The Walpolean

Cody Tallent, a senior at Bellows Falls Union High School, is an accomplished distance runner and a staff member at Meeting Waters YMCA’s Y Day Camp and Y-ASPIRE afterschool program. He’s bringing all of these characteristics together to organize a 5K run and walk to benefit the regional Y’s Reach Out to Youth Scholarship Fund. The Bellows Falls 5K Winter Classic will be held at 10AM on Saturday, December 17^th. It starts and finishes at the Rockingham Recreation Center on Playground Road.

“I’m doing this to finish my Senior Project. I wanted to do a road race because I love running,” Tallent states. “I wanted Meeting Waters YMCA to be the beneficiary of the event because I have seen first-hand how the Y has benefited kids and I know the money will help kids and families in our community.”

According to the race organizer, the 5K route will consist of two laps of a 2.5 kilometer circuit (about a mile-and-a-half). “Hopefully, this will encourage families to come and do the event together. Children could stop after one lap while the parents continue on,” Tallent adds. “Like the Y does every day, I’m hoping this event promotes healthy lifestyles and there’s no better way to do that than to get a whole family involved.”

More information about the BF 5K Winter Classic—as well as a Registration Form—are available at Meeting Waters YMCA’s website (www.meetingwatersymca.org). Registration is now open. One may register the morning of the event, as well. Questions can be directed to Meeting Waters YMCA’s administrative office at 802-463-4769 or by writing info@meetingwatersymca.org.

Founded 121 years ago, Meeting Waters YMCA is a non-profit, charitable social service agency “strengthening the foundations of community” in the Bellows Falls, Fall Mountain, Springfield and Brattleboro regions.

The Walpole players will present Christmas on the Air – a step back in time featuring highlights from the golden age of radio, radio plays, skits, carols, and gags – at the Walpole Town Hall, Helen Miller Theater Friday December 16 at 7:00 PM.

In the old time golden radio skits the Bickersons will be back celebrating Christmas Eve, Art Linkletter may be making an appearance with his kids, and Fibber McGee will bring home his Christmas tree. Songs of the season and other merriment will also be included.

The holiday entertainment will be presented in similar format to the players popular “Cabin Fever Radio Follies” that they have preformed the Saturday after Town Meeting for the last four years. The performers will be the “Radio Follies” crew and others. Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the audience is seated at round tables of eight. You may bring your dinner, snacks, beverages of choice, and friends and take a break from the stress of the holidays. You may make it a party and linger after the show.

Tickets are $10. each and all proceeds go to Our place Drop in Center and the Fall Mountain Food Shelf. They are available at Galloway Real Estate and Joanie Joan’s.

Sharing Bread – a Multigenerational Service

Join us at the Walpole Unitarian Church Sunday at 10 a.m. for a special Thanksgiving Weekend service of sharing bread and pondering the sacred in the food we prepare to nourish ourselves and others.

Led by Worship Committee Chair Antonia Andreoli and trustee Dorothy Read, the service will include readings that reflect this season of sharing food, with a special twist. If you like, please bring along a loaf of bread. We’ll be invited to choose someone else’s bread to bring home (or share right there!), and leave a donation for it in our “Manna Jar,” the jar we use to collect pocket change and donations for our local food pantries.

You don’t have to bake and bring a loaf to participate, of course. There will also be jars of a sourdough starter that has been going for years (made originally from grapes from the vines at Mountain View Winery and another friend’s batch of sourdough, added to by yet another’s) and instructions will be included.

So, come share the bread and your thoughts. We are a Welcoming Congregation committed to love and social justice.

The shopping day is Saturday the 19th, NOT the 18th.  Thanks you Beth Colley for bringing that to my attention. When retired, one overlooks details like dates! – Lil

Dale Woodward sent me this valuable information this morning.  Just crossed a couple of items off my To Do list!  – Lil

The First Congregational Church, famous for our pies, will be holding their annual Thanksgiving pie sale Wednesday, November 23rd at the Walpole Post Office, 9:00 to 11:00.
Let us bake for you!

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Starting this winter, the Town of Walpole Planning Board will be working with the Southwest Region Planning Commission (SWRPC) to explore ways to increase the safety of streets in Walpole for walkers, bicyclists, people taking transit, and others. This project, called “Complete Streets,” is part of a larger initiative led by Healthy Monadnock called the “Partnerships to Improve Community Health,” or “PICH.” The goal of PICH is to increase access to healthy food, tobacco cessation resources, and physical activity opportunities for residents of Cheshire County. Implementing Complete Streets will help to promote physical activity by ensuring that people feel safe when they walk, bike, or use other forms of active transportation.

The goal of the Walpole Complete Streets project is to create a plan or policy that would, over time, result in a safer and more well-connected transportation system that is welcoming and friendly to walkers, bicyclists, and transit users of all ages and abilities. This could include installing more sidewalks, crosswalks, bike racks, benches, street landscaping, or paved shoulders in strategic locations. In addition, SWRPC has some funding to provide free bike racks to local businesses and institutions as a way to promote bicycling as a viable form of transportation. This project has the support of the Walpole Selectboard.

The first Walpole Complete Streets meeting will take place at the Walpole Planning Board workshop meeting on Tuesday, November 29, 2016. The schedule of future meetings will be announced when they are planned.

I also saw in The Clarion that the Farmers’ Market will be on the Common that Day.  No need to travel to the mall.  When you add Ruggles and Hunt, Village Blooms, The Artisan Shop, and Burdick’s Chocolate to the list, there is quite a choice right here in town.  Even four different options to grab a sandwich for lunch.  What more could a Christmas shopper want? – Lil  PS – Anyone know if the Orchard School is at the Town Hall?

The Walpole Historical Society Museum Gift Shop will be open on Saturday November 19^th from 9 am to 2 pm to participate in the Community Holiday Shopping Day.  The Gift Shop, the Congregational Church and St. John’s Church will offer a great variety of craft and gift items to start the holiday season with.    At the Museum Gift Shop we have Louisa May Alcott booklets, Walpole wine glasses, Dellamano painted glass, accessories from Country on the Common, locally crafted note cards as well as candles, holiday cards and napkins, children’s books, new little wooden bookmarks –and much more.     We will have cookies and hot coffee to keep you warm.  Make it a day and get a head start on holiday shopping ! Bring a friend and shop all three of these special sales!   Park your car and walk to all 3 locations–  See you on November 19^th— Hours are 9am to 2pm!!