Cavendish Update 8/20/10 News/Events/CHS News

The 8/20/10 Cavendish Update Contains
1. Cavendish Related News
2. News from the Cavendish Historical Society
3. Statewide Primary Election Aug. 24
4. Eat Dessert! Support the Cavendish Community Fund
5. September Okemo Valley Chamber Corner
6. Cavendish Events 8/20-8/31
7. Furniture Needed for BRGNS Fall Rummage Sale

1. Cavendish Related News
Reward Offered for Information In Black River Diesel Spill

2. News from the Cavendish Historical Society
• The summer edition of the Cavendish Historical Society (CHS) Newsletter is now on-line.

• CHS is currently restoring a loom for use in 2011. The loom was owned, and most likely built, by Joshua Parker Green, around the Civil War era. Known as “Parker,” he was born in Plymouth, VT Aug. 30, 1822. He moved to a large farm on Twenty Mile Stream in Proctorsville with his first wife Nancy in 1856, and raised Marino sheep.

Built for his first wife, the loom was to be used by two additional wives. Parker outlived all three of his wives and three of his five children. He died in 1911 at the age of 88. Many of his descendants continue to live in Cavendish, including some on the original farm. He is buried in the Twenty Mile Stream Cemetery.

Parker was a gifted wood worker "J. P. Green, who is in his 86th year, who has not for the past years done any active work on his farm, has busied himself making many useful and ornamental articles of wooden ware, such as spoons of various sizes, several sizes of stands, clothes sticks, paper knives, knives and forks, wooden knitting needles, canes with the handles made from the root, showing many odd designs. His latest is cutting out little mustard spoons which are neat and pretty in shape."

For more information about Joshua Parker Green, please go to the CHS Blog.

• Cavendish Genealogy Information On-line: To meet the interest in Cavendish genealogy, the CHS blog now contains a genealogy section, where the Society’s genealogist continues to post new information.

3. Statewide Primary Election Aug. 24
A statewide primary election will be held on Aug. 24. Voting will take place at the Cavendish Elementary School from 10 am-7pm. Sample ballots are available on-line as follows:

2010 Sample Democratic Primary Election Ballot

2010 Sample Progressive Primary Election Ballot

2010 Sample Republican Primary Election Ballot

4. Eat Dessert! Support the Cavendish Community Fund
The annual fundraiser for the Cavendish Community Fund (CCF) is a Dessert Extravaganza at the home of Lucien (Lou) and Connie Choiniere, corner of Depot St. and Pratt Hill in Proctorsville on August 21 from 6-8:30 pm. For a donation of $20, sample a wide array of fabulous desserts. A Silent Auction will also be part of the evening’s events.

The CCF distributes to a wide array of Cavendish organizations. The most recent recipients are the Cavendish Library and Historical Society. Past funding has made it possible to conduct archeological digs, offer plays, purchase items for the library, and even sponsor some wonderful “dinner and a movie” opportunities.

We are a richer community for the CCF, so show your support and eat dessert! FMI:802-226-7250.

5. September Okemo Valley Chamber Corner
More INFO signs are appearing throughout the Okemo Valley. The latest are in front of Hunter Lea Gallery and Andrie Rose Inn in Ludlow, Vermont Country Store and the Village Green Gallery in Weston.

On August 10 the e-Vermont steering committee along with the State partners held an open forum at the Town Hall to discuss the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project and what it would mean for the Ludlow community. Don’t forget to sign up for Ludlow’s front porch forum.

We learned the results of the State’s Branding Study at our Chamber mixer on August 11 at the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site’s new museum and education center with over 70 attendees. If you would like a copy of the study, please email the Chamber.

Thank you goes out to the Ludlow Merchants Association for organizing a successful 13th Annual State Zucchini Festival on August 14th.

Our guests this month on LPCTV are new Chamber members Robert Sarly, President and Abby Raeder Rosenthal, Managing Director, of the Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Wait until you hear about this project!!!

Our Route 100 Byway project is still moving forward. Our next meeting is scheduled on August 27 and all are welcome. We would like any businesses on or near Route 100 to please send us a letter of support. Call the Chamber if you need additional information.

Please check out our calendar of events on our website.

6. Cavendish Events 8/20-8/31
August 20 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.

August 21 (Saturday): Just Dessert Fundraiser for Cavendish Community Fund, 6-8:30 pm. See article 4 above.

August 22 (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 24 (Tuesday): Primary Election Day, Cavendish polls open 10 am-7pm at the Cavendish School in Proctorsville. See article3 above for ballot information.

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

7. Furniture Needed for BRGNS Fall Rummage Sale
Black River Good Neighbor Services will be holding a huge Rummage Sale at Fletcher Farm this October 1 - 3 and is looking for donations of furniture.

Jim Fuller, President of BRGNS’s Board of Directors said that “thanks to the generosity of Ludlow home owner Frank Dwyer’s donation of warehouse space BRGNS has the ability to store furniture in advance of its rummage sale. All furniture in good condition will be accepted.”

To make arrangements for dropping off, or having donated furniture picked up, please call Audrey Bridge at the BRGNS Thrift Shop at 802-228-3663 between the hours of 10am and 4pm, Monday through Saturday. Furniture will be picked up by volunteers at an arranged mutually convenient time.

All proceeds from this sale will go to benefit the needy in the area. “The current economic crisis has created a greater demand then ever. A lot of our neighbors are going to need help this winter, so we are asking for everyone in the area who can help to please do so” said Jim Fuller.

Black River Good Neighbor Services is a 501(c) (3) organization that serves the areas of Ludlow, Mt. Holly, Proctorsville, Cavendish and Plymouth. Donations are tax deductible.

More information regarding the Rummage Sale and requests for other types of donations will be forthcoming, so please be sure to look for future details in this paper.

The Thrift Shop and Food Shelf are located at 105 Main Street Ludlow. For more information you can call the number given above or go to their web site at www.BRGN.org.