Burlington, Vermont

Vermont Teddy Bear Company (VTBC) is a privately owned company founded in 1981 by John Sorinto. Mr. Sorinto begin his successful business by selling and delivering hand sewn bears or BearGrams out of a pushcart in the streets of Burlington, Vermont. Since that time, the company's focus has been to design, manufacture, and direct market the best teddy bears made in America using quality American materials and labor. Vermont Teddy Bear Company expanded its product base to include a BearGrams…

Agency/Organization Description and Qualifications Agency Mission and Services Legacy Treatment Services is a nonprofit organization that employs more than 700 employees, and offers services to 13 out of New Jerseys 21 counties (Legacy Treatment Services, 2016). This organization’s mission is: “To change the behavioral health and social service outcomes for people of all ages from surviving to thriving” (Legacy Treatment Services, 2016). Legacy Treatment Services is the result of a 2014…

Since our focal company is Pandoras Playground in Storrs, CT, their competitors would be local tattoo shops providing similar services and targeting local college students. The closest tattoo shops with high ratings like Pandoras Playground are Bent N Twitztid Tattooing (Willington, CT) and Eminence Ink (Willimantic, CT). (See figure 1, “Competitor Analysis”). All of these shops have a Facebook page and a Google page with reviews, price range, hours, location, etc. However, unlike Pandoras…

James Welsh (November 18, 1940 – August 4, 2003) was an award winning Native American writer and founding father of the Native American Renaissance movement, a literary movement for Native American authors. Within the movement, Welch is notable for his works Winter in the Blood (1974) and Fools Crow (1986) James Welch was born in Browning, Montana on Indian territory on November 18, 1940. For the majority of his early life, Welch lived and studied within Native American cultures. Welch was very…

In Shea, the taxpayers (a corporation and two partnerships related through common ownership, or for our purposes, “Shea”) were in the home development business in Arizona, California and Colorado. Shea wasn’t in the habit of throwing up a spec home and calling it a day; rather, it preferred to develop planned communities ranging from 100 to 1,000 homes. The builders emphasized the features and lifestyle of the planned communities to potential buyers, advertising their developments with cliché,…

An art project at the local Essex High School is raising people’s awareness about homelessness in Burlington, Vermont. Madeleine Hatoun, a senior graduating from Essex High School, and its Academy of Visual and Performing Arts completed this project as community outreach requirement. She was influenced by Gregor Kloehn, an artist from Oakland, California, who built tiny homes out of recycled materials for homeless people. Hatoun was also inspired by how homelessness can affect anyone,…

The town I grew up in was Charlotte, Vermont; it is located about 20 minutes away from Burlington, Vermont. Charlotte was tiny population sized compared to Burlington even though it was much bigger geographically. It was a small town, but it was an amazing place to grow up. Growing up I lived on over 200 acres where cows grazed in our front lawn. It was almost as if you had the best of both worlds living here because of how close the city was. There were many traditions that the town…

Allen became a business person, and volunteered for the Malicha. Education and occupation Allen ended up going to Yale University just like he wanted, but after his dad died in 1755 he had to help support his family. In 1777, his land later became Vermont. In…

women in drag racing and especially the NHRA. She influenced me by showing that everyone can do anything if they put their mind to it. For example, I became the varsity lacrosse goalie for my high school team. Shirley Muldowney was born in Burlington, Vermont and grew in Schenectady, New York. Her birthday is June 19, 1940. She fell in love with her first husband when she was 16 and still in high school. She dropped out of high school and married him. She fell into racing when they got…

the other, usually in large fuel consuming refrigerated trucks. Farm to school helps to cut down on overall emissions by reducing total distance food is transported. For example, a local Burlington school gets its beef from just outside the city. “The Burlington School Food Project has recently contracted with Vermont farmers to raise local beef that will be slaughter and processed within 15 miles of the city” (Camp). Farm to school also supports the growth of community by encouraging schools…