CBNA Holiday Craft Fair
The
12th annual CBNA Holiday Craft Fair will be held in the Gerrish Gym
at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy at 907 First NH Turnpike in
Northwood on November 1, 2014 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Crafts from
all over New England will be represented along with an amazing
Cookie Walk and HUGE raffle. Start your Christmas shopping early!
The fair is still accepting applications for crafters. Call
942-5531 or contact [email protected].
Flu Clinic
The Inn
at Deerfield, a nonprofit home specializing in dementia care, is
hosting a Flu Clinic on Thursday, September 25 from 2 to 4 PM.
The
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association will be providing flu
shots for ages 3 and over. The cost is $30, cash or check. However,
if you have insurance through a Medicare Advantage Plan, Medicare
Part B, Medicaid, Harvard Pilgrim or Anthem (prefix of NHN, NHP,
YGG, EHH or Federal), your insurance will be billed for the
immunization. You must have your insurance ID card with you at the
clinic.
The Inn
is located at 34 Ridge Road in Deerfield. Appointments for the flu
shot are encouraged, but drop-ins will be welcome as supplies allow.
Please contact Kelly at 463-7002 or
[email protected] for
questions or to make an appointment.
National Back To Church Sunday Cookout And Concert
The
Northwood Advent Christian Church invites you to a free cookout and
music night to celebrate National Back to Church Sunday on September
21. The church is located at 113 School St. (Rt. 107) in the
Narrows. The cookout will start at 4:30pm with hamburgers, hotdogs
followed at 5:30 with a time of great music with talented
musicians. The activities will all be outdoors weather permitting.
If you
have not been to church for years or have never been we invite you
to come and see that here is a place of community, caring and
friendship, where faith and reality meet. Real people on the road of
life sharing the “Bread Of Life”. We don’t have all the answers but
we know the One who does.
The
church has been a part of the Northwood community since the mid
1800’s. This is an invitation for you, our neighbors to come and
check us out and see what God is doing. We are happy to invite you
back to church. Join us Sept. 21 at 4:30pm and every Sunday at 10 am
for worship service.
Letter to the Editor
Less of
Which
In my
last letter, I called out politicians in general, and my now-chosen
opponent in particular, who call for “less government” without
specifying what part they would shutter. I used the case of Typhoid
Mary as a case where a government agency – the NYC Health Department
– played a vital role. And as the Center for Disease Control will
do again this year as the flu season ramps up.
I have
a similar case to make about my opponent’s embrace of “less
regulation.” Again, an historical case will make the point: the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911.
Quoting Wikipedia, “because the owners had locked the doors to the
stairwells and exits,” 146 garments workers died, many who “jumped
from the 8th, 9th and 10th floors to the street below…. The fire led
to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards.” That
is to say, regulation.
Think
of this every time you open a door with a broad push bar that opens
outwards. The crush of people fleeing will open the door.
Regulations require them.
And if
you need a more recent example of our need for regulations to
protect us from ourselves and others, recall The Station nightclub
fire in Rhode Island in 2003 where 100 people died and another 230
were injured.
Yes, I
agree that stickers on wood stoves that warn us that they are “HOT
WHEN IN USE” are pretty silly. But I prefer to live in a world with
safe food, safe drinking water, certified plumbers and electricians,
lawyers who have passed the bar, and licensed doctors and nurses.
So when
a politician calls for “less regulation” without saying which ones
to eliminate, I won’t vote for him, and NEITHER SHOULD YOU.
Tom
Chase
Northwood
Candidate for NH House of Representatives,
Rockingham District 1
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