The Barnstead Parade Congregational Church will be holding their Annual
Indoor-Outdoor Plant Sale at the Church in Barnstead Parade on June 2,
2012 from 9 to 11 am. Come and look for your favorite flowers, shrubs,
and plants to add to your gardens. There will also be garden ornaments
and other items for sale to help beautify the gardens. This sale
benefits our Special Missions.
Greetings From China And Mongolia
Submitted By Jess Emory
After leaving New Zealand and transiting through Australia, I arrived in
China. My goal was to catch the elusive Russian visa. Having gotten my
application together in January in Cambodia, I had been trying ever
since to submit it. The problem was that American citizens are required
to wait a 10 business day period while it processes. China was my last
hope. I went, I submitted it after much running around and sorting out
final details, and then it was in the hands of the Russian Consulate.
While I waited, I visited a friend in Shaoxing, a small village of 4
million about two hours south of Shanghai. It is the fiber and textile
capital of China, and arguably, the world. My friend works at an
international school and I had the opportunity to guest lecture about my
project and also share my senior research project in Chemistry. It was a
very different experience to my previous travels in China. For the most
part, these students were exceptionally wealthy but lacked motivation.
Though they had every opportunity, they seized none of them. It was
unlike anything I had experienced before. Cheating was rampant, they
lacked discipline and had no respect for teachers and administrators.
While out exploring the textile district of Shaoxing (a neighborhood
covered in fabrics from the most tasteful of neutrals to full on sequins
and glitter), I met three textile traders, one from Uzbekistan, one from
Kyrgyzstan, and one from Xing’xiang, an autonomous region in the west of
China. The three had saved a friend and me when we were hopeless at
ordering dumplings in a restaurant by the river. We got to talking and
it turned out that these three men are the modern equivalent of the silk
road. They have left their homes for better lives and spend their days
buying textiles that are bundled up in the evening and loaded onto
pickup trucks that look like they will go flat with the weight. This
cloth is then shipped to the far reaches of China, the middle east, and
beyond.
This cloth is made in China but also brought into the area by Indians,
among others. The labor is cheap and there is a high density of
factories; textile traders will bring cloth to Shaoxing strictly to have
it made into garments, then they will take it home again.
In talking with Frank, John and Ali, it became clear that the ethnic
climate in China is as complicated as many Westerners suspect. The Uygur
people, the people of Xing’xiang, have a difficult time obtaining
passports and the Han Chinese government dominates this ethnic minority
blatantly. When you discuss these details with Han Chinese people, they
cannot believe that this would happen. I, as a western woman, will never
know what is actually happening, but it is fascinating to watch two
completely different stories be told.
After waiting my 10 business days, I went back to Shanghai and there was
my beautiful Russian visa. I could hardly believe it. Had there not been
a fiberglass window between me and the Russian woman who gave me my
passport, I would probably have hugged and kissed her and had my visa
revoked! A few days later, I was on a train to Beijing and then on a
plane to Mongolia. The trip took about twenty-four hours and when the
plane came in, there was nothing but desert as far as the eye could see.
It turned out the initial view was pretty representative of what is
here. Ulaanbaatar, a city of 1.5 million, is the only major city in the
entire country and it has at least half of the whole population
of Mongolia. If you walk to the outskirts of the city, tremendous
mountains rise up and the emptiness is overwhelming. Smokestacks dot the
horizon and belch smog into the air, but compared to the pollution in
Shaoxing, Ulaanbaatar might as well be a nature reserve.
Unlike China, you can buy ‘real’ western bread, a diverse range of
chocolate bars, Nutella, western deserts, and imported tea. I was
expecting a desolate wasteland of mutton and potatoes, but in the city
there are many options. Also within the city boundaries are many gers
(also known as yurts or felt houses). I came to Mongolia with the
intention of observing how gers are used in modern life and how the
cashmere market is changing with modernization and the cash incentive to
be a shepherd (cashmere goats are good money). I hope to explore these
two paths when I go out into the countryside in the coming weeks, as
well as inside the myriad of museums across the city.
In total, I will be here for three weeks before getting on the train to
Moscow; a five day trip that will take me all the way across Russia. I
will spend a week in Moscow and St. Petersburg before heading to Finland
and Iceland on my homeward journey. Two more months and I will be back
in sleepy Barnstead, New Hampshire. It is hard to think that my first,
second and third e-mails were so long ago. There is still a long road
ahead, but it gets shorter by the day.
Some Interesting Bits From The Road
China: In schools, there are two periods where students stop and rub
their eyes to music to increase productivity, there is loud dance music
at the change of every class even if the school is empty; like on a
Sunday. It is culturally acceptable to stare and point and call out
‘foreigner, foreigner’ at any point in time, fireworks go off day and
night and it sounds like a war zone, there are women who work at Walmart
who look like go-go girls in moon boots and serve samples of Chinese
noodles, clothes are dried by hanging them on a railing over a balcony;
which can be perilous if you attempt to go local and your shirt blows
onto someone else’s balcony and they don’t answer the door, bus riding
is an introduction to your life as a Mexican jumping bean as there are
no shocks, spitting is everywhere and always, steamed buns are
ubiquitous, there are Chinese people struggling with chopsticks so don’t
feel bad if you make a mess of it.
Mongolia: Traffic crossings are made more difficult by the fact that you
never know if someone is going to stop, old women sit along the sides of
the roads selling pine nuts, the buildings are painted peaches and
yellows and blues but it is hard to notice with the grey overtones of
the landscape, the 6 floor State Department Store has everything you
could possibly need, most importantly the national hero is Chinngis
Khan; beer, vodka, buildings, memorials, everything are all named after
him and the largest steel statue in the world was erected in his honor.
Home soon, well, in a few months.
The light in your life was but a flicker, and though that life was
short, who would have known that flicker could start a flame that could
burn in the hearts of so many forever.
Ten years long! Ten years gone!
1990 to 2002
Adam Lee Morse
Men’s Breakfast
Center Barnstead Christian Church is hosting a free Men’s Breakfast this
Saturday, May 26th from 7:30-8:30 am. All men are invited to come and
enjoy breakfast. Our resident chef, Kevin Goble, will be cooking. This
is a nondenominational men’s breakfast.
The Center Barnstead Christian Church is located on Route 126, next to
the Town Hall. For more information contact the church at 269-8831.
Keith McMahon Will Speak At Center Barnstead Christian Church
Keith McMahon will be coming to the Center Barnstead Christian Church on
Sunday, May 27th. He will also be the guest speaker at the Concord
Prison Seminar this weekend.
Keith grew up in Center Barnstead and attended this church. He was
active with the CBFD as an EMT during his college years. After college,
he married Beth (Grantham) of Dayton, Maine in 1991. In 1992, sensing
God’s call upon their lives, they moved to Canada and attended NBBI.
Since graduating in 1996 Keith and Beth have served at NBBI. Keith is on
the faculty, as well as, serving as the Assistant Campus Pastor and
Married Student coordinator.
The New Brunswick Bible Institute (NBBI) was founded in the fall of 1944
when a group of Christian men saw the need for a Bible-centered school
where young men and women might receive a sound training in the Word of
God and be sent forth to evangelize.
The school remains: Solid in discipline. Spiritual in outlook.
Missionary in outreach. Simple in faith and practice. "Study to shew
thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth." (II Tim. 2:15)
For more information on the school visit
http://nbbi.ca/
Come, join us this Sunday as Keith shares about his ministry and
preaches from God’s Word during the Morning Service at 10:00 am. Sunday
School begins at 9:00 am.
The Center Barnstead Christian Church is located on Route 126, next to
the Town Hall. For more information contact the church at 269-8831.
Letter
Dear friends, neighbors and fellow Veterans:
The time has come for Barnstead’s Annual Memorial Day Parade on Friday,
May 28th. This event is hosted by your American Legion Post #42
and its Auxiliary. We will be having a Guest Speaker, BES Band along
with the Prospect Mountain High School Band. Please join us to remember
all the men and women who have paid the ultimate price for this, our
Country, the great United States of America. All are welcome. Bring
your lawn chairs or blanket to the Bandstand by the main Fire Dept. in
Center Barnstead.
We hope the Cub Scouts, Brownies, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will be
marching along with the Fire Dept., Post #42 and the Auxiliary. If you
want to be in the parade, say with an antique car or tractor etc., you
are welcome to join us. Motorcycles are more than welcome and usually a
few lead the Parade behind the Police Car with Chief Borgia. The Fire
Department always looks great in their dress uniforms. Try to wear
something red, white and blue.
Cold drinks and goodies will be available after the Parade. So come to
your Town’s show of love and pride for all of our deceased Veterans, men
and women, all who gave their lives so we can live free.
I can be reached at 776-8253 for any questions and also American Flags
will be on sale for $25 to help support our Post as we help the Veterans
and their families.
God Bless America!
Jack O’Neil
Post #42
Barnstead Dems Host Gubernatorial Candidate
Jackie Cilley Shares Her Vision With Local Residents
Attendees of the Monday evening meeting of the Barnstead Democratic
Committee peppered Jackie Cilley with questions from how she would
ensure a sound education for the children of New Hampshire to what she
would do to prevent businesses from moving overseas. The twenty members
engaged one another in a spirited debate about ideas and solutions to
the challenges facing the state, leaving the candidate to wonder whether
to weigh in or listen.
As the launch of a series of candidates meetings, the Barnstead
Democratic Committee invited Jackie Cilley, candidate for Governor, to
discuss her candidacy and vision. Cilley shared her childhood in Berlin,
NH as well as her experiences of growing up in a mill working family,
her struggle to go to college as an adult student with a child, her
teaching background and her legislative experience.
"The sum total of those experiences, the combination of my working class
roots and my experience in the business world make me uniquely qualified
to talk about the bridge between workers and businesses," explained
Cilley. "Our state must be able to offer a highly skilled and educated
workforce to businesses interested in starting up in New Hampshire or
relocating to our state. That is the number one reason they cite for
coming here."
Cilley went on to talk about the current legislative actions in Concord
that have damaged our competitiveness for the 21st century marketplace.
"Look, there’s no magic formula for businesses interested in
relocating," she said. "They want a highly skilled, educated workforce.
They want good schools for their own children. They rely on a modern
communication and transportation infrastructure, and they want a healthy
environment in which to raise their own families as well as for their
employees’ families."
"If we fail to make those investments, and currently we are not making
them, we will be increasingly unable to attract new business development
to our state. We have already fallen from 19th place on the Forbes list
of most attractive states for business development to number 27 behind
New York and Massachusetts. Where is our New Hampshire advantage?"
Although the meeting was schedule to end by 8:30 pm, those in attendance
continued to discuss a wide variety of topics until 9 pm. Still eager to
continue the dialogue, folks clustered in small groups in the parking
lot outside the Barnstead Town Hall.
Asked to comment, Tess Smith, Chair of the Committee, expressed
enthusiasm for what she had heard. "Jackie is the real deal, New
Hampshire through and through," Smith stated. "She understands workers,
she understands achievement, and as a teacher, she understands the
importance of educating others to accomplish what she has been able to
do. And, she is tough enough to handle that bunch in Concord."
Another resident, Gail Whittemore expressed positive impressions when
she remarked, "I was struck by Jackie’s clarity about complex issues.
She is able to give a sense of the broad view while including a solid
matrix of information."
Meeting with town Democratic committees throughout New Hampshire is part
of an integrated plan the Cilley campaign has been pursuing to get their
candidate in front of voters before the New Hampshire primary.
"While we will certainly use traditional media sources and other avenues
to amplify Jackie’s message," noted Liz Merry, campaign manager,
"getting her in front of as many voters as possible is at the foundation
of our strategy. There is something magic that happens in a room when
Jackie speaks to voters. Her energy excites them and they love to engage
in conversations with her about almost any topic under the sun. It’s the
way we do politics in New Hampshire – we like to kick the tires. We’re
going to make sure that as many voters as possible have the opportunity
to meet Jackie personally."
In addition to the Barnstead Democrats, Cilley will be meeting with the
Andover and Canterbury Democratic Committees this week.
About Jackie:
Jackie Cilley, who served in both New Hampshire’s House and Senate
representing Barrington, built a successful business and taught more
than 2,500 New Hampshire students over her 20 years as a highly
respected business professor with UNH’s Whittemore School for Business
and Economics. A Berlin native, Sen. Cilley earned a BA in Psychology
from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from the Whittemore
School. Jackie and her husband Bruce have lived in Barrington for more
than 20 years. They have five sons, 12 grandchildren, and two dogs.
Letter
Memorial Day Parade
The American Legion, Earl B. Clark, Post #42 of Barnstead, NH will be
holding its annual Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 28th at 1:00 pm.
The ceremony will take place in Center Barnstead, just outside the Fire
Station. Please provide your own chairs if you require seating. Our
opening ceremony will begin with the presentation of our colors by the
members of American Legion, Post #42. We will also have the support of
the Barnstead Elementary School Band and the Marching Band from the
Prospect Mountain High School. We are honored to have Staff Sergeant,
Jim Martell, of the Army National Guard as our guest speaker.
After the opening ceremony there will be a short march up town and back
with a couple of stops along the way to pay tribute to our fallen
comrades. You are invited to join us for the march and refreshments will
be served afterwards inside the Fire Station.
If anyone is willing to donate food snacks (such as cookies, cakes,
chips, etc.) it would be greatly appreciated. Please no alcoholic
beverages.
Please come and enjoy the ceremony and join us in saying thanks to the
men and women of our Armed Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice so we
may live in Freedom.
Garrick W. Lock
Commander,
American Legion,
Earl B. Clark, Post #42
"Dream Big" At The Barnstead Library!
The Oscar Foss Memorial Library invites children of all ages to
participate in our "Dream Big-Read!" 2012 Summer Reading Program.
Registration begins June 1st and will continue through the month,
closing on June 25th. Be on the lookout for more information about our
special activities and feel free to call 269-3900 or stop by the library
for more information about our exciting summer programs!
Wondering What To Do This Summer?
The Oscar Foss Memorial Library in Center Barnstead would like to help.
We are proud to offer to our patrons discounted passes to the following
three New Hampshire family-friendly attractions and activities.
1. McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (previously named the
Christa McAuliffe Planetarium)
• The pass is free admission to exhibit galleries for four people
• Thursday - Sunday 10 am - 5 pm, Friday evenings 6:30 - 9 pm.
• 7 days a week for school and summer vacations
• www.starhop.com, (603)271-7827
for additional information
2. Canterbury Shaker Village
• The passes are discounted: adults $6 (normally $17), Youth 6-17 $3
(normally $8), child 5 and under Free
• Open daily for guided tours, self-guided tours and demonstrations
• May 10 to October 31, 10 am - 5 pm
• www.shakers.org or (603)783-9511
for additional information
3. SEE Science Center
• The pass is free admission for one entire family and grandparents
• SEE is open 7 days a week
• Monday - Friday 10 am - 4 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 5 pm
• www.see-sciencecenter.org
or (603) 669-0400
To become a patron of the OFML, please bring in proof of residency
(Barnstead address printed on your license, renter’s agreement or
utility bill). Already a patron? Call the library at 269-3900 to reserve
your pass or for more information.
Dennis Mayo Named Strafford School Principal
On May 11, 2012, the Strafford School Board unanimously approved the
nomination of Dennis Mayo to the position of Strafford School Principal.
Dennis, a Center Barnstead resident, has previously served as Principal
of the Newington Public School, in Newington, NH, and has 20 years’
experience in education.
Following an intensive recruitment, screening and interviewing process
involving members of the community, staff and Board, Dennis was selected
from a field of over 36 applicants as the candidate whose experience,
skills and abilities best matched the goals and mission of the Strafford
School District.
The Board is working to provide opportunities to introduce our new
Principal to the educational community and the community at large.