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Pittsfield NH News

December 9, 2009

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TOPS NH #38


It’s calling you, parties, cookie making, pies for the holiday, goodies, chips, dips, and all other kinds of food. What shall I wear to that New Year’s event? What can I bake? Oh, what shall I do? Well, there is a meeting place for you, a support group for you, Your family, and friends. You ask where, I’ll tell you, Tuesday evenings at 6:30. We meet at the St. Stephen’s Church Undercroft. No, it’s not a church affair, it’s called TOPS, and we would be glad to see you. We are a non-profit organization. For more info on the meeting feel free to contact Pat at 435-5333 or Sandy at 708-5658.




Celebrating Birthdays are: December 9, Marj Feeny; December 14, Herb Emerson; December 15, Tim Drew.


A Very Happy Birthday to one and all.




On Saturday, December 19th at 7 p.m., the First Congregational Church in Pittsfield will be presenting “The Story of Christmas” through word, song and the handbell choir. The foretelling of the coming of the Messiah and the celebration of the Birth of Jesus, will be told in nine Bible readings, interspersed with carols and hymns.


The public is cordially invited to attend. There is no admission charge, but all are encouraged to bring a canned good or non-perishable item for the local food pantry. For more information, please call the church office at 435-7471.




The PHS All Class Reunion Committee will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 6:15 p.m. at PYW. The All Class Reunion is being planned for July 17, 2010, in conjunction with Old Home Day. The Committee will be looking for “key contact” people from each class to help spread the word to their own classmates. If you are interested in volunteering to be that “key contact” person, please call Andi Riel at 435-6346.



 

Pittsfield Students Visit Museum Of NH History And State House
Submitted By Tracy Bascom, 4th Grade Teacher


Pittsfield Students made their annual visit to the Museum of NH History and the State House, as a connection to their study of New Hampshire government and history.


They enjoyed all the great exhibits that the Museum has about NH, including a wigwam and a Concord Coach! At the Capitol building they had a tour of the Hall of Flags, the House of Representatives, the Senate Chambers, and the Governor’s office, led by Virginia Drew, the Visitor Center Director and mother of one of Pittsfield’s 6th Grade teachers. Senator Barnes joined the group, as he always likes to do as he represents the citizens of Pittsfield.


The big surprise came when Governor John Lynch himself showed up and joined the students for a brief question and answer session, as well a few photos. We don’t always get to visit with the Governor, depending on his schedule, so this was a special treat for this year’s 4th graders.

 


 

School Lunch Menus
December 14-18, 2009

 

EPSOM
Monday - Hot dog with roll, potato wedges, veg., fruit, milk or yogurt tray, chicken salad.
Tuesday - Homemade pizza, tossed salad, fruit, milk or yogurt tray, no salad.
Wednesday - Spaghetti with meatsauce, garlic bread, veg., fruit, milk or yogurt tray, Nacho salad.
Thursday - Chicken pot pie, mashed potato, fruit, milk or yogurt tray, egg salad.
Friday - Baked macaroni and cheese, bread and butter, veg., fruit, milk or yogurt tray, cheese salad.

 

PMHS
Monday - BLT, cheese sticks, fruit, milk.
Tuesday - Chicken, fries, veggies, fruit, milk.
Wednesday - Pizza, corn, fruit, milk.
Thursday - Grilled cheese, tomato soup, fruit, milk.
Friday - Nachos, cheese, meatsauce, tomato and lettuce, fruit, milk.

 

CHICHESTER
Monday - Mozzarella cheese sticks, marinara sauce, French fries, veggie, peaches, milk.
Tuesday - Bologna sandwich, chicken noodle soup, carrot sticks, fruit, milk.
Wednesday - Christmas Dinner - Roast pork with all the fixings. No Salad Bar.
Thursday - Chicken nuggets, baked fries, mixed veggies, fresh fruit, milk.
Friday - Hamburger with roll, chips, pickles, corn, mandarin oranges, milk.

 

PES
Monday - Popcorn chicken, veggie, fruit, milk.
Tuesday - Cheeseburger, veggie, fruit, milk.
Wednesday - Chicken nuggets, veggie, fruit, milk.
Thursday - Hot dogs, chips, fruit, milk.
Friday - Pizza, veggie, fruit, milk.

 


 

Letter To The Editor


To The Good Citizens Of Pittsfield:
Just got back from a Selectmen’s meeting. I’m glad I went. If I had to name 5 things I love about Pittsfield, I’d say it would be our 5 member Board of Selectmen. They are very experienced and are very capable.


Throughout the year they have made adjustments within the Town Budget to save money. My guess is they will propose a reduced Town Budget for 2010. As was the case for 2009 Town Budget.


They have taken steps to reduce our property tax burden while providing necessary services and investing in the economic future of our great town.


People who really care about my town. That’s who I love.


Respectfully,
Dan Schroth

 


 

Letter


As Thanksgiving has passed us and Christmas grows near, I find myself thinking about all the people in our community who  help play an important role with my children. The PYW has touched my children in so many ways. Paula, Zach, and Jeff have shown compassion and dedication to their roles at the PYW. Not only have they been there to provide the youth with a place to go, they have helped children with homework, worked through problems that children are having socially, and have just had a listening ear for parents and youth. I do not know what I would do without the PYW.


So I just wanted to say THANK YOU to the three of you for such outstanding dedication to the youth of our town.


Jen Cole

 


 

Signs Of Progress


In the past several weeks, Pittsfield business leaders have expressed a desire to better advertise downtown attractions to those passing through the area. One idea we have heard repeatedly involves signs on major roadway arteries around the Pittsfield area, such as Routes 28, 107, and 4.  Answers are on the horizon! This month, the Pittsfield Economic Development Committee will host an informational seminar on signage and advertising with William Lambert, the NH Department of Transportation Traffic Engineer. 


Admittedly, the rules regarding state-approved road signs are a bit complicated. But Mr. Lambert has agreed to walk all of us through the process and answer questions. The goal is simple: help the town point the way to prosperity for our local businesses.  Please join us December 16th at 5:30 p.m. at Pittsfield Town Hall.


Pittsfield Economic Development Committee

 


 

The Pittsfield Players Host Open Auditions For Hot Bed Hotel


The Pittsfield Players will host Open Auditions for the farce comedy Hotbed Hotel by Michael Parker. John Charron, director, will once again entice audiences into hysterics when this raucous comedy hits the Scenic Theatre stage on March 26, 27, 28, April 2, and 3, 2010.


On Sunday, December 13 at 6 p.m. and Monday, December 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Scenic Theatre, 6 Depot Street, Pittsfield, Home of the Pittsfield Players, Charron will be looking for adult auditioners; 4 males, 5 females to play the parts in this hilarious comedy.


Terri and Brian Cody are trying to sell their one star (and often one guest) hotel in the Florida Keys. A prospective buyer is about to arrive from New York. They decide to have the staff masquerade as paying guests to convince him that the establishment is busy and prosperous. Unfortunately, the staff consists of a bibulous maintenance man and a curvaceous but somewhat vacant young maid. Add the eccentric retired British Army Major who resides at the hotel, a wealthy Arab Sheik (who looks suspiciously like the Major), a nymphomaniac dubbed The Barracuda during her annual stays, the prospective buyer’s girlfriend and, unexpectedly, his wife, and you have a laugh a minute merry go round that leaves audiences screaming with delight.


If you see yourself in any of these parts, please come prepared to read from the script either Sunday or Monday and become a member of The Pittsfield Players, community theatre group 40 years strong right in the heart of Pittsfield, NH. For more information call 435-8852.


The following is a detailed description of the characters;

 

HOPKINS (Age 50- 60): The hotel handyman. He is an endearing comic character who continually surprises the audience by producing, throughout the play, bottle after bottle of liquor which he has hidden all over the stage. He guarantees his life-long employment by never fixing anything permanently and is at the heart of most of the visual comic sequences.


A natural comic, usually tipsy, occasionally drunk.

 
TERRI CODY (Age 30-40): While her husband Brian calls himself the hotel manager, it is very apparent that she runs the place. She clearly has to love him very much to be able to put up with his blunders, inefficiencies and disasters. While she is the brains behind the Hotbed Hotel facade, she remains a gentle, loving, loyal wife.
Smart, efficient, competent yet tender and patient.


BRIAN CODY (age 35-40): The hotel owner and manager, he is one of life’s hopeless incompetents. Meaning well and trying hard, without a mean bone in his body, he somehow always manages to end up with a disaster on his hands. He is not dominated by his wife, but it is just his great good fortune that she is always there to make any decision that needs to be made for him. He is one of life’s dreamers who wanders through every day with little understanding of what is going on around him.


Kind, helpful, understanding, naive.


MAJOR PONSENBY (Age 50+): A product of an almost by-gone age, that of the upper class British military officer. He is a total eccentric, but nevertheless a real character who, while changing back and forth into the role of his twin brother, creates hilarious diversions from the main plot, culminating in an extraordinary coup-de-theatre at the final curtain.


As Major Ponsenby: Eccentric (to say the least) but with a sparkling dry wit and sense of humor.


As Abdul El Hajj: Serious, dour and taciturn.


MAUREEN (Age 18- 25): The hotel maid. She really doesn’t have a brain in her head. However, she is always bright and cheery, always tries very hard and should appear like a ray of sunshine every time she steps onto the stage.


Young, sexy, pretty, full of energy.


SAM LEWIS (Age 40-60): A New York business man, full of flash, bravado and moral judgment. It is not until the arrival of his wife, late in the play, that we realize he is, in fact, staying in the hotel with his girlfriend. A different Sam then emerges, a fawning, henpecked husband, completely dominated by Mrs. Lewis.


Brash, loud, a moral hypocrite.


ASHLEY (Age 30-45): Sam Lewis’ girlfriend is glamorous, sexy and a real “looker.” Through no fault of her own, her clothes keep disappearing throughout the play. As she wanders in and out wearing only a towel, she is hardly aware of the bedlam going on around her.


Gorgeous, but not cheap or tawdry, with a kind, affectionate nature.


HAYLEY HARRINGTON (Age 30- 45): Also known as “The Barracuda” for her aggressive attitude towards men. She is glamorous and sensuous. Her reputation as a predator has preceded her. Focusing on one male after another, sometimes in a lighthearted, almost frivolous way, she does not let the audience down. (If Terri is responsible for the Hotbed of intrigue in the I Hotel, Hayley is responsible for the literal Hot Bed.)


Voluptuous, sexy, a determined nymphomaniac.


DOROTHY (Age 45- 60): Although it is late in the play when, to the total surprise of the audience, she is introduced as Sam’s real wife, her character of “the old battleaxe” completely dominates the final twenty minutes. After a loose screw in the number of her hotel room door, 6, is dislodged causing it to flip down and become 9 (the Barracuda’s room) and she is visited by all Hayley’s paramours, she is at the heart of one of the great comic sequences of the play.


Severe, matronly, self-opinionated

 


 

2009 Tax Form, Pay Statement Availability Schedule
Submitted By Merrill A. Vaughan, Commander, Peterson-Cram Post 75


Air Force retirees with a myPay online account can now download their annual account statements. Annuitant statements will be available online Dec. 14.


There will not be a cost-of-living adjustment increase for military retirees or annuitants in 2010.


COLA increases are determined each year based on the rise in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers. The Department of Labor calculates the change in the CPI for goods and services from the third quarter average of the previous year to the third quarter average for the current year.


Although Congress and the Administration decide how much to increase federal pay, because military retirees and annuitants do not receive pay increases but cost-of-living adjustments, they rely on the final CPI results.


Internal Revenue Service 1099R forms for retirees and annuitants will be posted Dec. 14.


Retirees who rely on the U.S. Postal Service for DFAS correspondence can expect to see their account statements soon as they are now in the mail, while tax forms will be mailed Dec. 11.


For annuitants, account statements and 1099R forms begin mailing Dec. 14.


Statements and forms are mailed to the address on file with DFAS.


Retirees with questions about account statements or tax forms should call the DFAS Contact Center at 800-321-1080. (Courtesy of DFAS)

 


 

VA To Survey Veteran Households

Submitted By Merrill A. Vaughan, Commander, Peterson-Cram Post 75


Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched a national survey of Veterans, active duty service members, activated National Guard and reserve members, and family members and survivors to learn if they are aware of VA services.


“By hearing directly from Veterans and their family members, we gain valuable information to help us serve them better. We hope those who receive the survey will respond to it,” Secretary Shinseki said.


In addition to assessing awareness levels, the National Survey of Veterans will collect important health care, benefits, employment, and demographic information that VA will use to inform policy decisions and improve benefits. Recognizing a broader client base than just Veterans, this is the first time VA has included others, such as Veteran family members, in its survey population.


VA is mailing out survey “screeners” to more than 130,000 households to identify potential survey participants. The screener asks if anyone in the household is a member of one of the identified survey groups - Veterans, family members and survivors, active duty, Guard or Reserve members. Eligible survey participants then may be requested to participate in a full-length survey.


Participants will be able to select a preferred survey method: through U.S. mail, telephone or a password-protected Internet address. VA expects approximately 10,000 Veterans to complete the full-length survey.

 

This is the sixth VA National Survey of Veterans since 1978. The information collected will help VA in its efforts to design and conduct outreach to Veterans. In addition, it will provide a clearer picture of the Veteran population’s characteristics to help evaluate existing programs and policies and measure their impact.


The data collection is expected to be finished by the end of February and the final report released by December 2010.

 


 

Family Fun Fair


Do you want bonding time with your family? Well, the Family Fun Fair  is the perfect opportunity for you! Date: December 19, 2009 Time: 12 p.m.-8 p.m. Fee: $2 for adults, $1 for children 5-under, OR 1 new/used toy for free admission. Location: PES gym and Field Fair Description: Activities running all day, Relay races, Sledding (if snow is available), Bonfire (at dusk), Concession stands all day,  Gingerbread house making competition, 50/50 raffle, Music and Entertainment. *ALL Money raised will go towards the Make-A-Wish foundation, and ALL toys collected will be donated to Toys for Tots!!


For More information, you can contact PMHS at 603-435-6701.

 


 

Greater Pittsfield Chamber Of Commerce


Come join The Greater Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce as we enjoy our monthly Business After Hours. The event will be held at Lake Shore Farm on Thursday, December 17th from 6:00-8:00 PM. This event is located at 275 Jenness Pond Road in Northwood. There will be light refreshments served; the bar will be open and a brief explanation of what services are provided at Lake Shore Farm will be given. We will have a Yankee Swap for all who want to participate, just bring a gift (no more than $10) with you and have fun seeing who gets what! This is a networking opportunity for your business, so remember to bring your business cards. Everyone is welcome to come. If you are not a member and are interested in becoming one, this is a great opportunity to learn what The Greater Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce is involved in and how it could benefit your business. See our website at www.pittsfieldchamber.org.

 


 

American Legion Peterson-Cram Post 75 News


I wish to thank those who attended our annual Veterans Day observance that was held on November 11, 2009, a day that will always be remembered. I wish to also thank Dan Ward for filling in for me as I was not able to attend;  the Pittsfield Middle High School Chorale under Ms. Susan Hipkiss and Stephanie Joyce who sang the National Anthem.  I also wish to thank Mr. Rob Freese who played TAPS, Madelyn Winslow who played the echo of TAPS.  I also wish to thank the scouts who attended, along with the Pittsfield Fire Department Detail, the Pittsfield Police Department and the one who put the flags up every holiday; THANK YOU!


Each year, the American Legion Peterson-Cram Post 75 has their only fund raiser. You read it in the paper and see names who win some money; it is at our monthly meetings that we hold at the raffle.  We have received authorization from the town to now make it available to all who wish to participate.  There is a $10.00 donation for each ticket, for your $10.00, you have the chance to win up to $105.00 each month (times 12 months).  Your ticket is good from January through December 2010.  This is what funds our activities. If you wish to purchase any, contact the Post Commander, Merrill Vaughan at home phone 435-5207, or his cell phone 344-0264.


Are you a veteran who has served during armed conflicts, not necessarily in the combat zone; stop by the Post Home at 3 Loudon Rd, Pittsfield, NH, the first Monday night at 7:30 pm.  ALL veterans are welcome  to attend.


The men and women of YOUR American Legion Peterson-Cram Post 75 wishes each and everyone of you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanza and a Happy Holiday season.


Merrill Vaughan,
Commander
American Legion Peterson-Cram Post 75
Pittsfield, NH 03263

 


 

 

 











 

 

 

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