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« : January 29, 2008, 07:52:39 AM » |
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Sunday's Franklin County Edition of the Burlington Free Press carried the following note and for those of you that don't recognize the name Sarah Hulburt, you might recognize the name Sarah Cook - A native of North Fairfax:
"The announcement of the 2007 Franklin County Person of the Year might be a day or two late, but it's certainly not a dollar short. There were many deserving nominees, more even than we anticipated, and any of them would represent the county well. In fact one wise man from Georgia suggested we select a person of the year from each town, an idea that might yet germinate. In the end, however, our decidedly unscientific process resulted in the choice of St. Albans volunteer extraordinaire Sarah Hulburt.
Nominees came from most of the towns in Franklin County and some, such as Enosburg's versatile Lise Gates and Fairfax's minister of information Henry Raymond, have been featured in these pages over the course of the year. Another was 18-year-old Nick Fournier, who was killed in a November car accident caused by an alleged drunk driver going the wrong way on 1-89. He managed to touch many lives in the brevity of his own.
The dominant theme for all the nominees was community service. One lesson we learned was something we already knew: Vermonters in general, and folks in Franklin County in particular, are only too willing to help out their neighbors.
— Tom Brown, Franklin County Editor"
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