The Missions Committee of the Barnstead Parade
Congregational Church will be holding their Annual Fall Fair at the
Church on the Parade Grounds, on Saturday, November 5, 2011, from 9 am
to 1 pm.
There will be a craft table, including Christmas items,
new items for the Bottom Drawer and a Food Table with home baked
goodies. We will have coffee and homemade donuts for sale, also
sandwiches and homemade chowder for lunch. This fair helps benefit our
Mission Projects.
Pumpkin And Pine Fair In Barnstead
This Saturday, November 5th, is the charming country
church fair known as the Pumpkin and Pine Fair.
There will be fun, food and treasures at the
Congregational Church of North Barnstead between 9 am and 2 pm. Bring
your friends, find unique items for your holiday plans and be sure to
join us for a brunch or lunch in the schoolhouse café. Bring the kids
too – there will be child care available while you shop.
Many come each year just for the silent auction! Each
year is different and this year there are over 40 items or services
being auctioned. They include a gift certificate for the Spa at
Wentworth by the Sea and a massage by Natalie Snyder.
There will also be a catered lasagna dinner for 8 and a
complete lobster dinner for 2 prepared by Hannaford’s. Want some beauty?
How about an evening of music with Chris Bonoli, a watercolor by Clare
Bolster or a Victorian styled bird house? Need help? Bid on Handy Dad’s
donated time. Want to dress up? Consider the beautiful handmade
clothing. The list goes on – come see for yourself and go home with a
treasure.
The fair has an amazing jewelry selection, one of a kind
crafts, delicious food, collectibles that are really collectible and fun
gifts for and about critters. There are also fair trade foods and
handmade gifts by artists from Ghana and Guatemala. This year there is a
new country kitchen selection with handmade cheese boards, aprons, log
carriers and tea cozies. Need holiday cards? Wait to see the ones we are
selling.
The fair will be held between 9 am and 2 pm at the
Congregational Church of North Barnstead. It is located at 504 North
Barnstead Road in Center Barnstead. Just follow the signs for the
Pumpkin and Pine Church Fair! The money earned at the fair is donated by
the Women’s Fellowship to community outreach and to help renovate this
1820 historic church of Barnstead.
Angel Tree
Once again, Center Barnstead Christian Church is
participating in the Angel Tree Ministry. Angel Tree is a program of
Prison Fellowship International that ministers to inmates and provides
mentoring to their children. CBCC has been an active partner with Angel
Tree for many years.
This year nineteen children, living in the Barnstead
area, will be receiving Christmas gifts from an incarcerated parent
through Center Barnstead Christian Church.
The Angel Tree project began in 1982. A former inmate,
Mary Kay Beard, began working for Prison Fellowship International. She
realized that another victim of the inmate was the child left behind as
their mother or father was sentenced to prison. Mary Kay sought the
local community’s help in buying Christmas presents for the children of
prisoners. She found that people were eager to help these forgotten
victims of crime. Today, Angel Tree touches the lives of more than
400,000 children in 100 countries.
Members of local churches volunteer to purchase gifts
for individual children, based on the information that PF volunteers and
prison chaplains gather from their caregivers. The gifts are then
presented to the children as being from their incarcerated parent,
usually with a card expressing that parent’s love. The Angel Tree®
program goes a long way to strengthen that fragile bond between children
and their mothers or fathers who are separated from them, and it
demonstrates the Gospel’s message of love in a tangible way.
November is Angel Tree month at Center Barnstead
Christian Church. A tree decorated with the names of the recipient
children and a gift suggestion will be on display in the sanctuary. The
community is asked to stop by and select a name and to shop for that
child. Presents can then be returned to the church for delivery to the
child’s caregiver. Monetary donations will also be accepted.
For more information please contact the Angel Tree
coordinator at 603-393-7930, or call Center Barnstead Christian Church
at 603-269-8831.
Letter
Our Flag
May our Flag forever wave. That’s right, Old Glory!
There are many of your flags proudly waving every day, 24/7! What if you
don’t have a Flag? What if you never had one or thought of it? Simple
mistake, and American Legion Post #42, right here in Barnstead has one
for you for only $25.
If you are for or against the war(s) we are involved
with doesn’t matter. By showing and putting up your flag, despite all of
the wars, it represents your Freedom to disagree on anything. The Bill
of Rights is what makes the right so important.
Veteran’s Day, 11/11/11, is coming up soon and what
better way to show your respect and support to all our men and women
serving around the world today. So many are coming home with incredible
problems. Everything from serious wounds, broken marriages, to no jobs
etc! Also, today we know that thousands of Veterans still suffer from
injuries and mental problems and are finding it more difficult to find
help, medically or get on with their lives because of the problems
listed above.
I know today money is tight, but not many folks don’t
have a family member who is a Veteran or even worse one who has paid the
ultimate sacrifice or is still Missing In Action! So we as Veterans ask
you to purchase a Flag today from us at Post # 42 again right here in
Barnstead in memory of all Veterans!
Please call me at 776-8253 or 340-3090 and I will
deliver your Flag ASAP! It’s your right to fly Old Glory! Wouldn’t it be
great and so Patriotic to see Barnstead covered with the Red, White, and
Blue showing our love for all Veterans.
Thank you, I know we can count on you. It will make you
a really Proud American Citizen! Please Never Forget Them.
Also on Veteran’s Day, Post # 42 will be holding its
traditional Veteran’s Day at the Town Hall at 11 am on the 11th of
November. All are welcome for this short but honored tradition. God
Bless You and God Bless America!
Thanks again,
Jack O’Neil
Proudly Served
Vietnam 68-70
Former Marine And Current State Representative
Al Baldasaro To Address Barnstead-Alton Republican Committee (BARC)
The Barnstead-Alton Republican Committee (BARC) has
announced that 3rd term Rockingham County State Representative Al
Baldasaro will be the guest speaker at their next meeting on Tuesday,
November 8.
In honor of this year’s Veteran’s Day celebration, Rep.
Baldasaro, a Retired US Marine Corps 1st Sgt and Desert Storm Veteran
who served for 22 years, will discuss his role as Chairman of the
State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm (5:30 pm if you wish
to have dinner, at your option) at J.J. Goodwin’s Restaurant, 769
Suncook Valley Highway (Rt 28), in Center Barnstead. For further
details, please check the BARC website at
www.BARC-NewHampshire.com
or send an email to
[email protected].
Obituaries
A. Harvey Gardner
A. Harvey Gardner, 88, of 435 Union Ave, Laconia died
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at the Taylor Community CLC in Laconia.
Harvey was born in Boston, Mass., the son of Andrew H.
and Chrystine (Miller) Gardner. Upon graduating from Northeastern
University he worked for more than thirty years as an aerospace engineer
for Northrop Grumman. While at Grumman he participated in multiple
programs such as the Apollo Space Program. He also spent much of his
later working life teaching customers in foreign lands how to maintain
and operate the fighter bombers that their countries had purchased from
the U.S.
Harvey and his wife Barbara were enthusiast square
dancers and demonstrated their talents at the World’s Fair in New York
City. He was also an avid skier up until the age of 86. Recently he had
authored his first book, "The Beginnings of Christianity in Britain."
Harvey’s interest in things biblical came from his life-long church
affiliation. Mr. Gardner was a member of the First Church of Christ
Scientist in Laconia. Harvey loved his family and enjoyed traveling.
He is survived by his daughter, Chrysti Arvanitis and
her husband Jim of Parrish, Florida, his son Lee Gardner and his wife
Laura of Alton Bay, NH, two brothers; Oliver Gardner of Palm Harbor,
Florida and Giles Gardner of Melrose, Mass., five grandchildren, three
great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
A private memorial service will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made
to the First Church of Christ Scientist, 136 Pleasant Street, Laconia,
NH 03246.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home and
Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the
family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online
memorial go to
www.wilkinsonbeane.com.
