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vol. 48, no.24 • friday, december 1, 2006
The Bell Tower
of
Immanuel
Episcopal Church,
the stone church
on the hill at 20
Church Street in
Bellows Falls, is
being
restored.
Therefore
the
church is hosting
Bell Tower Bounty,
a dinner and auction fundraiser just
in time for Christmas. On Saturday,
Dec. 2, the Undercroft of the church
will be the venue for this gala fundraiser.
An exquisite gourmet dinner is
planned. Many individuals and local
business have donated auction items
for your Christmas gift giving. Music
and candlelight, cheerful companions
and a rousing good time will all add
holiday ambience. This and more is on
offer to help raise funds for the restoration of the Bell Tower of Immanuel
Episcopal Church. Please join us!
A gala and gourmet dinner and
auction fundraiser to restore the
historic
Bell
Tower
of
I m m a n u e l
Episcopal Church
in Bellows Falls
will take place on
Saturday, Dec. 2.
The silent auction will open at 5
p.m. Immanuel Episcopal Church is
thankful to the many local businesses
and non-profits that have donated
items. They include Agway, Bocelli's on
the Canal, Bull's Eye Music, Cota &
Cota, Discount Food Warehouse,
Halladays Greenhouse and Florist,
Hodgkins and Sons, the Jelly Bean
Tree, Ruggles and Hunt, Stone Church
Arts, Vermont Pretzel and Cookie Café,
the Village Guest Suite, Village Square
Booksellers, and Walpole Village Salon.
Many individuals too have donated
items including landscape design, master gardening consultation, dinners
hosted in people's homes or delivered
to your door, artwork, nature walks,
spring or summer picnics and the list
goes on.
The gourmet dinner will be served
at 5:30 p.m. and the menu consists of
Winter Squash Soup with Sour Cream,
Salad of Mixed Greens and Walnuts,
Tuscan Chicken, Organic Wild Rice
Sautéed with Pine Nuts and Wild
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Adopt An Angel
The
Bellows
Falls
Police
Department is accepting applications for "Adopt An Angel." The
program is designed for under-
privileged children that live within the Village of Bellows Falls. This
program is to help families in
need provide gifts for the Holiday
season. Any families that are interested in applying please stop by
the
Bellows
Falls
Police
Department and pick up an application. Applications are due back
to the Bellows Falls Police
Department by Dec. 5.
Anyone that is interested in
adopting an Angel, please stop by
the BFPD after Dec. 5 and select
an Angel off of our Christmas
Tree, or you may drop off an
HEIDI’S HALLMARK
Santa Arrives
11:45 AM!
unwrapped gift that will be given
out to a child in need.
If you have any questions or
are interested in participating in
this program, please feel free to
call 802-463-1234.
Our Place Drop In
Center Volunteer of the
Month
Marianne Keefe has been a volunteer at Our Place since the fall of
2003. She attended and graduated
from Bellows Falls High School in
June 2003.
SANTA’S COMING
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NORTH MEADOW PLAZA
SATURDAY, DEC. 9TH
12-2 PM
Each week Marianne collects
the bags of food from the Shaw's
food bin and brings it to Our
Place and then stocks the shelves.
She helps us out in other ways by
cleaning windows and wiping
down the mopboards. Marianne
also works at Shaw's as a bagger.
When she is not at Shaw's or volunteering at Our Place, you can
find her volunteering at The
Springfield Hospital Thrift Store!
Marianne enjoys playing tennis, dancing, listening to country
music, watching videos and
spending time with her nieces and
nephew.
From all of us at Our Place, we
thank Marianne for her dedication.
Holiday Wreath Sale to
Benefit BFUHS "Project
Graduation"
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The Bellows Falls Union High
School "Project Graduation 2007"
will be selling holiday wreaths at
the craft fair at Leslie's Tavern on
Saturday, December 2, from 9-3.
Each 22" wreath is decorated and
costs $12. The goal of Project
Graduation is to raise funds for a
safe and substance-free graduation party for the class of 2007.
Santa at Real to Reel
2:30-4:30PM
“Famous” Chester Brass Quintet
12:30 - 2:30
Bell Ringers 12:00-12:30
“Nationally Known”
Horse Drawn Wagon Rides by Hi-Low Farm 11:30-3:30
Real to Reel will have a movie poster giveaway while supplies last!
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• China Moon, Claremont, NH
• JD McCliment’s, Putney
• China Gourmet, Greenfield, MA
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• Mole’s Eye, Brattleboro
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• The Steak Out, Brattleboro
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• Putney Diner, Putney
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Church
Services
First Congregational Church
The United Church
8 School Street
Bellows Falls, VT 05101
802-463-4323
Route 5, Westminster, VT
Pastor Karen Janus
Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.
A warm and caring church seeking to
worship God joyfully and serve God gladly
Sunday Worship 10 am
Rev. Kathryn A. Hult, Minister
Anglican Church of
the Good Shepherd
Immanuel Episcopal Church
(the stone church)
12 Church St., Bellows Falls
Sunday
Holy Eucharist 9:30 a.m.
20 Summer St.
Charlestown, NH
Sunday Worship 9 a.m.
Sunday School Available
Monday–Evening Prayer at 4:00 p.m.
The Rev. Margaret Crane
For more information call 463-3100
Wednesday 8:00 a.m. Morning Prayer
Traditional Liturgy
Rector: The Rev. Brian R. Marsh
Christian Family Circle
Back Westminster Rd., Westminster, VT
Russ Allen, Pastor
A non-affiliated Independent Bible Fellowship
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Our Place Drop In
Center Volunteer of the
Month
Marianne Keefe has been a volunteer at Our Place since the fall of
2003. She attended and graduated
from Bellows Falls High School in
June 2003.
Each week Marianne collects
the bags of food from the Shaw's
food bin and brings it to Our
Place and then stocks the shelves.
She helps us out in other ways by
cleaning windows and wiping
down the mopboards. Marianne
also works at Shaw's as a bagger.
When she is not at Shaw's or volunteering at Our Place, you can
find her volunteering at The
Springfield Hospital Thrift Store!
Marianne enjoys playing tennis, dancing, listening to country
music, watching videos and
spending time with her nieces and
nephew.
From all of us at Our Place, we
thank Marianne for her dedication.
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Community Land Trust
to Honor Cavendish
Town Manager at
Annual Meeting
The
Rockingham
Area
Community Land Trust (RACLT)
will honor the Town of Cavendish
manager, Richard Svec, at the
Land Trust's 18th Annual
Meeting, December 4. Svec will
receive
the
Louise
Park
Community Service Award,
named for RACLT founder Louise
Park of Grafton, Vermont, whose
commitment to community is a
continuing source of inspiration
to RACLT. The meeting begins at
6:00 p.m. at the United Methodist
Church, located on Valley Street in
Springfield, VT.
The Land Trust will celebrate a
year of community development
and commitment to its mission of
maximizing housing opportuni-
ties for residents of northern
Windham and southern Windsor
Counties. RACLT owns over 300
apartments in this region, has limited appreciation agreements with
62 homeowners, and operates the
N e i g h b o r W o r k s ®
Homeownership
Center
of
Southeastern Vermont. It is governed by an eight-person volunteer Board of Directors, and has
11 staff members.
Major accomplishments during 2006 included completing the
renovation of the Springfield
Southview Apartments; assisting
40 households become first-time
home-buyers; beginning a $2 million dollar renovation and new
construction housing project
located in the Town of Cavendish;
and working with the Town of
Ludlow to explore the feasibility
of creating new housing for working families in their community.
The meeting agenda includes
the election of Directors to the
volunteer governing Board of
RACLT. New Director nominees
include State Representative
Kathy Pellett of Chester, Richard
McInerny, who directs the homelessness prevention program at
the Springfield Family Center and
Becky Sanford, a real estate broker
from Springfield.
Returning
Directors include Donna Allen of
Rockingham, Becky Basch of
Springfield, Ralph Bidgood of
Springfield, Sherry Capen of
Springfield, Richard Crocker of
Chester, Vin Fusca of Windsor,
State Representative Clint Martin
of Springfield, and Steve Geller,
SEVCA's Executive Director and a
resident of Springfield. Also on
the agenda are proposed by-law
revisions.
All are welcome to attend the
meeting, which includes refreshments provided by Harvest Moon.
More information is available
from the Land Trust at (802) 8853220.
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y uncle led the spiritual portion of Thanksgiving dinner.
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“I was listening to the radio
on my way to work,” he said. He's
a professor with pale blue eyes,
and he hits his heavy syllables
with sharp conviction, the way
Red Riding Hood's wolf would
lecture if it had a Ph.D. “And I
heard this, the Thanksgiving
Haggadah. It's this fascinating - ”
For the Gentiles among us, a
haggadah is the text that accompanies the Passover seder, or ritual meal, which celebrates the
freedom of the Jews from
Egyptian slavery. The metaphorextending seders I go to also lift a
wine glass to the end of oppression against all peoples around
the globe and sing folk gospel
songs.
But
a
Thanksgiving
Haggadah? I wish I could tell you
what it is, let alone why it's fascinating, but I can't, because I
stopped listening when my uncle
began.
I started thinking about how
the gravy looked like clotted
mucilage, how we were all eating
right away and how my father
was so toned and psychologically
with it he looked transparent and
cool, like a Buddhist rabbi. I
thought about my medical
school cousin to the left and my
Harvard Kennedy School of
Government cousin to the right
and my New York Times cousin
across the table with her investment bank lawyer husband and
eight-year
old
nascent
astronomer/Broadway
star
daughter.
I thought about my absurdly
gorgeous brother, two seats
down, who works as a starfish
dive tender in Frenchman's Bay. I
thought about my aunt who had
cooked everything but the tofu
casserole (thank dad for that),
and about Gram, who needed to
jump up every six seconds to get
someone a seltzer or a new fork,
whether they needed forks and
seltzers or not.
“Becca!” I blinked. The
unblinking blues lasered from
my aunt to me. “Your thanks?”
I am being unfair and possibly
disrespectful when I share that all
I felt was a wormy dart of antithanks because my name is not
Becca and never has been Becca,
not once, neither before nor after
I was born. Forgive me, dear
oblivious uncle. I loathe it, and
you, every time.
Nourishing food covered my
plate. My brother and father had
hugged me with the truest affection when I arrived. My grandmother adores me. I was warm,
safe, in no danger of a military
draft, and free of medical complaints save an aching ear. Still, as
my uncle looked at me -- everyone looked at me -- I couldn't
even improvise. Not one thankworthy thing lightened my mind.
“Maybe you could move on
and come back to me?” I said in a
Scarlett Johanssen/Frankenstein
voice. On they moved, unconcerned with the state of my clearly malignant soul.
They picked up their forks
again (plus some extras from
Gram), and that was it for our
expressly articulated collective
soul. My dad said later that he
was sorry I didn't get a chance to
speak. I told him I didn't have
anything to say. He said he could
sort of tell.
On the edge of a family, a celebration, a season, a month, I feel
like an indifferent electron way
out on the shell, ready to fly off
and make this atom one crazy
free radical, wobbling through
the dark air. Except for some
shopping intoxication (I don't
care how much it costs! I love this
copper sock-drying mobile and I
will buy it now!) I haven't liked
the holidays in a long time.
They're hard and lonely and
always seem to be about someone
else's happy cookie story time
with eggnog and flavored cheese.
But
that
Thanksgiving
Haggadah, it must be about real
gratitude, and freedom, too, from
oppression without and oppression within, and even if I don't
think I remember it some part of
me took my uncle's strong voice
and saved it deep in the heart of
me for when I can hear it whole.
The thanks will shine then, I
hope, maybe grand as stars.
I wonder what it is I'll say.
Becky Karush
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