World
Day Of Prayer
The 2012
World Day of Prayer service will be held at St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church on Friday, March 2nd at 1 pm. As has been the custom for many
years, all churches in Northwood will join together for this
community prayer service.
St.
Joseph’s Church is located next to the town hall, near the
intersection of Route 4 and Bow Lake Road in Northwood Center.
Everyone is welcome to attend; refreshments will be served after the
service.
Michelle
Williams from Northwood, NH, has been named to Fisher College’s
Dean’s List for the Fall 2011 semester.
To
qualify for Dean’s List, students must achieve a minimum grade-point
average of 3.3, earn at least 12 graded credits, and have no failing
grades throughout the semester.
Center
School To Hold Parent Cooperative Preschool Auction
The 12th
Annual Auction will be held on Saturday, March 31st at the Bow Lake
Grange Hall in Strafford. A preview of the auction items starts at
6:30 and the auction will begin at 7:00 pm.
There
will be many exciting items to bid on, including a Tornado Wood
Bench, Annalee Snowman Doll, Sky Diving gift certificate, night at
the Holiday Inn, Jellystone Park Camping Weekend, night at The Inns
and Spa at Mill Falls, Chichester Massage, See Science Center Family
Membership, York’s Wild Kingdom Passes, Handmade Items, Monarchs and
Fisher Cats Tickets, many gift certificates for area restaurants and
other businesses, and of course the "famous" preschool bowls. With
so many diverse items, there will be great bargains and lots of fun.
The
Center School is a preschool located next to the Northwood town hall
in the old American Legion building. It is indeed a small one-room
school house! Since it is a parent cooperative preschool, it is up
to the parents to raise money for items such as playground
equipment, classroom supplies, and any building repairs. The annual
auction is the school’s biggest fundraiser. Local businesses are
contacted for a donation to our school, a non-profit organization,
which we then auction off. Thank you to all who donated items or
services for the auction, last year as well as this year. We are
hoping this year’s auction will be our biggest yet! This year’s
proceeds will be used to do some building maintenance for the 200+
year old schoolhouse and purchase bookcases, shelving, and some new
playground equipment.
For more
information or to make a donation, call the Center School at
942-7686.
Letter
To The Editor
Early in
February (Feb. 8) you printed a letter from Dan Schroth Piermarocchi
about the stone wall he’s building in front of David Docko’s "rock
pit" on Route 4 in Northwood. Dan writes "David tells me this hill
was once called mile marker hill due to there used to be a granite
highway marker near the top of the hill."
Almost
right, but, as Northwood’s town historian, I’d like to make a
correction, changing mile marker to mile stone.
Route 4
was originally the first turnpike in New Hampshire. It was built as
a private enterprise (no state highway funding then) and was a toll
road. It extended from the Piscataqua River to the Merrimac in
Concord, a distance of thirty-six miles. Each mile was marked by a
slender post, rounded at the top. A mile stone.
Now most
of those markers no longer exist, or are broken and buried. Only a
few remain.
In
Northwood there is the bottom half of one of the markers just west
of the entrance to Bow Lake Road. There’s a state sign beside it to
make identification easier. Traveling east to west that identified
marker is the one preceding the location of the one that gave the
hill its name, the hill leading down to the Narrows.
Depending on a number of variables in the measuring, the mile marker
would have been near the eastern end of the wall Dan is building
near the top of Mile Stone Hill.
Joann W.
Bailey
Northwood
CBNA
Theatre Presents Killing Bill And But We Don’t
Prepare
for an evening of fun as Coe Brown Northwood Academy Theatre
presents an evening of two one act plays, Killing Bill and But We
Don’t by Vermont playwright Alan Haehnel on March 8, 9, 10, 2012, at
7 pm in the Gerrish Gym on the CBNA campus.
The
first, Killing Bill is the story of a newspaper reporter, Don,
(senior Tom Masison) who is determined to get an interview with
Shelly Mackerel (senior Kendall MacGowen), the director of the
strangest version of King Lear that he’s ever seen. As the interview
illuminates Shelly’s bizarre artistic choices, we see her version of
Lear in all of its pseudo-Eastern glory complete with dubbing,
Karate battles, giant pancakes and flying forks.
The cast
features the talents of seniors Tyler Bowden, Samantha Lepicier,
Matt Paganelli, Quinn Palmer, Erin Powers and Emily Yurek; juniors
Marianna Barnhart, Ashlyn Correia, Ryan Cunningham, Kylie Gagnon,
Mariah Mazzochi, Kestyn Ritchotte, and Noey Struthers; sophomores
Erin Barnard, Taylor Bowden, Kennedy Chaney, Shane Chittum, Branden
Emerson, Jessica Gallant, Gwen Horne, and Allyson La France; and
freshmen Setse Bush, Jillian Burrows, Julia Collins, Rachel Dallaire,
Jordan Roach and Colton Rush.
The
other short play, But We Don’t, centers on a group of students
asking themselves this simple question, "Why not do all the things
we possibly could?" and soon find out that the answer is anything
but simple. This ensemble cast features Matt Paganelli, Kylie
Gagnon, Quinn Palmer, Marianna Barnhart, Olivia Anatone, Tyler
Bowden, Kyle Bousquet, Mariah Mazzochi, Allison Irish, Julia
Collins, Taylor Olsson, Samantha Lepicier, Kestyn Ritchotte, Jordan
McAllister, Ashlyn Correia, Shane Chittum, Samantha Corwin and
Taylor Pitre.
Reserved tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for students and seniors
and will be available after March 5th by calling 942-5531, ext. 237,
by email at [email protected]
or at the main office.
Letter
To The Editor
It is
important to me you have the correct facts all of the time but
especially now, at voting time, 3/13/12.
If you
vote yes on all of the School issues you will be raising the Budget
Committee’s recommended school expenditures over $820,000. That, in
and of itself, speaks volumes. Your call, you know my position. Our
problems are not from lack of money.
But,
when you get in the voting booth, School Article #5, the support
staff contract, deserves special scrutiny. In my opinion, there are
three problems that stand out. 1) There are expensive provisions in
this contract that were not discussed at any legal School Board
Meeting. 2) The cost of the contract is inaccurately portrayed. The
step increases for year 3 and 4 are far more than stated or the
contract is miswritten; horrible attention to detail. In addition, I
believe the insurance cost are wrong but I have been blocked from
that information, an answer in itself.
3) The
worst. Two monsters are being created. It separates 7 para-educators
from the other 19 (previously always equal) with more hours, more
expensive benefits, better training, and much more. It also divides
out the care of special needs children. So if your child is autistic
he/she receives education from 7 para-educators who get more of
everything from money to training.
If your
child is intellectually disabled, has a speech, language, emotional
or orthopedic disability, an acquired brain injury, or is
developmentally delayed, he or she will get instruction from a para-educator
who gets less. Not class but Special Education warfare.
Vote No!
But vote yes on Article #6 to give the new Board a chance to rework
this contract.
Tim
Jandebeur
Northwood
Letter
Free and
Open Discussion
Free and
open discussion is the essence of the democratic process. Robert’s
Rules of Order are clear and logical and insure fairness in decision
making at meetings.
Robert’s
says, "Debate, rightly understood, is an essential element in the
making of rational decisions of consequence by intelligent people.
In a deliberative assembly, this term applies to discussion on the
merits of a pending question. That the right of debate is inherent
in such an assembly is implied by the word deliberative."
Robert’s
insists that "every member of the assembly has the right to speak to
every debatable motion before it is finally acted upon, and…this
right cannot be interfered with except by a two-thirds vote."
Therefore, "the right of members to debate or introduce secondary
motions cannot be cut off by the chair’s attempting to put a
question to vote so quickly that no member can get the floor."
Nor
should a citizen’s attempt to "call the question," or end debate, be
successful without a two-thirds majority. Such a vote is required
"for protecting the democratic process. If this rule were not
observed, a temporary majority of only one vote could deny the
remaining members all opportunity to discuss any measure that such a
majority wished to adopt or kill."
At New
Hampshire town meetings and deliberative sessions, citizens and
their elected moderator can cooperate on a simple selection of
Robert’s Rules whose principles ensure a fair and orderly process.
Everyone should know that democratic meetings are meant to be
controlled–not by a moderator and not by an impatient citizen–but by
the people. In order for that to happen, however, citizens need to
know their rights and be willing to assert them.
Michael Faiella
Northwood
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