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Vol. 15 No. 24

The ColChesTer sun

By MICHAELA HALNON

The state’s plan to provide municipalities free overdose antidotes could leave some first responders wanting more, as the delivery model is based

on data that may not show a towns’ true use of the drug.

The legislature signed off on a $32,000 allotment to pro-vide naloxone, or Narcan, to ambulance services statewide after state officials struggled

to explain why a separate pro-gram provides the $45-plus treatment free to civilians but not to first responders.

Naloxone has become an increasingly valuable resource as the opiate crisis marches on.

Hailed as a miracle treatment, Naloxone can bring patients overdosing on opioids back from the brink of death. It’s not harmful to those not over-dosing and can be easily ad-ministered through the nose.

By JASON STARR

For families living at the Winchester Place apartments who may be unable to afford summer camps for their chil-dren, the Champlain Housing Trust is bringing a similar ex-perience to them.

The affordable hous-ing non-profit will serve the roughly 140 children living in the complex, located between Fort Ethan Allen and Camp Johnson, with two Ameri-Corps volunteers to plan ac-

tivities for the kids and with a new playground.

“There is no playground here, so the kids are always playing on stuff they’re not supposed to be playing on,” said Winchester Place resi-dent Justin Hatin, father of 3-year-old Serenity. “This will be a big improvement. It will be so convenient. It’s right here, so everyone can watch the kids.”

Last Thursday, CHT threw an end-of-school-year party with free ice cream and gave

Narcan program uses incomplete dataState to provide free

overdose reversal drug to rescue, police

See NARCAN, page 5

By COLIN FLANDERS

Colchester police arrest-ed a Bennington man they say robbed Maplefields on Roosevelt Highway on Sun-day, June 12.

Police say Tyler Gal-ipeau, 34, entered the store around 9:45 p.m. and told the clerk he was armed “and wanted all of the money,” a press release said. He then left scene with an undis-closed amount.

The next day, police ar-rested Galipeau in connec-tion with the incident. He was due to be arraigned in Vermont Superior Court – Criminal Division on Mon-day to face a charge of as-sault and robbery, a press release said.

On the same night, two store clerks thwarted sepa-rate robbery attempts after refusing to hand over mon-ey to a woman claiming to be armed.

The first incident oc-curred around 9:30 p.m. at Burger King on South Park Drive in Colchester. Fifteen minutes later, Winooski po-lice responded to an armed robbery attempt at the Si-mon’s on Main Street.

In both instances, police say a woman entered the store and demanded money, claiming she was armed. Each time, the woman left when the clerks refused to comply.

The suspect in both inci-dents is described as a white female in her 20s wearing a dark hoodie and dark jeans.

Colchester police say they are working with Win-ooski police.

“No definitive links have been established, but inves-tigation into these incidents is continuing,” a CPD press release said Monday.

Anyone with informa-tion is asked to call Colches-ter police at 264-5555 or Winooski police at 655-0221.

Robbery suspect

arrested

TYLER GALIPEAU

Police probe connection with other incidents

MAKING THE GRADE

A Colchester High School graduate takes her diploma at the commencement ceremony at Colchester High School's gymnasium on Saturday, June 11.

PHOTO BY ETHAN ROGATI

Colchester police Chief Jennifer Morrison helps 5-year-old Hayden Hammond display a police badge sticker last Thursday at the Winchester Place apartments.

PHOTO BY JASON STARR

Child's playColchester kids receive

mentors, new playground

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Lisman speaks last Wednesday during a clean water econ-omy forum at St. Michael’s College. Also pictured, L to R: fellow candidates Peter Galbraith, Phil Scott, Matt Dunne and Sue Minter.

PHOTO BY JASON STARR

Potential governors debate water rights

By JASON STARR

All five candidates for Vermont governor agreed at a forum last week that access to clean water is a human right.

This is the common denominator Lake Champlain International executive director James Ehlers hoped to establish when he organized the event, but differences were apparent in the lengths each can-didate would go to crack down on water polluters.

See PLAYGROUND, page 2

See DEBATE, page 2

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The Clean Water Economy Forum at St. Michael’s Col-lege was held as Act 64, Ver-mont’s Clean Water Act, and Vermont’s revised total maxi-mum daily load plan for Lake Champlain phosphorous re-duction both enter early stag-es of implementation.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture released new “re-quired agricultural practices” this spring to guide farmers in keeping agricultural pollu-tion out of rivers that lead to the lake. These practices were formerly unenforced guide-lines called “accepted agricul-tural practices.”

Democratic candidate Sue Minter took the hardest line, responding with an em-phatic yes to a question about whether citizens should be able to sue polluters to en-

force state water quality laws.“State government can’t

be everywhere,” she told the audience of roughly 75. “It is up to citizens to help enforce these rules.”

Peter Galbraith, a fellow Democratic contender, also supports citizen enforcement. If access to clean water is a human right, he said, people should be able to defend that right in court.

Democrat Matt Dunne of-fered a qualified yes to the idea, cautioning citizen en-forcement could be abused. Republican Phil Scott said he trusts state agencies and mu-nicipal governments to en-sure enforcement, and that citizen enforcement isn’t nec-essary.

“The state has enough au-thority, and we have a strong environmental ethic,” Scott said.

Republican Bruce Lis-man said citizen enforcement would be too chaotic. He sug-

gested setting up phone lines for anonymous complaints to state agencies about people breaking agricultural prac-tices.

Each candidate offered a glimpse of how they would structure their administra-tions to tackle the lake’s phos-phorous pollution problem.

Scott would focus on in-creasing capacity at munici-pal wastewater treatment plants, where recurring un-treated sewage overflows during rainstorms have con-tributed to the problem. Scott would evaluate the idea of overflow storage for when treatment plants become overwhelmed.

Lisman said his admin-istration would include one person responsible for lake cleanup and would take in-ventory of state and federal funding possibilities. He would then focus on northern Lake Champlain, where toxic algae blooms from phospho-

rous overload are most pronounced.

Galbraith’s first step would be appointing Agency of Natural Re-sources and Agency of Agriculture secretaries able to estimate a cost to return to a pristine lake, “then determine how far we can go. I want to go as far as pos-sible,” he said.

Minter said the time for new evaluations is passed. She would rely on Act 64 to get to a cleaner lake. In ad-dition to working with farmers on the new agricultural require-

ments, she would prioritize wastewater treatment up-grades and sell state bonds to raise funds to complete them. She would also make sure land developers build with stormwater retention as part of their projects.

“We’ve got a plan,” Minter said. “Now we need to imple-ment it, and that’s what I’ll do as governor.”

Dunne would put funding into the state capitol bill to meet the requirements of the new TMDL plan and create a coalition among Vermont, Canada and New York to en-sure the other entities bor-dering the lake make similar investments.

“We have gotten behind in our infrastructure,” Dunne said. “It’s our time now to make that kind of once-in-a-century investment, because if we don’t and we don’t do it quickly, the lake will die. All the economic development strategies will not matter if Vermont is the state with the dead lake.”

LCI, a Colchester nonprof-it, presented the forum with support from several spon-sors.

Questions crafted by the sponsors were provided to candidates in advance. The forum concluded with a half-hour of audience questions.

Ehlers reminded the audi-ence the next Vermont gover-nor was in the room and en-couraged citizens to maintain public pressure to keep clean water at the top of the next governor’s agenda.

“There is no disconnect-ing the water cycle from the life cycle,” he said.

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the neighborhood kids a chance to vote on their favorite playground designs. There were five options to choose from with fea-tures including climbing walls, monkey bars and swings.

CHT owns the complex’s 166 apartments and keeps them rent-controlled for afford-ability. The playground project is part of an ongoing neighborhood upgrade that has in-cluded outside lighting, parking lot paving, energy efficiency and interior renovations. The playground will be installed in a cen-tral open space currently occupied by trail-ers and construction equipment related to the improvements.

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Where does wildlife habi-tat end and federally reg-

ulated airspace begin?It’s a question trustees

and staff members at the Winooski Valley Parks Dis-trict are grappling with as a growing number of Ver-monters seek open spaces to fly unmanned aerial ve-hicles — commonly called drones.

A group of drone users that coalesced online as The Northern New England Drone User Group began gathering to fly drones in a field at the park district’s Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington two years ago.

The meetings caught the attention of district executive director Nick Warner, who has led an ongoing discussion at the district’s monthly board of trustees meetings about creating a drone policy.

The district owns and operates 18 parks in Chit-tenden County with sup-port from seven member municipalities. Its board is comprised of one member from each city or town.

“Our hope is the district would adopt a common sense policy with some ba-sic restrictions so people don’t operate near other [park users] and use des-ignated areas within the district,” said Steve Merm-elstein of South Burlington, a leader of the group. “We do regular events with-out complaint or incident.

We’re just trying to have a framework and under-standing.”

At the trustees’ most recent meeting in April, they denied the drone group’s request to use the homestead on May 7 for an International Drone Day celebration. The group instead held the event on private property at Bolton Valley ski area.

Park trustees argued the natural areas “should include the air space into the sky to protect migra-tion patterns of birds,” according to November meeting minutes. Trustees are also concerned about drone noise.

But Warner has ad-vised the trustees they may not have the authority to regulate airspace above the parks.

“We do not have a pol-icy,” he said. “It’s an active discussion with our board. It is a rapidly evolving top-ic nationwide.”

Drone advocates have challenged municipal bans on drone use across the country, Mermelstein said, pointing to the Federal Avi-ation Administration au-thority to regulate all U.S. airspace.

Colchester revised its ordinance earlier this year to ban drone use in town parks. Parks and rec di-rector Glen Cuttitta said the ban was introduced because the town already banned model planes and rockets. He declined to comment on the FAA’s au-thority over town airspace.

“Right now, it’s sort of fractured,” said Steve Bu-dreski, one of the drone group’s founders who started a drone photog-raphy, videography and mapping business called AirShark. “It’s difficult for entities to make decisions and figure out what to do.”

Budreski testified in the legislature this year on S. 155, a drone regulation bill that focuses on privacy related to drone use by law enforcement that requires they obtain a warrant to use drones in investiga-tions, except in emergen-cies. Regarding civilian drone use, it defers to the FAA.

FAA drone regulations require users keep their drones in their sight, fly them below 400 feet in el-evation and operate them only during the day. They also ban drone use with-in five miles of airports. Drones are also banned in national parks.

Trustees have consid-ered several approaches to drones, including a ban and restricting them to cer-tain areas at certain dates and times with prior per-mission.

“We are not drone ex-perts. We’re all trying to get an education on their impact and learn more about them,” said Tom Ma-linowski, Essex’s represen-tative on the board.

Mermelstein said the drone group has stopped using Ethan Allen Home-stead to give trustees time to decide on a policy. In-

stead, gatherings will be held on private property.

“The parks are in a difficult position,” he ac-knowledged. “Federal rules don’t allow them to control flight. It’s up to them to get some volun-tary buy-in from the drone community. We don’t want it to be the wild West ei-ther. We want people to use these toys responsibly. If policies are adopted that work with users, we are happy to comply.”

Drone regs groundedDistrict questions control of unmanned aerial vehicles

A drone takes flight above the Ethan Allen Homestead.

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Perspective

It is the end of another legislative session and the beginning of another campaign season. As with all campaign seasons, the state’s budget will likely be-come a topic of debate and conversation.

Vermont, unlike most states, does not have a con-stitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. However, Vermonters still expect fiscal responsibility from state government. Even in difficult times, such as the Great Recession and Tropical Storm Irene, the state has continuously refused to run a deficit. Moreover, Vermont has fully funded rainy day funds and has re-fused to tap them during difficult budget periods.

Historically, Vermont has managed to balance its budget through tools such as one-time money. This in-cludes using federal stimulus funds, which were used to help dig Vermont out from the Great Recession, fed-eral funds from FEMA received to help with Irene re-covery and federal funds to help Vermont with the ex-pensive mandates required by the Affordable Care Act. The budget signed into law this year is the first budget since at least 2009 that does not rely on the use of one-time funds for ongoing state expenses, a practice that leaves Vermont subject to the whims of the federal gov-ernment and its budget process which, at best, is unpre-dictable.

This administration has consistently made it clear that it would not increase certain broad based taxes that could be counter-productive to Vermont’s econo-my. For the sixth budget in a row, this administration refused to burden Vermonters by raising income, sales or rooms and meals tax rates on working Vermonters who can't afford it.

While it’s true that certain fees were raised this year in order to balance the budget, some of these fees have not been revised in a number of years. It is our collec-tive responsibility to revisit fees annually to ensure that the fees match the cost to administer the associated pro-gram or keep pace with activity in neighboring states.

In terms of budget growth, since 2012, the com-pounded annual growth rate of Vermont's total budget is 3.7 percent, while Vermont's economy, defined as the gross state product, has grown at 3.1 percent.

One of the difficulties in having budget discussions and making comparisons is the lack of an agreed upon measurement of growth. When I was commissioner of the Department of Corrections, the same issue existed regarding the lack of one defined measure for criminal justice services, commonly known as recidivism. In the end, the legislature adopted a statutorily defined recidi-vism measure. This created a common measurement to monitor and have discussions regarding programmatic success or failure across the system.

As an accountant, it is my opinion that the best mea-sure of Vermont’s budget growth is a “compounded an-nual growth rate” calculated on Vermont's budget using all of the funds the state has at its disposal; this includes the state's general fund, the education fund, enterprise funds, the transportation fund, special funds and all federal funds. This “all funds” approach accurately measures total state spending and is blind to changes in the availability of federal funds and annual variability in individual revenue sources. Total state spending ac-curately reflects the purpose of the state budget and the true cost to provide state government services to Ver-monters.

As Vermonters, the budget is important to all of us; as we continue to discuss the state’s budget, it is im-portant to remember the historical context that drives budgetary choices over the course of any governorship. Understanding those choices and explaining them us-ing consistent terminology and indicators is necessary to ensure that our conversations are accurate.

Ultimately, the budget as proposed by Gov. Peter Shumlin and passed by the legislature is the financial plan for the real work of government – providing the means to protect our most vulnerable citizens and communities, grow jobs, teach our children, build and maintain roads and keep Vermonters warm through the long winter season.

By ANDREW A. PALLITOCommissioner, Vt. Department of Finance & Management

Understanding the budget

"The Night Stages" by Jane Urquhart

Adult Fiction, 2015Reviewed by Penny

CunninghamAs I know the Irish land-

scape of County Kerry well, I was delighted by this po-etic and haunting novel. The setting is the Iveragh peninsula during the 1940s and 1950s. Memories of the Civil War a generation back and the Great Famine a hundred years before are as much the birthright of the local people as the wild and remote landscape.

"The Night Stages" de-velops three separate yet interlinked stories, told in alternating chapters. The skillful juggling of these stories reminded me a little of “Transatlantic” by Colum McCann. Themes of family estrangement, flight – both literal and metaphoric – and stasis are explored and developed.

"Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel" by Sara Farizan – Young

Adult Fiction, 2014Reviewed by Kelsey Psaute

Leila is adorable. She’s funny, smart and a lesbi-an – which nobody knows yet. Rather than the typi-cal tale of a troubled teen agonizing over how to come out to her seemingly overbearing and unflinch-ingly traditional Persian family, “Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel” is a sweet and dorky love story.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much in the way of plot, so without giving too much away, I can’t really tell you what happens to Leila and her friends as they go through their reg-ular high school lives at Armstead Academy. I can tell you that Leila’s rela-tionships with her friends and family go through a dramatic transformation

Another central theme is the artistic thought process when creating a work of art, and the author clev-erly blended the real-life story of Canadian mural-ist Kenneth Lochhead with her other characters. The author describes the south-west of Ireland so well, it is hard to believe she is not Irish, and it made me want to read more by this award-winning Canadian author.

as she discovers more about them and herself over the course of the nar-rative. Farizan’s writing is perfectly minimalist, only giving readers exactly what’s needed to under-stand her incredibly deep and fascinating charac-ters. Even though they all lead ordinary lives, their personalities are extraor-dinary, and I gleefully read every last word.

Notices

The USDA will be live trapping and sampling wildlife again during summer and fall 2016 to moni-tor a vaccine distribution effort. We are again look-ing for permission to place cage traps on Colchester properties for approximately 10-14 days during July and early October. Traps will be checked daily and all raccoons, skunks, foxes, bobcats and coyotes will be immobilized, sampled, tagged and released (if healthy) at the point of capture. Any domestic ani-mals captured inadvertently during the study will be safely released.

Your continued participation in this program remains critical to its success. If you would not like to continue to participate this year, please call us at 223-8697 or 1-800-472-2437. For further information about the study contact Owen Montgomery, wildlife biologist, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services at 223-8690 or 272-1072.

Town Manager’s OfficeDawn Francis, town manager

This week the Parks and Recreation Department mailed surveys to more than 3,000 households in Col-chester. We want to know what your favorite things are about our park facilities and recreation pro-grams and what you would like to see changed. Even if you didn’t receive a mailed survey, starting June 14 you can participate by filling out the online survey at www.colchestervt.gov/recreation. Call 264-5640 with questions. With your help and careful planning, we can make our programming better than ever!

For more information, please visit http://colches-tervt.gov/manager or call 264-5509.

Economic DevelopmentKathi Walker O'Reilly, director

• Held the Colchester Dinghy Dock Opening Ceremony for local residents, businesses and state officials.

• Implementing new marketing to promote Colchester and our brand.

• Partnering with hotels on marketing oppor-tunities and finalizing familiarization tours for hotel staff.

• Met with local businesses and manufacturer to partner on marketing options.

• Launched Communications Task Force.• Continue exploring innovative agriculture

opportunities.• Worked with planning & zoning on final zon-

ing for West Lakeshore Drive.• For more information, please visit http://

www.colchestervt.gov/econdev or call 264-5508.

Planning and ZoningSarah Hadd, director

The Colchester Development Review Board will meet on June 22 to review the following applications:

• Site plan, Dorothy Mazza Revocable Trust and Malletts Bay Veterinary Hospital, 279 Malletts Bay Ave.

• Preliminary plat, R.E.M. Development Com-pany, LLC, nine-lot planned unit develop-ment subdivision, Bay Road and Roosevelt

Highway.• Site plan, Char, LLC, to replace concrete block

seawall with a dimensional stone wall, 113 West Porters Point Rd.

• Sketch plan, Casa Del Air Partnership, LLC, five-lot PUD subdivision, 35 West Red Rock Rd.

• Sketch plan, H & H Real Estate LLC, 12-lot PUD subdivision, U. S. Route 2 and Colden Road.

The PC held a public hearing on the proposed zoning for the Malletts Bay Initiative at its June 7 meeting and unanimously approved sending draft regulations to the selectboard for consideration

The selectboard will hold a first reading on June 14. Read more here: www.tinyurl.com/mallettsbayvt. Email comments to [email protected] or post them to the commission c/o town offices.

For more information, please visit http://colches-tervt.gov/planningz or call 264-5600.

Public WorksBryan Osborne, director

The following tasks and projects have been com-pleted:

• Spring street sweeping • Gravel roads grading and dust control • Exterior painting at meeting house and his-

torical society; rescue building painting is in progress.

• Replaced front exterior doors and some exte-rior wood trim at library.

The construction of a public meeting space on the third floor of the town offices is substantially com-plete.

The Morehouse culvert replacement project will commence toward the end of June and is funded in part by a $175,000 grant. A complete road closure for one to two months will be required. A more detailed schedule will be available within the next few weeks, and the public and other interested stakeholders will be informed. For more information, please contact project manager Kevin McAleer at 264-5639, or [email protected].

A draft ordinance for a future stormwater util-ity will be reviewed by the selectboard at its June 28 meeting.

We received a $100,000 grant to begin develop-ment of a comprehensive stormwater management system for Malletts Bay and its upland watersheds.

We are continuing work on the Malletts Bay sew-er project with Colchester Fire District No. 2.

2016 capital paving programThese projects consist of simple overlays. As a re-

sult, most will be completed in one to two days and will create only minimal disruption to traffic and ac-cess. We expect all work to be completed in approxi-mately three weeks. Scheduled to begin on June 20, the town will be paving Andrea Lane, Depot Road, Juniper Drive, Jasper Mine Road, Laura Lane, Shore Acres (southern intersection of Cedar Ridge Road to cul-de-sac), Tower Ridge, Wheatley Court and Colo-nial Drive (northeast corner, from Renkins Drive to Reynolds Road).

Notifications will be posted online (Front Porch Forum, Facebook and the town website) before work begins. We appreciate your patience. Please direct all questions to Kevin McAleer.

For more information, please visit http://colches-tervt.gov/publicworks or call 264-5620.

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The state will also allow police to ap-ply for the free antidote, an aspect of the program that hasn’t yet been made pub-lic, confirmed Chris Bell, director of the Division of Emergency Preparedness, Re-sponse and Injury Prevention at the Ver-mont Department of Health.

Milton police already carry naloxone; Colchester and Essex police do not. All three chiefs say they’ll apply for free doses if and when the program rolls out.

“We’re hopeful that it will come to fru-ition,” Colchester Chief Jennifer Morrison said. “It’s definitely something we would take advantage of.”

But the chosen method for doling out the naloxone supply could give some lo-cal departments a much smaller delivery than expected.

It also highlights a much deeper prob-lem – the state’s inability to accurately track overdose treatments.

No box to check

Milton Rescue Chief Don Turner ran the numbers a few times, certain he was missing something.

Four doses of naloxone in a year seemed too low when Turner recalled more than six overdose calls in the past three months alone.

But the numbers, pulled from a state-wide electronic EMS reporting system called SIREN, were accurate. They just don’t reflect Milton’s use of naloxone since SIREN doesn’t track doses administered by police, who don’t have a statewide Nar-can reporting system.

Unfortunately for Milton, the health department will use SIREN data to award rescue departments the Narcan, plus some extra, Bell said.

VALCOR, the police data collection program, doesn’t track Narcan, though in Milton, police often arrive and use Narcan first.

“There’s no box to check,” Milton Chief Brett Van Noordt said.

Milton PD is one of just 12 police de-partments statewide that carry naloxone. That includes Vermont State Police and Burlington, who made headlines last Feb-ruary when they reversed an overdose for the first time.

A year and a half ago, Milton Rescue purchased 28 doses of naloxone from the University of Vermont Medical Center pharmacy to share with Milton PD.

Overdose calls in Milton were continu-ing to rise, and with an all-volunteer crew, Turner knew police often arrive before an ambulance.

“Seconds could mean somebody’s life,” he said.

Now, police or civilians have almost always administered a dose by the time rescue arrives at overdoses, Turner said.

"It’s very helpful for police to have it at the ready,” he said. “In Milton, at least, it’s critical that they have it.”

Though no concrete numbers exist, data cobbled together from Turner and Van Noordt provides a better estimation of the real naloxone story in town.

For all its benefits, the drug does have one downfall: It expires about 18 months

from when it was packaged. To Van Noordt’s knowledge, none of the doses they’ve received have ever been thrown out.

“We go through it so quickly, it doesn’t have time to expire,” he said.

With four doses accounted for by res-cue and none thrown out, Milton police presumably administered 24 doses in the past 18 months.

But that doesn’t necessarily equate to the number of patients treated, as it of-ten takes more than one dose to revive a patient. The last overdose Milton officers responded to required three doses for the patient to regain consciousness, according to Van Noordt.

Though Turner is sure more than four people were treated last year, he’s knows it’s not as high as 28. That uncertainty will not work in the town’s favor.

Likely facing a massive defi-cit in doses, Milton rescue will con-tinue picking up the naloxone tab. Voluntary report system fails

State Trooper Detective Eric Patno has long been troubled by the lack of a con-sistent reporting system, especially in the face of an increasingly serious drug crisis across the state.

Patno tried collecting data himself, but voluntary reporting and different record-keeping strategies haven’t delivered great results.

“I still do get reports here and there,” Patno said. “But it’s nothing even remote-ly close to accurate. I’d say it’s not even 50 percent of what’s actually happening.”

Troopers must keep a dose on them at all times, Patno said. To apply for a new one, they fill out a memo, but that memo doesn’t require specifying why troop-ers used their last dose. They might have

saved a life, or it might just have expired.At one point, Patno said VSP was so

desperate for statewide statistics they con-templated contacting national suppliers to ask how many doses were delivered to the state. But that still wouldn’t account for expired doses, nor would it explain how many patients received them.

Bell said the state may very well con-sider a tracking system if enough police officers sign up for the free program. But Patno said there are several roadblocks that have prevented that thus far.

“Systems are expensive,” Patno said. “You’d also have to create a mandate.”

Even if the original database is af-fordable, Patno explained, the associ-ated cost to require reports and check on the system’s use will start to add up. A drop in the bucket

Because police in Essex and Colches-ter don’t carry naloxone, SIREN numbers paint a more accurate picture of overdos-es in town.

Between May 31, 2015 and May 31, 2016, Essex Rescue administered 11 doses of naloxone to nine patients in their juris-diction: Essex, Essex Jct., Westford, Jericho and Underhill. In the same time period, Colchester administered 11 doses to eight patients.

Essex Rescue Chief Dan Manz is con-fident with his department’s data but doesn’t use it as a guideline when stock-ing naloxone.

“Eleven doses is really only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what it takes for us to be ready,” Manz said. “We carry, rela-

tively speaking, a boatload.”For Manz, that means 45 doses are

at the ready. The four ambulances are stocked with six to eight, and volunteer first responders living at far corners of the coverage area each keep a few, he said.

Because Essex doesn’t use it all before it expires, Manz throws half his supply away. Still, he’s not comfortable cutting back.

Manz anticipates 11 to 15 doses from the state program and will continue sup-plementing the extra 30-plus doses with rescue’s $1.2 million budget.

“It’s not that we’re ungrateful,” Manz said. “But it’s, for us, a very small piece of the total Narcan expense for the depart-ment.”

Bell said the state anticipated some larger departments like Essex would buy more than the program could provide. He expects the free naloxone will make a big-ger impact on agencies with lower bud-gets.

Colchester Rescue’s budget, just under $540,000, leaves less room for naloxone buys. Milton’s is even smaller at $290,000.

Colchester keeps a smaller supply, leaving a few doses on ambulances and at the station but not with individual re-sponders. With a spike in overdose calls, rescue Chief Amy Akerlind is eager to get some free naloxone from the state.

“Any little bit helps,” she said.But Akerlind pointed out the state

hasn’t set a specific date to disperse the free naloxone to rescue, let alone to po-lice. The state funding won’t become available until at least July, when the new fiscal year begins.

In the meantime, the opiate crisis shows no signs of slowing down. In 2015, there were 76 opiate overdose deaths in Vermont, a five-year high.

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Holy Cross Catholic Church416 Church Road, ColchesterFr. Julian Asucan, Administrator. (802-863-3002)Mass schedule: Saturday, 4:30 PM and Sunday, 8:45 AM.Confessions: Saturday at 3:30 PM or by appointment.Daily Mass: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 9:00AMHoly Day Masses, please contact the church.

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United Church of Colchester - ABCRte. 2A-Village Green, 879-5442.Rev. Dr. Russell WillisWorship: 10:30 A.M.Adult Sunday School: 9:00 a.m.Youth Sunday School during 10:30 worship; pre-school through 11 years.Nursery care available during worship.Christ Centered - Family Oriented.

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By DR. LEWIS FIRST With Father’s Day approaching,

guys expecting to be dads for the first time have been asking me for some parenting tips. Let’s see if I can help dads-to-be get ready for their new role.

Guys, if you are somewhat anx-ious or overwhelmed about wel-coming a new baby into your home, rest assured that you are not alone and it’s normal. If you feel you don’t know anything about babies, there are videos you can watch and child-birth classes available. Some classes are even designed for dads only and will teach you everything from how to hold a baby to how to change a dia-per – not to mention proper installa-tion of a car seat and childproofing your home.

The good thing about those classes is that you meet other dads-to-be who

feel just as anxious as you do. The in-structors know this and encourage any and all questions, no matter how hesitant you may be to ask them.

Don’t worry about whether or not you will be a good dad. Any new role requires learning with experience. And don’t worry that being a father means an end to having time for fun. You can certainly have fun playing with your baby, but you can also find time for your partner and yourself – either when your infant is asleep or through the magic of having a friend or relative babysit. If you enjoy the outdoors, you can take your baby along with the help of a baby carrier.

It’s important to remember you can do everything your partner can do when it comes to parenting – ex-cept breastfeed (although you do need to support Mom and be a cham-pion for breastfeeding). Parenting a baby is a shared experience, so make

sure to share responsibility for the things you can do: changing, diaper-ing or bottle-feeding pumped breast milk in the middle of the night while Mom sleeps.

Doing these things will allow you to develop your own unique style and will make sure your infant knows from the start you’re essential to the mix. In turn, you’ll love par-enting and truly understand why Fa-ther’s Day is celebrated – not just for your own dad, but for the dad you’re about to be.

Hopefully, tips like this will help everyone go “father,” I mean far-ther, when it comes to striving to be a terrific dad for your new baby.

Lewis First, MD, is chief of pediatrics at The University of Vermont Chil-dren’s Hospital and chair of the De-partment of Pediatrics at the Univer-sity of Vermont College of Medicine.

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With Father's Day coming up, Dr. Lewis First gives expert advice to new fathers.

Vermonters are more likely to die from prevent-able chronic diseases than from all other causes of death combined. To re-verse this epidemic, Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen launched a new state-wide initiative called 3- 4-50.

3-4-50 signifies the fact that three behaviors – lack of physical activity, poor diet and tobacco use – con-tribute to four chronic dis-eases – cancer, cardiovas-cular disease, diabetes, and lung disease – resulting in more than 50 percent of all deaths.

Standing with leaders from around the state rep-resenting business, health care, schools and munici-palities, Chen called for action, saying the simplest changes can often have the greatest impact.

"As humans, our ac-tions are not entirely based on our own free choice, but are influenced by our edu-cation, income, cultural norms and expectations, and how easy or how hard it is to make healthy choic-es in our daily lives," Chen said. "And our environ-ment is very often stacked against us. 3-4-50 is our call to action to intentionally make changes in our work-places, businesses, schools

and communities to make the healthy choice the more attractive and convenient choice."

Vermont's experience with tobacco control is proof. Policies that limit exposure to secondhand smoke, restrictions on to-bacco advertising, moving cigarettes behind the coun-ter and raising the ciga-rette tax have contributed to an environment that favors not smoking, and far fewer Vermonters who choose to smoke.

To support the cause of 3-4-50 by giving Vermont-ers the information and resources they need to take action, the health depart-ment has launched a new website at www.healthver-mont.gov/3-4-50. The site

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TICKETS4 Speeding3 Operating w/ license suspended 3 Using portable electronic device2 Possession of marijuana/hashish1 Uninsured driver

ARRESTS3 DUI1 Assault and robbery1 False information to a police officer

Tuesday, June 72:44 p.m., Juvenile problem in Colchester3:08 p.m., DUI on W Lakeshore Dr. / Broadacres Dr.3:53 p.m., Vandalism on Mill Pond Rd.5:18 p.m., Medical in Colchester7:04 p.m., Larceny from building on Valleyfield Dr.9:52 p.m., Medical in Colchester

Wednesday, June 8 12:26 a.m., Drugs on Blakely Rd. / Malletts Bay Ave

12:42 a.m., Disorderly conduct on S Park Dr.8:47 a.m., Suspicious event on Hercules Dr.9:43 a.m., Suspicious event on Blakely Rd.10:34 a.m., Larceny on Mallard Dr.3:06 p.m., Juvenile problem in Colchester3:13 p.m., Drugs on 8th St.3:59 p.m., Suspicious event on Shady Ln.4:50 p.m., Suspicious event on Blakely Rd.6:17 p.m., Suspicious event on College Pkwy

Thursday, June 912:23 a.m., Citizen dispute on S Park Dr.8:17 a.m., Citizen dispute on Perimeter Dr.10:46 a.m., Larceny from building on 1st St.12:08 p.m., Juvenile problem in Colchester5:25 p.m., Medical in Colchester8:45 p.m., Suspicious event on W Lakeshore Dr.

Friday, June 104:36 a.m., Medical in Colchester10:26 a.m., Suspicious event on Red Rock Rd.12:07 p.m., Fraud on S Park Dr.1:01 p.m., Medical in Colchester2:38 p.m., DUI on Bay Rd. / Lone Pine

4:18 p.m., Citizen dispute on Prim Rd.2:35 p.m., Illegal dumping on Sunderland Woods Rd.3:52 p.m., Suspicious event on Mountain View Dr.5:38 p.m., Medical in Colchester9:14 p.m., Medical in Colchester10:03 p.m., Fireworks on Stone Dr.11:00 p.m., Suspicious event on Gilman Cir.11:07 p.m., Domestic disturbance in Colchester

Saturday, June 113:17 a.m., Suspicious event on Cedar Ridge Dr.6:38 a.m., Vandalism on River Rd.4:03 p.m., Medical in Colchester5:39 p.m., Suspicious event on Heineberg Dr.5:43 p.m., Trespass on W Lakeshore Dr.7:43 p.m., Mental health issue on College Pkwy9:19 p.m., Suspicious event on Ethan Allen Ave9:34 p.m., Medical in Colchester10:56 p.m., Burning complaint on 2nd St.

Sunday, June 123:55 a.m., Suicidal subject in Colchester6:05 a.m., Medical in Colchester

6:56 a.m., Suspicious event on S Park Dr.9:33 a.m., Vandalism on E Lakeshore Dr.11:16 a.m., Medical in Colchester12:29 p.m., Medical in Colchester2:40 p.m., Medical in Colchester3:29 p.m., Vandalism on Macrae Rd.6:29 p.m., Suspicious event on Oak Cir.8:04 p.m., Domestic disturbance in Colchester9:28 p.m., Robbery on S Park Dr.9:46 p.m., Robbery on Roosevelt Hwy

Monday, June 131:05 a.m., Domestic assault in Colchester9:08 a.m., Violation of conditions of release on Hilltop Ct.1:07 p.m., Medical in Colchester2:10 p.m., Trespass on Broadacres Dr.6:12 p.m., Medical on Shannon Rd.7:00 p.m., DUI on I 89 Ex. 16 on ramp8:20 p.m., Domestic disturbance in Colchester8:27 p.m., Sex offense in Colchester9:22 p.m., Suspicious event on Dalton Dr.

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SUPERIOR COURT ENVIRONMENTAL DIVISION Docket No. 50-6-16 Vtec

COLCHESTER HES NH 5600 (14)“DIVERGING DIAMOND INTERCHANGE”STORMWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT: 6946-INDSPROJECT ID NO. EJ12-1159

NOTICE OF APPEAL

NOW COMES Appellant R.L. Vallee, Inc. (“Vallee”), by and through its attorneys, Burak Anderson & Melloni, PLC and Murphy Sullivan Kronk, and hereby appeals to the Superior Court—Environmental Division the issuance of Individual Stormwater Discharge Permit No. 6946-INDS (the “Stormwater Discharge Permit”) by the Agency of Natural Resources (“ANR”) dated May 11, 2016 allowing the Vermont Agency of Transportation (“VTrans”) to discharge stormwater runoff from the proposed Diverging Diamond Interchange. A copy of the Stormwater Discharge Permit is available from the undersigned. The appeal concerns property located on U.S. Routes 2 and 7 and I-89 Exit 16 in the Town of Colchester, Vermont (the “Property”) owned by the State of Vermont.

Vallee claims party status and status to appeal pursuant to 10 V.S.A. §8504(a) and the enabling statute creating the Environmental Court, as an aggrieved party and a party by right. Vallee owns property in the area and in the same watershed as the Property.

Vallee files this appeal, among other reasons, because the impervious area that should be treated is larger than 4.729 acres proposed to be treated, the project does not provide treatment at least equal to the stormwater system being replaced to construct the project and because VTrans did not adequately justify its proposed use of “site balancing.” Through this appeal, Vallee seek to improve the stormwater treatment for the project to be in compliance with applicable standards.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: In order to participate in this appeal, you must enter an appearance in the Vermont Environmental Court within twenty (20) days of receiving this Notice of Appeal. Notices of Appearance should be mailed to Jennifer Teske, Court Office Manager, Vermont Superior Court—Environmental Division, 32 Cherry Street, Suite 303, Burlington, VT 05401.

Dated: June 6, 2016 BURAK ANDERSON & MELLONI, PLC Burlington, Vermont

By: /s/ Jon Anderson, Esq., ERN 1856 30 Main Street P.O. Box 787 Burlington, VT 05402-0787 (802) 862-0500 [email protected]

Dated: June 6, 2016 MURPHY SULLIVAN KRONK Burlington, Vermont

By: /s/ Alexander J. LaRosa. ERN 5814 275 College Street, P.O. Box 4485 Burlington, Vermont 05406-4485 (802) 861-7000 [email protected]

Attorneys for R.L. Vallee, Inc

Request for Garage/Warehouse Leasing Proposal

The State of Vermont is interested in leasing approximately 8-10,000 SF of garage or warehouse space in the vicinity of Colchester, VT, within approximately 5 miles of I-89’s exits 16, 17, or 18. The space should have at least 2 large overhead doors (14’ wide), minimum clear ceiling height of 15’, a small office and break area, and sufficient restroom facilities for up to 10 employees. Additionally, the space should have parking for at least 15 vehicles.

Any questions regarding this request should be sent to:Allen Palmer4 Governor Aiken AvenueMontpelier, VT [email protected]

All responses should be sent to:

Allen Palmer4 Governor Aiken AvenueMontpelier, VT 07663-7001No later than 3:00 p.m. on Thursday June 30, 2016*All bids must be hand delivered or sent by USPS or by Currier, electronic submissions will not be accepted.

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SPORTS

By COLIN FLANDERS

The Colchester softball team fell in heart-breaking fashion last week dur-ing one of the most exciting games of the season — an eight-inning, two-day affair against Essex in the state semi-finals.

Lightning ended a frenzied day one of play in the top of the seventh, the score tied at 5. The Lakers wasted no time when play resumed the next day, jumping out to a one-run lead heading into the bottom of the frame.

Yet the Hornets fought back via an Allie Rutz sac-fly to send the game into the eighth, setting up a dramatic

two-run shot by Makenna Thorne, her second of the game, thrusting Essex into the finals. There, they defeated Mt. Anthony 4-2 on Monday to win the title.

Despite the loss, Colchester head coach Courtney Boetsma was proud of her team’s performance.

“We had put ourselves in a posi-tion we wanted to be in. Their hard work paid off; we competed with a re-ally tough team in the state and that’s all you can ask for in a game like that,” she said.

The Lakers finished the season an impressive 17-4; two of those losses came at the hands of the eventual

champion Hornets. Both times, the Lakers were within mere outs of cap-turing the win.

Boetsma praised her team for its hardworking mentality, “coming in day in and day out to perform to the best of their ability and do everything that I ask,” she said.

She also took a moment to thank her four seniors — Taylor Losier, Sa-vanah Goodreau, Suleika Torres and Danielle Whitham — for their effort and leadership.

“They did a terrific job for me this season and all three years I’ve coached them. They’re going to be greatly missed,” Boetsma said.

A St. Michael’s College coach is headed to Israel next summer.

Men’s ice hockey assistant coach Casey Fratkin will be the

lone assistant coach on the United States’ entry into the 20th Maccabiah Games, his third international coaching assignment.

Fratkin assisted as Lithuania earned a bronze medal in March at the International Ice Hockey Federation U18 World Championship in Romania. Two weeks later, he helped the Lithuanian na-tional team take bronze in Croatia during the IIHF Men’s World Championship.

Fratkin just completed his second year as a college coach. He will assist

Having just completed his second year as a college coach, Fratkin will assist Mer-cyhurst University coach Greg Gardner as his team competes in the open division during the Maccabiah Games, which take place every four years. Tryouts are next month in Philadelphia.

The Maccabi USA team took the silver medal at the 2013 Games, falling to Cana-da in the championship.

Fratkin has personal tie to the event:

His father, Ron, competed in golf during the 1969 Games.

A native of Burnaby, British Colum-bia, Fratkin helped the Purple Knights advance to the Northeast-10 Conference tournament championship game in 2014-15 during his first season as a college as-sistant coach. This winter marked his 10th year in coaching.

Since 2006, Fratkin has worked with multiple amateur hockey programs in the Vancouver, British Columbia area. In 2011, he started working for Elite Hockey Science, where he is involved with player development for various age groups in-cluding professional, college and junior players.

Fratkin began volunteering in 2006 as an on-ice instructor and mentor for the Hockey Education Reaching Out Society, a Vancouver-based program dedicated to teaching basic hockey skills to econom-ically-challenged youths. He has also de-voted time to the Two-Way Hockey School since 2008.

Fratkin came to Saint Michael’s after a four-year collegiate playing career split

between Division III institutions Wesleyan University and Elmira College. He spent the 2010-11 campaign skating for nation-ally-ranked NCAA Tournament quarterfi-nalist Elmira before transferring to Wes-leyan for 2011-12.

In three seasons with the Cardinals, Fratkin played 51 games as a defenseman, helping the team make three straight ap-pearances in the New England Small Col-lege Athletic Conference postseason.

Fratkin was also recognized twice on the NESCAC All-Academic team and grad-uated in 2014. He expects to complete his master’s degree in sports industry man-agement from Georgetown University next year.

Prior to his collegiate career, Fratkin played four years of junior hockey in the Alberta Junior Hockey League and British Columbia Hockey League.

The Maccabiah Games debuted in 1932 and have been held in Israel every four years 1953 in the year following the Olympics. In 2013, more than 9,000 world-class athletes from 75 countries partici-pated in the 19th Maccabiah Games, mak-ing it the third-largest international sports competition in the world behind only the Olympics and FIFA World Cup.

For more information about the 2017 Games, head to www.maccabiusa.com/events/2017-20th-maccabiah-games.

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By JASON STARR

New zoning regula-tions for the Malletts Bay shoreline are under consid-eration by the Colchester Selectboard this week after the planning commission

finalized a proposal last week.

“This [represents] 18 months of work and a lot of discussion,” planning commission chairwoman Pam Loranger said before the group unanimously en-

dorsed the proposal. “We have worked through this conscientiously and dili-gently, looking at all sides with the understanding that you can’t please all the people.”

The new regulations

are designed to hold devel-opers accountable for the water on their properties to keep contaminated runoff from entering the lake.

They also aim to priori-tize pedestrian, bicycle and boater traffic over automo-bile traffic; to preserve and expand public access to the lake and to maintain or improve views of the lake, planning and zoning direc-tor Sarah Hadd said.

The proposal would create two new zoning districts — a Lakeshore 1 District for properties on the lake side of Lakeshore Drive and a Lakeshore 2 District for properties on the non-lake side.

The regulations provide incentives for stormwater-friendly infrastructure such as rain barrels and non-impervious pavement that, if employed, would al-low a developer to go from an existing 40 percent lot coverage cap to potentially 100 percent lot coverage. The regulations also allow for currently forbidden

construction of stormwater infrastructure in the Lake Champlain floodplain.

Both new zoning dis-tricts come with more al-lowed and conditional uses than the current zoning but also prescribe new building design standards aimed at improved aesthetics for the area.

“We are not telling you what your building needs to look like, we’re just tell-ing you to try and design it so it’s attractive,” Hadd told a crowd of about 30 lake-front landowners at a pub-lic hearing last Tuesday.

The selectboard was due for a first reading of the new regulations at its meet-ing this Tuesday, after The Sun’s deadline.

If the regulations are approved after a second reading, they would take effect 21 days later, accord-ing to Hadd. Existing struc-tures that don’t conform to the new standards would be grandfathered in.

“Existing structures can stay as they are unless they

are going to be replaced or something significant of that nature,” Hadd said.

She referred to Hazelett Strip-Casting, a longstand-ing industrial manufac-turer on West Lakeshore Drive, saying it would be grandfathered and could expand. But any new in-dustrial use in the area would need conditional use approval, she said.

Commission endorses lakeshore zoning

We are not telling you what your building needs to look like. SARAH HADD zoning director

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