CBNA Holiday Craft Fair
Mark
your calendar. The 12th Annual Craft Fair is to be held at Coe-Brown
Northwood Academy on Saturday, November 1, 2014, from 9-2. Crafts
from all over New England will be represented along with an amazing
Cookie Walk and HUGE raffle. Start your Christmas shopping early!
The
Northwood CrankPullers Snowmobile Club is looking for volunteers to
assist with fall trail clean up. They plan to meet at the Northwood
Country Market at 8:00 am on Sunday, October 19th and every Sunday
after until we have snow.
An
invitation for history and travel enthusiasts in our community…
Here on
Antique Alley, Northwood has a rich appreciation for stories and
artifacts of the past. We have community members who travel
extensively for work or pleasure. If you have knowledge or
treasures to share about our country or our world, past or present,
please consider presenting your information to our inquisitive and
lively 7th and 8th grade students. Email Tracey Groskopf at
[email protected]
for more information about visiting our classroom. Thank you!
Letter to the Editor
The Mann
to Call
In this
time of political pledges and promises, an often overlooked
attribute of candidates is constituent service: can they and will
they help us get things done in Concord? In the case of Rep.
Maureen Mann, the answer is yes.
More
than 10 years ago, the Jenness Pond Shoreowners Association got
legislation passed that allowed the construction of a dam to control
the lake’s level. But the final bill omitted a crucial element:
authorization to seasonally raise and lower the level using a stop
log.
Years
passed as association officers attempted to correct the omission,
without success, until this year.
With
Rep. Maureen Mann’s guidance and support, the legislation was
drafted and submitted, hearings were scheduled and held, votes were
cast, and the legislation was passed and signed by Governor Hassan.
Rep.
Mann came to our assistance, and I know we can count on her to get
things done in Concord for the citizens of Northwood, Deerfield,
Candia and Nottingham. I’m voting for her on Nov. 4.
Charles
Dunbar
Dam
Committee
Jenness
Pond Shoreowners Association
Northwood
Letter To The Editor
New
Hampshire senior citizens, their families, and neighbors should do
their homework and vote in self-defense on November 4th! Candidates
running for federal office are on record as supporting cuts to our
Social Security and Medicare. Some want these programs to go away
completely, being replaced by vouchers and Wall Street accounts.
Others propose cuts using the Chained Consumer Price Index and
repeal of the Affordable Care Act, including the prescription drug
donut hole fix and no co-pay preventative care additions.
One in
five New Hampshire residents got Social Security benefits in 2013,
bringing $4.1 billion dollars in income into our state. Over 231,000
of us receive Medicare benefits, allowing us to remain healthy and
contribute to our communities.
These
earned benefits mean that families and communities do not have to
worry about carrying the full cost of housing, food and healthcare
for those who are retired or disabled. The income from these
benefits is spent in our communities, supporting the businesses
here. Healthy and secure seniors provide many hours of volunteer
time, the unpaid work that we depend on to run our towns. Retirees
volunteer in schools, at churches and food pantries, and even as
$100 a year legislators!
The New
Hampshire Alliance for Retired Americans has joined the national
Alliance in endorsing Senator Jeanne Shaheen, and Congresswomen
Carol Shea-Porter and Ann McLane Kuster for re-election this
November. All three were endorsed for their work to preserve and
protect our senior safety net for all New Hampshire citizens,
retirees of today and our children and grandchildren.
Be sure
you check out the candidates before you vote! Look at voting
records, if they have served before (http://retiredamericans.org/issues/congressional-voting-record).
See what they have said in past campaigns. Vote in self-defense!
Lucy
Edwards, President
New
Hampshire Alliance for Retired Americans
Letter
To The Editor
To the
Editor,
There
was a motion to reconsider the HVAC issue. It passed. There was a
motion to re-award the bid, it failed, 1 for, 1 against. Ties fail.
We’ll see where we go from there. We need the HVAC system. As you
can imagine, I am persona non grata. I’ve been there before. If we
need 58K for an HVAC system then we should ask you for that amount.
It is your money.
I would
let it go, water off a ducks back as they say, except for one
comment tonight. The comment (from memory) was something to the
effect that the speaker hoped that we, the BOS didn’t become a
circus like down the street.
You
won’t get an apology from me for my methods in trying to facilitate
a change in a system that is very wrong. I totally understand that I
am a pot stirrer, a pusher that has no desire to continue doing
things just because that is the way they have always been done.
“Down the street” is my School Board position and how I have brought
to your attention lots of stuff. We now have a completely new SAU
Administration and Principal. You approved a school budget that
while including over 100K in new technology was reduced by $363K.
The school is returning something over $200K to the taxpayers from
the ‘13/’14 year. With your approval six teachers were given
incentives to retire saving the town over $600K in five years. I do
not believe that there is one penny of slush fund money in this
year’s budget. I am so, so proud of the Northwood School Board in
accomplishing all of that.
I made
a bad decision based partially on wrong information. As a School
Board member and Board of Selectman member I need and frankly expect
accurate unfiltered information.
It is
simple, just don’t vote for me when you, the voters, get tired of
me. I’ll get over it.
Tim
Jandebeur
Letter
to the Editor
A
Promise to Show Up
As I
have said, I am not inclined to make campaign promises or pledges.
The world is too complicated for that. Who knows what the future
will throw at us? And it is uncertain whether I would be serving in
a Democratically-controlled House with a Democratic Governor and
Senate or in a world where Republicans are in control. So rather
than speculate on what I might do, let me comment on what I would
have done in this last legislative session.
Candidate Nancy Heath from Epsom anticipated this in her letter last
week, enumerating some of the accomplishments of the Hassan
administration. At the top of her list – and mine – was the
bipartisan passage of a state budget that restored funding to
education and social services that had been cut by Bill O’Brien and
his minions in the previous session.
I would
have strongly supported this initiative.
A
second accomplishment was the 4¢/gal. increase in the gasoline tax
to fund DOT projects and to provide monies to the towns for their
road projects. I supported this modest increase. Sitting on
Northwood’s Budget Committee, I know that these monies that are
passed back to the town are a critical part of our road maintenance
budget. And if you drive on Bow Lake Road or Jenness Pond Road, you
know that we need every penny.
I’m not
sure how our current representative voted on these issues. I do
know that the record shows that in his first year in the
legislature, he participated in 177 of 177 roll call votes – 100%.
His second year, he only made 169 out of 255 – 66%. If he is
re-elected and that 33% drop-off continues, he’ll only represent you
44% of the time. I promise to do better than that!
Tom
Chase
Northwood
Candidate for NH House if Representatives, Rockingham District 1
Northwood Recreation Update
REGISTER NOW FOR YOUTH BASKETBALL!!! The Northwood Recreation
Department is now registering for youth basketball including
kindergarten through 6th grade. The cost to register for K-2 is
$25.00/$35.00 after November 17th. The cost to register for 3rd –
8th grade is $40.00/$50.00 after November 17th. Register by
November 17th to ensure a spot on the team. After November 17th
space becomes limited due to the need to finalize team numbers and
complete season schedules. Visit
www.northwoodnh.org for
additional registration information and information about these
programs. Details can be found in our Brochure on the website. Or
contact the Recreation Department at
[email protected] or
942-5586 x209 with questions.
Letter
To The Editor
“NH
Officials, Hospitals Prepare for Possible Ebola” reads the headline
in the Concord Monitor. Although an outbreak here seems unlikely,
according to state officials, they are worried enough to prepare for
a possible pandemic.
There’s
good reason for concern. According to the Center for Disease
Control, by year’s end there could be 1,400,0000 infected people,
with 62% of them dying.
Marine
Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, head of the US Southern Command, says
“There’s no way we can keep Ebola [contained] in West Africa.” He
predicts that if the disease gets to Latin America, “there will be
mass migration into the US. ‘They will run away from Ebola, or if
they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United
States for treatment.”
According to Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
at Stanford University, “There was a time when an outbreak of
disease overseas would bring virtually unanimous agreement that our
top priority should be to keep it overseas. Yet Barack Obama has
refused to bar entry to the US by people from countries where the
Ebola epidemic rages.” Polls show most Americans want such a travel
ban.
Meanwhile, the President has ordered thousands of troops (any from
NH?) to the affected African nations. Critics fear they may bring
the disease home when they return.
Retired
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. “Jerry” Boykin says the President doesn’t think
“like a commander-in-chief who takes his responsibility for his
troops seriously. At a time when our military has been at war for 13
years, suicide is at an all-time high, [post-traumatic stress] is
out of control, and families are being destroyed as a result of 13
years of war, the last thing the President should be doing is
sending people into West Africa to fight Ebola.”
Michael
Faiella
Northwood
Obituaries
Helen
J. (Emmons) Kemp
New
Hampton – Mrs. Helen J. (Emmons) Kemp, 86, died Thursday, October 2,
2014 in Bedford with family by her side.
Born in
Keene on November 2, 1927, Helen was the daughter of Ernest and
Jennie (Chase) Emmons.
Helen
was the widow of Reginald Kemp who died in 2003 and was also
predeceased by her son, Reginald Kemp, Jr.
During
the 1960’s, she and her husband owned the Oakdale Clam Bar in
Northwood. In the following decade, she had the proud distinction of
being the very first female driver for North American Van Lines,
operating an 18 wheeler. She enjoyed gardening and entertaining, had
a love for all animals and cherished the times she was with family
and friends. Along with her husband and her beloved pets, she spent
many winters traveling out West in their RV, visiting loved ones
along the way.
She is
survived by 5 children, Stephen Thompson of Scenic, AZ, Matthew
Thompson of Jacksonville, FL, Carol Larouche of Merrimack, Susan
Hatley and her husband Wayne of New Hampton, and April Elzinga and
her husband Jerry of Humble, TX; 24 grandchildren, including Justin
Burckhartte of New Hampton and Tammy Mores of Manchester, with the
remaining residing from Maine to Alaska; numerous
great-grandchildren including Amanda Caron of Manchester; several
great-great grandchildren; and a great-great-great granddaughter on
the way. Helen also leaves a sister, Goldie Ehrhardt of Fortuna, CA;
and extended family members, Leah Brown of Henderson, NV and Herve
Riel of Merrimack.
Graveside services were held on Thursday, October 9th at the NH
State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen.
Tom
Petit of the Petit Funeral Home is assisting with arrangements and
offers an on-line guestbook at
petitfuneralhome.com.
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