Pittsfield High School  Class of 1978 30th Reunion.

Join your classmates for an informal night of reminiscing on Saturday, October 18th, 7:00 p.m. - at JJ Goodwin’s Lounge, Route 28, Barnstead, NH.
 

Victory Workers 4-H Club Achievement Night will be held on Monday, October 20 at the Pittsfield Community Center beginning at 6:30 p.m. The program will include annual secretary’s and treasurer’s reports; installation of 2008-2009 officers; certificates, seals and pins will be awarded to members and leaders for completed 2007-2008 projects and leadership; there will be gifts for members and leaders; Hopkinton Fair checks will be distributed; member and leader photographs will be taken and an ice cream social for everyone! All members and families both former and new should plan to attend. Members are reminded that 4-H Cookie Sale money is due.
 

Barnstead Alton Republican Committee

The Barnstead Alton Republican Committee (BARC) held their inaugural meeting on Wednesday evening, October 1, at J.J. Goodwin’s Restaurant in Barnstead. This committee was formed because Alton and Barnstead are demographically similar, share the same high school, and tend to be isolated geographically from the other towns in Belknap County. The long term goals of BARC are to identify common issues facing the townspeople of Alton and Barnstead, to help to develop and guide individuals interested in running for office, and to act as a sounding board for elected officials while remaining active in other Belknap County Republican activities.

The November 4 election is the current focus. All interested volunteers are invited to join the BARC team as they focus their efforts on assisting GOP candidates in their bid for success on Election Day with phone banks, mailings, sign making, and other election activities. Working sessions, including Alton/Barnstead phone banks, are being held every Monday evening through November 3 at J.J. Goodwin’s Restaurant, Route 28 in Barnstead from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The first phone bank took place this past Monday, October 6. To volunteer for the on-going Monday evening working sessions, or for more information, please contact BARC by emailing the Committee at BarnsteadAlton  [email protected] or by calling 364-9780.

A Meet the Candidates night will be announced shortly. All interested candidates should contact BARC for information on participating. Watch your local newspapers for formal announcement of this event.

To be added to email distribution for information about future meetings and events, please send your name, email address, town, and contact phone number to BarnsteadAlton  [email protected].
 

Letter

The $1 Trillion Wall Street welfare scandal, generating a tax of approximately $5,000 to the NH taxpayer filing individually or with spouse, provides insight into the failed and misguided views of anti-tax, anti-government, anti-regulation conservatives at the federal, state, and local levels, who believe government should do little or nothing for people, that mega-corporations can and will self-govern, that government just gets in the way, and it should step aside. It’s apparent the government of compassionate conservatism under Mr. Bush stepped aside years ago for the bottom 99 percent of Americans, while tax breaks for the wealthy remain its top priority.

The November election will determine whether America’s safety net, as created by the responsive and caring governments of presidents Roosevelt (Social Security) and Johnson, (Medicaid/Medicare), will continue, or fall victim to those office holders and candidates who will continue the shift of government guarantees and protections to the greed and corruption of for-profit, deregulated, Wild West-style free markets.

We are all going to be old one day; many will become sick and/or disabled in our waning years. What’s in your future? What is health and financial security worth to you now and in your old age?

Bob Perry
Strafford