Burr and Burton Hosts 5K Run and Walk March 29 to Benefit the Wounded

Burr and Burton’s Wounded Warrior Service Learning group will host a Spring Run- Off 5K Run and Walk on March 29 at the Manchester Recreation Park. The Wounded Warrior Foundation’s mission is to raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women. Registration is from 8 am-9:30 am with a 10 am start. Entrance fees are $20 if received by March 21 and $25.00 on race day. At 10:30 am, there will be a four-person team relay at the half-mile track for students. Form a team of four and join us for this fun event! The fee is $5 per team member. Entrance forms are available on the school’s web site. Checks should be made payable to Burr and Burton Academy (Wounded Warrior noted on memo line) and sent to Lani Lovisa, Burr and Burton Academy, 57 Seminary Ave., Manchester, VT 05254. All proceeds from this event will benefit the Wounded Warrior Foundation. For more information, please contact Lani Lovisa at 802-549-8275.

Learn to Save a Life at Burr and Burton’s Information Night March 6

The Burr and Burton Academy Parent Association will be hosting a Parent Information Night on Thursday, March 6, 2008. VELCO/Vermont Electric Power Company will provide parents with Save A Life training, similar to what the students received last year. The program will be held in the Rowland Center cafeteria from 6:30 – 8:30 pm.

John Donleavy, president of Vermont Electric Power Company, became interested in the program after meeting Carol Spizzirri, who founded the Save a Life Foundation in 1993 shortly after her 18-year-old daughter Christina died because first-responders were not trained in basic life-supporting first aid.

He believes Vermont is a perfect place to give students and their parents this training as emergency services in rural areas may be far away. The goal of the program is teach Basic Life-Support and First Aid (LSFA) skills and training –performing CPR and the Heimlich maneuver and using an automatic external defibrillator to jumpstart a patient's heart - intended to help them to save lives. All the linemen at VELCO have been trained, he said.

Due to the nature of the program, interested parents are asked to RSVP. Please contact Eve Perni at 362-0775, e-mail: eveletp@aol.com, or Margaret Saling at 362-1776, e-mail margaret_saling@yahoo.com . We look forward to seeing you at this important event.

Burr and Burton Presents One-Act Play Festival February 29

Burr and Burton Academy’s Performing Arts Company will present a mini One-Act Play Festival on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 6:30 pm in the school’s Riley Center for the Arts.

The three plays include “To the Chicago Abyss” by Ray Bradbury, a pre-apocalyptic tale about an old man who remembers quantity not quality, and the power that trivial things possess; “The Empty Chair,” a socially aware comment about teens with substance abuse issues dealing with the death of their friend by Tim Kelly; and “The Sure Thing,” a contemporary comedy about two people finding their way through a conversational minefield by David Ives.

Tickets are $6.00 for students and $10.00 for adults. Tickets may be reserved by calling the box office number at 802-549-8144 or online at http://bba.ticketjunior.com
For more information, please contact Jim Raposa at 802.549.8176.

Photo caption:
Students participating in the One-Act Festival are: front row (left to right): Daniel Boston, Sydney Beck, Sarah Garay, Tristan Poplar. Second row (left to right): Hiedi Nichols, Claire Kaiser, Anders Albertsson, Lyndsey Schuermann, Lillian Kelly. Back row (left to right): Damarah Barr-Smith, Mary Kate Kelley, Robert McColl-Verdier, Sydney Schiffmann, Meghan Kelly. Missing from photo: Chris Elam, Tori Webber.