Ed. Note: Lil DeCoste reports that there is an Open House tomorrow night--Tuesday--at Walpole Village School.  "Our goal, she says, "is to provide a time for new parents and/or prospective parents to see the school and have the chance to ask questions.  If you know someone who might be interested in learning more about the school please encourage them to come.  You are welcome to join them.  If you have a child that is just starting in the fall, this would be a fun time for them to "come to their school"!

Ed. Note: You've been wanting this! Here it is. Print three copies. One for the fridge. One for the bathroom mirror. One for the car. Plan now to attend! CCB

Walpole Old Home Days 2008

Schedule of Events

Note:   $$ indicates that tickets need to be purchased.  If no sign, participation is free.

Friday, June 20 

Walpole Players You Can’t Take It With You – Doors open 7 pm, Curtain rises at 7:30 pm - Walpole Town Hall  $$

Saturday, June 21

  Walpole Players You Can’t Take It With You – Doors open 7 pm, Curtain rises at 7:30 pm  - Walpole Town Hall  $$

Sunday, June 22

 Walpole Players You Can’t Take It With You –  Doors open 1:30 pm,

Curtain rises at 2 pm  -  Walpole Town Hall  $$

Wednesday, June 25 

 5:30 pm  Block Party hosted by Connecticut River Bank, N.A. & the Leslie Hubbard Family  -  Connecticut River Bank Parking Lot with music by THE ILLUSION

Thursday, June 26 

Walpole Players You Can’t Take It With You – Doors open 7 pm, Curtain rises at 7:30 – Walpole Town Hall   $$

Friday, June 27 

9 am – 8 pm Walpole Community Pool  -  Free to all

4 pm – 6 pm  Strawberry Shortcake by Tom Murray to benefit

Walpole Youth Baseball  -  In front of Murray’s Restaurant    $$

5 pm   Talent show sponsored by the Savings Bank of Walpole  - Walpole

Town Hall.  Sign up with Trina Carmody at 756-3836 in advance, please.  Awards to be given right after performance. 

7 pm – 11 pm Dance in bank parking lot across from The Tavern.  Music                 by Weathered Roads

7 pm – 11 pm American Legion food booth    $$

9:30 pm  Fireworks shot from North road over village

Saturday, June 28

7 am – 9 am  Academy Breakfast for all who attended the Academy and                 spouses.  Prizes for  youngest, oldest, longest distance traveled –                 Tent on Historical Society Lawn

8:30 am   5K Race and Children’s Race (12 and under)  Start/Finish at                 Walpole Town Hall  - Prizes  - Benefit of Fall Mountain running &                 skiing teams   $$

8:30 am   Power Walk with Paula Burdick - Prizes -Walpole Town Hall $$

9 am   Pies for Grange Pie-Baking Contest to Town Hall for judging

9 am –  8 pm Walpole Community Pool  -  Free to all

9 am –  4 pm  Common displays for Walpole non-profits…educational,                 fundraising and food

                Walpole Historical Society                 Information

                Walpole Recycling Action Program                Information

                Walpole Community Grange   Pie Baking Contest\Pie & Coffee

Walpole Old Home Day Committee                Water, Souvenirs, Totes & Info., Hamburgers, Fried dough

                Walpole Village School                      Chicken-on-stick, Iced tea, Fruit cup

                Walpole Parent Teacher Group     Root Beer Floats

                Walpole Conservation Committee                Educational

                Gary Speed                                     Preserved Animal Display

                Art Co-op                                            Artisan Displays

                Child Family Services                    Educational

                Boy Scout Troop 299                    Hot Dogs, Soda, Water

                Pinnacleview 4-H Club                       Lemonade, Icees & Petting                                                                     Zoo

                Hubbard Farms                                     Educational\Baby Chicks

                Organic Valley Farms                         Educational\Give-a-ways

                Hooper Institute                                 Information

                Life Fellowship Foursquare Church                Information & Desserts

                                                        (Continued)

                Congregational Church                     Barbecue Tickets

Charles Phillips                                  Play BUX Game

                Monadnock Conservancy                   Information

                Walpole Fire & EMS Ladies Aux.                Popcorn, Cotton Candy,

                                                                                                Quilt Raffle

                Walpole Fire Department                   Fire Safety Trailer

                Hooper Hill Hoppers                          Raffle Tickets

                The Pink Sox—Tiffany, Patty,                Bake Sale, T-shirts & Face Painting

                                & Chris Neal

                Kirsty Patch—David’s House     Food--Subs, Sausage & Meatballs

                TriVillage Energy                                               Solar Cooking

                Personal Ponies                                    Info. on Companion Ponies

10 am -  PARADE  -  Starts at Walpole School  -  First – third prizes for:

                most original, funniest, best theme, best junior entry, best

                neighborhood entry

11 am – 4 pm - Antique Vehicle Show  -  Historical Society lawn  -  Vote for                 your favorite car, truck and tractor!!

11 am – Grange Pie Baking Contest  -  Call Gwen Yardley 756-3677 to                 enter your pie!  Prizes to be awarded. Walpole Town Hall

11 am – 12:30 pm Basketball 3-point Shootout  –  Savings Bank lot

11:30 am – Jim Collins will read about playing baseball in Walpole from his                 well-received book, The Last Best League  -  Walpole Town Library

12 noon  -  Pet Show – Behind Telephone Building

Children’s categories:  1. Largest pet  2. Smallest pet  3. Longest tail  4. Costume class   5. Shortest tail   6. Most unusual pet

 7. Cutest pet  8. Judges choice award 

Adult categories:  1. Oldest Pet   2. Costume Class   3. Owner/pet look-a-like  4. Most enthusiastic pet owner—Roxy Memorial Trophy  5. Judges choice award

12 noon – 3 pm   Hayrides around town provided by R.N. Johnson’s

1 pm – 3 pm   Open House at the Historical Society

1 pm – 3 pm   Firefighters challenge (Age 6-12)  Skating rink

1 pm   Cemetery Tour provided by Walpole Players and friends.  Starts in                   front of Walpole School

1 pm – 3 pm  Children’s Woodsmen Contest  -  Divisions 7 years and under,                 8 years – 12 years, 13 years – 18 years  - Skating rink

(2person events: logroll, chunk throw, cross cut saw, surprise event  

3 pm – Adult Woodsmen Contest   -  same events

MUSIC on the BANDSTAND during the day

                The East Bay Jazz Ensemble

                The “Panhandlers” Steel Band

7:00 pm Walpole  Players You Can’t Take It With You  - Doors open 7 pm –                              Walpole Town Hall  $$

Sunday, June 29

7 am – 11 am   Breakfast to benefit Walpole Historical Society – Tent on                 Historical Society Lawn    $$

9 am – 8 pm   Walpole Community Pool  -  Free to all

8:00 am    St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Walpole

9:30 am    St. Peter’s Catholic Church, North Walpole

10:00 am   First Congregational Church, Walpole

10:00 am   St. John’s Episcopal Church, Walpole

10:30 am   Walpole Unitarian Church, Walpole

2 pm – 5 pm – Tea & Refreshments at Hastings House next to Unitarian                 Church   $$

2 pm – 4 pm  - Jazz concert in memory of Lou Andreoli at Walpole                 Unitarian Church, Music by Samirah Evans,  accompanied by                 Jason Ennis, Armen Donelian, George Kaye

3 pm till sold out  -  Chicken Barbecue & a la carte supper items  -  First                 Congregational Church  $$

5:30 pm  - Band Concert with Bob Cunniff Orchestra – sponsored by the                 Boy Scouts of Walpole.  Donation basket will be passed.

***  Presentation of parade awards and other drawings at intermission. ***

7:30 pm – Walpole Players You Can’t Take It With You  -  Doors open at 7                 pm – Walpole Town Hall   $$

 

                                                                                    

 

 

Ed. Note: A reminder from Rev. Susan Kershaw about tonight's community lecture at St. John's Episcopal Church...CCB

Community Lecture: Abraham’s Family Reunion with Jim Levinson and Javed Chaudhri, Tonight, May 16, 7 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Elm and Westminster Streets, Walpole.

Jim and Javed were instrumental in interfaith work in the Brattleboro area. Abraham’s Family Reunion is an effort to build understanding and community between the three Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

 F. James Levinson, Ph.D has been serving as Spiritual Leader (Shaliach Tzibur) of the Brattleboro Area Jewish Community (BAJC) since 2001. Earlier he served in the same capacity at Temple Israel in Athol Massachusetts for 13 years. Levinson is a member of the local clergy association and a founding member of the social action-oriented Brattleboro Area Interfaith Initiative. Under his leadership, BAJC was nationally recognized for its efforts to facilitate Muslim-Jewish understanding through the Salaam-Shalom Program. Levinson also was an organizer of the 1995 interfaith commemoration in Poland of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Levinson has been involved in international nutrition work in Asia and Africa for the past 44 years, and has been on the faculty of MIT, Tufts University and the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont.

 Javed Chaudhri was born in Pakistan near the Afghan border, and grew up in the Pakistani Western Himalayan school, the Lawrence College. In 1965 he arrived in Vermont to attend Marlboro College, graduated with High Honors in History, returned to Pakistan for 5 years and worked for Unilever. In 1971,  he returned to the US to attend the New School in NYC and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, earned  a graduate degree in Anthropology, taught briefly at the Community College of Vermont and then settled down in Montreal. In 1980 he again returned to Pakistan shortly after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and stayed for twenty years, traveling to India, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. He became a well known and successful business manager and consultant, taught business in graduate school and re-established close ties with many of the political and military personalities as well as business leaders whom he had grown up with. He has spoken at various fora, schools, colleges, churches and peace rallies in the United States on Afghanistan, Iraq, Islam and the Muslim World.  Javed is a lay member of a unique interfaith group, the Brattleboro Area Clergy whose members seek to work in unison as inheritors of the Abrahamic tradition. Javed is married to Yasmeen a graduate of  Antioch New England Graduate Center and is a teacher in Brattleboro. Their eldest son Tariq also graduated from Marlboro College and their twin sons Taimur and Tahir, born in Montreal, also studied at the same college.

 The lecture is open to the whole community and is free. For more information, please call 756-4533 or 756-2962.