Stroke And Osteoporosis Screenings Coming To Chichester, NH
Residents living in and around the Chichester, NH community can be
screened to reduce their risk of having a stroke or bone fracture.
Chichester Congregational Church will host Life Line Screening on
May 14, 2011. The site is located at 153 Main Street in
Chichester.
Four key points every person needs to know: • Stroke is the third
leading cause of death and a leading cause of permanent disability
• 80% of stroke victims had no apparent warning signs prior to their
stroke. • Preventive ultrasound screenings can help you avoid a
stroke. • Screenings are fast, noninvasive, painless, affordable
and convenient.
For
more information regarding the screenings or to schedule an
appointment, call 1-800-697-9721 or visit our website at
www.lifelinescreening.com. Preregistration is required.
Screenings identify potential cardiovascular conditions such as
blocked arteries and irregular heart rhythm, abdominal aortic
aneurysms, and hardening of the arteries in the legs, which is a
strong predictor of heart disease. A bone density screening to
assess osteoporosis risk is also offered and is appropriate for both
men and women. Many sites offer finger-stick blood tests to
check for cholesterol and glucose.
Packages start at $139. All
five screenings take 60-90 minutes to complete. Life Line
Screening was established in 1993, and has since become the nation’s
leading provider of preventive screenings.
Out Of
Your Attic Thrift Shop News Submitted By Carol Hendee
If
you have access to a computer, please check out the new website for
Baby Threads at
www.babythreadsofnh.com. A wonderful software company set it up
for us for free. When they learned that all our workers are
volunteers and all donations go 100% to the charity, they were more
than willing to set up this wonderful site.
You can actually see
the ladies sewing the bags that are given to new mothers as they
leave the hospital and many of the other workers. It is easy
to navigate and fun to watch. You will see what is needed; it
may say March, but the needs haven’t changed, just increased for
April.
As you change your wardrobe from winter to spring, we
will gladly accept any winter items you just do not want to store
and any spring/summer items that you’re sure you won’t wear, we will
find someone who will! If you’re just not going to setup that
patio furniture and hate to dump it, we will find a nice home for it
at a lovely lake. Stop in at 345 Suncook Valley Hwy, Chichester,
Tues. and Thurs. 8-4, Wed. 11-4 and Sat. 10-4. We appreciate
your business.
2011
Spring Gobbler Season
The spring Gobbler Season opens Tuesday,
May 3rd, and runs through Tuesday, May 31st, statewide. The
Seventh Annual NH Youth Turkey Hunt weekend takes place on Saturday,
April 30th and Sunday, May 1st. Youth took 541 turkeys in
2010. Youth must be accompanied by a properly licensed adult age 18
or over. The adult may not carry a firearm or bow and arrow.
Contact the Fish and Game for further questions at 271-3211.
Turkeys are doing well in NH in part because the state enjoyed
sunny, dry conditions during the spring and summer months last year.
This contributed to a good turkey hatch and survival rate.
Hunters are likely to take a higher percentage of 1 year old
gobblers during the 2011 season.
In spring of 2010 hunters
harvested 3,699 turkeys. Fish and Game estimate over 4,000
will be taken this spring.
All hunters should keep in mind some
key safety guidelines for turkey hunting:
• Always positively
identify your target. • Never assume that calls and movement
indicate the presence of a turkey. Hunters could be using
turkey calls or decoys. • Never stalk a turkey. • Avoid
clothes with colors of red, white and blue and black, as these are
the colors of the male turkey. • Be seen! Turkey hunters
should always wear a blaze orange hat or vest as they enter or leave
the hunting area.
All wildlife managements units in the State are
open in the spring season. A license allows the taking of one
gobbler during the spring season and one turkey of either sex during
the fall archery season or during the fall shotgun season.
All
residents and non-residents can obtain a NH Turkey License from the
Chichester Town Clerk’s Office.
Chichester Grange
Chichester Grange met on April 20th, upstairs
in the Grange Hall. It was Family and Community Night and time to
judge the Baking Contest, which was Whoopie Pies this year. The
winner was Mary West. She will represent Chichester Grange in the
Suncook Valley Pomona baking contest on May 15th.
During the
business meeting, plans were finalized for the Awards Night on May
5th. It will soon be time to spruce up Memorial Park to have it
looking good for the Memorial Day celebration planned for May 30th.
There was also considerable discussion of what can be done to make
Chichester Grange more visible in the community with the goal of
attracting new members. Planning was begun for a pumpkin
carving/decorating event in October.
Mary West presented the
Family and Community Night program on the topic of whoopie pies.
There was a history of where whoopie pies originated, both Maine and
Pennsylvania claiming the honor. A home-made memory game had members
trying to match cards with ingredients and tools used to make
whoopee pies.
The evening concluded with refreshments of whoopie
pies and fruit. The next meeting will be the Awards Night on May 4th
at 7 p.m. in the downstairs hall.
Chichester Historical Society Meetinghouse to Town House Part IV
Submitted By Walter Sanborn
In my last article at the 1843
town meeting in May the indecision of the voters left the matter of
using the old meetinghouse or building a new town house in the hands
of the selectmen.
We now move to the year 1844 to act on this
matter. Rather than relate to former history I am going to
copy articles directly from the minutes of the town clerk as
recorded in the town records.
To the inhabitants of the town, you
are to meet at the old meetinghouse in Chichester on Tuesday the
twelfth day of March at nine o’clock in the forenoon to act on the
following article(s):
Article 9 of warrant: To see if the town
will vote to convert the old Congregational Meetinghouse in said
Town into a town house to be located on the lot of town land on
which said house now stands, and if not on said lot of town land
agreeably to a petition of Jeremiah Lane and others.
There is no
record of this petition or of the results of the vote but apparently
nothing was done.
The next meeting I find posted is on the
Seventh day of October 1845 by the Selectmen of Chichester and reads
as follows:
1845 State of New Hampshire To the inhabitants
of the Town of Chichester in the County of Merrimack in said State
qualified to vote in town affairs.
You are hereby notified to
meet at the center School house so called, in school District No. 6
in said Chichester on Monday the twenty seventh day of October
instant at one o’clock in the afternoon to act upon the following
subjects, viz:
1. To choose a moderator to preside in said
meeting. 2. To see if the town will vote to reconsider so much of
a vote at a meeting of said town, holden on the 23rd of September,
1845 “to build and locate a town house” as relates to the location
of said house and if the town so vote to reconsider. 3. To see if
the town will vote to locate said house some where on the site of
town’s land on which the old Congregational meeting house now stands
and to make the necessary restrictions as to the expense of the
house agreeably to a petition of Stephen Perkins Jr. and if the town
do not vote to locate said house of the afore said spot, then, 4.
To see if the town will vote to locate said house on some convenient
and suitable spot on the Canterbury road, (so called,.) 5. To see
if the town will vote to raise a sufficient sum of money to build
said town house.
Given under our hand and seal this Seventh day
of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Forty Five.
Hosea C. Knowlton Malachi Haines {Selectmen of
Chichester}
At a legal town meeting duly notified and holden at
Chichester, County of Merrimack on Monday the twenty seventh day of
October in eighteen hundred and forty five, the legal voters of said
town vote and by ballot:
October 27, 1845 I, George S. Mason
moderator to preside in said meeting, who present took the oath of
office prescribed by law.
To the Inhabitants of said town, legal
voters therein present and said by major vote,
Motion being made
to reconsider a vote passed at a legal Town meeting of September
23rd 1845, relating to the location of a Town house it was voted in
the negative.
Also to dispense with the third article in the
warrant.
And to reconsider the two last votes,
And to
reconsider the vote passed at a meeting of said Town holden
September of 1845 relating to the location of a Town house.
Petition being made to locate a Town house where the old
Congregational Meeting house formerly stood. It was decided in the
negative.
And to locate said Town house on the Northerly side of
Canterbury road and Easterly of land near the Methodist Meeting
house on land owned by David M. Carpenter, provided said David M.
Carpenter give said town of Chichester a sufficient quantity of said
land for the same and to raise the sum of Five Hundred Dollars to
defray the expense of building the said Town house.
And next to
adjourn the meeting.
A true record attest Edmund Langmaid, Town
Clerk.
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