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Pandemic All-Star: Mellisa Cain, Community Organizer, Burlington

Mellisa Cain, Community organizer, Burlington
When Mellisa Cain started distributing cloth face masks in May of last year, she thought she d buy and give away a few hundred in Burlington s Old North End; she had funding with a small grant from her Neighborhood Planning Assembly. Recalling it in a recent interview, she laughed at the contrast between that initial plan and what actually happened: In the first year of the pandemic, Cain led an effort to obtain and distribute some 40,000 masks.
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They filled up her one-bedroom apartment and took over her life. She bought and cut fabric for volunteers to sew 7,000 masks. She tie-dyed a few thousand and screen-printed the Black Lives Matter logo on others. She walked through the streets, stopped in businesses and hung out in parking lots, giving masks away. Before long, she was being recognized as the neighborhoo ....

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Sunflowers and Hemp Could Reduce Lead in Burlington Soil

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When Laura Hill bought a house in Burlington s Old North End, she was warned about the lead. Until it was banned in the U.S. in 1978, lead paint was used in many homes. Lead remediation had been done inside the home, but Hill said there were likely still high levels of lead on and around the outside walls and in the soil.
It struck me, because it was my neighborhood and I saw people growing food in their yards next to their house, she said.
Hill is a plant biologist and senior lecturer at the University of Vermont. I m always looking for ways to improve life with plants, she said. ....

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