Midday Newscast May 13, 2008

At least one Vermont ski resort says this winter was the best ever; Vermont’s Fish and Wildlife Department is drafting new policies that will guide management of the state’s four big game species;

Families And Depression

We check in on a long-term study of how depression affects families. Psychiatrist Gary Keller talks with us about the rates of children who suffer depression when their parents are clinically depressed.

This I Believe: by Michelle Gardner-Quinn

This I Believe features an essay written by slain UVM student Michelle Gardner-Quinn. Gardner-Quinn wrote the essay, “A Reverence for All Life”, for a class assignment two days before her death. It is read by one of her UVM professors, Cecilia Danks, and was featured during the recent “Live Earth” concert and broadcast on Weekend Edition Sunday, on August 5.