to Anna Schenker, Claire Dillenbeck, Haleigh Pierce, and Rebecca Sholler who appear in the Vermont Ballet Theater’s production of the Nutcracker ballet. The play features all local talent and is scheduled for performances at Dibden Center on the Johnson State College campus then at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington. Shows at Johnson will be December 8 at 1 and 7 p.m, at the Flynn on December 22, 2 and 7 p.m. and the 23 at 1 p.m. Anna and Claire are party children and elves in act I; Haleigh is in the candy store dance and Chinese tea dance in act II; and Rebecca appears as an agel in act II. Tickets are available through www.flynncenter.org or by calling (802) 86flynn.

 

is extended to family and friends of Arloa Wills Dean Leary of South Burlington, who died December 2 at the age of 78. Her surviving family includes her son Dean, his wife Donna Fraser, and their daughters Rachel and Robin; her daughter Dianne and husband James LaBerge, their daughter Dianne (P.J.) and son Alex, all of Charlotte. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations in her memory be made to Rokeby Museum, 4334 Route 7, Ferrisburgh, Vermont 05456.