Where can baby indigenous turtles find a cozy home for the winter? At ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center of course! For the fourth year, a cadre of Spiny Softshell, Northern Map, and Painted turtles will be spending the winter safely housed within ECHO’s walls.
ECHO Animal Care Staff will bolster the stewardship and awareness effort [...]

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Help inspire young children to become lifelong readers! This interactive  journal begins where classroom reading longs end – title, author, illustrator – and offers imaginative prompts that will help kids connect to stories more deeply. Kids can list their favorite books, draw scenes from a story, and write about the pleasures they get from reading. [...]

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The Vermont Children’s Trust Foundation supports organizations that give kids the right network for a fair chance at success. To learn more about how they’re helping kids in our communities, visit www.vtchildrenstrust.org. Please consider a donation to VCTF on line 29B or your Vermont taxes.

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Bolton Valley Resort is partnering with the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC) to celebrate the corps’ 25th anniversary by launching a food drive for the Vermont Foodbank and Richmond local food shelf.  Participating skiers and riders can purchase lift tickets for $25 on each of three food drive days at Bolton Valley.
“The Drive To 25” [...]

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Okay, we agree. It seems like there’s a day to commemorate almost anything. But IHOP uses the day to help raise money for charity. So, help celebrate National Pancake Day by heading to Vermont’s only IHOP (at University Mall in So. Burlington) from 7am to 10pm on Feb. 23. They’ll serve you up a free [...]

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