Reminder
The Barnstead Historical Society will hold an organizational meeting at
the Town Hall on Thursday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m. We will discuss meeting
topics, a fall trip, and a number of projects. Members and interested
persons are strongly urged to attend and give voice. As always, the meetings
are free and open to the public.
For more information, call Sandy Burt at
776-5571
or Susan Fraser at 269-8991.
Open Barn
The Yankee Miniature Horse Club will hold an Open Barn on April 25th and 26th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
You are invited to spend some time visiting the little horses, brush,
pet, and see the foals. Fun for all ages.
We are at 158 Garland Road in Barnstead. For further information, please
call 435-7351.
Local Students Raised $986.03 For The Leukemia And Lymphoma
Society’s Pennies For Patients® Program
Students at Barnstead Elementary School in Barnstead, NH,
collected Pennies for Patients® to benefit The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
during the month of March.
After three weeks of students bringing their
spare change to school, the total was $986.03.
The top fundraising class was
Mr.
Bourque’s class. They raised
$204.41 and won the pizza party awarded by the Society. “I am so proud of
our students,” said Tim
Rice, School Principal at Barnstead Elementary School. “They did a great job
of giving selflessly and they really understood the mission of LLS and what
the money is used for.”
Leukemia is the leading cause of disease-related death among children.
An estimated 785,829 Americans have a blood cancer, and every five minutes,
someone new is diagnosed. Since 1992, millions of dollars have been raised
in pennies and other spare change by more than 12 million elementary, middle
and high school students nationwide. The mission of The Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and
myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
“These students serve as an example to all of us through their
commitment to helping others,” said
Sharon
Klein, Executive Director for the
Massachusetts Chapter. “Their efforts will help local patients and their
families along with funding blood cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute, Boston’s Children’s Hospital, New England Medical
Center and
Massachusetts General Hospital
along with 13 other institutions throughout Massachusetts.”
For information regarding local programs and services of the
Massachusetts Chapter of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, call (800)
688-6572 or visit our Web site at
www.lls.org/ma.
Two Million Pennies Collected By Children Showcasing the “Power of
the Penny”
Thirty-six Granite
State schools were
recognized at the State House for their participation on the Power of the Penny
Campaign
sponsored by NH Partners in Education. The event took place in
the Executive Council Chambers on Tuesday, April 21st which is National
Teach Children To Save Day.
Collectively, the children from these area schools and schools state
wide collected over 2.1 million pennies from October through March with the
proceeds donated to various charities selected by the children. “Our intent
with the Power of the Penny
campaign when we introduced it three years ago, was to restore the
importance and simplicity of saving money,” explains
Daniel
Hebert, Executive Director of
NHPIE. “We weren’t as concerned with the amount of money raised but rather,
what would the children learn from collecting coins that many people
consider annoying and disposable. We can all take a lesson from what they’ve
done here.”
36 students from Hooksett
Memorial
School
were selected to come to the State House event to represent each of the
schools that participated in the state-wide campaign. Carol Soucy,
principal of Hooksett
Memorial
School
said, “We are honored to have been asked to represent our fellow schools in
this recognition.” The students from
Memorial
School collected over
30,000 pennies in their effort this year.
Attending the recognition event will be State Treasurer Catherine
Provencher, NH Bankers Association Jerry Little,
Richard
Arcand from the NH Banking Department, Deputy Education Commissioner Mary
Heath, State Senate President
Sylvia Larsen, House Speaker Terri Norelli and other dignitaries. Special
recognition was also given by members of the NH Jump$tart Coalition
who are conducting student activities associated with Youth Financial
Literacy Month recently proclaimed by Governor John Lynch.
The area schools that received recognition for their participation are:
Alton Central School, Alton; Barnstead Elementary School, Barnstead;
Barrington Elementary School, Barrington; Deerfield Community School,
Deefield.
Census Workers To Verify Addresses In New England And New York
First Major 2010 Census Operation To Employ Thousands
The U. S. Census Bureau has launched a massive operation to verify and
update more than 145 million addresses as it prepares to conduct the 2010
Census.
Nationwide, more than 140,000 Census workers will participate in the
Address Canvassing Operation, a critically important first step in assuring
that every housing unit receives a 2010 Census questionnaire in March 2010.
Throughout the Census Bureau’s Boston Region (New England, upstate New York,
and Puerto Rico), approximately 13,000 temporary employees will carry out
the operation.
“A complete and accurate address list is the cornerstone of a successful
Decennial Census,” said Kathleen Ludgate, Regional Director at the Boston
Regional Census Center. “Building on the achievements of the 2000 Census, we
have been testing and preparing for the 2010 count all decade, and we’re
ready to fulfill our constitutional mandate to count everyone living in the
United States.”
The first publicly visible activity of the 2010 Census is now underway.
New England and Upstate New York residents could see address canvassing
listers in their neighborhoods and communities from April until late June.
The Census listers have been trained to use new hand-held computers equipped
with GPS to increase geographic accuracy. The ability to capture GPS
coordinates for housing units will greatly reduce the number of errors
caused by using paper maps as was done in previous Census counts.
“The primary goal of the Decennial Census is to count everyone once,
only once, and in the right place,” Director Ludgate said. “Because the
Census is used for reapportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives
and the distribution of more than $300 billion in federal dollars every year
to state and local governments, it’s essential to get this first step
right.”
The local Address Canvassing Operation will be conducted out of 12 Early
Local Census Offices located throughout the Region. The Concord, New
Hampshire Local Census Office has hired 650 employees to begin address
canvassing on April 20, 2009. In most cases, Census workers will knock
on residents’ doors to verify addresses and inquire about any additional
living quarters on the premises.
Census workers can be identified by the official Census Bureau employee
badge they carry. During the Address Canvassing Operation, the listers will
only ask residents for information related to a housing unit address and any
additional living quarters in the residence. No personal information
will be collected during this operation.
Over the last several years, the Census Bureau has been actively working
on updating its geographic databases and master address files. From
implementing the Local Update of Census Address (LUCA) program - where more
than 11,500 tribal, state and local governments participated in a review of
the Census Bureau’s address list for their area - to increasing the
precision of the GPS mapping, many advances have been made to compile the
most comprehensive listing of addresses in the nation.
This is the first Census to include group quarters (such as dormitories,
group homes, prisons and homeless shelters) in the Address Canvassing
Operation, which should improve both the accuracy and coverage of the final
count. There will be one final opportunity to add new home construction in
early 2010 prior to the mailing of the 2010 Census questionnaires.
All Census information collected - including addresses - is confidential
and protected by law. By law, the Census Bureau cannot share respondents’
answers with the FBI, the IRS, CIA, Welfare, Immigration, or any government
or law enforcement agency. All Census Bureau employees - including temporary
employees -take an oath for life to keep Census information confidential.
Any violation of that oath is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and
five years in prison.
For additional information contact the Boston Regional Census Center at
(617) 223-3610 or
[email protected].
