The Heat is On: Friends of Calais Inaugural Chili & Cornbread Cook-Off and Contra Dance
Bring your dancing shoes and tasting palate to THE EVENT this Fall Foliage Festival! Maybe spice up the life of your community members, who will vote on their favorite Chili & Cornbread recipes followed by a Contra Dance!
Curious Calais Nature Walk
Join us at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, October 6th at the Broadview Farm Trail to view the rise of the full "Hunter's Moon". We will take a short hike to a big open area on top of a knoll with a commanding view. It will be a great place for full moon viewing (weather permitting).
October Monthly Meeting
Join us for our meeting to help plan our upcoming events and community programing.
*Please note that the location for this meeting will be at the Calais Town Office.
November Monthly Meeting
Join us for our meeting to help plan our upcoming events and community programing.
December Monthly Meeting
Join us for our meeting to help plan our upcoming events and community programing.
WCUUSD Community Meal
Join WCUUSC for a community meal to culminate a month of connection in WCUUSD. Bring your neighbor, your family, and your friends to share a meal together.
Food brings people together, connections build community, and when we are connected, all of us benefit.
The details:
Thursday, September 25th - 5:30
Outside the Main Entrance to U-32 Middle and High School (Rain plan in cafeteria).
Tables and chairs will be provided, bring a blanket if you want to picnic.
Back to School BBQ
The Friends of Calais is hosting the annual Welcome Back BBQ on Thursday, September 18, 2025 rain, or shine at the Calais Elementary School.
Join us immediately following the Back-to-School Open House from 6 to 7:30 p.m. for a community BBQ and Potluck. Friends of Calais will provide the proteins and drinks; please bring a side dish or dessert to share.
We cannot do it without help. Please volunteer to help with setting up, cooking, and/or cleaning up if you are able. Review the available volunteer needs here and click on the button to sign up.
Thank you!
We are excited to welcome all Calais community members and look forward to a prosperous school year ahead.
Dance Halls in our Town
Location: Memorial Hall on #10 Pond (aka Mirror Lake)
207 G.A.R. Road, North Calais
Please bring a dish to share, labeled with your name and any ingredients to note re allergens (gluten, soy, dairy, eggs, nuts).
The Hall has dishes, flatware, and mugs for use or bring your own place setting. Coffee and tea will be available.
All are welcome to this monthly meeting of the Calais and E. Montpelier Historical Societies.
September Monthly Meeting
Join us for our meeting to help plan our upcoming events and community programing.
Town of Calais Volunteer Appreciation
Join us as we celebrate all of the volunteers across our community. More event information to come.
August Monthly Meeting
Join us for our meeting to help plan our upcoming events and community programing.
Curious Calais Nature Walk
The Friends of Calais and the Calais Trails Committee would like to invite you to enjoy a walk with your fellow community members on Saturday, August 9th, gathering at 9AM. We will be hiking the Robinson Ridge trail. There is a small parking area on Robinson Hill Road, which we encourage you to use for parking. We will meet up at the trailhead. This is an opportunity to bring your family and friends and get to know your fellow community members while enjoying nature. No experience required!
Calais Chicken BBQ
Come spend the afternoon on the shores of beautiful #10 Pond and enjoy a meal with friends and neighbors. Wood-fired BBQ chicken, smoked mac-n-cheese, garden salad and pie for $20/plate. This event will be limited by parking and occupancy. We did sell out last year! Parking opens at 11, lunch will be served from 12-2pm, event ends at 3.
PLEASE RESERVE YOUR PLATES!
We have a team of skilled grill masters stoking the fires, basting the thighs and serving up the best Chiavetta's Chicken in New England while the mac-n-cheese slowly smokes to perfection, but welcome your homemade pies to sweeten the experience for all. If you can share your baking skills, please sign-up here. THANK YOU!
July Monthly Meeting
Join us for our meeting to help plan our upcoming events and community programing.
Annual Meeting & June Monthly Meeting
The Annual Meeting will be 6:30-7pm. Our June monthly meeting will be from 7-8pm. Join us for our meeting to help plan our upcoming events and community programing.
Celebration for Calais Seniors!
The Friends of Calais is very pleased to host the annual high school graduation celebration with a Ice Cream Social on Sunday, June 1, 2025 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. at the Calais Town Hall. We are so proud of how far our Calais seniors have come and look forward to celebrating their future!
If you can bring a topping to share, the Friend of Calais will provide the brownies and ice cream. Also share any digital photos with the Friends of Calais for a presentation during the celebration-- please email to friendsofcalais2020@gmail.com. We look forward to a fun and festive afternoon!
Calais History Tour: Launch Party
The Calais Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) is delighted to announce it is launching a new audio driving tour of the town, describing its history and historical architecture! Please join them at their launch celebration!
On Thursday, May 22nd, at 7:00pm, the HPC will host a launch party at the Calais Town Hall, where they will play a few snippets from the tour and highlight some of the other organizations in the town which celebrate our history. We’d love for you to stop by to check out the tour and also to hear from some of the other organizations in town which support the preservation of Calais's history, who we're asking to come say a few words about their missions.
The Calais Town History Tour includes a downloadable set of 21 very brief (generally three or four minute) snippets that lead Calaisians through the town, both geographically and chronologically. As listeners drive from spot to spot, the tour will take them from the period when the Abenaki were the only people in the forests of what is now Vermont, to the arrival of the first white settlers in the 1780s, to the growth of young Calais, to the drama of the Civil War, all the way up to the hard-won electrification of the town in the 20th century. We promise that there will be stories you haven’t heard that you’ll learn along the way! Along with the audio tour, we’re offering an architectural cheat sheet, written by Susannah Blachly and Ryan Edwards, illustrated by John McCullough, which introduces architectural terms of art and gives you some tell-tale signs you can look for to guess when a house was built. We hope the tour will get people excited about the town – and give them some stories to tell visitors and children.
So if you're free, please drop by the Town Hall on Thursday, May 22nd and celebrate the launch of the tour’s website with us! We’ll have refreshments from Mrs. Appleyard’s Calaisian cookbooks and a sneak peek at the website. The event is free and open to the public.
May Monthly Meeting
Join us for our meeting to help plan our upcoming events and community programing.
April Monthly Meeting
Join us for our April Monthly Meeting at the Maple Corner Community Center. Help plan our upcoming events and community programing. PLEASE NOTE the change of location for this event. And there will not be a virtual option.
6th Annual Spaghetti Dinner & Raffle Fundraiser
Join us for our 6th annual Spaghetti Dinner & Raffle Fundraiser! We’ve brought back this tradition at Calais Elementary School with a robust raffle with great items for one of our biggest fundraisers of the year. Enjoy homemade sauces & pasta and a green salad and bread.
Event Ideas
The Friends of Calais are excited to offer opportunities for people of all ages in our community. We’re excited to bring back traditions and introduce new ones! Please share your ideas with us.
Become A Volunteer
Are you interested in volunteering with us? We’d love to hear from you!