Reminder
Baseball / Softball Sign Ups!
Baseball and Softball sign ups will be a little earlier this year!
Please note the following dates:
• Monday, February 6, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Oscar Foss Library
• Saturday, February 11, 2012, 9:00 am to 12:00 noon at the School (BES)
• Saturday, February 18, 2012 9:00 am to 12:00 noon at the School (BES)
Please bring back any uniforms you have from prior years. Thank you!
Alexander Spongberg of Center Barnstead, is enrolled in SU’s L.C. Smith
College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Save The Date!
The Oscar Foss Memorial Library is hosting a Family Game Night on
February 28, 2012, from 6-8 pm. Call us at 269-3900 or stop by for more
information about this fun event! A snow date of March 1, 2012 has also
been planned. We hope to see you there!
Barnstead Old Home Day 2012 Planning/Kickoff Meeting To Be Held February
8, 2012
The originator of the Old Home Week Association, Frank Rollins of New
Hampshire, visualized a week when people could come back to their roots
to reminisce about life in the small towns where they were reared. He
saw people moving to the cities and out of state for better-paying jobs.
Every year in August, the Barnstead Old Home Day Committee resolves to
continue this hometown tradition started by Rollins in 1899.
We will have our 2012 kick-off/planning meeting Wednesday, February 8,
2012, 6:30 pm at the Barnstead Town Hall. We will be electing a
secretary and treasurer for the year. The steering committee, in their
2011 pre-planning meetings made suggestions for a theme, date and logo
that will need to be approved at this meeting. We need your help so we
can make this year’s Old Home Day special.
We need help selling ads for the booklet and selling raffle tickets,
merchandise and booklets at the summer concerts each Saturday evening in
July and August. We also need volunteers to help with set-up and take
down on the actual day of the event in August. Help with auction donor
items, collecting, listing and valuing items and implementing this
year’s schedule of events is needed. Suggested events are the 5K road
race, breakfast at the fire station, Fun Run, kid’s games, art and photo
show, canoe race, parade, horseshoe contest, Olympic games, disc golf,
police dog demo, karaoke, talent contest, a band concert, bean-hole
dinner at the fire hall and fireworks to end the day.
Log on to the town website at
www.barnstead.org for more information from OHD 2011. Once logged in
click on "About Barnstead" and then go to "Old Home Day".
Contact Timothy Eade at [email protected]
or call 603-269-2252 to offer your assistance.
The Truth Project
The Center Barnstead Christian Church is excited to announce that it
will be hosting a 13 week Sunday evening service/study dedicated to "The
Truth Project." "The Truth Project" is a highly impactful audio/video
driven study series as taught by Dr. Del Tackett that makes one ask the
question, "Is what I really believe really true?" This series compares
and contrasts a Biblical world view with a secular world view regarding
a variety of areas to include but not limited to philosophy, biology,
astronomy, and history. Each session will involve a 50 minute video
presentation followed by a time of discussion.
The service will begin on Sunday, February 12, 2012, from 6:00 pm until
7:30 pm at Center Barnstead Christian Church, which is located at the
corner of Route 126 (South Barnstead Road) and Shackford Corner Road
(next to the Barnstead Town Hall). Child care is available. Please call
the church to make arrangements. If you have any questions, please
contact Pastor Brian Gower or Ken Borgia at 269-8831.
Largest Concord
Hospital Donation To Support The Health Needs Of The
Underserved And The Community Broadly
The largest gift ever received by Concord Hospital will bolster a fund
used to support programs that address the medical needs of our region’s
most vulnerable or that respond to identified community health needs.
When she died in September, 2010, Marion Henderson of Center Barnstead,
a long-time Hospital donor, specified in her will that Concord Hospital
Trust receive the remainder of her estate, valued at approximately,
$3,000,000. Mrs. Henderson had been a patient at the Hospital several
times and was impressed by the care she received.
Her legacy gift was unrestricted, leaving decisions on how it will be
used to the Board of Concord Hospital Trust, the Hospital’s
philanthropic arm. The Board has decided that the best way to support
the Hospital and honor Mrs. Henderson’s memory was to add her remarkable
gift to the Hospital’s Community Services Fund.
The Community Services Fund provides funding to Concord Hospital
programs, as well as those of Riverbend Community Mental Health and the
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association that address the medical
needs of underserved or vulnerable residents and/or respond to
identified community health needs.
The Trust’s Stewardship Committee accepts funding applications annually
and makes awards based upon the Community Services Fund Purpose and
Goals.
After reviewing applications for 2012 funding, the Trust recently
awarded $399,000 to seven community health programs. With anticipated
investment revenue generated by the Henderson gift, the Trust expects to
be able to substantially increase its awards for 2013.
"The Community Services Fund will distribute nearly $400,000 this year
to address important community healthcare needs," said Concord Hospital
Trust Executive Director Pamela Puleo. "Next year, with the addition of
the Henderson Legacy gift, that amount could increase to approximately
$550,000, more than a half million dollars!"
Community Services Fund awards for 2012 are:
• Concord Hospital Family Health Center, Dental Clinic, $210,000 to
provide dental care to uninsured and underinsured Family Health Center
patients.
• Concord Hospital Diabetes Self-Management Program, $3,000 to provide
one-time help for diabetes patients during periods when their diabetes
supplies are not covered by insurance.
• Concord Hospital Elder Care Series, $30,000 to educate and train
clinical staff, and educate families and caregivers to understand and
recognize delirium.
• Riverbend Community Mental Health, Inc. – Health Buddy System, $20,000
to provide Riverbend patients with severe mental illness the use of the
electronic Health Buddy communications system to improve their ability
to manage their symptoms.
• Riverbend Community Mental Health, Inc. – Ph.D. Intern Program,
$20,000 to place a Riverbend Ph.D. intern at the Family Health Center in
Hillsboro to work with patients needing outpatient behavioral services.
• Riverbend Community Mental Health, Inc. – REACH Training, $15,000 to
train healthcare providers to safely and competently provide psychiatric
medication for children, thereby expanding the capacity of child
psychiatric practice in the community.
• Concord Hospital Behavioral Health, Emergency Department (ED),
$101,000 to add additional RN and LNA staffing required due to increased
volume for behavioral health patients in the ED as well as for
appropriate beds for the department’s "Yellow Pod", a specially designed
space for emergency behavioral health patients.
For information about legacy gifts or other ways to support Concord
Hospital, call 603-415-6624 or e-mail
[email protected].
Obituaries
Lester N. Grigg
Lester N. Grigg, 91, died Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at Harbor Hospital,
Baltimore, MD after a brief illness.
He was born in Somerville, MA. He and his wife Lillian, who passed away
in 2008, lived in Rockland, MA until his retirement from Boston Edison
in 1982. At that time they moved to Center Barnstead, NH.
Mr. Grigg moved to Baltimore in September, 2010.
Surviving are 3 sons, Joseph L. (Anne) of Baltimore, MD, William S. of
Las Vegas, NV, Stephen D. (Laura) of Center Barnstead, NH, 2
grandchildren, Adam J. Grigg and Colin A. Grigg both of Baltimore.
A graveside service will be held in the spring at the New Riverside
Cemetery, Alton, NH. Arrangements by Peaslee Alton Funeral Home, 12
School Street, Alton, NH.
To express condolences, please visit:
www.peasleefuneralhome.com
Daniel MacPherson Barraford III
Daniel MacPherson Barraford III died Thursday, January 19, 2012 after a
long and valiant battle with cancer.
Daniel was born May 30, 1943 in Ridley Park, NJ, to parents, Daniel M.
Barraford II and Nora Law Barraford.
Dan married Cate Wheeler in 1982, moved to Barnstead, NH in 1987 and
raised two children, Julia Eva Barraford-Temel of Ankara, Turkey and T.
Elliot Barraford of Boston, MA and Barnstead, NH.
Dan leaves his wife and children and also his siblings; Andrew Barraford
of Amherst, NH and Thomas Barraford of Bellingham, their wives and many
nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by his younger sister, Eulalie in
1970, brother Theodore in 1978, and son Justin in 1991.
Dan was a graduate of Brown University in 1966 and later studied at
Boston University. Through his long career, Dan was an entrepreneur; he
loved start-up businesses, particularly where he could help people.
Dan’s first business was in 1967, he opened a bus service that took
Wellesley College students to and from Boston and other universities. In
1978 he started The Center for Computer Education and trained the
handicapped and unemployed in Cobol computer programming.
After moving to Barnstead in 1987, Dan started Our Town Publishing Co.,
in the Lakes Region of NH. These small, well-loved phone directories
were available to all households free and they offered small businesses
and tradesmen the opportunity to advertise their businesses to the
community at affordable prices. Dan was a strong supporter of small
businesses helping other small businesses.
In 1999, as a charity project, he formed Our Town Energy Cooperative.
The Coop offered 125 senior citizens in NH and families on low-budget
incomes the opportunity to buy home heating fuels at a discount. The
program was so successful that after three years he had to make it into
a full time business, which today is the largest buying group for fuels
serving over 10,000 families, small businesses, towns and municipalities
in NH, ME, MA and VT.
Dan’s primary enjoyment in life was his family and friends. He was an
avid reader, computer techy, music and art lover, opera fan, researcher,
and enjoyed active discussion of politics.
Peaslee Alton Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Burial will be
private at a later date.
