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Community Resource Center hires new head SCOOTER MACMILLAN STAFF REPORTER
The Hinesburg Community Resource Center has a new executive director but one with the same message her predecessor often spread. Like Rachel Kring before her, Shannon Wheeler really, really wants people to realize the nonprofit organization has lots of different programs they may not know about. In fact, Wheeler was at the selectboard meeting Feb. 2 impressing upon those gathered the gospel of the wide variety of help the resource center offers.
The food shelf is the program most people are familiar with, but the resource center also sponsors the emergency financial assistance program, which offers emergency funds for people behind on their bills who may need help paying for heating and electricity or car repairs. The medical equipment lending program loans equipment like wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, canes, commodes and shower seats to community members in need. The resource center’s website, hinesburgresource.org, has a See WHEELER on page 6
‘He’s going to be the best of them all’ Ryan Cochran-Siegle wins silver in Beijing KIM BROWN CONTRIBUTOR
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Whether she’s swinging from bar to bar or inverting atop a skinny beam, Lamoille Union’s Kayla Meegan is one of the top gymnasts in the state. Meegan trains and travels with the team from Champlain Valley Union High School, since Lamoille doesn’t have a gymnastics team. See story, page 9.
To tell the story of Ryan Cochran-Siegle’s recent success — he just won a silver in the men’s super G at the Beijing Olympics — you’ve got to start with the story of Cochran’s Ski Area. That’s the ski hill Mickey and Ginny Cochran created on their farm in Richmond, where they erected a rope tow behind the house, mounted lights on trees and invited the whole neighborhood over to ski. Their four kids, Barbara Ann, Marilyn, Bobby and Lindy became World Cup stars and Olympians. B.A., as Barbara Ann is known to everyone, reached the summit in 1972 with a gold medal
in slalom at the Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan. The Cochran family is American alpine skiing’s first family, not because Mickey and Ginny produced four Olympians, and not because the next generation of Cochran’s sported six more World Cup skiers, two of whom would also become Olympians. No, it is because this is a place that still invites the neighborhood kids over to ski and those kids to this day still learn from the stars of previous generations. At Cochran’s if there is one cliché that rings true, it’s “pay it forward.” But among those cousins who See COCHRAN-SIEGLE on page 2
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learned the demanding skills of alpine racing on the family hill, there is 29-year-old Ryan Cochran-Siegle. He’s no Johnny come lately. He’s been rising toward the top for a long time. His grandmother, Ginny, never one to mince words, said of him, simply, “He is going to be the best of all of them.” Jim Farrell, a lifer in the coaching ranks of both the Mount Mansfield Ski Club and Cochran’s, worked with Cochran-Siegle when he arrived in Stowe. The irony of being a Cochran’s kid is that you will learn to execute a race turn at Cochran’s. But the lack of giant slalom training there — there’s not a lot of vertical — creates a pathway to bigger hills like Smugglers’ Notch or, in Cochran-Siegle’s case, Stowe. Scott Moriarty, another longtime coach at Mount Mansfield Ski Club and one of Ryan’s mentors in the race world, recounts early Ryan days. When Moriarty first started watching him on Stowe’s Slalom Hill, “He just kept going straight and crashing.” Quizzing B.A. at the bottom of the course, she too minced no words. He had no giant slalom training at Cochran’s. “RCS was always coachable,” Farrell said. This was a kid who had always wanted one thing more than anything else, to be a ski racer. He got a hand-me-down giant slalom suit that had belonged to his cousin Jessica Kelly and been worn by numerous others. Once he got it, he wore it everywhere.
Jimmy Cochran, himself a two-time Olympian, tells a great story about his younger cousin. Jimmy was doing the long daily commute to Stowe for training, and returning home for dinner with Ginny and B.A. one night, Jimmy asks, “Where’s Ryan?” B.A. tells him that the kid is out in the dark on a snowbank practicing his race start — and this is a 10-year-old. It was in Cochran-Siegle’s second year as a J2 that Farrell took a group 15- and 16-year-olds to the annual speed camp at Sugarloaf in Maine and its famous race trail, Narrow Gauge, where downhills have been run for almost 75 years. Mount Mansfield Ski Club kids have limited opportunity to ski speed events, but Farrell saw right away that Cochran-Siegle had a knack for “putting the nose over the front of the ski!”
The bomber Cochran-Siegle always had the speed. The story of his bomber run at age 9 or 10 has taken its place in Cochran’s lore. A tradition at the end of a Cochran training day has the kids ride the rope tow to the top and then, en masse, bomb down the slope with enough speed to reach the top of the hill where the lodge was perched. Cochran-Siegle outran the crowd and wound up crashing through a plate glass window, startling the occupants chatting away inside. None the worse for wear, other than a scar on his lower backside, his race career continued. Mom, B.A., gleefully recount-
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Ryan Cochran-Siegle and his mom, Barbara Ann Cochran, at the Nationals at Sugarloaf in 2017.
ed this story for NBC after the super G in China. For the best of the best, there is always a tale of family, friends and coaches. Once, Cochran-Siegle forced himself into the front ranks of young and budding alpine racing stars. His senior year, he raced a giant slalom on Main Street at Spruce Peak against a bunch of very good U.S. ski team racers.
He beat the field. One of the coaches extended an invitation to Cochran-Siegle to attend a prestigious camp at Mammoth in the spring with the so-called development team. The coach assured him this could serve as a stepping-stone to the U.S. alpine team. Baseball lore runs just as deep in the Cochran family. While attempting to interview Mickey
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about ski racing one spring, it took less than five minutes for the conversation to veer into baseball. Mickey was a pitcher in the old Northern League, and he was happy to talk about facing a barnstorming group of Red Sox players one spring and pitching against the likes of Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky. That spring RCS was also playing baseball for Mount Abraham High School and the choice was ski camp or the high school tournament. No camp, no U.S. team. He chose baseball, and his friends and teammates. In the end, his team went on to capture the state title and he still made the U.S. ski team. In 2011 Cochran-Siegle got his first starts on the World Cup circuit and was rewarded with a 29th place at Beaver Creek on its famous Birds of Prey speed course. The 2011-12 season also saw the 20-year-old finding success on the North American Trophy Series — the Nor-Ams — the last rung below the World Cup level. That spring he captured two gold medals at the World Junior Championships but then the injury bug struck.
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Cochran-Siegle has had no shortage of injuries. After that very good season in Nor-Ams, a crash in 2013 left him with a torn meniscus. He recovered and a great season unfolded the next year. He won the Nor-am overall title, guaranteeing World Cup starts in every discipline, but at the season-ending U.S. See COCHRAN-SIEGLE on page 3
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championships, it was obvious his knee was still not 100 percent. Only medical advances saved his career. If the technique of using tendons from cadavers hadn’t been developed, his knee injury might have ended his young career. It was a long and arduous process to get back on snow. According to B.A., her son spent long hours day after day studying video of World Cup skiers racing every venue. RCS would visualize every turn, every wrinkle on the hill — Birds of Prey, Bormio and the Hahnenkamm, home to the sport’s most famous downhill. In 2016, now healthy for the first time in nearly three years, he returned to racing. He soon captured his first World Cup giant slalom points with a 30th place result at Kranjska-Gora in Slovenia. Slowly, he moved up the points list. His first Olympic runs took place in 2018. At the South Korean host site of Pyeongchang, he emerged as the top American man with good results scattered across three different events. His best result was an 11th in the GS, and it would not be until the 2020-21 season that Cochran-Siegle finally made his mark on the international stage. That December he took his first podium — a second place in a downhill at Val Gardena — and followed it up with his first win at Bormio in a Super-G. The racers on the circuit knew that America’s speed skiers had a new leader. Expectations ran high when the tour arrived in Kitzbühel for the annual Hahnenkamm. The Cochrans are no strangers to this course. Ryan’s uncle, Bobby, won the Hahnenkamm combined event in 1973 with a third-place downhill finish and a 23rd place in slalom. As Cochran-Siegle plunged down the course, his split times put him right in the mix for a medal. Then disaster. He got off balance coming off one of the elevator drops of the Streif and was launched into the nets. Airlifted off course, he waved to the crowd but soon learned that he had broken two bones at the base of his neck. Surgery followed. Bones were fused. B.A. was later quoted saying, “Thank god it is was only a broken neck. A joint is so much more work.” Only a ski racing mom could adopt that perspective. More rehab, more waiting but finally Cochran-Siegle returned to the slopes. This year’s results developed slowly. A good race here, a not so good race there, but he was getting more comfortable. When he got to China to race on a hill where no one had ever trained, the downhill was sketchy at best. One OK training run, one terrible run. Yet on race day he ran
14th in the field, building his confidence. Then came the super G. Austrian Matthias Mayer wore bib No. 13 and trailed Norwegian star Aleksander Aamodt Kilde all the way to near the bottom. But the bottom of the course is relatively flat, and Mayer, a great glider, made up nearly a full second on Kilde. The announcers were still gushing over Mayer’s run when Cochran-Siegel launched onto the course, posting faster split times than the Austrian. As Cochran-Siegle came across the finish, the clock showed him dropping by just hundredths into second place. That margin would hold. Ryan had his medal. There is one final irony in this story — one of the byproducts of having your neck fused. It is now much harder for Cochran-Siegle to get fully into his tuck, the aerodynamic position so key to cutting though the wind. Would that have made a difference in the end? Does it really matter? Ryan Cochran-Siegle is still just the fifth Vermonter to win an Olympic medal in alpine racing, following in the footsteps of Andrea Mead Lawrence, Betsy Snite, Billy Kidd and his mom, Barbara Ann Cochran.
Jan. 27 at 10:13 a.m., police assisted Hinesburg EMS with a medical call. Jan. 27 at 5:58 p.m., a single car crashed on Charlotte Road, causing frame damage and possible injuries to the driver. Jan. 28 at 3:57 p.m., someone late reported that their car was damaged while parked on Green Street. Jan. 28 at 7:36 p.m., someone at Patricia’s Place accidentally dialed 911. Jan. 28 at 11:02 p.m., a single car crashed on CVU Road, scooting away with some damage but no injuries. Jan. 31 at 8:29 a.m., a suspicious car was reportedly cruising around New South Farm Road, but when officers checked the neighborhood, they didn’t find anything. Jan. 31 at 1:47 p.m., officers assisted Champlain Valley Union High School with a student issue. Jan. 31 at 5:04 p.m., officers assisted the high school again locating a missing student. Feb. 1 at 12:53 p.m., officers worked on an active investigation into a restraining order violation on Farmall Drive.
Feb. 1 at 10:14 p.m., someone complained of an erratic driver on Route 116, but officers could not find the speedster. Feb. 2 at 5:07 a.m., two cars crashed on Route 116 causing possible injuries to occupants. Feb. 2 at 12:38 p.m., someone reported a car blocking traffic on Gilman Road, but the car moved before officers responded. Feb. 2 at 2:32 p.m., a child reported missing from Hillview Terrace was later found just fine. Feb. 3 at 9:43 a.m., an excavator was stolen from Charlotte Road, but police later found the machine and its suspected marauders. The case is still under investigation. Feb. 3 at 12:10 p.m., police checked on the welfare of someone on North Road with a possible medical issue. Feb. 3 at 12:12 p.m., an officer unlocked someone’s vehicle for them after they locked their keys inside on Commerce Street. Feb. 3 at 12:31 p.m., a residential burglar alarm was falsely tripped at Partridge Hill. Feb. 3 at 12:40 p.m., police assisted Champlain Valley Union High School with a student issue.
Feb. 3 at 5:18 p.m., one car crashed on Route 116, causing property damage but no injuries. Feb. 3 at 7:40 p.m., officers assisted State Police with a car crash on Hinesburg Road in Charlotte. Feb. 4 at 12:44 p.m., some cars parked on Sherman Hollow Road and then later on Farmall Drive were blocking the snowplow. The cars were moved before officers arrived. Feb. 4 at 1:31 p.m., police worked on an active fraud investigation on Route 116. Feb. 4 at 6:09 p.m., a tractor trailer truck got stuck in slushy muck on Silver Street. Officers directed traffic until the tow truck pulled it out of the snow. Feb. 4 at 6:41 p.m., officers assisted mediating a neighbor dispute on Hollow Road. Feb. 5 at 6:32 a.m., one car crashed on Richmond Road, but didn’t cause injuries. Feb. 5 at 2:28 p.m., police assisted Hinesburg EMS with a medical call on Pond Brooke Road. Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m., police provided some residents with resources and information on addressing substance use among loved ones.
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Don’t cloak cruel hunting practices in science Guest Perspective Brenna Galdenzi I’ve always been one to give credit where credit is due, and despite our many differences in opinion, I want to commend Jaclyn Comeau’s work in helping Vermonters manage conflicts with bears. (“Vermont bear conservation: Misinformation distracts conservation success,” Jan. 27, 2022) I’ve exchanged helpful emails with her in the past concerning some of the challenges that bears face, including humans behaving badly. Example: People leaving bird feeders out all year long. But that does not indemnify her and the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department from endorsing an inherently cruel and abusive practice: bear hounding. I found her examples of the benefits of bear hounding to be purposely
narrow and reflective of a very small percentage of why people run hounds on bears. Bears have little peace in Vermont. Starting on June 1, when mother bears are still nursing small cubs and are not in good physical shape, they are forced to abandon their cubs and flee from packs of frenzied hounds during the hound training season. Even our neighboring state of New Hampshire does not allow the season to start so early, since bears have not had the time to put on weight after their long denning period, often referred to as hibernation. The hound training season lasts all summer long, right through the start of the extremely long bear hunting season — that includes the use of hounds — that starts on Sept. 1 and runs through the approximately the last week of November. In short, bears are terrorized by hounds for six
months, leaving them only the month of May to live on our landscapes free from harassment, not including the time when they’re denning, December to April. According to the most recent records on Vermont’s bear hunt, over 20 percent of the bear population was hunted and killed — an alarming percentage, considering that bears breed only every two years and don’t reach sexual maturity until 3 to 4 years old. Half of the bears killed were female, which means that many bears were left without their mothers. Cubs stay with their mothers for approximately 16 months. Much of the hounding activity results in chasing bears from the woods, where we want them, and into roads and residential areas. This has resulted in heated confrontations with private property owners and potential vehicle collisions. Some of these chases last
for hours over miles. In a study where five bears were chased, the mean length of the chase was 1.9 hours and the average distance traveled by the bears was 6.9 miles. A Vermont hunter posted on Facebook that her hounds chased a bear for six hours until the bear ran onto a major road. Considering all of this, how could a bear biologist possibly suggest that hounding is good for bears? While some bears will flee up a tree, other bears are known to stand their ground and fight back. We’ve read instances where Vermont hounders have documented that their hounds were injured in the fights. This is only made worse by the fact that the hounders are often miles away in their vehicles and have zero control of their dogs. How many bears and cubs are injured each year that go undocumented? We suspect many. How many deer fawn, moose calves and other non-target wildlife are injured by these uncontrolled hounds? If my dogs were caught running deer, they could be shot by a fish and wildlife game
warden. Hounders get a free pass. Comeau talks about misinformation and emotion. Yes, there’s plenty of that, including the assertion that hounding is somehow good for bears. One does not need to be a bear biologist to understand that bear hounding is an exceptionally cruel and disruptive method of hunting bears. Does Comeau need a scientific paper to inform her that a sentient being is being terrorized by a pack of baying and biting hounds at their heels? There’s a reason most states prohibit this activity. As we recently discussed in one of our podcasts — “Is Fish & Wildlife using science to inform wildlife policy decisions?” — it would be very helpful if the department stated its biases, including the requirement to support current wildlife management policies, including bear hounding. Shrouding the support of these outdated and cruel practices under the cloak of science, while not disclosing the politics behind it, is not helpful. Brenna Galdenzi of Stowe is president of Protect Our Wildlife.
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In practice, vaccine passports go back to at least the 1930s Guest Perspective Lewis Mudge Just before the holidays, I took the long trip from Burlington to Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. The country has been wracked by periods of intense conflict since independence, especially over the last nine years, and much of it is under the control of armed groups. Before landing, passengers were not only worried about rebel movements, the weekly kidnapping count and the nightly curfew. We also had to concern ourselves with the formalities of immigration. I approached the desk, passport in hand, and reached into my back pocket for my vaccine passport. As I bantered with the control officer, I asked, “Why do we need to have this vaccine card?” She answered, “Well, it’s to keep us all safe — and honestly, we don’t want you coming into our country if you’re just going to get sick.” This vaccine passport was not inspired in the time of COVID-19. My own card dates to 2002, when I first traveled to Africa, and has been updated accordingly along the way. It is my Yellow Card. In 1935, the first iteration of the Yellow Card standardized the approach to a continent-wide killer in the global south. While it documented vaccination against cholera and polio, its raison d’etre, at least in Africa, is to mark one’s protection from yellow fever. The virus, spread by mosquitoes, results in fever,
chills, muscle pain and an eerie government control mechanism. yellow coloring of one’s skin. It’s taken as a given that it’s a Once contracted, it can only be necessary piece of documentation managed as the virus runs its needed to enter certain countries. course. For those with a severe We are starting to see a shift case, the prognosis is not good: toward this type of documentation Up to half of those with a serious with COVID-19. If I want to go case die. visit in-laws in Canada, I need to The vaccine against yellow prove I have the vaccine. fever was a game-changer in Vermonters, like all Ameriterms of advancing public health cans, are going to continue to have across large swaths of Africa. different takes on the COVID-19 Many Americans won’t have vaccines and boosters. Some, heard of the like my family, Yellow Card will continue to We are undeniably because it is receive boosters necessary only and will sign moving toward a in less frequently their children different world, one traveled countries, up early. Others but it is every will opt to take a where vaccine status slower approach bit as important as a passport in or to forgo determines access Central Africa. vaccinations all The card together. That across borders. represents a is their right collective effort and, while we to stand in solidarity against a may disagree on the science, these disease. It’s a positive validation rights should be respected. of how we — the big “we” of But we are undeniably moving humanity — can work together toward a different world, one and cross state borders safely. where vaccine status determines Before the COVID-19 access across borders. pandemic, I never used to think As we trend toward this new much of the card. It was just era of formalized vaccine status another thing to pack with my identification, it will be seen as a passport. But since then, and since godsend by some and overreach travel has restarted, it’s taken on by others. But it shouldn’t be seen additional meaning. It’s almost as as new. Some parts of the world if it’s a pledge to the inhabitants have been using this documentaof the country I’m stepping into: tion for years. We’re just catching I’m doing my part not to spread up. disease — and not to get sick and force you to treat me. Lewis Mudge is the Central In my 20 years of traveling Africa director at Human Rights with the Yellow Card, I’ve never Watch. A member of the Charlotte heard someone say it violates their Selectboard, this commentary was basic rights. It is not considered a written in a private capacity.
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Book discussion Tuesday, Feb. 22 and March 1, and Monday, Feb. 28, 7-8 p.m. Sustainable Charlotte and the library host a discussion of Paul Hawken’s “Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation.”
Health research literacy Thursday, Feb. 17, 7-8 p.m. Join Jim Hyde for a discus-
sion on how to tell fact from fiction and hyperbole from reality when it comes to understanding health research findings and information. Hyde taught epidemiology and biostatistics at Tufts Medical School for more than 35 years. Bring questions, concerns or articles. Register for link.
Short story selections Thursday, Feb. 17, March 3, 17 and 31, 1-2 p.m. Join director Margaret Woodruff for a three-part discussion series, featuring short stories old and new. The reading list will include a variety of authors, and one or two stories will be featured each session. Join at bit.ly/3HFIuuo.
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Book discussion: ‘Stories of your Life and Others’ Tuesday, Feb. 22, 7-8 p.m. The pick for February is Ted Chiang’s collection of science-fiction short stories “Stories of Your Life and
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Balancing the tight rope between très bon and not too très bon Press Play Scooter MacMillan The first time I went to Bethlehem I didn’t follow a star. GPS got me there just fine, although I did drive a Saturn. Instead of three wisemen, just a smartass granddad, coming to a little town in New Hampshire to celebrate my grandangel’s birth and help with the swaddling. A few weeks ago, when my daughter picked up the grandangel after kindergarten, she climbed into the car announcing, “Mom, you’re not supposed to stick out your middle finger. It means a bad word.” As she buckled up her car seat, she contemplated the idea of a bad word. She knew that saying shut up is bad, but this middle finger seemed to mean a word that’s of a more serious class of badness. Finally, she hypothesized, “I think it means the ‘A’ word.” My innocent daughter’s profanity vocabulary is limited. She doesn’t want to let my grandangel know she isn’t sure what the official bad ‘A’ word is. She has ideas, but she just leaves
these suspect words hanging there, unmentioned, unidentified, untold. Rather than stepping into a bad-word ‘A’ hole, my daughter just said, “Oh.” But when they got home, as soon as my daughter could get on the phone by herself, she called the kindergarten teacher to see if she had any insight into the 6-year-old lexicon. The kindergarten teacher thought my grandangel and her classmates have decided the ‘A’ word is “adult.” Apparently, the kindergarten class has decided the supreme insult is to give someone the middle finger, essentially calling them out for all the world to see, for acting like an adult. Seems about right. I’ve coasted through life in an almost middle-finger-free zone. People have seldom accused me of acting like an adult. I imagine I’m like most people. I try to choose life supersized with extra zest. I strive to make every second first. In other words, I like to play very much, but I don’t want to play too much. I like to play right up to the too-much line without crossing
it. I really don’t like to play so much that I irritate or — even worse — hurt people by saying something I thought was funny but is actually insulting, inconsiderate or dismissive. Still, I do hate it when I pass up an opportunity to play full tilt, right up to the too-much line because of apprehension or fear of crossing the line and playing too much. I like to play until after dark, until I absolutely must come in. I really like it when the fun is très bon but not too très bon and all the streetlights have come on. I imagine this is the way most of us are. Being an adult is a lifetime learning process without a graduation. It would be great if a passion for play combined with a dedication to not play too much defined my identity, but I suspect I’m not unique in this regard. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is the way most of us are — wanting to play and be funny without hurting anyone. It’s all fun and games until you say something offensive. A mindless play on words can be thoughtlessly mean. I’m not sure how well I’m teetering along the line between
just enough and not too much, but I do take pride in how my grandchildren regard me. They clearly think I’m weird. Recently when my 3-year-old grandson was told I was coming for dinner, he told my daughter, “Great. I like that dude. He’s a
good guy.” I don’t think I’ve ever gotten that level of affirmation before. And because I’m a good dude in their eyes, for the time being there’s a good chance my grandangels won’t be pointing at me with the adult finger.
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continued from page 1 calendar with activities for seniors in the area. Twice Is Nice is a thrift shop sponsored by the resource center in the Hinesburg village just south of the town hall. It sells gently used women’s clothing, accessories and small household goods with the proceeds helping to fund the Hinesburg Community Resource Center’s myriad programs. Very conspicuous to parents Shannon Wheeler with young children is Friends of Families, which itself offers a bunch of programs designed to bring families together. Like Kring, now a paraprofessional helping second graders with math and reading at Hinesburg Community School,
a Friends of Families sponsored weekly playgroup was Wheeler’s introduction to the Hinesburg Community Resource Center. The playgroup was one of the things that impressed her about Hinesburg and a contributing reason why she and husband Weston chose to move here with their now 3-and-halfyear-old son Lochlan. “Hinesburg really draws people in,” Wheeler said. “I’m not originally from here but doing things like playgroups and stuff really makes you feel like a part of the community.” The best part of being execSee WHEELER on page 7
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Community Notes Real estate agent joins Geri Reilly Hinesburg native Hillary Palmer has joined Geri Reilly Real Estate in South Burlington as an agent. She has spent the last eight years in the service and restaurant management in Burlington and looks forward to translating her skills to real estate. Coming from a family filled with contractors, homes and their design have always been an interest and she is eager to help buyers find the Hillary Palmer right home. She enjoys hiking with her golden retriever, Thornton.
at the Waitsfield United Church of Christ. Rehearsals continue Monday evenings in the chorus room at Harwood Union High School. Concerts, usually performed in May, will be postponed until June 11-12 due to the late rehearsal start. New members are always welcome. The only requirement is that singers put in some time learning the music outside of rehearsals, and they be able to hold their part and sing with their voice section. There are dues but no one is ever turned away for lack of ability to pay. Visit madriverchorale.net for information or call 802-496-4781.
Garden experts talks songbird, garden habitat
Garden club delivers Charlie Nardozzi offers Gardening cookies for Age Well
for the Birds at the next Charlotte Senior Center Wednesday lecture on Feb. 23. Many gardeners are rightfully concerned about the decline of songbird populations. Although much of the problem stems from bigger issues — habitat loss, climate change and agricultural chemicals — home gardeners can help. Nardozzi will highlight ways to help migrating and overwintering birds by growing the right plants, properly feeding the birds and providing water, shelter, nesting sites and habitat in our yards. Nardozzi is a regional, award-winning garden writer, speaker, radio and TV personality who has worked for more than 30 years bringing expert gardening information to home gardeners. The free, in-person lectures start at 1 p.m. Questions? Leave a message at 802-425-6345 or visit charlotteseniorcentervt.org.
On Feb. 11, members of the Burlington Garden Club delivered 360 homemade, decorated and individually wrapped heartshaped Valentine’s cookies to the home of Mary Scollins. Later that day, they were picked up by a representative from Meals on Wheels for delivery on Valentine’s Day. This tradition began in 2014, spearheaded by current Burlington Garden Club co-president Jan DeSarno. Working with Age Well Nutrition and Wellness director Chris Moldovan, DeSarno has seen what began as a small service project, expand into a yearly endeavor. This year DeSarno and her granddaughter Sophia and grandson JD expanded the Valentine cookie endeavor to include the South Burlington Food Shelf.
Mad River Chorale returns to rehearsal hall
The Age Well meal pickup for Thursday, Feb. 24 is from 11 a.m. to noon, Charlotte Senior Center, 212 Ferry Road, and features oven-fried chicken breast, red mashed potatoes, Capri vegetables, dinner
The Mad River Chorale’s first spring rehearsal will be Monday, Feb. 28, 7-9 p.m.
Oven-fried chicken on tap for senior meal
roll, pumpkin pudding with cream and milk. Pre-register by Monday, Feb. 21, with Lori York, 802-425-6371 or lyork@charlotteseniorcentervt.org The meal on March 3 — register by Feb. 28 — is beef stroganoff with sour cream, egg noodles, broccoli florets, cauliflower, dinner roll, strawberry shortcake and milk. Check the website for last-minute cancellations at charlotteseniorcentervt. org.
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Civically involved students can apply for scholarship
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Applications are now being accepted for the Winona Smith Scholarship program. Created in 1998 to honor the legacy of League of Women Voters leader Winona Smith, the scholarship is awarded annually to local high school seniors who embody civic participation and community service. Four $1,500 scholarships will be awarded to students who demonstrate financial need, scholastic achievement and come
Saturday, March 5, 7:15 a.m.-4 p.m., University Mall, 155 Dorset St., South Burlington. Tuesday, March 8, noon-5 p.m., St. Catherine of Siena, 72 Church St., Shelburne. Friday, March 18, 12:30-6 p.m., United Church of Hinesburg, 10580 Route 116, Hinesburg. Thursday, April 14, 2-7 p.m., Charlotte Senior Center, 212 Ferry Road, Charlotte.
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continued from page 6 utive director of the resource center is getting involved with the community, something she couldn’t do in her previous job. For 11 years she managed a lobbying organization called the Advocacy Group. While it didn’t offer many chances to interact with fellow community members, it did help prepare her for this job. “I’m pretty used to managing different projects and different aspects of the office,” Wheeler said. What’s next for the resource center? “We’ve been thinking a little bit about how to help people find jobs, or vice versa, how to help the businesses who are struggling with finding employees,” she said.
Obituary Mary Suzanne Haman Mary Suzanne Haman died on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, at The Converse Home. She leaves behind five children, including her daughter, Suzie McCoy and son, Geoff of Hinesburg, and Eileen Curtis, husband Ray, and sons Will and John of Charlotte; 10 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions can be made to The Converse Home education fund.
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SPORTS Team spirit: Flexible schedule lets gymnast travel with CVU practices. Luckily Meegan has uneven bars as the weakest portion a car. She drives to Regal nearly of her routine. She said scoring every day, and sometimes twice a in gymnastics is based upon a High school gymnast Kayla day if there’s a double practice — degree of difficulty in each disciMeegan stands out when she trav- morning drive to the gym, back to pline — there are A-level, B-level els to meets with the Champlain Lamoille for classes and back to the and C-level skills, and competitors need to have a minimum number of Valley Union High School team, gym for a late practice or a meet. Competing alongside the CVU high-level skills in order to start at a and not just because she is almost always standing atop the podium team, Meegan finds herself with maximum of 10 in the discipline, or two sets of coaches — she has been otherwise go with a lower ceiling. after every meet. “So, on bars, I only start at a Meegan, an 18-year-old senior coached by Regal’s Xcel Team director and 9.5 because I don’t have the right from Johnson, coach Maribeth amount of skills,” she said. “But a also stands out “I’ve always been Long for the past lot of people also don’t start from because of her decade, while 10s, so that’s OK.” leotard colors — pretty decent at the Redhawks In the floor exercises, Meegan not CVU red and are coached prefers to wow the judges with a white, but the doing the tumbling by Madison technical routine filled with flips blue and gold of Bourdeau and and tumbles, rather than impress Lamoille Union and the flips.” Ashley Bachand. them with a more performative High School, She said this can dance program. where she’s a — Kayla Meegan help when trying “You have to really sell your student. to figure a way routine, which I haven’t always Meegan has been traveling and training with to get the most out of the countless been the best at. 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Lamoille Union gymnast Kayla Meegan, far left, travels with the Champlain Valley Union team.
There was the third birthday party. There was an ankle rolling injury as a ninth grader during a spirited game of Medic. Last year, she experienced a back spasm pulling a far more pedestrian maneuver — getting up off the couch. She discovered she had a compressed spine and pinched sciatic nerve, the result of an attempt at a trick in the backyard. “I was trying to do a backflip off my mat and the mat slips, and so I just went up and came down on my neck and sprained it, which was no fun,” she said. She said that’s part of the reason she’s thinking about sticking to club-level competition instead of pursuing gymnastics at the collegiate level. “I might give my body a break, and then if I decide, ‘Oh, I really miss it,’ I can go back to it, but not as intensely as I’ve been doing it,” she said.
The state championships are this Saturday at the Regal facility. Despite amassing a load of firstplace finishes, Meegan thinks her stiffest competition comes from Evelyn LaCroix of Montpelier High School. LaCroix nailed a perfect 10 on the balance beam last week, which contributed an all-around score of 38.5. This being her inaugural varsity season, Meegan hasn’t competed in a state championship meet, but she has watched, and she’s excited for the energy that comes from these big meets. Typically, there are one or two other schools competing, but everyone who flips, twists and flies through the smaller meets throughout the year will be at Regal on Saturday. “When I went and watched, the energy levels were really high and people were just cheering each other on, so I’m excited for that,” she said.
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Shenendehowa (N.Y.) 51, Champlain Valley 36: The girls lost their third game of the season to Shenendehowa, N.Y. on Saturday. Chloe Snipes had eight points
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TOWN MEETING WARNING Informational Meeting February 28, 2022 Annual Meeting March 1, 2022 Town of Hinesburg, Vermont COVID PUBLIC -19 UPDATE: HEARINGDue to the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, the meeting Hinesburg28, Development on February 2022 will be held remotely. Available options to watch or join the Review Board meeting are below: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 7:00Meeting pm Informational February 28, 2022 via Remote Access
Town Hall The legal voters of the Town of Hinesburg, Vermont are hereby warned and notified Dennis Place: Conditional to meet remotely in said Town of Hinesburg, on Monday February 28, 2022 at 7:00 for a home meeting on the articles to be voted upon by Australian P.M. forUse anreview informational occupation to process wood Ballot on Tuesday March 1, 2022. Join Zoom Meeting on his 39.6-acre property https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84834431493?pwd=bmJ0NmMyM2RZS1J3U25YcTBXQk located at 190 Place Road 1tdz09 West in the Rural Residential 1 Zoning Meeting ID: 848District. 3443 1493 Passcode: 645714 The meeting will be both in This Informational Meeting will be held remotely. Available options to watch or join person and remote. See the meeting: meeting agenda on town • Join the Zoom information will be available on www.Hinesburg.org website withonline details platform: on • View remotely by streaming on VCAM how to participate. • For the purpose of recording minutes, you will be asked to provide your first and last name. • When listening to the meeting, please keep your phone or computer on mute to prevent interruptions during the meeting. Voters are encouraged to email jdubingrossman@hinesburg.org in advance to ask questions. Questions may be submitted via the “chat” function. • HOW TO REGISTER TO VOTE: There is no deadline to register to vote. You can register by going to olvr.vermont.gov to register on-line, by going to the town clerk’s office and filling out a paper registration form, or on election day at the polls. • HOW TO REQUEST AN EARLY BALLOT: You or a family member can request an early ballot by visiting mvp.vermont.gov and signing in to your voter page. You may also request a ballot by phone, in person or via email at mross@hinesburg.org or hroberts@hinesburg.org.
ARTICLE I: To hear the reports of the officers of the Town of Hinesburg. Annual Meeting Tuesday, March 1, 2022 via Australian Ballot The legal voters of the Town of Hinesburg, Vermont are hereby warned and notified to meet at the Town Hall at 10632 Vermont Route 116 in Hinesburg, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 to transact the following business by Australian ballot. Said voting by Australian ballot will begin with the polls opening at 7:00 A.M. and closing at 7:00 P.M. ARTICLE II: To elect the necessary Town and School District officers by Australian ballot Tuesday, March 1, 2022: • Selectboard member for a term of 3 years • Selectboard member for a term of 2 years • Town Moderator for a term of 1 year • Cemetery Trustee for a term 3 years • 3 Library Trustees for terms of 3 years each • Peck Estate Trustee for a term of 3 years • Champlain Valley School District Director for a 3-year term ARTICLE III: Shall the Town approve a General Government budget of $1,678,706 with the sum of $1,211,891 raised through taxes? ARTICLE IV: Shall the Town approve a Highway Department budget of $728,733 with the sum of $573,233 raised through taxes? ARTICLE V: Shall the Town approve the Hinesburg Community Police Department budget of $815,483 with the sum of $714,983 raised through taxes? ARTICLE VI: Shall the Town approve the Hinesburg Fire Department budget of $426,347 with the sum of $386,347 raised through taxes? ARTICLE VII: Shall the Town approve the Hinesburg Fire Department Ambulance service budget of $139,960 with the sum of $39,960 raised through taxes? ARTICLE VIII: Shall the Town approve the Carpenter-Carse Library allocation of $235,000 with the sum of $235,000 raised through taxes?
ARTICLE IX: Shall the Town approve Capital Transfers of $726,778 with the sum of $525,778 raised through taxes? ARTICLE X: Shall the Town appropriate the sum of $51,200 with the sum of $51,200 raised through taxes, to be distributed as specifically designated below? Hinesburg Community Resource Center $23,100 UVM Home Care & Hospice (VNA) $7,000 $4,000 Agency on Aging (CVAA) $1,000 VT Family Network $400 American Red Cross $650 Hinesburg Senior Meal Site $200 Vermont Center for Independent Living $2,350 Steps to End Domestic Violence $500 Prevent Child Abuse Vermont $1,500 Lund Center $7,500 Lake Iroquois Association Lake Iroquois Recreation District $3,000 (If voters approved Articles 3 through 10 as presented, total expenditures of $4,802,207 will be required, with the estimated amount of $3,738,392 to come from property tax revenue.) ARTICLE XI: Shall voters authorize the payment of real and personal property taxes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, payable in full to the Town of Hinesburg in one (1) installment, with the due date being November 15, 2022 and to be collected by the Town Treasurer? Any and all payments received in the Town Treasurer’s Office later than midnight on November 15, 2022 will be considered delinquent and will be subject to the collection of interest at the rate of 1% per month or fraction thereof for the first three (3) months and thereafter at the rate of 1.5% per month or fraction thereof. Signed and dated this 26th day of January 2022, and as attested to by: ___/s/___________________ Merrily Lovell, Chair
___/s/___________________ Dennis Place
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CROSSWORD
ARIES
LEO
March 21 - April 20 Aries, you keep looking inward to realize your goals and you’re making very good progress in that regard. Communication is a key to success, so keep dialogues open.
TAURUS April 21 - May 21 Lately you seem to radiate success in all you do, Taurus. Others naturally want to flock to where you are and spend more time with you. Enjoy the spotlight while it lasts.
GEMINI May 22 - June 21 If communication with family members has been difficult lately, you may find that things change in the next few days, Gemini. This is a welcome change.
CANCER June 22 - July 22 Disagreements are not necessarily a bad thing, Cancer. They can open people up to discussions that can be enlightening. Disagree, but don’t let it get heated.
July 23 - Aug. 23 Romance may be on your mind a lot more than usual, Leo. This can be a good thing. Use your free time to foster nuances in your relationship.
VIRGO Aug. 24 - Sept. 22 Virgo, you may have to take a different route than you initially expected in order to reach a destination. The journey could be very eyeopening and inspirational.
LIBRA Sept. 23 - Oct. 23 In order to be the brightest and the best you can be, you may find that you rub certain people the wrong way, Libra. Find ways to make amends.
SCORPIO Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Scorpio, a challenging week ahead will require some focus and a willingness to accept support. Surround yourself with people who have your back.
SUDOKU Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
SAGITTARIUS Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 An especially busy social schedule may leave you feeling a little tired for some time. Schedule some time for rest and relaxation to recharge your batteries.
CAPRICORN Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 A great deal of unexpected information is coming your way, Capricorn. You may have to sort through it to figure out what is useful and what is not essential.
AQUARIUS Jan. 21 - Feb. 18 Don’t neglect the help that people are willing to offer you, Aquarius. Teamwork makes the dream work, and working with others is beneficial to all involved.
PISCES Feb. 19 - March 20 Use creativity in any way you can to solve issues that come your way, Pisces. You may be surprised at what you come up with.
CLUES ACROSS 1. Remain as is 5. Functional 11. News magazine 12. Popular treat 16. Area units 17. Artificial intelligence 18. Marten valued for its fur 19. Forms of matter 24. Home of the Dodgers 25. Bordering 26. Part of the eye 27. It might be nervous 28. Visualizes 29. Crest of a hill 30. Measures engine speed (abbr.) 31. Tears in a garment (Br. Eng.) 33. Not easily explained 34 Song in short stanzas 38. Detonations 39. Intestinal 40. EU cofounder PaulHenri __ 43. Balmy 44. New Mexico mountain town 45. Gobblers 49. Insecticide 50. Golf scores 51. Has its own altar
53. “Pollock” actor Harris 54. Being livable 56. NHL play-by-play man 58. “The Great Lakes State” (abbr.) 59. Unpainted 60. Swam underwater 63. Native American people 64. Containing salt 65. Exam
29. Spiritual part of an individual (ancient Egypt) 30. Hot beverage 31. Pouch 32. It followed the cassette 33. Large northern deer 34. Ones who offer formally 35. Famed genie 36. Bequeathed CLUES DOWN 37. Skeletal muscle 1. Small bone in middle 38. Atomic #56 ear 40. Silk garment 2. Long, angry speech 41. They deliver the mail 3. Move out of 42. Equally 4. Male organ 44. Check 5. Two-toed sloth 45. Light-colored breed of 6. Making dirty hound 7. Article 46. Drug that soothes 8. Oil company 47. Railroads 9. Emits coherent radiation 48. Most slick 10. Amounts of time 50. Jacket 13. Unit equal to one 51. A radio band quintillion bytes (abbr.) 52. Hello 14. Forbidden by law 54. His and __ 15. Drains away 55. Supporter 20. Not out 57. Popular software suite 21. Sea patrol (abbr.) (abbr.) 22. Bird genus 61. Railway 23. Gratuity 62. NY coastal region 27. __ and feathers (abbr.)
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