Candidates Night in Gilmanton
Gilmanton School’s Student Leadership Team will be hosting
Candidates Night on Thursday, March 6th at 6:00 p.m. The event will
take place in the cafeteria at the Gilmanton School. Come and learn
more about each candidate before voting at the polls!
GILMANTON COMMUNITY DINNER
The Gilmanton Community Church will be hosting a Community Dinner on
Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 5:30 P.M. at the Corners Church on
Route 107 in Gilmanton, NH. We invite you all to come enjoy the
great food. We will be having “A Crockpot Smorgasbord of a variety
of Soups, Chowders, and Stews with Salad and Rolls, Beverages, and
of course our Famous Dessert Table! The cost will be $8.00/adults,
or $25 for a family of 4 or more. Children 5 and under are free.
Come and bring your friends, your family and neighbors for a great
night out to fellowship with one another. For more information,
call 267-6150.
Snowmobile Poker Run
Suncook Valley Sno-Riders 3rd Annual Poker Run.
Saturday February 22nd, 2014 Registration 10:00am-12:00 noon
Starting at PYBA field on Tilton Hill Rd in Pittsfield.
Accessible by Sled or vehicle. Come play a hand or two and join the
fun!
If you have questions, call Laura 435-8729.
Letter to the Editor
The Dollars and Sense of the Gilmanton Year-Round Library.
Some folks think they can’t afford the additional taxes if the
Gilmanton Year-Round Library (GYRL) is funded. Quite the opposite
is actually true. Many citizens cannot afford not having the
Library. Discounted hard cover books at Barnes & Nobles, Amazon and
BJ’s generally run from $17.00 for hard cover fiction to $24.00 for
non-fiction. The extra tax on the average property in
Gilmanton will be approximately $20 to $25 per year. For less than
the cost of two books you get access to all the books in the GYRL as
well as those in other New Hampshire libraries.
Those who like to watch movies will find DVDs costing around $16.99
through Amazon for the newer movies. The lowest cost plan offered
by Netflix is $7.99 per month to have one movie at a time. You
cannot buy two DVDs or pay three month’ rent to Netflix for the
annual cost in taxes. As long as the Library is open you have
access to all the DVDs at the GYRL. In addition the GYRL
participates in a cooperative which allows access to many more movie
titles than those in the library’s holdings.
How many can afford to subscribe to three newspapers. The Laconia
Citizen, Concord Monitor and Manchester Union Leader are all
available at the GYRL. The GYRL’s portion of the annual tax bill is
about one fifth what the Concord Monitor would cost to purchase for
a year.
Those wanting to use the internet will pay $14.95 per month for a
low-speed DSL line. The Library offers high speed internet access
either with one of the Library’s six guest computers or via wifi for
those fortunate enough to have a portable device. Less than two
month’s payments for a low-speed DSL, covers the extra tax and gives
high-speed internet access, without the need to own a personal
computer. Because of the GYRL, many Gilmanton residents, who cannot
afford a computer or access to the internet, are able to search for
a job, type and print out resumes, complete homework assignments and
otherwise avail themselves of what the internet has to offer.
It makes sense to fund the Gilmanton Year-Round Library for all of
the above reasons.
Stan Bean, Gilmanton
Local Residents Named To Dean’s List At
Saint Michael’s College
The following local residents were named to the fall 2013 Dean’s
List at Saint Michael’s College, a liberal arts and sciences,
residential Catholic college located in Burlington, Vermont, one of
the top 10 college towns in America:
Shannon D. McQueen, daughter of Dawn Grimard of Gilmanton, a Junior
English and Political Science major, who graduated from Gilford
Middle High School before coming to Saint Michael’s.
Rachel G. Sanborn, daughter of Daniel Sanborn of Gilmanton, a
Sophomore Sociology/Anthropology major, who graduated from Gilford
Middle High School before coming to Saint Michael’s.
Rachel G. Sanborn, daughter of Jane Sanborn of Gilmanton, a
Sophomore Sociology/Anthropology major, who graduated from Gilford
Middle High School before coming to Saint Michael’s.
Students who complete a minimum of 12 credits and achieve a grade
point average of at least 3.4 at the end of a semester are
recognized for their scholarship by inclusion on the Dean’s List.
The Gilmanton Boys 5/6 basketball team just finished a memorable
season by going undefeated with a record of 13-0 and winning the
Suncook Valley tournament. Front row left to right: Tim
Gentille,Kyle Kimball, Dylan Booth, Brady Hayes,Brett Clairmont,
Gavin Siravo, and Danny Cameron. Second row: Jeremy Wilson, Adrian
Siravo, Brandon Rague,and AJ Smith. Back row: Assistant coach Jim
Smith, Head coach Sean Hayes, and Assistant coach Bill Booth.
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