MIDDLEBURY — Ireland Young, a Cornwall resident and senior at Vermont Commons School, collaborated with mentor Woody Jackson and the Homeward Bound staff to complete her senior project during the month of May. Her goal was to combine her love of animals and studio art so she painted a mural in the “kitten room” at the Middlebury animal shelter as her gift to all of those come there in search of a forever friend.Young painted on Sundays and Mondays to avoid interfering with regular business hours.The mural, … (read more)