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May 16, 2024
Soccer Roots brings community to the field
Booking it
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Shelburne residents Peter Kim and Mark Sienko are bringing the community together through the love of one thing: soccer. Through their program Soccer Roots, the duo is looking to bring the sport, which has taken both of them around the globe, back to the local level in a way that is accessible to everyone and anyone looking to join in on the fun. More specifically, the program seeks to remove the typical “pay-to-play” model barriers that often exist when playing a sport in the United States. “Both Mark and I have been around
the world quite a bit and kind of come to some realizations about the way soccer is done here in the United States, the development pathway, and the pay-to-play model as it is,” said Kim, turning on the lights in Shelburne’s fieldhouse, where most of the soccer magic happens. “We both realize that soccer, everywhere else in the world is local first and it is a source of community, and the community is a source of player development.” Kim, who is also the soccer coach for the Middlebury College women’s team, recounted the times throughout his life when See SOCCER on page 16
Museum exhibit celebrates artwork of Hinesburg students HABIB SABET STAFF WRITER
PHOTO BY AL FREY
CVU’s Dan Knight won the boys’ 1,500-meter run with a time of 4.01.03 at the 51st annual Burlington High School Track and Field Invitational on Saturday.
The Shelburne Museum is hosting an exhibition showcasing the artwork of Hinesburg Community School students enrolled in a new after-school program that combines visual art education with mathematical reasoning. The exhibit, which will be on display May 17-19, serves as a capstone for kindergarten and first grade students who have been participating in the Leslie and Olivia Art + Math Afterschool Program throughout the spring semester. “In this day and age, anything we can do to encourage and engender creativity
in young people is something we want to support,” Thomas Denenberg, director of the Shelburne Museum, said. “It’s part of the mission of the museum, and it’s something that I think is critical in society.” The after-school program integrates basic mathematical concepts like spatial reasoning and simple geometry into art lessons that help kids develop their creative and analytic skills in tandem. According to promotional materials for the exhibition, the curriculum for the program was developed by the nonprofit Olivia & Leslie Foundation in conjunction with the museum and See ARTWORK on page 3
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