 I want to welcome you to this opportunity to get to know some of the folks who work for organizations that provide services in your community, Grand Prix, Court Field, and Randolph. It's a pleasure to work with Mimi Burstein, Mark Rosalvo, who is with the town as his meeting to push this other program together. I want also to thank the friends of people in the library who, as you can see, when we get over to the gallery, feel a little mixer and refreshments for the audacious spread that they put together. So the next time you're at the bookshop on Pleasant Street, if you go shopping for these folks, please remember to thank them for all of their fantastic baiting. Here's the format we're going to use today. Each of these lovely people up here on stage is going to have about a minute and a half to give a quick introduction to that organization that they represent and the services that you will find there. If you didn't already grab one, Susan can you wave that thing around with her? We have put together a flyer that includes contact information for the organizations that supply it to us, except for two mistakes. One of them is I'm misspelling on an email for the remodeled chapel. So my bad. Should be Pastor Gordon, not Pastor Goady. And also Linda with St. John's Church sent me information to put in and I missed it. So apologies to St. John. Okay, so I'm going to practice what I preach and I'm going to do a quick introduction for people in the library. It's two doors down, but as you don't know, right now the library is working on three strategic priorities and you will have seen evidence of one of those if you've been in the library for the past month and a half. That is to make our historic building as useful as possible. So right now the completion of a project to improve our HR, including better heating and cooling, and most important of all, actual mechanical ventilation. So hopefully soon we will not be asking people to mask when they come in. Our other two strategic priorities are to offer as much programming that will appeal to as many people in our community as possible. Using as many community numbers as possible to present that programming. So in the month of March, my mind was blown by this. We had 37 events to use. 37, about 50 programs in total. So we run an HVAN, not just for this. And last but not least, we're really pushing into youth engagement right now. So we can just start an initiative and hire a new staff member to work on asset-based community development, specifically looking at the youth in our community, reaching out to them, finding out how they want to make their community a better place, and helping to provide the supports that they need in order to bring those goals to fruition. So those are the library's three strategic priorities. And I think with that said, I'll pass this on to Ann Howard. I'm Ann Howard. I am the SASH Coordinator here right now. SASH stands for Support and Services at O. That said, I work for a regular area community development corporation, and I am based, majority of the out-of-season housing in town. But I do go out to the community and work with individuals who live in their own homes as well, not that the scene apartments aren't good or calm, but out of the village around. I help people with all sorts of things, from goal-setting them into their house, to figuring out what the next steps in their life is based on what their goals are. I also help people with advanced directors. So if anyone wants to talk to you about that, I'm glad to help. We're based out of Randolph, but we cover 11 small communities around Randolph area in central Vermont from Brookfield to Sharon and Hancock, and from the country to Chelsea, all the little towns in between. We represent the community in a business way. We have membership that we can do projects and support community events. We manage the Fourth of July and the Halloween festivities with the town and RICDC, and we manage a little building up at the exit 4 spot, the info barn, so if you have community events or you want to post information that's open to the public to do that. And we provide insurance for membership that covers dental and eyes so if you've got insurance or a small business owner or a company, you might be able to serve them that way as well. In university, I'm an assessor and visitor for the town of Randolph. I work in the town. I'll be overseeing the town library appraisal, but if you have questions about your property or anything, just always come by my office. It's Monday through Thursday 8.30 to 4. Or why I put in it because sometimes I'm out for an election. I'm Janet Catney and I'm here representing NUMMY. NUMMY, Vermont is a national organization, National Alliance for Mental Illness. It's an organization that supports and educates and advocates for people living with mental health conditions. My role is I help to run a family-to-family educational class that is in central Vermont. Since the pandemic, we have Zoom sessions of those 8-week classes. We also have in-person sessions and the groups are run by people who have lived experience of a family member who is living with a mental health condition or symptoms of a trauma. So that's what I do. And there's lots of info over in the room about our meetings and our other support activities because we have a lot of other things going on too. My name is Emory Bias. I'm the Randolph County Thank You Treasurer. I do a lot of things, but mostly lane records. I collect property taxes. I'm your lifetime official if you're a Randolph. And generally, I try to be an information center for the town. I'm fine with the 7th summer street anytime you need any. Any help? Hi, my name is E.J. Mirko. I work at the Randolph Ruck Department with Emory and me. And Mark is walking away from you right now. That's at 7th summer street. That's where my office is down in the basement. I do all things like creation. We just came out of the ice rink. So the Ruck Department runs that. We're going right into baseball. So registration for baseball, T-ball, rupees, minors, majors. After that is the summer program. And that runs from the week after school gets out until August 18th. And we service about 60 kids. And our partner, Kimball, and a bunch of other community members around the community. Then we pick up with... Oh, soccer's in there. And we have basketball. And Lego Stamp is going on right now. That's in Randolph Elementary. Yeah, I just want to keep adding to it in an open personal discussion. Thank you. My name is Morgan Easton, daughter of Andrea Easton. And I'm here to represent Ridgeline Outrereflective. I grew up in this area and went to New York Tech. Got involved with Ridgeline in 2015. And now the organization is an umbrella over the field Randolph and Rochester for summer trail usage. And we also manage two back-country-related zones, one in Raintree and one in Brandon Gap. And I work more specifically within the club on youth programming. So we're partnering with Randolph Rec, as we usually do, for offering bike programming. And it's exciting to be a partner with the library on some of the after-school bike options for this spring for safe riding, bike maintenance, and, yeah, also awesome information over in the gallery. So come and find me. Hi, my name is Megan Atul. I'm the chair of the Select Board in the town of Raintree. Our town office location is on Route 12A, just as you're kind of entering into Raintree and heading out of Randolph. And our town clerk and treasurer and our administrative assistant are typically there during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, if you need any town services or have any questions for those folks. Some things that we're working on in Raintree right now that might be of interest to folks, and we invite you to join us during our regular Select Board meetings, which happen the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. at our town office on Route 12A. We're currently figuring out how to allocate our ARPA funds, which is an allocation of the very much-to-plan economic funding that each municipality in Vermont got last year. And some exciting things we're doing with that funding is to create a PD-Phil assistance program for Raintree residents administered through capstone as an adder to other assistance that they currently offer. My day job is that I work at the HZ Natural Resources managing our climate change mitigation programming. And so I'm excited that Raintree is going to hopefully be participating in the municipal energy resilience program for fuel switching and weatherization for town building. So that's another project that we have upcoming this year. We're also working on securing a long-term source of gravel and looking into purchasing a gravel pit, which is much more exciting than it sounds. And we're also in the process of updating our town plan and our zoning by-laws. I'm going to focus on how we want to look at new use in Raintree as we're coming out of COVID. More people are working from home or staying from home or staying more locally. So those are all things you're working on. I'm really encouraged to come and join us to reach out offline or during a meeting, again, first and third Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Thanks. My name is Chloe Powell and I'm the new executive director here at the Chandler. I imagine most of you are somewhat familiar with the Chandler because you made it here for this meeting. But we do a wide array of programming from music to community theater and we've got the great gallery where I have to meet some of you afterwards for the treats. So there is a lot of interest in reviving our community theater program so if you're interested in getting involved with that we'll talk to you. We are bringing back the youth theater program the second time in person this year. We've got a production of Grease. It's not too late if you know any kids that want to sign up. It's not too late for them to get involved. That will be the first two weeks out of school with the performance happening the weekend before the 4th of July. I'm very interested in partnering with a lot of you and I'm glad to see a lot of people I've been in conversation with or emailing with. We're interested in getting more involved in the schools, bringing back after-school programming. There's some momentum towards starting Strings Education program which I guess was very vibrant in the 60s and 70s and personally I play the fiddle and the cello and it's a lucky idea of getting some Strings Education going to your town. Glad to be here. I'm the program director at the White River Craft Center. We are the large Victorian mansion that was once Colonel Kimball's of the Kimball Library's house. We've been around for about 20 plus years and we've always had an intention around craft and craft education and art education and bringing in local artists and being heavily involved in the community through various communications with nonprofits and different organizations. But when we started before the pandemic we've made a really big question focus on our arts education really getting a lot of artists in the building. So we now have 13 artists in our studios so we're a pretty large community in that way. We also have regular programming that happens both for youth and adults and we partnered recently with brainstorm art supply and offering them their location in addition to the Craft Center. We're always looking to do community collaborations and just as was said by many people we're very open too and I'm always excited to talk with people in the community and people on the stage about different collaborations that are possible. I think it really strengthens our community. I also failed to mention that we do have a printmaking studio that's actually run by Janet, Kathy, and Morgan is also a studio artist with us. Lynn has shown at the Craft Center so we have in our gallery programming so we have a lot of connections that take place. We have a dark room photography lab where we're trying to activate this upcoming year and we also have a weaving studio which has been an existence for quite some time and we're also the home of the Vermont Weaver's Guild which we meet monthly and they have a really great programming that happens throughout the year. Yeah, so I think that's all about us but I'd love to chat with everyone after this. Thank you so much. Do you feel like you can pause for a second? Yeah. Does anybody have any questions you would like to ask at this point? Any folks you have you want more information at this point? Just this, I'm probably special needs type but I can't hear all that well. I'm a little assertive now. Sure. Lynn Petracelli. I'm a resident of Randolph for the last seven years and I have grown to love this community because I love to give after I retired. I am representing the Rotary Nune Club. Rotary has enhanced my sing the background of all the different organizations that are here in Randolph that need volunteer support even stopping envelopes for an annual fundraiser. I mean if somebody can just give an hour, a year or at the food shelf or at the Chandler just ushering learning all the different people in town and it's just the Rotary is like a silent club. We are very good at writing out checks and some people say well what do you do? We do a lot of fundraising but we also do a lot of networking with different businesses and different people just in town. We have speakers maybe once or twice a month to enhance our knowledge about the different businesses or organizations here in town. I'm also a member of the Green Mountain Gospel Chapel which helps me balance faith and giving and volunteering because all you have to do is give time. Volunteering doesn't cost anything. Volunteering enhances your own life and enhances the person that you're helping. It can be a ride to a doctor's office it can be a ride to the food shelf it can be just being there for somebody. So I find that this community is such a great place to live and I just look up here again at all the people on the panel and I have met them anywhere from Gifford Hospital the food shelf, the Chandler. Morgan helped me. We volunteered on the Airbus three or four years ago. I met her mom years ago at the Jocelyn House and as part of my church and I volunteer with the SAS program. So I just am here to be knowledgeable that anybody can pick up the phone with any of these organizations and just say, how can I help? And if it's just one hour of your life it is such a giving hour that makes you feel so welcomed here in town. I'm Noreen Fordham and I'm here to represent Gifford and also the My Healthy Vermont self-management programs. These programs are free programs workshops that help people get started and provide the support that they need to keep going. Through these programs you can learn how to make practical lifestyle changes with the support of a trained facilitator and a small group of people. These workshops again are free. Currently we have a diabetes prevention workshop, diabetes management workshop, high blood pressure management workshop. You need help with putting smoking or available to help you. Chronic disease management workshop and a chronic pain workshop. You can reach me, I'm in the Kingwood building but if you call the Gifford main number and ask for my name, again it's Noreen and I'm part of the community health team. They will direct you right toward me and again all the materials with these programs are free. So not only is it a program but also the materials that come with it. Hi, my name is Erica Greigowski. I am one of five members of the Select Board here in Randolph. Our next Select Board meeting that's public. You can zoom in or come in person is April 13th at 5 p.m. that's a Thursday. Some things that we've been discussing recently are obviously policing and we are working with the East Randolph community group. They've come in a few times discussing a business plan to further renovate their community center in East Randolph. So if you're interested in that volunteer time to help them get that up and running that would be fantastic. Again, like many of us have spoke about volunteering your time in our small community really benefits everyone. As we do have limited resources available to often pay big funds. So if you have a talent or a skill and you'd like to put it to use in the community we're always looking for that as well as a number of these great folks are also a little bit about the Select Board. There's five members currently it's the governing body of Randolph as well as other towns in Vermont and the town manager is in charge of hiring all the staff members within the town hall that we have here. So if you have any questions about jobs that are available you can go to Randolphvermont.org and see if you would like to apply there and if you have any questions I'll be available afterwards as well. Thank you. My name is Lori Posar I don't live in your community I actually live all the way over in Pichum but I know Mark is all about and this happens to be my service territory I work for Calstone Community Action for a pilot program for financial coaching and energy efficiency and the program is called Green Saving Smart and it's funded by the legislature for three years and what we're hoping to do is help people access energy saving rebates and incentives some of those through Efficiency Vermont some of those through the utility companies some of them are state or federal funded tax rebates or other incentives there's a lot coming out and if you have any curiosity about that please feel free to reach out to me again my name is Lori Posar and I work at Calstone Community Action out of the very office in Gable Place but you can reach the program at GreenSavingSmart.org Thanks. Hi everyone I'm Rachel DiStefano I'm here representing the Randolph area food shelf the food shelf provides food as well as personal care items to the people who live in Randolph Rain Tree Brookfield in East Grandville although you welcome everyone you provide these in a grocery store like setting and we envision a community in which everyone has access to sufficient food we're located at 12th print street next to Capstone actually and the bowling alley we're open five days a week Monday, Wednesday, Friday from three to five p.m. Tuesday one to five p.m. and then we have evening hours on Thursday from five to seven people may come to shop every day for fresh produce and bread they can shop for everything else once a week and we aim to provide really well-rounded food options so that includes all the major categories like dairy and meat like I said fresh produce is a big one and then a bunch of non-perishable goods as well we're also a USDA food distribution site so participants can pick up their USDA foods monthly and in addition to our storefront or food pantry we also have some other programs so for example we have a program called SKIP which stands for school kids program and that provides a week's worth of meals and snacks for kids and families during school vacations we also distribute mail bags around the holidays as well as Thanksgiving turkeys and finally we are an all-volunteer organization we have no paid staff so we welcome volunteers for a wide range of things and we work by a very generous community and a multitude of grants and other sources I'm Amanda Anderson I am the Director for Family and Community Support Services with Tapstone Community Action I'm based here in Randolph down at Prince Street right next door to Fitchell we have a variety of programs that are geared toward alleviating the effects of poverty helping people move out of poverty and stabilize and hopefully moving toward sustainability we have Head Start Early Head Start to work with young families who need access to early education we have case management services that go into homes and help folks with parenting skills and learning how to get their kids ready to go to school we have a weatherization program to help folks reduce their utilization of electricity or fossil fuels to tighten up their homes the economic development department which has budget coaching and credit coaching also helps with folks who want to start small businesses in fact we have a series of classes going on right now my department provides housing counseling for folks who are literally homeless or about to be we also have energy services for folks that be at a quarter of a tank of fuel 25% of propane companies work with wood don't have the money to get more their income guidelines and a whole bunch of things that each program is a little different give us a call if we can help we'll try beyond that we also really get involved in our communities and we try to create networks that can approach a variety of problems that we see in our community to work together because we need a bunch of different people at the table we need a bunch of different creative ideas on how we resolve this situation one thing right now that we're working on talking about volunteer opportunities is looking at the access to shelter there really isn't much here in the Randolph area so one of the projects that we're working on in the community is looking at what we could do as a community to create shelter options so if that's something you're interested in love to talk to you after there's lots of other programs lots of other things going on it's all anti-powerful work and trying to create sustainability so feel free to give me a call or drop by out there and talk to me my name is Linda Nagy I am representing St. John's Episcopal Church the church has been part of this community for over 150 years and we're located at 15 Summer Street which is parallel to Main Street we have Sunday services at 10 a.m. both in-person and online via Zoom followed by the best coffee hour and our parish is consistently characterized as warm and welcoming, discuss in person and see who we are we've got a variety of activities including the book study group open to the community and our outreach activities include monthly donations to the food shop we have an emergency overnight shelter with two cots in one crib and if anybody wants to know more about that I can put you in touch with our contact person when you're running we do Christmas donations to the Brookhaven school Dismas House dinners twice a year we have a strong connection to a church in Zimbabwe and support them as much as we are able we support other charities annually through our outreach budget and parish collections for example we made a recent donation for earthquake relief efforts in Turkey and Syria through the Episcopal Relief and Development Fund we host eight meetings every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 p.m. and our parish hall is available for use with suggested donations and as an example a family hosted a child's birthday party on my two minute timer hi my name is Marc Rosalbo I'm an economic development director for the town of Randolph and the zoning director so I've got the best job in the town and the worst zoning is a pretty tough one but if you're new here you've got, I see a lot of new faces if you have questions about zoning about what you can and maybe can't do on property if you're looking for ideas of if you own a property, if you're looking for something that you can do to help increase housing in the community you can come to the zoning office I'm happy to sit down with you and talk with you about different options that you have as you can see here the adage of it takes a village to raise a family this is what we're trying to convey with this type of event to see how many how many people are here to help how many people are here to to see that our communities are thriving, Randolph and Braintree and all the communities that are around central Vermont and others and sisters too and one of my my job as economic development director is to look at the bigger picture of the longer term goals of our town of our community and make sure that we're moving in a direction that's healthy that fits with the philosophy of what the people in the community want in the future so the it's easy to reach me you just have to go down to the town hall and meet me and happy at any point to oh I'm sorry Paige with Paige as well she's in the basement you don't see her too often but anyways we have a fantastic town there's so many wonderful things going on there are challenges that we're facing obviously housing is an issue that's my two minute thing there are ways to build child care but there's a million exciting things and I'm happy to address them with anyone who has questions and finally if you're looking to build or bring a business in the community please reach out I'm happy to talk to you happy to help me myself happy to connect you to some of the people that can help you no matter what stage you are in your idea thank you it takes building a local economy an organization a community-building organization we partnered together to run a white river a tiny exchange so for those of you who are not familiar with the concept of a tiny exchange it takes the idea of bartering your skills and services one step further to create a web of people, members of the tiny exchange who offer services and or ask for help whether that's helping turn over the garden in the spring whether it's somebody who needs a ride to the airport in Burlington whether I put a request that they consider this event on the tiny exchange all of these sorts of ways to share the skills that we all have in a non-monetary manner to help our fellow community members and to feel free then to seek help on media it's the purpose of the white river tiny exchange so this time around I'm hoping to say we actually have time for questions because everybody is celebrating about being concise with their introductions from the audience for any of the books up here how many of you learned about something so far that you didn't know about before you came in is there a resource? that's an age old question would you repeat the question? sure the number of the audience asks is there a resource that she can walk away with and has websites, content, information and so on and I'm going to say yes but no so when you go out the door if you look to your right the theater is a folded sheet maybe John can be way better around yeah just outside the door it includes a contact information for a handful of the organizations that we invite to participate in this panel we would have two rows of chairs as long as everybody had elected to participate so it's a partialist I'm sorry to say but yes to be totally transparent are you new to channel or have you been in it for a while? okay there in the rural kind of smaller communities like this there's so much going on in the age of the digital world I think Vermont lagged in some of that but I think there's a lot of people in this room Mark Rosalba behind you the chamber are you from the C they have a great network of all these resources and they're trying to divide your plan to best create a source for everything that they have and there are various websites that exist amongst those three but I think there's more work going on in this panel of like how do we create these resources in one place for people and today is kind of that opportunity but there is some work around what you're asking for if that helps do you want the extra mic though for the extra runner do you need an extra runner if I was just wondering is there any of the organizations like for example just as an example the library that could add contact information for all of these organizations to their website hopefully it will be done within the next three months and that website will be a great source for all the local businesses for links and connections to those businesses to the non-profit organizations it's fully funded we just have to finish it so hopefully that will be done like I said within three months and when that is out we will class tour everywhere and make sure everyone has an opportunity to get to know the site good I'm not sure I'm working here I just got trained in all this yesterday so can you see a light I just want to use my phone this is Wesbrook and my husband John I came here just about 50 years ago and we knew some people but we quickly discovered and it was John's joke that you could stand on the corner on Main Street for 15 minutes and get all your business done and see everybody you need to see and I think that's a really neat description of how communication can work in a small town I came to your last session too and I was really so impressed even though I've lived here forever to see all the people out and I'm pretty good about meeting the Herald and checking into what's happening but especially as older folks like John and I are we're not as connected to as many organizations these days and so it's really a job to keep actors and to keep communicating with us and some of that is being done really well the other thing I wanted to say in an encouraging way is over the years in trying to organize and all kinds of school things and everything we've done church and rotary and so forth most of the things that we tried to organize and thought we did a really good job of PR and refreshments in me and all the things that you do that you have to pull together we would get six people or if I was really good if we really pulled in a lot of people and at first we got discouraged and then we realized this is our working room these are the people that really care about this and then we can go from there so I would say I said to you Amy keep going this is good we've got some plans we've got some ability to put lists of things out so that people know what's happening who the contact people are so very hard on them to see this again and really really good wishes for everybody I would like as a person as a senior citizen here to have some image of the next 10 years in red belt so if that's has anything to do with how you all set your goals and things that you have to plan for I don't think you're going to answer that today what does it look like for the next 10 years in red belt that would be my question there's an answer as well anybody else in the audience want to get on to all you I'll just take this step further Susan thank you very much that was very good I've been across the stage maybe 6 feet and I just want to say that what I would say the next 10 years would look like to me is a wonderful group of young people coming in and starting to take the seats and the responsibilities of the community that we live in which is starting to age and I think we all we all feel it in the community and I think it's because it's tough because you've got children you've got jobs and you travel and it's hard to make time for a lot of that but we welcome all of you to join us and make this crowd number and you're doing great on our chain of commerce finally I think I'm next to oldest of nine people on the board and it just brought in three young folks that I think will pick up the ball beautifully because they're not working through and from other communities is there anyone else that would like to add to that take the stage very well ageing, senior center offers an awful lot they do meals on wheels they have meals there at the senior center and they have a lot of things like foot care and tai chi at the center I just wanted to know what what advice you might give to people who have moved into Randall and interesting places to check out and resources that might not have been mentioned here especially as someone who's looking for work and tips you might have or places that might be hiring my skills are particularly library information science but anything you might offer that could be helpful because everything is chaos is there anybody in the audience who's new to the community who has tips for Mary oh look at the way we're 20 years oh sorry how long have you worked on a pandemic transplant visiting for 20 years study tires actually very important you're aware of and also I guess it's a list especially if you don't have a long term church thankfully everybody's family family and health issues around people once you take the step to introduce yourself are also great about that also don't search yourself so I think that jobs and housing are obviously the most important key towards having those for that next 10 year demographic and welcoming people that say I'm enjoying the sewing club or this and that sometimes for a while they'll take the community circles but also they need to do each other how are we going to love it how are we going to love it the audience who has some ideas to share what we also want them to know oh look at all these hands we'll tell you how to live transplanting so I'm a military spouse I moved 8 times in 10 years so between Japan, South Carolina and then we promptly moved again after that again like Aliya said get out there there's classes you can take one of my personal years resolutions was to get out and take A class one time every month this year so there are community classes like pottery and stained glass and then you've got the White River Craft Center and everyone is super social I know a lot of times it's cold we're wearing our hoods and our hats and we're just trying to get to the next place but always stop and say hi you know going out in the evenings going out for breakfast that kind of thing even though we have this New England kind of attitude that I've seen when my husband and I decided to retire here is that everybody is willing to help but you also have to be willing to ask because nobody is going to assume that you need something but you have to be brave enough and you know I just learned about Amy's resource today giving time so that's going to be a fantastic thing as far as you know job searching and all of that kind of stuff we have the front porch forum that you can sign up for I'm sure you have and you know Facebook groups Randolph and then just once you start seeing this network of people you know you got to spread your web and people know people that either jobs aren't necessarily listed because it's such a small community and you know we don't always have the funds available as small businesses to post on Indeed or to post on these bigger websites and stuff so just going in and out of different places and you know standing on the street corner for 15 minutes we'll definitely find someone who can help us out so yeah it's getting nicer though it'll stop snowing in May and so just as someone who has transplanted a lot and has had to reinvent themselves multiple times even just in the past 10 years it can be really tiring it's like dating all over again just to find new friends so just don't be afraid to do that and you know Morgan is the best person to help you make friends if you're interested in doing any committees at the Chandler we have a gallery committee we have a social justice community festival which I'm looking for community input for community theater committee Randolph singers Randolph singers and you said Liarist person okay what was the budget for me? they're not paying now they're not paying now it's not I'm pretty shy person and I found that if I joined like many of the people here have been saying I volunteered and where I volunteered was the Chandler gallery because I'm interested in art so just think of something you're interested in and that can be your volunteer place to be and there's nicely about volunteering classes are great too but a volunteer job could last you for many many years because and then you can get relationships with the other people that are volunteering in the same organization so far is to live in this sort of smaller world style community you need to be involved in some capacity and you need to have a hobby and if you don't have a hobby a lot of classes around here to figure out what your hobby could be that's like my most saved advice I should make a bumper sticker I don't know okay and there are two governments in RACC currently and if you are around town on the first Friday of the month we have lovely events that are free and you can wander down Merchants Row and people come by and sell food and just visit and there's a band and dancing and good times to meet people and that will start happening again very soon because we don't do it when it's January or February in Merchants Row but we don't talk about a lot of stuff I just volunteered or taking classes because I need to earn some money and so what I did is I just worked in the school system because I had my newly minted masters but there were no jobs full-time jobs so I just started taking jobs and I had a job for three weeks it was great incentive to look for other jobs and I learned I was not an 11 to 7 person but met a lot of people and worked really hard from 11 to 7 then I hopped over to the nursing home that's where the white rubber craps are now and totally end trained became a nurses aide worked a 3 to 11 job loved it then from there started working for the local mental health agency which was closer to the special education and that led to another job where I was working with that agency in the mental health agency until I retired 4 years ago so like 40 years and I loved that last 30 years of work so you don't have to wait for the perfect job people will find out about your work ethic you'll need a whole lot of people who give you clues when something's coming up and you learn a whole lot if you found a straight academic thing going through you learn a whole lot about yourself and about the world of work out there that's all any other questions, comments and coming to 11 I'd like to direct you to different services throughout the state thank you 211 for information and referral so if you need a fan and you don't know where to go you can get it down to 111 I think it's down right now not my 111 I'm going to bring you the mic I'm going to tell you what needs to be the best kept secret but may not be any more which is that there are resources available to open a lot of tech the library is still open but a lot of residents can borrow from any of the non-formant state college drivers who work in the administration there the lot tech library in particular has a fantastic dvd collection we still have a dvd player they also have rich resources not only in the areas in which they do programs, they have great construction trades collection promotion, but they have a broad beautiful fantastic collection and if you aren't familiar with this shape is the health I don't want to say the gym waits there's the trails that's on your bike for mountain biking and walking the backwater you can purchase but I think this is what keeps these the next engagement that your group is holding that people should put on a calendar or is it the meeting that's coming up or just to make the organization hold their individual events I think it sounds like a really great idea to do some kind of a map around roll out of that website I don't know whether it would be a table event or something like that but we I don't know what you think there's new people and more established and how many of you tell us what should we do thank you for our questions from the question I want to point out that the Vermont Tech Library has lollipops on the arm I just wanted to let you know also too about Green Mountain Gospel Chapel we don't have to belong to our congregation but on Mondays we have a wrapped in love building and we make builds for organizations for missions we make laundry bags for homeless pillowcases for teen challenge and we meet like from 9.30 to 1.30 and that's on Mondays also too we have Bible studies we have immense breakfast that the community is welcome to come and do you remember what time is it like 6 to 8 I think so it's Tuesday mornings and it's from 6 to 8 and it's a good way for just to commingle and you don't have to belong to the congregation there's other Bible studies that we have and also too Wednesday nights we have a master of martial arts that gives his free time for children at 5 then the next age group is at 6 and then adults is at 7 so that's on Wednesday evenings and he always has it posted on the Grand Drumont resources we have an event coming up on Saturday or people just to learn about Jesus and I find that sometimes I'm not afraid to ask people if they'd like prayer but you know people do teen prayer and I'm always willing to give anybody any encouragement any hope because somehow I found this town to be a very giving and I'm just giving back because I'll probably be here for the next 20 years and I just hope that if the time comes that I need help then somebody will be able to assist me and that's kind of my vision but all these people here I don't know his name out there but Mary but when you do start meeting different people you are going to see that there is such a positive energy that I can't believe how many people that I have met through different organizations right here on the panel and Linda I finally meet you in person I see your emails and on front porch form and stuff but it's funny because you start putting names and faces together and you're going to love this town you really are I also forgot to mention that there so I've been partnering with a lot of organizations in town around the arts and there's a lot of movement around the arts lately which is super exciting and tentatively I'm working with Vincent Freeman of the underground studio and recording studio listening room recording studio we're going to have an artist mixer on July 22 but that's in development we also I was a part of the Randolph Arts and Culture Committee which is kind of reinventing itself right now but we've put on a number of events and one of them is Making Music Day which is taking place June 21st and also on Facebook we are currently posting the weeks run down of events in the arts that are taking place in the area so I found that in terms of getting information about what's happening in the area and all that it's kind of a multi-pronged approach Facebook is good so again kind of weaning in and just kind of navigating it to find out what's happening but getting together and creating more social opportunities is really important so I know the crafts that are I'm happy to chat about ways in which I can do that also at the channel we've been hosting some community potlucks proceeding from our shows which have been based on the people so get out of here folks who are ready to move in and go eat all the food the friends are all either ready or waiting for you isn't that okay fantastic, thank you so much for coming thank you very much