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Gilmanton NH News

December 8, 2010

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Did you know?  All seniors are welcome at the Pittsfield Area Senior Center, a center for active seniors, located at 74 Main Street, Pittsfield.


Mondays it’s Bingo from 10 am to noon.  Tuesdays it’s Crafts from 10 am to noon and Fridays it’s Gentle Yoga, upstairs, from 10:30 to noon.


On Thursday, December 16th, 9:30 to 11:30 am, Anita Oelfke of Service Link will meet with people to complete paperwork for adjustments to Medicare Part D.  Call 435-8482 to make an appointment.



Concert Features Voices And Brass

The First Congregational Church, 24 Main St., Pittsfield, will present, “The Light Shines On,” a concert of Advent and Christmas music, Saturday, December 11, 7-9 pm. This special concert will feature your favorite Christmas hymns plus some new ones, and will include UNH’s brass quintet, “The Inextinguishable Brass,” the church’s Chancel Choir along with the JuBellation three-octave brass handbell choir. This free concert is a great way to enhance your holiday spirit. Light refreshments will be served during a brief intermission.


 

GCC Plans Mission Trip For The Spring


The Gilmanton Community Church is privileged to have the opportunity to send fifteen members of the congregation on a mission trip this April to La Romana in the Dominican Republic (laromana.org).  While we are there, we will be helping those who live in the bateys – camps where the men who cut sugar cane and their families live.  We will be working on the construction of the Good Samaritan Hospital and perhaps a school or church.  We will be installing water filtration systems and assisting the medical teams who provide care to the residents of the bateys. Our work could also include rocking babies and playing with the children in the orphanage.  In short, we will be God’s hands and feet, bringing His love to those we will serve.


We will be having many fund-raisers during the coming months which we hope you will support as you are able.  During this holiday season, we hope you will consider making a donation to the mission trip in the name of a loved one.  They will receive a gift card acknowledging the donation and an invitation to a night of sharing about the trip upon our return.  Please e-mail Ed and Pam Jansury at [email protected] for a gift card order form.


Thank you.

 


 

Break The Cycle, Recycle


Break the Cycle, Recycle started just as a slogan adopted by the Gilmanton Recycling Committee back in May of this year. The slogan has become more of a mantra these days, as the committee spreads the word about the benefits of recycling and explores a variety of recycling opportunities that would best suit the town.  Mandatory Recycling, Single Stream Recycling and Pay As You Throw are just a few of the options being considered.

The next Recycling Committee meeting will be held Tuesday, December 14th at 6:30 PM on the top floor of the Academy Building.  Residents are welcome to attend.

 


 

The Gilmanton Preschool students and staff recently visited the GCC Food Pantry & Thrift Shop.  Jane Sisti, Food Pantry director, shared with the children some workings of the pantry. Along with their visit each child brought a bag of food from home to donate to the food pantry.  The generosity of these students, left the pantry drop-off box filled to overflowing with an abundance of  much needed food.

 


 

Gilmanton Awarded LCHIP Grant To Complete Restoration Of Academy Cupola


The Town of Gilmanton has recently been notified that it has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the NH Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) to complete work on the restoration of the cupola on the Gilmanton Academy.


Thanks to hard work by Steve Bedard, John Dickey, and Rachel Hatch, who prepared and submitted the grant application on behalf of the Town, and support from Cupola Committee members Israel Willard, Perry Onion and Tom Dalton, sufficient funds will now be available to complete the restoration project.  Gilmanton voters approved $20,000 for the cupola at the 2010 Town Meeting and directed the Board of Selectmen to seek another source of funding to finish the work.  That other source has come to fruition in the form of the LCHIP award.


Based on the $20,000 approved by voters, the Town has already begun the process and has contracted with Fifield Building Restoration and Relocation of Canterbury to repair the cupola itself and to create new columns and structural supports to replace those that were rotted and deteriorated. Much of this initial work has already been completed.  The second phase of the project, which will be funded by the LCHIP grant, will enable the cupola and the bell to be reset on top of the Academy roof.


It is the Town’s goal to have the restoration completed and the bell back in place so that it can be rung to herald Gilmanton’s Fourth of July celebrations.  Ringing of the bell at midnight on the Fourth has been a long-standing Gilmanton tradition – and something that has sadly been missing for the past two years. 


In addition to serving as Town offices, the Academy building has a long and storied history and it has come to be a symbol of the Town.  Its restoration can be a source of pride for all Gilmanton residents.

 


 


 

 











 
 

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