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Please note that the Cavendish Update will not be posted on August 31 due to vacation.
The 8/24/12 Cavendish Update Contains the Following:
1. Select Board Sets Sewer Rate
2. Cavendish Related News
3. Irene Remembered in Cavendish
4. Create a Health Notebook: Free Cavendish Workshop
5. Cavendish VT Facebook Page Photographs
6. Back to School with the Cavendish Historical Society: Make a Chalkboard
7. September Artist of Month: Jane Hart
8. Cavendish Transfer Station Now Taking Fluorescent Bulbs and Tubes
9. Cavendish Events 8/24-9/14
1. Select Board Sets Sewer Rate: At a special Select Board meeting, on Aug. 20. the members approved a sewer rate, for those on Cavendish Municipal Water, as follows: Metered up to 10,000 Gallons: $76.12 and Over 10,000 gallons: $1.75 per 1,000 gallons. FMI: 226-7292
2. Cavendish Related News
Proctorsville, Ludlow and Weston Firefighters team up for the State Firefighter Games: Five members from Proctorsville Fire Department, three from Ludlow and one from Weston teamed up to form the Nozzle Heads Muster Te am that went to Bennington Vt for the Vermont Firefighters sporting event. The Nozzle Heads placed first in the wet hose event, second in water polo and third in SCBA endurance. They were also awarded the Sportsmanship Award again this year. Congratulations.
Rotary Duck Race Benefits Continuing Work at Greven Field: The 13th Annual Ralph D. Hogancamp Memorial Duck Race, sponsored by Ludlow Rotary Club, was held on Sunday, August 19. Individuals and corporations rent ducks, and the proceeds support scholarships or community projects. This year proceeds support the Cavendish/Proctorsville Baseball League and the continuing work at Greven Field. Four hundred and fifty-six ducks vied for top honors on Sunday. Lydia Churchill’s duck took first place. Churchill is a 7th grader and former member of the Cavendish/Proctorsville League. Second place honors went to the duck of Quinn LeMire, the grandson of Rotarians Barb and Doug LeMire. Fred Marin of Proctorsville sponsored the third place duck. They were all awarded cash prizes. A prize is also awarded to the last duck to cross the finish line in this race of endurance. It was awarded to J.P. Carlisle of Proctorsville. Vermont Journal
Website Documents 2011 Flooding in Cavendish-Proctorsville: Students of the Cavendish Town Elementary School recent fourth grade have created a unique website about Tropical Storm Irene and its effects on the local community. Note: This story incorrectly identifies the teacher for the 4th grade. The teacher is Jenn Harper. Also note that the project was done during the school year and not this summer. Green Mountain Outlook
Black River Clean Up Targets Post Irene Debris: A year after flooding due to Tropical Storm Irene, Vermont rivers and streams are still bearing debris from the event. The thirteenth annual RiverSweep is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 8, from 8-noon. The BRAT volunteers will cleans trash from the bed and banks of the Black River.” Green Mountain Outlook
TJ Maxx Coming to Claremont: The popular retail store has signed a lease with the Claremont Marketplace. It will move into the marketplace in spring 2013. Eagle Times
Wood Chip Changes Bring Questions: Changes to a wood chip-burning power plant proposed for the North Springfield Industrial Park were unveiled this week. Adam Winstanley of Winstanley Enterprises described the project proposal — what it would entail and how it would benefit the Springfield community. According to Winstanley, the plant would generate up to 35 megawatts of renewable electricity and provide hot water through a process called cogeneration. The electricity would serve the area and provide hot water at the proposed site and to nearby residents. Rutland Herald
Agency of Natural Resources to Hold Public Meeting Regarding Bio Mass Incinerator: ANR has scheduled a public meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 7 pm in the Springfield High School to hear comments on the permit for a biomass incinerator in North Springfield. The public comment period ends on September 10, 2012; people unable to attend the meeting on the 29th may contact Steven Snook, Environmental Engineer, VT Air Pollution Control Division at (802) 583-7121 or steven.snook@state.vt.us. Press Release
New Vermont Stamp: The U.S. Postal Service concluded its Flags of Our Nation series with the issuance of the last set of 10 stamp designs that feature the flags of Vermont as well as Texas, Utah, U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. PRN Newswire
Be Aware of VT Police Tracking: Police are taking pictures of license plates of vehicles on the road and tagging them with the time, date and location they were photographed. The database is being compiled through the use of automated license plate readers mounted on police cruisers, which can record as many as 1,000 plates an hour. In all, various Vermont law enforcement agencies have bought 46 automated license plate readers so far. The state police have six vehicles equipped with the readers, and the devices are increasingly being deployed by local police forces. The state police keep the license plate information in their database for up to four years on the off chance the information might become useful at a later time. Burlington Free Press
New VT Website DigIN: With the growing interest in local food, Vermont has a new interactive website to help link people to nearly 400 food experiences around the state. DigInVT.com is designed to promote agriculture and tourism
3. Irene Remembered in Cavendish: Cavendish will recognize the first anniversary of Irene on Aug. 26, Sunday, as follows:
• Prayer Walk: Begins at Calvary Church in Proctorsville at 3 pm and will stop at various points in Proctorsville and Cavendish. People of all faith and spiritual backgrounds are welcome, with leaders from local faith communities guiding a few moments from their traditions at each of the stops. You can walk with the group or by yourself. FMI: 226-7131
• Cavendish Historical Society’s Museum and Refreshments: The Cavendish Historical Society Museum will be the snack and water stop for those in the prayer walk. To accommodate the walkers and others who are interested in seeing the Cavendish Floods exhibit, the Museum will be open from 2-5 pm. The exhibit features pictures and other items from the 1927 flood and Irene. FMI: 226-7807 or margoc@tds.net
• Cavendish Irene Website: Check out the CTES fourth grade class’s website on Irene https://sites.google.com/a/wswsu.org/cavendish-flood
• Cavendish VT Facebook: This site http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cavendish-Vermont/147333582005710?sk=wall will have photographs from Irene being posted from Friday Aug. 24 through Aug. 28.
4. Create a Health Notebook: Free Cavendish Workshop: Thanks to a grant from the Cavendish Community Fund, part of the Cavendish Community and Conservation Association (CCCA), Chronic Conditions Information Network (CCIN), a non-profit organization based in Cavendish, is offering a free workshop on managing health information using a Health Notebook.
Keeping a personal health notebook is important for a variety of reasons including
• The person, who is living with a chronic or life threatening condition(s), and/or family/advocate, is responsible for making decisions about care and treatment. This can be an overwhelming task as multiple health providers are involved and the variety of paper and information being generated from tests, treatments, to say nothing of health insurance, is mind-boggling. The more organized you can be, keeping information centralized, the easier some decisions will be to make.
• Regardless of computers, your medical chart may not be available for a host of reasons: new doctor, emergency visit, computer clitch etc. Having the information in hand reduces errors.
• If something happens, what medications and other necessary information, will be available for family and health team. This is particularly important if several people are involved in someone’s care, such as adult children caring for an elderly parent. Having centralized health information, helps to simplify a complex situation.
You should consider attending the workshop if you are: a caregiver, including adult children of aging parents; living with a chronic and/or life threatening condition; spouse/partner of someone who has a chronic or serious illness; and/or are 65 or older.
The workshop includes all materials as well handouts such as “How to be a friend with a pen,” the Cavendish edition of “Getting What You Need: A Checklist for those living with a chronic and/or life threatening condition and those that care for them,” and “Healing the Whole Person: Ways to Increase Well-Being.”
The workshop includes creating your own cover art as well as selecting forms and other items relevant to your particular situation. Participants can make up to two Notebooks and there will be sufficient time to answer individual questions.
This workshop, facilitated by the co-directors of CCIN Kathy Parsonnet and Margo Caulfield, is free for those in the town of Cavendish, including second homeowners and those providing care to someone in town. The workshop will take place on Sept. 29, from 1-3 pm at the Cavendish Library in Proctorsville.
Registration by Sept 15 is required as space is limited. To register, please-mail margoc@tds.net, call 802-226-7807 or use the on-line form at the Cavendish VT Blog.
5. Cavendish VT Facebook Page Photographs: During August, the Cavendish VT Facebook page has been featuring photographs of the 1927 flood. With the anniversary on August 28, photographs from Irene will be posted this week. In September, to celebrate “back to school,” photographs from Cavendish/Proctorsville schools will be posted. If you have ones you’d like to share, send them in JPG to margoc@tds.net
You do not have to be a Facebook subscriber to see the photographs, but if you wish to participate in discussions you will need to become one. Select “like” before you post.
6. Back to School with the Cavendish Historical Society: Make a Chalkboard: While students and teachers today have the advantages of “smart boards,” “white boards” and other technology, to use as visual aids when teaching in a class room, up until the early 1800’s teachers had no easy means of presenting information. Not only were pencils and papers in short supply, but also students used flat wood board painted over with black grit. It wasn’t uncommon for teachers, who lacked supplies and the funds to purchase them, to write the alphabet on the back of students’ hands.
George Baron, an instructor at West Point Military Academy, is thought to be the first American instructor to use a large black slate chalkboard, when teaching math, in 1801. By the mid-1800s, a blackboard was to be found in almost every school and had become the single most important educational tool. Chalkboards remained the primary all-around educational fixture in schoolrooms and businesses for almost 200 years.
Many rural schools used the slate material chalkboard, a labor saving device for teachers and allowing them to educate many more children at one time. However, the Cavendish Historical Society (CHS) found that not all of Cavendish’s rural schools adopted the slate chalkboard.
The Rumke School (Greenbush Rd in Cavendish) was closed in 1923. Left untouched, the property owners, Al and Diana Leonard, donated the teacher’s blackboard, to the Museum. This one room schoolhouse was still using the old method of combining un sanded grout and paint. Given the combination of Yankee thrift and lack of funds, many of the Cavendish rural one-room schoolhouses most likely used similar methods.
As part of CHS’s “Hands on History” program, on Sunday September 9, a free workshop is being offered whereby participants can make their own chalkboard and see the one from the Rumke School. The workshop begins at 2 pm.
This workshop has been made possible in part by a grant from the Cavendish Community Fund, a project of the Cavendish Community and Conservation Association (CCCA). FMI: 802-226-7807 or e-mail margoc@tds.net
7. September Artist of Month: Jane Hart: The Cavendish Community Library will be featuring the art of Jane Hart, part time resident of Proctorsville and full time devotee of the Proctorsville Fire Dept (PFD).
Actually, Jane is a very talented artist, who has co-written with her husband Stan, “Look at it This Way,” the play being produced by the Cavendish Community Theatre. She is also one of the actors that will be performing. Curtain is at 7 pm at the Cavendish Town Elementary School on Saturday Sept 8 and Sunday Sept. 9. Admission is free, donations appreciated. For more information about the play, please call 226-7398.
In addition to her skills as play write and actress, Jane is a licensed, board-certified creative arts therapist, as well as an accomplished artist. Her one-woman art show will be at the Cavendish Library in Proctorsville in September.
All of the paintings are for sale, some framed, with one hundred of the sales going to PFD. In addition, she does portraits (pets and children) by commission, with the fees being donated to PFD. What a bonus, a great painting and a tax-deductible contribution all rolled into one. The holidays are just four months away.
Learn more about Jane and the Llama (maybe it’s an alpaca) by going to http://petsbyhart.com
8. Cavendish Transfer Station Now Taking Fluorescent Bulbs and Tubes: As of July 1, 2012, the transfer stations in the Southern Windsor/Windham Counties Solid Waste Management District will recycle fluorescent bulbs and tubes for FREE. Vermonters can bring in any number of CFLs and up to 10 tubes per visit at no charge. Transfer stations in the District are located in: Cavendish, Ludlow, Rockingham, Springfield, and Weathersfield. WinCycle in Windsor also accepts bulbs for free.
9. Cavendish Events 8/24-9/14
August 24 (Friday): Ludlow Farmer’s Market, 4-7 pm in front of Okemo Mountain School, 53 Main St.
August 25 (Saturday): Live Music at Glimmerstone Mansion
August 26 (Sunday): First Anniversary of Irene Prayer Walk and extended hours at the Cavendish Historical Society Museum. See Item 3 above
August 28 (Tuesday): Special Town Meeting, vote by Australian Ballot from 10-7 at the Cavendish Town Elementary School. Articles include adoption of the Town Plan as approved by the Cavendish Selectboard. FMI: http://www.vermontjournal.com/?q=content/town-cavendish-august-8-2012
• Bone Builders Class at the Cavendish Baptist-- Class from 10-11:15. FMI: Linda at Green Mountain RSVP & Volunteer Center of Windsor County at (802) 885-2083, Charlotte Snyder at 226-7343 or Anne Oakes or Andrew Ohotnicky at (802) 228-5236, Dot Ramsdell at (802) 226-7870
• GMUHS 7th Grade Orientation & Building In-service Day
August 29 (Wednesday): First day of school at CTES and GMUHS
• Agency of Natural Resources hearing, 7 pm at Springfield High School, regarding the permit for a biomass incinerator in North Springfield. FMI:
August 30 (Thursday): Bone Builders Class at the Cavendish Baptist-- Class from 10-11:15. FMI: Linda at Green Mountain RSVP & Volunteer Center of Windsor County at (802) 885-2083, or Anne Oakes or Andrew Ohotnicky at (802) 228-5236, Dot Ramsdell at (802) 226-7870
• 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 31 (Friday): No Cavendish Update today. Somebody needed a vacation.
• Ludlow Farmer’s Market, 4-7 pm in front of Okemo Mountain School, 53 Main St.
SEPTEMBER 2012
September 1 (Saturday): Firefighters Auction & Tag Sale. Ludlow Fire Station, 8:30 am rain or shine.
September 2 (Sunday): Cavendish Historical Society Museum Open 2-4 pm. Featuring flood exhibit and 250th Cavendish Historical Timeline. FMI: 226-7807 or margoc@tds.net
September 3 (Monday): Labor Day. Schools, Town Office, Banks, and other businesses closed for the day.
September 4 (Tuesday): Bone Builders Class at the Cavendish Baptist-- Class from 10-11:15. FMI: Linda at Green Mountain RSVP & Volunteer Center of Windsor County at (802) 885-2083, Charlotte Snyder at 226-7343 or Anne Oakes or Andrew Ohotnicky at (802) 228-5236, Dot Ramsdell at (802) 226-7870
September 5 (Wednesday): Planning Commission Meeting, 6:30 PM at the Cavendish Town Office
• CTES Board Meeting: 5:30-7:30 pm at the school.
September 6 (Thursday): Bone Builders Class at the Cavendish Baptist-- Class from 10-11:15. FMI: Linda at Green Mountain RSVP & Volunteer Center of Windsor County at (802) 885-2083, or Anne Oakes or Andrew Ohotnicky at (802) 228-5236, Dot Ramsdell at (802) 226-7870
• 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 7 (Friday): Ludlow Farmer’s Market, 4-7 pm in front of Okemo Mountain School, 53 Main St.
September 8 (Saturday): Household Hazardous Waste Collection at Springfield and Weathersfield Transfer Stations. To learn what will be accepted, go to www.vtsolidwastedistrict.org FMI: 802-674-9235
• 13th Annual RiverSweep (Black River): Meeting at the gazebo in Ludlow’s Veteran’s Park across the street from the library. Supplies for clean up will be provided along with lunch and refreshments. Cash donations help offset the costs involved in RiverSweep and the BRAT's many other programs; checks may be mailed directly to the Black River Action Team at 101 Perley Gordon Rd, Springfield VT 05156. Larger donations ($250 or more) can be tax-deductible if made out to and sent to our fiscal agent, the CT River Watershed Council at CRWC, 15 Bank Row, Greenfield MA 01301 (just note "BRAT" on the check). FMI: http://www.BlackRiverActionTeam.org
• Cavendish Community Theatre presents “Look at it This Way,” by Stan and Jane Hart. Curtain is at 7 pm at the Cavendish Town Elementary School. Admission is free, donations appreciated. FMI:226-7398
September 9 (Sunday): Celebrate “Back To School” by making an old style chalkboard using un sanded grout and paint. The workshop, part of the Cavendish Historical Society’s Hands on History program, is sponsored in part through a grant from the Cavendish Community Fund, a project of CCCA. The workshop begins at 2 pm at the Cavendish Historical Society Museum in Cavendish. FMI: 802-226-7807 or margoc@tds.net
• Cavendish Community Theatre presents “Look at it This Way,” by Stan and Jane Hart. Curtain is at 7 pm at the Cavendish Town Elementary School. Admission is free, donations appreciated. FMI:226-7398
September 10 (Monday): Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm at the Cavendish Town Office. Agenda posted to blog as soon as it is received. LPC-TV tapes meetings and makes them available on-line and Comcast Cable TV.
September 11 (Tuesday): Bone Builders Class at the Cavendish Baptist-- Class from 10-11:15. FMI: Linda at Green Mountain RSVP & Volunteer Center of Windsor County at (802) 885-2083, Charlotte Snyder at 226-7343 or Anne Oakes or Andrew Ohotnicky at (802) 228-5236, Dot Ramsdell at (802) 226-7870
September 12 (Wednesday): Okemo Valley Golf Tournament sponsored by the Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce. Noon at Okemo Valley Golf Club.
September 13 (Thursday): Bone Builders Class at the Cavendish Baptist-- Class from 10-11:15. FMI: Linda at Green Mountain RSVP & Volunteer Center of Windsor County at (802) 885-2083, or Anne Oakes or Andrew Ohotnicky at (802) 228-5236, Dot Ramsdell at (802) 226-7870
• 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 14 (Friday): Ludlow Farmer’s Market, 4-7 pm in front of Okemo Mountain School, 53 Main St.
