Community Action Program will be in Pittsfield on
October 10th, 17th, and 24th for fuel assistance at the Pittsfield
Community Center. You must call for an appointment 485-7824.
Those Celebrating Birthdays are: October 5, Paul
Rogers; October 6, Shirley Waters, Morgan Ward; October 7, Jason
Darrah; October 8, Ann Emerson, John Fraser; October 9, Art Morse,
Bev Drolet; October 10, Hank Stapleton; October 11, Carolyn Reed.
A Very Happy Birthday To One and All!
Celebrating Anniversaries are: October 6, Dana and
Cathie Tuttle; October 9, Paul and Barbara Merrill.
Best Wishes!
The September 21st issue of the Sun newspaper had an
informative article on the exhibit at the New Hampshire Historical
Society entitled Icons of History, Part II. The Josiah Carpenter
Library on Main St has free passes to this new exhibit. Library card
holders can come into the library and reserve passes for the day
they plan to visit the New Hampshire Historical Society. These
passes are provided to library patrons by the Friends of the Josiah
Carpenter Library. If you enjoy museums come into the Josiah
Carpenter Library to see the list of other museum passes available
and make the necessary reservations for the passes. If you are a
resident of Pittsfield or currently work or volunteer in Pittsfield
you can obtain a library card at no cost.
Please join Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
team, The Globe Striders, on Thursday, October 6, 2011 from 5:30pm -
8:00pm at Dominick’s Pizza, Pasta and Things Restaurant located at
346 Suncook Valley Highway (Route 28) in Chichester, NH. For every
entrée sold, Dominick’s will donate $2.00 to The American Cancer
Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, which raises awareness
and funds to fight breast cancer and save lives. This five-mile
noncompetitive walk will be held on October 16, 2011 at Memorial
Field in Concord, NH. For more information on the event, please
visit
www.cancer.org/stridesonline or to form a team, please contact
Kathi Russ at (603) 738-4404.
Sunrise Farmers Market
The Sunrise Farmer’s Market in Pittsfield is still
in operation and our last day will be October 14th. We have pumpkins
available as well as other fall produce. Come on down before we are
gone for the season. We are located on the grounds of Exit Reward
Realty on River Rd right off 28 on Fridays from 3-6. Hope to see you
there!
It’s 4-H Cookie And Candy Bar Sale Time Again!
4-H Clubs are celebrating National 4-H Month with
many special events throughout October. One big event that the
Victory Workers 4-H Club, which serves the greater Pittsfield Area,
participates in is the annual 4-H Cookie Sale. It begins on October
6th. This is the main fundraiser for our 4-H Club. It helps support
camp scholarships and monthly programs for 4-H member’s ages 8 - 18.
Members learn life skills by selling cookies including goal setting,
communications, safety, marketing and money and time management.
Several cookie varieties are available including
Chocolate Covered Mint Patties, Lemon Crisp, Soft & Chewy Chocolate
Chip, Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Patties, Fudge Graham Squares,
Frosted Oatmeal, Raspberry Flip Shortbread, Assorted Sugar Wafer
Sticks, Fudge Covered Crème Wafer Sticks, Chocolate Chip Crème
Sandwich and Coconut Crème. 4-H members are also selling candy bars.
You do not pre-order 4-H Cookies. They are available
for delivery Now. The cookies are only $3.50 a package. The candy
bars are $1.00 each. Your support to the 4-H youth in your community
is greatly appreciated.
If a 4-H member has not contacted you, please call
4-H leaders Pamela Clattenburg 269-3200, Pauline Wheeler 435-8752,
Mark Riel 435-6346 or Corine Miller 435-8497.
Women Of Rotary
Women of Rotary met for their first meeting of the
2011-2012 year, at the home of Sharel Giroux on Clough Road. A pot
luck supper was enjoyed by 13 members. Reports were given on the
Balloon Rally supper and the Penny Cheney Scholarship Fund.
Yearbooks were passed out and plans were discussed
for the coming year.
Tribute was paid to our recently deceased member
"Babe" Jenisch by having the following in our yearbooks: "If this
were a high school yearbook, Babe would be remembered as the Class
Clown. But in an encyclopedia she would fall under the designation
of two time President of Women of Rotary. (1971-72; 1998-99) If
there was a list of Citizens of the Year, it would be "been there,
done that ." Volunteering was her cup of tea; Beautification
Committee, Flower Committee, Community Center Board of Directors,
Senior Center, Clothes Closet, Christmas Tree at the Dam and
Christmas Tree Lighting at Dustin Park. In the world of sports, she
was a champion card player and for leisure she went "cruisin" with a
special friend. But the greatest accolade of all was to call her
Friend.
What’s Up at PYW?
Rock Climbing
Submitted By Matthew Marcotte
Thrilling, challenging, nerve-racking,
adrenaline-pumping, adventurous and fun-filled are all words used to
describe the sport of rock climbing. This past year was the first
year I went rock climbing or even to the PYW at all.
Humans are a special race. No other animals go to
school or lift weights; we compete with each other too. Who’s the
smartest? Who’s the fastest? Who’s the strongest? As a race we
always want to be best. We strive for perfection. Everybody no
matter how strong, smart or fearless has limits and rock climbing
can put them to the test. Once you get beyond your fears you can
start to learn about yourself. Learn to trust yourself and get over
your fears on your quest to becoming a more perfect person.
We went rock climbing on Thursdays, eight times
total throughout the summer. We went all over the place. We did the
Dome, Lower Slabs and Upper Cliffs in Pawtuckaway and then we moved
on to Rumney; where we climbed the parking lot wall and a few
others. My personal favorite was the end of the year rappel, when we
hiked for quite a ways then rappelled 135 feet. The view was
amazing!
I’d like to thank the PYW for the opportunity to go
rock climbing this past summer because rock climbing is like life –
you never know what the next challenge will be – you gotta keep
moving up.
Sara (Rafeal) Tetro, daughter of Michael and Linda
Rafeal of Pittsfield and Josh Tetro, son of Janice Cleary of Epsom
were married at the Pittsfield Community Center on Saturday,
September 10. They were engaged at the Balloon Rally last year.
Congratulations!!
The Pittsfield Police Association Presents 3rd
Annual Comedy Night 2011
At The Dell-Lea Country Club
The Pittsfield Police Association is sponsoring the
third annual 21+ comedy show at the Dell-Lea Country Club in
Chichester, NH, Saturday October 22 at 6 pm.
Perhaps you’ve gotten the phone call or had the
visit to your door; a representative of the Pittsfield Police
Association is asking you to purchase tickets to the third annual
comedy night to benefit The Pittsfield Police Association. It’s for
real. For the third time, the Association is sponsoring a night of
comedians at the Dell-Lea Country Club on Pleasant Street in
Chichester, NH.
Comics James Dorey, Mark Scalia, and Jody Sloane
will be live to entertain you for an evening of raucous laughter and
a good cause.
The show is rated 21+ because of the content of the
acts and the cash bar that will be available. No one will be
admitted without an I.D. No one under 21 will be admitted.
The proceeds of the ticket sales go to The
Pittsfield Police Association, which in turn, benefit the Pittsfield
Community through programs such as the Pittsfield Police
Association’s PMHS Senior Scholarship, National Night Out, Bike
Rodeos, sponsorships to PMHS sports teams and many more.
Tickets, $10, are available by contacting Officer
Jay Darrah of The Pittsfield Police Association. Limited space is
available. Get your tickets now and support a good cause that
supports You!
Letter
To the citizens of Pittsfield:
As the end of the year is fast upon us, the
draftings of warrant articles for town meeting are in the works. The
Selectboard recently discussed finding and spending $30,000 on
information gathering pertaining to Pennichuck Water Company. As
many of you may already know, acquiring this company will be a huge
financial step for the tax payers. I can only estimate that the cost
would range into several millions of dollars that would be spread
out over years to come, leaving the burdens of payments to future
generations. The Selectboard voted 3 to 2 in favor of presenting a
warrant article to be voted on at town meeting allowing the citizens
to decide if now is a favorable economic time to invest the tax
payer’s money on this.
Although some may feel that buying the water company
or taking it by eminent domain is the right choice. I ask you at
what cost? Some also assume if we control the water company then we
can control the rates and hydrant fees therefore, we can expect to
see a return in revenue. How long will that take? The town will
still have to pay for or contract out acceptable management
practices and maintain the system as required by the state. This
cost would be budgeted yearly and would be in addition to the bonded
purchase price. Is this a wise investment during an unpredictable
recession? The town has just finished signing the paper work bonding
a loan for the waste water treatment plant. Is now a good time to
bond out another loan? How much more money can be squeezed from the
tax payers?
There are a lot of questions that need answers.
Please keep informed.
Respectfully,
James Theodore
TOPS News
Submitted By Terrie Azotea
We had a good night at TOPS this past week; had Fall
Rally this past weekend. Hope everyone had a good time and enjoyed
their day. We had put together a fall basket full of all kinds of
things to raffle off and some of the members who went made some
great name tags to wear.
I hope whoever went to the fair had a good time and
made right choices on what they ate. Lots of walking at the fair so
that is a good thing. Our chapter has been growing with new faces.
That is so nice to see each week. This is something I read in the
TOPS magazine and thought was kinda cute.
The TOPS Vowels
A - a thinner me, E - Eating sensibly, I - I want to
be, O - Opting fat-free, U - Unitedly.
Well, I hope that everyone has a great week and
keeps up the good work. Anyone interested in joining, please call
Laurel Tiede at 269-8721 or Pat Smith at 435-5333. They would answer
any questions you have. We meet on Tuesday nights at the St.
Stephens Church in Pittsfield at 5:30 for weigh-in and 6:30 for a
meeting.
Here is something for us to think about this week:
"Everything Changes when You Change" See you lighter next week!
The Lions Club recently brought in new members
during a swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday, September 28, 2011. The
Club covers the Towns of Barnstead, Pittsfield and other surrounding
towns. We are looking for more members. If you are interested
contact King Lion Bob Wharem at 848-7122. From Left Gary Johnson,
Don Bergeron, Joe Darrah, Deborah Lincoln and Bob Lincoln.
Plan Your "Horror-Ween" Around Village
Players’ Little Shop Of Horrors
Wolfeboro’s Village Players Theater announces its
fall production of Little Shop of Horrors. The doo-wopping, toe
tap-inducing musical comedy features the adventures of a geeky shop
boy, the girl he loves, a Greek Chorus with attitude, and one very
hungry Venus Fly Trap plant that grows and grows.
The show’s lead, Seymour, played by Jonathan Babon
of Laconia, is a new face to the Village Players, and his lady love
is Audrey, artfully brought to life by Katherine Belanger of
Raymond. The Greek Chorus bops and doowahs in the persons of
mother/daughter team Priscilla and Kristine Adams of Alton, and
Megan Rohrbacher of Rochester.
Rick Tessari and Phoebe Van Scoy-Giessler bring
Wolfeboro’s hungriest plant to life, and David Morrison is suitably
demented to take the dentist role Steve Martin played in the
cult-favorite film. Rounding out the cast in Brooklyn’s gutters are
Carol Bense, Laura Cooper, Terry Crowell, Willie Mork, Randi Talbot,
Julie Velie, Joyce Wood, Jim Adams, Gordon Brooks, Russ Ellis,
Brendan Haeger, Don Hargy, and Bob Tuttle.
Plant-engineering kudos go to Corky Mork, Michael
Welch and Michael Wilfert; the set is Hunter Emery’s brainchild; and
the music team is led by Keith Belanger and accompanied by Michael
Welch. Choreography by Kaylin Dean is shown to fine effect by the
efforts of Costumers Deb Jones, Sheila O’Connell and Priscilla
Adams; and Make-up Artists Tori Neal and the Fabulous Nettie. Media
and advertising are spearheaded by Jeannette d’Onofrio, Jerome
Holden and Barbara Wilson ; and Tickets are in the hands of Carol
Bense. Producer Diane Ducret Mork strives mightily to keep the
creative genius of directors Jay Sydow and Meggin Dail in check.
You can follow the growth of Little Shop of Horrors
on
Facebook.com/pages/LittleShop/211813362216727.
The production comes to life Fridays and Saturdays,
October 21, 22, 28 and 29 at 8 p.m. and Sundays October 23 and 30 at
2 p.m. at the Village Players Theater at 53 Glendon Street,
Wolfeboro. Tickets are sold at Black’s Gift and Paper Store and
online at
village-players.com
Did we mention there’s a very hungry plant?
Letter
Thank You
I would like to thank everyone involved with the
Benefit Softball Tournament they had for me on August 27th.
The teams were The Rednecks, Slammers, Ramrods,
Cindy’s Boys, Buzz/Outlaws, Team Alton and Team Oliver. Also special
thanks to Parker’s Restaurant.
I had a great time at this event, seeing a lot of
people I hadn’t seen for a while and meeting a lot of people I
didn’t know before this event. So once again Thank You Very Much.
Great Time
Greatly Appreciated
Kevin M. Keene
Obituaries
Carroll Hodgdon Sr.
Carroll Hodgdon Sr. 81, of River Road, died Saturday
at his home following a long illness. He was born in Northwood the
son of Thomas and Ella Hodgdon and attended Northwood Schools. He
was an Army veteran and was awarded a Purple Heart while serving in
Korea. He worked as a loader operator for The Pittsfield Box Shop
and retired from Timco Inc. in Barnstead. He had many hobbies
including hunting, fishing, The Red Sox and family softball games.
He attended Nascar races and his favorite driver was Jeff Gordon. He
owned a 1951and a 1955 Chevy which he drove in Old Home Day Parades.
Some of his favorites were his dog Shaina, his recliner chair and
his favorite saying was "Old Lady."
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Naomi (Joy)
Hodgdon of Pittsfield. Children Carroll Hodgdon Jr and Brenda ,
Thomas Hodgdon, Donald Hodgdon and Donna, Pam Boisvert and Joe,
Randy Hodgdon and John Hodgdon and Tammy. 14 Grandchildren, 7 Great
Grandchildren and many step grandchildren. His sister Rena Twombly.
He was predeceased by his Father, his Mother Ella Hodgdon Curtis and
Step father Maurice Curtis. Sisters, Grace Jock and Lucy Twombly,
Brother Maurice Hodgdon and Granddaughter Jennifer Hodgdon.
Visiting Hours will be held Wednesday evening from 7
– 9 PM in the Perkins & Pollard Memorial Home, 60 Main St. A
Graveside Service with Military Honors will be Thursday at 11:00 AM
in the Floral Park Cemetery. The Rev David Stasiak, Pastor of the
First Congregational Church of Pittsfield will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be
made to the CRVNA Hospice Program, 30 Pillsbury St. Concord, NH
03301. To sign an on line guest book, log on to
perkinsandpollard.com
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