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Local Hero: Chevon Powell
Chevon Powell, organizer of the Refuge Outdoor Festival. [Photo] Earica Brown
In 2015 thirty-two-year-old Chevon Powell was driving in Vermont on her way to start a two-week solo backpacking trip. Originally from Houston, she d attended college in New England, and she was ecstatic to be back among the changing colors of a Northeast autumn. Overhead, the leaves of sugar maples created the dazzling hues of red, orange and yellow iconic of the state. Fluttering in the breeze, the trembling aspen seemed to hint at the winter ice to come. Then Powell noticed a police car was following her.