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Editor of the Reformer:
The Kindle Farm School wants to thank the community for their outpouring of support during our Community Jam Fundraiser.
Our current fundraiser is supporting our Vocational Program, which is one of Kindle Farm’s cornerstones, providing innovative and engaging pursuits for our students. Every High School aged student participates in hands-on, academic classes that utilize all of our farm’s ninety-nine acres, including gardens, a greenhouse, and a diverse forest. This land offers a real life laboratory for our students and faculty.
The Community Jam Concert and plant sale, held on a blue-skied spring day, was made possible by local businesses, bands and local folks, and was the first phase of our fundraising efforts. We want to thank our business partnerships who donated funds: NewChapter Organics, The Richards Group, and Durand Toyota/Ford as well as WW Building supply, Ron’s Husqvarna and Burrows Specialized Sports.
In addition, we want to thank the talented and hardworking bands that played for the event: Flabberghaster, The Acoustic Roots Ensemble, members of Medicine Warriors, Black Mountain Liberation Front and Toni Atari. They rocked out to an enthusiastic audience of patrons and supporters.
We have raised a large part of our $10,000 goal on this first phase of our efforts, which will continue through June and July. We could not have come this far without the
Thank you everybody,
Drew Gradinger,
assistant director,
The Kindle Farm School, May 31
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Editor of the Reformer:
The Brattleboro School Endowment is a non-profit 501c3 organization whose purpose is to provide steady financial support for the educational enrichment of elementary school students in Brattleboro. We are steadily gaining exposure in the community and inching towards our financial goal, which would allow all children in our school system to participate in Winter Sports programs and field trips without additional fundraising.
We wanted to take this opportunity to thank the following people/organizations who have supplied services to the Endowment Fund free of charge:
Joseph Pieciak -- for filing our tax return; Prentiss Smith -- for managing our investment fund; Howard Printing & Donna McElligott -- for printing our brochures; Rapt Creative -- for designing our brochures.
We plan to continue to help educate the community about our mission and hope someday our children will be able to go on field trips without any more bake sales.
Jill Stahl Tyler, Ellen Capy,
Jonathan Secrest, Mark Truhan,
Debbie Cook and Tracey John,
The Brattleboro School
Endowment Board,
May 31
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Editor of the Reformer:
In a recent article "Changes at the Windham County Humane Society," an important donor was left out. When the spate of burglaries hit the area last fall, the WCHS was burglarized twice. In the aftermath, Henry Taggard called WCHS and offered to pay for the labor costs of installing a security system, and Tim Alexander of Home Security Service offered to donate the materials. This extremely generous donation has provided added security to the animals in the facility and allowed the staff to sleep better at night. Fortunately, no animals were directly harmed in the burglaries, but the stress they endured having doors broken down and people roaming the building in the wee hours is not to be taken lightly. WCHS staff feel certain that the stress and the cold air coming in a broken window all night led to the deaths of two kittens, a tragic outcome much more devastating than the loss of a few hundred dollars.
We are consistently amazed by and endlessly grateful for the support from our community and that includes Tim Alexander and Home Security Service.
Windham County Humane Society,
May 31
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Editor of the Reformer:
Thank you for running the article in the May 31 Reformer about our son, Robert Baskett, a junior at The Putney School, winning a national award for his ceramic bowl, "Blue Magic." We want to add our public thanks to his ceramics teacher, Naomi Lindenfeld, without whom he would not have received the award. Naomi has been an excellent teacher who encouraged Robert’s enthusiasm for making simple, useful items and also his exploration into glazes. It was her idea that Robert apply for the state and national awards, and it was her photo of his bowl that was submitted for the national competition which he won. Naomi was present at every step assisting and cheering him on.
Vermont and The Putney School are lucky to have such a talented and dedicated artist and teacher as Naomi Lindenfeld working with our young people.
Christie and Douglas Baskett,
Putney, June 1
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Editor of the Reformer:
I want to personally thank Nancy McAuliffe, Lori Miller and Ginny Ferguson for taking charge and running our May 24 Red Cross Blood drive in Bellows Falls at the Masonic Temple for me.
Seventy-four units of blood were collected. Thank you to all our donors who attended this drive and gave blood; to all our volunteers; the Fire Department for putting up our banner in the square; The Masonic Temple for the use of their building; and The American Legion Post #37 who sponsored this drive.
Without all of you our drives would not be a success. Thank you all.
Multiple gallon donors were Tim Johnson (12), Lester Cook (2), Rick Willson and Ellen Lawrence (1 each).
First Time Donors were Tucker Lawrence and Rebckah Haas.
Marlene O’Connor,
Red Cross Blood Drive,
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Editor of the Reformer:
FairPoint has been a topic of conversation ever since it boldly took over Verizon’s responsibilities in the state of Vermont. Much of the conversation has been of an unpleasant nature and some of the criticisms have probably been deserved.
I would like to offer some praise to the good people of FairPoint who recently did some work in our yard on a dangerously old guy pole. This guy pole was placed in our yard in 1947, well before we owned the property and actually before we were both born. The pole was rotten, full of carpenter bees and a feast for the woodpeckers who were constantly working the pole.
We contacted Verizon about this as the guy wires stretched over our house and we had an obvious concern. Verizon told us to call CVPS who told us to call Verizon. You get the picture. It was finally determined that the pole was the telephone company’s responsibility. Verizon was leaving the state and leaving us with a very old pole.
FairPoint and CVPS finally came to visit a year ago. Yes, the pole is FairPoint’s but the power company needed to be on hand to move some wires. It was on the "to do" list at last but not a priority. Along comes Tropical Storm Irene and our little item got shuffled again. Last week the trucks arrived and within two hours, two very professional workers from FairPoint installed a new bracing pole to keep the power pole straight and quickly removed the old rotten pole that was a threat to our home. They did all this while carefully working around all the landscaping and planting we have done over the years. Not one flower or tree or shrub was damaged in any way.
Thank you FairPoint for completing a task long overdue in such a careful, professional manner.
Carol and Richard Mayer,
Brattleboro, June 4
