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) Multi Family Tag Sale (multiday) Garage Sale (multiday) Saxon Hill School Annual Barn and Bake Sale Sept. 27 & 28 8 AM (multiday) Old Fashioned Harvest Market 9 AM (multiday) Estate Yard Sale Sept. 27 9 AM (multiday) Support System for Cancer Patients & Their Families 6:30 PM (multiday) Tag Sale All Day Crafting at the Starksboro Library All Day Cider House Run/Walk All Day Garage Sale All Day Special Olympics Chittenden Bake Sale, Day 2 8 AM - 2 PM Large Barn -House - Garage Sale 8:30 AM - 4 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 Cider House 2 & 4 Mile Run/Walk Tomorrow at Shelburne Orchards 11 AM - 12:30 PM Essex Green Townhouse for Sale - Open House Sept. 28 11 AM - 1 PM Essex Green Townhouse for Sale 11 AM - 1 PM 13th Annual Pie Fest with the Hokum Bros. 11 AM - 4 PM Cider House 2 Mile Run/Walk or 4 Mile Run 11 AM Support Young Musicians Sept. 28 at the Flynn 3 PM Huntington River Vineyard - Dinner, Music & Art! 4 - 7:30 PM "Life in Addison County" 7 - 8 PM +20 more see less	29 Girl Scout Information Night All Day Town Center Parking Lot Construction Work 7 AM - 4 PM Stoptheviolencevt.com Press Event Sept 29 10 AM	30 Adult CPR & AED Course Offered in Huntington 1 - 4 PM	1 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 Have You Always Wanted to Try Yoga? 6 - 7 PM Winter Garden Workshop 6 - 8 PM Shelburne Development Review Board Meeting 7 - 10 PM +5 more see less	2 Community Soup & Bread Supper All Day UVM Aiken Lecture: 3d Printing/Makers Movement/Natural Design All Day UVM Aiken Lecture - Highlights 3 D Printing/Makers Movement/Nature and Design All Day UVM Aiken Lecture - Highlights 3d Printing/Makers Movement/Nature and Design All Day Film Showing - "Quietly into Disaster All Day Uvm Aiken Lecture: Neri Oxman All Day Last Farmers Market of the Season 3 - 6:30 PM Poetry, Playwriting, Children's Picture Books at Writers' Barn 6:30 PM +4 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 This Friday at the Richmond Farmers Market 3 - 6:30 PM Jazz This Friday 4:30 - 6:30 PM Please Join Us Oct. 3 for Meet Your Candidates 5:30 - 7:30 PM Kids' Night Out - Fall Edition 6 - 9 PM Curt and Lynn Alpeter Invite You to Staige Hill Farm October 3! 7 - 8:30 PM Friday Night Movie at Library 7 - 9 PM Friday Night Movie Oct. 3 7 - 9 PM Casino Night Oct. 3 7 - 11 PM +8 more see less	4 Fall Open Studio Weekend Oct 4-5 (multiday) Williston Fire Open House All Day Find Those Running Shoes - RES Family FUNrun All Day Cochran's Bike Rides and Trail Run All Day Chicken Pie Supper All Day Cochran's Bike Rides and Trail Run All Day Garage Sale - Dean Rd 8 AM - 4 PM Seeking Volunteers for Mobb's Trail Day Oct. 4 9 AM - 12 PM Bazaar & Craft Sale Oct. 4 9 AM - 3 PM Garage Sale 9 AM (multiday) Garage Sale Oct. 4 & 5 9 AM (multiday) Free Invasives Walk This Saturday! 9:30 AM - 4 PM Crafting at Starksboro Library Oct. 4 10 AM - 12 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) Kit Clark Furniture Open Studio Weekend Oct. 4/5 10 AM (multiday) Green Mountain Animal Defender's Annual Walk for Farmed Animals 11 AM - 1 PM Yard and Garage Sale, 362 Fields Rd. at the Shorey House 11 AM (multiday) Seed Saving Workshop at Charlotte Library 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Roller Derby is Back - Night of the Living Dames V is Here! 4:30 - 9 PM +17 more see less
5 Open House- 174 Plains Rd All Day The Vermont Movie at the Richmond Free Library All Day Freedom and Unity: the Vermont Movie at the Library All Day SB Farmers Market 10 AM - 12 PM Sale of Hand Blown Glass Sun. 10 AM - 5 PM Opera Lovers Outing 10 AM Potluck at the Jerusalem Schoolhouse Oct 5 12 - 4 PM Gorgeous Jericho Country Home - Open House Sun. 1-3 1 - 3 PM Fungi Friends: Tree Identification for Mushroom Foragers 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 Hands to Honduras - Tela Volunteer Meeting 5 PM +9 more see less	6 Breakfast with the Principal of MMU All Day The Power of Harmony: Martial Arts 101 at Aikido of Champlain Valley 5:30 - 7 PM Richmond Water Commission Agenda for Oct. 6 5:30 - 7 PM Richmond Selectboard Agenda Oct. 6 7 - 9 PM Hinesburg Selectboard Meeting 7 PM +1 more see less	7 Hinesburgh Public House Dinner Supports Hinesburgh Artist Series All Day Love Bomb Documentary at the Roxy All Day Community Supper Supporting Hinesburg Artist Series All Day Prenatal Yoga at Yoga Roots 4:30 - 5:45 PM Know the 10 Signs: Early Alzheimer's Detection Matters 6 - 7:30 PM Free Program: Know the 10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer's 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 Democratic State Senators' Candidate Event 6:30 - 8:30 PM Healing Documentary 7 PM (multiday) Pills and Potions, Liquors and Laudanum: Medicine in the Civil War Era 7 PM +7 more see less	8 Hale and Hearty Monthly Meeting All Day Babies and Toddlers: Early Literacy Story Time Oct. 8 10:30 - 11 AM Community Meeting Regarding School Unification Vote 6 - 7 PM Informational Forum Regarding Unified School District 6 - 7 PM Goldfinch Book Talk at Charlotte Library 7 - 8 PM Public Informational Meeting on the Connector Road 7 PM Planning Commission Meeting 7:30 PM +3 more see less	9 Essex Community Players Presents the Spitfire Grill (multiday) Essex Candidate Forum: Oct. 9 All Day Vermont Commons School to Host Reception in Hinesburg Oct. 9 All Day Community Dinner Thursday All Day Vermont Commons School Informational Reception All Day Planning Commission Meeting Materials 7 - 9 PM +2 more see less	10 Creative Third Act Project (multiday) Yard Sale! (multiday) Annual Breast Cancer Conference Oct. 10 All Day Vermont Cancer Center's 17th Annual Breast Cancer Conference All Day Dance Party to Benefit the East Charlotte Tractor Parade All Day This Friday at the Richmond Farmers Market 3 - 6 PM This Friday at the Richmond Farmers Market 3 - 6:30 PM Vending Opportunity 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 +5 more see less	11 Porch Sale - 3152 Cochran Road (multiday) Ethan and Ira Challenge All Day Create a Crock for Fermentation All Day Yoga in Charlotte! All Day Free Fall Children's Clothing and Book Swap All Day Girl Scout Troop 30821 Bottle Drive All Day Res Family Funrun Rescheduled All Day Pre Moving Sale All Day Girl Scout Bottle Drive All Day Shelburne Fire Pancake Breakfast 7:30 - 11 AM Harvesting Potatoes at Library Garden 8 - 10 AM Garage Sale Oct. 11 8 AM (multiday) Harvest Festival at Middlebury Farmers Market This Weekend! 9 AM - 12:30 PM Garage Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Large Moving/Garage Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Barn Sale 9 AM (multiday) Free Wellness Fair Open House 10 AM - 3 PM Free Wellness Fair Open House 10 AM - 3 PM French Canadian Genealogy Research 10:30 AM - 12 PM Introduction to Quebec Genealogy Research 10:30 AM - 12 PM Last U-Mall Blood Drive of the Year! 10:30 AM - 4 PM Glass Studio Sale 10:30 AM (multiday) 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 +20 more see less
12 St. Thomas Church Annual Harvest Dinner All Day St. Thomas Annual Harvest Ham Dinner All Day Free Zumba® Fitness Class at Bristol Fit (And Ongoing Classes) 9 - 10 AM Have Fun and Go for a Run - Oct 12 Chase Away 5k 10 AM - 12 PM Moving Sale Sun. 11 AM - 4 PM Charlotte Tractor Parade 11 AM - 5 PM +2 more see less	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 Community Solar Workshop for Vergennes and Waltham 6 - 8 PM Five Things Every Couple Needs to Know About Their Money 6 - 8:30 PM	15 School Taxes Due All Day Hooked in the Mountains XVII (multiday) American Red Cross Blood Drive 11:30 AM - 5 PM Shelburne Development Review Board Meeting Oct. 15 7 - 10 PM	16 Pumpkin Carving Contest at the Scuffer Steak & Ale House 6 - 9 PM	17 School Vacation Clay Day 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 Last Farmers' Market of Season Oct. 17 3 - 6:30 PM Brick Church Music Series: Oct 17 Concert 7 - 9 PM Let Your Yoga Dance at Balance Yoga 7:15 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	18 Champlain Valley Quilt Guild Show (multiday) Pumpkin Sale to Benefit Hinesburg Community School (multiday) Local Genealogy Annual Conference All Day 1071 Whalley Rd House Concert: Gregory Douglass & Francesca Blanchard All Day Harvest Supper All Day Authentic Ethiopian/Eritrean Dinner at Artsriot All Day Access/CVU Craft Fair Oct. 18 All Day Zacciah Blackburn, Phd Leads Workshop Oct. 18! All Day Town Hall Field Repair Day All Day Harvest Supper All Day Queen City Memory Cafe Oct. 18 All Day Supporting Your Local Volunteer Fire Department All Day CSWD's Rover in Bolton for Hazardous Waste Collection Oct. 18 All Day Vendors Needed for Our Craft Fair All Day 5k Race at Rock Point School to Benefit Cots 8 AM New Y Classes Start Soon and Open House Too! Oct. 18 8:30 AM - 3 PM Genealogy Conference 8:30 AM - 4 PM Genealogy Conference 8:30 AM - 4 PM VT French-Canadian Genealogical Society Conference 8:30 AM - 4 PM Town Garage Open House 9 - 11 AM 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 Zen Buddhism Workshop 9 AM - 1:30 PM Zen Buddhist Workshop Oct. 18 9 AM - 1:30 PM CVUHS Craft Fair Oct. 18 9 AM - 4 PM CVU Craft Fair - Hope to See You There! 9 AM - 4 PM Oriental Carpet Bazaar 9 AM - 4 PM Craft Fair to Benefit Breast Cancer Foundation 9 AM - 4 PM CVUHS Craft Fair Oct. 18 9 AM - 4 PM Garage Sale 9 AM - 5 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) Betty Borah Studio Art Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Studio Sale Reminder 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 1st Annual Fall Farm Day - Open Barn! 11 AM - 6 PM Mason Lodge Open House 1 - 5 PM Zacciah Blackburn at Yoga Roots 1 - 6 PM Ethiopian Evening at Arts Riot 4 - 10 PM Vietnam Remembrance Dinner and Music by Steve Hartman 5 - 9 PM The Huntington Harvest Supper 5:30 PM Boy Scout / Cub Scout Haunted Forest 6 - 8 PM Gregory Douglass House Concert at the Blanchard's 7:30 - 10 PM +44 more see less
19 Muddy's Buddies 5k Run/Walk 9 AM - 11 PM Calm: Mind-Body Approaches to Stress 9:30 - 11:30 AM Fundraiser for Americas Media Initiative 5 - 8 PM	20 Selectboard Agenda for Monday Oct. 20 All Day Richmond Water Commission Agenda for Oct 20 5:30 - 7 PM Understanding Yourself, Understanding Your Children 6 - 9 PM Paul Costello at 51 Main Oct. 20 7 - 8:30 PM Richmond Selectboard Meeting 7 - 9 PM Mindful Living Class 7:15 - 8:45 PM +2 more see less	21 Support Group Open House All Day Scleroderma Support Group Open House 6 - 8 PM Odyssey of the Mind Kick Off! 6 PM Cub Scout Information Meeting Tues Oct. 21 7 PM Development Review Board 7:30 PM +1 more see less	22 Beyond the Peel: Fair Trade Bananas All Day 20-30 Something Book Group 6 PM 20-30 Somethings Book Group 6 PM Planning Commission Agenda 7:30 PM	23 Cub Scouts Parent Meeting All Day CCS Book Fair 8 AM (multiday) Vermont Commons School Upcoming Admissions Reception Oct. 23 5 PM Materials for Oct. 23 Meeting of Planning Commission 6 - 8:30 PM Mmu Finance Committee Budget Discussion 6:30 PM +1 more see less	24 BPMS Halloween Party All Day 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 Nashville Songwriter David Olney w/ Sergio Webb at Good Times Cafe! 8:30 - 10:30 PM +3 more see less	25 Pumpkin Chunkin' Oct. 25 All Day Remembering Bob Spear at the Birds of Vermont Museum All Day Food Shelf Drive All Day Ferrisburgh Fire Department Pancake Breakfast 7:30 - 10:30 AM Halloween Hustle 5k: Volunteers Needed! 8 - 10:30 AM Moving Sale Oct. 25-26 8 AM (multiday) Volunteer Work Day at Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge Oct. 25 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM New Essex Police Facility Open House 9:45 AM - 2 PM Pumpkin Chunkin' in Richmond! 10 AM - 3 PM Google Your Family Tree 10:30 AM - 12 PM Google Your Family Tree 10:30 AM - 12 PM Community Harvest Festival at Monitor Barn in Richmond‏ Oct. 25 11 AM - 3 PM RES Farm to School Harvest Festival 11 AM - 3 PM Flag Retirement Ceremony and Wreaths Too! 11 AM - 4 PM Rain or Shine Garage Sale 3 - 5 PM United Church of Hinesburg Chicken Pie Supper 5 - 6:30 PM "The Woods" Needs Haunters! 5 - 10 PM Craft Beer Tasting and Food Pairing 6 - 8 PM Haunted House Oct. 25 6:30 PM Haunted House! 6:30 PM Haunted House Tours - Ferry Road, Charlotte 7 - 10 PM Haunted House 7 - 10 PM Kamikaze Comedy's Season Finale! 7 PM +19 more see less
26 Fun Run-Benefit MMU Travel Club All Day North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church Pancake Breakfast 8 - 9:30 AM Brunch with Bernie 10 - 11:30 AM Shelburne Museum Haunted Happenings Oct. 26 10 AM - 1 PM Navigate Your Experience Workshop! 10 AM - 4 PM Please Join Us for the MMU Travel Club Fun Run! 11 AM MMU Travel Club Fun Run! 11 AM Bushels of Baskets Fundraiser 1 - 4 PM Think Square! 2 - 4 PM Town Hall Art Reception 2 - 4 PM Walk Into the Woodlands of the Faeries 2 - 5 PM A Woods Walk to the Fairy World 2 - 5 PM Shelburne Halloween Parade 2 PM Farm to Table Dinner in Montpelier to Benefit Local Families in Need 6 PM +10 more see less	27 MMU Project Grad is Under Way! All Day	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	29 VT Commons School Presents Free Film Screening of "Disruption" All Day Come Hear Toni Hill Give a Talk About Carmen by Georges Bizet All Day Charlotte-Shelburne Rotary Club Meeting 7:30 - 8:30 AM Meet Dawn Ellis, Vt. Senate Candidate, Wed, Oct. 29 8:30 - 10 AM Harvest Dinner and Unified Open House at H.C.S 5 - 7 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 +8 more see less	30 Green Mountain Swing Band Benefit Performance Oct. 30 All Day MMUUF's Haunted Barn and Halloween Party! All Day Soup & Bread Supper All Day Haunted Barn All Day Soup & Bread Supper All Day CESU Merger All Day Paddlers in Burlington 6 - 7:30 PM Urgent! Attention Parents of Soccer Players! 6:30 - 8 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 +7 more see less	31 Pumpkin Patch Party All Day Playgroup Tomorrow! All Day SBHS and German Students - Experiencing Halloween! 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 Trunk or Treat 5:30 - 6:30 PM Road Closure: Join Us for a Creekside Halloween Oct 31 6 - 8 PM A Free Pumpkin Patch Party! 6 - 8 PM Road Closure: Join Us for a Creekside Halloween Oct 31 6 - 8 PM +6 more see less	1 Essex UMW Holiday Bazaar All Day Fall Craft Show at Williston Central School - Nov. 1 All Day Moving in 6 Days! Lots for Sale! All Day Button Up Workshop All Day Cape Breton Music and Dancing Nov. 1 All Day Slopeside Syrup Open House All Day Williston Historical Society: Evening of Cape Breton Music All Day Holiday Bazaar 9 AM - 2:30 PM 2014 AVCC Summit 9 AM - 4 PM Essex Rescue Open House 10 AM - 2 PM Saving Money on Heating is Easy! Button Up Workshop Nov. 1 10:30 - 11:30 AM Genealogical Research Methods, Nov. 1 10:30 AM - 12 PM Genealogical Research Methods Nov. 1 10:30 AM - 12 PM Genealogical Research Methods Nov. 1 10:30 AM - 12 PM Scouting Salute to Veterans Parade 11 AM - 12:30 PM Parade - Scouting Salute to Veterans 11 AM - 1 PM Scouting Salute to Veterans Parade 11 AM - 2:30 PM Garage Sale 11 AM (multiday) Veteran Parade Nov 1 Bristol 11 AM Spaghetti & Meatball Dinner Bingo 5 PM Social Band Concerts 7:30 - 8:30 PM Storytellers on a Mission to Benefit Vermont State Parks 7:30 PM Storytellers on a Mission 7:30 PM +19 more see less