The Annual 4-H Cookie & Candy Bar Sale is held during the month of October.
Several varieties are NOW available for only $3.50 per package. Candy
Bars are $1.00 each. Your support to the 4-H youth in your community is
greatly appreciated. If a 4-H member has not contacted you, please
call 4-H leaders Pamela Clattenburg 269-3200 Pauline Wheeler 435-8752 Mark
Riel 435-6346 or Corine Miller 435-8497.
Gilmanton School
Help The Soldiers Campaign
Veterans’ Day is November 11th. The students at Gilmanton School would
like to pay tribute to all of the enlisted men and women serving our
country. To do this we need your help. Below is a list of items
that we will be collecting to send to our soldiers overseas. Please
help by sending in any of the below mentioned items to Gilmanton School.
There will be collection boxes around the building. Look for the Gold
Star above the boxes. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated.
Here are some suggested items:
Beef Jerky, Cereal/granola Bars, Crystal Light packages, Hard Candy
(individually wrapped), Instant coffee, Hot Chocolate Mix, Peanut Butter,
Microwaveable popcorn, Canned fruit, Gatorade Mix, Instant Oatmeal packages,
Kool-Aid Mix, Nuts, Tea Bags, Canned Tuna, Gum, Instant Soups,
Anti-bacterial Wipes, Hand Sanitizer, Baby Wipes, Dental Floss, Cotton
Balls, Chap-stick, Deodorant, Toothpaste/Tooth Brushes, Baby Powder, Q-Tips,
Sunscreen, Shampoo, Conditioner, Dryer Sheets, Nail Clippers, Hats,
Bandanas, White Socks, Batteries, Disposable Cameras, Yo-yo’s, Frisbees,
Footballs, Soccer Balls, Board Games, Playing Cards, Envelopes/Stationary,
Phone Cards.
We will be shipping them out on November 5th at our Veterans’ Day
Assembly. All donations should be in by November 2.
Thank you for helping the students at Gilmanton School with this
endeavor!
Calling All Veterans Of The United States Armed Forces In Gilmanton!
On Friday, November 5th at 9:00 a.m. Gilmanton School will be holding
its first assembly of the school year. Throughout the assembly the
students will be honoring the veterans of Gilmanton and acknowledging what
Veterans’ Day stands for. We would like to invite all of the Veterans
of Gilmanton to attend as we pay tribute to you and what you have done for
our country. Please come and join us on November 5th at 9:00 a.m.
Please contact Kim Hayes or Cathy Lines to let us know if you will be able
honor us with your attendance at 364-5681.
Gilmanton Joins In The Lakes Region Reads Project Narrative
This fall, in the 6 weeks leading up to Veterans Day, 18 communities
will be participating together for the first time in a “One Book” community
reading program based in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region.
For this inaugural program, local librarians have chosen The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows,
an epistolary novel set in the Channel Islands during World War 2. The book
reveals the hardships of the people of Guernsey as they endured Nazi
occupation during World War II, but also highlights the small graces that
friendship, writing, and literature can bring in even the darkest of hours.
GYRLA initiated the participation for Gilmanton and both the Iron Works
and Corners Libraries are involved as well. Copies of the book are
available to all those who want to participate. Gilmanton Year-Round Library
will host a book discussion on October 28th at 6:30. John Dickey will
give a short presentation covering what was happening in Gilmanton during
the war, and then at 7:00 PM Frumie Selden from Arts Alliance of Northern
New Hampshire will conduct the book discussion.
To the extent possible, libraries are seeking to include the voices of
those in our communities who lived through those perilous times,
particularly veterans, so that their stories can be heard first-hand before
they are lost forever.
The mission of Lakes Region Reads is to encourage citizens to read for
pleasure and enlightenment, to involve people from different parts of the
region in discussing the same book, and to create shared cultural
experiences based on a common calendar of educational programs inspired by
the chosen title.
The main goal of the project is to get as many people in the Lakes
Region as possible excited about reading the same book and to bring about
shared appreciation of what life was like for “the Greatest Generation.”
The entire calendar of events, and more information about the Lakes
Region Reads project as a whole, is available at
http://lakesregionreads.wordpress.com.
Sweater Weather
Submitted By Mrs. C
Gilmanton, NH
How nice to welcome the cool refreshing weather of fall. Fall – what a
perfectly lovely time of year here in Gilmanton. The children are back at
school and studying hard in order that they glean the most of their
wonderful right to a good education; the foliage is painted in deep rich
shades of scarlet and gold; here and there throughout town, fat pumpkins
grace doorsteps; folks are putting their gardens to bed for the winter.
Fall is the time for new beginnings and is the perfect time to start new
garden beds that will be ready to plant come spring. I utilize the sheet
compost method directly on top of the ground – no more backbreaking double
digging for me. I had been saving newspapers all summer long for my garden
beds, and for anyone new to sheet composting, you simply locate a sunny area
of your lawn onto which you lay newspaper, three pieces deep, directly on
the lawn. It helps greatly to have a hose or watering can nearby to sprinkle
water on the newspaper so they don’t blow away on you once you’ve placed
them on the ground. Then just cut up your spent garden plants with gardening
shears and sprinkle this on top of the paper. Now you don’t have to cut up
the plants, but doing so will definitely hasten the composting process. Next
sprinkle on some soil or manure, and cover with some fluffy hay. Anything
you’d use in a compost pile will work: grass clippings, leaves, coffee
filters, used tea bags, crushed egg shells, spent day lilies, whatever you
have on hand. Just remember, no meat or chemicals or bones. Keep layering
until you are driven inside for the winter. The rains and snow will work on
your new organic composted bed all winter, and come planting time next
spring, you will be sowing seeds in a lovely rich organic soil.
As I
write, the rain is blowing in sheets over the lake, and the day is quite
chilly. My garden is ready for the winter and my new organic beds are in,
today’s rain already starting the process. I stir the pot of soup I have
simmering on the stove, then I glance out the window to check on my hens, a
little flock of seven Buff Orpingtons. All have scurried into the garden
shed to escape the downpour but one five-month-old hen that has managed to
get herself on the other side of the fence and is standing drenched in the
cold rain, not knowing how to get herself back with her flock.
I throw
on a sweater and a scarf, grab a bath towel, and dash outside to retrieve
her. I wrap the towel around her, tuck the bundle inside my sweater, and
bring her into the house where I keep her with me in the kitchen until she
is warm and dry.
I’m not really a farmer. My sister once asked me if we
eat our chickens, not knowing that I’d no sooner cook one of my sweet and
much-loved hens than the cat. “Lord, no!” I said. We have them for the
wonderful large organic eggs they provide to us. I didn’t tell her that I
also pop corn for them every day and that they absolutely love raisins. And
when I’ve given all my family members and friends a dozen fresh eggs and
still have such an abundance that its more than we can use, I scramble up a
few for them that I cook on the stove. I dot their scrambled eggs with
butter and sprinkle them with herbs and finely crushed eggshells. They love
it and thrive, and I like to think that I’m giving back to them, that it’s
not all take. I’m sure my farmer grandfather is up in heaven chuckling over
all the fuss I make over my hens, but I’d like to think that God is watching
and judging me by how well I care for and love these helpless little
creatures he’s put in my care.
Tomorrow, after the rain has stopped and
the land is dry, I’ll throw on a sweater, let the hens out, and rake leaves
that I’ll add to my new garden beds.
Iron Works Market Grand Opening
The Iron Works Market at the downtown
Gilmanton Ironworks announces their Grand Opening on Saturday, October 16th
from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The day will include free giveaways and
raffles for items like $50 gift cards to area restaurants, a mountain bike,
and a beverage refrigerator plus free coffee and cotton candy all day.
This celebration is being offered by new owners Sean and Simone Lord of
Gilmanton who invite all their friends, neighbors, and loyal customers to
join them throughout the day.
The Grand Opening also includes an
unveiling of their new deli and pizza menu, fresh bakery items on Fridays
and Saturdays, and numerous improvements to the appearance and offerings of
this store, located at the heart of Gilmanton. Grand Opening specials
are also being offered all week in recognition of the new ownership.
For more information, please call the store at 603-364-8000 or please stop
on by to say hi!
