With lovely weather to grace our tag sale as well, I am happy to report that it was a success! We collected the usual amount of stuff to sell and we sold or gave away most of it. (We did not however, manage to get rid of the rather large media cabinet — see picture — if you’d like it, come to the church and take it). And we made our fairly typical profit of about $2300, meeting our budget expectations.
Thank you to Lew Petit who organized the event and stayed with it to the very end. He spent about 10 hours here on Saturday and Sunday making sure things were getting sold. We had several other volunteers helping out as well. Many thanks to Cindy Senning, Lori Morse, Karen Petit, Dean King, Diane Leavitt, Betsy Ainsworth, Erin Mooney, Deb Utton and Jill Chase.
Register before March 10 for the 2022 All Star I Family Conference on Star Island. All Star 1 is a family conference that emphasizes intellectual, musical, and artistic pursuits with lots of time for intergenerational fun. We have many multi-generational families who return year after year, but always welcome new people to our one-week conference in July on Star Island in New Hampshire.
Star Island Hospitality
A day at All Star I starts with a polar bear dip (fortunately optional) and ends with evening chapel often followed by some late night music. In between, are the morning lecture on the week’s topic, morning and afternoon children’s programs, talks-on-the-rocks, art on the porch or in the barn, and plenty of time for chatting in the rocking chairs on the porch and quiet time on the rocks. However, while the day is full of activities, what and how much you chose to do is up to you.
The heart of our community are the children who are involved in morning and afternoon classes and the adults rejoice in watching the trust walks, the Children’s Stunt Show, and the infamous Great People Hunt. There are clenched teeth all around as the community comes together to see if the Junior Teens’ handmade boat will make it to Smuttynose and back!
The Theme for the Week this year is “Consideration, Respect, and Honesty . . . Creating and Nurturing Our Relationships and Communities In Today’s World.” Daniel Post Senning will be our guest, featured speaker.
Daniel Post Senning is the great-great-grandson of Emily Post and a co-author of Emily Post’s Etiquette, 19th edition and The Etiquette Advantage in Business, 3rd edition. He is also the author of Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online. The Emily Post Institute Inc. is a fifth-generation family business that has been promoting etiquette based on consideration, respect, and honesty since Emily Post wrote her first book ETIQUETTE in 1922.
Dan specializes in relationship building in all areas of life, whether it is at home, at work, or online. He is a personable and dynamic presenter who takes pleasure in making the topic of etiquette useful and approachable to all audiences. Together with his cousin Lizzie Post, Dan answers 21st century etiquette questions on Awesome Etiquette, a podcast from American Public Media.
Dan conducts business etiquette seminars and delivers speeches across the country and around the world. Dan is an active spokesperson for the Institute, and has appeared on the Today Show, The History Channel and ESPN. He has contributed to The Huffington Post, and has been interviewed by publications including The New York Times, Slate, Esquire, GQ, Glamour, Time Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
With a focus on relationships and our communities, Dan’s talks will cover such topics as ‘thinking forward, the past evolution of social norms and what we might expect in the next century with climate change, global consciousness, and infinite connectivity’; ‘putting relationships first, balancing individual and community needs’; and ‘finding value in imperfection, a practical approach to holding high ideals’.
Solaris Vocal Ensemble, led by artistic director Dr. Dawn Willis, will present “’Tis the Season!”, It is a program surely to bring out your holiday spirit. Concerts will be held at the Waterbury Congregational Church on Saturday December 18 at 7:30 pm and in Burlington at the College Street Congregational Church on Sunday December 19 at 3:00 pm. The program will feature Taylor Scott Davis’ new setting of the timeless Magnificat with harp, organ, and percussion. Solaris is thrilled to welcome back renowned harpist Rebecca Kauffman as our guest artist. Other pieces will include the Malcolm Edward’s arrangement of I Wonder as I Wander, Tom Council’s In the Bleak Midwinter, the Alice Parker and Robert Shaw favorite Masters In This Hall, and Robert DeCormier’s arrangement of Chanuke, Oi Chanuke.
Tickets are available through the Seven Days Ticket website (sevendaystickets.com) or at the door. Ticket prices are $20 for adults; $15 for Seniors and Students. Please make note of the following COVID protocols:
Audience members must show proof of vaccination before entering (no exceptions) and must remain masked throughout the concert.
All Solaris members are vaccinated and will be tested prior to the concert. Singers may sing without masks.
The front rows of the venue will be unoccupied to allow distance between the singers and the audience. Waterbury will be limiting occupancy to 100, Burlington to 225. Distanced seating will be encouraged to the extent possible.
Doors will open promptly at 7:00 P.M. in Waterbury and 2:15 P.M. in Burlington. For additional information please visit www.SolarisEnsemble.org.
We have decided that it is not worth it to risk ruining the now establishing lawn for the sake a few thousand dollars. Not that we sneeze at that money, but the lawn was considerably more.
Had we done it, the sale would have been required to squeeze into a smaller area at the front of the property along Main Street and would have required a great deal more effort moving all of the items out to the front. Given that we’ve almost met our budgeted goal for fundraisers for the year given our successful Strawberry Supper (net: $2718) we’ve decided to cancel the tag sale this year and are looking into a small fundraiser for the fall (apple pies sale or chicken pie supper) — nothing has been decided yet.
If you’ve already dropped off items for the tag sale, don’t worry, we’ll move it upstairs into storage for next year.
Please, please, please, don’t drop off anything more!
