Workshop On Home Vegetable Gardening
Growing
some of your own food offers not only a great amount of personal
satisfaction, it also offers high quality, fresh vegetables that taste
great. With food price inflation growing and economic vitality lagging,
growing some of your own food has an important economic value too.
Belknap
County Cooperative Extension will conduct a workshop on growing your own
vegetables at the Laconia Public Library on Wednesday, February 23rd. The
workshop will start at 6:15 p.m. and run until 8 p.m.
Bill Lord,
Belknap County Cooperative Extension will discuss garden preparation,
fertilization, varieties, pest control, mulching and season extension, and
secession cropping. Growing great tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash, string
beans and dry beans, root crops like carrots and beets, and yes, pumpkins
for the kids will be included in the discussion.
Registration for this free workshop is not required; however, registration
is requested to ensure that enough handout materials are available for all.
To register, contact Belknap County Cooperative Extension at 36 County
Drive, Laconia 03246 (527-5475).
Soup & Chili Dinner To Benefit Gilmanton Seventh Grade
What better
way to warm up on a cold winter’s night than supporting the seventh grade
class of Gilmanton School by sipping soup and enjoying homemade soup and
chili!
A ‘Soup and
Chili Night’ Dinner will take place on Wednesday, February 23rd (Snow date
2-24) from 5-7 p.m. at the Gilmanton School. The menu includes homemade
chili, chicken soup, Olive Garden’s famous minestrone soup, a variety of
Panera’s famous breads, fresh garden salad with Olive Garden House Dressing,
coffee, drinks and desserts. All of this for only $6 per person - children
under 3 are free!
The “Soup
and Chili Night’ Dinner is a fundraiser to support a number of programs in
which the Gilmanton students participate including taking a class at Harvard
University, attending the Forest Watch Student Convention at UNH, and the
High Elements Ropes Course at Hidden Valley Boy Scout Camp.
If you
would like a night out and a quick bite to eat, please stop into Gilmanton
School on Route 140 on Wednesday, February 23rd from 5-7 p.m. If you have
any questions or need directions, please contact Mrs. Fougere at Gilmanton
School at 364-5681 ext. 129.
Gilmanton Resident To Deploy
Master Sergeant Kimberly Alberico, a Gilmanton, NH
resident and a nineteen year, full-time (AGR) Active Guard Reserve Soldier,
will deploy to Afghanistan with the 26th Yankee Brigade, Reading, MA.
The 26th
Yankee Brigade will assume command of the Kabul Base Cluster (KBC) in order
to provide command and control, security and support operations for the 11
U.S. bases in the KBC.
She leaves
behind her husband of eleven years, Chuck Alberico who was formerly in the
26th Yankee Division back in the late seventies through the early eighties.
Master Sergeant Alberico is on her second deployment after serving in Iraq
from 2007-2008. She joined the unit in the beginning of February after
accepting a promotion to E8, Master Sergeant.
The unit
has been training for the past year to prepare for this deployment.
The unit is expected to arrive at Ft. Hood, Texas and will train for a
little more than a month to complete all phases of certification before
deploying to Afghanistan.
GCC Thrift Shop News
We need to
make way for our spring and summer clothing! Yes the snow will soon melt
away, the black flies will come and so too will the warmer weather. So
to make room in our Thrift Shop, we are having a BAG SALE.
It works
like this, you get a brown paper grocery bag when you come in to the shop,
you fill it with whatever you find to purchase and you pay only $10 for the
whole bag!
We are
truly blessed to have so many beautiful infant and toddler clothes,
including onesies in all sizes for girls and for boys. If you are
looking for extra children’s coats, snowpants, boots, hats or mittens, we
have those too. We have so many wonderful things for the whole family.
At $10 per bag who can resist stopping in to take a look! We know you
will find enough to fill a bag or maybe even two!
The Thrift
Shop is also beginning a “Winter Wear” drive. We will be collecting
new or used in extremely good condition, coats, snowpants, boots, hats,
mittens and gloves. We are looking for items in all sizes from infant
to adult xlarge, in both boys and girls. The items we collect will be
given to children in need in our community next fall during our
“Adopt-a-Child” program. You can bring your “Winter Wear” to the
thrift shop during our hours of operation or call Jane at 364-7437 for other
arrangements.
We are
located on Rte. 140 in Gilmanton Iron Works, across from the Iron Works
Market. We are open on Monday 9am – 1pm, Wednesday 3pm – 7pm, and
Saturday 10am – 2pm. Parking is located in the Gilmanton Community
Church parking lot next door.
We look
forward to seeing you in the Thrift Shop soon. Our BAG SALE begins on
February 14th.
Four Properties Added To New Hampshire State Register Of Historic
Places
The New
Hampshire Division of Historical Resources is pleased to announce that the
State Historic Resources Council has added four individual properties to the
New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places.
The State
Register has helped recognize the significance of many historic properties
across New Hampshire. Publicly owned State Register listed properties may be
eligible for Conservation License Plate (“Moose Plate”) funds or other
grants for repair and restoration.
The most
recent additions to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places are:
• Alstead’s
Shedd-Porter Library. Designed in the Beaux-Arts style, this library
celebrated its centennial year in 2010. Architecturally, it remains one of
the most notable libraries in the state and, with its copper roof, is a
landmark in Alstead. Boston architects McLean & Wright drew on the best
craftsmen available to create the building’s granite exterior as well as its
plaster and marble interior. It was recently listed in the National Register
of Historic Places.
• Bow’s Bow
Bog Meeting House. Built by noted local contractor George Washington Wheeler
in 1835 for Bow’s Methodist-Episcopal congregation, this large wood-framed,
wood-sided meeting house features a center steeple bell tower that still
houses the bell donated by Mary Baker Eddy in 1904. The property was
restored to its original specifications in 1969-70 by Phillip Baker, a noted
early preservationist. Today it is used by the community as a meeting hall.
• Gilmanton
Iron Works’ Odd Fellows Hall/Old Town Hall. Constructed in 1902-03 for
Highland Lodge #33, this all-wood building with a Second Empire tower had
space on the second floor for the local Grange. It is one of only two
buildings to survive the 1915 fire that gutted the village, and has been in
continuous use as a town gathering space and voting station for more than
100 years.
• Sandown’s
Old Meeting House. This wood-frame, wood-sided building exemplifies
late-eighteenth century craftsmanship and is noted for its interior’s fancy
“high goblet” pulpit. Originally built by Congregationalists as a meeting
house in 1773-74, the Old Meeting House hosted town meetings from 1774-1929
and is now used as a hall for both private and town functions. It was listed
in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Anyone
wishing to nominate a property to the New Hampshire State Register of
Historic Places must research the history of the nominated property and
document it fully on individual inventory forms from the New Hampshire
Division of Historical Resources. Having a property listed in the Register
does not impose restrictions on private property owners. For more
information, visit
www.nh.gov/nhdhr.
New
Hampshire’s Division of Historical Resources, the “State Historic
Preservation Office,” was established in 1974. The historical,
archeological, architectural, engineering and cultural resources of New
Hampshire are among the most important environmental assets of the state.
Historic preservation promotes the use, understanding and conservation of
such resources for the education, inspiration, pleasure and enrichment of
New Hampshire’s citizens. For more information, visit us online at
www.nh.gov/nhdhr or by calling (603)
271-3483.
