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The 1/10/14 Cavendish Update Contains the Following:
1. Support
for Proctorsville Resident Whose Home was Destroyed on Jan 3.
2. It’s
Cold-Follow Red Cross Safety Tips When Heating Your Home
3. Cavendish
Related News
4. Cavendish Underground-Rum Running: 94th
Anniversary of Prohibition
5. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Discussion January 11
6. Events
1. SUPPORT FOR PROCTORSVILLE RESIDENT
Proctorsville resident Jessica Jet Thompson lost her
home and most of its contents on Friday, January 3 as a result of a chimney fire. While she has temporary housing, she is in need of the
community's support. A web page has been established to assist those who
wish to donate items or make contributions.
Both
Cavendish and Proctorsville Fire Departments responded to this house fire. In
sub zero temperatures, they were the first to arrive and the last to leave. Our
town is fortunate to have such dedicated men and women. Don’t forget to support
your local fire department this year.
2. RED CROSS SAFETY TIPS ON HEATING YOUR HOME
Winter
weather contributes to many fires, since people are trying to stay warm. To
prevent a fire in your home, review the following safety tips from the American
Red Cross.
Home Fire Safety Tips
• Keep items that can catch on fire at least
three feet away from anything that gets hot, such as space heaters.
• Never smoke in bed.
• Talk to your children regularly about the dangers of
fire, matches and lighters and keep them out of reach.
• Turn portable heaters off when you leave the room or
go to sleep.
The most effective way to protect yourself and your
home from fire is to identify and remove fire hazards. About 65 percent of
house fire deaths occur in homes with no working smoke alarms. During a home
fire, working smoke alarms can save lives.
Smoke Alarm Safety Tips
• Install smoke alarms on every level of your home,
inside bedrooms and outside sleeping areas.
• Teach your children what smoke alarms sound like and
what to do when they hear one.
• Once a month check whether each alarm in the home is
working properly by pushing the test button.
• Replace batteries in smoke alarms at least once a
year. Immediately install a new battery if an alarm chirps, warning the battery
is low.
• Smoke alarms should be replaced every 10 years.
Never disable smoke or carbon monoxide alarms.
• Carbon monoxide alarms are not substitutes for smoke
alarms. Know the difference between the sound of smoke alarms and carbon
monoxide alarms.
For more information: http://www.redcross.org/news/article/Its-Cold-Follow-Red-Cross-Safety-Tips-When-Heating-Your-Home
3. CAVENDISH RELATED NEWS
Cavendish and Proctorsville Firefighters Battle Blaze
and Bitter Cold: Area firefighters from six departments battled
temperatures that hovered at 6 below zero early Friday morning-Jan.3- when a
fire broke out at a home at 601 Main Street in Proctorsville. The fire was
later traced to a wood stove. Proctorsville Fire Chief Bob Glidden Sr. said
that the woman living in the house was able to escape with her dog and cat —
although the cat ran back into the house. “She ran out in the road barefoot and
without a coat, and I guess it was a good thing she didn’t wait,” said the
chief. Rutland Herald and The Vermont Journal
PVFD’s Stats for 2013: In 2013, the Proctorsville Volunteer
Fire Department responded to 61 calls, totaling 869 man hours. The top five
responders for the year were Karlene Glidden (65 calls and 97 hours on calls),
1st Captain Bob Glidden (51 calls and 91 hours), Deputy Chief Roger
Sheehan (51 calls and 88 hours), Chief Robert Glidden (49 calls and 89 hours),
and Matt Flinn (49 calls and 89 hours). To read more about PVFD’s 2013
activities, go to https://www.facebook.com/pages/Proctorsville-Volunteer-Fire-Department/130553286913
Proctorsville Post Office Included on List of
Post Offices to have Reduced Hours: A new postal proposal would
spare facilities but cut hours at 145 post offices in Vermont including Proctorsville.
Hours at the Cavendish PO have been reduced from 8 to 4 for the last year.
Proctorsville is slated to go from 8 to 6 hours per day starting in October.
Lobby access would not be affected. http://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/our-future-network/assets/pdf/postplan-affected-post-offices-120509.pdf
Friendly’s Closes Abruptly in Springfield: The family restaurant abruptly closed its doors
Sunday night, with no plans to reopen, and notified its employees Monday
morning that they no longer had a job, said one employee’s daughter.
Alyssa
Stevens, a spokesman for Friendly’s, said Monday the restaurant’s lease in the
Springfield Shopping Plaza had expired, and that was the reason for the
closing. Rutland Herald
VT Journal Has Moved: Due to flooding, the
Vermont Journal has relocated to No. 10 High Street in Ludlow upstairs over The
Black River Senior Center. VT Journal
Flu on the RiseAcross Region: Cases of influenza have been reported in New
York, Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, the number of people who've become
sick with the virus has increased weekly. Health officials urge anyone older
than 6 months to get the shot. There are no reports of a lack of available
vaccine in the area, unlike other parts of the country. According to the
Centers for Disease Control, the strain of the virus circulating this year is
similar to the 2009 swine flu epidemic, which disproportionately affected young
and middle-aged adults. WPTZ
4. CAVENDISH
UNDERGROUND-RUM RUNNING
Many people in Cavendish will proudly tell you how their
house, or one of the houses in their neighborhood, was part of the underground
railroad. While former slaves found safety here, there was no need to hide them.
Vermont outlawed slavery in 1777 and continued to pass laws that made it
difficult for those trying to recapture slaves to come to far into the state as
they could easily be caught and prosecuted.
Yes, there are tiny rooms and odd places in many of the old
houses in our town. Some had very practical purposes. If they were close to a
chimney they could have been used for curing meat and storing large cooking
pots etc. Tunnels and other hiding places had other practical purposes-rum
running and smuggling.
Because Vermont shares a border with Canada, smuggling has
been part of the state’s “underground” employment from the early days of its
settlement.
On January 16, 1920, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
prohibiting the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes" went
into effect. Breweries,
distilleries and saloons closed their doors. This did not sit well with
Vermonters, who believed the government had no business interfering with their
drinking habits. Consequently, more people drank more alcohol during Prohibition
than they did before or since.
Everywhere
people helped bootleggers, hid them in barns from chasing customs agents,
covered up, covered over, and supported them by making bootlegging a very
profitable venture. Stories abound showing the bootleggers as the folk heroes
they quickly became, and revealing the customs patrol as being slow minded, dim
witted, and unpopular spoil sports. VT Historical Society
http://vermonthistory.org/research/research-resources-online/green-mountain-chronicles/prohibition-1920
When Suzanne Beyer, author of “The Inventor’s Fortune Up for
Grabs,” and granddaughter of Una and Leon Gay visited Cavendish in 2011, she
related that her great Uncle Art Hadley was engaged in rum running during
prohibition at her grandparents home-Glimmerstone. Were other people in town
involved in rum-running? Probably.
If you have stories about Cavendish’s involvement in various
bootlegging or smuggling activities, please send them to the Cavendish
Historical Society , PO Box 472, Cavendish VT 05142 or e-mail margoc@tds.net or call 802-226-7807.
5. ONE
DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH DISCUSSION
December 2013
marked two important dates in the life of the Soviet dissident and Nobel
Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. December 11 would have been his 95th
birthday and December 28 was the 40th anniversary of the publication
of “The Gulag Archipelago” in Paris. Describing
the horrors of the Soviet forced labor camps, the book was translated into 40
languages and some 10 million copies were printed around the world. Two
months after the book’s publication, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his
citizenship and expelled from the USSR. Of the 20 years he was to be exiled
from his homeland, Solzhenitsyn spent almost 18 of them in Cavendish, VT.
To mark these significant events, the Cavendish
Historical Society will be screening the movie based on Solzhenitsyn’s book
“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” at noon on Saturday, January 11. At 2 pm, the Cavendish Fletcher
Community Library (CFCC) and CHS will host a discussion of the book/movie. A
Russian tea will be provided, thanks to Kata Welch, the librarian for CFCC.
Meet at the Cavendish Library, on Main Street in Proctorsville, for all events.
One Day
in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is set in the Soviet labor camp (gulag)
in the 1950’s and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan
Denisovich Shukov. The novella was published in the magazine Novy Mir and was the first written
account of the camps. Millions of copies
were circulated from hand to hand in the Soviet Union. The West hailed the author as a “truth
teller,” while the ordinary Soviet had confirmation of
stories family members, who had been in the camps, had been telling.
One Day
in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is available at the Cavendish Library,
most book stores and from ebookbrowse.
Film adaptations of the book are available at the
following sites:
For more information: margoc@tds.net
or 802-226-7807.
Please note that if the library is closed due to weather,
this event will be rescheduled in February.
6. EVENTS
This week, the following activities will be taking place in Cavendish:
• One Day in the
Life Of Ivan Denisovich Discussion: Jan 11 (Saturday). Movie screening at noon,
book discussion and Russian Tea, 2 pm. All events at the Cavendish Library in
Proctorsville. FMI: 226-7807 or margoc@tds.net Please note that if the library is closed due to weather,
this event will be rescheduled in February.
• Guy Burlage Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Jan. 11 (Saturday)
and Jan. 16 (Thursday) at the Glimmerstone Inn. FMI: http://www.glimmerstonemansion.com
• Raise the Roof
Concert Series: True Tales January 12 (Sunday).
Eight local storytellers from Cavendish, Ludlow and Mt. Holly will tell true
stories of the area. This is a benefit for the Cavendish Community Fund, which
provides grant support for projects in education, history and the arts. Modeled
after NPR’s popular Moth Radio Hour, each presenter will tell a story from real
like in ten minutes or less without a script. True Tales will take place at
Gethsemane Episcopal Church on Depot Street in Proctorsville starting at 4 pm.
Donations of $10 at the door will help keep culture alive and well. FMI:
226-7497.
• Select Board
Meeting: Jan 13, 6:30 pm at the Cavendish Town Office. The agenda will be posted to
www.cavendishvt.blogspot.com as soon as it
becomes available.
• Local’s Night: Jan. 16 (Thursday)
Music, Burger and Beer for $12 at the Glimmerstone Inn in Cavendish. 6-9 pm .
FMI: http://www.glimmerstonemansion.com
To learn more about upcoming events in Cavendish and surrounding towns go
to:
• Events listed by
month
• Events
listed by day
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