Laconia Adult Education
Gilmanton Residents Free Math and Reading Help Available!
The Adult Tutorial and Adult Learning Services Program for Belknap
County is starting a new tutoring program to help adult learners in
the Gilmanton area. The goal is to help adults improve their math
and reading skills, prepare to take the HiSET Exam or learn to speak
English. Bill Foster, a Gilmanton resident, is offering to tutor
adults on a one-to one basis. There is no typical adult learner,
everyone has the ability to learn.
The ability to read and write does not necessarily indicate the lack
of intelligence. Many non-readers are intelligent and very creative
in finding ways to compensate for their lack of being able to read.
As one student commented “I don’t have trouble thinking. My trouble
is just reading.” Adult learners differ from children in terms of
their range of life experiences, personalities, habits, attitudes
and interests. Most adult learners know what they want from an
education and have rich personal experiences on which to build, and
can be motivated to learn. Adult learners are not blank slates. They
need the help of a volunteer tutor to encourage them to use the
adaptability and creativity that they have demonstrated in other
areas of their lives in order to develop good Math and Reading
skills in order to achieve their life goals.
For more information Bill Foster can be contacted at 267-6874. The
tutoring sessions will be held at the Gilmanton Year Round Library.
This is a wonderful opportunity for adult learners to take
advantage of this super opportunity to improve their math and
reading skills. There is no need to feel embarrassed or
self–conscious in asking for help to improve one’s life and obtain
gainful employment. Additional information can also be obtained by
contacting Peggy Selig at the Laconia Adult Education Office at
524-5712. Improved literacy can make a huge difference in the lives
of adult learners.
Loons And Algonkian History At Gilmanton Year Round Library
Gilmanton Year-Round Library continues their summer event series
with two presentations - something for everyone.
Loons are fascinating birds. Learn more about their
challenges and successes in New Hampshire on Saturday, July 12 at 4
pm at the Gilmanton Year-Round Library.
Loons - their natural history, challenges and successes in New
Hampshire will be the subject on Saturday, July 12th at 4 pm. Harry
Vogel, Executive Director of the Loon Preservation Committee,
offers an illustrated description of the trials and tribulations of
these ever-fascinating birds.
“They were here first.” Prof Jere
Daniell brings a program on Algonkian New Hampshire to the Gilmanton
Year-Round Library on Tuesday, July 15th at 7 pm.
Algonkian New Hampshire brings Dartmouth Professor Jere Daniell to
the Library on Tuesday, July 15 at 7 pm. He tells us
that Indians occupying territory within the boundaries of what is
now New Hampshire shared language patterns subsequently labeled
“Algonkian.” He will describe the nature of pre-contact
society, changes triggered by contact, Indian life after Europeans
settled virtually all Granite State land, and the origins of recent
growth in New Hampshire’s Indian population. The
program is sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.
All programs are free and open to the public. Donations to support
the Library are always welcome. The Library is located on NH Route
140 opposite the Gilmanton School.
Letter To The Editor
To the Editor:
I read recently that Frank Guinta, our former congressman, claims
not to have been a tea partier, saying that he had been “branded” as
a Tea Party member by the election of 2010. “Branded”? So Guinta
believes “tea partier” is a derogatory term, whether his intended
meaning of “branded” is marking with a branding iron, or marking
with disapproval, stigmatizing. He staunchly denies ever having been
a tea partier, and says that not joining the Tea Party Caucus in
Congress proves it.
Mr. Guinta protests way too much. He has a long history with the Tea
Party going back to 2009, when he called them “grassroots effort at
its finest.” Guinta won the NH Tea Party Coalition’s straw poll,
said he was “honored” by the results, and mentioned attending
several Tea Party events, as well as meetings of the Glenn Beck 9/12
group (Concord Monitor, 11/4/10). The same article reported, “The
former Manchester mayor has said he would join a House Tea Party
Caucus created this summer by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann...”
Whether or not he joined, Guinta’s still a tea
partier. Just look at his answers to the Raymond Tea Party survey (http://raymondareateaparty.weebly.com/frank-guinta.html), which include supporting a mandate to teach creationism
in our schools. His answers are tea party to the core. No matter how
much backpedaling he does to fabricate his bipartisan pose, that Tea
Party brand just doesn’t rub off.
Lew Henry
Gilmanton Iron Works
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