BENEFIT EVENT

Lisa Kaiser; a late stage cancer patient, lives in Woodbury with her husband Jeff and their two young daughters 7 and 10 years old. Lisa has served as a Registered Nurse at CVMC for most of her adult life.

Lisa was diagnosed in January of 2012 with metastasized (stage 4) breast cancer. In March 2012 doctors found that her cancer had already spread to her liver and both her lungs. She underwent a mastectomy in April 2012; and after getting a second and third opinion about her options she started hormone therapy in June 2012. After six months of hormone therapy her doctor’s determined that the hormone therapy was not having a positive effect on her cancer. Lisa started undergoing chemo in January 2013. Only 20% of woman with Lisa’s type of cancer will live 5 years from the point of diagnosis; Lisa was diagnosed a year ago.

This family has a wish!

They want to take their two little girls to Disney while Lisa is still healthy enough to enjoy it with them. The two girls have wanted to go to Disney and so we want to earn enough money fundraising to send them all there for two weeks. This would give the entire family a much needed respite from the grueling regimen of treatments and worries. It would offer a positive distraction to the realities they all face; and give the girls fond, fun memories of their Mom that will be priceless to them as they grow up without her.

A fundraising event will be held June 8, 2013 at the Montpelier Elks Club at 6pm; we will have a 50/50 raffle, food, dancing, and silent auction!

The public and kids are welcome!!!!

You can donate online at http://fundly.com/lisa-kaiser-benefit-fundraiser

consider donating a silent auction item for the event!

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 Village Harmony
Alumni Ensemble
Led by Larry Gordon and Helle Thun

Sunday, June 9
7:30 p.m. Concert followed by folk dancing at 9 p.m.
Marshfield, Fritz's Barn at 693 McCrilis Road

20 college-age Village Harmony veterans perform Nordic kulning, traditional music from South Africa, Bulgaria and Georgia, shape-note singing and renaissance works by Ockeghem.

Benefit for Jaquith Library
Suggested admission: $ 10
Students and seniors- $ 5

Information:  802-426-3210  or call the library at 426-3581 jaquithpubliclibrary@gmail.com

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Cabot Neighborhood Conversations:    What do our graduates need to succeed in the 21^st century?

During the next couple of weeks, the Cabot School Board will be sponsoring several informal discussions to gather ideas and input from community members. These discussions will focus on one question: what skills, knowledge and attributes do we want our Cabot students to have by the time they graduate from high school? These discussions will be facilitated by community members who have generously offered to host these meetings in their homes.

The dates, times, and locations of these discussions are:

Tuesday, 5/28                 Lynn Rockwell and Roman Kokodyniak                                                      7-8:30 PM

             Houston Hill Rd.     (563-2999)                                                                

Wednesday 5/29            Roz and Jack Daniels                                                                                           7-8:30 PM

              Cabot Plains Rd.      (563-3116)                                              

Thursday, 5/30               Cathleen Maine and Lars Hasselblad-Torres                                          7-8:30 PM 

             Main St., Cabot Village   (563-2757)            

Saturday, 6/1                  Karen and Brad Alexander                                                                         2-4:00 PM

             South Walden Rd.   (563-2294)                                    

Tuesday, 6/4                   Cecilia and Gary Gulka                                                                                         7-8:30 PM

                                              Danville Hill             (563-2284)

 The ideas and input generated from each meeting’s discussion will be summarized and recorded. That information will be passed on to the Cabot School Board, which will publicize it and use it as a starting point for further discussions.

We hope that many Cabot residents will take the opportunity to participate in one of these discussions.  The goal of this process is to enhance and improve the education available to our town’s young people. We believe that having a broad, community-wide discussion about what our graduates should be gaining from their education is a crucial first step in that process.

Please call Cabot School Board chair Chris Tormey at 563-2842 (or any one of the discussion facilitators/ hosts listed above) to reserve a spot in one of these important conversations.

Sincerely,

Chris Tormey

Chair, Cabot School Board