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By Greg Marchildon, State Director, AARP Vermont There was a time when access to the internet was a luxury and even a novelty. Those days are long gone. Today, fast, reliable and affordable access to the internet is as much a necessity as electricity.
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Vermont Business Magazine Elderwood, a leading provider of senior care in the Northeast has acquired Starr Farm Nursing Center in Burlington. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Elderwood began serving the Burlington community on December 17, 2018, and has renamed the facility Elderwood at Burlington. Elderwood at Burlington has a 150-bed capacity, serving both skilled nursing and short-term subacute rehabilitation patients.
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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Small Business Development Center (VtSBDC) would like to announce an upcoming workshop for those thinking about starting their own business.
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Vermont Business Magazine Eleven years ago, the Epic Pass transformed the ski industry by offering guests unlimited skiing at the best resorts in the world, for a previously unheard of low price, making skiing and riding more accessible and affordable. Today, with the introduction of "Epic for Everyone," Vail Resorts continues that history of innovation by offering the same incredible flexibility and value to all skiers and riders, whether they want to ski or ride just one day – or every day – of the season, including at local resorts Stowe, Okemo and Sunapee (NH).
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Vermont Business Magazine Liquid Measurement Systems, Inc. (LMS) has begun work on a fuel measurement system for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®’ X-59 Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator aircraft.
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Vermont Business Magazine University of Vermont bee researchers are buzzing after an anonymous $500,000 gift to support threatened pollinators. The gift creates the Apis Fund, which will catalyze projects supporting vital bee pollinators. Bees are essential for the world’s food supply – including Vermont agriculture – but are experiencing steep declines from climate change, disease, pesticides, and habitat loss.
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Vermont Business Magazine Diabetes patients at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), and its practices will soon benefit from an upgrade to the system used to monitor their blood glucose. The new technology, the Hemocue point-of-care testing glucose testing system, costs $20,000. Funds were generously donated by the SVHC Auxiliary.
“The average age of our current analyzer is seven years, and at that point, they begin to wear out,” said Laurene Grande, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center’s director of the Intensive Care Unit and Medical-Surgical Nursing. “This gift from the Auxiliary will allow us to replace the entire fleet. Patients will benefit from this accurate and efficient technology.”
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by Representative Heidi E Scheuermann (R-Stowe) While a great deal of my focus over the first few weeks of the legislative session was, and continues to be, on the effort to extend by one year the Act 46 forced school district merger deadline to July 1, 2020, it is certainly not the only issue on which I have been working diligently. As both the Stowe community and the region well know, I have spent my years in the House of Representatives doing all I can to bring more attention to the importance of our state's tourism industry. This year is no exception.
The tourism industry in Vermont is absolutely critical to our success as a state - economically and otherwise. From the millions of dollars in tax revenue the industry generates ($391 million in FY 2018) to the thousands of Vermonters whose jobs and salaries are supported by tourism (32,000 jobs in FY 2018), the economic impact of the industry is over $2.5 billion.
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by Bill Schubart Astonishing what we learn from others when we listen… I was talking with a friend only a few years younger who offered a suggestion that in my self-absorption had never occurred to me. At our advancing age, she said, it’s important for us all to make way for new leaders and thinkers. When we’re asked to speak, write, or lead an initiative, she suggested we consider suggesting a young person making their way forward in our stead. Her term was “aging with grace.”
Former Governor Madeleine Kunin has long been a role model in her championing of younger women reaching up and out to win leadership positions, especially in politics. As we age, it’s important that we do this for all younger people, which is not to say that older people should not lead; they should, but we don’t need to take on all leadership opportunities that come our way.
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by Sandy Rousse, President and CEO of Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice (CVHHH) in Berlin If you know me, and many of your readers may, you have probably heard me say how much I love my job. This is because CVHHH provides critical medical and supportive care to people in a place we know they want to be—at home. You see, like most people, I believe that my home is my sanctuary. It’s where I feel safe and comfortable, and it’s where I want to retreat at the end of the day. In addition, the care we provide helps people maintain their independence and keeps them connected to their family, friends, and community.
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Vermont Business Magazine The Stern Center for Language and Learning announces that Nancy Mather, Ph.D., will present a half-day workshop on dyslexia and reading Friday, March 15, 2019 from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Montpelier, Vermont. Dr. Mather is an internationally recognized expert on dyslexia, reading, learning, behavior and child development who has published numerous books, peer-reviewed articles and assessment tools for educators and clinicians who work with individuals who experience learning difficulties.
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Vermont Business Magazine Norwich University along with Anglo-American University (AAU), the oldest private college in the Czech Republic, will host the inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Rights at AAU on March 7-8, 2019. Norwich University will send 16 students, four faculty members and one staff member to Prague, Czech Republic, to attend and participate in the conference.