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Epsom NH News

January 4, 2012

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Letter

What If?

 

What if it were actually possible for a DC politician to consistently show his self strong in character, integrity and honesty? Surely a 30+ year record could easily prove this assessment true or false.

 

What if that same candidate of character had a front row seat for decades and saw first-hand the politics, tactics, manipulation, and resulting harm inflicted upon Americans through multiple administrations from both parties?

 

What if that candidate was shown to be immune to lobbying interests and capable of not compromising his principles to forces even within his own party? Surely that’d be reason enough to get excited, get behind him and want to tell others. I can tell you that I, after decades of political apathy and laziness and being in my 82nd year of life, am passionate about preserving our American individual liberties.

 

I speak to everyone I can about Ron Paul because our country’s future is so bleak right now. Until this year I have never remotely considered that the current two party system is intentionally managed to offer up two parallel roads (Welfare and Warfare) to the same ugly destination. I spend a lot of time attempting to show others the rare opportunity we have to elect a Statesman to the highest office. If this truthful message still sounds like an active agent speaking to you then I simply don’t know how else to reach you. Determine what you are for (not simply against) and then align with such a candidate

 

Les Cash

Epsom

 


 

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Members and their spouses/partners of American Legion Post 112 are shown at a holiday dinner held December 12th at the Post Function Hall, located on Short Falls Road, Epsom. Donations of food clothing and personal items were collected for distribution to Liberty House For Homeless Veterans in Manchester and The New Hampshire Veterans’ Home in Tilton. For more information about Liberty House, call Bill Zarakotas at 736-3123 and for the Veterans’ Home, call Alice Brown at 527-4400. If you are interested in joining or helping Post 112 with its work for Veterans, call Gerard LeDuc, Commander at 435-8770.

 


 

Fort Mountain Trail Winders News

Submitted By Matt Brown, President

New Trail To Northwood/Pittsfield

 

Yes, the Fort Mountain Trail Winders are working very hard for your trail system. We have been working all summer on improvements and re-routes on the existing trail system along with a new trail to Pittsfield and Northwood, so not to have to go over the lake (that is not frozen yet).

 

This new trail, spear headed by Derek, Scott and Mark, is going to be great (thanks guys). The trail will start behind Bickford’s at "out of gas corner" will cross New Orchard Road and go down Range Road to cross North Road. There will be several fields to cross but please stay on the trail or we will lose this trail. We will meet up with the Pittsfield Club in the last field (left) or you can continue straight to the power lines and Northwood (right) on one more of our old trails. This will be a first year trail, although due to the fields we cross we can use the larger groomer.

 

This club works very hard so we can all have fun locally with our sleds. Please help support us in any way you can by donations, labor, fuel, equipment, club house, land, etc. We run this club on a shoe string and have not been very successful in fund raising efforts in the past. Maybe you are good at raising money and can help us learn how or maybe you are good at planning a fun event that will bring money into the club.

 

We have brought the trail system up to par and added several miles of trails in the last 4 years. We would like to get to the next level but can’t do it alone. I have kept you all informed this year via website and ask for you to reach out to us and help however you can so we can continue to improve the trail system, promote safe snowmobiling and have fun in our own community.

 


 

Epsom Public Library News

Submitted by Maggie Faneuf

 

A seven-week Beginners Hatha Yoga Class will be offered starting on Monday, January 9, at 6:30 pm at the library. Fran Nash will be the instructor and the fee for the class will be $40.00. The class will be limited to twenty participants. If you are interested, you may sign up at the front desk of the library. Payment is due at the time of registration.

 

The book club will meet on Wednesday, January 18, at 8:00 pm to discuss Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1882. Copies of the book are available at the library.

 


 

Library Staff Recommendations:

 

There seems to be a new genre in fiction becoming very popular – the warm and amusing hometown stories with wonderfully-drawn characters.

 

I remember the first time I ever heard of Jan Karon and her books. Several years ago, some friends were trying to put into words what made her books so enjoyable and readable. I remember their saying that if I simply heard them say that the main character was an Episcopal priest, Timothy Cavanaugh, and that the books dealt with him and an assortment of town characters, I wouldn’t be especially inspired or eager to read them. They were right, but, thankfully, I trusted them and tried the first one, At Home In Mitford. I was hooked, and ever since I have greedily awaited each subsequent book.

Jan Karon continues to be very popular with many readers today. However, another delightful author of the same genre is Philip Gulley, and if you like Jan Karon, you are certain to like Gulley.

 

Like Gulley himself, Sam Gardner, the main character, is a Quaker minister. He lives with his wife and children in the small town of Harmony where readers soon come to know and become involved in the lives of such characters as Dale Hinshaw, the feisty elder of the church; Uly (Ulysses S. Grant V) and Fern Hamilton. The characters are fully-drawn and believable, and the books are just plain fun.

 

This is another case where the reader is better off to start with the first book of the series, Home To Harmony, as Gulley introduces us to the many townsfolk we will meet in his future books. He is a great story teller and one of the things I enjoy the most about him is to be reading along and then, Bang, without warning, a wonderful laugh-out-loud moment.

 

Again, if you like the Karon series, put Harmony on your list of must-visit places. You won’t be disappointed.

 


Obituaries


 

Marie Elizabeth Johnson

 

Marie Elizabeth Johnson, 93, of Yeaton Lane, died December 23rd at home, following a long illness.

 

She was born in Byram, CT. the daughter of Kalman and Elizabeth Firla. She has lived in this area since 1969. She was employed for several years at the Farmington National Bank. She was an avid golfer and participated in the Women’s Golf League at the Nippo Lake Golf Club. She was an attendant at Our Lady Of Lourdes Church in Pittsfield.

 

She was predeceased in death by her husband Eric G. Johnson to whom she was married for 55 years, and members of her family include three daughters, Patricia Johnson of Barnstead, Peg and husband Donald Jones of Epsom and Beth Taylor of Selma, AL.; three grandchildren, Candace (Levi) Nogues of Charleston, SC, Megan Jones of Epsom and Heather Jones of Manchester; several nieces and nephews.

 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to CRVNA, Hospice Program, 30 Pillsbury St., Concord, NH 03301.

 

To sign an online guest book and leave messages of condolence, log on to www.perkinsandpollard.com

 


 


 

 











 
 

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