Barbecue and beer at Mill River Brewing BBQ & Smokehouse Credit: Courtesy of Mill River Brewing Bbq And Smokehouse

Mill River Brewing BBQ & Smokehouse in St. Albans is hosting a fundraiser for Friends of Northern Lake Champlain called Project: Rain Barrel, featuring an auction of rain barrels painted by Vermont artists. Proceeds from the sales of special brew Lake Dayz will also benefit the organization, which works to improve water quality.

This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2019.

Sally Pollak was a staff writer at Seven Days from 2017 until she retired in summer 2023. She started as a Food contributor before transitioning to the Arts & Culture team. Her first newspaper job was compiling horse racing results at the Philadelphia...