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Group Preps Park For Summer Play
With spring weather finally here many people are spending more time in local parks, soaking up the sun or going for a walk. While most are out to simply have fun, one group of Burlington residents is out to make sure a park with more than a century of history is looking good for visitors.
The group is called Friends of Ethan Allen Park. Formed a few years ago, it now boasts 15 members, with two more interested people signing up Wednesday night.
Three years ago the all-volunteer group started maintaining access to the Ethan Allen Tower at the park. It used to be open 24 hours a day between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The Burlington Parks and Recreation Department says it used to get complaints about noise from the tower late at night and it had problems keeping graffiti off the tower. Now volunteers sign up to be Tower Keypers. They are responsible for opening the tower's gate before 9 a.m. and closing it after sunset.
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Bait fishing is a tradition in Vermont, as using minnows
is a way of life for some anglers.
But when those minnows get off the hook, they can multiply. That's why Vermont's Fish and Wildlife Department has instituted new rules to make sure the minnows used by fishermen, are the same kind of fish that are already here.
"It's mainly designed to protect the fisheries of the state of Vermont," Vermont Fish and Wildlife biologist Tom Jones says. "We have a great concern of the illegal importation and the illegal use of many fish species in Vermont. Many species can be injurious to the states existing population and we feel that this was a good step for the department to take."
Among other limitations, the regulations require anyone who sells live bait to obtain a permit from the state. The cost of that permit will be dollars a year. It also sets limits on anglers who use minnows, limiting the size of nets that can be used to catch them, and limiting the species that can be used.
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Blue Wave TaeKwonDo
was brought to Vermont in the 1960's by the late Grandmaster Bruce V. Twing, the founder of the Blue Wave Association. Grandmaster Twing began his TaeKwonDo training in 1964, in Osan Korea, while stationed with the U.S. Air Force. His Instructor, Grandmaster Tae Sung Lee is still the Blue Wave’s chief instructor and visits the Association on a regular basis. Today, the BWA consists of 11 schools, located in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine. Please have a look around to learn more about TaeKwonDo and our association.
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Burlington Department of Parks and Recreation's
responsibility is to enhance quality of life of all the citizens of Burlington and for the visitors to our community in the following ways:
Burlington Free Press has Vermont Expos Coverage,
including Player profiles, team stats and more.
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Burlington Rugby Football Club
has established a long standing tradition of success evident in its club accomplishments. The BRFC was founded in the summer of 1978 and has played a Fall and Spring schedule against clubs from Montreal, New England and New York State since that time. Initially an outgrowth of the University of Vermont RFC, the members of the 2000 team still reflect the diversity of the 1978 squad. Players come from the most varied of circumstances and athletic backgrounds. Today, the roster has swelled with players from all over the country as well as overseas. This collection of individuals also represent a wide variety of personalities and professions, some of which include: doctors, lawyers, construction workers, students, and a few passers by.
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Burlington's bike path and parks provide opportunities
for its residents that not all city's can offer.
But when it's cold, many of those opportunities simply go away.
... Now those opportunities are on the drawing table. City officials are looking into a new recreation center for residents. The new gymnasiums, and a possible indoor pool would be located at existing facilities in the city.
Clavelle says the project could involve the renovation of Memorial Auditorium as a venue for cultural events, and as a recreation center. Part of the plan could also include the expansion of Leddy and adding a gymnasium, and possible pool to the ice skating arena
While most people agree that more indoor recreational space would be a good thing for Burlington, the biggest question still unanswered is how to pay for the estimated -million dollar project.
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Burlington's Waterfront Bike Path
is a 7.6 mile recreational route that runs from the southern end of Burlington at Oakledge Park to the northern end at the Winooski River, where it connects via the newly constructed (spring 2004) bike path bridge to the Colchester Bike Path. The Bike Path rides along the Lake Champlain shoreline, offering wonderful views of the lake and the Adirondack Mountains to the west. The bike path links six major waterfront parks, along with the Burlington High School and the central Waterfront district. Initially used as a railroad bed for the Rutland and Burlington Railroad companies, the conversion from rails to trails concept began in 1973. With the help of State and federal funding, Burlington's Bike Path was completed in 1986; making it part of the Lake Champlain Bikeways, a 1,187- mile network of bicycle routes...in the Lake Champlain Valley of Vermont....
Champ Charters
provides fishing enthusiasts with the only Full-Time Charter Service on Lake Champlain. Our chartered fishing excursions begin at Vermont's Burlington Harbor, the widest and central part of Lake Champlain. This area of Lake Champlain is noted for its Spring through Fall Fishing.
... Captain Paul has fished Lake Champlain for over 40 years and Chartered for the last 20+ years. Running the charter service Full-Time (Licensed by the United States Coast Guard) during the fishing season allows the Captain. to stay with the fishing patterns and Hot Spots, which in turn makes your day more Enjoyable and Memorable.
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Earl's Cyclery & Fitness
was founded in 1953, as a specialty retailer of bicycles and fitness equipment. Earl's has been selected as one of the "Top 100" Bicycle Dealers in America, and for the last three years, has been chosen, "Best Place to Buy a Bicycle" by Burlington Free Press Reader's Choice Awards. Our Service Department, nicknamed "Home of the Bike Doctors" is schooled and certified in the most difficult of bicycle and fitness equipment repairs. Earl's is counted on by various hotels, fitness clubs, and schools for fitness equipment repairs, including maintaining the University of Vermont fitness equipment.
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Far Post Soccer Club
is a premier soccer club for players from under age 10 through age 16 and beyond. We provide intensive training opportunities for players to develop life-long soccer skills to take with them wherever they play. We have a highly skilled coaches and professionals who provide the best opportunities for players of all ages. ... We are a premier club committed to players with a passion for soccer, pledging ourselves to the development of individuals and teams striving to improve and succeed at all levels of the game.
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Full Stride Ice Hockey Clinic
specialize in helping you play better, at all levels of the game.
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Greater Burlington YMCA
is Located at 266 College Street. The YMCA serves the Burlington community with fitness facility memberships, youth and adult sports, group fitness and dance classes, youth and adult swim lessons, family activites. Facilities include two indoor pools, fitness center with Nautilus and cardiovascular equipment, gym and indoor track. The YMCA also provides quality child care and camping programs. Financial assistance available.
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Island Line Rail-Trail
is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization promoting cycling, blading and walking and the trails, bikeways, and sidewalks that make such travel safe, easy and fun!
... Local Motion has been around in various forms since 1998. Originally Burlington Bikeways, we were cycling activists with vision and no money. We dug into our own pockets and purchased an old pontoon boat for a five-weekend Bike Ferry demonstration. The response was tremendous! We were so enthused by our vision of the Island Line Rail Trail with its Bike Ferry and Cycle the City, that other people caught the bug. In 1999, volunteers secured grants for Cycle the City and the Bike Ferry and we were off and pedaling. We haven’t looked back.
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Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center
is a non-profit public access sailing program located on Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont. We offer safe, fun and affordable sailing programs for virtually anyone. Our goals are to provide the community and its visitors with a non-exclusive, accessible and welcoming place to enjoy one of Vermont's greatest and most beautiful resources, Lake Champlain.
LCCSC is a US Sailing Member
... We are located in the Old Moran Plant (the big brick building with City of Burlington on it) on the Bike Path just North of the Coast Guard Station.
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Outdoor Gear Exchange
opened their doors in downtown Burlington, Vermont back in May of 1995. Marc and Andreas ran the 800 square foot shop with a card table and steel box for a front counter. ... are passionate about the outdoors. We are committed to selling quality closeout, new, and used gear to make the outdoors accessible and affordable for all levels of ability, from the occasional backpacker to the most accomplished mountaineer. We have fun outdoors and want people to enjoy themselves in our store. We all love the gear we sell and want to help people get the most out of the outdoors by sharing our knowledge and experience in a relaxed, friendly environment.
As the technology of outdoor gear has improved, prices have soared, in many cases putting the once affordable art of camping out of reach of many. (equipment)
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PaddleWays Sea Kayak Tours
will continue to share our love for the outdoors (and watery places), but our energies will be directed to the college level wilderness programs that we have conducted since our inception. (at the University of Vermont, Saint Michael's College, and Green Mountain College.) We will continue to offer instructional programs through our good friends at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, and you may also meet us should you choose a vacation with Vermont Bicycle Touring. (On VBT's Champlain Valley tour, you'll take a day off from biking to paddle a truly spectacular section of Lake Champlain).
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Play It Again Sports
has been the preferred store of value-conscious consumers because we buy, sell and trade used and new sports equipment and gear. Because our customers can sell or trade in their quality used sports gear for cash or store credit, they are able to get deeper discounts and better prices on really great used and new equipment.
Our stores are individually owned and operated by moms and dads just like you who understand money does not grow on trees. But because kids grow, their equipment needs change every year which is why USED SPORTS GEAR makes so much "cents" and our NEW SPORTS GEAR provides ultra high value.
The local franchise is at 150 Dorset St # 220 in
South Burlington, VT 05403.
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Some Vermont lawmakers want the brakes applied
to a proposed Burlington bike bridge because the cost has more than doubled.
The bike-pedestrian bridge would span the Winooski River between Burlington's new north and Malletts Bay in Colchester. Currently bike riders cross the river on a ferry, but it runs only in the summer. Years ago someone suggested the state should build a permanent bike path bridge.
Sam Lewis, Agency of Transportation Engineer, says the project's estimate of 1.4 million dollars was accurate when it was presented and approved by lawmakers in June.
Lewis says unanticipated expenses have since more than doubled the cost to 3.3 million....and that was just completely unforeseen. Now the project has gone out for bids with plans to begin construction in December.
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Three lawmakers want to hold off on construction
of a bicycle bridge over the Winooski River until the Legislature reconsiders the expense.
The cost of the bridge, which would connect Burlington and Colchester, has more than doubled since the Legislature approved .4 million for the project in the spring. The price tag is now .2 million.
The three House members took their concerns about the jump in cost to the Vermont Transportation Board on Wednesday. Rep. George Schiavone, R-Shelburne, presented the board with a letter also signed by Rep. Michael Obuchowski, D-Bellows Falls, and Rep. Robert Helm, R-Castleton, that asked that the board to freeze the project and allow the Legislature to reconsider it.
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Nordic Spirit Soccer Club
began in 1986 with a single girls team. In 1993 the club merged with the Spirit of Vermont Soccer club, adding five more boys and girls teams.
Currently, there are 21 teams representing boys and girls from U-11 through U-19. In 1999, Nordic Spirit won 11 state championships in the Snickers Cup in Vermont.
... The Nordic Spirit philosophy is to prepare individual players to play at the highest level while remaining competitive as teams. We seek outstanding competition to assist with this process. Coaches are carefully selected and trained to continually improve the quality of the total experience of members of the Nordic Spirit Soccer Club
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Aug. 16, the day the baseball union set its strike date,
fans came to the Expos angry and frustrated, said General Manager C.J. Knudsen. He agreed with many fans who said if the players did strike, it would be bad for America's pastime as a whole.
The minor leagues, however, where players make less than ,000 a month might pick up some of the fallout as happened in 1994 when the last strike occurred, he suggested.
An example: Stan Parrish of Rochester would boycott major league games.
Big-league baseball fans have two more weeks to catch their teams
in action before layers say they will strike on Aug. 30. That could mean a whole new ball game for minor-league teams like the Vermont Expos.
For Mary Ann Scruggs, there's no comparing the major league and the minors.
"I like the minor leagues, because you have more contact with the teams, and you see more team spirit," she said.
The president of the Vermont Expos Booster Club, Scruggs says that "team" is what keeps bringing fans like her back.
"When you mention the Boston red sox, you think of Pedro Martinez or Nomar. You say 'Vermont Expos', you think, 'It's the team.' It's not just one player," Scruggs said.
The team spirit could play even more in Vermont's favor, if the big-league players strike in two weeks.
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Boat sales have been strong in the Burlington area
this spring, a trend that seems to defy the economy.
The very factors that might normally discourage a luxury purchase, the poor economy and dismal stock market performance, seem to be having the opposite effect. Tim Eriksen, a salesman at Dunham's Bay Sea Ray in South Burlington, estimated that his sales for May will be about 20 boats, double last year's sales.
Brown Ledge
is a residential girls camp on Lake Champlain near Burlington, Vermont with four and eight week summer sessions. For 77 years we have offered a unique elective activity program in horsemanship, theatre arts, water and field sports. Here campers may choose their own program throughout each day, without having to "sign-up."
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Burlington Internation Games (BIG) sunk
by Lack of money and volunteers, bringing the 33-year-old Games to a halt, outgoing board president Bruce O'Neill announced Thursday.
"Unfortunately, over the last few years it's been a lot of people pulling it all, and they just got burned out," said O'Neill, who has been chairman the BIG board for six separate terms and active in the event since 1977.
"We went into debt two years ago, and this past summer we paid all the bills and reduced the debt, but we still owed several thousand dollars. We have a couple of contributions coming to help pay that off, but otherwise we have no financial resources."
The games, an annual summer competition between 8- to 18-year-olds from Burlington, Ontario, and Burlington, Vt., started in 1969 after mayors George Harrington and Francis Cain struck an impromptu agreement over a beer.
Burlington Parks and Recreation offers a wide variety of programs
for all ages and interests. Browse through our programs for Preschool, children, Youth/Young Adult, Adult and Senior activities as well as activities at 242 Main and Memorial Auditorium. Check out our special events for some of the most exciting happenings in the city. (recreation)
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Burton Corp. laid off 10 percent of the company's employees
Wednesday. The cutback was the first in the company's history.
About 60 employees lost their jobs companywide, with about 45 of those working either at Burlington headquarters or a snowboard factory in South Burlington. Exact numbers were not available Wednesday evening, spokeswoman Amy Paquette said.
The snowboard, apparel and accessory manufacturer has 614 employees worldwide, with 451 working in Vermont. The company has offices in Austria and Japan.
The move was part of a cost-saving restructuring at the company in the wake of poor sales last season and flat sales predicted for next year, Paquette said.
Employees learned of the layoffs Wednesday. The cuts were across the board in all departments and effective immediately, Paquette said. Workers will receive three weeks' pay for every year worked at the company up to 20 weeks, she said.
Canoe Imports
sells Canoes and Kayaks and Snowshoes from Tubbs and MSR
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Champlain basketball players left Burlington with a victory.
Champlain has two more regular-season games on the road, but the cancellation of men's and women's soccer and men's basketball means Burlington has seen the last of the Beavers. ... Bob Tipson has coached the Beavers through 34 seasons and 702 wins, but his long-established reputation does not include nostalgia. ... Tipson landed his position straight out of college, which he started at Champlain and ended at Plymouth State, and has earned fistfuls of National Junior College Athletic Association tournament appearances and a spot in the NJCAA Basketball Hall of Fame.
His program has helped players land scholarships at Division I and II programs, including Florida State, Washington State and Delaware. But even the big-leaguers remember their times in Memorial.
Champlain College Sports is Coming To An End.
Champlain College today became the first four-year, private college in the East to create a multifaceted fitness, intramural, outdoor recreation and extracurricular program for its entire student body in place of its varsity sports program.
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Coaching Center of Vermont's mission
is to support its coach members in creating a sustainable, profitable business by offering marketing and administrative services as well as the opportunity to collaborate.
To foster integrity in the coaching profession by helping to be distinctly unique from similar professions, well-credentialed in areas of coaching, and aligned with ICF standards and ethics.
To make coaching easily accessible to our local community (i.e. physical location, sign on the door, well integrated network with local business professionals, workshops, coaching forums and more) and to help people understand how coaching can be a resource for them.
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Designs of a bright, passionate skier are bringing new
life to the slopes.
... Jason Levinthal is one of the lucky ones, and he knows it. Still in his 20s, the founder and president of Line Skis is turning his dreams into reality and having a blast in the process.
To say that Levinthal's Burlington company is on the cutting edge of the sport would be an understatement. More appropriate might be to say it defines the cutting edge, then finds a way to meet it.
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Eastern Mountain Sports
was founded in 1967 in Wellesley Massachusetts by two rock climbers who had become dissatisfied with the poor selection of climbing equipment they found in existing stores. In addition to selling climbing gear, they added a selection of camping equipment in hopes of making money from the hobby that had turned into a viable business.
- From this small store outside Boston Massachusetts, EMS has grown into one of the nation's leading outdoor specialty retailers, with more than 80 retail stores, as well as a formidable online presence.
- EMS went online on November 30th, 1998. Now, anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, anyone can click a mouse to enjoy a completely secure shopping experience, or "pre-shop" on the EMS website before visiting one of our retail stores.
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Fishing Pier
is located behind the Water Department building, which is adjacent to the Coast Guard station on the waterfront. The facility has benches and is handicapped accessible and lighted. Access and parking are free. For rules regarding fishing or information on obtaining a fishing license, please contact the State of Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.
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For nearly two decades, Gary Audette has helped raise money at Essex High
School football games, track meets, wrestling matches and cheerleading competitions. Occasionally, he even gets to see some of the action.
Audette, 64 of Essex Junction, has been part of the Essex Boosters Club since 1989. His daughter Nicole and son Brad graduated from Essex High in the mid-'90s, yet Audette continues to staff the concession stand.
During a recent cheerleading competition, the coaches requested that Audette set up a separate concession stand with healthy food for the cheerleaders. Audette obliged.
Audette graduated from Albert D. Lawton -- the high school in Essex at the time -- in 1961. He played first and third base in baseball, and forward in soccer for the Hornets. Student-athletes have improved over the past 40 years, Audette said.
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Friends of Burlington Area Community Gardens
(FBACG) is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting community gardening, greening, and garden-based education. FBACG was formed in 1996 to support the Burlington Area Community Gardens program administered by Burlington Parks and Recreation.
Community gardening has a 30-year history in Burlington, begun in 1972 by the Burlington Parks Department, then expanded by Tommy Thompson and Gardens For All, Inc. The program reached a peak in the mid 1970's with an incredible 500 25' x 30' plots available at 23 community garden sites in and around Burlington. The first garden sites were managed by neighborhood groups and volunteer coordinators.
In 1987, the BACG program was centralized as a city recreation program sponsored by Burlington Parks and Recreation. With support from volunteers and city organizations, the BACG program has grown to involve 375 garden plots at eight gardens sites, and nearly 1500 people
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Green Mountain Orienteering Club
is a group of individuals and families interested in promoting the sport of orienteering. Orienteering involves the use of map and compass to find your way through a course in the woods. At every control point there is a marker and a punch to prove you were there. Club members also conduct workshops for groups interested in learning how to read maps and use them in conjuction with compasses. Newcomers are always welcome and instruction is provided. Just come to any scheduled event.
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Her head-coaching career is going on six seasons, but Jodi Kenyon
feels like she's starting her first.
The University of Vermont women's soccer coach, reinvigorated by a revamped roster and schooled by three years of hard knocks, begins anew today, leading the Catamounts into their 2002 season as hosts of the Adidas/Vermont Soccer Classic.
... It is not last year's results that hearten Kenyon. The Cats lost their final six matches to finish 5-11-1. Since 1998, their last visit to postseason, they are just 14-38-1.
But the coach believes the subtraction of a senior class that lost its focus and its passion, along with the addition of a gang of hungry freshmen, makes 2002 the start of something good.
The poor performances and the loss of five starters moved America East coaches to pick UVM to finish eighth in the nine-team league.
That suits Kenyon -- for now -- but the Cats' goal is to reach the four-team conference playoffs.
In 1972 the Burlington started its first community garden,
where people with no land could grow their own food. This weekend the gardening movement celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. ... At the Starr Farm community garden, almost sixty plots are reserved for the summer, and almost all of the city's total of 375 plots are taken in all seven gardens around the city. The largest is in the Intervale, named after the late Tommy Thompson who founded the community gardens in Burlington. Thompson founded Gardens For All and had a hand in the creation of Gardener's Supply, a mail order gardening business headquartered in the city's Intervale.
During the summer, hundreds of people grow their own vegetables, leasing 25-by-30-foot plots for for the season.
Jam Session For Jugglers
It's numbers are small -- but a group that meets on Monday's is big on juggling. The members meet in the Memorial Auditorium Annex to put their skills to the test. "Well, we just get together on Monday nights and throw things in the air," organizer Mike Harrigan said. "If it wasn't fun I wouldn't do it." The open juggling session has been taking place for 15 years, and has served for a meeting place for like minded locals. And it's not just juggling that they come to master. There are unicycles and other types of apparatus that challenge the members balance, or hand eye coordination.
Memorial auditorium is an ideal place to meet, because of the space it provides.
Anyone is invited to come out to the juggling sessions, regardless of skill level. Equipment is provided, all you have to do is show up at the Memorial Auditorium Annex anytime after 5 on Monday nights.
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Ken's Golf Shop
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Lake Champlain Bikeways
is a 1,187- mile network of bicycle routes...in the Lake Champlain Valley of Vermont, New York, and Québec. The network includes a total of 27 loops and tours ranging from 10 to 47 miles in length, in addition to the Champlain Bikeway, a 363-mile principal route around the entire Lake and along the Richelieu River to Chambly, Québec. Based on a rich array of natural, cultural, and historic themes, these loops meander along quiet back roads through extraordinary mountain and countryside scenery.
With growing national interest in bicycle tourism, Lake Champlain Bikeways, a public/private partnership, is quickly expanding its bicycle route network while serving as the information clearinghouse on bicycling opportunities in the Champlain Valley.
Cyclists who ride in the Champlain Valley know it has all the right ingredients for a premier bicycle touring destination....
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Marathon registration will no longer a race to the finish.
Marathon officials, overwhelmed last fall by a flood of entries that filled the 2003 relay in a record time of 48 hours, have decided to fill the 600-team relay field for the 2004 race via lottery. Entries -- limited to one per team -- will be accepted by mail or in person from Nov. 3 to Nov. 30, with spots to be drawn from separate Vermont and out-of-state pools Dec. 1. In addition, 50 two-person teams will be selected from a two-person lottery.
... Seventy-five percent of the relay spots will come from the Vermont draw; 25 percent will come from the out-of-state draw. Last year's relay field was heavy with locals who either dropped their entries off in person or had their entries delivered quickly by mail.
"The goal in putting in the lottery system was to make it fair and equitable for everybody," Sisino said, adding that Vermonters nabbed 85 percent of the relay spots in 2003.
March Madness has come to Vermont,
and fans are keeping the message light blinking at UVM's ticket office.
The men's basketball team is slated to take on the top-seed in the West and the number one team in the country - Arizona - this Thursday in Salt Lake City.
Mary Anne Gucciardi is a lifelong Catamount fan.
She's rooted for the men's basketball team for 30 years in the stands, earning her the affectionate nickname 'Mama Guch.'
... Now her boys are headed to the NCAA tourney in Salt Lake City, to face a tough challenge: a 16th seeded team has never beaten the top seed in March Madness.
But a one-point win this weekend in Boston placed them in the spotlight, and tickets for the upcoming match-up are in demand.
... In just season tickets alone, there's been a 120% increase from last year and the ticket office expects interest to be strong for the upcoming Salt Lake game.
But the Cats' number one fan will be watching them at home.
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National Gardening Association
seeks to sustain and renew the fundamental links between people, plants, and the earth. Through gardening, we promote "environmental responsibility," advance multidisciplinary learning and science literacy, and create partnerships that restore and enhance communities.
Founded in 1972 (as “Gardens for All”) to spearhead the community garden movement, today’s National Gardening Association is best known for its educational programs, its gardening Web site, and its research on gardening trends.
... For most of us, gardening provides a welcome sojourn into the natural world, a sanctuary that promises relief from the challenges of a busy life. But to us at the National Gardening Association, gardening means a lot more. After 20 years of supporting gardening with kids, we have witnessed the joy of exploration, the awe of discovery, and the awaking of minds to the rich world of learning that a garden has to offer.
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Petra Cliffs
Climbing Center has been the unofficial, albeit undisputed, headquarters for the Champlain region’s climbing community. We boast an extensive indoor facility designed to appeal to climbers of every level. Add classes and excursions taught by the area’s best and brightest instructors, along with professionally designed team building programs, and it’s immediately clear why Vermont chooses Petra Cliffs.
8,500 square feet to play and learn as well as an upstairs bouldering area, lead cave and challenge course.
You’re sure to find multiple subjects to hold your attention.
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Physician's Computer Company
removes the headaches associated with day-to-day practice management. Our pediatric-specific software and services offer complete practice control by providing key oversight and decision making information and expert advice regarding practice improvement and growth. Don't mistake us for a typical medical software vendor. PCC alone offers an award winning all-inclusive software and service package for private pediatric offices, backed by our 24/7 guaranteed customer support.
You're a pediatrician because you love practicing medicine, and PCC values the work you do. Working with us means you can focus on what you love while our software and services help your practice get healthier.
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Playgrounds
Most of the Burlington area playgrounds are in the city recreational parks and elementary schools.
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Smalley Park
is located on St. Paul street and offers a ball field, basketball court, and playground.
Note - Court play at neighborhood parks is prohibited from 10pm-7am.
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Special Olympics of Vermont
provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with developmental and cognitive disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
The spirit of Special Olympics transcends boundaries of geography, nationality, political philosophy, age, gender, race and religion.
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The 150 youngsters enrolled in after-school programs in South Burlington
do the same crafts, sports and field trips they did in the 2000-2001 school year. One thing's different, though: Parents pay the South Burlington School District instead of the Greater Burlington YMCA.
In an effort to better use resources, the district severed its relationship with the YMCA Live Y'Ers program and in September launched its own after-school program. School's Out serves children in kindergarten to fifth grade at the city's three elementary schools. As before, children go from their classrooms to programs at their own schools.
The switch brings several benefits, said Sue Luck, assistant superintendent. Fees are lower, and there is greater potential to share equipment and resources. There's also good continuity, she said. The coordinator of the after-school program attends school events every day and eats lunch with School's Out children.
The Burlington Free Press
has the best local high school and college sports coverage. It also has national sports coverage.
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The city of Burlington is considering opening a second off-leash
dog area, on the Lake Champlain waterfront. Two acres north of the old Moran Plant could be the next in a series of dog parks under consideration.
The first opened as a one-year test in December on Starr Farm Road in the New North End.
The Parks and Recreation Department will hold a public meeting to discuss the waterfront location. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the department's offices on Pine Street. For more information, call 864-0123.
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The City of Burlington, Vermont has seven community gardens
and three children's gardens, with a total of 375 garden plots. Since 1987, the gardens have been administered by the Burlington Parks & Recreation Department, with assistance from a volunteer advisory board.
More than 1,000 people actively take part in the Burlington Area Community Gardens (BACG) program. Garden plots average 25' x 30' in size, with smaller half-plots and children's plots also available. Registration packets are available through Burlington Parks & Recreation, 645 Pine Street, Burlington, VT 05401, (802) 864-0123.
Limited income households receive garden scholarships, funded by donations, to help pay for registration fees. Community gardening is extremely popular in Burlington; as of May 1, 2002, all available garden plots in the city are rented and interested gardeners are being placed on a waiting list.
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The Shelburne Bike and Pedestrian Path Committee,
chaired by Rob Donahue, has worked to create a network of recreational paths so cyclists and others have safe routes to travel. This year, the committee would like to see the network extended to Webster Road to accommodate children who bike the route to school. It would also like to see sidewalks built or extended on Harbor and Mount Philo roads, and bike lanes painted on both sides of Spear Street from Irish Hill Road to the Shelburne/South Burlington town line.
Many in the town are concerned about the .1 million price tag attached to this project, especially because the town is carrying its largest debt load. Haag says this article is controversial because it involves such a large amount of money and there is a feeling not everyone in the town will benefit from the proposed improvements.
For Donahue and the other members of the committee, the safety of town residents, especially children, is worth the .1 million.
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The Vermont Expos attract more than 3,000 fans to each home game
in Burlington due in large part to the front office's effort to keep the audience entertained. ... Welcome to minor league baseball in Vermont, a summer pastime that is as much about entertainment, advertising and merchandising as it is about sports. "Obviously, we're a baseball team," Vermont Expos general manager C.J. Knudsen says, "but we're geared more toward entertainment than anything else. So when people come to the ballpark, it's our job to make sure they have a great time, and they're entertained, and hopefully that they want to come back."
Planning for that entertainment and a way to fund it takes place far away from the roar of the crowd and the crack of the bat, in a cramped, nondescript office on the ground floor of the Champlain Mill in Winooski. There, five full-time employees gather at the end of the season in September to figure out the schedule for the 38 home games that will be played almost a year later. The Vermont Expos play another 38 games on the road each year.
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