Celebrating Birthdays are: August 12, Corey Pethic, Jim Paggi,
Cameron Quigley; August 14, Jeff Pinard, Michele Karwocki,
Heather Briggs; August 15, Danny Mullen; August 16, Tom Zahn,
Rose-Mary Bartrum; August 17, Ron Frohock.
A Very Happy Birthday to one and all.
Celebrating Anniversaries are: August 12, Chet and
Jane Ann Fuller; August 13, Merrill and Diane Vaughan,
Peter and Susan Elliott; August 14, Dr. Leon and Laverne
Bly; August 17, Gerry and Ed O’Brien.
Best Wishes.
A church service will be held at the Quaker Meeting
House in South Pittsfield on August 15th at 1 p.m.
Speaker will be Henry Frost.
All are welcome!
Nathan and Lindsey Riel of Fall River, Mass., are
happy to announce the birth of their first child, a
daughter, Abigail Elizabeth, born July 26, 2010,
weighing 6 lbs. 9 oz., and 19½ inches in length.
Proud grandparents are Peter and Candy Riel of Center
Barnstead, and Dr. Robert and Sue Pavao of Swanzey, Mass.
Great-grandmothers are Joan Riel of Pittsfield, Susan Pavao and
Jacquelyn Ogden, both of Fall River, Mass.
“Make A Splash” Children’s Summer Reading Program
2010 presents Wildlife Encounters Traveling Zoo
Thursday, August 12 at 1:00 p.m. at F. B. Argue
Recreation Center.
Sponsored by Parks and Recreation and Josiah Carpenter
Library.
Come join The Greater Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce
as we enjoy our monthly Business After Hours. The event
will be held at Barton Lumber Co., Inc. on Tuesday
August 17th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. This event is located
at 245 Province Road, (Rt. 107), Barnstead, NH. There
will be light refreshments served and a tour will be
given to all who participate in this event.
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. Find out more information about this and
upcoming events at
www.pittsfieldchamber.org.
Epsom-Chichester Lions Club will hold a Breakfast
at Webster Park., Rte. 28 south on Saturday, August 14,
from 8 to 10 a.m. for Epsom Old Home Day.
All you can
eat pancakes and sausage, juice, and coffee. $4.
Pauline Wheeler, Pittsfield Citizen of the Year, with Rev. Nancy
Talbot of the North Barnstead Congregational Church at the
Quaker Church in South Pittsfield. Rev Talbot was the Guest
Minister on Sunday afternoon, August 1st.
Pictured is Jim Webber grading the slope next to the concession
stand on Saturday, July 31. He was among several volunteers,
including Larry Berkson, Susan Carbon, Darrell Wages, Andrew
Webber and Ray Webber, Jr. who worked that day.
On
Saturday, July 31 several people gathered to continue work on
the renovations at Pittsfield Youth Athletic Park. Most of the
time was spent improving driveway slope to the left of the
concession stand and a triangle area where a flag pole was
erected. Pictured is volunteer, Ray Webber, Jr. who spent the
better part of last week contributing labor to continuing work
at Pittsfield Youth Athletic Park.
Pictured is “Doc” Gray installing one of the foundations for the
new dugouts on the upper field at Pittsfield Youth Athletic
Park. He provided the labor free of charge to this worthwhile
project. PYBA deeply appreciates his contribution. With the
devotion of local residents like Dennis, the renovated and
enlarged Park will be a tremendous asset to the Pittsfield
Community and its youth. Thank you Dennis.
FB
Argue Pool News
Swim lessons have ended for the summer.
Thanks to all who have supported this important program.
On
August 11, 2010, we will have a Decorate a Hacky Sack Day. The
first 50 children will be given a hacky sack to decorate with
fabric markers. On August 12, 2010, Wild Life Encounters from
Rochester will present a live animal show at 1:00. This program
has been planned in conjunction with the Carpenter Library
Summer Reading Program. It should be fun for children of all
ages. We continue to have the Duck Hunt on Monday afternoon at
2:30; Wednesday afternoon we play Airhead Bingo; and Friday
afternoon children can build a sand castle for judging at 2:30.
We passed our second water test for the summer last week.
The area will stay open through August 28. On that day we will
open from 1:00 to 6:00 for swimming. At 6:00 there will be a
free cookout with hot dogs and hamburgers. We are still trying
to organize an outdoor movie for that night. Check in the Sun
next week for updates on that. Also posters will be put around
time to advertise this End of Summer Celebration.
Thanks
again to our patrons and everyone who has made this summer
another successful one.
PHS
All Class Reunion
The Pittsfield High School Alumni
Association and the All Class Reunion Committee would like to
THANK everyone who had a part in making the PHS ALL CLASS
REUNION held on July 17, 2010, a wonderful success.
Many
Thanks to all the committee members, family, friends, groups and
organizations that gave many, many hours to help with the event.
A special thank you to the over 40 people who donated baked
goods.
We would like to especially thank the following
businesses, groups and individuals for their donations to the
All Class Reunion:
Pittsfield Elementary School, Pittsfield
Middle High School, Pittsfield Elementary PTO, Suncook Valley
Sun, Granite Image, Sanderson Trust Fund, Liz Hast, Chief Robert
Wharem, Pittsfield Youth Workshop, South Pittsfield Community
Club, Victory Workers 4-H Club, Circle of Home & Family Group,
Dorcas Guild - First Congregational Church, Woman of Rotary,
Panera Bread, Pleasant View Gardens, Heath’s Flower and Gift
Shoppe, Jitters Café, Dunkin Donuts, Blueberry Station, P & M
Market, Parker’s Restaurant, Pepsi, Coke, Mr. John Cotton, Mr.
Clayton Wood, Pittsfield ID Technologies, Pittsfield Police
Dept., Pittsfield Fire Dept.
Importance Of Care For Women Veterans
By Army Sgt. 1st
Class Michael J. Carden
American Forces Press Service
Submitted By Merrill A. Vaughan Vice Commander
American Legion Peterson-Cram Post 75 Pittsfield
Washington - Women in today’s military serve closer to the front
lines of combat than ever before, and as they become veterans
the Veterans Affairs Department will be ready to handle their
care, VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki said recently.
Speaking
at a forum on women veterans at the Women in Military Service
for America Memorial in Arlington, Va., Secretary Shinseki
underscored the need to improve care for women veterans, citing
their military contributions and the complexity of issues women
may return with from battle.
“Over time, changes in
warfighting doctrine dictate changes about where women serve
within the battle space and the kinds of missions they are
handed,” he said. “These doctrinal changes will continue to have
an impact on women. So, it becomes [VA’s] responsibility to
anticipate those changes and prepare for women veterans who will
have shaped and lived those changes.”
The community of women
veterans is growing, Secretary Shinseki said. Women represent
almost 8 percent of the veteran population, he said, as well as
6 percent of veterans who use VA health care services. VA
officials expect that number to double within 10 years,
Secretary Shinseki said.
“We marvel at the courage of women
soldiers,” he said. “[Women], like their male counterparts, have
long dealt with the after-effects of battle.”
The secretary
explained that VA experienced a 20 percent spike in women using
the department’s health care system in 2009. In the previous six
years, Secretary Shinseki said, VA saw a 17-percent increase.
“We are VA, [and] our goal is 100 percent accessibility to
veterans who need us,” he said. “We must anticipate and address
the challenge faced by women.”
Secretary Shinseki said VA’s
benefits administration’s regional offices now have women
veterans’ coordinators to provide assistance. Also, each of the
144 VA medical centers has full-time women veterans’ program
managers, he said.
Also, he noted, VA is streamlining the
process for both men and women veterans to receive treatment and
benefits for post-traumatic stress.
Secretary Shinseki also
pointed to research initiatives the VA is undertaking to improve
overall care for women. He noted that VA published more articles
on the impacts of women serving in the military from 2004 to
2008 than in the previous 26 years combined.
The topics of
such research and related conferences include impacts of trauma
and combat exposure among women, women veterans’ preferences and
health care needs, gender differences in health care for
deployed women and women veterans and post-deployment care
focused on trauma, mental health and reintegration, he noted.
Women veterans now are more visible in VA publications,
marketing materials, posters and messages, Secretary Shinseki
added.
“We need your insights and your energy to help
prepare the way for where we need to be 25 years from now,” he
told the group. “This forum should establish a critical agenda
for an annual dialogue on women, not only to update us, ... but
more importantly to provide us the necessary vectors for women’s
programs in the years ahead.”
For more retiree news and
information, please visit
www.retirees.af.mil.
“Women service members have come a
long way from the early daysof our nation. Today, women are in
leadership positions in both enlisted grades and officer ranks.”
Loudon Maxfield Public Library
This is the first year the
Maxfield Public Library has offered an Adult Summer Reading
Program. With Book Baseball and Book Jeopardy nights, it was a
great success. The staff had fun with it, too. We were extremely
pleased with the generosity of local businesses who contributed
raffle prizes. Their appealing donations motivated readers to
stretch their minds as they completed the program. It’s
wonderful to have such supportive partners to promote reading.
We want to thank Alicia Grimaldi and Tina White of AffirmWater
for donating a water bottle gift packet. Their
environmentally-friendly gift is perfect for the program theme,
“Water Your Mind – Read!”
For all those pet lovers out
there, we want to give a big thank you to Kris Tripp of Bark Now
for her gift certificate. The lucky pets will be thankful, too,
and proud of their impeccable grooming.
Thank you to Matt
Smith of the Loudon Garage for the extremely generous donation
of two coupons each good for a free State inspection. The value
and convenient location in town made this item popular with
everyone.
You can’t go wrong with candles, everyone loves
them. Mary George of the Ivory Rose gave two beautiful sets of
fragrant Colonial at Home candles in ceramic holders. Thank you,
Mary!
One happy reader took home a sample gift bag
from Michele’s Totally Awesome Gourmet Popcorn. Couldn’t be more
scrumptious! Thank you, Michele Holbrook! Yum, yum, yum!
Thank you Don Worster of Epsom House of Pizza for
donating a gift certificate for one cheese pizza - everyone’s
favorite!
And for pure relaxation, one reader will be
treated to some quiet, comfortable spa time with Heather
Johanson of the Vibrant Spirit Day Spa. Thank you for your
donation. We could all use some pampering!
If your business
would like to be a sponsor of our Summer Reading Program next
year, please call the library at 798-5153. We would love to have
you be part of this community event.
Pittsfield Elementary School
Submitted By Beth Colon-Pagan
Every year BILLIONS of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and
landfills across America. TerraCycle, Capri Sun and Honest Kids
are working together to put an end to this awful loss of
resources. TerraCycle is converting the used drink pouches into
unique fashion bags, tote bags, pencil cases, and other items
for kids and adults. With your help we can make a difference.
Pittsfield Elementary School has collected 5,972 drink pouches
since September 2009.
Starting in September Pittsfield
Elementary School will be collecting Ziploc bags and will also
be sending them to TerraCycle. TerraCycle will give
Pittsfield Elementary School 2¢ for each bag that we turn in.
Please make sure that the bags are rinsed out and dry before
turning them in.
Pittsfield Elementary School is still
collecting box tops. Pittsfield Elementary School gets 10¢ for
each box top that is submitted. For the 2009-2010 school year
Pittsfield Elementary School received $470.00.
Pittsfield
Elementary School is still collecting Campbell soup labels. Some
labels are worth 1 point and some are worth 5 points. Just
cut out the UPC code and send them to school with your child.
Merrimack County DUI Task Force Sobriety Checkpoint
As a
result of the increasing incidents of drinking and driving, the
Pittsfield Police Department in cooperation with the Concord
Police Department, Allenstown Police Department, Pembroke Police
Department, Epsom Police Department, Chichester Police
Department, and the Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office applied
for, and was granted, a Superior Court Petition to conduct a
Sobriety Checkpoint. The Sobriety Checkpoint is the most
effective method of detecting and apprehending the impaired
operator.
The program, approved by the NH Highway Safety
Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
provides federal highway safety funds to support these
checkpoints, which will be conducted in Pittsfield.
A review
of records has shown that the use of alcohol by individuals who
operate motor vehicles has resulted in an alarming number of
deaths and personal injury accidents. Therefore, in an effort to
maintain safe roads in Pittsfield, the Merrimack County DUI Task
Force will be conducting a Sobriety Checkpoint in Pittsfield
during the week of August 15 through August 21, 2010.
The
purpose of the Sobriety Checkpoints is to detect and apprehend
the impaired driver. Pittsfield Police Chief Robert Wharem and
Merrimack County Sheriff Scott Hillard have taken an aggressive
stance to prevent persons from driving while impaired. New
Hampshire has some of the most aggressive laws in the county to
fight the impaired driver and the law enforcement
community will use those tools to their full extent.
Respectfully,
Sgt. Jeffrey M. Cain
Memorial Service Planned For Dorothy Freese Kristoferson
A celebration of the life of Dorothy Elizabeth Freese
Kristoferson, who passed away peacefully on August 16, 2009,
will be held 11 a.m., Saturday, August 14 at the First
Congregational Church, Pittsfield. A repast will follow in the
church vestry with interment at Floral Park Cemetery.
She died at her home in Denton, Texas, encircled by her family
following a courageous 20-month battle with cancer; she was 84.
Born April 28, 1925, to George Edward Freese, Sr., and
Elizabeth Judith (Sweet) Freese in Pittsfield, Dorothy was one
of five children. As a child, she displayed a great passion for
horses and a love of music. She played both the violin and drums
in her family’s orchestra, “The Homespun Broadcasters.” She was
a graduate of Pittsfield High School, Bradford Junior College
and the University of New Hampshire.
Dorothy taught music in
Dover prior to marrying her high school sweetheart, Ralph S.
“Kris” Kristoferson, at Alton Bay June 25, 1949. They had five
children. She passed on her love of music by encouraging each of
the children to play an instrument, and likewise she enjoyed
watching her grandchildren in their musical pursuits.
She
traveled extensively in the United States and Europe over the
duration of her husband’s 29 years of Army service before
settling in Austin, Texas, in 1971 until their move to Denton,
Texas, in 2008. Although they lived their later years in Texas,
the Kristofersons always considered New Hampshire their home,
where they summered with family and friends in Gilmanton Iron
Works.
Throughout her adult life, Dorothy was a deeply
spiritual person, pursuing Christian Education through personal
studies and attending classes at numerous theological
seminaries. She volunteered at Austin’s Seton Hospital and
established the church library at the First United Methodist
Church, also in Austin, where she was a member.
Dorothy was
preceded in death by her parents and by two brothers, George E.
Freese, Jr., and William S. Freese of Pittsfield.
Those who
cherish her memory are her husband of 60 years, Ralph of Denton;
daughters and sons-in-law, Karen and Bill Foxworth of Austin,
Susan Kristoferson and Larry Kapustka of Calgary, Canada, and
Elizabeth and John Moore of Murphy, Texas; sons and
daughters-in-law, John and Sandy Kristoferson of Denton and
David and Teri Kristoferson of Georgetown, Texas; nine
grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; and five
step-great-grandchildren; brothers and sisters-in-law, D.
Jackson and Jacqueline Freese of Naples, Fla. and Courtland and
Shirley Freese of Bow; sisters-in-law, Florence Freese and
Marion Freese; and cousin, Joan Riel, all of Pittsfield; and
numerous nieces and nephews.
A loving and devoted wife,
mother and grandmother, Dorothy touched many lives and was a
friend to all. She was always encouraging and supportive with
never an unkind word or thought. She was the strong link of love
and care that held her family together. She is greatly missed.
The family requests that memorial donations be sent to the music
fund at the First Congregational Church of Pittsfield, VNA
services of Denton, Texas, for their professional educational
program or to the church library at the First United Methodist
Church, Austin, Texas.
