The Annual 4-H Cookie and Candy Bar Sale is held during the month of
October. Several varieties are NOW available for only $3.75 per package.
Candy Bars are $1.00 each. Your support to the 4-H youth in your community
is greatly appreciated. If a 4-H member has not contacted you, please call
4-H leaders Pamela Clattenburg 269-3200, Pauline Wheeler 435-8752 , Mark
Riel 435-6346 or Corine Miller 435-8497.
Story Hour is starting at the Chichester Town Library beginning
this Thursday at 10:30. This is a fun time for children and parents.
We listen to two stories, some read, some told. We enjoy an art
project or a craft and share juice and cookies. Moms are welcome to
be readers as well. It is very valuable for children to learn to sit
and listen to a story and to experience to wonder of a good book.
Join us if you can.
The best of birthday wishes to Jaan Luikmil III whose 18th
birthday was October 8, 2009.
Chichester Grange will meet on Wednesday, October 21, at 7 p.m.
upstairs in the Grange/Town Hall.
Looking for something to read? Here are some titles from the
adult fiction section at the Chichester Library that you might find
appealing: Look Again by Lisa Scottoline, Northanger Abbey by
Jane Austin, Maggie’s Tree by Julie Walters, Prayers for Sale by
Sandra Dallas, Sarah’s Key by Tatiana deRosnay, The Lace Makers of
Genmara by Heather Barbieri, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Olive
Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick,
Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood, and A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna
Ball.
Deer Hunting
Submitted By Evelyn Pike
Chichester Town Clerk/Tax Collector
Deer
are New Hampshire’s most popular game animal, with a total of more than
80,000 deer in all areas of the state. The N.H. Muzzleloader season is a
special attraction for hunters given its timing, with a start 11 days before
the firearms season. Firearms season begins November 11, statewide. The
muzzleloader license allows the holder of a regular NH hunting license to
take a deer during the special muzzleloader deer season using the firearms
deer tag.
Anyone applying to hunt with a firearm or bow must present a previous
hunting or archery license or a certificate of completion from an approved
hunter or bowhunter education course.
An archery license allows a hunter to hunt with a bow and arrow during
the archery or any open season and to take one deer of either sex during the
archery deer season. The archery season ends for any deer December 15th
under Wildlife management B-M. It is legal to hunt deer with bow and arrow
during the firearms deer season under a regular NH hunting license without
an archery license and in compliance with the wildlife management unit
restrictions for deer during the firearms deer season. No archery license is
required for archers under 16 years of age but they must be accompanied by a
properly licensed person at least 18 years of age. Archers must have their
name and address on arrows. Minimum draw weight for deer is 40 lbs. The
trophy deer program recognizes hunters in three categories, archery,
firearm, and muzzleloader who take whitetails weighing 200 lbs. or
more. The current NH records are with archery 252 pounds, muzzleloader 277
pounds and with firearm 289.25. Trophy deer entry forms are in the new
hunting digest.
Hunting licenses are valid til December 31 of each year. Purchase your
licenses from the Chichester Town Clerk’s Office, you will find their office
congenial and helpful. Please call 798-5808 for further information.
Out Of Your Attic Thrift Shop News
By Bonnie Champagne
When talking with Ruthi about what would we ever
do if she couldn’t run the thrift shop, she told Daryl and I that everyone
was replaceable. Well, she never told us it would take at least 6 people to
do the job that she was doing! Ruthi is home from the hospital and we hope
she is getting lots better. We all miss her very much.
Change is always difficult for people. Due to Ruthi’s illness, we have
had to make some changes. We apologize that we are not able to do it like
Ruthi did it. We are doing the best we can. If Ruthi is able to come back,
which we sure hope she can, she can put things back to fit her liking.
Please mark your calendar for Oct. 24th. A special Ruthi appreciation
event will be taking place at the Blueberry Hill Plaza where the Out of Your
Attic Thrift Shop is located. More news will follow about this event. It
will be a chance for all of us to give a little back to Ruthi as we raise
some funds to go toward her medical expenses.
Come by to check out the specials at the Out of Your Attic Thrift Shop
at 345 Suncook Valley Rd. in Chichester, Tuesday-Thursday, 8-4:00 and Sat.,
10-4:00. Donations are cheerfully accepted during our hours of operation.
Please do not leave items when the shop is closed. If you would like to
call ahead or have any questions, the shop number is 435-9339.
Chichester Grange
Chichester Grange met on Wednesday, October 7, with Master Anne Boisvert
presiding. The clothes basket of new linens to be donated to Rape & Crisis
Shelters by the State Grange Family & Community Committee is beginning to
fill up. October 21 will be the last day to bring these items in. Another
collection for State Grange is 2010 calendars. These are donated to nursing
homes around the state.
The Chichester Grange exhibit at Deerfield Fair won a blue ribbon and
prize money will be forthcoming. Hannah West gave a tour of the Grange Hall
to Chichester third graders on September 21 as part of their visit to places
of interest in their community.
Resolutions and other materials for the
State Grange Annual Convention in late October have been received and will
be discussed at the October 21 meeting. Wildlife sightings included geese
landing at Shirley Water’s pond on Dover Road, flying ducks, gray squirrels,
a small opossum, and an owl.
As the program for the evening Fred Carlson showed some hazelnuts that
he had harvested on his property and talked about a hazelnut survey he was
participating in from the Arbor Day Foundation. Most of the hazelnuts used
in the United States are imported, and there is no reason why they cannot be
grown in the US. Fred also brought in some pumpkins that he had grown to
share and told some pumpkin stories gleaned during a pumpkin tour with some
members of his church. The program concluded with a short skit by Mary West
and Kevin Belval.
Refreshments for the evening were cider and donuts provided by Anne and
Marty Boisvert.
Obituaries
William S. Griffin
Chichester - William Scott Griffin, 66, died Friday, Oct.
2, 2009, at the Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association Hospice House in
Concord.
He was born in Pittsfield, the son of Alvin E. and Harriett (Bailey)
Griffin.
He worked as a custodian for Merrimack Valley High School in Concord.
William most recently worked for the state of New Hampshire, Department of
Health and Human Services in the janitorial department. He was a former
firefighter for the Concord Fire Department and also worked for Converse
Rubber in Contoocook. He also worked as a self employed painter in Florida.
His many interests included mowing the lawn, landscaping and maintaining
his property, having company around him, spotting deer, fishing, kayaking,
warm fires, playing poker, watching wrestling and baseball on television,
and he loved eating lobster. He took great pride in driving and maintaining
his car. William was also an avid NASCAR fan.
In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his beloved
grandparents, Albert and Harriett Bailey.
Survivors include a longtime companion and friend, Lora Gurwala of
Concord; his aunt, Arlene "Auntie Babe" Weeks of Concord; a cousin, Patricia
Cutting of Concord; many cousins; and especially his dog, Maximus and three
cats.
Graveside services were held Friday, October 9, 2009, in the Pine Ground
Cemetery in Chichester, with Reverend Henry M. Frost officiating.
Memorial donations may be made to Beacon Hospice 70 Commercial St.,
Concord 03301. (603-224-2223)
Bennett Funeral Home in Concord handled the arrangements.