Around Town
compiled by Edd Merritt

Congratulations
to Darcy Pasco of Williston and Donald Gill, Jr. of Charlotte, who were married August 8. Both are graduates of Champlain Valley Union High School. Darcy graduated from Endicott College and works at Morgan Stanley, Smith-Barney. Her husband is the son of Don and Barbara Gill of Charlotte. He graduated from the University of Vermont and works at Dynapower Corporation. The couple lives in Charlotte.
to Christine Lavigne of Charlotte and Nicholas Reynolds of Colorado, who were married in September at the Inn at Baldwin Creek. The daughter of John and Susan Lavigne of Charlotte, Kristine graduated from CVU High School, Champlain College and Colorado State University. She works at Northeast Kingdom Human Services. Her husband works at ABATE of Colorado. They will split their time between Jay, Vermont, and Wellington, Colorado.
to Nichole Billado of Shelburne and Spencer Powers of Charlotte, who announced their engagement. Spencer is the son of Victoria and Mark Powers of Charlotte. They plan to be married August 1 of next year.
to Chandler Moser, who graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Development and Assessment Course, also known as “Warrior Forge,” at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Washington. Cadets are required to complete the leadership course in order to be commissioned as second lieutenants in the Army, National Guard or Reserve. Chandler is the son of Laurie and Mark Moser of Charlotte and a graduate of CVU High School.
to Lizzie Post whose work in the Burlington-based Emily Post Institute (EPI) was featured in an article in the November 25 Seven Days titled “Miss Manners.” Lizzie is carrying on a family tradition begun by her great-great-grandmother, Emily Post, famous for her book, Emily Post’s Etiquette, now in its 17th edition. In 2007 Lizzie published her own guide to help her modern cohorts deal effectively with life’s ins and outs called How Do You Work This Life Thing? She is the daughter of Tricia and Peter Post of Charlotte.
to Nancy Wood of Charlotte, who, along with Paul Goldman of Colchester, were named to the Board of Directors of Opportunities Credit Union. It is the state’s only community development credit union serving low- and moderate-income members with affordable access to financial services. Nancy is the owner of Home, Farm & Garden Research Associates. She is also a town auditor and a member of the Charlotte News Board of Directors. She will assume editorship of the newspaper beginning with the December 17 issue.
to Edward Fisher, a sophomore at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, who followed up his work as assistant lead electrician in the college’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with a similar position in The Doubt: A Parable. He is the son of Mary and Edward Fisher of Charlotte.
to Christopher Jordan, a student at Mater Christi School in Burlington who auditioned and was accepted to play trombone in the District III Music Festival. The festival will take place at Winooski High School on January 29 and 30, 2010. It will culminate in a concert the afternoon of the 30.
to Claire Dillenbeck, Mira Kaplan, Haileigh Pierce, Anna Schenker, Chloe Sholler, Rebecca Sholler, Giselle Sholler, and Peter Sholler, who have been selected to appear in the Vermont Ballet Theater’s production of The Nutrcracker on December 19th at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington. Guest artists from the American Ballet Theater will join them.
to Doug Blake, the grandson of Marge and Hal Blake, who are summer residents of Thompson’s Point. Doug has been promoted to 1st Assistant Engineer in the U.S. Merchant Marine. He is currently serving aboard a Navy ship in Asian waters.

Sympathy
is extended to family and friends of Kevin Foley of Charlotte who passed away November 19 at the age of 38. Following graduate school in journalism at Northwestern University, Kevin began a career as a writer, first in newspapers before moving into magazines. He came to Charlotte in 1998 where his wife-to-be Lee Ann Cox was a senior editor for EatingWell magazine. He edited The View, a weekly on-line publication of the University of Vermont which, under his direction, won a national award for staff writing in 2003. His wife, Lee Ann, and their children, Bay and Tess, survive Kevin. A memorial service celebrating his life will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Burlington on December 5 at 4 p.m. The family asks that those wishing to make donations in his name do so to Partners in Health, an organization working for basic healthcare among the world’s poorest nations.

is extended to family and friends of Katherine Horsford Kocsis of Bradenton, Florida, who passed away November 10 at the age of 87. The daughter of Cyrus Pringle Horsford of Charlotte and Margaret Gordon Crosby of Vergennes, she was the great granddaughter of Frederick Hinsdale Horsford, botanist and founder of Horsford’s Nursery in Charlotte. She grew up in Charlotte and married John William O’Neill of Burlington who pre-deceased her. Her surviving family includes her husband of 17 years, Stephen Kocsis of Bradenton. During her time in Charlotte, she started a day camp in town and taught American Red Cross swimming and life saving, during which she annually led her students in a swim from Thompson’s Point across Lake Champlain to Split Rock on the New York side. She was administrative assistant to three Vermont governors and worked for the Beach family resorts in Middlebury and Basin Harbor. While in Florida she served as administrative assistant at Dodgertown, training facility for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team and the New Orleans Saints football team. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, donations in her name be made to Tidewell Hospice and Palliative Care, 5955 Rand Boulevard, Sarasota, Florida 34238.