The Other Meta I want to let you know how wonderful it was to watch Eva Sollberger's latest "Stuck in Vermont" video ["Meta Strick Makes Magical Mixed-Media Art in Fairfield," December 12]. We all need this boost of creative, upbeat energy this time of year. Brilliant and uplifting. Thank you, Eva! Karen Didricksen Georgia Wrong About Barre [Re "Acts of the Apostles," December 4]: Paula Routly's adoring "From the Publisher" intro of Joe Sexton and his cover story about a church for the addicted in Barre leads me to believe that Seven Days is too deferential to a writer whom you perceive to be better than our local reporters. Within his trope-filled version of Barre, Sexton also writes, "It had an opera house and handsome museums, too." The tense, of course, is wrong and should have been corrected. Sexton's article, while painting some engaging human-interest portraits, turns one-dimensional when it comes to writing about the city itself and piles on Barre in the easiest ways. Ultimately, the author is a person from away who made visits to the city for interviews. But your editorial staff — who know better — should have exercised some agency here when it came to substantive editing and fact-checking. Yes, Vermont cities suffer modern problems — as all American cities do. And, living in Vermont for the past 25 years, yes, I have seen needles on the street and had my car broken into for spare change. But none of those things has happened to me in Barre. I do, however, attend shows at the Barre Opera House, browse the Vermont History Center's Research and Exhibition Gallery, and visit the Vermont Granite Museum. Lovejoy Dole Barre 'A Model for All of Us' I wish to thank Joe Sexton and Seven Days for highlighting the work of Enough Ministries in Barre ["Acts of the Apostles," December 4]. Pastor Dan Molind, along with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the Mennonite Disaster Service, taught me so much about lives devoted to service. Dan helped the town of Plainfield — and also Lyndonville — in immeasurable ways during our July floods. His wife, Cathy, cooked dozens of meals for the displaced residents in our shelter at Goddard College, for weeks, and Pastor Dan delivered them. Dan's commitment and faith have been a model for all of us and still continue to inspire me to be 100 percent people-centered in…