Featured artist at River Artisans; BRGNS starts cooking show, grows container garden
Press release | Jul 07, 2014 | Comments 0
River Artisan’s features seamstress Carolyn Harris
The River Artisans Cooperative in Saxtons River is featuring Carolyn Harris as the July Artist of the Month. Harris is a seamstress who creates a wide variety of items using colorful and lively printed cloth. Her work includes placemat and napkin sets, aprons, potholders, bags and purses, wall hangings, and baby bibs and caps.
Harris, co-president of the cooperative, has been sewing most of her life, first learning the skill at 10 years of age with her grandmother’s treadle machine. Her pieces are not only beautiful to look at, but are well made and sturdy with the ability to withstand the test of time.
A retired school guidance counselor, she remains active by skiing and volunteering at Stratton Mountain in the winter, and kayaking, biking and hiking in the summer. She also enjoys doing cross-stitch, needlepoint and knitting.
The River Artisans Cooperative is located in the center of Saxtons River village, at 26B Main St. Open year round, hours are from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. More than 50 juried members keep the store filled with a wide variety of items, each finely crafted by hand and priced reasonably. Interested artists may apply for membership at any time. For more information, call 869-2099, visit www.riverartisans.com or come in to the shop.
BRGNS announces LPC-TV cooking show
Black River Good Neighbor Services, the area’s primary distributor of USDA and emergency food assistance, has developed with LPC-TV, Ludlow’s local access cable TV station, a new cooking show. Across Our Table is hosted by Doris Eddy, vice president of BRGNS, and Peter LaBelle.
“Some people find the food that we distribute to be a bit repetitive, so we decided to bring together different recipes using that food and to give those recipes out to anyone who asks. That led us to demonstrating the recipes too,” said Eddy.
The demonstrations led to the collaboration with LPC-TV. The show is produced by BRGNS and filmed, edited and broadcast by LPC-TV. Eddy and LaBelle demonstrate how to prepare three simple, nutritious and tasty recipes that are building blocks for family meals. Subscribers can watch Across Our Table on LPC-TV or it can be watched at www.lpctv.org/videos. All the recipes demonstrated on the show are available on Black River Good Neighbors’ website, www.BRGN.org. For more information regarding the show, please call BRGNS at 802-228-3663.
BRGNS sets up container garden
The employees at Black River Good Neighbor Services has established a container garden in the parking lot at the thrift store, 37B Main St. in Ludlow.
“The container garden came about through a ‘Green Thumbs at Work’ grant with the Vermont Department of Health and the Vermont Community Garden Network as sponsors,” said BRGNS vice president Robert Kottkamp. “The grant is for improving the health of our employees through increasing exercise and the amount of fresh produce in their diets.”
Drop by the store to learn about how easy it is to grow dinner in a bucket. For more information, call 802-228-3663.
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