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Chichester NH News

September 23, 2009

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The N.H. Department of Health and Human Services has included the Town of Chichester in an ever growing list of communities that have been classified as “under public health threat” due to new cases of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) in the region.
State health officials urge residents to avoid mosquito bites by wearing long pants and sleeves, staying inside at dusk, and using insect repellents. EEE is likely to remain a threat until the first hard frost. Please go to Chichesternh.org for more information.




Happy Birthday to Hannah West on September 25.




Visit Chichester Library to check out on of the following DVD’s: The Devil’s Arithmetic; Star Wars; Walking Across Egypt; Resting Place; What a Girl Wants; I.O.U.S.A. One Nation, Under Stress, In Debt; Creepy Crawlies; The Wedding Planner; Miss Congeniality 1 & 2; All About Airplanes; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; The Great Valley Adventure; Balto II; Care Bears; Air Bud – Seventh Inning Fetch; When Cowboys Were King; The Wedding Singer; Office Space, Timeline; Katharine Hepburn Classic Movies; Earthsea; Samantha – An American Girl Holiday.




Reminder


Join children of all ages and their families as the Chichester Public Library celebrates the children of the town and their summer reading program with a fun event on Saturday, September 26th, 2 p.m.


For further information, please call the library at 798-5613.



 

Letter


I am writing in response to Deborah Seamon’s Letter To The Editor, dated 9/9/09.


I would first like to thank Deborah for speaking her mind regarding the conduct of our current Board of Selectmen.


It is obvious to me that the selectmen overlooked Ms. Bogdon as a candidate for Health Officer because she is educated, knowledgeable, and forward-thinking and is not easily intimidated. Traits, in my opinion, the selectmen are threatened by.


The board continues to make poor decisions regarding the management of town business. They also have a habit of harassing certain department heads while allowing others to continuously lie and deceive them, and appointing the least qualified candidate for the job; first the Fire Chief, now the Health Officer.


I hope that by reading these letters, the citizens of Chichester will become more involved by attending Selectmen’s meetings and voicing their desire for change.


Martha Stock

 


 

Letter to the Editor


The Chichester Board of Selectmen took seriously the decision on how to fill the Town’s vacant position of Health Officer. That was evidence by the many hours of discussions amongst the Board, and hearing considerable input from the public attending those Board meetings over the last month or so.


Deborah Seamon’s letters in the Sun the last two weeks are not reflective of her having any first hand knowledge of the considerable in-depth conversations that took place at those meetings. And as such, in at least one inference, she completely misrepresented me by saying I did not want any positions in Town combined with the Health Officer. That is totally incorrect. What I did say was that I would not want to combine that position with the Town Administrator’s position, as one Town has done. I only referenced the Town Administrator’s position.


It was very important to me that the Board make an informed decision and as such I took it upon myself to contact the Dept. of Health and Human Services to discuss the issue with that organization. And I personally contacted and spoke to municipal representatives of over 25 Towns, some neighboring towns and many towns in Chichester’s population demographic to inquire on how they have structured their Health Officer position and how their organizational make-up was working.  The overwhelming majority of towns I contacted have combined the Health Officer position with either the Building Inspector, Welfare Office, or Emergency Management and these organizational structures were all working well.


My decision to combine the position of Health Officer with the Building Inspector was based on what I believe was sound judgment backed by considerable investigation and fact-finding, and was done with only the long term best interests of Chichester in mind.


Selectman Richard DeBold

 


 

The Chichester library Hosts Rebecca Rule


LOCL (Lover of Chichester Library) has received a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council to host Rebecca Rule and her fun and entertaining public program titled Better Than a Poke in the Eye.


The evening’s program will be presented on Tuesday, September 29th at 7 p.m. at Chichester Central School. Ms. Rule tells funny, true(ish), close-to-home stories, collected all over the state. Get the inside scoop on dump protocol, town meeting, and septic lagoons. Find out who’s firing shots from the banks of the Cockermouth River, and what some folks think ought to be the new state motto.


For more information about this presentation, feel free to call Chichester Library at 798-5613.


Better Than a Poke in the Eye is one of over 250 programs and exhibits available to organizations statewide through the Humanities to Go! catalog.  For more information about how you can sponsor a program, contact the New Hampshire Humanities Council in Concord at 224-4071 or on the web at www.nhhc.org.

 


 

Chichester Grange


Chichester Grange met on Wednesday, September 16, upstairs in the Grange/Town Hall. Guests for the evening were Norma and Melvin Neary, John L. Saturley, and Paul and Rhoda Davis of Pembroke Grange and Dorothy Haskins of Daniel Webster Grange. Chichester members worked the Third Degree with some help from their guests.


Wildlife sightings included several herons, a harrier (hawk), wild turkeys, deer, and many local birds. Mary West saw an owl and a tarantula on a recent visit to California.


The Fair Committee reported a blue ribbon award and cash prize from the Hopkinton Fair. They will exhibit again at the Deerfield Fair at the end of September.


Plans were made to order dictionaries again this year for the Chichester, Epsom, and Pittsfield third graders.


Following the meeting refreshments were served by Mary West. The next meeting will be October 7th.

 


 

 

 











 
 

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