On Saturday, October 19th there will be a Pancake
Breakfast at the Northwood Congregational Church,
881 First NH Turnpike/Route 4 (next to Coe-Brown
Northwood Academy) from 8:00 am - 10:30 am. Plain,
Blueberry, and Chocolate Chip pancakes will be
served, along with sausage, coffee or tea, and
orange juice, apple juice, or milk. $5.00 adults
and $3.00 children (12 and under). Proceeds will
benefit students from Coe-Brown going on an
“Experience of a Lifetime” trip to France in June
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 8. Business hours are Monday-Friday 8-4. If you
have any questions, please contact Susan Holden, 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.
Santa’s
Helper Program
The
members of the Northwood Fire-Rescue Association will be organizing
the Northwood Santa’s Helpers Program. You and your child(ren),
ages birth through 18, must be residents of Northwood to apply and
receive gifts from this program. If you would like your
child(ren)’s name added to this year’s program, please stop by the
Town Hall to complete a form before Friday, November 29.
Remember the good old days when you used to walk up to Green’s Drug
Store and get your tickets to the Pittsfield Players’ shows?
Well
those days are back - you can purchase Thoroughly Modern Millie
tickets on Sat., Nov. 2 from 10-2 and Sunday, Nov. 3 from 11-1 at
the Scenic Theatre on Depot Street in Pittsfield.
Tickets
are $17/each; $15 for seniors. The show is Friday and Sat., Nov. 8 &
9 at 7:30 PM, Sunday, Nov. 10 at 2PM and Friday and Sat., Nov. 15 &
16 at 7:30PM.
Letter
To The Editor
To the
Editor,
Government never let’s me down. It is so big, so pervasive, so amok
in trying to control everything in our lives that it does not,
cannot do anything with even a modicum of efficiency. Medicare,
Welfare and now Social Security are so rife with corruption that it
leaves so little for those who really need help and deserve it,
including our military. Obamacare. What a colossal mess and control
grab. I’m not surprised that with three years for implementation, it
cannot even get off the ground.
And
right in the middle of it’s blundering roll out Senator Coburn, a
doctor from Oklahoma released his 2 year old study of SS Disability
Insurance. It’s scathing. It reminded me of a study on reforms done
in Britain where disability recipients had to submit to a medical
test to confirm that they were too disabled to work. “A third
(878,000) didn’t even bother and dropped out of the program. Of
those tested, more than half (55%) were found fit for work, and a
quarter were found fit for some work.” As a business owner I could
have hired SSDI recipients “under the table” all week long.
I like
the sign that is always up in a Democratic Party Booth. It says if
you like SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare and so forth thank the
Democrats or something like that. I agree, if you like all that
corruption, vote for those that would increase it. Despite putting
billions into it SS hasn’t a penny. Same with the rest. We spent it
all and 17,000,000,000 more and counting. Now we expect our kids
and their kids to pay for out extravagances, and our retirement and
our health insurance. What! Are! We!
Doing! ????
Tim
Jandebeur
Northwood
A
Salute from Joseph J Jeffery Memorial VFW Northwood
The
members of the post salute all those companies and individuals who
provided prizes for our annual October drawing as well as everyone
who purchased tickets. Winners will be notified during the month.
We
render a special salute to James and Whitney Smith Cavaretta, owners
of Cavaretta Garden on Route for donating ten percent of their
October sales to the our VFW to be used to support our charitable
efforts.
Thank
you all.
Shannan
Brown, Commander Post 7217, Northwood.
CBNA
Students Attend The Hall-Kenyon Poetry Awards
Back
row: CBNA Seniors Hannah Hughes, Anna Leclere, Alden “Jerry” Leed,
and Katlyn Hanson.
Front
row: Donald Hall and Billy Collins
Four
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy students from Mrs. Usinger’s Poetry and
Performance class attended The Hall-Kenyon Poetry Awards on
Thursday, October 3rd, at the Concord City Auditorium where they met
former US Poets Laureate Donald Hall and Billy Collins. The
students presented Collins, this year’s award recipient, with their
stop-motion short of his poem “My Hero” that the class created to
celebrate Mr. Collins’ visit to NH. The stop-motion animation of “My
Hero” on that the students created may be viewed on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5SMabvCM3A&feature=youtu.be
Thank
You
A
heartfelt thank you from the family of Glenn Josiah
Heartfelt thanks to all our friends and neighbors in Northwood for
joining our family in the celebration of Glenn’s life, for the cakes
and cookies they brought, and all the wonderful cards, emails,
sentiments and prayers. Glenn will be missed, but remembered always.
Chesley
Memorial Library News
Humor
and Harmony is back! The Chesley Memorial Library (with lots of
help from our Friends!) will sponsor “Humor and Harmony” featuring
Rebecca Rule and Cordwood at the Masonic Hall on Route 4 in
Northwood on Saturday, October 26, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Suggested
donation is $5.00 per person at the door. Cookies and beverages
will be available for purchase.
Rebecca
Rule is a humorist/writer who specializes in funny stories about New
Hampshire. You never know what is going to happen once the lies,
uh, stories start flying. Her latest book is a picture book called
“The Iciest, Diciest, Scariest Sled Ride Ever!” Other books include
“Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire-the Present, the
Past, and the Future”; “Live Free & Eat Pie: A Storyteller’s Guide
to New Hampshire”; and “Headin’ for the Rhubarb: A New Hampshire
Dictionary (well, kinda).”
Cordwood is a bluegrass and folk quartet made up of instrumental,
vocal, and recording artists from Northwood, Strafford, and
Deerfield. This is not your local neighborhood hobby band. They
are a fine group of seasoned New England musicians. Each can hold
his or her own at field picking or a back stage jam, and yet, as a
band, they present a highly polished on-stage performance. All four
members of Cordwood are storytellers and songwriters, creating
original material for instrumentalists who can sing and harmonize,
sometimes taking the lead vocal, other times hanging back and
lending two, three, or even four part harmonies to a song. Cordwood
provides a unique sound to both originals and the covers they
perform. Their tunes remain heartfelt and down-home. The band’s
material is a mixture of traditional bluegrass, folk, and swing.
Cordwood is Wini Young on banjo and guitar, Walt Kutylowski on
bass, Al Pratt on guitar, and Bob Young on mandolin, names you may
remember from Big Chicken, The Deerfield Coffeehouse Band, and Fat
Hands.
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