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presorted standard The CharlotteNewsVT.org Vol. 63, no.08 October 15, 2020 Charlotte News Vermont’s oldest nonprofit community newspaper, bringing you local news and views since 1958 Burlington’s sandwich Planning Commission preview: loss is Charlotte’s gain 23-acre solar array, the health center and more LURs Tyler Lederer CONTRIBUTOR Chea Waters Evans trail does not exist in that area yet, and NEWS EDITOR that “While some of the power serving the Church Street’s Red Onion Café will relocate facility is proposed to be underground, the to Charlotte after 30 years of servicing Tonight’s Oct. 15 Planning Commission section closer to Lake Road is proposed to downtown Burlington. In a press release last meeting includes some major town be overhead. This conflicts with the Land Thursday, owner Mickey West cited financial planning issues, including continued Use Regulations.” troubles brought on by the COVID-19 public discussion of the draft Land Use pandemic as the reason for the move. Regulations, including more talk about the Any boards and commissions who wish East Charlotte Village Commercial District, to comment on the project will do so on “Between the high rent on Church Street a sketch plan review of the Charlotte Thursday night. and the dwindling foot traffic due to people Family Health Center project in the works increasingly working from home, making a for Ferry Road in the West Village, and a The Pringle Solar Project will encompass move to Charlotte was a no-brainer.” The Famous Red Onion sandwich will be avail- 23-acre solar array project that is proposed 23 acres of a 108-acre land parcel that is able to Charlotters in their own town starting at 2257 Lake Road, which is owned by zoned as a rural property. According to an The move is the latest action West has taken this November. Photo by Tyler Lederer Michael and Margaret Russell. email from Morgan Kerns, the lead project to preserve her business. In June of this year, manager from DG Vermont Solar, “The a local organizer set up a Go-Fund-Me page implications of the move. In a Tuesday email to members of the Project will include approximately 10,080 on her behalf, seeking $20,000. As of Oct. 13, Charlotte Conservation Commission, non-reflective solar PV panels installed only $2,995 has been raised. “I’m very disappointed,” he said. “Red the Energy Committee and the Trails in linear arrays and will utilize 28 string Onion had character and funkiness and that is Committee, Town Planner Larry Lewack inverters.” Kerns anticipates the project The restaurant is known for its sandwiches, disappearing on Church Street.” said that the proposed solar array, called will take one month to complete. The email such as the namesake “The Famous Red the Pringle Solar Project, falls under the also said that an aesthetics assessment Onion,” which combines apples, turkey, Other Facebook and Reddit users questioned jurisdiction of the Vermont Public Utilities was performed and that “the Project will bacon, onions and cheddar. The sandwich the value of Church Street and complained Commission because it’s a utility-scale not result in undue adverse impacts to the comes on a variety of different breads, such about the lack of businesses in Charlotte. project, and therefore is not subject to town aesthetics, scenic, and natural beauty of as Honey Oat. It combines tang, sauciness oversight. the area,” that it complies with all open and crunch and quickly became its staple The Red Onion will shut its doors for good space and scenic requirements, and that dish. on Oct. 27 at 4 p.m., according a sign posted In a Sept. 24 email to town administrators it does not affect any rare, endangered or at the restaurant’s Burlington location. It and board and commission members, Town threatened wildlife. Social media users were upset by the news of will move to Charlotte Crossings on Route Administrator Dean Bloch wrote, “The the move. 7. The property already houses restaurant, project is exempt from town permitting, but Lewack said the Planning Commission retail and office space and was the center the Planning Commission and Selectboard welcomes input from interested parties and “Loved their sandwiches during my breaks of a food truck permitting controversy this have a statutory right to submit comments wrote, “Because Charlotte has a regionally working at Red Square,” said Nicholas Von summer. The Red Onion will open there this in conjunction with this notice.” approved town energy plan, our views Shats, a Reddit user and Champlain College November pending approval from the town. and recommendations on utility-scale alumnus. While the news shocked him, as an He noted that potential areas of concern projects such as this must be taken into aspiring restaurateur, he was also interested in Editor’s note: This article is by Tyler he identified after a “very cursory review” consideration by the PUC in their project what could replace it, he said. Lederer, who is a student reporter with the were the fact that there is an unnamed road reviews.” Community News Service, a collaboration on the property that will need to be named The link to the Zoom meeting on Thursday Not everyone shared his enthusiasm for the with the University of Vermont’s Reporting & for E-911 purposes, that there is a trail night is on the town web site. future. On the opposite end, Facebook user Documentary Storytelling program. easement on the property though the town Joseph Pensak was more concerned about the Selectboard roundup: Ship to shore Resilience, budgets, and some new appointments Chea Waters Evans Burlington Business Association and was instrumental in developing the Champlain It was all about the budgets at Monday’s Valley Cohousing property on Common Selectboard meeting, as the first five town Way. She has lived in Charlotte for 15 departments to present their FY2021- years. Bunten, coincidentally, also works 22 financial hopes and dreams shared at the Burlington Business Association spreadsheets in the first round of the as a Special Projects Manager. He was yearly budget process. There were also a formerly the editor of The Charlotte News few interviews for open town positions and was born and grew up in Charlotte; and a discussion about the Community he moved back to raise his family here. Resilience Survey, which will be rolled out Pualwan was formerly chair of the Zoning across town in the coming months. Board of Adjustment for five years; he is a program management analyst for the Until this week there were two open Department of Homeland Security and has positions remaining on the seven-person a master’s degree in public policy analysis. Planning Commission; three candidates He has lived in Charlotte for 24 years. The were interviewed on Monday night for the Selectboard will deliberate in executive Boat season is over and it’s time to take them out of the water. Chris Falk captured this remaining two seats: Kelly Devine, Alex decision to decide which two candidates unfortunate incident on Route 7, south of Higbee Road, on Saturday. He said the guardrail Bunten and Benjamin Pualwan. will be appointed. was twisted and the trailer appeared to be destroyed, but everyone seemed to be fine. Photo by Chris Falk Devine is the executive director of the see SELECTBOARD page 13 The Charlotte News • October 15, 2020 • 3 Town LUR amendment discussion prompts conflict of interest charge Lake Road development planning allowed to proceed Chea Waters Evans Hinsdale. “I’m not clear that [Stuono’s] amendments for years and now is the neighborhood is involved, there doesn’t public’s opportunity to weigh in on such The Charlotte News seem to be anything that’s changed in matters. Mission Statement The Oct. 1 Charlotte Planning Commission Sheehan Green,” he said. “I would object The mission of The Charlotte News is to inform our meeting started with confusion and readers about current events, issues and topics, and to that.” Planning Commission Chair Peter The amendments in question would extend to serve as a forum for the free exchange of views of contention, partly due to the perpetual Joslin reminded Adsit that it was important the boundary of the East Charlotte Village town residents and community volunteer organizations challenges of holding municipal meetings to speak in order and let Hinsdale finish, Commercial District, change the density on matters related to Charlotte and the lives of its via Zoom video call and partly because saying they would “get nowhere fast” if requirements for potential housing, and residents. of another conflict of interest allegation people kept interrupting, for which Adsit provide more flexibility for properties Editorial independence against Planning Commission member Bill apologized. within that district to access to septic and The Board of Directors retains full authority over Stuono—this time by a meeting attendee. all editorial and advertising content in The Charlotte water. LUR adjustments discussed at the News. While we are funded by advertising revenue As Hinsdale continued his complaint Oct. 1 meeting also included Act 143 and and donor contributions, our news judgments are During the public comment segment of about Stuono, he also began to explain accessory on-farm businesses. made in accordance with our mission and independent the public hearing portion of the meeting, his position regarding why he believed of all sources of financial support, including support given through our affiliated 501(c)3 organization, The which allowed community members to that a third of the four corners in the East The discussion over the LUR amendments Friends of The Charlotte News. ask questions about and discuss proposed Village, at the intersection of Spear Street will continue tonight, Oct. 15, at 7:10 p.m., Letters, Commentaries and Obituaries amendments to Charlotte’s Land Use and Charlotte Hinesburg Road, should be during the regularly scheduled Planning Consistent with our mission The Charlotte News Regulations, there was some trouble from zoned as part of the commercial district—a Commission meeting. publishes letters to the editor, commentaries and the Planning Commission end regarding zoning designation that Stuono objected obituaries from our readers. All letters, commentaries sound and confusion on the part of meeting and obituaries are subject to review and approval by to and said could be considered “spot The other significant portion of Thursday’s the news editor of the paper and to the following rules attendees on how to “raise their hand” zoning.” meeting was dedicated to a sketch plan and standards: virtually; the phrase refers to a function review of a proposed housing development • Letters to the editor, commentaries and obituaries should be emailed to news@thecharlottenews. on the Zoom platform, but some took it Stuono interrupted and loudly objected to on a 124-acre parcel of land at the org as attachments in .doc format. All letters, literally and raised their hands waiting for a Hinsdale’s comments during this part of intersection of Lake Road and Greenbush commentaries and obituaries must contain the turn to speak. writer’s full name, town of residence and, for the discussion. “No, no,” he said, “Clark Road. Patricia O’Donnell and Jim Donovan editing purposes only, phone number. is monopolizing our meeting and he’s purchased the land earlier this year; they • Letters may not exceed 300 words, obituaries 500 Once the confusion settled and just before words and commentaries 750 words. making an accusation here that I’d like to own 112 acres adjoining this property. • The opinions expressed in commentaries and the discussion on the LURs was to begin, respond to first,” but he was interrupted They said during the meeting that they letters to the editor belong solely to the author Clark Hinsdale, a Ferrisburgh resident by Hinsdale, who said he would respect bought the land, which is farmland, woods and are not to be understood as endorsed by either the Board of Directors or the editorial staff and Charlotte property owner, questioned Joslin’s opinion about who could speak. “I and wetlands, as a conservation effort to of the paper. Stuono’s ability to be impartial. A portion want Clark to finish,” Joslin said. prevent a developer from purchasing the • All published letters and commentaries will include the writer’s name and town of residence. of the proposed LUR amendments takes property and building more than 20 homes • Before publishing any obituary, we will need place in the East Charlotte Village, where Hinsdale continued to explain his position on the land. They said they are building proper verification of death. the Sheehan Green neighborhood is • All submissions are subject to editing for clarity, on Village Zoning and commented that he homes not to develop the land and make factual accuracy, tone, length and consistency located. did not like Stuono’s body language while money but to pay off the loan they secured with our house publishing style. he was speaking, which he could see over to buy the property. • Whenever editing is necessary we will make every effort to publish each submission in its Hinsdale, who owns property in the the Zoom video. Stuono attempted to talk entirety and to preserve the original intent and East Charlotte Village that he wants to once more, and both Joslin and Planning “When we, by surprise, saw the 125 Lake wording. We will confer with writers before publishing any submitted material that in our develop and would be directly affected by Commission member Marty Ilick told Road For Sale sign, we did some research judgment requires significant editing before it can approval of the LURs, said “Bill Stuono Stuono to be quiet. and learned a developer was prepared to be published. has violated the conflict of interest policy • The news editor makes the final determination buy the property but not respect the use whether a letter to the editor, a commentary or an over and over, and used his position on Hinsdale continued to speak for minutes valuation program, which is known as obituary will be published as submitted, returned the Planning Commission to advocate for longer, continuing to state his opinion current use. Charlotte zoning would allow for rewriting or rejected. Publisher: Claudia Marshall his own personal position as a resident of on why the East Charlotte Village corner that property to have 24 home or house ([email protected]) Sheehan Green. He should be asked to be should be zoned commercially, and why he lots. We were very concerned,” O’Donnell Editorial Staff removed from the table, and go sit in the thought Stuono should recuse himself. He said. She said that dividing the property as Managing Editor: Anna Cyr audience, and not participate in continuing ([email protected]) alleged that Stuono was exercising “undue, such would result in “lost farmlands, scenic News Editor: Chea Waters Evans to harangue the Planning Commission and adverse influence” over the PC. views over the property, and the open ([email protected]) continuing to vote no on what happens in character of the northern part of the farm Contributing Editor: Edd Merritt his neighborhood.” Copy editor: Beth Merritt Joslin said “it’s ultimately up to Bill” to parcel. From our perspective, this was an Proofreaders: Edd Merritt, decide whether or not to recuse himself, unacceptable outcome.” Mike & Janet Yantachka At this point, meeting attendee Brownie and that the PC has been working on these Business Staff Ad manager: Elizabeth Langfeldt Adsit interjected and disagreed with O’Donnell said she and Donavan are ([email protected]) subdividing and building on the property Bookkeeper: Susan Jones in order to pay off the debt they incurred ([email protected]) to purchase the land with the intent to Board Members President: Claudia Marshall preserve it. She said their intention is ([email protected]) not to make money on the project. They Treasurer: Ted leBlanc ([email protected]) purchased the 124.33 acres for $900,000 on Board members: Vince Crockenberg, Bob April 13. Bloch, Gay Regan, Tom Tiller, John Quinney, Jack Fairweather, Christina Asquith, Ben Miller, Bailey Grattelo, John Hammer (emeritus) Members of the public expressed some Technical advisor: Melissa Mendelsohn, Orchard support and some concern regarding the Road Computers project, specifically mentioning ruining Website: thecharlottenews.org Subscription Information views for those on Greenbush Road and The Charlotte News is delivered at no cost to all potentially disrupting a wildlife corridor Charlotte residences. Subscriptions are available for first-class delivery at $60 per calendar year. and wetlands. Joslin called this first Want a subscription? Please send a check payable to meeting essentially a “brainstorming” The Charlotte News, P.O. Box 251, session for the PC, the property owners and Charlotte, VT 05445. Postmaster/Send address changes to: the public. The commission voted to allow The Charlotte News Donovan and O’Donnell to proceed with P.O. Box 251, Charlotte, VT 05445 Telephone: 425-4949 the planning process based on their current Circulation: 2,000 submission; no final plans were approved Copyright © 2020 The Charlotte News, Inc. at this stage. Member of the New England Newspaper and Press Association, LION Publishers and the Vermont Press Association. 4 • October 15, 2020 • The Charlotte News Editorial Freedom & Unity Walk Rev. Kevin Goldenbogen coercively, to treat ourselves, God and our It’s not much, I know. Just some neighbors the same way. As individuals walking. Just some posts on social It will not be news to you that we’re living we’ve been given free will to do whatever media. Just a gentle tip of the hat to our through a bellicose period in our nation’s we choose to do. At the same time, it’s state’s motto. Just a stroll by the homes and history. In a normal time, this would make God’s ardent hope that we’ll freely practice business of my neighbors. Just a small act for an especially volatile campaign season the way of lovingkindness. Why? Because of lovingkindness on this side of Nov. 3 to leading up to the national elections on Nov. God loves us and desires for us to inherit inspire small acts of lovingkindness on the 3. This is not a normal time. COVID-19 the life that comes when we practice it. other side, too. has altered traditional campaign patterns, Have a hot complicated our collective ability to hold Vermont’s State motto, “Freedom and Walk with me virtually from 10/28–11/3: safe and fair elections, and set many of Unity,” and the Judeo-Christian concept of • FaceBook @: RevKevin Goldenbogen us on edge. On this side of election day, lovingkindness are two sides of the same • Instagram@: rev.kevg news tip? I’m concerned about the state of our coin. The coin of relationship that: 1) is • Charlotte Front Porch Forum nation. What keeps me up at night, though, aware of the real tension between personal Call us: is not what’s on this side of election day, freedom and the common good, 2) invites Walking, 425-4949 but what’s on the other side. What will us to do the hard work of balancing them Kevin or email us at: Nov. 4 bring? Will any election result be in real time, under real circumstances, with accepted by the losing candidates and the actions of our real lives. Kevin Goldenbogen is the senior pastor at [email protected] Charlotte Congregational Church, UCC. parties? Will there be chaos? Will there be The violence? Rather than allow myself to be Freedom and Unity is so easy to say and Charlotte News overwhelmed by “what if” thinking, I’ve so hard to live out. Which is why there decided to take a long and purposeful walk are times in our country when we find during the week leading up to the elections ourselves walking a quarrelsome road on the roads of Charlotte instead. like we’re walking now. Some shouting, “FREEDOM,” some shouting, “UNITY,” Wakeful nights have afforded me time to and all sides preparing for war. I long for a reacquaint myself with some commonly different way, and maybe you do too. I long shared values from our past which we for a better balance. I long for a Nov. 4 could dust off for the future. One of these that’s filled with lovingkindness and not the shared values is articulated in the Vermont division and violence I fear will proliferate. state motto, written on our state seal and I’ve decided to let my longing become CANDY DRIVE flying from our state flags: “Freedom and CANDYDRIVE my doing. I’ve decided to let my longing Unity.” A wonderfully concise phrase that With the uncertainty of trick or treating hanging in the air like a silken spider web, Charlotte summarizes the ambitious goal to balance become an action that reminds Charlotters Recreation is collecting individually wrapped candy (and teal pumpkin non-candy options) to our personal freedoms with the common of some commonly shared values from distribute to residents for their children who may not wish to partake this year. Please consider good. The motto is not freedom OR our past which we can dust off for the donating a bag of candy and/or non-candy items (stickers, pencils, mini notebooks, bouncy unity. It’s not freedom OVER unity or unity future. I’ve decided to let my longing balls, bubbles, etc.). Donations will be gratefully accepted in the Town Hall, Spears Store and OVER freedom. The motto is freedom become a walk of 50 miles through our Charlotte Central through Friday, October 23. The donation box will be labeled and located at AND unity, which encourages Vermonters beloved town from Oct. 28 through Nov. the entrance of each building. to do that very hard work of holding these 3. The 50 miles represents our 50 states sometimes-opposing values together. We and the ending date is, of course, election Goody bags will be available for pick up aren’t to coerce one another, nor are we day. My goals are simple: Monday, October 26th through the 30th. to abandon one another. We aren’t to be • to walk the roads of Charlotte with a Recipients can use the bag of goodies for a controlled by one another, nor are we to be few companions (send me a note at scavenger hunt with their family! ignored by one another. It’s freedom AND [email protected] if you want to We’ll supply the candy - you do the hiding! unity…freedom AND unity for the good of walk a segment with me) us all. • to remind us all about the Vermont A related value from our past that we value of Freedom and Unity and its could dust off for our future is found in the related value of lovingkindness Judeo-Christian concept of lovingkindness • to proclaim the message that we need (Hebrew: chesed). The idea is that God one another treats humanity with lovingkindness (lovingkindness=grace, forgiveness, • to inspire my neighbors to freely humility, encouragement, justice, basic choose actions that build the common needs) and then invites us freely, non- good. The Charlotte News • October 15, 2020 • 5 Education Trees are turning in the Demeter School budget season is here

Staff report Community members can share their The Champlain Valley School District thoughts and rate those of others on the School Board is beginning the budget CVSD Budget Thoughtexchange: http:// process for the 2021–2022 school year. bit.ly/CVSDBudgetInputOct2020 by Oct. This budget will be presented to voters 23. before and on Town Meeting Day, March 2, 2021. The board is providing virtual There is a virtual CVSD Community opportunities for community members to Budget Forum on Oct. 27 at 6 p.m. give input regarding next year’s budget. that will allow discussion regarding what taxpayers In a press release, value most in Bonnie Birdsall, local schools CVSD director of and will provide digital learning & an overview of communication CVSD’s financial wrote, “While this outlook. School has been quite principals from the unusual year, Charlotte, the board and Shelburne, administration are Williston and planning around a Hinesburg will return to normalcy present their for the 2021–2022 thoughts as well. school year. Are there parts of our current Information about how to join the forum experience that we should continue? will be posted on the Budget page of Thanks to federal and state funding, we the CVSD website and communicated are optimistic we will be starting next through school newsletters. A full year on sound financial footing. Should schedule of future school budget this change, what areas of the budget do meetings can be found on the district’s you believe are important to protect? We website. The Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge on Greenbush Road, formerly and still invite you to join us in the discussion.” colloquially known as Demeter Park, hosted a brightly colored path this weekend. Photo by Olivia Hagios 6 • October 15, 2020 • The Charlotte News Around Town Congratulations: wedding anniversary. The couple spent many summers on North Shore Road, to Ava Rohrbaugh, whose poem “My Thompson’s Point, Charlotte, in a camp final thought at night,” appeared in the which Marge’s family maintained. Burlington Free Press Young Writers Although they moved to a senior living Project on October 9. In it she picks up community in North Carolina, they still a bit on a previous poem of hers that manage to remain quite independent at appeared in the Project in which she hears ages 98 and 94. nighttime sounds that make her think there is “Something almost here.” In her current to Christy Gallese of Charlotte who was poem her thoughts shift to what enters her recognized as one of 40 “Outstanding mind as she falls asleep. “Everything is Young Leaders” by the Vermont Business moving, because the night can breathe if Magazine. Christy is one of 15 from you let it.” Chittenden County. Twenty-four of the nominees are women this year, and the 40 to Christy Leonard and Jonathan Enos were selected from over 190 nominees. who were married on September 18 at She is employed by the Burlington School the Old Lantern in Charlotte with Justice District. The 2020 Rising Stars will be of the Peace, Caitlin Terry, officiating. featured in the November issue of the Jonathan is the son of Robert and Janey Vermont Business Magazine. Enos. He grew up on Lewis Creek Road in Charlotte where his parents still live. He Sympathy: attended CCS and CVU. Christy’s parents are William Leonard and Christal Brown. is extended to family and friends of She also graduated from Champlain Valley Renee Sahyoun who passed away at her Union High School. Christy and Jonathan daughter’s home in Charlotte on October now live in Hinesburg. He earns his living 10 at the age of 92. Her daughter, Rima as a roofer; she is taking courses on line. Burton, survives her. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy to Marge and Hal Blake of Southern be made to Home Health and Hospice, Pines, NC who celebrated their 70th 1110 Prim Road, Colchester, VT 05446. Obituary Sam Edward Titus Sam will be remembered Shelburne, VT for his authenticity, kind heart, big smile and curious Sam Edward Titus, of mind. He had a boisterous Shelburne, passed away personality and contagious unexpectedly on Oct. 1, laugh. If he wasn’t regaling 2020. Sam was born on a family or friends with a beautiful sunny day, June 21, story or lesson in history, 1986, to Tracy and Brenda it was not uncommon to Titus of Charlotte. It was find him making friends fitting that his birthday fell with complete strangers on the summer solstice, as he heard their life because when Sam walked story. His favorite topics of into a room, it was like the conversation ranged from sun came out. He grew up Sam Edward Titus baseball and golf to cooking, in Charlotte and attended philosophy and Phish Charlotte Central School, concerts. CVU, and then graduated from Saint Lawrence University. Aside from his parents, wife and son, Sam is survived by his best friend and brother, His career in finance and adventurous spirit David Titus, his loving aunts, uncles, took him to Denver, where he eventually cousins and in-laws, an enormous and met his love Aubrey (Friedrich). The ever-growing circle of friends, his family two were married on July 29, 2017, in a of colleagues at TIAA, and his sweet dog beautiful ceremony on the lawn of Sam’s Ollie. childhood home. In 2018 they moved back to Vermont, buying and renovating Go to storiesaboutsam.com to share stories a house in Shelburne as they prepared for to help keep Sam’s memory shining the birth of their son. Jack Elbert Titus was brightly. welcomed on Feb. 24 of this year.

JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST AND GET THE LATEST TOWN NEWS ONCE A WEEK! SIGN UP ON OUR WEBSITE CharlotteNewsVT.org The Charlotte News • October 15, 2020 • 7 Town Halloween, like everything else, will be subdued this year Chea Waters Evans and others on the road hope to have some fun decorations out for children to see as a Trick-or-treating on Greenbush Road is a drive-by activity. Charlotte tradition that feels like the most Charlottiest of them all—families together, Patrice Machavern from Charlotte kids running around getting (and eating) Volunteer Fire and Rescue said that she candy, some of them out for their first believes the town constable will still independent nighttime adventure without be out with streetlights on the corner of parents in a safe environment where Greenbush and Ferry, and that the CVFRS everyone else’s parents have an eye on auxiliary is working on a safe Halloween them. This year, because of COVID-19, night alternative to the usual crowd of Halloween is going to be a lot different. cocoa drinkers at the fire station.

Selectboard Chair Matt Krasnow and Town The Charlotte Library is not going to have Administrator Dean Bloch said that the a Halloween night presence this year, town does not have any particular guidance though they are giving out pumpkins for or official input regarding the matter. carving starting this week and have a Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Halloween pumpkin book craft posted on Levine said in September that trick-or-treat their web site. celebrations are allowed and that families should follow health guidelines regarding Greenbush Road resident Jessica Scriver social distancing and mask wearing. is leading the charge to light up the town on Oct. 31 in lieu of the regular crush of Nancy Warren, a Greenbush Road resident families out on Halloween night. We can’t who lives in the busiest part of the trick-or- get together to party, but the pumpkins treat corner, said that her family does not can; start planning your carving strategy plan on handing out candy this year due now and prepare to deliver your carved, to the coronavirus pandemic. She said she unlit jack-o-lanterns no later than Oct. and at least five other nearby homes do not 29. More details regarding drop-off and plan on turning on their porch lights and display is forthcoming in the Charlotte having candy available even in a bowl at News e-newsletter and online, and on Front the end of the driveway, though she knows Porch Forum; for more information on how other families are trying to come up with to help out, contact Scriver via text at (802) a safe and fun workaround. She said she 318-3228. Photo by Chea Waters Evans 8 • October 15, 2020 • The Charlotte News Town It’s a robber…it’s a murderer…oh, wait. It’s just ghosting season. Chea Waters Evans park here! Turn off the lights! Drive faster! You missed Arthur’s driveway! You missed There’s no moon. I sit in my car on the Arthur’s driveway again! Chea, are you side of a back-country road, lights off, okay? Why do you keep missing Arthur’s hazards clicking in the blackness, hoping driveway? I don’t know why. Maybe I someone doesn’t call the police. I care about have a bit of a stomach ache because I just the environment, so I don’t leave my car scarfed down 13 mini Twix in three minutes. running, but it’s 40 degrees out. The heat slips out the windows and night sounds A couple years ago, with five kids settle in as I sit there, shivering, waiting for screaming at me from the back seat, in an my accomplices to come back. Eventually attempt to ghost a particular family without they hurtle into the car, dressed in black, causing a multi-car pileup or lose a kid in the masks that protect them from the the ditch on the side of the road, I backed coronavirus also providing a disguise. “Go, into my friend’s mailbox. I sent her a text. go, go!” they shout, frantic. It’s critical: “Hey, just wanted you to know, I think I just they can’t be caught. But Safety First is my nicked your mailbox.” Then two minutes motto, so I start the car and carefully pull later I sent her another text. “I don’t know school-age kids and are wondering, Why did They fly out of the house, sometimes with out onto the road. I’m not the world’s worst why I lied to you, you’re going to see your some creeper just pull up next to my house a Nerf gun in hand, hot on the heels of their getaway driver and this is not a burglary: mailbox on the ground and shards of my and turn off the car lights? ghoster, desperate to catch them. One kid I’m a mom, and I’ve gotten suckered into taillight all over it. I didn’t nick it. I smashed we know waits in the bushes in front of his it. Sorry!” She was very sweet about it, but taking my kid ghosting. Charlotte children, as they do, have taken house most evenings in October, dressed one gift card to Lowe’s later, I realized the this custom to the next level. My 5th grader Ghosting is easy, in theory: sneak up to a in black, flashlight in hand, ready to catch true price of being a bad getaway driver. likes to put a pearl onion in with the bag of house, knock on the door, and then run, anyone who dares to deliver him a small bag candy, just to keep things fresh. Someone leaving no trace but a bag of candy or treats of Snickers. Some families, even those who make it once left a radish and a Band-Aid in a bag on the doorstep with a little note that says: through October with their mailboxes intact, on our front porch. My oldest once included, I don’t know why I continually say yes to You’ve been ghosted! don’t like ghosting. I get it. Sometimes it along with candy and Halloween novelty taking my boys and their friends out. I’m gets late, sometimes toddlers get woken Ghosting in other towns might be a quick pencils, the brochure about puberty he got terrified that I’m going to run someone and dogs go bananas barking and kids fall knock on a friend’s door, a sprint back to from health class at school. over, terrified that someone is going to in a hole in a field and sprain an ankle. But the car, and a one-block drive to the next think I’m casing their joint and call the sometimes it’s really great, like when the And it’s not just the treats themselves that friend’s house. In Charlotte, the excitement, cops, terrified that I’m going to sneak too kids are having the most fun ever, or like are kicked up a notch—it’s the delivery. and therefore the potential for danger and much candy from the ghosting bag and the last night, when a friend sent me a photo of Kids dress like the guys from “Home disaster, is real. The lack of streetlights, kids will catch on to how I spend my time two airplane-sized bottles of Bacardi and Alone,” and the friends don’t stand on the long driveways, and dirt roads can make the when they’re out of the car, terrified that the Fireball that arrived along with the candy on doorstep and wave with delight when they process exhilarating for kids and panic- children are going to yell at me. her front step. “Are you my favorite ghost?” see their treat. More often than not, it’s a attack-inducing for parents, not to mention she asked. “No,” I wrote back, “but I hope pursuit straight out of a James Bond movie. And yell at me they do. Slow down! Don’t terrifying for Charlotters who don’t have that ghost came to my house, too!” The Charlotte News • October 15, 2020 • 9 Town Food shelf news Susan Ohanian Trageser, Abby Foulk and members of the CONTRIBUTOR Charlotte, Shelburne, Hinesburg Rotary Club.

Throughout the year, the Food Shelf rejoices in Thank you for monetary donations: Anne the ongoing stories of our community reaching Castle Co-op, Joseph & Jennifer Dickerman, out many helping hands. Many contributions Tara Mullen, Kathleen Nolan, Charles & are anonymous and go unrecognized but Elisabeth DesLauriers, Cynthia Marshall, certainly not unappreciated. This month we Robert & Marjorie Archer, and Deb Cook. celebrate our library and its great dilly pickle event. Hooting, howling, shrieking with laughter Keep an eye on Front Porch Forum for the The October Library News featured an latest news for where candy is being handed invitation to “brighten up winter meals with out around town on Halloween, and the these fun pickles made from whole green Food Shelf will provide food for the soul. An beans and lots of dill.” Experienced canner anonymous donor has provided Halloween- Ruah Swennefelt was joined by Seed Library themed books for the children, and we hope co-coordinator Linda Hamilton to use the older teens and adults will share in the word library’s new “Charlie Cart” portable kitchen fun. Parents should realize that word play unit to discuss the general basics of canning isn’t frivolous but is actually fundamental for and the array of possibilities in preserving vocabulary development. Riddles depend on The library’s new “Charlie Cart” portable kitchen unit was used to discuss the general basics of food this way. People who had never canned understanding and appreciating such basics canning and the array of possibilities in preserving food this way. Photo by Margaret Woodruff before practiced safe distance to accept the as word sounds, double meanings, variant challenge of attending the demonstration at spellings and idioms. Think about the verbal Important Notice: If a family can’t get to been in contact with anyone who has these the Charlotte Library parking lot. This event understandings required in these samples: the food shelf they should call 425-3252 to symptoms. Instead, call 425-3252 and leave was co-sponsored by the Charlotte Library, • How do vampires get around on arrange for food delivery. Just leave a name your name and number. You will receive a call Transition Town Charlotte and the Charlotte Halloween? On blood vessels. and number for a return call. We don’t want back to come up with a plan. We need to help Seed Library. • What do ghosts wear when their eyesight anyone cut off from necessary basics: food, families and volunteers stay safe. gets blurred? Spooktacles. shelter, utilities or gas for their car. Our Jars of preserved pickles were given to the • Who did Frankenstein go trick or treating community calls out to people: Don’t be Financial assistance Food Shelf. with? His ghoul friend. reluctant to ask for a little help. Reminder: The Food Shelf has some funds • Knock Knock available for emergency assistance with fuel Want to know what’s coming next? For Who’s there? Note: For anyone suffering economic hardship and electric bills. Call 425-3252 if you need ongoing information about library happenings, Phillip! from COVID-19, look into the possibility of assistance. check out their website: charlottepubliclibrary. Phillip who? assistance through the Vermont COVID-19 org. You can sign up for a monthly newsletter: Phillip my bag with Halloween candy, Arrearage Assistance program. This program For emergency food call John at 425-3130. [email protected]. please! provides eligible Vermont utility ratepayers served by a fixed-line telephone service, Volunteers welcome The COVID catastrophe didn’t shut down the Adults may groan, but reading research shows Vermont electric, or natural gas, with a grant The Food Shelf welcomes volunteers to assist food garden at Charlotte Central School. Last that when you practice such word play with to assist with past-due balances. For more with: spring, Deidre Holmes put out a call for help, kids, you are practicing reading basics. information, you can call your local Vermont • Food distribution and she reports that throughout our very dry Community Action Agency or contact the • Food Shopping summer “generous community members each Here’s a word challenge for your kids: Make Department’s Consumer Affairs and Public • Special projects throughout the year. took on a week to water, weed and harvest.” up Halloween questions that can be answered Information (CAPI) Division at 1-800-622- For information please call: 425-3252 The bountiful result was that “starting in May, by these idioms. 4496 or email [email protected]. the garden has been able to make weekly • white as a ghost Donations The Charlotte Food Shelf, Inc. is a donations of fresh organic produce to the • ghost town The Charlotte Food Shelf is an all volunteer Charlotte Food Shelf and/or the school meals • skeleton key nonprofit organization, and all donations organization supported by the Charlotte are tax deductible. Our organization is run program.” We extend great thanks to Deidre • skeleton staff Congregational Church, Our Lady of Mount and to Cecelia Wu, Jeanne Blackmore, Julia • witch hunt by volunteers, so all donations made to the Carmel Catholic Church and the Charlotte Food Shelf go directly for nutritious food Parker-Dickerson, MaryEllen Hebert, Karen • make your blood run cold community. It is located in the Congregational Tuininga, Deborah Dodd Squires, Alice • death trap or assistance to our neighbors in Charlotte Church vestry at: 403 Church Hill Road. It and North Ferrisburgh. Should you wish to is open Wednesday evenings from 5 to7 p.m. honor someone with a donation, a special for curbside pickup. Delivery is also available acknowledgement will be sent to that person. to those sheltering in place for health reasons Checks may be mailed to Charlotte Food and to those who find themselves unable to get Shelf, P.O. Box 83, Charlotte, VT 05445. to the delivery night. The Food Shelf contact number is 425-3252. Call the Food Shelf number (425-3252) for a Visit the website for more information on other recording of the distribution times. assistance programs, such as 3 Squares VT: charlotteucc.org/charlotte-food-shelf. NOTE: Because it’s getting dark earlier and earlier, starting Wednesday Nov. 4, we plan to Keeping safe change the weekly pick-up time. For details, The Food Shelf continues to take precautions watch for information in The Charlotte News, to help everyone keep safe. Anyone who has Front Porch Forum, a recorded message on a fever or cough—or symptoms that might our phone line, and a sign posted on the Food seem like a cold—should not come to the Shelf door. distributions. Also, don’t come if you have 10 • October 15, 2020 • The Charlotte News Hi, Neighbor! Katie Fraser: On the front lines at CCS Katie Fraser started her teaching career as a long- term substitute at the Allen Brook School in Williston. “I fell in love with the district,” she said. A lack of classroom Phyl Newbeck CONTRIBUTOR openings led her to become director of Part 2, the Allen Brook after school program, but when she saw an opening at Charlotte Central School, she jumped at the chance to apply.

A six-year resident of Charlotte, Fraser taught 3rd and 4th graders for three years before being asked to take charge of the 5th grade class. “At first I didn’t want to teach anything above 4th grade,” she said “but now there is no looking back. I love this age. There is so much they are discovering about themselves and the world around Left: From India to the Champlain Islands to Charlotte, Katie Fraser helps her students connect to themselves, each other, and humanity as a them.” Fraser is in her fifth year of teaching whole. Right: Katie Fraser enjoys her down time with her husband, James, and their two boys, Ronan and Silas. Courtesy photos humanities to her charges and she thoroughly enjoys it. “They are starting to dive into consent,” she said. After that, Fraser worked Fraser is helping to broaden her students’ supportive. Maybe it’s the presence of deep and important topics,” she said. “It’s a for the Howard Center helping families learn horizons in other ways. “They’re not too young ones in her own home, but Fraser special age.” important living skills. young to talk about race,” she said, noting is optimistic for the future, despite current that she has a Black Lives Matter sign in challenges. Like everyone else, Fraser is adjusting to While attending graduate school at St. her classroom. Last year her students read the pandemic. She teaches 11 students in Michael’s College, Fraser spent a month in Jewell Parker Rhodes’ novel “Ghost Boys”, “Our priority is our students’ well-being,” person on Monday and Tuesday mornings, India as a staff person for an undergraduate in which the protagonist’s story is similar she said. “We start every day by checking followed by 10 remotely in the afternoon. trip to Calcutta to work with Mother Teresa’s to that of young Tamir Rice who was killed to see how they are doing, given the gravity The numbers are reversed on Thursday Missionaries of Charity. “That work will by a police officer in Cleveland when his of day to day life.” Fraser recognizes that and Friday, and all learning is remote on forever be with me and transformed me toy gun was mistaken for a real one. This remote education may lead to some deficits Wednesdays. “Remote learning does pose as a person,” Fraser said. “It helped me year, her students are reading “Front Desk” in students’ learning, but she believes they many challenges,” she said “particularly understand what we have here and recognize by Kelly Yang, which discusses prejudice. are making the best of a difficult situation. with connectivity and bandwidth. Sometimes the goodness of humanity that exists.” Fraser “I teach students the importance of finding “We’re naming and talking about the I feel like I’m swimming upstream.” The was impressed by the people she met on common ground, bridging culture divides, unprecedented situation and validating silver lining is the ability to work with the trip. “Some of the most amazing people being open to ideas, and listening to what students’ feelings,” she said. “It’s important small groups in person. “It’s exciting to I met were on the streets of India and had others have to say,” she said. “It’s an ongoing to keep circling back and talking about it. be able to provide more individualized nothing,” she said. “Being a humanities theme in the books we read.” We’re all in this together and we’ll come out attention,” she said. “It promotes a deeper teacher, I feel grateful to be able to teach stronger on the other side.” understanding.” Although the school is about other cultures and perspectives and to Fraser is the mother of two young boys— gradually moving toward providing all-day, broaden students’ horizons.” Ronan is four and Silas is two—and credits in-school education for younger kids, Fraser her husband, James, with being incredibly recognizes that she will be on her hybrid schedule for quite some time.

Fraser always knew she wanted to be a teacher, but she felt it was important to broaden her horizons first, so she started her career in social work as an outreach advocate/educator with Voices Against Violence, which is based in Franklin and Grand Isle Counties. “I’d go into schools and collaborate with classroom teachers in teaching about healthy relationships and 10 • October 15, 2020 • The Charlotte News The Charlotte News • October 15, 2020 • 11 Twenty years of tractors

Photos by Chea Waters Evans t wasn’t the ideal 20th anniversary celebration of the East Charlotte Tractor IParade, but like everything else this year, it was memorable, nonetheless. The weather was glorious, the leaves were golden, and the wisp of the smell of diesel exhaust was in the air.

Though there were fewer tractors, the route was longer, and the crowd was dispersed throughout several miles instead of festively packed into Baptist Corners, the things that make the tractor parade so special were still there: little ones waving at the tractor drivers, friends connecting (from afar, but still connecting), and, of course, the tractors themselves. From a classic Farmall to a John Deere lawn tractor, they rumbled down Spear Street, then headed east on Hinesburg Road, chugging up the hill and out of sight, making a loop around Bean Road and back to Spear, where the drivers still had their annual luncheon.

2020 East Charlotte Tractor Parade The Charlotte News • October 15, 2020 • 11 Out Takes Thanksgiving was a ritual for “Packer Backers” Go, you Packers! Through most of the year, Green Bay is a lord and commemorate a plentiful harvest. was brewed with the state’s own grain and Go and get ‘em! relatively small, quiet town located at the By the time I entered college, the focus hops, ingredients that were not native to Go, you fighting fools! southern end of the Lake Michigan bay had shifted somewhat. Thanksgiving’s every stop on the NFL road map. Upset ‘em! after which it was named. However, in Christianity had become Thanksgiving’s Smash their line with all the fall it turns itself from a town that is “NFL-ity”, with the community’s eyes Having enjoyed all parts of this ritual, your might! home of the National Railroad Museum moving from cornfields to goal posts. I spent several Thanksgivings in the A touchdown, Packers! and Acme Meat Packers into a city that, at Bay. I’m not certain whether my parents Edd Merritt Fight! Fight! Fight! least prior to the pandemic, mutated into My Green Bay friend invited me to bought totally into my excuse that it was On, you Blue and Gold the football capital of the upper Midwest join him there for the holiday. When I equally good use of time, equal to the long to glory! Win this game, the same old story! and home to its heroes Bart Starr, Paul accepted his invitation, he explained that drive for a short spell spent at home in Go You Packers, Go! – Hornung, Jim Taylor, Boyd Dowler, Thanksgiving was not simply another day Minnesota, which always included having Eric Karll Max McGee, Willie Davis, Ray Nitschke of the week. It rivaled Christmas in its to head north to Minneapolis for dinner at and the like. Home games often brought annual activities—food, drink, a sporting my aunt’s house before leaving on Saturday Thanksgiving will soon be upon us. what seemed to be half the population of event, and it ended with a bar visit. and heading south for classes to pick up on Wisconsin to the city, including some of Monday. I have memories of two types of rituals us who lodged just north of the Illinois Since many college students from the area for this holiday. The first revolves around border. In the early 1960s I was one of came home and the Packers had an annual It may be a figment of my imagination. football; the second revolves around food. them, a student at Beloit College that is in Turkey Day football game against Detroit However, I vaguely remember that if I In this issue of The News I’ll tell you about Wisconsin just above the Illinois state line, (always in Detroit in those days), the day’s did spend free time at home, my parents how in Green Bay, Wisconsin, football much closer to that state’s city of Rockford, ritual began in the morning, getting off on required me to delve into a class project by rules the roost on Thanksgiving. I will get than to Packer town. the right foot with a touch football game— arising early mornings to read, write notes into food next time. in which, by the way, players who had or solve math problems. In their minds, I had a good college friend who grew up continued the sport in college had to play holidays were not just fun and games. A longstanding pro-football franchise, the in Green Bay, and, rather than drive the a position on the field that was different These thoughts, however, were replaced Green Bay Packers is the only publicly- five hours to my own home in southern from their intercollegiate one. Quarterbacks by my notion, which meant late morning owned major league franchise and is owned Minnesota, I spent several Thanksgivings became linemen; guards moved into the rises, daytime movies and hanging out with by thousands of its fans. Founded in 1919 in Packer land. In this part of the upper backfield. The game was then followed by girlfriends. by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun, Midwest, the history of the holiday went the turkey dinner of the day, which lasted Lambeau was the team’s coach for its first back hundreds of years to the early 1600s only long enough to be in time to drive and I believed that my trips north were what 30 years. The team’s distinctiveness is what when the local agricultural folk in good greet the Packer players at the airport— holidays should be about— confidence it does to the town each fall. Christian faith established it to thank the cheering them if they won and comforting builders, not simply turkey, gravy and them if they lost. Following the airport mashed potatoes. greeting, most of the players and many of the fans drove into town to a bar and grill I also became a devoted Packer Backer, named “Fuzzy Thurston’s Left Guard.” Its which I have remained to this day. I must owner had, in fact, been a Packer lineman have cheese for my head somewhere in the in the late 1950s, early 1960s. There they refrigerator. drank a toast to a win or followed suit to console a loss. In either case, they imbibed Wisconsin’s state beverage, which my friend said could only go down so well if it 12 • October 15, 2020 • The Charlotte News Town

SELECTBOARD were shared in advance of the Selectboard continued from page 1 meeting, personal research, and from communications with Library Director Margaret Woodruff, who is a member of An interview for one of the two open spots CCP. “Perhaps we were a little quick with on the Board of Auditors was quick, since the resolution, but convince us why we’re at the moment Selectboard member Louise wrong,” McCarren said, though she did not McCarren is doing that work on her own clarify why she was speaking for the board and there’s no one else who wants the open with her initial motion, though she said positions. Mike Dunbar was unanimously they had not discussed it yet as a group. approved for the job. During his interview, he said that he decided to pursue the “I’m not sure we’re asking you for position because as an engineer and a anything,” Goldenbogen said. “We’re here business owner, he had the experience and to primarily communicate. Our only ask interest to take on the task. He’ll take the was to put a copy of the survey in the Town job as an appointee until Town Meeting, at Hall.” which point he will have to run for the post in the March election. “I’m speaking for myself now, because I’m only one of five,” McCarren said. “I The Charlottte Community Partners is thought you were asking for us to be a a group of representatives around town partner in it. I’ll take accountability if I (including a member of the board of The misunderstood what you wanted.” Charlotte News) that has been meeting every Selectboard member other week by Zoom Carrie Spear said that in since April. Their Perhaps we her opinion, the survey purpose is to provide was “too big for the a network of resources “were a little general public,” and that and information (see many of the questions page 14 for an update might not pertain to from the group) for quick with the people in Charlotte. Charlotters during the coronavirus resolution, but Goldenbogen explained pandemic. They have that the purpose of the also been meeting and convince us why survey is to “identify discussing distributing weaknesses and a community resilience we’re wrong. celebrate where we’re survey to all Charlotte strong,” and that the residents in order to find ─ Louise McCarren” information gathered out what our strengths Selectboard member could help a variety and weaknesses are of town organizations as a community. The plan how to better presentation by the serve Charlotters. He Charlotte Community said it “came out of Partners group regarding recognition and desire this survey took an uncomfortable turn to be a resource to the town going forward, during the meeting, but all ended as the and recognizing places in our town where group had hoped. we’re strong and not so strong, and help us illuminate that, and help people in McCarren started the topic off with various areas and corners of town use that a motion that she wrote and that information however they want.” Selectboard Chair Matt Krasnow read: “The Selectboard thanks and appreciates He said the survey will be available online the work of the RAC but at this time the and on paper, in both English and Spanish, Selectboard declines to be a partner.” She and that there will be provisions made for said she had two big issues with the survey: those who can’t read. In the end, with a who funds the organization that creates friendly amendment suggested by Krasnow, the survey, and what they will do with the the Selectboard passed McCarren’s motion data, which will be publicly available. “As with the additions that they would include a best as I could ascertain, there’s not a lot link to the survey on the town web site and of support on the board for this endeavor,” have paper copies available in Town Hall. she said. “That doesn’t mean you can’t go ahead, because you should if you want; For the first round of budget presentations, there’s no reason you can’t.” Krasnow said that he and the Selectboard encouraged town departments to “think Reverend Kevin Goldenbogen, who about what’s needed as compared to what’s is the senior pastor at the Charlotte wanted” this year, keeping in mind that the Congregational Church and who spoke financial impact of the coronavirus could on behalf of the group, said, “I guess I’m extend well into the next year and beyond. just confused by the process…we haven’t Any department with a line item budget spoken yet. It feels perhaps that there have presents their figures to the Selectboard; been some conversations behind the scenes Monday night’s included the Charlotte that we’re not privy to.” Library, the Charlotte Land Trust, the Road Commissioner, Planning and Zoning, and McCarren said that she had learned about the Conservation Fund. the group from public documents that

To Advertise in TheCharlotte News Contact [email protected] The Charlotte News • October 15, 2020 • 13 North wind, glowing field COVID-19 Resources for resilient Charlotters in hard coronavirus times As I sit to write this the Charlotte Library, Charlotte Community week’s update from the Partners and Community Resilience Charlotte Community Organizations. It is our hope that through Partners, the colors of this assessment we can get a clearer picture of fall have come and are public perception of our resilience across the quickly disappearing, many sectors that make up our community. reminding us that we This is the starting point to future discussions Trina Bianchi are slowly but surely on how to make Charlotte the best community CONTRIBUTOR heading into winter. We we can be for everyone who chooses to call are watching the virus our town their home. increase in states all around us and across the entire country, and I know we are all hoping As for resources available now: that we, as independent Vermonters, stay the Food and meals course and remain safe. Available to Charlotte school age kids: The school lunch program continues whether We continue to work on the Community your students are in school or learning from Resilience Assessment, editing it to be as home. Access the website cvsdvt.org, click on clear as possible, as the goal is to have every “District Resources,” click on “Menus,” or call resident in our town complete it. The goal is to Scott Wagner at 802-871-6198. be able to get a clear picture of how our town is doing in terms of providing for and serving The Food Shelf continues to be open our residents. Wednesdays from 5–7 p.m. at the Charlotte Congregational Church. Call 425-3252 to How do you feel Charlotte does in terms of register. providing basic needs and services? How do you feel Charlotte is doing in terms of Emotional and mental health protecting our environment and natural Vermont 211 from your phone is available for resources? Do you feel that Charlotte referrals and questions. does a good job caring for and protecting Pathways Vermont, 883-888-2557, is free and our roads, bridges, culverts, etc.? Do you available 24/7 to call or text. Talk with a peer feel that Charlotte does a good job in who has dealt with issues in the past. This is an creating community connections, giving us awesome resource available to all Vermonters. opportunities to thrive together? The photographer noted that this shot, taken on Lake Road, simply had to be taken. NFI Vermont, serves Vermont families whose “The light was irresistible and the barn was practically posing,” she said. Each of the questions asked can be rated children are struggling with emotional, Photo by Mary Landon on a scale of 1 to 5 with the option of behavioral or mental health challenges. saying “I don’t know,” as that is also nfivermont.org valuable information for various boards and organizations in town to realize. If the town First Call, 802-488-7777, is for crisis or an organization thinks they are providing situations. Available 24/7. a service to residents, but a percentage of our residents don’t even realize that the service is Financial assistance available, that is important information. Remember that emergency financial assistance is available through the Food Shelf, Charlotte If this assessment is to have value to our Congregational Church and Our Lady of Mt. town, we need to hear from as many Charlotte Carmel. Requests can be made by calling 425- residents as possible and the team continues 3252 or 425-3130. to discuss just how to make it as easy and painless as possible for everyone to complete From the Vermont Department of Health it. The plan currently includes having it Stay abreast of the ongoing COVID-19 news available online, accessible from the Charlotte in Vermont or learn how Vermont is opening Library and anywhere you have computer up by going to the website that is updated on a access, and for those preferring to complete regular basis. Check on what is opening, new a paper copy, have paper copies available at regulations for traveling into our state, where several different places in town. to get a test if you need one, how to remain safe and well: healthvermont.gov/response/ The goal is to finalize and publish distribution coronavirus-covid-19. and collection locations and hopefully roll it out soon after the election in November. Our In closing, I will remind everyone to take the hope is that each of you will take the time to time to vote. You should have received a paper read and complete the assessment as this is ballot in the mail; you can complete it and mail the first step in a Resilience Series, hosted by it or take it directly to the Town Hall now. 14 • October 15, 2020 • The Charlotte News Sports CVU – from soccer central to Making a run for it sports central For a number of years, philosophy that seemed to work well. fall sports revolved around soccer on the All in all, the entire display of Redhawk fields and cross-country sports this fall – men and women alike – is running in the woods. impressive. There is not a losing group That has changed as do in the bunch. Cross-country running is the leaves this time of worth mentioning because it involves both Edd Merritt year so that now, as one individual and team effort to a strong degree. looks across the board at Last year’s state champs were invited to travel fall Redhawk teams (men and women alike), west for a national tournament. This year’s they all appear at, or nearly at, the top of team includes many returnees from that group Division I in the state. plus a number of important newcomers. In Middle school cross-country meets are a coach’s often-stated uncertainty about the twice as often and half as big this year, with This is why Essex’s single-goal soccer win upcoming season, however, Scott Bliss said kids from each school racing the 1.8-mile over the Hawk men early this month was so they will have to wait and see how everything course on their in-person school days. important to both teams. It ended CVU’s 37 works out. (Save them from growing the “big Tuesday’s meet against Shelburne had 28 game win streak, including last year’s victory head,” eh coach?) girls and 24 boys from Charlotte Central over Mt. Mansfield for their second back-to- School Group A; Group B will run on back state title, and which replaced them in Meanwhile, football, volleyball, field hockey, Friday after school at Palmer Field and the the Division lead this year with the Hornets. golf all carry Redhawk jersey-wearers on official meet score will be a combination of most of the victory buses. the two races. Meanwhile, the women began this season with an equally impressive 51 game win Golf is often a sport overlooked at the high The CCS girls Group A team is ahead of streak and hope to head toward their ninth school level. However, CVU’s linksters have the Shelburne girls team with 22 points to state title in ten years. shown once again that their chips, putts and their 37. The top five girl finishers from drives can bring them a state title. This year Charlotte were Kate Silverman, who came To put records in perspective, long-time coach it happened in Barre for the men and was the in first place, Lydia Donahue who finished Peter Coffee felt it was valuable to experience team’s third in a row, with women coming second, and Lily Mae Siedlecki, Amelie a close loss once during the regular season, in second on the Champlain Country Club Fairweather, and Whitney Butnor. that it gave the players a sense of their course where they were edged out of first vulnerability, which made them that much place by Burr and Burton who won by six The Shelburne boys are currently behind The boys ran at 4 p.m. and the girls started more competitive come tournament time – a strokes. the CCS boys group A team 20 to 37. The at 4:15. Above, fifth grader Nathanael top five finishers from Charlotte were Axelrod pushes himself to the finish. Sam Moore, Rory Donahue, Cal Gardner, Nathanael Axelrod, and Ronan Evans. Photos and text by Chea Waters Evans

Redhawks in uniform, eyes on the ball. Photo by Al Frey The Charlotte News • October 15, 2020 • 15 Town Charlotte Fire and Rescue Log Vermont State September 2020 Police Williston Sunday, September 6 Tuesday, September 15 Wednesday, September 23 Patient Treated, Transported by Patient Treated, Transported by Canceled on Scene (No Patient Barracks Town Of this EMS this EMS Contact) Tuesday, September 1 Patient Treated, Transported by Monday, September 7 Friday, September 18 Thursday, September 24 Charlotte Recap this EMS Standby-No Services or Standby-No Services or Standby-No Services or Road Tickets Warnings Canceled (Prior to Arrival At Support Provided Support Provided Support Provided Mt Philo & Hinesburg Rd 5 5 Scene) Standby-No Services or Patient Treated, Transported by Mt. Philo Rd 7 6 Patient Treated, Transported by Tuesday, September 8 Support Provided this EMS this EMS Patient Evaluated, Released Rte 7 19 14 Canceled on Scene (No Patient (AMA) Saturday, September 19 Friday, September 25 Rte 7 & Patton Woods Rd 10 8 Contact) Canceled on Scene (No Patient Intercept Patient Evaluated, No Rte 7 & Ferry Rd 25 25 Patient Treated, Transported by Contact) Patient Treated, Transported by Treatment/Transport Required Rte 7 & Church Hill Rd 38 22 this EMS Canceled (Transferred to this EMS Patient Treated, Transported by Rte 7 & State Park Rd 4 12 Wednesday, September 2 Mutual Aid) Sunday, September 20 this EMS Rte 7 & Berry Farm 45 34 Patient Treated, Transported by Patient Dead at Scene - No Patient Treated, Transported by Rte 7 (Passing Lanes) 41 31 this EMS Resuscitation Attempted this EMS Saturday, September 26 Rte 7 & Lime Kiln Rd 16 20 Thursday, September 3 (Without Transport) Canceled on Scene (No Patient Patient Treated, Transported by Rte 7 & Higbee Rd 2 4 Patient Treated, Transported by Patient Treated, Transported by Contact) this EMS Rte 7 & Nursery Ln 15 5 this EMS this EMS Patient Treated, Transported by Patient Treated, Transported by Spear St 7 9 Patient Treated, Transported by Patient Evaluated, No this EMS this EMS this EMS Treatment/Transport Required Spear & Moss Rock Rd 1 2 Patient Evaluated, No Monday, September 21 Sunday, September 27 Spear & Lime Kiln Rd 0 2 Treatment/Transport Required Wednesday, September 9 Patient Refused Evaluation/ Standby-No Services or Jackson Hill Rd 0 1 Patient Treated, Transported by Patient Treated, Transported by Care (Without Transport) Support Provided Greenbush Rd 2 8 this EMS this EMS Patient Treated, Transported by Patient Treated, Transported by Greenbush & Telecom 42 5 Patient Treated, Transported by this EMS this EMS Greenbush & Ferry Rd 10 17 Friday, September 4 this EMS Tuesday, September 22 Greenbush & Orchard Rd 1 4 Patient Treated, Transported by Canceled (Prior to Arrival At Tuesday, September 29 Greenbush & Lake Rd 1 2 this EMS Thursday, September 10 Scene) Standby-No Services or Hinesburg Rd 11 13 Patient Treated, Transported by Patient Treated, Transported by Canceled (Prior to Arrival At Support Provided Hinesburg & Church Hill Rd 8 13 this EMS this EMS Scene) Hinesburg & Bean Rd 0 3 Patient Treated, Transported by Patient Treated, Transported by Wednesday, September 30 Saturday, September 5 this EMS this EMS Patient Treated, Transported by Ferry Rd 11 18 Intercept Patient Treated, Transported by this EMS Ferry & Lake Rd 0 8 Patient Treated, Transported by Monday, September 14 this EMS Intercept Lake & Thompson Point Rd 0 2 this EMS Patient Treated, Transported by Canceled (Prior to Arrival At Patient Treated, Transported by Cedar Beach Rd 1 4 Patient Treated, Transported by this EMS Scene) this EMS Dorset St 3 0 this EMS Patient Treated, Transported by Church Hill Rd 0 1 this EMS Totals 325 298 Business Directory To advertise your business contact [email protected]

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- 16 • October 15, 2020 • The Charlotte News Town Library news Library Hours: your magic. Send a photo of your finished coding skills. Ready to take your coding Join Eve Rodsky, New York Times Monday: 10 a.m. to 3 masterpiece so we can feature it on the know-how to the next level? We’ll have bestselling author of Fair Play, as she p.m. (closed noon to 1 library website. a breakout room for kids with more illuminates the need to re-establish our p.m. for cleaning) experience who are interested in an values and provides tools to clearly define Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 3 Programs at the Charlotte introduction to Python, a coding language roles and expectations to divvy up the p.m. (closed noon to 1 Library: the pros use. 4th grade and up. 6-week workload fairly and communicate with Margaret Woodruff p.m. for cleaning) In-Person: session. Registration is required. grace and generosity. Registration required DIRECTOR Wednesday: 10 a.m. to for Zoom event. 3 p.m. (closed noon to The Big Green Draw Comes to Book Discussion Group: 1 p.m. for cleaning) Charlotte! Oct. 12–25 You are invited Water by Alice Outwater Men’s Book Group: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Thursday: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (closed noon to to draw (paint, color, your choice) your Thursday, Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m. 1 p.m. for cleaning) interpretation of your backyard. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m. Friday: CLOSED to the public, open for For all ages with or without artistic An environmental engineer turned ecology Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but porch pickup experience. Pick up your Big Draw packet writer relates the history of our waterways scientists know her as HeLa. She was Saturday: CLOSED to the public, open for at the library desk and get started! Our and her own growing understanding of a poor black tobacco farmer whose porch pickup collective drawings will be woven and what needs to be done to save this essential cells—taken without her knowledge displayed on the town green later in the natural resource. Please email info@ in 1951—became one of the most Porch Pickup Hours: month. charlottepubliclibrary.org for a Zoom important tools in medicine, vital for Monday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. invite. Important dates: developing the polio vaccine, cloning, Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. gene mapping, in vitro fertilization and Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 12–16: Pick up paper strips and art Mystery Book Group: Murder at the supplies at the Charlotte Library. Vicarage and The ABC Murders more. Print copies available at the library Thursday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. circulation desk. Please email info@ Friday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 19: Due date to return artwork to Monday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. charlottepubliclibrary.org for a Zoom Saturday: 10 a.m. to noon library invite. Agatha Christie’s detectives go head-to- From Monday to Thursday, the library Oct. 23–24: Volunteers will help weave our head as we read the top mysteries featuring For the latest information about programs, will be open to groups by appointment collective collage to be hung on the town Miss Marple of Mary Mead and the books and activity kits, consider from 3 to 4 p.m. Each appointment slot green. indomitable Hercules Poirot. Print copies subscribing to our e-newsletter: Charlotte is 30 minutes and allows for up to 8 are available at the circulation desk and Library Newsletter. people in a pod/family group to enter Oct. 25–29: Enjoy the Big Green online versions available through Hoopla. together. Please contact the library at info@ (Charlotte) Draw! Please email info@charlottepubliclibrary. Library Contact Information charlottepubliclibrary.org for details. org for a Zoom invite. Margaret Woodruff, Director The Big Draw is a global festival in Cheryl Sloan, Youth Services Librarian Activity Kits: Check out our new October that showcases the power of Q & A with Fair Play Author Susanna Kahn, Tech Librarian collection of activity kits available to check drawing throughout the world as a form Eve Rodsky Phone: 802-425-3864 out. Enjoy on your own or with friends and of communication, expression, reflection, Email: [email protected] family. Everything from Archaeology to creativity and discovery. It is recognized Tuesday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m. to help make sense of an uncertain Zentangles, including our seasonal crafts Working from home colliding with (see below). world. This year’s global festival theme is “The Big Green Draw: A Climate of homeschooling has become a new norm. Bookshelf Pumpkin Craft Kit: Create a Change,” focusing on the relationship festive pumpkin for your bookshelf using between people and their living an old paperback! Simple instructions and environments, a theme so relevant to our all the supplies you need available for pick Charlotte community theme of “resilience.” up at the library porch. Email us at info@ charlottepubliclibrary.org so we can set Online via Zoom: aside a kit for you! Kits available Oct. 12 Coding Club through Oct. 26. Wednesdays at 3 p.m., Oct. 7–Nov. 11 Jack-o-Lantern Parade: If you’re in a Join coding mentors Charlie and Susanna Halloween mood, be sure to join our online on Zoom for an hour of coding and jack-o-lantern parade. Pick up a carving connection. All levels are welcome pumpkin from the library porch and work to learn Scratch or hone their Scratch The Charlotte News • October 15, 2020 • 17 Town Charlotte Senior Center news increase flexibility, improve balance, and case your schedule has been too busy in Dr. Goldman was Head of Neuroradiology strengthen core muscles. Cultivate a deeper the past. On Friday, 11/6, Italian Intro–B at Hartford Hospital from 1977-2010. sense of relaxation, gain an increased (1:30 p.m.) and Italian Refresher–B energy level, and experience a sense of (3 p.m.) will both begin and run for 6 10/28 - A Mile of Ice Above Us with confidence. (You could attend either or sessions into December—with a break for Craig Heindel both sessions.) Fee: $5 per class, paid at Thanksgiving. The suggested fee is $30, Learn about the most recent geologic the end of the month. but donations of any amount are accepted. Carolyn Kulik history of Vermont and the Champlain SENIOR CENTER Valley—from more than a mile of ice over DIRECTOR 10/21& 10/23 - Essentrics™ with Sherry Senior on Wednesday mornings, 8:30–9:30 Outdoor activities us, to raging meltwater rivers, to a salty and also Friday mornings, 9:30–10:30. A sea (home of the ill-fated beluga whose After a robust signup for the 10/3 trip to skeleton was found in Charlotte), and then, “Life is all about balance. You don’t dynamic combination of stretching and Lemon Fair Sculpture Park, it had to be finally, to some large, higher-elevation always need to be getting stuff done. strengthening works through all the joints cancelled for this season. Unfortunately, lakes. Sometimes it’s perfectly okay, and and releases tight muscles. It promotes due to unforeseen circumstances, Frank absolutely necessary, to shut down, kick improvement in flexibility, mobility and was not able to make it this month. But do Art exhibit back, and do nothing. ~ Lori Deschene posture, as well as relief of pain. (You consider taking a trip down on your own as could attend either or both sessions.) Fee: the park is open every day until November. The Senior Center’s monthly art exhibits “Balance is not something you find. It’s $5 per class, paid at the end of the month. Lemon Fair will be back on the schedule continue and visitors are welcome. To something you create.” ~ Jana Kingsford next year—either in late spring or fall. see an art exhibit, please schedule an appointment at least 24 hours in advance. ______How to register for a course 10/20 - Fall Road Hikes in the Viewing days are Tuesdays and Thursdays between 1 and 3 p.m.. Leave a message The two Better Balance courses that All courses are online—and all require Champlain Valley with Joan Mollica continue next Tuesday. There is some anytime at 425-6345 and include your Dee PT has presented have been very registration. space, so if you are interested, please call name and phone number for a confirmation enthusiastically received. It is exciting of your appointment. that more than 30 people signed up for To register, send your name and mailing and leave a message at 425-6345. Be sure each of them—an expanded class size address to [email protected]. Be to include your name, phone number and The new show this month is: October is definitely one of the advantages of sure to note the name of the course email address for the contact tracing log. Art Exhibit—Photography by Mike Zooming. And, because having good in the memo line. You will receive The next hike is to Rock Point Trails, Sipe and Photography by James Regan. balance and avoiding falls is so important confirmation that you are registered. Burlington. If there have been any weather These two photographers have very for everyone, I will be exploring the cancellations during this month, the different approaches to photographing If there is a fee, kindly pay options for offering something with this Payment— makeup date will be on 10/27. No fee. nature and are certainly worth a visit. by check (made out to CSC) and send focus in the coming months. Stay tuned. Remember, the space will be distinctly to P.O. Box 207, Charlotte, VT 05445. Events on Wednesdays at 1 uncrowded and you can take your time. 10/21 - Another way to find balance is Be sure to note the name of the course p.m Mike’s pieces are up only for this month to practice Mindfulness Meditation. in the memo line. Those in ongoing since he had another commitment; James’s The Wednesday afternoon sessions at exercise courses pay that the end of the All free, Wednesday events have now photos will be up through November. Take 2:30 are open to all; there is no fee, month for the classes they attended. For morphed into online Zoom gatherings. a break for art. but you will need to register for the courses with limited dates, kindly pay The invitation/link for each week will be prior to the start of the course. posted at CharlotteSeniorCenterVT.org Be careful. Keep your spirits up. We are all invitation/link. Whether or not you are in this together. experienced with the approach, you are by the day before the presentation. As well, this link will be supplied in Front Porch welcome to join in. (See below for how Courses starting soon ______to register.) Please note that there will Forum in Charlotte and in surrounding towns. Please note: Registration is not The Senior Center’s mission is to serve be another Mindfulness for Life intro 10/23 - Writing Your Life Story with course in the winter if you would like required. those 50 and up; if a course is not full, pre- Laurie McMillan seniors may also enroll. Feel free to leave the full orientation. It is a very simple 10/21 - Medical Imaging: 1895 To the and effective approach—and you can sit a message anytime at 425-6345; voicemail Fridays, 11:00-12:30. Dates: 10/23, 10/30, Present with Rick Goldman is checked frequently. comfortably—the lotus position is not 11/6 & 11/13. required. Dates will be in the Winter Take a look at the changes in medical ______Schedule at the end of November. How can you make your memories imaging, particularly Neuroradiology, interesting to a reader? Explore storytelling which parallel the advances we have Life is like riding a bicycle: In order to Two of the ongoing exercise courses that techniques and utilize in-class exercises seen in the technology we use in our keep your balance, you must keep moving. have some space are looking to expand a to help launch your own meaningful and daily lives. Neuroradiologists interpret – Anon. little: important stories. Newcomers welcome. X-rays, magnetic resonance images (MRI), ______Registration required by 10/21. Fee: $30 and computed tomography (CT) scans 10/20 & 10/22 - T’ai Chi Ch’uan for for the 4-part series of 90-minute classes. Charlotte Senior Center Beginners with John Creech on Tuesday showing the effect of strokes and cerebral 802-425-6345 and Thursday mornings, 10:30–11:30. 11/6 - You will have another chance to hemorrhages, Alzheimer’s disease, CharlotteSeniorCenterVT.org The flowing movements and postures will dive into Italian language and culture in multiple sclerosis and brain trauma. 18 • October 15, 2020 • The Charlotte News Just Asking Classifieds Who was your most Reach your friends and neighbors for only $12 per issue. (Payment must be sent before issue date.) Please limit your ad to 35 words or fewer and send it to The Charlotte News Classifieds, memorable teacher and why? P.O. Box 251, Charlotte, VT 05445 Photos and interviews by Jim Squires or email [email protected]. 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One in particular, Arthur made a big impression on me. She Clark, who used to live at Mt. Philo always found and appreciated the Property transfers for September 2020 Road and Spear Street Extension, uniqueness in every student and taught me so much about bees and Sept. 3 Matthew and Pamela Dawson to Sept. 17 Richard Shappy, administrator of helped nurture it in me and others.” Daniel Ehrenbard and Colette Schlieben, the estate of Louise Plant (50% interest) to life in general. He was wise and 39.45 acres with dwelling, $1,531,884.82. Vermont Commons School, 54.07 acres, generous. He even let me use his land only, 2369 Spear Street, $150,000. family’s name company for my Sept. 3 Christina and Robert Booher to emerging business decades ago called Leslie Tountas, 1 acre with dwelling, 695 Sept. 18 Jessica Elaine Tampas Honey Gardens Apiaries. You know, Ferry Road, $274, 800. Delcaration of Trust, Trustee Jessica Elaine Charlotte is one of the best towns Tampas, to William and Lynn Fox, 5.64 in the state for the production of Sept. 8 Nancy and Robert Bloch and acres with dwelling, 2296 Greenbush honey where all of the elements come Ian and Katherine Karczeski to Robert Road, $918,500. together, something I learned from Bill Stirewalt and Shannon Shapiro, Trustees, Sharon Arthur.” Morrison Revocable Trust, 6.26 acres, land Sept. 21 Ivy Naef to Jordan and Allison (proud grandfather only, Lot 2 Whalley Road, $150,000. Provost, 3 acres with dwelling, 585 Ferry of Hannah) “When Road, $402,000. 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