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Chichester NH News

December 27, 2017

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REMINDER

BCEP Change of Hours

Effective January 1, 2018 B.C.E.P. Solid Waste will have new hours of operation:

Tuesday – Saturday 8:00AM – 4:00PM

Scales close at 3:45PM

Closed Sundays and Mondays

 


 

Come to the Chichester United Methodist Community Supper on December 27 and eat Chicken Cacciatore. These suppers are free and open to all. Donations are gratefully accepted and used toward future suppers. Enjoy a great meal at 6 p.m. with your friends and neighbors.

 


 

Chichester Grange will meet on Wednesday, January 3, upstairs in the Grange Hall. The evening will begin with a Soup Supper at 6 p. m.

 


 

Out Of Your Attic

Thrift Shop News

Submitted By Carol Hendee

 

The Chichester school can use woodwind instruments in good condition. You can drop them off at The Attic and we will get them to the school.

 

The Attic is also a place to drop off items for the Chichester Food Pantry, which can use just about everything for the new year. Many food and toiletry items were given out over the holidays.

 

This week, anything glass or china is 1/2 price, to celebrate the beginning of 2018!

Our usual hours are Mon. 8-12; Tues. & Thurs 8-4; Wed. 11-4 & Sat. 10-4 on Rte 28 North from Chichester & Epsom & Concord-near the Pittsfield line.  247-7191.

 


 

Live And Let Live Farm’s Rescue & Sanctuary “Celebrating 20 Years On Paradise Lane In Chichester” 

Documentary Film “ Voices In The Dark” To Play At Red River Theater In Concord NH., Jan. 3, 2018, 6 PM

Submitted By Scott Philbrick & Teresa Paradis, Executive Director/Founder, Live and Let Live Farm’s Rescue and Sanctuary

Chichester Voices in the Dark    12 2017 by Rebecca Howland.jpg

With December now upon us, along with the cold, shortened days and snug clothing from holiday excesses, it’s always emotionally puissant to reflect on the events and goings on throughout the previous year.  For those of us at Live and Let Live Farm’s Animal Rescue and Sanctuary, 2017 will be most remembered for some rather significant celebrations,  there are some highlights that stand out as noteworthy.

 

The biggest, and most obvious celebration is that 2017 brought the 20th anniversary of LLLF’s sparse and speculative beginning.  While the 1997 genesis was the official beginning of the operation, LLLF’s Executive Director, Teresa Paradis got the rescue bug at an early age, and has been rescuing animals for more than half a century.  She took in her first rescue at age nine— an abandoned pregnant cat, whom she took in and cared for, and when the kittens came, arranged for all to find homes, including the mama.  Since then, one thing has led to another— some through fate, some through tenacious, relentless determination— and in 1997 Paradis found herself able to fulfill the lifelong dream of establishing an animal rescue and sanctuary “focusing on horses and animals of agriculture” with her husband Jerry Paradis and daughter Heather Evans.

Chichester Churchill with Teresa Paradis 2016.jpg

Paradis hesitates to even guess the number of horses and other animals she’s rescued in the past years, but she is confident the number is well into the thousands; from all over the nation, and even Canada.  One of the keys to being a successful rescue operation is the ability to adapt to the ever changing needs and complexities of animal rescue. Paradis is a natural at “reading” those changes.  The great Bobby Orr, who was so ridiculously good at what he did that he essentially changed the way the game of hockey was played, was once asked what his secret was.  He replied that when everyone else would skate to where the puck is, he would think, and skate to where the puck was going to be.  Teresa Paradis is very good at skating precisely to where that proverbial puck is going to be.

  Chichester mama Zena and 10 pups 9 2017.jpg

A few years back, when the explosive proliferation of pregnant dogs being abandoned (especially in southern states) became apparent, LLLF stepped up and began coordinating with other rescue operations throughout the nation to get these desperate pregnant mamas to a safe place to give birth, care for their pups in foster homes, and find eventual adoptive homes.  So far in 2017, LLLF has rescued over 600 abandoned dogs/pups, cats/kittens  from states like TN, NC, GA etc. and  New England states, coordinating adoptive homes for them.

Chichester Stallions Patton and Neptune May 2016.jpg

One of the sweetest celebrations of 2017 was the final legal disposition of the case that the LLLF community has come to refer to simply as “the D-Day rescue.”  Three years, four months, and five days after the June 6, 2014 rescue of four stallions and one mare from grievously execrable conditions, the last of the criminal appeals of the second of two defendants, was finally concluded.  Staying true to LLLF’s tradition of giving each rescued horse a new name to signify the beginning of their new life free from neglect or abuse, they were all given D-Day related names: Churchill, Patton, Neptune, Normandy, and the mare, Rosie, for Rosie the Riveter.  As of October, all five were legally freed, in totality, from the web of ties to their tormented past.

 

Additional celebrations of the year include one of our most remarkable volunteers, Rebecca Howland, a local independent filmmaker; owner and founder at Somnambulist Entertainment, who has spent almost a year producing a documentary film about LLLF, entitled “Voices in the Dark.”  Rebecca has completed the final phases of the film’s production, which is scheduled to be released for viewing at Concord’s Red River Theatres,  www.redrivertheatres.org on Wednesday, January 3, 2017 at 6 pm followed by a Q & A panel.   “Voices in the Dark” will then make appearances at several film festivals throughout the northeast.

 

2017 also saw three new fundraisers for LLLF… a car show, an art show, and a golf tournament.  We’re celebrating having partnered with PetSmart, implementing a very promising program that promotes pet adoptions, resulting in over 250 pet adoptions so far.  Through it all we continue to house and care for an average of 75 horses… plus the usual array of goats, sheep, cows, pigs, rabbits, dogs, cats, exotic birds, guinea pigs, and various breeds of poultry and other beautiful creatures.  Some are just abandoned, some are emaciated, some are turned over due to financial hardship (a very loving, selfless act), and some are “orphaned” when their human passes away.  But all are taken in, loved, rehabilitated to whatever degree necessary by hundreds of volunteers and supporters, and most often, adopted into ideal loving homes.

 

Many, many more paragraphs could be filled in reporting all the wonderful things that 2017 has brought to the wooded confines of LLLF.  Don’t get us wrong— there’s been plenty of sadness, angst, and exasperation throughout the year; there always is in this line of work.  Yet we continue on, as one cohesive team, beating our collective bow against the bleak waves of the relentless tide of animal abuse and neglect.  But for now, as 2017 winds down in a whirlwind, we pause, and choose to celebrate the victories, the joys, the heartwarming successes.  And we wish all of our volunteers, friends, readers, and supporters, a very blessed and tremendous 2018.

Chichester Puppies of mama Zena 8 2017.jpg

NOTE: Please consider contacting Live and Let Live Farm if you’re considering adopting a loving family companion by emailing [email protected] or join us for our Sunday guided tour.  Financial contributions are desperately needed and greatly appreciated, as the costs to operate such a facility are staggering. Contributions are tax deductible. Donations can be sent to: Live and Let Live Farm’s Rescue, 20 Paradise Lane, Chichester NH 03258.  Donations can also be made with credit or debit cards, at: www.liveandletlivefarm.org.  We welcome you for our weekly guided tour, held Sundays at 2:30 pm, to meet the animals of Live and Let Live Farm.  If you’re looking to adopt or become part of the working hands and caring hearts of our volunteer family, the tour is where it all begins.

 


Obituaries


 

Ida L. (Findley) Kenerson

 

CONCORD- Ida Louise (Findley) Kenerson, passed away at the home of her daughter on December 20, 2017 in Chichester at the age of 95.

 

She was born on June 13, 1922 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Preston S. and Ida (Blackman) Findley.  She resided in Concord.

 

Ida previously worked for Bell Telephone and the New Hampshire State Hospital.

 

She was preceded in death by her husband, David E.B Kenerson, who died in 1975.

 

Ida is survived by her daughter, Anita Prickett and her husband John of Chichester; granddaughter, Laura Prickett and her husband Jared Rice; and grandson, John Prickett and his wife Amy.  She had five great grandchildren who she dearly loved and enjoyed: Bayleigh, Elijah, Sydney, Ben and Daniel.  

 

At Ida’s request, there will be no service and burial will be at the convenience of her family at a later date.  Donations in Ida’s memory may be sent to the Concord Regional VNA Hospice, 30 Pillsbury St. Concord, NH 03301 or the Epsom Bible Church 398 Black Hall Rd. Epsom, NH 03234.  Assisting the family with arrangements is the Still Oaks Funeral & Memorial Home in Epsom.  To share a memory or offer a condolence, please visit www.stilloaks.com

 


 


 

 











 
 

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