This year’s Penguin Run was a slushy social event where people intentionally immersed themselves in a blizzard. Hundreds of people came together in 20-degree weather at Williston Central School for a Vermont Special Olympics fundraising event. “I will tell you, it’s been a really weird year in high schools. It’s been quiet, the energy has been off. Today… was the most fun day of the year,” said Champlain Valley Union High School Principle, Adam Bunting. Bunting also participated in the run. “We wanted the group to be together,” said CVU Match Teacher Peter Booth. “Kids have not really had a chance to be together in a safe way. Other than in the classroom. They’ll just go classroom to classroom with no social time.” Booth is also a parent of a child who has disabilities, which is how he knows first-hand what keeping the event going in nontraditional times meant for students. Traditionally, the event is a water plunge at Lake Champlain, but, because of the p
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A bill doubling the bottle bill deposit from a nickel to a dime and expanding its coverage to containers for drinking water, sports drinks and other non-dairy beverages has been endorsed by a House committee.
The Vermont House Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife Committee voted 8-3 to approve the change on Friday, with Reps. Nelson Brownell and Seth Bongartz both voting yes. Voting no were Reps. Paul Lefebvre, I-Essex-Caledonia-Orleans: Harvey Smith, R-Addison 5; and Thomas Terenzini, R-Rutland 4.
The bill, H. 175, would expand the universe of containers requiring deposits to water bottles, wine bottles, and containers for all noncarbonated and carbonated drinks. Milk â dairy and otherwise â would be excluded. Liquor and wine bottles would require a deposit.
Committed to making sure that Champlain Valley School District students are not hungry, school food staff have multiplied the number of meals they are produce.
At Champlain Valley Union High School, the lunchroom has gone from putting out 900 meals a day â 200 breakfasts and 700 lunches â before COVID to 3,400 meals a day now, Leo LaForce, food service director, said.
On Wednesdays, meal volume has jumped even more, as workers prepare for those students who learn remotely on Thursdays and Fridays to have sufficient sustenance.
âThe lunchroom workers are heroes,â Bonnie Birdsall, CVSD director of digital communications and communications, said.
The districtâs elementary schools are making meals for the students Monday through Friday, but CVU lunchroom workers have been making food to help food-insecure families get through weekends, LaForce said.
Winter ice skating in Chittenden County and beyond: Here s where to skate this season April Barton, Burlington Free Press
CORRECTION/CLARIFICATION: The Leddy ice rink rents two different sized spaces to households and does not provide equipment rentals. The previous version misidentified one of the rental fees and the newer version clarifies who can rent the space.
It s time to lace up those skates and cut figure eights into the ice.
There are plenty of ways to get out on the ice in Chittenden County this winter, even with COVID-19 limiting some of the indoor offerings.
New or improved rinks this year