Cavendish Update 9/20/21: Shelter in Place/Herbs Talk/News/Events
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9/20/24
1. Cavendish Preparedness-Sheltering in Place
2. CHS Herbs and Longevity Talk
3. Cavendish Related News
4. Events Calendar
1. CAVENDISH PREPAREDNESS-SHELTERING IN PLACE: In keeping with September being National Preparedness Month, if you need to remain in your home during and immediately following a major storm or flood, take the following safety measures:
• Stay inside until the storm has passed
• Bring all pets indoors
• Generators, particularly during winter storms, can make it possible to remain at home. Make sure your generator is in good working order and has sufficient fuel to last for 5 days.
• In the event of a flood, go to the highest level of building or roof. Do not climb into a closed attic.
• Save phone calls for emergencies. Use text messages or social media to communicate
• Listen for current emergency information and instructions as well as weather reports. Make sure you have signed up for VT Alert. Use the Cavendish VT Facebook page for up to date information.
• In the event of high winds go to a small interior windowless room in a sturdy building on the lowest level.
• Call 911 for emergent situations
• If the Cavendish shelter-located at the Cavendish Baptist Church, 2258 Main St.-is open, go there: if it is safe to leave your house or if the fire department tells you to evacuate.
• Local assistance is available at Black River Good Neighbor Services (BRGNS). The can help with the following: Meals on Wheels, food shelf, Financial Aid, heating assistance, housing, utilities, thrift store and furniture store. Located at 37B Main Street, Ludlow. Call (802) 228-3663. The thrift store operates 10-4 Monday through Saturday, Food Shelf Monday-Friday 10-3; Furniture store, located at 105 Main St. Friday & Saturday from 10-4.
For additional information: FEMA Shelter in Place
2. CHS: HERBS & LONGEVITY TALK: In Cancer Ward, while fiction and a means to reflect on Soviet society, the author, Nobel Laureate, and former Cavendish resident, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, relied heavily on his own experience as a cancer patient. Solzhenitsyn describes how a doctor notices that peasant patients don’t seem to get cancer, which he concludes is from their practice of drinking chaga tea. However, Solzhenitsyn turned to European mandrake root to treat his cancer, along with radiation therapy.
Like chaga, mandrake has been used for centuries and it turns out, a study conducted at the National Cancer Institute found that using the formula Solzhenitsyn followed with mandrake root contained two cancer drugs. Note that American mandrake (Podophyllum peltatum) is an entirely different plant than the European variety used by Solzhenitsyn.
On Sept. 29 (Sunday) at 2 pm, the Cavendish Historical Society (CHS) will host a talk on plants and herbs associated with longevity. One of the speakers will be Dr. Charis Boke, a member of the Dartmouth College faculty in anthropology. She is currently writing Poison, Power, and Possibility: Building Relations with Medicinal which will explore the poetics, politics, and practices of contemporary herbalists in North America, leaning on ethnographic research, botanical histories, and lived experience to examine what it takes to remedy what ails us. Dr. Boke was involved in helping with the Benjamin Rush Medicinal Garden at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
This event will take place at the CHS Museum in Cavendish Village (route 131) and is free and open to the public. Donations welcomed. FMI: 802-226-7807 or e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.com
3. CAVENDISH RELATED NEWS
• Notice of Hydrant Flushing-POSTPONED: Due to recent heavy water use in town we will not be flushing our water mains this week. We are hoping to do this very important maintenance later this fall. Please avoid unnecessary water usage to help us achieve this goal much faster. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
• CTES Principal Resigns: A message was sent on Sept. 13 to the GMUSD community that Principal Mann of CTES "has resigned from his position effective October 31, 2024 due to personal and medical reasons. He will be on leave until that time." The search for a new principal began on Monday with the posting of the principal position.
• Agenda: Cavendish Board of Civil Authority and Board of Tax Abatement 9.25.24
• Ronald A. Ameden, 1958-2024: Per Ron’s wishes, there will be no services, but a Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, Oct. 13, at 2 p.m., at 2184 East Road in Cavendish, Vt. Charitable donations may be made in Ron’s name to Shriners Hospitals for Children, Attn: Office of Development, 2900 N. Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL 33607; or The Dorset Equine Rescue, P.O. Box 92, East Dorset, VT 05253.
• Consultant says 4 hospitals, need ‘major restructuring,’ recommends consolidating health care services across Vermont: Springfield Hospital is one of the four hospitals being recommended to find new uses for inpatient units. VT Digger
4. EVENTS
SEPTEMBER 22 (SUNDAY): Dedication of Kate’s Corner at the Cavendish Library-in memory of Kate Lorenz, 1 pm at the library in Proctorsville.
SEPTEMBER 29 (SUNDAY): 2 PM, Cavendish Historical Society Museum. Plant Time: Herbs focusing on longevity (e.g. chaga) and the life cycle of medicinal plants. This will include a discussion of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s writing and use of plants like chaga and mandrake root (European variety). Dr. Charis Boke will again be one of the speakers. FMI: 802-226-7807 or margocaulfield@icloud.com
OCTOBER 13 (SUNDAY) Last Sunday the Museum is open for the 2024 season.
OCTOBER 14 (MONDAY): Indigenous Peoples Day. Town office closed
OCTOBER 26 (SATURDAY) History of the Invasives: Knotweed. 2 pm at the Cavendish Library, 573 Main St. Proctorsville
OCTOBER 31 (THURSDAY): HAPPY HALLOWEEN
- Trunk or Treat Benson’s Chevrolet, 25 Pond St. Ludlow 5-7 pm
NOVEMBER 2 (SATURDAY): Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead): Starts 3 pm at the Cavendish Library, 573 Main St. Proctorsville. Workshop from 3-5:30 Pot luck supper follows