In celebration of LGBT Month, the Real to Reel Women Film series is happy to present a showing of the romantic comedy, “Saving Face,” at the Putney Public Library on Wednesday, June 26th, starting at 7:00 p.m. This is an R-rated movie, so adults only please! Admission to the movie is free.

Directed and written by Alice Wu, “Saving Face” is a delightful film about a young Chinese American lesbian, Wil, whose very traditional family keeps trying to match her up with eligible men. While she’s busy trying to keep her new lover secret from her family, she discovers her mother also has secret she’s been hiding!

Twilight Music continues its 11th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, rock, jazz, zydeco, Celtic, swing, blues and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, June 16 with newgrass and contemporary folk trio The Stockwell Brothers.  The seven concert series continues every other Sunday through August 25. All concerts begin at 5:30 pm in downtown Putney on the Putney Tavern lawn (bring a lawn chair or blanket) or at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill in case of rain. The series is sponsored by the Town of Putney, Putney Food Co-Op, Soundview Paper Company, The Putney Inn, Next Stage Arts Project, The Stockwell Brothers and many other Putney businesses and organizations.  The concerts are free to the public (donations are accepted) and food will be available. For information, visit http://www.twilightmusic.org or call 802-387-5772.

Introducing Putney’s first annual Earth, Roots, Petals, & Paths, a tour of perennial and vegetable gardens on Saturday, June 15, and Sunday, June 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 each day. The tour is a benefit for the Putney Public Library and the Putney Central School Library.

Earth, Roots, Petals & Paths includes six private perennial and vegetable gardens in Putney, The Putney School gardens & farm, the Putney Central School garden & orchard as well as the renowned four-acre garden created by Theodora and Peter Berg on Rice Mountain with the assistance of Gordon Hayward, garden designer, and Dan Snow, dry stone waller.

Putney's HeartSong Health In Community hosts the June Community Supper which features an Indian-themed meal.
Dinner is served at the Next Stage dining room from 5:30-7:00 pm, and all are invited to enjoy!
A donation jar helps cover the costs of the meal.

TRANSITION PUTNEY
Tick Talk::Lyme Disease and the Resilience of a Species by Dan Foster
Tuesday, June 18, 7 – 8:30 p.m., Putney Library

Dan Foster first tested positive for Lyme disease 22 years ago. This talk is about his odyssey with a super bacteria that he believes he will soon be rid of.

Though he was treated promptly after his tick bite bull’s eye rash, he has had a variety of symptoms over the last 20+ years, but was able to manage them all pretty well until last year.

(From Putney Cares website.)
Gentle Yoga meets each Wednesday morning from 8:30am to 9:30 am. Classes focus on alignment, balance, self-acceptance and setting one’s own goals. Isometric and weight-bearing yoga exercises help increase strength and bone density, contributing to significant gains in strength and flexibility.

The class is taught by Eva Frank Greene, EMT, RYT-500. She instructed disabled combat veterans at Walter Reed Army Hospital for four years, and has worked with disabled students. Please contact the office for more information or to join the class 387-5593 or putneycares@svcable.net.

(From the Medicine for the People website.) Medicine for the People, located in Putney, Vermont, is a holistic health care clinic offering massage, acupuncture, Chinese herbs, nutritional counseling along with Yoga, Qi Gong, and Tai Chi classes in our sun-filled studio. See our activities below!

Community Acupuncture - Fridays 2-6pm
Cooperative Communication: Compassionate Communication at Work with Pan Vera
Saturday June 15th 9am-6pmrking with (depending on what’s blooming).

On Thursday, June 13 from 6:30 to 8pm, the next step in Health Care Reform, Vermont Health Connect , will be presented at the Putney Firehouse.

Your local legislative delegation, Sen. Jeanette White and Reps. David Deen and Mike Mrowicki have arranged for this presentation of the Vermont Health Exchange -a marketplace for individuals , families and small businesses to compare and purchase health care plans to meet their needs and budget. Vt. Health Connect is a web portal set up to make it easy to make your decision and your purchase-made even easier by the federal subsidies provided by Obamacare,.

Tuesday June 11th, 3:30-5pm GLEANING KICK OFF PARTY @ THE VT FOODBANK Join us for a tour of the Brattleboro facility, 3:30pm
Learn about what happens to the gleaned produce once it leaves the fields. Look at the Foodbank behind the scenes

There will be refreshments, and families are welcome! (It’s helpful to have an RSVP if you know you’ll be coming.)

Contact: Hannah Pick, Field Representative, Brattleboro Region, Vermont Foodbank
cell: 802-498-8353 email: hpick@vtfoodbank.org

Do you have a space to rent or need a housesitter in July? My 10-year-old daughter and I are returning to Putney for the summer. We're quiet and conscientious and come with great references to prove it. Send me a message at carol@theoptimist.com if you know of something. Thanks!