HALIFAX-DVFiber and the Halifax Community Broadband Committee is celebrating high-speed fiber internet coming to Halifax with an ice cream social on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 11 a.m to 2 p.m. at the Halifax Community Hall, 20 Brook Rd., in West Halifax.
The family-friendly celebration will feature the Halifax Ice Cream Wagon, and DVFiber representatives will be available to answer questions about service and construction.
DVFiber is also hosting a free screening of Connected: Vermont Grassroots Effort for Rural Broadband on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m., at Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Run time is 35 minutes. Christine Hallquist, executive director of Vermont Community Broadband Board, will be available for Q&A. Refreshments will be provided by the Guilford Country Store & Cafe.
"Connected tells the historic, inspiring, and uniquely Vermont story of the grassroots effort across the state to come together to solve a common problem - the lack of internet connectivity," organizers said. "Celebrate Vermont's 'barn raising' approach to building a future-proof telecommunications network that connects all of us no matter where we live."
The Deerfield Valley Communications Union District (DVCUD, dba DVFiber) is a community-owned, professionally managed and operated special-purpose municipality for the purpose of providing affordable, reliable, and fast internet service to all households and businesses in its 24 member towns.
Historically, small rural communities were left behind by commercial providers as being too expensive to warrant investment of private capital. DVFiber and other communications union districts are Vermont's solution to this longstanding problem, according to the news release.
For more information about DVFiber and its mission to provide universal, affordable, reliable high-speed internet service, visit dvfiber.net.
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