Pick an iPod!
Twenty-four specially marked wooden apples are being placed in apple trees at participating pick-your-own orchards around the state. The lucky customers who find a wooden apple will win an Apple iPod.
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Get out; enjoy the beautiful weather; take in a Lake Monsters game; and get a Big Mac! August 18th is McDonald’s Night at Centennial Field. Every person attending the Lake Monsters game will get a coupon for a free Big Mac sandwich from McDonald’s. And, to celebrate, there’s special pricing for the Lake Monsters if [...]
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Share Southern Vermont is a pregnancy and infant support loss group that is reaching out to Central and Northern Vermont bereaved parents. Every day pregnancy and infant losses occur and leave women and families beside themselves. There will be two events this summer to help families and women in need that have been left to grieve [...]
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Imagine a community yard sale. Now imagine it for the whole Chittenden County community! Save your stuff and donation it (tax deductible) to the community yard sale to benefit KidSafe Collaborative’s efforts to prevent and address child abuse and neglect. Drop off dates are August 11 and 12; the sale takes place August 14 & [...]
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Having a special needs child changes your life in countless ways. One way that Burlington mom Erika Nestor discovered was how many expensive home modifications were necessary when her 18-month-old, Zoe, nearly drowned a couple of years ago. When the Nestors learned that there weren’t any funds available to help offset their costs, Erika launched [...]
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Over 29,000 Vermont children rely on free or reduced price school meals. When schools close in June, many of these children lose their most important source of balanced nutrition. Studies indicate that low-income kids are more likely to gain weight and fall behind their peers academically during the summer months.The federally funded Summer Nutrition Programs [...]
Mobius, the Mentoring Movement, needs your help. The 3rd Annual Race to the Top of Vermont is on Sunday August 29,. Run, mountain bike, or non-competitively hike up the highest mountain in Vermont on the famous Mount MAnsfield Toll Road. Support mentoring and witness one of the most spectacular views in the east. Get friends [...]
Phoenix Books at the Essex Shoppes and Cinema is having a Tree of Knowledge Summer Reading Program for all of its young customers! While visiting Phoenix Books, participants will be given a “leaf” on which they’ll document their latest read. Leaves will be attached to the in-store Tree of Knowledge, and readers help the Tree “grow” [...]
Roughly 1000 Vermont children learned through play with the Green Mountain Children’s Museum in its third appearance at Burlington’s 25th Kids Day on May 15. Kids of all ages took apart old toasters, phones and vacuums, made craft flowers, built towers, houses, bridges and experimented with sound and speed at the Singing Trees. These are [...]
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Don’t wait ’til the last minute to register for the 16th annual Walk for the Animals fundraiser and celebration of the bond between people and their pets. You can support the work of the shelter by creating your own fundraising page or downloading a pledge form. Either way, you need to register online. The event [...]
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If you’ve got unused baby stuff laying around (and who doesn’t?), then you want to know all about the annual Kids Town Baby Swap! Drop off times are T-F, June 1-4 from 11am to 7pm at Kids Town on Farrell Street in Burlington. The sale is on Saturday, June 5 from 10-5 and Sunday, June [...]
Thanks to a grant received by UVM Extension’s 4-H program, children who have family members in the US military may attend one of 3 free summer camps through Operation: Military Kids (OMK). The purpose of these camps is to not only gain valuable skills and have fun, but also to bring military youth together in an [...]
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Mike Morone of North Chili, NY (not far from Rochester) has an idea. If everyone in the country got together and swapped the “stuff” that clutters their space, there would be a whole lot less waste. Thus, he’s come up with “Give Your Stuff Away Day” on May 15. Here’s how he describes it:
A bright [...]
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The Parent Information and Resource Center (PIRC Vermont), Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC) and the Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA) is presenting a statewide conference about family engagement in schools called Leadership and “Parentship” for 21st Century Schools: Making the Transformation Happen. Education is a partnership between learners, families, educators and local communities, but nowadays both [...]
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