by Lani Duke
updated
Tue, Sep 20, 2011 09:45 AM
Adam Boyce incorporates ten generations of Vermont experience in
fiddling, composing, playing piano, and square dance calling in the
presentation Sprightly Steps: Vermont's Contra and Square Dancing
Tradition. The program begins at 1:30 p.m. at the Godnick Adult
Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland, on Friday, September 23.
Join other local bird lovers in a monthly bird monitoring exercise
at West Rutland Marsh, Thursday, September 22. Meet at West Rutland
Price Chopper parking lot at 7:00 a.m. For details, call Roy
Pilcher, 775-3461.
If you're looking for flu and pneumonia vaccinations, go to the
Holiday Inn in Rutland on Friday, September 23, from 9:00 a.m. to
noon. Other clinics are Monday, September 26, at Hannaford's in
Rutland, 9:00 a.m. to noon; Tuesday, September 27, St. Patrick's
Church in Wallingford, 9:00 a.m. to noon; and also Tuesday at the
community center in North Clarendon, 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. The shots
are for adults only, age 18 and up. Call the Rutland Area Visiting
Nurse Association & Hospice (RAVNAH), 770-1574, for
details.
Friday, September 23, the Paramount Theatre in downtown Rutland
begins a series of three concerts that benefit the I AM VERMONT
STRONG organization and its support for the community - with the
Grammy Award winning quintet Blues Traveler. The second in the
series, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, arrives the following
evening, with 35-plus years of rock legend production across the
U.S. The third in the series, Keb Mo, moves Paramount concert
attendees to a modernized Mississippi Delta on Tuesday, September
27, with a sound that begins with the blues and takes in pop, rock,
folk, and jazz, all hung together on a story-teller's frame. For
tickets to any and all of these performances, visit with the good
folks at the Paramount box office, or call 775-0903.
Honor Paula Liguorri at the Live Well and Celebrate Fundraiser to
benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund from noon to 4:40,
Saturday, September 24, at the Godnick Adult Center, 1 Deer St.,
Rutland. Activities include a yoga class (bring your own mat),
origami workshop, celebratory group dance class, and silent
auction.
Do you believe you have a book inside you, just waiting to come
out? Join self-published author John O'Dowd in an exploration of
e-publishing from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, September 24, in the
Fox Room of the Rutland Free Library.
Local judges and lawyers assemble in the Fox Room of Rutland Free
Library from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 27, looking at
common cases in civil, criminal, family, and probate law. Bring
your questions.
Would you enjoy viewing a wider variety of films in Rutland and
having the opportunity to discuss them? Come to the Film Society
Meeting at 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 28, in the Rutland Free
Library's Fox Room.
The Downtown Rutland Partnership is working with the Chaffee Art
Center and Rutland farmers markets on the annual Harvest/Heritage
Festival, Saturday, October 8. Plans are to ask the state to allow
free parking in the parking deck for the day. Horse drawn wagons
will shuttle visitors between downtown and Art in the Park. Price
Chopper is donating a heritage cake to celebrate the 250th
anniversary of the town's charter. Also in the works: Marble Valley
Swing Band, demonstrations, children's fun, reading of the town
charter, and possibly the nucleus of the Rutland Recreation
Department's Great Rutland Race.
Keep on conserving water if you're on the Rutland water
system.
Women, bring your mountain bikes to a bike clinic in the upper
parking lot at Giorgetti from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., Saturday,
September 24. Shelley Lutz leads the course, designed for beginner
to advanced beginner riders. You need a mountain bike and helmet to
participate. Please pre-register with the Rutland Recreation &
Parks Department.
On Sunday, catch the Vermont Dining Train to eat a four-course
dinner in an authentic Pullman dining car. Call (800) 292-7245 for
details.
Our best to the State Department of Tourism, already posting fall
foliage reports to help bring guests into Vermont for what promise
to be excellent displays of brilliant color. Route 4 is officially
re-opened.
Rutland alderman Ed Larson notes that, although the Salvation Army
headquarters on Wales Street received quite a bit of water damage
from tropical storm Irene, it continues to assist community members
in need.
Kudos to the Ira Go Getters who worked with Ponderosa Steak House
to provide home baked food to help feed the 350+ National Guards
who came from out-of-state to help restore roads damaged by
tropical storm Irene. Officials expect the Guards to stay in
Rutland for about another month. Organizers are looking for
additional volunteers to serve meals to these willing workers, and
for baked goods donations. To volunteer for breakfast or supper
service, call 770-9435. Your baked goods are welcome at the armory
on Post Road in Rutland.
Rutland's Gift-of-Life marathon has a new New England record to
beat. The Singer Memorial Blood Drive in Manchester, NH, took in
1,957 pints, setting records for both New England and national
one-day blood drives. Rutland had set the New England record three
years in a row, garnering 1,400 pints last December. Boston is also
ahead of Rutland, having collected more than 1,700 pints
recently.
Congratulations to Rutland Railway Association for the rehab work
on its museum and club headquarters at Center Rutland.
Shoppers at Rutland Discount Foods & Liquidation Center on
Cleveland Avenue enter a freshly remodeled store, complete with
baby products, small appliances, and lots of other useful
items.
The Rutland Heart Center has relocated its offices to 12 Commons
St., across Allen Street from Rutland Regional Medical Center.
Board certified cardiologists at the Rutland Heart Center are
Christian Higgins, Bartholomew Bonazinga, Stanley Shapiro, Michael
Robertello and James Fitts.
Same Sun of Vermont recently opened at 24 Center St., between the
Paramount Theatre and Lake Sunapee Bank. Marlene Allen says her
business sells and installs photovoltaic electric systems for homes
and small business.
Also new to downtown Rutland is Jennifer Usher's Make It Sew,
offering dressmaking, tailoring, and alterations at 69 Center
St.
Rutland's aldermanic board has voted to use Zamias fund moneys to
install two Victorian-style street lights at the Rutland Free
Library, matching those already installed in the downtown core. The
6-3 vote allowed for up to $11,500 for the street lamps.
United Way of Rutland County recently kicked-off its 2011 campaign
at a breakfast meeting, led by freshly elected president Marcia
Chioffi, new executive director Traci Moore and this year's
campaign chair Carrie Allen. The 2011 fund-raising goal is
$565,000.
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