There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

Quentin Crisp

This winter and next year he'll do a few more serious tests. It's a kind of open-ended agreement.

Ross Brawn

It would be impossible to search everyone who rides a lift. They've got layers of winter clothes on. But anyone carrying anything would have it confiscated.

Shannon Mcsweeney

I think it's great that we can do a small part to aid the people and aid the effort to rebuild down there, especially if it can get the refineries back on to lower the gas prices in the U.S. and especially Maine with winter coming on.

Larry Wade

Those two regions have the strongest infrastructure for winter sport.

Klaus Steinbach

As we move through the winter, prices will fall below US$50 and prices could average in the US$40s in 2006. Investors think prices will stabilize and that will dampen enthusiasm.

Richard Savage

It looks like fall-winter '06.

Bruce Frallic

Every winter, we know the blood supply is going to drop. But this winter, it's been severely bad because of the storms throughout the U.S., and the flooding, and also in some regions the flu season has been a lot higher.

James Peters

We need a long- and short-term approach to this crisis, ... New Yorkers are feeling the middle class squeeze at the gas pump, and they will certainly be feeling it this winter.

Joseph Crowley

Instead of having your bill triple, in the winter when you start to turn the heat on, the increase will be less severe.

Patricia Clark

We've stepped up our game by expanding Motown Winter Blast and bringing even more excitement to downtown Detroit. Come Super Bowl Sunday, we expect people to not only talk about which team they're cheering on but also the great time they had at our outdoor extravaganza.

Jonathan Witz

We had a particularly cold winter and the construction industry suffered, so this is simply a delayed pickup. Unemployment is falling, but it's no reason to rejoice. We need to see a sustained increase in employment, and that hasn't happened yet.

Sandra Petcov

It's been a very calm winter so far. We haven't seen anything extraordinary.

Stuart Bailey

I let it grow every winter and get it cut in April or May. I'm too lazy in the off-season to get it cut.

A.j. Pierzynski

This game proved to me we have to be more prepared the next time. We should have it in November. All we do is sit around all winter anyway, when other countries are playing.

Miguel Batista

People feel that there's something different on feeding, like they're helping the deer make it through the winter.

Al Phelan

The contractors and our local street departments had a lot of good weather, … and I think we are going to be able to wrap up our projects before the winter.

Bob Kennedy

As we've had more damage assessment, it looks like it might be more severe than initially expected. Gasoline stockpiles are still very low and heating oil and diesel may be a bit of a worry going into the winter.

Simon Wardell

Clearly, we have been through a wintertime drought, with snow sampling stations essentially snow-free until mid-March, and the poor winter conditions leaving low stream flow volumes.

Larry Martinez

The problem is the tournament is right in the middle of the season. We only have (so many) days in the winter. ... If we elect not to (have the event back), they need an alternative site. We don't want to hold them up.

Joey Garon

When is a good time to do it? Nobody knows. Right now, everybody's getting ready for the season in spring training. They're in the same boat, except for the guys who played winter ball.

Bill Castro

Seniors' bodies aren't as resilient as they once were. It's far more important for a 70-year-old woman to stay hydrated than a 30-year-old woman. Fortunately, common-sense measures such as drinking enough water and minimizing strenuous activities can help keep seniors safe in cold winter months.

Robert Butler

[Riders can get so sideways at 14 that photographers and cameramen congregate there during winter testing to capture riders showing off for the cameras.] It's one of the funnest corners, it just kinda sets itself up like speedway! ... It's uphill, so you come up there and it automatically kicks out sideways. But you can always have fun on MotoGP bikes, doesn't matt.

Colin Edwards

The winter blues can interfere with work and family - make sure they don't. Reach out and consider medication and counseling. Don't suffer alone and in silence.

Russ Ricci

I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut exports anytime soon. We've had very warm weather this winter and have built gasoline supplies despite refiners operating at reduced rates.

Joseph Allman

There's a lot at stake for the Winter Olympics now.

Roland Rust

He worked hard over the winter months getting his game to where the results speak for themselves.

Murray Gleffe

One of the biggest factors was a lack of officials ... the commissioner of officials (Bert Haskins of Merced) said he just couldn't supply enough during the winter. Also, the schools in the northern half of the section were against it for lack of fields. A lot of those schools have freshman teams.

Rick Francis

Nationally, there are more opportunities to qualify for the big race. I know there are five in the Northeast this winter versus only two per region in the past. I hope that means more runners toeing the line at nationals.

Mort Nace

But to me, one of the key things is to maintain your relationships even if you disagree on some issues. When I left Seminole County one of the comments in the paper that was most flattering to me was from the manager of Winter Springs.

Kevin Grace

We lived on C-rations. One box a day. You had to put the cans in your pocket and carry them for two or three days before they thawed out. We were at 3,000 feet and winter set in. From September 15 until we got out of there, I was never in a building or tent.

John Richard

It was a wild year. And because there is a strong correlation between conditions during the first several months of this year and early in 1995, it would appear the chances for an extreme event this winter are quite high.

George Taylor

Windsurfing has turned this area into one of the premier spots in the country and the world, and everyone wants to race here especially in the winter. Most of the top guys in the world will be here.

Tinho Dornellas

I was so tired. I had a lot of competition, I won the summer and winter world championships, I set new world records, and I tried to do my best today, but I couldn't.

Yelena Isinbayeva

No one's more surprised than me. Very surprised. I hadn't trained very hard this winter. It (the course) wasn't too bad. I was glad the wind and the rain held off.

David Chaney

In older buildings the seal between the sill and the foundation is never as good as it should be. I think banking the foundation helps keep the floor warmer, it helps keep you comfortable in the winter, especially in old buildings.

Dick Hill

England have been consistent in the past where if someone has made themselves unavailable for some of the winter, then they have been made unavailable for the whole winter by the selectors.

Alec Stewart

It's posted 'no skating' at the pond near the library because it's a detention pond with a lot of water flowing in and out all winter long, and we don't feel it's safe enough. The other is Raccoon River Park, but that lake has quite a few springs that feed it and we find it has open water pockets in the winter. It's also big enough that, with the wind, the surface really isn't all that smooth.

Sally Ortgies

It appears increasingly likely that we will need colder-than-normal temperatures in order for heating oil and gas oil to perform this winter and lead crude up.

Mike Wittner

Obviously, we know this will be a tough winter for customers who are most vulnerable to these increases in natural gas costs.

Scott Simons

He's a proud guy, and he wanted to show that last season was an aberration. So he got a personal trainer and got himself into shape this winter. He's determined to show he can still be a top pitcher in the game.

Dick Pole

Consumers are wearing this year what they wore last year. We're already seeing a slowdown in apparel and accessories and that's a pretty bad barometer going into the winter season.

Burt Flickinger

The market is convinced we have enough gas. Even if you were to assume a return to normal weather, we will come out of winter with 1.5 trillion cubic feet, which is a good amount to have in the ground.

Bruno Stanziale

He said, 'Let's put something together and devise a game plan. We knew we wanted to play in the winter months, and in New York and some of the cities he hadn't played since 1998. We knew (we would play) the Northeast, Florida and some dates in the West.

Dennis Arfa

This is only a projection. We don't know what the prices will be in the dead of winter, we don't know if there will be another hurricane or natural disaster, and we don't know what the weather is going to be like in the winter.

Beth Martin

Be sure to pick up any debris left over from the winter. This may include fallen limbs, leaves and litter that went unseen under the snow.

Chris Goodman

But from the standpoint of having storms that produce a lot of rain, we didn't have a lot this winter.

Bill Sammler

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--.

Emily Dickinson

I felt like I was playing winter ball at one point. The fans were really rowdy, but we kind of expected that after what we saw in Tucson last weekend.

Karim Garcia

Neither the captain nor the first officer had any winter weather flying experience.

Charlie Ebersol

Michigan is in a pickle. It's not the harshest winter we've ever faced, but it is the longest.

George Fulton

He was not wearing winter clothes.

Mike Claffey

This is a winter festival and, Katrina aside, Mother Nature has as much to say about turnout as New Orleans.

Mack Bradley

They'd be skidding around, hanging onto a rope for dear life. That was our first winter.

Mickey Blake

The notion that drilling for natural gas can solve the winter heating problem is a misconception. We are concerned about efforts to prey on people's fears about gas prices.

Lisa Speer

(The town) was concerned about the winter and how many days the contract calls for.

Peter Mcgowan

Of course, over the winter months, we tend to get more kids who are sick because they're closer together. But this number is very unusual.

Peggy Rupprecht

The next winter was kind of a hell. It all came back to you.

Mark Hynek

For the first time in the Winter Games, every session of every sport will have at least some coverage.

David Neal

We were blessed with a pretty mild winter this year and we've been able to play outside most of the time. We have a good indoor facility but it's better to be able to practice outside as much as we can.

Val Mclean

This overall figure is down significantly from previous years, probably due to the fact that there was a dense fog during the a.m. hours, and also due to the fact this has been a very mild winter.

Mark Willis

You could come to the city in the winter time and never wear a coat.

Paul Waters

It is China's largest-ever team to a winter Olympics since we made debut in the winter games in 1980.

Xiao Tian

On a random winter day, I got a call from one of the legends in coaching. I was very flattered.

Todd Dodge

Our goal is to finish top of the medals table and to show that Germany is a powerhouse in winter sports.

Klaus Steinbach

It has more potential for wintering birds. I consider it a migration/wintering area, where I consider the rest of the state migration areas. Mallards tend to winter as far north as they can find open water.

Dave Graber

Right now we're working without our safety net. Fall and winter precipitation typically recharges the soil profile and increase pond, stream and river levels. Without that precipitation, it becomes imperative that spring rains come and give us the collateral we need as we enter the summer season.

Pat Guinan

Our population has been lowered because we have seen such a mild winter. We thought we were just going to slide into summer, but I guess the weather says otherwise.

Lynne Sipiora

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Patrick Fisher

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David Zaslav

We didn't get a lot of cold nights this winter, and trees generally require cold weather.

Sam Lathrop

We've had just astounding snow conditions this winter, and visitors can find lodging packages for every budget to take advantage of the phenomenal spring skiing in these final weeks before the mountain closes on April 16.

Susan Hamley

Winter weather really takes the sting out of these declines.

David Seiders

A couple blocks from the Olympic village they were having an exhibition for rock climbing. They're hoping to get it as an exhibition sport in the next Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Pete Foley

It's been a long fall and winter and we're all really excited to play someone else besides ourselves for once.

Andy Graham

The supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Katrina simply made a bad situation even worse, ... Most of the gas used in this part of the country comes from the Gulf Coast, so we will still be feeling the effects of Hurricane Katrina this winter.

David Goss

It wasn't uncommon for us to hear from clients or customers that they had racked up $ 600 in arrears over the course of a winter.

Rose Adams

Next year, we'll quite likely have rates higher than this winter. The futures market for natural gas is telling us that these prices are not temporary.

Severin Borenstein

Different populations can be declining for a number of reasons, including habitat loss, but populations in one place might be declining for entirely different reasons than populations in another place, ... Until we know where specific individuals spend the summer and winter, we cannot properly address the causes of the population declines.

Doug Robinson

Once we get into the winter months, we tend to stay overcast quite a bit. A lot of times we do get lake effect cloudiness, and that prevails for quite a long period of time.

Martin Thompson

This sets up for a real exciting district meet. We have to get ready for a totally different experience (swimming at Ohio University). After training over winter break there, I think we will feel real comfortable there.

Mackenzie Callahan

Even though the average temperatures over the three-month winter season is forecast to be above normal in much of the country, there will still be bouts of winter weather with cold temperatures and frozen precipitation.

Conrad Lautenbacher

Psychologically, it was a difficult moment for me. I don't like riding in the peloton in the chasing peloton. That's not my game, ... But I held on, mainly out of respect for my team. I have not given up doing well in the Tour one day. But on the evidence of things, I have to begin questioning certain things. We will analyze all that this winter.

Roberto Heras

Let's say she were to do well enough in women's events she's going to be playing this winter and spring that if she were a member, her earnings would be such that she would be exempt. I think you'd be hard-pressed to explain why you wouldn't allow her to play.

David Fay

They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this year caused great demand across the country. Manufacturers are producing them as fast as possible.

Chris Ahearn

Our schedule is brutal but we thrive on the competition. We've been playing good teams all winter long so why should it be any different?

Tom Seyler

As a kid from a border state, I found the New Hampshire winter breathtakingly cold - for a while I didn't think I could breathe there at all - but I survived to return for the summer session of 1943.

John Knowles

It just wasn't fun. The pending sale was a fairly long, drawn-out process. There was a lot of uncertainty as to, frankly, who was going to buy the team for some time and what the structure would be. So the first part of the winter was challenging and then once the new ownership group came in, we were really going at it full-steam.

Charlie Dowd

It's all part of some tremendous fluctuations in the weather expected this winter. We're calling it a 'polar coaster' of weather extremes.

Sondra Duncan

We did not play Winter Haven ball tonight. We had a bad game and we still ended up winning.

Ledawn Gibson

The auto industry is in a slowdown, and our inventory going into winter months is higher than we would like.

Tom Wickham

In the streets of Paris, you see more long dresses in the summer than you see in the winter, because all the winter long used to be heavy, heavy material, but now they are different. They are open. They are pleated ... They can move in it. They are not something uncomfortable and impossible for daily life.

Karl Lagerfeld

We offer our sincerest congratulations to the people of Vancouver on being selected to host the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and we look forward to working with them in the years ahead.

Dick Ebersol

Like Korea, Italy is a country where summer sports are much more popular than winter sports.

Ottavio Cinquanta

He wasn't on anybody's radar for this year. He sort of made his first impression on the snowboarding circuit at the Gravity Games (last winter) when he landed a cab 1080. That's the requisite trick of this year's Olympics.

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Barry Biffle

We have a lot of guys who have a year under their belts. In addition to that, a bunch of these guys played all summer and participated in a winter league. They're coming in here ready to play.

Jay Corby

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

Douglas Reed

Her ankle braces have caused her to develop this interesting run where she appears to be punching downward as she runs it's hilarious! During winter camps, when I was in a group with her, I would imitate the 'Kelly run' everywhere we went.

Amber Hall

It really depends what you want to get out of your indoor program. The sport has only been in Vermont for 15 years, so it's still relatively new. Most schools, us included, do this to give the athletes a way to stay active in the winter months and for spring track athletes to get some preseason training so they can elevate to the highest level of their sport.

Shawn Woods

If anybody has automatic sprinklers that go off two to three times a week, turn it off. During the winter months, once every couple of weeks is plenty.

Deborah Benge Frost

I am thankful for the opportunity. I welcome the chance to be in the rotation for the Florida Marlins. I feel I'm ready for the big leagues. The last couple of months, I worked hard in winter ball for this opportunity.

Yusmeiro Petit

Our future goals include winning the SSUSA World Championship Tournament in Phoenix in October and to win the Winter Nationals in November. We have moved up from an AA team to an AAA team in the national tournaments this year.

Dick Kanyan

It could have survived the winter here. Or it could have come from quite a ways just this year.

Jay Rendall

What 15-year-old hasn't felt like that at one time or another? With all the evidence, I can't believe they're willing to call this a simple runaway based on one page in her dairy and something a friend said. She was mad because she couldn't go to a winter formal dance with her friends.

Lisa Whiting

Watch out for wintertime, ... If we get an early-onset winter or cold snap, things will start getting crazy again. Gasoline and home heating oil compete for the available crude.

Robert Sinclair

A lot of people count on winter recreation to put money in their pockets. Global warming isn't just costing us something that makes our state special. It's costing us money too.

Susan Sargent

By interrupting the flu in children, we may have an impact on your own city or town and reduce the overall impact of flu each winter.

James King

While claiming the gold medals at the Winter Olympics four years ago, our gap with South Korea, the world's leading country of the sport, was small, but now the gap between the two countries has grown bigger and bigger, especially in the aspect of techniques.

Tong Lixin

Sometimes this place really looks like a winter wonderland, but for that we really need natural snow.

Thomas Diriwaechter

We love March. We know that the sun will be shining and we'll be getting warmer. We've been through seven months of winter. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Dick Brickley

This was the year of endless winter as far as I can see. We skied a lot and every time we came it was a winter day.

Judy Allen

Winter has passed, and spring has come. The seeds you have sown with tears will bear fruit very soon.

Cardinal Zen

So there's winter. It's a good thing that game's inside. It won't be pretty.

Bob Coblentz

If you cut it back in the winter, you run the risk of encouraging more growth.

Heather Housman

We feel good about the grade's stability for the winter.

Colin Jones

It's been a winter when we've oftentimes seen some pretty rapid fluctuations, You can't make anything more than that out of one year's variability. One year just can't do it. You'd want to see it frequently, two out of three years.

Dave Robinson

This is shaping up as a terrific holiday for Vermont skiers and riders. We've had a series of modest snowstorms over the past couple of weeks and good snowmaking temperatures for most of the early winter. This combines to provide skiers and riders with some of the best December terrain in recent years.

David Dillon

Here we are now the first day of autumn and those lakes are a long way below where they should be, and we do need to be thinking about an electricity shortage in winter.

Alan Seay

Now for the first time in my life, I see Israel really interested in figure skating, not only ice dancing but the Winter Olympics.

Roman Zaretski

Snowshoes allow you to see winter, but without as much of a workout.

Tom Corbett

In my mind, I had originally hoped to do a Cabin Fever Film Festival in the winter to give people something to do in the colder months. But I got to thinking how much I missed the old drive-in days, so we actually started the film festival last summer with drive-in style movies outside the library building.

Susan Stone

I don't know how good Winter Springs is, but it concerns me that Mainland is getting touchdowns from special teams and defense. If we fumble like we did tonight, (Mainland's) Tony Wilson picks it up and runs it back and it's already 7-0.

Howie Decristofaro

Obviously my ball striking is good when it's on, and that's why I've had some really good results recently. I've been gradually improving my short game over the last couple of years. I'm just happy to be up and playing well early on in the season because I had my best year last year, and when you have a bit of winter break, you never know how it's going to start.

Henrik Stenson

I don't necessarily spring-clean, I mid-winter clean. I try to stay organized, though, so I don't have to spring-clean.

Clint Burgess

The weather in Europe this time of the year and through the winter is highly influenced by the Icelandic Low, a semi-permanent anticyclone that begins drifting south during autumn.

Mari Ramos

They have a hearty, meaty taste to them, which makes them great on a cold winter day in a soup or a stew.

Susan Moores

That's going to provide us with millions of meals. Towards the end of the year, its going to help us get through the hard times this winter and get us up to Thanksgiving when we start raising funds for our Thanksgiving drives.

Frank Richards

We are staying on the offensive against the enemies of Afghanistan, and we will continue that process throughout the fall and throughout the winter.

Karl Eikenberry

Nothing attracts audiences better than winning and American athletes tend to perform better in the Summer Games than the Winter Games.

Jon Swallen

Winter and spring are often seen as the low water seasons in the province, and it may encounter a lasting severe salt tide in early next year.

Huang Qingliang

There's been an odd month which has had above average but it's been a notable dry period. There are two winter periods included and it is that what creates the real concern within the water industry.

Wayne Elliott

Turkey is a tremendous food for winter. It's lean, a great source of protein, and from a calorie standpoint, it's remarkably low.

Susan Moores

In the winter, sometimes you get soccer rained out or early on in February, some baseball games. But to still have it rained out, it's a little frustrating. It's so hard to make games up.

Jack Daley

This is a really strange incident. We don't have these things happen in the winter. If it's a canal problem or something like that, usually that's during the summer. This is caused by the weird weather we've had the last week or so.

Lt. Dana Maxfield

It was great to finally get a chance to get back out there and interact with the players in a practice setting. You could already see improvement in some of the guys from winter conditioning, and we want to continue to build on that progress in spring ball.

Kevin Cosgrove

If you're not from Columbus or not used winter driving, snowy roads can be scary. Be cautious, stay alert and slow down. It would be better to get somewhere late than not get there at all.

Michael Woods

The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rates in the last 15 to 20 years, ... Its a warning signal, and its certainly a sign to be careful about energy use going into the winter season.

Anne Ross

Things are looking pretty optimistic right now. We've got a good early start to this winter season.

Mike Gillespie

Winter is, for sure, the best time to see the wolves. In summer, they're more likely to be in back in the shade during the day, and the grass is higher.

Erin Albers

We'll periodically be going to sneak out and fix things, but rehab is probably going to be minimal. It'll be years before we get the damage from this winter fixed.

Erik Skabelund

There's a lot of gas in storage on the East Coast (after a mild winter). But electric generation does have an impact.

Eric Witkoski

We're expecting to have some work done this fall and shut down through the winter.

Eric Williams

Winter break was the perfect opportunity to get to know the team in a different light. We not only built our team on the ice, but off the ice as well.

Emileigh Mercer

Ever since winter officially began last week, the weather in the Northeast (and across much of the country) has gone the other way. It's not that we're having a heat wave in the Northeast, but we are certainly in a different regime than we were earlier in the month.

Elliot Abrams

It's still winter. Slow down.

Elise Schaffer

I think people are starting to worry about winter heating bills, especially now the weather is starting to turn.

Elisabeth Denison

It is only the beginning of winter. We are concerned.

Elisabeth Byrs

It is God in the house when the curtains lift gently at the windows, and a young child sucks his itching gums. We do not understand the mysteries of God. God the winter. Summer, Septembers. Moody dark tones of fathers dying. The splash and laughter. Children playing.

Ellease Southerland

We will be using the winter to design the project and hope to begin site work next spring.

Elaine Mcfadden

We recorded that really cheap, quick, four-song EP last winter. This album is the first recording we spent money and time on.

Elaine Doty

It's not as expensive as it would have been had if, say we had a really cold January or if we were having normal, cold winter, but it's still expensive -- still more than it ever has been.

Ed Legge

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

In a perfect world, we're sharing the risk. You're giving us the credits in the summer and we're carrying you with the debits in the winter.

Fred Halliday

Your heating bill is going to be a lot next winter, and your air-conditioning bill is going to go through the roof this summer. It is important to be knowledgeable about energy efficiency.

Ed Duffy

This began in Greenville, S.C., when we wanted to do something different when nobody else was touring. We didn't even do tickets, we just had people pay at the door. We had more than 6,000 people show up for the first show. The next year we went out with Bob Carlisle (known for 'Butterfly Kisses') and called it the January Jam, until it expanded out of January. Then it became Winter Jam.

Eddie Carswell

I had a bit of a problem in the final last year. Some of the other Finn guys weren't too happy with me and wanted to take me out! But this year it all seemed to go alright. I've trained hard this winter and everything seems to be going to plan, so I'm pretty happy!

Fred Wright

Unusually warm weather significantly reduced the winter draw on (natural gas) inventories, leaving the continent very well supplied.

Earl Sweet

We're excited to partner with NBC on the mini-movie and Las Vegas show integration to help ramp up excitement for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games.

Ed Peper

The wet winter does give us time to sit down with them and see how we can meet those requirements.

Zeke Grader

With the surging numbers of private cars we are also seeking solutions to the winter traffic problem from other northern cities.

Zhu Yejing

In the Winter Olympic Games, I feel at home. In the Summer Games I was cycling. In the Winter Games, I was skating. For me it was very difficult. I think the two sports are very different. I was taking a lot of time to prepare from one to the other.

Evgenia Radanova

It's just preparation. We prepared for half a year before these Winter Games. I have no words.

Eugeni Dementiev

The worry is if we have a normally cold winter and reasonably steady economic growth, you could exit the winter with fairly low levels of product inventory.

Evan Smith

Everywhere I go, people know me because I played winter ball [in the Dominican]. I heard it everywhere. This is cool, too.

Eude Brito

Normally I play every day through the summer so by the time the winter comes I'm kind of burnt out when the weather is bad.

Evan Needham

We closed over the winter because of high heat costs.

Ernie Kurdys

They're all working hard and really improving. They won't hit their strength until the winter and spring seasons, then we'll see just how strong they are.

Eric Houle

It's a great experience for me. I'm still young in the sport. It will be useful the next four years and hopefully in Vancouver (site of the 2010 Winter Games). It will make it easier if I'm ever in this spot again.

Erin Hamlin

Like any brand-new statewide program, there are details that have to be worked out, and that's what is going on right now. We're very happy that we were able to get this program started ... and available to seniors and lower-income Vermonters to make sure they have enough fuel to heat their homes this winter.

Erin Campbell