Reminder

Calling all residents of Northwood!  On Monday, July 12th at 7:00 PM in the Town Hall, there will be an open meeting to discuss building a PLAYGROUND right here in town!  We are looking for people who want to volunteer their time, talent, ideas and resources to help make this project happen!   This meeting will give a brief overview of location and space parameters and we will be looking at playground layouts and fundraising ideas.  Please come support the youth of Northwood.

Invitation to Vacation Bible School for children going into grades 1 thru 6th July 12-16, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.

Located at Epsom Bible Church, 398 Black Hall Road, Epsom, NH.

Call 736-9354 for more info or to sign up or just come and join us!

Bible stories, crafts, games, food and lots of fun!!

Harvey Lake
Watershed Association Annual Meeting

Everyone is welcome and property owners along the shore and within Harvey Lake’s Watershed are encouraged to attend the annual meeting of the Lake Association. The meeting will be kept to 1 hour, beginning at 6:30pm on Wednesday July 14th at 859 1st NH Turnpike (rte 4) - the 2nd home east of the Congregational Church. To be discussed - water quality and proposed Lake Management Plan. See you there.

“Loon Man” To Speak At Watershed Meeting
The featured speaker at the annual Northwood Lake Watershed Association meeting, Saturday, July 17 at the Northwood Town Hall, 9:30 a.m. will be John Rockwood, “The Loon Man NH”. The “Loon Man” is a loon educator, author, naturalist and professional nature photographer. Have you ever heard that haunting and eerie sounding call of a loon on the lake? Do you want to know what loons are really communicating to each other? Learn more about these elusive and aquatic birds at the July 17 meeting.

An update of the recent milfoil treatment, divers and weed watchers programs will be held.

Election of officers and directors will be also be held. It is important that your local lake association be represented. Please volunteer or nominate an officer or director to keep our lake healthy.

Members and anyone interested in Northwood Lake are invited to attend the July 17 meeting at the Northwood Town Hall at 9:30 a.m.

Visit us at www.northwoodlake.com

Janet DelFuoco-Goad, Spencer Goad, and Sam Goad, of “Goad Broths. Racing” want to thank Jason Farrell of Raymond, N.H., and co- owner of MX 101 Practice/Race Track in Epping, N.H., for supporting the boys dream by building them a new practice track to keep a dream alive. Jason came in with all his equipment, time and cost and built them a new track. This was done one hundred percent donation by Jason. Thank -you Jason for helping us. We will never forget this. We also want to thank Hooksett Rental for supplying one of the Bob Cats as a sponsor.

Anytime Fitness Signs Lease For New Club In The Mall Next To Northwood Garage

A co-ed fitness club, open 365 days per year, to be first in the community, Anytime Fitness is pleased to announce it has signed a lease for space in Northwood, next to Northwood Garage. Working with the Northwood based firm of Mark A. Lambert’s Carpentry, Anytime Fitness will develop a 2100 sq. ft. exercise facility. With construction due to start immediately, the club will be open for business in the early fall.  “We envision this club being a club for the community, built by the community”, said Rhoda Sommer, personal trainer and club owner.

“Anytime Fitness offers a convenient and affordable exercise option for the area,” said Rhoda Sommer. “We believe our co-ed fitness club will be a great addition to Northwood and the surrounding towns in our area.”

At Anytime Fitness, members can workout on their own schedule, 365 days a year. They use a security-access key to enter the club, even when it is not staffed. Once inside, members have full use of state-of-the-art strength training and cardiovascular equipment. Anytime Fitness also offers membership reciprocity among its clubs, which allows members to use any of the more than 1300 clubs that are currently open in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.

To reserve an Anytime Fitness membership or to find out more about the club, please call Rhoda Sommer at 603-767-5819, or visit www.anytimefitness.com.

Scott Bulger’s New Work Is An Invitation To Take A Closer Look

A peak at acclaimed New Hampshire artist Scott Bulger’s latest work exemplifies his favorite quote by Henry David Thoreau - “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

Using black and white photography as his medium of choice, Bulger sees himself as a chronicler of the often unnoticed and underappreciated. His new body of work, Khronikos, does just that as Bulger turns his eye to examine the detail and texture that surrounds us on a daily basis. “Bulger’s crisp black and white images chronicle unnoticed and forsaken aspects of the ordinary,” said Christopher Volpe in a review in the June/July/August issue of Art New England.

The show on display now through August 27 inside the Carolyn Jenkins Gallery at the Kimball Jenkins Estate in Concord, New Hampshire features 17 crisp black and white 20”x30” digital prints. These are the largest prints Bulger has undertaken in his career.

To celebrate the opening of this new show, Bulger has partnered with a local musician, winery and caterer to bring a new style of destination art opening in Concord. The Friday, July 9 opening is free to the public and will be held from 7-11 p.m. Jazz music will be performed by the Scott Solsky Quartet. Scott Solsky is also the music program coordinator for the Shaker Road School. New Hampshire winery LaBelle Winery will offering guests a chance to sample their award-winning wines and catering will be provided by Chef DJ Collise III.

The theme for this new body of work presented itself as Bulger began to review the images. Khronikos is the Greek word for chronicle. “A chronicle is a historical account of facts and events arranged in chronological order,” Bulger said. “Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the chronicler. Since these events are seen from the perspective of the chronicler, they are open to interpretation.

“I am a chronicler,” he added. “I use a camera as opposed to a pen to chronicle my surroundings.”

This body of work represents two-years of Bulger’s time behind his camera. Only 17 images made it into the show, but Bulger has also published a book, available for sale at the opening event or by contacting him, featuring 52 images.

Bulger began exploring photography when his grandmother offered him the opportunity to use her camera at age 12. He has been viewing the world through the lens of a camera ever since.

Studying the work of the photographers that he admired the most; Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Elliot Erwitt, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, a common thread was realized and switching to black and white seemed the obvious course to take. Over his 20 year career, Bulger’s work has been displayed in many exhibits, published in textbooks, received numerous awards and included in many private collections. In 2001, “A Portrait of the Yucatan,” a collection of photographs from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico was published. In 2010, Bulger was recognized by the Hippo Press as one of the best local visual artists.

Bulger has taught many aspects of photography, from composition to the Zone System. He currently teaches at Kimball-Jenkins School of Art in Concord, N.H. where he sits as a board member of the School of Art Supporters advisory team. He also teaches as an adjunct professor in the Visual Arts degree program at NHTI, Concord’s Community College.

To learn more about Scott Bulger and his upcoming exhibit, visit www.scottbulger.com.