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Vic Guadagno

72 episodes

3 months ago

Born and raised in New Jersey, Karen Hatcher spent much of her career, managing nonprofit organizations. She made her way to New England about 13 years ago and lives with her husband Mark who is a luthier. Since the flood of July 10th 2024, Karen, along with Michael Zahner, has been managing fundraising and grant coordination for disaster recovery in the town of Plainfield. An an October 9th, 2024 "Bridge" Article, Plainfield Select Board chair Karl Bissex introduced Karen as the "master of p...

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Born and raised in New Jersey, Karen Hatcher spent much of her career, managing nonprofit organizations. She made her way to New England about 13 years ago and lives with her husband Mark who is a luthier. Since the flood of July 10th 2024, Karen, along with Michael Zahner, has been managing fundraising and grant coordination for disaster recovery in the town of Plainfield. An an October 9th, 2024 "Bridge" Article, Plainfield Select Board chair Karl Bissex introduced Karen as the "master of p...

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Episode 72 - Karen Hatcher

Born and raised in New Jersey, Karen Hatcher spent much of her career, managing nonprofit organizations. She made her way to New England about 13 years ago and lives with her husband Mark who is a luthier. Since the flood of July 10th 2024, Karen, along with Michael Zahner, has been managing fundraising and grant coordination for disaster recovery in the town of Plainfield. An an October 9th, 2024 "Bridge" Article, Plainfield Select Board chair Karl Bissex introduced Karen as the "master of p...

3 months ago

51 minutes

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Episode 71 - Meg Mott

Meg Mott has been called a Constitutional Wrangler, whose stated mission is “teach ordinary citizens how to think through the various constitutional issues in a specific controversy”. Meg is a writer, teacher and the town moderator of Putney, Vermont. She uses dynamic and innovative strategies to help people find a common language. After twenty years of teaching political theory and constitutional law to Marlboro College undergraduates, Meg has taken her love of argument to the general public...

4 months ago

53 minutes

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Episode 70 - Don Taylor, MSMS_SUSTAIN

Don Taylor is a middle school educator at the Main Street Middle School (MSMS) in Montpelier, Vermont. After spending 17 years teaching language arts and social studies, Don was the driving force behind the creation of the MSMS_SUSTAIN program, which he co-directs with Drew McNaughton. MSMS_SUSTAIN is a learning program predicated on the belief that students of the 21st century must know and understand issues related to climate change, sustainability and social justice. Don credits his enroll...

5 months ago

54 minutes

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Episode 69 - Kianna Bromley, The Montpelier Performing Arts Hub

Kianna Bromley is the Founder and Director of the Montpelier Performing Arts Hub. An immensely energetic and passionate problem solver, Kianna never does anything halfway. Ever since pursuing her Masters in Business in Entrepreneurship from the University of Vermont (UVM), she has been planning business models for a new performance and event spaces. When the Gary Library, located at the former Vermont College of Fine Arts crossed her path she knew it was time to jump! Kianna most recently tau...

6 months ago

46 minutes

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Episode 68 - Ben Matchstick, Cardboard Teck Instantute & Hadestown!

Professor Ben t. Matchstick founded Cardboard Teck Instantute in 2005. He is a performing artist working in the mediums of cardboard, games, and stories. Ben has worked as a youth advocate, librarian, cafe owner, educator, puppeteer, artist, and entrepreneur in Vermont for 20+ years. He is the founder of Cardboard Teck Instantute. Ben is the co-creator (with Pete Talbot) of the award-winning PinBox 3000 cardboard tabletop pinball machine kit. Ben is the production and media manager and ...

8 months ago

1 hour 1 minute

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Episode 67 - Eric Zencey

This week’s podcast is the Posthumous interview with Eric Zencey. Eric was a professor, writer and social critic. He passed on July 1st, 2019. Eric Zencey, novelist, essayist, lecturer, and social thinker was a tireless evangelist for a new way of thinking about humankind’s relationship with nature. Eric arrived in Vermont in 1980 to teach at Goddard College, quickly developing a deep love for his adopted state. More recently, he served as a visiting lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Archi...

9 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes

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Episode 66 - Ecological Planning Lab, 2024 Symposium

The Ecological Planning Laboratory (EPL) at the University of Vermont is a partnership between UVM Extension and the Field Naturalist Graduate program, in year two of a three-year pilot phase. The EPL helps communities tackle vital projects on their land, with an emphasis on social-ecological health at the watershed scale. As their website states, “sustaining momentum over years is often the greatest challenge of land-based projects, from starting a riparian tree nursery to coordinating multi...

10 months ago

51 minutes

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Episode 65 - Paul Gambill, Community Engagement Lab

Paul Gambill is the Executive Director of the Community Engagement Lab. Their mission is to "bring people of all ages together in projects that activate their creativity to imagine and build more just and thriving communities". Their current project, The Montpelier Bridges to Belonging shares the stories that connect us to each other — and the stories that reveal where we need to build new bridges to ensure that Montpelier is a welcoming place where everyone can belong and thrive. Paul brin...

12 months ago

38 minutes

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Episode 64 - Paul Carnahan

This episode features Paul Carnahan. Librarian of the Vermont Historical Society (VHS) from 1990 to 2022. Paul currently serves on Montpelier’s Historic Preservation Commission and the board of the Montpelier Historical Society. He recently became part of Montpelier’s Commission for Recovery and Resiliency, offering a historical perspective on Montpelier, as the Commission envisions a resilient future. Paul worked with Montpelier Alive to create the Bridges of Montpelier slideshow, an ...

1 year ago

37 minutes

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Episode 63 - Pat Moulton, Central Vermont Recovery Officer

Today on the podcast we welcome Pat Moulton. In November of 2023 Pat was appointed by Governor Phil Scott as the Central Vermont Recovery Officer for the State of Vermont. The Recovery Office is the state-level entity tasked with coordinating available federal funds and local mitigation and community revitalization work. Pat is the first geographic appointee to the office, focusing on central Vermont and the Winooski River watershed. Pat has 40 years of experience in economic develop...

1 year ago

50 minutes

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Episode 62 - Paul Costello

Today we welcome Paul Costello, the former Executive Director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development. Paul retired from this position in 2021. Lifetime Vermonter, Paul dedicated most of his career to helping Vermont towns and cities build community, identify goals and visions and build strategies to accomplish these goals. On July 11th, 2023, intense and widespread rainfall led to catastrophic flooding throughout the state of Vermont, leaving the entire downtown of the capitol city...

1 year ago

39 minutes

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Episode 61 - Jon Copans, The Commission for Recovery and Resilience

Today we welcome Jon Copans, the Executive Director of The Commission for Recovery & Resilience. On July 11th, 2023, intense and widespread rainfall led to catastrophic flooding throughout the state of Vermont, leaving the entire downtown of the capitol city, Montpelier, underwater. Immediately following the flood, Paul Costello, the former executive director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development, worked with the City of Montpelier, The Montpelier Foundation and Montpelier Alive, ...

1 year ago

38 minutes

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Episode 60 - Hans Estrin, UVM's Ecological Planning Laboratory

Today we welcome Hans Estrin from the University of Vermont’s Ecological Planning Laboratory. Hans talks about his childhood days in the Plainfield/Marshfield, VT area, describes the trajectory of his career and gives a glimpse of the Ecological Planning Laboratory emerging out the UVM. The Ecological Planning Laboratory helps communities tackle vital projects on their land, offering long-term support in partnership with UVM Extension and the Field Naturalist graduate program. Ecological mana...

1 year ago

39 minutes

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Episode 59 - Ben Doyle & Aly Richards, The Montpelier Commission for Recovery & Resilience

Today on the podcast we welcome Ben Doyle and Aly Richards, from The Commission for Recovery and Resilience. On July 11th, 2023, intense and widespread rainfall led to catastrophic flooding throughout the State, leaving the entire downtown of the capitol city, Montpelier, underwater. As the flood-waters resided, Paul Costello, the former executive director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development, worked with the City of Montpelier, The Montpelier Foundation and Montpelier Alive, to conv...

1 year ago

50 minutes

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Episode 58 - Flood Series - Daphne Larkin & Beth Rusnock, The National Life Group

The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. This episode features Beth Rusnock, president of the National Life Group Foundation and Daphne Larkin, Communications and Media Relations Director of the National Life Group. Beth Rusnock says that the National Life Group wants to make sure that "the communities that their campuses are a part of - that they are vibrant. That they are places where our employees want to live, want to be a ...

1 year ago

34 minutes

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Episode 57 - Flood Series - Katie Trautz, Montpelier Alive

The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. This episode feature Katie Trautz, the Executive Director of Montpelier Alive. Katie describes that Montpelier is not set-up as a resilient town in terms of systems, however, the community is extremely song. And that community resilience is most important. Not every place has a community that is this strong. Katie says, "I really think that organizations like Montpelier Alive are ...

1 year ago

31 minutes

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Episode 56 - Flood Series - Jaquelyn Rieke, Onion River Campground

The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Jaquelyn Rieke is the owner/operator of the Onion River Campground, the founder of Nutty Steph’s and a co-founder of the Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co. in Montpelier. Jaquelyn speaks of the lessons she learned from the river as it rose around her home, stranding her and several other residents of the Onion River Campground. If you would like to donate to the Onion Ri...

2 years ago

34 minutes

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Episode 55 - Flood Series - Bill Fraser, Montpelier City Manager

The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Bill Fraser is the City Manager for Montpelier, Vermont, and has been in this role since 1995. The city manager is Appointed by the City Council, the City Manager is responsible for day-to-day operations of the city, advising the Council on public policy, and ensuring that their policies are carried out in a professional manner. If you would like to donate to flood rec...

2 years ago

33 minutes

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Episode 54 - Flood Series - Kathleen Keenan/Kim Bent, Lost Nation Theater

The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. The Lost Nation Theater has been called “One of the Best Regional Theaters in America” — NYC Drama League. Incorporated in 1977 in Bristol Vermont, Lost Nation Theater moved to it’s home in Vermont in 1986 and has been a critical center-piece of the theater scene in Central Vermont ever since. Lost Nation Theater dedicates itself to staging stories about the hopeful possibilit...

2 years ago

31 minutes

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Episode 53 - Flood Series - Jaime Bedard

The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster. Jaime Bedard. Jamie is the Executive Director of Just Basics, whose mission is to confront cycles of injustice by providing programs that increase awareness and access to basic resources needed for a resilient and vibrant community. Their main program is the Montpelier Food Pantry which had been located at the Trinity Church on Main Street. The Food Pantry was completely flooded as ...

2 years ago

27 minutes