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Epsom NH News

March 30, 2011

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Ivy Green Rebekah Lodge #36 is hosting a Scrap Book Event on Saturday, March 26th from 1:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Epsom Public Library. Plan to join the fun for a great time of scrap booking with friends. Food and beverages will be provided. There will be raffles for some great prizes! For info and to register please call 736-8681 or 736-4707.




Vickie Benner, children’s librarian at the Epsom Public Library, would like to thank Michelle Muise and her Girl Scout group for helping with our children’s craft event during the recent school vacation.

Mrs. Muise, the girls and parent volunteers assisted with the children’s crafts and games. Everyone attending had a great time! 

Story Time at the library continues on Tuesdays at 2 pm and Thursdays at 3:30 pm. Children enjoy stories, songs and crafts. If you would like to be a guest reader for  Story Time, please call Mrs. Benner.

Toddler Time for younger children and their caregivers is held Wednesdays at 10:00 am. and includes stories, songs, movement activities and simple crafts.

Older children are invited to join the Lego Club on Thursdays at 3:30 pm. Make a Lego creation with the library’s supply of Lego’s, enjoy a snack and get together with friends. For info about any of these programs call 736-9920.


 

LCIF Japan Relief Update
Submitted By Eberhard J. Wirfs,
Chairperson, Lions Clubs International Foundation


I am deeply humbled by the generous outpouring of support from Lions worldwide to my call last week to donate funds to the Foundation’s Japan Relief Fund.  Already, LCIF has received donations or commitments exceeding US $6 million, including US $3 million that the Lions of Japan are working to raise themselves during their own crisis. Again, it’s so very humbling to see such compassion by the network of caring Lions and Leos worldwide.  I thank all who have already donated from the bottom of my heart.


With the expected death toll now exceeding 18,000 and rising, the devastation is clearly greater than anyone could have imagined. And more than 400,000 people are still in shelters, in the cold, often going without a hot meal for days on end. 

 
Now that the roads have re-opened, Lions from all over Japan are sending relief aid from every corner of the country -- 30 tons of rice is being sent from Sapporo, US$50,000 worth of baby formula from Hokkaido, and women’s health products from the southern area of Shikoku - all through the Lions network in Japan.  Within a day of the disaster, many courageous clubs distributed 20 tons of food, water and emergency supplies, despite great risks and challenges to themselves. Even our Lions blue-colored Lions relief tents are being delivered to give shelter for Lions volunteers and other relief workers in the hardest-hit areas. 


To distribute the aid effectively, the Lions of Japan quickly set up four Lions relief aid warehouses in affected areas. Lions are coordinating relief aid distribution with local government officials and with the Japanese Red Cross. As a result, Lions are helping coordinate blood donation campaigns within Japan.


As you know, we have 31 Lions clubs in Sendai  - the largest city affected by the quake - and nearly a club in every town up and down the coastline.  Whether it’s clothes and food today, or shelter next week, or a wheel chair the week after, Lions will be there to give dignity to those who have suffered such unimaginable pain and suffering.


While many of you have already generously donated, for which I am very thankful, please encourage your fellow Lions, Leos and friends to also donate. Please know that every donation will be put to careful use, and 100 percent will go to the cause.  Also, donations received between March 11 and June 30, 2011 will be eligible for Melvin Jones Fellowships.


I am again humbled by your generosity to date.  The Lions of Japan have always been there for the rest of us in times of need.  So I am proud of you, and never prouder to be a Lion, when we come to their aid in the wake of this historic, awful tragedy.


NH Lions are working hard to help the relief effort.  Please send checks to PO Box 414 or 39 Lantern Lane, Epsom, NH  03234.

 


 

Local Students Named To Dean’s List At Ithaca College


The following students were named to the Dean’s List at Ithaca College for the fall 2010 semester.


Epsom
Ryan Wessels, Son of Wilfred and Susan Wessels of Epsom,NH, was named to the Dean’s List at Ithaca College’s School of Health Sciences and Human Performance.


Steven Brasley, Son of Gerard and Linda Brasley of Epsom,NH, was named to the Dean’s List at Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications.


Coeducational and nonsectarian, Ithaca College is a nationally recognized independent college of some 6,400 undergraduates and 400 graduate students. Located in Ithaca, New York, the college offers more than 100 degree programs.

 


 

Letter


To my constituents in Allenstown, Epsom, and Pittsfield:
The Merrimack County delegation met to approve the county budget. The Executive Committee had approved, 11-2, a budget calling for a million dollar property tax increase after using $4 million from the fund balance to reduce taxes. I’m all in favor of reducing taxes, but taking that much from the fund balance meant a cut to the county’s credit rating, and at least $160 thousand more in interest expense this year alone. We met with some other Representatives to develop a budget with no new taxes and less taken from the fund balances.


The delegation first voted, 22-15, to disapprove a new contract with Correction employees that called for a 3% raise for 2010. Then we debated the budget. After 15 roll call votes, the delegation finally approved, 23-17, an amended budget that cut all employee cost of living increases, trimmed the Sheriff’s budget, and grants to organizations like the Boys and Girls Club and visiting nurses, but raised taxes only 0.6% from last year. This was clearly the least spending we could get approved, but it still rankled that we were dipping into the fund balance and spending so much on interest.


SB25 reassigned the Connecticut River Valley resource commission from the Governor’s Office of Energy and Planning to the Department of Environmental Services. No cost effect, nobody objecting: we voted immediately to recommend this bill. SB68 would put a five year limit on disciplinary actions by the electricians’ board. The licensing subcommittee is going to review other professional boards to see if this limit is necessary or typical.


SB112, increasing membership of the advanced manufacturing education council, was also unopposed. SB127, a housekeeping update for Manchester’s Retirement System, had already been approved by the Mayor and Aldermen, and with no substantive changes, we recommended both these bills immediately.


Representative Carol McGuire
[email protected]
782-4918



 


 

 











 
 

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