Cavendish Update 6/18/10 SB Mtg/News/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. Select Board Meeting June 14
2. Cavendish Related News
3. GMUHS Booster Club Scholarship Recipient
4. Cavendish Summer Music Series Announced
5. Summer Hours for the Cavendish Library
6. Local Response to Gulf Oil Spill
7. Cavendish Calendar Voting
8. Winston Churchill Artist of the Month at Cavendish Library
9. Cavendish Events 6/18-2/25

1. Select Board Meeting June 14
The following items were discussed at Monday night’s Select Board Meeting:

Police Coverage for Coming Year: Since the contract with the Windsor Sheriff’s ends on June 30, Rich Svec, town manager, prepared a report on the cost benefit of continuing with the current arrangement or going with the State Police from Rockingham. The cost for the Sheriff will remain the same at $41 per hour versus the State Police who estimated their average to be $53 an hour. While the State Police cost includes time for going to court, and this is an add on for the Sheriff, the final cost benefit analysis indicates that for the primary purpose of controlling traffic, the Sheriff’s was the best way to proceed. The board voted unanimously to continue the contract with the Sheriffs.

Constable: A final job description of the Constable position was agreed to by the board. While the board approved funds to ensure that the Constable, Seth Perry, receives vaccinations, they were not willing to approve funds for additional training given current budget constraints. However, several people will be checking to see if there is funding available from other sources for Perry to obtain training.

Delinquent Taxes: Even though notices have been posted in the paper, the tax sale scheduled for June 23 will not be needed. Those who were sufficiently delinquent to merit a tax sale have paid their taxes and arranged for payment schedules. With the start of the new fiscal year July 1, there is a potential for a tax sale at the end of August.

Chubb Hill: Svec informed the board that people have been inquiring about when the lower end of Chubb Hill Road will be finished. The town met with Donnie Davis to learn more about the project. In order to obtain a state permit, engineering drawings must be supplied and the road needs to be reconstructed to meet town and state specifications. The state is requiring a guardrail be installed and Davis is proposing that the rail be placed so that he can keep his stonewall. Whether the state will approve this is unknown. Svec recommended to the board that the town provide some help in moving dirt and other related activities in order to move the project along since the current approach to the Hill is a hazard. Concerns were raised by one select board member about the town’s responsibility when a property owner wants to move a road. The board agreed that policies around this issue need to be developed.

2. Cavendish Related News
Rutland Herald Adds New Formats for News

Okemo Chamber of Commerce Kicks Off Information Ambassador Program

Chester Bridge Work Expected to Impede Summer Tourism

Upper Valley Veterinarians Detect Increasing Cases of Lyme Disease

Seniors Qualify for Food Help

3. GMUHS Booster Club Scholarship Recipient
The Green Mountain Union High School Booster Club honors a student each year with a scholarship and gratitude for their dedication to community service in the school and community. The recipient chosen has also shown consistent leadership, school spirit, and high academic standards throughout her school career. The Booster Club is very pleased to announce that this year’s award went to Cavendish resident Kathryn Svec!

4. Cavendish Summer Music Series Announced
The Cavendish Community and Conservation Association has announced that the annual summer music series on the Proctorsville Green will be held again this year on Wednesday nights in July and August. Each concert will begin at 6:00 p.m. and all concerts are free and open to the public, so grab your lawn chair and a cold drink, and join your friends and neighbors to enjoy plenty of rollicking good music from the gazebo.

The lineup will begin on July 7th with the legendary Chris Kleeman and will continue on July 14th with On the Rocks, featuring members of Satin & Steel. Gypsy Reel will play on July 21st, then Dana & Susan Robinson will appear on July 28th, and Rick Redington on August 4th. The series will conclude on August 11th with Voodoo Alien Blues Band.

The summer concert series has a long history in Proctorsville and many area residents reserve Wednesday evenings to listen to the live music. This is the first time that CCCA has taken on the task of coordinating the events in the hope that this tradition can continue. If you would like to help, CCCA would like to hear from you. Call Robin at 226-7736 to volunteer. As always, the concerts will be held rain or shine, and will move to the Cavendish town elementary school in case of inclement weather.

5. Summer Hours for the Cavendish Library
The summer hours for the Cavendish Library go into effect June 21 (Monday). They are as follows: Tues, Wed, Thurs 9:00-6:30 and Saturday 12:00-4:00. The Fletcher Memorial Library in Ludlow, whose charter includes Cavendish residents, has the following hours: Monday: 10:00AM - 7:30PM Tuesday-Friday 10:00AM - 5:00PM and Saturday: 10:00AM - 1:00PM. Note that on the 1st Wednesday of each month, the Library hours are noon to 5 pm.

6. Local Response to Gulf Oil Spill
The Gulf oil spill has had a tremendous impact on people regardless of where they live. The devastation to wildlife, water, plants and humans - the fact that we know the legacy of this spill will continue for an unknown number of years and reap a complex harvest of troubles and grief - calls for a response.

There is a Cavendish effort underway for a group show in August at the Cavendish Library, which will reflect people’s feelings and thoughts about the spill, clean up efforts, environmental impact etc. If you are interested in participating in this show, you can submit a letter, a thought, a painting, collage, sculpture - any medium you choose to reflect your response to this situation. Whether your words/images celebrate the beauty of dolphins, pelicans, egrets, the bayous of the Delta or you choose to address BP, the President, the folks who live in the Delta - every expression is welcome.

A collage/poster of our work will be made and sent to politicians, officials and groups.

If you are interested in participating please contact Robin at 226-7736.

7. Cavendish Calendar Voting
The Photos for the 2011 Calendar Contest are matted, hanging and beautiful! Well done! to all the photographers big and small, experienced and beginner who submitted their work for next year's calendar. So come take a look and cast your vote on June 18 from 3-6 and on June 19 (Saturday) from 12-3 at the Cavendish Elementary School. Voting will continue with Photos exhibited at Crows Bakery throughout the following week and then travel to the Fletcher Memorial Library. Announcement of photographs for the 2011 calendar will take place at Old Home Day, July 3.

8. Winston Churchill Artist of the Month at Cavendish Library
Winston Churchill is the featured artist at the Cavendish Library for the month of June. Churchill was born on a farm in rural Vermont, and has never been far from the creatures, domestic and wild, that have been his models and the central focus of his life-long artistic passion. From boyhood drawing and painting of the birds and animals he loves, to whittling their likenesses in wood, Winston continued his evolution as an artist with the purchase of a set of professional carving tools. He enhanced his skills in the U.S. Navy, carving delicate and varied designs of ship insignia bas-relief into mahogany plaques, which were then cast in bronze.

Following his stint in the military, Winston Churchill began to establish himself as an engraver of world renown. Winston returned to Vermont a freelance artist imbued with the best of European techniques and centuries old traditions.

In the years that followed he furthered his reputation as one of the most talented and skilled engravers with the embellishment of the world's finest firearms crafted in the U.S., England and Italy. Sculpted and engraved with delicate scrollwork and the striking wildlife scenes that have been his passion since youth, each piece became a work of living beauty beneath his hands.

Since the firearms he engraves become, in effect, private museum pieces, most often locked away from public view, it has been the mediums of photography and the printed page here and abroad that have become his galleries of exhibition. His work has been featured in many books and America's finest sporting magazines. Churchill's skills with a camera have been indispensable in the publication and display of his work.

A collection of Winston’s photographs may be views in the Redfield Proctor Room in June during normal library hours.

9. Cavendish Events 6/18-2/25
June 18 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.
• GMUHS Graduation 7 pm at the school
• Voting for Cavendish Calendar 3-6 pm at Cavendish School. See article 7

June 19 (Saturday): Voting for Cavendish Calendar, noon-3 pm at the Cavendish School. See Article 7.

June 20 (Sunday): Cavendish Historical Society Museum is open 2-4 pm. FMI: margoc@tds.net 802-226-7807

June 21 (Monday): Summer hours for the Cavendish Library go into effect. See Article 5.

June 23 (Wednesday): Healthy Weight and Lifestyle Course begins at the Cavendish Elementary School, 6-9 Pm. FMI: Martha Mott at martimot@tds.net or 226-7092.

June 24 (Thursday): Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky is the June selection for the Fletcher Memorial Library’s Book Talk. Discussion will take place at 7 pm in the Community Room of Fletcher Memorial Library in Ludlow. All are welcome.

June 25 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.






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