Grace Cottage hosts community forum on new clinic
GRAFTON - Grace Cottage Hospital will unveil plans for their new primary care clinic building at a public forum on Thursday, June 15, at 4 p.m. at The Grafton Brick Meeting House, (1)2 Main St. All are welcome.
The current clinic operates out of two adjoining houses built in the 1850s. According to a news release, “with more than 31,000 patient visits annually (up from 20,000 in 2018), it is essential that Grace Cottage moves forward with this project in order to meet the current needs of the community and allow for future growth.”
Grace Cottage is embarking on a capital campaign for the construction of the new clinic building adjacent to the existing Grace Cottage Family Health.
“This project, fulfilling a long-held dream, has been initiated by generous donors who have pledged $5 million toward the project,” according to the hospital.
Extensive feedback from employees who work in the clinic has been incorporated into the interior plan. Final exterior and interior designs have been completed for this new building, and these will be shared with community members at the June 15 event.”
For more information about the new clinic and the forum, call 802-365-9109 or email [email protected].
Manitou offers deep woods nature immersion
WILLIAMSVILLE - The Manitou Project will be offering another series of nature immersion experiences this summer led by Amanda Kenyon, starting on Saturday, June 17, from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
This multi-sensory and mindful experience is a “unique, playful, and meditative approach to deep relaxation and connection with the natural world,” say organizers. Inspired by the Japanese art of shinrin-yoku, “forest bathing,” participants will be guided through a sensory-awakening meditation and be offered a variety of invitations to explore the forest in new ways.
Accessible to all levels, this deep woods nature immersion includes short distances of walking, stops to explore, and periods of sitting in stillness. Lightweight, foldable stools are available for the sitting periods. The cost is $35, and pre-registration is required. Go to landkindguide.com for more information.
Father's Day Brunch served at Broad Brook Grange
GUILFORD - Broad Brook Grange will present its 23rd annual Father's Day Brunch on Sunday, June 18, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Broad Brook Community Center, 3940 Guilford Center Rd.
This occasion follows the return of the Grange brunches with a Mother's Day event in May, after a 4-year absence due to Covid and building renovation. The Community Center is now fully ADA-compliant, with handicapped parking spaces and ramp access to the dining room, with accessible restrooms.
The all-you-can-eat brunch features eggs - many of which are from Guilford - and omelettes, any style, made to order. Also on the menu are pancakes, French toast, sausage, bacon, and home fries, with Guilford maple syrup. Other treats include home-baked coffee cakes and other baked goods, fresh fruit salad, and bread for toasting. A selection of juices will be available, along with coffee, teas, and milk.
No reservations are necessary for the meal, which is priced at $15 for adults; $12 for seniors, and $5 for ages 2–12. Kids under two are free. Cash or check welcome. For more information, call 802-257-1961.
Free produce distribution
PUTNEY - The Vermont Foodbank and the Putney Foodshelf co-sponsor a monthly food drop of free produce and some nonperishables on the fourth Thursday of every month from 9 to 9:45 a.m. on Alice Holway Drive, in front of Putney Meadows - the white building across from the Putney Food Co-op and Putney Fire Station.
All are welcome. This is a drive-up service. Bags provided. The next monthly food drop is Thursday, June 22.
Brattleboro Savings & Loan 'Shred Day' is coming on June 24
BRATTLEBORO - Brattleboro Savings & Loan will be having its annual “Shred Day” on Saturday, June 24, from 9 a.m. to noon at their main branch, 221 Main St. This is a free event in which the public is encouraged to bring their confidential and sensitive papers - such as old bank statements and canceled or unused checks - that need to be disposed of from this past year. Individuals can bring up to five boxes to be shredded and recycled.
This service is offered to help prevent local Vermonters from joining the 42 million Americans each year who fall prey to identity theft. In addition to the precautionary reasoning for Shred Day, the company who provides the mobile shred truck, SecurShred, will recycle all that paper - usually around 5,500 pounds-to be turned into tissues and other paper products by a U.S. paper mill.
Each year, at the end of Shred Day, SecurShred gives the bank a check for the recycled paper that the bank then donates to a local charity. While Shred Day is a free service, BS&L welcomes donations that are then added to the funds SecurShred gives to the bank. This year, BS&L says it will be taking all the proceeds from this event, as well as other events throughout this coming year, to create a scholarship offered to local high school seniors who are involved in making our community better and brighter.
RFPL reading group takes up 'Remarkably Bright Creatures'
BELLOWS FALLS - Interested readers may pick up a copy of the novel Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt at Rockingham Free Public Library's front desk, then join the discussion on Thursday, July 20, at 6 p.m., on the library's main floor.
Van Pelt offers readers a “charming, witty, and compulsively enjoyable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus,” say organizers. Popular author Kevin Wilson says, “Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.”
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit rockinghamlibrary.org, email [email protected], call the library at 802-463-4270, or stop by the Library at 65 Westminster St.