Calendar - Front Porch Forum

April 2019

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31 Movie Screening - Unplanned 6 PM (multiday) Flea Market/Craft Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Flea Market/Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM White Elephant / Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM White Elephant Sale/Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Swap Thing: VT's Old School Comic Book Show and Swap 10 AM - 4 PM Swap Thing! Essex, VT's Old School Comic Show Returns 10 AM - 4 PM Book, Paper and Ephemera Fair 10 AM - 4 PM Paint and Sip Party 2 - 4 PM Seed Starting and Swap 2 - 4 PM Poetry Reading 4 - 6 PM +7 more see less	1 St. Albans City Development Review Board Meeting 6:30 PM Essex Selectboard Meeting 7 - 9 PM	2 Tap Take Over 5 - 10 PM Essex Westford School District Board Meeting Apr. 2 6:30 - 9 PM	3 Conference for Families of Children with Special Needs All Day Conference for Families of Children with Special Needs All Day Conference for Families of Children with Special Needs 8 AM - 5 PM Spring Fundamental Field Hockey for Grade 1-6 5 - 6 PM Mount Mansfield Villages Volunteer Open House 5:30 - 6:30 PM Spring Indoor Field Hockey League for Grade 7-Adult 6 - 7 PM Screenagers Movie April 3 6 - 7:30 PM St. Albans City Recreation Commission Meeting 6 PM MHS Drama Encore Presentation of Moby Dick 6:30 - 8 PM +5 more see less	4 Nurses 8 AM - 2:30 PM Artist in Residence April Featured Artists Reception 4:30 - 7 PM Tree Keeper Training: Tree Planting and Care Seminar 6 - 8 PM Compost Alive! Workshop 6:30 - 8:30 PM	5 High School for a Day at Rice Memorial High School 8 AM - 2:30 PM Rice - High School for a Day 8 AM - 2:30 PM Rice's Annual High School for a Day 8 AM - 2:30 PM Open House at Trinity Baptist School April 5 8:30 - 11:30 AM Rummage Sale at Grace United Methodist Church 9 AM - 2 PM 8th Grade Italian Dinner - This Friday! 5 - 8 PM Kids' Night Out on April 5 6 - 8 PM Star Parker, VT GOP Event 6 - 9 PM Star Parker, VT GOP Event 6:30 - 9 PM Postponment of Hackett's Orchard Presentation 7 - 8 PM +6 more see less	6 Open Caption Movies All Day Next Open to Public Masonic Breakfast 7:30 - 10:30 AM Youth Group Pancake Breakfast 7:30 - 11 AM Heavenly Cents Thrift Shop 9 AM - 1 PM Annual Eagles Garage/Bake Sale Apr. 6 9 AM - 3 PM Energy Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Win 2 Tickets to the Made in Vermont Marketplace! 9 AM (multiday) Seed Swap Saturday at the Grand Isle Library 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM Last Cabin Fever Cafe 10 AM - 12 PM Drawing Class This Weekend at Milton Artist's Guild 10 AM - 4 PM Open Caption Movies at Essex 10 AM Beginner Foxtrot Lesson 12 - 2 PM Book Launch Party for Local Author Nancy Remsen 2 - 4 PM Plant~Pray~Eat at Way Cool Family Worship 3:30 PM Looking for Better Internet Service? 4 - 6 PM 5th Annual 14th Star 11 Bravo Release Events 4 - 10 PM Alternative Monthly Worship 4:30 - 5:30 PM St. Thomas Church Knights Polish Dinner - Apr. 6 5 - 6:30 PM Knights of Columbus Annual Polish Dinner 5 - 6:30 PM Ham Dinner 5:30 PM VT. Contemporary Music Ensemble Poetry & Music Concert 7:30 - 9:30 PM +17 more see less
7 Ethan Allen Homestead Volunteer Information Session 2 - 3:15 PM End of Life Cafe 2 - 3:30 PM End of Life Cafe 2 - 3:30 PM Cribbage 2 - 4:30 PM	8 Agenda for Apr. 8 Selectboard Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM "Paris to Pittsburgh" Documentary and Panel Discussion 7 - 9 PM	9 St Albans Parkinson's Outreach Group 10 - 11:30 AM Black Lives Matter of Greater Burlington 5:30 - 8 PM Business Networking Event 8 - 10 PM	10 GICWD Monthly Meeting All Day Monthly AARP Coffeetalk 9 - 10 AM Children's Storytime at the Grand Isle Free Library 10 AM American Red Cross Blood Drive 1 - 6 PM Community Garden Open House 4 - 6 PM My Business is Ready to Grow: Where's the Money? 5:30 - 7 PM Craft Circle Meeting 5:30 - 7:30 PM Red Scare in the Green Mountains 6 - 7 PM MRUSD - Parent Info Night - Vaping 101 & More! 6 - 7:30 PM Substance Use & Prevention - A Community Conversation 6 - 8:30 PM MRUSD Parent Info Night (Drugs, Vaping & Alcohol) 6:30 - 7:30 PM +7 more see less	11 Unity Day at BFA High School 12 - 2:30 PM Community Dinner 5 - 6:30 PM Jericho / Underhill Community Dinner This Thursday 5 - 6:30 PM Faith on Tap 6 - 8 PM Natural Gemstone Dangle Bracelet Class 6 - 8 PM Faith on Tap 6 - 8 PM April 11 Selectboard Meeting Agenda 7 - 8:15 PM Freefall - Documentary Premiere with Q&A Panel 7 - 9 PM Sustainable Williston Monthly Social 7:15 - 8:30 PM Mamma Mia! by Lyric Theatre at the Flynn April 11-14 7:30 PM (multiday) Fun Girls Night Out! Lyric Theatre Presents Mamma Mia! 7:30 PM (multiday) +7 more see less	12 Lasagna Supper at Carolyn's Community Center Highgate All Day Rummage Sale 9 AM - 6 PM EEE Meeting 2 - 3 PM Free Community Supper 5 - 6 PM Introduction to Reiki & Level I Certification 6 - 8 PM Dinner and Cabaret - Fundraiser at MMU 6:30 - 9 PM MMU Dinner and Cabaret Fundraiser 6:30 - 9 PM The F35s: Pentagon's Newest Nuclear Bomber 7 - 9 PM Plan Ahead - Dinner and Family Movie Night Friday! 7 - 9 PM F-35 Public Forum 7:30 PM +6 more see less	13 Greek Food Event All Day Fairfax Household and Hazardous Waste Day April 13 8 AM - 12 PM Half Marathon Unplugged 8:30 AM - 12 PM Big Rig Day 9 AM - 12 PM Park Spruce Up Day 9 AM - 12 PM Crafts for a Cause – a Spring Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Rumble in the North - Robot Demolition Derby 9:30 AM - 5 PM Tools and Misc Sale Saturday 10 AM - 12 PM The Annual Fairfax Easter Egg Hunt! 10 AM - 12:30 PM Greek Spring Take-Out Dinner/Bake Sale 10 AM - 7 PM Easter Egg Hunt 10 AM Vermont Genealogy Library 10:30 AM - 12 PM Genealogy Event - Orphan Train Riders 10:30 AM - 12 PM Celebrate Earth Day with GMP! 11 AM - 1 PM Narnia - Vermont Youth Dancers Show 1 - 3:30 PM Narnia - Vermont Youth Dancers Show 1 - 3:30 PM On Farm Market at Maple Wind Farm 1 - 4 PM 802 Reptile Show Coming Up! - Colchester Parks & Rec 1:30 - 3 PM April 13 Calcutta for BSA Troop 627 5:30 - 11 PM 19th Annual Big Basket Raffle & Silent Auction 6 - 8 PM Wine-Down, April 13 6 - 9 PM The Return of the Wandering Sun - Concert April 13 7 - 8:30 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert 7 - 9 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert 7 - 9:30 PM Beautiful Choral Music for Lent and Easter 7:30 - 9:30 PM +21 more see less
14 Williston Fire Departments Annual Pancake Breakfast 8 AM - 12 PM Dream Big 5k: Run, Walk, Roll 10 AM Gentle Community Yoga 11 AM - 12:30 PM Krispy Kreme Sale (For Essex Odyssey of the Mind) 2 - 5 PM CHS Chamber Singers to Perform with Adult Chamber Choir 3 - 4:30 PM CHS Chamber Singers to Perform with Adult Chamber Choir 3 PM "A Grand Night for Singing" with Solaris 3 PM 1st Gardening Group Gathering 5 PM +4 more see less	15 Breakfast with the Principal of MMU - Jericho 7:30 - 8:45 AM Breakfast with the Principal of MMU - Jericho 7:30 - 8:45 AM Prayer Walks 12 PM (multiday) St. Albans City Planning Commission Mtg. Monday 6 PM Talk About Bees 7 - 8 PM Selectboard Meeting - April 15 7 PM +2 more see less	16 St. Albans City Downtown Board Meeting Tuesday 5:15 PM Champlain Valley School District School Board Meeting 6 - 9 PM EWSD Board Meeting April 16 6 - 10 PM	17 Mater Christi School - Open House 8:30 - 11 AM Children's Storytime at the Grand Isle Free Library 10 AM Manager of Essex/Essex Junction to Address Essex Rotary 12 - 1:30 PM Manager of Essex/Essex Junction to Address Essex Rotary 12 - 1:30 PM Suny Geneseo Alumni Happy Hour 5 - 7 PM Archaeology Presentation - Missisquoi NWR 6 - 8 PM Free Archaeology Presentation - Missisquoi NWR 6 - 8 PM Yoga Nidra 6:30 - 7:30 PM Advance Medical Directive Information Session 6:30 - 8 PM Ryan Leaf, Former NFL Player Shares Personal Story 7 - 9 PM +6 more see less	18 Selectboard Agenda April 18 All Day Village Planning Commission Meeting - April 18 6 PM Jericho Energy Task Force Presents "Paris to Pittsburgh" Apr. 18 7 PM	19 Horse Logging Workshop Cancelled (multiday) Dance for Parkinson's 10 - 11 AM Horse Logging Workshop 10 AM (multiday) Good Friday Cross Walk 12 - 3 PM EJRP Preschool Takes over Darkroom Gallery 5:30 - 7 PM Woodcock Walk - Missisquoi Nwr 6:30 - 8:30 PM Haydn Concert at Good Shepherd Good Friday 7 PM Haydn's Seven Last Words at Good Shepherd Lutheran 7 PM +4 more see less	20 Moving Sale April 20 All Day Garage Sale Saturday 8 AM - 12 PM Giant Garage Sale - Saturday 8 AM - 2 PM Moving/Garage Sale-Everything Must Go! 8:30 AM - 2 PM Williston Rotary Annual Easter Egg Hunt 9 - 10 AM Colchester Easter Egg Hunt 10 - 11 AM Live Animal Program at Dorothy Alling Library 11 AM - 12 PM Comedy Benefit to Support the Alzheimer's Association 6:30 - 8:30 PM Dance Lessons and Social Dancing 6:30 - 11 PM Fundraiser for Pulmonary Fibrosis 7 - 10 PM Mama's Broke - Bread and Butter Farm - April 20 7 PM Jamie Lee Thurston Benefit Concert 7:30 - 11 PM +8 more see less
21 Easter Sunrise Service All Day Ham Dinner on Easter Sunday 11 AM - 12:30 PM	22 Pollinator Workshop April 22 All Day Edible Landscaping for People and Pollinators with TTJ 5:30 - 7 PM Earth Day Talk on Edible Landscaping & Pollinators 5:30 - 7 PM Pollinator Workshop April 22 5:30 - 7:30 PM St. Albans City Design Advisory Board Meeting 6:30 PM +1 more see less	23 Make a Fairy House at the Dorothy Alling Library 11 AM - 2 PM Local Author J.P. Choquette at the Eloquent Page 4 - 5:30 PM New Writing Group for Adults at the Grand Isle Library 6 - 7:30 PM Correction - Mtg with Reps. Till and Squirrell 6:30 - 8 PM Village Trustee Meeting 6:30 PM Ultimate Frisbee Women's Clinic April 23 8 - 10 PM +2 more see less	24 Chicken Seminar All Day Children's Storytime at Grand Isle Free Library 10 AM Business Model Canvas: Reduce Business Planning Fear 5:30 - 7 PM Craft Circle 5:30 - 7:30 PM Chicken Seminar 6 - 7 PM Equal Justice Initiative Presentation 6:30 - 8 PM Reflections from Montgomery Talk at GI School Library 6:30 - 8:30 PM +3 more see less	25 GMT Participates in National Get on Board Day All Day ReTribe Adult Retreat in April 10:30 AM (multiday) Puppet Show! 11 AM The Art in Birding: Presentation at Birds of VT Museum 1:30 PM Free Soup and Bread Supper 5 - 7 PM Free Soup and Bread Supper 5 - 7 PM Sustainable Williston Monthly Meeting and Potluck 6 - 8:30 PM Community Meeting & Visioning - Jacob/Krantz Parcel 6:30 - 8:30 PM Archer Mayor & Madeleine Kunin 7 - 8 PM April 25 Selectboard Meeting Agenda 7 - 8:25 PM Paddling Film Festival Tour 7:30 PM +7 more see less	26 Gigantic Garage Sale in Bakersfield 9 AM (multiday) Online Auction to Benefit Low-Income Youth 9 AM (multiday) Experience Bees with Mr. K 12 - 2 PM 53rd VT Maple Festival 12 PM (multiday) Panel Discussion on Medical Marijuana 2 - 4 PM Book Signing with Children's Author Jennifer Cyr 2:30 - 3:30 PM 6th Annual Rotary Calcutta 6 - 9 PM Learn How to Dance the Cha Cha with Ballroom Nights 7 - 9:30 PM Patty Larkin Concert Benefits Alzheimers Association 7 PM Benefit Performance 7:30 PM +6 more see less	27 Paint & Sap with Jon Young All Day Spring Birding Walk with Green Mountain Audubon Society 8 - 11 AM Estate Sale 8 AM (multiday) Moving Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Moving Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Silent Auction 9 AM - 3 PM Day in the Dirt 9:30 AM - 12 PM Day in the Dirt at JES 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Champlain Valley Amnesty International Meeting 10 AM - 12 PM Paint & Sap with Jon Young 10 AM Phoenix Books - Independent Bookstore Day 11 AM - 6 PM Silent Auction/Maple Chicken Meal Saturday 11:30 AM - 1 PM Apple Ladder Academy Open House 1 - 4 PM Girl Scout Cookie Sale for Procrastinators 3 - 8 PM Vermont Spring Ring Handbell Gathering and Concert 4 - 5 PM Vermont Spring Ring Handbell Concert 4 PM +12 more see less
28 Huge Garage Sale - Something for Everyone April 28 All Day Toy Sale in North Harbor All Day Allen Brook Clean-Up Day Apr. 28 9 - 11 AM Annual Spring Wildflower Walk at Landon Trail 9 - 11 AM Tag Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Historical Talk at Ethan Allen Homestead Museum 2 - 3 PM Burnham Library Meeting House Grand Opening! 2 - 4 PM Richmond Rescue Open House Sunday 2 - 5 PM Westford Music Series with Oleo Romeos 4 - 5 PM 41st Annual Sap Run 8:30 - 10:30 PM +6 more see less	29 Young Traditions Vermont Festival (multiday) Young Traditions Weekend Music and Dance (multiday) Young Tradition Vermont Festival April 29-May 5 7 PM (multiday)	30 EWSD Board Retreat April 30 5:30 - 8:30 PM Colchester I-89 Bridges Public Meeting: April 30 6 - 7 PM	1 Free Concert May 1 All Day Children's Music Time at the Grand Isle Library 10 AM Governor Scott to Address Essex Rotary Club 12 - 1:30 PM	2 Free Community Soup and Bread Supper May 2 All Day MVUnity Planning Conversation 7:30 - 8:30 AM Vermont Arbor Day Conference 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Free Community Soup and Bread Supper 4:30 - 6:30 PM May 2 Trivia Night for 2019 Walk to End Alzheimer's 6 - 8 PM Laughter for Learning Benefit Event at Arts Riot 6 PM (multiday) Climate Change Book Discussion at Library 6:30 - 8 PM 4 Week Barre Foundations Series! 6:45 - 7:45 PM +4 more see less	3 Lawn Sale 8 AM (multiday) Garage Sale May 3 & 4 9 AM (multiday) Yard Sale 9 AM (multiday) 1st Annual Green Up Day Poster-Making Event! 3 - 4 PM Green Up Day Poster Making 3 - 4 PM CarePartners' 5th Annual Spaghetti Dinner 5 - 7 PM Westford Craft and Food Fair This Friday! 5 - 8 PM Art Show: the Art of Healing 5 - 8 PM Kids' Night Out Friday 6 - 8 PM SHHS Meeting on Robinson's Hardware Store 7 - 8:30 PM Martin Hayes Concert 7 - 9 PM Christian Concert with Sanctus Real 7 - 9 PM Colchester Community Chorus 7:30 - 9 PM +9 more see less	4 Green Up Day Bags All Day Green Up Day! All Day Learning Path Open House May All Day Green Up Day / Westford 5 AM - 8 PM Yogi Breakfast Hosted by Masonic Lodge 7:30 - 10:30 AM YOGI Baseball/Softball Breakfast and Field Work 7:30 AM - 10:30 PM Swanton Green Up Day, May 4 8 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day is Saturday 8 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day 8 AM - 1 PM Neighborhood Tag Sale 8 AM - 2 PM Lawn Sale 8 AM (multiday) Multi Family Moving Sale 8 AM (multiday) Multi Family Moving Sale 8 AM (multiday) Green-Up Day Breakfast 8:30 - 10 AM Green Up Day, May 4 8:30 AM - 12 PM Yard Sale! 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Yard Sale This Saturday! 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM 12th Annual Touch-A-Truck 9 - 11 AM Celebrate Green Up Day with Village Tree Advisory Comm 9 - 11 AM Underhill Green Up Day 9 AM - 12 PM Branch Out Burlington Tree Sale 9 AM - 12 PM Save the Date - Swanton Spruce Up Day 9 AM - 12 PM Touch a Truck 9 AM - 12 PM South Hero Green Up Day 9 AM - 1:30 PM Westford Fire Department Tag Sale 9 AM - 2 PM Westford Fire Department Tag Sale - Seeking Donations 9 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale/Bake Sale 9 AM - 4 PM Wedding Gifts 9 AM - 5 PM Last Chance: Bike Swap at Alpine Shop Saturday 9 AM (multiday) Garage Sale Jerico (16 Pratt Road) 9 AM (multiday) 'Pump It Up 5 Miler' Run May 4 at JES 9 AM 'Pump It Up 5 Miler' Run May 4 at JES 9 AM Volunteers Needed for Town Beautification Saturday 10 AM - 12 PM UCS Garden Spring Clean Up 10 AM - 2 PM Tool and Garage Sale 10 AM - 3 PM Avengers Open Caption Movie in Essex This Weekend 10 AM Star Wars Day at the Library 10:30 AM - 12 PM MVUnity Planning Conversation 2 11 AM - 12 PM Moving Sale 12 - 4 PM Free Women's Empowerment Through Self Defense Seminar 2:30 - 4:30 PM Allen Brook Clean-up Day May 4 2:30 - 4:30 PM New Acupuncture Office Open House 4 - 7 PM Bloom - An Event for New and Expecting Moms & Families 5 - 9 PM Kentucky Derby Gala Supports Building Great Futures 5:30 PM Milton Community Choir Concert 6:30 - 8 PM Montpelier Gospel Concert 7 - 9 PM Carmina Burana May 4 & 5 7:30 - 9:30 PM Green Up Day at Train Station & Multi Use-Safety Path 9 - 10:30 PM +44 more see less