OGDENSBURG â One month ago, 19-year-old Connor J. Sibley was knocking âon deathâs door,â as his mother put it.
The Ogdensburg teen was severely injured in a ski accident in Maine last month, and his head took most of the impact. He was in a coma for about a week before he started progressing faster than expected, according to his mother. His swift recovery led to an earlier than expected return home.
The community has rallied around Connor for the last month as he recovered, and they continued to do so Thursday afternoon as about 25 people lined the street leading to his house on Rensselaer Avenue.
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Vermont Business Magazine Starting March 3, the Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College, in partnership with the Vermont Agency of Education, will be offering free online (and on-demand) financial literacy training for all Vermont K-12 teachers.
More than 80,000 Vermont students could benefit from this program, which gives teachers access to the tools, resources, and training they need to successfully integrate personal finance education into their classrooms and organizations.
“Now is the time for financial literacy education, more than ever,” says Winooski High School teacher Courtney Poquette.
The program is being opened up to a wider audience this year thanks to the online nature of the training and because of the financial effects of pandemic. Homeschoolers and educators at nonprofits, after-school programs, and state and local agencies are also encouraged to participate.
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Knox County Homeless Coalition is one of seven Northern New England nonprofit organizations selected to receive donations from Bar Harbor Bank & Trust’s employee-driven charitable giving program, Casual for a Cause. The contributions collected in Q4 2020 total nearly $12,000.
“These nonprofit organizations provide much-needed services to our communities, and the employees of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust are honored to be able to assist them with their efforts,” said Jack Frost, VP Director of Community Giving at Bar Harbor Bank & Trust.
Casual for a Cause gives Bank employees the opportunity to dress casually on Fridays in exchange for a bi-weekly payroll deduction made to a pool of funds collected during each quarter. The employees then vote on the nonprofits to receive their contributions. Employees have donated more than $100,000 to more than 50 organizations across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont since the program launched in 2018.
POTSDAM — A volunteer group that assembles and distributes “comfort bags” recently delivered more than 40 bags for patients in the cancer centers in Potsdam and Ogdensburg.
WATERTOWN â This is another installment in the Sci-Tech Museumâs âHomebound Scienceâ program.
The Sci-Tech Museum, 154 Stone St., launched the program last year during the stateâs PAUSE order relating to the pandemic. The science program involves âhands-onâ experiments to try with materials found around homes or in nature.
CATCH A SNOWFLAKE
Materials you will need:
1) Glass microscope slide, or other flat glass object such as a small picture frame with glass protector, or the mirror in a compact. Make sure your slide is glass, not plastic.
2) Artistâs spray fixative, or clear acrylic spray coating, or hairspray. Make sure that the product you use is not water-based. (Note, some hair sprays use butane as the propellant, which will not work at the low temperatures this experiment needs.)