BLASTING NOTICE – ROUTE 2

Danville Route 2 Project

Project: Danville FEGC 028-3(32)

WEEK OF 9/26/11

BLASTING: Crews will begin blasting on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 along Route 2 near Walden Hill Road and the Danville School. Blasting in this area is expected to last from Tuesday through the end of the week and into next week.

Blasting Schedule (Tentative): Each day between the hours of 8 am and 2 pm crews plan to blast 3-4 times per day. Exact blasting times within the hours of 8 am and 2pm are variable and may change each day.

Blasting Signals: Crews will sound a horn as follows:

Pre-Blast - 3 consecutive signals – 5 minute warning

2 consecutive signals – 1 minute warning

Post Blast - 1 signal – all clear to enter the blast zone

Blasting Traffic Control - Traffic within the blasting area will be held for 5 minutes before the actual blast and then continue to be held post blast until the roadway is cleared of debris and rebuilt for safe passage. Each blast will bring different results so the wait time after blasting is unknown at this time. Traffic delays will likely exceed 10 minutes.

Contact Francine Perkins, Public Relations Officer, FRP Enterprises, LLC with any questions or concerns with regard to this project at 802-479-6994 or for a more up to date schedule visit www.roadworkupdates.com.

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Don't forget that Fall Foliage week has started. Some of you may have gone to Walden today, and if so, I expect you had a great time. The weather has been more like summer than fall, and there's enough color to make some great photo ops.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, is Cabot's day to host the event. There will be the usual tours, craft exhibits, beef stew lunch and turkey dinner. The lunch is at the church, but everything else, including the turkey dinner, will be at the gym - except for the special entertainment: author and Civil War historian, David Book, will give a monolog at 3:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center between the gymnasium and the school. This will be about the Morrill family whose sons, Abel and Edwin, were Civil War soldiers. The Morrill family lived where Amanda Legare's greenhouse is in Lower Cabot.

We've established a Fall Foliage Day tradition that we, and several of our neighbors, get take-out turkey dinners and meet at our house to share the meal. It started several years ago when I was working all day at the festival and it made a nice break to be able to bring home a take-out dinner - and it's always very good. It's fun to go to the gym for the dinner, too - you'll meet someone you know or someone new, and either way it will be an interesting evening out. You can go to the music program at the church at 7 p.m., too.

We went to Barre yesterday for a family reunion - my side of the family, the McAllan cousins, got together. There are only four of us left out of a dozen or more, sadly. We had a great time and since we don't get together that often, it was especially nice. From left to right, Charlie Smith, Corrine (Cole Lamberti) Smith, Mayo Sanborn, Ida (Heath) Sanborn, Jane (Bolton) Brown, Earle Sanborn and Martha (Abbott) Sanborn. Both Ida and Martha grew up in Cabot. My cousins are Mayo and Earle Sanborn and Corrine Smith. Fred was taking the picture, of course.








We hadn't been on Route 2 for some time and were surprised at all the changes. It's hard to tell at this point exactly where the road will be once it's finished, but in at least one spot it looked as if it would be moved closer to the brook which is the outlet from Molly's Falls dam. I know they are hoping to straighten some of the curves on that climb from the Groton State Park road up to Hookerville. It's a difficult stretch with the big penstock running parallel to the road.

Further up the road near the Fulsom farm, there is a bad corner and a bridge is getting replaced there - plus I think that corner will be improved. There have been lots of accidents there during the winter - it's one of those tricky spots that has a grade and curve and that gets slippery very quickly.

The foliage along the way was pretty nice, but it's a reminder that cold weather will be hitting us pretty soon - like later this week, according to the forecast, but only a little cooler, not like it's going to snow or anything. I'm sure the road crews are all rushing to be sure they get most of the work done on these projects before it gets too cold. Besides that, some of the guys working on these projects will probably want to get to deer camp in November . . .

Around here, a lot of work schedules are governed by deer season - whether it's bow hunting, muzzle-loader season, or whatever, it's a tradition to take your vacation or hire some non-hunter types to cover for you so you can get to deer camp. Even if there isn't a real "deer camp" involved, deer hunting season is sacred. Some guys still look forward to it even if they hardly ever see a deer or have never actually shot one. It's male bonding time. Of course, some females hunt, too. And young kids get their own season or go with their dads, learning the ropes early - again, a bonding thing, I guess.

It was a big deal in my family when I was growing up. Uncles, cousins and buddies converged on the farm, sometimes having to take turns getting the chores done night and morning - there was a big herd of cows that had to be milked every day, hunting or not - and when I was a teenager, I hunted with my dad a few times, but I never shot a deer, even though I saw some and probably could have. My oldest son, Bill, went hunting with my father when he was 12 or so, but he wasn't really into it, and neither of the other two boys hunt, which makes me happy. Unless you really need the food, I can't see killing an innocent animal. It helps that I'm not much into meat of any kind these days, but I remember eating a lot of venison over the years when I was growing up. Some was great - sometimes it was not so good - but my father took pride in bringing home a buck from time to time.