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The 4th, Farm Tours & Students Returning

White River Valley Chamber of Commerce 31 VT Route 66, Suite #1 Randolph, Vermont 05060

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Towns We Serve

Bethel, Braintree, Brookfield, Chelsea,

Hancock, Randolph, Royalton, Roches-

ter, Sharon, Stockbridge, & Tunbridge

Staff

Amelia Lincoln, Office Manager

[email protected]

Emma Schumann, Director

[email protected]

Typical Office Hours

Monday: 10 AM - 1 PM

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: 10 AM - 4 PM

Thursday: Closed

Friday: 10AM - 3 PM

Board of Directors

Jonni Huntley Spaulding , President

Holly Benoir , Vice President

Sherry Needle, Secretary

Marty Strange, Treasurer

Joe Boyd , Past President

Sue Ames

Bill Bohnyak

Pam Caron

Rob Niebling

Paul Rea

Arny Spahn

Mary Jeanne Taylor

Volume 21

July/Aug 2015 SMALL TOWNS Keeping business connected in the White River Valley region

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The Fourth of July is behind us, and what a great day it was. We had more sponsors and volunteer this year than we have had since Amelia and I be-gan working here. We sincerely ap-preciate you participation and support! For some pictures from the day, see page 2. We would again like to thank all of those who sponsored the event:

Major Sponsors Lamson Howell Foundation Rain or Shine Tent and Events Co. Town of Randolph Rural Vermont Real Estate Gifford Medical Center Rotary Club of Randolph, VT Lake Sunapee Bank Frankenburg Agency LEDdynamics

Additional Sponsors Lincoln Farms Magee Office Products John R. Lansky, DDS Pomerleau Real Estate Century 21 Mill Stone Agency Dimmick Wastewater Service Mascoma Savings Bank Vermont Heritage Real Estate RACDC Skip’s Clock Shop CV Oil Catamount Kitchens & Design Northfield Savings Bank Allan’s Vending and Service Catamount Solar White River Credit Union Randolph Village Pizza Farm Tour Saturday This year, the Saturday Farm Tour falls on September 5th. This program highlights farming in the region and

educates participants on how im-portant it is to support local farms and purchase products produced by local farms. We are rounding out the tour for the year and are seeking two more Farms to participate. See page 3. Student Welcome Bags We are going to be packing up 400+ Student Welcome Bags again for in-coming freshman and new VTC stu-dents. If you would like to offer infor-mation or an incentive to get this popu-lation using your services or buying your products, don’t miss your chance to have your information included in the bags! See page 4.

In this issue

Pictures of 4th of July in Randolph P.2

Seeking 2 Farms for Farm Tour Sat. P.3 Solar Workshop and Local Film Offered 3

Make College Students Customers P.4

ECVEC Works on Regional Econ. Dev. 4

Edward Jones Moves Up Fortune 500 P.5 Stagecoach Jim Moulton Recognized 5

Lake Sunapee Bank Enhanced Logo P.6 Lyra Summer Music Returns to VTC 6

CV Chamber Music Festival 23rd Year P.7

Space Available at JP’s Flea Market 7

Lyons Den Restaurant and Pub P.8 Chandler Seeking Executive Director 8

Short Food Classes Offered at VTC P.9

Rotarian Publishes Book on B-58 9

Chandler’s New World Festival P.10 Playhouse Movie Theatre Schedule 10

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Randolph's 4th of July Parade and Street Fest

More than 7,000 people came out to celebrate Independence Day in Randolph. Here are some pictures from the day.

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Solar

Workshop &

Local Film

Join SunCommon,

Ayers Brook Goat

Dairy, and the

Randolph Energy

Committee for a

Solar Workshop and

short film screening.

Tue., July 28 at 7 PM

Chandler Center

Randolph

The film features local

business owners, farm-

ers and homeowners

that have gone solar!

Now’s you chance to

find out more.

For more info, contact

Joel Rhodes at

[email protected]

Seeking 2 more Farms for Tour Program

We are seeking two more farms to round out the Farm Tour Saturday program this year. This highly advertised program will be Saturday September 5th during one of the area’s busiest weekends of the year. It is your chance to show off what you do, and educate people about what goes into run-ning a farm. There is NO COST to join! Farms must commit to touring registered

visitors around their business at an assigned time during the day. Tours should take 30-60 minutes and we encourage them to be fun and educational. Help us bring you new business. We’ll sell folks on the Farm Tour and then you sell them on YOUR Farm. Help them understand why it is so im-portant to buy locally and support White River Valley farms! Make them your new customers,

and have them coming back for more of your locally produced farm products year round. Advertising was published in the 2015 Area Guide and local promotion begins the first week of August, so we need to hear from you soon. Contact us today! Send email to: [email protected]

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On August 21st, Vermont Tech in Randolph Center will have hundreds of freshmen and new students arrive on

campus. Each one of those students receives a “Welcome

to the Community” bag from the Chamber and we are offer-ing your business or organization the opportunity to include

something in that bag to get your name in front of them.

Do you want to encourage those young adults to use your bank, eat at your restaurant, buy merchandise at your store or use your services? Consider including a coupon, flyer , informational brochure, menu or tchotchke in their bag! These are handed to every new student during

orientation weekend.

You will need to provide us with 450 copies or items. They should be dropped off at the Chamber office before August 15th and we will do the work of stuffing one into every bag and delivering them to Vermont Tech.

Make Local College Students your Customers!

East Central Vermont Economic Development

(ECVEDD) is doing work that’s being partially

funded by the U.S. Economic Development Ad-

ministration (EDA).

The ECVEDD has:

Developed a first draft of the updated Com-

prehensive Economic Development Strategy

(CEDS). (The document is too large to be sent

via email, so please go to ECVEDD.org, the

draft is available in the right-hand column under

“News.”) The CEDS will be open for public

comment on August 4, 2015 for 30 days, so if

you have any suggestions and/or comments,

please send them to me via email

([email protected]) by Thursday, July 30.

· ECVEDD.org has been launched. Please vis-

it at your convenience and let them know what

you think of it.

· ECVEDD Dashboard has been launched You

can review it at ECVEDD.org.

They held the “Local Food Systems’ Impact

on the Regional Economy” workshop on May

21, 2015 at the Billings Farm & Museum Thea-

tre. Attendance was good and they received a

lot of good feedback from attendees. The ses-

sion was recorded and should be posted to

ECVEDD.org shortly.

ECVEDD partners met to discuss actions from

the new CEDS that each would like to move for-

ward in 2016. An application has been submit-

ted to EDA requesting partial funding.

If you have questions about anything above, or

suggestions, contact Lauralei Morrow at Two

Rivers Ottauquechee Regional Commission at

[email protected].

Or, get informed by attending the meetings. The

next full board meeting is set for September 23,

2015 at the Hartford Town Office from 3:00 pm

to 4:30 pm. These meetings are open to the

public, so please feel free to join them.

ECVEC works on Regional Economic Development

Some of the bags delivered for distribution in 2014.

Financial services firm Edward Jones moves up on the annual FORTUNE 500 list, as published by FOR-TUNE magazine, in its third appearance in three years, according to Leo Connolly. FORTUNE magazine's annual listing ranks the larg-est U.S. companies by revenue. Edward Jones moved up 18 spots to No. 426 on this year's list, with more than $6.3 billion in revenue for 2014. "Our success comes from making a significant differ-ence in our clients' lives," said Connolly. "Being a FORTUNE 500 firm is the result of helping meet more of our clients' financial needs as we deliver an experi-ence our clients need and value."

Edward Jones, a Fortune 500 company, provides fi-nancial services for individual investors in the United States and, through its affiliate, in Canada. Every as-pect of the firm's business, from the types of invest-ment options offered to the location of branch offices, is designed to cater to individual investors in the com-munities in which they live and work. The firm's 14,000-plus financial advisors work directly with near-ly 7 million clients. Edward Jones, which ranked No. 6 on FORTUNE magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2015, is headquartered in St. Louis. FORTUNE and Time Inc. are not affiliated with and do not endorse products or services of Edward Jones. The Edward Jones website is located at www.edwardjones.com, and its recruiting website is www.careers.edwardjones.com. Member SIPC.

The Community Transportation As-sociation of America (CTAA) hon-ored Jim Moulton of Addison Coun-ty Transit Resources (ACTR) and Stagecoach Transportation Ser-vices (Stagecoach) as the 2015 Community Transportation Manag-er of the Year. CTAA consists of member organizations that support creating mobility for all Americans regardless of where they live or work. Each year CTAA chooses from the best among thousands of Community Transportation Manag-ers across the nation to receive this award. Moulton is the first Vermont-er to be selected for this honor. The Manager of the Year demon-strates exceptional leadership while providing transportation service that is integral to the community by cre-ating vision for the system and gathering support both from within and outside the organization. “I am humbled to receive this honor,” said Moulton, “and grateful for ACTR and Stagecoach’s team of commit-ted and caring staff, dedicated vol-unteers and invested board mem-bers”. VTrans gave Moulton a vote of con-

fidence when they re-quested his leadership support for Stage-coach, in 2013. “Under his leadership, Stage-coach has become stronger financially, operationally and ad-ministratively,” said Paul Kendall, Stage-coach’s Board Chair. “In a short time period, Stagecoach has ex-panded services to the most vulnerable community mem-bers, achieved fiscal stability, strengthened community connec-tions, revitalized its board of direc-tors, and developed staff manage-ment and leadership. The Stage-coach Board is thankful for the ex-perience and visionary leadership that Jim has brought to the organi-zation.” During Moulton’s tenure at Middle-bury-based ACTR, ridership on the bus system has grown by more than 430% while the service budget has more than tripled. Moulton has also chaired the Ver-mont Public Transit Association for

over a decade, working to promote the use of and investment in pub-lic transportation state-wide. “Jim has done a great job of leading sus-tained growth at ACTR for over a decade,” said Chris Cole, VTrans Deputy Secre-tary. “The gains are

clear in the ridership in-creases, diversity and quality of services offered, and the stunning facility project, recently completed under his direction. Over the past year, Jim has stepped up even fur-ther to also manage Stagecoach. This was all accomplished at the same time as continuing to serve as the longtime Chairperson of the Vermont Public Transit Association. VTrans thanks Jim for all of his hard work and congratulates him on the well-deserved CTAA recog-nition.” Congratulations Jim, for this well deserved honor!!

Edward Jones Moves Up on the FORTUNE 500 List

Stagecoach’s Jim Moulton Transportation Manager of the Year

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Lake Sunapee Bank is pleased to introduce an enhanced logo and launch of its refreshed visual brand. Each element of the new logo and visual brand highlights the Bank’s strategic focus to set new standards in emerg-ing market areas. The rebranding reflects both the evolution of the compa-ny as well as the Bank’s vision for the future.

“The release of the en-hanced logo and con-sistent visual brand marks a significant milestone for us,” said

Stephen R. Theroux, President and CEO of Lake Sunapee Bank, “it illus-trates our vision and ambition for the future. We are very excited and com-mitted to establishing our brand and strengthening our position as the premier provider of financial solutions throughout our market areas.” As part of the rebranding, the Bank has incorporated a cohesive, mutually enhanced, identity for its whole family of brands which includes McCrillis & Eldredge Insurance and Charter Trust Company. The new brand-mark be-gan appearing this month across all 37 branches throughout New Hamp-shire and Vermont.

Lake Sunapee Bank, a federally chartered savings bank, provides a wide range of life-cycle banking and financial services. Lake Sunapee Bank wholly-owns McCrillis & Eldredge Insurance, Inc., a full-line independent insurance agency, and Charter Holding Corp., which wholly-owns Charter Trust Company, a trust services and wealth management company. Lake Sunapee Bank, through its subsidiaries, as well as The Nashua Bank, a division of Lake Sunapee Bank, operates 44 banking, insurance, and trust and wealth management locations throughout Grafton, Hillsborough, Merri-mack and Sullivan counties in New Hampshire and Orange, Rutland and Windsor counties in Vermont. The bank is wholly owned by Lake Sunapee Bank Group (NASDAQ: LSBG).

Enhanced Logo and Visual Brand for Lake Sunapee Bank

Lyra 6th Season

July 12-Aug 1

Mark your calendars, and

join Lyra at one or many of

their fantastic and very

special classical music

events. Featuring distin-

guished guest artists from

around the world, Lyra's

inspiring faculty and won-

derfully talented students,

all events are free of

charge or for a small sug-

gested donation.

Tell your friends!

For workshop info,

guest artist roster,

and more,

Click Here

For a listing of all Lyra

Summer Music concerts,

Click Here

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Peter Sanders, cellist and artistic director, kicks off the 23rd annual residency of his Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival in Ran-dolph the week of August 10th. Bringing eight colleagues from the New York area with him, seven events are planned for the two week Festival.

The first concert in the series at Chandler Music Hall takes place on Friday, August 14 in the main Gal-lery, featuring former Kronos Quar-tet cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, performing works from his newly released solo album, Something of Life. The al-bum is one of over a dozen record-ings released in the course of his career and features premier record-ings of works by Philip Glass, John Zorn and oth-ers. The per-formance be-gins at 7 p.m. with free ad-mission, good-will offerings.

There are two 8:00 p.m. Saturday evening con-certs sched-uled for the main hall at Chandler. The first one, on August 15th, "A Cello-bration!" features a cello quar-tet performing music of the1500's through today, including Bach, Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Debussy, Wag-ner, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, and many more. Sanders will be joined by Zeigler, Hannah Holman of the New York City Ballet, and Chris Finckel of the Manhattan String Quartet.

The Second Saturday concert, on August 22 features viola quintets by Mozart and Brahms, performed by Festival veterans violinists Basia Danilow, Arturo Delmoni, and Adela Peña; violists David Cerutti and

Kathryn Lockwood; and cellist Peter Sanders. This program will be per-formed again on Sunday, August 23 at 4:00 p.m. at the Woodstock Uni-tarian Universalist Church on the green in Woodstock. Admission for this concert is by donation.

The now annual Breakfast with Bach takes place on Sunday, Au-gust 16th, with a new twist. The breakfast will again be served in the Esther Mesh Room of Chandler's Upper Gallery, catered once again by the Three Bean Café, beginning at 11:00. The concert at Bethany Church across the street at 12:30 features Villa-Lobos's BACHianas Brasileiras #1, performed by eight cellos in collaboration with the Ver-mont Youth Orchestra, conducted

by Jeffrey Domoto. In addition, Sanders also prom-ises a sur-prise or two. There is a modest fee for the breakfast and admis-sion to the

concert is free with a goodwill offer-ing at the door.

On Saturday morning, August 15 at 10:30 a free cello workshop is of-fered in coordination with the Ver-mont Youth Orchestra. This is an informal event for cellists to play and learn about different aspects of cello performance and practice. The exercises will focus on etudes by Dotzauer and Schroder and both beginners and more advanced cel-lists are encouraged to participate. To reserve a space, contact Jeffrey Domoto: [email protected]. The workshop is also free and open to the public to observe.

Central Vermont Music Festival 23rd Yr. SPACE AVAILABLE Come out and join the fun!

As you may know, JP’s (for

John P. Gifford) Flea Market

is now in its fourth year and

has proven very successful.

Selling lots are limited so

please sign up early. Each

lot is 15 x 15 and costs only

$20. Please direct any res-

ervation requests to Jamie

Miller by phone at

728- 2238 or email:

[email protected].

See you there!

Join Us in Welcoming a New Member to the Chamber

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Lyons Den Restaurant & Pub 10 Prince St Randolph, VT Phone: (802) 565-8223

[email protected]

Monday– Closed Tues - Sat 11 AM to 10 PM Sun - 10:30 AM to 2 PM (Brunch) You may have seen The Lyons Den patriotic parade entry in our 4th of July parade in which they heartily sang patriotic songs (see page 2), The Lyons Den is a family run restaurant run by Tom and Diane Lyons of Brookfield and their daughter Lisa Wilson her husband, the Lyons Den Chef Neale Wilson who has 27 years of restaurant experience. The Lyons Den offers three areas of service in their 6,000 sq. ft. building: A formal dining room (linens, candle light, etc.) offering a wide variety of American cuisine A "family friendly" pub offering a lighter fare, full service bar (including 16 draft beers), several TVs and 2

pool tables A banquet/meeting room which can accommodate up to 80 people. The banquet room also serves as the

serving area for our popular Sunday Brunch (10:30 to 2:00) and customers can choose to sit either in the dining room or pub.

Located in the former Vermont Castings foundry complex Tom & Diane Lyons, residents of the area since 1972, recognized a great opportunity for their daughter, Lisa, & son-in-law, Neale, to fulfill a long time dream - to own and operate their own restaurant in this unique location. Neale's 28 years experience in the restaurant business (including time as a chef at the Ritz Carleton) provided the knowhow to organize and resurrect the facility to a fine operation. Lisa led the decoration and upgrading of the three dining areas and Neale led the complete overhaul, top to bottom, of the kitchen and food prep areas.

Chandler Center for the Arts an-nounces the departure of Executive Director Kurt Thoma. Kurt has de-cided for personal reasons to leave the central Vermont area, thus tak-ing him away from his position at Chandler Center for the Arts. Kurt arrived in Randolph from Michigan last August and took over the helm of Chandler with great enthusiasm. “ His energy is contagious and we will miss him greatly”, said long time President of the Board of Di-rectors, Janet Watton. Watton ex-panded on her praise for Thoma:

“Kurt has built a performance pro-gram for the coming season that is sure to delight our dedicated pa-trons and hopefully will attract some new ones as well.” Thoma has been a familiar sight around town, spending time getting to know area businesses, the Chamber of Commerce and the local arts scene. He leaves with regrets and praised the dedication of all of Chandler's volunteers, for their personal commitment in sup-port of the arts in the community

and the preservation of the historic 108 year-old music hall. Thoma expects to remain at Chandler until at least mid-August and will aid in the transition. The Chandler Center for the Arts now seeks a new Executive Direc-tor. A national search has begun and anyone interested in finding out more about the position can visit our website at www.Chandler-arts.org or contact Janet Watton at [email protected].

Chandler Center for the Arts! Seeks New Executive Director

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Souper Supper

September 26, 201

Old Town Hall in Brookfield VT

Starts at 6pm

Proceeds to benefit the Randolph Area Food Shelf (serving Randolph, Brookfield, and Braintree) & the

Brookfield Community Partnership.

A $25 donation receives a choice of a locally hand-crafted pottery bowl, choice of soup*, fresh baked

bread*, dessert & beverage.

* donated by area restaurants.

Help eliminate empty bowl’s for others by bringing a non-perishable food item for the Food Shelf.

George “Sonny” Holt, a longtime member of the Randolph Rotary Club, has just published a book titled: "The B-58 Blunder - How the U.S. Abandoned its Best Strategic Bomber." (cover left) The book is available on Ama-zon.com or they can find it by click-ing HERE. The book is about how highly ef-fective weapons of war that often cost millions of dollars can easily end up in a trash pile due to quick and uninformed decisions. It's a case study on how the B-58 super-sonic bomber came to a premature

death in the U.S. military, largely because of infighting among mili-tary and civilian leaders, who failed to understand the value of the plane. The B-58 was a technological mar-vel for its time and the very best pilots and navigators were chosen to fly this unique aircraft. At its maximum speed of 2.2 Mach (1,452 mph) it was 2½ times faster than the muzzle velocity of a .45 caliber bullet. It could fly faster and out turn most fighters of its day. To learn more, you will have to buy a copy of Sonny’s book.

Business Issues Survey

The summer weather is here and your business is in prime time, but the Vermont State Chamber is thinking ahead to January. Every year, legislation is introduced at the state and federal levels that affects your labor and workplace policies, and the cost of doing business in Vermont.

Business input shapes the State Chamber’s policy positions and sharpens their advocacy on your behalf. At your convenience, please click on and complete a short survey on the

top business issues for 2016.

Thank you for being a Chamber of Commerce member and supporting our work .

The community is welcome to the Institute for Applied Agriculture and Food Systems short courses this sum-mer at Vermont Tech in Randolph Center. Check out the great selection: Wildcrafting 1 (July 27-29) Wild Mushroom Gathering 1 (Aug. 3-5) Milk Quality (Aug. 5-7) Hops Production (Aug. 10-11) Wild Edible Food – Marketing & Regulation (Aug. 17-19). To find out more: 802-728-1677 or click HERE.

Short Summer Food Ag Classes at Vermont Tech

Small Towns, BIG Heart is published around the first of each month. It is distributed to members of the Chamber of Commerce and key leaders in the community (electronically).

All Chamber members are encouraged to submit information for the newsletter.

Information for consideration should be submitted by the 20th of the previous month to:

[email protected] The publisher retains the right to edit submissions for content and space considerations. Printed copies are available on request. If you would like printed copies for your waiting room, lobby, staff lounge, etc., please call and let us know. We are happy to provide these to you.

Contact: Emma Schumann, Ex. Director

White River Valley Chamber of Commerce

[email protected]

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Chandler Center for the Arts, 71-73 Main Street, Randolph

23rd Annual New World

Festival

Sunday September 6, noon to 11 PM

Celebrate Vermont’s Celtic and French Cana-dian heritage with tradi-tional – and sometimes not so traditional – music and dance. Each year more than 70 exceptional musicians are drawn from New England, Can-ada and the British

Isles. Concerts, music and dance workshop sessions, children's activities, and open dancing unfold on five continuous stages from noon until 11 PM. Food and drink provided by the area's finest chefs and brewer-ies.

The festival takes place in downtown Randolph, in Chandler Music Hall and Gallery, in all-weather tents on both sides of Main Street, and in historic Bethany Church. Main Street is closed to traffic, and the fes-tival site becomes an intimate pedestrian village.

Adults $34 advance, $39 after August 28 After 6 PM Adults $25 Students 13–18 $12, Children 12 and under Free!

Advance discounted adult tickets available online or by calling the box office through August 28. 802-728-6464. www.NewWorldFestival.com

Ant Man Currently Playing

Nightly at 7:30 PM

More information visit www.playhouseflicks.com

or call 802.728.4012