Letter
Voter Fraud in Epsom?
Did you vote via absentee ballot in Epsom?
Did you receive a separate instruction sheet with your ballot?
Did that instruction sheet give totally different instructions on
filling out the ballot than what is printed on the ballot?
Did people from only one certain party receive these wrong
directions?
If you received an absentee ballot from the Town of
Epsom, I would like to talk to you. Please contact me at
[email protected] to see if voter fraud from our town clerk
exist.
Chris Thayer
Epsom NH
Letter To The Editor
It
was another productive year for the Epsom Highway department. We
spent most of the winter, summer and fall working on drainage on
Chestnut Pond, Center Hill and Sanborn Hill Roads. I want to
thank all of you who were inconvenienced for your patience and help.
I am truly grateful for these are the things that enable us to do a
better job and stay within budget.
We’ll be starting our fall
grading next week. Since the cost of fuel has doubled I am
praying for another mild winter.
I want to thank all of you who
cleaned out your driveway culverts because if we had received the
rain predicted some of these would have either washed the driveway
or the road out. And a thanks to all who picked up limbs and
branches out of the roads. That’s what country people do.
Bless you all,
Gordon Ellis
Your Road Agent
Pembroke Academy Alumni Flag Football Game And Toys For Tots Toy
Drive
The First Annual Alumni Flag Football Game and Toys for
Tots toy drive will be held at Pembroke Academy on November 23, 2012
at 1:00 pm. Registration begins at 12:00 pm, with the games to run
1:00 to 3:00 pm.
The toy drive is being sponsored by Pembroke
Friends of Football, the booster club supporting Pembroke Academy
Football and the Pembroke Junior Spartans. Admission at the gate is
an unwrapped toy or $3.00 for adults, $2.00 for students/seniors.
All proceeds will go directly to Toys for Tots.
For more
information, or if you wish to preregister your team, please contact
Lisa Wiggin at
[email protected] or 603-219-3179.
SAU #53 Child
Screening
Do you have concerns about your child’s overall
development? SAU #53, the School Districts of Pembroke, Allenstown,
Chichester, Deerfield, and Epsom, has scheduled a child screening on
Thursday, November 29, 2012 at the Epsom Central School, 282 Black
Hall Road, Epsom, NH.
A child screening is a free screening of
your child’s abilities in speech, vision, hearing, motor, and
learning skills. The screening is administered by an Occupational
and Speech Therapist and Special Educator.
To be eligible for the
free screening:
• The child must live within SAU #53
• A
parent/guardian must accompany the child
• The child must be
under 6 years of age
• Please call for an appointment
For an
appointment, please contact Melinda McElaney by phone at 736-9331,
ext. 201 or by email at
[email protected].
Parents with concerns about children 6
years old and over should contact Tami Preve, Special Education
Coordinator, Epsom Central School at 736-9331, ext. 223.
Girl
Scout Crafts ‘Care Bags’ For Kids In Crisis
Meredith Bingham presents the bags to Epsom Police Chief Wayne Preve.
What happens to children when a parent is taken away? Often they
are whisked away in a police car and taken to a foster home to be
cared for by strangers. After seeing this on the news, a local Girl
Scout with a heart for kids in crisis created “care bags.”
Meredith Bingham, 11, discovered this problem, connected with the
police department and community, and took action to make the world a
better place. Discover, connect and take action are the three keys
to the Girl Scout Leadership Experience exemplified by Meredith’s
Bronze Award project.
Meredith sewed fabric bags, collected items
to fill them, and assembled 50 care bags which she donated to the
Epsom Police Department for officers to give to children.
“For a
young person to do all that she did, gather stuff, get donations,
she did an excellent job. We were very impressed with the time and
effort it must have taken,” Epsom Police Chief Wayne Preve said.
“We normally carry teddy bears or Beanie Babies that are donated to
comfort a child, but this is over and above. She had coloring books,
pens, she went all out.”
Through a family connection, Meredith
collected dental and oral care items such as toothbrushes,
toothpaste and dental floss from Northeast Delta Dental in Concord.
Northeast Delta Dental’s Manager of Community Relations, Betty
Andrews, said, “Oral health is important, so we were happy to donate
dental supplies to the care bags. As a former Girl Scout myself, I
felt that Meredith showed compassion in the project she selected and
strong planning and communication skills along with all of the time
and effort she invested.”
Meredith is a Junior Girl Scout in
Troop 11085 who has been involved in Girl Scouting for 5 years.
“I wanted to earn my Bronze Award but didn’t know what I was going
to do. I was watching the news and saw a little boy get taken away
from his parents so I decided, why don’t I do this?
“My mentor
helped me and we came up with ideas about what would be best” for
the bags, Meredith said.
She included combs, tissues, soap, a
fleece blanket she made, and toys—including Beanie Babies from her
collection—in the bags along with the donated dental hygiene items.
The Girl Scout Bronze Award is the highest award a Girl Scout Junior
can earn. It requires many hours of thought and planning, and
fulfilling a number of requirements, including a project that
benefits the community. Meredith’s project brings her that much
closer to completing and earning her Bronze Award.
Girl Scouts of
the Green and White Mountains serves more than 14,500 girls across
New Hampshire and Vermont, and is celebrating 100 years of building
girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a
better place. Join us! See
www.girlscoutsgwm.org, or call 888-474-9686.
Letter
To
our constituents in Allenstown, Epsom, and Pittsfield:
The
committee investigating the state Liquor Commission met this week to
consider our findings. After some discussion, we agreed on 13
recommendations for further legislation. Some were as simple and
specific as abolishing the “chief” positions in favor of the
“director” positions, since there was no evidence of legislative
intent for another level of management.
The most important
recommendation is to go from three commissioners to one, as every
other study has recommended. This not only will improve efficiency,
it may be the only way to change the culture of the commission:
start at the top! The current arrangement, with the only requirement
being that the commissioners not be all of the same political party,
is a recipe for finger-pointing and manipulation, with no one person
totally responsible for anything. Testimony we received showed that
the employees have developed a pattern of playing one commissioner
against another. Of course, political opposition to eliminating
these plum patronage jobs has stopped every other attempt, so it
will probably be a challenge to pass this change.
Other
recommendations include simplifying the tangle of different types of
liquor licenses available; changing the law to authorize the “warn
before fine” approach that the Liquor enforcement division has been
so successful with; and creating a commission to study how best to
promote New Hampshire wines, which is important for agriculture,
industry, and tourism in the state.
The committee found that
there is a perceived tension between maximizing profits and
promoting New Hampshire products, and we wanted to get all the
players together to agree on how to balance these priorities.
Interested readers can email Carol for her newsletter, with more
details than fit here.
Representatives Carol and Dan McGuire
[email protected]
[email protected]
782-4918
Obituaries
Linda S. Pickering
Mrs. Linda S. (Yeaton) Pickering, 55, a lifelong Epsom resident,
died Tuesday, October 30, 2012, at CRVNA Hospice House after a
lengthy battle with cancer.
The daughter of the late Alvah Yeaton,
Sr. and Alberta (Witham) (Yeaton) Berry, Linda was born on June 21,
1957 in Concord.
A graduate of Pembroke Academy, Linda worked as
a quality control manager for Deka Research and Development Corp. in
Manchester.
She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother, who
enjoyed helping the elderly, cooking, gardening, and tending to her
flowers. She was also a NASCAR fan, especially Dale Jr’s.
Linda is survived by her husband of 34 years, Bruce Pickering of
Epsom; two sons, Bruce Pickering II and Anthony Pickering, both of
Epsom; grandsons, Alex Pickering and Logan Smith Pickering; four
brothers, Mark Yeaton of Pembroke, Randy Yeaton of Loudon, Jeff
Yeaton of Epsom, Ralph Berry of Chichester; a sister, Cathy Berry of
Epsom; and nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by a brother,
Alvah Yeaton, Jr.
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