This issue of
the Cavendish Update is made possible by the Cavendish Community and
Conservation Association (CCCA),
a non-profit membership organization that is dedicated to the conservation of
land and natural resources and to the preservation of historic sites within the
context of sustainable economic growth. FMI: PO Box 605, Cavendish VT 05142 or 802-226-7736
The 2/15/13
Cavendish Update Contains:
1. Candidates
for Cavendish Elected Positions
2. CCCA Town
Meeting Information Forum
3. Cavendish
Related News
4. Cavendish History From an Early Photograph
6. Gregory Peck
Stars in Next Black & White Film
7. Cavendish
Events 2/15-2/24
1.
CANDIDATES FOR CAVENDISH ELECTED POSITIONS
Cavendish Town
Meeting will take place on March 5. On March 6, voters will go to the polls to
select candidates for elected positions as well as to vote for school budgets.
There are no candidates for the following positions: Selectmen 2 Year term;
Town Agent; Auditor 2 years; Trustee of Public Funds 3 years; GMUHS Director 1
year; and Cemetery Commissioners for 4 and 5 year terms. As the filing date has
passed, anyone interested in these positions will need to ask voters to “write”
them in. The only contested position is for the one-year term on the CTES
School board.
The slate of
candidates is as follows:
Town Moderator
William Hunter
School
Moderator William Hunter
Selectmen 1
Year (Two Positions): Michele Lindberg, Scott Ranney
Selectmen 3
Years: George Timko
Grand Juror:
Mabel Ward
Trustee of
Public Funds 1 year: Cheryl Leiner
Library
Trustee 1 year: Julia Gignoux
Library
Trustee 5 years: Robert Evens
Lister 3
years: Jane Pixley
First
Constable 1 Y ear: Seth Perry
Town School
Director 3 Years: Stuart Lindberg
Town School
Directors 1 Year: Amy Perry, Scott Ranney, Amanda Tyrrell
2. CCCA TO HOLD TOWN MEETING INFORMATION FORUM: The Cavendish
Community and Conservation Association will hold an informational meeting for
Cavendish voters on the Wednesday before this year’s town meeting. The forum will be held on Wednesday,
February 27th, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Cavendish Town
Elementary School on Main Street in Proctorsville.
The meeting will
address each of the issues on this year’s town meeting ballot, including both
the town and the school proposed budgets and town and school officials will be
present to discuss each issue.
Three articles requiring a vote are scheduled for discussion. The first involves the citizens’ right to
vote on the Supervisory Union budgets and was placed on the ballot by
petition. This article will be
voted on by paper ballot. The
second asks if the voters will approve creation of a program to provide funding
for homeowners to make energy improvements. And the third asks if citizens will accept the gift of the
historic Universalist Stone Church in Cavendish. Those two will be voted on at Town Meeting.
Although there
are few contested races on the ballot this year, all candidates are invited to
attend and any candidates who are present will be asked to make short
statements and to answer voters’ questions. The meeting is open to all Cavendish citizens and
residents. For more information,
please call Robin Timko at (802) 226-7736.
3.
CAVENDISH RELATED NEWS
Flu Levels Falling but VT Still High: According to the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC), while influenza activity remained elevated, it decreased in most areas
of the country during the week ending Feb. 2, the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention reported. However, Vermont experienced high levels of
flu activity during this time. Massachusetts and New York experienced low activity;
Connecticut moderate activity and New Hampshire had minimal activity. Flu
season usually peaks in late January or early February. The best defense
against the flu remains the flu vaccine and it's not too late to get
vaccinated, the CDC said. The agency recommends that everyone 6 months of age
and older get vaccinated. This year's vaccine appears to be well matched for
the circulating flu strains, the CDC said. A recent report put the vaccine's effectiveness
at 62 percent. No vaccine is 100 percent effective. But if flu strikes,
vaccination often results in milder illness, the agency said. Feb. 8, 2013,
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FluView
More people Leaving Vermont: U.S.
Census figures show that for the first time in almost three-quarters of a
century Vermont lost population last year, a drop caused by more people leaving
the state than moving in. Even though last year's population decline was small,
just under 600, it's part of a broader trend that has seen the state's
population growth rate hover just above zero for several years. Commerce
Secretary Lawrence Miller says the trend of losing population or low growth is
a challenge to economic development. The Census Bureau figures showed that
Vermont and Rhode Island were the only two states in the country to lose
population last year. WCAX
4.
CAVENDISH HISTORY FROM AN EARLY PHOTOGRAPH: Marc Miele, a
Cavendish Historical Society board member, submitted a photograph of Cavendish
that’s at least 100 years old, for the Cavendish VT Facebook page. The
photograph includes cars (maybe 1910 vintage) across the street from what today
is Mack Molding, but back then was Gay Brothers Mill. The photograph has solicited some town history that many may
not be aware of
If you ever
wondered what the town position of “weigher of coal” might be, John Snarski
might have the answer you are looking for. John, who grew up in Cavendish and
remembers it from the late 40’s on, wrote the following: Those trees were
there a long time. This picture was taken in front of Marion White's old
office--a building owned now by Pieter Van Schaik?. You can see the corner of
the porch in the foreground. That used to be the town office, up until today's
version was built [1950’s]. See the rectangle that the front wheel of the car
on the left is on? That was a platform scale. I remember as a kid that being in
use. They weighed truckloads of coal on it before the coal was delivered to
houses. That's also where they weighed deer during deer season, when you still
had to report them to the town clerk and not to store-based reporting
stations…. The controls for the scales were in a cabinet on the porch. Miss
White did the weighing as a part of her town clerk duties, and "weigher of
coal". At the time this picture was taken, Marion White's father would
have been Town Clerk and would have had a funeral parlor upstairs. The post
office, as well as town office, would have been on the ground floor.”
5.
WATCH WATER WORK
Learn how
streams work with a free hands-on demonstration! Come to Fletcher Farm at
#611 Route 103 in Ludlow VT on Monday night, March 18th, between
5:30 and 6PM to check out the fabulous stream table. Presented in
partnership with the Black River Action Team, Ottauquechee Natural Resources
Conservation District, and VT Agency of Natural Resources, the stream table is
a unique opportunity to watch water at work. A miniature river of water
flows through a “sandy” landscape, capturing the essence of erosion,
deposition, and so much more.
Are you a
teacher? Come learn how you can tie in with the ONRCD to learn to use the
stream table in your classroom!
The
stream table is being used to model conditions at the site of an upcoming BRAT stream
bank-planting project in Cavendish, where Twenty mile Stream meets the Black
River.
6. GREGORY
PECK STARS IN NEXT PROCTORSVILLE CLASSIC FILM
The Black
& White Nights film series brings Gregory Peck to its screen on Friday
February 22. In 1947, famed film director Elia Kazan tackled a controversial
subject when he made GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT. The powerful drama is about a
journalist (Gregory Peck) who goes undercover as a Jew in postwar America in
order to write an expose about anti-Semitism in New York City and the affluent
suburb of Darien, Connecticut. As the experiment unfolds, his personal
life feels the effects of bigotry that include being denied a job to his son
being beaten. The film, which was nominated for 8 Oscars, stands as a
time capsule of ethnic intolerance in America. Gentleman's Agreement won
Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm).
The film will be shown on at 7:00 on Friday February 22 at the Gethsemane
Episcopal Church on Depot St. in Proctorsville. Films are free, donations
welcome, and there will be cookies to munch on. For more information or
in case of bad weather call 226-7497 or 226-7187.
7.
CAVENDISH EVENTS 2/15-2/24
February 15
(Friday): CTES PTO
fundraiser-bake sale in front of Shaw’s and Singleton’s.
•
Black and White Film series continues with Pat and Mike. The film starts at 7
pm and is being shown at the new Parish Hall of the Episcopal Church on Depot
Street in Proctorsville. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. FMI:
226-7187 or
226-7497
February 16
(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/
February 18
(Monday): Blood Drive at
the Ludlow Community Center, 37 Main St from 12:30-5:30.
• Winter
recess-no school
February 19
(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, or
Anne Oakes or Andrew Ohotnicky at (802) 228-5236, Dot Ramsdell at (802)
226-7870
•
Winter recess-no school
February 20
(Wednesday): Winter recess-no school
February
21 (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
•
Winter recess-no school
February 22
(Friday): Winter
recess-no school
February 23
(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/
February 24
(Sunday): Cavendish
Historical Society Annual Meeting, 5 pm at the Episcopal Church Parish
Hall/Community Center on Depot Street in Proctorsville. Potluck, short meeting
and showing of the film “The Homecoming.”
