Holiday Craft Fair at Coe-Brown Academy in Northwood
9:00 am until 3:00 pm on November 6, 2010.
Crafters contact Jill at
[email protected] or 942-5531.
The
Northwood Cub Scout Pack 312 invites you to Italian
Dinner Night on Saturday 11/6/2010 from 5-8pm at the
Northwood School Café.
The cost is $20/family,
$7/person, $6/seniors & kids under 12.
On the menu
this year is Chef John Difeo’s Cacciatore Special and
his homemade meatballs and sauce, as well as spaghetti,
salad, garlic bread, homemade desserts and hot & cold
beverages! Bring your family, your neighbors, and
your appetite and support your local Cub Scouts! For
additional info or advanced ticket reservations, please
call 603-944-6078 . Buon appetito!
A Day
To Identify And Eradicate Invasive Plants
Saturday October 23,
2010, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm Northwood Town Hall & Northwood Meadows
State Park
NALMC, the Northwood Conservation Commission, and the
Friends of Northwood Meadows State Park invite you to attend a day
devoted to learning about the dangers of invasive plants and how to
eradicate them.
This day is the start of a larger,
multi-year program with the ultimate goal of eradicating all
invasive plants in the NALMC neighborhood and to maintain that area
as an “Invasive Free Zone”. As described in the 2009 NALMC
Ecological Assessment, the NALMC neighborhood includes 4,000 acres
of unfragmented habitat that comprises 22% of the total area in the
town of Northwood. This long-range program will be conducted
in a scientific manner in collaboration with Dr. Tom Lee, UNH
Associate Professor of Forest Ecology and other professionals and
volunteers.
Why are invasive plants a problem? They
were brought to this country as landscape plants because they were
attractive and their prolific production of berries was thought to
make good wildlife habitat for our native species of birds. No
one anticipated that when taken out of their own environment which
contains natural controls, the large number of seeds produced by
these plants would be spread all over the landscape. These
non-native seeds and plants flourish in the absence of controls, and
eventually choke out other native plants, changing the whole
structure of the local forest.
At the state park, some
very attractive Honeysuckle shrubs (Lonicera morrowii) were planted
at the farmhouse formerly located where the parking area is now.
The Honeysuckle has already spread into the woods, and since birds
and seeds know no boundaries, all properties in the vicinity are
vulnerable to being overrun. If left unchecked, the landscape
will be altered, and property values in affected areas will likely
be adversely impacted. Dr. Lee will explain in detail how and
why this happens. He will discuss how fortunate we are that
Northwood is in the early stages of invasive infestations, compared
to the nearby towns of Lee, Durham and Madbury.
Schedule
of Events: 9:00 - 9:30 Town Hall: Overview and slide show of
invasive plants and their control. Presented by: Dr.
Tom Lee, Associate Professor of Forest Ecology, UNH 9:30 -
10:00 Ceremonial eradication of invasive shrubs at the Town Hall.
10:00 - 11:00 Instructional walk with Dr. Lee to look at the invasives at NMSP. 11:00 - 12:00 Removal of invasive plants at
the entrance to Northwood Meadows State Park. 12:00 - 12:30
Bring-Your-Own Brown Bag Lunch Picnic at the park. 12:30 -
2:00 Continue removal of invasive plants at the park. 2:00
- 2:30 Discussion of invasive plant control priorities and volunteer
opportunities.
Letter
Most recently we have heard little about the Tax repealed by
Congress under the Republicans that taxed Income twice, once when
you earned it and again to your heirs when you died.
I have
always believed we should not be taxing people who have earned money
and been careful and saved it. After all we tax the interest
they earn on savings.
But the Death Tax taxes farms left to our
heirs as well as any savings and property sometimes causing them to
have to sell that which was earned and carefully saved for the
children and heirs.
This site
http://www.nodeathtax.org/uploads/view/2161/new_hampshire.pdf will
show your states candidates and if they have Pledged not to tax your
life’s work when left to children, grandchildren and heirs.
After all it is Double Taxation.
Harriet E. Cady Deerfield
Letter
I first met Lucy Edwards when I became a member of the Cable
Advisory Committee. She was one of the negotiation team who crafted
a ten year contract between the Town and Metrocast Cablevision.
While on the committee she was instrumental in providing public
broadcasts of Selectmen and School Board meetings. Over the years I
have had the pleasure of serving on other committees with her:
the Budget Committee, the Technology Committee and currently the
Recycling Committee. She also was a member of the first Economic
Development Committee which created our volunteer-run Town website.
On each committee and when she served as Selectman, Lucy showed her
ability to come up with common-sense solutions to complex problems
by researching details to develop a cost effective solution.
Lucy Edwards is now running for a seat in the NH legislature. I
believe her inclusive attitude coupled with her experience in
problem solving will make her a great representative. In
these trying times when the State is wrestling with balancing its
budget the legislature needs a person with Lucy’s talents.
I urge you to join me and cast your vote on November 2nd for Lucy
Edwards for State Representative. She’s the right person for
the job.
Ken Curley Northwood
Local
Horror Invading New Hampshire Bookstores: 20 Stories Of New
Hampshire Pulp Fiction
An anthology of short fiction in a horror
vein written by local authors and set in the familiar locations of
New Hampshire is appearing in bookstores just in time for Halloween.
“Live Free or Undead: Dark Tales from the Granite State” has been
released by Plaidswede Publishing of Concord and is available across
the state. The book is the first in Plaidswede’s series, “New
Hampshire Pulp Fiction.”
The book presents 20 spine-tingling
tales, some by first-time writers and some by such well-known New
Hampshire authors as Rebecca Rule, Brendan Dubois, David Elliott and
Hugo Award-winner James Patrick Kelly.
The book cover is
illustrated by Dover artist Marc Sutherland and the project was
edited by New Hampshire Magazine Editor Rick Broussard.
Last
fall, word about the project was spread via the NH Writers’ Project
and various online sites for authors of fiction. Broussard says he
expected a good response, but he was surprised by the quantity —
nearly 170 submission came in from eager authors — and the quality.
“I could easily have filled three or four books with great stories,”
he says.
“New Hampshire has always been home to some amazing
writers,” says Broussard, “but there are fewer places for them to
get started or to see their work in print.” To turn that trend
around, Broussard came up with a concept that would connect local
writers with local fans of genre fiction.
“Live Free or Undead”
is the first volume in the “New Hampshire Pulp Fiction Series” of
books that will use the state as a backdrop for action-packed
storytelling and as an inspiration for new writing talent. The next
volume, tentatively titled “Live Free or DIE, DIE, DIE,” will
feature stories in the genre of murder and mystery, also set in New
Hampshire.
In spite of the trend towards electronic media, “the
book still has great power and elegance,” says Broussard. “It’s the
place where the writer can connect with a reader personally and
tangibly.” He says he wanted to work with Plaidswede because of its
ability to produce books that “really look great.”
“The writers
who have been picked, both newbies and seasoned pros, are incredibly
excited to have a story of theirs appear in a book. I wanted to be
sure that the book they were in was a thing of beauty,” says
Broussard. Even if the cover is a picture of brain-eating
zombies.
(Visit
www.livefreeorundead for more information)
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy Students Earn AP Recognition Awards
Several students from Coe-Brown Northwood Academy have been
recognized for their exceptional achievement on AP Exams.
The
College Board’s Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) provides motivated
and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take
rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to
earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful
performance on the AP Exams. About 18 percent of the 1.6 million
students worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently
high level to also earn recognition.
The College Board recognizes
several levels of achievement based on students’ performance on AP
Exams. At Coe-Brown Northwood Academy the following students
scored four or higher on their AP exams: English Literature and
Composition, Christian Leavitt and Lindsay St. Cyr; US History,
Austin Leavitt; Calculus AB, Robert Correa, Kalvin Croto, Cara
Fowler, Joe Gibson, Adam Howard; Studio Art, Alyssa Pittera.
Congratulations to all of them.
Through more than 30 different
college-level courses and exams, AP provides motivated and
academically prepared students with the opportunity to earn college
credit or advanced placement and stand out in the college admissions
process. Each exam is developed by a committee of college and
university faculty and AP teachers, ensuring that our exams are
aligned with the same high standards expected by college faculty at
some of the nation’s leading liberal arts and research institutions.
AP is accepted by more than 3,600 colleges and universities
worldwide for college credit, advanced placement, or both on the
basis of successful AP Exam grades. This includes more than 90
percent of four-year institutions in the United States. Research
consistently shows that AP students who score a 3 or higher on AP
Exams (based on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest)
typically experience greater academic success in college and higher
graduation rates than students who do not participate in AP.
The
College Board is a not-for-profit membership organization whose
mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity.
Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 5,400
schools, colleges, universities, and other educational
organizations. Each year, the College Board serves seven million
students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges
through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance,
assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning.
Among its best-known programs are the SAT®, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the
Advanced Placement Program® (AP®). The College Board is committed to
the principles of excellence and equity, and that commitment is
embodied in all of its programs, services, activities, and concerns.
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy Craft Fair
The 8th annual Holiday
Craft Fair will be held at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, Route 4 in
Northwood, NH on Saturday, November 6, 2010, from 9:00 am until 3:00
pm.
There will be 50 crafters, a cookie walk and a raffle with
over 50 items. Come and do your Christmas shopping early! This event
will benefit the CBNA Class of 2013.
Crafters contact
[email protected] or
at 942-5531 for more information
Local
High School Theatre Students Volunteer To Trick Or Treat “Because
Hunger Is A Very Scary Thing”
The International Thespian Society
(ITS), a division of the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA), is
pleased to announce the participation of Coe-Brown Northwood
Academy’s Thespian Troupe 5976 in the Trick or Treat so Kids Can Eat
Program.
Trick or Treat so Kids Can Eat is a national community
service program for ITS-member schools to collect canned and dry
goods for local charities and food banks. Thespian troupes from
across the nation are participating this year.
Theatre students
from Coe-Brown will be dressed in costumes to collect food donations
during the local Trick or Treat activities in Strafford on October
30 and in Northwood, on October 31. These donations will go to
benefit the Northwood Food Pantry.
Thousands of pounds of food
will be collected in one night across the country, giving
organizations the ability to help thousands of local people. In
addition, donations of non perishable food items will be accepted at
the main office of Coe-Brown Northwood Academy until Halloween.
Senior Caitlin Philbrick is chairing this initiative as her senior
portfolio project.
The Educational Theatre Association,
founded in 1929, is an international nonprofit organization whose
mission is to promote and strengthen theatre education as a means of
lifelong learning. The Association’s major areas of
effort—educational development, teacher development, and advocacy—
serve to accomplish this mission by helping to improve the learning
environment in the theatre arts. A professional association for
theatre educators, EdTA also operates the International Thespian
Society, an honorary organization for high school theatre students,
and the Senior Theatre League of America, an organization for older
adults in theatre. Contact: Christopher Hunt, Educational Theatre
Association, (513) 421-3900 x.228,
[email protected].
Letter
To The Editor
To the Editor: Electoral politics in America may
be slipping from the hysterical to the absurd, but Northwood
resident and candidate for State Representative Lucy Edwards is
offering voters a bracing dose of clear-headed reality. Lucy
is no stranger to rough-and-tumble partisanship, having served
honorably as Northwood Selectwoman when the town was still emerging
from its long Republican embrace. Lucy was then and is now a
voice of wisdom and reason, and is exactly the right candidate for
us to send to Concord in this challenging season of grumbling and
discontent. We’ll be voting for Lucy on November 2nd, and we
hope you do too.
Ted
Wilkinson Northwood
Letter
I realize these are tough times, as we continue to go through some
fundamental shifts in our economy. As the shouts of Tea Partiers get
louder and louder, I see impatience everywhere, and relatively
little in the way of perspective. It took us years to get into this
mess. How can anyone expect the American Dream to be pieced back
together so quickly?
It’s a profound mistake to think Republican
leaders can mastermind a turnaround, and one that will last. Many of
them spent most of the last decade ignoring the warning signs and
carefully dismantling the American Dream, while pretending to do
just the opposite. Into the abyss steps Lucy Edwards as a
candidate for the NH House of Representatives. Over the past decade,
Lucy studied in detail how the seeds of the destruction of the
economy were sown.
And despite how discouraging this knowledge
often was, Lucy got involved on numerous boards and committees, and
started working to make things better for Northwood’s people and its
environment. She came to understand that government does have
a role to play - not too big, but also not too small, in protecting
things like health and safety, the environment, and the character of
our small towns.
Most important to me, Lucy Edwards also believes
we need to create a more sustainable economy and society. One
where as we try to fulfill our needs today, we’re mindful of the
past, and keep firmly in mind and plan for the needs of our children
and their children. That perspective, though talked about a lot over
the past few decades, never really took hold, and we can see what
resulted. Lucy can represent us, as we all work to reinvent
the American Dream.
Victoria Parmele Northwood
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