The Epsom Library will be having a special “Touch A Truck” Event on
Saturday, September 19 from 10 am –Noon. Join us at the library for
a hands on opportunity to explore different community trucks, cars
and work machines, including fire trucks, police cars and
construction vehicles! Refreshments will be served and raffle
tickets will be available for a chance to win a Lego construction
set or a toy 18 wheel truck. For info call the library at 736-9920
Reminder
Fall Clothing Swap
Epsom Bible Church
In an effort to help manage the cost of clothing for our
community families, the Epsom Bible Church will be holding a free
clothing swap on Saturday, September 26th, from 9-12 noon at 398
Black Hall Road in Epsom.
You may bring donated clothing
beginning at 8 a.m.
Call Joanne Randall at 344-8843 for more
information or if you are interested in volunteering.
A Meatloaf Dinner sponsored by American Legion Post #112, Short
Falls Road in Epsom will be held Saturday, September 19th, 4:30 to
7:00 p.m. Donation: Adults, $7.00; children, 6-12, $3.00;
under 6, free.
The menu will consist of meatloaf, potatoes,
vegetables, salad, beverages, and homemade desserts.
Proceeds
will benefit Post #112 community activities.
Bring your appetite
and join us for a great meal!
Adopt a Dam in EPSOM
Is there a Dam on your property or one you
like to frequent? Do you find yourself fishing at Cass Pond or
Northwood Lake Dams? Do you know of remote mill pond dams or beaver
dams? The Town of Epsom and the Epsom Conservation Commission is
asking if you would Adopt a Dam. As part of the Hazard Mitigation
Plan for the Town we need to map the Dams in Town and get some
baseline information.
We would like to hear from anyone with an
interest or who knows of a dam in his/her neighborhood or that
he/she frequents. Whether they are manmade dams, farm pond dams,
mill pond dams, fire pond dams or significant beaver dams we would
like to map them.
During the Mother’s Day Flood there were dams
that breached contributing to the destructive force of water that
destroyed or damaged many bridges and culverts in our town. We would
like to understand these vulnerable areas. The documentation is
simple. We can e-mail a data sheet or mail it to you.
Please
contact the Epsom Conservation Commission at
[email protected] or call eves at 736-9744.
For
those who helped with Roadside clean-up this year, your Daffodils
will be arriving for planting after October 1st. Thank you for your
help trying to manage some of the litter in town. We will contact
you as to where you can pick up your daffodils. Many families and
generations participated in this endeavor.
The Epsom
Conservation Commission invites you to become a member of the
Conservation Commission. If you have an interest in conservation
issues and write a letter of interest you can be appointed to the
commission. Meetings are held at the Town Office the 3rd Thursday of
each month.
Letter
To my constituents in Allenstown, Epsom, & Pittsfield:
While preparing for this year’s filing period, I’ve been helping to
develop a legislative agenda for 2010. I’ve been working with a
group of like-minded legislators, and the problem is to distill our
ideas down to few enough bills that we can work on all of them. We
finally narrowed it down to five bills on taxes and the budget
process. They are: authority for towns to impose a spending cap;
repeal of some of the new taxes, specifically the camping tax, the
tax on LLC distributions, and the increases in car registration
fees; requiring state departments and agencies to submit two budgets
each cycle, the maintenance budget and a 5% reduction budget; a
constitutional amendment to prohibit sales or income taxes; and a
constitutional amendment to require a 2/3 super-majority to raise
taxes or fees. If we can pass these bills, it will be easier to
control taxes and spending next year and every year in the future.
In addition, we plan to submit a number of spending cuts, as many as
we can think of! Most of them are small (cutting legislators’ out of
state travel), but a few have the potential to save the state quite
a bit of money. Severely limiting the use of state cars for
commuting will also not only save money but avoid the appearance of
wastefulness. Looking to outsource some services may yield
efficiency improvements as well as the direct cost savings.
Any
constituent who’d like to discuss the upcoming legislative session
with me is invited to meet at my home, on Friday, September 18,
between 4 to 7 pm. The address is 700 Suncook Valley Highway, Epsom.
Anyone interested in what’s going on at the State House is invited
to email or call me.
Representative Carol McGuire
[email protected]
782-4918
Volunteers & Donations Needed for Epsom PTO Haunted Halloween
The Epsom PTO is looking for Volunteers to help create and run a
wicked evening of fun for our scheduled “Haunted Halloween” on
October 23, 2009, 7-10:00 p.m. to be held at Epsom Central School
gym on 282 Black Hall Rd., Epsom.
Volunteers are needed for:
set-up between 3:00- 6:30 p.m. on 10/23; clean-up between 9:30-10:30
p.m. on 10/23; artistic make-up jobs for faces; people with dramatic
flair; helping to run the haunted house.
We are also looking for
donations of the following items: “Plastic” Rodents and Insects;
Body Parts (fake variety only please); Spider Webs (Wal-Mart etc.,
again, fake variety only); Strobe Lights/ Black Lights; Black duct
tape; Brown Lunch Bags; Halloween Pencils; Super Size Candy Bars;
Old chains.
Please have your child drop off any donations with
their teacher or bring to 187 Ctr. Hill Rd., Epsom.
For More
information, please contact Diane Lewis at 736-4090 or by email at
[email protected]. Hope to
see you there!
Epsom Bible Church AWANA Clubs
Awana Clubs at Epsom Bible Church
will begin our 2009-2010 season on Thursday night, September 17th.
This will be our 23rd year of having Awana Clubs and we are thankful
for the things God has accomplished through this program in previous
years.
For those of you who may not be familiar, Epsom Bible
Awana Clubs are a branch of Awana International which started in the
early 1950’s in a Chicago church and has grown into a worldwide
program teaching boys and girls the Word of God in unique ways.
Awana Clubs offered at Epsom Bible include Cubbies for girls and
boys ages 3 and 4, Sparks for girls and boys in school grades K-2,
as well as Truth and Training for girls and boys in grades 3 through
6.
Each Awana night consists of a game time, handbook time, and
council time. Once or twice a month we plan a special theme night.
We try to make our clubs as fun and exciting as possible. During
Council time one of our leaders or a special guest speaker presents
a message from the Bible, and awards are presented to those clubbers
who have earned them for completing handbook work. If your children,
or you, attended Awana in the past, you will find that most all of
the handbooks have been recently updated.
Our Clubs are open to
all children in the Epsom area, and we would love to have your
children attend. You do not need to be a member of, or attend, Epsom
Bible Church, for your children to attend. Come to Club on the 17th
or any Thursday evening thereafter between 6:15 and 6:30 PM. Club
starts at 6:30 and we end the evening at 8:00. Epsom Bible Church is
at 398 Black Hall Road, approximately 3/4 mile past the Epsom
Central School on the same side of the road (look for the big sign
out front ). If you have any questions or would like more
information call Kim or Paul Sanborn at 798-5050 or email at:
[email protected] .
Moose Jr.
Evidence of Carson
by Meggin Dail
I get tired
of picking up after people; my boys, my husband, guests, friends,
enemies. Whether literal messes or ethereal ones, picking up after
someone else is a tiring job and usually thankless. Until recently
it was probably one of my main complaints as a mom.
It seemed
like everywhere I went there were little bits of other people, other
rooms, other stuff that didn’t belong in the place it was. Wait, it
didn’t seem like it, it was true. I walked through the door of my
house and would unintentionally kick a toy train that was underfoot
across the room. I sat down to check my email and there were
Matchbox cars littered across the desk. I would begin to make dinner
and find drawings and Legos on the countertop, abandoned there for
no apparent reason. I’d sit down on the couch to relax and watch TV
and pull a Lincoln Log out from between the cushions and notice a
parade of plastic animals marching across the TV set itself.
In
my house, there are dirty socks on the boys’ room floor and
discarded underwear on the bathroom floor; wet towels on the outside
railing and pencils...pencils EVERYWHERE from where Earnhardt did
his homework last. There’s a scanner next to my Kitchen Aid mixer
and a cell phone sitting on the toilet paper roll. I’m sure you get
the picture.
Then one day my mom gave me a little perspective.
She takes care of my four-year-old, Carson every Tuesday, so I can
work. Picking him up at her house one Tuesday I commented on my
frustration with finding toys everywhere (not to mention the myriad
of other goodies) and she smiled and said, “I know.” Then she
pointed to the little lineup of Matchbox cars under a table in her
living room. I rolled my eyes and turned to Carson, “Carson, don’t
you have some toys you need to pick up before we leave?”
“No,
no, no,” my mother interrupted, “leave them.” I didn’t understand.
“I find these little cars and trucks everywhere,” she said,
“everywhere, after he leaves and sometimes in unexpected places
throughout the week and they make me smile. They’re like little
evidences of Carson, that he’s been here, and here and there and
that he’s had a good time. I think it’s cute.”
I thought about
that on the ride home that day, knowing when I walked through the
door I’d most likely trip over some toy vehicle left in my path, and
decided maybe I should try to look at these ‘messes’ in a different
light; as evidence of Carson (and Earnhardt, and Joel).
These
little toy cars won’t be around forever. One day my boys will grow
out of playing with them and one day they will grow out of this
house altogether; and while I’ll probably still be picking up
towels, socks and underwear; I’m going to miss those toys.
Obituaries
Robert E. Hafermann
Epsom - Mr. Robert E. "Lucky" Hafermann, 95,
died Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at the Epsom Healthcare Center.
Born in Roanoke, Va., on Jan. 21, 1914, Mr. Hafermann was the
only child of Arthur and Cecilia (Wright) Deacon.
A resident of Epsom for most of his life, he did spend many of
his retirement years in Concord before returning to Epsom five years
ago.
During World War II, he worked at the Portsmouth Navy Yard for five
years as an electrical welder. He also worked as an electrician in
Florida for a time, as a cook at the former Lorna Doone Restaurant
in Epsom, and for Huckins Oil Co. in Epsom for 17 years. He retired
from the Globe Manufacturing Co. in Pittsfield.
For 27 years, he was a volunteer fireman with the Epsom Fire
Department.
He was the widower of Eva Marston Stearns Hafermann, who died in
2007, and to whom he had been married 35 years.
Survivors include his stepchildren, Andrew Stearns of South
Windham, Maine, and Patricia Bergevin and Suzette Russell, both of
Epsom; eight stepgrandchildren; and several stepgreat-grandchildren.
Graveside services took place at the Pine Grove Cemetery in
Northwood on Saturday, September 12, 2009, with the Rev. Henry Frost
officiating.
A gathering followed at Still Oaks Funeral and Memorial Home,
Epsom.
Memorial donations should be made to the charity of one's
choice.
For more information, visit
petitfuneralhome.com.
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