2016 Chester Fall Festival invites vendors;
Dental survey to assess area need

2016 Chester Fall Festival seeking vendors

Applications for the 2016 annual Fall Festival on the Green in Chester, Vt., are available.  The event will be held on Saturday and Sunday Sept. 17 and 18.

High quality artists and craftspeople creating handmade work in New England are encouraged to participate.  Applications are due by April 1, 2015.

Download an application and guidelines at www.chesterfallfestival.org.   Participating vendors will be listed on the Fall Festival website.  If your Chester business or organization is planning a special event for that weekend, please let the Fall Festival Committee of Rotary Club of Chester, Vt., know and we will do our best to include it in our publicity.  Contact: chesterfallfestival@yahoo.com.

Dental needs survey to conducted

As a first step to working toward placing a dental hygienist in public schools and to bring a dentist closer to the communities, Neighborhood Connections volunteers will be attending Town Meetings and be out in other public places surveying residents.

The volunteers will be asking several simple questions including:

1. When was the last time you saw a dentist?
2. How far did you have to drive?
3. Do you have dental insurance?

Neighborhood Connections, through monthly meetings with its local community partners, is studying the difficulty accessing local dental care. Currently, residents must drive at least 20 miles to get to a dentist. Many dentists are not taking new patients or they don’t take dental insurance.

So when a Neighborhood Connections volunteer approaches with these questions, please participate.