Calendar - Front Porch Forum

October 2014

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28 40th Annual Bessie Drennan Exhibit and Crafts Sale! 10:30 AM (multiday) Scandinavian Music and Dance Weekend in Montpelier! 7:30 PM (multiday) The Sacred Hunt: Deer Hunting Classes (multiday) Support Twin Valley Senior Center Meals on Wheels Program All Day Central VT Humane Society Yard Sale All Day Central VT Humane Society Yard Sale All Day Hardwick American Legion Lobster & Prime Rib Dinner & Auction Sept. 28! All Day Mysteries of Monarchs with North Branch Nature Center All Day Mysteries of Monarchs by North Branch Nature Center All Day Hardwick American Legion Lobster/Prime Rib Feast Sept. 28 All Day Lobster & Prime Rib Feed Sept. 28 1 PM Seeking Business Donations for American Legion Live Auction 1 PM Lobster & Prime Rib Feed - Hardwick American Legion Post #7 1 PM Mysteries of Monarchs by North Branch Nature Center 2 - 5 PM Community Yoga Class 4 PM +11 more see less	29 Cabot High School Varsity Soccer 4:30 PM Workshop at VCIH: Kitchen Cupboard Medicine 6 - 8 PM Cabot Selectboard Meeting 7 PM	30 House Party for Shap Smith, Avram Patt, & Scott Williams 10 AM Wolcott Historical Society Meeting 5:30 PM Apples of Uncommon Character with Rowan Jacobsen 7 - 8 PM Sept. 30 - Community Form on the Red Store 7 - 9 PM	1 First Wednesdays - 1814: America Forged by Fire All Day U-32 School Board Community Forum Oct. 1 All Day U-32 School Board Forum All Day First Wednesdays - 1814: America Forged by Fire All Day Worcester's Post Office Cafe: 2nd Anniversary All Day Needles in the Stacks 1 - 3 PM OLLI Presents Award-Winning Novelist Kathryn Davis Oct 1 1:30 - 3 PM Osher (OLLI) Program Coming Up 1:30 - 3 PM U-32 Community Forum 6 - 7 PM Check Out a Great School! 7 - 8 PM River Rock School Open House! 7 - 8 PM River Rock School Open House! 7 - 8:30 PM Cancelled: Kick 'Em Jenny at Charlie O's 8 - 11 PM Kick ‘Em Jenny Plays at Charlie O's in Montpelier! 8 - 11 PM +10 more see less	2 Rummage Sale at St. Augustine Church (multiday) Abandoned Building Ordinance Meeting for Plainfield All Day Rising Tide Potluck & Music at the Peep All Day EMES Ribbon Cutting and Open House All Day Knitting Group 10 - 11 AM Plein Air Painting This Thursday in Peacham 10 AM - 3 PM St. Augustine Rummage Sale - Looking for Items 4 - 7 PM Ribbon Cutting and Open House Change of Date Reminder 5 - 7:30 PM Stained-Glass Classes Offered 6 - 8 PM Planning Commission Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Bike and Pedestrian Master Plan Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Rising Tide Vermont Community Potluck 6:30 - 9 PM Sept. 29 Selectboard Contd. Mtng. Rescheduled 7 PM +9 more see less	3 Big Garage Sale Rain or Shine (multiday) Garage Sale (multiday) Moving Sale (multiday) The 54th Annual Calais Fall Foliage Festival, Oct. 3-5 9 AM (multiday) Broadband and Cellular Expansion - VTA Board Mtg 10 AM - 12 PM Closing Weekend at Kent Museum 10 AM This Week at the Hardwick Farmers' Market 3 - 6 PM U-32 Boys' Basketball - Bottle Drive 6 PM (multiday) +4 more see less	4 Open Studio Weekend Oct. 4 & 5 (multiday) Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day! All Day Chicken Pie at the Old Meeting House All Day Chicken Pie at the Old Meeting House All Day Remedios Spa Fundraiser at VCIH All Day Rocktoberfest! All Day Varnished Watercolor on Claybord Open Studio All Day Photography Talk at Kent Museum All Day Chicken Pie at the Old Meeting House All Day Annual Charles Woodard Fall Foliage Contra Dance All Day Chicken Pie Dinner! All Day Rocktoberfest 5K Fun Run/Walk 8 - 10:30 AM Rocktoberfest 5k Race or Walk 8 - 10:30 AM Beaver Protection for the Saplings at the Martin Bridge 9 - 11:30 AM Bake Sale and Bazaar 9 AM - 3 PM 31st Annual Fall Foliage Craft Fair 9 AM - 4 PM VETEGA & Clarina Saf-T Pet Parade Oct. 4 9 AM - 6 PM Car Wash to Benefit Copley 10 AM - 2 PM Open Studios 10 AM (multiday) Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival 10 AM (multiday) Artists Wanted for Fall Open Studio Weekend - 10 AM (multiday) Open Studio at Jennifer Ranz' Greensboro Barn Oct. 4-5 10 AM (multiday) Treat Yourself at Remedios Spa Day Fundraiser 11 AM - 5 PM Support Herbal Remedies for Migrant Farm Workers This Saturday! 11 AM - 5 PM Feel Good, Look Good Spaahh! 11 AM - 5 PM Governor Douglas Book Signing at Bear Pond Books 12 - 1:30 PM Grow Your Own: Cook and Eat Gathering Oct. 4 2 - 4 PM Clay Class Oct. 4 2 - 4 PM Harvesting the Plenty of Our Lives: a Two Part Exploration, for Women 2 PM (multiday) Weight Loss Program 6 PM (multiday) Danville Congregational Church Harvest Dinner 6 PM Barre Premiere to Honor Rep. Tom Koch 7 - 10 PM Free Movie Night 7 PM +29 more see less
5 Big Yarn Sale This Sunday! All Day Open Studio Oct. 5 All Day Minute Race Tomorrow! Any Body Can Do It! 9:45 AM Seeking: Vendors for Marshfield Harvest Festival 11 AM - 3 PM Funeral Service and Crop Walking in Honor of Beverly M. Keck 1 - 4:30 PM Beverly Keck - Funeral Service and Crop Walking in Her Honor 1 - 4:30 PM Casting Call! Actors Wanted! 1 - 6 PM Fall Sustainable Energy Walk Oct. 5 1:30 - 3:30 PM Open House with Senator Anthony Pollina 6 - 8 PM +5 more see less	6 Mid-Day Mindfulness 12 - 12:45 PM Monthly Energy Committee Meeting Oct. 6 7 PM	7 The Happiness Walk Oct. 7 Kickoff All Day Food as Medicine! Free Lunch and Learn Tue. All Day People's Candidate Forum 6:30 - 8:30 PM Candidate Forums Sponsored by VT Workers Center, 350 VT, Grn Mtn Self 6:30 - 8:30 PM Vermont Workers' Center and Allies to Host People's Candidate Forums 6:30 - 8:30 PM Handwork Guild 6:30 PM Montpelier People's Forum on Human Rights and the Economy 6:30 PM Archer Mayor and Bill Schubart at Bear Pond Books 7 - 8 PM Planning Commission Notice of Public Hearing 7 - 9 PM Maple Corner Community Center Annual Meeting Oct. 7 7:30 - 8:30 PM +6 more see less	8 Recommendation for Alterations (multiday) Community Meeting All Day DRB Hearing on Red Store All Day Aware Hosts Candlelight Walk and Vigil All Day Don't Know Hamlet from a Handsaw? No Problem All Day Secretary of Education Rebecca Holcomb Oct. 8 All Day City Council Meeting Wed. All Day Secretary of Education Talk Oct. 8 1:30 - 2:30 PM Osher Program on Education in VT Oct. 8 1:30 - 3 PM Lyme Disease Workshop at VCIH 6 - 8 PM Today's Ethical Challenges and Solutions in Mental Health 6 - 8 PM West Side Story Jazz Suite at City Hall Wed. Night 7:30 PM +8 more see less	9 Film Screening - The House I Live In All Day Film Screening - The House I Live In All Day Film Screening - The House I Live In All Day Knitting Group 10 - 11 AM Good Beginnings of Central VT Annual Meeting 5 - 8 PM Conversation with Senator Pollina in Cabot 6:30 PM "Diets: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" Discussion at Varnum Library 7 - 8:30 PM +3 more see less	10 Yard Sale (multiday) This Week at the Hardwick Farmers' Market 3 - 6 PM	11 Hide Tanning Class (multiday) Hide Tanning Class Offered (multiday) Hide Tanning Class (multiday) Final Moving Sale (multiday) Square Dance Oct. 11! All Day Free Movie Night at Calais Woodbury United Church All Day Free Movie Night at Calais Woodbury United Church All Day Onion River 8k Trail Race at North Branch Nature Center! 8:30 AM - 2 PM Celebrate National Spinning & Weaving Week at Peacham Library 9 - 11 AM Yard Sale Oct. 11 9 AM - 1 PM Worcester Clothing Swap Oct. 11 9 AM - 3 PM Planting Hope's Annual Yard Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Not Just Any Yard Sale - This Weekend! 9 AM (multiday) Planting Hope's Community Yard Sale Oct. 11-12! 9 AM (multiday) Montpelier Memory Cafe Sat. 10 - 11:30 AM Explore Planting Hope's Annual Yard Sale! 10 AM - 3 PM Montpelier Home Tour 10 AM - 5 PM Costume Swap 1 - 3 PM Clay Class Oct. 11 2 - 4 PM Benefit Chicken BBQ Oct 11 at Water Tower Farm 2 - 5 PM Upcoming Enchanted Forest Community Event & Call for Volunteers! 4 - 8 PM Teen Challenge New England Celebrates 50 Anniversary 5 - 9 PM Contra Dance Time! 5:30 PM Rockwood Ferry House Concert 7 - 9:30 PM Kick ‘Em Jenny Plays ‘Dare to Be Square' Dance! 7 - 10 PM Detour: Concert with Miriam Bernardo, Rob Morse & Michael Chorney 7 PM Kick ‘em Jenny Plays "Dare to Be Square" Dance 7:30 - 10 PM Va Et Vient at the Music Box Oct. 11 7:30 PM Cabot Contra Dance This Saturday! 7:30 PM +25 more see less
12 Pumpkin Walk All Day Shape Note Sing in Plainfield! All Day Sunday School Info 10 - 11 AM Champlain Valley Buddy Walk 12 PM Montpelier Schools Walk Sun. 2 PM Vermont History Through Song Oct. 12 2 PM Artist Reception – Gilmore Gallery at Peacham Library 4 - 6 PM +3 more see less	13 Select Board Agenda for Oct. 13 All Day Selectboard Meeting Agenda Oct. 13 4:30 PM Revised SB Agenda Oct. 13 -Time of Road Discontinuance Publichearing 6:30 PM Plainfield Select Board Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM	14 Roads Advisory Committee Site Visits All Day League of Women Voters Candidate Forums All Day Free Gross National Happiness Event at Library Oct. 14 1 - 3 PM Walk and Talk with Author of I Left My Sole in Vermont 4 - 6:30 PM VCFA Lectures & Exhibits - Free and Open to the Public! 6 - 7 PM Wash. Co. Senate Candidate Forum 7 - 8:30 PM League of Women Voters Washington County State Senate Candidate Forum 7 - 8:30 PM Cabot Public Library Trustee Meeting Moved to Oct. 14 7 - 8:30 PM +4 more see less	15 Seasons of Leadership All Day Seasons of Leadership All Day Osher Presentation All Day Seasons of Leadership All Day LEDC Workshop on Innovation in Small Business 9 AM - 12 PM LEDC Workshop on Innovation in Small Business 9 AM - 12 PM Food Pantry Drive 9 AM - 6 PM Knitting at the Pope 1 - 3 PM Animal CSI at OLLI Oct. 15 1:30 - 3 PM Olli Lecture on World's First Wildlife Forensic Lab 1:30 PM Harvest Feast: a Community Potluck at the Plainfield Opera House! 5:30 - 7:30 PM All in the Family Film Series at Jaquith Library Oct. 15 7 - 9 PM Cabot Selectboard Meeting 7 PM +9 more see less	16 Circus Demonstration All Day Returning to the Community All Day Knitting Group 10 - 11 AM Math and Potatoes at Twinfield 5:30 - 7:30 PM VCFA Lectures & Exhibits - Free and Open to the Public! 6 - 7 PM Montpelier's Moonlight Madness 6 - 9 PM David Rovics Concert 6 - 9:30 PM Planning Commission Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM International Folk Dancing Class 6:45 - 8 PM Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour @ Capitol Grounds 7 - 8:30 PM Brigadoon! Thur.-Sat. 7 PM (multiday) Brigadoon! Oct. 16-18 7 PM (multiday) +8 more see less	17 Garage Sale (multiday) Brigadoon Performance (multiday) Central Vermont Catholic School Benefit Night All Day Capitalizing Building Investments Oct. 17 7:45 - 8:45 AM Cvcoa Chats 9 AM - 12 PM This Week at the Hardwick Farmers' Market 3 - 6 PM Montpelier Fall Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Montpelier Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Come to Planting Hope's Dinner Dance Celebration! 6 - 9 PM Bueno Comedy Showcase! Boston Come Up 8 - 9:30 PM Madman3 at Positive Pie 10:30 PM (multiday) +7 more see less	18 Math and Potatoes at Twinfield All Day Chicken Pie Supper All Day Chicken Pie Supper All Day Capital City Concerts Presents "From Paris with Love"! All Day Fundraiser All Day Funeral Service Details for Maggie Miller All Day Arts Jam All Day Flea/Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Cabot Historical Societies Apple Pie Festival 9 AM - 3 PM Craft and Flea Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Tag Sale is on Oct. 18 9 AM - 4 PM Sunrise to Sunset - Aromatherapy for Everyday Use 10 AM - 4 PM Action Prep and Art Party! 11 AM - 7 PM Phillip Brown Retirement 12 - 3 PM Fundraiser Dinner Saturday 5 PM Old Brick Church - Chicken Pie Dinner 5:30 PM Chicken Pie Dinner Oct. 18 5:30 PM Staged Reading of "Intake" ("Mere Presence") 7:30 PM Goodfellas Annual Halloween Party 8:30 PM (multiday) +15 more see less
19 Hardwick American Legion - Super Bingo Tickets Oct 19 10:30 AM Super Bingo Oct. 19 10:30 AM Isaac James, Lynn Mckinney and Friends in Concert Oct. 19 3 - 6 PM Benefit Concert at Cabot United Church Sunday 3 PM Peacham Community Housing Free Lasagna Dinner Sunday Oct. 19 4:30 PM Community Singalong 6 - 8 PM Bingo! Hardwick American Legion Every Monday Night at 6:00 Pm 6 - 9 PM +3 more see less	20 Water/Wastewater Meeting Notice 6 - 8 PM All Boards/Commissions/Committees Meeting Oct. 20 6 PM Montpelier Daisy Girl Scout Troop Starting Up 6:30 - 8 PM Polly Young-Eisendrath at Bear Pond Books 7 - 8 PM	21 So Many Varieties of Apples Oct. 21 All Day Spiritual Stewardship; Working with the Energetics of Place All Day Cabot Public Library Trustee Meeting Info All Day Lunch and Learn at North Branch Cafe 12 - 1 PM Ben Hewitt at Bear Pond Books 7 - 8 PM Cabot Public Library Trustee Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM Local Environment Presentation Series: Vt Wetlands - Oct. 21 7 - 8:30 PM Cabot Ag Committee Meets Tue. 7 PM Calais and E. Montpelier Historical Society Mtg Oct. 21 7 PM +5 more see less	22 Lunch & Learn at Sullivan Museum 12 PM Osher Presentation 1:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Lecture - Life in the Cosmos 1:30 PM Public Forum on GMO Legislation Oct. 22! - Carpool? 5 - 7 PM Community Workshop at VCIH: Herbal Adjuncts in Alcohol Over-Use 6 - 8 PM Meeting for Historic East Calais Church 6:30 PM +2 more see less	23 Woodbury Fire Department Meeting Oct. 23 All Day VTRANS Village Bridge Public Forum All Day "The Roots of My Raising" a Photographic Journey by George Woodard All Day Cabot School Board Meeting Oct. 23 All Day Knitting Group 10 - 11 AM Calais Roads Advisory Meeting Change 10 AM "Insurrection, Corruption & Murder in Early Vermont" Book Talk 6 - 8 PM Public Info Meeting: E. Montpelier US 2/VT 14 Bridge Reconstruction 6:30 - 8:30 PM East Montpelier Village US 2/VT 14 Bridge/Intersection Reconstruction 6:30 - 8:30 PM East Montpelier Village US 2/VT 14 Bridge/Intersection Reconstruction 6:30 PM E. Montpelier Village US 2/VT 14 Bridge & Intersection Reconstruction 6:30 PM +7 more see less	24 Maplehill School and Community Farm Harvest Supper Oct. 24 All Day Maplehill School and Community Farm Harvest Supper - Oct. 24 All Day Annual Fall Rummage Sale 9 AM (multiday) Good Living Senior Center Pasta Gala Fundraiser 5 - 8 PM Disney Cabaret at U32 for All Ages Oct. 24 6:30 - 8:30 PM The Vermont Movie: Film Series at the Twin Valley Senior Center 6:30 - 9 PM Bueno Comedy Showcase! 14th State Podcast 8 - 9:30 PM +3 more see less	25 Rich's Hollow Summer Concert Series - Oct. 25 All Day Empty Bowls Event to Benefit the VT Food Bank All Day Fall Foliage Family Hike All Day Annual Pumpkin Walk All Day 25th Anniversary of "Karen Kitzmiller Memorial Coat Drive"! All Day Final Rich's Hollow Concert Series Oct. 25 All Day Halloween Party at Calais Elementary Oct. 25! All Day Green Mountain Youth Symphony Playathon Oct. 25 9 AM - 7 PM Green Mountain Youth Symphony Playathon Oct. 25 9 AM - 7 PM Music Scholarships Fundraising Concert 9 AM - 7 PM Green Mountain Youth Symphony Playathon 9 AM - 7 PM Center Farm Lamb and Wool Sale This Weekend! 9 AM (multiday) Conference on Senior Issues in Time of Political Turmoil 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM Montpelier Alive's Pumpkin Carving Party & Pie Sale 11 AM - 2 PM Earthwalk Fall Community Day 11 AM - 3 PM Onion River Exchange (ORE) Quilt Raffle 1 PM Clay Class Saturday October 25 2 - 4 PM A Mystic Heart Circle Oct. 25 4 - 4:20 PM Peacham Elementary School Halloween Party Oct. 25 4 - 6:30 PM Captivating Music, Amazing Musicians 4 PM Annual Pumpkin Walk 5 PM Annual Pumpkin Walk 5 PM Free Turkey Dinner 5:30 - 8:30 PM "Jai Ho!" Dance Flash Mob Forming! 6 - 8 PM The 6th Annual Indian Dinner to Benefit Child Haven 6 PM Freelancers at Sweet Melissa's Oct. 25 9 PM (multiday) +22 more see less
26 Art & Astrology 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM State Senator Pollina at the Farm Oct. 26 11 AM - 1 PM Cabot Arts Show and Tell Group Meeting 3 - 5 PM Message from the Twin Valley Senior Center 4 - 6 PM	27 Candidates Forum All Day Kellogg-Hubbard Story Time on the Road! All Day Rally and Sit-In for Climate Justice! All Day Kellogg-Hubbard Story Time on the Road! 10:30 AM Rally: Say No to Addison Cty. Fracked Gas Pipeline 3 - 5 PM Mass Action to Stop Vermont Fracked Gas Pipeline 3 - 5 PM Rally and Sit-In for Climate Justice! 3 - 6:30 PM Pipeline Protest 3 PM Time's Up, Rise Up! Rally and Sit-In for Climate Justice - October 27 3 PM Bingo! Hardwick American Legion Every Monday Night - $16/19 Plays 6 - 9 PM Selectboard Agenda - Monday, Oct. 27 6:30 PM Plainfield Select Board Meeting 7 - 9 PM +8 more see less	28 Input Needed on Natural Resource Issues - Meeting Oct. 28 All Day Want to Save Big Money on Heating Your House? 5:30 - 6:30 PM How to Save with Solar & Cold Climate Heat Pumps 6:30 PM Garret Keizer at Bear Pond Books 7 - 8 PM World War II Bomber Crash on Camel's Hump - Oct. 28 Program 7 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	29 Osher (Olli) Presentation All Day Olli Presents Nancy Graff on Vermont Farm Life During the Depression 1:30 - 3 PM OLLI Lecture on Vermont FSA Photographs, 1936-1942 1:30 - 3 PM Empty Bowls! Benefit for Vermont Foodbank 5 - 7 PM CCV Harvest for Hunger Oct 29th 5 - 7 PM Cabot Community Association Bd. of Directors Oct. 29 6 - 7:30 PM Workshop at VCIH: Herbal Relief for Chronic Body Pain 6 - 8 PM Danziger Live at Old Labor Hall Oct. 29 6:30 PM Concerts Not to Be Missed 7 PM Special Town Meeting Public Hearing 7 PM +6 more see less	30 Songwriters & Poets! 7 - 9:30 PM	31 Looking for Pied-A-Terre with Balcony Until 3 PM Peacham Corner Guild Annual Christmas Show 10 AM - 4 PM The Circus is Coming to Peacham! 2 - 3 PM Hardwick Elementary Music Movie Night! 6 - 8 PM Halloween at Whammy Bar Featuring Music by Penny Arcade 7 - 9:30 PM Grottoblaster: Halloween Show 7:30 - 10 PM +2 more see less	1 Peoples Climate Summit All Day Porch Sale Nov. 1 All Day Work Hike with Green Mountain Club 8 AM Weatherization Open House Nov. 1 9 AM - 12 PM Weatherizing Open House 9 AM - 12 PM Clay Class Nov. 1 - Six Bulls 2 - 4 PM Kids' Puppet Show Series in Hardwick! 2 PM Grottoblaster: Kids' Show 2:30 - 4:30 PM Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Celebration - Saturday 5 - 10 PM Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Celebration 5 PM Bliss Hill at North Branch Cafe - This Saturday 7:30 - 9:30 PM Bliss Hill at the North Branch Cafe 7:30 - 9:30 PM Support Our State Parks at the Flynn Nov. 1 7:30 PM +9 more see less