hello and welcome to mountain instill community t v s coverage of yet another richmond fourth of july parade two thousand and fourteen we didn't get rained out at least not yet and with us today is linda parent otherwise known as the town clerk  and important figure on the parade committee so linda tell us what's happening today we can tell a little bit about the theme just by looking at it right the theme is i love rock n roll and there's a lot of music i think it will be showing up today we have a lightning card in the parade there's slots bins lots of boy scouts and ball teams up there excited and tell us a little bit about who will see at the front of the parade this year that's quite an interesting story that's the grand marshals of the parade are the odyssey of mine teams from richmond elementary and camel's hump and they have gone several times to the world finals we're very proud of them and so we thought the pretty committee said just did that we have them as the grand marshals and we're excited and they are excited about how many people or groups are taking part in this year's parade i was just putting a guesstimate on it say probably about thirty and that's just in the prayed and there's a lot more down to the heart nonprofit groups from town then flea market vendors and right now it's happening over volunteers screen is that we have the vintage car show and in cities covering it you don't see right now but you'll see it later on our show and can you tell us a little bit about that tom may take care of that for us and they invite all their friends to have these beautiful cars there's cars trucks they're going to be on display in the parade some of them and some of them are down at the park all the time and everybody's welcome to go check them out well i know that linda has to run to begin the parade with her characteristic cart behind us can you just say a few words just in passing a about tonight's fireworks display sure the fireworks will be at nine thirty and right now there are go and we hope everybody will enjoy them the fun run should be starting in just couple minutes they'll be coming down through the four corners here in the parade will be shortly after thank you so much linda well thank you and happy fourth to everybody ok well on today's lineup we have managed to get people that are taking part in the parade to tell us a few words about their organizations and what makes richmond special it is as it is next we have  could just step over here for a minute if you could just say a few words about what you're going to be doing in this year's parade and taylor is a member and the chair of the select board at the moment richmond yes so today i'll be  spending my time on the green i'm a volunteer with richard rescue so we're going to run our two trucks through the parade give out some flags we have these little many flags to give out love the fourth of july just for the opportunity to talk to people i think  i think that's why you know you know people come out they get to socialize is the only time of the year the whole town for the same reason so it is a totally different atmosphere who from being in the select board meetings that we cover all year around us yeah you know it's nice to not be talking and that's great so people when i come in for it we happy to talk to right now one of the great things about richmond is that it actually has a great center where the activities and you see the fun run happening right behind a straight down bridge street which has a long history and people know their neighbors can you tell us just a little bit about richmond rescue and what's happening with richmond rescue these days and what are some of the goals that you had this year as an organization for so i'm happy to announce that richer and was selected as the twenty fourteen vermont service of the year so over the last few years we've been doing great work in really keeping our standard of care high so we've got a couple things going on the state of vermont recently introduced some new protocols so we're practicing at a higher level than we've ever practice d before and actually coming in august probably around september in the end we've got a new ambulance coming and so you'll see a larger freightliner ambulance go away and get replaced with a smaller more efficient one so there's the kind of things we've got going anyone follows the history of ritual rescue they know that at times you struggle for volunteers and right now it's a full staff and really dedicated staffs are pretty happy there and this is such a big public gathering i'm sure everyone is having fun but also on alert and hopefully it'll be a nice safe day and people will be at their best behavior yes we've already taken a call we've got two crews out so if something does happen or there but i will be down on the green giving ambulance to or if anyone is interested and everyone stay safe stay cool won't be a problem and i just want to mention that today we have a great team with us we've got ruth miller behind my camera we've got jim herring and bryce douglas i'm jim herring is the producer of this whole show he's our channel manager and he did a lot of work to make what's happening on your screen men are part of our memory map internship and they're making videos about local roads matthew did a great film last year about bridge street i'm sorry browns trace and ian is making a film about bridge street while matthew tackles  road this year next we have coming up marie thomas who was formerly at moma still community t v and now has moved into the realm of use camp programming and she's a president of our community cares camp which is this amazing program that's happening right here in richmond this summer very key tell us about how many years this has been happening just a little bit about our community cares camp yes our community cares camp now is our sixth year that we've been running although there's been a summer food in camp program since the late ninety's it was started by the congregational church but six years ago we incorporated as a nonprofit so that all of the donations are tax deductible now we provide summer food in a summer camp for oh about between eighty and ninety children from richmond one in bolton every year they come for four weeks we have a wonderful wonderful time we give them some great food and great activities we're very excited this year because we have an artist in residence who's going to be working with the children on murals and some other big art projects we have a musician in residence but he do they is going to come and teach the children how to play ukuleles we got a wonderful grant that allowed us to buy a dozen ukuleles and so that's be lots of music and lots of art we have some other things happening we have a no for in turn is going to work with kids in the garden so the children learn about growing food we have the v y c c coming to teach cooking classes so there's just a lot of a lot of things to do and the kids can really explore and learn their creative side we do arts and crafts we have lots of games a lot of play time a lot of fun and when exactly does the camp start the camps going to start on july seventh and it's a four week camp and it's free to people the schools recommend the kids to come home the kids will most benefit from a summer camp and it's all supported by community and we call it our community cares camp because our community does care about our children and what happens to them and in the summertime besides the fact that some kids from families that you know nice little extra help with some food this also you need help with activities because otherwise it's what's called the summer slide and children can you know sort of fall behind a little bit and after a while it's hard for them to catch up with being in the school year so we keep kids ready for school we help them learn about what fabulous human beings they are and what they can produce on their own and we have a great time but i also want to say that today though i'm representing the grange also and  which is a nice community organization and we'll be down at the park at the chicken barbecue and bingo so we'll have a lot of time we hope that people come to see us today and there's a bit of a rock n roll style tea today vandana fitting in with the theme of he age i can't wait to see what the floats will be this year i'm related thought he and they should be a lot of fun this is the best party that richmond throws on what's on every year and richmond is an incredible place because the community comes together and does so many wonderful things last night we had a slight emergency down at the park a big wind came through and knocked down the big tents for the chicken barbecue and the and the bin go and i got a call about eight o'clock last night they said do you know anybody with a tent where we put out a call on facebook and the boy scouts showed up right nearly this morning with their big tent some other people showed up with tools and managed to repair the tents that have been knocked down so that everything's ok and the fourth of julys can go on without interruption i did want to ask you a little bit more about our community cares camp and i did want to mention that this year and c t v are going to this summer we're going to see quite a few videos about our community care scam because there's going to be a young filmmaker who's going to be making videos all summer long during the camp yes we do we  have a nice young videographer who's in school studying film and he's going to be making a couple of video so that people can get the flavor of what happens at camp he'll be making one about our food program and one about our camp program and we're very excited not only to give this young person an opportunity to practice his craft over the summer but to be able to show people what it is that we do because until you see it it's really a magical place and once you see it then you understand why it is what we do what we do and i would like to hear a little bit more about the the food aspect of our community cares camp i know that there's a lot of local agricultural businesses and restaurants and people that are involved in making it all happen can you say a few words about that i know it's the fun run by the way has just ended behind us and the parade is about to begin well our community cares can't police in our community so we spend all the money that we raise we spend it in our local community so we buy all of our groceries through richmond market and he helps us out quite a bit with that he manages to he uses his power as a as a local person to be able to work with his suppliers we also buy a lot of food we got a grant from ben and jerry's this year to buy from local farms so we're able to buy from jericho settlers farm in maple wind farm and paul maza and the y c c or able to buy that nice fresh food and when the fresh food comes in and the kids see it and they really love fresh food and they learn how to how to deal with it and part of our cooking classes is also learning how to process that fresh food so that they know that they can produce good healthy meals easily and it doesn't have to be expensive and i think if you think of most summer camps the food probably comes from very far away and it's probably prepackaged so this is something that's really unique and i think making the most of what makes richmond golden huntington really special places but we don't use any prepackaged food everything is made from scratch so we buy whole chickens cook the chickens take the meat off and we have turns we have an intern program so we have a lot of fourteen to sixteen year olds this is their first job experience they volunteer their time and they get good job experience and they learn how to be a good employee they learn how to cook or they learn how to be a junior counselor so we do a lot of we have a wide range of things that we do and everybody benefits everybody learns i learn something every year i learn about fundraising i learn about kids the kids teach me they teach each other everybody everybody learns so it's a wonderful time and we hope the people will support us we hope we also want to invite people can visit us any time or camel's hump middle school from july seventh to the thirty first monday through thursday from about eight in the morning and the kids get on the buses at twelve thirty so police come in stop and see us see what's happening visit talk to the kids talk to the counselors even stop and have lunch with us we'd be happy to provide lunch for somebody but really see what's happening in our community and i know that our community care camp does rely on donations both from locally and quite far away sometimes so that's another way to just and if you can just see your website our website is just w w w dot our community cares camp dot org or book and you'll see a lot of will be posting a lot of pictures on a daily basis and one last word i did want to ask you mary don't go away yet we seem to not have the parade behind us yet so we can benefit from hearing a little more about our community cares can't can you say something about the new arts portion of the camp that's happening this year well we for many years there was an art camp that was offered at middle school by the art teacher marianne horton and then she was not able to offer it any more so last year we offered it under our umbrella and marion was the art teacher then and this year she was not able to do that again so we hired one of her former students jessica hill to be the art teacher and this camp is open to anybody in the community it is a tuition base camp and it needs to be self supporting so there are still places we have four weeks of art camp if you have a child between eight and thirteen who would like to come to our campus right here in town it's five days a week from nine to twelve in the applications are of this moment without having their prey he started to call on board here matthew plaskett a name that you should all remember because this kid really has it together when it comes to filmmaking and more generally than that so matthew could use a few words this is the third summer that we've been benefiting from matthew's presence first summer you made a sort of horror film right sort of a creepy film set in the woods last year it was a brown strace and i think he memory map that i'm going to be doing and i'm going to be doing cochrane road this year so i've already interviewed let me see marilyn cochrane who of course is one of the founding cochrane skewers that so many people have interviewed and done films you also have interviewed doug grown who works it's a place called flip side syrup and i'm doing a lot of amazing stuff there and i have tons more interviews coming up one of which is pat quinn who i hope to get a lot of good information with because a lot of the locals say he's going to be a really good person and a real i hope to have some good stuff come out of this project and you also correct i did also speak to friend thomas just yesterday and she gave long good historical information as well she's the president of the richmond historical society who we hope to see in a few minutes here too  she'll have a lot of good information to say about the parade it's really great turnout i mean a little dark skies but it hasn't started pouring down yet so that's what we're hoping so i mean we're not hoping that po though and i have to put matthew on the spot for a minute and ask him about moments phil community t v because he's had a great i think a great experience with us the last three years spending his summers you know in our editing studio or behind the cameras  working on various projects and i just want to mention that memory map the series that matthew is working on was made possible by a grant by the vermont community foundation a couple of years ago and since then we have been taking on young people young filmmakers feet aged twelve to twenty five on a rolling basis to work on their projects and we hope this summer later this summer to have a screening of the first three or four of these films so anyway back to the question matthew what has your experience been of public access t v and specifically ours here in richmond i mean it's a really great space to be working with i mean most stations i mean you can look and you might get maybe a job like not many fourteen year olds can necessary imperials that you can use to get you started such as studios and in doing studios and lots of equipment that you can use in the field so it's a really great space i would recommend anybody like anybody maybe over the age of eight i should say you can just go out there and start filming if that's what you want didn't do it and we are hoping this year we've been involved in the schools in various ways and we always have young filmmakers making things where there's the camel's hump middle school students reading their poetry recently or their novels and we do hope to start some monthly or bi monthly t v shows with the schools whether it's camel's hump or mt mansfield to have their kids have a live studio show so hopefully that's something that we're going to see when school starts up again matthew mentioned that this fits in with your plan for the future do you do you what are your dreams at the moment which may change about involving filmmaking will i mean i want i want to be ultimately a producer some time in my fifty's or something like that but in the meantime i'll stick with being an actor as wells a filmmaker amateur filmmaker i've already made a handful films that's not really that great but just trying to increase my portfolio of films that i make so and hopefully that will be accessed through u s c which i hope to go someday but one can a few minutes as a parade starts thanks a lot and coming up next this year's parade theme by the way is rock n roll and we're going to rock n roll next with rebecca miller from the richmond free library  what's happening in the library today and in future months well today we are keeping it pretty simple because i know people want to participate in all the activities at the park and watch the parade but we are selling water and sun doing out a lot of our literature to remind people of all the things that are going on at the library this summer and of course year round we also like to remind people that if you're finding it really uncomfortable to work at home we do have ac at the library we have  things and we also have some science technology engineering and mathematics programs going on so how does a volcano work how do you build a tower that stands up during an earthquake we've got those things going on we've got some really super music programs last night on america spoelstra performed with her husband jeremiah mclean and it was beautiful bit of a small turnout there was a bit of weather last night i don't know if anybody noticed that but was there rock n roll is the theme this summer we have maybe about eight hundred music c d s and i know that there is some really good classic rock n roll in there all the way back did notice a few elvis you know people so maybe they'll be performing in our community space it is a venue for a lot of events july eighteenth we're get to have from california a little guitar and vocals he's been a backup guitarist for quite a few well known groups so actually i could probably be here all day talking about what you can find at the library going on any road trips we also have of quite a lot of audio books on cd they can just stick it in your drive if you've got a cd drive if you don't we also have about ten thousand free audio book downloads so you just have to log in with a library card if it's kind of technical for you then come on down and we'll hold your hand and get your book on there  and if you're not the one doing the driving you can also download an e book but of course we still have board books and puzzles and movies and so on and oh speaking of movies next friday at six thirty we're going to be having an open to all family movie we're going to show the i think it's disney disney film frozen so that came out in theaters about six months ago it's already been released and got the popcorn going in and we probably won't be frozen but we will have a see if it's a real steamy day and if not it's just a really cool space to to hang out so we've got stuff for kids we've got stuff for grownups and summer's a busy time but we're busy all year round come to our website that's richmond free library v t dot org and a link you to everything we're doing o going on or a new exhibit is on display we'll also put it on facebook we've got artists of the month collector of the month so on our walls whether you want to borrow anything or not or download anything we've got some great gallery space and stuff in the case who really you know entertaining lowkey want to read about something you know for your education or you want to just have a great summer read or you want to catch up on the pulitzer prize so it's all there and wonder this some of the titles that are really popular right now with adults young people in adults and people well for example next month's book discussion book is fault in our stars by john green and that's just out in theaters it actually is the green mountain book award winner it i think it's the i think yes it's the winner and the you know with so we have that available for the young adults the kids the picture books there are so many beautifully illustrated books with both classic fairy tale folk tale themes and some new and modern themes and anything about oh with lots of picture books on fire because it's a very popular book a lot of people have really gotten into it and it's all it's a long read so that might take you the rest of the summer but a very popular mystery series is by william kent kruger it takes place most of them in upstate minnesota and there's a lot of cross fertilization with the local ojibwe culture and casino on the but they've been very popular a sort of new discovery he's just starting to appear on the new york times bestseller list but definitely there's a lot a lot going on  book wise movie wise audio wise music wise and just we have some small spaces that are great for people i'm trying to work and here we have the grand marshals of the parade going by the odyssey the mind kids who i'm sure are at the library a lot they are that's a place where they gather up some material for ideas and it's all so again we have this great space and they can come there and practice and and work out their presentation and i see hunter was one of the young people on the float who couple years ago made a nice video about their trip to iowa for the international competition that's right so actually activities at the library you understand what makes richmond such a great community i mean there's so much going on between richmond jericho and underhill and then c t v never has a dull moment when it comes to finding cultural or historical educational activities going on film so it just the grand marshals go by and it seems that there's more action on his way hello we're back again after the bagpipes a lot to compete with but with us we have fran thomas president of the richmond historical society hi i'm glad to be here this is one of the special days for richmond i'd like to invite everybody to our round church concert series happening this summer last year the concerts went so well that we decided we would continue the series and tim white fur has lined up a has a good lineup of performers for us and the their kids to enjoy some really good music john gilmore is famous throughout ramallah in august we have general him by the name of dan kennedy who will be playing the piano in september we have  jazz musician so all concerts are by donation and any profits go to maintenance of the round church and to continue the concert series and i guess mr ellis will be providing the rock n roll since as the theme of the day to the concert series right yeah he will be so you know i think it's a good series and we hope that people in richmond will support us and in c t v will be filming all those concerts or as many of them as we can get to and we made a really nice program handbell group that was here just a few weeks ago that looked like a really successful event that was a fantastic concert you would have thought they had other instruments and bells the way they have the different sounds from the bells and we had a nice turnout that that night and raise some money for the the the northern bells for themselves and for maintenance of their own church now fred i know you have to run off because it's a real busy day for historical society i did want to ask you  a quick history question how long has this parade been going on this route down bridge street do you have any old records of for the july parades because we now have all these fire engines and i'm curious how long this tradition has been going on i think while we moved here nine hundred seventy four and it was going on then so i'm sure it was a lot longer than there the route was different in one nine hundred seventy four used to go up baker street and children avenue on and around in the parade got too big so they lot of fire engines huntington and richmond and the fire departments are of these towns around here especially richmond's are real focal point for the community and all the outfit we saw a guy in a motorcycle with a fire departments who really was into the rock n roll theme and we just heard from the minor key and there's more to come let's see what's next hello and welcome back to our live coverage of the richmond fourth of july parade two thousand and fourteen the rain held out and it's been really colorful exciting as it always is in a real focal point for the community and with us we have tony don't have time for that so we try to make it at least once a month if not twice and on a lot of tuesdays tony has at least once a month live to see what he benefits from local vermont artists who really bring something special to the every year and we've done it for a really long time i don't think twenty but at least ten or fifteen years we've been filming the friday between farmer's market concerts and that's a big part of this is ok that was a fir look can you tell us a little bit about what's happening this year at richmond farmer's market market is as usual on fridays from three to six thirty every friday rain or shine except for this friday we're taking this one off we run through october seventeenth and because it's a friday afternoon evening market we really fun kind of wind down the workweek time a lot we always have good live music starting at five and we're getting quite a reputation for having some really good music and people come and have dinner and listen to music as well as get the groceries for the week so we've got you know between maybe twenty two to twenty five vendors regularly there a nice mix of farm vendors selling agricultural vegetables and meats and she is we have maple syrup we have honey and then we have a whole range of crafts as well everything we have a policy in our market that everything is made or grown or produced by the vendor so it's a great way to really know exactly who who is grown or produce  h we're open to a variety of genres we try to keep it at a volume that's compatible with people shopping at the market and neighbors and the area and so we don't go for heavy metal and loud rock n roll and generally it's acoustic or minimally amplified but but we're not generous specific if you can say a few words about what makes the community of richmond in the surrounding areas so hospitable to a farmer's market  what is it that people want around here from their farmer's market will i think first of all like like the parade on the fourth of july you know the farmers market is a real community building event and we have many neighbors come every week and it's a real time to just get to know your neighbors and check in with them on a weekly basis and not only other customers but the vendors and many of our vendors so it looks like the parade is winding down thanks lauren for joining us and any last words about the parade and about the richmond farmer's market together well i think that richmond and the surrounding area has a lot of great a kind of community feeling about it people really invest time and energy getting sorry neighbors and coming out with these kind of things and so the farmer's market in the parade i think are both those kinds of events i think it's really  too making the place we live special and i hope people will come down to the farmers market and support their local their local producers and artisans and musicians we do have a great music line up and also want to let people know that we we do except which is the electronic form of food stamps at the market that we are set up for that and not only that but starting in with the next market we will be introducing coupons where we can double the buying power of those using that easy to your food stamp card up to ten dollars per market i can match with coupons so it's a really great opportunity and i really ask everybody to help get the word out if you know people who  three squares rema holders will think so much lauren and you'll definitely see more of the richmond farmer's market on mama's feel community t v all summer and on things are watching our life broadcast and the party has just started here in mother nature pleasure in stay tuned for a lot more community event