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Pandemic Pick: Which Vermont Business Pivoted the Most to Serve a Greater Good?


Preparing meals for Everyone Eats
Vermont Everyone Eats! has served more than 1,024,000 meals to residents impacted by COVID-19. The program helped save an estimated 500 restaurant jobs and provided consistent business to some 200 eateries when that industry was dealt a severe pandemic blow. The meals from chicken-and-leek pie with salad to chicken sausage with couscous and green beans even include local ingredients.
Yet before the state legislature established the program in August 2020 with $5 million in CARES Act relief funds, a grassroots movement sprang up across the state to feed people in need.
These early efforts swift business pivots that involved a collaboration of restaurants and nonprofits included ShiftMeals in Burlington, organized by the Skinny Pancake; a partnership in Vergennes among the city s Boys & Girls Club, Bar Antidote and Three Squares Café; and a southern Vermont initiative, Nourishing ....

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Obituary: Stephen Keyes ("Sky") Yardley, 1950-2021 | Obituaries | Seven Days


Sky Yardley
Stephen Keyes “Sky” Yardley passed away in Shelburne, Vt., on February 23, 2021, after living with dementia since 2015.
Sky was born on April 18, 1950, in Boston, Mass., to Charles and Phillis (Ripley) Yardley. He was raised in Needham, Mass., with his three sisters and spent glorious summers at the family cottage on Lake Nubanusit in southern New Hampshire. After graduating from high school in 1968, he attended Amherst College. After three years of academia, the “real world” called to him, and he embarked on a journey of discovery. This journey took him to Esalen in California, Calvin Creek Ranch in British Columbia, the islands of Hawaii, and the Appalachian Trail. ....

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