What’s a home performance
assessment?
And why would you want to have one?
A Home Performance Assessment (HPA) is a
comprehensive evaluation of your home based on the “house as a
system” approach favored by building scientists. An HPA includes a
variety of diagnostic tests and analyses: energy audit with blower
door tests, combustion safety analysis, carbon monoxide testing,
health and safety evaluation, and indoor air quality.
Based on the results, you receive a
written report with prioritized recommendations: energy usage
analysis, savings and ROI (return on investment) calculations,
weatherization opportunities, airflow evaluation and requirements,
mechanical ventilation requirements, and health and safety concerns.
There are incentives through many utilities in NH and the federal
and state governments to help with upgrades to your home and for the
assessment itself.
Join the Northwood Democrats and Mark Stewartson from Loudon for a
presentation on how you can save money and help our environment on
October 16 at 7:00 pm at the Northwood Community Center, 135 Main
St. in Northwood Narrows. Everyone is welcome and there is no cost.
Contact Lucy Edwards for more information at 312-6049 or
[email protected]
CBNA
Holiday Craft Fair
The annual CBNA Holiday
Craft Fair will be held in the Gerrish Gym at Coe-Brown Northwood
Academy at 907 First NH Turnpike in Northwood on November 3, 2013
from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. There will be about 50 crafters, a cookie
walk and a raffle with many donated items. Crafters can still apply;
contact Jill Forward
[email protected]
Teddy Bear Sleepover at the Chesley
Memorial Library! October 11 is the night the teddy bears (and
their other stuffed friends!) have their sleepover at the library
and get ready for Halloween! Bring your cuddly friend to the
library on Friday, October 11, at 6:00 p.m. Decorate a mask for your
friend then enjoy stories and snacks. Tuck your friend in for the
night and come back to the library at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, October
12, to join your friend for breakfast. No registration required;
all ages welcome. (Don’t let the kids have all the fun, adults have
stuffed friends too!) If you would like your friend to join the
sleepover but you are not able to drop him or her off on Friday
night, please call the library at 942-5472 to make other
arrangements.
NORTHWOOD
FLU CLINIC
The Visiting Nurses Association is
sponsoring a flu clinic at the Northwood Town Hall on Wednesday,
October 23 from 2-4 pm and is open to all. Cost is $30. Please bring
your insurance or Medicare card with you; otherwise cost is $30.
The Northwood Farmers Market wants to
thank all our supporters. We had a great season and look forward to
many more. As the days get shorter we will be closing at 6:00
through October. Please come by and support your local farmers.
Letter To The Editor
Here we are again, another crisis
situation. Ever wonder how we got to a place where the government
was threatened, regularly, with shutdowns and threats not to pay our
bills? You do know that raising the debt ceiling is not authorizing
new spending, but authorizing issuing Treasury bonds, the preferred
investment across the global economy? You realize we need to pay
what Congress - the ones who authorize spending, by the way, not the
president - has already spent? That part isn’t being mentioned in
the media you see and hear?
Crises generate fear, and lots of
emotion. They cut off reasonable dialogue and discussion. We do
things that turn out to be dreadful mistakes. Let’s not make the
error of letting our Social Security be cut in the name of solving a
made-up crisis! Let’s not let our safety net programs be made
hostages in a made-up standoff. It’s OUR government. Demand that it
be run for OUR benefit.
There’s an election next year. Are YOU
making plans to vote? Are YOU looking for candidates that will
serve YOU? Or will you let the crisis-mongers win and then wonder
where that truck that ran you over came from?
Lucy Edwards
Northwood
Cbna Senior Named Semifinalist In 2014
National Merit Scholarship Program
Officials of the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation recently announced that Coe-Brown senior
Erik C. Gunderson has been named a Semifinalist in the National
Merit Scholarship Program. Gunderson joins approximately 16,000
other Semifinalists nationwide in this 59th annual Merit Scholarship
Program. Gunderson, along with these other academically talented
students, has an opportunity to continue in the competition for some
8,000 National Merit scholarships worth about $35 million that will
be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship
award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements including
submitting a detailed application and essay to advance to the
Finalist level of the competition. About 90% of the Semifinalists
are expected to attain Finalist standing, and more than half of the
Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit
Scholar title. Congratulations to Erik C. Gunderson on this
achievement.
The Penn Center
A new, local place for young people to be
creative has arrived! The center is aimed at providing a place for
young people in grades 6-11 in the Northwood/Deerfield/Strafford
area. The center will offer a safe, fun, and unique place to connect
as a community, to create art and write, and do good for the world.
The center, which is located above The Lazy Lion in Deerfield, will
be staffed by Andrew Fersch (English teacher at The Northwood
School) and a small group of incredibly dedicated young people.
We would love for you to:
-follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/thepennprogram)
-come to one or both of our first concerts (go to our Facebook page
to find out about tickets and RSVP or just e-mail Mr. Fersch)
-support us with a
donation of your time, money, or supplies (contact Mr. Fersch to do
any of these at
[email protected])
Thanks so much!
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