Epsom Bible Church will be presenting a Christmas Cantata
entitled “A Christmas Invitation - Come Just as you are!”.
This will be held on Sunday, December 12th at 10:00 am at Epsom
Bible Church, 398 Black Hall Road, Epsom, NH 03234.
Please call Michelle for more information at 736-9354. All
are welcome to come and experience the true meaning of the
season with us!
Concord/Epsom Elks Club bake sale,
Sunday, December 12th at 9:00 am at Country Cookin Circle
Restuarant, Epsom Circle. Proceeds to benefit area Senior
Santa Baskets.
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.
Letter
To my constituents:
Hope you all had an enjoyable
Thanksgiving.
Right now the legislature is getting
organized. We’re choosing our leadership, making committee
assignments and submitting bills for 2011. Carol and I
believe our whole district supported Mont Vernon Representative,
Bill O’Brien, for Speaker of the House. He was the
eventual winner in a very close race. We’ve known Bill for
over five years. He’s a thoughtful conservative with
proven leadership skills.
I have submitted a half-dozen
bills, mostly to reform the bureaucracy. The one that is
getting the most support from my colleagues would create a
free-market option for health insurance.
Right now we have
one of the most expensive, heavily regulated and least
competitive health insurance industries in the country. We
currently impose a laundry list of mandates, down to the wording
of application forms.
Originally I wanted to submit a bill
that would remove some of the most egregious mandates, but there
are so many of them that it was an almost impossible task just
to list the sections of law to be deleted. Instead, the
bill will allow a willing buyer to contract with a willing
seller for health insurance on any mutually agreeable terms.
The only requirement is that the contract states that it is not
subject to regulation by the state, other than normal lawsuits
and criminal fraud statutes.
This will open up the market for
competition and allow buyers to only get those features they
want to pay for. My rough estimate is that this will save
insurance buyers about $250 million per year.
Next week I’ll
discuss the other five bills. I welcome hearing from you
at [email protected],
or 782-4918.
Yours,
Rep. Dan McGuire
Epsom
Valley Artisans
Artist For The Month Of December
Donna
Tracy is our Artist for December, she has been a member for over
10 years and is a prolific artist in soaps, lotions and bath
salts.
For Christmas, she has a red and white Santa shaped
soap in Honey and Glycerin. Gingerbread soaps that smell just
like the cookies. If you love Pine she has an Evergreen Pine bar
soap that brings the evergreen trees right into your bathroom.
For those into goats milk soaps, she has a goats milk and honey
soap to die for.
She also has an ornaments you can hang on
your tree. They are clear plastic purses with a selection of lip
balms inside, they will make a perfect little gift for a teacher
or a friend.
There is an Herbal Bath Soak with eucalyptus,
peppermint, spearmint, lavender, roses, and calendula to take
all your stress away in your bath.
Then for your laundry, she
has a Lemongrass stress relieving dryer sachet for your clothes
and it’s all natural, no chemicals. There are so many more items
to pick from so come into Valley Artisans. We are open 7 days a
week til we close for the season on December 27th, then we open
again in May of 2011.
To find us online, go
to:
www.valleyartisansnh.com. Our hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
and we’re located at 10 Goboro Rd. Epsom, NH, 736-8200.
We
are 1/2 a mile east on Routes 4/202. From the Epsom
traffic circle, take a left at the first light. Coming from the
east, take a right at the second light after the Epsom Fire
Station.
Santa’s Workshop
Bring the family for some Christmas fun to
Epsom Central School Cafeteria, on December 11, 2010, from 10:00
am to 2:00pm.
Kids can make their Christmas presents and wrap
them up for the tree.
• Crafts for the Kids
• Crafters
• Decorate Cookies
• Book Fair
• Raffles
• Much More!!!
Bring in a canned good for the local food pantry and get a
ticket for a raffle of your choice.
Crafters, Donations, and
Volunteers Needed
Contact Tracy Young at
[email protected] or
603-545-1855.
Thanks To Your Generosity Loudon Food Pantry Gave Out
129 Thanksgiving Boxes
Last year we gave out 120
Thanksgiving Boxes. This year it was 129. Not much of an
increase. Please keep in mind that we now service between
90–95 households per week. Some of our patrons from
last year have lost their homes and/or have moved out of our
service area. We would prefer to lose our patrons to
better circumstances (getting jobs, circumstances overall
getting better etc.). Some patrons go and more patrons
join us. Until the economy gets better we will go with the
flow and help as many as we possible can.
This year, our
donors came through with flying colors. We had donations
of all types (holiday and non-holiday items). The items
that were not donated were purchased with funds that were
donated. We can not thank you enough for opening your
hearts to those in need. We would like to thank Foxy Hair
Care, Meadow Ledge Farm, Freihoffers, and some very generous
personal donors as well. But whether you donated pennies,
dollars, time, space, food or goods we appreciated all that you
do.
The boxes contained fresh potatoes, carrots, onions,
bananas, apples as well as turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce,
gravy, yams, dinners rolls, rice, dessert and they picked off
our food shelves to have enough food for 10 days (because we’re
closed the following week).
Donors, if you can’t make it to
the pantry to donate, you can drop by The Ivory Rose in Loudon
and leave it there for us! We also have two of our new
cash bins at that location as well. Thanks Ivory Rose!
Did you ever ask yourself “How does Loudon Food Pantry service
five towns from just three rooms”?
Believe me, we ask
ourselves that same question every day! Are you curious to see
what we do and how we do it? Well, let’s start the new
year right, have you over and answer all your questions.
You’re invited to visit us on Saturday, December 11th between
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. It’s just an all around get together so
you can get to know us and we can get to know you. We’ll
have refreshments and coffee as well! See you there!