The Gilmanton Old Home Day Association will hold a public planning
session on Thursday, April 15th at 7 p.m. at Smith Meeting House. Come join
us! For more info: [email protected].
Letter
To the residents of Gilmanton:
Thank you for allowing me to be
a member of the Gilmanton School Board. I look forward to working with
School Board members Phillip Eisenmann, Michael Hatch, Renee Kordas, and
Ella Jo Regan, as well as with our school administrators.
It is equally
important that we work with and for the community to insure that we maintain
the high standards that the school has attained.
I commend this year’s
School Board for the fine work that it has achieved. I would like to thank
Cindy Hatch and Zannah Richards for their service to our students and
community, and am sure that they look forward to “free Mondays.”
Likewise the school administration and the school staff are to be recognized
for their outstanding dedication and effort in providing our students with
the best education possible.
I also thank the parents and residents of
our community for their continued support of our school.
Please come to
the School Board meetings to offer your input as your opinions are
important.
I realize that there are difficult considerations ahead, and
look forward to providing the best input I can in working with my fellow
School Board members. I know that we cannot rest on the issues. Hopefully we
will do what is best for the students and our community.
Our students are
our community, and deserve the quality education that will allow them to be
our community leaders of tomorrow.
Thank you for your understanding and
support.
Frank M. Weeks
The Triumph Of Love, The Gospel Of Universalism At The Unitarian
Universalist Church Of Laconia
Rev. Dr. M’ellen Kennedy will preach on
the tradition of Universalism on Sunday, April 11, at the Unitarian
Universalist Society of Laconia. The service begins at 10 a.m. and all are
welcome. Her sermon, “The Triumph of Love, The Gospel of
Universalism,” is an opportunity to explore the older and less celebrated
side of the Unitarian Universalist tradition.
Rev. Dr. M’ellen Kennedy,
a Unitarian Universalist community minister and community psychologist, is
co-founder of the UU Small Group Ministry Network. She lives in Bristol,
Vermont where she serves as consulting minister with the Universalist
Society of Strafford, Vermont and the UU congregation in Washington,
Vermont. Her sermon on Universalism won the Universalist Heritage
Society Sermon award for this year.
The Unitarian Universalist Society of
Laconia is a spiritually nurturing, socially responsible, open, religious
community. The church has been the liberal voice of religion in the Lakes
Region for over 170 years.
The congregation was originally organized as
the First Universalist Society on July 19, 1838, by twenty-three charter
members. Its first meeting house was erected on Union Avenue in Laconia.
In 1867 the Society was reorganized and became the First Unitarian Society.
Its new building on Main and Hanover Streets stood as a community landmark
and served the congregation until it was destroyed by fire in 1938. The
present building on Pleasant Street was dedicated on September 22, 1940; the
rebuilt chancel was dedicated June 18, 1944.
After the merger of the
American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America in May
of 1961, the congregation changed its name to the Unitarian Universalist
Society of Laconia. The original articles of organization, written for this
church in 1838, contained the following preamble: “Liberality in opinion is
universally acknowledged...as a generous and amiable trait in the character
of the individual; if it gives loveliness to the secular concerns of people
why should it not be permitted to add grace and luster to religion?”
Gilmanton Year-Round Library Looks Ahead
Submitted By Carolyn
Baldwin
Gratified by voters’ support at the March town meeting, the Board
of the Gilmanton Year-Round Library met to lay out plans for the coming
year.
First and foremost, the Board determined that the Library will
continue to deliver the complete menu of services its nearly 800
card-holders have come to expect. The Board plans to continue having the
Library open 30 hours a week, however the Sunday opening will depend on
getting more volunteers.
Once the Iron Works Library reopens for the
season, Children’s story hours, exhibits by local artists, and events
of general interest are scheduled. The board looks forward to increasing
cooperation with the town’s two small libraries to better serve the
entire town’s library needs.
The Board also considered fund-raising options, both to allow for
expanded services and to reduce the operational costs included in the town’s
contribution. They recognized that, short of a major gift or
bequest sufficient to establish a significant endowment. The need for public
support will most likely continue.
Two fund-raising opportunities were considered and approved. Look for
announcements including sale of Natalie’s Coffee brought to us by Matthew
Butka; and Mother’s Day hanging flower baskets, created by D.S. Cole and
brought by board member Chris Schlegel. As a non-profit organization, the
Library must account carefully for money spent and received. To assure
proper accounting, the Board has established a protocol for fundraising
events and projects. Ideas are welcome as are offers of volunteer
assistance.
Contact Alicha Kingsbury at 364-0472 or e-mail
[email protected]
with suggestions and offers to help.
News From The Gilmanton Recycling Center
Submitted By Justin Leavitt
Solid Waste Facility Manager
How easy is this? All plastics marked #1
through #7 are now accepted for recycling. You don’t have to separate
them by number; they will go into a single bin. The only thing you have to
do is rinse them out. Caps cannot be recycled; they must be removed and
disposed of in the compactor.
This is a great and easy way to get all
that plastic out of the waste stream, and the Town gets paid for it!
Gilmanton citizens are urged to spread the news with friends, family and
neighbors, because recycling brings in money to help offset the costs of
waste disposal.*
We are currently working with Northeast Resource
Recovery Association (NRRA) to find a buyer for which is called rigid
plastics. These include, but are not limited to, kiddie pools, hard plastic
toys and milk crates. With your help we can become a leader instead of
always following.
*Remember every ton recycled is a ton less going into
the compactor costing the Town money to dispose of, plus we receive revenue
from the recyclables. Most importantly, it protects OUR environment.