Events

« September 10 2010 - October 10 2010 »
 
09 / 10
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 Myron Mixon is joining the Taste of the Deerfield Valley this September 10-12, 2010. Star of TLC's BBQ Pitmaster show and winner of over $680,000 in prize money, he will be demonstrating his BBQ skills over the weekend. 

09 / 11
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Start: 1:58 pm
End: 1:58 pm

 Myron Mixon is joining the Taste of the Deerfield Valley this September 10-12, 2010. Star of TLC's BBQ Pitmaster show and winner of over $680,000 in prize money, he will be demonstrating his BBQ skills over the weekend. 

Start: 10:00 am

BMH Hosts 2nd Annual Touch A Truck Event, Saturday, September 11th

09 / 12
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 Myron Mixon is joining the Taste of the Deerfield Valley this September 10-12, 2010. Star of TLC's BBQ Pitmaster show and winner of over $680,000 in prize money, he will be demonstrating his BBQ skills over the weekend. 

09 / 13
Start: 9:00 am

“Leveraging the Vermont Brand” Presented by NEK Tourism and Marketing Partners

 

Start: 9:00 am

Area Partners Offer “Leveraging the Vermont Brand”

 

09 / 14
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09 / 16
Start: 12:00 pm

Teamwork:

The Key to Health Care Reform

 
Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems
 
75th Annual Meeting
● September 16-17, 2010 (Thursday - Friday)
● Hilton, Burlington, VT
 
Register online at www.VAHHS.org/events by September 8, 2010. The hotel deadline is August 31, 2010.
 
For more information, contact:
Megan Castonguay by phone at (802) 223-3461 x 107

Start: 4:30 pm

KeyBank and Vermont Business Magazine present

8th Annual 5x5x5 Growth Awards

09 / 17
09 / 18
Start: 10:00 am

Chittenden Reservoir Day set for Sept. 18

Chittenden Reservoir Day, the annual cleanup and celebration of the lake, will be held Sept. 18.

 

The event will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with cleanup in the morning hours and a hotdog cookout in the afternoon. Vermont Adventure Tours will give guided canoe tours of the reservoir, and the Green Mountain National Forest will be on hand to provide general forest information and maps.

 

Free T-shirts will be given to the first 200 participants.

 

Start: 10:00 am
End: 3:00 pm

ST. JOHNSBURY – Two of the Northeast Kingdom’s most popular autumn events, the Fairbanks Museum’s Wild & Wonderful nature program and the St. Johnsbury Fall Foliage Festival, are being combined this year in a grand event being called “Colors of the Kingdom.”

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Saturday, September 18th marks the long anticipated opening of lift served mountain biking at Burke Mountain Ski Area with the addition of the new downhill bike park on Kingdom Trails, Knightslayer. Burke Mountain will open the Sherburne Express chairlift from the Base Lodge from 11am-6pm on weekends and holidays until mid October. The chair lift will access four already established, but improved and re-routed single track trails as well as the new premier jump trail, Knightslayer, featuring world class table tops, step ups, step downs, rollers and sky high berms.

09 / 19
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09 / 21
Start: 8:30 am
End: 1:00 pm

 8:30 - 1 PM at the Charles Carter Business Facility in Lyndonville, VT.

Start: 9:10 am

 ESSEX MIDDLE SCHOOL’S EDGE ACADEMY TO HOLD SOLAR CELEBRATION


Author, Activist Bill McKibben will Present Keynote Address

Start: 12:00 pm

 BURLINGTON - The University of Vermont's Fleming Museum is excited to announce the opening of a special exhibition featuring original drawings, sculptures, and collages by the celebrated artistic duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In addition to bringing this retrospective of their careers to Burlington, the Museum will also offer a unique opportunity to hear the artist Christo lecture about past and current projects.

Start: 12:00 pm
Vermont Chamber Annual Meeting Luncheon

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Do you realize that you’re more likely to encounter a person in an emotional or mental crisis than someone having a heart attack?  Mental health disorders are more common than heart disease and cancer combined.

09 / 22
Start: 3:45 pm

 

INAUGURAL HIKE ON THE NEW INTERPRETIVE TRAIL AT THE RETREAT TRAILS SET FOR SEPTEMBER 2

 

WHO:                   The Windham Foundation and Naturalist Lynn Levine

 

Start: 7:00 pm

The Ethan Allen Institute presents –
 
          Sheraton Economic Series 2010
 
     The Prospects for Liberty
 
          featuring Edward Crane III
 
    President of the Cato Institute
 

09 / 23
09 / 24
Start: 8:30 am
End: 4:00 pm

BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT

The Brattleboro Retreat will present “”Autism and the Transition to Adulthood” on Friday September 21st as part of its continuing education conference series offered this fall.

Start: 10:00 am

The Vermont Employee Ownership Center (VEOC) is offering an intermediate-level workshop entitled “Employee Ownership for Small Companies” on September 24, 2010 from 10 am to 12 pm at the Marlboro College Graduate Center in downtown Brattleboro.

Start: 7:30 pm

While King George III was certainly reviled by the American colonists during the Revolutionary War, he was by no means the most hated man on the continent at the time.

That honor went to Major Banastre “Ban” Tarleton, the infamous commander of the Green Dragoons, and the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation is presenting an opportunity to “meet” this historic figure at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, September 24, at the Old First Church barn in Bennington.

09 / 25
Start: 10:00 am

Join U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Rural Utilities Service Administrator Jonathan Adelstein for a Town Meeting

on Broadband in Vermont.

Date: Saturday, September 25

Time: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.

Place: Vermont Technical College, Judd Hall, Randolph, VT

Dear Fellow Vermonters:

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CALL FOR EXHIBITORS: VT WOODWORKING FESTIVAL

Do you make a quality, Vermont wood product? Calling all Vermont furniture
makers, wood turners, basket weavers, millwork and flooring, door and window
manufacturers, and all others who make products out of wood! The Vermont
Wood Manufacturers Association (VWMA) invites you to exhibit at the Seventh
Annual Vermont Fine Furniture & Woodworking Festival to make this event the
one stop shopping experience for homeowners, architects, interior designers,

09 / 26
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CALL FOR EXHIBITORS: VT WOODWORKING FESTIVAL

Do you make a quality, Vermont wood product? Calling all Vermont furniture
makers, wood turners, basket weavers, millwork and flooring, door and window
manufacturers, and all others who make products out of wood! The Vermont
Wood Manufacturers Association (VWMA) invites you to exhibit at the Seventh
Annual Vermont Fine Furniture & Woodworking Festival to make this event the
one stop shopping experience for homeowners, architects, interior designers,

Start: 5:00 pm

VINS Offers Naturalist-led Canoe Trip on the Ottauquechee River
 

Start: 6:30 pm

VPT Will Broadcast and Webcast Sept. 26 AARP Gubernatorial Debate

On Sunday, Sept. 26, at 6:30 p.m., AARP Vermont will sponsor the AARP Vermont Governor's Forum, a debate between the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor. Vermont Public Television will broadcast the debate statewide and webcast it on its website, www.vpt.org.

Republican Brian Dubie and Democrat Peter Shumlin will meet at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center in S. Burlington, Vt.

09 / 27
Start: 5:30 pm

September is National Prostate Screening Awareness Week, so Brattleboro Memorial Hospital will once again be offering a free prostate screening clinic this month. The focus of this year’s screening, which is scheduled for Monday, September 27th at 5:30 p.m., is to reach individuals who have not yet received an initial screening. Prostate cancer is the second leading cancer killer in American men.

09 / 28
Start: 5:15 pm

In the past couple of years, BMH has sponsored Technology Tours to offer the community a chance to come learn about some of the hospital’s state-of-the-art instruments. To date we have featured tours of Radiology, Digital Mammography, Cardiology, the OR suite, and the Oncology Departments, to name a few.

Start: 6:00 pm

Second Small Business and Entrepreneurship Forum on E-mail Marketing Offered at Southern Vermont College

 

Start: 7:30 pm

The Center for Research on Vermont kicks off its Research in Progress Seminar Series this fall with "9,000 Years of Life Under the Bridge: The Archaeology of Chimney Point", by John Crock, director of the University of Vermont Consulting Archaeology Program (UVM CAP) and assistant research professor of anthropology.

Start: 7:30 pm

 The Paramount Theatre announced today that Emmy and Obie-Award Winning actor Christopher Lloyd will appear Tuesday, September 28 at 7:30pm in the Tony and Pulitzer-winning drama Death of A Salesman.

09 / 29
09 / 30
Start: 8:30 am

Conference 2010

Recommitting to Vermont, Seizing the Opportunity
How to Use the Crisis to Make Vermont Work for Everyone

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September 30-October 1, 2010

Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center
Burlington, Vermont
870 Williston Road
Burlington, VT 05403

www.REVermont.org

Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm

BRATTLEBORO – Union Institute & University, a private, non-profit university with two locations in Brattleboro, will host the first Brattleboro Area Higher Education Fair, Thursday, September 30, from 5-7 p.m. at VABEC on Old Guilford Road in Brattleboro. The event is co-sponsored by the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce as part of their September Swing into Fall series and will feature representatives from a number of Brattleboro-area colleges and universities including:

Community College of Vermont  

10 / 1
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Expand Career Options in the Import/Export Sector

New, easier pricing announced:

In response to feedback from Vermont companies, we’ve changed the pricing for the Import/Export programs to let individuals register for one course at a time.

Start: 8:30 am
End: 4:00 pm

The Brattleboro Retreat’s Office of Continuing Education will offer a full-day seminar called “Chronic Illness and Bereavement: Helping Families Cope” on Friday, October 1st. The presenter, Dr. Gerald P. Koocher, has devoted his career to working with families confronted by chronic illness and loss at Children’s Hospital Boston. He is currently a professor of psychology at Simmons College and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry.

Start: 3:30 pm

 What: 2010 Gubernatorial Forum on Energy and the Environment.

Who: Gubernatorial candidates Republican Brian Dubie and Democrat Peter Shumlin. Moderated by Mark Johnson of WDEV Radio.

When: Friday, October 1, 2010 from 3:30-5 pm.

10 / 2
Start: 10:00 am

The Vermont Chapter of AFSP has organized a community walk which will include approximately 300 walkers for Saturday, October 2, 2010.

"As you are all aware, I personally have been touched by suicide. My son, Logan, died of suicide 6 months ago today and I am doing my best to try to prevent this from happening to other families by telling my story," said Cathy Voyer.

Location: Battery Park, Burlington Vermont

Start: 10:00 am
End: 4:00 pm

Public Event: Saturday, October 2, 2010, 10am - 4pm,

Where: Green buildings throughout Vermont. For a complete listing visit http://www.nesea.org/openhouse/listings/

Homeowners throughout Vermont are turning green – and saving green – with the help of Alteris Renewables. Now is your opportunity to learn why and how they decided to power their homes and businesses with clean, efficient, affordable solar energy.

10 / 3
Start: 8:30 am

Sunday, October 3, 2010
Start & Finish at Dorset Park, South Burlington

A great Ride for a great organization helping homeless, foster, and at-risk youth throughout Vermont access basic needs and transform their lives.
Have you registered for the Ride yet? Visit our First Giving page to register.

10 / 4
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm

The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Services Department is offering a seven week “Standing Tall Spine Health Class” for individuals diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia, or those at risk for low bone mass. The classes will take place on Mondays from 4:00-5:00 p.m., October 4th to November 15th. The class fee is $60.

10 / 5
10 / 6
Start: 9:00 am
End: 3:30 pm

Come find out what your business can do to reduce environmental impacts and improve your bottom line. Topics will include a Plenary Session: Greening Up Vermont’s Business Sectors Panel; Green Project Financing Panel; The Lean Office; Beyond Business Sustainability; LEED Existing Buildings and Energy Retrofits; Food Recycling & the VT Compost/Biogas Data Viewer; Walking the Environmental Talk panel; and Assessing Your Businesses’ Sustainability Efforts. A Green Drinks session will follow the conference.

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm

WHAT: Open House and Networking Get Together to celebrate Maclay Architect’s office transition to net-zero. Net-zero buildings are facilities that produce as much energy as they consume, on an annual basis, through increased efficiency and on-site renewable systems.

10 / 7
Start: 12:00 am

 CVMC’s 2010 Charity Golf Classic

 

Start: 12:45 pm
End: 2:00 pm

SOUTH ROYALTON, VT –– A group of Russian and Norwegian nuclear scientists, regulators and activists will visit Vermont Law School on Oct. 7 to learn more about decommissioning nuclear power plants in New England, including the potential closure of Vermont Yankee. The discussion is from 12:45 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Oakes Hall, Room 107.

Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm

What: Down-Ticket Downtown Debates, sponsored by Channel 17, Common Good Vermont and Seven Days
When: Thursday, October 7, 2010; starts at 6 p.m.
Where: Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall
Admission: Free

Start: 7:30 pm

Montpelier ~ Vermont author and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Katherine Paterson will speak about the importance of reading in child development in a talk at McCarthy Arts Center at Saint Michael’s College on Thursday, October 7. Her talk, “The Child Left Behind,” takes place at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

10 / 8
Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm

Chaput Family Farms, Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. and Central Vermont Public Service will host a free Cow Power Open House Oct. 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the farm at 2473 Route 105 East in North Troy. Farm tours, renewable energy information and a free picnic lunch will be available.

Start: 5:00 pm

Any swimmer looking to improve technique should come to the Bennington Rec Center on Friday, October 8 at 5pm. Olympians Ian Crocker and Maritza Correia will give a clinic and breathtaking up-close performances that will inspire swimmers of all ages to refine technique, and get fitter and faster.

10 / 9
Start: 10:00 am

Inaugural Champlain Valley Buddy Walk® to be held October 9

Event Celebrates National Down Syndrome Awareness Month

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Call for Fine Artists and Craftspeople

10 / 10
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Call for Fine Artists and Craftspeople

Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm

The UVM Department of Theatre opens its 2010-2011 Season with the award
winning comedy CLOUD 9 by British playwright Caryl Churchill running
September 30 – October 10 at the Royall Tyler Theatre.
CLOUD 9 wraps gender-bending characters and outrageous portrayals of
sexuality into thought-provoking satire. Political and sexual oppression
are explored in a time-twisted structure from Victorian Africa to modern
Britain exploding with brilliant wittiness to stretch your imagination.

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