Cavendish Update 2/20/09 Candidate's Forum/Events

This issue of the Cavendish Update is made possible by the Cavendish Community and Conservation Association (CCCA), a non-profit membership organization that is dedicated to the conservation of land and natural resources and to the preservation of historic sites within the context of sustainable economic growth. FMI: PO Box 605, Cavendish VT 05142 or 802-226-7736

The Cavendish Update Contains
1. Meet the Candidates Forum
2. American Pie Pizza Now Available for Your Freezer
3. Cavendish Related News
4. Grapes of Wrath Tonight’s Film in Cavendish Series
5. Murder on the Orient Express Saturday Feature with High Tea
6. Classifieds

1. Meet the Candidates Forum
CCCA is sponsoring a Meet The Candidates Night at the Cavendish Elementary School in Proctorsville on Tuesday Feb 24th at 7p.m. Many candidates will be present to speak about why they are running, the issues they feel are important to our community and what public service means to them. There will be a time for questions and answers. For those who can not attend, the event will be filmed by LPCTV and aired on Thursday Feb 26th at 7p.m. and then again at midnight - on Friday the 28th at 8a.m. and later at 2p.m.

Items coming to a vote at town meeting include the town and school budgets, exemption of Fletcher Farms from town taxation, and a proposal to reallocate funds from specific bridge improvements to general infrastructure improvement funds. There is also a proposal to eliminate publication of the cemetery perpetual care accounts from the town report, and a proposal to increase the veterans’ exemption from $20,000 to $40,000 per year. This year the Town Meeting will fall on Monday, March 2nd with balloting to follow on Tuesday, March 3rd. FMI: 226-7852.

2. American Pie Pizza Now Available for Your Freezer
Proctorsville residents, the Goodman’s, have recently started offering their wood fired pizzas in the freezer. You can purchase, cheese, cheese and garlic, mushroom, mushroom and sun tomato, and their best seller spinach and sun dried tomatoes at the following stores: Clark’s IGA in Londonderry, Singleton’s in Proctorsville and Lisai’s in Chester. Frozen pizzas, with meat toppings, are available at their store at 106 Main St. in Ludlow. FMI 228-4271

3. Cavendish Related News
Yankee Deadline Comes and Goes: Rutland Herald 2/19/09

4. Grapes of Wrath Tonight’s Film in Cavendish Series
On Friday February 20 the Black & White Nights film series will show the celebrated Grapes of Wrath, winner of two Academy Awards and starring Henry Fonda. This masterpiece of American cinema is based on the novel by John Steinbeck, winner of both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. Directed by John Ford and released in 1940, the film tells the story of the Joad family, who lost their crops and farm in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl in the 1930s. They join the thousands of other impoverished families on the trek across country to California in search of a new life. The migrants' hopes for steady work, decent pay and a chance at the American dream are met with labor strikes, death and disappointment. In stark and moving detail, The Grapes of Wrath depicts the lives of ordinary people striving to preserve their humanity in the face of social and economic desperation. A landmark in literature and film, it is a poignant tale of the Great Depression. The film will be shown at 7:00 at Cavendish Elementary School on Rte. 131 in Proctorsville. For more information call 226-7187 or 226-7497.

5. Murder on the Orient Express Saturday Feature with High Tea
The Cavendish Library Dinner and Movie series kicks off with, Murder on the Orient Express, 1 pm Saturday Feb. 21 at the Cavendish Library in Proctorsville. High tea will include Earl Gray tea, scones, cookies, sandwiches and trimmings. This is a free event made possible by a grant from the Cavendish Community Fund. FMI: 226-7503

6. Classifieds
• In search of a coupon to buy a converter box for a TV. Contact marmac@tds.net