A play by 16-year-old Bennington playwright Addie Lentzner on the life and tragic death of a well-known Bennington homeless man during a frigid night in the winter of 2020 will make its premiere during a festival of one-act plays this Sunday at the Bennington Theater.
The death of Thierry Heuga, who froze under the Holden Street bridge in Bennington on Feb. 10, 2020, lit a flame under Bennington teenager Addie Lentzner.
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The housing crisis in Vermont has been in the forefront the past week, thanks to the continued skyward trajectory of the stateâs real estate market, the efforts of young activists seeking to extend the general assistance motel program for the homeless, and a report showing how difficult it is for lower-wage earners to find housing that does not force them to work more than 40 hours a week to afford a decent place to live.
About those activists: Theyâre high school students, but Addie Lentzner and Erica Jansch of Bennington, and the friends they made at the Governorâs Institute of Vermont Youth Leadership Program, made an impression with their call for restoring the wider eligibility for the general assistance motel voucher program.
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BENNINGTON â An Arlington Memorial High School senior was at the forefront of a news conference Tuesday urging calling Gov. Phil Scott to reverse course on changing the eligibility requirements for a program that kept homeless people sheltered in motels during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Addie Lentzner, 17, a rising senior at AMHS, and Erica Jansch, 14, an incoming freshman at Mount Anthony Union High School, were among students speaking during a press conference calling on Scott and the state Agency of Human Services to walk back regulations that took effect July 1.
Lentzner administration to extend eligibility for a motel program for the homeless.