Calendar - Front Porch Forum

October 2014

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28 The Music Man Opens Sept. 25 at Hyde Park Opera House 7 PM (multiday) Multi Family Tag Sale (multiday) Garage Sale (multiday) Garage Sale (multiday) Garage Sale (multiday) Yard Sale of Antiques (multiday) Multi Family Tag Sale (multiday) Saxon Hill School Annual Barn and Bake Sale Sept. 27 & 28 8 AM (multiday) Estate Yard Sale Sept. 27 9 AM (multiday) Old Fashioned Harvest Market 9 AM (multiday) Garage Sale - Poker Hill Rd - Sept. 27 & 28 10 AM (multiday) Support System for Cancer Patients & Their Families 6:30 PM (multiday) Tag Sale All Day Garage Sale All Day Cider House Run/Walk All Day Special Olympics Chittenden Bake Sale, Day 2 8 AM - 2 PM Moving Sale 9 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale Sun. - Corner of Old Stage Rd & Rt 2 9 AM Vision Walk (Walk a Thon) Sept. 28 10 AM - 12:30 PM Essex Green Townhouse for Sale 11 AM - 1 PM Essex Green Townhouse for Sale - Open House Sept. 28 11 AM - 1 PM Huntington River Vineyard - Dinner, Music & Art! 4 - 7:30 PM +18 more see less	29 Homework Help at the O'Brien Community Center All Day Girl Scout Information Night All Day Town Center Parking Lot Construction Work 7 AM - 4 PM Stoptheviolencevt.com Press Event Sept 29 10 AM Author Adam Gidwitz at the Burnham Library 6 - 7:30 PM +1 more see less	30 Celebrating Barry's Retirement from the Underhill Center PO All Day Underhill Selectboard Meeting Agenda 6 PM	1 Alfred Hitchcock and the Art of Suspense All Day Winooski Community Partnership Mixer All Day Gateway District Zoning Meeting All Day What's Up with Zoning - Important Meeting Wed. All Day RCC 68th Annual Chicken Pie Dinner 4:30 - 7:30 PM Richmond Congregational Church Annual Chicken Dinner Fund Raiser 4:30 - 7:30 PM Trails Committee Guided Hike on VYCC Trails Oct. 1 5 - 7 PM Solar & Heat Pump Info Open House 5:30 - 7 PM Winooski Community Partnership Community Mixer 5:30 - 7:30 PM Winter Garden Workshop 6 - 8 PM Shelburne Development Review Board Meeting 7 - 10 PM +7 more see less	2 UVM Aiken Lecture: 3d Printing/Makers Movement/Natural Design All Day Uvm Aiken Lecture: Neri Oxman All Day UVM Aiken Lecture - Highlights 3d Printing/Makers Movement/Nature and Design All Day UVM Aiken Lecture - Highlights 3 D Printing/Makers Movement/Nature and Design All Day Community Soup & Bread Supper All Day Film Showing - "Quietly into Disaster All Day Concert at Brick Meeting House All Day Last Farmers Market of the Season 3 - 6:30 PM Poetry, Playwriting, Children's Picture Books at Writers' Barn 6:30 PM Concert @ Brick Meeting House, Westford, Oct. 2 7 - 9:30 PM +6 more see less	3 Re-Run-Shoes Collection at Grace United Methodist Church 9 AM - 1 PM Rummage Sale at Grace United Methodist Church 9 AM - 5 PM Garage Sale 10 AM (multiday) This Friday at Richmond Farmers Market 3 - 6:30 PM Jazz This Friday 4:30 - 6:30 PM Kids' Night Out - Fall Edition 6 - 9 PM Enrichment Fundraiser! 6 - 10 PM Casino Night Oct. 3 7 - 11 PM +4 more see less	4 Fall Open Studio Weekend Oct 4-5 (multiday) Cochran's Bike Rides and Trail Run All Day Chicken Pie Supper All Day Find Those Running Shoes - RES Family FUNrun All Day Craft/Art Show All Day Cochran's Bike Rides and Trail Run All Day Williston Fire Open House All Day Bellwether School Gear Exchange & Tag Sale 9 AM - 12 PM Seeking Volunteers for Mobb's Trail Day Oct. 4 9 AM - 12 PM Bazaar & Craft Sale Oct. 4 9 AM - 3 PM Free Invasives Walk This Saturday! 9:30 AM - 4 PM National Fire Prevention Week - Open House at SBFD Station #1 10 AM - 2 PM Bottle Drive Fundraiser 10 AM - 2 PM 24 Hour Comic Event 10 AM (multiday) GMAD's 4th Annual Walk for Farmed Animals 11 AM - 12:30 PM Green Mountain Animal Defender's Annual Walk for Farmed Animals 11 AM - 1 PM Roller Derby is Back - Night of the Living Dames V is Here! 4:30 - 9 PM +13 more see less
5 Open House- 174 Plains Rd All Day Freedom and Unity: the Vermont Movie at the Library All Day St. Mary's Ham Dinner All Day Cambridge Area Rotary Presents 27th 5k Fun Run and Walk 9:30 AM - 12 PM SB Farmers Market 10 AM - 12 PM Sale of Hand Blown Glass Sun. 10 AM - 5 PM Opera Lovers Outing 10 AM Gorgeous Jericho Country Home - Open House Sun. 1-3 1 - 3 PM Open House Sun. 1-3 174 Plains Rd $389000- $16,000 Below Appraisal 1 - 3 PM Open House at Thompson's Point Camp 2 - 4 PM Art for Gillett Pond Reception 5 - 7 PM +7 more see less	6 Breakfast with the Principal of MMU All Day Richmond Water Commission Agenda for Oct. 6 5:30 - 7 PM The Power of Harmony: Martial Arts 101 at Aikido of Champlain Valley 5:30 - 7 PM Richmond Selectboard Agenda Oct. 6 7 - 9 PM	7 Love Bomb Documentary at the Roxy All Day Prenatal Yoga at Yoga Roots 4:30 - 5:45 PM Free Program: Know the 10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer's 6 - 7:30 PM Know the 10 Signs: Early Alzheimer's Detection Matters 6 - 7:30 PM Seminar on Positive Discipline and Tantrums 6 - 8 PM Meet the Democratic Senate Candidates at Town Tavern 6:30 - 8 PM CESU Merger Discussion Meeting - Underhill Central School 6:30 PM Waterbury Dam Hearing 6:30 PM Healing Documentary 7 PM (multiday) Pills and Potions, Liquors and Laudanum: Medicine in the Civil War Era 7 PM +6 more see less	8 Hale and Hearty Monthly Meeting All Day Woodchuck Returns to Gardening All Day Babies and Toddlers: Early Literacy Story Time Oct. 8 10:30 - 11 AM Informational Forum Regarding Unified School District 6 - 7 PM Community Meeting Regarding School Unification Vote 6 - 7 PM School Board Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Public Informational Meeting on the Connector Road 7 PM Poetry by Moonlight - Writing Jam 8:30 - 10 PM +4 more see less	9 Essex Community Players Presents the Spitfire Grill (multiday) Photographs in Response to FPF Postings! All Day Essex Candidate Forum: Oct. 9 All Day Community Dinner Thursday All Day Photo Reception at the Block Gallery Oct. 9 5 - 7 PM Local Candidate's Forum on Humans Rights & Economy 6 - 9 PM Planning Commission Meeting Materials 7 - 9 PM +3 more see less	10 17th Annual Breast Cancer Conference Oct. 10 All Day Vermont Cancer Center's 17th Annual Breast Cancer Conference All Day Huge Moving Sale! Repa Road Oct. 10-12 All Day 17th Annual Breast Cancer Conference Oct. 10 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM This Friday at the Richmond Farmers Market 3 - 6:30 PM Kids Night Out, Parents Night Off - for Students in Grades 5-8 5:30 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	11 Porch Sale - 3152 Cochran Road (multiday) Fun & Family-Friendly Running Event All Day Girl Scout Troop 30821 Bottle Drive All Day Ethan and Ira Challenge All Day Winooski Public Safety Hero's Day Oct 11 All Day Pre Moving Sale All Day Girl Scout Bottle Drive All Day Res Family Funrun Rescheduled All Day Fun and Family-Friendly Running Event! All Day Moving Sale Continues This Weekend All Day West Canal Block Party Oct. 11 All Day VT-French Canadian Genealogical Society All Day Shelburne Fire Pancake Breakfast 7:30 - 11 AM Garage Sale Oct. 11 8 AM (multiday) Pink Out the Park 9 - 11 AM Garage Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Large Moving/Garage Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Smugglers' Notch Ski & Snowboard Club Ski and Board Swap and More! 9 AM - 5 PM Barn Sale 9 AM (multiday) Free Wellness Fair Open House 10 AM - 3 PM Free Wellness Fair Open House 10 AM - 3 PM Introduction to Quebec Genealogy Research 10:30 AM - 12 PM Last U-Mall Blood Drive of the Year! 10:30 AM - 4 PM Welsh Fiddle Workshop at the Burlington Violin Shop Oct. 11 1 - 2:30 PM SBHS Homecoming Parade - Minor Traffic Delays Oct 11 4 - 4:30 PM +21 more see less
12 St. Thomas Annual Harvest Ham Dinner All Day St. Thomas Church Annual Harvest Dinner All Day St. Thomas Church Annual Harvest Ham Dinner All Day Annual Chase Away 5k October 12 9 AM - 12 PM	13 Beverly Little Thunder to Speak at Community Senior Center All Day "The Basics of Hearing Loss" Presented by Dr. Julie Bier 12 - 1 PM New SB Community Blood Drive! 2 - 7 PM	14	15 School Taxes Due All Day Community Dialogue Night All Day American Red Cross Blood Drive 11:30 AM - 5 PM Community Dialogue Night 6 - 8 PM Shelburne Development Review Board Meeting Oct. 15 7 - 10 PM +1 more see less	16 Westford Energy Committee All Day Hooked Rug Exhibit 10 AM (multiday) Pumpkin Carving Contest at the Scuffer Steak & Ale House 6 - 9 PM	17 Mark Abair and Friends at Clover House All Day Oktoberfest Celebration All Day Bread on a Stick and Richmond Cub Scouts Oct. 17 3 - 5:30 PM This Friday Oct. 17 at Richmond Farmers Market 3 - 6:30 PM Feed My Starving Children MobilePack 4 PM (multiday) Colchester Community Wellness Fair and Harvest Dinner 4:30 - 7 PM Brick Church Music Series: Oct 17 Concert 7 - 9 PM Let Your Yoga Dance at Balance Yoga 7:15 - 8:30 PM Jericho Cafe and Tavern Friday Night Music Series: King Me 7:30 - 9:30 PM +5 more see less	18 Champlain Valley Quilt Guild Show (multiday) Fiber Festival at the Fairgrounds (multiday) Queen City Memory Cafe Oct. 18 All Day Queen City Memory Cafe All Day Zacciah Blackburn, Phd Leads Workshop Oct. 18! All Day Authentic Ethiopian/Eritrean Dinner at Artsriot All Day CSWD's Rover in Bolton for Hazardous Waste Collection Oct. 18 All Day Local Genealogy Annual Conference All Day Quilt Show All Day BTV's Canvas Peace Project Art Exhbit and Auction All Day Food Shelf 8 - 10 AM New Y Classes Start Soon and Open House Too! Oct. 18 8:30 AM - 3 PM VT French-Canadian Genealogical Society Conference 8:30 AM - 4 PM Genealogy Conference 8:30 AM - 4 PM Essex-Jericho-Underhill Ecumenical Ministry Food-Shelf Oct. 18 9 - 11:30 AM Horseback Riding for Toddlers! 9 AM - 12 PM Masonic Lodge Open House 9 AM - 1 PM Masonic Lodge Open House 9 AM - 1 PM Zen Buddhist Workshop Oct. 18 9 AM - 1:30 PM Zen Buddhism Workshop 9 AM - 1:30 PM CVU High School Craft Fair 9 AM - 4 PM CVU Craft Fair - Hope to See You There! 9 AM - 4 PM CVUHS Craft Fair Oct. 18 9 AM - 4 PM CVUHS Craft Fair Oct. 18 9 AM - 4 PM Bottle Drive for Eagle Scout Project 9 AM Design a City Center Park - Join Us for Park Walk & Talk! 9:30 AM - 12 PM Quilt Show and Fiber Festival 9:30 AM (multiday) Studio Sale Reminder 10 AM - 4 PM Betty Borah Studio Art Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Boom VT - a Free Community Drum Festival 10 AM - 4 PM Boom Vermont Drum Festival! 10 AM - 4 PM New at Peak Performance - Beginner's Self Defense 10 AM New at Peak Performance - Beginner's Self Defense 10 AM Fall 2014 Comics Cartoonist Class 11 AM - 2 PM Ethiopian Evening at Arts Riot 4 - 10 PM Vietnam Remembrance Dinner and Music by Steve Hartman 5 - 9 PM +32 more see less
19 Modern Grass Quintet Comes to Westford All Day Sunday Concert All Day Talk at Ethan Allen Homestead Oct 19 All Day Muddy's Buddies 5k Run/Walk 9 AM - 11 PM Meet and Greet with State Senator Phil Baruth This Sunday 3-5 3:30 - 5 PM Les Amis Creole with Cedric Watson, Ed Poullard and Desiree Champagne 8 - 10:30 PM +2 more see less	20 Richmond Water Commission Agenda for Oct 20 5:30 - 7 PM Understanding Yourself, Understanding Your Children 6 - 9 PM Community Bible Study for Young Women 6:30 PM Richmond Selectboard Meeting 7 - 9 PM Mindful Living Class 7:15 - 8:45 PM +1 more see less	21 Westford Sustainability Comm. Meeting Oct. 21 All Day Support Group Open House All Day Scleroderma Support Group Open House 6 - 8 PM Painting w/Payton for Artist Wannabees 6 PM Westford Planning Commission Meeting 6 PM +1 more see less	22 Beyond the Peel: Fair Trade Bananas All Day Job Fair Hosted by Manpower at Lane Press! All Day Mater Christi Open House 8:30 - 11 AM Winooski M/H School Host S.T.E.M. Night Oct. 22 6 - 8 PM 20-30 Something Book Group 6 PM 20-30 Somethings Book Group 6 PM Wine Event at Pauline's Restaurant Wed. 6 PM Important Discussion on Hunger in America - Westford Public Library 7 PM +4 more see less	23 Cider + Coffee with Candidate Liz Subin Oct. 23 All Day Cub Scouts Parent Meeting All Day Come See the Social Security Guys in Action 4 - 5 PM Vermont Commons School Upcoming Admissions Reception Oct. 23 5 PM Coffee Hour with Candidate Liz Subin Oct. 23 6 - 8 PM Materials for Oct. 23 Meeting of Planning Commission 6 - 8:30 PM Mmu Finance Committee Budget Discussion 6:30 PM Chs to Host First Concert Oct. 23 7 PM +4 more see less	24 Prospective Parent Luncheon at Rice High School 12 - 1:30 PM Pajama Storytime with Tracey Campbell Pearson 6 - 7 PM Community Pumpkin Carving Evening! 6 - 8 PM UVM Women's Hockey 'Pack the Gut' Game 7 - 9 PM Rotary Clubs Present a Concert to End Polio 7 PM +1 more see less	25 Halloween Hustle 5k: Volunteers Needed! 8 - 10:30 AM New Essex Police Facility Open House 9:45 AM - 2 PM Make a Difference Day - Oct. 25 10 AM - 2 PM Pumpkin Chunkin' in Richmond! 10 AM - 3 PM Google Your Family Tree 10:30 AM - 12 PM RES Farm to School Harvest Festival 11 AM - 3 PM Flag Retirement Ceremony and Wreaths Too! 11 AM - 4 PM 2nd Annual Milton Independent Monster Mile 2:30 - 4:30 PM Craft Beer Tasting and Food Pairing 6 - 8 PM Haunted House Tours - Ferry Road, Charlotte 7 - 10 PM Kamikaze Comedy's Season Finale! 7 PM +7 more see less
26 The Borderlands: a Woods Walk to the Fairy World - Oct. 26 All Day Fun Run-Benefit MMU Travel Club All Day MMU Travel Club Fun Run! All Day Shelburne Museum Haunted Happenings Oct. 26 10 AM - 1 PM Navigate Your Experience Workshop! 10 AM - 4 PM 3rd Annual Great Pumpkin 5k Run/Walk... Oct 26! 10 AM - 11:30 PM Please Join Us for the MMU Travel Club Fun Run! 11 AM Bushels of Baskets Fundraiser 1 - 4 PM Art Reception 2 - 4 PM Town Hall Art Reception 2 - 4 PM Think Square! 2 - 4 PM Walk Into the Woodlands of the Faeries 2 - 5 PM Shelburne Halloween Parade 2 PM The Borderlands: a Woods Walk to the Fairy World - Oct. 26 2 PM Farm to Table Dinner in Montpelier to Benefit Local Families in Need 6 PM +11 more see less	27 MMU Project Grad is Under Way! All Day MCYC Open House 7:30 - 10 AM Fracking Rally & Civil Disobedience 3 PM	28 Congressman Peter Welch to Speak in Essex Oct 28 5:30 - 7:30 PM Local Work Group Meeting Hosted by WNRCD 6 - 8 PM "Energy Options for Today" Workshop 7 - 9 PM Meet the Candidates 7 PM	29 Come Hear Toni Hill Give a Talk About Carmen by Georges Bizet All Day Meet Dawn Ellis, Vt. Senate Candidate, Wed, Oct. 29 8:30 - 10 AM Halloween at Burnham Library Oct. 29 4:30 - 6 PM Winooski State Rep. Candidate Forum 6 - 8 PM Free Film at Vermont Commons School Oct. 29 6 - 9 PM Free Film Screening of "Disruption" at Vermont Commons School 6 - 10 PM Free Film Screening of "Disruption" at Vermont Commons School 6 - 10 PM Free Screening of Documentary Disruption 6 PM Halloween Stories at Dorothy Alling Library 6:30 - 7 PM Our Community Cares Camp Annual Meeting 6:30 - 8 PM Free University of Vermont Event with Mongolian Music 7:30 PM +7 more see less	30 Haunted Barn All Day Soup & Bread Supper All Day MMUUF's Haunted Barn and Halloween Party! All Day Festival of Pumpkins All Day Halloween Bingo Party! All Day Pumpkin Glow & Haunted Forest at Westford School All Day Soup & Bread Supper All Day CESU Merger All Day Green Mountain Swing Band Benefit Performance Oct. 30 All Day Malletts Bay Area Community Meeting at Old Senior Center 5:30 - 7 PM Paddlers in Burlington 6 - 7:30 PM MMU Finance Committee Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Benefit Concert for BRMS Music Department 7 - 8:30 PM Pay 2 Play - Democracy's High Stakes: Free Movie & Discussion 7:30 PM +10 more see less	31 Pumpkin Patch Party All Day SBHS and German Students - Experiencing Halloween! All Day Playgroup Tomorrow! All Day Seeking Assistance with Twig Fence 8 AM - 8 PM Community Playgroup 9:30 - 11 AM Darkroom Gallery Halloween Party/Exhibit Reception 5 - 7:30 PM A Free Pumpkin Patch Party! 6 - 8 PM +3 more see less	1 Moving in 6 Days! Lots for Sale! All Day Essex UMW Holiday Bazaar All Day Cape Breton Music and Dancing Nov. 1 All Day Slopeside Syrup Open House All Day Safer Driving Course Nov. 1 All Day Williston Historical Society: Evening of Cape Breton Music All Day Fall Craft Show at Williston Central School - Nov. 1 All Day Holiday Bazaar 9 AM - 2:30 PM WCS Annual Fall Craft Show Nov. 1 9 AM - 4:30 PM Essex Rescue Open House 10 AM - 2 PM Essex Rescue Open House 10 AM - 2 PM Genealogical Research Methods, Nov. 1 10:30 AM - 12 PM Genealogical Research Methods Nov. 1 10:30 AM - 12 PM Veteran Parade Nov 1 Bristol 11 AM Stamper's Trunk Show Nov. 1 2:30 - 4 PM Bingo at Winooski Senior Center Nov. 1 5 - 11 PM Spaghetti & Meatball Dinner Bingo 5 PM Spa Grand Opening Event 6 - 10 PM Social Band Concerts 7:30 - 8:30 PM +15 more see less