Jackie, from Ottauquechee Community Partnership, who is helping with coordinating volunteers and the local Woodstock community emergency flood response shares this us the morning:
The West Woodstock Fire Hall #2 now hosts the Woodstock Volunteer and Services Coordination Center.
Our plan is for the Center to be open 7 days per week with:
· Volunteer central
· Housing ‘needs’ and ‘haves’ clearing house
· Location for SEVCA’s representative (see SEVCA info below) (SouthEast Vermont Community Action)
· A regularly staffed counseling center (hours to be determined)
· To meet other needs as they arise.
· A 4500 gallon water buffalo filled w drinking water will be parked there. Bring your own containers
People may come there to volunteer both in the Center and in the community.
SEVCA is providing the following emergency services:
Housing assistance (Rent, utilities, furniture, weatherization)
Clothing vouchers
Food vouchers
School supplies
People MUST meet with Cathi Haley from SEVCA to receive these services. Her office phone number is 295-5215. She will be at the Woodstock Coordination Center (fire hall #2) on
Monday, 3-6 p.m., Tuesday 9-11 a.m. and 5-7 p.m.
Julia Carlisle
Woodstock Early Bird 
Posted by chris powers on September 4, 2011 at 08:10
so we go to the fire station ?
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Posted by Julia Carlisle on September 4, 2011 at 08:34
Yes check in there first for volunteer documentation and they will hopefully set you to work..bring your coats..if you can spare them thanks
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Posted by Julia Carlisle on September 4, 2011 at 10:12
Hi Julia,
I came across this article and thought it may be of interest to you for your blog. Your blog is great! It has been keeping me and my family connected to all happenings in Woodstock!
This article is very positive.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2011/09/02/letter-to-tourists-come-back-to-vermont/2/
Thanks,
Charlie Kahn
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Charles Kahn
Kahn One Productions
Kahn Industries Films
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Posted by Bob Pear on September 4, 2011 at 10:19
I am setting up a water distribution center at the Mechanic Street Welcome center as well. This will be bottled water. We also have and will continue to have bottled water at the new West Woodstock Firehouse center, but if you can bring clean containers to fill from our tanker, that will save the bottled water for distribution to other areas if necessary and for those people that don’t have containers. I saw some nice 2 1/2 gallon containers of Poland Spring water in the beverage aisle at Mac’s yesterday for not a lot of money. If you don’t have a container, get one of those and after you use it up, you will have a nice clean container to refill at the tanker.
Please keep up the good work conserving our Aqueduct water!
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Posted by Julia Carlisle on September 4, 2011 at 10:37
Bob, we need an update on the Aqueduct Water Situation — are we good to go? Can we do laundry? Some of us absolutely have to have clean clothes for work!
Would you be able to have a conversation with Woodstock Aqueduct’s Eric Wegner or have him send us an official update/email?
Can we drink water yet? Or do we still have a NO BOIL order? It would be helpful to have a daily morning update.
Early Bird also heard that there’s a leak in the pipes up Linden Hill. Is that true?
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Posted by Julia Carlisle on September 4, 2011 at 11:03
Hi Julia, I just talked to Woodstock Aqueduct. They gained only 1 foot overnight which is 30000 gallons. Currently 40 gallons per minute are being used by the community, which means in 12 hours we will be back to where we started yesterday. The tank is currently at 21 feet and the goal is 33 feet to be full. At the rate of consumption right now, we will not only not reach that goal, we will lose “ground”. We as a community have to try to do better on consumption. We are not out of the woods yet and if you don’t believe it, go over to the Elm St bridge- the fire hose you see there is currently part of our Aqueduct system.
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