Cavendish Update 9/10/10 Warning/News/Broadband/Events

This issue of the Cavendish Update is made possible by Patty Derr.

The 9/10/10 Cavendish Update Contains
1. Warning: Special Town Meeting September 13 , 2010
2. Cavendish Related News
3. Broadband in Cavendish
4. Got Drugs? Turn in Your Unused or Expired Medication
5. Cavendish Events 9/10-9/17

1. Warning: Special Town Meeting September 13 , 2010
The legal voters of the Town of Cavendish, in the County of Windsor, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Cavendish Town Elementary School in Proctorsville, Vermont at seven (7:00) o’clock Monday evening the thirteenth (13) day of September 2010 to transact the following business:

Article 1: To see if the legal voters of the Town of Cavendish will approve of a town- wide appraisal update to be prepared for the 2011 Grand List. A town-wide update is not a full reappraisal with universal internal inspections, but it does include a thorough field review and updating of value tables and it would allow the grand list to be readjusted to reduce disparities and to adjust to market conditions.

2. Cavendish Related News
Report: Vermont Best for Poor Students, Falls Behind Other Countries

Farms Eligible for Frost Aid

Police warn of phone and Internet scams

CVPS Reaches Deal to Purchase Wind Power

3. Broadband in Cavendish
In the recent TDS Newsletter, TDS reports that they have been approved for $123.5 million in broadband expansion projects in 20 states. Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the funds are to be used to expand high-speed internet services to business and residential customers. According to the map and list of areas to be impacted, none of the TDS locations in Vermont are slated for the upgrade.

VTEl, of Springfield Vermont, has received $81 million in stimulus funds and an additional $35 million in government-backed loans in order to deliver high speed internet to every corner of the state. Company officials say wiring the entire state should take between two and three years. To learn more about the VTEL project go to the companies website Broadband USA Connecting America’s Communities.

4. Got Drugs? Turn in Your Unused or Expired Medication
On September 25, 2010, the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration’s Office of Diversion Control will coordinate a collaborative effort with state and local law enforcement agencies to remove potentially dangerous controlled substances from our nation’s medicine cabinets. Collection activities will take place from 10:00 a.m. through 2:00 p.m. at sites established throughout the country. The National Take-Back Day provides an opportunity for the public to surrender expired, unwanted, or unused pharmaceutical controlled substances and other medications for destruction. These drugs are a potential source of supply for illegal use and an unacceptable risk to public health and safety.
This one-day effort is intended to bring national focus to the issue of increasing pharmaceutical controlled substance abuse.
• The program is anonymous.
• Prescription and over the counter solid dosage medications, i.e. tablets and capsules accepted.
• Intra-venous solutions, injectables, and needles will not be accepted.

Illicit substances such as marijuana or methamphetamine are not a part of this initiative.

The following sites near Cavendish are collection sites:
• Ludlow Police Department 19 West Hill Rd, Ludlow
• Weathersfield Transfer Station 5024 VT Route 106, Weathersfield
• Chester Police Department 556 Elm Street, Chester
• Springfield Police Department 201 Clinton St., Springfield
• Windsor Police Department 29 Union Street Windsor

FMI: http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/takeback/

5. Cavendish Events 9/10-9/17
September 10 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.

September 11 (Saturday): Southern Windsor/Windham Counties Solid Waste Management District (SW/WCSWMD) will be holding the final household hazardous waste collections at the Springfield Transfer Station and the Weathersfield Transfer Station from 9-noon. For more information http://www.vtsolidwastedistrict.org/portal/
• 1st Annual Mini Cooper Rally through Okemo Valley. This will be an untimed fun rally looking for answers to clues and a scavenger hunt component. Mostly paved road with a few good dirt roads included (it is Vermont after all!). The rally enthusiasts will assemble at Fletcher Farm at 8:30 am on Route 103 for a continental breakfast. The rally cars will leave the Farm at 10:00 am.

The Rally will finish at Echo Lake Inn covering about 80 miles. A banquet/Gourmet Buffet will follow. You need not buy the Buffet to attend the Banquet. (Buffet cost is $33 per person including tax & gratuities). FMI: Okemo Valley Chamber of Commerce

September 12 (Sunday): Cavendish Historical Society’s Proctorsville Walking Tour. Begins at 1 pm in front of the Proctorsville War Memorial, opposite the Proctorsville Green. Sixteen places will be visited. Wear comfortable shoes, some steep grades to the two Proctorsville cemeteries. The CHS Museum is open 2-4 pm. Special focus on the 1940s. Be sure to visit the 1940’s Candy Store being run by the Young Historians. FMI: 226-7807
• Facilitated Meditation - Cultivating quiet awareness that brings forth the power and peace of Presence in our lives, from 4-5 p.m. Free. Please rsvp with Robin Timko at 226-7736,
• Mini Cooper Rally concludes. See September 11 for more information

September 13 (Monday): Select Board Meeting, 5:00 pm in the Art Room of the Cavendish Elementary School.
• Town Meeting Town Meeting, 7 pm at the Cavendish School. To see if the legal voters of the Town of Cavendish will approve of a town- wide appraisal update to be prepared for the 2011 Grand List. A town-wide update is not a full reappraisal with universal internal inspections, but it does include a thorough field review and updating of value tables and it would allow the grand list to be readjusted to reduce disparities and to adjust to market conditions.

September 14 (Tuesday): Cavendish School Board Meeting at the Cavendish School. Meetings are televised on LPC-TV and minutes are posted on the school’s http://ctes.wswsu.org/ctesboard/
• Tentative date for the Cavendish Elementary School Open House. FMI: 226-7758.

September 15 (Wednesday): Parenting Course at Cavendish Elementary School in Proctorsville. FMI: 226-7758
• Okemo Valley Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament 2010 at the Okemo Valley Golf Club.
• Cavendish Homeworkers II meeting at the Proctorsville Fire Dept. building starting at 10:30. The program will be Nancy Timmerman telling about her travels. A pot luck lunch is held after the program with the husbands invited to lunch.

September 16 (Thursday): Proctorsville Community Luncheon, 11:30 at St. James United Methodist Church, Proctorsville. Luncheon will be lasagna, tossed salad, garlic bread, apple pie and hot coffee or iced tea or lemonade. Suggested donation of $3.00 for seniors or $4.50 for those under 60 years helps offset the cost of this nice hot meal.
• Emmet Dunbar will speak on the Localvore movement at the Fletcher Library in Ludlow. FMI: 228-8921
• 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

September 17 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.