REMINDER
The
Milk & Cookies New Year’s Eve “Parlor Concert” to beheld at the
Barnstead Town Hall will feature Chris Bonoli and Roy D’Innocenzo
from 7:00-9:00. Come and sing American Pie with us at intermission
and regardless of the weather the concert will go on! No
Reservations are needed - Everyone’s invited! Proceeds will be
donated to the Memorial to Public Works Employees - Public Works
Employees and their families may attend for free.
Santa Visits PES For PTO’s Annual Christmas Breakfast
According to tradition, Santa arrived by fire truck thanks to Mike
Wolfe from the Pittsfield Fire Department. Santa greeted a
handful of excited children outside at the front of the school and
then said Hello to many who were patiently waiting in the hallway
for the Children’s Store to open.
Once
entering the cafeteria, the big man was welcomed by many smiling
faces and a lovely photo backdrop made by the students at KydStop.
He spent time with each and every child who visited him- some even
whispered in his ear what they wanted him to bring them in a few
short weeks. Thank you to Lilla Moore for taking family photos
for those who needed a photographer.
The
delicious pancake and sausage breakfast was cooked and served by
Donna Anderson and Heidi Cook. Katie Nikas and Tonnie Boisvert
also helped with serving the food and drinks. We are very thankful
to have had LOCAL, REAL Maple Syrup donated by Journey’s End Maple
Farm here in Pittsfield. Some of the sausage was also donated by our
local Danis Supermarket.
You
couldn’t help but get in the holiday spirit with the tunes that
played in the hallway by 4 local youth musicians. Nick Mistler piped
the flute, Maya Anguiano tickled the ivories, Trinity Morse strummed
her ukulele while Addison Babcock played her fiddle.
All
FOURTEEN of our amazing raffles were on display in the hallway
throughout the morning where Mary Perry sold tickets until the
winners were pulled at the conclusion of breakfast. Winners were
Basket 1/Happy Birthday-Kylie Maura ,Basket 2/Art Basket- Ricky
Chatwin, Basket 3/ ice Cream- Diane Cox, Basket 4/ Learn and Laugh-
Lindsay Riel, Basket 5/ Family Fun NH- Brayden Gray, Basket 6/NE
Road Trip- Janice Cleary, Basket 7/ Chocolate Lovers- Melody
Williams, Basket 8/ Movie Night- Linda Freese, Basket 9/ Just for
Mom- Shandel Baker, Basket 10/just for Dad- Bryant Heath, Basket 11/
Relax and Read- Gail Newton, Basket 12/ Ladies Night Out- Farah
Lavigne, Basket 13/parents Night Out- Chris and Sabrina Smith,
Basket 14/ Get to know Your Beer- Larry Williams
Thank
you to everyone who helped make this event a success—Sabrina Smith,
Jill and Adam Gauthier, Tara Ash and Family, Jillian Gilbert and
Laurie Vien. The set up Friday night and clean up late Saturday
morning went exceptionally smooth due to the extra hands this year!
PES PTO
is always looking for new members and volunteers. Our next
meeting is Wednesday, January 9th from 6-8pm. If you can’t
make it to a meeting, but want to help behind the scenes, we have
plenty of small tasks for volunteers to help with—we have just begun
planning our literacy event and will be working on our Spring BOGO
Book fair very soon, too.
Make Space For Your Dreams
Submitted By Carole Soule
Picture courtesy of:
https://www.luckystargallery.com/
Once
upon a time, there was a pinto pony with a saddle and bridle for
sale in the Montgomery Ward Catalogue. There was also a 7-year-old
girl who wanted that pony. Each time a new catalog arrived, she
would hunt for the page with his picture. The accompanying text said
the pony would be shipped in a crate. That didn't seem strange to
the girl. The Montgomery Ward pony cost $179, and the Sears catalog
had one for $299.
Back in
1958, the girl lived in Bedford, Mass., a suburb of Boston, on a
2-acre lot and she was sure there was plenty of room for her pony.
When he arrived, she would brush and ride him every day. She'd sleep
in his stall. But while waiting for the happy day of his arrival,
she made do with an imaginary pony. Every day she'd explore the
woods behind her house, pretending she was riding. Her imaginary
pony would travel with her on vacations. She would saddle him up and
canter him everywhere. No one knew she was on a pony; people just
thought she was skipping or running.
The
little girl had been taught by her Christian Science Sunday School
teacher that to receive something you really wanted, you had to make
space for it. Her teacher was probably talking about emotional space
and things of the spirit, but the girl took it to mean: If you
needed a new pair of shoes, you should clear a place for them in
your closet, picture shiny patent-leather shoes and expect them to
appear. She was also taught that happiness only happens when you
make room for it. Sourness or anger can crowd your thinking, leaving
no room for joy. Let in joy, and bad feelings are shoved out. You
can't be happy and angry at the same time, can you?
So
that's just what she did; she made room for happiness – namely,
a pony. She cleared a space in the garage just the right size for a
pony crate. Every night she studied the catalog and thought: This is
the most beautiful pony ever. On Christmas Eve she put an apple and
a few lettuce leaves in the garage so that when Santa delivered him,
the pony wouldn't get hungry during the night.
When
you are a child, nothing happens fast enough, and yet the girl never
gave up that spot in her thinking reserved for the pony.
It's
now 60 years later and the girl, me, does have a pony. Not a
Montgomery Ward pinto or a Sears Shetland, but a pony nevertheless.
Plus three full-sized horses.
Not to
boast, but apparently, I have mental powers that would impress Miss
Barton, my 2nd-grade teacher at Bedford Elementary School in
Massachusetts. My hopes and positive thinking have expanded that
crate-sized space into a 37-acre farm that also contains 60 head of
cattle, 15 hogs, two goats, a donkey, a lamb, some chickens, and a
goose.
With
space I've provided for them, they have given me a livelihood as
well as a purpose – to provide wholesome nourishment in a humane and
sustainable way. The creatures fill my life with activity, adventure
and meaning. So try this technique. Dream a dream. Give it some
space and watch what happens.
Carole
Soule is co-owner of Miles Smith Farm. She can be reached at
[email protected].
Letter
Last
week's Sun published an advertisement for the Pittsfield Zoning
Board of Adjustment in which advertisement the board erroneously
stated the date of the hearing on Teen Challenge's application for a
variance as being on Thursday, January 2, 2019. The correct date of
the hearing is WEDNESDAY, January 2, 2019, as stated in the board's
advertisement in this week's Sun, and the hour and place of the
hearing are 7:00 PM, at the Pittsfield High School, 23 Oneida
Street, Pittsfield, NH 03263. The board apologizes for any confusion
that last week's erroneous advertisement may have caused.
Thank
you,
The
Pittsfield Zoning Board of Adjustment
Letter
Select
Board Meeting 12/18/18
Having
spent months trying to get clear title for 33 Main St. so it could
be sold, we have decided to hold new hearings for what to do with
this historic building. Anyone who would like to be considered
as a buyer should write a proposal and get it to us ASAP.
Parks &
Recreation got approval to shut the dam and have a skating party
January 19 at the pool.
The
2019 ballot was reviewed. With SB2 voted in last March, every
decision will be made on the ballot which promises to be lengthy.
The deliberative session will be February 4 at 7PM at the Elementary
School. This is as close to Town Meeting as we’ll get, and
amendments can be made, but no final decisions take place.
A
generous $100,000 contribution to the Quintin B. Berkson Scholarship
Trust Fund was accepted with gratitude.
The
real estate assessment ratio proposed by Avitar was approved at
92.6%. This means your tax assessment should be about 93% of
fair market value for your property.
Readers
are reminded these letters touch only briefly on the contents of our
3-4 hour meetings. The 300 word limit simply won’t allow
in-depth explanations of every topic. What you can be certain
of is the top priority of this entire board is to always be fair,
impartial, honest, transparent, and most importantly to use common
sense. Any suggestion otherwise is flat-out, categorically
untrue. The current select board has almost 300 years of combined
actual full-time residency in Pittsfield with four of us natives.
You’re our friends and neighbors and any one of us is happy to take
a phone call to explain why we took an action. Call Cara at 435-6773
to get our numbers. Mine’s 608-7570. Just call.
Carl
Anderson
Obituaries
Barbara
Pacheco Sinclair Emery
Barbara
Pacheco Sinclair Emery, loving daughter of Jesse (deceased)
and Ann Pacheco (deceased) wife of the late George Emery passed away
on 12/13/18 with her family and friends at her side. Barbara was one
of a kind person, always there to lend a helping hand, take in any
lost soul or animal.
She was
an amazing mom, sister, daughter, and friend. She loved nature,
animals, people, and life. She loved to draw, which would always
seem to reflect her beautiful soul.
She is
survived by her sons Ronald Sinclair of Deering, NH and Brandon
Emery of Pittsfield, NH; a sister, Donna Tsakiris; her husband
Dennis of Somersworth, NH; her brother Jesse Pacheco and wife Carol
of Pittsfield, NH; sister Charlotte Sartell and husband Bill of
Litchfield, NH. She is pre-deceased by her sister Annmarie Pacheco
of Nashua.
She is
also the loving aunt of many nephews, nieces, great nieces,
and great nephews.
A
celebration of life in her honor will be held December 29, 2018
between 2-5pm at her home in Pittsfield, NH. In lieu of flowers,
donations will be accepted in her honor or you may choose to donate
to one of the charities that were dear to her heart.
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