Merideth Tumasz, Pembroke Academy senior and Chichester, NH,
resident, was recently surprised in her classroom by two
representatives from the NHHEAF Network Organizations’ Center
for College Planning. In front of her classmates it was
announced that she was the winner of a $1,000 college cash
incentive award through the NHHEAF Network Organizations’ “I am
College Bound” initiative.
Merideth entered to win the
cash incentive online at
www.iamcollegebound.org
and was one of 20 lucky New Hampshire students chosen for the
drawing in April. Merideth will be using her cash incentive
toward tuition at George Washington University in Washington,
D.C, where she will be attending this fall. Merideth was also
the winner of a contest through the website asking students
to produce a video acting out the “I am College Bound” theme
song. For Merideth’s creativity she was awarded a gift basket
with items and gift cards to help her get ready for her freshman
year in college.
Happy Anniversary on June 3rd
to Jason and Kelly Brudniak.
Chichester Town
Library will be holding their annual Book and Plant Sale on
Saturday, June 4th, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. behind the library on
Pound Road.
The Chichester Firefighters
Association will be sponsoring an all you can eat Spaghetti
Dinner on Wednesday, June 15, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Chichester
Fire Station for the benefit of the Chichester Food Pantry.
Minimum donation requested is $5.00 per person. The Chichester
Firefighters Association will be providing all the food and
supplies needed for the event, so 100 per cent of any money
raised will be distributed directly to the Chichester Food
Pantry. Hope to see you there!
Happy Birthday to
Josh Duford on June 7 and Brian Menard on June 8.
The following DVDs are now on the shelves of the Chichester Town
Library for your viewing pleasure: Runaway Bride, ALI, The
Lovely Bones, Valkyrie, Dead Calm, PUSH, The Scorpion King,
Biker Boyz, A Beautiful Mind, Duplicity, We Were Soldiers, The
Sign of the Beaver, Mercury Rising, Days of Thunder, Martha’s
Favorite Family Dinners, Australia, My Giant, and Second
Chances.
Someone asked where the Chichester Food
Pantry is located. It is in the Town Hall on the lower level.
Besides the produce from your extra garden row, the Food Pantry
is always looking for paper goods and personal items, which
cannot be purchased with food stamps. We are talking about
toilet paper, shampoo, toothpaste, feminine hygiene products and
other items of that nature. Cash donations with which to
purchase such products are also welcome.
JoAnn
Luikmil is looking for cookie bakers and folks to make pasta
salad for the noon meal on Old Home Day, August 20. Call her at
798-5483 if you can help.
Chichester Forest Management Plan
Meeting June 9
The
Chichester Conservation Commission is seeking citizen input on a
Forest Management Plan for Town-owned land. Charles
Moreno, a Consulting Forester and Forest Ecologist, is just
beginning his work on the Plan, which involves three parcels:
1. The Spaulding Town Forest, a totally wooded parcel of 122
acres off Hutchinson Road in the southerly part of Town on the
Pembroke border.
2. Carpenter Park, which is made up
of three lots comprising 42 acres, one of which includes the
Carpenter Park recreational fields north of Bear Hill Road.
The Management Plan will focus on the wooded parcels north and
south of Bear Hill Road and will be coordinated with other Town
committees with an interest in the park.
3. The
Madeline Sanborn Conservation Area south of Main Street, some of
which is in the area of the Grange Hall and surrounding Marsh
Pond. This area is comprised of four lots totaling
48 acres, some with restrictive deed covenants. A large
portion of this area was donated to the Town to foster timber
and wildlife management and passive recreation.
The goal of the Management Plan is to provide recommendations to
the Town on:
1. Possible timber harvest volumes and values
2. Forest management that may be needed over the next 10 years
to foster wildlife habitat, passive recreation, and timber
production.
3. Identification of features of these
properties which can be incorporated into the town’s Recreation
Master Plan and land management goals.
The Conservation
Commission will hold a public meeting on Thursday, June 9th at 7
pm at the Grange Hall for the purpose of gathering citizen input
on the goals of the plan and specific desires regarding any of
the parcels involved.
Out
Of Your Attic Thrift Shop News
Submitted By Carol Hendee
We want to say thank you to all who helped with our yard sale,
either by setting up, taking down, sales or if you were a
customer. A very good day was had by all. There were
bargains galore and we were able to empty a storage unit and
decrease expenses.
The work continues and so does the need.
For babies, we need donations of summer outfits, onesies,
sleepwear, size 0-3. Baby bodywash is always welcome.
There is an immediate need for towels, shampoo and body wash for
the kids that will be going to summer camp. Sleeping bags
would be greatly appreciated.
We are located at 345
Suncook Valley Hwy, Rte. 28, Chichester and are open Tues. and
Thurs. 8-4, Wed. 11-4, Now Open Fridays 10-4, and Sat. 10-4.
We have a good supply of glassware, dishes and extra household
items for camping or the vacation house!
Bright little bird sends a welcomed bit of sunshine to Shannon
Mcgowan a Chichester resident and sophomore at Pembroke Academy
by flying right into her hand - bringing smiles to all who
witnessed this little miracle which surely brightened all our
rainy days
Chichester Historical Society
Town Hall Part V
Submitted
By Walter Sanborn
My last article ended with the voters
of Chichester voting to reconsider their last vote passed at
their September 23, 1845 meeting. This meeting was called
by a petition to meet at the Center School October 29, 1845 to
reconsider locating the town house where the old meeting house
stood and to locate it at the Center on the land owned by David
Carpenter on the northerly side of the Canterbury Road and
easterly of the Methodist Meeting house and to acquire a
sufficient quantity of land and raise $500.00 to defray the
expense of building said Town House. This piece of land is
the property opposite the present Grange and Town Hall where I
presently live.
This is where the story of the Town House
being moved to the center derives from which I believe was never
completed.
I bought my present home in 1940 and believe it
was built around the year 1850. When I moved into the
house in 1942 I was told by Marshall Sanborn who owned the old
farm house next door that the town once moved some lumber from
the old Town House onto this land to erect a new Town House here
but then moved it back to where the old meeting house was.
Sometime around the 1960s Rev. Franklin Parker, the
Congregational Pastor here in Chichester, wrote an article on
the history of the Town Hall which was published in the
newspaper and is in our archives in the Historical Society.
In this account Rev. Parker states that he had an interview with
Miss Sally Carpenter who was a great granddaughter of the Rev.
Josiah Carpenter who was the first Congregational preacher in
Chichester.
Following is a quote from the article as it was
written for the newspaper by Rev. Parker.
“At a town meeting
it was voted to move the building one mile up the road. So
it was taken down and the oxen of the late Charles Carpenter
Esq. were used to take the boards and timbers up the road.
It was left on the land now owned by Walter L. Sanborn where it
was proposed that the building should stand. But before it
could be put together a special town meeting was held and it was
voted to bring the boards and timbers back and re-erect the
timbers and boards of the Town Hall in the present location.
So Mr. Carpenter took his oxen and again brought the parts of
the building back to the original site. He was a
picturesque figure with his tall hat and patriarchal beard.
I can imagine him walking along the highway with his oxen
chuckling to himself because he had an opportunity to pick up an
extra dollar moving the parts of the Town Hall. Here is
romance enough to form a plot for a first class novel and it
ought to be given literary form.”
This ends the quote from
Rev. Parker’s newspaper story. This is, however, not the
end and when my head clears I will continue the story in my next
article.