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Northwood NH News

October 29, 2014

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OLOL/ST. JOSEPH

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR

 

The OLOL/St. Joseph Women’s Club is holding their annual Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, November 1, 2014 from 9 AM-2 PM in their Parish Hall located on Route 4, Northwood, NH (next to the Northwood Town Hall). There will be a white elephant table, baked table with our famous cookie walk, knitted goods, books and puzzles. There will also be raffles and a tasty lunch offered.

 


 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

 

Police Chief Glendon Drolet has set hours for Trick or Treat in Northwood for Friday, October 31 from 5-7:30 pm.  Please be sure children are safe when traveling or walking in costumes and check all treats upon returning home. 

 


 

Letter to the Editor

The Wizard of Oz

 

The Northwood School Drama Club is proud and excited to present The Wizard of Oz!  Under the direction of Ms. Rebecca Rush, thespians from Grades 1-8 will be bringing this delightful, timeless and much adored musical to the stage of Northwood School.

 

This production marks the beginning of Season 8 for the Drama Club!  Ms. Rush and her dedicated group of drama students have produced 21 quality shows over the past 7 years.  Much has happened in that time to bring the Drama Club to where it is today. Ms. Rush had a vision when she first introduced the Drama Program to Northwood School 7 years ago.  She recognized the need for a long-term Stage Improvement Plan in order to improve the quality of the productions and she worked tirelessly to promote her idea.  Through fund-raising initiatives and community support, the Club has purchased over $10,000 in sound equipment and set supplies within the last 2 years.  These investments have made a huge difference for both the students performing and for the audiences listening.  Incredibly, the Drama Club is financially self-sustaining through admission costs, private donations and fund raising.  These successes could not have been achieved without the ongoing support of both our school and our community!

 

The Wizard of Oz will be performed on the evenings of Tuesday, October 28 and Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30pm in the Northwood School Gym.  General Admission is $5.00, Student Admission is $3.00.  

 

If you have not yet had the opportunity to attend a drama production at the Northwood School, consider attending The Wizard of Oz.  You will be amazed to discover what an incredibly talented group of students we have right here in Northwood.

 

Thank you and enjoy the show!!  

Helen Ash

Proud Parent of a Northwood Drama Club Student

 


 

Letter To The Editor

Northwood, Re-Elect Bruce Hodgdon

For State Representative

 

I was elected in 2012 and signed on to the House Transportation Committee because this is an area I am very familiar with being an owner of commercial vehicles and a holder of a commercial drivers license. I have always based my voting on responsible spending, small government, protecting Granite State businesses, personal freedom and responsibility.  For example I voted to terminate State participation in common core standards in our schools, I feel this should be left up to local school districts to decide. Also I voted to boost Charter School funding to give parents more choices for their children, voted against expanding eligibility for in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants at the university system of New Hampshire.

 

I voted against the gas tax increase as this creates a higher cost to businesses and consumers.  

 

If elected to my 2nd term I will continue to vote for responsible spending, reducing regulatory burdens on small business and homeowners, limited government, increasing job growth, protecting the 2nd amendment, uphold and protect the New Hampshire and United States Constitutions.

 

NH State Representative

Bruce Hodgdon

Rockingham District 1

November 4, 2014

 


 

Thanksgiving And Winter Holiday Food Baskets

 

The Northwood Food Pantry and Northwood area churches are sponsoring Thanksgiving and Winter Holiday Food Baskets for any Northwood resident in need. If you are in need of receiving a thanksgiving or Winter Holiday Basket, please drop by the Northwood Town Hall and fill out the forms available at the front desk no later than Friday, November 7 for Thanksgiving and December 9 for holiday basket. Business hours are Monday-Friday 8-4.   If you have any questions, please contact David Balian, Human Services Director, at 942-5586, ext.208  If you would like to make a cash or food donation to help fill these holiday baskets  please contact Pat Jacobsmeyer at 942-8912.

 


 

Coe-Brown Northwood Academy Accepting Applications

 

Coe-Brown Northwood Academy is in the process of accepting applications for students for the 2015-2016 school year. Several informational sessions will be held where parents can learn more about the school, curriculum, and activities, as well as have a tour of the campus.  Sessions for Barrington parents will be on November 3, Northwood and Strafford parents on November 6 and Nottingham parents on November 18, all at 6:30 PM in the Gerrish Gym in the Main Building on the south side of Route 4. Interested community members or parents in neighboring towns are invited to attend any of these sessions to learn about the school and ask questions.

 

Coe-Brown Northwood Academy strives to produce graduates who are academically and socially prepared to be responsible, caring and contributing members of the global society.  It is a comprehensive secondary institution offering the highest quality curriculum of studies to residents of Northwood, Strafford, and surrounding towns. Our educational programs and opportunities are accessible to both traditional and non-traditional learners, responsive to the diverse needs of an ever-changing community, and consistent with state and federal laws supporting the education of our youth.

 


 

Letter To The Editor

The Will of the People

 

“All politics is local,” said the late House Speaker Tip O’Neill. But how true is that in New Hampshire?

 

In 2006, unhappiness with the Iraq War caused Republicans to be swept out of the NH legislature. In 2010, unhappiness with the President’s healthcare plan caused the same thing to happen to Democrats.

 

What will 2014 bring? President Obama thinks it will be a referendum on his policies. In his words, “I am not on the ballot this fall. But make no mistake: These policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”

 

So in the eyes of the President and the Media, the results of next Tuesday’s election--from the Governorship to the Senate to Congress to the state legislature—will be seen as an endorsement or rejection of President Obama’s leadership.

 

That’s unfortunate news for the President and his party, since in a recent Politico poll two-thirds of likely voters said “things in the U.S. feel like they are out of control.”

 

 Maybe the President’s policies themselves have caused this sense of hopelessness.

 

For example, a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll showed that 67 percent of Americans support travel restrictions on people from Ebola-stricken countries, but the President refuses. A Rasmussen Poll shows that the President’s amnesty plan for millions of illegal immigrants—which he promises to implement by Executive Order after the election and without Congressional approval—is opposed by 62% of Americans, while only 24% think he has such Constitutional authority.

 

Meanwhile, wages have stagnated, workers--especially women-- have left the labor force in record numbers, and most new jobs are in low-wage industries.

 

People have a pervasive sense that they are being ignored. The question is whether New Hampshire voters will be expressing that frustration on November 4.

 

Michael Faiella

Northwood

 


 

Letter To The Editor

 

To the Editor,

I don’t embarrass easily, dense I guess. As an elected official in Northwood I fall under the category of “politician.” It’s embarrassing. Politicians have sunk to a new low in this election. What a dirty filthy business. Both sides really, but the Democratic candidates are beyond belief. While our world is falling apart, while we are leaving to our children a country bankrupt in morals, almost 18 trillion in debt, and one that is so much weaker than we inherited from our forbearers, we have to listen to women’s rights, their right to choose which they already legally have and some ridiculous war on women. Balderdash. Is that the best that they have. Frankly it is. They can’t talk about their accomplishments.

 

When I am asked by family and friends about the candidates I simply say, what have they done for you. Senator Shaheen simply is getting richer, Congresswomen Kuster and Shea-Porter have accomplished nothing except to effectively keep hidden from their constituents, And Governor Hassen. Well, a nice lady who balanced the budget with money she didn’t have, now we’re short. She, after her predecessor, continues policies that literally chase businesses out of NH and fail to attract new ones. Our children are leaving NH simply to get a job. Our highest in New England business tax and electrical rates are two very good reasons that NH is for the first time the slowest to recover from a recession in New England.

 

Vote them out, get rid of them. Quit believing their lies, look at the facts and get rid of mediocrity. If the new ones are no better, get rid of them too, until politicians learn. Now, If you want a model, honest politician re-elect Bruce Hodgdon,  one politician who lived up to his promises. Integrity should be rewarded.

 

Tim Jandebeur

Northwood

 


 

Letter To The Editor

Truth – A Casualty

 

Truth is always a casualty when the end justifies the means. Politics, from the beginning of the country has had a nasty streak. There are in fact political agendas and often the ideologies that drive them that demand dishonesty because basically good and decent people will not support them if they knew the truth.  So purveyors of certain ideologies resort to lies because truth is their enemy.  These ideologies are more important than any religion.  In fact it is their religion, protestations to the contrary.

 

Over the years I have attended a fair number of political events. Most candidates massage the truth, nobody is perfect, especially humans.  But I have had it with candidates who, regardless of how they may conduct their personal lives, when it comes to their politics, truth is an unwelcome stranger.  Because I’m registered as an independent, I guess, I’ve been peppered with mail from both parties that “stretch” things.  Brazenly the Democrat party and PAC mailings wantonly despise the truth.  There is no space to detail here but a typical trick is to add footnotes in tiny script supposedly backing up vile accusations.  They count on most to not bother checking .  Go look.  These are most often out of context distortions of whatever their opponent did or said or just as invidiously quoting  Democrat media to “interpret” their opponent!        

I don’t understand  any voter who claims to value truth – without it no civil society is possible- who sets it aside for some personal ideology.  Personally I value individual liberties, so well spelled out in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and local governmental control of our community affairs. I will not support those candidates who distort  TRUTH or who  associate themselves with those distortions.

 

Joseph McCaffrey,  

Northwood

 


 

Letter To The Editor

Nancy Fraher for Senate 17

 

Last week, I participated in a Candidates Night sponsored by the Forum, at the Nottingham Office Complex.  My opponent was a no-show.  He had a conflict.  Monday Night football?

 

I saw only four Northwoodians in attendance.  All Republicans, so I didn’t win any votes.  And with less than one week before Election Day, I doubt that I will sway any of you at this point.  I hope that this series of letters has helped you to get to know me and to see the wisdom of voting for me.  So let me tell you about Senator John Reagan’s performance.

 

The issue of the expansion of Medicaid to include those 50,000 NH citizens not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid but not rich enough to afford to purchase health insurance came up.  Reagan had voted against it and said he would oppose its continuation.

 

He argued that these people have access to health care because if they are sick, they can go to the emergency room and not be turned away.  He said that hospitals recover the cost of treating them by charging insured patients more and by collecting monies from the state.

 

Since this was not a debate, no one could directly challenge this viewpoint, but let me make several points as to why this is idiotic.  First, ER care is the most expensive health care, and if someone comes for non-emergency health care, it is a huge waste of time and money.  Second, ER care is not preventative medicine.  Immunizations, blood pressure checks and nutrition counseling are not done in the ER.  Finally, the ER does not provide continuing treatment for chronic conditions like diabetes or cancer.

 

I would hope that my Senator would know this, and not be looking forward to kicking the 20,000+ folks who now have health insurance back on the street.

 

Tom Chase 

Northwood

Candidate for NH House of Representatives, Rockingham District 1

 


 

Letter To The Editor

 

Bruce Hodgdon’s stand on the issues was unknown when he first ran for State Representative. This time, it’s known that he got a B+ rating from the NH Liberty Alliance, a libertarian organization started by members of the Free State Project, and that he voted to a significant extent with the “liberty block” of Legislators in Concord.  If he hadn’t, his rating would have been much lower. These days, a low NHLA rating can be the kiss of death for a Republican candidate.

 

Here are just some of Mr. Hodgdon’s votes in 2013-2014 that I find disturbing: He voted against strengthening essential health services for the elderly/disabled; against using any surplus revenue to restore funding and critical services previously cut from the Department of Health and Human Services; against increasing psychiatric crisis beds in NH; against equipment upgrades for Veterans homes; against modifying State law to allow people receiving Old Age Assistance or Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled to receive additional assistance from municipalities choosing to provide this assistance. 

 

He voted to prevent the State from expanding health care to 58,000 lower income, hard-working residents. He voted for a bill that sought to significantly weaken New Hampshire’s already weak gun safety laws.  

 

He voted against a bipartisan transportation funding bill that addressed critical road and bridge projects and was important for safety and economic reasons; against using tax credits to stimulate high speed Internet expansion needed by NH businesses; and against restored funding for the University system. 

 

Mr. Hodgdon recently took the Americans for Prosperity pledge, and so promised to cut spending and the size of government, no matter what.  From his votes, rating and pledge, I worry very much who and what Mr. Hodgdon will represent and not represent, this time around.

 

Victoria Parmele

Northwood

 


 

Turkey Trot – 5K Trail Race

 

The Northwood Recreation Department will begin holding our 2nd Turkey Trot 5K race.  The race will be held at the Northwood Meadows State Park on Thanksgiving Morning at 8:30 AM. This is a family friendly race on a beautiful trail with a fantastic finish. Build a new family tradition. The race day schedule is as follows.

 

RACE-DAY SCHEDULE

7:30-8:15 AM: Race-day registration and bib pickup

8:30 AM:  5K Turkey Trot start

9:30 AM: Awards Ceremony at start/finish line   

 

Online registration is available at active.com. Racers can also register in person with the Northwood Recreation Department. Register by November 1st to take advantage of the early registration discount.  The cost of the race is $25 for everyone over 17 years old and a t-shirt will be included.  16 years old and under will pay your age.  After November 1st the price will increase by $5.00. The first 100 adults to register will receive a Nike Drifit shirt.

 

If you would like your business logo to be advertised on our shirts contact us to become a sponsor.

 

Contact the Northwood Recreation Department at 942-5586 x209 or by e-mail at [email protected] for additional information.

 


 

 

 











 
 

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