Help Send a Child to Camp

Save your appetite for the Barnstead School Meeting on March 22nd.

Breakfast will be served and the proceeds will help send kids to Horton Center – a UCC church camp up in the White Mountains. The school meeting begins at 9am and folks from the Congregational Church of North Barnstead will be in the kitchen at the side of the gym/meeting hall to sell breakfast starting at 8:30.  There will be both protein (quiche) and carb’s – coffee cake and muffins as well as Fair Trade coffee and tea.  Come support our kids by your involvement in this important town meeting and by supporting this campership program. 

U.S. Senate Candidate Jim Rubens To Address 

Belknap County Republican Committee 

On Monday March 24

The March monthly meeting of the Belknap County Republican Committee originally scheduled for Wednesday March 12 has been rescheduled for Monday, March 24 at 6:30 pm at the Top of the Town Restaurant, 88 Ladd Hill Rd in Belmont.

This month’s guest speaker is former State Senator Jim Rubens. Jim announced last September that he would be challenging current U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen in the November 2014 election. However, to do so, Jim will have to prevail in a primary against a number of other Republican U.S. Senate candidates.  Rubens will share his reasons for choosing to run, discuss where he stands on the issues, and explain why he feels he’s the candidate who can best represent New Hampshire in Washington, D.C. 

Belknap County GOP meetings are open to ALL Republicans and like-minded independents. Per their usual meeting format, if you’re interested in having dinner (at your option) and/or wish to socialize before the meeting, plan to arrive as early as 5:00 pm.

The Committee is stepping up its request for food pantry donations.  With the winter cold continuing to be a burden for many, the Committee once again reminds everyone planning to attend to bring non-perishable food items to the meeting for distribution to local food pantries.

For more information, please send an email to [email protected]

Oscar Foss Memorial News

Barnstead Food Pantry Donation

Our first Fine Free February event at the library was a great success! We collected 87 items and $87.55 for the Barnstead Food Pantry. Thank you to all our wonderful patrons for your generous donations.   

New Art Exhibition 

A new photography exhibit by Joe Perna is on display at the library until April 4th. Joe is a NH based photographer, whose involvement in the arts spans nearly forty years. He has enjoyed both amateur and professional status over that time. He photographs in both black and white and color, exclusively with digital equipment. Many of the images on display are part of a collection of work he is now creating that observes and documents places where people have been; homes, barns, workshops, churches, and places that suggest the presence of people and what they have left behind. The lighting and colors are essentially how they were found, without appreciative adjustment by the photographer.  Joe’s commercial work is in portraiture and people photography, advertising and product photography, and helping businesses and individuals enhance their on-line visual presence. He has exhibited his work in galleries, shows and commercial spaces in New England. Joe is on the Board of Directors of Main Street Art, in Newfields, N.H. and chairs their Artist Advisory Committee and he also teaches photography at the MSA gallery. 

Letter To The Editor

Our family would like to extend a huge thank-you to the teachers and staff at Barnstead Elementary School for hosting an amazingly popular Math Carnival Night.

Apart from the exciting and real carnival-like feel that the night had, which was obviously an amazing amount of work in itself, your enthusiastic teachers had both our 5 and 11 year old girls equally engaged in every game- that’s a tremendous feat! While we were there, it was encouraging to see swarms of kids so captivated by the creative math games and eager for more opportunities to participate, rushing from one game to the other. Once I was able to finally pull them free and get them home, it was equally rewarding to hear them recount the night to their dad, each game described with such delight!

This is what real learning is about for us- curiosity, engagement, and excitement… isn’t that what we all want for our children? To have them excited and curious about life, eager to learn all they can about what interests them, and actively engaged in searching for answers?

Again, thanks to you all so much for spending your valuable personal family time with your BES families instead, for pooling your creative talents and resources, and for making Math Carnival Night an incredibly memorable event for my children.  We couldn’t be more thrilled with the results of all your hard work- and we are already looking forward to the next one!

Allyson Vignola

Center Barnstead

The Lakes Region Plan: An Update

LRPC is in the process of updating the Comprehensive Regional Plan per RSA 36:47 and will be requesting town comments as well as asking LRPC Commissioners to vote to adopt the plan before the end of this calendar year.  Starting at 6:00 pm on Monday, March 31, the Lakes Region Planning Commission (LRPC) is convening a meeting at Tri-County CAP, 448 White Mountain Highway, Tamworth.  LRPC Commissioners will receive an update on the progress with the Lakes Region Plan, a state planning requirement of NH RSA 36:47. The update will include the timeline for completion, an overview of the Chapters completed to date and the work in progress. Particular emphasis will be placed on the public review and comment process, the Implementation Plan and Strategy component and the adoption of the Plan by the Commission in November 2014.