Join us at the Chesley Memorial Library on Saturday, October 29, during open hours (10:00 am - 1:00 pm) for a make-and-take Halloween Craft Session! Make a spider bracelet, a frightful necklace, and/or a fridge magnet to take home.

Free Thanksgiving Dinner at the Epsom Fire Station 12-2 pm Nov 24th.

Looking for food donations and volunteers to help serve. Open to all. Call Karen at 603-736-9954.

Letter

Take Back Your Neighborhood

I have been a Northwood resident for 12 years now and each fall I go up and down my street cleaning up the trash that has collected along the sides of the road. This project generally takes about 2 hours each year, and mind you, I am not complaining about the time, I am upset at the increasing amount of trash I pick up each year. There are 15 homes on this 3/4 mile long road which connects Route 4 to Blake’s Hill Road and these homes are beautifully well-kept. It is the woodsy area between them that is being polluted.

So what is the message that we are subliminally giving to our children and friends by allowing the trash on our roadside to flourish? That we will tolerate the disrespect being shown by those who use our road as their own personal trash cans? That our property beyond our lawn is fair game for anyone’s abuse? That we just don’t care? Well, we should care!

Driving down other roads in town I see this same disrespect and it makes me want to cry. Why are we so ambivalent to the trash on our roadsides? Have we become so immune to it over the years that we don’t even see it anymore? It is time that we see it again! If each resident would patrol their own land to clean up the roadside waste our town would become the most beautiful town in New Hampshire, which is why we chose to move here 12 years ago.

Take this challenge... Clean up just your own portion of the roadside. Beautify your town. Teach your children social responsibility. If you are unable to do this there are organizations in town you can contact that may assist you from the scouts to Coe Brown students needing to complete their community service hours. Let’s all be grateful and proud to be Northwood residents.

Name Withheld By Request

Northwood Lake Watershed Association

2012 Watershed Plans

After a productive 2011, the Northwood Lake Watershed Association Board of Directors met Saturday, October 15, to plan for 2012.

The Lake Host program will start in March. Joyce Lothian will be the new point person, replacing Doug Chamberlin. Lake Hosts are volunteers who inspect incoming and outgoing vessels at the town launch for exotic weeds.

LuAnne Pidgeon announced Weed Watcher training will be held in June. Weed Watchers check the shoreline and shallow waters for milfoil and other exotic weeds.

Volunteers are needed for both programs.

Other 2012 plans are: The last Saturday in July, the 3rd Annual Boat Parade will be held. The Boat Parade is always a fun time for the lake.

A "Starry Night" is in the works for a night star gazing program from the middle of the lake.

In June, a Biological Survey of the lake will be held.

Though looking forward to 2012, the Association is still active this year. Work parties are being formed to dig and pull phragmites the weekend after Thanksgiving weekend.

Have a good winter! For more info or to volunteer for any of the programs, visit us at www.northwoodlake.com

"Boot Drive" At Northwood Farmers Market

Donations will be accepted on Oct. 29th from 9-1 at the Northwood Area Farmers Market for Doug Hayes, a Strafford Fire/Rescue worker who was injured in Tropical Storm Irene when a tree branch fell 60 feet on him while he was attempting to clear fallen trees from wires after the storm. Doug suffered five crushed vertebrae, two broken collar bones, a fractured shoulder and a punctured lung, and is slowly recovering. Volunteers are helping with repairs to his home, which he had planned to complete this fall as well.

The Strafford band North River Trio will play from 11-1.

The market meets at the Masonic Hall on Rt. 4 next to the municipal parking lot and serves residents in neighboring communities, including Strafford.

Else Cilley DAR

Norma Perkins and Deanna Rush at the Else Cilley Chapter, DAR of Nottingham, NH

booth during Nottingham Days celebration.

The Else Cilley Chapter, NSDAR, participated in Nottingham Days activities in mid-September. Members provided genealogical information and assistance, hosted a patriotic coloring activity and gave over 5 dozen flags, several flag codes and bookmarks to participants. The chapter also raffled several items including gift cards, baskets, and flowers to raise money for the preservation efforts of the Nottingham Square Schoolhouse, a National Registry historic building.

The next meeting of the Else Cilley Chapter will be at the home of member Nancy Gervino. The program will focus on Wines in early American history, on Saturday, October 22nd. Prospective and current members should contact Regent Jan Gilman for more information and directions at [email protected].

The chapter also encourages local public and homeschooled students to participate in this year’s American History Essay contests. Students in grades 5-8 will write about the War of 1812, while the topic, Christopher Columbus: In his own time, in history and today, is open to students in grades 9-12. Students and teachers may contact essay chairman Jan Gilman at [email protected].

Local Women Helps Norwich University Women’s Rugby Team

Continue Its Impressive Streak

Norwich University’s women’s team began the 2011 Northeast Rugby Football Union tournament by hosting Colby College of Maine on Sunday, October 23rd.

Coach Austin Hall’s team (9-1) rolled through the regular season conference play with a 5-0 record and a combined 338-points advantage on the opposition. Norwich’s 87-5 win over the University of Vermont continued an impressive streak for the program as it hasn’t dropped a Northeast League match in six consecutive years.

Sophomore Rose Bernheim (Andrews AFB, Md.) closed out back-to-back seasons as the try leader in the Northeast League, as she had three against Vermont to end the conference slate with 11. Fellow sophomores Joya Clark (Scotia, N.Y.) and Jackie Derocher (Northwood, N.H.) also converted three tries each against the Catamounts.

The NERFU tournament continues next weekend, Saturday and Sunday, October 29 and 30 at Bowdoin College in Maine. Fans, friends and alumni can check out the tournament bracket progress by visiting www.norwichathletics.com, the internet home of the Cadets.

GFWC-NH Harvey Lake Woman’s Club

On October 8, 2011, Ginny Rogers, President, and Elaine Covey, Vice President, attended the General Federation of Women’s Clubs - NH’s Fall Field/Fall Rally in Exeter, NH. It was a very rewarding day with excellent speakers providing information beneficial to all the clubs. Sew Much Comfort, a partnership project with other national clubs to provide adaptive clothing for our "wounded warriors" serving in the U.S. military (a program that allows them to dress themselves). GFWC-NH clubs donated specific items of clothing and money totaling $1,200 plus to this worthy cause.

On October 14, 2011, a beautiful fall day overlooking Harvey Lake, GFWC Harvey Lake Woman’s Club held their Fall Comfort Pillow Workshop. Ten (10) HLWC worker bees and three (3) dedicated friends from Deerfield, NH, completed 90 comfort pillows. Pillows will be donated to Concord Hospital for breast cancer patients. The workshops are always a time of fun, laughter, and accomplishment on our Signature Project.

We are saddened by the recent loss of a valued club member, Charlotte Klaubert to breast cancer. She regularly participated in the twice yearly Comfort Pillow Workshops. She will be greatly missed.

Saturday, October 29, 2011 the HLWC will be hosting GFWC-NH Fall Conference for Districts 1, 2, and 3 at the Northwood Congregational Church located on Rt. 4 next to Coe Brown Northwood Academy.

At the November 1st meeting the Club will start collecting our annual Mitten Tree project that supports the St. Charles Children’s Home in Rochester. Refreshments will be served by Ann Kelley and Lucy Silva.

The Northwood Youth Girls Soccer Team Thunder U10 had almost an undefeated season with 10 wins, 1 loss and 2 ties. They combined outstanding teamwork, hard field play, impressive passing skills and excellent goal tending . Every player on the team contributed to the score board this year. The Tournament this past weekend ended them in 2nd place in the Championship game in a shoot out against Concord Christian Academy. The Team: coaches (L-R) Barabra Hoover, Nikki Roy, players, top row, Kate Blake Jaden Boulanger, Megan Edgecomb, Brynna Meeker, Makayla DeButts, Caitlyn VanGerena; second row, Brenna Roy, Kendall Nester, Mary Thoms, Jennifer Bettencourt, Addison Cox, and missing from photo Elizabeth Reeves.

Little Shop of Horrors Comes to Coe Brown

Ryan Cunningham as Seymour Krelborn in CBNA Theatre’s

production of Little Shop of Horrors, Oct. 27, 28, 29.

Look out! Here comes Audrey Two! CBNA Theatre will present the classic horror flick spoof Little Shop of Horrors on October 27, 28, and 29, 2011 at 7 pm in the Gerrish Gym on the Coe Brown Northwood Academy campus.

This popular musical tells the story of mild mannered botanist Seymour Krelborn, whose encounter with a strange and exotic plant named Audrey Two, becomes the story of legend.

The cast features junior Ryan Cunningham as Seymour, senior Samantha Lepicier as his lady love Audrey, senior Matt Paganelli as his boss Mr. Mushnik, senior Quinn Palmer as his rival Orin, and senior Kendall McGowen as the voice of Audrey Two. Seniors Blair Leavitt and Emily Yurek and junior Noelle Struthers are featured as the infamous street urchins that serve as a Greek chorus who narrates the story and lets the audience know that something is just not quite right here in Mushnik’s Florist Shop on Skid Row.

Other cast members include seniors Tyler Bowden, Beau Deveaux, Tim Tuttle and choreographer Isaac Wilson; juniors Marianna Barnhart, Ashlyn Correia, Kylie Gagnon, Jordan McAllister, and Kestyn Ritchotte; sophomores Grace Axelrod, Erin Barnard, Taylor Bowden, Kennedy Chaney, Tyler Chittum, Jessica Gallant, Allyson LaFrance, Katie MacEachern, Taylor Olssen and freshmen Grealdine Balanta, Kyle Bousquet, Jillian Burroughs, Setse Bush, Rachael Dallaire, Julia Collins, Jordan Roach and Colton Rush. The production also involves approximately 20 other students in behind the scenes capacities and is directed by faculty member Elizabeth Lent. Musical Direction is by faculty member Davis Deardorff and special effects puppet design is by staff member Jeremy Archer-Waterman. Reserved tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for students and seniors and are available by calling 942-5531, ext. 237, or by email [email protected]. Make Little Shop of Horrors part of your Halloween weekend.

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 CBNA until Halloween. Senior Kendall McGowen is chairing this initiative as her senior portfolio project.

About the Educational Theatre Association

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, by phone at (513) 421-3900 x.228, or by email at [email protected] for more information.

Letter

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but credit card companies have been talking to us differently over the past year or so. It’s nice of them to tell me things like how much I will end up paying if I only make the minimum payment, or that the due date on my card is the same every month. It’s nice to get more time to pay after the statement comes and to see how much I have paid in interest for the year. My statements are much easier to read, and I appreciate having fair notice if my interest rate is going up.

I wish I could say that the companies just decided to be nice to us, but actually there’s a bit more to the story: the Credit CARD Act of 2009. The Democratic Congress, including our Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, decided that the banks weren’t being as clear and forthcoming with information about their credit products as they should be, so Congress passed a law to give the consumer more information to make responsible decisions about what card would work best and how best to use it.

Next time you get your credit card bill, and you see clearly what you owe, when it needs to be paid, and how much it is going to cost you to carry a balance over time, say thanks to Carol Shea-Porter and her Democratic colleagues in the 111th U. S. Congress. I am glad she is running for Congress again.

Lucy Edwards