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Pittsfield NH News
January 14, 2009
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Celebrating
Birthdays are: January 14, Lyn Ward; January 15, Carole Abbott; Daniel
Ward Sr., January 16, Daniel Ward Jr.; January 17, Nancy Fogg; January
18, David Fogg, Tasha Giuda; January 20, Mark Riel.
A Very Happy Birthday to one and all.
Best Wishes to Robert and Wanda Boston who will celebrate their
wedding anniversary on January 15.
Winners in the Peterson-Cram Post #75 Monthly Drawing for December
Were:
#333, Diane Vaughan, $50; #132, Charles H. Green, $25; #184, Jill
Metcalf, $10; #164, Cameron Donovan, $10.
Come join The Greater Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce as we enjoy our
first 2009 Business After Hours. The event will be held at
Pittsfield Youth Workshop on Thursday January 15th, 2009 from 6pm –
8pm . There will be light refreshments served, a tour of the PYW
building and a brief explanation of what they do. Everyone is
welcome to come. If you are not a member, this is a great
opportunity to learn what The Greater Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce
is involved in and how it could benefit your business.
Boy Scout Ice Rink Benefit Breakfast by the Epsom-Chichester Lions
Club on Jan. 17 from 7:30 to 10 am at the Epsom Legion Hall. All
donations are toward the Ice Rink. Full breakfast: pancakes, french
toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, baked beans,potatoes, juice and coffee.
Join us.
Pittsfield
Area Senior Center
Thurs.,
Jan. 15
10:00 a.m. -
Bingo
12:00 p.m. - Birthday Party Luncheon
Fri., Jan.
16
11:00 a.m. -
Yoga
Mon., Jan.
19
10:00 a.m. - Bingo
Tues. Jan.
20
10:00 a.m. - Crafts
Wed. Jan.
21
10:00 a.m. - Post Holiday Gathering At The Gregoirs In Barnstead
MOW And Daily Participants
Meals on Wheels participants call 435-8482 when you won’t be home to
receive your meal or you won’t be at the center. If you don’t, we worry
about you. Listen to WMUR TV on bad weather days for cancellations.
Keep your Emergency Bags for the days when we have to cancel deliveries
due to a storm or flood! Please do not call the center to question
deliveries. Wait for us to call you. If we won’t deliver, you will be
called to be sure you are OK and remind you to use your blizzard bag.
Daily participants: The Senior Center does not necessarily close just
because the schools close. We make every attempt to be open even if we
open late. The Senior Center is a warm dry place to spend a chilly day.
Listen to WMUR for cancellations only. Otherwise we are open.
School
Lunch Menus
January 19-23, 2009
CHICHESTER
Monday - No School - Martin Luther King Day
Tuesday - Pizza sticks, marinara sauce, garden salad, fruit, milk.
Wednesday - Cheeseburger, oven fries, green beans, pudding, milk.
Thursday - Nachos with cheese sauce, baked beans or veggie, peaches,
milk.
Friday - Variety of cold sandwiches, carrots with Ranch dip, chips,
apple, milk.
EPSOM
Monday - No School - Civil Rights Day
Tuesday - Nachos, tossed salad, salsa/cheese, fruit, milk or yogurt
tray, Caesar salad.
Wednesday - Baked macaroni & cheese, baby bread sticks, veg., fruit,
milk or yogurt tray, cheese salad.
Thursday - Sloppy Joe with roll, onion rings, veg., fruit, milk or
yogurt tray, egg salad.
Friday - Mini Course - Bag Lunch - Ham & cheese wraps, chips, baby
peeled carrots, fruit, milk, no salad.
The
Pittsfield Youth Baseball Association is pleased to announce that
Michael and Suzanne Hill, formerly of the Whites Pond District, have
made a major donation to the project at Pittsfield Youth Athletic Park.
Mr. Hill retired as President of the New Hampshire Hospital Association
at the end of November and the couple has moved to Florida. We wish them
well in their new home in the Sunny South.
VA Data Show
Home Health Technology Improves Access to Care
Peake: Entire Health Care System More Effective
Submitted By American Legion Peterson-Cram Post 75 of Pittsfield
Merrill Vaughn
Commander
Veterans with chronic conditions can manage their health and avoid
hospitalization by using special technology provided by the Department
of Veterans Affairs (VA) in their homes, according to a recent study.
“The study showed that home telehealth makes health care more effective
because it improves patients’ access to care and is easy to use,” said
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake. “A real plus is that
this approach to care can be sustained because it’s so cost-effective
and more veteran-centric. Patients in rural areas are increasingly
finding that telehealth improves their access to health care and
promotes their ongoing relationship with our health care system.”
The study found a 25 percent reduction in the average number of days
hospitalized and a 19 percent reduction in hospitalizations for patients
using home telehealth. The data also show that for some patients the
cost of telehealth services in their homes averaged $1,600 a year - much
lower than in-home clinician care costs.
The authors of the study in the current issue of the journal
Telemedicine and e-Health are VA national telehealth staff members. The
study looked at health outcomes from 17,025 VA home telehealth patients.
VA’s home telehealth program cares for 35,000 patients and is the
largest of its kind in the world. Clinicians and managers in health care
systems, as well as information technology professionals, have been
awaiting the results of the telehealth study, said Dr. Adam Darkins,
chief consultant in VA’s care coordination program, who led the study.
“The results are not really about the technology, but about how using it
helps coordinate the full scope of care our patients need,” said Darkins.
“It permits us to give the right care in the right place at the right
time.”
Telehealth Study 2/2/2
VA’s Under Secretary for Health, Dr. Michael J. Kussman, said the key to
the program’s success is VA’s computerized patient record system. “Data
obtained from the home such as blood pressure and blood glucose, along
with other patient information in the electronic system, allows our
health care teams to anticipate and prevent avoidable problems,” he
said.
VA health care officials emphasize that home telehealth does not
necessarily replace nursing home care or traditional care but can help
veterans understand and manage chronic conditions such as diabetes,
hypertension and chronic heart failure. Patients’ partnership with the
medical team can delay the need for institutional care and maintain
independence for an extended time.
Information taken from Veterans Affairs News Release.
Letter
Dear Pittsfield Voters,
Please take a look at the Zoning Ordinance changes to be presented on
January 15.
Table 1 includes the following proposed uses in the RURAL zone which
have the potential to contaminate drinking water and future land value:
Automobile Dealers, Auto Body Shop/Auto Repair, Repair Shop, Personal
Service (by definition includes dry cleaners or printing shops), Marine
facilities (by definition includes on-site fuel and servicing boats),
and Truck, Heavy Equipment & Trailer Repair.
Any facility where fuel is present on-site has the potential for
groundwater contamination. Many many towns across the nation have
decided it is best to separate these uses from rural property, and to
keep these uses in industrial zones. These uses have potential to
contaminate soil and groundwater. Abutting property around industrial
activity loses value, affecting the tax base of the town.
Table 1 includes other uses in the rural zone which are more suited to
commercial zones: hospitals, veterinary hospitals, hotels, and health
club/sport facilities.
Rural property is highly valued for agriculture, silviculture, or
conservation/open space, all of great value to most towns for aesthetic
and environmental reasons. But facilities that bring traffic, asphalt
parking lots, lighted signs, etc. are not suited to the rural zone.
Please, let’s keep them in the commercial zone. Please do not accept
these proposed zoning changes.
Finally, the definition of Frontage specifies frontage on Class VI
roads. The town does not maintain these roads. Emergency vehicles cannot
access property on these roads. Why would the Planning Board approve
subdivisions on Class VI roads?
Respectfully,
Susan Willoughby, P.E.
VA
Assisting Veterans with Health Care Costs
Submitted By
The American Legion Peterson-Cram Post 75 of Pittsfield
For veterans struggling financially due to a job loss or decreased
income, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers an assortment of
programs that can relieve the costs of health care or provide care at no
cost.
“With the downturn in the economy, VA recognizes that many veterans will
feel the effects,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake.
“Therefore, it is important that eligible veterans learn of the many
ways VA has to help them afford the health care they have earned.”
Veterans whose previous income was ruled too high for VA health care may
be able to enter the VA system based upon a hardship if their current
year’s income is projected to fall below federal income thresholds due
to a job loss, separation from service or some other financial setback.
Veterans determined eligible due to hardship can avoid copays applied to
higher-income veterans. Qualifying veterans may be eligible for
enrollment and receive health care at no cost.
Also eligible for no-cost VA care are most veterans who recently
returned from a combat zone. They are entitled to five years of free VA
care. The five-year “clock” begins with their discharge from the
military, not their departure from the combat zone.
Each VA medical center across the country has an enrollment coordinator
available to provide veterans information about these programs.
Veterans may also contact VA’s Health Benefits Service Center at
1-877-222 VETS (8387) or visit the VA health eligibility web site at
www.va.gov/healtheligibility.
Area Resident
Named to Dean’s List at Quinnipiac University
The following local student was named to the Dean’s List at Quinnipiac
University for the Fall 2008 semester:
Meghan Brown of Pittsfield, NH
Students who excel in scholarship by earning a grade point average of at
least 3.5 with no grade lower than C are recognized by being place on
the dean’s list. Full-time students must complete at least 14 credits in
a semester, with at least 12 credits that have been graded on a letter
grade basis (A through C) to be eligible. Part-time students must
complete at least 6 credits during a semester.
Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located
90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The
university enrolls 5,600 full-time undergraduate and 1,900 graduate
students in 51 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs of study in its
School of Business, School of Communications, School of Education,
School of Health Sciences, School of Law, College of Arts and Sciences
and College of Professional Studies. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among
the top universities with master’s programs in the Northern region in
U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges. The 2009 issue of
U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as
the top up-and-coming school with master’s programs in the North.
Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review’s The Best 368
Colleges. For more information, please visit
http://www.quinnipiac.edu.
Lighthouse
Church Of God Pastor’s Corner
Rev. Elmer Elliott
Only One Year
Resolutions come and go with every year. We make promise after promise
which lasts a week or two and then they are forgotten. But what if you
were told you had just 12 months to live, how would you spend this year?
For one thing “time” would become more valuable. How often have you
heard, or said it yourself, “Oh, I’m just killing time.”
How precious those wasted moments would be this year.
We read in James 4:13-14, “Go to now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we
will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell,
and get gain:
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life?
It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth
away.”
What would you do with your time? No two of us would react the same way,
but I believe we would want to fulfill some obligations. Not just
financial debts, but debts of gratitude and appreciation.
Would there be a new standard of value on things? Money would be less
important, but the love of family and friends would be a priceless
treasure.
Now you have just twelve short months to think of the future. What
future? ETERNITY!
This life on earth, whatever the length of time, is a preparation for
eternity, and it’s your choice where you spend it. It’s either eternity
in heaven with Jesus and the redeemed saints or eternity in hell with
Satan and his fallen angels. Either place must be decided on here on
earth before death.
Jesus told Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again.” He was speaking of the
new birth in the Spirit. John 6:47 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he
that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
John 3:18 “He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God.”
What do you have to do to go to hell? Nothing...
Is there life after physical death? Oh yes!
Rev. 20:12 “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and
the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book
of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written
in the books according to their works.” This is God judging the lost.
Verse 15 “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire.”
Speaking of the redeemed in heaven we read:
Rev. 22:5 “And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle,
neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth light: and they shall
reign for ever and ever.”
Yes, heaven will be wonderful, and if you give your life to Christ, now,
this life can be wonderful also, whether it’s one year or many years.
So now let us walk together with Jesus in this life and the one to come.
Leslie and
Barbara Clark celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on December 5th.
They were married in Northwood, lived many years in Pittsfield and now
reside in Chichester. They celebrated the day with dinner out with their
children. They were also surprised with a cake and memory video at the
annual Clark Family Christmas Party.
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Obituaries
Katherine
“Kate” L. Holloway
Katherine “Kate” L. Holloway, 49, of 62 Colony Road, died on Tuesday,
January 6, 2009 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, as the
result of an automobile accident.
Kate was born October 6, 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter
of Raymond and Patricia Ann ( Hufford) Storez. She was a graduate of
Pomperaug Regional High School, Southbury, Connecticut.
Kate was a resident of Laconia for many years before moving to
Pittsfield two years ago. She was employed as an aide in the radiology
department at the Lakes Region General Hospital for five years.
Kate loved gardening, animals, riding motorcycles and traveling. She was
a free spirit and lived life to the fullest every day.
Kate loved her family and all of her friends. She will be greatly missed
by all.
She is survived by her fiancé, Barry Forst, of Pittsfield; two sons,
Charles P. Holloway of Concord and James M. Holloway of Laconia; a
granddaughter, Karmen Holloway, of Laconia; her father, Raymond Storez,
of Watertown, Conn.; two brothers, Charles “Chuck” Storez of Belmont
and Raymond D. Storez of Oakville, Conn.; a sister, Diana L. Richards,
of Concord, NH; five nephews; two nieces; and her best friend, Holly
Nelson of Belmont, NH.
She was predeceased by her mother.
A Funeral Service was held on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at the Wilkinson-Beane
Funeral Home, Laconia.
Spring burial will be held in the family lot in Union Cemetery, Laconia.
Donations may be made in Kate’s memory to the Franklin Savings Bank, PO
Box 339, Franklin, N. H. 03235 for her granddaughter, “Grammy’s Girl”,
Karmen, or to DHART (Dartmouth Hitchcock Air Rescue Transport), DHMC
Development Office, Attn: Michele Clark, 1 Medical Center Drive,
Lebanon, N. H. 03756.
Wilkinson-Beane Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street,
Laconia, N. H. is in charge of the arrangements.
For more information and to view an online memorial go to
www.wilkinsonbeane.com.
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