Ivy Green Rebekah Lodge #36 is hosting a Scrap Book event on
Saturday, Jan. 21st from 1-9 pm. at the Epsom Public Library. Call
Vickie at 736-4707 or Jennifer at 736-8681 to reserve your spot!
Food and beverages will be included in the fee. Plan to spend the
day with us for a great time of scrap booking and fun1
There will be a meeting of the Friends of Epsom’s Historic
Meetinghouse on Tuesday, Jan. 24th at 7:00 at the Epsom library.
Everyone interested in volunteering time and/or materials to help
defray future costs is encouraged to attend. If you are a plumber,
electrician, carpenter, drywall hanger, concrete worker, septic
installer or laborer, we are interested in having you provide input
and assistance. Please join us at the Epsom Library on Tuesday, Jan.
24th at 7:00 pm.
For further information, contact Dick Frambach at 736-9295 or Penny
Graham at 736-9044. We hope to see you there!
Works Of Fiction: Paintings By Marcia Santore
At The Epsom Public
Library
With vivid color, contrasting texture, and subtle movement, Marcia
Santore’s contemporary paintings use recognizable subject matter as
a point of departure to explore abstract ideas. Featuring imagery
such as imaginary animals and impossible architectural spaces, each
of her oil or acrylic paintings suggests a world of its own.
She says, "I’m fascinated by that point of balance between
recognizable shapes or forms and complete abstraction. Some works
lean more one way, others lean the other way, but they’re all
walking that line. I am drawn to the endless possibilities of color,
texture, line, and form to explore the border between the abstract
and the figurative; echoing but never repeating the variations found
in life."
The exhibition, Works of Fiction: Paintings by Marcia Santore, will
be on view at the Epsom Public Library from January 26 through March
12, 2012, during regular library hours. The public is invited to the
opening reception from 3–5 pm, on Sunday, January 29th.
To learn more about the artist, visit
www.marciasantore.com.
Letter
To my constituents in Allenstown, Epsom, and Pittsfield:
At the House session this week, we pushed several major bills to
later dates, so we addressed mostly minor bills. We debated HB388,
on telephone payments to the 911 system, at great length. The bill
cuts the current 911 fee from 57˘ per line per month to 47˘ for all
telephones now paying it (regular land lines and cell phones) and
extends the fee to prepaid cell phones and VOIP phone lines, which
do not pay any fee now. It passed, 214-140, since it is a tax cut
for most users.
HB564, requiring most tax forms to be approved by the legislative
committee on administrative rules, was discussed at length and
approved, 271-82, since the department of revenue has been very
creative in bringing in more money with new forms, in ways that have
not been approved by the legislature. HB415, allowing access to
investigation records in a child custody dispute, was debated with
heat by representatives concerned about cases where abuse charges
had been used to affect the custody decisions. The committee
recommendation of killing it failed, 147-197, and it passed,
217-129; I supported this because of the horror stories I’ve heard
from people caught in this situation.
HB263, cutting the lifetime limit for the family assistance program
from five years to three, was discussed and passed, 211-99, since
the average time in that program is less than two years. Finally,
HB440, requiring the state to join the lawsuit against federal
health care reform, reopened the debate between supporters and
opponents of that program. It was eventually passed, 211-83.
Interested readers can email me for my newsletter, with more details
than I can fit in a letter.
Representative Carol McGuire
[email protected]
782-4918
|
