Reminder
There are openings on the Pittsfield Budget Committee.
Anyone interested in serving on the Committee, please contact
the Town Moderator, Cedric Dustin at either 6 Blake Street,
Pittsfield, NH 03263 or
[email protected]
The Pittsfield High School National Honor Society is hosting
a Talent Show to raise money for Haiti on March 13, 2010, from
6:00-9:00 p.m. at Pittsfield High School. Tickets are $1.00 per
student; $2.00 for everybody else. Cost to participate in the
talent show is: $5.00 for an act with less than 3 people; $10.00
for 3 or more people. There will also be a bake sale, clothes
drive and raffle for couch seating. If you are a student and
want to participate, you can sign-up in the front office. If you
aren’t a student and wish to participate, you must be at the
school by 4:30 p.m. on March 13, 2010, for an approval of your
act. Dress code still applies and the acts cannot have anything
provocative in them, no vulgar language or dances. Be
appropriate. For more information contact Mr. St. James at
[email protected] or call the school at
435-6701. All profits will be sent to aid those affected by the
earthquake in Haiti.
Celebrating Birthdays are: March 11, Evan Ward; March 12,
Brett Tiede; March 13, Lindsay Catalano, Shannon Brown; March
14, Martha Laurie; March 15, Travis Locke, Sheila Ward; March
16, Michael Wolfe, Jimmy Vien, Jr., Dan Fries, Martha Moloy,
Teresa Cressey.
A Very Happy Birthday To One And All.
Best Wishes to Ronald and Eleanor Vien who will celebrate
their Wedding Anniversary on March 12th.
Pittsfield Youth Baseball Association (PYBA) Try-Outs
Try-Outs for baseball and softball (ages 4-18) are being
held on Saturday, March 27, 2010, at Pittsfield Middle High
School from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
If you haven’t signed your child up to play yet, you
can still sign him or her up to play. Join us on March 27th! Any
questions, call Penny Taylor, 435-7472.
The Suncook Valley Soccer Club will hold its spring meeting
on Sunday, March 14th, 6:00 p.m. at the Pittsfield Middle High
School Library. Elections of club officers, spring soccer, field
usage, coaches and teams for the fall, and sign-up dates will be
discussed.
Please come out and support Pittsfield Soccer by
becoming an active member of the club.
Come and sing, dance and play with Miss Kim! Miss Kim’s
Music Makers is now accepting registrations for a 4 week
children’s music class, DANCE WITH ME, in Pittsfield from April
10-May 1, 2010, from 11:00 a.m.-noon on Saturday mornings.
Classes will be held at the Pittsfield Youth Workshop on Park
St. Cost for the 4 weeks is $34.00. Please call 822-2694 or
email
[email protected] to register your child by April 3.
Class size is limited to 10 children, so register early to
secure a spot.
Nathan Heath, a gym teacher at Kearsarge Regional Middle
School, has been named the Middle School Physical Education
Teacher for an eleven-state region in the eastern United States.
Nathan will be honored by the National Association for Sport and
Physical Education at the organizations National Convention to
be held March 16th to the 20th in Indianapolis.
In addition to his regional title, he will compete
with four others for the National Physical Education Teachers of
the Year to be announced on March 19th.
Nathan is a graduate of Pittsfield High School and the
University of New Hampshire.
He was a member of the Pittsfield High School faculty before he
accepted a position in New London (now Kearsarge) as coach and
faculty member at Kearsarge Regional Middle School where he has
remained for more than a decade.
Nathan is the son of Roger and Jan Heath. He and his wife,
Kristy, live in Springfield with their three daughters.
The Loudon Historical Society and the NH Humanities Council
are proud to present Glenn Knoblock, “New Hampshire Cemeteries
and Gravestones” on Wednesday, March 17th, 7:00 p.m. at
Charlie’s Barn, 29 S. Village Road, Loudon.
Included will be rubbings, photographs, and slides which
illustrate the rich variety of gravestones to be found in our
own neighborhoods, but they also tell long-forgotten stories of
such historical events as the Great Awakening and the American
Revolution. Learn how to read these stone “pages” that give
insight into the vast genealogical book of NH.
Please contact Michele York at 783-4129 if you have any
questions.
School Lunch Menus
March 15-19, 2010
PMHS
Monday - Pizza, corn, fresh fruit, milk.
Tuesday - Chicken
nuggets, fries, veggies, fruit, milk.
Wednesday - Pasta,
meatsauce, garden salad, baked dessert or fruit, milk.
Thursday - Sliced turkey, potato/gravy, peas, cranberry, bread,
fruit, milk.
Friday - Hot dogs and roll, pears, cole slaw,
fruit, milk.
Salad Bar each day unless stated otherwise.
CHICHESTER
Monday - Nachos and cheese, salsa, white rice, carrots, peaches,
milk.
Tuesday - Homemade pizza, garden salad, chocolate
pudding, milk.
Wednesday - Spaghetti with meatsauce, garlic
bread, veggie, carrot cake, milk.
Thursday - Chicken patty
sandwich, baked fries, mixed veggies, fresh fruit, milk.
Friday - Ham and cheese wrap, pickles, carrots with ranch
dressing, watermelon, milk.
Letter Of Thanks
Stanley Howlett, 63, of Catamount Street, Pittsfield, passed
away Tuesday, February 16th, 2010, after a short illness.
He
was known to most people in the Pittsfield area as “The Can
Man.” You may have seen him around town with his cart collecting
cans.
Stanley had diabetes and originally started walking to
help lower his sugar. As time went on, he started picking up
cans on his walks and many of you started saving them for him.
The proceeds he received from the redemption of the cans went to
help pay for his many interests. He loved to fish, attend fairs,
auto races, movies and horseshoes.
His family wants to take
this opportunity to thank all of you who played such a big part
in his endeavors. Stanley was such a loving and caring spirit.
He never met a stranger and would come home after hours of
being down street and tell us of the people he saw or talked to
that day. Many of you showed so much caring and had a huge
impact on his daily life. Words cannot express our appreciation
of cards, calls, visits, food and flowers.
Thanks to all for
the words of sympathy, encouragement and comfort. Stanley will
be greatly missed, but his big heart and sweet memories will
help us through.
Most of all, we appreciate your acts of
kindness, thoughts and prayers.
The Family Of
Stanley
Howlett
Warren Chase Of Pittsfield
The story of an outcast, impoverished, desperate and horribly
abused boy born in 1813 out of wedlock on Catamount Mountain who
became nationally recognized for his unusual and
forward-thinking beliefs will be told at the Historical Society
on Elm Street, March 18 at 7:00 pm. Everyone is invited.
In
1838 Mr. Chase moved to Wisconsin where six years later was the
driving force behind the founding of the Wisconsin Phalanx, a
communal society, which lasted until 1850.
He fought for
statehood and in 1847 became a member of Wisconsin’s first
constitutional convention where he advanced such progressive
ideas as the abolition of slavery and capital punishment, and
removing the distinctions of sex and race in the qualifications
for voting. His greatest success was having women gain the right
to hold property.
The first constitution failed to be
ratified and he was elected to the second convention. There he
successfully advanced the idea of granting civil rights to all
persons, regardless of their views on religion, to become jurors
and witnesses.
In 1848 he was elected to the first Wisconsin
senate as a Democrat but later joined the Free Soil Party, which
opposed slavery. He became its candidate for governor but lost.
In 1850 he was one of the founders of Ripon College
(attended by Pittsfield’s own Fuzz Freese). Leaving Wisconsin in
1853, he briefly spent time in Michigan and then went on to
Illinois where he befriended Abraham Lincoln and other notables
of the time. In 1872 he moved to Missouri and that year became a
presidential elector for Horace Greeley.
In 1876 he moved to
California and three years later became a member of the state
senate. There he succeeded in enacting another of his radical
ideas, the abolition of employing a senate chaplain.
Perhaps
even more importantly, Warren Chase was the leading
“Spiritualist” of Nineteenth Century America, believing that the
dead could be contacted by the living. More on this next week.
Letter
Great Job Kids!
I am writing to all the young
performers in the Pirates of Penzance, Jr. (February 18-20) at
the Scenic Theatre. What a fantastic job, kids! It was amazing
to watch how the play evolved into a Class-A performance during
the many weeks of hard work at the rehearsals.
I feel
honored that my 8 yr. old daughter was able to be a part of it,
and I am grateful to Maye Hart and DeeDee Pitcher for sharing
their talent and directing abilities with the children in the
Suncook Valley area. It is impressive that this opportunity is
available for free once a year so they can experience the art of
theatrical performance.
Thank you Pittsfield Players, and
thanks to all the actors/singers for putting on a great
performance!
God Bless Our Troops,
Rachel Wood
(Kira’s
Mom)
Letter To The Editor
To The Good Citizens Of Pittsfield:
At the School District Meeting I will ask the voters of
Pittsfield to vote no on the third year teachers’ contract. At
the Town Meeting I will ask the voters to direct the Selectmen
to give no pay raises this year. I hope also to convince the
voters to take this approximately $70,000 and put it in Capital
Reserves for future purchases of highway equipment. Here
are some reasons we must act to stabilize our tax rate this year
and the years to come.
1. We must stop obligating the
taxpayer! That’s $70,000 this year and conceivably in ten years
this would be $700,000. Putting this $70,000 into Capital
Reserves, does not obligate the taxpayer in the future and funds
these accounts properly.
2. Residents are still losing their
jobs and are unable to find work.
3. Residents are losing
their homes to foreclosure. Our high tax rate is making it
difficult to sell a home in Pittsfield.
4. The state
retirement system is only 58% properly funded. The taxpayers and
employees will soon be paying more into this system.
5. State
and federal government will soon run out of stimulus funds.
Their revenue is decreasing. We cannot count on our government
to solve our problems. The solutions will have to come from us.
I am willing to listen to any other ideas to stabilize our tax
rate. I am unwilling to have my town take on any further
obligations. It has come time to renegotiate contracts.
See
you at the meetings.
Dan Schroth
Pittsfield, NH
Pittsfield Economic Committee Update
Submitted By Ed Vien
The Pittsfield Economic Development Committee (EDC) is hard at
work on a variety of exciting projects which we believe will
bring people, business and dollars to our community. We are
involved in a number of activities designed to boost the
visibility and activity of our current companies. And we are
developing a plan to bring new business to town in the near
future. Here’s what we are up to:
In the coming weeks, we
will unveil a new Economic Development page on the Pittsfield
town website. With the help of the talented and
hard-working website committee, we are rebuilding our site with
a goal of attracting outside businesses to our town. The new
site will feature spotlights on some of our local companies, and
it will lay out compelling arguments for why companies should
settle in Pittsfield. Companies, just like people, tend to shop
online and we aim to fully demonstrate why they should be here.
This spring, the Department of Transportation will widen the
intersection of Route 28 and Leavitt Road. At our
initiation, a number of local businesses have applied for
roadside signs highlighting businesses in town. We believe this
new advertising will drive traffic to downtown and boost
business. We’re also working to better advertise WiFi downtown,
with the help of local business owners. Watch for the blue
signs!
The EDC has applied for a grant to construct a PARK
and RIDE at the intersection of Routes 28 and 107. DOT has
endorsed the project and we will soon get a final decision. With
advertising and a possible second WiFi site, we are confident
commuters will not only use this area, but it will be a whole
new way to drive business into our town. It will also reduce
emissions and give Pittsfield a chance to boast its
environmental awareness.
Finally, the EDC is applying to
PlanNH for what is called a “Charrette”, which is essentially an
in-depth engineering and economic review of a roughly 18-acre
section of downtown in the industrial area between Broadway and
Clark Street. We have some exciting ideas. Among other things,
our committee hopes to create a small business incubator, where
people can start companies, get them off the ground, and expand
elsewhere in Pittsfield. We hope you’ll join us in the process.
We are sure these projects will help jumpstart our town’s
economic development engine and result in a more prosperous
future for all of us. Thank you for your continued support. If
you have ideas, please come to our meetings! All input is
welcome.
The
Pittsfield Players Present Hotbed Hotel
If you’re
looking for some bawdy good fun full of mistaken identities,
plenty of doors to go in and out and raucous innuendo then
Hotbed Hotel, directed by John Charron, is for you.
Not
quite farce, not exactly romantic comedy, Hotbed is teeming with
fun and frolic as the owners, Terri and Brian Cody; played by
Ernie Bass and Robyn Souza, of the “Turtle Beach Hotel” try to
dump their unsuccessful business into the hands of the handsome
playboy Sam Lewis, played by Ross Morse, by duping him (and his
girlfriend, played by Tracy Remington) into thinking the Hotbed
is really a hot spot full of dignitaries, religious elite and
socialites. In fact, the Turtle Beach owners have hired their
own staff to pose as their guests and keep them running ragged
for their own gain resulting in the hilarious confusion that
ensues. Jen Kearns plays not only the ditzy maid but doubles and
triples as room service and reception for the hotel, causing her
to believe she needs to change her entire outfit each time she
switches gears. Mike Hobson, plays the janitorial staff acting
as a man of the cloth with the unfortunate habit of being half
in the bag as well as hankering for the Barracuda, played by
Barbara Oliveria.
The only true hotel guest, the Barracuda
is the only resident of Turtle Beach the Codys don’t want Mr.
Lewis to know. Her reputation precedes her in room seven. Even
the war-hardened Major, played by Mike Davies, can’t keep up
with her antics. Finally, the scene truly explodes and mass
confusion erupts when Lewis’ wife, Dorothy; played by Carol
Neveux; hits the hotel demanding to know which room her husband
is in and is told by the maid/room service/receptionist that
Lewis’ wife is already here. You can only imagine what happens
next...or you can come see, Hotbed Hotel at the Scenic Theatre,
6 Depot Street, Pittsfield March 26, 27 at 8PM and March 28 at
2PM and April 2 and 3 at 8PM. Tickets, $12, are available at the
box office, by calling (603) 435-8852 or by visiting
www.pittsfieldplayers.com. The play contains adult material.