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Pittsfield NH News

June 6, 2012

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Those Celebrating Birthdays are: June 6, Brandee Dunne; June 7, Martha Keene, Meggin Dail; June 9, Maureen McLaughlin, Jennifer Elliott; June 10, Amber Snedeker, Keith Wallace, Robert Hildreth, Sr.; June 12, Amy Blackey, Thomas Dunne, Brian Parent.

 

A Very Happy Birthday To One and All!

 


 

Celebrating Anniversaries are: June 7, Milton and Wendy Locke.

 

Congratulations!

 


 

It’s time once again to choose a Citizen of the Year for Pittsfield and your help is needed. Do you know someone whose actions make them a candidate for Citizen of the Year? If so, please send their name and reasons for their nomination to:

 

Citizen of the Year

PO Box 173

Pittsfield, NH 03263

 

The deadline for submissions is June 22nd, so get your nominations in now.

 


 

School Lunch Menus

June 11 - 15, 2012

 

PES

Monday

Speaking Frankly

Hot dog in a bun, oven fries, mixed veggies, fresh fruit

 

Tuesday

Tijuana Tuesday

Chicken fajitas with all the fixins, Spanish rice, sweet corn, fruit crisp

 

Wednesday

It’s A Pastability

Baked rotini with a homemade meat sauce, wheat garlic roll, garden salad, pears

 

Thursday

End of School BBQ!

Cheeseburger on a bun, pasta salad, veggie beans, pickles, watermelon wedge

 

Friday

Fresh Picks Pizza

Cheese pizza or chef’s topping, side salad, Mac apple

 

PMHS

Monday

Calzone Mania

Pepperoni and cheese calzone, spicy Italian potato chunks, cucumber chips, fresh fruit

 

Tuesday

Triple "S"

Tomato soup, grilled ham and cheese sandwich, side Caesar salad, fresh orange smiles

 

Wednesday

It’s A Pastability!

Baked rotini with a homemade meat sauce, wheat garlic roll, garden salad, pears

 

Thursday

Quesadilla Crazy

Chicken and cheese quesadilla, seasoned rice, crazy corn, assorted fruit

 

Friday

End of School BBQ!

Cheeseburger on a bun, pasta salad, veggie beans, pickles, watermelon wedge

 


 

Pittsfield Old Home Day

 

Pittsfield Old Home Day will be held on Saturday, July 21 and the theme of the day this year is "In the Good Olde Summertime." Please mark your calendars and join in the fun and festivities that will be going on.

 

Plans are still underway, but here are some of the activities being planned. Parks and Rec is planning to show a movie on Friday, July 20 - Movie, place and time - TBA. A delicious breakfast will be served at Park St. Baptist Church from 7:00-10:00 am. Our annual Craft Fair in Dustin Park will begin at 9:00 am. If you are interested in setting up a table, please contact Tammy Colby at 435-6629. Local organizations are encouraged to participate also.

 

At Dustin Park there will be a jump tent, dunk booth, games, kids free craft table, music, face painting, and Book Bingo. The Little Red Wagon theatre troupe will be performing again this year. The annual Cook-Off will be an "ANY BERRY PIE" - watch The Sun for more info. A Kids Bike Parade will be held at 12:00 pm at Dustin Park (more info coming).

 

The(big) Parade will begin at 1:00 pm. We need participants for the parade. Groups, organizations, clubs, classes, sport teams, neighbors - any and all - we need you to enter a float in the parade, ride your bike, or enter your antique car. Let’s make this the best parade ever.

 

After the parade, the festivities will move to the F.B. Argue Recreation Area (the town pool area) and Olde Time Games will be held from 3:00-6:00 pm (water balloon toss, sack races, 3-legged race etc…) We’ll have music and you can build a sand castle, play volleyball, and try a hula hoop.

 

Horseshoes will be available - why not gather some friends and have a little friendly competition.

 

There will be a Pie Eating Contest. New this year, there will be a Duck Race (more info coming). The South Pittsfield Community Club will be sponsoring a Dinner from 5:00-6:30 pm, at the Rec Area, So plan to spend the afternoon there.

 

More activities are being planned - so stay tuned! The Old Home Day Committee is hard at work planning a great event.

 

OHD is a time for people who have moved away to come back home and celebrate their community - it’s a time to meet and greet your neighbors. Please come and enjoy yourselves!

 

If you would like to volunteer to help that day or if you need any information, please contact Louie Houle at 435-6938 or Andi Riel at 435-6346 or email Andi at [email protected].

 


 

Letter

 

Area Residents,

On Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 9 am, members of The American Legion Peterson-Cram Post 75 of Pittsfield will conduct a flag disposal ceremony at the Barnstead, Chichester, Epsom, Pittsfield (BCEP) Transfer station. We ask that you not place your dirty, worn, faded, torn flag in the trash, rather leave it separate and give it to any one of the staff and they will place it in a back room.

 

The majority of the flags are the ones that have flown over our departed comrades, personal flags and town flags. The past two years, the BCEP personnel have provided us with a wooden bier so that no flag touches the ground and the use of a flamethrower is used to set the bottom flags on fire. Members of the Post remain until all the flags have been properly disposed of.

 

Again, if you take your flags to the BCEP, please Do Not mix them with the trash or recycle items. Just hand it to any of the staff in the office. If you have any questions, contact Merrill Vaughan at 435-5207 or 344-0264.

 

Merrill Vaughan,

Commander American Legion Peterson-Cram Post 75

 


 

Letter

 

Open letter to the Residents and Taxpayers of Pittsfield:

The Board of Selectmen had unanimously appointed Deputy Fire Chief Lenny Deane as the Acting Fire Chief effective May 18, 2012, upon the departure of the former Fire Chief Gary Johnson. The Selectmen wish to publicly thank Deputy Chief Deane for coming forward and offering to assume the position on a limited basis for the coming months. Deputy Chief Deane, at the time the Board appointed him as the Acting Fire Chief, indicated that he did not have a desire to assume the position because he continued to maintain his position at the State Fire Academy.

 

The Board of Selectmen moved swiftly to recruit John DeSilva of Bow, New Hampshire to the position of Interim Fire Chief for the town of Pittsfield effective July 1, 2012. The members of the Board believe that the appointment of John DeSilva will allow for an easier transition, rather than engaging in a protracted recruitment. John DeSilva’s appointment will be conditioned upon a satisfactory background check. Mr. DeSilva will be considered an at will employee. Mr. DeSilva is currently employed at Suffolk University in Boston Massachusetts as a Health and Safety Specialist. Mr. DeSilva had previously been a member of the fire service in New Hampshire, having more recently served as the Fire Chief for the town of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. Mr. DeSilva is considered to be a retiree from the State of New Hampshire Retirement System; therefore his employment with the town of Pittsfield will be subject to the rules and regulations of the Retirement System. Mr. DeSilva will be compensated at the rate of $28.00 per hour.

 

The Board of Selectmen will continue to work with the current staff of the Pittsfield Fire and Ambulance Department, while allowing for the newly appointed Fire Chief to become acclimated to the departmental operations.

 

Pittsfield Board of Selectmen

 


 

Sanborn Mills Farm

Farm Tours And Water-Powered Sawmill Demonstrations

 

On June 9th we will be conducting farm tours and water-powered sawmill demonstrations. Tours will begin at 8am, 10am, 12pm, and 2pm. There will be no charge for the tours or demonstrations. Please come and join us. Rain or shine. If you have any questions, please call Tim Huppe at 603-568-7388.

 

Sanborn Mills Farm is a traditional New Hampshire working farm with agricultural fields and managed forests, timber framed barns and outbuildings still in use for animals, and a sawmill, a grist mill (both water-powered), and a blacksmith shop, all dating from the 1830s. The farm buildings are clustered around two dams at the outlet of Sanborn Pond, and are surrounded by almost 2,000 acres of open space in conservation.

 

A century and more ago, Sanborn Mills Farm was a bustling, thriving center of agricultural activities that supported an extended family and served the community. Today, we have gathered a group of instructors, farmers, craftspeople and historians dedicated to teaching the traditional skills that were commonplace then. We provide opportunities for people to learn old-fashioned ways and explore how they can be integrated into modern life. We believe that these skills and a vital connection to the land continue to be important and relevant. Come join us in this endeavor to preserve and build upon the legacy of those who came before us.

 

Our mission is to use the restoration of the farm structures to advance the knowledge of nineteenth-century American millwrighting, sawmilling, grist milling, timber-framing, blacksmithing, and ice cutting through workshops, internships and apprentice programs.

 

The core of the farm was built in the 1830s by the Sanborn family of Loudon, and represents a successful agrarian enterprise at the dawn of the industrial revolution. People from the neighboring farms came here for their lumber, their grain, and to have their animals shod and their equipment repaired in the blacksmith shop. Such establishments dotted the landscape throughout New England before the Civil War and the advent of the railroads changed forever how far a farmer could travel in one day.

 

As surrounding mills became larger, and more modern industrial mills were developed in the surrounding towns, Sanborn Mills Farm became more of a small family business rather than a community-wide enterprise and social center. The water dammed in Sanborn Pond was not enough to allow the family to compete with mill owners on larger rivers. The extraordinary thing is that the Sanborn family kept the property intact and its buildings working until the 1990s when Colin and Paula Cabot became the first owners outside the family since 1770.

 

Sanborn Mills Farm is located at 7097 Sanborn Road in Loudon. View our website at www.sanbornmills.org.

 


 

No Farmer’s Market In Pittsfield This Year

 

We wanted to announce that the Sunrise Farmer’s Market in Pittsfield will not be in operation this year. There simply wasn’t enough loyal vendors to attract customers and there wasn’t enough customers to attract loyal vendors. It was a circle that we were unable to fix. Taking part in the market however, was a blessing for our family. We met many lovely people and it is with regret that we won’t see some familiar faces this spring and summer.

 

Thank you to those loyal people who returned week after week, year after year. Thank you to the people who stopped once and didn’t return; thanks for giving us a shot. If anyone was ever inspired to grow it or can it themselves or support someone who did so locally - then it was all worth it. Happy spring and God bless.

 

Carl and AnneMarie Chapman

 

 


 

Pittsfield SADD Receives Youth Venture Grant

 

Pittsfield SADD is proud to announce they have received funding for their "Live Sober and Drive" campaign.

 

On May 21st, a group of five local teens presented their 12-month proposal to a Volunteer Community Review Panel in Concord, New Hampshire. This Community Panel viewed the group’s presentation, reviewed their 12-month proposal, and voted to approve the request for seed funding.

 

Seed funding will be used in the first three months of the campaign and will enable Pittsfield SADD to generate income to support projects and events throughout the year focused on the topic of impaired driving. Over the duration of the next year, Youth Venture will continue to provide support, mentoring, and expertise in achieving the goals of the campaign.

 

According to the 2011 Youth Risk behavior Survey, 11% of Pittsfield students have reported operating a vehicle after consuming alcohol, while 21.3% reported being a passenger in a vehicle with a driver who had consumed alcohol. Being that almost a quarter of students have been in a vehicle operated by someone who has been drinking, it seems that adults also need more education and support for making healthy decisions.

Impaired driving affects no only the driver and their passengers, but every driver and passenger on the road. Fatal accidents can happen quickly and have long-lasting consequences throughout the community. Pittsfield SADD strives to reduce both sets of data so that no students or adults engage in impaired driving.

 

This funding opportunity is made possible by a partnership between Youth Venture and Granite United Way.

 

Pittsfield SADD always welcomes new members. Pittsfield area teens who are interested in joining can email Kristen for more information: [email protected]. For more information about Pittsfield SADD, meetings, and upcoming events, please visit www.Facebook.com/PittsfieldSADD.

  


 

Concert Salutes America

 

With toe-tapping Sousa marches, a salute to our Armed Forces and many other national favorites, all ages will certainly enjoy "Of Thee I Sing," the patriotic concert this Friday, June 8 at 7 pm at the First Congregational Church, 24 Main Street, Pittsfield.

 

It will feature the church’s Chancel Choir and JuBellation Handbell Choir and UNH’s own Inextinguishable Brass Quintet. You will even have a chance to join in on a few special songs. Light refreshments will be served during intermission.

 

Join us for this delightful event – an evening of magnificent music honoring our wonderful country. Parking and handicap accessibility at rear entrance. More information at: pittsfieldcc.com or 435-7471. God Bless America!

 


 

Josiah Carpenter Library Closed Friday, June 15th, For Staff Training Day

 

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience. We hope you will agree that this inconvenience will be worth it.

 

Thanks to a generous grant from the E.P. Sanderson Fund, we are migrating to a new and improved web-based, computerized circulation system that will also allow on-line access to our catalog of holdings and allow you to view the newest titles, remotely place reserves, and even write book reviews. You can learn more about it at the company website http://www.booksys.com/

 

We will be closed on Friday June 15, 2012, for all-day staff training in Atriuum Book Systems. We will resume normal business hours on Saturday, June 16th. Your patience and understanding is appreciated. Thank you from the Staff and Trustees of Josiah Carpenter Library.

 


 

Letter

 

To the Citizens of Pittsfield:

I made a promise to myself that I would not do anything negative in the media for our town; but it is time I finally spoke up and questioned the so-called Board of Selectmen and their "knee jerk" reactions to employees of our town.

 

Our "illustrious" Board of Selectmen are now at a cross roads they did not expect to see (well one person probably did, but I will not divulge their name here). They need to spend our money foolishly, because they (or again, one of them) made things too idiotic to run the fire department and he felt a need to resign. Now they want to have MRI come in and pick our next fire chief. Why?

 

Does the BOS think our town is too dumb to pick our next fire chief? Or is it that they want to have a lap dog to be hired to do as they say without rocking the boat? What if Chief Wharem resigns due to this one person; will they hire MRI again? I believe that we have enough smart people who can screen, interview and select them. And there would be no impact on the tax base!

 

Can we afford to have them spend money that they have no plan on how to pay for it? Is there anyone willing to be with me and select our next fire chief or do you want to dance to the music of one person? This one person (or the entire board for that matter) should be glad this state does not have a RSA for recall elections; as I would have asked for one. I am sure there would be enough signatures on the petition to have it done.

 

For a better community,

Merrill Vaughan

 


 

"Drama Queen" Luncheon

 

You and your friends are invited to a luncheon sponsored by the Concord Christian Women’s Connection and Stonecroft Ministries on Thursday, June 14th, from 11:30 to 1:30, at The Red Blazer Restaurant & Pub, 72 Manchester Street, Concord, NH.

 

The cost of the luncheon is $15.00 inclusive. The special feature is Rosa Maria Faulkner asking us "What Type Are You?" Guest speaker, Rosa Maria Faulkner’s message is entitled "Tiaras, Trophies and Tantrums."

 

Reservations are required by June 5th, cancellations are also required. Call Wendy at 485-7446 or Barbara at 798-5976.

 

Stonecroft Ministries is a non-profit ministry. For more information visit www.Stonecroft.org.

 



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The girls of the Pittsfield Girl Scouts Junior Troop #12149 recently had the opportunity to spend a day in New York City. The girls took the city by storm! They visited Times Square and Central Park, spent some time shopping at the M&M and American Girl Doll stores, took a ride on the Statten Island Ferry, paid their respects at the 911 Memorial, and even got to ride the subway. Everyone had a great time! Pictured with "The Sphere" in Battery Park are Amber Ash, Eileen Manteau, Kianna Vincelette, Hannah Cloonen, Naikayla Brown, McKenzie Landry, Paige Provencal, Katrina Flanders, and Jocelyn Ash.

 


 

Letter To The Editor

NEED FLOWERS

 

When sitting at the lights on Route 28, I can look and see the beautiful, well kept section of grass, flowers and Lilac bushes between the highway and Norris Rd. For over 15 years my mom and dad (Paul and Pat Nickerson) have been taking care of it- I am sure many of you have seen my dad busy on his ride around lawnmower or with his weed whacker. Maybe you’ve seen my mom planting new annuals or perennials on her hands and knees. This is not something they are paid for, nor have they ever asked for help or donations. They have given their own plants, flowers and time because they believe that we should all give back to our community. They love Pittsfield and try to do their part.

 

So, I just want to say, THANKS to the person(s) that selfishly decided that their personal wants were so important that they needed to borrow (steal) the plants and flowers my parents took so much time in planting this year. I hope you can enjoy their beauty without guilt!

 

Honestly, if you had stopped by my parents’ home and told them you needed some flowers they would have been happy to help you. Mom, Dad, don’t let one person’s act of stupidity change who you are - the rest of us respect and appreciate all that you have done!

 

Paula Martel

 


Obituaries


 

Donald W. Jenkins

 

Donald Jenkins, 84, Barnstead and Pittsfield resident for most of his life, died May 19, 2012 after a long illness.

 

Mr. Jenkins was born in Barnstead, NH March 2, 1928. He served in the Marine Corps from August 29, 1945 and was discharged August 28, 1949. He owned and operated his own business for many years.

 

He is survived by his wife, Phyllis Jenkins; his daughter Judy Stone; sister, Edith Mitchell; step-daughter Dorothy Beane; step-son David Beane; eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

 

At his request no services will be held.

    


 


 

 











 

 

 

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