Chichester Old Home Days Pie Contest: Bake your best pie and bring it to
Carpenter Park on Saturday, August 15th, by 9 a.m. Entries will be judges by
10 a.m. with the winner to be announced after the parade reaches Carpenter
Park. All home-made pies are welcomed (crust must be home made). If you
don’t feel like baking, then how about tasting? Pie slices will go on sale
after the contest. Proceeds from sales will support Chichester Old Home Days
2010. Call Carol at 798-5443 today, and let her know to expect your pie.
Registrations for Chichester Youth
Association’s Fall Soccer Program are now being accepted. Sign
up before July 18 to avoid a late fee. No registrations will
be accepted after August 1, 2009. For more information and the
registration form, please see the CYA website
www.chichesteryouth.com or contact Marlene Hammond at 798-3922.
Are you planning to be in the Old Home Day Parade on August 15th?
This year’s theme is “Let Us Entertain You.” Contact Jaan Luikmil at
798-4987 if you would like to enter a float, march in costume, ride
your horse, or whatever.
Chichester Grange’s July meeting will be an Eat-Out at Makris
Lobster and Steak House on Route 106 at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July
15. Members are asked to bring along an item for the food pantry.
Please be sure Carolee Davison knows you are coming so she can make
reservations. Guests are welcome.
Look for the following titles in the adult fiction section of the
Chichester Town Library: One Day at a Time by Danielle Steel, Cursed
by Carol Higgins Clark, The Watchman by Robert Crais, Watermelon by
Marian Keyes, The Art Thief by Noah Charney, Night and Day by Robert
B. Parker, Beware False Profits by Emilie Richards, Skeletons at the
Feast by Chris Bohjaleau, The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan, Miss
Julie Paints the Town by Ann R. Ross, Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas
Swarup, and Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg.
Chichester Heritage Commission
The Heritage Commission’s first meeting was held at the Town Library on June
18th at 7 p.m. This Commission was established by an “in favor” majority
vote on Warrant Article 20 at the March 14th Town Meeting. Seven members and
one alternate from the Commission.
At the first meeting, future meetings were set through March 2010. These
will be held the third Thursday of each month. The July meeting is an
exception and is set for July 23.
Officers were chosen: Lucille Noel, Chair; Barbara Frangione, Vice Chair;
and Bette Bogdan, Recorder/Secretary. A draft Mission Statement and Rules of
Procedure were considered with more work to be done at the July meeting on
these documents. An informational brochure about the Heritage Commission is
in the planning stage. It should be ready for distribution at Old Home Day
in August. Public input is welcome.
For further information, please contact Lucille Noel at 798-5709.
Bentley University Names Local Students To Dean’s List And President’s List
For Spring
2009 Semester
Bentley University’s, Waltham, Mass., Dean of Business, Michael J. Page, and
Dean of Arts and Science, Marilyn B. Durkin, recently announced the names of
local residents who were named to the Dean’s List and the President’s List
for outstanding academic achievement in the Spring 2009 semester.
To be named to the Dean’s List, a full-time student must have a grade point
average of 3.3 or higher with no course grade below 2.0 during the term.
The following local residents were named to the Dean’s List:
Robert Mark Thomas of Chichester is a sophomore and an undecided business
major.
Megan Margaret Callahan of Deerfield is a junior and a mathematics major.
Shannon Leigh Keeler of Pembroke is a sophomore and an undecided business
major.
To be named to the President’s List, a full-time student must have a grade
point average of 3.7 or higher with no course grade below 3.0 during the
term.
The following local residents were named to the President’s List:
Sean McKay of Chichester is a sophomore and an accountancy major.
Matthew Wessels of Epsom is a sophomore and an undecided business major.
Letter to the Editor
I recently became involved in helping several distressed landowners who are
bearing the brunt of Governor Lynch’s inexcusable inaction on the largest
ecological disaster in New Hampshire’s recent history.
Over three years ago, the Suncook River broke through its banks during a
flood and charted a new course, ripping through people’s homes, sheds,
garages, fields, etc. Of course, Governor Lynch and other officials
were immediately on Channel 9 showing concern and assuring the citizens that
help was on the way.
Since then, the State has done nothing except offer excuses, a half-baked
study, and attempts to get the federal government to pay. The river
continues to rip away at its banks and continues to send tens of thousands
of tons of silt and eroded material downstream, ruining properties and the
river’s ecological system all the way to Manchester and beyond. Some
estimate that over one million cubic yards of silt has cascaded downstream,
not only impacting citizens’ properties and slaughtering the environment,
but also filling in the river bottom, so it floods out of its banks much
more frequently. Three years of silt and sediment and today you can
still watch trees toppling down 30 to 40 foot banks into an eroded
mini-grand canyon.
Amazingly, not only has the State done nothing to fix the problem, but the
majority of the erosion is coming from State-owned land! Three years of
trees and banks toppling into the river and being swept downstream, and not
even one silt fence has been installed! DES continues to spend our money
prosecuting citizens for relatively minor infractions, while the State
leadership (?) continues to pass the buck on the tons of pollution flowing
downstream from State land.
Time has come for citizen action against ineffective leadership. I am
seeking input from all interested parties, who may call me at 435-5005.
J. Brandon Giuda