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Gilmanton NH News

February 3, 2010

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Maegan A. DeForest, of Gilmanton, N.H., has been named to the Dean’s List, Fall Semester 2009 at Cazenovia College, in Central New York State. She is working toward a bachelor of professional studies degree in management, specializing in equine business management. DeForest is a graduate of Gilford Middle High School in Gilford, N.H.

 


 

Free Olympic Pins at Gilmanton Corner Public Library


During the month of February, we will be celebrating the Olympic Games by giving a FREE Olympic Pin to the first library patron who (shows  his/her card or gets one!) at the Gilmanton Corner Public Library on a Wednesday or Saturday for the entire month!
Would you like to know how much power your appliances, computers and TVs use? “Cut the Carbon Kits” can give you the answer. Three kits have arrived at the Gilmanton Corner Public Library and are waiting for patron use. Test your electricity usage, as well as ideas on how to use electricity efficiently.


With February school vacation fast approaching, don’t forget the FREE museum passes, SEE Science Museum, Currier Museum and the New Hampshire Historical Museum. Please see Librarian Linda Hudziec 267-6200.

 


 

Gilmanton Fire Department


The Gilmanton Fire Department has in the last three days, handled two instances of persons involved in outdoor recreational activities that became lost.


The first event occurred on Friday January 22, 2010, at 1368 Province Road when a male in his eighties failed to return from a snowmobile ride. He was four hours overdue and a diabetic.


At 5:47 PM, the first notification was received of an overdue snowmobiler in the woods behind 1368 Province Road, the Gilmanton Fire Department responded with their snowmobile, rescue sled, an ambulance, a utility truck and the command vehicle. A command post was established at the residence and a search was started for the overdue subject.


At 6:01 PM the subject was located and returned to his residence, where he was evaluated for hypothermia and declined medical care. He had gotten his machine stuck in the snow and had walked approximately two miles before becoming exhausted, he was still approximately one mile into the woods when found. All fire department companies cleared at 6:46 PM.

 


 

Reading Buddies 7th- 8th Graders Work with Learning Readers


Gilmanton School middle school students and first and second graders participate in a shared reading time in a program called Reading Buddies. Each Thursday during study hall, 7th and 8th graders work with students from the primary grades, allowing a younger child to practice reading with an older student. The older students benefit from the experience of mentoring younger children.


This year both the young children and their middle school “reading buddies” look forward to participating in this program at the Year-Round Library across the street from the Gilmanton school. At the library pairs of readers can be found spread out in the reading loft, at chairs in the Children’s Room, snuggled up on the couch or at a table sharing stories.

 


 

Letter


Gilmanton Taxpayers:
We all enjoy a good magic trick ....... and even the not so good ones can be fun. Like the one my Uncle Joe would occasionally perform at family gatherings. We all know this one. Uncle Joe would gather all of us children closely in front of him, pull a coin from his pocket, rub the coin between both his hands and while we watched his hands, he would quickly separate them, throwing his left hand out and open, revealing it empty and in the same movement reach behind one of our unsuspecting ears and magically produce the coin ........ to howls of laughter and delight. Great Fun ........


Members of the Gilmanton Year Round Library Association must have known my Uncle Joe. They too are using Sleight of hand. In their left hand, where they want Gilmanton taxpayers to look, we see their highly publicized Tuesday afternoon Scrabble games, tea parties, a new GPS, free DVD’s and CD’s, and all those events which supposedly occupy their meeting rooms. What we don’t see, as taxpayers, if we allow ourselves to be distracted, is Gilmanton’s current struggle to resolve far more important and potentially expensive issues regarding our police department, fire department, solid waste, public assistance fund and all those other town costs, always rising, to maintain this community, and of course ....... the fact that the Association led us all to believe they would raise an operating endowment, thereby not burdening the town for taxes. That in itself holds a promise, a promise that they are accountable for.


Now, here they come with their right hand, but unlike my Uncle Joe, they have no intention of depositing money behind our ears ...... in fact, they are reaching out to take it. Lots of it ..... and my guess is, to the many taxpayers struggling in Gilmanton, it will not bring about howls of laughter and delight.


Al Blake
Gilmanton, NH

 


 

Paintings And Handmade Books:
A Mother And  Daughter Exhibit
By Lori And Jessica Lander


Now through the end of March, the Gilmanton Year-Round Library is pleased to host an art exhibit featuring Lori and Jessica Lander. The Landers call both Gilmanton and Cambridge, Massachusetts home.


Lori’s large oil paintings portray the daily rhythms and rituals of women across the world as they work in markets and rice fields and as they take part in local festivals. The paintings on exhibit depict women in the traditional markets of Ubud in Bali and Marrakesh in Morocco and women gamelan players in a Balinese temple festival.


Lori’s paintings explore the movements, color and light of these women’s lives through pattern and texture.  Lori, as an artist, has had solo exhibits throughout the Boston area. As a community volunteer and retired attorney, she is active in a number of community organizations and works to help engage people in effective hands-on service to those in need in their community.


Jessica is exhibiting two series of small paintings done in Gilmanton. The first,  In the Garden, features flowers from the Landers’ perennial garden. The second series, In the Kitchen, celebrates summer harvest and cooking in Gilmanton - making jam with summer berries, squeezing lemonade, baking bread with local honey, preparing to make apple sauce, and local eggs.  Jessica’s mixed media handmade artist’s books touch many subjects:  the Maasai people of Tanzania and Kenya and the animals they share the land with, Moroccan doorways, Balinese performance art, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky and a celebration of tea. Jessica has had a solo exhibition of her books and been juried into several group shows in the Boston area. She is a senior at Princeton University, majoring in Anthropology with a Certificate in African Studies.


The Gilmanton Year-Round Library is located at 1385 Route 140 directly across from the Gilmanton School. The Library is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from Noon to 7 p.m., Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and on Sundays from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. For further information call the Library at 364-2400. The exhibit is open to the public free of charge. The Library is handicapped accessible.

 


 

 

 











 
 

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