Don’t
forget the American Red Cross Blood Drive being held on Thursday,
June 30th, at the Pittsfield Elementary School from 1:00 to 6:00 pm
at 34 Bow Street. Childcare provided. Each presenting
donor will receive an incentive coupon from Panera Bread,
participating Walgreens and the M/S Mount Washington Cruise Line.
Be part of something amazing - give the gift of life.
4th Annual Vacation Bible School at Epsom Bible Church on July
11-15. Kids going into 1st grade through 6th grade come join
us for games, crafts, music, food, Bible stories, prizes and fun.
It starts at 8:45 and ends at 12:00.
Congratulations
to Kaitlyn L. Martinelli of Chichester, who received a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Western New England College.
Registrations are now being accepted for the CYA summer soccer camp
run by Midwest Soccer to be held at Carpenter Park the week of
August 8. There will be a half day program for U6 and U8 and full
day for U8 up to U19. To register or for more information,
visit www.midwestsoccer.net
or call 877-714-5575.
Are you interested in being a
youth soccer ref? The CYA is looking for individuals 12 and older
who would be interested in taking the ref class. Please contact
soccer commissioner Jacqueline Hannah at 961-0017.
Happy Birthday to Karen Michael on July 4 and Derek Duford on July
6.
Chichester’s Old Home Day will be August 20 this
year. The theme is: Chichester Fire Department - Celebrating 75
Years of Service. Be sure to call Jaan Luikmil at 545-9087 if you
need space at Carpenter Park or are planning to have an entry in the
parade.
Please contact JoAnn Luikmil at 798-5483 if
you are willing to bake cookies for the Old Home Day noon meal. If
several people would each bring a batch of cookies to Carpenter Park
on August 20, she would be all set. Please let her know if you can
help.
If you have Yard Sale items to donate, Stacey
Luikmil is looking for them to put under the Yard Sale Tent at Old
Home Day on August 20. Pick-up can be arranged. Call her at
798-4987.
The following titles have been recently
added to the Non-Fiction shelves at the Chichester Town Library:
Clean – The revolutionary program to restore the body’s natural
ability to heal itself - by Alejandro Junge, MD; The King’s Speech –
How one man saved the British Monarchy- by Mark Logue; Blood, Bones
& Butter – The inadvertent education of a reluctant chef – by
Gabrielle Hamilton; Lock & Key – The secrets of locking things up,
in and out – by Stephen Tchudi; Enchantment – The art of changing
hearts, minds and actions – by Guy Kawasaki.
The
Chichester Food Pantry would like to thank all those who made
donations in the months of May and June. Thanks also to
the Chichester Firefighters Association and those who contributed in
any way to the success of the spaghetti supper on June 15th.
David
J. Andrews, son of Jeff and Gloria Andrews of Chichester, graduated
in May from the University of New Hampshire. He earned a
Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
Out Of
Your Attic Thrift Shop News Submitted By Carol Hendee
A few
people attended our first Monday opening. We hope the word spreads
and more come in as word gets around we are now open Mon.-Sat.
Plan on coming over on Sat. July 9th for the 5th Christmas in July!
It’s 10-2 and promises to be full of bargains for the Holiday season
ahead.
We thank you for your response to our ad regarding
furniture for sale; we sold most of the items! You can check
the sign on the desk to see what is left.
We have a good
selection of children’s cleats for baseball and soccer, mostly sizes
2-4. We also have a 20 year old collection of 33 1/3 records.
Some just album covers, some just albums and an old collection of
truck magazines.
Come see us Mon. 8-12, Tues and Thurs. 8-4, Wed.
11-4, Fri. and Sat. 10-4 on Rte 28 No. near the Pittsfield line.
You can call us at 247-7191.
Chichester Central School
Honor Roll 4th Grade
High Honors
Alysse Cleasby, Jack Lehoullier, Jack Lucier, Sarah Miner, Sean
Menard, Levi Putman, Nolan Sykes
Honors Jacquelyn Arell,
Angelo Besho, Jordan Birkle, Eric Chapman, Kilee Cote, Matthew
Flanders, David Langton, Madison McCormack, Brianna Randall,
Samantha Weir
5th Grade High Honors Elizabeth Donzello-Jewett, Joseph
Edmonds, Kyle Mitchell, Jared Murray, Justin Smith, Tyler Smith,
Kelly Wagner
Honors Evan Amour, Cassandra Bonacorsi,
Madeleine Boyer, Domenic Castaldi, Steven Cavanaugh, Cole Hapgood,
Zachary Harris, Kyle Harrison, Luke Jameson, Danielle McNulty,
Vickey Mudgett, Abbie O’Rourke, Alex Pratt, Jaden Russell, Maria
Skidmore, Delanie St. Laurent, Caleb Stock, BettyJane Weir
6th
Grade High Honors Kennis Barker, Jeremy Bates, Killian Drouse,
Alise Friel, Meghan Hubbard, Ryley Marston
Honors Alexandra
Biron, Patrick Cavanaugh, Brianna Collins, Kyle Frisbie, Christian
Hanna, Nicholas Hanna, Taylor Hubbard, Colby Justin, Ciara Labbe,
Kendra Letendre, Julia Nadeau, Devyn Ricker, Emma York
7th Grade
High Honors Alyssa Bras, Josiah Putman
Honors Allison
Bachelder, Emanuil Besho, Jonah Bras, Sarah Harkness, Angus Jameson,
Abigail McIntosh, Matthew Morey, Kyle Menard
8th Grade High
Honors Lyla Boyajian, Emma Donzello-Jewett, Sarah Hubbard,
Raymond Jenks, Fiona Mara, Brendan Murray
Honors Ashley
Chapman, John Sanborn, Grace Sargent, Kasey Williams
Chichester Town Library Summer Reading Program “One World, Many
Stories”
Many thanks to all our patrons who are making this
possible. Every Wednesday night at 6:30, starting tonight, June 29th
we will have a speaker or program.
Tonight, June 29th,
Mike and Nella Hobson, (both have been in many Pittsfield Players
productions) will bring stories from England and Holland.
On July
6th, Marianne Hromis, a student of Italy will share her love of that
country. Lucille Noel will speak on Canada, where her
grandparents immigrated from.
July 13th, Jimmy Pappas will bring
stories from Greece and Johanna Beachy will tell us about the
orphans she met in Africa where she did medical mission work.
Kathryn Abdelwahld will share about the wonder of Egypt.
July
20th Amy Conley is a hired performer who will bring music and
songs from around the world. Weather permitting this program
will be outside and everyone in town is invited.
Donations will be accepted for this event.
July 27th High
School students, Shannon Downey and Dylan Dupont will bring us
stories from Scotland.
Come into the library and sign up.
For every book you read this summer you will get a raffle ticket to
win items local businesses have donated. More to come on this
next week.
Chichester Historical Society Town Hall Part VI By
Walter Sanborn
The fight to relocate the Chichester Town Hall was
not over as there was still another round to go.
In my last
article I stated that at the last town meeting held at the Center
School October 29, 1845 the residents voted to acquire a piece of
land at the Center and voted to relocate the town hall there and
raise $500.00 for the same. However, after moving timber and
boards to this new location I quoted the story of Charles Carpenter
being hired to move the town hall timber to the Center and later
hired to move it back to the location of the old meeting house. Why
was this done? Well, there is one last round to go in this
fight to relocate the town hall.
At the town meeting of March 12,
1846 a warrant was posted calling all the legal voters to meet at
the Center School to act on the following matters:
To the
Selectmen of Chichester Gentlemen
You are requested by the
subscribers, legal voters of said town, to call a meeting of the
inhabitants of said town as soon as may be and to insert in the
warrant for the same, an article in substance as follows, vis.
“To see if the town will vote to reconsider the vote of said town,
at their last meeting,” to remove the town house on to the spot of
ground where the old congregational meeting house formerly stood, or
some suitable spot not far therefrom.”
Also, to see if the town
will vote to reconsider all other acts or votes of said town, at
their last meeting, relative to moving, rearing, and completing said
town house.
Also to see if the town will vote to locate the town
house on the center Square so called or some other convenient spot
not far therefrom, or on the pine ground so called.
Also to act
on any other matter that may come before them when met relative to
the moving, securing and completing the town house.
Chichester
March 12, 1846
At this meeting a vote was taken to remove the
town hall from its present location and locate it on town land on
the pineground so called and passed in a negative vote 74 to 55.
Another vote was called to move the town hall on to the spot of
ground where the old Congregational meeting house formerly stood or
some convenient spot not far thereon. This vote passed 73 to
69 in the affirmative.
On March 31 the voters again voted to
postpone indefinitely all votes taken and adjourn to September 7th.
This meeting was held and adjourned again. Evidently this did
not hold up the moving back, erecting and finishing the hall on the
site it now sits.
Before ending this article I have to address
the meetings held in the Center School for town meeting. The
Center School still remains on Main Street across from the New Fire
Station as a residential home.
I attended eight grades in this
one room school house which is about 28 feet wide and 36 feet long
and according to records over 142 voters attended the above
mentioned meeting. As only men voted in those days I can’t
comprehend that many men smoking the corn cob or clay pipes and
chewing tobacco in my little schoolhouse.
At our last town
meeting in our new school auditorium we had less voters than that.
My next article I will call Phase II the Town Hall.
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