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The Reading Informer July 2018
Published by the Town of Reading
Sunday, July 1st
Invite your family and friends to join you for a fun filled family day.
This will be the 43rd year that the Reading Fire Department has been hosting this event for our community. Don’t miss out. Get your group together to come up with a prize winning float. Parade Theme: “Fun In The Sun”
Parade Line Up: 10:30 a.m.
Parade Starts: 11:00 a.m.
Chicken BBQ: Noon; following the end of the parade
Still only $10 for a complete meal
27th Annual Ox Pull: 1 p.m. at Newhall Meadow by the school
12th Annual Ducky Derby 2 p.m. at Newhall Field
Tickets are $5 each or a Quack Pack of 6 for $25. You can buy your tickets at Read-ing Greenhouse, Town Hall, or through a member of the Reading Recreation Commis-sion Joe Braun, ([email protected]) Stephen D’Agostino, Chair ([email protected]) Lisa Kaija, Secretary ([email protected]) Gerry Marletta, ([email protected]) Lisa Morrison, Treasurer ([email protected])
Kid’s bike. Golf for 4 at JP Larkin Golf Course Stay at Echo Lake Inn
Gift cards to Maple Kitchen, Farmers Market, Green Mtn Smokehouse, King Arthur Flour
Gift from Farmhouse Pottery Dinner at the Weathersfield Inn
Books from Yankee Bookshop Ornamental Bush from South End Gardens
Movie Tickets and MANY MORE ITEMS 1 dozen eggs/week for 6 months
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It’s time for the changing of the guard ! Reading PTO Chairperson
Thank you Tatiana Werner McCarthy for doing a great job in this position during your term as chairperson. Now the Reading PTO is looking for a new chairperson. No—you do not need to be one of the parents. The PTO chair is a party/event planner and facilitates the meetings. Did you know that the PTO is a fund raising committee that holds fun events to raise money for RES activities? Did you know PTO pays for the school bus for field trips? Did you know PTO pays for swim lessons for each & every child at RES? Did you know that PTO helps fund after school activities, ski run-ners, and other enrichment programs? If you are interested in submitting your name or have more questions, please contact Darci Blanchard at [email protected]
Please slow down driving through Town!
Watch out for our children
who are walking, biking, and riding their skate boards on the streets and in the Town
parking lot.
Let’s keep everyone safe. Thank you
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Selectboard Meeting Minutes June 11, 2018 UNAPPROVED
The meeting was called to order at 6:05pm. Present: Robert Allen, Gordy Eastman, Calista Brennan, Ann Rubright, Jean Goldsborough, Jane Philpin and Stephen D’Agostino. Robert started the meeting asking if there were changes to the agenda, Robert added Windsor County Sheriff’s contract and WCMUUSD deed. Minutes of the May 14, 2018 Selectmen’s minutes were approved as printed. Treasurer’s Report: As of 5-31-18, Expenses were $572,671.92; Revenue was $6,370.23. Balance in LSB (G/L account) $94,318.56 balance in the sweep account $243,239.49 for a total of $337,558.05. Delinquent taxes for 2016 and 2017 are $41,472.54. Gordy moved to approve and Robert seconded. Report is accepted. Calista said that tax sales are scheduled for August 13, 2018. The $175,000.00 bridge grant funds should be received within the next week or so. Action Items:
Appointment of Deputy Fire Warden: The Selectboard is looking for someone to fill this po-sition.
Highways: Grants in Aid project on Caper Hill is complete. Final inspection is June 12 th. Ap-plications for the 2018 Grants in Aid are due June 22, 2018. Glen had 2 companies look at the material left from the bridge work to see if it could be crushed. Both said it was not worth do-ing. Gordy mentions some settling on the south end of Town Farm Bridge and will talk to Dan-iels Construction. Robert will talk with the Fire Dept. about washing the bridges. Gordy will talk with Glen about putting a seal on them to help protect from salt erosion.
Driveway Permits: Two were submitted for Malagash Road. Glen had looked at them and approved them. The Selectboard signed them.
Tyson Road Paving 2018: The bids have been received. There was discussion on the amount of spot shimming to be done. Robert explained that spot shimming was filling in ruts so when paved it was done evenly on the road. Gordy asked what the State does, Robert said that most of the State roads were done at ¾ inch. No decision was made as Jim was not pre-sent.
Town Hall Restoration Bids: Two bids were received. No decision was made as Jim was not present.
Dog Complaint Follow Up: Robert has been in contact with Jon Springer. Waiting for his suggestions.
Catering Licenses: There were four submitted for events in Reading. All were approved. Other: Windsor County Sheriff’s contract was renewed for 2018-19.
The deed to turn the Elementary School building and land over to the new district was put on hold for further clarification. Ann and Tony treated the new picnic tables. The committee would like to move the sign and would like to be notified if the Town would be doing any work on the area. Stephen asked about having music on 2 of the 4 Thursday events. It would be from 5 to dusk. Robert said that along as there were not any complaints from the neighbors it should be fine. Jane had a question brought to her about the Welcome to Reading signs. Rob-ert explained that it had been set aside but there was a group that will be working on them again. Stephen asked about changing the Selectboard meeting. Robert stated that the Select-board had not discussed it. Jean said she realized it would be hard to change every meeting. Robert said that moving them later in the month would miss the Informer deadlines. Discus-sion centered around moving individual meetings if necessary because of conflicting im-portant issues, at the Union School District and at the Town. Being no other business the meeting was adjourned at 7:10PM. Next meeting will be on Mon-day, July 9, 2018 at 6:00 pm Respectfully Submitted, Calista N Brennan, Town Clerk
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American Red Cross blood drive for the Reading Community Friday, July 20, 2018 between 1:00PM and 6:00PM.
The Holiday Inn Mount Ascutney Resort
485 Hotel Road, Brownsville, VT., off from Route 44.
Make an appointment to reduce your wait time. Each donation is expected to take about 15 minutes unless you are doing power reds, which takes about 45 minutes. Using Rapid Pass on the day of the donation is key to streamlining the pre-screening time. Making an appointment— using the link be-low: https://www.redcrossblood.org/ All eligibility requirements are deemed to be important to protect the lives and welfare of both donors and blood recipients. Deferments can result from not feeling well on the day of the drive, a fever, iron or blood pressure levels, medications and others. Please see a complete list and details at the link below: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/eligibility-requirements.html Lanie Wadelton **************************************************************************************************
Let’s Raise The Roof on The Old Stone Church in South Reading
The Church needs a new roof to protect the building from future interior damage. Anyone traveling
down the Tyson Road knows that the old tin roof is very rusty making it look awful and creating holes
in it allowing leaks. The estimated quote for this work is $50,000 of which $18,000 has already been
raised. The preservation group is asking for your help to raise the rest of the funds to get the project
completed. Many thanks for the donations already given. Donations can be sent to:
Old Stone Church Building Fund P.O. Box 96; Reading, VT 05062
A GoFundMe Account has also been setup to help with this:
Use the link: http://gf.me/u/izz4xr to access the account.
Thank you
Vermont Overland — VO Pave Madness July 1st https://www.vermontoverland.com/vopm
The mountain bike-specific adventure bicycle ride in Reading. The ride heads due west into Plymouth and then back to Reading on a course that is almost entirely comprised of Class 4 roads. La Pizza Lupo will be doing lunch afterwards. This event benefits the Reading Rec Commission
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Reading– West Windsor Food Shelf
Website: rwwfoodshelf.org
Monday 2:00 to 4:00 (Food Shelf)
Thursday 4:00 to 6:00
(Thrift Store & Food Shelf)
Located at 3456 Tyson Road
in South Reading
at the Stone School House
The Thrift Store is open to anyone, not just
food shelf members. Please feel free to stop in
Inquiries please contact
Sara Norcross 484-5097
Dana Waters 802-291-3299
To send a donation please mail to:
Reading– West Windsor Food Shelf
PO Box 384 Brownsville, VT 05037
Meeting Schedule
Town Contact Information
Town Clerk/Treasure Office
484-7250 Mon, Tues, Wed, 8 am—4 pm Thursday 7:30 am—3:30 pm
First Saturday of the Month by appointment Website: www.readingvt.govoffice.com Email: [email protected]
Post Office Iiri Makkonen
484-5994 Retail Counter
Monday – Friday 9:30 am-12:30 pm, 1:30 pm—4:30 pm
Saturday Retail Counter 9:00 to 12:00
Lobby Monday – Friday Saturday 8 am to 5 pm 8am to 12pm
Library 484-5588
Tuesday 12:00 to 3:30, 4:00 to 7:00 Thursday 10:00 to 1:30, 2:00 to 5:00
Saturday 10:00 to 2:00
Listers Call for appointment – 484-7258
Email: [email protected]
Reading Elementary School
484-7230
Fire Warden - Fire Burning Permits Nathan Willard 484-0094
Reading Planning Commission [email protected]
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Emergency Telephone Numbers
Fire and Ambulance 911
State Police 457-1416
Domestic/Sexual Violence Hotline 866-348-WISE (9473)
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Reading Planning Commission Meeting June 5, 2018—Unapproved
Note – This is an abbreviated version of the minutes. Complete minutes may be viewed at www.readingvt.govoffice.com
Present – Steve Strait, Ken Cox, Becky Basch, Kathy Callan-Rondeau Guests – Jason Rasmussen (SWCRPC), Kurt Voight Minutes of May 7, 2018 – Steve made a motion to accept the minutes as posted on the town website, Becky
seconded the motion, all were in favor
SWCRPC news – Jason reported that there is a public hearing on the regional energy plan on June 25th at noon at Martin Memorial Hall in Ascutney. If no substantial changes are proposed at the public hearing, the board will adopt the plan. This will give the RPC more weight in the review of alternative energy projects.
Draft Energy Plan – Jason Rasmussen was in attendance to discuss the draft of the Enhanced Energy Plan for Reading. The plan, which will replace the Energy chapter of the Town Plan, includes data on Reading’s en-ergy usage and goals for helping the state to achieve energy conservation and 90% renewable energy pro-duction by 2050. Some points of discussion included the following (for full discussion, see the Minutes posted on the Reading Town website - https://readingvt.govoffice.com )
Transportation – Discussion about the cost of electric vehicles and that the model must assume that the cost will go down in order for so many people to change to electric cars. Public transportation options for Reading - Jason thinks that the Current is available to Reading residents by appointment.
Heating– The data showed that most reading residents heat with wood (42%). The goals assume more peo-ple will heat with heat pumps.
Efficient buildings – There was discussion about the different energy codes, and a suggestion that a brief explanation of each code would be helpful.
Locations for solar and wind – Larger solar and wind projects need to be close to 3-phase power lines; however, there is a limited amount of land close to 3-phase power in Reading. The estimate is that 8 acres of solar is needed to generate 1 Megawatt (MW) of power, the RPC has been finding that the actual land area is closer to 4-5 acres per MW. The total acreage needed to meet Reading’s needs is 54 acres. The mod-el estimates that about 1 megawatt of power could be generated from rooftops in Reading.
Wind – There was some discussion about large scale wind and whether it would be supported in Reading. Ken commented that the greatest impact of wind development appears to be the road system needed to service the wind towers. Jason said that in Reading, the areas for prime wind on the map are same as wild-life travel corridor. Members agreed that residential scale wind is OK but commercial would be a large im-pact in a sensitive area.
Selectboard public hearing on zoning – Steve proposed that the Planning Commission review the bounda-ries of the zoning districts again at the July meeting in accordance with the discussion at the last Select-board meeting. He asked that Planning Commission members look again at the proposed zoning districts compared to the current district boundaries to see what changed. We will discuss the proposed map at the next meeting and then start the public hearing pocess again in order to adopt the proposed bylaws. Steve said that he asked the Selectboard at their last meeting if there was anything else they were concerned with and they said that they did not have any other concerns. Jason will bring a big map and a projected map of the zoning districts for discussion. Ken asked if we could ID the lots in question so that he could par-ticipate in the discussion.
Water/Sewer Committee – Becky said that Bob Allen had suggested that the water/sewer committee and Village Center Committee (possibly the same committee) either be a subcommittee of the Planning Com-mission or be a separate committee appointed by the Selectboard. Members commented that since the Planning Commission will be busy working on the Town Plan it would be better to have the committee be appointed by the Selectboard as a separate committee.
Next meeting – July 9th to avoid week of July 4th. PC members should come up with survey questions for the next meeting – for our chapters and for the Energy chapter.
Adjournment - Kathy moved, Steve seconded, meeting adjourned at 8:45 pm
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Upcoming Reading Recreation Commission Events
July 20: Game Night and Horseshoe
Tourney Bartley Field, 6:30pm
Every Thursday in
August and September:
Puddledock Park Party 5pm-dusk at the Green Space
by the library
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PO Box 128 384 Weld Cemetery Road Reading, Vermont 05062
802-342-1513
www.NewhallFarmVT.com
TREE PRESERVATION
802.484.5539 Experienced•Insured•References
KRIS BLANCHARD Northeast Rural Resource Management, LLC
Member National Arborist Association
Jim & Sandy Peplau’s
Happy Acres Farm Pure Maple Syrup, Hand Braided Rugs
826 Twenty Mile Stream Road
South Reading, VT 05153
484-7806
www.happyacresfarm.com
PLUMBING & HEATING
CONTRACTOR
Malagash Road PO Box 183
Reading, Vermont 05062
EDWARD ALLEN (802) 484-5580
LOGGING & LAND CLEARING SANDING BRUSH CHIPPING SNOW PLOWING BUSH HOGGING LIGHT EXCAVATION
ROLLING MEADOWS FARM CUSTOM FARMING
David Goodhouse * 484-5540
Law Office of JONATHAN L. SPRINGER, P.C.
12 Depot Avenue Post Office Box 245
Windsor, Vermont 05089 (802) 674-2649
Fax: (802) 674-2990 [email protected]
James Cloud Logging & Trucking
READING, VT
802-484-5946
Firewood Snowplowing
THE SPRINGFIELD BARBER Pam Eastman
307 Clinton St., Springfield, VT 802-885-3232
Regular & Styled Walk-in Service
Tues 7-5 Wed 11-7 Thurs 7-3 Fri 7– 5 Sat 7-12
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The Reading Historical Society Preserving The Past For The Future
“Celebrating 65 Years” Reading Men in the Civil War When Linda Radtke presented “Vermont History Through Song” at the Reading Historical Society Mu-seum on June 1, she was prepared. She brought the book Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today’s Vermont by Howard Coffin (Linda told me she carries it everywhere in case she comes across a town she hasn’t been to). While we were chatting before the presentation, she opened the book to the Reading page and handed it to me. I scanned it but was more interested in the conversation going on. During the presentation, Linda called out by name several Reading men who fought and died in the Civ-il War, devoting songs to them. The book is less fanciful, but it is full of fact detailing Reading’s involve-ment in the war as well as the sacrifices borne by other towns. For example, the book notes that on September 18, 1862, in the very building in which Linda was per-forming, then a Baptist Church barely, “the men who were to become Company H, 16th Vermont as-sembled in the basement meeting room.” Though the captain of the unit was a man from Hartford, the first lieutenant was Reading resident Elmer Keyes. Of this 100-man company, which would later fight at Gettysburg, there were many Reading soldiers. During the war, there were many gatherings in Reading—including at the church building. Speakers gave vivid descriptions of the actions on the fronts as well as encouraged enlistments. According to the plaques that frame the doors of the Reading Public Library, 117 men from Reading served in the Civil War. One of those who died was William E. Amsden of Company C 6th Vermont Vol-unteers, the grandson of William Felch. He fought and died in the Wilderness battle on May 5, 1864. The excerpts from Coffin’s book as well as some of the files and photographs Esther Allen pulled from the Historical Society’s archives have given me a new desire to study the Civil War, especially as it per-tains to my state. Don’t be surprised if I touch on Reading’s involvement in the War Between the States in future columns. Stephen D’Agostino
Local Property Transfers
Norm & Betty Aubin to Pinar & Sophia Sinopoulos-Lloyd
718 Tattle Street House & 28.86 Acres $281,500
Donnelly Estate to Richard & Erin Grogan
1400 Grasshopper Lane House & 227.54 Acres $500,000
Pascal & Sarah Sauvayre to Anne Pratt & Franklin See
258 Town Farm Road House & 9.38 Acres $227,950
Comstock Estate to Eugene & Rae-Gina Wescott
1169 20 Mile Stream Road House & 15.17 Acres $280,000
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Librarian's Note
The Reading Public Library will be hosting a series of free summer reading programs for kids. The state-wide theme this year is "Libraries Rock." Hear stories about music, rocks, and animal sounds. En-joy crafts, snacks, and giveaways. The programs will take place at 3:30 p.m. on the following Thurs-days: July 5, 12, 19, and 26.
A few weeks ago, the trustees and I put in this year's edition of the library's herb garden. It runs along both sides of the sidewalk that leads from the building's front steps down to the street. Herbs include thyme, rosemary, marjoram, sage, chives, tarragon, and oregano. We also planted some portulaca flow-ers to add some splashes of color. A brief reminder for those still looking to plant something: we still have seeds available in our seed library. Visit the library and browse our vegetable and flower seed col-lection in the catalog drawers. You'll find a variety of heirloom and open-pollinated seeds. You will not return the seeds you take, so there are no due dates for the seeds you check out.
During warm months, the library offers a pass for many of Vermont’s state parks, good for free entry into designated park day-areas for up to eight people in one vehicle. The pass is good at Ascutney, Camp Plymouth, Wilgus, Silver Lake, and Thetford Hill state parks, among others. We have a similar pass for half a dozen Vermont historical sites, including Bennington Battle Monument, the Old Consti-tution House in Windsor, and the Calvin Coolidge Birthplace at Plymouth Notch. We also have free passes available for the American Precision Museum in Windsor, the Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock, and the Vermont History Museum, with branches in Montpelier and Barre. And we have reduced-price passes for Echo Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington. All passes can be checked out for two days at a time.
Cordially, Tony Reading Public Library. Tues. 12-3:30 p.m. & 4-7; Thurs. 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. & 2-5; Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Mail: P.O. Box 7, Reading,
VT 05062. Tel. 802-484-5588. E-mail: [email protected]. Web: www.readinglibrary.org. The board meets the
last Tues. of each mth. at 6 p.m. Wi-Fi 24/7.
Paul Robbins Community Service Award 2018 Winner
Congratulations to our winner of the Paul Robbins Community Service Award; Kennedy Alexis Moore. Kennedy graduated from the Woodstock Un-ion High School in June and will be attending college this fall. Proud parents are Steve and Diane Moore of South Reading. Kennedy was a tireless volun-teer for the Reading Friends & Neighbors for over 10 years. She continued her volunteer work with the Top of the World 4H Club, Covered Bridges Half-Marathon, Harpoon Point Race, Road to the Pogue, Reading Giving Project, Farms For City Kids, and the Woodstock Food Shelf. We wish her the best as she continues her education at Colby Sawyer College this fall.
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