Monthly Archives: September 2011

Submitted by JoAnn Milza

The Friends of the Fletcher Memorial Library in Ludlow are pleased to announce their Third Thursday program for October. It will take place at 7pm on Thursday evening  on October 20. Scott Stearns is  a local resident and one of the proprietors of the Book Nook on Main Street in Ludlow. Scott will discuss upcoming books to be published soon, some by favorite authors and some by new writers. He will have many suggestions to help us decide "what to read" during the long coming winter. Please use the rear entrance to the library where there is plentiful parking with a ramp outside and an elevevator inside.

Submitted by JoAnn Milza

The Ludlow Garden Club will be having its monthly meeting on Thursday , October 13. We will be traveling to Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire to visit the Murdough Greenhouse and Brout Orchid collection. The meeting will start at noon. Those wishing to carpool from Ludlow will meet at Shaw's Parking Lot at 10:30 am. Please bring a sandwich and a chair. Hostesses will provide desserts and beverages. For further information,  please call 672-4041.

Submitted by Okemo Mtn Resort

Okemo Mountain Resort celebrates the changing of the seasons on Saturday, Oct. 8, with its fifth annual Parrothead Party. Island breezes will blow as the band Changes in Latitudes takes to the outdoor stage for a free concert at Okemo’s Jackson Gore Inn.  This popular Jimmy Buffett tribute band takes partygoers on a journey filled with good clean fun to – where else? – Margaritaville.  Every musical set is a party with beach balls, conga lines and leis galore.

The party will start at noon with the music of Dave Maguire. Changes in Latitudes will go on at 2 p.m. Okemo’s Coleman Brook Tavern staff will be rendering some frozen concoctions and cooking up some cheeseburgers in paradise for concertgoers. They’ll even help find that lost shaker of salt, plus beer, wine, soft drinks and barbecue items fresh from the grill. Free hay rides will be offered from noon to 4 p.m. and a farmers’ market will feature local produce and assorted goodies.

The fun continues on Sunday, Oct. 9, with a Vermont Institute of Natural Science Raptor Encounter, a free family presentation from 10 to 11 a.m. at Jackson Gore. From 11 to noon, kids can get up close and personal with some heavy equipment during Touch-a-Truck. Starting at noon, an all-American apple pie baking contest is open to all home bakers who would like to submit a delicious entry. Email sebbott@okemo.com for information and an entry form.

In addition to all the Parrothead Party festivities, Columbus Day weekend marks the deadline for early season discounts on the purchase of ski and snowboard season passes at Okemo Mountain Resort. Ski and snowboard season begins November 19 and starting on Oct. 11, all of Okemo’s season pass products go to full price. Season passes are a great way to save money on lift tickets and avoid ticket lines. Okemo offers direct-to-lift seven-day passes, five-day passes, midweek passes and even a Sunday One-Day Pass. Some passes include skiing and riding benefits with Okemo’s sister resorts, Mount Sunapee, N.H., and Crested Butte Mountain Resort, Colo. Okemo’s partnership continues, this winter, with Stratton Mountain, Vt., as well.

For more information, please visit okemo.com or call (802) 228-1600.

Submitted by Okemo Mtn Resort

Kenny Weinstein, an Okemo Valley Golf Club member from Long Beach, N.Y., made his second hole-in-one of the season at OVGC on Sept. 21. Weinstein aced Number 17 from the green tee, 146 yards away from the pin. Jim Donnelly witnessed the amazing feat. Earlier this summer, on Aug. 27, Weinstein made a hole-in-one on the fourth hole. He is the second member in OVGC’s history to score two aces in a single season.  Blaise Berthiaume made two holes-in-one last summer on the 8th and 17th holes.

Weinstein will have his name engraved, for a second time, on a hole-in-one plaque that hangs inside the Okemo Valley Golf Club clubhouse, to honor the fortunate few who have had the exhilarating experience of making a hole-in-one at OVGC.