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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