Calendar - Front Porch Forum

December 2014

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30 Holiday Pottery Open House (multiday) Bottle Drive This Weekend (multiday) Women's Festival of Crafts in Burlington (multiday) Last Sunday of the Month Dinner for TVSC All Day Last Sunday of the Month Dinner All Day Take-Out Dinner to Support Twin Valley Senior Center All Day Twin Valley Senior Last Sunday of the Month Dinner All Day Montpelier Antiques Market Opens Sunday, Nov. 30 8 AM - 1:30 PM Message from Twin Valley Seniors - Sunday Dinners 2 - 4 PM Moving Help Needed 3 - 7 PM Last Sunday of the Month Dinner 4 PM Twin Valley Senior Center Take-Out Dinner 4 PM +8 more see less	1 Water/Wastewater Meeting Agenda All Day Classic Book Club December Discussion 6 - 8 PM Bingo! Hardwick American Legion - Public Encourage to Come Play! 6 - 9 PM Monthly Energy Committee Meeting Monday 7pm OSC 7 PM	2 Parenting Group - Dec. 2 All Day Tuesday Lunch and Learn at North Branch Cafe - Dec. 2 All Day Cabot Arts Show and Tell Group Meeting All Day Support Jeudevine Library: Stories at The Supper Club Dec. 2 All Day Winter Wildlife Tracking Wshop at the Coop, Tues, Dec. 2 All Day Conversation on Racial Justice and Dismanteling White Supremacy 6 PM Lamoille River Paddlers' Trail - Meeting Dec. 2 7 - 8:30 PM Planning Commission Meeting Agenda 7 - 9 PM New World Music Choral Group to Start Tuesday Dec. 2! 7 - 9 PM Green Mountain Playboys Play Cajun Dance Party in Burlington! 8 - 10 PM +6 more see less	3 Osher (OLLI) Presentation All Day Cabot Community Association Meeting All Day OLLI Presents Rick Winston, Film Scholar Dec. 3 & 10 1:30 - 3 PM Osher (OLLI) Program for This Week 1:30 - 3 PM OLLI Program on Movie Classics 1:30 PM East Montpelier Capital Improvement Plan Public Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM Cabot Selectboard Meeting 7 PM Cabot Community Association Board Meeting Dec. 3 7 PM Events at the Jaquith 7 PM +5 more see less	4 CES Board Hosts U-32 Debate Club All Day Rising Tide Potluck and Info Sharing All Day CES Board Special Meeting Agenda Dec. 4 All Day Campaign for VCFA Open House 4 - 6 PM Upcoming Class at Tulsi Tea Room: Beautiful Broths 6:30 - 8 PM Planning Commission Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Jazz Trio at Capitol Grounds Coffee House Montpelier 6:30 - 8:30 PM Rising Tide Community Potluck 6:30 PM Calais & E. Mont. Special Joint Selectboard Mtng 7 PM +5 more see less	5 Spaghetti Dinner & Raffle at CES This Friday! All Day Spaghetti Dinner and Raffle Fundraiser All Day Learn to Make 3D Paper Snowflakes All Day TVSC Death Cafe Series All Day Worcester First Friday Family Dance This Friday Dec. 5 All Day Spaghetti Dinner & Raffle Fundraiser at CES All Day Going to Dinner/Raffle at Calais Elementary School? All Day Twin Valley Senior Center Death Cafe Series All Day Art Walk - Jeweler Bill Butler All Day "Celebrating the Dishtowel" Exhibit at Jacquith All Day Open Gym/Activity Time for Kids in Marshfield 3 - 4:30 PM Opening Reception: Shamus Mccaffrey Langlois at Gallery Six 4 - 8 PM Art Walk Dec. 5 4 - 8 PM VCFA Illumination Night - Dec. 5 5:30 - 7 PM Illumination Night Dec. 5 5:30 - 7 PM Worcester First Friday Family Dance This Friday Dec. 5 6:30 - 8 PM The Vermont Movie Series Part Five 6:30 - 9 PM +13 more see less	6 Santa Claus is Coming to Town! All Day Farmers Market All Day Craftsbury Library Book Sale Dec. 6 All Day Free Bluegrass Gospel Concert All Day Holiday Craft Fair at the Maple Corner Community Center Dec 6 All Day Holiday Fair Dec. 6 All Day Friends of Peacham Library Silent Auction All Day Another Holiday Fair in Montpelier! All Day Macc's 15th Annual Festival of Lights in Morrisville All Day Saturday, Dec. 6 Holiday Fair All Day All You Can Eat Pie / Silent Auction Dec 6 All Day Holiday Mosaic Workshop Saturday! All Day Free Bluegrass Gospel Concert All Day Calais Holiday Market All Day Help the Montpelier Food Pantry When You Visit Santa on Saturday All Day Dug Nap at Artisans Hand All Day Cookie Decorating, Holiday Program and Santa Claus is Coming to Town! All Day Cookie Decorating, Holiday Program and Santa Claus is Coming to Town! All Day Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Winter Concert Sat. All Day Classic Film Series at MCCC All Day The Annual Calais Holiday Market All Day Santa Visiting This Saturday! All Day Twinfield Holiday Craft Bazaar Dec. 6 8:30 AM - 2 PM Twinfield Holiday Bazaar Still Accepting Vendors & Volunteers 8:30 AM - 2 PM Christmas Bazaar 9 AM - 1 PM Holiday Fair Today Unitarian Church of Montpelier 9 AM - 2 PM Montpelier Unitarian Church Holiday Fair 9 AM - 2 PM Friends of the Cutler Memorial Library Vermont-Made Gift Basket Raffle 9 AM - 2 PM Belize Auction 9 AM - 4 PM Third Annual All You Can Eat Pie Breakfast at Doty School 9 AM Holiday Craft Fair at Maple Corner Community Center on 12/6 9:30 AM - 3 PM Capital City Farmers Market Dec. 6 10 AM - 2 PM Capital City Farmers Market Dec. 6 10 AM - 2 PM Farmers Market Dec. 6 10 AM - 2 PM Capital City Farmer's Market - Winter Market 10 AM - 2 PM Holiday Market in Craftsbury Dec. 6 10 AM - 3 PM Indoor Yard Sale 114 Frost Lane, Walden 10 AM (multiday) High Holiday Tea at Peacham Library Dec 6 2 - 4 PM Indoor Yard Sale 2 - 5 PM A Film About Coffee - Benefit Event for Food 4 Farmers 2:30 - 7 PM North Danville Memory Tree! 7 - 8:30 PM Rik Barron Plays at the Music Box Dec. 6 7:30 - 9:30 PM +38 more see less
7 Annual Wreath Making All Day Annual Wreath Making All Day Granite City Grocery Potluck Dec 7 All Day Granite City Grocery (GCG) Holiday Pot Luck Supper All Day Wreath Making Event All Day Come to the Plainfield Holiday Farmers Market & Trunk Sale - Dec. 7 All Day Basket Making Workshop with Nick Neddo 9 AM - 5 PM Plainfield Holiday Farmers Market and Trunk Sale 10 AM - 3 PM North Danville Brainerd Memorial Library Open House Dec. 7 2 - 4 PM Free Dad and Kid Ice Skating! 4 - 5:15 PM Summit School Open House! 5 - 7 PM Summit School Open House! 5 - 7 PM Mass Appeal Comedy Showcase 7 - 8:30 PM +9 more see less	8 Plainfield Dec. 8 Selectboard Meeting with Time Breakdown All Day Holiday Concert All Day Bingo! Hardwick American Legion - Public Encourage to Come Play! 6 - 9 PM Info on Tax Credits for Commercial Property Owners-Plfd Village 7 - 8 PM Plainfield Select Board Meeting Dec. 8 7 - 9 PM Selectboard Agenda - Monday Dec. 8 7 PM +2 more see less	9 Lunch and Learn at North Branch Cafe - Tuesday Dec. 9 All Day VTrans On-Road Bicycle Plan Public Meeting Dec. 9 All Day Re-Envision the Future of Wolcott All Day Twinfield Union School Board Meeting Dec. 9 All Day Annual Holiday Open House at VCIL 5 - 7 PM Next Hardwick Choral Sing Dec. 9 7 - 9 PM +2 more see less	10 Song Circle: Community Sing-A-Long at Jaquith All Day Snow Plowing Available All Day Osher (OLLI) Presentation All Day Date for Pop-Up Workshop All Day Council Mtg Wednesday - Budget Time! All Day Marshfield Historical Society Meeting Canceled 6:30 AM Osher (OLLI) Program This Week 1:30 - 3 PM OLLI Presents Rick Winston, Film Scholar Dec. 10 1:30 - 3 PM Menstrual Awesomeness! ~ Anatomy, Remedies, and Self-Care 5:30 - 7:30 PM Music at Bagitos This Week Dec. 10-14 6 PM (multiday) Cabot Selectboard Meeting - Budget Working Session 6 PM Marshfield Historical Society 6:30 - 8 PM Dec. 10 Meeting Agenda - Calais Conservation Commission 7 PM +9 more see less	11 Exercise over 40 Talk at North Branch Cafe All Day Fund Raising Event - Build the Bridge Dec 11! All Day Exercise Over 40 Talk at the North Branch Cafe Thursday Night All Day Parent Education and Substance Awareness Meeting Dec. 11 All Day Parent Education at U-32 on Substance Awareness All Day Parent Education Presentation at U-32 All Day Parent/Community Education Presentation at U-32 All Day Vermont Works for Women - Peer Aggression Workshop 12:30 - 5 PM Coding Day at Peacham Library Dec. 11 1 - 7 PM Mystery Book Group 2:30 - 3:30 PM Join the Discussion - Special Ed Forum - Dec. 11 6 PM Free Parent Education Presentation and Substance Awareness Dec. 11 6:30 PM Parent Education Presentation and Substance Awareness 6:30 PM Community Awareness/Parent Ed at U-32 Dec. 11 6:30 PM I Wanted to Share This...Especially with Taxes Coming Up 9 PM (multiday) +11 more see less	12 Twin Valley Seniors Sing-Alongs Dec. 12, 19 All Day Session Americana at the Haybarn Theatre All Day Session Americana at the Haybarn Theatre All Day Movement/Community Building Weekend Dec. 12-14 All Day Laura Cortese in Concert with Session Americana All Day Cheap Art Sale 4 - 7 PM Free Concert This Friday 7 - 8:30 PM JSC Concert Band Performance 7 - 8:30 PM Local Folks Put on Winter Concert - Friday 7:30 PM Northeast Kingdom Chorus Christmas Program Dec.12 7:30 PM Session Americana Concert 8 - 10 PM Laugh Local Vt Comedy Open Mic 8 - 10:30 PM +8 more see less	13 Touch of Vermont Holiday Gift Market This Saturday All Day Holiday Open Studio Sale: Mary, Terry, Georgia, Chet&Viiu/ Dec. 13-14 (multiday) Holiday Happenings Arts & Crafts Dec 13 & 14! (multiday) Holiday Open Studio Print and Craft Sale (multiday) Holiday Open House and Sale (multiday) Gingerbread Houses Program All Day Earthwalk Craft Party Dec. 13! All Day Earthwalk Vermont Craft Party! All Day Michael Arnowitt Playing Jazz with Trio Dec. 13 All Day Walden Community Craft Fair Dec. 13 All Day Santa is Coming to Town All Day Ben Koenig & Mark Greenberg in Concert in Adamant All Day Solidarity Craft Fair This Saturday All Day Concert All Day Earthwalk Craft Party! All Day Old Brick Church Christmas Luncheon Reminder All Day Old Brick Church Christmas Luncheon All Day Walden Community Craft Fair All Day Touch of Vermont Holiday Market Dec 13 All Day Green Mountain Youth Symphony Performance All Day Marshfield School of Weaving Studio Sale 9 AM - 4 PM 21st Annual Solidarity Craft Fair Dec. 13! 9 AM - 4 PM Planting Hope' 21st Solidarity Craft Fair 2014! 9 AM - 4 PM Planting Hope's 21st Solidarity Craft Fair! 9 AM - 4 PM Santa, Crafts and Latkes at Peacham Library Dec 13 10 AM - 12 PM Tree and Wreath Fundraiser 10 AM - 1 PM Open Shop and Felting Class at Agape Hill Farm 10 AM - 2 PM Walden Community Craft Fair 10 AM - 3 PM Walden Community Craft Fair 10 AM - 3 PM Holiday Open Studio 10 AM - 5 PM Holiday Sale Dec. 13 & 14 10 AM - 5 PM Holiday Open Studio Print & Craft Sale Dec 13 & 14 East Montpelier 10:30 AM (multiday) Old Brick Church Christmas Luncheon 12 - 2 PM Earthwalk Craft Party! 1 - 4 PM Youth Symphony Concert Tomorrow, Dec. 13 3:30 - 5 PM GMYS Concerts at Barre Opera House Dec. 13 3:30 PM Echo Valley Community Arts Presents "A Child's Christmas in Wales" 5 - 7 PM Promenade Withdrawal? Hardwick Contra Dance Dec 13 5:30 PM Anything Goes: Mark Greenberg and Ben Koenig at the Adamant Church 7 PM Special Contra Dance (With Entertainment) This Saturday! 7:30 - 10 PM ‘Dare to Be Square' Dance, with Kick 'Em Jenny and Lausanne Allen! 7:30 - 10 PM +37 more see less
14 Kids Night Out! All Day Barre Tones Annual Holiday Show All Day Parents Gather Dec. 14 to Honor Children Who Passed All Day Kids' Night Out Sunday! All Day Parent's Night Out! Teen Jazz Group, Montpelier All Day Montpelier Community Christmas Carol Sing All Day Worldwide Candlelight Vigil for Children That Have Passed All Day Tiferet Trails Wilderness Girls Series Workshop: Weave the Tapestry 12 - 4 PM Hot Cocoa & Holiday Stories with Mich Kabay 6 - 7:30 PM +5 more see less	15 Kellogg Hubbard Library to Meet with Selectboard All Day EMES Budget Forum All Day Water/Wastewater Meeting Notice All Day Selectboard and Road Discontinue Meetings Continued All Day Emes Budget Forum All Day Bingo! Hardwick American Legion - Public Encourage to Come Play! 6 - 9 PM Cancelled: Parks Commission Meeting December 7 - 9 PM +3 more see less	16 Cabot Public Library Trustees Until 6 PM Militarization of Police All Day Lunch & Learn at the North Branch Cafe All Day Health Fair at Hazen Union All Day City of Montpelier - Bike/Pedestrian Public Info Session Q+A All Day Pedestrian/Bicycle Master Plan Public Session 6:30 - 8:30 PM Planning Commission Meeting Agenda 7 - 9 PM Cabot Agricultural Network Meets Dec. 16 7 PM +4 more see less	17 Book to Film Program: Life of Pi Dec. 17 All Day U-32 Board Considers Next Year's Budget Dec. 17 All Day Special Council Mtg Today - More Budget! All Day Clothes & Toys for Girls & Boys - Next Giveaway Dec. 17 All Day Brook Naming Discussion at Conservation Commission Meeting All Day Osher (OLLI) Presentation All Day Peter's Unofficial Recorded & Annotated CESB Notes Nov. 17 All Day U-32 Board Considers Next Year's Budget Dec. 17 All Day Calais Roads Advisory Committee Meeting All Day U-32 Board to Consider Next Year's Budget All Day Story Time at the Jeudevine! 10 - 11 AM OLLI Reschedules Rick Winston 1:30 - 3 PM Plainfield Opera House: Potluck & Family Movie Night 5:30 - 8:30 PM Plainfield Opera House:Community Potluck & Family Movie Night Dec 17 5:30 - 8:30 PM Worcester Neighborhood Watch 6:30 - 8 PM Unnamed Stream in Plainfield 7:15 - 8:30 PM +12 more see less	18 Nest Warming Party at Good Beginnings of Central Vermont All Day Twinfield Union School Board Meeting Dec 18 All Day Parents, Babies & Young Children Invited to Gather/Play/Eat & Craft All Day Women of Maple Corner Yankee Swap - Dec. 18 All Day Come Warm Up "The Nest" Parenting Resource Center All Day Holiday Sing Along at Montelier Sr Center All Day Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols All Day Montpelier Sr Center Sing Along All Day CES Board Meeting Dec. 18 All Day Women of Calais Yankee Swap Dec 18 All Day Cancelled Community Lunch 12 PM Peacham Elementary School Holiday Caroling Dec 18 1:15 - 2:30 PM No More Deaths Herbal Medicine-Making Session & Mapping Our Ancestry 5:30 - 8 PM Comedy at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier 7 - 8:30 PM +10 more see less	19 Metal Recycling All Day Cvcoa Chats 9 AM - 12 PM Santa's Shop 2 PM (multiday) Family-Friendly Friday Film 6 - 7:30 PM The Vermont Movie Series Part Six 6:30 - 9 PM +1 more see less	20 French Christmas Music! (multiday) Onion River Chorus Christmas Concert (multiday) Onion River Chorus Concerts Dec. 20-21 (multiday) Green Mountain Nutcracker at the Barre Opera House All Day Green Mountain Nutcracker All Day Christmas Choral Concert All Day Coffee with a Cop Event All Day Live Music at the North Branch Cafe All Day Santa is Coming to Town! All Day Porter Brook Trio Celebrates Winter Solstice All Day Classic Film Series at MCCC All Day Toy Joy 9 AM - 2 PM Central Vermont Humane Society Holiday with the Animals Event 10 AM - 2 PM Central Vermont Humane Society Holiday with the Animals Event 10 AM - 2 PM Capital City Farmers' Market Dec 20 Montpelier City Hall 10 AM - 2 PM Capital City Farmers Market - Dec 20 10 AM - 2 PM Last Open Studio of 2014 10 AM - 5 PM Coffee with a Cop Saturday! 11 AM - 12 PM Winter Farmers Market 11 AM - 2 PM Healer's Cauldron at the Hardwick Winter Farmers' Market 11 AM - 2 PM This Month's Holiday Market 11 AM - 2 PM Remember When the Holidays Were the Best Ever? 3 - 7 PM Remember When the Holidays Were the Best Ever? 3 - 7 PM Going Away Get Together for Anne Walker 10 - 11 PM +20 more see less
21 Onion River Chorus Christmas Concert! All Day Ice Skating with Frosty the Snowman All Day Organ Recital at Christ Episcopal Church Sunday Dec. 21 All Day Ice Skating with Frosty the Snowman 2 - 4 PM Cabot Arts Show and Tell Group Meeting, Sunday 3 PM Special Carol Singalong Dec 21 6 PM Christmas Eve Service 6 PM Candlelight Service Dec. 21 6 PM Candlelight Service Dec. 21 6 PM +5 more see less	22 Public Menorah Lighting with Governor Monday All Day Agenda for Select Board Meeting Dec 22 All Day Crafting Peace, Feeding Syrian Refugees All Day Bingo! Hardwick American Legion - Public Encourage to Come Play! 6 - 9 PM Selectboard Agenda - Dec. 22 6 PM Plainfield Select Board Meeting-Municipal Building 7 - 9 PM Crafting Peace, Feeding Syrian Refugees 8 - 11 PM +3 more see less	23 Town Water System Update - Boil Water Notice Lifted 12 PM	24 Christmas Eve Services All Day Christmas Eve Services 5 and 7:30 PM at the Old Meeting House All Day Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - 7 PM All Day Xmas Eve Doggie Fun! All Day Worcester Christmas Eve Candlelight Service All Day +1 more see less	25 We Will Be Closed on These Holiday Thursdays All Day Christmas Meals Served 11:30 AM	26 Music This Week at Bagitos Cafe 6 PM (multiday)	27
28 Free Dance Dec 28 All Day Free Contra, Square, and Line Dance Dec 28 All Day Breaking Up Christmas: Cajun Dance Dec. 28 3 - 7 PM Cajun Solstice Dance with Green Mountain Playboys! 3 PM Candlelight Service 7 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	29 Select Board, Notice of Special Meeting - Budget All Day	30 Pop in for Pop-Ups! 10 AM - 12 PM Music at Bagitos Cafe This Week 6 PM (multiday)	31 Marko the Magician New Year's Eve 4:30 - 7 PM	1 We Will Be Closed on These Holiday Thursdays All Day	2 Contra Dance Tonight Jan. 2nd in Peacham 7 AM Family Dance, Jan. 2 6:30 - 8 PM Young Tradition VT Reunion Concerts at the Flynnspace in Burlington! 7 PM	3 Montpelier Farmer's Market Jan. 3 All Day Capital City Farmers Market Jan. 3 All Day Farmers Market Jan. 3 All Day Downstreet Eats Cooking Classes - January 3rd - Your Home Creamery 10 AM - 12:30 PM Jan. 3 Zentangle Workshop -- Relaxing, Meditative Drawing for Everyone 10 AM - 1 PM Zentangle Workshop - Relaxing, Meditative Drawing for Everyone 10 AM - 1 PM Bottle Drive This Weekend 10 AM (multiday) Free Author Readings at VCFA: Karin Gottshall & Barbara Hurd 7 - 8 PM Community Coffeehouse at Peacham Library Jan. 3 7 - 9 PM "Casablanca" Showing at Maple Corner Community Center 7 - 9 PM Celtic, Quebecois & Cajun Music Jan. 3 7:30 - 9:30 PM +7 more see less