Events

On this Halloween we are happy to have Jason Smiley talk to us about the Eddy file from Chittenden Vermont.  Jason is an Eddy Family Historian and has been researching the Eddy Brothers for more than a decade. There are many misconceptions about the Eddy family and plenty of false information out there that keeps getting retold. My goal is to bring to light the facts of the story.  More at his website.

More than 500 Afghans have resettled in Vermont, the largest per capita population of resettled Afghans in the country. And we’re proud to be part of helping this incredible community thrive.

The Alliance provides basic services, and connects Afghans to state and local service providers. The Alliance also helps preserve cultural traditions and connects the growing community through celebrations and community gatherings.

.Molly Gray will speak about the Afghan Resettlement efforts in Vermont.

November is ROTARY FOUNDATION MONTH.  Libby Camire will provide the South Burlington Rotary Foundation Committee update.

Fed up with pumping in bathrooms and borrowed spaces—Mamava’s co-founders, Sascha Mayer and Christine Dodson, applied their decades of expertise in design and brand strategy to solve a problem that was largely invisible: the lack of lactation spaces in workplaces and public spaces. 

Ilona Blanchard will give an update on South Burlington City Center build out plans, city green,TIF status

D. Thomas Toner is a Professor of Music at the University of Vermont where he teaches percussion and conducts the Percussion Ensemble, Concert Band, and Wind Ensemble. Dr. Toner is the Principal Percussionist of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has performed a wide variety of music.  He has also appeared with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Massachusetts Chamber Players, the Bermuda Philharmonic, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and many other ensembles in the northeast.

We will have no "formal" meeting this day, just time for socializing with each other (and our guests), enjoying tasty vittles, and being treated to a year-end tale by erstwhile newspaperman, founder of the Young Writer's Project, and soon-to-be published novelist, Geoff Gevalt.  If you'd like to learn more about Geoff:  https://www.geoffreygevalt.com/ 

The Janet S. Munt Family Room is a unique parent child center providing programs that are accessible to all and flexible enough to meet the needs of our changing community.  We support connection for parents and families, provide education, promote physical, social, emotional, and linguistic development in children, and nurture a vibrant and diverse community.

Damon joined the staff of the Family Room to increase his knowledge of family support and broaden his understanding of our community’s diversity. Having been a father for only 8 years means he has as much to learn about supporting families as he has to learn about raising children. The Family Room offers him the opportunity to sharpen his fathering skills while meeting and sharing with the many members and families in the community. 

More information about the Janet S. Munt Family Room Childcare Center here:

https://www.thefamilyroomvt.org/

Molly is an attorney with Primmer Piper, Eggleston & Cramer, PC in Burlington, VT and has over 20 years of experience helping families achieve their personal and financial objectives.  She also provides counsel to both fiduciaries and beneficiaries in all aspects of trust, probate, and estate administration. Her estate planning practice also includes business succession planning, business formation and real estate law as they relate to estate planning issues.  More about Molly's firm here:

https://www.primmer.com/

The Vermont Futures Project is an independent non-partisan organization with a goal of providing a vision that supports and encourages long-term economic growth for Vermont, providing data and recommendations to achieve this goal. The Vermont Futures Project will position the economy in the center of a statewide discussion about Vermont’s future, enriching that discussion with data, benchmarks, and research – demonstrating how a healthy economy provides opportunities for people and contributes to Vermont’s unique quality of life.  More about this organization here:

https://vtfuturesproject.org/

Violet Nichols, Superintendent of SB Schools will be joined by Tim Jarvis, Senior Director of Operations and Finance, to discuss the school budget for the upcoming school year.

Tibetan community in Vermont was founded in 1993 with few individual members; now consisted with hundred and twenty three members.  To actively promote and support human rights and democratic freedoms in Tibet.  To preserve and promote Tibetan Culture, heritage and religion. To liase with and support the Tibetan Government in exile through the Office of Tibet, New York, USA.  Our mission is to contribute to and uphold the American value of multiculturalism.  To work together to build innovative, productive and peaceful American Tibetan Communities in US.  To Initiate and maintain unity among Tibetan Organizations in North America. Mrs. Cummings is President of the Association. 

http://www.vermonttibet.org/

A dedicated humanitarian, Katia Vieira de Moraes LaCasse, M.D., was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and received her medical degree from Faculdade de Medicina do ABC in 2004 and completed a pediatric residency in 2010 at Santa Casa de Misericordia de São Paulo.

After several years working as a pediatric hospitalist and running a private pediatric practice, Vieira de Moraes LaCasse embarked on her first humanitarian deployment to Afghanistan with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The experience had an immense impact on her and changed her life trajectory. "After my six months in Afghanistan, I returned home to Brazil, quit both my jobs and closed my private practice. I could not fathom going back to work in private hospitals when I knew how much help was needed in humanitarian contexts," she says. "I set out to dedicate my life to humanitarian work full time."

Three years ago, after additional MSF deployments to South Sudan, as well as Save the Children deployments to Colombia, Syria, Haiti, and Dominican Republic, Vieira de Moraes LaCasse moved to Vermont.  Currently serving as the clinical lead for the Emergency Health Unit at Save the Children U.S., she decided to pursue a Master of Public Health degree at UVM to "add more tools to her arsenal to provide better responses and affect policy development". 

https://www.savethechildren.org/

Judy was inducted into the SB Rotary Club in the Fall of 2024.  Today she will provide an insight into who she is with a classification talk.

SBRotary chooses a winner from recommendations from the public for non—Rotarian individuals who have shown exemplary service at many levels—community, business, etc.