Cavendish Update 9/1/10 News/Calendar/Election Results

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

The 9/1/10 Cavendish Update Contains
1. September Cavendish Calendar
2. Cavendish Election Results
3. Cavendish Related News
4. Make TV & Help Support Your Community Station: LPCTV Membership Drive

1. September Cavendish Calendar
September 1 (Wednesday): Planning Commission Meeting, 6:30 pm at the Cavendish Town Office.

September 2 (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

September 3 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.

September 4 (Saturday): Ludlow’s Firemen’s Auction, starts at 8 pm, 59 Pond Street Ludlow.

September 5 (Sunday): Cavendish Historical Society Museum 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

September 6 (Monday): Labor Day. Schools and Town Office closed.

September 7 (Tuesday): Cavendish Library Board Meeting, 5 pm at the Library. FMI:226-7503 or Kwelch@wswsu.org

September 8 (Wednesday): Parenting Course at Cavendish Elementary School in Proctorsville. FMI: 226-7758
• Okemo Valley Chamber of Commerce mixer at the Bryant House in Weston.

September 9 (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

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

September 11 (Saturday): 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
• Mini Cooper Rally concludes. See September 11 for more information

September 13 (Monday): Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm at the Cavendish Town Office.

September 14 (Tuesday): Cavendish School Board Meeting at the Cavendish School. Meetings are televised on LPC-TV www.lpctv.org and minutes are posted on the school’s website
• 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.

September 16 (Thursday): 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.

September 19 (Sunday): Cavendish Historical Society Museum 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

September 22 (Wednesday): Okemo Valley Chamber of Commerce’s 2nd Annual Business Showcase from 5:30-7:30pm at the Fletcher Farm School in Ludlow. This is a free event open to the public. FMI: Okemo Valley Chamber of Commerce

September 23 (Thursday): The Fletcher Memorial Library will hold its Book Discussion Group at 7 pm in the Community Room on “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz zafon. 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 24 (Friday): Farmer’s Market, Okemo Mountain School Campus on Main Street Ludlow 4-7 pm.

September 26 (Sunday): Cavendish Historical Society Museum 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

September 29 (Wednesday): Inservice for teachers. No school for GMUHS and Cavendish Elementary

September 30 (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

2. Cavendish Election Results
The August 24 Primary Election results for Cavendish are listed below. No progressive party election ballots were filed. Results are given for positions where more than one person was running for office

Democratic Party
• U. S. Senator: Leahy (87); Freilich (32)
• Governor: Markowitz (40); Shumlin (28); Racine (23); Dunne (21); Bartlett (8)
• Lt. Governor: Howard (54); Bray (46)
• Secretary of State: Merriman (54); Condos (41)

Republican Party
• Representative to Congress: Stern (45); Mitchell (16); Beaudry (14)
• Lt. Governor: Snelling (49); Scott (29)
• Secretary of State: Gibbs (41); Roy (31)

High Bailiff: Pace (76); Mainly (17)

3. Cavendish Related News
Private Landowners Hold Key to Vermont’s Future

Betting on Wireless: Vermont’s Internet Future

Farmer’s Almanac Predicts Kinder Winter with a Cold Slap to New England

4. Make TV & Help Support Your Community Station: LPCTV Membership Drive
LPCTV, the Black River region's community television station and media center, is asking its producers, friends, and supporters to renew their memberships for the 2010 - 2011 year. Any individual or organization wishing to take advantage of the media-making tools and training at LPCTV must first become a member. With expanding operations and increased activity, memberships help LPCTV stay organized. "We ask our patrons to become members mainly because it helps us track our resources, stay connected, and keep it all together and up-to-date", says Executive Director Patrick Cody. "By maintaining an updated database, we are able to maximize our efficiency, avoid redundancy". Cody explains that one of LPCTV's goals is to build community and it does this by connecting its members with one-another, based on areas of interest. "We foster collaboration and that, in turn, will make members' projects bigger, better", he said.

As a small non profit organization, LPCTV strives to in part be volunteer and member-supported. Last year, the station had 57 active members, many of these being the producers who make the shows that air on Channels 8 and 10. Others are volunteers. Cody adds "in today's world, the media plays a vital world. And we're here for the local community to come join that world, to actually become the media".

Each member is asked to make an annual contribution, which helps offset the operating costs of maintaining equipment and buying supporting supplies and materials. Individuals are asked to donate $25 and organizations $50. "Every little bit helps", Cody says. This may especially be the case now, since LPCTV is focused on generating more funds while planning to cover its increased expenses once it moves into its new facility in the former Ludlow Armory tank barn. Last year, less than 1% of LPCTV's operating revenue came
from membership contributions.

LPCTV membership forms are available for download on its website -www.lpctv.org/membership. They can also be picked up in person at the station during business hours (Monday - Thursday from 10-7 or on Fridays from 9-4).