Archive for September, 2010

10th Annual Charlotte Tractor Parade

Saturday, September 25th, 2010
East Charlotte, VT — Organized at the counter of Spear’s Corner Store – the hub of the East Charlotte community – the East Charlotte Tractor Parade is celebrating its 10th year of antique and modern tractors rumbling down Spear Street to Baptist Corners ending with a town party.  This year the 10th anniversary just happens to fall on 10/10/10!
 
The East Charlotte Tractor Parade celebrations begins Friday with a barn dance at The Old Lantern, continues with Spear’s Corner Store activities Saturday, and wraps up with the Tractor Parade and town party on Sunday:
 
Friday, October 8, 2010
Barn Dance at the Old Lantern
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm   Streak O Lean
8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Starline Rhythm Boys
$10 per person at the door, Cash Bar
 
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Antique Tractor Display, Farmer’s Market and Craft Fair
Corner of Spear Street and Hinesburg Road
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tractor Display presented by Harv Sharrow featuring his restored 1918 Model 1020 International Titan tractor previously owned by the Rotax family
 
Sunday, October 10, 2010
10th Annual East Charlotte Tractor Parade
Corner of Spear Street and Hinesburg Road
11:00 am Pie Eating Contest
11:30 am Local Music featuring:
The Bulls Eye Barbershop Quartet, The Unpredictables, The Mayfly Girls and The Silver Leviathan Band
PARADE BEGINS AT 1:30 pm ~ RAIN OR SHINE
Festivities include Farmer’s Market, Craft Fair, Food Vendors, Face Painting, Animals, Free Children’s Games and Pony Rides
 
The East Charlotte Tractor Parade began in 2001 with 30 tractors and now in its 10th year expects over 150 tractors!  Proceeds from the barn dance and vending throughout the weekend benefit the East Charlotte Grange.  There is no cost to attend the parade and parking is readily available for all including handicap accessibility. The parade started as a way for the community to gather with neighbors after the harvest and to show appreciation to the many farm families in the area for their hard work and perseverance in keeping the East Charlotte and beyond farming community alive.  More information at www.tractorparade.com and www.facebook.com/tractorparade and by calling 802-425-4444.

 

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Woodchuck Cider Picks Apples for a Cause

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Middlebury, VT — Fall in Vermont means apples, and with September having been National Hunger Action Month, the Vermont Foodbank teamed up with Vermont residents, businesses, and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture promoting the “Pick For Your Neighbor” program.

A total of 17 pick-your-own orchards across the state are participating in the “Pick For Your Neighbor” program this fall, inviting people to pick an extra bag of apples as a donation to the Vermont Foodbank.   
 
The makers of Woodchuck Hard Cider – Vermont’s own hard cider handcrafted with apples – closed their apple cidery in Middlebury at the end of September for the staff to spend a day picking apples at Champlain Orchards in Shoreham.  Woodchuck employees picked a total of 104 bushels of apples to donate to the Vermont Foodbank for distribution to Vermonters.  
 
“Thanks to so many participating Vermont orchards, the Foodbank has access to fresh, local apples for distribution, and participants experience a great Vermont tradition while helping their neighbors in need,” states Theresa Snow, Director of Agricultural Programs at the Vermont Foodbank.  “We are thrilled to have partnered with Woodchuck Cider this year to help raise awareness and share Vermont’s love of apples; from cider to the hands of all Vermonters.”
 
Through the Foodbank’s network of 280 food shelves, meal sites, shelters, senior centers and after-school programs, as many as 86,000 Vermonters access charitable food each year.  More information on the Vermont Foodbank is at www.vtfoodbank.org.
 
 
Woodchuck Hard Cider, first handcrafted with apples in Proctorsville, Vermont in 1991 now operates in a state-of-the-art cidery in Middlebury, Vermont.  Woodchuck Cider has also partnered the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing in the Apples to  iPods promotion and encourages other Vermonters to pick an extra bag of apples for the Vermont Foodbank and to remember to look for the wooden apples which win finders an iPod!  More information on the Apples to iPods promotion at www.applestoipods.com.  More information on Woodchuck Hard Cider at www.woodchuck.com. 
 

 

 

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