The N.H. Department of Health and Human Services has included the Town of
Chichester in an ever growing list of communities that have been classified
as “under public health threat” due to new cases of eastern equine
encephalitis (EEE) in the region.
State health officials urge residents
to avoid mosquito bites by wearing long pants and sleeves, staying inside at
dusk, and using insect repellents. EEE is likely to remain a threat until
the first hard frost. Please go to Chichesternh.org for more information.
Happy Birthday to Hannah West on September 25.
Visit Chichester Library to check out on of the following DVD’s:
The Devil’s Arithmetic; Star Wars; Walking Across Egypt; Resting
Place; What a Girl Wants; I.O.U.S.A. One Nation, Under Stress, In
Debt; Creepy Crawlies; The Wedding Planner; Miss Congeniality 1 & 2;
All About Airplanes; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; The Great Valley
Adventure; Balto II; Care Bears; Air Bud – Seventh Inning Fetch;
When Cowboys Were King; The Wedding Singer; Office Space, Timeline;
Katharine Hepburn Classic Movies; Earthsea; Samantha – An American
Girl Holiday.
Reminder
Join children of all ages and their families as the Chichester Public
Library celebrates the children of the town and their summer reading program
with a fun event on Saturday, September 26th, 2 p.m.
For further information, please call the library at 798-5613.
Letter
I am writing in response to Deborah Seamon’s Letter To The Editor, dated
9/9/09.
I would first like to thank Deborah for speaking her mind regarding the
conduct of our current Board of Selectmen.
It is obvious to me that the selectmen overlooked Ms. Bogdon as a
candidate for Health Officer because she is educated, knowledgeable, and
forward-thinking and is not easily intimidated. Traits, in my opinion, the
selectmen are threatened by.
The board continues to make poor decisions regarding the management of
town business. They also have a habit of harassing certain department heads
while allowing others to continuously lie and deceive them, and appointing
the least qualified candidate for the job; first the Fire Chief, now the
Health Officer.
I hope that by reading these letters, the citizens of Chichester will
become more involved by attending Selectmen’s meetings and voicing their
desire for change.
Martha Stock
Letter to the Editor
The Chichester Board of Selectmen took seriously the decision on how to
fill the Town’s vacant position of Health Officer. That was evidence by the
many hours of discussions amongst the Board, and hearing considerable input
from the public attending those Board meetings over the last month or so.
Deborah Seamon’s letters in the Sun the last two weeks are not
reflective of her having any first hand knowledge of the considerable
in-depth conversations that took place at those meetings. And as such, in at
least one inference, she completely misrepresented me by saying I did not
want any positions in Town combined with the Health Officer. That is totally
incorrect. What I did say was that I would not want to combine that position
with the Town Administrator’s position, as one Town has done. I only
referenced the Town Administrator’s position.
It was very important to me that the Board make an informed decision and
as such I took it upon myself to contact the Dept. of Health and Human
Services to discuss the issue with that organization. And I personally
contacted and spoke to municipal representatives of over 25 Towns, some
neighboring towns and many towns in Chichester’s population demographic to
inquire on how they have structured their Health Officer position and how
their organizational make-up was working. The overwhelming majority of
towns I contacted have combined the Health Officer position with either the
Building Inspector, Welfare Office, or Emergency Management and these
organizational structures were all working well.
My decision to combine the position of Health Officer with the Building
Inspector was based on what I believe was sound judgment backed by
considerable investigation and fact-finding, and was done with only the long
term best interests of Chichester in mind.
Selectman Richard DeBold
The Chichester library Hosts Rebecca Rule
LOCL (Lover of Chichester Library) has received a grant from the New
Hampshire Humanities Council to host Rebecca Rule and her fun and
entertaining public program titled Better Than a Poke in the Eye.
The evening’s program will be presented on Tuesday, September 29th at 7
p.m. at Chichester Central School. Ms. Rule tells funny, true(ish),
close-to-home stories, collected all over the state. Get the inside scoop on
dump protocol, town meeting, and septic lagoons. Find out who’s firing shots
from the banks of the Cockermouth River, and what some folks think ought to
be the new state motto.
For more information about this presentation, feel free to call
Chichester Library at 798-5613.
Better Than a Poke in the Eye is one of over 250 programs and exhibits
available to organizations statewide through the Humanities to Go! catalog.
For more information about how you can sponsor a program, contact the New
Hampshire Humanities Council in Concord at 224-4071 or on the web at
www.nhhc.org.
Chichester Grange
Chichester Grange met on Wednesday, September 16, upstairs in the
Grange/Town Hall. Guests for the evening were Norma and Melvin Neary, John
L. Saturley, and Paul and Rhoda Davis of Pembroke Grange and Dorothy Haskins
of Daniel Webster Grange. Chichester members worked the Third Degree with
some help from their guests.
Wildlife sightings included several herons,
a harrier (hawk), wild turkeys, deer, and many local birds. Mary West saw an
owl and a tarantula on a recent visit to California.
The Fair Committee
reported a blue ribbon award and cash prize from the Hopkinton Fair. They
will exhibit again at the Deerfield Fair at the end of September.
Plans
were made to order dictionaries again this year for the Chichester, Epsom,
and Pittsfield third graders.
Following the meeting refreshments were
served by Mary West. The next meeting will be October 7th.