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IT’S TIME FOR THE CAVENDISH CONNECTS SPRING FUNDRAISER! We know you like the CC website, Facebook page, blog, calendar,  Pinterest, Instagram,  local news, events-such as the 5th Annual Town wide Tag Sale and 2nd Annual Abundance Swap etc. etc. SO SHOW US SOME LOVE:

• Make a donation on-line or by mail (Checks should be made payable to Cavendish Connects and mailed to PO Box 3, Cavendish VT 05142)

• Hold a fundraiser with CC as the beneficiary.

• If you would like to be a CC sponsor, we offer great rates, and we know a lot about marketing. It’s a great opportunity for businesses and community groups. FMI-cavendishconnects@gmail.com or 802-226-7807

Cavendish Solar Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony-April 20

Last December the Town of Cavendish completed construction of a solar array to power municipal facilities. Town officials planned a simple celebration in February, but when the snow levels grew they postponed it to the spring. The Select Board and Energy Committee have now announced that the Grand Opening Celebration and ribbon-cutting event will occur on Monday, April 20th at 11:00 a.m.

It will be held at the new Cavendish Municipal Solar Array site, which is located off Power Plant Road next to the wastewater treatment plant. All citizens and residents of Cavendish are invited to attend. After the ribbon cutting and remarks there will be a reception with light refreshments at the Cavendish Town Offices, 37 High Street in Cavendish.

The solar array is designed to produce 148 kW of ac solar power as a net-metered system. The array feeds all generated electricity into the grid, and Green Mountain Power offsets that generated electricity against the electricity used by the Town offices, the transfer station, the water filtration plant and the wastewater treatment system.

For more information about the celebration or about the Cavendish solar array, please contact the Cavendish town office at 802-226-7291. For planning purposes the town requests that if you plan to attend please rsvp to Cavendishsolar@CavendishVT.org. 

Cavendish Joins Local Towns for Solarize

The Cavendish Energy Committee has announced that the Town has joined with Reading, Brownsville, Weathersfield and Windsor to work as a team to promote residential solar power through a program called “Solarize Makes $ense”, run by the non-profit Vital Communities. The purpose of Solarize Makes $ense is to significantly ramp up the rate of solar adoption, even beyond the borders of participating communities and beyond the timeframe of the outreach campaign. Solarize accomplishes this by encouraging a very public and very positive conversation about solar energy throughout the region, and by demonstrating numerous solar success stories. The program teams up local communities with competitively chosen solar photovoltaic (PV) installers to make residential-scale solar energy more accessible and affordable for homeowners.

A meeting of interested residents is now being planned for a date in June. All Cavendish residents will be invited to participate and learn about how solar can benefit them.

Vital Communities has selected three such teams within the 69-town Vital Communities service area in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire to participate in Round Three of the Solarize Upper Valley program. The community team will work with Vital Communities to choose their own solar PV installer partner. The selected PV installer(s) will provide, at a minimum, competitive tiered pricing (prices drop for everyone as more residents sign up), free site visits, collaboration in community outreach, and installation services. The community team and partner installer, with support from Vital Communities, will develop and implement a community outreach campaign between June and September 2015 with the goal of increasing the number of solar PV installations in each community.

Volunteer teams will collaborate on a variety of outreach approaches. Local energy committees in each town are now seeking volunteers to help. Lead volunteers for Cavendish are Peter LaBelle, who can be reached at 802-376-5648, and Mary Ormrod who can be reached at 802-226-7783.

Warning for Cavendish Fire District 1-April 7

The legal voters of Cavendish Fire District # 1 (Proctorsville) are hereby notified and warned to meet in the Proctorsville Fire Hall in said district, Tuesday evening, April 7, 2015 at 7 pm to act on the following articles:

Article 1: To hear and act on the Auditor's Report

Article 2: To choose and elect all officers at the Annual Meeting as follows:

• Moderator-One Year Term

• Prudential Committee- One for a term of three (3) years

• Treasurer, One year term

• Clerk-One Year Term

• Collector of Taxes-One Year Term

Article 3: To see if the District voters will vote to raise money for the purpose of defraying expenses for the Fiscal Period ensuing, and how much.

Article 4: To see if the District will authorize the Prudential Committee to borrow money from time to time to pay expenses of the District, if necessary.

Article 5: To see if the District will authorize the Prudential Committee to replace the 29 year old support unit, which is in need of many repairs to keep it running, with a new support unit truck, at a cost not to exceed $160,000.

Article 6: To do any other business necessary and proper at said meeting. 

A copy of the Chief's Report can be download in PDF Also available are call reports one and two.