When i was young, you could 

get a decent job, live a good life, 

and end up retiring from the 

place you started at. That’s all 

gone now.” 


Kimberly Seto of 

Brattleboro was one 

of the early arrivals 

at Saturday’s Occupy 

Brattleboro event. 

Daryl Pillsbury agreed. He 

said he went down to Wall Street 

last Tuesday on his day off from 

his job at Brattleboro Memorial 

Hospital, and he planned to do 

so again this week. 

“This isn’t going to go away,” 

said the former Brattleboro 

Selectboard member and state 

representative. “There are a lot 

of angry people around the country 

that the American Dream is 

gone.” 

“There’s a general dissatisfaction 

that we all share, regardless 

of our politics,” said state Rep. 

John Moran, D-Wardsboro, who 

attended along with his legislative 

colleague Rep. Ann Manwaring, 

D-Wilmington. “We need to 

build a fairer economy.” 


Treah Pichette of Athens was one of the early arrivals 

at Saturday’s Occupy Brattleboro event.

THE COMMONS • Wednesday, October 19, 2011 NEWS A3 

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BCTV Production Manager Roland Boyden hosts the public access station’s 

original 15-minute news broadcast, 5:45 Live. 

■ BCTV FROM SECTION FRONT 

income has risen by more than 

$100,000, from about $150,000 

to nearly $250,000. The most 

recent bump in revenue results 

principally from increased subscriber 

fees from the two cable 

TV companies that carry BCTV: 

Comcast and Southern Vermont 

Cable. 

BCTV provides local programming 

to more than 

4,700 Comcast customers in 

Brattleboro, Guilford, and 

Vernon; Southern Vermont 

Cable serves 2,000 subscribers in 

Putney, Dummerston, Jamaica, 

Townshend, and Newfane. 

Channel 8, the main BCTV 

channel, carries programming 

produced by nearly 50 volunteer 

producers, from church services 

to the Strolling of the Heifers parade 

to a live daily news program, 

5:45 Live . 

Channel 10 runs education- 

and government-related programs, 

mostly municipal meeting 

coverage, and other long-form 

programming. 

The Federal Communications 

Commission and the Vermont 

Department of Public Service 

both require cable TV companies 

to fund public-access operations, 

such as BCTV, in exchange for 

being granted a franchise to provide 

service in a community. 

These public-access channels 

are funded through a percentage 

of customer service fees, which 

amounted to 5.5 percent from 

Comcast, or more than $200,000 

this fiscal year, and 1.1 percent 

from Southern Vermont Cable, 

about $18,000. 

The new contract with 

Southern Vermont Cable, recently 

vigorously negotiated, 

increased that company’s share 

from $5,000 to $18,000. These 

so-called franchise fees, dedicated 

in large part to BCTV 

operating expenses, now also 

include small percentages specifically 

designated for capital 

expenses. 

Trowbridge said BCTV’s 

current main goal is to replace 

equipment and renovate the 

organization’s studio; a project 

that will cost between $20,000 

and $30,000. 

The capital improvements will 

be funded by the cable company 

capital fees and by money the 

station has saved in anticipation 

of renovations. 

The newly purchased $16,000 

digital broadcaster and new editing 

suites are among the most 

important recent improvements, 

she said. The equipment replaces 

old DVD decks, enhancing reliability 

and quality. 

Less exalted, but nevertheless 

important, according to 

Trowbridge, is the plan to replace 

the retro, half-moon, desk 

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in the studio where an on-camera 

person sits. 

“That one came from 

Experienced Goods,” she said. 

Trowbridge explained that 

a major mission of BCTV is to 

provide equipment and training 

to anyone who wants to learn or 

use those skills to produce a program. 

Last year, 48 producers 

and editors submitted programming 

to the station. 

Recently, BCTV celebrated 

35 years at a small and tasty 

gathering and board meeting 

at the Brattleboro Museum 

and Art Center. The traveling, 

wood-fired pizza oven from 

Brattleboro’s Rigani’s Pizza supplied 

more than 75 guests with 

thin-crust, veggie-topped examples, 

as well as roasted vegetables 

and other healthy offerings. A 

congratulatory cake commemorated 

the occasion. 

Palpable good cheer dominated 

the meeting, highlighted 

by reports from Lynn Barrett, 

president of the BCTV board, 

and from Trowbridge, plus the 

introduction of BCTV’s new 

website ( brattleborotv.org ), also 

one of the benefits of increases 

in cable fees. The site went public 

on March 7. 

“We had a clunky and awkward 

website,” Trowbridge 

pointed out, noting that the 

station hired local web designers 

MuseArts and Woodbury 

Solutions to create the new site. 

The website now streams 

the broadcast of both stations, 

and visitors can play BCTVproduced 

programs and municipal 

meeting footage on demand. 

The new site also offers links 

to nearly everything BCTV does, 

including schedules, policies, 

teaching, and streaming opportunities, 

and public access news. 

The 2011-2012 board of trustees 

was elected at the meeting, 

including several members 

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Tim Wessel, Joe Bushey, Dora 

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other goals and strategies 

for the station: increasing awareness 

and building the public image 

of BCTV, increasing local 

programming in all the towns 

that BCTV serves, engaging 

youth and seniors with special 

outreach and programming, 

improving the quality of BCTV 

productions, staying current 

with new media, and improving 

governance. 

Nonprofi t leader 

Trowbridge is now in her fifth 

year as executive director. She 

grew up in Dublin, N.H., and is 

a graduate of Milton Academy, 

the University of Michigan and 

the University of Massachusetts 

at Amherst, where she gained 

a master’s degree in regional 

planning. 

She is a veteran of several nonprofits, 

including Tree People, 

a Los Angeles environmental 

organization. 

She is married to Hugh 

Silbaugh, who is dean of the 

faculty at Northfield Mount 

Hermon, a private high school in 

Gill, Mass. They have two sons 

and live in Putney. 

She also said she thinks her 

communications skills are good, 

a necessary talent for her job, 

which includes, “Speaking, writing, 

managing budgets. You 

have to have an organized mind 

and be able to weave a logical 

thread between a thesis and a 

conclusion.” 

Before coming to BCTV, 

she worked for the Brattleboro 

Planning Department as an assistant 

planner, grants manager, 

and community development officer. 

And, she pointed out, she 

also ran the town bus system. 

“What I finally figured out 

was I don’t exactly have a career; 

what I have is a skill set,” said 

Trowbridge. “And I can apply 

it to almost any situation, to any 

mission-driven organization.” 

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been listed under the town’s 

ownership for years,” said Kate 

Snow of the Listers Office. 

Nonetheless, Gilbert’s claim 

touched off a flurry of activity 

at the Municipal Center on 

Monday. 

Snow acknowledged that the 

church once owned the land, but 

that the Listers aren’t completely 

sure who has legal title now. 

Seeds of doubt 

According to Centre 

Congregational Church’s website, 

the congregation bought 

the parcel of land that now is the 

common in 1815 and build its 

first meeting house there. 

In 1842, the congregation decided 

to dismantle the building 

and rebuilt it at its present location, 

193 Main St. 

Gilbert said the church isn’t 

sure whether it owns the property, 

and he said it is looking 

into his claim that it still owns 

the land. 

“Deeds weren’t very specific 

back then,” said Town Clerk 

Annette Cappy on Monday. 

“We’re still investigating who 

exactly owns it.” 

BMH Comprehensive 

Breast Care Program 

holds open house 

on Oct. 21 

BRATTLEBORO — The 

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital 

Comprehensive Breast Care 

Program invites the public to 

an open house on National 

Mammography Day on Friday, 

Oct. 21, from 2-4 p.m., on the 

second floor of the Richards 

Building. 

BMH’s breast care nurse 

navigator Kelly McCue, RN, 

has organized a program that 

includes a tour of the mammography 

suite and a review of 

recent strides made by the program, 

including the awarding of 

a grant by the National Breast 

Cancer Foundation and the receipt 

of the American College 

of Radiology’s Gold Seal of 

Approval. 

As the hospital gets ready to 

start its high risk and genetics 

program, Dr. Joseph Rosen will 

give a brief talk about patients 

who are at high risk for breast 

cancer. Kim Timlege, LMT, 

will also give a brief review of 

the breast care program’s gentle 

restorative yoga practice. 

Pink cupcakes and pink lemonade 

will be served in observation 

of October as National 

Breast Cancer Awareness 

Month. Music will be provided 

by harpist Joan Shimer, 

and Larry Enright of Enright & 

Company has donated a manicure/pedicure 

for a drawing. 

For more information, contact 

McCue at 802-251-8437 or kmccue@bmhvt.org. 

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Opening doors to home 

ownership since 1974. 

“It’s somewhat unclear,” said 

Sondag on Monday. “There 

have been rumors over the years 

that the property hadn’t been 

properly deeded, but it looks 

like more of a case of correcting 

some paperwork more than anything 

else.” 

As a result, enough legal doubt 

was sown that Gilbert was able 

to maintain his encampment for 

the time-being. 

Sondag said that overnight 

camping is not allowed on the 

common or in any other townowned 

park. 

“There are certainly good 

questions raised by this, and 

the whole issue of the First 

Amendment and the right to 

protest versus public order and 

safety,” she said. “For now, we’re 

doing more research and asking 

more questions.” 

One-man 

occupation 

Gilbert strung up a green nylon 

tarp at the northernmost 

edge of the common, overlooking 

the Brattleboro Retreat. His 

bedroll and a few bags with his 

belongings sit underneath. 

For the first couple of days of 

his stay on the common, he set 

up an electric griddle and a coffee 

pot and served free pancakes 

and coffee to visitors. The town 

shut off the water and electricity 

last Wednesday, so he had to 

give up the impromptu breakfast 

buffet. 

“It gives me something to 

do,” he said last week. “It’s less 

depressing than sitting around 

with no job.” 

Gilbert said he grew up in 

Michigan, where his father was 

a state policeman. He graduated 

from high school and served four 

years in the Army as an ammunition 

specialist from 1995 until 

1999 to earn money for college. 

He then went to Walsh 

College in Troy, Mich., and 

graduated magna cum laude with 

a business degree in 2001, the 

first member of his family to go 

to college. He tried law school, 

but dropped out after 18 months. 

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But he said he hasn’t had a 

full-time job since 2001, and has 

spent most of the last few years 

doing long-distance hikes. 

“It was cool for a while, but 

now I’d like to get a real job,” 

he said. 

He was on the Appalachian 

Trail this spring, and left the 

trail in Manchester. He said he 

worked for food at an organic 

farm in South Londonderry, 

but he wanted to try seeing if he 

could clerk with a lawyer so he 

could be certified to practice law. 

Vermont is one of the few 

states in the country that allows 

residents to become lawyers 

without attending law school, 

provided they spend 25 hours 

a week for four years studying 

alongside a licensed attorney before 

taking the bar exam. 

He said he hiked to Brattleboro 

looking for a job, but the one 

place that hired him let him go 

after a couple of days when the 

owners discovered he was homeless. 

He used the money to buy a 

cell phone and some new shoes, 

and he decided to set up camp 

on the common. 

“I was hoping the local government 

would be a little more 

supportive,” Gilbert said. “I 

would hate to see them force a 

protest off a public space.” 

But he loves being in 

Brattleboro. 

“My beef isn’t with the town. 

It’s with Washington,” he said. 

“Between the lobbyists and the 

unlimited campaign contributions, 

the people no longer have 

a say in how their country is run. 

The wealthy have too much political 

power, and too big a share 

of our nation’s wealth.” 

That’s why Gilbert said he 

started camping out on the 

common. 

“I went to law school for 18 

months, and the biggest lesson I 

learned is how strange it is that so 

many people have no idea what 

their rights are,” he said. 

“No one’s joined me so far,” 

he said. “But give it a week 

or two, and we’ll see what 

happens.” 

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requiring training manuals from 

business owners. 

selectboard member Ken 

schneck raised the question of 

“what criteria” that led to the 

board, in its capacity of the local 

liquor commission, calling a 

special meeting oct. 3. 

According to Town Attorney 

Robert Fisher, business owners 

must receive approval at the 

municipal and state levels to obtain 

a liquor license in Vermont. 

Applications go first to Town 

Clerk Annette Cappy, who notifies 

the board, and the police 

and Fire departments. 

police Chief eugene Wrinn 

said his department checks the 

potential license holder for local 

or state violations and compiles 

reports for the selectboard. 

however, if the potential proprietor 

has had issues with a 

business or liquor license or was 

involved in criminal activity outside 

Vermont, Wrinn said, that 

history wouldn’t show up during 

the town’s or state’s checks. 

Town manager Barbara 

sondag said the town notifies 

the fire department in case it 

needs to conduct any health or 

safety checks. 

If approved by the town, the 

application or renewal moves 

up the ladder to the state 

department of liquor Control. 

The state also vets the proprietor 

for infractions committed within 

the state. 

Fisher told the board that the 

granting of a liquor license “is a 

privilege and it can be done with 

conditions.” 

Also, he said, the board can 

revoke or suspend a license it 

previously approved “for good 

reason” that the board can justify 

— even when a proprietor 

has met all requirements. 

Robin Rieske, a regional 

prevention consultant for the 

Vermont department of health, 

stressed that the push to establish 

criteria for the selectboard 

when considering liquor licenses 

did not represent an attempt to 

limit business in town or an antialcohol 

campaign. 

Instead, she said, the move 

would help provide support and 

accountability. For responsible 

business owners, the criteria 

should prove easy to meet, she 

added. 

Issues? 

selectboard members and the 

public had raised concerns about 

the number of liquor outlets in 

town at previous board meetings. 

According information from 

the Brattleboro Area prevention 

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Coalition (BApC), which promotes 

drug and alcohol prevention 

through education, policy 

changes, media campaigns, advocacy, 

increased law enforcement, 

and training, the town had 

31 retail establishments with licenses 

to sell alcohol and 50 bars 

or restaurants with licenses to 

serve as of January 2011. 

The BApC estimated that 

those establishments provide 

one alcohol outlet for every 172 

residents. 

since January, however, the 

town has lost several restaurants 

that had served alcohol, 

including Alici’s Bistro, Adagio 

Trattoria, the Riverview Cafe, 

and The mole’s eye. 

In response to issues such as 

fights in front of some downtown 

bars, or police stopping drivers 

for driving under the influence, 

sondag said, the board instigated 

quarterly bar-owner meetings. 

new liquor license holders 

must attend these meetings, 

as well as established licensees 

flagged with multiple violations, 

said Wrinn. 

These meetings, however, fall 

into the category of policy, rather 

than under a town ordinance, 

said Wrinn. 

The police department also 

sends alcohol violation notices to 

establishments involved in a police 

call. Wrinn said the goal with 

the notices is to build partnerships 

with businesses in dealing 

with the unhealthy manifestations 

of the overuse of alcohol. 

For example, said Wrinn, if a 

driver is stopped for a duI, police 

ask “where did you have your 

last drink?” 

If the person pinpoints one 

bar, the Bpd sends a notice 

and asks for response from the 

owner, Wrinn said. 

some bars respond and some 

don’t, he said. 

Responding to the notices has 

been voluntary, but the town will 

soon require owners to respond 

to the alcohol violation notices. 

What the Bpd and board look 

for in the responses to the notices 

is how the bar remedies a 

situation, like over-serving, that 

may have led to a person driving 

drunk, said Wrinn. 

Wrinn added that some patrons 

will point fingers at bars 

that did nothing wrong, in which 

case the notices give the bars a 

chance to clear themselves. 

ultimately, the selectboard, 

acting as the local liquor commissioners, 

has the authority to 

issue sanctions and place conditions 

on the liquor licenses, said 

Beth shrader, ad-hoc committee 

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Alyssa Blittersdorf, co-owner of Metropolis on Elliot Street in Brattleboro. 

member and BApC director. 

In conjunction with the state, 

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trainings for managers and employees 

of businesses selling alcohol 

to look for problems like 

over-serving or failing to check 

patrons’ identification. 

Rieske said the data she has 

seen points more toward issues 

with management and over-serving 

and less toward issues like 

serving underage drinkers. 

most underage drinkers obtain 

their alcohol from someone 

over 21, said Rieske. 

According to data released 

by the BApC in January, of the 

Windham southeast area students 

in grades 8-12 who drank 

alcohol in the previous 30 days, 

43 percent were given the alcohol, 

31 percent gave someone 

money to purchase alcohol for 

them, and 11 percent got it, or 

stole it, from home. 

“I think the selectboard is 

going in the right direction with 

what they’re doing,” said Bill 

manch, state liquor control officer 

for Windham County. 

manch said the state gives 

selectboards the authority to 

place a lot of conditions on liquor 

licenses “within reason.” 

The state tends to weigh its 

approval of liquor licenses toward 

the towns’ decisions, said 

manch. 

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arrests, so they should have the 

first-line authority, he said. 

The the state is reluctant to 

approve a license for an establishment 

the town voted down, 

manch added. 

manch conducts more than 

20 quarterly inspections of businesses 

with liquor licenses in 

town. 

manch said, the common issues 

he encounters while inspecting 

bars were staff over-serving 

patrons and disorderly conduct. 

In retail outlets, he identifies people 

buying alcohol on behalf of 

a minor as the largest problem. 

Brattleboro sees a lot of action 

because of its status as a hub 

town, said manch. still, manch 

felt the town’s alcohol-related incidents 

per capita “were not different 

than the rest of the state.” 

In manch’s experience, “a 

good 90 percent” of crimes involve 

alcohol “in some shape 

or form, because alcohol alters 

people’s way of thinking.” 

But drinking also involves behavior 

— a hard thing to influence, 

he said. What towns can 

regulate, or educate, are business 

owners and staff. 

A challenging 

reputation 

Alyssa Blittersdorf and Alan 

Blackwell knew all about the 

metropolis Wine Bar & Cocktail 

lounge’s “sullied” reputation as 

a drug hangout and unsafe environment 

when they bought the 

elliot street wine bar. 

Blackwell, who worked at 

metropolis during its better 

days in 2006, said when he and 

Blittersdorf decided to purchase 

metropolis, they wanted to keep 

the name and continue serving 

wine and cocktails. 

so, he said, the couple took 

changing the bar’s reputation 

“as a challenge.” 

The first-time business owners 

went before the selectboard 

in its role as local liquor commissioners 

on April 17. not knowing 

what to expect, said Blackwell, 

the couple attended their hearing 

“over-prepared” with their business 

plan and financials. 

“Alyssa is a huge optimist, and 

I’m a huge realist,” Blackwell 

said. 

The board approved 

the license application, and 

metropolis re-opened in July. 

“We wanted to create a comfortable 

and safe place,” said 

Blackwell. 

Blackwell said he and 

Blittersdorf, both in their late 

20s, completed most of the 

renovations themselves. They 

changed the lighting, redesigned 

the interior, beautified the storefront’s 

façade with paint and 

hanging flower pots, and installed 

a downstairs lounge. he 

said the positive feedback from 

customers has “been amazing.” 

The new owners also added a 

security camera to the downstairs 

lounge. The downstairs could 

prove “too much of a temptation 

for some people” without 

one, said Blackwell. 

music at metropolis stays at a 

conversation-friendly level that, 

according to Blackwell, won’t 

hide a drunken conversation. 

Through the six days a week 

that the metropolis is open, the 

couple is on the premises because 

they want to see firsthand 

what is happening in their bar, 

said Blackwell. 

Also, the couple is on a firstname 

basis with most town police 

officers and won’t hesitate 

to call if there is a problem on 

the premises. 

According to Blackwell, the 

“personality” the couple have 

given the wine bar has helped 

erase the assumption that 

metropolis would have a permissive 

atmosphere under the 

new management. 

“We’re excited for people to 

judge [metropolis] for themselves. 

This is our baby right 

now,” said Blackwell. 

But Blackwell gives his customers 

much of the credit for 

protecting the wine bar’s new 

and improved reputation. 

“people love what this place is 

becoming,” he said. 

“We wanted to create an environment 

different than others in 

town,” Blackwell said, adding he 

loves the idea of people spending 

an evening strolling the downtown 

from the establishment to 

dinner, to the movies, to meeting 

with friends. 

metropolis specializes in custom-infused 

alcohol that the 

owners blend themselves. The 

couple displays the infusions-inprogress 

behind the bar in large 

class containers. The containers 

elicit curiosity from customers 

who check in to see when new 

flavors are ready, said Blackwell. 

Customers’ curiosity helps 

build an environment of trying 

new flavors and enjoying 

time with friends, he said, adding 

few customers ask to slam 

back shots. 

The infusions represent “playtime” 

for Blackwell, but adds 

that they also represent a “huge 

trial and error” process that 

sometimes “fails miserably.” 

Right now, the couple are experimenting 

with a pumpkin pie 

infusion of vanilla, pumpkin, 

spices, and raw sugar. 

Blackwell thinks this unique 

aspect of their business not only 

helps build a regular clientele 

but also engages customers with 

the bar. he feels this engagement 

helps support the lounge’s 

growing reputation as a safe but 

fun place. 

Blackwell counts a book group 

and a mothers’ group as regular 

customers who use the downstairs 

lounge. 

however, Blackwell said, 

“there are always special days” 

in dealing with customers for 

any business that serves alcohol. 

But with the environment fostered 

by the owners and the participation 

of regular customers, 

Blackwell has not seen people 

walking through the door with 

the sole desire to “get drunk.” 

“If you want to go out and get 

wasted, there are cheaper options 

[than metropolis],” Blackwell 

adds, referring to the lounge’s 

cocktails that cost around $9. 

Blackwell and Blittersdorf met 

while working in the restaurant 

business, and although they enjoyed 

the work, they imagined 

that owning their own business 

would be more satisfying. 

The business has proved financially 

successful in its first 

three months, said Blackwell. 

Blackwell said that the couple 

has a plan for metropolis’ future 

but are more involved with the 

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new business’s present. 

“We love each other and we 

love this business,” Blackwell 

said. “We’re so grateful for it.” 

Community 

impact 

In a separate interview, 

schneck said his ideal outcome 

for the ad hoc committee’s process 

is developing a set of criteria 

the board can use to evaluate liquor 

license applications. 

The board has no framework 

at present, schneck said. 

By comparison, the Town 

Arts Committee has more than 

20 criteria it uses to evaluate potential 

pieces of public art, said 

schneck, noting that establishing 

criteria for the board does 

not involve restricting or taking 

away licenses. 

schneck said he wants to “do 

due diligence. Right now, I feel 

like a rubber stamp [regarding] 

community impact.” 

The board should look at 

community impact when considering 

liquor licenses, schneck 

said. 

“I like the direction this is going,” 

he said. 

schneck said his concerns 

around the lack of criteria 

came about as he watched the 

selectboard renew and approve 

new liquor licenses back in April, 

when all licenses come up for 

renewal. 

he feels that part of the 

selectboard’s role of looking 

at the big community picture is 

determining the impact of alcohol 

establishments on the town 

as a whole. 

no specific alcohol-related issues 

in town especially concern 

schneck. But, he said, conversations 

during the community forum 

on crime the town hosted in 

August noted a “clear connection 

between alcohol and drugs, 

and crime.” 

some of schneck’s interest in 

establishing criteria for the board 

comes from his experience as an 

alcohol and drugs educator and 

his position as dean of students 

at marlboro College. 

“When it comes to unhealthy 

relationships with alcohol, 

there’s no such thing as the 

‘one and only Brattleboro’,” 

said schneck, referring to the 

town’s marketing slogan. 

In general, schneck would like 

to see a more options for people 

to socialize in town, sans alcohol. 

schneck said he understands 

that fostering a social scene in 

Brattleboro drives the number of 

bars in downtown. But, he adds, 

alcohol-serving establishments 

leave out the portion of the community 

in recovery. 

If a recovering alcoholic’s only 

social option is a bar, the choice 

becomes his or her health, or being 

a social being, said schneck. 

There’s not a dean of students 

in the country who would not 

say “yes” if asked if alcohol and 

drugs pose problems on college 

campuses, said schneck. 

But, unlike other communities, 

he said that Brattleboro is 

“willing to step up” and look at 

the issues. 

schneck expects that formal 

invitations to the committee’s 

meetings will be sent to 

proprietors, who he described 

as “an invaluable voice in this 

conversation.” 

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Drop In 

Center elects 

new board 

members 

BRATTLEBORO—At 

the Brattleboro Area Drop In 

Center’s annual meeting on Sept. 

9, the center elected two new 

board members. 

Jeffrey J. Morse, president 

and CEO of River Valley Credit 

Union, was elected a new board 

member and also elected Vice 

Chair. 

kelli Corbeil, general manager 

of WTSA Radio, was elected as 

a board member. 

The board gave its thanks to 

outgoing members John Wilcox, 

Patty gilbert, Jason Henske, and 

Carl Fuhs, and recognized their 

years of service to the center. 

Other board members elected 

to officer positions were Larry 

Smith, Board Chair; the Rev. 

Suzanne Andrews, Clerk; and 

Alan Moos, Treasurer. 

In looking to the year ahead, 

both Smith and Executive 

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commented on the financial 

challenges facing the center as 

donations decrease and need 

increases during these difficult 

economic times. They thanked 

the staff and volunteers for jobs 

well done and committed to continuing 

the mission of the Drop 

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Grace Cottage offers 

Zumba classes 

TOWnSHEnD — grace 

Cottage Hospital’s Wellness 

Center will host two eight-week 

Zumba classes starting on Oct. 

25 on Tuesday and Thursday 

evenings. 

Zumba, the Latin-infused 

fitness party, combines easyto-follow 

dance moves with invigorating 

Latin music, creating a 

fitness program that is both effective 

and fun. Appropriate for all 

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requirements are comfy clothes, 

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and the ability to have fun. 

Taught by certified Zumba 

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popular offerings. The class is 

limited to 20 participants. The 

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Process of rescuing 

damaged books 

outlined at RFPL 

BELLOWS FALLS — On 

a cold and rainy night last 

December, a pipe burst in the 

Rockigham Free Public Library. 

It was perfectly situated over the 

Local History Room, soaking a 

large percentage of the library’s 

rare local history books, archives, 

and art work. 

Arriving at the library the 

next morning, Reference and 

Historical Collection Librarian 

Emily Zervas discovered the 

damage and immediately took 

action, setting in motion a long 

journey of rare book rescue — a 

story filled with loss and retrieval, 

professional conservators, hightech 

processes and traditional 

techniques. 

Hear all about it on 

Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m., at 

the library. Everyone who played 

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present: Zervas; paper conservator 

Carolyn Frisa; book binders 

Malcolm and Anne Summers; 

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a property damage restoration 

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This event is free and open 

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for professionals, amateurs, and 

book lovers of all stripes. Call 

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klein, who chairs the House 

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Route 100 now reopened 

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A6 neWs The Commons • Wednesday, October 19, 2011 

Obituaries 

Editor’s note: The Commons 

will publish brief biographical information 

for citizens of Windham 

County and others, on request, as 

community news, free of charge. 

• Robert 

A l d r i c h 

“Bomber” 

Brown, 81, 

formerly of 

Jamaica. Died 

Oct. 7 at Vernon 

Green Nursing 

Home. Husband of Carol A. 

Jacques for 46 years. Father 

of Sally Hescock and her husband, 

Richard, of Wardsboro; 

Carl Brown and his wife, 

Rhonda, of Jamaica; David 

Brown and his wife, Alison, 

of Wardsboro. Brother of 

Mary Ward of Indiana, Doris 

Benware of Hanover, N.H., and 

Homer Brown of Rochester. 

Predeceased by one sister, Slyia, 

and three brothers, Max Jr, 

Raymond, and Rodney. Born 

in Rochester, the son of the late 

Max and Mina (Warner) Brown, 

he was raised and educated in 

Rochester, where he attended 

public schools. For several years, 

he resided in Wilmington prior 

to moving to Jamaica in 1965. 

He had worked as a sales representative 

for Interstate Bingo 

Supply, a company he established, 

and previously worked 

as a self-employed logger. He 

had also worked at Cersosimo 

Lumber Co. Active fraternally, 

he was a member of the Masonic 

Lodge in Jamaica, as well as 

the Cairo Shrine Temple of 

Rutland. He also held membership 

in the Eagles and B.P.O. 

Elks, Brattleboro Lodge #1499. 

An ardent outdoorsman, he enjoyed 

hunting, gardening, and 

raising livestock. MEMORIAL IN- 

FORMATION: Graveside committal 

services with Masonic Rites 

were held Oct. 12 in Oakwood 

Cemetery in Townshend. 

Donations to Grace Cottage 

Hospital, Route 35, Townshend, 

VT. 05353, in care of Dr. Robert 

Backus. Messages of condolence 

may be sent to Atamaniuk 

Funeral Home at www.atamaniuk.com. 

• Marjorie 

Mae Hulett, 

8 4 , o f 

Brattleboro. 

Died Oct. 11 

at Pine Heights 

Nursing Home. 

Sister of Edith 

Roberts and Thela Dunn, both 

of East Dummerston, and 

Earl Hulett of Kenmore, N.Y. 

Born in Marlboro, the daughter 

of the late Clyde and Ruby 

Fuller Hulett, she was raised 

and educated in Putney. Prior 

to moving to Brattleboro, she 

had been a former resident of 

both Marlboro and Putney. 

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Worked at Geka Brush Co. 

and American Optical, both in 

Brattleboro. During her earlier 

years, she was involved in farming 

in Westminster West. She 

was a member of Community 

Bible Chapel in Brattleboro. 

MEMORIAL INFORMATION: 

Graveside committal services 

were conducted on Oct. 15 in 

Mount Pleasant Cemetery in 

Putney. Messages of condolence 

may be sent to Atamaniuk 

Funeral Home at www.atamaniuk.com. 

• Jane A. Jockell, 54, of 

Grafton. Died Oct. 10 at her 

home. Wife of Bill Jockell for 35 

years. Mother of Daniel Jockell 

of Rhode Island and Sarah 

Jockell of Walpole, N.H. Sister 

of Gail, Patti, Nancy, Steven and 

Douglas. Born in Queens, N.Y., 

the daughter of the late Walter 

and Janet (Prokasky) Demsen, 

she was a graduate of Berner 

High School in Massapequa, 

N.Y., and worked as a substitute 

teacher in Grafton and Saxtons 

River. She was a member of the 

Community Christian Church in 

Athens. She loved children and 

enjoyed singing. MEMORIAL IN- 

FORMATION: There will be a service 

at the Community Christian 

Church in Athens at a later date. 

• Pauline Iona Davis 

LaFlam, 80, of Brattleboro. 

Died Oct. 11 at Brattleboro 

Memorial Hospital. Wife of 

Frank LaFlam Sr. for 61 years. 

Mother of Frank LaFlam Jr. 

of Vernon, Mark LaFlam Sr., 

of Charlestown, N.H., and the 

late Terry LaFlam. Born in 

Tunbridge, the daughter of the 

late Merle and Mary (Decoste) 

Davis, was a graduate of St. 

Michael’s High School in 

Brattleboro. MEMORIAL INFOR- 

MATION: At her request, there 

will be no services. Donations to 

The Gathering Place, 30 Terrace 

St., Brattleboro, VT 05301, 

or Senior Solutions, Council 

on Aging for Southeastern 

Vermont, 56 Main St., Suite 202, 

Springfield, VT 05156. Messages 

of condelence may be sent to 

Ker-Westerlund and White 

Funeral & Cremation Service at 

www.kerwesterlund.com. 

• Roy M. Smith Jr., 67, of 

Ogunquit, Maine. Died Sept. 

13. Brother of Sandra Smith 

of Harford, N.Y. Half-brother 

of Cynthis Boadle of New 

Franklin, Mo.; Roland Anderson 

of Brattleboro; and Patricia 

Anderson and Los Angeles. 

Born in Greenfield, Mass., the 

son of the late Roy M. Smith, 

Sr. and Francese (Tammy) B. 

Anderson Smith, he attended 

schools in Brattleboro and graduated 

from Brattleboro Union 

High School. He was a member 

of the Brattleboro Junior Police. 

He was a well known gourmet 

chef in Ogunquit and previously 

owned two restaurants in 

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He enjoyed cooking for family 

and friends, and loved gardening 

and toy poodles. MEMORIAL 

INFORMATION: Burial will be at 

the Christ Church Cemetery in 

Guilford at a later late. 

• Elizabeth Seymour St. 

John, 54, of Putney. Died Oct. 

5. Wife of the late Juan Carlos 

Cruz Jimenez. Mother of Clara 

Leonor Cruz-St. John. Sister of 

Susan St. John, Andrew St. John, 

and Mary Colman St. John. Born 

in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

she grew up in Amenia, N.Y., 

and Putney, graduating from 

The Grammar School and The 

Putney School. After attending 

Sterling College, she graduated 

from the University of 

Vermont. She had a strong connection 

with the natural world, 

and was an environmental activist 

long before it was fashionable. 

Throughout her life, 

she was a gardener, and worked 

on farms all over Vermont. Her 

connection to the outdoors was 

combined with a love of physical 

activity. She maintained a rigorous 

schedule of walking and 

bicycling. In 2010, she walked 

the Camino Real, a 500-mile 

pilgrimage through Spain. Her 

love of music and joy in dancing 

were mainstays of her life. A core 

of her personality was her abiding 

commitment to the rights of 

the underprivileged. She carried 

a vision of a better world, one 

based on social justice and environmental 

sustainability. She 

lived her politics, and was never 

afraid of acting outside cultural 

norms when guided by her principles. 

The daughter of linguists, 

she was always interested in 

other cultures and was fluent in 

French, Spanish and Norwegian. 

She lived and worked in France 

and Norway, and later developed 

a special interest in the 

language and culture of Latin 

America. In the 1980s, she traveled 

to Guatemala to work with 

Peace Brigades International. In 

the late 1980s, she spent several 

years working in homeless shelters 

in and around Boston. A 

natural teacher, her work with 

Latin American immigrants 

transitioned to teaching English 

to speakers of other languages 

throughout the greater Boston 

area. Two years after the birth 

of her daughter, she returned 

to the area in which she had 

grown up and took a job teaching 

Spanish at the Putney School, 

eventually becoming chair of 

the Spanish department. She 

understood teenagers and knew 

how much they could accomplish, 

and she pushed each of 

them to be their own best self. 

She led regular student trips to 

Latin America and set many students 

on a lifelong path of commitment 

to social justice. Her 

warm personality, combined 

with her personal and professional 

integrity, made her one 

of the most beloved teachers the 

school has known. MEMORIAL 

INFORMATION: Memorial services 

are scheduled in Putney 

and in Maine. For dates and 

times, check www.putneyschool. 

org/content/alumni-news-events. 

Donations to Putney Cares, 

Kimball Hill Road, Putney, VT 

05346. 

• Phyllis Louise 

Stromberg, 

86, in Putney. 

Died Oct. 11 

at her home. 

Wife of the late 

Roy Stromberg 

for 40 years. 

Mother of 

Arthur of 

Worcester, Mass.; Charles of 

Reinholds, Pa.; Marlene Allen 

of Springfield; and Edward, 

Richard, and Robert, all of 

Putney. Born in Greensboro, 

the youngest of seven children 

of the late Thomas and Abbie 

(Salls) Morse. As a teenager, she 

enjoyed demonstrating her Busy 

Bee’s 4-H projects at the county 

fair in Barton. Graduated as valedictorian 

of the Class of 1942 at 

Greensboro High School, and 

from the Brattleboro Business 

Institute. Her first employment 

was with the West River Basket 

Co., which closed during World 

War II. She then enlisted in the 

Women’s Army Corps where 

she served for 20 months doing 

patient care. With her husband, 

they established Green 

Mountain Well, Inc. in 1957. 

She was the office manager/ 

bookkeeper until she retired 

from that position in 2009. She 

was a member of the Church of 

Christ in Brattleboro. She was 

an accepting, caring listener who 

had a strong faith. MEMORIAL 

INFORMATION: Calling hours 

will be held Friday, Oct. 21, 

from 7-9 p.m. at the Atamaniuk 

Funeral Home on 40 Terrace 

St., in Brattleboro. Donations 

to Brattleboro Area Hospice, 

191 Canal St., Brattleboro, 

VT 05301 or to Breast Cancer 

Research Foundation, 60 East 

56th Street, 8th Floor, New 

York, NY 10022. Messages of 

condolence may be sent to www. 

atamaniuk.com. 

Births 

• In Worcester, Mass., (St. 

Vincent Hospital), Sept. 7, 2011, 

a son, Alex Ryan Squires, to 

Leane Wilder and Heath Squires 

of Leicester, Mass.; grandson 

to Tim and Wendy Squires of 

Guilford, and Beth and Gary 

Wilder of Spencer, Mass.; greatgrandson 

to Joan and Howard 

Richardson of Brattleboro, 

Shirley Squires of Guilford, and 

the late Maynard Squires. 

College news 

• Caleb E. Wiley of South 

Londonderry is enrolled at 

Lebanon Valley College in 

Annville, Pa. Wiley is a junior 

early childhood education and 

special education major. Wiley 

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TOWNSHEND — Grace 

Cottage Hospital will provide 

a free Medicare D information 

program for the public on 

Wednesday, Oct. 26, in the hospital’s 

EMS Conference Room, 

Route 35, Townshend. The 

program will be presented three 

times during the day: at 10 a.m., 

2 p.m., and 6 p.m. 

Presenters will include pharmacists 

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Andrew Osowski and 

Christopher Lee, from the Ohio 

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Pharmacy. 

This program will begin with 

a 20-minute overview about 

the Medicare D program and 

changes for the upcoming year. 

Attendees will be able to ask 

questions. 

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to meet one-on-one with a pharmacist 

to explore the Medicare 

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in their options. While the pharmacists 

cannot give advice about 

which options to choose, they 

can help guide participants to information 

that will help inform 

their choices. 

Pre-registration for the event 

is requested, so that the pharmacists 

can be prepared for the 

number of people who plan to attend. 

Call 802-365-3649. Grace 

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presentations and classes. 

For information, visit the hospital’s 

website at www.gracecottage.org/health_wellness. 

BMH Auxiliary & 

Care Committee 

seeks winter gear 

for Irene victims 

BRATTLEBORO — 

The BMH Auxiliary & Care 

Committee seeks donations 

of gently used blankets, warm 

clothing, and Christmas décor 

for victims of Tropical Storm 

Irene on Saturday, Oct. 22. 

Donations will be collected in 

the BMH parking lot between 

9-10:30 a.m. Those affected by 

the storm are invited to come to 

pick up needed items between 

10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. For more 

information, call Dana Nelson 

at 802-254-6786 or Claire 

Lavender at 802-254-6917. 

Marlboro nonprofit program 

gets $200,000 federal grant 

MARLBORO—Small to midsize 

nonprofit organizations 

across Vermont will make a 

leap forward in the area of performance 

measurement over 

the next two years. A $200,000 

federal grant to Marlboro 

College’s Benchmarks for a 

Better Vermont (BBVT) program 

is targeted to help nonprofits 

develop specific ways to 

gather data and assess the impact 

of their work. 

This technical support comes 

at a critical time. A recent report 

from the Vermont Community 

Foundation pointed out that the 

growing demands for Vermont’s 

nonprofit sector services are 

straining its capacity to keep 

up. An efficient and transparent 

system of tracking impact is 

essential for groups to evaluate 

the effectiveness of their various 

programs. 

The award from the 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service (CNCS) 

will launch a new consortium 

dedicated to strengthening the 

state’s nonprofits. Common 

Good Vermont; United Ways of 

Vermont and the United Ways 

of Addison, Chittenden, and 

Windham County; SerVermont; 

the Vermont Community 

Foundation; and Marlboro 

College each play a key role in 

building the capacity of nonprofit 

groups to serve their 

constituents. 

This two-year grant will let 

consortium members combine 

their experience to make significant, 

sustained improvements 

in the way nonprofits help 

Vermonters achieve healthy futures, 

excellent education, and 

economic opportunities. 

“The state depends on this 

sector to support human services, 

the arts, the environment, 

and other areas that 

improve our quality of life,” 

says Marlboro College President 

Ellen McCulloch-Lovell. “I’m 

pleased that Marlboro College 

can work closely with the other 

consortium partners to increase 

the ability of our nonprofit sector 

to achieve results.” 

“Vermont’s nonprofit organizations 

do great work, but 

too often lack the tools, institutional 

support, funds, and 

staff time to conduct meaningful 

evaluations,” explains 

Stuart Comstock-Gay, president 

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“Involving nonprofits from 

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Brattleboro leaf 

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announced 

BRATTLEBORO — The 

town’s curbside Fall Leaf 

Collection takes place on Friday, 

Oct. 21 and Friday, Nov. 4. 

The whole town gets picked 

up on these two Fridays. All 

leaves and clippings must be in 

biodegradable brown paper leaf 

bags and at the curb by 7 a.m. on 

scheduled leaf collection days. 

Acceptable waste includes 

leaves, grass, clippings, garden 

waste, and twigs (no branches 

larger than 1 inch in diameter 

and 2 feet long). No other household 

trash is to be included. No 

plastic bags or other containers 

will be accepted. 

Biodegradable brown paper 

leaf bags may be purchased at 

local retailers. These will be the 

only days scheduled for curbside 

leaf pick up. 

Halloween parade 

planned in Brattleboro 

BRATTLEBORO — 

Brattleboro Halloween Parade 

3 will be held on Monday, Oct. 

31, at 6 p.m. Meet at the Stone 

Church (corner of Main and 

Grove streets). 

All creative mavens are welcome: 

artists and designers, costume 

makers, musicians, street 

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and percussionists, circus artists, 

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Progressives to meet 

in Wilmington 

WILMINGTON — The 

Vermont Progressive Party 

(VPP) of Windham and 

Bennington counties will meet 

on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 5 p.m., in 

the undercroft at the Wilmington 

Congregational Church, 13 East 

Main St. (Route 9). 

The Wilmington VPP Town 

Committee is the host for the 

meeting. The church requests 

that no political signs be posted 

outside the building. For more 

information, call Windham 

VPP Vice-Chair Alan Dann at 

802-464-0329. 

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matching funds for the project. 

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model for tracking outcomes, 

known as Results-Based 

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awareness about systems of 

performance measurement, 

then create a ladder of opportunity 

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training at the 2012 Vermont 

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by a formal assessment and 

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small to midsize nonprofits for 

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BBVT will also convene a 

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conversation about systems 

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“We are so excited to work 

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The Corporation for National 

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THE COMMONS • Wednesday, October 19, 2011 A7 

LIFE & WORK 

Pears provide perfect choice for temptation 

Brattleboro 

IT HAS BEEN suggested 

that it was the pear, not the 

apple, that tempted Eve in 

her act of defiance. 

Just one look at its shape is 

pretty convincing. Its elongated 

form suggests that of a voluptuous 

woman, tapered at the 

top and rounded at the bottom. 

Apples seem to me pretty 

straightforward and accessible, 

while pears appear sensuous, 

mysterious, and complicated, 

the perfect choice for temptation. 

They are in full season 

this time of year and readily 

available for those of us whose 

sins are, for the most part, limited 

to the kitchen. 

A recent trip around town 

revealed a startling number 

of varieties: yellow and red 

Bartletts, long freckled Boscs, 

green and red Anjous, little 

blushing Seckels, fat golden 

Comice, tall and thin green 

Concordes, and the rounder 

light tan Asian. Each possesses 

its own distinctive characteristics 

and behaves differently 

when cooked. Understanding 

these qualities will make for 

happier results. 

T HERE ARE two basic types 

of pears: European and Asian, 

both species of the genus Pyrus . 

Almost all the pears we purchase 

here in Vermont are of 

the European type. European 

pears do not ripen on the 

tree and are harvested when 

they are mature but still hard. 

Apples can be eaten right off 

the branch, but pears must undergo 

a period of transformation 

after picking while they 

ripen, from the inside out. 

Commercial growers subject 

the fruit to a treatment of cold 

for a number of days before allowing 

the pears to experience 

room temperature. Pears purchased 

locally should merely 

be left in a bowl on the counter. 

You can speed the process 

by putting the pears in a brown 

paper bag; some suggest that 

you include a banana to encourage 

the production of ethylene 

gas. 

However you let your pears 

ripen, you will know they are 

ready when the tapered top 

near the stem yields slightly after 

you apply a gentle thumb 

pressure. Check the pears every 

day. The window between perfection 

and mush is thin. 

W HY DO pears become so 

easily mealy and grainy when 

overripe? Pears contain a particular 

kind of fiber made up of 

sclerenchyma, or ”stone,” cells 

that produce a gritty texture, 

especially in pears that have 

been ripened improperly or left 

too long on the tree. 

Apples get mealy for the 

most part when they are stored 

too long and the sugar that 

holds their cells together weakens, 

turns to starch, and all the 

juiciness in them disappears. 

Peaches turn mealy when they 

have been picked ripe and then 

refrigerated, which causes the 

same change from sugar to 

starch. (Doing so also promises 

certain death for tomatoes 

as well.) 

Try to buy small amounts of 

these fruits, keep your eye on 

them and, when they are ripe, 

eat them. To bite into a mealy 

or grainy piece of fruit has been 

said to epitomize the pain of 

unfulfilled expectations. Who 

needs more of that? 

L ET’S START with Asian 

pears. There are many fantastic 

varieties of this type of pear, 

but we here in Vermont seem 

to end up with only one. This 

variety in appearance resembles 

an apple and, like an apple, 

is picked ripe off the tree. They 

are round and light brown with 

lighter speckles on the skin. 

Unlike European pears when 

ripe, Asian pears have a very 

crisp firm texture. I believe that 

they are better when eaten raw, 

and they are delicious in salads 

with spicy greens like watercress, 

or made into slaw like 

this: 

For 6 servings, take 2 peeled 

and cored Asian pears and cut 

the flesh into matchsticks. If you 

don’t want to take the time to cut 

all those little julienne pieces, just 

grate the pear on the coarse side of 

a standing grater. 

Repeat one or the other technique 

with 2 ribs of crisp celery. 

Thinly slice 2 scallions on the 

diagonal. 

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The World on My Plate 

Coarsely chop ¼ cup of cilantro 

leaves. 

Combine in a medium bowl. 

Whisk together 3 tablespoons of 

fresh lime juice, 2 tablespoons of 

rice vinegar, a teaspoon of grated 

fresh ginger, and an optional ½ 

teaspoon of finely minced hot pepper 

if you like a kick of heat. 

Toss the vegetables with this 

mixture and let them sit for about 

20 minutes before serving. 

This slaw is a perfect accompaniment 

to roast pork or piled 

inside a turkey sandwich. 

E UROPEAN PEARS can be divided 

into two broad categories: 

eating and cooking. I think 

the cooking category can be divided 

further into baking and 

poaching/roasting. 

Let’s start with the latter. 

The Seckel pear is like a perfect 

little baby pear in size, but 

a fully mature pear in taste. 

These pears are actually great 

eaten out of hand but especially 

well suited for poaching 

or roasting. 

Here is a truly simple recipe 

for four that turns these diminutive, 

shy fruits into something 

truly luscious. 

Pre-heat the oven to 400 F. 

Cut 8 washed Seckel pears in half 

lengthwise. Don’t peel. 

Melt half a stick of butter with 

3 tablespoons of maple syrup. 

Toss the pears in this mixture. 

Sprinkle with a bit of salt and 

pepper and roast on a baking 

sheet, cut-side down, for 20 minutes 

until soft and caramelized. 

Serve with vanilla ice cream, 

whipped cream, crème fraîche, 

or a perfectly ripe, bloomy-rind 

goat cheese. Just cut around 

the cores, or better yet, suck 

the goodness out of them and 

(discreetly, of course) spit the 

remnants out. 

A simple poaching in wine 

is one of the best ways to eat a 

pear. I usually use the Bosc variety 

because I love their shape 

and because they hold their 

texture perfectly when cooked. 

Either color of Bartlett or 

Anjou would work as well. 

Concordes are shaped like 

Bosc but green. For some reason 

they don’t brown as easily 

as other pears when cut, but I 

think they have a weak flavor. 

This recipe serves four and 

will keep you near the stove for 

an hour and should be made 

in the morning to eat that 

evening. 

In a medium saucepan, combine 

a bottle of an inexpensive 

but drinkable white wine with 1 

cup of sugar and 1 scraped vanilla 

bean. Bring to a boil and 

turn down to a simmer. 

Peel 4 firm Bosc pears, leaving 

the stem and coring them from the 

bottom. I use one of those little serrated 

apple corers. 

Immerse the pears in the 

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simmering sweetened wine and ½ cup of milk, and ½ stick of Preheat the oven to 400 F. short neck, and an extremely 

place a heavy lid, smaller than the melted, unsalted butter. 

Line a baking sheet with alumi- juicy flesh that is easily de- 

size of the pan, on top of the pears Core, then don’t peel but cube, num foil and set aside. 

scribed as so creamy to be al- 

to make sure they stay submerged. 2 Anjou pears. 

Halve lengthwise and core 2 most custardy. 

Maintaining a gentle simmer, Combine the egg mixture with pears. Trim a tiny piece from the The fine flavor of these pears 

cook for 30 minutes, until a sharp the dry ingredients and add the round side so they can sit without is very sweet with mingled sug- 

knife easily pierces their flesh. Let pear. Mix well. 

wobbling. Squeeze some lemon gestions of honey and wine. 

cool for 15 minutes. 

Pour into the baking dish. over them so they don’t brown. They are best eaten fresh, un- 

Transfer each pear to its own Make the topping in a small Take about 3 ounces of blue adorned, and slowly. 

tall wine glass and set aside. bowl by cutting 3 tablespoons of cheese — which you could mix One pear on a plate. A sharp 

Put the saucepan with the wine cold butter into ½ cup of flour, 1 with a few tablespoons of crum- knife. That’s it. 

mixture back on medium-high ¼ cup of sugar, and a pinch of bled walnuts and dried cranber- An old friend suggests eating 

heat, remove the vanilla bean, cinnamon. When this mixture is ries, if you wish — and divide it them whole, standing naked in 

and cook, stirring occasionally, for pebbly and combined, sprinkle it evenly, then stuff it into the cavity the bathtub, so the juice does 

20 to 30 minutes, until the liquid on top of the batter. 

of the pears. 

not pose a problem. 

has reduced to about 1 cup. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, un- Lay out 4 slices of prosciutto Perhaps that is what Eve had 

Keep your eye on the mixture til golden and dry on top. Cool in of the counter, place ½ pear on in mind before she was dis- 

while it cooks and lower the heat the pan and eat with your break- top, and securely wrap one slice tracted by that apple. 

if necessary. You don’t want it to fast coffee on these glorious, bright around each half. 

caramelize and turn brown; you’d fall mornings. The cake keeps Place on the baking sheet and 

like it just to get nice and thick very well. 

roast for around 25 minutes, un- 

and syrupy. 

When it’s done, take it off the 

heat and allow it to cool. Then 

T HE BEST USE of pears in 

a savory way is to stuff them 

til the pear is soft and the prosciutto 

is crisp. Serve hot with a 

drizzle of balsamic vinegar and, if T he pear is the grandfather of the 

apple, its poor relation, a fallen 

spoon this gorgeous liquid over the with blue cheese and wrap you wish, on a bed of vinaigrette- aristocrat, the man-at-arms of our 

reserved fruit and cover it with them in prosciutto. The old dressed arugula or something domains, which once, in our humid 

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gant pears at room temperature miss, made a stellar version, of sweet, salty, creamy, savory, its haughty comportment. 

with nothing more than a plain which can still be enjoyed in a crunchy, chewy food. 

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THURSDAY 

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PERFORMING ARTS 

■ 21 

BERNARDSTON Citizens 

Awareness Network 

Anniversary Party: Celebrate CAN's 

20th year with music and fun with Patty 

Carpenter and Friends, the Wildcat O'Halloran 

Blues Band, Brook Batteau and the New 

Cosmology, MC. Will Nukem (aka Court 

Dorsey), Waffl es the Clown, and Rae C Wright 

and DJ Emporer. ■ 3 p.m. - 9 p.m. ■ 

Free. ■ Citizens Awareness Network, Route 

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FRIDAY 

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SATURDAY 

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Lunch, Dinner and Sunday Brunch 

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Groups Welcome ~ Please Call for Reservations 

SUNDAY 

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BRATTLEBORO NEYT: Katy Petersen, Lesley Cotter, Annie Caltrider, 

MARLBORO Queen City 

"The Children's Hour" : Corinne Epstein, and Melanie Zinn. James Radio: Produced and directed by 

Lillian Hellman's drama is about the power Gelter is the director with musical direction Marlboro fi lm professor Jay Craven, another 

of lies and the consequence of not speaking by Amy Roberts-Crawford, and choreography evening of original comedy and world-class 

out against them. An angry student, Mary by Cyndal Ellis. ■ 6 p.m. Through Sunday, music returns to the stage ■ 7:30 p.m. 

Tilford, runs away from her all-girls boarding October 23. ■ $35 each and reservations ■ Free. ■ Marlboro College, 2582 South 

school. To avoid punishment she invents a lie must be made one week in advance and paid Road. Information: 802-251-7644; pr@ 

to tell her grandmother - that the two head- in advance. ■ Vermont Theatre Company, marlboro.edu. . 

mistresses are having an affair. The accusa- Living Memorial Park Stage. Information: 

tion proceeds to destroy the women's careers, 802.258.1344; vttheatreco@gmail.com . 

relationships and lives. ■ Varies. Through 

Sunday, October 23. ■ $13, $11 seniors, $9 

students. ■ New England Youth Theatre, 100 

Flat Street. Information: 802-380-5090; jcallahan.84@gmail.com 

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PUTNEY . Puppet-and- 

■ 21 mask performance: Eric Bass's 

"Autumn Portraits" is a series of fi ve interlocking 

vignettes, each exploring one puppet 

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character and its interplay with its manipu- 

B R A T T L E B O R O . lator, who might appear as a masked fi gure, 

■ 21 "Broadway Divas" : The show or simply a voice from the sky. ■ 8 p.m. 

features an evening of song and dance from Through Saturday, October 22. ■ $15; $12 

hit Broadway shows and a sumptuous dinner. seniors and students. ■ Sandglass Theater, 

The cast features Jessica Callahan, Marilyn 17 Kimball Hill. Information: 802-387-4051; 

Tullgren, Mark Tullgren, Kirsten Schrull, kirk@sandglasstheater.org . 

PUTNEY . Talk: Journey of 

■ 21 an American Peacemaker: 

S. Brian Willson, Vietnam vet, former Vermont 

resident, attorney, and advocate for veterans 

rights, will talk about his life, as described in 

his new book, "Blood on the Tracks". Brian's 

legs were severed below the knees as he and 

VISUAL ARTS AND SHOWS 

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CELEBRATIONS, FESTIVALS, 

COMMUNITY MEALS 

■ 21 

BRATTLEBORO 

BRATTLEBORO Breast 

Care Program Open 

House: The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital 

Comprehensive Breast Care Program invites 

the public to an open house on National 

Mammography Day which will include a tour 

of the mammography suite and a review of recent 

strides made by the program. ■ 2 p.m. 

- 4 p.m. ■ Free. ■ Brattleboro Memorial 

Hospital, 17 Belmont Ave. Information: 802- 

251-8459; www.bmhvt.org/events/healthier_living.shtml 

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BRATTLEBORO . Solar 

■ 22 Workshop: Workshop attendees 

FILM AND 

VIDEO 

will learn the advantages of installing solar 

hot water and solar electric systems, and 

about the different types of systems that are 

available. Local solar installers will be on 

hand to offer real-life case studies of solar 

installations and to answer questions about 

solar and its affordability. ■ 9 a.m. - noon. 

WEST BRATTLEBORO . ■ Free. ■ Marlboro College Graduate Center, 

■ 20 Film: Wallace and Gromit: 28 Vernon St. 

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit : 

The fi lm follows eccentric inventor Wallace 

TOWNSHEND . On the 

and his intelligent but silent dog, Gromit, as ■ 23 Road with Porter Thayer: 

they come to the rescue of the residents of a Join Brooks Memorial Library staff member 

village which is being plagued by a mutated Jessica Weitz and local photographer/ histo- 

rabbit before the annual vegetable competirian Forrest Holzapfel for a discussion about 

tion. ■ 5:30 p.m. ■ Free. ■ All Souls the work of Windham County photographer 

Church, 29 South Street. Information: 802- Porter Thayer and the history of local town 

254-9377; www.ascvt.org . 

photographers across the United States at 

the turn of the 20th century. ■ 3 p.m. 

■ Free. ■ Townsend Historical Society, PO 

Box 202. Information: 802-365-4400; info@ 

townshendvt.org . 

BELLOWS FALLS . Rare 

■ 26 book rescue: Hear how librarian 

Emily Zervas discovered the damage and immediately 

took action, setting in motion a 

long journey of rare book rescue a story fi lled 

. Evening 5. Information: 413-339-5781; deb@nuke- with loss and retrieval, professional conserva- 

of wine and song: The host of busters.org . 

tors, hi tech processes and traditional tech- 

this unique event is retired geologist and 

niques. ■ 7 p.m. ■ Free. ■ Rockingham 

oenophile David Howell who will provide a bit 

WEST DUMMERSTON . Free Public Library, 65 Westminster Street. 

of instruction on how to taste wine, and he ■ 23 

Information: 802-463-4270; www.rocking- 

Listening Festival: Open to all 

will briefl y discuss the relationship between 

ham.lib.vt.us . 

Windham County residents reeling from the 

wine and geology. He will then lead tastings. traumatic events of the last few months, the 

Between tastings, guests will be treated to festival provides a structure in which neigh- 

the musical stylings of the Jesse Carr Trio. ■ bors can speak their experiences, feelings and THE WRITTEN WORD 

7 p.m. ■ $75 and must be reserved in ad- thoughts and be well heard. ■ 2 p.m. - 5 

vance. ■ Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, p.m. ■ Cost not available at press time. ■ 

10 Vernon Street. Information: 802-257-0124; Geryunant, www.geryunant.com. Information: 

www.brattleboromuseum.org . 

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WILMINGTON ■ 21 

. Chamber 

Brattleboro Area Adoption ■ 25 Social: Rachel and John Pilcher 

Playgroup: Each third Friday of the will host a discussion on polio awareness & 

month we meet at KidsPLAYce for a potluck eradication. ■ 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. ■ Free. ■ 

dinner. Bring a child-friendly potluck item to Wilmington Inn Restaurant & Tavern, 41 West 

share. ■ 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. ■ If you are not Main Street. To RSVP: Lorre at the Mount Snow 

a KidsPLAYce member, please make a $5 dona- Valley Chamber at 802-464-8092 or offi ce@ 

tion. ■ KidsPLAYce, 20 Elliot St. Information: visitvermont.com. 

650-799-5379. 

BELLOWS FALLS . 3rd 

■ 21 Friday Art Walk: October will 

include new art in both Works on Paper/7sq 

Gallery and Vermont Pretzel/Newberry Gallery 

and Village Square Booksellers will be having 

a benefi t for TARPS Animal Shelter ■ 5 p.m. 

- 8 p.m. ■ Free. ■ Third Friday Art Walk. 

Information: www.bf3f.org . 

B E L L O W S F A L L S . and Peace Activist S. Brian Willson will speak. 

Reading by animal advo- ■ 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. ■ Free. ■ Everyone's 

cate: Jon Katz has written meaningfully Books, 25 Elliot St. Information: 802-254about 

the cherished bond between humans 8160; www.everyonesbks.com . 

and animals. especially our intense connection 

to our pets ■ 7 p.m. ■ Free. 

■ Village Square Booksellers, 32 Square. ■ 21 

Information: 802-463-9404; www.villagesquarebooks.com 

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BRATTLEBORO . Talk by 

■ 21 peace activist: Viet Nam Veteran 

BELLOWS FALLS B E L L O W S F A L L S 

Vermont landscape artist 

Rick Hearn: This collection of works on 

paper in graphite powder are ventures into 

exploration of imagery discovered by using 

reduction with erasure rather than addition 

with pencil. ■ Artist's reception: October 

21, 6 p.m. -8 p.m. Through Friday, December 

9. ■ Free. ■ 7 The Village Square, 7 The 

Village Square. Information: 802-460-1149; 

www.works-on-paper.net . 

■ 21 

. Poetry 

open mic: This month, and continuing 

every third weekend that the masses 

have minds to perceive the world and words to 

share, comes VICE & VERSES, a unique poetry 

open mic hosted by Chicago-born poet and 

arts critic Clara Rose Thornton. ■ 6 p.m. - 9 

GUILFORD . Art and 

Fine Crafts Show: An exhibit 

of Guilford landscapes by regional artists 

and fi ne crafts by Guilford-based artisans. 

The show is meant to celebrate the town's 

beauty and the many talents of its residents. 

■ The exhibit will be open to the public from 

10 to 7 on Friday, October 21, from 10 to 6 

on Saturday, October 22, and from 11 to 2 on 

Sunday, October 23. Through Sunday, October 

23. ■ Free. ■ Guilford 250, Broad Brook 

Grange. For more information: 802-257-1200 

or rick.zamore@gmail.com. 

■ 21 BRATTLEBORO drawing; $10.00 for entry only. ■ Robert H. 

Gibson River Garden, 153 Main Street. 

BELLOWS FALLS . Anne 

■ 21 Y's artist reception : Anne Y 

displays her work in a palette of color at the 

Newberry Gallery. Artist Anne Y studied Art in 

Brussels and worked in Paris for many years 

before fi nding her home in Vermont. She marries 

her love of gardening with her artist's 

eye for color. ■ 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. ■ Free. 

■ Newberry Gallery, 24 Rockingham Street. 

Information: pretzels@sover.net . 

. Benefi t 

art show: At this benefit evening 

with hors d'oeuvres and live music for 

Windham Child Care Assocation, join a draw- 

RECREATION 

ing of 100 framed works of art - half by local 

adult artists, half by young children. ■ 

6 p.m. - 8 p.m. ■ $35.00 for entry and art 

BRATTLEBORO . Forest 

■ 21 of Mystery: Each year audiences 

are enchanted, by the stories that appear 

before them, while walking on a hour-long 

journey through Bonnyvale Environmental 

Education Center's forest trails by lamp light. 

■ Groups move through the forest every 15 

minutes starting at 6:30 on Friday, and 6:15 

on Saturday night. Through Saturday, October 

22. ■ Members: $10, children $6; nonmembers: 

$12, children $8. ■ Bonnyvale 

Environmental Education Center (BEEC), 1221 

Bonnyvale Road. Information: (315) 439- 

3033; www.beec.org . 

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The “Old Master” will be your guide for the 

Brattleboro Lodge of Masons’ Haunted House, 

this Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 21 and 22, and next 

Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 28 and 29, at the Masonic 

Center, 196 Main St. Admission: $5. 

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BRATTLEBORO Haunted 

House: Travel through the crypts of 

the haunted lodge, and share a few screams 

with your friends. Concessions will also be 

available. ■ 

p.m. ■ $3-$5 donation. ■ RAMP Gallery, 

Project Space 9, 9 Canal St. Information: 

802.275.7799; clara@inkblotcomplex.com . 

■ 22 

BRATTLEBORO Book 

Signing: Janice Greenwood: 

Greenwood, a resident of Danby, VT, will be 

available to sign copies of her children's book, 

"Lucy Ladybug's Hugs." ■ 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. ■ 

Free. ■ Whippersnappers, 642 Putney Rd. #2. 

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6 p.m. - 11 p.m. Through 

Saturday, October 22. ■ $5, half price for 

students with IDs. ■ Brattleboro Lodge #102 

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BELLOWS FALLS Live: 

Funkwagon: The gospel and 

soul group brings their gospel infused funk 

to town. ■ 9 p.m. ■ Cost not available 

at press time. ■ Beacon, 747 Putney Rd. 

■ 23 

BRATTLEBORO BMC 

Faculty Concert: Two of the 

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A candlelight vigil at the Brattleboro Food Co-op in August honored the memory of Michael Martin, the 

store manager who was killed at his desk. 

Brattleboro 

I 

N J UNE OF 1991, a workplace 

shooting took place 

about five miles north of 

where I worked in San 

Diego, Calif. 

Two executives were targeted 

and killed. The company 

designed electronic components 

and had a stellar reputation 

as a wonderful place to 

work and a producer of great 

products. 

I heard and read the reports 

and thought I understood what 

happened. 

Not true. I heard the information 

at an intellectual level, 

but not at an emotional or 

heart level. 

Six months later, on Jan. 24, 

1992, two friends called me simultaneously. 

There had been 

a series of shootings at my 

company; one of our buildings 

was on lockdown, the separate 

reports my two friends heard 

gave no other information, and 

they wanted to make sure I was 

OK. 

One person shot two people 

that day. 

My colleague was 25 

years young, a recent college 

Brattleboro 

W 

HEN IT COMES 

to learning about 

American history, 

the best teaching 

aids are the people who inspired 

the lesson in the first 

place. 

I came away with that conclusion 

after meeting the Rev. 

James Breeden, one of the 

“Freedom Riders” during the 

Civil Rights Movement. 

In the early 1960s, the 

Freedom Riders rode interstate 

buses into the still-rigidly-segregated 

South in an effort to 

force the federal government to 

enforce a U.S. Supreme Court 

ruling that stated racial segregation 

in public transportation 

violated the Interstate 

Commerce Act and was illegal. 

The Supreme Court case, 

Boynton v. Virginia , overturned 

a judgment that convicted a 

black law student for trespassing 

by being in a restaurant in 

CARMAN DAWSON , 

born and raised in Brattleboro, 

worked for years as a consultant 

with a particular interest in workplace 

violence prevention. 

graduate, and a labor negotiator. 

He died almost immediately. 

My 52-year-old friend 

and mentor was critically 

wounded and died too early. 

And then — a week later 

— an engineer friend of mine 

from our same company, who 

seemed to like his work yet was 

having personal problems at 

home, left his worksite in the 

middle of the day, went to his 

car in the company parking lot, 

and killed himself. His coworkers 

I talked to were as stunned 

as I was. 

Have you ever felt as if you 

were just catapulted into an alternate 

reality? This time, I 

heard and read the information 

on an emotional level. 

I went from shock to denial, 

withdrawal to anger. I was was 

afraid of returning to work, 

even though the three deaths 

took place nine miles from my 

office. I either did not want to 

JULIA FOSTER is a student 

at Brattleboro Union High 

School. 

a bus terminal designated “for 

whites only.” 

Rev. James Breeden’s 

Dartmouth education, softspoken 

intelligence, and articulate 

manner belied the 

racial stereotypes of the 

time. Breeden was born in 

Minnesota in the mid-1930s 

and eventually would collaborate 

with civil rights activists 

such as the Rev. Andrew 

Young, the Rev. James Bevel, 

and the widely accepted face of 

the movement, the Rev. Martin 

Luther King Jr. 

At Dartmouth, Breeden was 

rooming with the only other 

black students at the school. 

This, he said, he didn’t mind. 

Then one day, he was told 

that he wouldn’t be attending a 

conference at then-segregated 

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eat, or I ate and drank everything; 

I cried for weeks, had 

difficulty sleeping, and more. 

At that point, I had never experienced 

the violent death of 

anyone — let alone three coworkers 

within a week. Now 

I was feeling these losses at a 

raw, emotional level and not 

just an intellectual level. 

The emotions and behaviors 

that I experienced after the 

traumatic events were part of 

what is called post traumatic 

stress disorder (PTSD). My 

PTSD came and went for a few 

years because working in the 

field of workplace violence prevention 

brought on the various 

symptoms as listed above. I 

was told that these reoccurring 

symptoms were normal, given 

the work I was doing. 

I AM WRITING this Viewpoint 

to help you honor whatever 

you are feeling with regard to 

the recent local traumas, and to 

let you know that 20 years after 

my own traumatic experiences, 

I am still able to reach 

out to others. 

And it helps. 

Have you ever sought out 

An eyewitness to history 

provides the best way to learn 

Johns Hopkins University in 

Baltimore. He said he was displeased, 

but again didn’t take it 

too much to heart. 

But he minded these injustices 

more as the Montgomery 

Bus Boycott and other demonstrations 

garnered national 

news coverage and the Civil 

Rights movement grew. 

I N 1961, Breeden got a telephone 

call inviting him to participate 

with other religious 

leaders in a Freedom Ride. 

At this point, my teacher, 

William Holiday, leaned forward 

in his chair and asked 

Breeden if, knowing of the violence 

inflicted on previous 

Freedom Riders, he was at all 

fearful or hesitant. 

Breeden’s smile accompanied 

his response that he 

never hesitated. He said he 

knew what had happened to 

the Freedom Riders before 

him but was young and feeling 

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new information because of 

a totally unexpected and/or 

shocking event? Throughout 

the processing of these tragedies, 

my stubborn Vermont upbringing 

would surface. How 

and why could an event like 

this ever happen? What were 

the causes? What were the effects? 

What would help to prevent 

these causes and effects in 

the future? 

I began my research: reading, 

studying, and talking with 

subject-matter experts and 

survivors. 

And, very arrogantly, I kept 

asking myself how I could 

stop further shootings from 

ever happening again at my 

8,000-employee division. 

The division had two-thirds 

the population of Brattleboro, 

spread out over a county 

the size of Connecticut, and 

part of a 100,000-employee 

corporation. 

The stress at my division was 

rising. 

About 4,000 of us were 

scheduled to be laid off in 

1993, as half of the division 

was being sold and moved to 

invincible. 

Breeden’s group of Freedom 

Riders hit their first major obstacle 

in Jackson, Miss., when 

he was arrested while seeking 

restaurant service in a bus 

terminal. 

After nearly six days in jail, 

the group of arrested demonstrators 

was found guilty on a 

“breach of peace.” They were 

bailed out, and when the case 

proceeded to the state level, it 

was dismissed. 

Later, Breeden said, he had 

coffee with the Jackson judge 

who had found them guilty. 

“Jackson is kind of a friendly 

community, except when there 

are outside agitators,” Breeden 

remembered the judge saying. 

On his way down to 

Birmingham, Ala., he saw 

Sheriff Theopolis “Bull” 

Connor and his men turning 

fire hoses on demonstrators. 

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OPINION • COMMENTARY • LETTERS 

Join the discussion: voices@commonsnews.org 

■ SEE VIOLENCE, PAGE B2 

■ SEE BREEDEN, PAGE B2 

ESSAY 

The messy 

evolution of 

a revolution 

The Occupy Wall 

Street movement is not 

so clear — but that’s 

how movements start 

Brattleboro SUZANNE 

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some money for writing in Brattleboro, where 

sleeping bags for the protes- she is one of the principal ortors 

in their dandy little plasganizers of the Brattleboro 

tic handcuffs. 

Literary Festival. 

In general, I believe in 

the religion of revolution. 

I’m going through one my- hoping will bounce back. I 

self right now, which comes adore my broker, one of my 

on the heels of a tremendous very close friends makes his 

amount of pain. And pain, money working for a hedge 

I’ve figured out, is really the fund, and it’s easy to hate 

only way the spirit or society Newt and Perry, but on the 

can get us to revolutionize. whole I sort of love my pol- 

That mediocre place of iticians. I’ve been at par- 

mild satisfaction is an anesties with my governor, and 

thetic that does violence to Obama and Michelle seem 

the soul. This makes revo- like the couple next door 

lutions confusing. We can that we keep forgetting to in- 

all wish we were braless and vite for dinner. 

high in the ’60s, but we for- It’s all very incestuous and 

get Kent State has been hard to figure out. A straight 

called a massacre, and that line of hate — say, for some- 

era was full of deaths, inone like Noriega or Hitler or 

cluding a very peace-loving for a queen who eats cake — 

man named Martin Luther 

King Jr. 

is easier. 

It’s interesting to me that O F COURSE , the techno age 

this revolution comes almost might not be as random as it 

10 years to the day after seems. 

someone else threw a bitter The lines to whom we are 

and very violent type of their protesting might be more 

own revolution at that end of concrete than we think. 

New York. Perhaps this is all If you Google “What Do 

happening now because we the Wall Street Protestors 

didn’t wake up then, we just Stand For,” you get that ee- 

padded ourselves with a trerie feeling that suddenly Big 

mendous amount of fear and Brother or the Pig of what- 

moved on. 

ever literary reference you 

are making actually has a 

T HIS REVOLUTION is par- clear face: The first 10 posts 

ticularly hard because we are from Fox News, The 

live in the techno age where Christian P ost , and other reli- 

just about any fat Wall Street gious right poopskies. 

cat can be your friend on The biggest challenge 

Facebook, especially if he these folks have to the move- 

has a blog that he wants you ment is the idea that these 

to read. 

folks don’t know what they 

Back in the day when want. That doesn’t bother 

America was in revolution me at all, because I know 

against those funny-speak- from personal experience 

ing blokes across the pond, that’s the way revolutions 

the rich people were just fig- start. 

ureheads in palaces with dia- Revolutions are emomond 

headdresses. 

tional. They often don’t be- 

But this revolution is not gin with clearly-thought-out 

so clear. 

agendas; they begin with a 

I, too, have stocks I am 

■ SEE REVOLUTIONS, PAGE B2 

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forth we’re starting to see in the comments that now appear on our 

website ( www.commonsnews.org ). The first comment here, by Howard 

Shaffer, a licensed professional engineer who worked as a startup 

engineer at Vermont Yankee, appeared in response to a letter in last 

Howard Shaffer 

Those of us who work in 

nuclear power know that 

“safe” doesn’t mean “perfect,” 

and “reliable” doesn’t 

mean “never has a problem.” 

Opponents demand 

perfection as a political tactic. 

We are always working to 

improve. 

Edward Jaffe 

I’m sorry, Howard, but for 

certain situations zero failure 

is what is required, because 

the consequences of certain 

failure modes are beyond unacceptable. 

You are dealing 

with massive spent-fuel storage 

and an old, hot-rodded 

plant. 

Not every failure leads 

to systemic problems, but 

at some point, given a fleet 

of more than 100 very old 

plants with very long license 

extensions — and a 

very lax Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) — in the 

U.S., the odds will catch up 

with us. Multiply 10 years by 

103 really old plants. 

If you want to build new, 

safer nuclear plants, make the 

Arizona. Initially, only 250 

people were going to be selected 

to transfer to the new 

facilities. 

My vice presidents asked 

me to stay in San Diego to give 

workplace violence prevention 

workshops to those who were 

not going to be transferred and 

who were seeking work at another 

company. 

N OW LET’S fast forward to 

Aug. 9 of this year. Almost 20 

years later, I once again received 

two phone calls from 

two friends within a short 

time period. There had been 

a shooting at the Brattleboro 

Food Co-op, and the only information 

they initially knew 

was that it involved two 

employees. 

I had years without PTSD 

symptoms, and the phone calls 

triggered it again. 

Families and friends on both 

sides of this tragedy are in pain. 

Co-op employees and volunteers, 

customers, suppliers, 

fellow businesses, and communities 

— along with their 

friends and families — are experiencing 

distress. 

The human reactions to 

workplace violence are like 

the ripples expanding on a 

pond’s surface when a pebble is 

thrown into the water. 

And then the questions: 

Why? What happens now? 

Whose fault is it? Will it happen 

again some place else? 

How can I help? What can I 

do? Just like 20 years ago. 

It is my experience that two 

of the most important emotions 

and actions that we ought 

to embrace right now are grace 

and kindness — both for others 

and ourselves. 

On our local BCTV station 

and the ABC national 

feeling of dissatisfaction, then 

anger and, finally, with desperation. 

Only then do goals begin 

to emerge. 

A wife doesn’t calculate her 

divorce. First, she feels depressed; 

then, anger builds. 

She gets pissed off, she throws 

her wedding china, and then 

she sits down and decides she 

wants the house and the dog. 

In hindsight, it looks like 

those hippies, hopped up on 

LSD with peace signs on their 

foreheads, were just ending a 

war in Vietnam, but really they 

had to sort through a bunch of 

things that were wrong back 

then. 

Our black brothers and sisters 

needed to be able to sit 

at the lunch counter with us, 

women needed more rights, 

we needed a complete turnaround 

of post-war values, and 

we were tired of being made to 

fight a terrifying war in southeast 

Asia. 

I DARE SAY a clear agenda 

is starting to emerge on Wall 

Street. 

The nurses who marched 

POINT/COUNTERPOINT 

Perfection: political tactic or prerequisite? 

Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee. 

case and accept how bad the 

current situation is. 

Look at what is going on in 

Japan (a much more orderly 

society than ours). 

And when I toured VY last 

(2002), workers there were 

trying to impress my group 

with all the “security” they instituted 

since the 9/11 attacks. 

What a laugh: Village police 

who are used to wife-beaters 

and drunk drivers along 

network news, I saw recorded 

interviews from throughout 

Vermont after Irene’s floods. 

People who had lost their 

homes, businesses, land, and/or 

roads chose to leave their destroyed 

property and go help 

their neighbors. These acts of 

grace and kindness, in turn, 

helped the helpers to start processing 

their own situation. 

We humans, as well as our 

animal counterparts, all want 

— consciously or not — to believe 

we have control over most 

parts of our life. The tragedy at 

the Co-op that many have experienced, 

the trauma and destruction 

that many have and 

still are experiencing as a result 

of Irene’s damaging floodwaters, 

and the impact to the 

overall health of the economy 

and ecology in this country 

and worldwide can certainly 

increase our sense of lack of 

control. 

Therefore, I believe it is 

helpful to proactively keep in 

mind these contributing factors 

that can lead to what the 

Department of Labor calls 

“workplace violence.” 

For some of us, it takes only 

one factor to question our level 

of control over our life. For 

others, it could be a combination 

of factors. 

If we are consciously aware 

of these factors, we can better 

recognize and then help 

each other and ourselves to regain 

the sense of control over 

our lives. 

1. Economic/financial stressors , 

including fear of being laid off 

or fired; unexpected expenses 

(medical, child care, housing, 

or transportation repairs, etc.); 

or the layoff of another member 

of the household. 

2. Societal causes, including 

violence on our television 

programs, in the movies we 

last Wednesday want a financial 

transactions tax; others are 

protesting the injustices of the 

foreclosure crisis, still others 

are looking at workplace discrimination, 

and more are challenging 

student loan debt. 

Librarians and teachers are 

out there, so you really can’t 

doubt they’ll come up with 

some reasonable requests. 

As in most revolutions, it’s 

the middle class who finally has 

the means and the intelligence 

to organize and say what they 

need. 

Over here in Brattleboro, 

where it’s legal to burn your 

bra and (until 2007) to bare 

your breasts, where art is everywhere 

and people grow 

armpit hair and shop at the coop, 

we’re all cheerleading the 

revolution. 

Me, I’m starting a revolution 

of my own. Right now, it sort 

of looks like lazing around in 

my pajamas doing nothing. Fox 

News would have a real field 

day with that, but I have faith 

that revolutions have their own 

energy and their own agendas. 

As soon as we manage to say 

week’s issue by VY engineer Jim DeVincentis of Vernon. Edward 

Jaffe of Bennington, responding to Shaffer’s comment, lists himself 

as “professional member of Illuminating Engineering Society, retired.” 

What do you think? 

with some private guards. Ten 

ready-to-die commandos with 

a good plan could take VY. 

Maybe our nation’s enemies 

will evolve to more sophisticated 

attacks than a “failed 

underwear bomber.” 

Entergy plus the NRC plus 

General Electric plus the rest 

of the industry running old 

plants equals our “insane risk 

posse." 

If you all think the plant 

choose to see, and in the music 

we choose to hear, which can 

strongly influence our thought 

patterns. The causes can also 

tie into access to weapons or a 

spouse/partner leaving. 

3. Institutional issues, including 

one’s company merging 

with or being sold to another; 

the company moving out of 

state/country; the company 

closing; or an increased use of 

technology that results in either 

a potential inability to learn this 

technology or a lack of need for 

as many employees because the 

technology takes over the work. 

4. Structural issues, including 

company downsizing or departments 

reorganizing; mandatory 

change of work hours (longer, 

shorter, split shifts), especially 

with little to no warning; and 

the flow of work that can result 

in lack of co-worker support 

and/or lack of leadership 

support. 

5. Cultural issues: Workers 

lack a forum to address grievances. 

Threats of violence 

among and between people 

percolate within the organization. 

Creativity and new ideas 

are discouraged — sometimes 

by peer pressure, sometimes 

by management. Empowered 

employees and a voice in 

the decision-making process 

are lacking. Workers are 

treated with disrespect by coworker(s), 

immediate supervisor, 

and/or senior leadership. 

This disrespect can manifest 

itself through bullying, mental 

harassment, and/or verbal 

abuse on both sides. 

6. Management/ l eadership i ssues 

, including management 

whose styles are authoritarian, 

autocratic, or aloof; polarization 

between employees 

and managers; retaining employees 

whose performance 

has been poor for a long time; 

aloud we want change, the universe 

miraculously springs into 

action. 

I THINK ABOUT my grandmother. 

I’m sure she would get 

a huge kick out of the folks on 

Wall Street with their homemade 

signs. Not that she was 

opposed to Wall Street — she 

made a little fortune picking 

stocks out of the newspaper for 

fun — but she’d like the energy 

and the pizzazz of it all. 

She’d probably go down 

participated in various religious 

services. One of the more 

memorable stories Breeden 

shared with our class detailed 

his impromptu early-morning 

visit to a white church, where 

he dropped by and was allowed 

to participate in the service. 

When he returned to the 

same church later in the day, 

he was denied entry. 

He stayed, waiting, through 

the service. When it had ended, 

the choir recognized him and 

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Vermont homeowners and 

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Every homeowners’ insurance 

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The day my house has solid 

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damage? That is the day you 

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■ Violence FROM SECTION FRONT 

and ignoring employees’ pleas 

for help, be it for themselves or 

their colleagues. 

T HE MOST important information 

I have learned about 

people who commit workplace 

violence came from law enforcement: 

co-workers, supervisors, 

colleagues, friends, and/ 

or family members always, always, 

always know when an individual 

is troubled and in pain 

over the way(s) they believe 

they are being treated at work, 

school, or home. 

This was true when the 

shooter killed my colleague and 

maimed my friend and mentor. 

This was true when my colleague 

and friend committed 

suicide in the company parking 

lot. 

Unfortunately, the people 

who knew something did not 

know how to interpret their observations, 

or whom to talk to 

about their observations. Or 

they did report their concerns, 

but the conversations did not 

lead to a positive, constructive 

intervention. 

Raising these concerns can 

make all the difference: on 

Aug. 17, 2010, a Tampa, Fla., 

student was arrested for planning 

to blow up his former high 

school. Somebody knew the 

plan and tipped off the police. 

Now, though, we can learn 

to be smarter about what to 

do and not do when we notice 

somebody’s attitudes and/or 

behaviors increasing or changing 

negatively. 

Now we can choose to learn 

more about workplace violence, 

how to prevent it, and 

its inevitable consequences 

throughout communities. 

We have an opportunity to 

make a positive difference for a 

troubled person. 

■ Revolution FROM SECTION FRONT 

there in her velvet housecoat 

and feed them all champagne. 

If you want to send a sleeping 

bag to someone on Wall 

Street, you can do so online 

( nycga.cc/donate ). One sleeping 

bag is only $20, the price 

of a good pizza and a Vermont 

brew. 

Whatever you do, whether 

you are a tea party fanatic or a 

Wall Street protestor, don’t live 

a life without revolutions. 

However minor and pointless 

they seem at the time. 

■ Breeden FROM SECTION FRONT 

were furious that he had been 

denied entry. They invited him 

for coffee hour in the church 

basement. 

Rev. Breeden’s warm and 

wise manner, combined with 

his eye-opening recollections, 

certainly made for a morethan-worthwhile 

hour. 

By the end of this Social 

Studies III class, it was clear 

that I would never forget the 

Freedom Riders.

The Commons • Wednesday, October 19, 2011 VoICes B3 

LeTTeRs FRom ReADeRs 

Please be patient 

with repair of 

Marlboro roads 

Selectboard offers a progress report, 

thanks residents for their patience 

To all Marlboro residents: 

By now you will see work 

being done on all our roads to 

repair the storm damage and 

prepare for winter. 

Initially, all efforts were directed 

to opening all roads in 

town (especially Ames hill, 

higley hill, North Pond, 

Butterfield, Lower dover, 

stratton hill, and Adams 

Brook) and to rescue residents 

who were totally cut off by 

the enormous flooding on the 

Branch Brook. 

The town is contracting with 

various heavy equipment operators 

to supplement the road 

crew to get the work done. We 

have had numerous discussions 

with road foreman david 

elliott and feel confident that 

the work will be done before it 

snows. 

The Federal emergency 

Management Agency (FeMA) 

will look at the entire scope of 

the work needed to bring conditions 

back to where they were 

before the storm. FeMA will 

come up with an estimate for 

the total cost, then pay 75 percent 

of that bill. To date, we 

have found the FeMA representatives 

on the ground to be 

very responsive and helpful to 

work with. 

A word about work on the 

With the Occupy Wall 

street demonstrations 

now taking place throughout 

the United states, this seems to 

be an appropriate time for receptive 

people to look closely at 

the example of those who have 

given much for the advancement 

of justice and peace. 

It’s coincidental that one of 

those people, s. Brian Wilson, 

will be in our area on Oct. 21 

to talk about his life, as described 

in his new memoir, 

Blood on the Tracks. 

In his introduction to the 

book, daniel ellsberg, who released 

the Pentagon Papers, 

writes: “No reader, I believe, 

will finish this book without 

a sense of awe at the human 

spirit that is revealed in it.” 

Wilson, a former Vermont 

resident, Vietnam War veteran, 

attorney, advocate for veterans’ 

rights, and 1986 “Veterans 

Fast for Life” participant, gave 

the most in 1987 when he and 

others attempted to block a 

train shipment of U.s. weapons 

to the Nicaraguan Contras. 

Re: Karl Meyer’s 

Viewpoint [“Failed 

salmon program doesn’t 

deserve new life,” Oct. 

12]. 

The effort to bring back 

the salmon was but a sixgeneration 

attempt of serious 

restoration. That is 

much too short a period 

of time. 

The herring run also 

needs an answer that has 

a bearing on the poor 

salmon returns. 

Henry Warch 

Westfield 

found Karl Meyer’s I Viewpoint [“Failed 

salmon program doesn’t 

deserve new life,” Oct. 12] 

to be grossly inaccurate. 

I think it would be better 

suited for publication 

in the National Enquirer. 

Karl, you might want to 

consider working for that 

paper. 

Judy Romero 

Bethel 

The writer works as an office 

assistant at the White River 

National Fish Hatchery in 

Bethel. 

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mind? Send contributions (500 

words or fewer strongly recommended) 

to editor@commonsnews.org; 

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stream beds: 

Work on Whetstone Brook 

is being done by the state. Our 

crew has been working in and 

along the Branch Brook on 

Augur hole road. state engineers 

have been consulted 

as the work has progressed, 

and they have signed off on 

what has been done to date. 

restoration will take time since 

virtually everything washed 

away in many places. 

even though you do not see 

the road crews working on your 

road, remember they have prioritized 

the reconstruction. 

We thank you for your patience 

and support, and request 

that you drive with special 

care while the roads are being 

repaired. 

The Marlboro Alliance is 

planning a big celebration 

and potluck dinner in early 

december. 

Questions about the roads 

should be directed to the 

Marlboro Town Garage at 

802-257-0252. Let’s all hope 

for a long fall and late snow! 

Marlboro Selectboard 

Marlboro 

The Marlboro Selectboard consists 

of chair Lucy Gratwick, and 

members Craig Hammond and 

Andrea Livermore. 

Giving his all 

for social justice 

Instead of slowing down, the 

train engineer had orders to 

speed up, and Wilson lost his 

legs just below the knee and 

part of his skull. 

As devastating as this experience 

was, Wilson continues in 

his efforts “to engage the public 

in recognition of the true nature 

of U.s. Imperialism.” 

he started his book tour by 

cycling from Portland, Ore., 

to san Francisco on his threewheeled, 

hand-powered recumbent 

cycle. he disavows 

air travel and wants to demonstrate 

a mode of personal 

transportation that reduces dependence 

on fossil fuels. 

he will be speaking at 

Friday, Oct. 21, at Putney 

Friends (Quaker) Meeting 

house, 1/4 mile north of 

Putney village on route 5. 

Prior to that, he will sign his 

book between 5 and 6 p.m. at 

everyone’s Books in downtown 

Brattleboro. 

Both events are free. 

Daniel Sicken 

Dummerston 

Not enough 

time to work Why VY 

Tabloid fodder 

employees 

keep talking 

about jobs 

There have been several letters 

published recently by 

folks wondering why Vermont 

Yankee’s employees always cite 

economics and jobs. I submit 

this letter in response to those 

who may truly wonder. 

The answer is quite simple. 

As VY employees, we think 

some things are self-evident. 

We know the plant is safe and 

the work we do is meaningful, 

or we wouldn’t work there, we 

wouldn’t have our families living 

close by, and we wouldn’t 

put our children in the schools 

across the road or the river. 

Yes, we want to keep working 

here, because we know 

that the care we administer via 

thousands of hours of maintenance 

and upgrades makes this 

plant one of the most reliable 

in the nation. 

Can we find jobs elsewhere? 

Yes, we can. But we have roots 

here. We love the community 

we live in as well as the job we 

work at. Our ability to find 

other work is beside the point. 

Theresa Derting 

Hinsdale, N.H. 

Friday to be considered for next 

week’s paper. 

When space is an issue, we 

give priority to words that have 

not yet appeared elsewhere. 

eDIToRIAL 

The road to renewable 

energy is a bumpy one 

The FIrsT 

drAFT of the 

new Vermont 

Comprehensive 

energy Plan is about 600 

pages long, including 

appendices. 

Thankfully, the public 

comment period has been 

extended to Nov. 4, so people 

have more time to wade 

through the document, 

which addresses Vermont’s 

energy future regarding 

electricity generation, thermal 

energy, transportation, 

and land use. 

The most notable element 

of the plan is that it 

proposes a shift in all of 

Vermont’s baseload electric 

energy sources. This 

plan calls for the baseload, 

defined as the reasonable 

minimum supply of 

energy that utilities expect 

their customers will need, 

to consist of 90-percent renewable 

energy sources by 

2050. 

Is this expectation 

realistic? 

CONsIder what the 

plan calls the single-largest 

source of energy consumption 

in Vermont: 

transportation. 

Gasoline for motor vehicles 

represents 25.2 percent 

of the state’s total 

energy use, followed by 

nuclear power for electricity 

at 15.27 percent, and 

fuel for heating at 12.87 

percent. 

Given the lack of public 

transportation and the 

long distances that many 

Vermonters have to travel 

by car to work, shop, or 

play, reducing fossil-fuel 

use for transportation will 

be difficult. 

The document addresses 

a transition to 

electric vehicles, changes 

in land-use patterns to promote 

walkable downtowns, 

and increased public transit, 

but all these measures 

will require significant 

amounts of money. 

It will be just as difficult 

to reduce the use of fuel 

oil and propane for home 

heating. energy-efficiency 

efforts have made a dent, 

but without more money 

for weatherization programs 

and bigger rebates to 

encourage the purchase of 

more-efficient home appliances, 

little progress will be 

made in this area. 

As for getting more 

baseload sources of electricity, 

this too looks 

daunting. 

david hallquist, CeO 

of Vermont electric 

Cooperative, recently told 

VTdigger.org that he is 

leery of proposals that try 

to create enough energy 

through renewable sources 

to provide enough baseload 

power for the state in the 

short term. 

“The real challenge is: 

dirty energy is cheap,” 

hallquist said. “Clean energy 

is expensive.” 

hallquist said current 

rates for renewables are 

two to three times more expensive 

than fossil fuels or 

nuclear energy. 

For example, VeC pays 

5 cents per kilowatt hour 

(Kwh) for nuclear power; 

6 cents per Kwh for natural 

gas; 9 cents to 11 cents 

per Kwh for industrial 

wind; 14 cents per Kwh 

for biomass; and 20 cents 

per Kwh for solar. 

Long-term storage of 

energy from solar and wind 

generation costs an additional 

23 cents per Kwh, 

he said. 

There is also the problem 

of aging energy 

infrastructure. 

According to IsO 

New england, the entity 

that manages New 

england’s electrical grid, 

one-fourth of the region’s 

32,000-megawatt generating 

capacity is generated by 

plants that are more than 

40 years old and due to be 

phased out soon. 

At the same time, New 

england is relying more 

on natural gas for heat and 

electric power. 

Nearly half of the region’s 

electricity comes 

from gas-fired plants, and 

that percentage is rising. 

But there are not enough 

natural gas pipelines to 

meet increasing demand, 

which leaves New england 

vulnerable during the winter 

and summer months, 

when electric use spikes 

upward. 

“It’s sobering in the 

sense that there are a number 

of forces coming together 

that will cause a 

transition,” Gordon van 

Welie, IsO New england’s 

chief executive officer, told 

The Associated Press earlier 

this month. “The consequence 

is that you have 

to do something about 

that, and it requires investment 

in additional 

infrastructure.” 

Van Welie doesn’t believe 

that wind, solar, and 

small-scale hydropower 

can fully make up the loss 

of energy from fossil-fuel 

and nuclear plant retirements. 

It’s not so much 

a matter of the intermittent 

nature of these energy 

sources, he said, as it is the 

lack of transmission lines to 

carry the electricity to urban 

areas. 

These are long-term 

questions without easy 

answers. 

eVeN IF Vermont Yankee 

is permitted to keep operating 

for another 20 years 

past the expiration of its 

original operating license, 

the 1972-vintage nuclear 

plant might not be able to 

keep operating safely or economically 

through 2032. 

The region’s aging oil- 

and coal-fired plants will 

soon face closure without 

expensive upgrades to 

meet tougher air pollution 

standards. 

And while there is broad 

support for clean energy in 

the abstract, there is always 

someone to raise an objection 

when there is a proposal 

for a new hydro or 

wind power project, a new 

gas pipeline, or a new natural 

gas or biomass-fired 

generating plant. 

The lack of state and 

federal funds for energy efficiency 

and new technologies, 

the general NIMBY 

(“Not In My Back Yard”) 

attitude toward building 

new electric plants, and the 

stranglehold that the coal, 

petroleum, and nuclear industries 

have over the political 

process make the goal 

of 90-percent renewables 

by 2050 a distant dream. 

But unless Vermont 

takes steps to realize that 

distant dream, the state 

faces huge difficulty from 

the liabilities of its current 

sources of baseload power. 

Unless there is an honest, 

concerted effort by 

all involved to quickly upgrade 

our region’s energy 

infrastructure, New 

england will be an economic 

backwater in the 

coming years. 

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B4 THE COMMONS • Wednesday, October 19, 2011 

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 

Chip Wilson 

to perform at 

flood benefit 

Reciprocity for Vermont aid 

during Hurricane Katrina 

WILMINGTON—Smokin’ 

J’s Flood Fest, a concert featuring 

a cast of Vermont, 

Massachusetts, and Louisiana 

musicians, will take place on 

Friday, Oct. 28, from 6-11 p.m. 

at Smokin J’s Real Memphis 

Barbeque, 167 Route 100 North. 

The surprise musical guest 

of the evening is Chip Wilson, a 

staple of the New Orleans music 

scene. Wilson was devastated 

by the effects of Tropical Storm 

Irene on Vermont, and offered 

to help raise money for those affected 

by the flooding. 

“I lived in Vermont for 

over 20 years, and returned to 

New England for a while after 

[Hurricane] Katrina,” he said. “I 

played almost 20 fundraisers for 

the Gulf states, and Vermonters 

particularly were very generous. 

I think it’s time for payback.” 

Wilson, who began his career 

in Manchester, said he is looking 

forward to his return to his roots 

in support of the flood victims. 

Additionally, he has participated 

in a number of Vermont flood 

benefits in New Orleans since 

August. 

The concert proceeds will go 

to Twice Blessed Thrift Store, 

of downtown Wilmington. Since 

1997, proprietor Mary Jane 

Finnegan has assisted residents 

of Wilmington and its eight surrounding 

towns with food, clothing, 

payments of rent, mortgages, 

utilities, medications, medical 

bills, funeral expenses, and more. 

The musical lineup is headlined 

by the Lonesome Brothers 

of Northampton, Mass. 

Joining the roster is Rocky 

Roberts & Friends. Roberts, 

longtime guitar tech for Neil 

Young, is touring with My 

Morning Jacket and fit the benefit 

into his schedule before flying 

to Europe. 

Kim & Sharon, of Guilford, 

will will kick off the concert 

at 6 p.m., followed by Tom 

Woodbury, a recording artist 

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Clayton Sabine, who has 

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“I am so lucky that I was 

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Tutless offered her establishment 

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A painting of a snowy Guilford hillside by Joan Peters. 

Artists celebrate Guilford 250th 

Visual arts, crafts on exhibit and to benefit celebration 

GUILFORD—A hundred 

or more “Scenes of Guilford” 

will be on display on Oct. 21-23 

as part of the town’s year-long 

250th anniversary celebration. 

This special exhibit of works 

by more than two dozen area 

artists will be mounted in the 

gymnasium of Guilford Central 

School, 374 School Rd. 

The art show will feature 

landscapes and other views of 

the town by both Guilfordbased 

artists and those from 

nearby towns who have been 

inspired by the countryside 

in town. A number of works 

will be on loan from local art 

collectors. 

“This show will celebrate the 

impact of the Guilford landscape 

on residents and visitors 

alike,” said show curator Rick 

Zamore. “The farms, fields and 

mowings, houses, hills, and forests 

that we see every day take 

on new meaning when we see 

them through the creations of 

artists and photographers. 

“This is a big show, with 

paintings, drawings, prints, 

photographs new and historical, 

and some Guilford memorabilia,” 

Zamore continued. “It 

truly has something for everyone, 

young and old.” 

In addition to fine arts, the 

show will include the work of a 

number of Guilford craftspeople 

and artisans, in genres that 

BRATTLEBORO—Luminz 

and Open Music Collective will 

present a night of collaborative 

dance and music featuring the 

faculty of both performing arts 

schools. 

When teachers at both schools 

realized they each were involved 

with a week-long intensive, they 

decided to create a collaborative 

workshop. 

The show, which takes place 

Saturday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m., 

will offer a mix of solo, duo, trio, 

quartet and larger ensemble performances 

and build upon the 

work done in the workshop. 

Different combinations will 

COURTESY OF LARRY RICHARDSON 

“Vermont’s Glory” by photographer Larry Richardson shows a Guilford 

barn with autumn colors. It will be one of the works on display at a art show 

celebrating the town’s 250th anniversary. 

include jewelry, woodworking, 

ceramics, bookbinding, and 

weaving. 

All of the Guilford-made 

items will be for sale, as well 

as some of the art and photographs, 

with a portion of the 

proceeds to benefit the town’s 

250th celebration. 

Show hours are Friday, Oct. 

21, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Saturday, 

bring out different ideas, with the 

focus being on musicians connecting 

to the dancers in more 

intertwining ways, with each 

taking turns to lead and explore. 

In the preparation for the 

event, which involved 20 musicians 

and 10 dancers, teachers 

from both schools noted that 

the same vocabulary was used to 

teach the students of both arts. 

What came about was a special 

connection of improvisatory 

dance and music. 

From the intimate duo setting 

of an acoustic bass and a single 

BELLOWS FALLS— 

Community radio station 

WOOL, 100.1 FM, Black Sheep 

Radio, will host MasqueRadioke, 

a Halloween Extravaganza karaoke 

competition on Saturday, 

Oct. 29, from 7 p.m. until 

midnight. 

The only rule: You must be in 

costume to compete. 

Prizes will be awarded for best 

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An opening reception, with 

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and the public is scheduled for 

Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. 

School Road is four miles 

up Guilford Center Road from 

the Guilford Country Store on 

dancer, to the full-on explosion 

of an electric guitar power trio 

and full dance ensemble, organizers 

say that the show will offer 

a diverse and dynamic evening. 

Luminz dancers include 

Aurora Corsano, Cyndal Ellis, 

Meg Van Dyke, and other seasoned 

dance artists and teachers 

who have long history of performing 

together. The dancers 

have worked often in collaboration 

with local musicians. 

The musicians include David 

Goodrich on guitar, Doug Raneri 

on drums, and Jamie MacDonald 

performance and best costume, 

and a $200 first prize will be 

awarded for best singing. 

The contest will take place live 

on the air, from 9 to 10 p.m. in 

front of a studio audience. 

Would-be contestants should 

gather early at Black Sheep 

Radio headquarters at 33 Bridge 

St. to register for the competition 

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Also on sale, together in one 

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will be the remaining inventory 

of Guilford 250th memorabilia, 

now at closeout prices. 

For further information, 

contact Don McLean at 

802-257-1961. 

The same vocabulary 

Open Music Collective, Luminz team up for night of improvisational dance, music 

on bass, collectively known as the 

Jazz Demolition Project. They 

draw from their own eclectic set 

of interests and specializations 

focused on improvisation drawn 

from extensive backgrounds in 

rock, bebop, fusion, Latin, and 

singer/songwriter genres. 

The concert takes place at 

Luminz Studio on the third floor 

of the Cotton Mill Hill Building 

in Brattleboro. Tickets are $10 

and can be reserved by calling 

802-254-9200 or by email ( info@ 

luminzstudio.com ).. 

‘MasqueRadioke’ contest to benefit WOOL 

from the contest repertoire. 

There will be no advance 

screening of the available songs 

until that time. Competition will 

be limited to 10 contestants. 

Doors open at 7 p.m. with karaoke 

just for fun until 9 p.m., 

when the broadcast of the contest 

will begin. 

A cash bar will be provided 

by Pleasant Valley Brewing. 

MasqueRadioke is open to all 

ages from 7-10 p.m., but only 

those 21 and older after 10 p.m. 

Tickets for are $5 per person, 

whether singing or not, and all 

proceeds benefit the nonprofit, 

member-owned radio station. 

Full rules for this contest, directions, 

and info about WOOL 

are available online ( www.wool.fm ). 

For further information contact 

Kristen Fehrenbach ( kristen@blacksheepradio.org 

) or phone 

the station at 802-460-9665, 

ext. 109.

THE COMMONS • Wednesday, October 19, 2011 LIFE & WORK B5 


A new exhibit of drawings by Rick Hearn is opening 

on Oct. 21 at Works on Paper in Bellows Falls as part 

of the monthly BF3F event. 

BF3F swings into fall 

BELLOWS FALLS—On the 

third Friday of every month, 

downtown Bellows Falls opens 

its doors for an evening of art, 

music, local shopping, food, and 

fun. Here is what’s happening on 

Oct. 21 for the harvest edition of 

Bellows Falls Third Friday: 

• Bellows Falls Farmers’ 

Market: Height of fall season 

produce. Live Funkology 101 

radio broadcast with Professor 

Funk, 4-6:30 p.m. 

• Canal Street Beads: The 

store, at its newly expanded location 

of Canal Street Beads in the 

Exner Block, will feature a raffle 

prize drawing. Refreshments 

served, 5-8 p.m. 

• Dellamano Glass: Special raffle 

prize drawing. Refreshments 

BEEC plans 

‘Forest of 

Mystery’ 

WEST BRATTLEBORO— 

Bonnyvale Environmental 

Education Center ( beec.org ) is 

getting ready for its annual theatrical 

performance, the Forest 

of Mystery. 

Each fall, audiences are enchanted 

by the stories that appear 

before them while walking 

Bonnyvale’s forest trails by 

lamplight. 

This year’s Forest of Mystery 

will take place Friday, Oct. 21 

and Saturday, Oct. 22, with a 

rain date of Oct 23. The hourlong 

journey begins every 15 

minutes between 6:15 and 8:30 

p.m. 

The Deer and The Shadow , 

written and directed by Michael 

Nethercott, is based on the old 

Irish myth of Sive (Sadbhe), a 

maiden placed under a dark enchantment 

by the Shadow Man. 

The performance features a cast 

of 30 actors and musicians. 

In addition to his playwriting, 

Nethercott has published 

mystery and supernatural stories 

in numerous mystery and science 

fiction magazines and anthologies. 

He has won the Black 

Orchid Novella Award for traditional 

mystery writing. 

Call 802-257-5785 for reservations. 

Groups move through 

the forest every 15 minutes starting 

at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, and 

6:15 p.m.on Saturday night. 

Performances are not recommended 

for children younger 

than 6 years. For BEEC members, 

tickets are $10 for adults 

and $6 children. For non-members, 

the cost is $12 for adults 

and $8 for children. 

McKay’s Used Cars 

Now in 2 Locations 

1227 Marlboro Rd. 

(Route. 9 West) 

West Brattleboro 

served, 5-8pm. 

• Halladays Harvest Barn: 

Wine and cheese tasting with 

samples of specialty mixes and 

dips, 1-7 p.m. 

• Newbury Gallery/Vermont 

Pretzel: Opening reception for 

local artist Anne Y’s new painting 

exhibit. Refreshments served, 

5-7 p.m. 

• Vice & Verses: Open Mic 

Poetry and Mayhem hosted by 

Clara Rose Thornton in the 

RAMP Gallery, Project Space 

9. $3-$5 suggested donation. 

BYOB, 6-8 p.m. 

• Village Square Booksellers: 

Reading and book signing benefit 

for TARPS Animal Shelter 

with Jon Katz, author of Going 

Home: Finding Peace When Your 

Pet Dies . Starts at 7 p.m. 

• Works on Paper: Opening 

reception for Rick Hearn’s 

exhibit of drawings, Ventures 

into Exploration . Refreshments 

served, 6-8 p.m. 

Visit the event website ( www. 

bf3f.org ) or Facebook ( www.facebook.com/BellowsFalls.3rdFriday 

) for 

more information. 

Coming to 

MARLBORO COLLEGE 

Queen City 

Radio Hour 

With special musical 

guest Antje Duvekot 

Saturday, October 22, 7:30pm 

Whittemore Theater 

An evening of original comedy 

and world–class music for 

later broadcast 

Orkestra Mahaba 

Mystical & Classical 

Music from the 

Turkish World 

Sunday, October 23, 3:00pm 

Ragle Hall, Serkin Center 

Free and open to the public 

Information 

802-251-7644 

Marlboro College 

Marlboro, Vermont 

www.marlboro.edu 

1075 Putney Rd. 

Entrance Thru Brisk Ln. 

(Behind Wendy’s & Dunkin’s) 

Brattleboro 

Detailing at Putney Road, Starting at $ 8900 802.254.5275 

Hours for both locations: Mon–Sat 9:00 – 5:30 

Windham & Windsor Housing Trust 

is offering a 

Homebuyer Education Workshop 

Wednesday, October 26 

8:30am to 4:30pm 

& 

Saturday, November 19 

8:00am to 5pm 

To register call 802-246-2102 

www.w-wht.org 

68 Birge Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301 

Ph: 802-254-4604 x101 

Email: info@w-wht.org 

Charles Marchant of Townshend 

has a collection of 

20,000 postcards, and he would 

like to know more about the 

people and places they show. 

Each issue we will publish one 

of his postcards with a question 

or two in the hopes that readers 

can help him preserve a piece of 

Windham County history for 

future generations. 

At right: This 

farmhouse is pictured 

on a postcard mailed 

by Lena in 1909 from 

Windham to Herbert 

A. Frederick in Bellows 

Falls. Do you recognize 

this house or the 

people? Do you know 

about the card’s sender 

or its recipient? 

If you can help 

Charles Marchant, 

please call him at 

(802) 365-7937 

or email 

helpcharles@commonsnews.org. 

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9. Ring tone? 

13. “Yeah, that’ll happen!” 

17. Be intermittent 

18. Wheelbase terminus 

19. Fielder who was a fi elder 

21. Sleds from an aluminum giant? 

22. Retailer’s cocktail? 

24. Sports 

25. __ Lingus 

27. Gettysburg victor 

28. Nintendo’s Super __ 

29. Oscar role for Hopkins 

31. Beating __ horse 

33. Prom venue, maybe 

34. Gusto 

35. Calif. airport 

36. Eliza’s tutor, pretutelage 

38. See somebody? 

40. “The Social Network”’s 

Eisenberg 

41. Peke or pug 

44. Cattle 

45. “The Faerie Queene” poet 

47. She graced “TV Guide”’s fi rst 

cover 

48. Building-supply store’s veggie? 

51. Palmer, to golf fans 

52. Means to see a faraway computer 

company? 

53. Gullet 

56. Perennial hot spot 

58. Cunning 

59. Big rd. 

60. Jedi foes 

61. To-do list 

62. Pigs’ digs 

63. Meth. 

65. Vaquero’s workplace 

67. Old letter opener 

68. West of Hollywood 

70. “Eureka!” 

71. Cassiterite et al. 

72. 1960s sit-in grp. 

73. Audio device from a tech 

biggie? 

77. Norwegian coin 

78. Food corporation’s toiletry? 

79. Minus 

80. Anti-USSR socialist dogma 

83. Enforcer 

84. Intestines (prefi x) 

86. Halves of “dieciseis” 

87. Borodin’s prince 

88. Forever-day link 

89. Workforce reducer 

92. Handle without care 

93. Not COD 

95. Data 

97. Antonio, to Shylock 

100. Neurology subj. 

101. Took to the hammock 

103. Yield 

104. Rope fi ber 

105. Telecom device for a 

draftsman? 

108. Chem company’s fl oats? 

112. “Bobby Shaftoe’s gone __” 

113. Unescorted 

114. Curses 

115. “Addams Family” adjective 

116. Blood (prefi x) 

117. Dreamy state? 

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1. Sieves for soft drinks? 

2. Lifeless, old-style 

3. Flat paper 

4. Opener at Vegas? 

5. Tolkien creature 

6. JFK’s predecessor 

7. Sweet Rosie of song 

8. Part of LTNS 

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10. Physical 

11. Claim 

12. Wallace’s 1968 running mate 

13. Zoning measure 

14. Collection 

15. Frigidity 

16. Maneuver adroitly 

17. Actor Lee Van __ 

20. Antiseptic-surgery pioneer 

21. Puncturing tools 

23. USN VIP 

26. Apace 

30. Roulette bet 

31. Noble gas 

32. Recipient 

34. Stoicism founder 

37. Having perfect pitch? 

39. Livens (up) 

40. Ballet leap 

42. UFO crew 

43. Beg 

44. Smith who sang with Prima 

45. Throw below 

46. Some old scrolls 

47. Patron saint of babies 

49. __ Helens 

50. Folksinger Phil 

51. Build up 

53. Software fi rm’s cleanser? 

54. Parthenon site 

55. “__ broad stripes and...” 

57. Brazilian dance music 

60. Bothersome bedmate 

62. Back-to-sch. time 

63. Social-realist painter Ben 

64. “Divine Secrets of the __ 

Sisterhood” 

66. Turning point? 

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B6 THE COMMONS • Wednesday, October 19, 2011 

SPORTS & RECREATION 

Colonels, Terriers battle for football playoff spots 

It’s been a few years since 

the Brattleboro Colonels 

have been in the Division 

I football playoffs, but after 

Friday night’s 40-0 win over 

Spaulding at Natowich Field, 

there is an outside chance 

that the Colonels might be 

one of the eight teams in the 

tournament. 

The winless Crimson Tide 

were totally overwhelmed 

by Brattleboro. Quarterback 

Tyler Higley was 10-for-16 for 

208 yards and 3 touchdowns. 

Tailback Jake Gaboriault ran 

it 16 times for 108 yards and 3 

touchdowns. Receiver Soren 

Pelz-Walsh caught four passes 

for 120 yards and a touchdown. 

Fellow receiver Hassan 

Cansler had a 25-yard touchdown 

grab and also caught a 

two-point conversion pass from 

Higley. 

Brattleboro’s defense 

played a strong game, holding 

Spaulding to just 112 yards of 

total offense. 

The key to the Colonels securing 

a playoff spot will be 

beating Mount Anthony in 

Bennington this Friday, and 

hoping that St. Johnsbury loses 

to Lyndon this Saturday. 

According to the Burlington 

Free Press Football Power 

Ratings, heading into the MAU 

game, the Colonels are ranked 

No. 9 in Division I with a 3-4 

record and 4.250 QPR (Quality 

Point Rating, which is the formula 

used to determine playoff 

seeding in each division). 

St. Johnsbury is 4-3 and is currently 

in control of the eighth 

and final playoff spot with 

5.750 QPR. 

As for Bellows Falls, they’ve 

had a tough time of it moving 

up from Division III to 

Division II, and they are not 

control of their playoff destiny. 

With their 7-0 win on 

Saturday against Lyndon, the 

Terriers have a 3-4 record, a 

4.111 QPR, and hold the No. 

6 seed with two games to play. 

But there are only four playoff 

spots in Division II, and Rice is 

ahead of BF with a 4-3 record 

and a 4.778 QPR. 

Bruce Wells caught a 10yard 

touchdown pass from 

halfback Cooper Long with 

1:51 left in the first quarter, 

and Kyle O’Rourke kicked 

the extra point to give the 

Terriers the winning margin 

over Lyndon. BF hosts Otter 

Valley this Saturday and plays 

their season finale under the 

lights in Springfield on Oct. 29. 

The Terriers need to win both 

games, and root for Rice and 

No. 4 Burr & Burton to lose 

their next two games. 

Boys’ soccer 

• Brattleboro received a 

good measure of where it is at 

as a team, and what needs to 

happen to improve, in its 2-1 

loss at Champlain Valley last 

Monday. 

The CVU Redhawks are the 

top ranked team in Division I, 

but the Colonels did not roll 

over easily. Shane Healy gave 

the Redhawks a 1-0 halftime 

lead, but Brattleboro’s Cesar 

Moore tied the game in the 

57th minute off a direct kick; 

but eight minutes later, CVU’s 

Tucker Shelley headed-in the 


Anna Clark of Bellows 

Falls had a second place 

finish in a three-team 

cross country meet in 

Brattleboro on Oct. 11. 


Soren Pelz-Walsh (14) and Hassan Cansler (4) both had touchdown catches 

in Brattleboro’s 40-0 win over Spaulding at Natowich Field on Friday night. 

RANDOLPH T. 

HOLHUT 

Sports Roundup 

game-winning goal. 

Brattleboro goalkeeper 

Galen Finnerty held his own, 

making 13 saves against a powerful 

offense. Finnerty’s teammates 

offered plenty of help, 

and kept the Colonels in the 

game far longer than they 

expected. 

But whatever positive vibes 

the Colonels gained from that 

game vanished in a hard luck 

1-0 double-overtime loss to 

Mount Anthony at Tenney 

Field last Wednesday night. 

Brattleboro played 99 minutes 

of scoreless soccer and 

thought it was about to escape 

with a tie. Instead, MAU’s 

Christopher Schramm scored 

in the final minute of the second 

overtime to stun the 

Colonels. 

• Dylan Brage scored both 

goals as Twin Valley beat 

Windsor 2-1 in overtime last 

Tuesday. The Wildcats followed 

that effort up with a 

3-1 win over Arlington on 

Thursday, as Colin Lozito 

scored all 3 goals and goalkeeper 

Sam Molner had 12 

saves. 

The Wildcats finished the 

week with a 3-2 win over 

Stratton Mountain School on 

Saturday. Trailing 2-0, Dylan 

Barge scored a first-half goal 

and set up Tony Tarr’s strike in 

the 51st minute to tie the game. 

Ricardo Pereira then scored 

the game-winner in the 66th 

minute. 

• Leland & Gray shut 

down Bellows Falls, 5-0, last 

Tuesday. Hunter Buffum 

scored two goals for the Rebels, 

and Bobby Culver, Mike 

Bergeron, and Chris Lasch all 

scored one goal. Goalkeeper 

Tanner Karg picked up his fifth 

shutout. 

Girls’ soccer 

• Brattleboro played its 

fourth overtime game of the 

season last Tuesday. Unlike 

the other three, which ended 

in ties, the Colonels lost to 

Rutland, 2-1. Becca Bird 

scored for Brattleboro in the 

first minute of play. Rutland’s 

Kristen Switzer got the equalizer 

just eight minutes later, 

and the two teams battled the 

rest of the way until Switzer 

buried the game winner in the 

second overtime period. 

The Colonels then received 

a big boost with a 2-1 win at 

Springfield on Saturday. Halie 

Lange and Maddie Rollins 

both scored in the first half, 

and the Colonels’ defense 

held the Cosmos scoreless in 

the second half. Goalkeepers 

Tori Svec and Marrissa Smith 

combined for 6 saves as the 

Colonels ended the week at 

4-5-3. 

• Twin Valley picked up its 

first win of the season with a 

2-0 victory over Leland & Gray 

last Wednesday. Jordan Niles 

and Savannah Nesbitt did 

the scoring for the Wildcats, 

which started their week with 

a 2-1 loss to Black River last 

Monday. 

The Wildcats then had a 

letdown on Saturday with a 

4-1 loss to Stratton Mountain 

School. Twin Valley’s record 

stands at 1-9-1. 

• Green Mountain handed 

Leland & Gray a 1-0 loss last 

Monday in Townshend. The 

Rebels ended their week with a 

2-9 record. 

• Bellows Falls started 

its week with a 13-1 rout of 

Poultney last Monday. Sara 

Dumont scored 4 goals, 

Corrina Stack added 3 more 

and Enny Mustapha took a 

break from her goalkeeping duties 

and scored 2 goals. Chelsea 


Bellows Falls forward 

Sara Dumont scored 

four goals as the Terriers 

crushed Proctor, 13-1, on 

Oct. 10. 

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money, plain and simple. 

Wilder also scored 2 goals. 

On Thursday, BF blanked 

West Rutland, 2-0. Dumont 

and Wilder were the goal scorers 

and Mustapha made 9 

saves in goal to earn the shutout 

win. 

Field hockey 

• Bellows Falls played 

Burr & Burton to a 1-1 tie 

in Manchester last Monday. 

BF’s Sarah Wells scored off 

a pass from Mariah Barnett 

with about 4 minutes left in the 

first half. Burr and Burton’s 

Kelsey Towslee then tied the 

game with 20 minutes left in 

regulation. 

The Terriers then beat 

Brattleboro, 3-1, on Friday in 

Westminster. Barrett got BF’s 

first goal with 18 minutes left 

in the first half. Brattleboro’s 

Kebrina Howard tied the game 

just before halftime, but the 

Terriers took control with second 

half goals from Sarah 

Wells and Molly Dufault. BF 

goalie Quinn Lawrence made 

6 saves. 

Cross country 

• Anna Clark of Bellows Falls 

placed second in the girls race 

during a meet in Brattleboro 

last Tuesday. Brattleboro’s 

Hannah Reichel (fourth in 

23:36), Helen Manning, (ninth 

in 25:03) and Leah Silverman 

(10th in 25:10) all placed in the 

top 10, but it was not enough 

to overtake Mount Anthony 

and Burr & Burton in the team 

event. 

The BF boys placed third 

in team competition, as the 

Terriers had four runners in 

the top 20 — Willie Moore 

(12th), Collin Johnson (13th), 

Tim Jones (17th), and Jamie 

Moore (19th). Brattleboro 

came in fourth as Allen Unaitis 

came in 11th in 20:11 to lead 

the Colonels. 

Moore and Clark led the 

Terriers at the Connecticut 

Valley Conference Cross 

Country Championships in 

Langdon, N.H., on Saturday. 

Moore finished third in 17:13 

as the BF boys came in third 

overall. John Punger was 10th 

in 18:13, Johnson came in 21st 

in 18:50, Jones was 23rd in 

19:18, Willie Moore took 24th 

in 19:23, and William Scarlett 

came in 49th in 25:32. Clark, 

BF’s only girl competitor, took 

fourth in her race with a time 

of 21:36. 

Shrine game 

returns to 

Dartmouth 

• The 59th annual Shrine 

Maple Sugar Bowl will be back 

at Dartmouth’s Memorial Field 

on Aug. 4, 2012. 

Dartmouth and the 

Shriners of Vermont and New 

Hampshire made the announcement 

last week. The 

college and the Shriners agreed 

to a three-year deal to play 

the football game in Hanover, 

N.H., the site for 48 of the previous 

58 games. 

For 37 years, between 1969 

and 2005, Memorial Field 

served as the site of the game 

until the renovation of the east 

stands in 2006 forced the game 

to Plymouth, N.H. After two 

more years in Hanover, construction 

plans once again 

necessitated the move to an 

alternate site, Windsor High 

School, where it has been 

played the past three years. 

According to a news release 

from the college, Dartmouth is 

offering the use of Baker Field 

at minimal cost with the goal of 

allowing the Shriners to have 

more of the game proceeds to 

support the hospitals in Boston 

and Springfield, Mass., and 

Montreal. Since the series was 

inaugurated in 1954, the annual 

showdown between the 

top recently graduated high 

school seniors from Vermont 

and New Hampshire has raised 

more than $4 million for the 

Shiners hospitals. 

With 11 straight wins, New 

Hampshire leads the series 

with a 43-13-2 record. More 

than 4,000 players have participated 

in the event, of which 

about two-thirds still live in the 

region. 


Bellows Falls’ Sarah Wells (1) moves the ball upfield as she is pursued by 

Springfield’s Hannah Sorrell (9) and Megan Johnson during their game on 

Oct. 7 in Westminster. Wells scored the Terriers’ only goal in a 1-1 tie at Burr 

& Burton on Oct. 10. 

–Dan, 

Bulk Department 

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the fall favorites on sale in the herbs and spices section– cinnamon, 

cloves, ginger, nutmeg, and black pepper, to name a few. They’re 

organic, never irradiated, and always fresh. And hey, I know money’s 

tight for a lot of folks out there these days, so check this out: our 

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