We have a dusting of nice new snow this morning. Less than an inch, but there's still a very fine snow falling. We're supposed to have sunshine later today.

A couple of announcements:

There will be a FREE pasta dinner at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 4th, at the Cabot Cafeteria and Gym. There will be Bingo in the Gym from 6-8 p.m. For those who don't want to play Bingo, bring your basketball and join the supervised play. Bingo cards are 50 cents each, winners split the pot 50-50 with the Recreation Committee.

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Free Food Giveaway For Cabot and Walden Residents Saturday, April 4^th

Faith in Action Northern Communities Partnership is sponsoring a 6,500-lb. free food giveaway Saturday, April 4^th from 9:00-11:30 AM at the Cabot Fire Station.

This distribution of free food is primarily for Cabot’s elderly and disabled, for whom we have set aside the 9:00-10:30 time period. Every resident who has a need is welcome to come and select items they can use from 10:30-11:30 .

Food will be displayed, giving folks time and room to “shop”. All 6,500 pounds of food will be given away that day!

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If you don't have your Joe's Pond Ice-Out ticket yet, better get going! All tickets must be returned to one of our outlets no later than April 1st, or postmarked April 1st. You still have time to print tickets from the web site or stop by any of the following:

In Barre, Dente's Market, Barre Optical, Hope Cemetery office, BCK Insurance, and Barre Subway.

In Cabot: Harry's Tru-Value Hardware

In Danville: Diamond Hill Store or Marty's 1st Stop

In St. Johnsbury: Caplans, St. Jay Hardware, or Thurston Auto

In W. Danville: Hastings Store or Joe's Pond Country Store

We hope you have already sent in your picks, but if not, you have only hours now to get it done, and you don't want to miss out. You could be a winner. Everyone is on a level playing ground when it comes to this contest. It's pure chance. The only gimmicks are the weather changes, and we locals gave up a long time ago trying to figure out the weather here. You could go to the page on the web site where we've listed all the dates and times the clock has stopped in the past 21 years, and pick a date and time between April 15th and May 7th that hasn't already been picked - that might give you an edge. Or you could use any number of formulas - birthdays, anniversary dates, or something that came to you in a dream, we don't care. It's all good and those kinds of picks are as reasonable as any others. Good luck.