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Epsom NH News

July 25, 2012

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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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