Calendar - Front Porch Forum

April 2023

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26 Free Labor Films Online to Honor Women's History Month 6 PM (multiday) Maple Syrup Tasting and Sugarhouse Tour 10 AM (multiday) Reminder: Sourdough Baking Workshop 12 - 5 PM Dog River Trio - "Opera in the Afternoon" 3 PM	27 VOREC Grant Implementation Committee Meeting 6 - 7 PM Community Forest Management Plan Committee Meeting 6 - 8 PM Rescheduled Roxbury Selectbaord Mtg March 27 7 - 9 PM	28 Take Control of Your Blood Pressure at Randolph House 10 - 10:30 AM Celebration of Writing 5 - 6 PM From Lips to Stage: Documentary Theater Workshop 5 - 6 PM Weekly Sol Flow Yoga at Blossom Wellness Center 5:30 - 6:45 PM Northfield Select Board Regular Meeting 7 - 9:30 PM City of Barre City Council Agenda 7 PM +2 more see less	29 Barre Winter Farmers Market 3:30 - 6:30 PM Barre UUSD Negotiations Committee Meeting 5 PM Lenten Vesper Services at UCN 6 - 6:30 PM Special Paine Mountain School Board Meeting March 29 6 - 8 PM Link to Attend Wed. Paine Mtn Board Meeting Virtually 6 - 8 PM Come Join the Drumming! 6:30 - 7:45 PM +2 more see less	30 Norwich University "Shelter in Place" Drill 10:45 AM WMHS Blood Drive Bonus Just Announced! 12 - 5 PM Women of Barre, Yesterday and Today to Be Held at Brave 5:30 - 8:30 PM Community Meal at the Northfield Methodist Church 6 PM Barre UUSD Board Special Meeting 6 PM +1 more see less	31 Youth Speak Out on Climate Change 6:30 - 7:30 AM Summit School Mud Season Spectacular, March 31-Apr 1! 7 PM (multiday)	1 Spring / Easter Craft Fair 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM Huge U-32 Craft Fair 9 AM - 4 PM Best Bicycle Shop Celebrates 7th Birthday 9 AM - 4 PM Spring/Easter Craft Show 9:30 AM - 3 PM Estate Sale 10 AM (multiday) Week of the Young Child Event 10:30 - 11:30 AM Sen. Sanders' First Annual Youth Chess Day - April 1 11 AM - 4 PM Recycled Percussion Coming to the Barre Auditorium! 12 - 12 PM Local Author Children's Book Reading 1 - 2 PM Some Pros & Cons of Affordable Heat Bill 5 - 6 PM Affordable Heat Act: Pros & Cons 5 - 6 PM Back by Demand: Ivy League of Comedy at Chandler 7 - 9 PM Major Concert Event: Recycled Percussion Coming to VT! 7 - 9 PM Recylced Percussion 7 - 10 PM No Fooling! Contra Dance This Saturday at the Grange! 7:30 - 11 PM No Fooling! Contra Dance This Saturday at the Grange! 7:30 - 11 PM +12 more see less
2 Holy Week at FCCB of Berlin (multiday) School Play 12 AM American Legion's Breakfast Buffet 8 - 11 AM Northfield Activity Group's Annual Chicken BBQ 2 - 4 PM Green Mountain Youth Symphony Spring Concert 2 - 4 PM Bread and Puppet Theater at the Old Labor Hall 3 PM Bethel University Graduation 4 - 6 PM +3 more see less	3 Barre UUSD Facilities/Transportation Committee Meeting All Day Reading by Horror Author John Langan 4 - 5 PM Northfield Utility Commissions Joint Meeting 6:30 - 7:30 PM Roxbury Selectboard Meeting 7 - 9 PM	4 Take Control of Your Blood Pressure at Randolph House 10 - 10:30 AM Storytime/Playgroup 10 - 11 AM Monteverdi Music School - Music Fundamentals Course 5:45 - 7 PM Stories Matter: a Toastmasters Open House 6 - 7:30 PM Discuss the Future of Garfield Playground 6 PM Audition for Arcadia with Barnarts! 7 PM (multiday) +2 more see less	5 Mosaic Art for Homeschoolers 11 AM - 12 PM Senior Day at the Aldrich Library-Update 1:30 - 2:30 PM Senior Day at the Aldrich Library 1:30 - 3 PM Lenten Vesper Services at UCN 6 - 6:30 PM Next Paine Mountain School District Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Next Scheduled Paine Mtn School Board Meeting Agenda 6 - 9:10 PM Buusd Curriculum Committee Meeting 6 PM WCUUSD Community Forum 6:15 - 7:15 PM Come Join the Drumming! 6:30 - 7:45 PM Homelessness Taskforce 7 PM +6 more see less	6 Dog River Trio - Pergolesi's Stabat Mater 12 PM	7 Spaulding H.S. Drama Club Presents "Working: A Musical" 7 - 9 PM Dance of Hope - Celebration Series 7:30 - 9 PM	8 Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event 8 AM - 12 PM Spring Yard Sale 8 AM - 3 PM Kids Trade and Play 9:30 - 11:30 AM Kids Trade & Play - This Saturday at The Grange! 9:30 - 11:30 AM Annual Egg Hunt 10 - 10:10 AM "Office Hours" 10 AM - 12 PM Community Easter Egg Hunt 10:30 AM - 12 PM Living Supply Closet 11 AM - 1 PM Barre Rotary Pie for Brunch Community Celebration 11 AM - 2 PM Huey Helicopter Fly-Over 1:30 - 2:30 PM Radio Controlled Car Racing 4 - 8 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Spring Concert 7 - 8:30 PM VFO Concert 7 - 9 PM Spaulding H.S. Drama Club Presents "Working: A Musical" 7 - 9 PM Rhythm Future Quartet, the Spirit of Django Reinhardt 7 - 9 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Spring Concert 7 PM +12 more see less
9 Northfield Senior Center (multiday)	10 Legislative Breakfast in Bethel April 10 7:30 AM Norwich University Leadership Conference 9 AM (multiday) VOREC Grant Implementation Committee Meeting 6 - 7 PM CVCCSD Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Selectboard Meeting 6 - 8 PM +1 more see less	11 Take Control of Your Blood Pressure at Randolph House 10 - 10:30 AM Storytime/Playgroup 10 - 11 AM Community Advocacy Training 5:30 - 7 PM BEC Monthly Meeting 5:30 - 7:15 PM Monteverdi Music School - Music Fundamentals Course 5:45 - 7 PM Opioid Overdose Prevention Training 6:30 - 7:30 PM Opioid Overdose Prevention Training 6:30 - 7:30 PM Northfield Select Board Regular Meeting 7 - 9:30 PM +4 more see less	12 Barre Unified Union School District Board Retreat 4 - 8 PM Knotweed Management Meeting 5:30 - 6:30 PM Come Join the Drumming! 6:30 - 7:45 PM	13 Food & Nutrition Workshops 1 - 2:30 PM City of Barre Planning Commission Agenda 5:30 PM	14 Seeking Youth for 7th Annual Rally for the Planet! 8:30 AM - 2 PM Northfield Housing Task Force Meeting 3:15 - 4 PM	15 48th Annual Paul Mailman 10 Miler and 5K Race 8:45 AM Yard Sale 9 AM - 4 PM Coffee with Constituents 10 - 10:30 AM Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha 10:30 AM - 12 PM Bring Out Your Junk! Scrap Drive at NMHS 12 PM (multiday) Methodist Church Ribs and Chicken BBQ -All on One Plate 12 PM Norwich Regimental Band Spring Concert 2 - 4 PM Celtic Music at Brocklebank Brewing 3 PM Calcutta Fundraiser for Circle on April 15 5 - 9 PM Calcutta to Benefit Circle 5 PM Young Artists Lively Music Returns to Chandler 7 - 9 PM Capital City Concerts - April 15 Concert 7:30 PM Capital City Concerts Season Finale April 15 7:30 PM +9 more see less
16 Northfield Methodist Church Hymn Sing This Sunday 9:45 AM Musical Munchkins Fall Open House 10 - 10:45 AM Ambulance Open House 11 AM - 2 PM Arnold Air Society Car Wash in Northfield Town 12 - 2 PM Northfield Senior Center 2 - 4 PM “Sugaring Off” Author Reading at the Labor Hall 3 - 4:30 PM Book Talk and Signing: Sugaring Down by Dan Chodorkoff 3 PM Deep in Song 4 - 6 PM +4 more see less	17 Cemeteries, Recreation & Conservation Committee 11 AM Community Forest Management Plan Committee Meeting 6 - 8 PM Finance Committee Meeting 6 - 8 PM	18 Bond Vote for Phase II Water Project 8 AM - 7 PM Storytime/Playgroup 10 - 11 AM Bethel Town Meeting Committee 4:30 PM NVU-Lyndon Presents Author and Adventurer Ken Ilgunas 5 - 6:30 PM Mixer at Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks 5 - 6:30 PM Spring Cleaning Program at Aldrich Library! 5 - 6:30 PM Great Trees and Forests of The Northeast, Past and Present 5:30 - 6:30 PM Monteverdi Music School - Music Fundamentals Course 5:45 - 7 PM You're Invited! Next Step 6:30 - 9 PM Get Involved, Make a Difference 6:30 PM Norwich University Echo Taps Service Today at 10 P.M. 10 PM +7 more see less	19 Virtual Vermont BNI Referral Meeting 9 - 10:30 AM Barre UUSD Facilities/Transp. Cmt Special Meeting 5 PM Paine Mountain School District Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Paine Mtn School Board to Meet April 19 6 - 8 PM Come Join the Drumming! 6:30 - 7:45 PM MRPS School Board Meeting at MHS - April 19 6:30 - 8:30 PM Barre City Transportation & Public Works Committee 6:30 PM Ask Your State Senator! 7 - 8 PM Roxbury Selectboard Meeting April 19 7 - 9 PM Date Change for Roxbury Selectboard Meeting 7 PM +6 more see less	20 Vernal Pool Walk in Barre Town Forest 4 - 6 PM Spaghetti Dinner 5 PM 2023 Annual Spring Raffle Drawing - Northfield PTNO 6 - 8 PM Bethel Public Hearing on Zoning Bylaw Amendments 6:30 - 8 PM	21 Vermont Coverts Woodlands for Wildlife Training (multiday) Yard Sale 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Aldrich Friends Plan Spring Booksale 11 AM (multiday) Gifford Hosted: Advance Care Planning Fair 1 - 4 PM Open House 5 - 7:30 PM Community Gong Bath 6:30 - 7:30 PM Kamikaze Comedy Comes to Canadian Club 7 - 10 PM +3 more see less	22 Coffee with Mayor Jake & Good News 8:30 - 9:30 AM POSTPONED: Indoor Flea Market and Bake Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Spring Fling! Craft Show! 9 AM - 3 PM Earth Day at the Statehouse Lawn 10 AM - 12 PM Celebrate Earth Day with Families Rise Up 10 AM - 12 PM Saturday Crafternoon at The Brown Public Library 12 - 1:30 PM Celebration of Life for Roy Kelley 2 - 3:30 PM Amy's Armoire Yoga for Foster/Adopt/Kin Caregivers 2:15 - 3:30 PM Free Yoga on Saturday for Foster/Adopt/Kin & DCF 2:15 PM Vermont Virtuosi Presents Out of the Shadows 7:30 - 9 PM +6 more see less
23 Basket Bingo & Music 11 AM - 2 PM Champlain Trio at the Plainfield Opera House 4 - 6 PM Blount, Gareiss, & Premo - Traditional Music at Chandler 7 - 9 PM	24 Moving Sale 12 PM Community Forest Management Plan Committee Meeting #16 6 - 8 PM Bethel Selectboard Agenda 6 PM VOREC Grant Implementation Committee Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM	25 Storytime/Playgroup 10 - 11 AM Protecting Half of Earth for All Life 5:30 - 5:30 PM Monteverdi Music School - Music Fundamentals Course 5:45 - 7 PM Northfield Select Board Regular Meeting 7 - 9:30 PM City of Barre City Council Agenda - Corrected - April 25 7 PM +1 more see less	26 Virtual Vermont BNI Referral Meeting 9 - 10:30 AM Babysitting 101 9 AM (multiday) Last Barre Winter Farmers Market 3:30 PM	27 Genealogy and Slavery Discussion Group April 27 6 - 8 PM	28 Indoor Moving/Garage Sale All Day Huge Tag Sale 10 AM (multiday) Northfield Housing Task Force Meeting - April 28 2 PM	29 Virtual Office Hours 8 - 9:30 AM Grandma's Attic Fundraiser 9 AM - 4 PM Storage Unit Sale on Saturday 11 AM "Lost & Found' Live Storytelling Event 6 - 7:30 PM 2nd Annual Fundraising Event - Casino Night 6 - 10 PM Welcome Return of VT Philharmonic to Chandler 7:30 - 9:30 PM Montpelier Contra Dance Plus on Saturday! 7:30 - 11 PM Contra Dance Plus on Saturday at The Grange! 7:30 - 11 PM +4 more see less
30 Vermont Philharmonic Presents “German Romantics” 2 - 4 PM A Night on the Town 4 - 8 PM Primo Maggio Dinner and Lecture at The Old Labor Hall 5 PM Songs of Hope Concert 7 PM	1 Opening for Frazier Greenhouse Season 9 AM (multiday) iPad Essentials - Free 5 Week Course 9:30 - 10:45 AM May Day Celebration 2 - 4 PM Barre UUSD Facilities/Transportation Committee Meeting 6 PM Northfield Utility Commissions Joint Meeting 6:30 - 7:30 PM Roxbury Selectboard Mtg May 1 7 - 8:45 PM +2 more see less	2 Storytime/Playgroup 10 - 11 AM Monteverdi Music School - Music Fundamentals Course 5:45 - 7 PM Community Conversation with Curtiss Reed Jr. 6 - 8 PM	3 Virtual Vermont BNI Referral Meeting 9 - 10:30 AM Perrin Farm Meat CSA - Signup Now 4 - 6 PM Next Paine Mtn School Board Meeting at NES May 3 6 - 8 PM BUUSD Curriculum Committee Meeting 6 PM WCUUSD Community Conversations: Strategic Planning 6:15 - 7:15 PM +1 more see less	4 Vermont Humanities Council Program at Barre Senior Center 1 - 2 PM Community Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser to Benefit BFS 5 - 7 PM Preschool Information Night at NES 5 PM Community Yoga 5:30 - 6:30 PM The Kobzar's Prayer for Ukraine with Jurij Fedynskyj 6:30 - 10 PM Diversity and Equity Committee 6:30 PM Barre City Development Review Board Agenda 7 PM +3 more see less	5 Footworks, Celtic Music Rocking Charlie-O's Cinco De Mayo Until 6 PM Huge Yard Sale 7 AM (multiday) Love Yourself Now Workshop at Mountain Rose - Waitsfield 6 - 7:30 PM Contemporary Dance Performance May 5 & 6 8 PM (multiday)	6 Free Girl's Lacrosse Clinic for Grades 3-6 All Day Green Up Day in Berlin 8 - 9 AM Green-Up Day in Bethel 8 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day 8:30 AM - 12 PM Veterans' Place Bottle Drive 9 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day at the Cow Pasture 9 AM - 12 PM Garage Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Druid Faire 10 AM - 3 PM RFL Green Up Day Book Sale 10 AM - 3 PM Craft and Vendor Fair! 10 AM - 3:30 PM Spring Craft Fair 10 AM - 3:30 PM Beltaine Festival 10 AM - 9 PM Film Screening and Q &A with Filmmaker 4 - 6 PM Grange Meeting & Potluck on Saturday! 4 - 7 PM Grange Meeting & Potluck Saturday! 4:30 - 7 PM Spring Fling at the Aldrich Library 6 - 9 PM Contra Dance Again: Saturday at the Grange! 7:30 - 11 PM Contra Dance Again: Saturday at the Grange! 7:30 - 11 PM +14 more see less