Wednesday Market open for season
BRATTLEBORO - The Wednesday Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market opened for the season on June 18 on the Whetstone Pathway next to the Brattleboro Food Co-op.
The market features local farms offering freshly harvested vegetables, plants, strawberries, cut flowers, maple products, preserves, and eggs.
A new baker, Bijou Bakery: Jewels from the Oven, joins the market this year with delectable Italian baked goods. The popular Anon's Thai Cuisine returns.
EBT and debit cards are welcome. The market is open Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call 802-254-8885 or find the market on Facebook.
Guilford Church old-fashioned strawberry supper set for June 21
GUILFORD - A summer tradition for many families, the Strawberry Supper at Guilford Community Church is Saturday, June 21, with seatings at 5 and 6:30 p.m. Cost is $11 adults, $5 children 11 and under, and $3 preschoolers.
On the menu: ham, baked beans, deviled eggs, potato salad, coleslaw, freshly baked rolls, strawberries, shortcake and whipped cream, coffee, iced tea, and milk. All proceeds benefit the church, which supports more than 20 local programs and organizations serving the community.
Directions: Interstate 91 Exit 1 (Brattleboro) to Route 5 south just past the Guilford Country Store. Left on Bee Barn Road. Left on Church Drive.
For reservations, call 802-254-9019 or write [email protected].
Rescue Inc. celebrates with free barbecue, open house
BRATTLEBORO - On Sunday, June 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., join Rescue Inc.'s duty crew, membership, alumni, and friends in celebrating the organization's 48 years of service to area communities.
Chat with the pioneers who began a tradition of service in 1966; hear early members relate how, beginning as volunteers with first aid and ski patrol experience, they built a full-time organization providing emergency medical services to 15 towns covering more than 525 square miles. Meet the staff and learn what they do; see the tools they use in providing emergency care, transferring patients between hospitals, providing technical rescues, and delivering other services.
And enjoy it all with a barbecue and homemade desserts.
Members will showcase their new technology, offer hands-only CPR training, and provide information about their many community training programs. The Southern Vermont Technical Rescue Team will be on hand to demonstrate many of their specialized rescue skills, including high-angle and swift-water techniques and equipment. All events are at Rescue Inc., Canal Street.
For more information, contact Rescue at 802-257-7679 or [email protected].
BEEC hosts pollinator-focused workshops
WEST BRATTLEBORO - Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center (BEEC), part of the newly formed Pollinator Awareness Initiative, hosts free workshops this summer.
On Sunday, June 22, from 1 to 4 p.m., Tom Sullivan of Pollinators Welcome presents a pollinator garden design workshop. After a presentation on local pollinators and key elements of garden design, participants will put to work what they've learned by designing and planting a pollinator garden at BEEC.
On Saturday, July 19, BEEC hosts a walk led by bee specialists Joan Milam and Fred Morrison. This will be an investigation of bees and other pollinators in our area, identifying common species, and exploring the landscape where they thrive.
Register for these workshops by calling 802-257-5785 or writing [email protected].
Time banking explained at Whitingham library
JACKSONVILLE - On Monday June 23, at 7 p.m., the Whitingham Free Public Library offers a free presentation on time banking and how it can work for you.
Learn how to earn and spend time credits, a community currency that many put to work extending a variety of services . The talk is presented by Alan Baker, information and technology team coordinator at Brattleboro Time Trade.
The library is at the Municipal Center on Route 100 in Jacksonville. For more information, call 802-368-7506 or refer to Facebook.
West and Galaburda offer free talks at Landmark College
PUTNEY - The public is invited to attend two free lectures by experts in the field of learning disabilities. Held on June 24 and June 27, these talks are part of the 2014 Summer Institute at Landmark College. The theme of this year's Summer Institute is “Cerebrodiversity: Working from Strengths.”
Thomas G. West gives the keynote address on Tuesday, June 24, at 7:30 p.m. He will speak about the unmatched creative, problem-solving gifts that can accompany dyslexia.
West is author of “In the Mind's Eye” and “Thinking Like Einstein.” Both books herald the increased need for visual thinking skills in the age of computer graphics and describe the visual thinking strengths of creative geniuses such as da Vinci, Einstein, Tesla, and Churchill.
On Friday, June 27, at 1:15 p.m., special guest speaker Dr. Albert Galaburda speaks on “From Genes to Reading,” an overview of what's new on the horizon to help dyslexics, specifically from the fields of genetics, neurology, and behaviorism.
Galaburda is chief of behavioral neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, is a frequent guest lecturer at Boston-area universities, and is the author of more than 100 scientific papers, many of which focus on the genetics and neurology of dyslexia.
Hosted by the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training (LCIRT), the Summer Institute provides new ideas and workshops to improve education for students who learn differently. Both of these free talks will be in the Brooks M. O'Brien Auditorium in the East Academic Building at Landmark College, 19 River Rd. S.
For more information, contact LCIRT at 802-387-1662 or visit www.landmark.edu/institute.
Lecture looks at art, architecture, gravestones in early Vermont
NEWFANE - The Historical Society of Windham County (HSWC) hosts a presentation on “Reading Places: Art, Architecture, and Gravestones in Early Vermont” on Wednesday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Moore Free Library, 23 West St.
Bill Hosley, a consultant on historic resources and education from Enfield, Conn., will demonstrate how art and artifacts can be used to foster an understanding of history. Backing his presentation is a survey of the extraordinary visual allure of historic Vermont. Hosley maintains that, in developing our towns, Vermont settlers created a wide range of things that spoke to their values, background, skills, and cultural attitudes. Their architecture, gravestones, furniture, ironwork, paintings, pottery, and textiles evoke specific people, places, and situations.
The lecture, funded by the Vermont Humanities Council, is free to all. It's also accessible to people with disabilities.
For more information, visit historicalsocietyofwindhamcounty.org.
BFDDA hosts annual membership meeting on June 25
BELLOWS FALLS -The Bellows Falls Downtown Development Alliance (BFDDA) holds its annual membership meeting on Wednesday, June 25, at 5:30 p.m. at Windham Antiques on Rockingham Street.
On the agenda: discussion of BFDDA's accomplishments of the past year and a review of the workplace for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins in July. Board members and officers will be elected. Following a short business meeting, Alan Berry of Stevens & Associates will present on a downtown topic. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, call 802-460-2333.
Introduction to EFT offered at RFPL
BELLOWS FALLS - On Thursday, June 26, at 7 p.m. the Rockingham Free Public Library offers an introduction to EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for the reduction of aches and pains.
EFT, or tapping, is a set of tools for optimal physical and emotional health. It's a form of acupressure that combines mindfulness with acu-point stimulation, and is said to be useful for addressing body-centered stress and trauma. The class is led by Jade Barbee, certified EFT trainer and practitioner based in Bellows Falls.
For more information, call 802-463-4270 or visit rockinghamlibrary.org or www.EmotionalEngine.com.
Hearing-, sight-care assistance for area residents
BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Area Lions Club is prepared to start taking applications for financial assistance in obtaining sight and hearing care.
The new Lions Club was established and chartered this spring and has since received donations to kickstart its sight and hearing program.
Anyone in the Brattleboro area needing financial aid for sight or hearing issues may request the application by contacting the club at 130 Austine Dr., Brattleboro VT, 05301.
The Brattleboro Area Lions Club meets on the first and third Monday of the month from 6:30 p.m. at the Austine School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. For more information, or to donate, contact Jim Zoller at 802-579-6899 or [email protected].
Compassionate Cities Campaign seeks members
BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Initiative seeks members for a movement called the Charter for Compassion to make Brattleboro a “Compassionate City.”
Created by Karen Armstrong in 2008, the movement has been building partnership networks around the world. The Charter for Compassion calls all “to work to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to honor the sanctity of every human being, and to treat all with justice, equity, and respect."
Organizers say there are 116 Compassionate Cities in the United States, including nearby Fitchburg and Leominster, Mass.
An information session is set for Wednesday, June 25, at noon at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden on Main Street. For more information, visit www.charterforcompassion.org or write [email protected].