Evergreen Lodge #53 and Ivy Green Rebekah Lodge #36
are sponsoring another great Dinner/Cabaret Show on Friday, Oct. 14
and Saturday, Oct. 15 at the American Legion Hall. The dinner/show,
featuring many of your "Halloween Favorites," begins at 6 pm and
includes appetizers, turkey, roast beef, salad, vegetables,
beverages and dessert. Reservations are required and can be made by
calling 736-4707 or 736-8885. Plan to join us for a fun night of
great food and entertainment. Costumes are optional but prizes will
be given for the best costumed tables. Proceeds will be used to help
bring the historic Odd Fellows Hall into code compliance!
Trail Construction and
Maintenance Fieldtrip
Please join Bear-Paw, Mike Vecchiarelli of the
SCA-NH, and the Epsom Conservation Commission on October 8th, from
9-12 am for a fieldtrip to Epsom’s Town Forest to take a look at
trail work recently completed there by the SCA-NH. The Epsom Town
Forest lies at the edge of an 8,000-acre unfragmented forest that
stretches from Old Center Road in Deerfield to Black Hall Road near
the Suncook River in Epsom. Mike will present information on trail
planning, construction, and stewardship. He is the Program Director,
SCA-NH and will share his knowledge and experience. Please join us
for an informative discussion.
For Directions and to RSVP call 736-9744.
Letter
To my constituents in Allenstown, Epsom, and
Pittsfield:
After summer vacation, the House is back working on
the bills we held over from the spring. My committee is working on
SB153, regulation of real estate appraisers, which was rewritten to
include changes in federal regulations, and also to simplify the
statutes. HB350, updating laws on the fiscal committee, and SB152,
participation in state employees’ group insurance by legislators,
have been reviewed and cleaned up; I expect these to pass with the
committee recommendation. HB480, establishing a state renovation,
repair, and painting program for lead-safe practices, I expect to be
killed. It would set up a new program, at state business and
taxpayer expense, that has to be as rigorous and complex as the
federal one – and the federal program would continue in full force
as well!
HB458, a sunset review process for executive and
judicial programs, and HB625, on New Hampshire correctional
industries, have both been extensively worked and revised. HB449,
expanding the information available on the state transparency
website, is being changed to clarify that the website oversight
committee will determine what is posted there. Dan is serving on
that committee, and it is very aware of what can be made available
and what should be there. HB449 was originally a model bill from
other states, and demanded a lot of items that aren’t relevant in
New Hampshire, from agency lobbying contracts to legislative staff
budgets!
I’ve been working on HB222, eliminating statutory
provisions granting broad rule making authority. To maintain tighter
control over what rules can be generated, we’re reviewing these
laws, and revising them to specify only what rules need to be
written. It’s rather tedious, but necessary: a lot of rules people
don’t like now were developed because the legislature didn’t take
the time to specify what they wanted.
Carol McGuire
[email protected]
782-4918
Obituaries
Theresa E. White
Theresa Elizabeth White, 80, of Epsom Manor Health
Center, died at the Center Saturday following a long illness.. She
was born in Brooklyn, NY, the daughter of William and Bella Maher.
She has lived in Epsom since 1972 and she traveled extensively with
her husband Walter William "Billy" White. She is survived by her
husband Billy of Epsom. A son, William Walter White of Montana. A
daughter , NH State Representative Candace White Bouchard of
Concord. A stepson, Willie Wilson White of Florida. She was
predeceased by a daughter Crystal White Drew. She also leaves 10
grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.
A Funeral Service was held Wednesday in the Perkins
& Pollard Memorial Home, 60 Main St. Pittsfield. The Rev. John
Loughnane, Pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Pittsfield
officiated.
Burial will be at the convenience of the family in
the NH Veterans Cemetery, Boscawen. In lieu of flowers, donations in
memory of Theresa E White may be made to the Crystal Drew Children’s
Library Fund C/o the Chichester Public Library, Chichester, NH
03258. To sign an online Guest Book log on to
perkinsandpollard.com
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