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With the holiday season approaching, KMS student-athletes have been helping to support local community organizations both independently and through school-organized activity. Dylan Malone, Kenny McNeill and Cameron Price kicked off the holiday tree season by helping the Rotary Club of Rutland unload trees for its annual fundraiser. This year, flatbed trucks delivered 1200 trees to Main Street Park in Rutland, where Cameron, Dylan and Kenny climbed atop the trucks to hand the trees to Rotarians on the ground. KMS will continue its support of local families by buying gifts for a local family that cannot do so without our help. Student-athletes, faculty and staff are asked to select one of the tags hanging in the school lobby, purchase and wrap the indicated item—such as children's clothing or toys—and return it, with the tag attached, to the lobby by Thursday, December 15. Student-athletes and families who would like to contribute but are unable to get a gift to the lobby before Thursday should email Deb Newson (dnewson@killingtonmountainschool.org) who has volunteered to do a shopping trip for student-athletes on the road. The Killington Chamber of Commerce is again hosting the Vermont Holiday Festival, including the Festival of Trees in which 100 trees are each sponsored and decorated by a local organization; visitors can then enter to win their favorite tree. A portion of the proceeds of this event support the Vermont Foodbank, and KMS student-athletes support the event each year by unloading and setting up the trees that will then be decorated. This past Tuesday, two van loads of KMS student-athletes, along with three KMS staff members and one future KMS student, set up over 100 trees under the direction of Chamber of Commerce personnel.
This past weekend marked the third annual KMS community service day at Killington Resort. KMS student-athletes worked under the direction of Killington Ski Patrol staff to install skier awareness devices (SADs)—which bear a striking visual similarity to tower pads—on several Skye Peak and Snowshed liftlines. In addition to helping the Killington Ski Patrol get ready to open more terrain in the coming weeks, the activity helps familiarize KMS student-athletes with the ski patrollers in a situation that doesn’t involve slow zones. This year, the snowboard, freestyle, and freeskiing student-athletes were joined by their coaches in Saturday’s work day, while the alpine student-athletes were joined by their coaches on Sunday. In sharp contrast with last year’s work days, both days this weekend provided excellent weather. It also gave all of the student-athletes a small glimpse into the multitude of tasks that go on behind the scenes at ski areas that provide the training and competition venues critical to all snowsports disciplines.
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