Crafters Wanted For CBNA Craft Fair
Crafters are wanted for the
10th annual Holiday Craft Fair which will be held at Coe-Brown
Northwood Academy in Northwood, NH on Saturday, November 3, 2012,
from 9 am until 3 pm. The fee is $50 per space. For more information
or to register for this event, please contact Jill Forward at (603)
942-5531 or by email at
[email protected]. The application is also available on the
school website www.coebrown.org.
Watershed Good News
The Northwood Lake
Watershed Association Dive Team and Lake Host Programs helped
prevent exotics from forming in the lake this season.
Brad Hall,
Director of the Northwood Lake Watershed Association Dive Program,
reports the 2012 milfoil dives were successful. Diving
eliminated the need for chemical treatments on the lake. Ten diving
events were completed, 63 harvesting hours and 2,135 gallons of
milfoil were taken from Northwood Lake. Hand harvesting will
continue through September, working on areas that have used DASH
(Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting) this season to continue to clean
those areas. The Dive Team needs volunteer divers for 2013.
Volunteer Tenders are also needed to help with the disposition of
milfoil and exotic plants removed by the divers.
Good news also
from the Lake Host Program. There were no invasive aquatic
species catches officially identified in 2012, reports Joyce
Lothian, Point Person for the Northwood Lake Host Program.
Lake Hosts perform courtesy inspections of vessels entering and
leaving the lake at the town launch. The Lake Host Program was
developed by the NH Lakes Association and the NH Department of
Environmental Services to educate and prevent boaters from spreading
exotic aquatic plants to lakes and ponds in NH. Training is
provided and volunteers can choose their hours. More volunteers are
needed for 2013.
Keep the Northwood Lake good news coming!
Volunteer for the above programs at
www.northwoodlake.com
Letter Ovide’s Outside Agenda
Ovide Lamontagne says he
wants to be “Scott Walker on steroids!” Do you know who Scott Walker
is? He’s the Libertarian-GOP governor of Wisconsin! Why do we want
our governor to be like the governor of another state more than
1,000 miles away with an entirely different set of challenges?
Why does Ovide Lamontagne want to be a governor for NH who is
supporting the radical legislative agenda of introducing and too
often passing boilerplate bills that were written by corporations
and organizations outside of NH? Many of these bills were
passed in Wisconsin over the last two years, and in other states as
well. Can’t we elect people who can create their own legislation
based on what NH and NH communities need?
Why does Ovide
Lamontagne want to cut even more from the NH budget at the bidding
of Bill O’Brien, the Speaker of the NH House majority for the last
two years, downshifting more costs to the towns and cities, in a
state with one of the highest per capita incomes in the country and
more millionaires than public school teachers?
Why does Ovide
Lamontagne want to come between women and their doctors, and between
employers and employees in contract negotiations, and between
seniors and the Medicare we know, love and depend on? Is this
Live Free or Die?
Before you vote, make sure you ask Ovide, and
other Libertarian-GOP candidates as well, why they want to force an
out-of-state agenda on NH? Lucy Edwards Northwood
Letter To The Editor
First, again, thank you for electing me to
the School Board. It’s a most difficult job. This is, in my opinion,
the worst ever School Board. I enjoy it and hope to bring some
changes to it.
That’s a horrible thing to say, yet it’s how I
feel; I say what I think. I’ve spent hours trying to understand what
is wrong with the Board and why. Recent chaos (resignations and
lawyers again) in the SAU brought it to clarity in my mind. We
simply let it all run by itself. We are so afraid of “micro
managing”, lawyers and unions that we do nothing. And of course that
plays right into the hands of the SAU, Administration and unions.
Let me give you some for instances. The SAU Superintendent has
resigned effective 6/30/13. Finally, after a year and a half and
after the resignation, I was allowed to participate in a review of
him. Really, after! In fact I have never had the opportunity to
review the Principal or Vice-Principal.
Months ago I asked the
official Chair to bring four subjects to the agenda. He graciously
agreed. They were, Dr. Ludwell, another member of the SAU, Mr.
Hartford and the extreme high cost of Special Education. We have yet
to discuss three of those subjects. Minutes will show that numerous
work meetings that were agreed upon, never happened. The most
recent, a budget workshop before I go kayaking for ten days, hasn’t
happened. The town is well into their budget prep, very proactive.
We have a black hole, someone else gave that to me. It doesn’t
matter how much is suggested, info given, info asked for, it’s
sucked up and gone, gone, gone.
It’s that simple, I’m a simple
guy. Can you imagine a family of kids with no parents? How about the
Board of Directors of Walmart, Staples or whoever not having input
on how their companies are being run? Messes, budget chaos, oh yeah.
Tim Jandebeur Northwood
Letter
On election day at the Northwood
polls, I had a chance to ask John Reagan, candidate for the NH
Senate in District 17, about voter ID. I wanted to know why we
needed to show an ID when we voted, when we had gone through the
registration process already. I heard that there has been only
one case of identity voter fraud in NH in the past 30 years.
I Googled voter identity fraud and found out that the latest
study says you are much more likely to be struck by lightning than
find a case of voter identity fraud. It’s also much easier to commit
fraud with absentee ballots, which this voter ID law does not
address at all. It sounds like a solution in search of a problem to
me.
I was surprised by Mr. Reagan’s response to me.
Instead of having a conversation with me, a constituent - he’s one
of my state representatives - about this issue, he got very
irritated with me, as if I were wasting his time.
And he told me
that the Democratic Convention had very strict ID rules. Does
he think a political convention is an election? Either he’s not very
knowledgeable or he was trying to fool me. I hope he hasn’t
forgotten that I am a voter, and I talk to a lot of people who are
voters too.
I’m going to talk to Nancy Fraher, I hear she’s a
retired teacher and knows how to work with others.
Ben
Edwards Northwood
Letter Sacrifice
On September 18,
the Northwood Historical Society presented a program on Northwood’s
Grand Army of the Republic and the sacrifice of Northwood soldiers
during the Civil War. The event was held the day after the 150th
anniversary of the battle at Antietam. This battle is known as the
bloodiest day in American history, a day when more than 23,000
Americans were killed or wounded. Considering that the US
population was then one tenth of what it is now, the equivalent
number of soldier casualties in 2012 would be over two hundred
thirty thousand --all in one battle on one day.
Communist mass
murderer Joseph Stalin was once reported to have said that the death
of one man is a tragedy, but a million deaths is merely a statistic.
The slaughter of the Civil War was more than just a statistic to the
families involved, however. In Northwood, for example, two
families each lost two sons in the war, while one family lost three.
Stalin would probably just shrug.
Michael Faiella Northwood
Letter
I was having coffee with my neighbor earlier today,
and she asked me if I had seen Bruce Hodgdon’s letter in the Sun
introducing himself to the voters of Northwood. Had I noticed that
while believing in “limited government,” most of the construction
projects he mentioned working on (Town of Northwood, Northwood
Elementary School, Coe-Brown Academy) are government projects.
So if he doesn’t want to limit that governmental activity, what does
he want to limit?
I noted that he had also attended the
government (aka public) schools in Northwood, and I assume that his
two children did also. Is this an aspect of government he will seek
to limit? Will he join with House Speaker O’Brien in continuing to
de-fund the University System, so that tuition continues to rise,
driving up student debt and pricing college and technical training
further out of reach?
Also unspecified is what his belief in
“protecting individual liberties” means. Does this mean he will
support the right of women – and men – to make their own decisions
regarding their health? Or is it code for something else?
Thanks to a program on PBS the other night, I had the occasion to
revisit Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, where he speaks of “government
of the people, by the people, for the people.” In this moment
when “government” is held up by some as our enemy, it is important
to remember that we are the government. And should Mr. Hodgdon
be elected to represent us, I hope that he will use the opportunity
for the people.
I, for one, will need more specifics before I
entrust him with that responsibility.
Tom Chase Northwood
Hadley Appointed Northwood Selectman
Jim Hadley of Old
Mountain Road was recently appointed as a selectman by the
Selectboard to fill the unexpired term of former selectman Alden
Dill who recently moved out of Northwood. Hadley is a 25-year
resident who was first elected as a selectman in 2001. He also was
appointed in 2006 to fill in for a selectman who had resigned due to
health reasons.
Hadley has served on various boards and
committees in Northwood. He has a Masters’ degrees in Public
Administration, Business Administration and Community Economic
Development. He will serve until the next election in March 2013.
Obituaries
Michael Gagne
Michael Gagne, 57, of Cheryl Lane, Northwood,
died Saturday, September 1, 2012 after a battle with cancer.
He
was born on July 1, 1956. He was a great father and loving husband,
as well as a veteran.
He is survived by his wife, April; a
daughter, Nicole Davis; his mother, Mary; three sisters one brother
and two grandchildren, Alexa and Corra Mountain.
He will be sadly
missed and always loved. |