Bernard Herbert
is now at the Epsom Manor. He is in good spirits, but would welcome the
company of visitors.
Help Send a Child to Camp
Save your
appetite for the Barnstead School Meeting on March 22nd.
Breakfast
will be served and the proceeds will help send kids to Horton Center – a
UCC church camp up in the White Mountains. The school meeting begins at
9am and folks from the Congregational Church of North Barnstead will be
in the kitchen at the side of the gym/meeting hall to sell breakfast
starting at 8:30. There will be both protein (quiche) and carb’s –
coffee cake and muffins as well as Fair Trade coffee and tea. Come
support our kids by your involvement in this important town meeting and
by supporting this campership program.
U.S.
Senate Candidate Jim Rubens To Address
Belknap County Republican Committee
On
Monday March 24
The March
monthly meeting of the Belknap County Republican Committee originally
scheduled for Wednesday March 12 has been rescheduled for Monday, March
24 at 6:30 pm at the Top of the Town Restaurant, 88 Ladd Hill Rd in
Belmont.
This
month’s guest speaker is former State Senator Jim Rubens. Jim announced
last September that he would be challenging current U.S. Senator Jeanne
Shaheen in the November 2014 election. However, to do so, Jim will have
to prevail in a primary against a number of other Republican U.S. Senate
candidates. Rubens will share his reasons for choosing to run, discuss
where he stands on the issues, and explain why he feels he’s the
candidate who can best represent New Hampshire in Washington, D.C.
Belknap
County GOP meetings are open to ALL Republicans and like-minded
independents. Per their usual meeting format, if you’re interested in
having dinner (at your option) and/or wish to socialize before the
meeting, plan to arrive as early as 5:00 pm.
The
Committee is stepping up its request for food pantry donations. With
the winter cold continuing to be a burden for many, the Committee once
again reminds everyone planning to attend to bring non-perishable food
items to the meeting for distribution to local food pantries.
For more
information, please send an email to
[email protected]
Oscar Foss Memorial News
Barnstead
Food Pantry Donation
Our first
Fine Free February event at the library was a great success! We
collected 87 items and $87.55 for the Barnstead Food Pantry. Thank you
to all our wonderful patrons for your generous donations.
New Art
Exhibition
A new
photography exhibit by Joe Perna is on display at the library until
April 4th. Joe is a NH based photographer, whose involvement in the arts
spans nearly forty years. He has enjoyed both amateur and professional
status over that time. He photographs in both black and white and color,
exclusively with digital equipment. Many of the images on display are
part of a collection of work he is now creating that observes and
documents places where people have been; homes, barns, workshops,
churches, and places that suggest the presence of people and what they
have left behind. The lighting and colors are essentially how they were
found, without appreciative adjustment by the photographer. Joe’s
commercial work is in portraiture and people photography, advertising
and product photography, and helping businesses and individuals enhance
their on-line visual presence. He has exhibited his work in galleries,
shows and commercial spaces in New England. Joe is on the Board of
Directors of Main Street Art, in Newfields, N.H. and chairs their Artist
Advisory Committee and he also teaches photography at the MSA gallery.
Letter To The Editor
Our family
would like to extend a huge thank-you to the teachers and staff at
Barnstead Elementary School for hosting an amazingly popular Math
Carnival Night.
Apart from
the exciting and real carnival-like feel that the night had, which was
obviously an amazing amount of work in itself, your enthusiastic
teachers had both our 5 and 11 year old girls equally engaged in every
game- that’s a tremendous feat! While we were there, it was encouraging
to see swarms of kids so captivated by the creative math games and eager
for more opportunities to participate, rushing from one game to the
other. Once I was able to finally pull them free and get them home, it
was equally rewarding to hear them recount the night to their dad, each
game described with such delight!
This is
what real learning is about for us- curiosity, engagement, and
excitement… isn’t that what we all want for our children? To have them
excited and curious about life, eager to learn all they can about what
interests them, and actively engaged in searching for answers?
Again,
thanks to you all so much for spending your valuable personal family
time with your BES families instead, for pooling your creative talents
and resources, and for making Math Carnival Night an incredibly
memorable event for my children. We couldn’t be more thrilled with the
results of all your hard work- and we are already looking forward to the
next one!
Allyson
Vignola
Center
Barnstead
The
Lakes Region Plan: An Update
LRPC is in
the process of updating the Comprehensive Regional Plan per RSA 36:47
and will be requesting town comments as well as asking LRPC
Commissioners to vote to adopt the plan before the end of this calendar
year. Starting at 6:00 pm on Monday, March 31, the Lakes Region
Planning Commission (LRPC) is convening a meeting at Tri-County CAP, 448
White Mountain Highway, Tamworth. LRPC Commissioners will receive an
update on the progress with the Lakes Region Plan, a state planning
requirement of NH RSA 36:47. The update will include the timeline for
completion, an overview of the Chapters completed to date and the work
in progress. Particular emphasis will be placed on the public review and
comment process, the Implementation Plan and Strategy component and the
adoption of the Plan by the Commission in November 2014.
Please join
us in Tamworth on March 31. All LRPC meetings are open to the public.
In case of inclement weather, this meeting will be rescheduled for
Tuesday, April 1, same time and place. For cancellation information,
please monitor local radio stations and the Channel 9 Storm Center. For
additional information or special accommodation, please contact the
LRPC: 279-8171 or
[email protected].