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3 i Friday, March 24, 1995 Page 4B CHITTENDEN EDITION Mail: Burlington Free Press P.O. Box 10, Burlington, Vt. 05402 Fax: 660-1802. lown Assistant Metro Editor: Julie Warwick, 660-1849 or (800) 427-3124 Chittenden County Towns outgrow the government More administrators needed Who's paid? According to the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, about 100 Vermont communities have paid administrators. Job descriptions can vary from supervising town personnel and assisting the Board of Selectmen to doing a little bit of everything.

Here's the breakdown: City and town managers: 48 Village managers: 5 Joint town and village managers: 4 Town administrators: 50 CALENDAR Burlington Latino Dane Party: midnight to 3 a.m. Saturday, main floor, Memorial Auditorium; post Tito Puente concert. $4 entrance fee. Recycling blna: Residents are reminded to put items Tor recycling outside the morning they are to be collected. This system reduces litter.

For more information about recycling, call 865-7262. Chittenden County Daffodil Day: Daffodils will be on sale to benefit the American Cancer Society through Sunday. Bunches of 10 daffodils will be available for $5 donations at participating stores, including Martin's Shop 'N Save, Lang Farms, Essex, and Dorset Street, South Burlington; Shelburne Market; Net Result, South Burlington; Grand Union, Shelburne and Williston roads, South Burlington, and in Essex and Colchester. For information, call 658-0626. Colchester Daya of Dlacovery: The Days of Discovery School will offer a full-day, private kindergarten program beginning in September.

The school also will offer extended care for working parents. For information, 879-0321. Essex Junction Parent Advlaory Committee: 4 p.m. Monday, Central Office, 7 Meadow Terrace; review of new procedures, special education manual. Eaaex Glria Softball: p.m.

Monday, Essex Middle School lobby and p.m. Tuesday, Essex Junction High School lobby; open to Essex village and town resident students between grades 3-8. Forms may also be mailed to the Recreation Department, 81 Main St. Fee 19 per person, $29 for two or more in the same family. For more information, 878-1342.

Browned Library: The Brownell Library could get the "Encarta Multimedia Encyclopedia" free from Microsoft Corp. if 25 or more patrons submit letters about how a library or librarian has made a difference in their lives. Letters can be mailed to Penny Pillsbury, director, Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln Essex Junction, 05452. Deadline is June 1. Kenneth and Martha Wooden live part time at Honey Hollow Camp In Bolton, which has been named to the National Register of Historic Places.

Honey Hollow's reputation sticks By Missy Kinney Free Press Correspondent Several Chittenden County towns are weighing whether their governments should grow along with their populations. Towns such as Jericho have decided they need more help running the affairs of their communities and are taking steps to change their governments. Jericho residents decided this month the town should hire a part-time recreation director to coordinate activities within its recreation program. "We need someone to pull what programs we have together," said John Stewart, chairman of the selectboard. Stewart said the new director probably would be hired in May or June and would help the town pursue grants and publicize events in town.

Jericho predicts it will need a town manager as the work load and responsibilities of the selectboard and town clerk grow, Stewart said. For now, the town plans to hire an additional part-time assistant to help the town clerk and the planning and zoning staff. The selectboard also continues to give more responsibility to its recorder and assistant, Cynthia Humphrey. "We can handle it, but it's because she is helping us," Stewart said. Steven Jeffrey, executive director of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, said residents of a town or city must adopt the state statute outlining the duties and authority given to a town manager before hiring one.

The job descriptions can vary, however. "The decision to hire a town manager or administrator could be because the selectboard is overwhelmed with technical and administrative details that they have to deal with, as well as the policy-making decisions they are responsible for," Jeffrey said. In general, a town manager helps a board of selectmen by implementing the board's decisions or policies. He or she also supervises other town personnel and departments such as fire and police, approves purchase orders for supplies and oversees municipal buildings and repairs. Williston was the last Chittenden County community to approve hiring a town manager seven years ago, Jeffrey said.

Bert Moffatt has been in the "We need someone to pull what programs we have together." John Stewart, chairman of Jericho selectboard job for five years and has had a 30-year career as a town manager for other towns in Vermont. Moffatt said that in the past few years, the role of the town manager also has included helping selectboards with regional boards such as the Regional Planning Organization. A town manager also can provide continuity because boards often have more turn-" over. "I'm not convinced that small towns need a town manager," Moffatt said. "It makes a lot of sense for small towns to combine services or combine positions." For example, a town could hire a town administrator, who would perform duties in all areas of town government.

Brian Bigelow, the town administrator in Underbill, says he does a little bit of everything, from assisting the Selectboard to helping with planning and zoning. Bigelow said it was not necessarily population that determined when a town needed additional staffing, but rather when residents expected more services. And Underhill gives its administrator more than enough work, he said. "Underhill has a very active selectboard needs a staff member." By Andrew Flint Free Press Correspondent BOLTON There is a place in Bolton where the vistas and views are as sweet as its name. Honey Hollow Camp, one family's treasure, has earned national recognition.

The National Park Service recently placed the camp on its National Register of Historic Places. Honey Hollow becomes the only Bolton site named to the register. Overseen by the state Division for Historic Preservation, the list includes more than 8,200 Vermont buildings. Selection to the register is based on a building's design, workmanship and history. The camp is as rich in history as it is in renovation and care by its present owners, Kenneth and Martha Wooden of Shelburne.

Resting on the back side of Camels Hump and overlooking Bolton, the camp evokes the image of the classic Vermont mountain camp. Many such retreats were built in Vermont during World War II as safe havens in the event of a potential bombing of the East Coast by Nazi Germany. The Woodens have preserved the character of the log and stone refuge, described as "more elaborately constructed than the ordinary mountain camp" by The Burlington Free Press on March 21, 1942. Built from hand-hewn posts and beams from a 19th century barn on site, the main cabin is restored to its original time period. The interior is laid with similar, exposed timbers, which gable at the ceiling.

A massive stone fireplace is centered inside the ADAM PIKI RIESNCR, Free Press Ken Wooden says he doesn't mind that job title. "The place looks like this because I look like this," he said to such visitors. And on a day when the rest of the Champlain Valley is mired in gray, Honey Hollow looks almost dazzling. Although drizzle falls elsewhere, the camp's 10-acre clearing is undergoing a late winter season. With stone walls and a brook bordering the knolls, it is a picture Grandma Moses might paint.

Rep. Gary Bressor from Richmond observed the scene while installing the main lodge's new roof in 1991 and helped write the camp's application for the register. He said it is important to preserve such sites that define Vermont history. "I wanted to protect the surrounding area and the camp itself. Besides its remote quality, I tried to connect to that point of history when it was a sanctuary and the world was going crazy," Bressor said.

The Woodens say their property's new status will help its preservation. Already, a new generation of Wooden children have experienced the hollow. Still, a plaque on one of Honey Hollow's walls points to the true owners of the camp. "We, as those before us will never own this property. It is ageless and defies ownership.

The wisdom of nature, the view, the movement of night are owned by no one and nature must smile on mortals who think they do," it reads. schools Next door, calls are being made to people in various parts of Williston to get going on organizing their neighborhood float for the July Fourth parade. The theme: "The young and young-at-heart." "I'd like to see more people in the parade than on the sidelines," said July Fourth organizer Bill Skiff at town meeting. If you want to help, call Nellie Ger-maine at 879-7412. We always knew he had style.

Jerry Greenfield, 44, of Williston was caught, barefoot, hugging a tree in Sunday's New York Times Styles section. He led off a story about vice presidents of socially responsible companies such as Ben Jerry's. Other VPs profiled: Edie Heilman of Working Assets Long Distance, Phil Maez of Celestial Seasonings, and "It's a testament to my father and mother's hard work and caring for detail. They really put their love into it" Jennifer Wooden, owners' daughter building. The hunting rifles, deer antlers and oxen yoke chandelier give it a rustic feel.

"It's a testament to my father and mother's hard work and caring for detail," said Jennifer Wooden of Shelburne. "They really put their love into it." For the Woodens, that love stems from an enjoyment of their property's natural beauty. "There's a real magic to the place," Ken Wooden said. "When we come up here, our concerns are cutting the grass, getting the wood in and clearing brush. All the other worries, job, whatever, are miles off.

You're concentrating on the basics of life." That work has had a few, if minor, drawbacks. Growing up as one of the four children in the Wooden household meant contributing to the family's second home, daughters Jennifer and Rosemary recall. "We weren't slaves, but we were kept busy," Rosemary Wooden said. "My father once said you never get paid for the work you do at Honey Hollow." Other times, when sightseers come across Honey Hollow while hiking or exploring, they often mistook the lodge's owners for caretakers. Neighbors Stephen Mease and past founder of the Vermont Repertory Theater.

Hit or myths: The Richmond Fourth of July Parade is in the planning stages with a theme of "mythology." The parade's fireworks committee meets at 7 p.m. the last Thursday of each month at Camels Hump Middle School. Call Barb Laplant at 434-2287 for more information. Huntington Huntington Sugarmakera Open Houae: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday. Maps with directions to participating sugar houses are available at the town offices, Beaudry's and Jaques. The event is sponsored by the Huntington Conservation Commission and is intended to increase awareness about agriculture in the town. For information, 434-3501. Jericho Keeping Track Auction: p.m.

Saturday, Community Center in Jericho. For donation delivery instructions, 899-2800. Milton Arrowhead Mountain Lake Association: 7 p.m. Thursday, Georgia Elementary School. South Burlington Winter Carnival: Twin Oaks Sports and Fitness announces its Winter Carnival raised more than $3,600 for the American Heart Association of Vermont.

Westford Rabies Clinic: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, town garage. Rabies shots cost $8 for dogs and cats. Distemper shots will be available for 1 4 for dogs and 1 1 for cats. Town Clerk Frena Phillips will be on hand to license dogs.

The cost of registration is $7 for spayed or neutered animals and $9 for other dogs. For more information, call 878-4587. Wlllleton Central School District: 7:30 p.m. Monday, school auditorium. Wlllleton Offices: Williston residents interested in serving on a board are asked to send a letter of interest to the Town Manager's Office, 722 Williston Road, Williston, 05495.

The boards are: Zoning Board, Conservation Commission, Historic Preservation Committee, Planning Commission, Recreation Committee. Winooski Historical Society: 2-4 p.m. Sunday, open house at 1 790 Stone House, 73 E. Allen St. Special exhibit of "Advertising Souvenirs." A dramatic tie: 2 win festival berth Playing around: Colchester High School hosted six area high school drama clubs Saturday in a daylong competition for a berth at the State Drama Festival on April 7 and 8 at Mount Abraham Union High School in Bristol.

About 140 students participated, presenting plays of 45 minutes or less. Colchester and Winooski high school tied for the top honors, said John Coon, director of theater at Colchester. "In the 17 years I've been here, we won nine or 10 times. In 1986, we went to the New England Drama competition, and two students got four-year scholarships offered to them on the spot." Colchester presented "Fisherman and his Winooski staged "Games." Winooski's efforts were directed by Bob Ringer, the school's drama director Kate Chappell of Tom's of Maine. Things we learned we didn't know: He's got undercar neon lights on his Nissan Maxima.

His role model is Nelson Mandela who "spent 20-some-odd years in prison, comes out and essentially has no bitterness." His most important piece of office equipment: a recycling bin. His worst vice: Eats too much. Favorite flavor of ice cream: Vanilla caramel fudge two swirls. But the biggest surprise: IBM is the company he would like to be vice president of for a day. "It's this huge, huge company with hundreds of thousands of people.

I'd be interested to see how they get things done." By the way, the tree was in Gainesville, and the pose was the photographer's idea, he said. Meanwhile, his buddy Ben Cohen was offering reflections Tuesday on the morning lectures of nationally known editor Dr. Michael Lerner "The Politics of Meaning" and feminist ethicist Dr. Sharon Welch "Dreams of Good" at Trinity College's "Religion and the Crisis of Meaning in The workshop was a sold-out affair, according to Kathy O'Dell-Thompson of Trinity. "There was a lot of energy around this, and there was a lot of Intelligent con-J versation concerning the dynam-ics of change." Stephen Mease is a Free Press editor.

Neighbors, a collection of news and notes of interest from around Chittenden County appears Fridays. If you have an item for this column, send the information in a short note and include yourj name, daytime phone and address. Or call 865-0940, Ext. 3033. Send items to Stephen Mease, Neighbors, The Burlington Free Press, P.O.

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