Calendar - Front Porch Forum

May 2018

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29 Retribe Adult Healing Retreat in April (multiday) Community Event All Day Yard Sale Saturday 8 AM - 2 PM Sunday Brunch 10 AM Japanese Tea Ceremony 1 - 3 PM Plainfield Coop Annual Meeting 2:30 - 5:30 PM Wood and Belsher Return to Central Vermont Sunday 3 - 5 PM Richard Wood Fiddler 3 PM Concert at Cabot Town Hall: Bill Staines 4 - 6 PM 48hr Film Showcase and Award Ceremony at Fuller Hall 6:30 - 9 PM +6 more see less	30 Financial Fitness 4-Part Series Begins April 30 6 - 7:30 PM	1 Planning Commission Agenda May 1 All Day Selectboard Meeting May 1 6 - 8 PM BCEMS PTO May 1 2018 Agenda, Annual Meeting & Officers 6:30 - 7:30 PM Cabot Trails Working Group Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM	2 Barre Town Open Meeting May 2 All Day Walk-Through Wednesday at Orchard Valley 8:30 - 10:30 AM Walk-Through Wednesday at Orchard Valley Waldorf School 8:30 - 10:30 AM Sharps Community Forum - Rescheduled for May 2 6 - 7:30 PM Community Forum on Safe Sharps Disposal 6 - 7:30 PM Community Forum on Safe Sharps Disposal 6 - 7:30 PM Author Visit at North Danville Library 7 - 8:30 PM Volunteer to Raise the Campground Tents 7:30 PM (multiday) +4 more see less	3 Relocalizing Vermont: Money - Local Money! 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: Money - Local Money! 9 - 10:30 AM Planning Commission Meeting 5 - 6:30 PM Free Business Building Blocks Workshops 6 - 7:30 PM Danville Selectboard Meeting May 3 6 - 8 PM Forum on Simple, Sustainable Living 6:30 - 8:30 PM Newbury Book Discussion Group 7 - 8 PM Self-Organization, Co-Evolution, Resiliency & Stability 7 - 8:30 PM +4 more see less	4 Spring Clean Up at Buck Park, Summerville 10 AM - 12 PM Peacham Corner Guild Opening for Season 10 AM - 5 PM Fresh Start - Tobacco Quit Group 10:30 - 11:30 AM Square Dance 2 - 3:30 PM Show 25 Opens at The Front During Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Indoor Labyrinth Walk 6 - 7 PM Presentation - Stewardship of the Willoughby Forest 6 PM Age Out Loud Comedic Storytelling Benefit for CVCOA 6:30 - 9:30 PM Johnson State College Concert Band and Choruses 7 - 7 PM Johnson State College Concert Band, Chorale & Chambers 7 - 8:30 PM Chaque Fois Live on WGDR 7 - 9 PM Age Out Loud Comedic Story Telling May 4 7:30 - 9:30 PM Nunsense Opens Friday 7:30 - 9:30 PM Funny Benefit for CVCOA May 4 at the Barre Opera House 7:30 - 10 PM Funny Benefit for CVCOA May 4 at the Barre Opera House 7:30 - 10:30 PM Age Out Loud at Barre Opera House 7:30 PM +12 more see less	5 Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert (multiday) Spring Fest May 5 All Day Green Up Day Bottle Drive All Day Twin Valley Senior Center Open House Art Show All Day Montpelier Kiwanis Club All You Can Eat Breakfast 7 - 11 AM Barnet Green Up Day May 5 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM Barre Republicans Meet 8:30 AM Green Up Day - May 5th - Save the Date! 9 AM - 12 PM Reminder: Green Up Day Marshfield 9 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day Picnic at Peacham School 9 AM - 1 PM Super Large Warehouse Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Green Up Day May 5 9 AM - 3 PM Green Up Day, Save the Date 9 AM - 3 PM Moving Sale Saturday 9 AM Mindfulness Meditation Day at Milarepa Center 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Barre City Cow Pasture Green Up Day 9:30 AM - 11:30 PM Vermont Granite Museum Opening Day Extravaganza! 10 AM - 4 PM Opening Day Extravaganza at the Vermont Granite Museum! 10 AM - 4 PM Dog Mountain Labor of Love Weekend! 10 AM - 4 PM Vermont Granite Museum Opening Day Extravaganza 10 AM - 4 PM 12th Annual Bowl-A-Thon! May 5! 1 - 3 PM 12th Annual People's Health & Wellness Bowl-A-Thon 1 - 3 PM Wellness Expo Fund Raiser 1 - 4 PM Millstone Trails Calcutta Fundraiser! 5 - 10 PM Beatles Tribute Concert (1964 the Tribute) 6 - 9:30 PM Swing Dance Fundraiser for GMYS 6:45 - 9:30 PM North Country Chorus Spring Concerts 7:30 PM Cinco De Mayo Dance 8 PM A Night of Comedy for a Cause! Make Lemonade! 8 PM +25 more see less
6 How the Weimar Republic Became Nazi Germany 6 AM - 7:30 PM How Do You Grow the Most Delicious Veggies on Earth? 7 - 9 AM East Calais Church Meeting May 6 2 - 3 PM Northeast Kingdom Reiki Collective Monthly Reiki Clinic 2 - 4 PM North Country Chorus Spring Concerts 3 PM 2018 Global Labor Film Festival – Harlan County, USA 7 - 9:30 PM +2 more see less	7 Plainfield Informational Hearing May 7 All Day ReTribe Outdoor Summer Camps for Kids and Teens! 9 AM - 3 PM Cabot Blood Drive May 7 10 AM - 4 PM School Budget Info Session Mon. 6:30pm 6:30 - 8 PM School Budget Discussion Monday 6:30 - 8 PM +1 more see less	8 Special Willey Building Committee Meeting Agenda 7:30 - 8 AM Town Office Closed Tuesday 9 AM - 5 PM Free Diabetes Prevention Program Begins May 8 in Berlin 5 - 6 PM Road Reclassification Site Inspection Town Hwy 15, 13 & 44 5 PM Exploring Photoshop - Court Street Arts Class 5:30 - 7:30 PM Central Vermont Internet Governing Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Cancellation of CCIF Meeting 6 - 8 PM Supporting Teens - A Discussion 6 - 8 PM DART Presents: New Marijuana Law, What You Need to Know 6 - 8 PM Central VT ISP Meeting - May 8 6 PM Public Hearing on Dog and Public Gathering Ordinances 6:30 - 7:30 PM Workshop: How to Be an Effective Health Care Agent 6:30 - 8 PM +8 more see less	9 UGC Community Gave-Away 9 AM - 12 PM Need a Job? \| Summer Youth Employment Opportunities 1 - 4 PM Neighborhood Watch Informational Gathering 6 - 7 PM Encore Author Visit at North Danville Library 7 - 8 PM	10 Special Needs Planning Workshops All Day Relocalizing VT: Growing Your Own Cannabis 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT: Growing Your Own Cannabis 9 - 10:30 AM OLLI Lecture Rescheduled 1:30 - 3 PM Open House at Randolph Technical Career Center 6 - 8 PM Free Workshop at Capstone: "Easing into Retirement" 6 - 8 PM Mental Health Crises and Services in Washington County 6 - 8:30 PM Special Needs Planning Workshops 6:30 - 8:30 PM Special Needs Planning Workshops 6:30 - 8:30 PM Poplar Hill Cemetery Association Annual Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM +6 more see less	11 Yard Sale 9 AM - 4 PM Rummage Sale at Montpelier Unitarian Church 9 AM - 6 PM Yard Sale! 10 AM - 5 PM Coffee with a Concert at the Pope Library Comm. Ctr 10:30 - 11:30 AM Square Dance 2 - 3:30 PM Annual Plant Sale! 5 - 7 PM Maplehill School Student Art Show Friday 5 - 7 PM Twinfield Drama Club Presents "Crazytown!" 7 - 8:30 PM +4 more see less	12 Plant Sale All Day Benefit Garage/Bake Sale & Raffle - Blue Stone, P. Pie 8 AM - 12 PM Barre Town Bulk Trash Collection Saturday 8 AM - 2 PM Tag Sale to Benefit the Calais Community Fund 8:30 AM - 3 PM 5K Fun Run / Walk on the Millstone Trails 9 AM - 12 PM Bike Safety Fair St. Johnsbury 9 AM - 1 PM Benefit Yard Sale 9 AM - 2 PM Annual State Surplus Auction 9 AM - 3 PM Moving Sale, Everything Must Go 9 AM (multiday) Neighborhood Garage Sale 9 AM 5k Fun Run/Walk on Millstone Trails 9:30 - 11:30 AM Kids Trade and Play Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM Conference: Building a World Beyond War 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Conference in Burlington: Building a World Beyond War 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Montpelier Memory Cafe May 12 10 - 11:30 AM Mayfest at Orchard Valley 10 AM - 1 PM Mayfest at Orchard Valley 10 AM - 1 PM Mayfest at Orchard Valley Waldorf School 10 AM - 1 PM Mayfest at Orchard Valley 10 AM - 1 PM Gospel Hollow Edible Park - Spring Workday 10 AM - 3 PM Tree Planting Saturday at the Town Hall 10 AM - 3 PM Pope Library Volunteer (Or Volunteer to Be) Brunch 11 AM - 1 PM Bar-B-Que Fundraiser for Relay for Life 11 AM - 1:30 PM Free Douglas Sweets Demo in Cabot 11 AM - 3 PM Millions Missing Rally 1 - 3 PM Dancing in the Northeast Kingdom 6:30 - 10:30 PM Cabot Contra and Square Dance Saturday 7:30 - 10:30 PM Stelvis Carbo with Televici, Saturday at Sweet M's 7:30 - 11:30 PM Onion River Chorus Sings Mozart and Haydn 7:30 PM Cabot Family Contra and Square Saturday 7:30 PM Cabot Contra Dance Next Saturday! 7:30 PM Cabot Contra Dance to Host Quebecois Social Dances 7:30 PM +28 more see less
13 Meditation Exploration 1:30 - 3:30 PM Mother's Day Concert 3 - 4:30 PM Cabot Arts Show and Tell Sunday - Willey Bldg 3 PM Mother's Day with Michael Arnowitt 4 - 6 PM Gamelan Sulukala in Concert Plainfield Opera House 4 PM +1 more see less	14 Barre City School Board Meeting All Day U-32 Blood Drive 8 AM - 12 PM Free Tobacco Cessation Workshop Begins May 14 in Barre 4 - 5 PM Meeting of E. Montpelier & Calais Historical Societies 5 - 8 PM Calais/E. Montpelier Historical Society Meeting May 14 5 PM 30's and Under Social Meditation in Montpelier 6:30 - 8:30 PM 30's and Under Social Meditation in Montpelier 6:30 - 8:30 PM Come Join Us 6:30 - 9:30 PM Board of Abatement - Agenda 6:30 PM Monthly Energy Committee Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM Barnet School Board Meeting 7 - 10 PM Selectboard Agenda May 14 7 PM Plainfield Select Board Meeting May 14 7 PM +9 more see less	15 Introduction to Tai Chi 10 - 11 AM Free Diabetes Prevention Program in Plainfield May 15 12 - 1 PM Needles in the Stacks (NITS) 1 - 3 PM Road Reclassification Site Inspection Town Hwy 55 & 57 5 PM Road Reclassification Site Inspection Town Hwy 55 & 57 5 PM Staying Healthy with the Seasons: Spring! 6 - 7:30 PM Selectboard Meeting May 15 6 - 8:30 PM Using Your Free Online Resources 6:30 - 8 PM +4 more see less	16 Danville School Kindergarten Registration 3 PM Organ Performance Wednesday Evening 6 - 7 PM Energy Efficiency Presentation and Opportunities 6:30 - 8:30 PM	17 A.L.I.C.E. Informational Session May 17 All Day Conservation Commission Meeting Agenda All Day Alexis Chartrand & Nicolas Babineau in Concert May 17 All Day Spring into Summer Qi Gong Series Begins Thursday 8:30 - 9:30 AM Relocalizing VT: Vermont's Amazing Nonprofits 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT: Vermont's Amazing Nonprofits 9 - 10:30 AM Battle of the Badges Blood Drive 1 - 6 PM Effects of Exotic Earthworks on NE Maple Forests 6 - 7:30 PM Plainfield Hazard Mitigation Meeting 6 - 7:30 PM School Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Danville Selectboard Meeting 6 - 8 PM Chartrand & Babineau Bring Quebec to Cabot May 17 7 - 10 PM +8 more see less	18 Garage Sale (multiday) Preschool Story Time at Davies Memorial Library 9:30 - 10:30 AM Square Dance 2 - 3:30 PM Shelter Benefit Spaghetti Dinner 5:30 - 7:30 PM Passumpsic Community Baptist Church Movie Night 6 - 8:30 PM CCIF Meeting May 18 7 - 8 PM +2 more see less	19 Multi-Family Garage Sale! All Day Garage Sale! - Hebert Drive (multiday) Garage and Yard Sales in Gray Road Saturday All Day Learn to Grow Your Own Shittake Mushrooms All Day Garage Sales Saturday Rain or Shine - Gray Road All Day Fantastic Moving Sale Saturday Rain or Shine - Sugarwood Rd All Day Painting of the East Calais Church 8 AM - 2 PM Multi-Family Garage Sale 8 AM - 3 PM Plant/Yard Sale 8 AM - 3 PM Clara Martin Center Hosts 2nd Annual 5k Color Splash 8:30 AM - 12 PM Mother of All Yard Sales - Part 2 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM 5K Color Splash 8:30 AM Household Hazardous Waste Collection 9 AM - 12 PM Flea Market, Kid Zone, Diaper Drive May 19 9 AM - 2 PM Flea Market, Kid Zone and Diaper Drive 9 AM - 2 PM Flea Market, Kids Zone and Diaper Drive! 9 AM - 2 PM Brenda's LuLaRoe Closet is Too Full 9 AM - 2 PM Spring Flea Market 9 AM - 3 PM Volunteers Wanted: Headstone Cleaning 9 AM Upcoming Homeschool Conference 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Sweet Moving Sale Saturday Plainfield 9:30 AM Join U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders for Veterans Town Hall 10 AM - 2 PM Better Government: What's Love Got to Do with It? 2 - 3:30 PM Solidarity with Palestine! 2 - 3:30 PM Church Auction 4:30 - 8 PM Chicken and Biscuit Dinner 5 - 7 PM Roller Derby at Champlain Valley Exposition! 5 - 9 PM Border Board Games - May 19 5 - 11:30 PM Border Board Games - May 19 5 - 11:30 PM Free Community Dinner & Music 5:30 PM Athenaeum Special Event: Among the Alcoves 6:30 - 10 PM Montpelier Community Gospel Small Choir in Concert 7 - 8:30 PM Saint Johnsbury Walk to End Alzheimer's Benefit Dance 7 - 11 PM St Johnsbury Walk to End Alzheimer's Benefit Dance 7 - 11 PM Circus-Inspired Concert 7:30 PM Contra Dance Saturday Night May 19 8 - 11 PM +32 more see less
20 Scottish and Québecois Music Concert May 20 All Day Historical Society Open House 2 - 4 PM Gardening Time Potluck 5 - 7 PM Gardening and Potluck 5 - 7 PM Community Singalong May 20 East Montpelier 6 - 8 PM +1 more see less	21 W/WW Commission Meeting Agenda 5:15 - 7 PM Budgeting: Success Made Simple 5:30 - 7:30 PM PTNO Meeting at Calais Elementary 6 - 7 PM	22 Women of Cannabiz Learning Series: Basics of Cannabis 10 AM - 5 PM Road Reclassification Hearing May 22 6 - 7:30 PM St. J Skateboard Park Input Meeting 6 - 7:30 PM Newbury Village Annual Meeting 7 - 8 PM Greater Cabot Working Landscape Network Monthly Meeting 7 PM +1 more see less	23 Cemetery Commission Volunteer Session May 23 All Day Kindergarten Information Night All Day Calais Cemetery Commissioner Meeting May 23 All Day How to Talk to Your Kids About Sexual Health! 6:30 - 8 PM Marshfield Village Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	24 Tai Chi in Danville - Thursday Class Added 5 - 6 PM Rhythm of the Rein Spa Night Fundraiser 5 - 9 PM Fire Department Building Committee May 24 6:30 - 7:30 PM Chris Whitman's Talk at Kellogg-Hubbard Library 7 - 9 PM Breaking the Status Quo in Israel-Palestine 7 - 9 PM Sardinian and Corsican Concert 7:30 PM +2 more see less	25 Plant Sale! May 25 6 AM - 12 PM Granite Center Garden Club Annual Plant Sale 6:30 AM - 12 PM Yard Sale 8 AM - 3 PM Garage Sale 21 Buena Vista Circle Barre Town 8 AM (multiday) Garage Sale 21 Buena Vista Circle Barre Town 8 AM (multiday) Yard Sale - No Early Birds 8 AM (multiday) Lawn Sale Friday and Saturday 8 AM (multiday) Garage/Lawn Sale 8:30 AM (multiday) VeggieVanGo Mobile Food Pantry at CVMC May 25 9 - 11 AM Estate Sale 9 AM - 4 PM Square Dance 2 - 3:30 PM Annual Plant Sale Fundraiser! 5 - 7 PM Community Game Night 6:30 - 8 PM Paint Nite Fundraiser 6:30 - 8:30 PM Pumpkin Hill Singers Home Aid Spring Concert 7 - 8:30 PM +11 more see less	26 Moving Sale (multiday) Fundraiser for Maddie Smart May 26 All Day Garage Sale 8 AM - 3 PM Yard Sale Saturday Only 8 AM (multiday) Yard Sale in Barre Town 8 AM (multiday) Garage Sale 8 AM (multiday) Food Sale 9 AM - 12 PM Catch Me If You Can - 5K Fun Run 9 AM - 12 PM Yard Sale 9-2 May 26 9 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale Saturday 9 AM - 2 PM Moving Sale 9 AM - 2 PM Garage Sale/Multi Family 9 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Funky Garage Sale Saturday 9 AM - 3 PM Yard Sale , 9 Green Mountain View Barre 9 AM - 4 PM Two Family Moving/Yard Sale May 26-27 9 AM (multiday) Porch Sale 41 Jefferson St. by the Alrich Library 9 AM (multiday) Honeybee Swarm Seeks More Bees in Parade Next Saturday! 9:30 AM - 1 PM Open Studio Weekend at May Day Studio 10 AM (multiday) Spring Open Studio! 10 AM (multiday) Open Studio Weekend at May Day Studio 10 AM (multiday) Bratwurst, Sauerkraut, Spatzle & Switchel Free Samples 11 AM (multiday) Fundraiser at the Whammy Bar Saturday 7 - 10 PM Pumpkin Hill Singers Concerts for Habitat for Humanity 7 PM +20 more see less
27 Pancake Breakfast - All You Can Eat for $7 All Day Multi Family Garage Sale Sunday 9 AM - 2 PM Open Studio - Imaginations in Metal - Danville 9 AM - 3 PM Washburn Lodge - 1st Annual Blessing of the Bikes 11 AM - 2 PM Calais Cemetery Commissioner Special Meeting May 27 2 PM Old North Church Service, North Danville 7 PM +2 more see less	28 Pope Library Memorial Day Book, Bake, and Plant Sale 9 AM - 1 PM	29 School Budget Revote - Tuesday, May 29 7 AM - 7 PM Gun Owners of Vermont Meeting, Barre VFW 6 - 8 PM	30 Willey Building Committee Mtg. 7:30 - 8:30 AM Craft Sampler: an Introduction to Book-Folding 6:30 - 8:30 PM Summer Concert Series at Currier Park 7 - 8 PM	31 RelocalizingVT Thurs.: Sustainability Park Opens Sat. 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT: Sustainability Park Opens Sat 9 - 10:30 AM Forest Pest First Detector Training: Emerald Ash Borer 9:30 AM - 12 PM	1 Vermont Social Work Conference! June 1 8 AM - 5 PM Stewardship Day 8:30 AM - 3 PM Yard Sale 9 AM - 4 PM Friends of the Library Plant & Book Sale 9 AM (multiday) Barn Sale 9 AM (multiday) Yard Sale 9 AM (multiday) Square Dance 2 - 3:30 PM Cutler Memorial Library Plant and Book Sale 5 PM (multiday) Rock City Rockers Concert and Dance Opportunity 7:30 - 9:30 PM Concert 7:30 - 9:30 PM Lewis Franco & Friends at the Whammy Bar Friday 7:30 - 9:30 PM Concert: Rock City Chorus 7:30 PM Rock City in Concert 7:30 PM +9 more see less	2 Celebrate Black Flies! All Day Girls on the Run 5k in Essex, June 2 All Day Annual Race to the Top of Bradford 8 AM - 12 PM Church Yard Sale, Saturday - Plainfield 8 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale 8 AM - 4 PM Yard/Garage Sale 8:30 AM (multiday) Final Youth Lacrosse Clinic + Lacrosse Next Spring! 9 - 10 AM Walk for Animals to Benefit Central Vermont Humane Society 9 AM - 12 PM Master Gardnerer Plant Sale - June 2 9 AM - 12 PM Barn ~ Yard Sale Saturday 9 AM - 2 PM East Calais Church Painting 9 AM - 2 PM Woodbury Community Yard Sale June 2 9 AM - 3 PM Adamant Blackfly Festival, June 2 9 AM - 4 PM Yard Sale 9 AM - 5 PM Yard Sales Cummings Rd., Upper North St., Sparrow Farm 9 AM (multiday) East Montpelier Trails Work Day 9 AM Plant, Pie and Rummage Sale - Good Shepherd Church 10 AM - 2 PM Growing Great Hostas! 1 - 2 PM Growing Great Hostas! 1 - 2 PM Growing Hostas and Peonies 1 - 2 PM Growing Fine Peonies and Hostas 1 - 2:30 PM Beer Brats and Boogie - New Venue ... Same Good Time! 3 - 9 PM Summer Cookout Saturday Night at the FCCB 6 - 7 PM Delicious Summer Cookout June 2 6 - 7 PM The Sleeping Beauty Presents Moving Light Dance 7 PM (multiday) Contra Dance June 2 with Pete's Posse 8 - 11 PM +22 more see less