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BRATTLEBORO â As colorful flowers reemerge around downtown Brattleboro, just in time for summer, so does a familiar face who waters and takes care of them. People might notice that Dick DeGray isnât in his normal watering truck, but a new one that he and Stephanie Bonin, executive director of Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, were able to purchase through fundraising.
âEnd of last year we were having difficulties with the water truck. . It wasnât going to be usable this year,â said DeGray. âWe started a campaign to fundraise for a new water truck. We raised $29,000 for it, which was quite impressive; it was overwhelming to see that much community support for the flower program.â
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BRATTLEBORO â Gallery Walk Friday will include a focus on learning about ourselves and one another through the unveiling of the âWheel of Philosophy.â
Thought up by Bethany Thies and Michael Ferreira, the new, interactive thinking game includes questions both generic and probing.
âThis is a brand new idea and concept that does not exist. Think of a cross between the Wheel of Fortune and The Price is Right,â Thies said.
The physical wheel with questions was built by Justin Morrell of Morrell Metalsmiths of Colrain, Mass. The game also includes activities aimed to bring people together.
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Preparing meals for Everyone Eats Vermont Everyone Eats! has served more than 1,024,000 meals to residents impacted by COVID-19. The program helped save an estimated 500 restaurant jobs and provided consistent business to some 200 eateries when that industry was dealt a severe pandemic blow. The meals from chicken-and-leek pie with salad to chicken sausage with couscous and green beans even include local ingredients. Yet before the state legislature established the program in August 2020 with $5 million in CARES Act relief funds, a grassroots movement sprang up across the state to feed people in need. These early efforts swift business pivots that involved a collaboration of restaurants and nonprofits included ShiftMeals in Burlington, organized by the Skinny Pancake; a partnership in Vergennes among the city s Boys & Girls Club, Bar Antidote and Three Squares Café; and a southern Vermont initiative, Nourishing Artists, co