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CORINTH QUARTERLY
June
2015
CORINTH COMMUNITY CALENDAR: APRIL-MAY-JUNE
April 5 Easter Sunday
April 9 Discussion @ Blake Memorial Library “Nourishment from the Land” 1pm-3pm
April 9 Read & Discussion @ BML Gurney’s play Later Life at 4:30 pm led by Suzanne Brown. Copies of the book are available at the library.
April 11 Family Game Day at 12:00 pm @ Blake Memorial Library
April 14 Blake Memorial Library Trustee Meeng @ 6:30 pm
April 22 Poetry Night @ BML Come read you original or favorite or just listen, poetry about Earth Day or nature?
April 25 East Corinth Congregaonal Church hosts a Roast Pork Supper from 5pm-7 pm by dontaon
April 28 Annual Meeng of the Blake Memorial Library Associaon @ 7:00 pm
April 30 Read & Discussion @ BML novel by Gustave Flaubert “Madame Bovary” at 4:30 pm
May 2 Green Up Day
May 9 Family Game Day at 12:00 @ Blake Memorial Library
May 14 Poetry Reading @ BML w/ Carol PoIer Local Poet & award winner 7:00 pm
May 16 WF Discussion @ BML “Enjoying Vermont’s Bounty” 1 pm –3 pm all are invited
May 16 Corinth Coffee house music event @ Corinth Town Hall 7:00 pm
May 23 Blake Memorial Library Spring Book & Plants Sale 8 am—2 pm
May 23 WT Annual Bake Sale in front of ECCC 8am-12 pm
May 24 Blake Memorial Library Spring Book & Plants Sale 9 am—2 pm
June 11 ECCC WF End-of-year Potluck Celebraon @ the home of Jen Spanier 12 pm-2 pm all women in community invited.
June 22 Poetry Night @ BML Come read you original or favorite or just listen, poetry about summerme perhaps?
June 27 46th Annual East Corinth Flea Market @ the Ballfield 9am –2pm
June 27 BML Secret Garden Tour noon to 5 pm Contact Library for more info. 439-5338
July 4th Parade at starng at 10:00am with Chicken BBQ to follow at the ball field
EXTRA EXTRA read all about it! Poetry Reading @ Blake Memorial Library w/ Carol Po)er – Thursday, May 14 @ 7:00
Local Poet and winner of the 2014 Oberlin College Field Poetry Prize for her recent book Some Slow Bees will visit to read her
work. Carol is the author of four previous books: Otherwise Obedient (2007), Short History of Pets (2000), Upside Down in the
Dark (1995), and Before We Were Born (1990). Her poems have appeared in FIELD, The Iowa Review, Poetry, Rhino, American Poetry Review, Massachuse(s Review, The Journal, Women's Review of Books, and many other journals. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the New LeIers Award for Poetry, the Tom McAfee Discovery Award from Missouri Review, three MassachuseIs Council of the Arts Awards, the CSU Poetry Center Prize, and the Balcones Poetry Prize.
WIFI at Town Hall
There is a WIFI connecon available at the town hall to be used by the public. It can be connected to when the office is
not open. There are a couple of connecons that show when you view your wifi se;ngs, but the one you have to use
is called Corinth_PUB. There is no password. If this doesn’t automacally show up in your connecons you will have to
type it into your wifi se;ngs to be able to connect to it.
On Going Events and Meengs
Selectboard Financial meeng the first Tuesday of every month @ Town Hall 5:00 pm
Selectboard Regular meeng the second Monday of every month @ Town Hall 7:00 pm
Conservaon Commission First Monday of the month @ Town Hall 7:00 pm
Planning Commission First Wed. of the month @ Town Hall 7:00 pm and third Thurs. of the month at 7:00 pm as needed
School Board meeng the 1st Tuesday @ 7:00 pm a-er the OESU @ Oxbow and 3rd Thursday of the month @ WRVS @ 6:00
Yoga every Thurs. @ Town Hall 6-7:30 pm
Tai-Chi @ Town Hall Wednesday’s 6:30 –8:00 pm
Story me and cra-s @ Blake Memorial Library every Thursday at 10:00am
Kni;ng group 1:00pm every 1st and 3rd Fri. @ Blake Memorial Library
F.X. Shea Town Forest
The first Centennial Celebration of Vermont's Town Forests at the F.X. Shea
Town Forest will be the Poet Tree Path. April is National Poetry Month and the
scholars in Melanie King and Patrick Peter's third grade classes at Waits River
Valley School will be reading poetry trading cards to each other. The poems will
be illustrated by the young artists in the art teacher April Hallock's WRVS Art
Studio. There they will be able to select from a variety of different media to depict
their images. The artwork and poems will be on display at the WRVS art show
which opens on April 29th at 5:30pm and available for viewing until May 6th. By mid-May, the poems and illustrations will be
hung along the trails of the F.X. Shea Town Forest and the third grade scholars will have a scavenger hunt to seek out their
creations. Come on along for a hike and find your own way to poetry.
Introducon to Nature Photography, A Photo Workshop in the F.X. Shea Town Forest
Saturday, May 23rd from 10am-1pm (Rain Date 5/24)
Join us for a photo adventure in Corinth's Town Forest with Rob Rinaldi! All are welcome to aIend this public event. The workshop will begin with a casual talk about understanding your camera and photo composion. This short indoor session will be followed
by a walk in the Town Forest to take photos and pracce new skills and techniques. You will need a camera (digital, film, or pinhole!)-one with some degree of manual contrail is preferable, but not required. Please dress appropriately for being outdoors for a couple of
hours. Sturdy shoes and a small backpack with water is recommended. Please register by contacng Val at [email protected] (802522-0017) by May 21st as space is limited.
Conserva5on Commission Tree Plan5ng – Saturday, May 9 at 1 pm
Bring a shovel and help plant the second half of our town’s apple orchard
– ten trees are down and we will have ten more ready to get their roots
snugged into the ground. This will be a great warm up for the next day,
Mother’s Day, when we honor all mothers, including our mother earth. If
you are interested and might be able to join us or help out at other
mes, email or call Virginia Barlow ([email protected], 439
5652) or any member of the Conservaon Commission.
Mud Season Musings
Mud Season is the fi-h season in Vermont. It is the result of the thawing of the surface and base of gravel
roads. All winter long, the soils under roads freeze and the frost penetrates many feet deep. During the spring
thaw, first the frozen moisture in the surface and then in the base melts and liquefies causing the mud. How long
the mud lasts and how deep it becomes depends on the weather, the nature of the gravel surface and the level of
moisture in the subsurface. A granular surface will create less mud and dry out quicker, but a damp subsurface will
wick moisture to the surface and result in a longer period of muddy surface. Poorer gravel will dry out slower and a weIer subsoil will
extend the muddy condions.
Traffic will cause ru;ng of the surface and sr up the materials causing difficult traveling. Heavyweight traffic will break through the
gravel surface of the road and drive the gravel down and “pump” the muddy subsurface up to the surface creang a “mud hole”.
Our Road Crew spreads crushed stone over ruIed areas to add granular material to the muddy surface to reduce ru;ng and to thicken the muddy surface. Mud holes require heavier stone to solidify the base and then finer stone to firm up the surface. The nature of
the road, the exposure to full sun and the weather during the winter all have to be considered in responding to muddy condions.
Somemes, trucking in gravel to treat muddy areas creates worse condions where the road was not so bad and connuing to run
heavy trucks has to stop for a while before the enre road becomes a quagmire. There is no standard recipe to treat muddy conditions.
Each day is a new challenge and one road might be bad while another road is a muddy disaster. Our limited manpower and equipment
can only do so much per day. Some years the demand for crushed stone is so high that the supply is limited. Equipment breaks down or
gets stuck and has to be rescued slowing the response down. This is a difficult season for all of us.
Please try to be patient with muddy conditions but don’t hesitate to report a particularly bad section of road. Mud conditions change
rapidly and it is hard to keep an eye on all our miles of road.
4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION! 25TH YEAR ANNIVERSAY OF THE 4TH OF JULY PARADE!
4thofJulyParadeandBBQ!!The Parade starts at 10:00 am on the North
end of Village Rd and leads to the Fairgrounds for a Chicken BBQ.
The menu is a chicken half, mostocolli, coleslaw, roll, pie and drink.
Adult tickets are $10.00 and kids are $6.00. There will be a silent auction, music and
kids activities, something for everyone! For information call 439-5766.
NEWS FROM THE LISTERS OFFICE
This year the Listers have hired Vermont Appraisal Company to undertake a two year re-appraisal of all town parcels. We will begin
our inial visits late summer of 2015 and complete the project in 2017. Residents will be nofied by postcards as the process proceeds. Look for further informaon from the Listers in the July 2015, issue of the Town NewsleIer. Any quesons, please call the
Listers’ office at 1-802-439-5098
Public Forum on Orange County Courthouse Project
Wednesday, May 20th at 7:00 the Assistant Judges will hold a public forum regarding opons for replacing the boiler in the Orange County courthouse. One opon is to replace the oil fueled boiler with a
wood pellet system. This is the first, but not the only, planned forum regarding this project and its related costs. Quesons can be directed to Joyce McKeeman at 439-5280.
46th Annual East Corinth Flea Market Saturday, June 27th
It’s time to fill your calendar for the summer. Please mark your calendar for Saturday,
June 27th to join us for the 46th Annual East Corinth Flea Market from 9 a.m. - 2
p.m.. Please check us out on Facebook under “East Corinth Flea Market” Vendor spaces
are available for $25 each at a layout size of 15’ x 20’. Spaces are limited and are secured when
your check arrives in the mail. If you would like a space or if you have any questions, please
don’t hesitate to call or email me: Kelly Smith, 802-439-5521 or
[email protected] . I look forward to having you attend the 46th Annual East Corinth Flea Market.
Spring Cleaning Tip: "What Do I Do with All These Books?" from the Corinth Waste Management Group
Books, books books! What to do with unwanted books is a huge headache. The good news is that there are easy ways to dispose
of them due to Corinth’s membership in the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District.
Books that someone else might want to read them can be saved for the Blake Memorial Library book sales. Check the library website
blakememorial.org for dates.
Paperback books can be put in the Casella single-stream recycling containers along with your other recyclables at the transfer
station. Hardback books of any kind can be put in the NEKWMD expanded recycling enclosed containers at the
transfer station--right next to the electronics and tire recycling. The attendant can help you put your hardback books
in the correct container. Please go to http://corinthvt.org/ to see all the options for expanded recycling at the transfer station. Click on the “services” tab and then click on “transfer station.”
Thank you and happy spring cleaning! Joyce McKeeman, Robert Sandberg and Susanne Smith
FROM THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
We are going to try and get sckers for emergency phone numbers for you to use if 911 is not working. 911 has your physical address and your
phone number when you call. If you use these numbers (439-5155 and 222-4680) make sure you have your phone number and locatable, physical
address when they ask for it.
May is just around the corner and Green Up Day will be upon us before we know it. When you are out picking up trash along the road sides keep
an eye out for hazards. Crack houses throw toxic materials away along the road. These can be 2 liter boIles with tubing coming out of it, bags
with used needles, and others. Make sure you ware appropriate clothing. If you see something out of the ordinary DO NOT touch it call the authories. Have a great spring
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GREEN UP DAY SATURDAY MAY 2nd
Green Up Day is coming! Please mark your calendars for SATURDAY, MAY 2nd as the day to bring your Green Up trash to
the Transfer Staon. Bags can be picked up at the Town Offices (mid April) during regular office hours and the Sat. of
April 25th at the Transfer Staon. Call or write me to join our list of volunteers and thank you so much for your help! ~
Rebecca Buchanan, Corinth coordinator for Green Up Day (E-mail: [email protected] or give me a call at 439-6049)
CORINTH HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION
WEDNESDAY MAY 6TH, 2015 FROM 4 PM—7 PM AT THE CORINTH
TRANSFER STATION 2628 GOOSE GREEN RD. CORINTH
HOUSEHOLD ITEMS Y AEROSOLS Y AIR FRESHENERS Y AMMONIA Y ARTS AND CRAFTS SUPPLIES Y BLEACH Y
CLEANERS (INCLUDES: DRAIN, OVEN, FLOOR, WINDOW, TOILET, RUG, ETC.) Y DISINFECTANTS Y METAL & FURNITURE POLISH Y MOTHBALLS Y MERCURY THERMOMETERS Y NAIL POLISH & REMOVER Y NI-CD, LITHIUM, MiMH, AND BUTTON CELL BATTERIES Y SPOT & STAIN REMOVERS Y ALKALINE BATTERIES (A, AA, AAA, C, D, 9
VOLT)*
GARDEN SUPPLIES Y CREOSOTE Y DIOXINS Y FERTILIZERS Y FLEA KILLERS Y FUNGICIDES Y HERBICIDES Y INSECT SPRAYS Y MURIATIC ACID Y NO-PEST STRIPS Y PESTICIDES Y RODENT KILLERS
GARAGE Y ANTIFREEZE Y BRAKE FLUID* Y CORROSIVES Y CAR WAXES AND CLEANERS Y ENGINE DEGREASERS
Y FLUORESCENT LIGHT BULBS* Y GASOLINE/DRY GAS Y KEROSENE Y LEAD-ACID CAR BATTERIES * Y LIGHTER
FLUID Y OIL-BASED PAINT Y LATEX BASED PAINT Y PAINT THINNER Y PROPANE CYLINDERS Y SEALANTS Y
STAINS/STRIPPERS Y SWIMMING POOL CHEMICALS Y TRANSMISSION FLUID * Y WOOD PRESERVATIVES Y USED
MOTOR OIL AND FILTERS * * ALSO ACCEPTED AT OIL AND BATTERY STATIONS YEAR ROUND
PLEASE DO NOT BRING: Y ASBESTOS Y EXPLOSIVES, INCLUDING GUN POWDER, AMMUNITION Y FLARES Y INFECTIOUS WASTE Y PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION Y RADIOACTIVE WASTE, INCLUDING
SMOKE DETECTORS Y UNKNOWN GAS CYLINDERS Y EMPTY CONTAINERS
CALL THE NEKWMD IF YOU HAVE ITEMS YOU CANNOT IDENTIFY OR HAVE ITEMS NOT ON THIS LIST
802-626-3532 OR 800-734-4602 OR www.nekwmd.org
APRIL, MAY, and JUNE Events at Blake Memorial Library
Storytime - Every Thursday morning at 10:00
As we’ve been doing for many years now, we continue to welcome kids of all ages for adventures in stories and crafts every Thursday morning. Led by Wendy Heidenreich and Linda Tobin who have many years of experience inspiring kids, storytime at BML is
a great opportunity for kids to explore ideas and books and creative projects; and it can be a fun social opportunity for both kids and
adults as well. This summer, starting in late June, in conjunction with the national summer reading theme Every Hero Has a Story,
we’ll begin hosting special performers—including an accomplished and very creative puppeteer, a musical pirate, and a storyteller
who will regale us with captivating yarns about heroes from around the world and from right here in Vermont.
Family Game Day @ Blake Memorial Library – Saturday, April 11 @ NOON
Family Game Day @ Blake Memorial Library – Saturday, May 9 @ NOON
All ages are welcome for old favorites like RISK, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, and Scrabble—as well as for a variety of new games.
Chess Players are also encouraged to come out, as are fans of collectible card games like Magic: the Gathering.
Annual Meeting of the Blake Memorial Library Association – Tuesday, April 28 @ 7:00
As we have been doing for over 100 years, we’ll sit down to review library affairs and look ahead to the future. All those interested
in helping us chart a course are welcome to attend. A new strategic plan will be presented, and trustee elections will be held.
Discussion @ Blake Memorial Library – Thursday, April 30 @ 4:30
This time as part of the series on the Romantic ideal in literature we’ll take a look at Madame Bovary, the classic novel by Gustave
Flaubert. Sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and led by Suzanne Brown. Copies of the book are available at the library.
Spring Book & Plant Sale – Saturday, May 23 from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM & Sunday, May 24 from 9:00 to 2:00 PM
Thousands of books sorted and alphabetized by author will be for sale for as little as a quarter. An assortment of great plants to add
color and depth to your gardens will also be available for sale. Books will be available “by donation” on Sunday.
Special School’s Out for Summer Storytime @ Blake Memorial Library for kids and adults of all ages – Thursday, June 25
@ 10:00 AM
Vermont’s PuppeTree brings to the stage a stunning new production of Leo Lionni's classic children's book Swimmy along with an
original companion piece. These fully authorized multimedia productions blend shadow puppets, animation and projections performed by the PuppeTree's founder Ann Legunn.
Blake Memorial Library Secret Garden Tour – Saturday, June 27 from NOON to 5:00
Visit five special gardens off the beaten path in the hills above the Waits River Valley. Refreshments will be available. All proceeds will benefit the library. Tickets will be sold for $15 in advance, or for $20 on the 27th.
For more information, never hesitate to call us at (802)439-5338, email us at [email protected], visit us online at
www.blakememorial.org, or stop in to see us at 676 Village Rd. in East Corinth. We’re open from 2:00 to 8:00 on Mondays
and Wednesdays, from 9:00 to noon on Thursdays and Saturdays, and from 2:00 to 6:00 on Fridays. As we have in past
summers, in July and August, we’ll be expanding our hours, and opening at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays!