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It’s now August. Here is the continuation of daily COVID-19 dashboard numbers from the Vermont Department of Health, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, and MA and NH counties that surround Brattleboro.
You can find the July numbers here, the June numbers here, the May dashboard reporting here, and the April numbers here.
Specials listed below are only $7 a plate.
Our hours are Mon-Fri from 11am-7pm. Sat & Sun from 1pm-7pm. We will be serving lunches Mon-Fri from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm, with doors opening at 11 am. Lunches will be served on our hall side due to social distancing restrictions. Entrance will be through the glass doors, and the public is welcome. Per town ordinance, masks must be worn while walking around the hall, but not while seated at your table. Everyone must sign in at the bar with the bartender.
Listening to news reports one might think that the only way that we can move from pandemic mode to some degree of post-pandemic normalcy is to have a vaccine to rid us of COVID 19. Any vaccine that is developed will not magically make COVID 19 go away. It might help a little, but a magic bullet cure is unlikely.
The sound bite, short-attention span world is not suited to explaining complex issues such as how vaccines are developed and how they work. Instead, the world sees hope when a lab developing a vaccine sends out premature press releases of success so their stock value can increase.
There are well established scientific protocols in place for vaccine development and they all require years of trials and research. Sometimes vaccine development efforts are successful and sometimes they are not. When a vaccine is developed and made available to the public it takes years for us to see the big picture of how the vaccine works.
I have a collection of VHS tapes (movies). They’re virtually all in good shape. I had hoped to donate them somewhere, but most places no longer accept them. I just can’t consign them to trash.
Proposal: I want to get rid of all of them in one “package.” You must take them ALL. What you do with them afterward is up to you (yard sale, whatever). After we agree on an amount, you’d make out a check to Groundworks Collaborative and give it to me. I’ll see that they get it. I am in no way associated with Groundworks; just want them to benefit by this donation.
Specials listed below are for 7-27 to 7-31
Our hours are Mon-Fri from 11am-7pm. Sat & Sun from 1pm-7pm. We will be serving lunches Mon-Fri from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm, with doors opening at 11 am. Our lunch specials are now $7. Lunches will be served on our hall side due to social distancing restrictions. Entrance will be through the glass doors, and the public is welcome. Per town ordinance, masks must be worn while walking around the hall, but not while seated at your table. Everyone must sign in at the bar with the bartender.
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu July 27 to July 31
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU
July 27 Farfalle w/Meat Sauce
Broccoli
Garlic Bread
Chocolate Cookie
It is clear that the United States is doing a deadly poor job of controlling the pandemic. There are too many people who think that having a beer and mingling in crowds is more important than saving lives. And there are too many people in power who have turned the pandemic into a political battle.
As of July 20, 3,834,208 Americans have been infected with COVID 19 and 142,601 have died. The U.S. has had 24% of the 606,173 deaths worldwide.
Most other countries have slowed disease spread because they have had organized government efforts to provide citizens with the tools to stay safe. There is no national effort in this country and that means the numbers will continue to rise and more people will die, despite the best efforts of individual states.
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu July 20 to July 24
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU
July 20 Chicken Caesar Salad
Potato Salad
Vegetable Salad
Fruit
VFW $7 Lunch Specials July 20th – July 24th
Mon – Salisbury steak, mashed potato, veg, gravy & roll
Tues – spaghetti in meat sauce w/ salad & garlic bread
Wed – chicken bacon ranch salad
Thur – TURKEY DINNER (call in to go’s ASAP)
Fri – pork bites in gravy over noodles w/ veg & biscuit
In that all things, even the virus, work together for the good we increased in our farming efforts during our time of “Shelter in Place”. Love gave us the faith to plant three gardens here in Oak Hill! We discovered seed that had been left behind by others and did germination tests. Some of these seeds were 12 years old but they were viable and sprouted. Quickly this Spring we had an improvised little greenhouse! Our children love small beginnings that is if we do. Faith and enthusiasm is always contagious just like good leaven!
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu July 13 to July 17
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU
July 13 Baked Ham
Au Gratin Potatoes
Glazed Carrots
Apple Pie
$7 Lunch Specials July 13th – July 17th
Monday – Country fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy & veg
Tues – chicken cordon bleu, baked potato & veg
Wed – large salad w/ egg salad or tuna salad
Thur – corned beef dinner
Fri – bacon wrapped cheese stuffed hot dogs w/ fries
Desserts vary
Until further notice, beginning July 13th, the VFW will be offering curbside pick up from 11:30 – 1:30 Monday – Friday. Please make sure you tell us this will be a curbside pickup order when calling. 257-0438. Cash only for curbside. We are still serving lunch inside the hall Mon – Fri from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm and take outs are also available. Masks required while inside.
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu July 6 to July 10
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU
July 6 Quiche
Broccoli
Tater Tots
Yogurt w/Fruit
Instead of fireworks, barbeques and parties on the Fourth of July, Americans should be walking silently in funeral processions. The great American experiment in Democracy has fallen far too short in its vision for a better life that was described in the Declaration of Independence. The current Black Lives Matter protestors are making that clear and their marches are some of the best efforts we have to move us closer to the ideals that the founding fathers imagined.
We need to be reminded of some of the principles this country was founded upon, even as we recognize that those who wrote the words of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners and white men of privilege.
$7 Lunch Specials July 6th – July 10th
Mon – fried chicken breast, mashed potato, gravy & veg
Tues – bratwurst, sauerkraut, German potato salad, beets
Wed – chef salad
Thur – lasagna w/ salad
Fri – clam strip roll, french fries, coleslaw
Wonder if the votes from yesterday’s WSESD School District Budget Vote have been tabulated (assume so) and might soon be reported? Often ibrattleboro is ahead of other media on these results.
Welcome to July, and continued reporting of COVID-19 dashboard numbers from the Vermont Department of Health, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, and MA and NH counties that surround Brattleboro.
You can find the June numbers here, the May dashboard reporting here, and the April numbers here.
Now that it is clear that commerce, trade and most of life as it existed prior to COVID will never be the same, it is time to figure out ways to reconstruct the world so we can move on. Rather than re-opening restaurants with changes that reflect government policies, owners should be looking ahead a year or two and developing new business plans.
No doubt there are many forward thinking business owners who are sitting down and making plans for how to move beyond basic survival and how to thrive in the new world that has been thrust upon us. Large retail stores and supermarkets can probably do well with a few simple measures in place such as requiring that employees and customers wear masks and that crowds be controlled.
$7 Lunch Specials June 29th – July 3rd
Mon – meatloaf, mashed potato, gravy & veg
Tues – chicken n’ biscuits w/ salad
Wed – potato salad, macaroni salad, and cold meats
Thur – roast pork, mashed potato, gravy & veg
Fri – no lunch, open 1pm-7pm
