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or write us at: POB 1078, Richmond, VT 05477.

AIDS Project Elects New
Board Member

The AIDS Project of Southern
Vermont is proud to announce the
October election of Mary Zabriskie,
GNP, to its Board of Directors. Mary
joins the Board after many years of
collaboration with the AIDS Project in

. her role as the nurse practitioner at

the Comprehensive Care Clinic at
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. At the
Comprehensive Care Clinic, Mary
served people with HIV/AIDS and
coordinated the Clinic's HIV counsel-
ing and testing. She stepped down-
frcm that position in 2002 to pursue

 

Melissa? Ferrlck at.UVM's Billings Student Center, s3_turda_y 22

mediation studies.

Mary possesses both a
passionate commitment to the
Project and first-hand experience
working with persons living with
HIV/AIDS. We look fonlvard to work-
ing with her in this new role.

Board members at the
AIDS Project are elected to an initial
two-year tenn. They may be re-
elected for up to six years of service.

The AIDS Project of
Southern Vermont is a regional AIDS
service organization that provides
direct services to people living with
HIV/AIDS, and HIV prevention servic-
es to those at most risk in Windham,

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Bennington, and southern Windsor
counties. Founded by volunteers in
1988 as a grassroots, community
based group, the AIDS Project now
fills an important statewide role in
making sure that Vermont1s fight
against the AIDS epidemic is strong
and effective. For information call
802 254 8263.

1t-ansgender Day of

Remembrance
The fifth annual Transgender Day of

Remembrance (T DOR) on Nov. 20th,
2003 will be observed in downtown
Burlington for the second year in a

I now. The aim of the planned observa-

tion is to both memorialize those who
have been killed as a consequence
of anti-transgender hatred or preju-
dice, and to celebrate transgender
lives.

This year's observation
includes three events, all in down-
town Burlington: a Candlelight Vigil at
6 P.M. on the steps of City Hall, a
visibility walk at 6:30, and an Indoor
Program at Contois Auditorium
beginning at 7 p.m. We invite you to
attend and participate in any or all of
these Nov. 20th. 2003 Remembrance
Day events.

For more infonnation about

november 2003

events in Burlington, please contact ~

Kate at 865-9677 or kate@out-’
rightvt.org. For more information
about TDOR events worldwide and ;
to learn about the history of TDOR
please visit www.rememberingour- .
dead.org '-

GILEARN at Tip To? _
Claire Robson, a NH writer w o’s

getting rave reviews for her new lesj
bian memoir, Love in Good Time. will
be hosting a hands-on writing work-

‘ shop on gay memoir, and reading

from her new book, on Sunday,
November 9th, from 3-5:30pm at the
‘rip Top Cafe, 85 N. Main Street in

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