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Northwood NH News

October 10, 2012

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Reminder


Here we stand in Northwood, a little white church by the side of the road.  We will be celebrating the reopening of the First Baptist Church with a Special Service of Thanksgiving and Blessing on Sunday, October 14, at 2 pm.  All are welcome to join in this special day.  Refreshments will follow.




Reminder


The Inn at Deerfield, a nonprofit home specializing in dementia care, will host a Community Health Fair on Monday, October 22 from 4 to 6 pm.


Please contact Kelly at 463-7002 or [email protected] for questions or to make an appointment.




Just in time for finding those perfect holiday gifts, Deerfield Cooperative Preschool is holding its First Annual Silent and Live Auction with Dessert Tasting at Candia Woods on Saturday, November 10th at 6:30 pm. Join us for a fun evening filled with delicious food and dessert.  Enjoy a great night out with old friends and new. More information and ticket prices are available by emailing [email protected] or call Jenn at 463-5776.



It is time again, as the trees change, that we need to start thinking about Thanksgiving and serving our fellow man. If you would like to help us with food or a time donation, please give us a call at 603-736-9954. Again this year will be at the Epsom Fire Station from 12-2 pm, open to all in the surrounding communities. Please feel free to join us and be blessed.


Letter

Deja vu 2010! The candidates fielded by the NH GOP are telling us once again they will create jobs and fix our economy. Do you remember hearing that two years ago? And what did they do? They went after women’s healthcare, tried to interfere between employers and employees, decimated the safety net for our most vulnerable citizens, attacked our public education, and tried to take away the civil rights granted our gay and lesbian neighbors. This stealth agenda has left our economy lagging our neighbors’ growing prosperity.  In fact we’ve lost jobs!

It reminds me of the promise at the national level that if we only give the richest among us enough tax cuts, the benefits will trickle down to us. We’ve been buying that for 30 years now, and what did it get us? The greatest income inequality since the Gilded Age. The middle class is in crisis, and we’re the drivers of our economy, the people with decent incomes and secure employment who create the demand that drives job creation. 

You think the NH GOP has changed its mind and seen the light? The Concord Monitor recently discovered that a couple hundred proposed bills were being hidden by Speaker O’Brien until after the election.  Suddenly they are appearing on the House website, and guess what?  It’s a repeat of what they didn’t get passed in the last two years. 

We saw how party discipline works over the last two years as well.  “Vote the GOP line, or else” was the rule for the majority party, and they purged the ranks in the primary this year.  Ask your GOP candidates if they can stand up to this sort of bullying, because it’s not going to be your father’s Republicans running things if they keep the legislature.

Lucy Edwards
Northwood
The writer is a candidate for the NH House in Rockingham District 1.


Letter

There have been a few letters of late from Lucy Edwards, who is running for state office, believe it or not. Believe it or not because she spends most of her words praising the failed, wasteful, dangerous, and corrupt policies of Barach Hussein Obama.  She obviously likes what he has done...  when he has time, that is. 

You know, when he interrupts his constant campaign tours (beginning 2009), golfing, basketball, or bowling schedule.  And after a tough slugging interview on the Letterman Show, he picks himself up and goes into the ring (around-the-rosie) again seriously confronting what’s really important... on The View! With all this heavy lifting on his schedule, it’s understandable he doesn’t show up for meetings until 10-11 in the morning. 

And yet simply amazing, is that he has had time to put us on the edge of a inflationary depression, waste over five trillion  dollars borrowed and burdening our children and their children, and made us an international joke in the eyes of every nation with the possible exception Cuba and Venezuela.  
 
So... I’m puzzled about Mrs. Edward’s infatuation with the words of Mr. Obama and willingness to ignore the actions: the one man disaster he has become (ok, ok, he did get some help - Jean Shaheen, Pelosi, etc, etc). Concerning the real problems for us here in N.H., she thinks it wise to spread Obama’s failed policies here in our state.  No Thank You.  She, in fact, never offers any real problem solving plans for N.H. and champions the failed ideas of Obama.  No Thank You.  The “radical...cuts” Edwards is alarmed about barely promise to balance the overspent budget and were paltry in the context of the enormous waste in state government. We do not need a representative who thinks to raise taxes long before wisely spending other peoples money. 
    
Joseph McCaffrey
Northwood


Letter

As a senior citizen, I have a feeling that the politicians have led us to destruction through the taking of hard earned money by those who work and honestly try to succeed at life.  Why I say this is the very ads by Obama, who is trying to make people feel they have a right to what the rich have earned. 

The reason we have an income tax is to make laws which made the taxation to pay for constitutional debts, not to set up programs which would take from those who succeeded at working to make a life with a nice home and family.

I was taught as a child of a farmer in Vermont, I had no right to what others owned and yet today we see politicians such as Warren in Massachusetts, who is a liar, making ads which promote taking that which others worked for and redistributing to those who haven’t worked.

Soon we will be like Greece and Spain whose politicians have kept voting to give to voters so they could remain popular and elected.  Somewhere down the line, like my Grandfather said, the piper will need to be paid and when there aren’t enough workers, whose going to pay?

Harriet E. Cady
Deerfield


Letter

I’d like to thank Joseph McCaffrey for responding to my recent letter in his usual manner, but, sadly, he misses the point.  I don’t care what Mr. McCaffrey’s opinions are about “limited government.”  He’s not running to represent me in the State Legislature.  I care what Bruce Hodgdon means when he avows to support this and other “goals.”  (His mis-use of the term, not mine.)

Consider another candidate’s self-ascribed attribute: “tax fighter.”  While this is nonsensical on its face, I must assume that he means it metaphorically: i.e., he will seek to lower or eliminate taxes.  But I must wonder, which ones?  And how much?  And since taxes provide some of the revenues used by government to provide services, the more important question is which services will Mr. Tax-fightin’ Man curtail or eliminate?
To decide for whom to vote, I – and I think other voters – need specifics, not platitudes or bromides.  For example, NH Public Television recently lost over $2 million in state funding.  Would Bruce Hodgdon have supported that?  Did Mr. Tax-fightin’ Man?

To return to Lincoln, in 1854 he wrote, “The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities.  In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.”

To his credit, Lincoln adds some specifics that “require combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased [cemeteries], and the machinery of government itself.”

He’d get my vote.

Tom Chase
Northwood


Anytime Fitness Celebrates Second Anniversary
Fitness Club Reaches Two Year Milestone, One 24-Hour Day At A Time

Anytime Fitness, your 24-hour co-ed fitness club, is celebrating its second anniversary in Northwood, NH. Join us for our Open House and Member Appreciation Day on Monday, October 15, between 10 am and 7 pm.  Please come enjoy a complimentary workout, grab a bite of healthy food, and enter to win free membership, personal training, massages, and anytime gear.

The owner of Anytime Fitness, Rhoda Sommer, is very excited about completing her second year in business. “Everything about the Anytime Fitness concept is great! I am honored to have helped my members improve their health and fitness over the past two years,” said Sommer.  “We offer an environment that is friendly and inviting, as well as individual attention, which makes it easy for members to stay committed to their exercise goals.”

“I encourage everyone to come in and experience what Anytime Fitness has to offer. A great time to visit will be during our anniversary celebration,” said Sommer.   “People will see for themselves that the convenience and affordability of Anytime Fitness can’t be beat.”

For more information, please call 603-942-6027 or visit us on Monday!

About Anytime Fitness
Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, Anytime Fitness prides itself on providing over 1,000,000 members with convenient and affordable fitness options in friendly, well-maintained facilities which feature top-quality exercise equipment. State-of-the-art security and surveillance systems ensure member safety at the clubs, even during unstaffed hours.  Members enjoy the benefit of being able to use any of more than 2,000 Anytime Fitness clubs now open in all 50 states and 12 countries. AnytimeHealth.com, the fitness industry’s premier health and wellness website, provides members with a wealth of online support, including diet and fitness trackers, meal planners, instructional videos and much more.  For more information about Anytime Fitness, or to find the club nearest you, visit www.anytimefitness.com.


Remembering Ann White
Submitted By Maggie Faneuf, Laura Josiah, and Tammalene Mitman

We are writing this as dear friends of Ann White. In recent months a number of people have inquired about Ann. We are saddened to let you know that Ann passed away in Australia at her daughter Shelley’s home on May 30, 2012 at the age of 91.

Ann’s husband, Jack, was a US diplomat. After circling the globe for many years with Jack and her two daughters, Kim and Shelley, they ended up settling in Northwood. Ann gave of her time and energy in various clubs, Hospice and the American Cancer Society, and she helped found ABC Quilts and the Northwood Theater Workshop, which had been renamed to The Ann White Northwood Theater Workshop in her honor.

We would like to share our remembrances of Ann with you...
My friendship with Ann began on an April day almost 30 years ago when, by chance, I saw an article in the paper. The Northwood Theater Workshop (NTW) was holding auditions for Blithe Spirit. I called and was directed to a big colonial home on Route 4 in Northwood. I was really nervous when I arrived for my audition. A charming lady greeted me at the door. Little did I know, I was not only to get a part in the play, but far more important, one of the dearest friends of my life. That charming lady was Ann. She had been widowed the summer before, yet that evening she showed herself to be a strong, vibrant, and positive person. She had been one of the founders of NTW and was obviously loved and respected by all who knew her. In addition, she was just plain fun to be with.

And so it began. I continued my association with NTW through the next several years, and as Ann and I got to know each other, we spent more and more time together. Almost every summer, I rented a house on the Cape for a week, and Ann came with me, along with any of my family who could join us. She became a family member, part of holidays, birthdays parties, and summer barbecues. She watched my children grow and attended all of their weddings - always asking if she could be the flower girl.  My daughter, Maureen, always referred to her as “Grandmother.”

Sometime in the late 80s, we added a Christmas shopping trip to the Cape. Ann loved to shop, and after we had checked out of our favorite Christmas store, she would always ask me eagerly, “How much did you spend?” It was almost a competition, and I never did figure out who won - the one who spent the most or the least.

I was heartbroken when Ann moved, but little did I know that I would never see her again. She had been with me through so much. We laughed and cried together, poked fun at each other, and shared confidences. She taught me to be a better person, to help people quietly and without fanfare, and to live life enthusiastically and fully every day.

Thank you, dear Ann, from all of us who love you and whose lives you have touched. We will never, ever, forget you. -- Maggie Faneuf.

I met Ann when her daughter, Kim, invited me home for a breather from the University of New Hampshire, where we were freshman classmates. I was in awe of Ann and her husband, Jack, a retired American consul.

After Jack died and Kim and I graduated from college, Kim embarked on her own journeys in far places but I stayed in New Hampshire and Ann became a pillar of my life. She provided me with tactful and wise guidance, constant encouragement and many laughs. Somewhere in her experiences around the world, she had learned how to use wit, music, and fun to brighten up the darkest moments. She generously shared her joy (she couldn’t stay on pitch, but just try to sing without her!) her diplomatic skills (one always found coffee and a confidential ear in Ann’s kitchen), and her presence (“I must put my face on,” she would say with a smile, before going out) with those of us lucky to know her. (She also claimed to sleep with her lipstick under her pillow in case there was a fire so she would look nice leaving the building!) -- Tammalene Mitman

When Glenn and I moved to Northwood in 1974, Glenn happened to meet a lovely woman who was walking down Green Street raising money for Cancer. Well, little did we know this sweet lady would become one of our best friends. We have so many wonderful memories of Ann. She conned Glenn and I into joining the NTW... Glenn for his voice and me for a good back-stage worker! They were wonderful times. When Ann was thinking of selling her home on Route 4, she approached us asking if we would consider converting our barn into an apartment for her. For the next 16 years Ann lived in the apartment we built especially for her and it was like having a family member living next door to us. Ann made exquisite lamp shades and when she started having trouble with arthritis in her hands, she needed help with the cut-out designs and taught me how to make them. We would pick flowers and scour the fields for fine grasses to dry for use in the shades. We would sit for hours making the shades while she would tell me the most wonderful tales of her life with Jack traveling all over the world, meeting dignitaries, kings, and princesses.  What a life she had, she was an amazing person. She brought so much joy into our lives, and our memories of her will never fade. God blessed us with our dear Ann. - Laura Josiah

 


 


 

 











 
 

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