Did you know?
All seniors are welcome at the Pittsfield Area Senior Center, a center for
active seniors, located at 74 Main Street, Pittsfield.
Mondays it’s Bingo
from 10 am to noon. Tuesdays it’s Crafts from 10 am to noon and
Fridays it’s Gentle Yoga, upstairs, from 10:30 to noon.
On Thursday,
December 16th, 9:30 to 11:30 am, Anita Oelfke of Service Link will meet with
people to complete paperwork for adjustments to Medicare Part D. Call
435-8482 to make an appointment.
Concert Features Voices And
Brass
The First Congregational Church, 24 Main St., Pittsfield, will
present, “The Light Shines On,” a concert of Advent and Christmas music,
Saturday, December 11, 7-9 pm. This special concert will feature your
favorite Christmas hymns plus some new ones, and will include UNH’s brass
quintet, “The Inextinguishable Brass,” the church’s Chancel Choir along with
the JuBellation three-octave brass handbell choir. This free concert is a
great way to enhance your holiday spirit. Light refreshments will be served
during a brief intermission.
GCC Plans
Mission Trip For The Spring
The Gilmanton Community Church is privileged
to have the opportunity to send fifteen members of the congregation on a
mission trip this April to La Romana in the Dominican Republic
(laromana.org). While we are there, we will be helping those who live
in the bateys – camps where the men who cut sugar cane and their families
live. We will be working on the construction of the Good Samaritan
Hospital and perhaps a school or church. We will be installing water
filtration systems and assisting the medical teams who provide care to the
residents of the bateys. Our work could also include rocking babies
and playing with the children in the orphanage. In short, we will be
God’s hands and feet, bringing His love to those we will serve.
We will
be having many fund-raisers during the coming months which we hope you will
support as you are able. During this holiday season, we hope you will
consider making a donation to the mission trip in the name of a loved one.
They will receive a gift card acknowledging the donation and an invitation
to a night of sharing about the trip upon our return. Please e-mail Ed
and Pam Jansury at
[email protected] for a gift card order form.
Thank you.
Break The
Cycle, Recycle
Break the Cycle, Recycle started just as a slogan
adopted by the Gilmanton Recycling Committee back in May of this year. The
slogan has become more of a mantra these days, as the committee spreads the
word about the benefits of recycling and explores a variety of recycling
opportunities that would best suit the town. Mandatory Recycling,
Single Stream Recycling and Pay As You Throw are just a few of the options
being considered.
The next Recycling Committee meeting will be held
Tuesday, December 14th at 6:30 PM on the top floor of the Academy Building.
Residents are welcome to attend.
The Gilmanton
Preschool students and staff recently visited the GCC Food Pantry & Thrift
Shop. Jane Sisti, Food Pantry director, shared with the children some
workings of the pantry. Along with their visit each child brought a bag of
food from home to donate to the food pantry. The generosity of these
students, left the pantry drop-off box filled to overflowing with an
abundance of much needed food.
Gilmanton
Awarded LCHIP Grant To Complete Restoration Of Academy Cupola
The
Town of Gilmanton has recently been notified that it has been awarded a
$20,000 grant from the NH Land and Community Heritage Investment Program
(LCHIP) to complete work on the restoration of the cupola on the Gilmanton
Academy.
Thanks to hard work by Steve Bedard, John Dickey, and Rachel
Hatch, who prepared and submitted the grant application on behalf of the
Town, and support from Cupola Committee members Israel Willard, Perry Onion
and Tom Dalton, sufficient funds will now be available to complete the
restoration project. Gilmanton voters approved $20,000 for the cupola
at the 2010 Town Meeting and directed the Board of Selectmen to seek another
source of funding to finish the work. That other source has come to
fruition in the form of the LCHIP award.
Based on the $20,000 approved by
voters, the Town has already begun the process and has contracted with
Fifield Building Restoration and Relocation of Canterbury to repair the
cupola itself and to create new columns and structural supports to replace
those that were rotted and deteriorated. Much of this initial work has
already been completed. The second phase of the project, which will be
funded by the LCHIP grant, will enable the cupola and the bell to be reset
on top of the Academy roof.
It is the Town’s goal to have the
restoration completed and the bell back in place so that it can be rung to
herald Gilmanton’s Fourth of July celebrations. Ringing of the bell at
midnight on the Fourth has been a long-standing Gilmanton tradition – and
something that has sadly been missing for the past two years.
In
addition to serving as Town offices, the Academy building has a long and
storied history and it has come to be a symbol of the Town. Its
restoration can be a source of pride for all Gilmanton residents.