Rent
Yard Sale Space sponsored by Elwood O. Wells, Unit 112, American
Legion Auxiliary on Saturday, July 10, 2010, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the
American Legion Post 112, Short Falls Rd., Epsom. Crafters welcome.
$10 per space (Table can be provided if needed). Please call Lisa at
736-9754 or email:
[email protected] for more information.
Ivy
Green Rebekah Lodge #36 would like to thank everyone who helped make
our benefit dance for the Pease Greeters organization such a great
success. We donated $500.00 to the group and want to give special
thanks to all our sponsors, Jungle Drop Garden Center, Care
Pharmacy, Epsom House of Pizza, Dante’s Oven, K & K Landscaping, The
Common Man, Chucksters, The Fisher Cats, and Evergreen Lodge #53.
Special thanks also to Jennifer Prusia and Jill Cote for organizing
such a great event!
Invitation to Vacation Bible School for children going into grades 1
thru 6th July 12 – 16, 2010 from 9:00 am until 12:00 pm.
Located at Epsom Bible Church, 398 Black Hall Road, Epsom, NH.
Call 736-9354 for more info or to sign up or just come and join us!
Bible stories, crafts, games, food and lots of fun!!
Epsom Library News
Sign-up for this year’s Summer Reading Programs at the library
continues thru July 5th. Children grades K thru 6 will receive a
packet of information including a schedule of events, a reading log
and bookmark!
Younger children and their families are invited to participate in
the “Mom, Dad and Me Read” program. For more info call Mrs. Benner
at 736-9920. There will be an “Usborne” Book Fair at the library
through July 5th. Plan to check out the great selection of
children’s books and materials for sale and help support children’s
programs!
Story Time at the library continues through the summer on Tuesdays
at 2 p.m. and Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. Also join the “Lego” club
Thursdays at 3:30 p.m.
Town Of Epsom Swimming Lessons
On
your mark, get set, and join us for the Town of Epsom sponsored Red
Cross Certified Swimming Lessons this summer. The lessons will be
held daily from July 19th until July 30th at the Northwood Lake Town
Beach.
On
Monday, July 19th we will register from 8-9 a.m. At 9 we will review
the program and guidelines and then test the students to see what
level class they will be in. On the 19th plan to be there until 11
a.m. The following days students will be enrolled in half hour
lessons daily based upon their level. We teach beginner and advanced
swimming skills. Proficient swimmers learn water safety skills,
great pre- lifeguard training.
Please contact swimming instructor Sonia Noyes 736-4520 or
[email protected], to give us
contact and student information if you are planning to attend. This
is a wonderful opportunity for children 5 and older to advance their
swimming and water safety skills.
There is a $2 Red Cross Registration fee for each student. The
lessons are sponsored by the town of Epsom. Thank you, Alison
Parodi-Bieling Swimming instructor
[email protected]
Epsom Conservation Project Hike
The
Town of Epsom and the Conservation Commission is working in the Town
Forest on a New Trail with the help of the SCA NH Conservation
Corp(SCA). If you would like to understand what the SCA is as well
as seeing the trail they are building, we hope you will join us on
Saturday, July 3rd.
The
SCA provides a motivated and skilled crew (College Age) who make a
10 month commitment to work in the schools teaching conservation and
then in the field doing vital conservation projects and resource
projects throughout the state. They work for communities and
agencies of NH. We are so excited to have them for a 3 week hitch.
The trail they are building will start at the mill pond on the Epsom
town forest and travel along Blake’s Brook and an old cart path.
There are many points of interest including a water sluice that
leads to an old mill foundation a beautiful mill pond that is now
managed by beaver. This area is naturally beautiful as well as
having the reminders of a 18th century farmstead which is now
forest. Stonewalls, the mill pond, wells and foundations are some of
the evidence of the once vital farm.
For
some of the crew this is their 2nd commitment. They have done
projects in Alaska and Yosemite. Perhaps you are a post high school
student trying to figure out what you want to do. The SCA trains you
and pays you a stipend. When not on site working a project, home
base for the crew is Bear Brook State Park. Our crew is camping at
the work site in the town forest.
They have an impressive camp site bordering the mill pond. They have
set up a kitchen camp, a pine needle dining area, a tarped den to
store equipment and get out of the weather and individual tents.
They are trained in camping and best practices for trail building.
The trail will be for passive use such as hiking and snowshoeing.
So
come meet this conservation minded crew. Meet Joshua from North
Carolina, Sarah and Mathew from Illinois, ‘Z’ from South Florida,
Kelsey from Oregon, and Jonathan from Washington State. Perhaps you
know someone who is interested in applying to this program(SCA) or
are interested in learning about the beautiful trail system we have
on the town forest. Have you hiked Neville Peak? It is a must.
We
hope you will join us on July 3rd. We will meet on Tarlton
Road at the parking area for the town forest at 10am. We will hike
the new trail and view some sites. Bring your lunch and picnic at
the SCA campsite. For directions and to RSVP please contact the
Epsom Conservation Commission at
[email protected] or 736-9744/eves.
Epsom Library To Offer Summer Program For Adults
The
Epsom Library is offering a six-week summer program for adults,
beginning July 12. As one patron said, “Why should the kids have all
the fun???” And fun it will be with weekly drawings for prizes,
guest speakers, door prizes, and a grand finale to wrap things up.
Patrons who wish to participate do not need to sign up ahead of
time, but beginning on July 12, packets will be available with
detailed information.
“Water Your Mind” is the theme for the first two weeks and will
feature guest speaker Margaret Evans Porter on July 14. For the
“Water Your Garden” portion, a Master Gardener will address “Putting
Your Garden to Bed” on July 28. The final two weeks of the program,
“Water Your Soul”, will feature a joint presentation on August 11 by
Tamara Krenn, massage therapist, and Cyndi Jarvis, an esthetician
who also does reflexology.
The
library will be closed on July 5. Regular library hours are
Monday-Thursday, 10 to 5 and Saturday, 9 to 1.
Letter
To
my constituents in Allenstown, Epsom, And Pittsfield: Five bills
I sponsored have passed the House and the Senate and are becoming
law this year. The simplest, HB1219, repealed the wartime alien
registration requirement. That was a segment of the NH statutes that
has been unenforceable since the 1930’s, and undesirable since it
was created during WWI. HB1240, on the uses of state-owned vehicles,
clarifies fleet management requirements and insists that any
personal use must be reported and justified. Next session, if
re-elected, I plan to continue with another bill to improve the
efficiency of the state fleet.
HB1486 prohibits towns or the state fire code or building code from
requiring sprinklers in residences. New Hampshire has excellent fire
statistics, so sprinklers are not as necessary here, and the
combination of cold winters and well water makes them much more
expensive than in many other places. HB1187, allowing residential
elevators in rental units, makes it easier and much less expensive
to provide rentals for people who can’t use stairs. HB1688 allows
commercial use of European-style pellet boilers, which have been
extensively developed and are more efficient and less polluting than
many available boilers.
Three other bills were killed, but my intent was satisfied: the
content of HB1618, prohibiting state taxation of federally
tax-exempt property exchanges, was included in SB483. HB1178,
creating a commission to hear issues relating to children and
families, was killed by the Committee on Children & Family Law –
which then went out and held a series of listening sessions! The
on-line, searchable database of state spending required by my HB1670
has actually been started at
http://www.nh.gov/transparency.
Anyone interested in what’s going on at the State House is invited
to email or call me; those who’d like a more detailed report than I
can fit in The Sun should email me for my newsletter.
Representative Carol McGuire
[email protected]
782-4918
Rep.
Margaret Porter of Epsom, Vice Chair of the NH House Fish & Game &
Marine Resources Committee, received recognition for her service to
her committee and the department at a recent ceremony at Fish & Game
Headquarters. She is serving her second term in the House of
Representatives from Merrimack County District 8 (Allenstown, Epsom,
Pittsfield).
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