The Chichester
Youth Association will be holding a parents and friends night on February
14th, 2009, from 6:30 pm to 11:30 pm at the Plausawa Valley Country Club.
Mama Kicks will be performing. $20.00 per ticket includes: appetizers,
dancing, a night out with friends. A cash bar will be provided. For
tickets, please call: Todd Hammond 798-3922, Mariana Thorne 798-3718,
Heather Chiavaras 798-3482.
Some fascinating non-fiction titles have been added to the shelves
at the Chichester Town Library. Look for: All the Way Home, Building
a Family in a Falling Down House by David Giffels, The Everything
Low-Salt Cookbook – 300 Recipes to Help Reduce Your Sodium Intake by
Pamela Rice Hahn, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle – The Story of an
African Childhood by Robyn Scott, or Panic – The Story of Modern
Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis.
It’s the last ditch minute to file for Town Office. The filing
period ends on January 30 at 5 p.m. If you have an interest in
becoming a Selectman, Road Agent, Library Trustee, Trustee of Trust
Funds, or Cemetery Trustee rush over to the Town Offices with the
one dollar filing fee in hand and sign up to have your name placed
on the ballot. Each of the offices mentioned above needs one person
for a three-year term. Don’t delay. It’s a real nuisance to run a
write-in campaign.
Chichester Grange will meet on Wednesday, February 4, at 7 p.m.
upstairs in the Grange Hall. Alice Hilliard will present the program
and Barbara Frangione is in charge of refreshments. Grange meetings
consist of a short opening ceremony, a business meeting, a program,
a brief closing ceremony, and refreshments. Potential new members
are always welcome.
Chichester Grange
The Chichester Grange January 20th meeting began with a Soup Supper at 6
p.m. Members and guests enjoyed a choice of homemade fish chowder, corn
chowder, chicken rice soup, vegetarian vegetable soup, or hearty meat and
vegetable soup. The soup was accompanied by corn bread and other breads,
several kinds of crackers, pickles, and a dessert of whoopee pies or ginger
cookies. Grangers always eat well.
During the business meeting members rejoiced to hear that $346 dollars had
been raised for Heifer International during 2008 from donations and by
recycling aluminum cans. The money was used for a water buffalo, a trio of
rabbits, and a flock of chicks. These animals are given to families in Third
World countries along with education on how to care for the animal and use
the products generated by it. There is also the provision of “passing along
the gift” by donating offspring to another family in the area.
In other business the Grange made a donation to the 4-H Foundation in memory
of Ruth Kimball. There was also a vote to see about putting an article in
the Town Warrant that would provide a bit of tax relief for farm buildings
and land under farm buildings under RSA 79-F, a law passed by the NH
Legislature in July, 2008, which needs to be adopted by individual towns in
order to benefit the farms in their communities.
The program included facts about penguins in recognition of Penguin
Awareness Day on January 20. There was also a time for members to count up
how many presidents had served during their individual lifetimes.
The next meeting
will be held on February 3. Alice Hilliard will do the program and Barbara
Frangione will provide refreshments.
Wildlife sightings included wild turkeys feeding in the deep snow, robins
and grackles feeding on apples and crab apples, and a pileated woodpecker,
as well as the customary winter birds and many animal tracks.
Thank you notes were shared from fifty-year Grange members for their plates
of Christmas cookies and from area third graders for the dictionaries they
received in December. The Epsom dictionaries were delivered in January, so
the Dictionary Project is now complete for this year. Carolee Davison and
Hannah West made this year’s deliveries and greatly enjoyed the enthusiasm
with which the third graders in Barnstead, Pittsfield, Chichester, and Epsom
received their own personal dictionaries.
Child Screening
The SAU #53 School District(s) will be sponsoring a Preschool Child
Screening for children living in the SAU #53 District on February 5, 2009
(snow date, February 19th), at the Chichester Central School. The Preschool
Child Screening is designed to locate children, 3 to 6 years of age, who
have special needs that may require special attention. Professionals will
screen overall development in motor, cognitive and language skills. Parents
who would like their child to be screened, please call Michelle Plunkett at
798-5651 for an appointment.
Chichester - A
20/20 Vision
Master Plan Survey Now Available!
The Master Plan Survey has been published. It is very important that we get
as much participation as possible to be able to present a fair
representation of what YOU, the residents of Chichester, want for the
future. The survey is available online at
www.chichesternh.org, just click on Master Plan Survey, or you may pick
up a copy at the town hall or call 798-5350 to have one mailed to you.
As an incentive to participate, many local businesses have donated items to
be included in a raffle of everyone who completes a survey and enters the
raffle.
The survey results and other work will be presented back to the community on
Saturday, February 14th. This event will be held at the Central School. The
Master Plan Committee has been working very hard to ensure this day is a
productive fun packed day to get the community together and bring many ideas
together. Breakfast and lunch will be served and childcare will be
available. Mark your calendars now for February 14th, and bring a friend.
We’re on the web -
www.chichesternh.org
