Calendar - Front Porch Forum

October 2023

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1 Moosalamoo National Recreation Area Guided Hikes (multiday) Water and Sewer Payments Due 12 AM (multiday) Vermont Open Studio Weekend - Yinglei Zhang 10 AM (multiday) Breakfast Buffet 8 - 10 AM Yard Sale - Halladay Rd - Oct. 1 9 AM - 1 PM Invitation for Storytellers: Deadline at Noon 11 AM - 12 PM Self-Care Sunday (Restorative Yoga) 11:30 AM - 1 PM Crop Walk Oct. 1! 12:30 PM +4 more see less	2 Fall Aikido Classes Start 5 - 7 PM	3 Friend Zone & Food Shelf 12 - 3 PM Reflections on Living with Dementia 4:30 - 6 PM Pizza & Power: Green & Just Electricity for VT 5 - 7 PM Is Vermont's Energy Truly Green? – Plus Pizza 5 - 7:30 PM	4 Moosalamoo National Recreation Area Guided Hikes (multiday) Town Clerk's Office Limited Hours on Oct. 4 8 AM - 1 PM Quality of Life Evaluation for Pets 12 - 1 PM Ready for Winter? "Button Up VT" Kicks Off with Webinar 12 - 1 PM "Skate Dreams" Fundraiser for the Middlebury Skatepark 3 - 8:30 PM Introducing Weekly Rhythm Kids Classes for Ages 4-8! 3:30 - 4:15 PM Yellow House Community Job Fair - Oct. 4! 4:30 - 6 PM Yellow House Community Job Fair - Oct. 4! 4:30 - 6 PM Yellow House Community Job Fair - Oct. 4! 4:30 - 6 PM Yellow House Community Job Fair - Oct. 4! 4:30 - 6 PM Bible Study 5 - 6 PM Garcia/Grateful Dead Live Music! 7 - 9 PM +8 more see less	5 Crafternoons 2 - 3:30 PM Trail Workday in Moosalamoo NRA 4 - 6 PM Trail Workday in Moosalamoo NRA 4 - 6 PM	6 Free Factory Tours at Maple Landmark - This Friday! 9 AM - 2 PM Garage Sale - Swanage Ct 9 AM (multiday) In Praise of Trees Opening Reception of Photography 4 - 7 PM Big Weekend at the Brandon Town Hall 7:30 - 9 PM	7 Maiden Vermont Performance (multiday) Save the Date! (multiday) Cancelled - Yard Sale - Green Mountain Place - Oct. 7 9 AM - 12 PM Yard/Porch Sale - S Pleasant St - Oct. 7 9 AM - 1 PM Self-Massage Workshop 9:30 - 11 AM Middlebury Quadball Classic 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Friends of Ilsley Library Book Sale 10 AM - 2 PM Fall Craft Fair 10 AM - 3 PM "Quilting in the Land of Milk & Honey" Quilt Show 10 AM - 5 PM Estate Sale at The Compass Music and Arts Center 10 AM - 5 PM Quilting in the Land of Milk and Honey Quilt Show 10 AM (multiday) "Read the Green" Golf Scramble to Benefit BFPL! 10 AM Art Show 11 AM - 3 PM Sib2Sib Event 12 - 12 PM Chili Tasting - Little Bottles Spice Co. at VT's Own 12 - 3 PM Digital Music Production Workshop 2 - 4 PM Quilts of Valor Presentation 2 PM Maiden Vermont Returns to the Town Hall Theater Stage 7 PM Dreamers' Circus at Middlebury College This Saturday 7:30 - 9:15 PM +15 more see less
8 Ripton Ridge Run Registration 11 AM - 12 PM "Quilting in the Land of Milk & Honey" Quilt Show 12 - 3 PM Shape Note Singing - Oct. 8 1 - 3 PM Harvest Fest! 1 - 4 PM Music on the Trails in Bristol Sunday 1 - 4 PM Apple Themed Play and Learn Time Sunday 3 - 5 PM Mushroom Walk in Salisbury Sunday 3 - 5:30 PM Mushroom Walk on the Pitch Pine Trail 3 - 5:30 PM Dance 3 - 6 PM +5 more see less	9 Town Offices Closed on Oct. 9 8 AM - 5 PM 180 Foote St Yard Sale Oct. 7 10 AM - 2 PM Brandon Select Board Meeting 7 PM	10 Weybridge Church Chicken Pie Supper All Day Friend Zone & Food Shelf 12 - 3 PM Weybridge Chicken Pie Supper Oct. 10! 5:30 - 7 PM Public Hearing in Salisbury 6:30 - 7 PM Song/Swap Jam 7 - 9 PM Otter Valley Aquarium Society 7 - 9 PM Tropical Fish Lecture by Lee Newman of Vancouver, Canada 7 - 9 PM +3 more see less	11 Introducing Weekly Rhythm Kids Classes for Ages 4-8! 3:30 - 4:15 PM Tinker and Smithy Board Game Night 5 - 9 PM Jewish Unity Vigil 5:15 - 6:45 PM Brandon Businesses - Button Up, Green Up, Save Up 5:30 - 7 PM Teen Advisory Group at Ilsley 6 - 7 PM Paint N Sip 6 - 8 PM +2 more see less	12 Crafternoons 2 - 3:30 PM Middlebury Science Cafe Presents Weird Science 5:30 - 6:30 PM Electrification & Energy-Saving for VT Residents 6:30 - 7:45 PM Learn About Reducing Your Carbon Footprint at Home 6:30 PM Thursday Night Electrification and Clean Energy Meeting 6:30 PM +1 more see less	13 Community Farm Days (multiday) Samirah Evans & Her Handsome Devils at THT 7:30 - 9 PM	14 Middlebury and the Marble Border of Western New England 9 AM - 12:30 PM Yard/Porch Sale - Pleasant St. 9 AM - 1 PM Mulit-Family Yard Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Moving Sale Oct. 14 9 AM - 4 PM Garage/Moving Sales - Oct. 14-15 9 AM (multiday) Home Sale - Open House 10 AM - 2 PM Soulstice Band - Live at Happy Valley Oct. 14 2 - 5 PM Learn to Play Pokemon 2 - 6 PM Halloween Dance Party! 7 - 10 PM Don't Miss the CPO's Special Concert at THT! 7:30 - 9 PM Champlain Philharmonic at Town Hall Theater 7:30 - 9 PM Champlain Philharmonic's Opens Up Our 20th Season! 7:30 - 9 PM +8 more see less
15 Masons Breakfast This Sunday 7:30 - 10 AM (Yoga) Beyond the Asanas Workshop 9 - 11 AM Middlebury Car Show and Fall Festival 10 AM - 3 PM No Overnight Parking! 10 AM - 3 PM Harvest Festival on the Willowell Land! 12 - 5 PM Group Workday at Spirit in Nature 1 - 4 PM Community Circle at the VT Yogabarn 2 PM The Book Club at the Bookstore 3 - 4 PM +4 more see less	16 Success Stories from the Pollinator Pathway 7 - 8:30 PM Success Stories from the Pollinator Pathway 7 - 8:30 PM Success Stories from the Pollinator Pathway 7 - 8:30 PM	17 Friend Zone & Food Shelf 12 - 3 PM Telephone and Computer Scams That Target the Elderly 4:30 - 6 PM Compline and Prayers for Peace Tonight 7 - 8 PM 100+ Women Who Care Addison County Member Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM Award-Winning Photojournalist at Ilsley Oct. 17 7 - 9 PM +1 more see less	18 Free Chinese Calligraphy Class and Demonstration 12 AM - 1 PM Thinking About Heat Pumps? Heat Pump 101 Webinar 12 - 1 PM Death Cafe 2 - 3:30 PM Cancellation of Bernie Noble's Train Depot Slide Show 2 PM (multiday) Introducing Weekly Rhythm Kids Classes for Ages 4-8! 3:30 - 4:15 PM Chicory Cooking Class 5:30 - 7:30 PM +2 more see less	19 Crafternoons 2 - 3:30 PM Middlebury Town Progressive Caucus 5 - 5:45 PM	20 Ripton Elementary School Pizza Bake Fundraiser Oct. 20 All Day Pianist Mahani Teave from Easter Island 7:30 - 9:15 PM	21 Spirits of Rokeby: Tickets Are on Sale Now! (multiday) Introduction to Zen at the Vermont Zen Center 9 AM - 1:30 PM Brandon Area Food Drive - St Thomas Church 11 AM - 2 PM Charter House Shelter Open House Middlebury Saturday 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM Charter House Middlebury Shelter Open House Saturday 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM Book Launch Party on Oct. 21 12:30 - 2:30 PM Sib2Sib Fall Fun Event for Middleschoolers 1 - 3 PM Ski Movie at the Middlebury Snow Bowl 6 PM Connor Garvey at the Ripton Community Coffee House 7:30 - 9:30 PM +5 more see less
22	23 Planning for the Future of Your Forestland 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM	24 Friend Zone & Food Shelf 12 - 3 PM Green Mtn Club Presentation: Living with Bears 7 - 8:15 PM Green Mtn Club Presentation: Living with Bears 7 - 8:15 PM Addison County Progressive Party Caucus 8 - 9 PM	25 Introducing Weekly Rhythm Kids Classes for Ages 4-8! 3:30 - 4:15 PM Efficient Vermont Webinar - Heat Pumps 101 6 - 7 PM Stories from the Heart Oct. 25 6:30 - 8 PM	26 ACHHH Fourth Annual Drive-Through Flu Clinic 7 AM - 5 PM Crafternoons 2 - 3:30 PM Open House for Retiring Police Chief Tom Hanley 4 - 6 PM Open House for Retiring Chief of Police Tom Hanley 4 - 6 PM Free Mexican Food + "Dolores" Documentary Oct. 26 5:30 - 8:45 PM Alfred Hitchcock and the Art of Suspense 6 - 7 PM Ilsley Public Library 6 PM +3 more see less	27 Spirits of Rokeby: Tickets Are on Sale Now! 4:15 PM (multiday) Youth Magic the Gathering at Tinker and Smithy 5 - 8 PM Annual Teen Halloween Party at Ilsley 6 - 8 PM "Chiller Theater" at the Brandon Town Hall 7 - 9:30 PM	28 Garage/Moving Sale - Deer Run Rd (multiday) Michele Fay Band Canceled All Day Vermont EMS First Responder Class 8 AM Middlebury Stroke Awareness Walk 9 - 11 AM MUMS Color Fun Run 9 - 11 AM Spooky Saturday Sale at the Bookstore 10 AM - 5 PM Calling Your Clan 11 AM - 12 PM Food/Cash Drive-Reschedule Due to Pending Forecast 11 AM - 2 PM Live Music at Happy Valley: The Rustics 2 - 5 PM Ripton Community Trunk or Treat 4 - 6 PM Lasagna Dinner and Trunk or Treat 5 PM Stories from the Heart 6:30 - 8 PM House Concert with Va-et-Vient 7 - 9 PM House Concert with Va-et-Vient 7 - 9 PM +10 more see less
29 Affordable Housing Conversation Oct. 29 All Day Spooktacular! 1 - 3 PM Eddy Farm Halloween Costume Barn 1 - 4 PM Community Conversation Housing 2 - 5 PM Annual Rabbi Victor E. Reichert Bible Talk in Ripton 3 - 4 PM +1 more see less	30 Learning Lunches 12 PM (multiday)	31 Tax Learning Lunches 12 AM - 1 PM Calvin Pier Tavern & Robert Frost Recreation Area 10:30 AM - 12 PM Annual Halloween Party at the Library 5:30 PM	1 Tax Learning Lunches 12 - 1 PM Introducing Weekly Rhythm Kids Classes for Ages 4-8! 3:30 - 4:15 PM Otter Valley Music Spaghetti Supper 5:30 - 8 PM Pop Art Paint Night 6 - 7:30 PM Rombauer Vineyards at Starry Night Cafe 6 - 9 PM +1 more see less	2 Crafternoons 2 - 3:30 PM HU Chant - Sound of Soul 6 - 7 PM	3 Poetry of the Ordinary Opening Reception 4 - 7 PM Knights in Italy Spaghetti Dinner - This Friday! 5 - 7 PM Youth Magic the Gathering at Tinker and Smithy 5 - 8 PM Tribute - Karen Duguay of the Better Midd Partnership! 5:30 - 7 PM Come Celebrate and Congratulate Karen Duguay! 5:30 - 7 PM +1 more see less	4 Burnham Presents Music Nov. 4th in Lincoln 7:30 AM Conservation Commission Gathering in Bristol Nov. 4 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pottery Sale at Midd Studio School! 9 AM - 1 PM Middlebury Studio School Pottery Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Holiday Bazaar in Middlebury, Saturday Nov. 4 9 AM - 3 PM Annual Holiday Bazaar in Middlebury - Nov. 4 9 AM - 3 PM Annual Holiday Bazaar in Middlebury Nov. 4 9 AM - 3 PM Artisan Craft Fair 10 AM - 2 PM Artisan Fair the Residence at Otter Creek, Middlebury 10 AM - 2 PM Explore Lake Champlain at Orwell Town Hall! 10 AM - 2 PM Friends of Ilsley Library Book Sale 10 AM - 2 PM Artisan Fair at the Residence at Otter Creek 10 AM - 2 PM Artisan Fair Nov. 4 10 AM - 2 PM 10th Annual Artisan Fair at Residence at Otter Creek 10 AM - 2 PM Vermont Artisan Fair - the Residence at Otter Creek! 10 AM - 2 PM Nov 4: Sib2Sib Summit 10 AM - 3 PM Misc. Free Items, in Garage, Rain or Shine, 2 Hrs. Only 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Fiber Arts Circle at the Bixby! 12 - 2 PM How to Trust the People with Reproductive Rights 1 - 2 PM Celebration 2 PM VCM Play and Learn at Ripton Elementary School 3 - 5 PM Colors of Fall Themed Play and Learn Time 3 - 5 PM 9th Annual "Brandon Has Talent Show" 7 - 9:30 PM Skate Deck Art Auction 7 PM (multiday) +20 more see less