This Way Up on April 28
th to Focus on Women Entrepreneurship
On April 28
th at 5:00 p.m. ET, the Vermont Women’s Fund and the Vermont Community Foundation will co-host
This Way Up, a virtual event to examine the potential of women’s entrepreneurship, the opportunities and pitfalls associated with business ownership, and why gender impacts financial outcomes. Moderated by Vermont Public Radio’s Jane Lindholm, the event will feature four women business owners from southern Vermont.
This topic is a bit of a mystery in Vermont as there is no conclusive data on the number of women-owned businesses in the state. Based on US Census data, the
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Wayne, Greg, and Jeff cover all of the topics in the world of sports, from UMaine and in to the pros, and guess who is going back to the Super Bowl.
The UMaine system is expected to send out a release today, and according to multiple sources that will shut down Black Bear Athletics until the first weekend of February.
The UMaine women s basketball team has won 7 in a row since their only loss of the year and finished off a sweep of Binghamton this weekend in New York.
Saturday Millan scored 37 points during the two wins moving her to 5th on the Black Bears All-Time scoring list passing Heather Ernest. Millan also had 9 steals and now is second on the UMaine All-Time steals list. Dor Saar also became the 22nd player to surpass 1,000 points scored in her career.
Susan Smith
Susan Fay Smith proud mother, beloved physician, mentor, tae kwon do black belt and tai chi practitioner died peacefully of Alzheimer’s on January 4, with her devoted partner Glo at her side. She was 76 years old. Born in San Francisco to Charlot and Donald Smith, she grew up in upstate New York and Minnesota. As a teen and a young adult, she worked at Girl Scouts camps in the Northeast, and in 1961 she served as valedictorian of her graduating class in Clifton Springs, N.Y.
She was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. Then, ever adventurous and political, she moved to Sweden in 1965 with $100 in her pocket, to avoid paying taxes to fund the Vietnam War. After three years as a lab tech in a Stockholm hospital, she returned to the U.S. to complete her undergraduate degree and attend medical school at the University of Michigan. She arrived in Burlington as an ob-gyn resident in 1976, where she would remain to r
Jane Lindholm (left) and But Why? producer Melody Bodette Asked how she would describe her colleague, Ashworth said Lindholm is just as she appears on the air. You know, she s really smart. She s really curious. She s really sharp. And, like,
on it. She sees things clearly from the start. On the day of our interview for this story, Ashworth canceled at the last minute. She d just found out her dad was en route to the emergency room in Minneapolis, close to where she grew up. It was nothing serious, she told me the next day possibly dehydration. But she d texted Lindholm, too, before she knew her father was OK.