Preschool Openings!
Now
is the time to think about enrolling your child in preschool! The
Center School in Northwood is accepting registrations for the
2009-2010 school year. The Center School is a parent cooperative
preschool located next to the town hall in Northwood, which provides
a developmental program for three, four, and five year-olds of
Northwood and surrounding towns. There are openings in our two-day
(T/Th) program and three-day (M/W/F) morning programs. Act now
before they are filled! To get information, please call Director,
Karen Andersen at the school at 942-7686.
Spaghetti Supper fund raiser to be held May 16, 5 pm, at the First
Baptist Church of Northwood, Route 4 (right next door to
Hannaford’s). Supper will be spaghetti and meatballs or
chicken tenders, salad, garlic bread and dessert, along with either
a cold drink or coffee. This fundraiser is for our
children to attend Camp Sentinel in Center Tuftonboro. Cost is
$6 for adults, $3 for children 5-12 and under 5 is FREE. Come
and support us and enjoy the fellowship.
Northwood Recreation Update Summer Soccer Skills
Northwood Recreation is putting together a summer soccer program.
This is a pre-season program designed to give more ball time to
those who can’t wait for fall soccer to start. Children in grades
3-8 can get an early start on getting the rust out, enjoying games
in Deerfield, scrimmages, and extra practice time. Summer Soccer
Skills will begin the week of May 25th and continue through early
August. Practice times are still to be determined. Registration
forms for all of these programs can be obtained at the Town Hall or
printed from the Town of Northwood’s web site,
www.town.northwood.nh.us. Return registration forms in advance
with payment to the Recreation Department at the Northwood Town
Hall. Email
[email protected] or call 942-5586 x209 with
questions.
History
Of Buildings In The Northwood Narrows To Be Held
The Northwood
Historical Society will be hosting a program on The History Of The
Oldest Buildings in the Northwood Narrows. These buildings include
The Community Hall and Brookside School. The program will
begin with a short Annual Business Meeting, then Steve Bailey will
give an overview of these historic buildings.
The program will be
held on Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. at the Community Hall.
This business meeting will include election of officers and a
schedule of the society’s upcoming events. There will be light
refreshments available.
Please save this evening for a great
informative time. As always, free to the public, however it is time
to renew your membership. Remember your membership helps us buy
supplies to preserve our items in our museum. See you there.
Letter
My name is Robert Correa, and I have been a Boy Scout since first
grade, and currently I am working for the highest honor in Scouting,
The Eagle. I have been working toward this goal for many years, but
it culminates upon completion of an Eagle Scout Project. The Project
I am hoping to complete is to Build a Path on the overgrown property
belonging to Our Lady of Lourdes/St. Joseph Parish. As part of the
project, I need to raise money that will go towards buying the
materials.
There will be a Spaghetti Dinner on Saturday, May 16,
2009, from 4-8 PM at The Parish Center on Route 4. The price is
$5.00 per person, $20.00 per family. Come and have a great meal,
enjoy friends and family, and Help me with this project.
Sincerely, Robert M. Correa Life Scout
Northwood School Celebrates Walk NH Week 2009
On June 1 -7, the
Northwood School will celebrate Walk NH Week 2009 with a 1 mile walk
at Northwood School. The Northwood School will join other groups
from throughout New Hampshire in recognizing Walk NH Week 2009 by
holding a community walk during the first week of June.
Walk NH
Week is an event designed to encourage people of all ages to get
out, get moving and participate in a one to three mile
community walk. Governor John Lynch has proclaimed June 1-7
Walk NH Week as a way to promote walking and help keep New Hampshire
residents on a healthy path. The goal of Walk NH Week is to
inspire participants to continue walking as part of a healthy
lifestyle long after the June events end.
The Northwood School
teachers will be taking their students on this one mile walk during
school at least one time during the week. Volunteers are
welcome to help participate in this easy walk that promises to be
some healthy fun. Students will also participate in the walk
on Wednesday, June 3rd with their field day team.
A 1 mile
community walk will take place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 2nd
from 2:15 pm – 3 pm. Parents, community members, students and
staff are encouraged to attend this walk at Northwood School.
Please bring your own water bottle and dress appropriately.
For more information, contact Nurse Shelley at 603-942-5488.
Also visit Walk NH’s website at
www.WalkNH.org for more details about this walk and the Walk NH
program.
NALMC
Announces Northwood Meadows Discovery Day – July 11, 2009
By Carl
Wallman, NALMC Chairman The Northwood Meadows Discovery Day - - a
celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Northwood Meadows State Park,
and of the legacy left to present and future generations by M.
Edward Burtt when he sold this park to the State - will take
place July 11, at the Park. This grand event is an opportunity
to discover and interact with the natural and cultural resources in
and around Northwood Meadows State Park - lands which now form the
core of the NALMC neighborhood. The day will be hosted by the Town
of Northwood, in partnership with The Northwood Area Land Management
Collaborative (NALMC), the Northwood Crankpullers and the NH
Division of Resources and Economic Development.
The Discovery Day
celebration is the latest in a series of landowner outreach
initiatives since NALMC’s inception in 2006. This informal
organization was founded by Jim Oehler of NH Fish and Game, Matt
Tarr of NH Cooperative Extension and me, in an effort to explore the
possibilities of abutting neighbors “looking beyond our stone walls”
before making management decisions that would affect the entire
ecosystem. “Our goal is to work together across property boundaries
to maintain and enhance the resources of the local landscape,” says
Oehler. Currently, the NALMC neighborhood encompasses 3,034 acres of
public and private lands. The NALMC area map can be seen on our
website at www.nalmc.net.
NALMC spent the first two years putting our ideas into a workable
framework, creating a representative steering committee, and holding
public meetings. We were trying to communicate the value of
“ecosystem-based management.” This is a difficult concept to
explain. However, we were delighted to discover that when we created
a five-mile hiking trail, and sponsored events like informal potluck
get-togethers around maple sugaring, hiking, and fire ecology (see
the Projects and Neighborhood News web pages at
www.nalmc.net), these communal
activities showed – better than words could – the benefits of
“working together across our stone walls.” A community garden,
conceived several years ago by Master Gardeners Linda Smith and Ted
White, is a new project also located in the NALMC neighborhood.
Volunteers tend the garden to provide fresh produce for the elderly
and families in need throughout the local community.
In January
of 2009, NALMC received a $20,000 grant from the New Hampshire
Charitable Foundation’s Otto Fund, with Bear-Paw Regional Greenways
acting as our fiscal agent. This generous grant has served as a
lift-off for NALMC to get our message out to our neighbors. The
grant is divided into two parts. The first is an ecological
assessment of the NALMC neighborhood which will be conducted by
Ellen Snyder, of Ibis Wildlife Consulting. “The ecological
assessment will describe the soils, wetlands and waters, habitats,
plants and animals, trails, and other resources of the NALMC
neighborhood in text and through maps … providing a common
understanding of the resource value of the region…An important
goal,” she said, “is to express scientific information…that is
clear, easily understood, builds awareness, and inspires action.”
The other part of the grant has allowed us to retain an outreach
coordinator to put together all this information and present it to
NALMC and the town. We were fortunate to retain the services
of Maryalice Fischer, who is promoting the NALMC vision in the
community and organizing the Discovery Day with a team of local
volunteers and NALMC partners.
So join us on July 11th to
explore different ways the wonders of the natural world can be
accessed in our backyards, and how much we can achieve together when
neighbors talk to neighbors. “Your efforts with NALMC have given me
a new source of hope for conservation,” said Dan Sperduto, NH
Natural Heritage Bureau. “I think a lot of good can come from an
approach that starts with people, helps to connect them, and builds
community. The common land around them pulls it all together… from
there, hopefully it will open the doors for people to listen to one
another, share information, understand the land around them, and be
better stewards in the end.”
For more information about NALMC or
Northwood Meadows Discovery Day, contact Maryalice Fischer at
664-5097, or Carl Wallman at 435-5209.
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