Epsom Old Home Day “Where Good Friends Gather”, August 10, 11, and
12, 2012. For details of the weekend events go online to
www.epsomnh.org or contact
Georgia Perry at 736-8802.
Ivy Green Rebekah Lodge #36
is asking for donations of pies for this years Old Home Day supper
on Saturday, August 11th. If you can donate pies please call Vickie
at 736-4707. Your help is very much appreciated.
Epsom
Public Library is currently having an Usborne Book Fair for children
thru August 2nd. Stop by to view the great selection of children’s
books. For more info about any of these programs call the library at
736-9920.
Attention Everyone!
Epsom Youth Athletic
Association is hosting the Old Home Day Breakfast, Sunday, August
12th, at Webster Park. Come enjoy a homemade breakfast with
EYAA. Breakfast will be served from 8 am – 11 am. The cost is $7 for
adults, children ages 6 – 12 are $5 each, and children 5 and under
are Free. If you would like to volunteer or donate, please
contact Jennifer Prusia at 496-1274 or email at
[email protected].
Epsom Democrats will host a pot luck supper Friday,
July 27, 2012 at 5:30 pm. Featured speaker will be Chris Pappas,
Democratic candidate for Executive Council. This event will be held
at the home of Sarah Harkness, 627 Sanborn Hill Road, Epsom, NH. All
interested citizens are invited. Please bring your favorite dish and
a lawn chair.
Epsom Town Band
The Epsom Town Band
will be performing on Friday, August 3rd, at 7:00 p.m. at Webster
Park. In case of rain, it will be rescheduled for Friday, August
17th.
This is the third concert of the season under the
direction of Jim Lukeman of Manchester. Each concert includes
a variety of music with plenty of toe-tapping tunes! The band will
also be playing on Saturday, August 11th at 6:30 pm as part of
Epsom’s Old Home Day celebration. Mark your calendars and
invite your friends and family to join you for these concerts in the
park. For more information, please call Penny at 736-9044.
“Summer Thunder” Children’s Program
All children from
preschool (age 3) through 5th grade are invited to participate in
“Summer Thunder”, a Vacation Bible School program being held at
Epsom Bible Church, 398 Black Hall Rd, Epsom. The program will
be happening daily during the week of August 6th-10th, beginning at
9:00 am and ending at 11:30 am. There is no charge to attend
this program and pre-registration is not required. Each day
will be focused on a Bible theme or story, and the children will
participate in games, songs, activities, and crafts. So come
along, and bring a friend! For more information, contact Epsom Bible
Church at 736-9354.
My Lovely Neighbors In Epsom Submitted By Veronica Specyalski
Ever since we moved here almost 29 years ago, my husband and I have
found what a great neighborhood we moved into.
Our first
Christmas, everyone came over with cookie platters, chocolates and
other unexpected gifts. Not knowing this would happen, I didn’t have
anything for anyone. The following years we did.
Since that first
year, we’ve shoveled and plowed snow for one another and helped each
other in a variety of ways, even if it is just a soothing
conversation that someone may need.
This year I ended up on
crutches for the summer, but our lovely neighbors still came
through. One Sunday, most of our lawn was mowed. Our washer broke,
so one neighbor came over and demanded my laundry be handed over. My
neighbor on the barn side mowed around the garden and in front of
the wall. (she also makes great baked goods for my birthday) My
forsythia clippings were whisked away and my flower bed planted. My
husband planted the veggie gardens and cut the hay. I know we’ll get
help picking up the bales.
I love our Epsom neighborhood! I urge
you to meet your neighbors if you haven’t already. Someone may need
help or they may assist you. You, too, may have a wonderful
neighborhood and not even know it.
May God bless all my
neighbors! (you know who you are)
Letter
Citizens of Allenstown, Epsom and Pittsfield: I will be asking
for your vote November 6, 2012. I have been dissatisfied with our
Legislature for many years, particularly its regressive tax
policies. Other than voting and volunteering in campaigns, I was
always too busy working for a living to run for office.
I wish to
represent blue, pink, white collar working people, students K
through college, professionals,Veterans, shareholders of responsible
corporations, owners of small and micro businesses (those with 20
employees or less), union members, non-union employees,
environmentalists, residential property tax payers and us senior
citizens. Pretty much everybody in our communities.
During the
next few weeks, I will be writing several letters to editors
explaining my positions. I will share with you about 10 years of my
life in which I and 462 fellow flight attendants fought a corporate
raider/vampire capitalist all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and
won. I will share experiences co-owning three micro businesses
including rental units as well as working 11 years for a ‘big box’
store. I will also share my love of community, this state, our
country and this fabulous planet we live on.
When I formally
announce my candidacy, the highlight of the evening will be the
burning of every blasted “special interest” survey/questionnaire
(pledge) I have received. I will not be straight-jacketed by a bunch
of power-brokers who could care less about Americans who just want
to work, be treated fairly and “do their own thing”.
I appreciate
your consideration.
Nancy Heath Epsom
Letter
To my constituents in Allenstown, Epsom, and Pittsfield: House
committees are starting to work on the bills we kept over from the
session. I met this week on HB332, creating a prescription drug
monitoring program. Since we had passed SB286, creating a very
similar program, the effort on HB332 was to compare the two bills in
detail and see if further legislation was needed. While there were a
few areas the committee thought could be better written, there were
no substantial concerns left once we accepted the policy decision to
have such a program.
I was also assigned to a special committee
charged with developing legislation to create a defined contribution
pension plan for new state employees. Since the biggest obstacle to
creating such a plan this session has been the financial impact on
the existing defined benefit plan, I’m on a subcommittee starting to
look into that. It’s made worse, of course, because the defined
benefit plan is significantly underfunded, due to poor market
performance lately, pulling out “excess returns” to use for COLAs,
and low contributions by the employers in the 1990s. Still, closing
the plan to most new entrants would increase the risks of it not
being able to pay the promised pensions, so the state – and the
towns – might need to increase their payments.
My final study
committee is for HB1154, on the management structure of state
government. One extra issue we’ll be looking at is nepotism, since
that’s become an issue due to the recent cases at Employment
Security. Hiring or working with relatives is impossible to ban
completely in such a small state, but we need to ensure that all
employees are treated equitably.
Interested readers can email me
for my newsletter with more details than I can fit here.
Representative Carol McGuire
[email protected]
782-4918
Letter To The Editor Thank You, Ruth
Bachelder!
As we come to the close of our 2011 - 2012 school year, we would
like to honor one of our school bus drivers, Ruthie Bachelder of
Epsom, who is retiring after a spectacular 25 years of driving Epsom
Central School children to and from home safely each day.
Ruthie
ran a tight ship and safety was always her foremost concern. She
loved her route and saw many kids grow up over the years.
You
were a very important part of our team, and will be missed bus us,
and the students you drove. Enjoy your retirement Ruthie!
All of us at Dail Transportation, Inc.
Letter
Take a long look at your tax bills. You can scream at town meeting
all you want. In most towns, even if the town government was
abolished and provided no services, your tax bill would go down by
just 10-15 percent. Compare that to the school tax and the county
tax, and you will see the problem. Then compare that to the school
and county rates of 2010 and 2000. Now you can be angry and know
where your complaints should be directed.
Local state
representatives are responsible for approving county budgets. The
Merrimack County delegation in a 10-minute lovefest, after multiple
hearings and budget examinations, was ready to spend more than $75
million of your money. At the last minute, nobody could determine
why the budget, after all the hearings, was padded by over $1
million. Everyone, without discussion, voted to amend the
budget to delete the $1 million elephant in the room and, again
without discussion, passed the remainder of the budget almost
unanimously, except without my vote.
Much self-congratulation
ensued. I left knowing that whenever a budget of that size, with a
last-minute amendment of that size, passes without discussion, in a
lovefest, there will always be victims – the people, the taxpayers,
the renters. If you like the county portion of your tax bills, thank
your other state representatives. They delivered.
After
Organization Day, I didn’t need to be a weatherman to know which way
the wind was blowing. The sparkling new freshmen Republicans knew
everything and they engaged in the dance. I sat it out, enjoying it
for the entertainment value. Pittsfield and Allenstown in my
district have two of the highest property tax rates in the state,
and my lonesome “no” votes didn’t make a dent.
Rep. Tony Soltani Epsom, Allenstown, Pittsfield
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