Hinesburg’s independent, non-profit community newspaper APRIL 27, 2017 Teachers Granted $75,000 Fellowship INSIDE… Richard Tom Foundation FROM PRESS RELEASE now.” In fact, he is not the only one ex- cited about this at CVU. “I have had so Page 23: On May 20, the Richard Tom hamplain Valley Union High many congratulatory remarks and great Foundation will be hosting the second School visual art teacher Abbie conversations already stemming from annual Richard’s Ride. CBowker and librarian Peter Lan- this award — from faculty, staff, and gella have been named to the 2017–18 even students. It makes me realize what class of fellows by The Rowland Founda- an amazing and supportive school and CVU Senior Wins tion. The Rowland Foundation, located community that we have. We are always $1,000 Grant in South Londonderry, Vermont, is an looking for ways to bring betterment to organization that seeks applicants “who our school, for our kids. I’m thrilled that Page 14: In its 32nd year of honoring the are visionary, willing to lead, motivated, we are going to be able to have the time nation’s best high school athletes, The and committed to affecting change in to really dig in and work on this next Gatorade Company announced Tyler an area of concern within their respec- year,” said Bowker. Marshall as its 2016–17 Gatorade Vermont CVU librarian Peter Langella and visual art tive schools, and who take risks and Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year. work collaboratively with others,” said teacher Abbie Bowker. Photo by CVU senior The work that Bowker and Langella are Charles Scranton, the Foundation’s ex- Caroline Averill. taking on directly fits with CVU’s cur- ecutive director. rent vision and the legislation from the Bowker and Langella’s fellowship comes State of Vermont’s Act 77, also known The foundation receives many applica- with a $75,000 grant for CVU. A portion as the “Flexible Pathways Initiative,” tions from educators across the state of the grant money will allow Abbie and which considers personalized learning each year for these highly sought-after Peter release time from their daily jobs processes and alternative pathways to fellowship grants. “Each year up to to research school transformation initia- graduation. The idea might be “elegant ten Vermont secondary school educa- tives and create an interest-based, em- in its simplicity,” but it really holds up tors are selected as Rowland Fellows bedded program at CVU that allows stu- as incredibly innovative in approach. from among all qualified applicants. dents to practice skills, gain knowledge, The foundation provides grants up to and meet proficiencies through regularly Langella recognizes the charge that is $100,000 to each of their schools for the scheduled experiences of their choosing. set in front of them. “It’s exciting. There Rowland Fellow to implement a vision to isn’t a research and development de- transform an aspect of the school which Principal Adam Bunting said, “The beau- partment in our school. To be awarded will positively impact its culture and cli- ty of Abbie and Peter’s proposal is that the opportunity to research, build, and mate,” said Scranton. it is elegant in its simplicity ... this is continued on page 11 the thing I am most excited about right Senior Night at CVU Page 16: Congratulations to all the Water Matters to Us in Shelburne, Lake Iroquois seniors on the CVU basketball team for a Hinesburg, and Charlotte Gearing up for great season. BY ROBERTA NUBILE LaPlatte Watershed Partnership, the watershed includes approximately one Greeter Program group of about seventy citizens hundred and seventy-four miles of river FROM LAKE IROQUOIS and town officials from Hines- channels and tributaries that drain a ASSOCIATION PRESS RELEASE A burg, Charlotte, and Shelburne fifty-three square mile area mainly in of Hinesburg gathered at the latest Water Matters Hinesburg, Charlotte, and Shelburne be- Application deadline April 30! event Thursday March 30 at the Hines- fore discharging into Shelburne Bay. Page 12: Hinesburg Art Explosion! Art burg Town Hall. re you looking for a summer that amazes – created right here, by Act 64, Vermont’s Clean Water Act, regu- job on weekends? Want to help “The purpose of the Water Matters se- your neighbors. lates practices and funds initiatives to Lake Iroquois combat invasive ries is to raise awareness about LaPlatte A help clean up Lake Champlain and the plants and animals? Do you have an in- River watershed pollution concerns rivers and tributaries that flow toward terest in and recent coursework in biol- among the three towns who share it,” it. Of greatest concern is stormwater ogy or ecology? Do you work well with a says Jean Kiedaisch, a member of Re- (from rain or snowmelt) that drains varied boating public? sponsible Growth Hinesburg, one of from our parking lots, roads, farm fields, the event co-sponsors along with Lewis and lawns and the bacteria, phospho- If so, you could be a candidate for a Creek Association and the Chittenden rous, and sediment it contains, which greeter position at the Lake Iroquois boat County Regional Planning Commission. can render lake water undrinkable, un- launch area during the summer of 2017. In the past nine years, the Lake Iroquois According to a 2011 report from the continued on page 10 Greeter Program has provided educa- tional information and boat inspections for literally thousands of boaters. This year for the first time, the greeter role will include operation of the Hot Water Power Boat washer at the boat launch site. Greeters and Lake Iroquois PRESORT STD Association board members will be US POSTAGE trained at an onsite, hands-on workshop PAID led by staff members of the Department HINESBURG, VT of Environmental Conservation. The PERMIT NO 3 continued on page 11 page 2 • HINESBURG RECORD • APRIL 27, 2017 • HINESBURGRECORD.ORG The Use of Deadlines for our next Letters Herbicide to Issue: May 11, 2017 Control Milfoil Please send your article as an attached file low. Lots more needs to be understood (Word document preferred; .jpg files for Letter Policy - how “Sonar,” aka fluridone, works in I have lived on Lake Iroquois for 47 years images) to: [email protected]. Or the lake, how it impacts the neighbors’ and over nearly the last decade I have call us at 482-2350. he Hinesburg Record welcomes lake water usage, lake users, and the en- seen the value of the lake plummet. It letters from local residents and You may also use the drop box at the Giroux vironment, and how the “controls” sup- was so bad last year that there was only from others who are involved in home at 327 Charlotte Road to drop off hard T posedly work, before the State hands a fraction of the boats and swimmers as issues that effect our town. The opinions copy articles and photographs. out a five-year permit carte blanche in prior years. expressed in the Letters to the Editor are never to be questioned again. Contact us at [email protected] for those of the writers. I am a SCUBA diver and can tell you that ads or call us at 482-2540. We’re told this fluridone product, with it is like a densely-infested forest below All letters must be signed. Addresses and as much as 5 percent of its composi- the surface. I have seen canoes get stuck Deadlines for 2017 and 2018 phone numbers must also be provided tion consisting of three proprietary in the jungle of milfoil. I have been har- for verification purposes. Addresses and Advertisement/News Publication Date ingredients, is safe because it does not vesting mounds of milfoil by the roots for phone numbers will not be published. May 11 .............................May 25 bio-accumulate. Fluridone is not a simple many years as have my kids and grand- June 15 ............................June 29 Letters should be brief. We do not have compound. It is a sophisticated organic kids when they visit. chemical, not organic in the way we as- August 10 ........................August 24 precise guidelines for length but reserve Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting pire food to be, but organic chemically in September 14 ...................September 28 the right to edit based on available space. (DASH) in 2016 was expensive and only the same vein most notorious persistent October 12 .......................October 26 To the extent possible, letters should focus effective in a small area for a large price. environmental contaminants we know November 16 ....................November 30 on local issues. Other forums exist for I know from personal experience how dif- and fear are. January 11, 2018 ...............January 25, 2018 discussions of statewide, national, and ficult it is to pull milfoil by the roots, bag international issues. How did we get to the point of going it, and get it from the lake. nuclear with herbicide? And what’s the With these cautions, please keep those I have attended meetings of the Lake Our Policies rush to pull the trigger this year on an letters rolling in. Send them via email to Iroquois Association although I am not a aquatic nuisance plant that’s been in The Hinesburg Record is published ten times [email protected], mail them to member of the board. It was obvious that Lake Iroquois for decades? Fluridone not each year by The Hinesburg Record, Inc., a The Hinesburg Record, P.O. Box 304 or to their proposal to add safely tested chem- only kills Eurasian watermilfoil it also nonprofit corporation, and is mailed free of 327 Charlotte Road, Hinesburg, VT 05461, icals in carefully monitored quantities kills other aquatic plants like cattails, charge to all residents of Hinesburg.
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