Green Up Vermont announced winners in its annual writing and student poster design contest for Green Up Day 2009. Olivia Bellingham, Grade 5 from Flood Brook Union School was the overall winner. The artwork features a smiling, young girl in an orange dress who is putting litter in its place, in a trash can. The poster can be viewed by visiting the Green Up website at www.greenupvermont.org. Posters distributed statewide in April help promote participation in Green Up Day the first Saturday in May, May 2, 2009.

UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences has announced the winners for elementary, middle and high school students from the 2009 engineers Day activities which took place Thursday, March 5, 2009 at the Vermont Air National Guard

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1st Brookfield Elementary School – Eli Hulse, Anna Hulse

2nd Browns River School - Jonah Vita, Anna Chaffee

3rd Browns River School - Matt Ellison, Katarina Keating

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Starr Jewell pulls double duty for Therapy Dogs of Vermont, donating her marketing talents and the love of her Bernese Mountain Dog A Vermont native with more than 20 years of experience as a marketing professional, Jewell donates her creative services to this all-volunteer, non-profit organization of well-mannered, sweet-tempered, people-loving dogs and their handlers.

Naturopathic physician Dr. Christopher Hollis and massage therapist Beth Rettig of West Fairlee were among the experts lecturing and leading workshops at a Caribbean medical school recently.

Hollis and Rettig were invited to participate in St. George’s University School of Medicine biannual Complementary and Alternative Medicine Module by program director and professor of immunology Jacqueline Stanley. They traveled to St. George’s University – a U.S. medical school in Grenada, a Caribbean island nation – in late January.

Liz Lovely, Inc. received national exposure when company co-founders Liz and Dan Holtz were featured on “The Story,” a nationally syndicated program on National Public Radio, on Thursday, March 5th. The show was one in an on-going series called “What’s Working? Who’s Working?” that focuses on people and companies that are thriving despite the downturn in the economy.

Fifteen partners at Langrock, Sperry & Wool, LLP have been named “Best Lawyers” in Vermont in one or more areas of law. They received these honors from Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. As a firm, Langrock ranks first in Vermont in Family Law, with 3 attorneys appearing on the list, and first in Real Estate Law with 4 attorneys listed.

Kelly Brush Foundation President Charlie Brush announced the hiring of Betsy Cabrera as executive director of the growing non-profit. Cabrera is the three-year-old non-profit’s first executive director.