BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 9/30/19
Monday, September 30, 2019
4:00 am Osher Lifelong Learning Institute – White People and Racial Justice
5:00 am Education and Enrichment for Everyone – The US Supreme Court in a Time of Political Chaos
6:05 am New England Cooks – Chef Todd Cassell
7:00 am The Drawing Studio – Color Mixing Part 4
A Japanese artist creates amazing animal sculptures out of balloons.
Masayoshi Matsumoto, 29, has created a wide range of intricate figures from the animal kingdom, including a monkey, an ostrich, a parrot, an octopus, a hermit crab, a deer, an ant and a buffalo.
At first, I thought our cat was bringing them in. There seemed to be a cricket in every corner — crickets behind the bookcase, crickets in the sink, crickets behind the refrigerator, all chirping away. As fast as we could catch them and put them back outside, more would arrive. One cricket even had the temerity to hop back in the moment his feet hit the welcome mat on the other side of the door. What was up with the crickets?
Do two wrongs ever make a right?
Hunter Biden got a nice job paying $50,000 a month because of his encyclopedic knowledge of the Gas Industry. Nothing wrong with that!
Joe Biden threatened the Ukraine in order to protect his son. Just a father doing his duty. Right?
And Donald Trump threatened the Ukraine if they fail to expose the Bidens. Just a concerned citizen doing his duty. Right?
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu September 30 to October 4
Sept. 30 Shepherd’s Pie
Potato
Green Beans
Cinnamon Pear Cobbler
An unusually-short agenda awaits the Brattleboro Selectboard at their next regular meeting. Short agendas sometimes imply absent board members.
They will get an update on the Work Today program at Youth Services and hear results of staff research into a potential new utility, municipal broadband. There are just two other items – buying a generator and announcing committee vacancies. You can extend this meeting by bringing up other items not on this tiny agenda during Public Participation.
The Brattleboro Tree Advisory Committee will meet on Thursday, October 3, 2019, at 6:30pm, in the Community Room at the Brattleboro Food Co-Op, located at 2 Main Street.
The Brattleboro VFW located at 40 Black Mountain Road is open to the public for lunch. Lunch is served Mon-Fri from 11:30 – 1:30. Specials listed below are only $6.50 a plate. Hand made burger, fries, sweet potato fries, wings, onion rings, soups and sandwiches are also available. Take outs available by calling 257-0438
Sept. 30th – Oct. 4th
Mon – meatloaf, mashed potato, gravy, & veg
Join InterPlay and special guest, Oakland dancer and activist Sonyika Rahim, for “Changing the Race Dance,” a night of racial justice work through singing, dancing, drumming, and storytelling.
Soyinka Rahim, GSP, is a Grassroots Spiritual Practitioner, and the founder of BIBOLOVE, which stands for breathe in, breathe out love. She is a performing artist, a Conference Weaver, and an InterPlay Leader from Oakland, California.
Instead of repealing the Affordable Care Act Republicans have found other ways to erode access to health care for more Americans. Policy changes, budget cuts and the elimination of programs have made it harder for moderate and low income Americans to access Medicaid, family planning services and a host of smaller programs.
These moves don’t make headlines and the people who are hurt by the changes may not even realize that they have lost something until they need a service. They also may not know that they lost coverage they may have had because they never tried to access the kind of care they had not needed.
Forty years after Windham Hill became a catalyst for a global musical phenomenon, its bountiful legacy of best-selling instrumental artists and Grammy-winning musicians extends into a new age with FLOW — a new four-piece ensemble comprised of Windham Hill Records Founder Will Ackerman and three of today’s most acclaimed independent artists. FLOW is an anagram of the group’s names Fiona Joy Hawkins (Australian Pianist), Lawrence Blatt (acoustic guitarist), Jeff Oster (Flugelhorn master) and Grammy winning guitarist and producer Will Ackerman.
The Brattleboro Planning Commission is working on a Downtown Design Plan, which will describe and illustrate the community’s vision for future downtown improvements and projects. This planning process will address:
Improving routes, access and circulation for pedestrians and bicyclists;
Incorporating green stormwater practices into streets and public spaces;
Identifying opportunities for creative placemaking that use arts and cultural activities to enliven and revitalize public spaces; and
Enhancing long-term economic stability for downtown businesses.
Join us on September 25, 1-2:30 PM at Brooks Memorial Library Meeting Room, 224 Main St.
to learn more about the Workers’ Center, the Healthcare Is A Human Right campaign, and ways to be involved. We’ll share basic information about the Workers’ Center, a grassroots member-run organization that organizes for a more just and democratic (small ‘d’) Vermont.
As part of the week of climate action, the Vermont Workers’ Center and Extinction Rebellion of Southern VT are sponsoring a screening of the film, “Strength of the Storm,” directed by Rob Koier. The screening will take place on Thursday, September 26th, 2019 at 118 Elliot Gallery (118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro) from 7:30pm-9:30pm, and will be followed by a discussion.
This film shows Vermont residents who were directly impacted by climate change during the flooding from Tropical Storm Irene, as they realized that they were all in this together and organized after the destruction of much of their mobile home community.
Monday, September 23, 2019
4:30 am RAD-TV Presents – Working Towards a Zero Waste Society
5:00 am Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce – The Growing Business of Cannabis 9/5/19
6:39 am Doing Life – 167 – Is God Your Handler?
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Community Forum – With VT Commerce Secretary Michael Schirling
After 25 years of writing a weekly column for the Brattleboro Reformer I am severing my relationship with the newspaper. Over the past two years I have had to fight a constant battle to receive timely payment for the meager forty dollars per column. It has been common for them to pay me up to six to eight weeks after submission of invoices and then after constant reminders for payment.
A Discussion about 5G and wireless technology on Brattleboro Community Radio. Hosted by DJ pockets with Derrick Jordan and Donald Saaf. Tune in Tuesday Sept.24th from 6pm-8pm on WVEW-LP. 107.7fm and streaming on www.wvew.org
I spent all of yesterday devouring UFO stuff. In this morning’s reverie, it all came together.
Why have governments devoted enormous resources to denying their existence?
They are afraid that we’d “panic”. Yeah, right!
The Climate Strike. What an incredible outpouring of commitment, community, passion and determination.
Hundreds of people-( some counts are as many as 1000!) many of them elementary and high school students took to the streets to voice their fears and anger about the mess adults have made of this earth and the terrible legacy they are left with.
The Brattleboro VFW located at 40 Black Mountain Road is open to the public for lunch. Lunch is served Mon-Fri from 11:30 – 1:30. Specials listed below are only $6.50 a plate. Hand made burger, fries, sweet potato fries, wings, onion rings, soups and sandwiches are also available. Take outs available by calling 257-0438
Mon – chicken fried steak, mashed potato, gravy & veg
