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The
1/25/13 Cavendish Update Contains:
1. Cavendish Related News
2. Cavendish Historical Society’s Annual Meeting
3. Gethsemane’s New Parish Hall Opens with “Duck Soup”
4. CCCA Presents Mardi Gras 2013
5. Cavendish Classifieds
6. Cavendish Events 1/25-2/3/13
1. CAVENDISH RELATED NEWS
PFD-We have started off 2013 being very busy: The Proctorsville Fire Department notes on their Facebook
page Today (1/24) we responded to our 8th call of year. If this pace
continues we will be above our yearly call average of 52 for the 2nd year in a
row. In 2012 we responded on 56 calls.
GMP Alerts Customers to Phone Scam:
Green Mountain Power alerts customers that several attempts to scam GMP
commercial customers over the phone have been reported. The caller claims to be
representing Green Mountain Power and requests the customer pay their account
balance by releasing credit card information to the caller or paying their bill
by means of a money card or other alternate payment mechanism. The caller also
represents that the customer would have electric service disconnected if they
do not comply. Green Mountain Power follows very clear processes when working
with customers about paying their bills. Green Mountain Power advises customers
that it would not demand credit card information or alternate payment
mechanisms from a customer for any purpose. This is clearly a phone scam. Press
Release
VT Property Owners will have to file Homestead Forms Annually: Vermont's Tax Department is trying to get
the word out about an important change to the homestead declaration. Starting
this year, property owners now have to fill out the form each year. A homestead
declaration is a document that homeowners fill out when they purchase or change
the status of a home they own in Vermont. According to the Vermont Department
of Taxes, "property is considered ‘nonresidential' until it is claimed as
the owner's ‘homestead.' The declaration allows property to be taxed at the
municipality's residential rate, which is often lower than the rate vacation
homes are taxed at. VPR
VT to Participate in American Heart Association’s National Wear Red Day: Hundreds of Vermont businesses,
community groups, hospitals, towns and schools are signing up to wear red to
help raise awareness and funds to fight – the number one killer of women –
cardiovascular disease. Residents are encouraged to wear red on February 1st
and donate $5.00 to receive a red dress pin. Funds raised through the Wear Red
Day events help support the life-saving programs and research of the American
Heart Association. Press Release
2. CAVENDISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S ANNUAL MEETING
The
CHS Annual Meeting will be on Feb. 24, 5 pm at the newly restored Episcopal
Church Parish Hall on Depot Street in Proctorsville. There will be a pot luck
supper, short meeting, and the film “The Homecoming” will be shown.
As part of establishing the permanent
exhibit “I Wrote and Waited,” which covers the 18 years Aleksandre
Solzhenitsyn, the 1970 Nobel Prize winner for literature and Soviet dissident,
lived in Cavendish, CHS selected this film as it begins in Cavendish. Produced
by the BBC, the film documents the two-month train journey across Russia as
Solzhenitsyn returns home to Russia with his family after twenty years of
enforced exile. Solzhenitsyn, the man who experienced and revealed to the
world the full horror of the Soviet gulag, is recognized throughout Russia as
'the conscience of the nation'. But despite the triumphant and emotional
homecoming, this is no easy ride for Solzhenitsyn, his wife and American sons.
Instead, they abandon their refuge in America to find their trans-Siberian trip
from Vladivostok to Moscow dogged by the KGB, the Russian Mafia, old-style
communist bosses, the tragic plight of ordinary Russians and the echoes of its
even more terrible past.
CHS is
currently looking for new board members, as well as volunteers. If you have an
interest in Cavendish history, or would like to be involved in the various
programs of CHS, please e-mail margoc@tds.net
or call 802-226-7807. You do not have to be a resident of Cavendish to serve on
the board. We are also in need of volunteers who have experience or interest in
archival work, exhibits, displays, web design, fundraising, maintenance and
public speaking
3. GETHSEMANE’S NEW PARISH HALL OPENS FOR DUCK SOUP
Among the last remaining
restoration projects from Irene, was the rebuilding of Gethsemane Episcopal
Church and their Parish Hall on Depot Street in Proctorsville. The flood
destroyed the Hall as well as the foundation of the church. A new Parish Hall
has been built directly behind the renovated church and is handicap accessible.
The first public event in the new
Parish Hall will be the start of the Black and White Winter Film Series on
February 1.
Please note that the Hall is in
need of a variety of items, including folding chairs. If you can donate some,
bring them the night of the film. Since they’re not sure what they’ll have for
seating, please bring a chair.
On Friday February 1 the Black & White Nights winter film
series will feature the zany humor of the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup.
Made in 1933 during the depths of the Depression, Duck Soup is a raucous
political satire in which Groucho, as Rufus T. Firefly, becomes dictator of the
tiny country of Freedonia. He is bankrolled by wealthy dowager Mrs.
Teasdale, played by the ever haughty Margaret Dumont, a staple of Marx Brothers
films. Chico, Harpo and Zeppo play spies and counter-spies in
typical comedic anarchy filled with speedy repartee.
Duck Soup will be shown at 7:00 p.m. at the Gethsemane Episcopal
Church Parish Hall. Films are free but donations are welcome to help
support the series, and refreshments will be available. For further
information or in case of bad weather, call 226-7187 or 226-7497.
4. CCCA PRESENTS MARDI GRAS 2013
Once
again the Cavendish Community and Conservation Association will hold its annual
Mardi Gras celebration to help us chase away the mid-winter blues. This year the festivities will begin at
6:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 9th and will be held at Crow’s
Bakery and Opera House Café on Depot Street in Proctorsville.
There
will be a New Orleans Cajun style buffet dinner with choice of beverages, and
dancing to the great tunes of Yankee Chank with Cavendish’s very own fiddler
Bob Naess. Of course it wouldn’t
be Mardi Gras without masks, so there will be a prize for the best and most
creative homemade mask.
A
raffle features three great prizes: a $100 gift certificate to Singleton's
Market in Proctorsville – supporting local business; an art basket with a gift
certificate to a weekend workshop at Fletcher Farms School for the Arts and
Crafts – supporting local arts; and a carriage tour of beautiful Cavendish,
with wine and cheese, in Rolf and Carol van Shaik’s horse drawn carriage. Raffle tickets are on sale now at the
bakery and from any CCCA board member.
The drawing will be held at the celebration.
This
is a fundraiser for the CCCA, whose projects include the Cavendish Community
Fund, the Annual Cavendish Calendar, and the Walk and Talk series of
conservation events. So dig out
your mask and dancing shoes, and purchase your tickets early. Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Dinner
tickets cost $35 each and are limited, so please get yours early. Call (802) 226-7736 to reserve your
tickets.
• If you have packing peanuts you are looking to get rid
of, call Bob at 226-7204 or e-mail bmg17a1@gmail.com
6. CAVENDISH EVENTS 1/25-2/3/13
January
26 (Saturday): Ludlow
Winter Farmer’s Market, 9-1 at Inside Market at the corner of Main St. and
Andover St. (Rt. 100 South) FMI: http://ludlowfarmersmarket.org/
•
The GMUHS
Girls Varsity Basketball team host a free clinic for Cavendish and Chester
grades 3-6 girls, 10:30-12 at GMUHS.
January 28 (Monday): Teacher Inservice. School
closed
January
29(Tuesday): It’s
National Puzzle Day. Celebrate by going to Learnist National Puzzle Day and
trying your hand at a variety of puzzles.
• 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
January
31 (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
February
1 (Friday): The
Cavendish Black and White Film Series returns but with a new location-the
Parish Hall at the Episcopal Church on Depot Street in Proctorsville. Films
start at 7 pm and are free. Donations welcome. This week’s feature is the 1933
film of the Marx Brothers “Duck Soup.”
February
2 (Saturday): Ludlow
Winter Farmer’s Market, 9-1 at Inside Market at the corner of Main St. and
Andover St. (Rt. 100 South) FMI: http://ludlowfarmersmarket.org/
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