Calendar - Front Porch Forum

October 2023

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1 HPES 6th Grade Fundraising Bottle Drive 8 AM (multiday) HPES 6th Grade Bottle Drive Sept 30 & Oct 1 8 AM (multiday) Open Studio Tours 10 AM (multiday) Garage Sale - 133 Ash Ln 9 AM - 3 PM Autumn on the Green Danville VT 10 AM - 4 PM Pollinator Pathway at Pumpkin Chucking Festival 11 AM - 4 PM VT Pumpkin Chuckin' Festival 11 AM - 4 PM Seeking Craft Vendors for New Craft Fair 11 AM - 4 PM Montpelier Fall Festival 12 - 4 PM Sunday Afternoon Art Exhibit - Free Paintings 2 - 4 PM +6 more see less	2	3 Homeschool Golden Dome Book Group 11 AM	4 Ready for Winter? "Button Up VT" Kicks Off with Webinar 12 - 1 PM Recognizing Dis- and Misinformation and Why It Matters 1 - 2 PM Champlain Professor Speaks on Dis- and Misinformation 1 - 2:15 PM Olam Chesed Jewish Education 4:15 - 6 PM Olam Chesed Club Starts Sept. 6 at 4:15! 4:15 - 6 PM Village Trustees Meeting Announcement 5:30 - 7 PM Visiting Writer Reading - Sean Hill 8 - 9 PM +3 more see less	5 Justice for Dogs Newsletter, Flea Market, Bottle Drop 9 AM (multiday) Reading Help at the MCL 4 - 5 PM Farmer Thank You Dinner Local-Led Conservation Meeting 5 - 8 PM Weekly Garden Event 5:20 - 6 PM	6 Justice for Dogs Flea Market Oct. 6-7 9 AM - 5 PM Habitat for Humanity Fundraiser 9:30 AM (multiday) 7th Annual Opio Home French Linen Pop-Up Event Oct. 6-8 10 AM (multiday) Blood Drive: Give the Gift of Life 12 - 4:30 PM Blood Drive - Please Give the Gift of Life! 12 - 4:30 PM Mural Unveil & Community Dedication 3:30 - 4:30 PM Village Trustees Meeting 5:30 PM Beginner Line Dancing at Gihon Valley Hall 6 - 7 PM +4 more see less	7 The 9th Annual Roger Dreher Memorial Blood Drive 9 AM - 2 PM Estate Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Estate Yard Sale - Oct. 7 9 AM (multiday) Pine Needle Basket Making Classes, This Saturday & Next 10 AM - 2 PM Bryan Memorial Gallery Fall Fest 10 AM - 4 PM Maple Open House Oct. 7-8 10 AM (multiday) Karen Winslow Solo Exhibition Opening Reception 11 AM - 5 PM Celebrating Gloria Wing! 11:30 AM Celebrating Gloria Wing! 11:30 AM Pottery Event for a Cause - Tickets On Sale Now 12 - 12 PM Pottery Event for a Cause - Tickets on Sale Now 12 - 2 PM Cambridge Village History Walk 12 - 4 PM 4th Annual Indigenous Peoples' Day Rocks 12 - 5 PM Yum! Ham & Baked Bean Supper Plus More! 5 - 6:30 PM Ham & Baked Bean Autumn Dinner 5 - 6:30 PM United Church of Johnson Chicken Pie Supper 5 - 7 PM United Church of Johnson Annual Chicken Pie Supper 5 - 7 PM Annual Elmore Fire Department Harvest Supper! 5 - 8 PM +14 more see less
8 Passion4Paws Dog Adoption Event Oct. 8! 10 AM - 1 PM	9 Northeast Wilderness Trust Meet & Greet 1 - 4 PM	10 Hyde Park Selectboard Meeting - Oct. 10 6 PM	11 How Scientists "Do" Science 1 - 2 PM Lecture Reminder: Why Don't American's "Get" Science 1 - 2 PM Cider Pressing with Elmore Community Trust 4 - 7 PM Olam Chesed Jewish Education 4:15 - 6 PM Olam Chesed Club Starts Sept. 6 at 4:15! 4:15 - 6 PM Update: Cambridge Village's Historic Dist. Recognition 7 - 8 PM +2 more see less	12 Beef & Sausage Pasta 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Kickboxing Class at Stony Grove Farm! 5:15 - 6:15 PM Weekly Garden Event 5:20 - 6 PM Cambridge Scout Sign Up Night! 6 - 7:30 PM Closing Party for Scott Lenhardt Exhibit 6 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	13 Adult Art & Unwind: Mandalas 11 AM Let's Do Lunch 11:30 AM - 1 PM Scarecrows in the Villages - Build Party 5 - 7 PM Beginner Line Dancing at Gihon Valley Hall 6 - 7 PM Gallery Reception - Margaret Jacobs: Shape of a Memory 6 - 7:30 PM The Haunting of Hill House 7 PM (multiday) +2 more see less	14 Moving/Yard Sale - Pleasant Valley Rd (multiday) Run with the Pack Community 5K 7:30 AM - 1 PM Copley Gravel Moxie 9 AM - 1 PM Craft Show and Flea Market 9 AM - 3 PM CVU Craft Show Oct. 14 9 AM - 4 PM Yard Sale! 9 AM - 4 PM CVU Handcrafters Fair 9 AM - 4 PM Lamoille Community Food Share Green Bag Day Oct. 14 9:30 AM - 1 PM Pine Needle Basketry Workshop 10 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale - Laporte Rd - Oct. 14 10 AM - 4 PM Green Bag Day at Food Share 11:30 AM - 1 PM Oil Painting Demonstration 12 - 3 PM Flood Relief BBQ Oct. 14 12 - 3 PM +9 more see less
15 LRSWMD Johnson & Stowe Closing Early All Day Waterville Fall Market 11 AM - 4 PM Waterville Fall Market! 11 AM - 4 PM Gallery Reception: Absence/Presence by Jo Weiss 2 - 3 PM Halloween Costume Ride! 2:30 - 4:30 PM International Wave of Light Oct. 15 6:30 - 7:30 PM +2 more see less	16 Pollinator Pathway of Lamoille County Meeting 5:30 - 6 PM Selectboard Meeting 5:30 PM Town of Hyde Park Planning Commission Meeting 6 PM	17 SCORE Webinar: Small Business Holiday Marketing Master 12 - 1 PM Ghostbusters Movie Matinee for Teens 3:30 PM Town of Hyde Park DRB Hearing Oct. 17 6 PM Japanese Koto Concert 7 - 9 PM	18 Thinking About Heat Pumps? Heat Pump 101 Webinar 12 - 1 PM Childhood Literacy Creates Bright Futures for Us All 1 - 2 PM Sugarbush Management with Carbon in Mind 3:30 - 5:30 PM Potions Lab 3:30 PM Olam Chesed Club Starts Sept. 6 at 4:15! 4:15 - 6 PM Olam Chesed Jewish Education 4:15 - 6 PM Free Introduction to Reiki 5:30 - 6:30 PM Save the Date! Harvest Dinner is Coming 6 - 9 PM Are You Hungry for Harvest Dinner? 6 - 9 PM Asylum Seekers Assistance Meeting Oct. 18 7 - 8 PM From Homebrew to the House of Fermentology with Bill Mares 7 - 9 PM +7 more see less	19 Shepard's Pie, Salad, Pickles 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Weekly Garden Event 5:20 - 6 PM River Arts Photo Co-op Meeting 6 - 8 PM	20 Beg, Steal or Borrow at Hyde Park 2nd Congregational Church All Day Vermont Winters Can Be Cold - Can You Lend a Hand? 9 AM - 12 PM National Friends of the Library Week Oct. 15-21 3:30 - 5:30 PM Beg, Steal or Borrow Returning 5:30 - 6:30 PM Beg, Steal or Borrow, October 20 at Church in Hyde Park 5:30 - 9 PM Beginner Line Dancing at Gihon Valley Hall 6 - 7 PM Haunted High This Weekend at Lamoille! 6:30 PM (multiday) Haunted High This Weekend at Lamoille Union High School 6:30 PM (multiday) +4 more see less	21 Men's Breakfast at Cambridge Christian Fellowship 7 AM Ooky Spooky 5k to Benefit COTS 8:30 - 10:30 AM MVU 2nd Annual Fall Craft Show 9 AM - 3 PM Grand Opening Celebration 9:30 AM - 5 PM Respiratory & Immune (Fire Cider) Workshop 10 AM - 1 PM Lamoille Soil Composting Open House 11 AM - 3:30 PM Investigating Puritan Gravestone Symbols 1 - 2 PM Geology Walk @ the Krusch Preserve October 21 1 - 3 PM The Great Pumpkin Carving 2 - 4 PM It's Time to Raise the Roof to End Homelessness! 6 - 9 PM D'Elia x D'Elia x Parikh: NYC Marathon Fundraiser 6 - 10 PM +7 more see less
22 Live Auction 11 AM New Community - Open House - Oct. 22 1 - 3 PM Harvest Fest at Mama's Farm 2 - 5 PM	23 Owls of Vermont 1 - 2 PM Morrisville Food Co-op Annual Meeting 5:15 - 7 PM SB Special Meeting 5:30 PM LNSU Harvest Community Gathering 6:30 - 8 PM LNSU Harvest Community Gathering 6:30 - 8 PM +1 more see less	24 HLV Strategic Action Planning and Prevention Honors 8:30 - 11 AM Planning Council Agenda: Oct. 24 at 5pm 5 - 6:30 PM Town of Hyde Park Selectboard Meeting 6 PM Taize Service, Jeff Church 7 - 8 PM	25 A Day in the Life of a Mountain Rescue Technician 1 - 2 PM Stowe Mountain Rescue Team 1 - 2 PM Olam Chesed Club Starts Sept. 6 at 4:15! 4:15 - 6 PM Olam Chesed Jewish Education 4:15 - 6 PM You're Invited to ACLU-VT's Annual Meeting! 5:30 - 7:30 PM Joint Selectboard / Village Trustees Meeting 5:30 PM Efficient Vermont Webinar - Heat Pumps 101 6 - 7 PM Visiting Writer Reading - Deborah Taffa 8 - 9 PM +4 more see less	26 Open House 5 - 7 PM Weekly Garden Event 5:20 - 6 PM It Takes a Village Women's Circles 6 - 7:30 PM CHC Gathering & Online Raffle Fundraiser Oct. 26 6 PM Poverty, by America Book Discussion at the Library 6:30 - 8 PM Knitting at the Library 6:30 - 8 PM Virtual Author Talk: John Irving 7 PM +3 more see less	27 Blood Drive Oct. 27 12:05 - 5 PM Johnson Community Blood Drive 12:30 - 4:45 PM Join NEMS for Halloween Blood Drive! 12:30 PM (multiday) Pumpkin Carving! 12:30 PM Virtual Visiting Artist - Alexandria Smith 2 - 3 PM Trunk or Treat 4:30 - 6 PM Free Community Dinner 5 - 6 PM Cemetery Tour & Fire 5 - 6 PM Haunting Extravaganza at Sterling Market 5:30 PM (multiday) No Beginner Line Dancing Oct. 27 6 - 7 PM Beginner Line Dancing at Gihon Valley Hall 6 - 7 PM 3rd Annual Wolcott Haunted Clown Forest 6:30 - 9 PM +8 more see less	28 Yoga Class at River Arts Oct. 28 9 - 10 AM Lamoille County Dems Meeting, Oct. 28 9 - 11 AM Hyde Park Pumpkin Carving/Decorating Contest 10 - 11:30 AM Free Family Fun - Octoberfest for UNICEF 10 AM - 12 PM Phase 3 Glassworks Stained Glass Workshop 10 AM - 3 PM Introduction to the Art of Cross-Stitch Workshop 10 AM DonnaRae Menard Author Talk 10 AM 'Stop the Bleed' Training 12 PM Antiques Roadshow & Appraisal Day 1 - 4 PM Halloween Monster Mash Bash 3 - 8 PM Trunk-Or-Treat & Halloween Movie at Jenna's House! 4 - 8 PM Trunk-or-Treat & Halloween Movie at Jenna's House! 4 - 8 PM Trunk or Treat 4:30 - 6 PM Haunted High 6 - 9 PM +10 more see less
29 Hymn Sing & Potluck Luncheon 9:30 AM - 12 PM Blessing of the Costumes 9:30 AM Youth Field Hockey Clinic 10 AM - 12 PM Eden Church Service and Luncheon 10 AM - 12:30 PM Free - Costume 5k & 1k - Oct. 29 10 AM Cambridge Conservation Commission Knotweed Removal 1 - 3 PM Halloween Party at the Oven 1 - 3 PM Community Oven Costume Party 1 - 3 PM Harvest Wrap Party! 1 - 5 PM Painting a Fall Picture 1:30 - 3:30 PM Looking for Trunk or Treat Cars! 3 - 6 PM +7 more see less	30 Hallowe'en Poetry Celebration 6 - 7 PM Full Moon Circle - the Dark Goddess 6 PM	31 Storytime Trick or Treat Party! 10:30 AM Halloween Photo Booth 5 - 8 PM Trick or Treating 5 - 8 PM Got Pumpkins? Library Halloween Happenings 5:30 - 6:30 PM Community Halloween Party 5:30 - 7:30 PM Film Feast: Halloween Edition 5:30 PM Halloween Spooktacular Bash! 6:30 - 8 PM +3 more see less	1 Olam Chesed Jewish Education 4:15 - 6 PM Olam Chesed Club Starts Sept. 6 at 4:15! 4:15 - 6 PM Visiting Artist Talk - Paolo Arao 8 - 9 PM	2 Tacos, Spanish Rice, Flan 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Weekly Garden Event 5:20 - 6 PM Knitting at the Library 6:30 PM	3 Astronomy Notes – Observing Jupiter and Saturn 7 PM	4 Lamoille County Dems Meeting This Saturday, Nov. 4 9 - 11 AM Justice for Dogs "Pop Up"Bottle/Can Drop 9 - 11 AM Winter Coats 9 AM - 12 PM Williston Craft Show 9 AM - 4 PM Orange Up Day 9 AM - 6 PM Dog Walking Workshop 12 - 12 PM Raptors Up Close 1 - 2 PM Live Raptors Up Close 1 - 2:30 PM Save the Date for Raptors Up Close 1 - 3 PM Chipotle Fundraiser for Morristown Soccer Club 4 - 8 PM North Central VT Recovery Center 2023 Fundraiser 5 - 8 PM Tuxes and Tails Gala 5:30 PM Reminder: Backcountry Barn Bash 2023 This Saturday 6:30 - 10 PM +9 more see less