Shelburne News - 05-19-22

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Chittenden County sees legislative shakeup

Six of the county’s southernmost seats open for newcomers

Chittenden County is seeing a shakeup in its legislative representation, with six of the county’s southernmost House seats open to newcomers as five incumbents step out of the political scene.

In South Burlington, only one of four incumbents is seeking reelection, and a new fifth seat will be open as well thanks to the state’s new House district map. In Shelburne, longtime representative Kate Webb is stepping down, and Hinesburg’s Bill Lippert, who has served in the House for nearly three decades, announced this month he will not run again.

“The time has come for others to ask for your support as they step into the legislative political arena,” Lippert said. “I treasure the opportunities I have had to support the town of Hinesburg, to have an impact on significant statewide policies and to assist so many of you when you needed help from state government.”

While Hinesburg town clerk Melissa Ross said that no one has submitted a petition to officially run for Lippert’s seat, Champlain Valley Union High School librarian and social studies teacher Christina Deeley has announced her intention to run.

In Shelburne, Webb, the chair of the House Committee on Education who has served in the Chittenden 5-1 district since 2009, announced last week that she would not run.

“It’s been an amazing experience. I’ve

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Shelburne Museum opens for 75th year

Exhibitions on American Art, Luigi Lucioni run through October

John Joachim hammers away at hot metal, shaping blackened tools over an old steel anvil, demonstrating for groups of museumgoers a craft that was once of pivotal importance for small town New England citizens and their farming economies.

Joachim’s been doing this for more than 10 years as Shelburne Museum’s blacksmith — splitting his time between the blacksmith shop and the old printing press exhibit. But he’s got more of a connection to the museum than it first appears.

Once the president of the Williston Historical Society, Joachim is surrounded by tools that his great grandfather, Eusebe “Zeke” Robarge, used in his own blacksmith shop in the late 19th century, as well as tools used by Robarge’s son, William — who was not only a local blacksmith but an entrepreneur who owned the Lilly Wagon Company in Morristown, selling high grade farm and lumber wagons for local farmers.

“My great uncle’s wife and daughters donated all of these tools from different shops,” he said.

He’s one of many people working on the sprawling museum campus, which

stretches across 45 acres of land, with 39 distinct structures filled with artifacts and items collected throughout the state to preserve Vermont’s history. Museumgoers could spend a whole day there and barely scratch the surface.

The museum opened for its 75th year on Sunday, marking a significant milestone for the educational institution that draws well over 100,000 people a year.

“We’re very aware of our role representing Vermont,” Tom Denenberg, the executive director of the museum, said. “Ten years ago, when I first came here,

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if you Googled Vermont —depending how the algorithm was working that day — you would actually get Round Barn at Shelburne Museum.”

It would be easy to categorize the museum as just a historical museum, akin to Old Sturbridge Village, an 1830s New England Living History Museum in Massachusetts, which is also celebrating its 75th anniversary.

What separates it from other museums of its kind is both its collection as well as its mission, embedded by the museum’s founder, Electra Havemeyer Webb, who in 1947 created a site that would collect and celebrate the arts of America. She died in

1960.

Thanks to her, the museum has works on display by Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt and Claude Monet, including the first painting of Monet’s to come to the United States.

“If you’re a school child growing up here, you get to go see the first Claude Monet painting to come to America —- that’s here. One of the great Manet’s, “The Grand Canal of Venice,” is here. That’s the kind of painting that can be hanging anywhere. We get loan requests for those paintings all the time for major European museums,” Denenberg said. “There’s more of Museum

of Modern Art DNA here than you would think.”

It’s that dual function that makes the museum unique — to both preserve history, but also to promote contemporary creative life.

Fourteen works will be on display through the season by Maria Shell, a quiltmaker who produces contemporary quilts “grounded in the tradition and craft of American quilt making.”

This season’s visitors will also be able to view an exhibition of the work of Luigi Lucioni, who died in 1988. The exhibition, “Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light,”

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Sarah George seeks reelection as Chittenden County state’s attorney

Political Notebook

Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah F. George has announced her bid to seek re-election.

George has served as the state’s attorney for Chittenden County since January 2017 after Gov. Phil Scott appointed her to the position. In 2018 she won the election with 99.1 percent of the vote.

“After more than 11 years as a prosecutor and the last five as state’s attorney, the importance of this role has never been clearer to me,” she said in a press release.

“I have exercised the immense power given to me by the people of Chittenden County with fair-

ness and respect. I have served our community by providing opportunity, intervention, and support to victims, families and people charged with crimes.”

“My office has implemented bold policies that promote safe, healthy and strong communities. We have more work to do, and I look forward to hearing from the voters of Chittenden County over the next few months.”

George said her office has focused on achieving meaningful public safety goals, protecting the community, and addressing racial equity, harm reduction, mental illness and poverty.

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runs from June 25 through Oct. 16 and will showcase “the technically sophisticated realist who favored the play of light and shadows on weathered barns and stately trees contributing to the genre termed ‘Yankee Modernism.’”

Another exhibit, “Eyesight and Insight: Lens on American Art,” which runs through Oct. 16, will feature objects from Shelburne Museum’s collection as well loaned works by Rembrandt Peale, George Cope, Tseng Kwong Chi and others, to illuminate “the history of creative response to perceptions of vision and invite new insights into the ways American artists have negotiated issues related to eyesight from the 18th to the 21st century.”

Denenberg is looking forward to the summer season, which might be the closest to normal the museum — or anyone — has had since 2019.

The museum operated on a very limited run in the summer of 2020, and last year had roughly 50,000 visitors during the relatively calm period of the COVID19 pandemic.

“This summer it’s going to be

interesting. I think the expectation is that we’re back to normal but of course we know we’re

not,” he said. “Restaurants aren’t really operating in the way they normally do, hotels aren’t really

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operating the way they do.

“It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the tourist

season this year,” he added. “I think it’ll be sort of halfway back again. But not back to normal.”

Want a healthier lawn? Then raise the blade!

As the grass gets greener, many of us get out the lawnmower. Whether you enjoy it or dread it, managing a lawn requires time and money. How you cut your lawn may be something to consider if you are interested in reducing costs and protecting Vermont’s waters.

A campaign called Raise the Blade promotes three simple practices that help create lush, green lawns and help reduce stormwater flowing into lakes and streams. The practices are:

• Set your lawnmower blade at 3 inches.

• Leave the clippings on the lawn.

• Cut only about one third of the grass height at each mowing, whenever possible.

Why are these practices good for your lawn and good for water quality?

Longer grass grows longer roots that reach more nutrients and moisture. Longer roots create air pockets in the soil, allowing it to hold more stormwater — rain and snowmelt — and your grass needs less water to stay green.

Grass clippings decompose into organic matter. Organic matter contains nutrients that feed the grass naturally. Soil with

organic matter acts like a sponge, soaking up stormwater and filtering out pollutants. Organic matter helps protect grass from pests and diseases without using chemicals.

Cutting only one third of the grass height conserves its energy for growing strong roots and resisting pests.

Polluted stormwater flowing into streams and lakes degrades water quality. Polluted water can impact health, recreation, the economy and other factors that make Vermont special. So how we manage our lawns can help keep our waters clean and safe.

To date, 24 businesses and municipalities have demonstrated their commitment to help reduce stormwater runoff by following the recommended practices. You may have seen Raise the Blade lawn signs on some of their lawns, and all participants are recognized on the Raise the Blade Facebook page with a word of thanks. (Raise the Blade campaign is part of Lawn to Lake, a collaboration of regional and state organizations devoted to water quality protection by reducing stormwater runoff and building healthy soils.)

Linda Patterson is water quality educator thorugh the Lake Champlain sea grant. More at lawntolake.org or linda.patterson@uvm.edu.

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OPINION

What’s Vermont going to do about its housing crisis?

Guest Perspective

Lack of affordable housing in our community is an issue of equity and it’s up to us to do something about it

Almost 35 years ago Vermont made a commitment to sustainability, equity and justice when it formed the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board.

The idea that we could balance housing and conservation by uniting environmentalists and developers in one organization was a radical bet. The bet was that together, we could decide where housing belongs and which lands to preserve for farms, woodlands, wildlife and clean waters.

Here’s a quote from the 1987 report which ignited support to fund the board:

“Housing has reached such a crisis point that it’s no longer just a low-income issue, testified Cheryl Rivers of Stockbridge. This has become increasingly clear to me in the community where I live, where the principal of the school has told me that he does not have long term plans to stay in the community because there is no way his family can afford to purchase a home anywhere within driving distance of (his) school.”

Sound familiar? Housing affordability is a long-standing, sticky problem.

Today, many, many people are unable to rent or buy homes because housing costs have skyrocketed.

The median home price in Vermont increased by 20 percent in the past two years. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, you need to earn over $31 per hour to afford a 2-bedroom apartment in the Burlington area.

Who is left out when housing costs so much?

The lack of affordable housing in our community is an issue of equity.

We have two problems: existing housing is too expensive and growing more so and there is not enough of it.

We can make housing more affordable through rent and mort-

gage subsidies, raising wages and reducing other expenses of daily living like food, gas, education, and child care so that more money can go to housing.

We can build more homes, all shapes and sizes, for all kinds of people.

Vermonters see ourselves as welcoming people, and many communities are working to address racial and social equity issues in all facets of community life. But we’re honestly not there yet, we have more work to do.

We need to ask ourselves what does our current housing crisis tell us about who belongs and who gets to decide who belongs?

Well, when it comes to new multi-family housing being built in our neighborhoods, the deciders are often the homeowners who already live here.

It’s us. We have a lot of influence over zoning decisions and permits and appeals. We speak out against density, against taller buildings, against buildings which are “not in character” with the neighborhood. Well, if we want more affordability, we need to welcome more types of housing — and they they will not all look like single family homes.

Instead, our neighborhoods may have a mix of buildings and uses, small cafes and bakeries next to apartment buildings or duplex and triplex homes next to single family ones.

Often people frame the addition of multi-family housing in a neighborhood as a loss. Lost view, lost parking space, lost peace and quiet, loss of how it was, lost open space or trees.

There is a lot to be gained by welcoming more housing and more people.

We gain new neighbors, we become a more socio-economically diverse community, we become a more racially diverse community, and a healthy housing market makes for a strong economy. Building more apartments and infilling neighborhoods reduces our carbon footprint per home and

per person, marrying the goals of the environmentalists and housing advocates, and provides an equitable solution for climate change.

Historically, Black households were prevented by law from purchasing homes in many communities, and by design communities were segregated and federal mortgages programs were denied to them. As a result of being denied the same access to homeownership that whites received, today Black households have less wealth than white ones.

The lack of housing in our cities and towns directly contributes to furthering racial inequities.

We must make room for new housing. To do so we need to accept changes. If we don’t change then it will not be just our view that is lost.

We had a big vision 35 years

ago to balance what we thought were competing ideas about housing and conservation. We’ve been good stewards and we have the capacity to do even more. It’s not that complicated. We have the power to change the rules, to welcome more housing so that we have more choices for more people.

Nancy Owens is the founding co-president of Evernorth, a nonprofit organization that provides affordable housing and community investments in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. She is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Development Advisory Council and serves as vice chair of Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, a nonprofit energy efficiency utility. She lives in Chittenden County.

School admin: Tough to recognize instructional leaders if

The first of May, in addition to celebrating spring, international workers, and Soviet-style missile parades, is also National Principals Day. According to the two immodest national principals’ associations, “the key to a great school is a great principal.” The

reform-minded Learning First Alliance has likewise declared school leaders “second only to classroom teachers in terms of in-school factors impacting student learning.”

This runner-up ranking rests on a fallacy. The most important in-school factor impacting student learning is the student, his ability and his effort. Attached to each student are parents, whose impact,

though not actually in-school, rightly and effectively dwarfs mine as his teacher. Policymakers are fond of leaving students and parents out of the impact equation. Blaming low achievement on employees, rather on than students and parents, is usually safer.

Recognizing that every student, parent, teacher and prin-

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As a result of being denied the same access to homeownership that whites received, today Black households have less wealth than white ones.

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cipal is an individual with an individual impact, for good or bad, what can we observe in general about school administrators?

I’ve been fortunate to work for and with three competent, reasonable principals. Each had learned from years of experience as a classroom teacher, and none had forgotten what it was like to work with real students in a real classroom. Each viewed teachers as colleagues whose opinions were welcome, valued and considered. At the same time, there was never any doubt that each was the boss. I know this because I periodically disagreed with and was overruled by each of them. Each also understood that being the boss meant both helping teachers who needed guidance and respecting the judgment of those who’d proven themselves competent in their classrooms.

settings is a different world from managing a classroom, never mind a school full of classrooms.

Some aspire to the principal’s chair, and beyond, because they can make more money, which is not a bad thing, or because in education, becoming an administrator is the route to acquiring the power that comes from advancement in any business. This is rarely a healthy lust, especially in an enterprise dedicated to providing a service.

Unfortunately, decisions about these things are made by upper-level administrators who at best make visits to classrooms but never live in them.

Others hope as administrators to have a broader, more profound effect on children’s education. This good intention can be problematic if your sense of mission blinds you to practical classroom realities or to your own limitations as a master of all things educational.

doesn’t believe in what they do, at that particular moment.

If you’re wondering why schools stagger from one initiative to another, bear in mind that superintendents and other central office officials are typically former principals who’ve chosen to distance themselves even farther from classroom reality. While I’ve known some capable superintendents, including two of my exemplary principals, that’s frequently not the way career advancement in education works.

When they’re not managing daily school business, principals are expected to serve as instructional leaders. In a perfect display of education reform’s myopia, the National Association of Elementary School Principals describes the idea that principals should be the teacher-leaders of their schools as “a relatively new concept that emerged in the early 1980s.”

I know there are other principals like mine. However, I also know from observation and conversation over decades that my experience is not the experience of many teachers in other schools.

Many administrators don’t bring years of teaching experience with them. Some flee the classroom after barely surviving the minimum required for an administrator’s license. Some have served strictly as special educators, and while that work requires instructional skill and specialized knowledge, managing individual and small group special education

I’ve met some mediocre teachers, but I’ve rarely met any who think they know everything. That’s because we spend our days dealing with children who routinely prove that we don’t. Administrators, on the other hand, spend most of their time with other administrators. They sometimes squabble, but when it comes to that season’s bandwagon theory, method, curriculum or assessment, they reinforce each other’s transitory wisdom.

They all endorsed No Child Left Behind, until they didn’t, and they’ll all promote standards-based instruction, until they don’t.

Woe betide any teacher who

This, of course, ignores the fact that principals for centuries have been and often still are known as headmasters because they’re the leaders of their school’s other masters, also known as teachers.

The contemporary definition of instructional leader is predictably jargon-laden, resting on abstractions like “facilitative leadership” and “a culture of public practice and reflective practice.” National Association of Elementary School Principals-designated experts also wrestle with crucial issues like whether to call principals instructional leaders or learning leaders.

If you read between the lines, and sometimes simply read the lines themselves, to be an instructional leader, you have to lead teachers in the temporarily right direction so they all swear allegiance to the latest instructional fashion. If a principal doesn’t toe the party line or chooses not to compel his teachers to fall in, he can’t be an instructional leader.

That’s wrong. An instructional leader isn’t a bandwagon chaser. It’s someone who knows how to teach and can help another teacher get better at it. If we had more principals like that, and the good ones we have were allowed more time and freedom to help and lead, our schools would be stronger.

Unfortunately, decisions about these things are made by upper-level administrators who at best make visits to classrooms but never live in them.

It’s tough to recognize instructional leaders if you aren’t one yourself.

Peter Berger has taught English and history for 30 years. He would be pleased to answer letters addressed to him in care of the editor.

Shelburne Parks & Rec

Shelburne beach passes

Season passes for 2022 will be available to Shelburne residents starting Tuesday, May 31, in the recreation office. Passes may be purchased at the beach starting June 13 between 11 a.m.-7 p.m. daily or during scheduled staff hours.

Please provide proof of residency; only check or cash payment will be accepted. Remember, too, that no dogs or other pets are allowed at the beach facility at any time. Please do your part to keep the lake and park free from pet waste that contributes to the growth of blue green algae, E.coli and other

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toxins resulting in beach closures and illness during the season.

Field hockey camp

This camp is open to girls ages 7-14 years old and is the perfect summer introduction to field hockey for beginners or a chance to practice skills for those who already play. Players must provide mouth guard, shin guards and a full water bottle. Sticks are available if needed. Registration deadline is Monday, June 20. The camp is held at the Harbor Road fields July 11-15 from 8:30-11:30 a.m. under the direction of Megan Maynard-Jacob. Cost is $110.

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Hinesburg Firefighters Association holds craft fair

Join the Hinesburg Firefighters Association for its spring craft fair on Saturday, May 21, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Hinesburg Fire Station

The event will include local crafters as well as well as outside business consultants, including Scentsey, Tupperware, Magnabilities Jewelry, Touchstone Jewelry, Color Street consultants and many more.

Proceeds benefit the association.

Professors shares science, application of homeopathy

Sallie Mack talks about “Homeopathic Medicine: History, Science, Application” at the next Charlotte Senior Center Wednesday lecture on May 25.

Homeopathy is a 250-yearold medicinal practice that is used in 17 countries around the world. Homeopathic remedies are made from minerals, plants and animals that are safe to use and can heal

without suppressing symptoms and without harmful negative side effects.

Mack is a classically trained homeopath and professor of Homeopathy at Northern Vermont University.

The free, in-person lectures start at 1 p.m. Questions? Leave a message at (802) 425-6345 or visit charlotteseniorcentervt.org.

Shelburne Food Shelf will be open next week

The Shelburne Food Shelf will be open at town offices Tuesday, May 24, Thursday, May 26, and Saturday, May 28.

Please sign up in advance to shop. Call 802-622-3313, ext. 3, with any questions or for assistance signing up. Newly in need of assistance, call and a volunteer will help with the process. More information can be found at shelburnefoodshelf.

org.

Food donation drop boxes may be found at Shelburne Market, Pierson Library (west entrance) and

south entrance to the town offices. Please donate only non-perishable, unopened items that are not past their expiration date. Find a current needs list at shelburnefoodshelf. org/current-needs.html.

Age Well offers grab and go meal

Age Well and St. Catherine’s of Siena Parish are teaming up to provide a meal to go for anyone age 60 and older on Tuesday June 14. The meal will be available for pick up in the parking lot at 72 Church St. from 11 a.m.-noon.

The menu is meatloaf with brown sauce, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, wheat bread, apple crisp with topping and milk. To order a meal, email (preferred) Ann Cousins at ascousins@me.com or call 802-343-8180 by June 9.

First-timers need to provide their name, address, phone number and date of birth. Please send a meal registration form Age Well, 875 Roosevelt Highway, Ste. 210,

Colchester VT 05446. Forms are available at bit.ly/3sDIgPa.

Health center offers free vaccine clinic

Charlotte Senior Center holds a COVID-19 vaccination clinic Tuesday, May 24, 12:30-4:30 p.m. with Garnet Healthcare.

The walk-in clinic is free, and no appointment is necessary. Vaccines and boosters are available for pediatric Pfizer (ages 5-11), and adult Pfizer (12+) and Moderna (18+).

Register ahead for Age Well meals

The Age Well meal pickup for Thursday, May 19, is from 10-11 a.m., Charlotte Senior Center, 212 Ferry Road, and features roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, winter squash, cranberry sauce, dinner roll, pumpkin pudding with cream and milk.

You must have pre-registered by Monday, May 16, with Lori York,

802-425-6371 or lyork@charlotteseniorcentervt.org

The meal on Thursday, May 26 — register by May 23 — is roast beef with sauce, home fried potatoes with paprika, French green beans with lentils, wheat bread, oatmeal cookie and milk.

The meal on Thursday, June 2 — register by May 30 — is roast turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, sliced carrots with parsley, dinner roll, baked sliced apples with cinnamon, and milk.

Check the website for last-minute cancellations at charlotteseniorcentervt.org.

Feeding Chittenden continues to provide meals

Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity’s Community Resource Center has been temporarily relocated to Feeding Chittenden, 228 North Winooski Avenue, in Burlington’s Old North

Shelburne student wins big in tree appreciation contest

Shelburne Community School student Shea Bellezza’s drawing and essay on trees took the top prize in the Growing Works of Art contest’s grade 5 division.

To help recognize the importance of trees, students in kindergarten through eighth grade, were invited to submit an original story and artwork for the annual contest.

The theme this year was “Sharing your TREE-mendous story.”

A total of 355 students from 14 schools and 23 families (home school and public-school students

Time is now to make donations for book sale

Mark your calendars! The Friends of The Pierson book sale will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 11-12, in Shelburne Town Hall with a special preview sale for members held on Friday evening.

Book sale hours will be Friday, June 10, from 5:30-7 p.m. for Friends of the Pierson Library; Saturday from 9-4 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m.-noon.

Used books drop off days and times are Tuesdays from 4:30-6:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m.noon. The last collection day will be Saturday, May 28. It’s import-

working independently) entered the contest.

Here’s Bellezza’s winning entry: “My favorite tree has always been the sugar maple tree in my backyard. I remember my sister climbed the tree all the way to the top. When she came down, she was covered in sap. When me and family play baseball, we also use it as a base. I always climb it and in the fall, we rake up its beautiful leaves and jump in them.”

Entries were judged on creativity and originality (50 percent)

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ant to drop off books during the set times, and don’t drop off books without a volunteer to review your donation.

Donations are limited to two boxes per donor on the day of drop off.

All adult and children’s hardcover and paperback books in good condition will be accepted as well as CDs and DVDs. Mass market paperback books will also be accepted this year.

Do not bring damaged books or textbooks; magazines; encyclopedias or dictionaries; cookbooks, spiritual books or self-care books; condensed and abridged books like Reader’s Digest; outdated busi-

and how well the story was told through writing and illustration (50 percent). A Vermont State Park punch pass was awarded to the top entry in each grade.

To view the winning entries, visit go.uvm.edu/gwa. Click on each image for the winner’s name and to read the story.

The contest is sponsored annually by the Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program, a partnership between UVM Extension and the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation.

ness, medical, financial or computer books over two years old; toys, games, puzzles, artwork, audio or video cassettes; workbooks or study guides; or boxes of books that have been in long term storage to the library.

The Friends are a non-profit 501(c)(3) and donations are tax-deductible. Proceeds from the book sale fund special programs, speakers, books, art supplies, museum passes, garden plants and much more.

New members are welcome to join any time. Just fill out the brochure available at the front desk. If you’d like to volunteer for the book sale sign up there as well.

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The Community Resource Center lets visitors to access prepared meals, resources and support from housing advocates. Feeding Chittenden partnered with the resource center during the winter months to provide hot meals.

“The Community Resource Center is a place where people experiencing homelessness can find warm, nutritious food, essential services and, most importantly, a sense of community,” Paul Dragon, executive director of Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, said.

Feeding Chittenden and the Community Resource Center to serve meals Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. In accordance with COVID-19 safety guidelines, staff and visitors are expected to wear masks while onsite.

In 2021, Feeding Chittenden provided 15,000 meals to the public in the five months the Community Resource Center was operational. Feeding Chittenden has recently seen an increase in people seeking assistance, especially with many economically challenged households facing higher inflation rates, as housing, food and heating costs continue to rise.

“During the pandemic, Feed-

ing Chittenden has continued food service onsite with take-out meals,” Rob Meehan, director of Feeding Chittenden, said. “We are excited to invite our guests back into our cafeteria and the Community Resource Center advocates make this possible.”

Need some garden color? Stop by plant sale

Stop by the Charlotte Senior Center Saturday, May 28, 9 a.m.noon for its annual plant sale. Stock up on a great selection of annuals and perennials, rain or shine.

Festival celebrates spring at Horticulture Farm

The Friends of the Horticulture Farm host a free Bloom Time Festival — a walk through lilacs, crabapples, magnolias and perennials — on Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the University of Vermont’s Horticultural Farm, 65 Green Mountain Drive, South Burlington.

Hear Charlie Nardozzi talk on current gardening methods, take a wagon ride around the farm, get your face painted, go on a scavenger hunt and plant some seeds.

Visit with the curators of the farm’s varied collections, glimpse plein air artists at work, learn about crazy worms and invasive spotted will be music, food and a special bird visitor from Outreach for Earth Stewardship. Attendees are invited to bring a picnic lunch.

Friends of the Horticulture Farm is a grassroots organization dedicated to protecting, enhancing and promoting the significant plant collections and natural areas of the Horticultural Research and Education Center in South Burlington. Dogs are not allowed; more at friendsofthehortfarm.org.

CVU students bring back Family Fun Day

Champlain Valley Union High School students, with support from the school’s business program, will host its annual Make-a-Wish Family Fun Day Saturday, June 4, 4-7 p.m., at the high school.

The community afternoon features food, games, music, yard games, face painting, group activities, guest speakers, the opportunity to make new friends and more. Various food trucks and other vendors will be on site.

All proceeds go directly to the Vermont Make-A-Wish Founda-

tion.

In past years this event has been a family formal, but due to the pandemic as well as other factors, students are hosting an outdoor celebration this year. (Rain location will be in the cafeteria).

The theme is Hawaiian summertime, and we are excited to see you dressed up in festive shirts and grass skirts.

Barbara Lenox Winch

Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under if pre-purchased online. Tickets at the door will be $16 for adults and $8 for youth. A food and drink voucher is included in the price of each ticket. Get tickets online at bit.ly/37pRsiG

Questions? Email Logan Vaughan at loganvaughan@cvdsvt. org.

Obituaries

A memorial service for Barbara Lenox (Stevens) Winch will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 5, 2022, at the Congregational Church of South Hero, 24 South Street, South Hero.

Barbara, who died Thursday, March 10, 2022, lived in Shelburne for many years and raised her five children there.

Eric W. Bown

A celebration of the life of Eric W. Bown of Monkton will be celebrated on Saturday, May 21, 2022, at 4 p.m. in his orchard, 1080 Davis Road.

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lookout for emerald ash borer

Emerald ash borer awareness week in Vermont is May 22-28.

The emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that feeds on ash trees, was first documented in Vermont in 2018 and there are currently confirmed infestations in 10 Vermont counties.

The mortality rate of infected ash trees is 99.7 percent. Ash is a native species to Vermont and ash trees make up 5 percent of Vermont trees.

Emerald ash borer infestations naturally spread one to two miles annually. However, the movement of infested material, especially ash firewood and logs, results in a faster and wider spread. Managing the movement of infested or potentially infested material will slow the spread and provide greater protection for

uninfected forests.

Here are some tips to slow the spread:

• Don’t transport firewood. The pest is primarily spread by hitching a ride on firewood. Buy firewood where you burn it.

• Be a pest detector. Be alert and report signs of infestation. The emerald ash borer has feasted on over 100 million ash trees in the Midwest, where it was first discovered in 2002. Most infested trees die within three to five years.

• Learn to identify ash trees and emerald ash borer signs and symptoms by visiting vtinvasives.org where you can find numerous photos and videos, especially important as Vermont enters May and June, “the fly season” of this invasive pest. If you see a suspicious tree, use the “report it” button on the website.

Embrace moss in your landscape, lawn

Do you spend a lot of effort to get rid of the moss you find in your lawn? Knowing the benefits of moss may convince you otherwise.

Mosses belong to the bryophyte group of the plant kingdom. At 450 million years old, they are the oldest recorded living plants on earth and are found on every continent.

for erosion control.

Like all plants, its plant tissues store carbon, which helps reduce carbon dioxide in the air. As moss does not grow in areas with high air pollution, it’s a good indicator of air quality.

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Mosses differ from the usual flowering plants. While they have stems and leaves, they lack roots, flowers or seeds. Instead of roots, mosses have rhizoids, whose only function is to anchor the plant to a substrate. In place of flowers, they have sporophytes, which are small stalks ending in tiny pods filled with spores, not seeds.

Mosses reproduce naturally through spores dispersed by the wind but also can be reproduced manually by transplanting.

Incredibly hardy, mosses survive harsh conditions including fires, intense winds and very cold temperatures. They thrive under blankets of snow.

Mosses get all their nutrients from air and water through their leaves, so don’t need fertilizers. Moss leaves absorb ample amounts of water that they slowly release into the ground and air. In addition, their anchoring rhizoids tether them to surfaces preventing them from washing away, ideal

Moss offers a healthy habitat for wildlife. Many beneficial insects live inside or under moss, providing a source of food for many amphibians, reptiles and birds. Some birds use moss to build soft nests for their hatchlings. Another interesting benefit is that moss offers an ideal moist breeding site for the fireflies that enchant our summer nights with twinkles.

Mosses grow in all soil types in shade, partial shade and sun. Sun-tolerant moss can grow in alkaline soil with a pH above 7.0 while most mosses found in dense shade prefer an acidic soil pH between 5.0 and 5.5.

Growing moss is likely to transform a neglected damp, shady area into a charming element in your landscape.

You will need to source moss that grows in a similar light condition and soil type as your target area. You can purchase it, or better yet, find local naturally occurring moss to transplant from your own yard or from a friend’s property.

First, check your soil pH to determine whether it needs to be adjusted. If needed, acidify the soil by spreading some elemen-

tal sulfur (according to packaging instructions) before planting. Clear the area of weeds and debris. Compact the soil by using a tamper or by walking over it. Then, lightly etch the compacted soil with a cultivator or tine hoe. With a flat tool, such as an old kitchen spatula or masonry trowel, scoop up sections of existing moss with enough soil to protect the rhizoids. Tear sections

into pieces, spread these evenly over the prepared area and press into the soil. Limit traffic for a year and keep the area moist with regular watering until the moss takes hold.

Don’t let this initial watering chore deter you from growing moss. Once established, moss can tolerate drought.

Moss is relatively low maintenance. No mowing, aerating or

fertilizing is required. You only need to weed and keep clean of debris. Just pull a weed, pat down the surface and place a piece of moss over the bare spot. Hand pick litter or use a leaf blower on a low setting to scatter dead leaves away.

While softening your carbon footprint, you can upholster your problem site with a lush natural velvet.

can purchase it, or better yet, find local naturally occurring moss to transplant from your own yard or from a friend’s property.

Hinesburg’s own ‘School of Rock’ set to perform

The band will play a live show at the school for the general public

minutes.

said.

Rehearsals begin around 3 p.m. but band members typically arrive early — ready to go before Niel Maurer even steps into the room. Their instruments are tuned, sheet music out, fiddling on their instruments and talking among themselves, waiting to start playing. A portrait of Ella Fitzgerald hangs on the wall.

They start off with a somber song: “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” a 2005 alternative rock song by the punk rock band Green Day.

“The classic middle school rock band song,” says Dylan Lutters as he positions the microphone. “Dark vibes.”

Lutters sings the tune, while the six other members of the band play along. Eleanore Lutschner plays the cello, providing an appropriate sound for the tone of the song.

“More angst!” Tracy Tomasi-Applin yells to Lutters through the noise.

By the end of the rehearsal, which, generally, turns into more of an improvised jam session, the band members are running outside of the rehearsal space, asking their parents if they can stay for 10 more

Since March, this group of seven Hinesburg Community School kids have been practicing every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in preparation for what will be the debut show for The Greenhawks on Friday.

Coming out of yet another wave of COVID-19 this fall, Niel Maurer, an educator at the school, was thinking of ways of giving the school and the community a good pick-me-up. The school’s fall musicals had been postponed for two consecutive years, and the theater space was being used primarily for storage.

“At first I thought, let’s do a variety show. Let’s shake the tree and see who comes out,” he said. He eventually got six kids into one room, and it quickly developed into something exciting.

“I realized, ‘Oh man, these guys have the chops,” Maurer said. “They’re into it, they’re professionals. They keep me on my game.”

The band is made up of Lutters, Lutschner, Mireille Howatt-Walker, Abby Kelly, Molly Kelly, Jordan Kramer-Nilson and Maggie Miller —- all in the sixth grade except for Abby, who is a fourth grader.

“I think the parents don’t quite know what we’re doing,” Maurer

Spending a day sitting in rehearsal, it’s easy to see how much the kids enjoy practicing after a day of school. They have a set list ready to go for their two shows, but they like to throw songs out there and learn them on the spot.

“We see it, I mean, they just light up,” said Tomasi-Applin, an educator at the school. “They’re a great crew because they really do listen to each other. They’re respectful and aware of sharing a creative space. They’re really encouraging of each other.”

As of this report, they have one more day of rehearsals to lock it in before the big day. They’ll perform an in-school show for all the kids in the K-8 community school, and then they’ll do a 7 p.m. performance for the general public Friday. All are welcome.

Their set list will have a variety of different songs, from “Just the Two of Us” by Bill Withers and Grover Washington Jr., to “Hey Jude” by The Beatles.

For Maurer — or “the maestro,” as Tomasi-Applin calls him — his hope is to inject some spirt back into the school after two years of lockdowns.

“We just need to spread some joy,” Maurer said.

Birds may use sun as non-chemical pesticide

The Outside Story

One cold spring morning, a turkey vulture soared across the sky and landed high in a tree behind my house. I soon noticed another vulture, most likely its mate, in a nearby oak. This one was perched with its back to the sun and its gigantic wings outspread. It remained in place, giving me a good look at its impressive wingspan — nearly 6 feet — and the light filtering through its long, silvery wingtips, or “fingers.”

This stretched-wing position is called the horaltic pose, and it is used by vultures, some hawks, storks and cormorants. While scientists are not certain of the exact function of this behavior, they believe the reasons range from temperature regulation to parasite control.

The vulture in my backyard was most likely using its dark wing feathers as solar collectors. During the night, vultures become slightly hypothermic, lowering their body

temperatures by several degrees to conserve energy. Standing with their dark backs to the morning sun allows optimal absorption of the sun’s heat. By spreading their wings, the birds increase the amount of surface area exposed to the sun’s rays, warming up their muscles for flight. The vulture I observed was standing still, which allowed it to conserve the energy stored during the previous day.

Two species of vulture breed in the Northeast: the familiar turkey vulture, which breeds as far north as Quebec, and the less common black vulture, a more southern species expanding its range in New England. The featherless, red heads of the vultures in my trees identified them as turkey vultures. Black vultures, roughly the same size, share the sunbathing habit but can be differentiated by their gray heads.

Soaking up feel-good rays is not the only reason vultures sunbathe, however. Researchers believe this sun-seeking behavior may help control ectoparasites that thrive in the birds’ feathers, especially in the

long flight feathers and wing coverts (the contour feathers that cover the bases of the flight feathers). These parasitic hitchhikers feast on feather fragments, lipid secretions, skin debris, fungus, algae and bacteria.

According to evolutionary biologist Jennifer Koop of Northern Illinois University, a vulture with a high parasite load could have hundreds or even thousands of ectoparasites, including feather mites and quill mites. In the vulture’s case, this is one downside to dining almost exclusively on carrion. Because the pesky parasites are tiny, it’s difficult for host birds to find them and preen the bugs out of their feathers.

“These birds may use the horaltic pose to heat the feathers, creating an uninhabitable microclimate for mites or feather-degrading bacteria,” said Koop. “This also triggers ectoparasites like lice to move around on the feathers, making them more vulnerable to preening.”

Ridding themselves of ectoparasites has survival benefits for these birds. Because the pests can

cause plumage to dull and lead to additional preening time, infestation can decrease a bird’s fitness and mate-attracting abilities. Scientists believe that even brief periods of direct sunlight serve as a non-chemical pesticide.

Recent studies on hooded vultures in Africa indicated that short bouts of sunning in extreme heat are sufficient to kill lice and unhatched eggs. Researchers observed the vultures sunning on hot sand, where the temperatures were above what the birds normally tolerate. They believe the birds may accept short-term heat loads because excess heat can later be passively dissipated by resting in the shade.

In cormorants, which dive underwater to catch food, the horaltic pose may also serve to dry the

outer wing feathers. Scientists theorize that for cormorants, the wind is a more important factor than the sun, and these birds most often face into the breeze as they stand upright on a rock or pier with their wings outstretched.

I’ve read birds are the most thoroughly studied group of organisms on earth. Although not fully understood, the horaltic pose is one more fascinating facet of bird behavior, an endlessly interesting topic.

Laurie D. Morrissey is a writer who lives in Hopkinton, N.H. Illustration by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited by Northern Woodlands magazine and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, nhcf.org.

Recent studies on hooded vultures in Africa indicated that short bouts of sunning in extreme heat are sufficient to kill lice and unhatched eggs.

30x40-style barns still dot Vermont’s landscape

Connect the Dots

Jane Dorney

As I walked into the rebuilt 1790s barn, I paced it off and found it was 30 feet by 40 feet, just as I expected. Barns that age are usually English style barns, also called “30x40s” because of their standard size. They were often the first barns built on early subsistence farms in Vermont and had been built in England since the 1600s.

I was preparing a field trip about this farm’s evolution for some University of Vermont graduate students, and I decided I’d use this barn as a key piece in describing Vermont’s transition from mostly forests to mostly farms.

The old barn had recently blown down in a windstorm and had been rebuilt using some of the original pieces by Eliot Lothrop’s restoration company Building Heritage. I wasn’t surprised that the pieces that survived were the wooden posts and beams. The internal frame was hefty, with some of the timbers 10-to-11 inches square in cross-section. Most were beech, with a little ash and oak.

Because the timbers were hand hewn, the original trees had almost certainly been rooted within a stone’s throw of this spot. This farm lot had been completely forested when settlers arrived, and it seems fitting that most of the barn’s timbers were from the most common tree: beech comprised 40 percent of this pre-settlement forest.

The transition from tree trunks into framing timbers can be read in the marks on the wood. After the standing trees were felled, shaping was done with an ax in two steps. The first marks were made across the grain, scoring the tree trunk to the proper depth for the finished timber. The next marks were made along the grain where the ax hewed out the wood between the scored marks, creating the flat face. Finally, the mortise and tenon joints were shaped with hand tools, then pinned with wooden pegs.

The 30x40 barn was usually the farms’ largest building, providing shelter for animals and harvested crops. Their typical layout was in three sections or bays that served the farm’s multiple needs.

The barn’s main doors opened onto the center bay, which was the threshing floor, a feature later Vermont barns don’t have. Early farmers cleared a few acres around their house and barn to grow grain crops, especially wheat and oats, for themselves and their animals. In the fall, they were harvested, dried in the field, and then brought into the barn to be threshed and stored.

For threshing, farmers spread the grain stalks on the wooden floor and hit them repeatedly with handheld flails, separating the seeds from the stems and husks. Then, by tossing the mixed grain and chaff into the cross drafts from doors on either side of the barn, they separated the heavier grain from the lighter husks. Sometimes, farmers stood a board across the bottom of the doorway to

hold in the grain being threshed — giving us the word threshold.

Grain not threshed immediately was stored in the loft over the threshing floor, accessed by a central wooden ladder. Once threshing machines were adopted by the 1830s, threshing floors no longer felt the repeated hits of the flails.

The barn’s main doors were a little off center, creating a smaller bay on one side and a larger one on the other. The smaller bay was usually for the livestock that could probably be counted on one hand. The larger bay was for hay storage. Hay was grown in small fields nearby, harvested with hand tools, dried in the field, forked into a wagon, driven into the barn’s center bay and then forked into this large bay for winter animal feed.

Including the hay and crop fields, a typical 100-acre subsistence farm had cleared about 10 acres by 1815, and most of those acres’ products flowed in and out of the barn with the seasons.

Later in the 1800s, as Vermont shifted into commercial farming with more livestock, the 30x40 barns were often adapted. Some were moved onto banks to add a lower floor, were lengthened, or had a newer, larger barn attached to it for housing more animals and winter feed. As dairy herds increased in the 20th and 21st centuries, the new dairy barns built for many hundreds of cows dwarfed the original 30x40s.

But many of the 30x40 barns remain as witnesses to an ever-evolving landscape. In our area, most of the 30x40s built before 1830 were framed with beech from the pre-settlement forest, preserving that wood as much as 230 years later. Like those in the 1790 barn I visited, the wooden beams had gone from being separate, tall trees anchoring the forest to becoming shaped timbers pegged together at many different angles, working as one unit to anchor the early farms.

Jane Dorney is a consulting geographer who does research and education projects to help people understand why the Vermont landscape looks like it does. See more at janedorney.com.

Snipes erupts for nine goals in girls’ lacrosse

Softball

Champlain Valley 19, Mount Mansfield 8: The CVU softball team captured its third win in four games, beating Mount Mansfield Saturday, May 14.

Kate Boget led the way with three RBIs for the Redhawks, while Sophia Stevens and Baylee Yandow each drove in two runs. Olivia St. Peter had a double and an RBI, and Elyse Ayer, Kaitlyn Jovell and Grace Ferguson each drove in a run.

CVU moved to 3-6.

Girls’ tennis

Burlington 5, Champlain Valley 2: Champlain Valley lost its first two singles matches and could not recover in a loss to Burlington Saturday.

Cassie Bastress and Sage Peterson each got a win at No. 4 and No. 5 singles, respectively, but the team fell in both doubles matches as well as No. 1, 2 and 3 singles.

Boys’ lacrosse

Champlain Valley 11, Essex 7: Matais Williams tallied four times to pace Champlain Valley in a win over Essex on Friday, May 13.

Turner Elliot added a hat trick and an assist, while Peter Gilliam and Colin Zouck each had a two goals.

Jake Bowen made 22 saves in the net. CVU moved to 10-1 with the win.

Girls’ lacrosse

Champlain Valley 17, BFA-St. Albans 6: Chloe Snipes erupted for nine goals as the Champlain Valley girls’ lacrosse

team handed BFA-St. Albans its first loss of the season Saturday.

Sophie Madden added two goals, while Stella Dooley, Amelie Scharf, Tess Everett, Kate Boehmcke and Lily O’Brien each scored once.

Clare Stackpole-McGrath and

Ava Medici combined to make 10 saves in goal for CVU, which moved to 9-1.

Baseball

Champlain Valley 6, Mount Mansfield 1: The team opened up a five-run lead by the end of the

third inning and did not look back to beat Mount Mansfield Saturday. Ryan Canty got the win, striking out eight and allowing no runs on four hits. Oliver Pudvar went 3-for-4, while Braedon Jones drove in a run.

The Redhawks moved to 8-1.

The Cancer Canknot Golf Classic will be held Saturday, June 4, at the Williston Country Club. The event is one of the largest fundraisers for South Burlington-based Cancer Canknot, a grassroots organization dedicated to funding cancer research and supporting cancer patients and their families.

Eric and Anna Gilcris of South Burlington conceived the idea for Cancer Canknot after Eric was diagnosed with Grade 4 glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, in 2011.

An aggressive type of brain tumor, patients often have a median life expectancy of less than one year. “His doctor told us 6 to 12 months,” said Anna. “But his next words were, ‘You fight like hell,’ and that’s exactly what Eric continues to do.”

Now a father of two and entering his 11th year living with his cancer, Eric is considered an extreme survivor, a term used to describe the less than 1 percent of patients

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who have lived with glioblastoma for 10 years or more.

“It’s a different kind of unknown now,” he said. “They can’t tell us what’s next because there haven’t been a lot of patients who’ve gotten this far.”

The Gilcrises founded Cancer Canknot in 2014 to help fund cancer research and support cancer patients and their families. To date, the organization has donated close to $70,000 to the Dana Farber Cancer Research Center. In addition to the golf classic, the couple created jewelry and apparel lines to spread the Cancer Canknot message and wrote “Bear Hugging and Cancer Crushing,” a children’s book inspired by conversations with their son.

“We created what we didn’t have 10 years ago,” Eric said.

Find out more at cancer canknotclassic. com.

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been able to participate in some significant conversations about the state of Vermont. And now it’s time to focus on the next stage of my life, which is just basically my family,” Webb told VTDigger.

Hoping to replace her is Kate Lalley, a Shelburne resident with more than 15 years of public service in the town as a planning commission member and, most recently, on the selectboard. She works as a landscape architect and a regional planner.

Lalley called her candidacy a natural progression of her public service career.

“One of the reasons I’m doing this is I think our town has really strong representation and I want to continue that, and I think I have some skills that will lend itself to that,” she said.

“We have a workforce and housing crisis, those two things are intimately related,” she said. “This is really front and center for me. But we also want to protect our environment — those two things have been seen as, ‘Well, you can have one or you can have the other,’ but I think that’s been a false dichotomy. We’re trying to address that here in Shelburne, finding creative ways to add more attainable housing here. I think that some of the things that we can do on the local level ... could be kind of scaled up to at the state level.”

“There are barriers at the state level that makes that I think harder than it needs to be,” she added.

So far, no one else has officially filed to run for Webb’s seat, according to Shelburne town clerk Diana Vachon. The filing deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday, May 26.

Rep. Jessica Brumsted, Shelburne’s other representative, who also represents St. George in the

Chittenden-5-2 district, told the newspaper she plans on running for reelection, extending her 6-year tenure in the House.

“I am running for many reasons, but one important specific reason is because I want to be as helpful as I can on reforming our child care system,” she said. “We have two studies out there: a systems analysis and a finance analysis. I would like to be in a position to help address what we learn from these studies as best I can, so I am planning to hang in there. I am a member of the House Committee on Human Services and have worked on this issue for the past four years. It’s important to me to continue.”

Rep. Michael Yantachka, Charlotte’s sole House member, is planning on extending his tenure in the Statehouse.

In an announcement to the newspaper, he said, “During my time in office, my priority has always been to support policies that benefit Vermonters and make Vermont, and our community in particular, a better place to live and work. I believe in a strong democracy in which all citizens can participate through their right to vote.”

In South Burlington, three sitting House representatives, who collectively have 44 years of experience between the three, will be passing the baton.

Reps. Ann Pugh, John Killacky and Maida Townsend’s departures

mean most of South Burlington’s delegation to the state will be newcomers.

“It has been one of the greatest privileges in my life to bring the voices of residents of South Burlington to Montpelier, to bring their interests and concerns into the legislative discussions,” Pugh said.

Rep. Martin LaLonde, who’s been in the Legislature for eight years, serving on the House Committee on Judiciary, as chair of the committee on judicial rules, and now part of majority leadership, hopes to keep his seat to finish up some “unfinished business.”

“There are some issues that I have been working on for six, eight years, that are getting pretty darn close,” he said.

South Burlington resident Emilie Krasnow has announced her candidacy for Pugh’s vacant seat in Chittenden District 9, while Kate Nugent, a local justice of the peace and member of the South Burlington Board of Civil Authority, plans to run for Townsend’s seat.

Former South Burlington school board member Brian Minier is likely running for Killacky’s seat.

No one has officially announced their candidacy for the new fifth House district, shared between South Burlington and Williston, which was allocated in the recent redistricting process.

“One of the reasons I’m doing this is I think our town has really strong representation and I want to continue that, and I think I have some skills that will lend itself to that.”

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TAURUS

April 21 - May 21

Check around the house for any areas that could bene t from a little improvement, Taurus. Some renovations could provide a whole new look and even outlook.

GEMINI

May 22 - June 21

Figure out a way to show support for a valued colleague, Gemini. Sometimes just a kind word can transform someone’s day. Your kindness will be repaid.

CANCER

June 22 - July 22

Excessive spending could come back to haunt you this week, Cancer. Spend wisely and avoid impulse purchases. A nancial windfall could soon be in your future.

LEO

July 23 - Aug. 23

Leo, if you have been feeling bored and restless for the last several days, a change of scenery could be in order. A vacation can t the bill, but even a day trip will prove effective.

VIRGO

Aug. 24 - Sept. 22

Your ability to focus is high today, Virgo. This means you can learn many new skills and apply them how you see t. Take advantage of this chance to better yourself.

LIBRA

Sept. 23 - Oct. 23

Give some thought to how you can increase your income, Libra. It can help to have a few extra dollars coming in each month. A part-time job may be the right t for now.

SCORPIO

Oct. 24 - Nov. 22

Setbacks at work may have you feeling a little nervous, Scorpio. However, everything goes through a natural cycle and soon all will be well again. Maintain the status quo.

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Dec. 22 - Jan. 20

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CLUES ACROSS

1. Scream loudly

5. Antidepressant (abbr.)

8. The bill in a restaurant

11. Oblong pulpits

13. Adult female chicken

14. Abnormal breathing

15. Financial obligations

16. Belonging to a thing

17. Winged

18. Peoples

20. College hoops tournament

21. An informal body of friends

22. Region of the world

25. In an early way

30. Connected by kinship

31. Type of tree

32. Of cial order

33. Foundation for an idea

38. Small, faint constellation

41. Book lovers

43. Vegetable 45. Cabbage variety

47. A way to heal

49. Illuminated

50. Dish that features a stick

55. Insurance-related costs (abbr.)

56. Solid water

57. Soldier’s gear

59. “Uncle Buck” actress Hoffmann

60. Former measure of length

61. Arabic name meaning “spring”

62. Doctors’ group

63. Actress Susan

64. Appropriate

CLUES DOWN

1. Cool!

2. Hebrew unit of measure

3. Swedish rock group

4. College army

5. Black eye

6. One who stopped working

7. Teach a value

8. Rhythmic patterns

9. “MASH” actor Alda

10. “Friday Night Lights” director

12. Midway between south and southeast

14. Indian musical pattern

19. Ful ll a desire

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23. Water soaked soil

24. Brass instrument

25. Before

26. Popular color

27. Peyton’s little brother

28. Partner to cheese

29. Put onto 34. “Much __ about nothing”

35. A way to mend

36. Anger

37. Soviet Socialist Republic 39. Mobilized 40. Resembles an earlobe 41. Cut of meat

42. Nigerian people 44. Recently 45. Square stone building at Mecca 46. Adhere to orders 47. Adventure story

48. Marine bivalve mollusk

51. Retrospective analysis (abbr.)

52. Actor Pitt

53. Tibetan village 54. A way to change by heating 58. A beam of sunshine