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I do not give your email address to others. --Bill Botzow -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 6, 2007 Hello All, Winter has arrived! Cold and snow has many of us thinking about the year-end holidays, a time when we all want to reach out to the community to help each other. For the second year Peter Hopkins is coordinating a community effort to help children. Recently Peter wrote me the following: The Pownal Neighbors Helping Neighbors holiday giving program is well under way and there are several opportunities for those who wish to assist. You can adopt a child from 2 to 17 and shop for holiday gifts and clothing. You can support our efforts at making the holidays brighter for those less fortunate by donating to the effort. Checks can be made out to Peter Hopkins and sent to 472 Center St in Pownal. If you are not in a position to adopt or donate, we need shopping consultants, for kids of all ages with ideas for appropriate gifts and clothing and those who can shop with donated funds. The holidays are a very joyful time for many of us, but not so for some of our friends and neighbors. Please consider how you can help, in whatever way you can. Please call Peter at 823-5405. He works from home, so call any time. And thanks so much to all of you who have offered assistance. It is greatly appreciated.Peter Hopkins Woodford Hollow School Winter Concert: Each year at this time our schools present wonderful concerts. Heres the information for Woodfords: Woodford Hollow School presents a Winter Concert at the Woodford Town Hall on Monday December 10. All are welcome. This is a special small town celebration. Speakers Public Forum The Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives Gaye Symington will be at the Bennington Free Library on Friday afternoon, December 7th from 4-6 pm. You are invited to join her in the Rotary Room as she travels the State and talks with Vermonters about the next legislative session. Floodplain Meeting: Last weeks floodplain meeting hosted by Pownal Valley Affordable Housing was well attended and informative. Vermont Agency of Natural Resources staff presented a great deal of information on river management and flood plain mapping. Here again are two web sites with information on flood hazards: HYPERLINK "http://www.vtwaterquality.org/rivers/htm/rv_floodhazard.htm" http://www.vtwaterquality.org/rivers/htm/rv_floodhazard.htm and on fluvial erosion hazards and corridor planning: HYPERLINK "http://www.vtwaterquality.org/rivers/htm/rv_restoration.htm" http://www.vtwaterquality.org/rivers/htm/rv_restoration.htm Also, the Agency of Natural Resources showed a power point presentation titled Pownal Planning Around Flood Hazards with information specific to Pownal. The power point is also on the web at HYPERLINK "ftp://ftp.anr.state.vt.us/" ftp://ftp.anr.state.vt.us username: waterq password: odorata You can find it in the folder marked as NedS/pownal/Pownal 11.27.07.ppt. This is a large file with many slides of flood maps for Pownal. It will take a long time to download unless you have broadband. Stay in touch, Bill Rep. Bill Botzow 1225 South Stream Road Bennington, VT 05201 802 447-7717 HYPERLINK "mailto:botzow@sover.net" botzow@sover.net 115 State Street State House Montpelier, VT 05633-5201 Tel: 1-800-322-5616 (VT only) Fax: 802 828-2424 HYPERLINK "mailto:bbotzow@leg.state.vt.us" bbotzow@leg.state.vt.us ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Montpelier Notes, An occasional email for Pownal and Woodford residents. If you would prefer not to receive these notes please reply to HYPERLINK "mailto:botzow@sover.net" botzow@sover.net and I'll remove you from the list. 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