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ST. JOHNSBURY
NEWPORT CITY
DOWNTOWN CELEBRATES WITH ANNUAL VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS
DCF ACCIDENTALLY
RELEASES FOSTER
PARENTS’ SSNS
By BRENDAN KOZLOWSKI
Staff Writer
ST. JOHNSBURY — Saturday saw a large
crowd of locals gather downtown to celebrate
St. Johnsbury’s annual Victorian Christmas. The
even featured several activities at the Fairbanks
Planetarium, a photo shoot with Santa, wagon
rides, a model train and several other attractions
for all age ranges.
“It was excellent,” St. Johnsbury Chamber of
Commerce director Barbara Hatch said. “Meeting Santa at the Welcome Center on Saturday
was a big success. Lots of children came and the
model train was a huge draw.”
Hatch also said Star Theater hosted the Polar
By JENNIFER HERSEy
CLEVELAND
Staff Writer
NEWPORT CITY — An employee in the local ofﬁce of the Department for Children and Families
inadvertently disclosed sensitive information, including Social Security
numbers, of 66 Newport area foster
parents in an e-mail attachment Nov.
7.
More than a month later, on Dec.
9, those parents were notiﬁed of the
conﬁdentiality breach, according to
foster parent Brandy Robillard.
During the month of November,
however, Robillard said people tried
to get credit in her name at least four
times. She said she now has to monitor her credit on a regular basis over
several years to make sure no one is
able to use the information.
Adding to her concerns, DCF now
refuses to provide her with the names
of the 34 foster parents who received
the e-mail, information that could be
useful to her bank in ascertaining
who is trying to steal her identity.
In a response sent by e-mail Friday, DCF Commissioner Ken Schatz
wrote that the e-mail was recalled the
same day, and ﬁve days later, Newport district director Suzanne Shibley
sent an e-mail to the 34 addresses
apologizing for the error and instructing the recipients to hard delete the
e-mail so it can’t be recovered from
deleted mail boxes.
The notiﬁcation on Dec. 9 was in
compliance with statutory requirements, Schatz wrote. Schatz’s letter
did not address the department’s unwillingness to provide information to
help Robillard nor a reason for the
delay in notifying those affected.
DCF paid for credit monitoring
and identity protection subscriptions
for one year for those affected, but
Robillard said that to fully protect her
credit, she had to put a hold on her
accounts and must pay $60 a month
Express, which she believed “brought a lot of
people down that may not have otherwise
come.”
The horse-drawn wagon rides took place all
afternoon from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and riders rolled
down Railroad Street and then turned around at
the end of the downtown district and came back.
“They moved constantly. I’ve heard reports
See Victorian, Page A6
PHOTO BY BrENDAN KOzLOWSKI
From left: Kaylen Oviedo, 5, from Concord, Miles Pelletier, 2, Danville, and
Donley Johnson, 6, St. Johnsbury, look at
the model train set up at the St. Johnsbury Welcome Center on Saturday.
CHILDREN’S ROOM NOT
READY FOR CHRISTMAS
By JAmES JARDINE
Staff Writer
Despite high hopes, the Cobleigh Library
Children’s Room won’t be open in time for
Christmas.
The children’s room has been shut down
since June 24, 2013, and 18 months later the
recently begun cleanup process will take a little longer than initially anticipated.
Cleanway Services, based in St. Johnsbury,
won a contract to repair environmental damage to the Children’s Room as the result of
flooding into the basement of the Cobleigh
Library from heavy rains and local flooding
in June 2013.
Lyndon has been working with the town’s
insurance company, the Vermont League of
Cities and Towns, and has pursued damages
from Gary Leach, an engineer who, according
to the town, created erroneous schematics of
the sewer lines in Lyndon which led a contractor to block off a sewer line on Main
Street.
Thus far, insurance carriers and attorneys
representing the town, Gary Leach and a contractor have not been able to resolve the dispute. So far, Lyndon Selectmen have chosen
not to file a lawsuit against Leach.
In the meantime, the children’s room has
PHOTOS BY TODD WELLINGTON
ABOVE: The owner and employees of Performance Powder Coating in St. Johnsbury donate toys to the Northeast Kingdom Santa
Fund Friday. Front row, from left, are Mark Boutwell, company
owner Mark Bristol, Renette Davis and Jake Bristol. Back row from
left are St. Johnsbury Fire Department Assistant Chief Will Rivers,
Travis Morehouse and St. Johnsbury Fire Department Capt. Brad
Reed. RIGHT: St. Johnsbury Fire Chief Troy Ruggles accepts a
$500 donation for the Northeast Kingdom Santa Fund from employees at the Center Tower gas station Friday. Store workers
elected to not have an employee Christmas party this year and instead donated the money for it to the Santa Fund. From the top
are Earl “Santa” Tanguay, Emma Mason, Preston Richardson,
Jody Keddy, store manager Judy Taylor and Jeannie Blake. Front
row from left are Taylor Dawson and store owner Lorraine Impey.
See Library, Page A6
Vermont Kind To FairPoint Despite Problems
NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
By DAVE GRAm
Associated Press
AP PHOTO
Snowmobiles sit in the yard of Champlain Valley Motorsports in Cornwall.
Snowmobilers Hope For Snow
base needed to get the snowmobile season
on track, but trees knocked out in the
storm could keep some trails closed beyond the start of the season.
By WILSON RING
Associated Press
CORNWALL, Vt. — This week’s
heavy, wet snow could provide the solid
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REGION
See Snow, Page A6
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont’s
statewide 911 chief has no regrets about signing an $11 million contract with FairPoint
Communications to build the state’s nextgeneration emergency calling system less
than three weeks before problems on FairPoint’s network knocked much of the current
911 system out of service for more than ﬁve
hours.
“We don’t have buyer’s remorse,” David
Tucker, director of Vermont’s statewide 911
system, said in an interview this past week.
“We’re conﬁdent they can build this system
and maintain it.”
On Wednesday, Tucker told the agency’s
board in its ﬁrst meeting since the outage that
he is talking with FairPoint about what it
means for the state system going forward.
Tucker told the AP the state will likely ask
“We don’t have buyer’s
remorse.”
— David Tucker, director of
Vt’s statewide 911 system
FairPoint — the dominant landline phone
company serving Vermont, New Hampshire
and Maine — for greater redundancy on its
network.
On Nov. 28, heavy snow caused a tree to
fall on a ﬁber optic line in New Hampshire
that linked to the Vermont system, knocking
it out of service. Normally, calls would be
routed to a backup line, but a power surge had
caused the failure of a key piece of equipment
linked to the backup line, Tucker told the
board.
He said he had told FairPoint, “if we’re
going to have experiences both call paths failing, maybe we have to have three. Maybe we
2,300 customers still
without power in Vermont
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No one hurt in train-car
collision in Vermont
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Vermont ‘efficiency utility’ gets
new chief
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Church Street smoking ban
begins Wednesday
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Entertainment. . . . . . . A7
For the Record . . . . . . A2
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . A4
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . B1
Television . . . . . . . . . . B6
LYNDON
SANTA FUND STILL SEEKS HELP
need four.”
FairPoint spokeswoman Angelynne
Beaudry said in an email, “We do not discuss
details of a customer’s network publicly, but
will be happy to address speciﬁcs with the
(Vermont 911) board.”
On that Friday afternoon and evening after
Thanksgiving, there were no life-or-death situations missed when 83 calls to 911 failed to
connect, Vermont ofﬁcials said. Tucker also
said some areas were not affected by the outage; 105 calls got through.
Earlier in November, Tucker said, he had
signed the ﬁve-year contract with FairPoint
to go beyond providing the underlying phone
system serving Vermont to installing and
maintaining 911 hardware and software —
including work stations for staff taking emergency calls.
The decision was announced amid a
months-long trend of increasing service qualSee FairPoint, Page A6
Senate report on CIA revives legal debate
around interrogation
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UN climate talks end with crack
in rich-poor firewall
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THE rEcOrD • MONDAY, DEcEMBEr 15, 2014
FOR THE RECORD
OBITUARIES
KENNETH W. GRIGGS
1931-2014
Kenneth W. Griggs, 83, of
Griggs Road, Orange, Vt.,
passed away Friday, Dec. 12,
2014, at the Woodridge Nursing
Home in Berlin.
Born on Sept. 19, 1931, in
Wolcott, he was the son of Floyd
and Lena (Houghton) Griggs.
His youth was spent on the family farm in Danville. He attended
Harvey’s Hollow Elementary
School and Danville High
School. Ken developed his
strong work ethic out of necessity. He and his older sister, Phyllis were forced into operating the
family farm following the tragic death of their older brother, Carlton.
On Oct. 25, 1949, Ken married Jean Wesson in Danville. Following
their marriage, they lived in many homes before moving to their home
on Griggs Road in Orange. At the time of his passing, he and Jean had
just celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.
Ken was primarily employed in sales. He worked for Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut, for the Grand Union Tea Company, the Fuller
Brush Company, and the Empire Company. In 1971, he founded
Kenco, Inc., a cleaning supplies business, which he and his family
owned and operated until his retirement in 2007.
He was a past member of the Orange Alliance Church where he had
served as a trustee and an elder. He was also a member for many years
of the Gideons International. Ken was passionate about spreading
God’s word through Bible distributions in Haiti, Chili, and Argentina,
as well as locally to nurses, prisoners, students, and motels.
He always looked forward to vacations, traveling with Jean to
warmer climates in the winter as well as attending Gideon meetings
and conventions throughout the country.
Always frugal and looking for challenges, Ken preferred to do for
himself whatever he wanted or needed done, from building his homes
to maintaining and operating the many doodlebugs, tractors, and bulldozers he would purchase at auctions.
Survivors include his loving wife, Jean of Orange; his children,
Donna Gallagher and her husband, Harry of Orange, Reginald Griggs
and his wife, Betsy Ross of Barre, Patsy Knapp and her husband, Luke
of Orange, Lori Beede and her husband, Leon of Washington, and
Scott Griggs and his wife, Debbie of Orange; 12 grandchildren; 10
great-grandchildren; his sister, Phyllis Lang of Bath, N.H.; nieces and
nephews.
Besides his parents, he was predeceased by a grandson, Chris
Chaloux; a sister, Ramona Blouin; and his brother, Carlton Griggs.
His funeral service and celebration of his life will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 11 a.m. in the Hooker and Whitcomb Funeral Home,
7 Academy St., Barre. Entombment will take place in the Hooker and
Whitcomb vault to await later burial in the Brook Haven Cemetery in
Orange.
Following the service, family and friends will gather at the Hilltop
Restaurant on Quarry Hill for a time of fellowship, to share memories,
and for a luncheon.
Contributions in his memory may be made to the Gideons International, 50 Century Boulevard, P.O. Box 140800, Nashville, TN 372140800.
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In Memory Of
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Jan. 18, 1938 - Dec. 15, 2011
We Miss You
Dear hearts still ache with sadness,
and many tears still flow. What it
meant to lose you, no one will ever
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To walk with us through our lives
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PATRICIA ANN QUINN LITTLE
1943-2014
Patricia Ann Quinn Little, 71, of
Irasburg, Vt., passed away on Dec.
8, 2014. She was born on Oct. 10,
1943, at home in Island Pond, Vt.,
the middle child of three daughters
to June (Cilley) Quinn and Edward Quinn, both deceased.
She attended a one-room
schoolhouse for the ﬁrst ﬁve years
of her education prior to graduating from Brighton High School in
1961. From there, she went to the
Fanny Allen School of Nursing,
becoming an LPN. She worked at
Brightlook Hospital, Darling Inn, Orleans County Memorial Hospital,
and was an ER nurse at North Country Hospital. She then began working
with Dr. Charles Schurman as his ofﬁce nurse. Dr. Richard Beloin and
Dr. James Holcomb joined that practice and she continued to work with
them until her retirement.
In her retirement, she worked at many local schools as the school
nurse, keeping her license active. She was an integral part of Border
Hoop along with Eugene Tessier for many years. She was serving on
the board of Northern Counties Health Care, representing Island Pond
Health Care, at the time of her passing. Pat spent many hours at her
beloved Island Pond campground, swimming and caring for her niece
and nephews, and grandson. She and Stewart spent many years camping
at Lakeside, making many friends and looking after people, she was always the nurse.
She is survived by her husband, Stewart; her son, Jason and his wife
Kathy; and her grandson, Jacob. She is also survived by her sister, Kay
Hopkins and her children: Cyndi White and her husband Dan and their
sons: Jordan, Jared and his wife Kaity and great-grandnephew Wade,
Dale Newland and wife Carrie and their sons: Billy and Joey. She was
predeceased by her younger sister Donna Nutting in 2002 and survived
by Donna’s son Ryan and his wife Jennie and great nephew Quinn.
Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18, at the CurtisBritch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home, 4670 Darling Hill Road,
Newport. Should friends desire, contributions in her memory may be
made to Jacob Ryan Little Scholarship Fund, c/o Jason Little, 113 Endicott Court, Mooresville, North Carolina 28115. On-line condolences
at curtis-britch.com.
Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Curtis-Britch-ConverseRushford Funeral Home, locally family owned and operated.
COLD WEATHER TIPS
By PAt JAuCH
With the arrival of bitterly
cold weather and snow it is more
important than ever to protect
your pets from exposure. Ideally,
your pet should be kept indoors,
but if this is not possible, every
precaution should be taken to assure that your pet has a warm
and safe place to stay. Keep the
shelter facing away from the
wind and cover the entrance
with plastic or waterproof fabric. It
should be dry
and free from
drafts.
It
should also be
large enough
to allow your
pet room to
stand up, sit,
and lie down, yet
capable of maintaining the animal’s
body heat. Ideally it should be
several inches above ground
with wood shavings (preferably
cedar) or hay to cover the base.
A spare blanket should also be
provided to add to your pet’s
comfort.
Remember to protect your
pet’s feet from snow and ice.
Imagine walking barefoot in this
weather and you can only begin
to understand how it will affect
your dog’s toes. If he will tolerate it, consider booties to protect
the pads of his feet, or coat the
pads with Vaseline, and by all
means limit the time that he
spends outdoors. Be sure to
check for clumps of ice that will
gather between the toes and remove them promptly.
If your dog is spending most
of the time outdoors, he or she
will need more food to maintain
energy during the cold weather.
Water is also important and
should not be placed in a metal
container or the animal’s tongue
might stick to the metal and
freeze. Be sure to check regularly to assure that there is a sufficient supply of fresh (unfrozen)
water and food. Windchill can be
deadly and every effort
should be made to
bring your pet indoors when the
temperature
drops.
C a t s
should never
be left outdoors for extended periods
of time, nor
should older dogs,
very young dogs, or shorthaired breeds. If you have made
the decision to have a pet, take
responsibility to assure that
human companionship is available, and protect your pet from
inclement weather. Keep your
pet safe indoors and provide
plenty of exercise, food and
water throughout the year. Remember that your pet cannot tell
you when he or she is too cold or
uncomfortable. The best remedy
is to avoid the possibility of discomfort by keeping your pet indoors.
Pat Jauch is secretary of
Caledonia Animal Rescue Inc.,
P.O. Box 4054, St. Johnsbury, VT
05819; www.caledoniaanimalrescue.com.
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Leahy foiled on FOIA changes
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy
says he’s disappointed the House went home for the year without
taking up his bill that would have updated the federal Freedom of
Information Act.
The Vermont Democrat says the bill, co-sponsored by Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, came out of the Senate with bipartisan
support and was backed by more than 70 groups that advocated for
government transparency.
The bill would have put in law an executive order issued by President Barack Obama in 2009 that calls for government agencies to
respond to public requests for information with a presumption of
openness. It said the agencies could withhold information from public release, but would have to identify a foreseeable harm from its
release in order to do so.
National group: Welch
a shoo-in in 2016
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A national election reform group is
already predicting that U.S. Rep. Peter Welch will win re-election to
Vermont’s lone House seat in 2016.
FairVote, which has backed instant-runoff voting and other steps
it says will open up the electoral process, says that for the vast majority of U.S. House seats, it’s easy to project which party’s candidate
will win. The group says its projections for 2014 turned out to be
99.7 percent accurate.
FairVote says the political map heavily favors the Republicans
maintaining control of the House after the 2016 elections, but that
Vermont’s is one of a smaller number of districts that should be considered safe for Democrats even if Welch were to retire and leave it
open.
Archery, muzzleloader
seasons end Sunday
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — This year’s deer hunting came to a
close in Vermont.
The archery and muzzleloader seasons, which started last weekend, ended on Sunday.
The riﬂe deer hunting season ended on Nov. 30.
Hunters could take a total of three deer a year, in a combination
of seasons. They were restricted to two bucks, with only one buck in
each season.
Baby delivered in truck
half mile from hospital
LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — A newborn from Newport is lucky her
great-aunt was behind the wheel when her parents were on their way to
the hospital.
April Premo told WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/1zarIfy) that she was driving Justine and David Beachaine to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
early Sunday morning for the birth of their fourth child. They were about
half a mile from the hospital when Justine Beachaine said they weren’t
going to make it in time.
Luckily, Premo is an emergency medical technician, and she was able
to deliver the baby in her truck. She says it was the ﬁrst time she had delivered a baby, but everything went well and baby Ava-Lynn is doing
great.
There’s still time to get the ﬂu vaccine
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire health ofﬁcials say it’s
not too late to get the ﬂu vaccine.
Ofﬁcials said even though the vaccine is not a perfect match for the
strain of ﬂu that’s making most people sick in the United States this year,
it still offers some protection against the ﬂu and its complications.
The Health Department recommends those at a higher risk for inﬂuenza be vaccinated, including children age 6 months through 4 years;
pregnant women, adults age 65 and older; and people with certain chronic
medical conditions, including asthma, heart disease, diabetes and chronic
lung disease.
“We want to make sure that New Hampshire residents are as well protected as possible against the ﬂu and the best preventive step is still to get
vaccinated,” said Dr. José Montero, director of public health. “It is also
important that if you do think you have the ﬂu, speak with your health
care provider as soon as possible and stay home from school and work
to avoid spreading it to others who are at risk.”
Local Forecast
Today: Becoming partly cloudy. Highs
33-36. Light, variable wind becoming
northwest around 5 mph, then light
and variable again late.
Tonight: Variable low clouds. Lows
18-25. Light, variable wind.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny through midday, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs 34-37. Light, variable wind becoming southeast 10 mph or less.
Extended Forecast: Tuesday
Night: Showers of mixed precipita-
tion becoming likely. Lows 29-32.
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, showers of mixed rain and snow likely.
Highs 34-39. Wednesday Night:
Snow showers likely. Lows 25-29.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy, good
chance for snow showers. Highs 2934. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy,
snow showers likely. Lows 20-25.
Friday: Mostly cloudy. Scattered
snow showers or flurries. Highs 2832.
Daily Weather Highlights
High pressure is ridged along the
length of the Appalachians, and northward into central Quebec this morning.
A very weak front has edged southward
to the international border and will continue southeastward today, washing out
as it does so. It will have little effect on
our weather except perhaps to dislodge
some of the persistent low cloud deck
that remains locked in over the north
country and surrounding regions.
There’s a lot of dry, warm air around—
it’s just sitting atop a very shallow layer
of moist, cool air trapped near the surface. Because the wind is or will become
very light through the ﬁrst several thousand feet of the atmosphere, that
warmer air won’t be able to mix down to
the surface—good news for snow lovers.
It looks like these clouds will hang
around—with perhaps some breaks—
over us through tomorrow. The next
chance for organized precipitation will
come Tuesday night and Wednesday,
when LOW pressure currently near
Kansas City will head across New England. Precipitation with it should be on
the light side, and of mixed rain and wet
snow. , says Steve Maleski of the Fairbanks Museum weather station.
CONDITIONS AT
4 P.M. YESTERDAY
Cloudy
TEMPERATURE
Temp. at 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Maximum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . .34
Minimum past 24 hours . . . . . . . . .24
Yesterday’s average . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Normal average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Maximum this month . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Minimum this month . . . . . . . . . . . .-6
Maximum this date (1901) . . . . . . .61
Minimum this date (1905) . . . . . . .-19
HUMIDITY
81%
DEWPOINT
28
WINDS
4 mph, 6 max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NW
BAROMETER
29.86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Slowly
PRECIPITATION
New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trace
Total for Month . . . . . . . . . . . .2.30 in.
Normal Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.39 in.
SNOWFALL
Past 24 Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trace
Monthly Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13.1 in.
Season Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29.8 in.
Season Norm To Date . . . . . . .16.0 in.
Snowpack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.0 in.
ALMANAC
Sunrise today . . . . . . . . . . . .7:17 a.m.
Sunset today . . . . . . . . . . . .4:09 p.m.
Length of day . . . . . . . .8 hrs. 52 min.
DEGREE DAYS
Average temp. difference below 65°
Yesterday* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
To date since July 1 . . . . . . . . . .2212
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St. Johnsbury Police Ofﬁcer Chad Grant keeps an eye on Jeffrey Hall and his wife Holly Hall
outside of the St. Johnsbury ofﬁce of the Department of Children & Families on Pearl Street
Friday. Police responded to the scene for a report of a ﬁght in progress at 12:34 p.m. Troopers from the Vermont State Police were nearby and also responded to the scene and separated the parties. St. Johnsbury Police Ofc. Steve Hartwell said Jeffrey Hall, 32, and Holly
Hall’s mother - Shari Lynn Allen, 48 - got in argument outside the DCF ofﬁces leading Jeffrey
Hall to spit on Allen and Allen striking Hall in the head with her hand. Both have been cited
into Caledonia Superior Court on Feb. 2 on charges of disorderly conduct.
NEWPORT CITY
ILLUZZI TO PROSECUTE ORLEANS COUNTY DLS
Franklin Is
State’s Witness
By JENNIFER HERSEy
CLEVELAND
Staff Writer
NEWPORT CITY — Essex
County State’s Attorney Vince Illuzzi is prosecuting a Lowell
woman in an Orleans County
case in which State’s Attorney
Alan Franklin is a witness.
Defendant Jamie Blake, 26,
was scheduled to appear in court
for a count of driving after suspension on Primary Election Day,
Aug. 26.
The Newport City Police Department received information
that morning that Blake or her
boyfriend, Jeremy Bathalon,
would be driving into the city in
a blue Honda Civic. The informant told officer Nicholas Rivers
that neither Blake nor Bathalon
possessed a valid license.
Rivers located the vehicle right in front of the police department where Franklin was campaigning for election and in full
view of the courthouse. No one
was in the driver’s seat, but
Rivers waited until the couple left
the courthouse and watched
Blake drive away.
Franklin told Rivers he didn’t
see who was driving, but Orleans
County Sheriff’s deputy Cory
Bingham, who was leaving court
to transport a prisoner, saw Blake
drive off.
Illuzzi was present in Orleans
Superior Court-Criminal Division
for Blake’s arraignment on the
new charge, but Blake was not.
Her attorney in other cases,
Richard McCormick, called in for
the case.
“Your client’s not here,” Judge
Timothy Tomasi told McCormick.
“She was supposed to be
there,” McCormick replied.
“I know that,” Tomasi said.
Illuzzi said Blake has 18 prior
motor vehicle violations, eight of
which occurred during the last
five months. She paid no fines,
and suffered no consequences, he
said.
And then she drove to the
courthouse for a driving after suspension charge and parked right
in front of the state’s attorney, Illuzzi said. “She has absolutely no
interest in following the law,” Illuzzi said.
Is that the same state’s attorney
who just lost a conviction during
a jury trial in one of Blake’s other
cases? McCormick asked; referring to the judgment of acquittal
in a case in which Blake was accused of burglary and operating a
vehicle without the owner’s consent on Oct. 30.
Tomasi held the arrest warrant
until the end of the day, when
Blake finally appeared for her arraignment. Tomasi imposed a
condition in which Blake can be
arrested without a warrant for
failing to abide by the condition
barring her from driving any
motor vehicle – with or without a
valid license.
Illuzzi had already prepared a
sentencing memorandum for the
case in which he asks the court to
jail Blake for 20 days with another 39 days on a work crew.
“The Defendant has apparently
concluded that the judiciary can’t
or won’t do anything to her, even
though she has repeatedly vio-
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) —
The number of homes and businesses still without power in Vermont has dropped to just over
2,000.
Some 100,000 customers were
without service at the peak of last
week's storm when heavy, wet
snow downed power lines across
the state.
By Sunday night, Green Mountain Power was reporting about
1,100 outages. The Vermont Electric Cooperative was reporting
about 1,200 outages.
Parts of Vermont received more
than a foot of snow Tuesday and
Wednesday, causing the worst
power outages in years.
Ofﬁcials say some outages
could linger into the coming week.
Church Street
smoking ban
begins Wednesday
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) —
Smoking will be banned on the
Church Street Marketplace in
Burlington starting this week — the
height of the holiday shopping season.
The new law goes into effect
Wednesday at the open air mall.
Ofﬁcials say signs will be posted
about the ordinance, and ashtrays
will be moved to the edge of the marketplace.
No one hurt in
train-car collision
in Vermont
Jamie Blake
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lated the law,” he wrote.
In May 2013, Blake was liable
for operating without liability insurance. “As such, she will suffer
no financial consequences if she
causes damage to property or injury to person,” Illuzzi wrote.
That September, she was liable
for operating without valid registration. “As such, she uses the
roads of the state without paying
for their use,” he continued.
Blake is still facing felony
counts of grand larceny and possession of stolen property and
misdemeanor counts of providing
false information to police, retail
theft and two additional counts of
driving after suspension.
Those charges are related to
the alleged theft of a gun from a
Newport Center home, allegedly
possessing car batteries stolen
from Albany Auto, giving an officer the wrong name during a
traffic stop to avoid arrest, stealing an iPad and Nintendo 3DS
from Rent-A-Center, and driving
without a license in September in
Newport and in October in Lowell.
SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. (AP)
— Vermont State Police say a car
was torn apart but no one was injured
when an Amtrak train struck a car
that had become stuck on the tracks
in South Royalton.
Police say the incident happened
at 7 p.m. Saturday. The car couldn’t
get across the track because the road
was icy, and it was hit by a northbound train at 59 mph. Police say the
force tore the front of the vehicle off
and spun the car around.
Neither occupant of the vehicle
was hurt, nor were any of the 71 Amtrak passengers.
The train, which was not damaged, continued after a brief delay.
Police remind drivers to stop at all
ungated railroad crossings, listen and
look in both directions before proceeding.
Salman Rushdie
to speak Jan. 14
in Burlington
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Author Salman Rushdie will speak in
Vermont next month about the importance of stories.
The India-born writer, who spent
years in hiding after his novel “The
Satanic Verses” drew a death edict
from Iran’s religious authorities, is
scheduled to give a talk at the University of Vermont’s Ira Allen Chapel
on Jan. 14 at 5 p.m.
The Vermont Humanities Council
event is free and open to the public
but tickets are required and have all
been distributed.
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Gov. Peter Shumlin ﬂies over Hinesburg in a helicopter as he
surveys damage from this week’s snow storm on Saturday.
Organizers say empty seats from
people who do not show up will be
released just before the event. The
talk will also be streamed live in the
University of Vermont’s Waterman
building and online at www.vermonthumanities.org
or
http://www.uvm.edu/president/rushd
ie.
Governor, utility
chief tour storm
damage by air
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Gov.
Peter Shumlin and the head of the
Vermont Electric Cooperative have
surveyed power lines by air following a two-day storm that pounded the
state with heavy wet snow that left
more than 100,000 without power.
They ﬂew by helicopter on Saturday over Richmond and Hinesburg
— which Shumlin says was particularly hard hit.
There are still about 13,000 electric customers across the state without power.
Most of the outages are being reported in Chittenden, Rutland and
Addison counties.
Ofﬁcials have said restoring
power to everyone could take the
weekend.
They say sun will help to melt
some of the snow on power lines and
trees. Shumlin urged Vermonters to
reach out to help neighbors, who
may have been without power for
days.
lor who is leaving after 38 years with
the state colleges system.
Donovan served as president of
the Community College of Vermont
for eight years before overseeing the
entire system as chancellor for the
past ﬁve years.
On his retirement, Donovan will
be replaced by former state Senator
and Treasurer Jeb Spaulding, who
has served the past four years as administration secretary under Gov.
Peter Shumlin.
Vermont’s state colleges include
Castleton State College, Community
College of Vermont, Johnson State
College, Lyndon State College and
Vermont Technical College.
Vermont ‘efﬁciency
utility’ gets
new chief
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The
statewide energy-saving program Efﬁciency Vermont is getting a new director.
Liz Gamache comes to Efﬁciency
Vermont from the Vermont Electric
Cooperative, where she has been
manager of corporate services since
2008. She also serves as the mayor
of St. Albans, where she’s been leading a big downtown revitalization effort.
Gamache replaces Jim Merriam at
Efﬁciency Vermont. He’s staying
with the program’s parent organization, the Vermont Energy Investment
Corp., as operations director overseeing work in Vermont, Washington,
D.C., and Ohio.
Efﬁciency Vermont has promoted
energy savings by Vermont homeowners and businesses for nearly 15
WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP) — The years.
Vermont State Colleges system is renaming an academic building after
retiring Chancellor Tim Donovan.
The Community College of VerCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Both
mont’s Winooski academic center is of New Hampshire’s U.S. senators
being renamed the Tim Donovan Ac- helped pass the $1.1 trillion spending
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OPINION
Todd M. Smith, Publisher
Dana Gray, Executive Editor
Editorial Comment …
Those in Glass Houses
Last week Governor Peter Shumlin sent a letter to Fairpoint
CEO Paul Sunu. Shumlin lectured Sunu about recent outages
and an “unacceptable rise in service quality issues in recent
months.”
The Governor suggests that the inability of Fairpoint to resolve the ongoing strike of its workers is contributing significantly to the company’s problems.
We agree that Fairpoint is a mess. And we doubt they’re
going to survive much longer.
But getting a lecture like this from Shumlin, who has the
managerial ability of Snufalufagus, might be ridiculous and insulting enough to convince us to cease Vermont operations.
At the very least, if we were Mr. Sunu, we’d write back:
“Hey Shumlin, how’s your little ‘Vermont Health Connect’
project working out?
Amy Goodman
Fighting for
the climate
in the heart
of the world
LIMA, Peru —
Lima, the capital of Peru, has
become a city of gustatory
renown, attracting foodies
from the world over to sample
dishes from its famous ceviche to favorites from the Andean highlands. So it is an
appropriate place, perhaps, for
what has become a genuine
movable feast, the world-roving series of summits organized by the United Nations to
tackle the crisis of climate
change. This year’s meeting,
known as “COP 20,” the 20th
Conference of Parties to the
Kyoto Protocol, is the last
high-level meeting with presidents and prime ministers before the December 2015
climate summit in Paris.
The Paris meeting is supposed to produce an extension
of the Kyoto Protocol, a new,
global, legally binding treaty
that restricts global warming
to an increase in average
global temperatures to just 2
degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees
Fahrenheit). As such, all eyes
are on Paris. But if the devil is
in the details, it is here in
Lima that the details are being
worked out. You can’t spell
“climate” without L-I-M-A.
First, it’s necessary to understand the setting, and who
is at the table and who is not.
Inside, the summit proceeds in
an orderly manner, with U.N.
police standing watch and a
rarified air of diplomatic
decorum. It is hard to feel any
sense of urgency. This is astounding, as the science is
clear: The world is warming
rapidly, and without action,
catastrophic climate change
will soon become irreversible.
The official COP 20 is
being held on the grounds of
the Peruvian army headquarters — ominously named “El
Pentagonito,” or “the little
Pentagon.” In this militarized
zone, the U.N. climate summit
occurs in a Potemkin village,
with formal ceremonies and
intermittent,
preapproved
protests.
The imagery is not lost on
many Peruvians organizing
for climate justice. Wilfredo
Saavedra Marreros, president
of the Environmental Defense
Front of Cajamarca, told
“Democracy Now!”: “It’s a
farce. … The representatives
of the states of the world are
meeting in a place that is
stained with blood. In the Pentagonito, that military base,
they have extrajudicially executed our brothers, they have
burned them, they
have disappeared
them.”
Outside, in the
bustling city streets
of Lima, a city of
more than 8 million
people with interminable traffic jams, grassroots activists are hosting their
own “cumbre de los pueblos,”
a people’s summit on climate
change, in a public park across
town. On Dec. 10, Human
Rights Day, thousands of people marched through the
streets, demanding genuine
action on climate change.
Pascoe Sabido, with the
group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), is organizing
both inside and outside the
COP 20. Together with other
groups he released a report titled “Corporate Conquistadors: The Many Ways
Multinationals Both Drive and
Profit From Climate Destruction.” At one action inside,
Sabido and others descended
on a meeting sponsored by oil
giants Shell, Chevron and
other fossil-fuel interests.
“There were lots and lots of
very angry and active people
there trying to protest against
the presence of the fossil-fuel
industry here in these talks,”
he later told me. “Twenty
years we’ve been going without progress towards a fair,
ambitious climate deal that we
need. One of the big reasons is
because of the aggressive lobbying of the fossil-fuel industry, both at the national level
and here in the talks.”
Another organizer at COP
20 is the Nigerian environmental
leader
Nnimmo
Bassey. He said: “Before I left
Nigeria, my temperature was
gauged twice, to determine if
I have high fever or if I have
Ebola. Now, the temperature
of the Earth has gone 0.8 degrees above preindustrial levels. If the Earth was to go
through the same process … it
would’ve been quarantined
because the Earth would’ve
been judged to have high fever
or Ebola. But, we can’t quarantine the Earth. We need to
find who are the climate criminals and quarantine them.”
It’s also important to note
who isn’t here at COP 20. Yeb
Sano was the lead climate negotiator for the Philippines
last year. To the shock of
many, he was pulled from the
delegation this year and is
home, as his nation is devastated by Typhoon Hagupit.
Sano tweeted: “They can silence my mouth. But they cannot silence my soul.” Sano
made waves at COP 19 in
Warsaw, Poland. The PhilipSee Goodman, Page A5
Letters to the Editor…
Torture
To the Editor:
It came out recently about the
“torture” committed by the CIA.
How awful … torture committed by
the USA.
Kudos to the CIA. They saved
lives. They caught terrorists and
some before they committed more
terror acts against the US and US
citizens.
Terrorists that behead people …
People that help other people. Terrorists that strap bombs on children
and mentally impaired people. Terrorists that hide behind children …
How can you compare the torture to the acts by the terrorists?
The terrorists have been beheading long before we used waterboarding.
The term “leathernecks” came
from the leather collar worn by
Marines to protect them from being
beheaded by Muslim pirates.
In the late 1700’s Muslim pirates
would capture European ships and
hold the citizens for ransom. Europe paid and America paid too.
Jefferson asked the ambassador
of Tripoli what right the pirates had
to ask for ransom or take slaves.
The ambassador replied that the
Laws of the Prophet in the Koran
said that all nations who did not recognize the authority of the Koran
were sinners and it was the right of
the Muslim pirates to make war on
them and to makes slaves on them
and that every Muslim would go to
heaven if killed in battle.
When Jefferson was elected
President, he refused to pay ransom. He sent the Marines who wore
leather collars to protect them from
the sabers of the Muslim pirates
who would try to behead them in
battle. He stood up to the Muslim
Pirates and the US went to war with
the Muslim pirates. Jefferson did
sign a treaty and part of that was to
pay ransom for the people already
captured but it stopped the Muslim
pirates from kidnapping Americans.
Sound familiar. Kidnapping …
Kidnapping innocent people …
Do I want to torture people? No
… absolutely not. But these “people” are not like you or me. They
kidnap innocent people. They behead innocent people. They hide
behind children. They strap bombs
to unknowingly children.
I support the CIA. Can you really
compare what the CIA did and what
the terrorist did and continue to do?
I cannot.
Linda Riley
Meredith, N.H.
Hunting
To the Editor:
Accepting without questioning
the hunting culture is to deny those
of us with a distaste for this “tradition” a say in the care of the creatures we choose to live among. The
Fish and Wildlife Department exists
to preserve our wildlife while at the
same time allows for hunters to
“manage” it. Because of human encroachment, pollution and hunting
our wild animals have become
ghettoized. Shrunken habitats, narrowed corridors and limited food
supplies have made it easy pickings
for those who think hunting is a
sport. It has recently been reported
that 50% of the world’s species
have become extinct. Must we wait
for the silence before enacting sensible and humane policies to maintain and control our animal
populations?
There is no accurate way to determine the black bear population.
Due to their mainly solitary existence, any estimates of such are just
that-estimates. And the numbers are
grossly exaggerated in order to sell
more hunting permits. The number
of 6,000 reported, if true, is still pitifully small. And since it isn’t illegal
to kill mothers and her cubs, the
black bear population is being decimated. What kind of depraved soul
can look at a bear cub, trembling
and clinging to the instinctual safety
of a tree, and blast that little life into
a commodity of parts? What kind of
society risks its dogs to defensive
attacks by the bears they are chasing up trees? Why is a second bear
hunting season permitted after the
bears have gone into hibernation?
Is it not ghoulish to shoot into a den
at mothers, cubs and those females
who will give birth in January and
February? With a human population of over one billion, does China
really need the medically debunked
powder from black bear gallbladders for an aphrodisiac?
How can those in charge of
guarding our wildlife allow the
killing of orphaned animals “for
their own good?” Why is so little
done about people hunting out of
season or poaching at night? Why
must the department continue to
promote this wholesale slaughter
before those who view these living,
breathing, sentient beings as nothing more than targets, trophies and
money in their blood-stained pockets? Must people “bond” with their
friends and family through the
stalking and killing of innocent
creatures? Wouldn’t animal preserves bring more tourist money
into Vermont than hunting related
activities? Wouldn’t more out-ofstate friends and family come visit
us during the holidays without the
gunﬁre and dead animals piled up
in the back of pick-ups? The Fish
and Wildlife Board should be comprised of those with the intelligence,
compassion
and
understanding of the importance of
balancing our wildlife population
with an increasingly fragile ecosystem. A board that favors the living
things over those who wish to destroy them.
Jessica Miller
Cabot, Vt.
of local residents and town boundaries to verify that the numbers presented are actually people who live
in Town. It’s not a case that we are
going to publish the list anywhere.
What harm could a veriﬁcation do?
Until I personally have the veriﬁed
information to support this appropriation I know how I will vote and
which box to use when I mark my
ballot. It’s a two-letter word spelled
NO. Providing transportation where
needed is a great service, lack of requested information is a disservice.
Franklin R. Higgins
East Haven, Vt.
Miss the town’s
help
To the Editor:
As far back as I can remember,
possibly even before I was born the
village of Lyndonville has plowed
and sanded the parking lots for the
three churches that fall within the
village limits, in the whole scope of
things this adds very little to what
they already do. now this year they
just took it upon themselves to stop
plowing.
After I sent a message to Justin
smith asking why, and getting no
response from him the church suddenly got a letter in the mail citing
budget constraints and lack of manpower. that is a bunch of bull, these
churches are full of the greatest
givers in town, they are the highest
providers of support to places like
hope and the food shelf. and they
support many groups and missions
around town, the church has even
left the doors open and left out food
and snacks for the village crew on
lengthy multi day storms before.
they participate and support and
give at the annual sizzler and much
more, there is many other ways that
the village can save money I know
because I used to run the village
myself, what is this world coming
to?
You think its about time to see
that the more we take God out of
our equations the worse off we are,
people try to take Christ out of
Christmas, we take god out of
schools and now because of budget
constraints we take god out of our
plowing budget, rest assured village, that the churches will be ﬁne
for god always provides for his followers, and despite what you think
we do appreciate all you have done
for us in the past, we forgive you
and we will be praying for you fervently.
Merry Christmas,
Dan Thompson
Lyndonville, Vt.
Couldn’t agree
more
Disturbed by
editorial on RCT
To the Editor:
Your editorial today, Dec. 8, regarding RTC appropriations was
right on. I have asked RTC personnel for information regarding the
ﬁgures submitted for East Haven
Town. Those responding hides behind the easy statement that it is private information and can not be
given out. All I’ve asked for is for
them to allow someone from our
community who is knowledgeable
To the Editor:
Your editorial in the CaledonianRecord (12/8/14) is extremely disturbing to me. I am a resident of
Newport and one of the people who
had raised a question at our City
Council meeting about petitions,
petitioning organizations and ballots for our Town Meetings. The
issue was reported by Robin Smith
on 12/7/14. In that report she made
it clear how the issue was raised and
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by whom.
What we citizens asked was for
organizations who have gathered
signatures from registered voters
over a long period (some for more
than 20 years) to be placed on the
ballot without having to participate
in this lengthy process, repeatedly.
At least not annually. Voters would
still vote as usual. The exception
would be if the amount requested,
or other circumstances, changed.
Organizations would be expected to
report to City Council. We gave examples of organizations such as
RCT and Human Services, who
provide essential services to a signiﬁcant population in our area. We
made the suggestion based on the
number of person hours that it takes
to meet signature requirements and
the resulting waste of dollars. Time
and money that could be spent
more productively in providing
services. In Newport we already
have this policy for some groups.
The editorial distorted several
things. The issue was not raised by
RCT or any other organization. It
was raised by citizens of Newport –
tax paying and voting. Jumping off
from that distortion to then blast an
organization for “showing their
hand” clearly indicated that the
writer had not bothered to read the
piece written by the paper’s own reporter. And that he or she was then
free to launch into a diatribe about
a particular organization. The editorial then went on to tell Newport
what it should or should not do –
again based on an inability to read
what a reporter actually wrote.
I have no idea if any of the
claims made about RCT in this editorial are factually accurate or not.
I do know that the writer was on
his/her own agenda, not the one
raised at a City Council meeting.
There is collateral damage from this
approach. It does nothing for the
credibility of your paper, using a
Bully Pulpit to attack organizations
with misinformation is not a useful
strategy. The fact that the writer did
not seem to know that citizens were
the ones under attack, is also problematic. The editorial has certainly
done nothing for those of us asking,
in our towns, for something we feel
is reasonable! Apparently asking
questions or making suggestions,
now opens us up to questionable
editorial techniques. The press have
been welcomed at meetings - it is a
shame to damage that relationship.
5% of a population may not
seem to be a large number to the
writer, however, they have to be
registered voters. Many of the riders of RCT, and users of the other
agencies in similar positions, are
not registered to vote so gathering
signatures is not quite as simple as
suggested. I invite the writer to
stand outside on a cold day and try
this in person. By all means question the efﬁciency and accountability of organizations, preferably
without devising ways of contributing to their inability to do their job,
And when “trashing” organizations please make sure that your assault is actually based on real
information.
Pam Ladds
Newport, Vt.
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bill headed for President Barack Obama’s signature.
Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Republican
Kelly Ayotte were among 56 senators who voted
for the bill Saturday night. The measure, opposed
by 40 senators, funds nearly the entire government
through the Sept. 30 end of the ﬁscal year.
Shaheen said she was disappointed by the repeal of a banking regulation but praised other provisions, including funding the Berlin prison and
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on Interstate 93 in Bow causing it to rollover.
bailouts for insurance companies under the Afthree occupants of the vehicle were taken
The
fordable Care Act.
to
the
hospital
with nonlife-threatening injuries
The bill cleared the House on Thursday.
after the crash on Friday afternoon.
A witness told police that an older model beige
car, possibly a Buick, was traveling north at a high
rate speed when it swiped the other car, then hit a
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Shoppers are busy guardrail and continued on.
this time of year, and New Hampshire authorities
Police say the vehicle should have damage on
are asking them to be considerate of people with the driver and passenger side. Witness to the crash
disabilities in store parking lots.
are asked to call Trooper Anthony Pratt at 603The Department of Safety and New Hampshire 223-4381.
Association of Chiefs of Police have asked shoppers to remember to keep the access aisles next to
disability parking spaces open, with no cars, carts
or snow there.
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A Nashua daycare
Police Chief Richard Crate, president of the ascenter
is expected to reopen Monday after a truck
sociation, says parking in a hatch-marked access
aisle blocks a shopper with a disability from get- crashed into the building, causing structural damage.
ting into or out of a vehicle.
The crash happened at 4 a.m. Friday when no
“Shoppers who use these prohibited access
one
was at the Minds in Motion daycare center.
aisles create the potential for serious injuries to
The Nashua Telegraph reports that police say the
shoppers with disabilities during severe weather,”
truck hit the building and the driver left the scene.
he said.
Authorities say the truck is believed to be white
Fines for parking in an access aisle or a disabiland
are asking anyone with information about the
ity parking spot can be as high as $250.
“Everyone is busy during this time of year,” crash to call the Nashua Police Department at 603Crate said. “We just want to remind everyone to 594-3500.
slow down and be considerate.”
Police: Car sideswiped
vehicle, causing rollover
Shoppers asked to not
block parking access aisles
Truck hits empty
daycare center
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Participants will be taught about the basic
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pines was being hit then by Typhoon Haiyan. Sano wasn’t sure
if his family had survived. In an
emotional address to the summit,
he said: “If not us, then who? If
not now, then when? If not here,
then where?” Many climate activists from the Philippines think
concerted pressure from the U.S.
Consumers reminded about
health insurance deadline
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only half the time to make their decision.
While the ﬁrst enrollment period lasted six
months, the health law’s second sign-up season
started Nov. 15 and ends Feb. 15. And Monday
marks a key deadline — it’s the last day to enroll
in coverage that will start Jan. 1.
As that date nears, insurance company ofﬁcials
and European governments
prompted Sano’s removal, as he
was becoming a forceful proponent of climate justice for the
Global South.
Atossa Soltani, founder of the
nonprofit organization Amazon
Watch, told me that, despite all
the COP’s deficiencies, she’s
glad this global gathering is here
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climate debate. … It’s the heart
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MONDAy, DECEMBER 15, 2014
IRASBURG
DERBY LINE MAN STABBED OUTSIDE BREWSKI’S PUB
Incident Started
With Fight In
Parking Lot
By JENNIFER HERSEy
CLEVELAND
Staff Writer
A Derby Line man was
stabbed outside Brewki’s Pub in
Irasburg Saturday night after
being called racial slurs by two
PHOTO BY BrENDAN KOzLOWSKI
patrons.
At about 3 a.m., staff at the
North Country Hospital emergency room reported to the state
police that Brandon Pavelchak,
22, had been stabbed in his rib
area, according to Sgt. Andrew
Jensen’s press release.
Pavelchak said he’d been involved in a physical altercation
in the parking lot outside the bar
on Route 5 with the two patrons,
who he was unable to identify.
Once involved physically with
one of the patrons, the other
came up behind Pavelchak and
stabbed him with a sharp object,
the victim told police.
Pavelchak was driven to the
hospital in a private vehicle,
treated, and released that morning.
Jensen’s press release does not
indicate Pavelchak’s race.
Anyone with information is
asked to call the Derby barracks
at 334-8881.
FairPoint
Abby Pollender, a member of the Kingdom Community Service Board, helps unload food for
continued from Page A1
the VBA holiday food drive on Saturday.
Victorian
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that every wagon was ﬁlled,” Hatch
said. “I was on the last ride at 3 and I
loved it. It’s really beautiful to be in
the open wagon, go down Railroad
Street, and see all the stores. I would
have loved big, fat snow ﬂakes, but
apparently that wasn’t going to happen. The weather was great. The
sidewalks were dry. It was winter, but
it was not too cold.”
Hatch said several merchants reported a successful day in sales due
to the increased trafﬁc by their stores
and the Museum was also very successful, reporting several hundred
people in attendance throughout the
day.
Last year, St. Johnsbury’s Victorian Christmas was greeted with rain,
which caused a miserable day. “It
was great no rain this year. That was
really nice to not have rain and to
have snow on the ground,” Hatch
said. “It just feels so much more seasonal when there’s snow on the
ground.”
PHOTO BY BrENDAN KOzLOWSKI
A car stuffed with food donated for the VBA holiday food drive
on Saturday.
In addition to the improved
weather, Hatch said there were more
merchants open on Railroad Street
this year. “It’s really nice to have
more options and more offerings,”
Hatch said.
During the Victorian Christmas,
the Vermont Broadcast Associates
hosted a holiday food drive at
Dunkin’ Donuts. Cars were lined up
from 10 a.m. on into the afternoon to
donate canned goods and other
foods.
Library
continued from Page A1
been closed because of problems
with the flooding damage and
the possibility of bacteria and
mold contamination. The library’s many young readers
can’t access most of the library’s
children’s books. The children
can access a limited space on the
second floor where they share
space with adult patrons.
Tina Achilles McClure, the
child librarian, said there was no
crew working on the library FriPHOTO BY JAMES JArDINE
day because they had been puled A construction trailer for Cleanway Services sits parked outside
off the project and sent to an the Cobleigh Library Friday afternoon. According to Children’s
emergency job.
Librarian Tina Achilles McClure it could be another two to three
ity complaints that state regulators
have said is worsening since more
than 1,700 unionized FairPoint
workers began their ongoing strike in
October. The Vermont Public Service
Board recently launched an investigation of the service quality problems.
Meanwhile, the company is asking the board to approve a new “incentive regulation” plan, which caps
rates for basic phone service, but
gives the company freedom to set
other rates without board approval.
At a Public Service Board meeting
this past week, Chairman James Volz
asked whether approval of the incentive regulation plan should hinge on
improvements to service quality.
Both the company and the Department of Public Service, whose duty
it is to represent ratepayers before the
board, argued against making such a
link. James Porter, telecommunications director with the department,
said the department had negotiated
terms of the incentive regulation plan
with the company before the service
quality problems spiked.
Beaudry called the service quality
problems and the incentive regulation plan “two separate issues.”
Porter said his department had received about 600 complaints from
FairPoint customers, with about ﬁve
times the normal frequency, since the
strike began.
Secretary of Administration Jeb
AP PHOTO
Traven Leyshon, of the Vermont Workers Center and the Vermont Chapter of the AFLCIO, holds his hand over his heart
while the national anthem is sung at the start of a rally on behalf of striking FairPoint Communications workers on Nov. 20
at the Statehouse in Montpelier. About 1,700 FairPoint workers in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine have been on
strike since Oct. 17.
Spaulding, whose agency oversees
state contracting, said FairPoint offered to meet the terms of the new
911 contract for $2.5 million less
than the next lowest bidder.
On Friday, Vermont Gov. Peter
Shumlin wrote to FairPoint CEO
Paul Sunu urging that labor talks be
reopened in an effort to resolve the
strike.
“Enough is enough,” Shumlin
wrote. “Come back to the (bargaining) table; listen; and compromise.”
He added that failing to do so is “a
losing strategy for FairPoint, as your
customers and your state partners
lose faith in the company’s ability to
serve.”
Beaudry said the company had
made a contract offer Aug. 28. “The
ball is in their (unions’) court.”
Stephen Whitaker, a longtime
critic of state telecommunications
policy, said the state should not be so
quick to agree to the incentive regulation plan or hire FairPoint as its
principal 911 contractor. Given the
service quality problems and 911
outage, Whitaker asked, “Why
should we reward them with ﬁve
more years of deregulation and an
$11 million 911 contract?”
Snow
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“We’ve been working for months
to get the trails ready,” said Mike Paquette, the president of the Middlebury-based Foote of the Mountains
Sno-Travelers, which has about 200
members and maintains 97 miles of
trails in the Addison County area, including some in the Green Mountain
National Forest, which are usually
the ﬁrst to open.
With the snowmobile seasons
weeks before Cleanway has ﬁnished restoring the children’s
across
northern New England set to
room to ensure the room will be healthy and safe for children.
get underway, snowmobilers in the
three states are hoping for plentiful
snow and weather cold enough to
keep it from disappearing.
“There’s a lot of snow, but it’s so
heavy and needs packing that people
are going to get stuck left and right,”
Paquette said. “In the mountains anyplace you’re in the woods, there are
trees down everywhere and it may be
until next weekend before we get
those trails opened up.”
In Vermont, which has about
6,200 miles of corridor and secondary trails statewide, the season is set
to open on Tuesday. New Hampshire’s traditional trail opening date
for its 7,000 miles of trail is Dec. 15.
Maine, which has about 14,500 miles
of trains, has no ofﬁcial opening, but
the season usually gets going around
Christmas.
“Things are just loosening up a little bit with the economy,” said Bob
Meyers, executive director of the
Maine Snowmobile Association. “I
think people have money in the
pockets. Gas prices are going down.
People are feeling good about
things,” he said.
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for additional protections. She thinks
DCF should have to pay for that.
Robillard wrote in a letter to Shibley that if she had been made aware
of the breach the day it happened, she
could have taken steps earlier that
might have prevented the lowering of
her credit score due to the multiple
attempts to obtain credit in her name.
“The Department regrets this inadvertent disclosure and is taking
steps to ensure that this kind of mistake does not happen again,” Schatz
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Jim Gill, owner of Champlain Valley Motorsports, works on a
snowmobile in Cornwall Dec. 10. The state’s snowmobile season is set to open Dec. 16. Snowmobilers say the heavy wet
snow that fell this week provided a solid base, but the storm
dropped trees that could keep some trails closed until next
weekend.
more of snow in some areas and
knocked out power to tens of thousands of Vermonters could be a good
start to the season, even if some trails
are blocked. Snowmobilers hope a
solid base will be followed by temperatures cold enough to freeze lowlying areas and ensure that any future
snowfalls builds up on top of it.
“It’s one of those things that you
never know how long the snow is
going to last, when it’s going to come
(and) how much you’re going to
get,” said Paquette, who works at the
Champlain Valley Motorsports in
Cornwall, where almost a foot of
snow fell between Tuesday and
Thursday.
———
AP reporters Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, and David
Sharp in Portland, Maine, contributed to this report.
wrote.
After Robillard complained and
said she didn’t feel comfortable providing respite care to a child this
weekend, given the department’s response to her complaints, DCF revoked her license as a foster care
parent.
That just added insult to injury, as
DCF had not even made one payment to her for her services since
June – not even to reimburse her for
gas money to and from Burlington to
pick up the child for whom she was
providing respite care on weekends.
Robillard said she and her husband open their home to foster chil-
dren out of kindness and a willingness to give to those who have very
little in life. She said this is how DCF
repaid that kindness.
Robillard said she has not gone to
the police with this information, but
has retained Barton attorney William
Davies. She’s not sure she wants to
pursue legal action, but she feels
she’ll be compelled to do so if someone manages to obtain credit in her
name.
“The general public needs to
know about this stuff,” Robillard
said.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Dear Abby
By Abigail Van Buren
©2011, Universal Press Syndicate
Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or
P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Marriage Idea Loses Its Luster
After Plans Were Put On Hold
DEAR ABBY: Recently,
our state became one that
allows same-sex couples
to wed. My partner,
“Alex,” and I have been
together for 18 years. We
had planned to be married
last spring, but a death in
the family put our wedding on hold.
When I found out about
the ruling, I expected Alex
to be excited and suggest
we go ahead and marry. To
my disappointment, he
didn’t seem to care. He
hasn’t mentioned marriage
once, and when I bring it
up, he’s quiet and doesn’t
respond.
We’re older, and because
of health issues we don’t
have an active sex life. I’m
wondering if my relationship with him has been
downgraded to “roommate” without me realizing it. Do I push this? Do
I let it alone and settle for
what I have now?
I feel like I’m too old to
start over, but I have to
admit that suddenly feeling like the relationship I
thought I had may be an illusion has me very depressed.
– LET DOWN IN ARIZONA
DEAR LET DOWN:
The most important ingredient in any relationship is communication,
and you and Alex have
been
together
long
enough that you should
be able to level with each
other. His reluctance to
move forward may be
something as simple as a
case of cold feet. It could
also be that he’s had a
change of heart and
doesn’t want to be married. Not all gay people
do.
I don’t think it would
be pressuring him to
calmly ask if the idea of
being married is something that no longer interests him. If this level
of commitment is what
you want and he can’t
give it to you, you deserve to know.
DEAR ABBY: I have a
teenage grandson with
an upcoming birthday.
For several years we
have taken him to a
major sporting event for
his birthday. I get complimentary tickets for
this from work.
Last year he noticed
that the tickets were
complimentary
and
acted very disappointed.
We had spent more than
$50 on refreshments and
souvenirs. Should we
take him to the game
again this year, or opt for
something else?
– CAN’T WIN FOR
LOSING IN WICHITA
DEAR CAN’T WIN:
Your grandson’s reaction
was disappointing. He
should have been grateful to have been invited
to share the experience.
It would have been best
to discuss his reaction at
the time it happened.
Before making up your
mind about what to do
this year, ask him why he
acted the way he did.
Feel free to tell him it
hurt your feelings. If it
turns out he was looking
a gift horse in the mouth,
make plans to do something else for his birthday this year, at your
discretion. Shame on
him.
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also
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Your Horoscope
By Eugenia Last
©2010, Universal Press Syndicate
MONDAY, DEC. 15, 2014
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:
Adam Brody, 35; Julie Taymor, 62;
Don Johnson, 65; Tim Conway, 81.
Happy Birthday: Focus on saving
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mission this year is to protect and
to strategize the best way to maintain and grow in a positive manner
emotionally, intellectually and financially. Investing in your abilities
and honing your skills and expertise will bring you that much closer
to your goals. Don’t let the changes
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41.
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pressured to give in to someone’s
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about a situation before you make
a decision. Don’t mix business with
pleasure or you will end up in a
vulnerable position. 3 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Learn
from your experiences today. Not
everyone you work with will be easy
to get along with. Put your energy
into your personal relationships.
Nurture what is most important to
you. Stick close to home. 3 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Get
moving. Travel plans can be made
and socializing with people in your
industry will allow you to share
your ideas. Discussing intentions
with a romantic or business partner
will lead to exciting prospects you
hadn’t considered in the past. 5
stars
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with caution. Emotional matters
will escalate if you refuse to adapt
to the changes going on around
you. Use your imagination and you
will find a way to turn a negative
into a positive. 2 stars
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point of entertaining people who
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worth checking out. 4 stars
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and mingle. Attend a business
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future trends. Romance is highlighted, but so is jealousy. Be careful not to lead someone on. You’ll
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from making impulsive personal
decisions or changes at home.
Learn from past experience and do
your best to find ways to improve
your knowledge and surroundings.
Take care of your work and domestic responsibilities before someone
complains. 3 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Plan
your actions strategically. There is
money to be made and job opportunities to apply for. Don’t sit back
— be a participant. Stay on top of
the latest trends in your industry
and prepare to go over and above
any competition you face. 3 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Make sure you complete whatever
job you are given. It’s how you deal
with people as well as what you accomplish that will pave the way for
future opportunities. Don’t let an
emotional situation stand between
you and success. 4 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Question everyone and everything.
You need to have a clear picture of
what’s going on around you if you
are going to deal with situations
successfully. Don’t feel pressured to
make changes if you are feeling uncertain. 2 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take
what belongs to you. Your ideas are
solid, and the help you offer will
lead to a positive change at work.
Don’t let someone’s jealousy stop
you from doing something that
makes you happy and can lead to
success. 5 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take a
close look at any offer before you
agree or make a commitment. You
are best to work on self-improvement until you feel comfortable
with what you have to offer. Having
the confidence to move forward is
half the battle. 3 stars
Birthday Baby: You are entertaining, impressive and adaptable. You
are outgoing and helpful.
MONDAY, DEC. 15
On Dec. 15, 1944, the U.S. Senate
approved the promotions of Henry
H. Arnold, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Douglas MacArthur and George C.
Marshall to the ﬁve-star rank of General of the Army and the nominations
of William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King
and Chester W. Nimitz as Admirals
of the Fleet. U.S. forces invaded
Mindoro Island in the Philippines,
encountering little resistance from
the Japanese. A single-engine plane
carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a
major in the U.S. Army Air Forces,
disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris.
In 1791, the Bill of Rights went
into effect following ratiﬁcation by
Virginia.
In 1814, the "Hartford Convention" began as New England Federalists opposed to the War of 1812
secretly gathered in the Connecticut
capital. (America's victory in the Battle of New Orleans and the war's end
effectively discredited the Convention.)
In 1864, the two-day Battle of
Nashville began during the Civil War
as Union forces commanded by Maj.
Gen. George H. Thomas attacked
Confederate troops led by Gen. John
Bell Hood; the result was a resounding Northern victory.
In 1938, groundbreaking for the
Jefferson Memorial took place in
Washington, D.C. with President
Franklin D. Roosevelt taking part in
the ceremony.
In 1939, the Civil War motion picture epic "Gone with the Wind," starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable,
had its world premiere in Atlanta.
In 1965, two U.S. manned spacecraft, Gemini 6A and Gemini 7, maneuvered to within 10 feet of each
other while in orbit.
In 1974, the horror spoof "Young
Frankenstein," starring Gene Wilder
and directed by Mel Brooks, was released by 20th Century Fox.
In 1989, a popular uprising began
in Romania that resulted in the
downfall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu (chow-SHES'-koo).
In 1991, an Egyptian-registered
ferry, the Salem Express, hit a reef
and sank in the Red Sea; at least 470
people died, although some estimates
are much higher.
In 2001, the Leaning Tower of
Pisa, Italy, was reopened to the public
after a $27 million realignment that
had dragged on for over a decade.
Ten years ago: Time Warner Inc.
agreed to pay over $500 million to
resolve federal securities fraud and
accounting investigations of its
America Online unit.
Five years ago: World leaders formally opened a U.N. climate change
conference in Copenhagen.
One year ago: Nelson Mandela
was laid to rest in his childhood
hometown, ending a 10-day mourning period for South Africa's ﬁrst
black president.
TuESDAY, DEC. 16
On Dec. 16, 1944, the World War
II Battle of the Bulge began as German forces launched a surprise attack
against Allied forces through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg (the Allies were eventually
able to turn the Germans back).
In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took
place as American colonists boarded
a British ship and dumped more than
300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
to protest tea taxes.
In 1809, the French Senate
granted a divorce decree to Emperor
Napoleon I and Empress Josephine
(the dissolution was made ﬁnal the
following month).
In 1811, the ﬁrst of the powerful
New Madrid earthquakes struck the
central Mississippi Valley with an estimated magnitude of 7.7.
In 1907, 16 U.S. Navy battleships,
which came to be known as the
"Great White Fleet," set sail on a 14month round-the-world voyage to
demonstrate American sea power.
In 1930, golfer Bobby Jones became the ﬁrst recipient of the James
E. Sullivan Award honoring outstanding amateur athletes.
In 1950, President Harry S. Truman proclaimed a national state of
emergency in order to ﬁght "world
conquest by Communist imperialism."
In 1976, the government halted its
swine ﬂu vaccination program following reports of paralysis apparently linked to the vaccine.
In 1982, Environmental Protection Agency head Anne M. Gorsuch
became the ﬁrst Cabinet-level ofﬁcer
to be cited for contempt of Congress
for refusing to submit documents requested by a congressional commit-
tee.
In 1991, the U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution
equating Zionism with racism by a
vote of 111-25.
Ten years ago: Bobbie Jo Stinnett,
23, of Skidmore, Missouri, was
found dying in her home, her unborn
baby cut from her womb. (The baby
was recovered by authorities in
Melvern, Kansas; Stinnett's killer,
Lisa Montgomery, was later sentenced to death).
Five years ago: Two hundred
Mexican Marines raided an upscale
apartment complex and killed drug
cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva in
a two-hour gunbattle.
One year ago: In the ﬁrst ruling of
its kind, U.S. District Court Judge
Richard Leon declared that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' telephone records
likely violated the Constitution's ban
on unreasonable search.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17
On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and
Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conducted the ﬁrst successful manned
powered-airplane ﬂights near Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina, using their
experimental craft, the Wright Flyer.
In 1777, France recognized American independence.
In 1914, during World War I,
Britain declared Egypt an ofﬁcial
protectorate.
In 1925, Col. William "Billy"
Mitchell was convicted at his courtmartial in Washington of insubordination for accusing senior military
ofﬁcials of incompetence and criminal negligence; he was suspended
from active duty.
In 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled by its crew, ending the World
War II Battle of the River Plate off
Uruguay.
In 1944, the U.S. War Department
announced it was ending its policy of
excluding people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast.
In 1957, the United States successfully test-ﬁred the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the ﬁrst
time.
In 1979, Arthur McDufﬁe, a black
insurance executive, was fatally injured after leading police on a chase
with his motorcycle in Miami. (Four
white police ofﬁcers accused of beating McDufﬁe were later acquitted,
sparking riots.)
In 1989, the animated TV series
"The Simpsons" premiered on Fox
with a Christmas-themed episode.
In 1994, North Korea shot down a
U.S. Army helicopter which had
strayed north of the demilitarized
zone. The co-pilot, Chief Warrant
Ofﬁcer David Hilemon, was killed;
the pilot, Chief Warrant Ofﬁcer
Bobby Hall, was captured and held
for nearly two weeks.
In 2011, North Korean leader Kim
Jong Il died after more than a decade
of iron rule; he was 69, according to
ofﬁcial records, but some reports indicated he was 70.
Ten years ago: President George
W. Bush signed into law the largest
overhaul of U.S. intelligence-gathering in 50 years, creating a national intelligence center and a powerful new
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position of national intelligence director.
Five years ago: Large pieces of a
climate deal fell into place on the
next-to-last day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Copenhagen.
One year ago: Germany's Parliament elected Chancellor Angela
Merkel (AHN'-geh-lah MEHR'kuhl) to a third term as the leader of
Europe's biggest economic power,
nearly three months after an awkward election result forced her to put
together a new governing coalition.
THuRSDAY, DEC. 18
On Dec. 18, 1944, in a pair of related rulings, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Korematsu v. United States,
upheld, 6-3, the government's
wartime evacuation of people of
Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, from the West Coast (the decision was limited to the exclusion
policy, and did not take up the issue
of internment), while in Ex parte
Endo, the justices unanimously
agreed that "concededly loyal"
Americans of Japanese ancestry
could not continue to be detained.
(Both rulings came a day after the
U.S. Department of War said it was
lifting the internment policy.)
In 1787, New Jersey became the
third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1863, in a speech to the Prussian Parliament, Prime Minister Otto
von Bismarck declared, "Politics is
not an exact science."
In 1865, the 13th Amendment to
the Constitution, abolishing slavery,
was declared in effect by Secretary
of State William H. Seward.
In 1892, Tchaikovsky's ballet "The
Nutcracker" publicly premiered in
St. Petersburg, Russia.
In 1912, fossil collector Charles
Dawson reported to the Geological
Society of London his discovery of
supposed early human remains at a
gravel pit in Piltdown. (More than
four decades later, Piltdown Man
was exposed as a hoax.)
In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson, widowed the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt at her
Washington home.
In 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered secret preparations for Nazi Germany
to invade the Soviet Union. (Operation Barbarossa was launched in June
1941.)
In 1958, the world's ﬁrst communications satellite, SCORE (Signal
Communication by Orbiting Relay
Equipment), nicknamed "Chatterbox," was launched by the United
States aboard an Atlas rocket.
In 1969, Britain's House of Lords
joined the House of Commons in
making permanent a 1965 ban on the
death penalty for murder.
In 1972, the United States began
heavy bombing of North Vietnamese
targets during the Vietnam War. (The
bombardment ended 11 days later.)
In 1980, former Soviet Premier
Alexei N. Kosygin died at age 76.
In 1992, Kim Young-sam was
elected South Korea's ﬁrst civilian
president in three decades.
Ten years ago: The former Iraqi
general known as "Chemical Ali,"
Ali Hassan al-Majid (ah-LEE' hah-
SAHN' ahl mah-ZHEED'), went before a tribunal of judges in the ﬁrst
investigative hearings of former
members of Saddam Hussein's
regime. (Al-Majid was executed in
Jan. 2010.)
Five years ago: The infamous iron
sign bearing the Nazis' cynical slogan
"Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You
Free) that spanned the main entrance
to the former Auschwitz death camp
in Poland was stolen. (The sign was
later recovered; six suspects in the
theft were later jailed.)
One year ago: A presidential advisory panel released a report recommending sweeping changes to
government surveillance programs,
including limiting the bulk collection
of Americans' phone records by stripping the National Security Agency of
its ability to store that data in its own
facilities.
FRIDAY, DEC. 19
On Dec. 19, 1974, Nelson A.
Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st
vice president of the United States in
the U.S. Senate chamber by Chief
Justice Warren Burger with President
Gerald R. Ford looking on (in a ﬁrst
for the Senate, the proceeding was
televised live).
In 1777, Gen. George Washington
led his army of about 11,000 men to
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to camp
for the winter.
In 1813, British forces captured
Fort Niagara during the War of 1812.
In 1843, "A Christmas Carol," by
Charles Dickens, was ﬁrst published
in England.
In 1932, the British Broadcasting
Corp. began transmitting overseas
with its Empire Service to Australia.
In 1946, war broke out in Indochina as troops under Ho Chi
Minh launched widespread attacks
against the French.
In 1950, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was named commander of the
military forces of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.
In 1961, former U.S. Ambassador
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., 73, suffered a
debilitating stroke while in Palm
Beach, Florida.
In 1972, Apollo 17 splashed down
in the Paciﬁc, winding up the Apollo
program of manned lunar landings.
In 1986, Lawrence E. Walsh was
appointed independent counsel to investigate the Iran-Contra affair.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton
was impeached by the Republicancontrolled House for perjury and obstruction of justice (he was
subsequently acquitted by the Senate).
Ten years ago: In Iraq, car bombs
tore through a Najaf funeral procession and Karbala's main bus station,
killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 120 in the two Shiite
holy cities.
Five years ago: A U.N. climate
conference in Copenhagen ended
with a nonbinding accord to show for
two weeks of debate and frustration;
the deal was brokered by President
Barack Obama, who attended the
conference on its ﬁnal day.
One year ago: Discount retailer
Target announced that data connected to about 40 million credit and
debit card accounts had been stolen.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When
the CIA sought permission to
use harsh interrogation methods
on a captured al-Qaida
operative, the response from
Bush administration lawyers
was encouraging, even clinical.
In one of several memos forming the legal underpinnings for
brutal interrogation techniques,
the CIA was told that Abu Zubaydah could lawfully be placed in a
box with an insect, kept awake
for days at a time and slapped
multiple times in the face. Waterboarding, too, was acceptable because it did not cause the lengthy
mental anguish needed to meet
the legal standard of torture, the
2002 Justice Department memo
says.
The release last week of a Senate report cataloging years of
such interrogation tactics has revived debate about legal opinions
since discredited and withdrawn
and about the decision to not
prosecute the program’s architects or officers who used the
methods. Civil rights groups in
the United States and abroad are
renewing calls to prosecute those
who relied on techniques that
President Barack Obama has
called torture.
“How can we seriously use the
phrase ‘rule of law’ if crimes of
this magnitude go uninvestigated
and unprosecuted?” said Jameel
WORLD BRIEFS
Jaffer, the American Civil Liberties Union’s deputy legal director.
The Justice Department, which
spent years looking into the matter, says it lacks sufficient evidence to convict anyone and
found no new information in the
report. It also is far from clear
that any international case could
be brought.
“This issue will be contentious
and it will need to be worked
through all the way to Paris,”
U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern
said after the marathon talks in
Lima finished, more than 30
hours behind schedule.
The U.N. talks were still far
away from reaching any agreement on reducing emissions of
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to a level that scientists say would keep global
warming in check. But the Paris
agreement would be the first to
call on all countries to control
their emissions.
The U.S. and other developed
nations say that means tearing
down the firewall in negotiations
that compels only rich countries
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. to rein in emissions of carbon
(AP) — Three friends of an al- dioxide and other greenhouse
leged victim of a gang rape at a gases.
University of Virginia fraternity
told The Associated Press that a
magazine article about the attack
was wrong on a number of key
points.
Most important, the friends say
they encouraged the victim, idenWASHINGTON (AP) — One
tified as “Jackie” in a Rolling colleague called the tactics of tea
Stone magazine article, to report party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz on
the attack to police. That’s in the $1.1 trillion spending bill a
contrast with the magazine story, painful echo of last year’s 16-day
which claimed the three encour- partial government shutdown.
aged her to preserve her reputaAnother senator said it was a
tion by keeping it quiet.
strategy without an end game.
Identified as “Randall,”
And that sniping came from
”Cindy,” and “Andy” in the story, Cruz’s fellow Republicans.
the friends are third-year students
The 43-year-old Texas freshRyan Duffin, Kathryn Hendley, man in a political hurry — he’s
and Alex Stock. All three are 20 considering a 2016 presidential
years old.
run — infuriated several GOP
Other news media have inter- colleagues with a last-minute atviewed the friends, but this is the tempt to force a vote on President
first time they have agreed to use Barack Obama’s executive actheir full names.
tions on immigration.
The move upended lawmakers’ weekend plans and, more
troubling for his party, gave Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., an opening to move forward on long-stalled Obama
nominees.
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A lastminute deal that salvaged U.N.
climate talks from collapse
early Sunday sends a signal the
rich-poor divide that long held
up progress can be overcome
with a year to go before a
landmark pact is supposed to be
adopted in Paris.
Scientists often test drugs in
Still, it remains to be seen mice. Now some cancer patients
whether governments can come are doing the same — with the
up with a new formula for how hope of curing their own disease.
countries in different stages of
They are paying a private lab
development should contribute in to breed mice that carry bits of
a way that keeps global warming their own tumors so treatments
from reaching dangerous levels. can be tried first on the cus-
Friends of UVA
‘Jackie’ in Rolling
Stone story say
they pushed to
call cops after
assault
Sen. Ted Cruz’s
moves roil
Republicans
UN climate talks
end with crack in
rich-poor firewall
Some cancer
patients are using
mouse ‘avatars’ to
test drugs
tomized rodents. The idea is to
see which drugs might work best
on a specific person’s specific
cancer.
The mice may help patients
make what can be very hard
choices under difficult circumstances. Studies can suggest a
certain chemotherapy may help,
but patients wonder whether it
will work for them. Often there’s
more than one choice, and if the
first one fails, a patient may be
too sick to try another. So hundreds of people have made
“mouse avatars” over the last few
years to test chemotherapies.
“What I’m doing is personalized cancer treatment. It’s the
wave of the future,” said Eileen
Youtie, a Miami woman using
mice to guide care for her hardto-treat form of breast cancer.
“Part of this is trying to eliminate
chemos that are not going to
work on me. I don’t want to
waste time taking them and poison my body.”
But there are no guarantees the
mice will help.
Monday’s deadline
for obtaining
coverage by Jan. 1
is big test for
revamped
HealthCare.gov
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s push to
cover America’s uninsured faces
another big test Monday.
This time, it’s not only how the
website functions, but how well
the program itself works for millions who are starting to count on
it.
Midnight Monday, Pacific
time is the deadline for new customers to pick a health plan that
will take effect Jan. 1, and for
current enrollees to make
changes that could reduce premium increases ahead of the new
year.
HealthCare.gov and state insurance websites are preparing
for heavy online traffic before the
deadline, which gives consumers
in the East three hours into Tuesday to enroll.
Wait times at the federal call
center started creeping up around
the middle of last week, mainly
due to a surge of current customers with questions about their
coverage for next year. Many will
face higher premiums, although
they could ease the hit by shopping online for a better deal.
Counselors reported hold times
of 20 minutes or longer for the
telephone help line.
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