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Celebrate local food, support restaurants and enjoy the outdoors through this Vermont Fresh Network initiative. Foodies order takeout from a local restaurant, choose a picnic spot and snap photos of their meals in celebration of Vermont's farmer-chef connection. See website for details. Through August 31.
Image: Vermont Fresh Network
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Have a feel-good summer with the Good Citizen Challenge! a youth civics program for young people in grades K-12. Each month we’ll announce new activities focusing on history, community, government, advocacy and news literacy to keep you and your family active and engaged. View activities.
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Oak Meadow inhabits one of those uncommon niches that has actually benefited, business-wise, from the pandemic. In recent months, the company has experienced an "unprecedented" surge of interest, receiving 50 to 70 calls a day, executive director Steve Lorenz said. Oak Meadow is on track to take in the same amount of revenue in curriculum sales this July as it made in all of 2019, added marketing and communications director Catherine Hays.
Image: Courtesy of Oak Meadow
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Your personal staycation may be no further than your own backyard. If you’re planning on a local adventure, NEFCU has options! Ask us about our loans for swimming pools, ATVs, RVs, motorcycles, boats, campers and jet skis. Call us at 866.80.LOANS or visit nefcu.com.
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Superintendents had to draft school reopening plans without knowing whether their staff members would be able to come back. And staffers couldn’t decide whether to return until they knew what their individual district's plans were. Jeff Fannon, executive director of the Vermont-NEA, described the conundrum as a “chicken or egg” issue.
Image: Matthew Thorsen
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Let Seven Days be your travel guide. Introducing Staytripper, the road map to rediscovering Vermont. Every month we’ll be rounding up mini excursions, dining destinations, lodging, tours and more into a curated itinerary for you to grab and go. Why? Because you’re on vacation — let us do the work. (Image: Nathanael Asaro)
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"Approaching Glover from the north, we stopped at Red Sky Trading. I was delighted to introduce my two companions to this magical shop. A small barn filled with funky vintage items was padlocked, presumably because it couldn't be pandemic-proofed. But the usual assortment of baked goods, jams, pickles and salsas was available on tables and in a fridge in the yard, accompanied by funny homemade signs and ample hand sanitizer."
Image: Pamela Polston
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We want to know all about it! Tell us your pet’s name, breed, age and something fun about them, and they could be featured in our upcoming Animal Issue on August 19. Want to see your furry friend in the paper? Share a high-resolution photo with us by Friday, August 7.
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Most Teachers Concerned About In-Person School; 2 in 3 Want to Start the Year Online
"When it comes to going back to the classroom, 77% of teachers are worried about risking their own health. Robin Stauffer is one of them. She's taught high school English for four decades, most recently in Katy, Texas, a suburb west of Houston. She says working with kids has kept her young and lighthearted, and she has a strong sense of mission 'to be the type of teacher that I wish I would have had when I was in public school, to kind of right the wrongs that I experienced.' But she's also 66 years old and has diabetes, both of which make her more vulnerable to the coronavirus. According to the U.S. Department of Education, almost 30% of teachers are 50 and older, putting them in a higher-risk category for the virus."
NPR, 08/06/20
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Turmoil After a Museum Deletes 'Black Lives Matter' From Postings
"The [Seattle Children's Museum's] executive director explained her rationale for the deletions a couple of days later on a staff video call that participants taped. Christi Stapleton Keith, the director, said she personally believed in the message of Black Lives Matter but the institution had a process and needed to create a message 'that the museum could all agree on as an organization' 'And what happens' she went on, 'if we lose funding? What happens if we lose donors? All of those considerations have to be considered when we write the language around this.'"
New York Times, 08/04/20
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Your School District's Reopening Survey
"We recognize that many families are naturally uncomfortable sending their child back to school given the virus’s uncertainty. As such, we have also designed a remote learning option in conjunction with an outside vendor who specializes in emailing non-working links to YouTube videos, as we realize that Google Classroom posed technological challenges. Your child should expect to sit in front of a screen for roughly eight hours per day, with allowances for quick movement breaks, meals, and the occasional primal scream."
McSweeney's Internet Tendency (humor site)
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Can Wolves Howl and Relax at the Same Time?
"This Wolf Conservation Center webcam video captures 2.5 minutes of these captive-born ‘ambassador wolves’ while they howl from their protected den in the South Salem, New York forest."
The Kids Should See This
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Catch up on our latest issue, and look for the August issue of Kids VT inside next week's Seven Days on August 12.
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