Cavendish Update 8/1/10 Calendar/News/Events/Classifieds

This issue of the Cavendish Update is made possible by the Cavendish Historical Society www.cavendishhistoricalsocietynews.blogspot.com

The Cavendish Update Contains
1. August Cavendish Calendar
2. Cavendish Related News
3. Cavendish Looks at Appraisal Update
4. Classifieds
5. Drive In and BBQ at the Cavendish Library
6. Cavendish Players Revive Depression Era Comedy
7. New Programming Highlights on LPCTV
8. Cavendish Grange Hall Curtain Restored
9. Cavendish Concert on the Green with Rick Redington

1. August Cavendish Calendar
August 1 (Sunday): Officers meeting at Proctorsville Volunteer Fire Dept, 5:30 pm. Monthly business meeting follows at 6 pm.
• The Cavendish Historical Society Museum is open from 2-4 pm. Stop by and see the newly restored Grange Hall Curtain and explore the 1940’s candy store. FMI: 226-7807

August 3 (Tuesday): Kripalu Yoga Class 5:15-6:30 at the Cavendish Fire Hall. Danielle Dulaney certified Kripalu Yoga teacher. FMI: danielledul@earthlink.net

August 4 (Wednesday): Cavendish Summer Music Series, 6 pm on the Proctorsville Green. Featuring Rick Redington. Rain location is the Cavendish School. Sponsored by Cavendish Community and Conservation Association.
• Planning Commission Meeting, 6:30 pm at the Cavendish Town Office.

August 5 (Thursday): Sit & Knit" at the Six Loose Ladies yarn shop, Pollard Building, Proctorsville Green, 2:00 -9:00 PM. Open to knitters, spinners, crocheters, hookers. Free. FMI: 226-7373

August 6 (Friday): Reading records are due for those involved in the Cavendish Library’s Summer Reading Program. You must turn in your records to be entered in the grand prize drawing.
• Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.

August 7 (Saturday): Free “Drive In Movie” at the Cavendish Library, 8:30 pm. The movie, “Finding Nemo,” will be screened on the back wall of the Library, or in the library in the event of rain. FMI: Kata at 226-7503.

August 8 (Sunday): The Cavendish Historical Society Museum is open from 2-4 pm. Stop by and see the newly restored Grange Hall Curtain and explore the 1940’s candy store. FMI: 226-7807

August 9 (Monday): Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm at the Town Office. These meetings are televised on LPCTV. To check for airing times, or to watch the meetings on-line, go to www.lpctv.org.

August 10 (Tuesday): Prize day for participants in the Summer Reading Program at the Cavendish Library.

August 11 (Wednesday): Cavendish Summer Music Series, 6 pm on the Proctorsville Green. Featuring Voodoo Alien Blues Band, led by blues legend Steve Audsley. This concert concludes the series. Rain location is the Cavendish School. Sponsored by Cavendish Community and Conservation Association.
• Cavendish Library will be holding its 3rd annual free end of summer BBQ, starting at 5:30 pm at the Library. The menu will include hot dogs, soda and all the trimmings. Entertainment will be provided by "Tom Joyce, Magic Man". FMI: Kata 226-7503

August 12 (Thursday): Sit & Knit" at the Six Loose Ladies yarn shop, Pollard Building, Proctorsville Green, 2:00 -9:00 PM. Open to knitters, spinners, crocheters, hookers. Free. FMI: 226-7373

August 13 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.

August 14 (Saturday): Cavendish Community Theatre Presents: “Tourists Accommodated.” Curtain 7:30 pm at the Cavendish Elementary School Enjoy Dorothy Canfield Fisher's play, "Tourists Accommodated", a comedy about a 1930's Vermont family who rents rooms to summer tourists to raise money to send their daughter to teaching school. Adults @ $8, Seniors & Children (up to 16) @ $6, children 6 & under are free. Purchase tickets ahead at Crows Bakery (ph:802-226-7007), Depot St, Proctorsville or at the door. No reserve seating so come early!
• The 13th Annual Ludlow Vermont Zucchini Festival FMI: 228-5830
• Friends of Fletcher Memorial Library (Ludlow) Annual Book Sale 9-2 on the Library lawn.

August 15 (Sunday): The Cavendish Historical Society Museum is open from 2-4 pm. Stop by and see the newly restored Grange Hall Curtain and explore the 1940’s candy store. FMI: 226-7807
• Tourists Accommodated, 7:30 pm at the Cavendish Elementary School at 7:30. See Aug. 14 for more information.

August 17 (Tuesday): Cavendish School Board Meeting, 5:30 pm in the Arts Center.

August 19 (Thursday): Sit & Knit" at the Six Loose Ladies yarn shop, Pollard Building, Proctorsville Green, 2:00 -9:00 PM. Open to knitters, spinners, crocheters, hookers. Free. FMI: 226-7373

August 20 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.

August 21 (Sunday): The Cavendish Historical Society Museum is open from 2-4 pm. Stop by and see the newly restored Grange Hall Curtain and explore the 1940’s candy store. FMI: 226-7807

August 26 (Thursday): Fletcher Library Book Discussion “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks, meets at 7 pm in the Community Room of Fletcher Memorial Library in Ludlow. All are welcome.
• Sit & Knit" at the Six Loose Ladies yarn shop, Pollard Building, Proctorsville Green, 2:00 -9:00 PM. Open to knitters, spinners, crocheters, hookers. Free. FMI: 226-7373

August 27 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.

August 28 (Sunday): The Cavendish Historical Society Museum is open from 2-4 pm. Stop by and see the newly restored Grange Hall Curtain and explore the 1940’s candy store. FMI: 226-7807

August 31 (Tuesday): First day of school for Cavendish Elementary.
• Seventh grade orientation at Green Mountain Union High School-half day

2. Cavendish Related News
Police Charge Conn. Man, Staying with Relative in Cavendish, with Attempted Murder

Ludlow Post Office Moving Aug 2 to Okemo Market Place

Springfield Hospital Cuts Nursing Staff

Debit Card Decision Awaits Consumers

3. Cavendish Looks at Appraisal Update
Rutland Herald 7/26/10 by Gordon Dritschilo
CAVENDISH – The Select Board has set a special town meeting for Sept. 13 to discuss a reappraisal.

Town Manager Richard Svec said the town’s last reappraisal was in 2006.

“The market’s taken some interesting turns since then,” he said. “The (common level of appraisal) isn’t so out of whack. It’s around 91 percent. However, the (coefficient of dispersion) appears to be out of whack.”

The COD measures the average deviation from the fair market value.

Towns are supposed to keep the COD below 20 percent. Cavendish’s was at 19.33 in December. Svec said the issue came up at town meeting in March, but voters tabled it because they wanted to see what would happen during the next tax appraisal cycle.

“It appears as though, after going through this year’s modifications to the grand list, the number may exceed 20 percent,” Svec said.

At the meeting in September, Svec said, the board will discuss doing a townwide appraisal update. Instead of a full internal inspection, it would involve a paper review of every property and on-site reviews just of those properties that appear to be furthest from fair market value.

“Of course, any recent construction or modifications to a property would have the standard review,” he said.

Svec said the town would use an outside firm for the update.

“We do have a board of listers, but most of the valuation changes were done by an appraisal consultant,” he said.

The cost would likely be $50 to $55 per property, Svec said, as opposed to $80 to $85 for a full appraisal. Cavendish has roughly 1,200 properties.

The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Cavendish Town Elementary School. Voting takes place from the floor.

4. Classifieds
FOR RENT: Comfortably furnished house off 20 Mile Stream Road. Five miles to Ludlow and Okemo on paved roads. 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, basement family room or additional bedroom; wood stove, dishwasher, washer/drier. TV/internet. One car garage. Access to X Country ski/snow shoeing trails from front door. No smokers, but well behaved pets okay. $5,000 for season (November through April). Email awregier@tds.net for more info.

5. Drive In and BBQ at the Cavendish Library
The Cavendish Fletcher Community Library will be holding its second "Drive In Movie" of the summer on Saturday August 7 at 8:30. The movie, "FInding Nemo" will be shown on the library wall rain or shine. All are invited. Patrons are encouraged to bring folding chairs, blankets, snacks and bug spray.

The Library will be holding its third annual end of the summer barbeque on Wednedsay, August 11 beginning at 5:30. The free barbeque will feature hot dogs with all the trimmings, soda, chips and cake. Entertainment will be provided by "Tom Joyce, Magic Man". The grand prizewinner of the summer reading program will also be drawn and other prizes for completing the summer reading.

6. Cavendish Players Revive Depression Era Comedy
When Dorothy Canfield Fisher wrote her light comedy “Tourists Accommodated” in 1932, she drew upon her neighbors’ experiences in Arlington, Vermont. Farmers, short of cash during the Depression, took in city guests who toured the countryside seeking a country experience, cheap antiques and home cooked meals. The vintage play follows one Vermont family that takes in tourists to raise money to send their daughter to teaching school. “Tourists Accommodated” will be presented by the Cavendish Community Theater on August 14th and 15th at the Cavendish Town Elementary School at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8.00 for adults and $6.00 for seniors and children up to age 16. Kids under six are free. Buy general admission tickets ahead at Crows Corner Bakery in Proctorsville or at the door the night of the performance. For further information call Sandra Russo at 226-7398.

7. New Programming Highlights on LPCTV
Below are programming notes from LPCTV, community TV for the Black River Valley, for the upcoming week. LPCTV is on local cable TV channels 8 and 10 in the Towns of Ludlow, Plymouth, Cavendish, and Mount Holly. Local video programming can also be viewed online at www.lpctv.org.

Complete program schedule listings are also found on LPCTV's website and can be seen on the TV Bulletin Board.

CHANNEL 8
VT Voltage Soccer Games: Watch Vermont's own professional soccer team all season long. This week LPCTV will broadcast Voltage games against the Ottawa Fury, Long Island Rough Riders, and Brooklyn Knights. Courtesy of Vermont Voltage and
Northwest Access TV.

Ludlow Community Broadband Project: Ludlow was recently awarded as a pilot community for the new e-Vermont. Community Broadband Project initiative. Marji Graf talks with representatives from e-Vermont.

BRACC Summer Picnic: LPCTV's cameras were rolling at the Black River Area Community Coalition's summer picnic. Check it out.

CHANNEL 10
Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Debate in Ludlow: LPCTV covered the July 29th debate in Ludlow Town Hall with 3 cameras.

Local Government Meetings: Gavel-to-gavel coverage of the following local meetings will be broadcast this week: Village of Ludlow Trustees, Ludlow Elementary School Board, Ludlow Select board, and Ludlow Development Review Board. Meetings play each night at 7PM and repeat and midnight, 8AM, and 2PM the following day.

8. Cavendish Grange Hall Curtain Restored
Under the direction of the Vermont’s Painted Theater Curtains, a group of volunteers from the Cavendish Historical Society (CHS), worked with professional conservators to restore the Cavendish Grange Hall curtain on Friday, July 30.

Clyde (Puss) Bailey signed the curtain in 1951. It is believed that the curtain may be an older Crystal Arts curtain, since the central scene is similar to other curtains of this type. The local advertisements that surround the central scene of a pond and trees, include: P.K. Brown, Ludlow Insurance, Paul W. Adams, Mumford Drum Corps, Bixby’s Dairy, Spaulding’s Restaurant, Specialty Press, Tom’s Taxi, Gileris Market, Ludlow Grain & Supply and Windsor National Bank.

The curtain was installed at the CHS Museum in 2007, when the Grange was closed. The curtain can be seen at the Museum on Sundays from 2-4 pm.

Thank you to the CHS volunteers Bob and Cooper Naess, Wendy Regier and Mike Pember for a job well done.

9. Cavendish Concert on the Green with Rick Redington
The Cavendish Community and Conservation Association invites everyone to come to the Proctorsville Green for the continuing summer music series on Wednesday, August 4thth at 6:00 p.m. to hear Rick Redington and the Luv.
Whether playing an intimate solo acoustic performance in a coffeehouse setting or rockin’ out with his band “The Luv” in a large concert venue, Rick’s performances have something memorable and meaningful for all to share. No strangers to the Proctorsville Green, Rick and the band have delighted the local Wednesday evening concert goers several times in the past.
This concert will be the fifth in this year’s series that are held on consecutive Wednesday nights in July and August. Come and enjoy a warm summer evening with your neighbors and friends in front of the gazebo on the green. Relax in the grass on your blanket or favorite lawn chair – have a picnic or just listen to the music.

As always, the concerts are free and open to the public and will be held rain or shine. In case of inclement weather the performance will move to the Cavendish town elementary school on Main Street just up from the Green.