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Northwood NH News

May 11, 2011

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CBNA Seniors Blaze Demon Pond Trail


The Demon Pond Trail off the Northwood Meadow State Park main road has been laid out and blazed by Coe Brown Northwood Academy seniors Christian Davis and Ryan Seymour to complete their senior project.  This project was accomplished with the assistance of advisor Wini Young.


The trail starts at the NH rock on Dashingdown Road, which is the road to the left after the outhouse intersection in the park. The trailhead, marked by the NH rock and a red blaze on a nearby stone, is 1.2 miles from the Route 4 parking lot. The trail, which is marked in red blazes, goes around the northwest side of the pond and stops at an opening which allows a nice south view of most of the pond named for the Demmons family.


The trail then crosses the outlet of the pond below a large beaver dam, climbs a hill and traverses through a mixed forest to the clearing covered in ferns, princess pine and wintergreen. It is possible to bushwhack all the way around the pond and the intent is to clear a path that loops around the pond and connect with other trails in the near future.
There is also another stream crossing over the inlet at the south end of the pond. The blazing in the park was done with the permission of the Coe Brown Board of Trustees and Jennifer Codispoti of the NH Bureau of Trails.


CBNA Seniors Ryan Seymour, left, and Christian Davis at Demon Pond Trail Head.

 


 

Northwood Recreation Update
Submitted By Kathy Boudreau,
Recreation Director


Saturday, April 30th was a perfect day for fishing.  Many members of the community participated in the Kids Fishing Derby.  The derby was held at Lake Shore Farm from 8 am to noon.  Children competed to win prizes in 4 categories in the following age brackets: 6 years and under, 7 – 10 years old, and 11 – 16 years old. 


The early birds caught the first fish of the day.  The winner of the first fish was Hunter Graham, 7, at 8:01 am. The winners of the longest fish were Carson Hodgdon, 5, fish length 10 ½”; Bailey Clark, 8, fish size 10 ½”; and Sarah Doiron, 11, tied with brother Tyler Doiron, 13; fish size 10.” 


Participants then competed for the 2nd longest fish.  The winners were Sawyer Conway, 5, fish length 9 ¾”; Andrew Quaglia, 8, fish length 9 ½”. The winner of the last fish caught was Emma-Lee Place, 2.  Congratulations to all that participated. 


Don’t forget to check out the web site for information about upcoming programs at www.northwoodnh.org  or contact the Recreation Department at 942-5586 x209.

 


 

Northwood Elementary Kindergarten Open House


The Northwood Elementary School will again be hosting its annual Open House/Kindergarten registration for students entering kindergarten in the fall of 2011. This year’s Open House will be held on Friday, May 13th at the elementary school in Northwood.  Parents of incoming kindergarten students are encouraged to pick up a registration packet in advance if possible from the main office at the school and bring all registration materials to the Open House.


The office will be contacting parents about setting up times to come in to the school throughout that day, so please make sure you at least contact the main office at 942-5488 to be put into the Open House schedule.  The entire event will take about 30-45 minutes and will include some informal activities for the students while parents will be taken on a tour by the 8th grade Leadership group.


Please contact the main office with any questions pertaining to this event.

 


 

Letter


To Herb Johnson, in reply to his letter of May 4th: 
Herb, I am a senior as well.  I did some research on the half a trillion that you mentioned being taken out of Medicare and found that claim was based on, well, I am going to be polite and call the ads that pushed it misinformation. 


Medicare Advantage plans, one of the options you have when you go on Medicare, were paying private insurance companies 14% more for similar services than regular Medicare, which is administered by the government.  The new health care law will reduce those payments to the insurance companies, payments that your tax dollars cover.  This will save the program a substantial amount of money over a period of years. 


If you would like to learn more about this you can go on the web to this site:  http://www.kaiseredu.org/tutorials/Medicare-and-health-reform/player.html It has information about the changes to Medicare in the Affordable Care Act.  The changes the ACA make to Medicare make it more cost-effective without reducing our coverage. 
You might also want to find out what your current congressman voted for recently when he approved of the Ryan budget resolution.  In that resolution there are changes to Medicare that essentially abolish the program as we know it for anyone who is now under 55 and replace it with a payment voucher to buy private insurance. 

 
The Medicare payroll tax will still be part of tax withholding, but the payments are structured so that the voucher amount does not grow as the cost of healthcare increases, and there are no provisions to limit the cost of health insurance or of providing healthcare services.  More here: http://www.kff.org/medicare/8179.cfm


I did my homework.  I hope you will do yours. 


Lucy Edwards
Northwood

 


 

Global Youth Service Day and Earth Day, April 14-16, 2011
Submitted By Judy Joyce


It’s been quite a while since I last wrote to the Sun with an article on “Life in the Peace Corps in Dominica”! I am on my extended service. The usual term is 27 months. Mine should have ended last October but I requested a year’s extension, and now I’ve asked for another one. If you are a person that likes to give and want a bit of adventure, Peace Corps could be just what you need.


I’m working in Community/Eco Tourism but no matter what I do the youth are key to its success. I’m with all age youth in every facet of my life. They are the only ones that will climb down cliffs, swim in oceans, clean the beaches, eat all my food and use my computer every chance they can! They love Facebook.


Sixteen of these youth in Riviere Cyrique, Dominica were among the thousands internationally who participated in community service events for Global Youth Service Day and Earth Day, April 14-17, 2011.


This group of ambitious young people began their multi-day service on April 9th by joining others to celebrate Peace Corps 50th anniversary in downtown Roseau, the capital of Dominica. Their mission was to pick up litter in a local park, Goodwill, and return it to the starting point, People’s Park, a mile away. The youth collected ten large bags of trash in 30 minutes and carried it, through town, to the designated spot. (I carried the heaviest bag!)


The youth ranged in age from 7 to 21; getting a free ride to town, a cloth shopping bag and a tee shirt was all they needed...and a stop at the ice cream shop.


(Our mode of transportation is a mini van..17 of us squeezed into it, try it sometime. You’ll get a true sense of everyday travel here....especially if you add twenty bags of groceries and poultry feed.)


The second activity involved the Morne Jaune Primary School where I teach two days a week. On April 14 and 15 I made small green journals for a “Recycle, Reuse, Reduce” educational program for grades 1-6. Posters were made listing types of trash, places with trash, recycling trash and how to compost. The younger grades had printed sheets to cut, color and paste into their journals. The older grades drew pictures and wrote information. All sixty children worked through dismissal bells, so intent on their projects. Litter was picked up during recess by Kindergarten students and the garden was cleaned by 4-H students after school, Friday.


Saturday April 16 proved to be another exciting activity. 27 youth ages 8-18 and five adults from Christian Tabernacle Church in Mahout, a village an hour away, came to help clean our Secret Beach and Trail. In conjunction with Rosalie Bay Resort and a small Disney grant through Nature Enhancement Team, funds were available to buy meals, tee shirts and transportation. These youth along with 20 local teens and seven more adults managed to clean and cut grass on trail and around community shelter, build trail steps, paint signs, clean shelter of old trash, pick up litter on beach and along river. The fifteen large bags of trash had to be carried up the thousand foot hill to the collection site. Everyone had a great day, got their tee shirts, enjoyed their home cooked meal and most asked to do it again!


The final activity involved two adults and three teens on Sunday afternoon. In a relaxing manner,  two small bags of trash were collected from the stream along Rosalie Nature Trail that leads to the “Turtle” beach. Swimming in the river was the reward!


These twenty Riviere Cyrique youth formed two groups, the Motivators and the Shining Stars, last year. Their mission is to help the community, particularly NET, the turtle organization. They are always part of the local beach clean ups and come to training sessions in an effort to improve Community Tourism for their village. Hats off to them!


People are always asking what does a “Peace Corps Volunteer do?” What I have just recounted is typical. We are facilitators. Our “job” is to help our communities improve their living conditions through skill development, education, sharing experiences and participating in community activities and organizations.


If anyone wants to write to me email is easiest: [email protected]


You may also write: Judy Joyce, U.S. Peace Corps, P.O. Box 357, 8 King George V Street, Roseau, Dominica, W.I.

 


 

Letter


Kudos to the elected officials who embrace the message from the last election.  The results clearly show that voters reject ever-growing government, out-of-control spending, unequal justice, dishonesty, and loss of liberty. 


Many people believe that the answer to most social issues is more government involvement, and spew public discourse rife with confrontation, false charges, and scare tactics, appealing to emotions rather than dealing with facts.  Now here we are, a country of more than 310 million people, with a national debt exceeding $14 trillion – more than $45,000 per person – and growing on average more than $4 billion daily.


Last November the people told our leaders “enough already.”  Reign in public spending, reduce the size and scope of government, and reform many of the entitlement programs.  We are fed up with elitist attitudes and actions of politicians, with never-ending attempts to grab more power and money from us, and with the omnipresent “nanny state”, telling citizens everything we can and cannot do.  


Our Founders knew government must be limited in its powers for a nation to flourish.  This country functions best when government gets out of the way and lets its people run their own lives.


Randy Hoover
Northwood

 


 

Friends Of The Northwood Libraries Yard & Book Sale


The Friends of the Northwood Libraries are looking for gently used books and/or audiovisual material to sell at their upcoming fund-raising event, a community yard sale.  If you have books to donate to help us, please drop them off at the Chesley Memorial Library at the corner of First NH Turnpike and Route 43, on Saturday, May 21st, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or on Thursday, May 26th, from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.


Northwood Self Storage will host the community yard sale to benefit the Northwood Libraries on Saturday, June 4th, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Now is the perfect time to find new homes for all those items you no longer need after your spring-cleaning!  Trade them for cash in your pocket!  All proceeds generated from the rental of yard sale space will go directly to the Friends to be used towards the purchase of a new outdoor sign at the library.


$10 will reserve your 10 x 20 foot spot; you will need to provide your own table and chairs.  Set-up time is from 7:00-8:00 a.m. To reserve your spot, please call Northwood Self Storage at 942-5747 or Doug Chamberlin at 942-7884.  The yard sale will be held at Northwood Self Storage located at 679 First NH Turnpike on Saturday, June 4.  The rain date is Saturday, June 11.

 


 

Northwood Crankpullers News


The season is over but everyone is still hard at work. This week we had our election of officers.  There are a couple projects that need to be finished during the summer and before you know it we will be planning our Watercross. 

 
The club wants to take this time to thank all of the landowners for another great year and if you have any questions or concerns please contact the club. 


All our members do a lot of work throughout the year and we want to take this time to thank them, a lot goes unmentioned but definitely noticed.  And a special thank you to the officers of the club who have that added responsibility, hats off to you! 


As always we welcome new members.  So please check out our website at www.northwoodcrankpullers.com for any information or upcoming events.

 


Obituaries


 

Ruby P. Lidback


Ruby P. Lidback, 67, of 176 Rochester Road, Northwood died Wednesday May 4, 2011 at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, NH.


She was born September 23, 1943 in Barre, Vermont, the daughter of the late Millard and Martha (McCarty) Stevens. Mrs. Lidback graduated from Elliott School of Nursing. She has resided in Northwood for the past 42 years and was well known in Strafford and surrounding communities through her visiting nurses job. She finished her career at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in the geropsych unit.


She was a member of the Bow Lake Baptist Church. An avid reader and crafter, she traveled to many craft shows and did many paintings. She loved her dogs.


Members of her family include her husband of 45 years, Keith W. Lidback, Northwood; son, Adam and wife Joanna Lidback, Westmore, VT; daughter, Rebekah DeMaio, New Durham, NH; four and one half grandchildren, Bethany, Noah, Abraham, Katie DeMaio; brother, David and wife Juliette Stevens, Westmore,VT; sister, Faye and husband Larry Willey, Barton, VT; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.


A memorial service was held on May 7, 2011 with Rev. Lillian Buckley officiating.  Memorial donations may be made to the Bow Lake Baptist Church


A funeral service will be at Westmore Community Church in Westmore VT at a later date with a graveside committal service at the Lakeview Cemetery in Westmore, VT.

 


 


 

 











 
 

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