REMINDER
Lower Gilmanton First Baptist Church Christmas Service and Holiday
Get Together December 10th at 6:00 pm.
Come enjoy warm cider, music, words of faith and a visit from Santa
and Mrs. Claus! Bring a child’s present for Santa to give out, a
dessert and a non-perishable food item to share to the church on
Route 107, near Frisky Hill and Stage Rd., Gilmanton.
Santa Claus Is Coming To Gilmanton School!
The Gilmanton School PTA is hosting the 1st Annual Pancakes with
Santa at Gilmanton School on Saturday, December 10th from 9:00 to
11:30 am. Come and enjoy pancakes, followed by a visit from a
special guest! Bring your camera and pose for a picture with Santa
for your special Christmas memory.
The cost is $5 per person or $20 for a family of 4 or more. Children
aged 4 and under are free! Proceeds benefit the children of
Gilmanton School through the Gilmanton School PTA. The Gilmanton
School PTA is dedicated to funding field trips and other enrichment
programs for the students of Gilmanton School.
The Gilmanton School PTA is also selling calendar raffle tickets. We
have many wonderful prizes to be won, including VISA® gift cards!
What’s even better is that you are automatically entered to win each
day’s prize. Each ticket purchased could win that day’s prize
every day of the month of January! Drawings will be held daily,
and winners will be contacted on that day. Tickets may be purchased
for $5 each or 5 for $20, so team up with your coworkers and loved
ones to reduce your purchase price to just $4 per calendar raffle
ticket.
To be eligible to win, all raffle tickets must be returned to the
school, with payment, by 11:00 am on January 2nd. To purchase a
calendar ticket, please visit the school or contact Lori Sanderson
at 528-5735.
Holiday Cookie Extravaganza At Gilmanton Barn Library
Katie Jansury samples a cookie while enjoying the quilt display
created by artist, Sue Harris at the Gilmanton Barn Library. Join
Katie on Saturday afternoon, December 10, to see the quilts and
check out the cookies for yourself.
Saturday, December 10, is the day to stock up on holiday cookies at
the Gilmanton Year Round Library. Come to the library from 2:30
until 4 on Saturday afternoon and bring your children for a
fun-filled afternoon. Children’s librarian Pam Jansury will offer
creative activities, and Christmas music will accompany the event.
If you are a cookie maker, join the competition! Donate your
favorites, along with the recipe, and let the judges decide who will
be Gilmanton Cookie Master! Bring three dozen cookies to the Library
on Friday afternoon, December 9, between 4 and 7. Volunteers will
package them up, along with holiday gift baskets for sale.
Along with cookies for sale ($4 a dozen), gift baskets will be
offered.
For further information call or e-mail Carolyn Dickey at 267- 6098,
[email protected].
Gilmanton Junior Girl Scout Troop 11123 donated some items to help
the food pantry with their Thanksgiving baskets for some of the less
fortunate families this year.
New Hours At The Gilmanton Corner Library!
The Gilmanton Corner Library is proud to announce we will be open
one more day during the week! Our new hours will be
Mondays 3:00 - 5:00, Wednesdays 3:00-5:00, and Saturdays
10:00-12:00.
The Corner library would like to invite you to use this extra day to
peruse our new collection of the latest best selling books over the
holidays.
Adult
The Christmas Cookie Club by Anne Pearlman, Trading Christmas by
Debbie Macomber, Killing the Blues by Robert Parker, The Lady of the
River by Phillippa Gregory, Zero Day by David Baldacci, The
Litigators by John Grisham, Shock Wave by John Sanford, The Best of
Me by Nicholas Sparks, The Lost Hours by Karen White, Jacqueline
Kennedy: Book and CDs by Beschloss, The Brilliant Disaster by
Rasenberger, The Affair by Lee Child, Night Circus by Morganstern.
Young Adult
Witch & Wizard: The Gift by James Patterson, Silver Girl by Elin
Hilderbrand
Young Reader
Dogs in the Dead of Night, Moonlight on the Magic Flute, Crazy Day
With Cobras by Mary Pope Osborne, Adventures of TinTin by Alex
Irvine, Jane and the Dragon, Jane and the Magician, Threes’s a Crowd
by Martin Baynton.
DVDs
Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Caillou’s Holidays, Caillou’s Winter Wonders,
Caillou’s World of Wonder, Goosebumps: Go Eat Worms.
CDs
Moscow Rules, Secret Servant by Daniel Silva, Promise Me by Harlan
Corben.
Computer Games
Harry Potter’s Sorcerer’s Stone, Stellaluna.
Many Christmas books made popular by these authors: Baldacci, Mary
Higgins Clark and Debbie Macomber as well as children’s holidays
favorites and celebrations from around the world will be on the
library display table.
Look for our celebration of the "Berenstain Bears 50th Anniversary"
with new books and DVDs in January!
Happy Holidays
from the Gilmanton Corner Library Staff of Volunteers and Trustees!
December Is Fine Amnesty Month At The Gilmanton Year-Round Library!
Throughout the month of December, the library will forgive your
existing fines if you return your overdue materials and bring in a
non-perishable food item, to be donated to the Gilmanton Community
Church Food Pantry. This offer only applies to overdue fines. Lost
item or replacement fees cannot be waived. Fines will continue to
accrue during this period, but all current and past unpaid fines
will be forgiven if you return all overdue library materials and
bring in a food item by Friday, December 30.
The standard fine system will resume operation on Tuesday, January
3. If you are unsure of whether you have any fines on your account,
stop by the library, call 364-2400, or e-mail the Librarian at
[email protected]. And of
course, we always welcome donations from any patron.
New DVDs Available
The Gilmanton Year-Round Library has 27 "new" DVDs available to
patrons for the next two months. These DVDs are made available to us
through a DVD sharing program run by Scrooge & Marley, a Lakes
Region library cooperative of which we are a member.
Please stop by the circulation desk to see what is available – there
is something for every member of the family, including The King’s
Speech, Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Ratatouille.
Obituaries
Arthur R. Brown
Arthur R. Brown, 87, of Gilmanton died Tuesday, November 29th
following a period of declining health.
Mr. Brown was born in Concord May 29, 1924, the son of the late
Arthur W. and Edith (Curtis) Brown. He was educated in Concord
schools where he was captain of the 1941 football team and earned a
scholarship to continue playing at Syracuse University.
Arthur proudly served his country during WWII as a Navy Destroyer in
the South and Central Pacific Theatres. He was a combat veteran of 9
campaigns where he earned 9 major battle stars. He was a retired
member of the American Motorcycle Association and The New Hampshire,
New England and Eastern Collegiate Football Officials Associations,
as well as the National Ski Patrol and Professional Ski Patrol
Directors of NH.
He loved working at Weathervane Maples, his tree farm where he made
maple syrup, and the enjoyment of riding his tractor was second only
to that of riding his motorcycle.
Arthur is survived by his wife of 25 years, Annette "Nan" Brown;
daughters Sally Brown of North Hampton, MA and Sue Sommer and her
husband Jim of Concord, NH; step-son Dan Jones of Albany, NY; sister
Marjorie Greenan of Lebanon, NH; granddaughters Jennifer Clarke of
West Warwick, RI and Amanda Clarke of Gilmanton, NH; and several
nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his daughter, Sandy Brown;
his sister Marian Stewart and his brother Richard Brown.
A memorial gathering will take place from 12:00 to 4:00 pm on
Wednesday, December 7th at The Moose Club at 170 North Main Street
in Concord. A memorial service and presentation of military honors
will begin at 12:30.
In lieu of flowers donations in Arthur’s memory may be made to the
New Hampshire Veterans Home Benefit Fund at 139 Winter Street
Tilton, NH 03276.
The Cremation Society of New Hampshire is assisting the family with
arrangements. To view an online memorial or service information
please go to www.csnh.com
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