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We think you'll find the information contained in this newsletter to be a valuable tool for enhancing your Internet experience. As always, we appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Please send your thoughts, comments or questions to newsletter@gmavt.net.
- The Green
Mountain Access Team
Aaron, Adam, Amanda, Eric, Kris,
Phil, Richard, Seth, and Scott
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Help Us Help You - Important Information Regarding Access To Your Account
Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom is committed to protecting your privacy. As a result of Federal Communications Commissions’ (FCC) consumer privacy rules, we are required to implement measures to protect your account information. One of the ways we do this is by verifying we are speaking with only the people who have permission to have access to the account. For residential customers, we recommend adding both partners to an account. For businesses, make sure any applicable employees have access. So give us a ring so we can verify your account information. We promise it will only take a few minutes and will help us serve you better as well as protect your information. And of course, we love talking to customers!
Helpful Tips On Using Your Zimbra Webmail
 Did you know that your new Zimbra email offers more than just email and webmail? It also gives you access to contacts, calendar, notes, and online file storage with briefcase. You can use just the email or take advantage of any of the other features that are available to you. To access these services, simply login to your Green Mountain Access webmail account.
Managing Your Spam (GreyMail)
GreyMail puts you in control of managing your spam and allows you to customize your settings to fit your personal preferences. You will receive a Daily Digest email once a day with a summary of your spam and a link to access it. You can also login to your account at any time to check your spam or manage your spam settings. There are several ways to access your settings.
- From the webmail login page, click on the GO TO SPAM button.
- From the Daily Digest email that you receive, simply click on the My Account link.
- Go to https://greymail.redcondor.net/console.
More Info On Managing Your Spam Settings
Customize The Look And Feel Of Your Webmail
A great place to start is by customizing the webmail interface with a theme. With 19 themes to choose from, you can customize the look and feel of your Zimbra webmail. You can also change the font, and font size. To change your theme, login to webmail and select the Preferences Tab. Themes and Font size are found under the General tab. You can also change your default mail views, create new folders, organize your mail with tags and more. Zimbra offers lots of great options to customize your webmail interface to your liking.
View Video Tutorial
Conversation View 
Zimbra Webmail automatically groups emails into conversations. Conversation view is on by default, but can easily be turned off. People either love or hate this feature. You can turn this feature off, so that replies aren't threaded into conversations, but appear as individual messages in your inbox. To turn conversation view off, click on the View button in the upper right hand corner of your Zimbra webmail screen and select By Message.
View Video Tutorial
Adding An Email Signature
With Zimbra webmail, you can automatically include a signature in your email. You can also create more than one signature. To setup a signature, go to the Preferences tab and select Signatures page. In the Name text box, type a descriptive name to identify the signature. In the text box, type the signature text as you want it to appear. If you are using Format as HTML, you can add images and create links to your signature text. In the Using Signatures section, select the default signature from the drop down menu to use with messages sent from your various accounts. Select the placement of your signature in a message. Click Save.
View Video Tutorial
Setting An Out Of Office Responder
You can create a message that automatically replies to people who send you messages when you are out of the office. The auto-reply message is sent to each recipient only once in a seven day period regardless of how many messages that person sends during that period. To set your Out of Office Message, go to the Preferences tab in your Zimbra webmail and select Out of Office and check Send auto-reply message. In the Auto Reply Message text box, type the response to send while you are out of the office. You can also set the start and end dates to send the auto-reply message. If you do not specify a specific time frame, auto-replies are sent until you select Do not send auto replies. Then click Save. Click here for a step-by-step video tutorial.
View Video Tutorial
Learning More About Zimbra
Looking for additional tips and tricks for using Zimbra? Check out additional Zimbra video tutorials here: http://help.zimbra.com/videos/8x/.
Please note that not all of the features that you see in the Zimbra video tutorials are the same as in our deployment of Zimbra. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at 888-321-0815.
Win A $50 Gift Certificate To Vermont Coffee Company
Each month, we raffle off a prize from a local business, so be sure to enter your name for your chance to win. Congratulations to last month's winner, Kathleen O’Neil who won a $50 gift certificate to Phantom Restaurant in Waitsfield. This month we have another great local prize, a $50 gift certificate to the Vermont Coffee Company Café on Exchange Street in Middlebury. Stop by Monday - Friday 7am to 2pm for coffee, espresso, breakfast and lunch. Free WiFi, too. Bring co-workers, clients, or friends for your next meeting! To be entered into the raffle, simply click the link below and leave your name and contact information. The drawing will take place on June 20.
Click here to enter for your chance to win.
WCVT In The Community
WCVT Announces Scholarship Recipients
Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Eunice B. Farr Incentive Award scholarships. “It is a pleasure to award these scholarships on an annual basis. We wish these motivated students the best of luck in their future endeavors,” said Gregg Haskin, President and CEO of Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom.
This year’s recipients were as follows:
- Champlain Valley Union High School – Bronwen Hopwood, Hinesburg
- Harwood Union High School - Charlotte Caffry Randall, Waitsfield
- Mount Abraham Union High School - Nicholas Myers, New Haven
- Mount Mansfield Union High School – Kelsey Carrier, Jericho
- Middlebury Union High School – Justin Stone, Middlebury
- Vergennes High School – Stephanie Praamsma, Vergennes
Each year, Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom grants six scholarships, one to each of the public high schools that students from our service area attend. These scholarships are donated in memory of the late Eunice B. Farr, former owner and operator of the Waitsfield-Fayston Telephone Company and grandmother of Gregg Haskin. The criteria of the scholarship is as follows, “The award should be presented to a graduating senior that plans subsequent education, be it college or trade school. The faculty should select an individual that has shown a steady improvement in his or her academics, but is not necessarily at the top of the class. The award is designed to benefit a hard working graduate that his or her instructors have found to demonstrate a sincere effort to improve grades/results and plans continuing education.”
WCVT Employees Celebrate Milestones
We had the pleasure of hosting our annual service awards luncheon last week. Twenty-one employees were celebrating a milestone anniversary representing a total of 455 years of service. Congratulations to all of our wonderful employees on an amazing milestone. Thank you for all of your years of service to our communities. Also thank you to Sugarbush Resort for a great lunch!
Being a local business means that our customers are also our neighbors and friends. At Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom, we feel strongly that community involvement is not just a nice thing to do; it is the right thing to do. If you have a community service project in the making and are looking for help, contact Alan Jones at 496-8328 or via email ajones@wcvt.com to see if we can lend a hand.
Business Spotlights
Phantom Restaurant – Waitsfield 
After years of hosting pop-up dinners and musical affairs, Phantom Productions put down roots in the Mad River Valley early this year. Co-owned by Matt Sargent and Steve Askew, Phantom serves creative locavore fare with global influence in addition to traditional pub fare. Their mission is to serve creative and affordable dishes that are sourced locally and change on a regular basis. Phantom is located in their newly renovated space at 112 Mad River Green, Waitsfield. Reach them at 496-6068 or visit www.phantomvt.com. Phantom is open Tuesday – Saturday from 5:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. and is dedicated to good food, good music, and the general pursuit of happiness. Experience Phantom today!
Balance Yoga – Richmond 
Friends Kara Wires and Kerry Walker made their dream of opening a yoga studio a reality when they opened Balance Yoga last summer. Situated in a beautifully renovated farm house, Balance Yoga features a large, open studio with bamboo floors and lots of light, plus a small waiting area where you can sit and have a cup of tea. In addition, there is a massage studio where individuals can experience a different kind of relaxation and healing. Balance Yoga has a strong commitment to their community and offers a wide variety of classes. It is located at 840 West Main Street in Richmond. Reach them at 434-8401 or visit www.balanceyogavt.com.
And The Winner Of One Free Month Of High-Speed Internet Service Is...
Congratulations Nancy Gomez for being this month’s winner of one free month of high-speed Internet service. Nancy's name was chosen at random from customers who completed our monthly Green Mountain Access technical support surveys.
Each month, one name is selected at random from customers who complete our online technical support or new user surveys. Survey requests are sent out via e-mail to customers after calling technical support or establishing new service. So be sure to fill out those surveys! |
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Two to View — A Couple Of Amazing Videos You Don't Want To Miss
Dog Wants A Kitty 
click here for video
Watch the suspense as this "talking" dog tries to discover whether or not his owner brought home a kitten for him to play with.
They Grow Up So Fast 
click here for video
Through a series of clips, this video portrait highlights the similarities and differences of a young girl going from newborn to age 12.
Go Pinterest-ing! - Cool Stuff To Pin On Your Pinterest Boards
Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, and hobbies. Users can browse other pinboards for images, 're-pin' images to their own pinboards, or 'like' photos. Here are some links to some:
15 Easy Summer
Grilling Recipes
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/291537775855763649/
Scrumptious
No-Bake Treats
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/291537775855763605/
DIY Hammock Bed
For Lazy Summer Days
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/291537775855763600/
You haven't started pinning on Pinterest yet and you want to get started? To learn more visit http://about.pinterest.com/en or to sign up, go here https://pinterest.com/join/signup/.
Featured Apps - These Are Well Worth A Look
PhotoGrid
This app helps you make great-looking collages for Instagram. It comes with templates, filters, stickers, frames, backgrounds, and more for fun with photos.
Learn more... http://www.cmcm.com/en-us/photo-grid/
Google Earth
With this app, you can see shots of Earth, as well as the moon, Mars, the sky, and the ocean. Or view fascinating historical imagery.
Learn more... http://www.google.com/intl/en/earth/explore/products/
Candy Crush Soda Saga
Download the latest version, which lets you match your way through new adventures of delicious gameplay.
Learn more... http://candycrushsodasaga.com/ |
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Scam Alert - "Shocking Video" Scams On Facebook
The latest Facebook scam gets your attention with intriguing titles about "shocking," "exclusive," or "breaking news" stories. The messages may appear as posts from your friends, which provides an incentive to trust the accompanying link.
However, when you click, a number of things may happen:
1. You get asked to give permissions to an app that will play the video.
This app may create automatic posts in your profile that ask others to view it.
2. You get asked to take a survey before you're shown the video. The information collected is sent to marketers who use it to bother you with phone calls, emails, or other unwanted contact.
3. You get asked to upgrade your video software. The downloaded "upgrade"
may actually be malware that can infect your computer with a virus.
4. You never see the video because there really isn't one. However, there may be an image that matches the headline and includes the familiar "play" (triangle pointing to the right) icon.
Rule number one in avoiding this scam is, "Don't be fooled." If the headline seems too fantastic to be true, it probably is. Remember that legitimate video sources want views on their sites, and will not prevent you from accessing them with requests for you to download software or provide personal information. If you have to jump through any hoops before seeing the video, it's probably not worth the effort, and could even be harmful to your privacy or your computer.
If you do get trapped before you realize what's happening, be sure to remove any posts you personally didn't put on your profile, and also remove any apps you've given permissions to. Finally, if you really can't resist seeing the "shocking" video about a zookeeper swallowed by a snake, leave Facebook and search for it on YouTube or Google.
This Month's FAQ - What Do I Do If My Twitter Account Has Been Hacked?
Question: I've seen some tweets that I didn't post, and I suspect my Twitter account has been hacked. How can I know for sure, and what can I do about it?
Answer: Often Twitter hacking is evident from tweets you didn't post, as with your situation, or direct messages sent from your account, email changes, or other activity that you didn't authorize. If you even suspect your account has been hacked, follow the steps below:
1. Request a password reset. Use the password reset form within Twitter, and check for the reset email at the address associated with your Twitter account. Log on and immediately reset your password to one you'll remember.
2. Revoke connections to third-party applications. To do this, visit the Apps section in your settings. Remove access for any third-party applications you don't recognize. Then, update your password in remaining third-party applications.
3. Log out of Twitter on your phone or other devices. Next time you log on, you'll be asked to provide the new password.
4. If you still need help, contact Twitter Support. |
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Warren 4th Of July Parade And Festivities July 4- Warren
For the 67th consecutive year, the Mad River Valley celebrates independence day with a wild, wacky, and wickedly fun parade, street dance, and family festivities! The parade starts at 10 am and Main Street in Warren closes at 8:30 am. Free Shuttle Buses are running from 8 am until 4 pm. Satellite parking for bus pick up is at Yestermorrow School on Rt 100, at Warren/Waitsfield town line and at Lincoln Peak at Sugarbush. For more information, visit www.warren4thofJuly.com.
Bristol 4th Of July Celebration – July 3-4 - Bristol
Bristol has carried on a 4th of July tradition for decades. Their celebration includes famous outhouse race, parade, fireworks and much, much more. Festivities begin on July 3. For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit www.bristol4th.com
July 3
- 6:00 pm Activities at the ballpark: Food and craft vendors, games, and live music
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Dusk: Fireworks
July 4
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7:30am 5k Road Race
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9:00am Great Bristol Outhouse Race
- 10:30am Parade
- 12:00 Live Music, food, and craft vendors on the green
Hinesburg 4th Of July Celebration – July 3-4 - Hinesburg
Hinesburg's annual 4th of July celebration begins on Friday evening with the Hilly Hobble Foot race. Registration begins at 6pm at the Hinesburg Community School. On Saturday, July 4th, don't miss the parade beginning at 11am, and the fireworks at dusk. For a complete list of events, visit http://www.hinesburg.org/recreation/July4th2015.pdf.
37th Annual Festival-On-The-Green – July 5-11 - Middlebury
A much anticipated highlight of the summer, the Festival has remained faithful to its mission of bringing top-quality, free, family-friendly entertainment to the residents and guests of Addison County since its debut at the end of the nineteen-seventies. Over the years, they have introduced more than 445 performance artists and groups to collectively more than 125,000 audience members. The roster of “alumni” performers includes homegrown talent from the Green Mountain State and entertainers from half-a-world away, solo artists and entire parades, traditional entertainers and those who’ve earned a reputation as “cutting-edge.” For additional information and a complete schedule, visit www.festivalonthegreen.org.
Yestermorrow's 35th Anniversary Celebration – Saturday, July 18 - Waitsfield
Free and open to the public. Fun, games, food trucks, Eames Brothers Band, circus acts and so much more! Come help Yestermorrow celebrate 35 years of excellence in design/build education. Celebration takes place on Saturday, July 18th from 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. For more information, please visit: www.yestermorrow.org/events.
Movies In The Park – Bristol – July 9 – August 20 (Sponsored in part by Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom)
The Bristol Recreation Department is once again showing classic films on a theatre sized screen on the Bristol Green – a drive-in experience without the driving! Free and suitable for all ages. Bring a blanket and your bug spray.
- July 9 - Annie
- July 16 – Back to the Future
- July 23 – Cinderella
- July 30– Despicable Me
- August 13 – Bristol Gateway Players Show
- August 20- Wizard of Oz
For more information, contact the Bristol Recreation Department at 453-5885 or bristolrec@madriver.com. |
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Go Outside And Play
http://wilderness.org/article/go-outside-and-play
Interactions with nature are key for developing an appreciation for the environment, and this site invites readers to make a pledge to "go outside and play!" It also provides great resources to help you do it, like tips for nature walking, family-friendly wilderness fun, camping, and cooking.
Add To Your Music Knowledge
http://playback.fm
If you love music, you'll love this site, which offers a wide range of musical information. Watch videos of "songs trending this week," or test your knowledge with music quizzes. Check out the top 100 song charts going all the way back to the 1900s, or find out what song was #1 the day you were born.
Give Your Oven A Summer Break
http://delish.com/cooking/g1451/quick-weeknight-no-cook-recipes
With warm summer weather, the last thing you want to do is turn on the oven. But, you can still eat well by following the recipes on this site.
You'll find plenty of hearty and refreshing dishes that are as delicious as they are easy to prepare.
Makeover Your Table
http://realsimple.com/holidays-entertaining/entertaining/decorations/centerpiece-ideas
What do flowers, cabbage, strips of paper, and lollipops have in common? You can use them all to make fun, easy centerpieces to add color and whimsy to your table the next time you entertain. This Real Simple gallery gives you great ideas for all kinds of occasions.
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