PRESCHOOL OPENINGS FOR THE FALL!

Are you thinking about enrolling your child in preschool this fall? Are you looking for a place where your child can make friends, learn in a program that encompasses all learning styles and abilities? Do you want your child to go to school at a place where children are allowed to express their normal curiosity while being stimulated and learning new skills? Now is the time to call and learn about The Center School!

The Center School in Northwood is currently accepting registrations for the 2014-2015 school year. There are openings in our Monday/Wednesday/Friday and Tuesday/Thursday classes. Or, if you are interested, your child could come all five mornings!

The Center School is a parent cooperative preschool located next to the town hall in Northwood.  It provides a developmental program for three, four, and five year-olds of Northwood and surrounding towns. Call or email us soon to find out about the school or to get an information packet! For information, please email at director Karen Andersen [email protected] or call her at the school at 942-7686. Check out our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TheCenterSchoolNorthwood .

Act quickly! School starts the first week of September.

Coe-Brown Northwood Academy

Class Of 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986

25th Reunion

Fellow CBNA Comanches: Please join us for a fantastic evening to celebrate 25 years! Let’s make sure the word gets out so everyone has an opportunity to attend. Please take the time to reach out and invite our friends and classmates. The bigger the turn-out, the better!

When/Where: This will be a huge multi-class 25th reunion and we have secured the ballroom at the Holiday Inn in Concord, NH on Saturday September 27, 2014. 6pm-7pm Cocktail Hour. 7pm-8pm Dinner. 8pm-11pm Dancing and Socializing. Music provided by DJ Gerry Dumont with Cuzin Richard’s Entertainment. Cash bar provided.

Tickets: Reunion tickets are $40 per individual/$75 per couple and can be purchased online via PayItSquare.The preferred method of RSVP and payment is via paypal account or credit card thru this online portal: http://www.payitsquare.com/collect-page/42143 

Payment may also be made by check. Contact Julie Smith Clarke ‘89 at 757-284-1990 or [email protected] for details.

Special Room Rate: The Holiday Inn is offering a discounted room rate for those interested on either/both Friday and Saturday nights(9/26,9/27) for CBNA alumni attendees. Contact the Holiday Inn directly at (603) 224-9534 and reference the reunion name: CBNA 25th Reunion

RSVP Early! Deadline to Pay is September 10.

Coe-Brown Northwood Academy

Welcomes New Faculty Member

New CBNA Faculty Member Gregory Samuel.

Coe-Brown Academy is pleased to introduce the newest member of its staff for the 2014-2015 school year.

Gregory Samuel joins the CBNA faculty with two years of experience as a Chemistry teacher in the Science Department. Mr. Samuel holds both a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a Masters of Education from the University of New Hampshire. His other activities include membership in the UNH Juggling Club and experience with coaching track and field.

Harvey Lake Woman’s Club News

Submitted By Lucy Silva And Roberta Stearns

On July 1, the Harvey Lake Woman’s Club took a trip to the Wright Museum in Wolfboro.  Ten members plus guests:  Sandi Pondelli, Naomi and Larry Barratt, Keegen and Nevaeh. Nevaeh enjoyed the 1930s Memory Tunnel of period interiors while Keegen spent his time with the WW II military vehicles.  A great lunch followed at the Wolfboro Inn.

On July 26 the Club participated in Northwood’s Annual Bean Hole Bash by staffing a bake and craft table in the Town Hall. 

Books to be donated to the Northwood library in memory ofdeceased members, Doris Entwistle and Cecile Marini will be Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts and Eleanor Roosevelt by Maurine H. Beasley respectively.

On August 19 five members attended Deerfield Women’s Club’s meeting to hear Jack Heath speak on his fiction series, Salem VI.

The September 2 meeting will be a brown bag lunch at Joann Bailey’s  at 12 noon.  Leona Kubera and Ginny Rogers will provide drinks and deserts.  The program will be our annual baby shower for Concord followed by a tour of the Baileys historic property.

Wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.

September 9 is the NH State Primary from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Please plan to bake and work the HLWC table

HLWC is a service organization and a member of General Federation of Women’s Clubs-NH.  Its object is to promote sociability and culture and to make itself a  power for good in the community.  All women in the area are invited to join us.

Letter To The Editor

More Mail

I have recently received yet another survey in the mail; this one from the Americans for Tax Reform, inviting me to sign a Taxpayers Protection Pledge to “oppose and Vote (sic) against any and all efforts to increase taxes.”  Never.  Ever.  Under any circumstances.

I will decline to sign this pledge.  Not because I intend to represent you Citizens of Northwood – taxpayers and non-taxpayers alike – by looking for taxes to raise.  On the contrary, I will look for ways to spend our collective money more wisely, prudently and to greater effect.  And, I hope, as you do, that this results in a lower overall level of taxation.

On the other hand, I have lived long enough to have learned that circumstances arise that require an alteration or change in course.  And to take options off the table in advance seems unwise, if not silly.

The best current example is the modest increase in the gas tax by 4¢.  I would require that all those who opposed it commute to and from Boston on I-93 between the hours of 7:00 - 9:00 am and 5:00 – 7:00 pm until such time as they see the need to finish the widening of this highway.  I have had to do this a couple of times in the last month, and I can assure all of you that the time (which is money) and money (which is money) that is lost in gridlock far exceeds the extra $16/year that the gas tax will cost the average motorist.

So I’m not going to tie my hands by signing this or any pledge.  I would call your attention to the House in Washington where the Majority has implicitly pledged to, in Nancy Reagan’s words, “just say no.”  You can see what good that is doing.

Tom Chase 

Northwood

Candidate for Legislature, Rockingham, District 1

CBNA Faculty Member Writes For National Magazine 

An article written by Coe-Brown Northwood Academy Health/Physical Education teacher and girls’ soccer coach Josh Hils was published in the July/August 2014 edition of Coach & AD Magazine, a professional magazine for college and high school Athletic Directors and coaches, which has a national readership of over 36,000 subscriptions in print and online. The article, titled Setting Up Athletes for Failure, grew out of Mr. Hils’ experience and passion for helping coaches build positive, student athlete centered coaching philosophies. The article focuses on the ways coaches can unintentionally create situations in which student athletes are set up to fail. It also illustrates ways for coaches to avoid these set ups and tips about how to create a positive coaching environment that is the extension of what happens in the educational setting.