Congratulation to Mallory McCoy, from Northwood, majoring in
International Affairs at Northeastern University. She was
named to the University’s Dean’s List for the spring semester, which
ended in May 2011.
Join the Friends of the Library at
Northwood Self-Storage for a yard sale/book sale on Saturday, June
4, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm. (Rain date Saturday, June 11)
Letter
To The Editor
On June 7th, Northwood residents will have an
opportunity to vote between the hours of 7:00 am to 7:00 pm on
whether our school district should establish a planning committee to
study the organization, reorganization, or withdrawal from SAU #44
which also includes Nottingham and Strafford.
A bill (HB
67) in Concord recently passed overwhelmingly in both the House and
Senate with bipartisan support that would require the state
Legislative Oversight Committee to study the advantages,
disadvantages, and costs associated with consolidating SAUs
statewide into one SAU in each county, except for Rockingham and
Hillsborough counties which would have 2 SAUs each. This committee
shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed
legislation on or before 12/31/2011.
Our current
school board (with an average length of service of less than 16
months) is asking voters to establish the same ‘study committee’
that was formed in 2002. Those results showed clearly that it would
not be in our best interests to withdraw and create a whole new
‘bureaucracy’ to administer our school district. Neither a
cost/benefit analysis nor economies of scale could predicate
establishing a new SAU to oversee a dwindling elementary school
population (from over 500 down to 440).
Rather than needlessly
growing the size of our school district (with a new stand-alone SAU)
our school board should be working on more pressing issues facing
them (ie: special education, tuition costs, etc.). Our elementary
school has been designated by the state as a ‘school in need of
improvement in reading and math’. Our relative new school board may
soon be designated as a ‘school board in need of improvement’. We
don’t need a new SAU, we need a more educated school board.
I
urge you to vote no on establishing a planning committee. This
request is premature and has no merit.
Sincerely, Jim
Hadley Northwood
Harvey
Lake Woman’s Club News
At the May meeting of the Harvey Lake
Woman’s Club members contributed just under $500 worth of newborn
items that were delivered to Concord Hospital for their newborn
support program. The speaker for the afternoon was Lorraine Cady,
showing the women some of her garden totems - most unusual and
interesting items made from brightly colored, happy, glazed pottery
- items gleaned from Goodwill and antique shops. Two new
members joined the club - Maisie Crooker and Naomi Twombly.
On
May 13th, Ginny Rogers, president, and Elaine Covey, vice president,
attended the annual meeting of the General Federation Women’s Clubs
– New Hampshire. Pat Jacobsmeyer was Northwood’s honoree.
HLWC’s 2011 Book Scholarship recipient will be Brittany Derocher.
The Club will be providing the school magazine, Kind News, for the
2011-12 school year to Grade 2 at the Northwood School.
The next
meeting of the HLWC will be the Annual June Luncheon to
be held this year on Tuesday, June 7, at the Red Apple Buffet
Restaurant in Concord at 12 noon. The cost of the meal is $11
and must be sent to Elaine Covey before that date. Car poolers
are to meet at the Northwood Congregational Church by 11:15 a.m.
HLWC is a service organization and a member of General Federation of
Women’s Clubs—NH. Its object is to promote sociability and
culture and to make itself a power for good in the community.
All women in the area are invited to join us.
Saddleback Mountain Lions Club Kidsight Testing
Free
pre-school eye testing was conducted by Saddleback Mountain Lions on
May 9, 2010 at the Center School in Northwood.
Twenty-two
preschool children were tested with state-of-the-art digital
equipment in an effort to prevent blindness; children’s brains can
easily cancel out vision in one eye if the pair do not match.
If this condition (amblyopia) is not corrected by four years of age,
blindness in the impaired eye will result for a lifetime.
Lions
Dave Linden, Bill Lounsbury and Bob Chadbourn performed the testing
and want to thank Karen Anderson and her staff at the Center School
for their assistance. Parents of children suspected of
“amblyopia” will be sent a referral to an eye doctor of their
choice.
Pictured L-R: Lily Wolf, Northwood; Kaleb Girard,
Nottingham; Kianna Willette, Pittsfield and Amelia Poirier,
Strafford.
Volunteer Opportunity
Concerned about the environment? Like
to be outdoors? Do you have a few hours to volunteer for the
Northwood Lake Watershed Association?
The Watershed Association
is looking for volunteers to help in courtesy boat inspections at
the Northwood Boat Ramp to prevent the spread of invasive aquatic
species like milfoil. The Northwood Lake Watershed Association
received a grant to help us with two paid staff Lake Hosts - one for
Saturday morning and one for Sunday morning. Volunteer time is
available Saturday or Sunday 12-2 or 2-4.
We will teach you what
you need to know. As boats go on and off the lake, Lake Hosts
give voluntary courtesy inspections of boats and trailers and remove
any plants with permission of the boat owner. Handout
information is also offered to the boaters.
Interested persons
are asked to contact the Lake Host Coordinator, Doug Chamberlin, at
942-7884 or
[email protected]
Northwood Farmers Market News
Want a chance to spend $25 at the
market that doesn’t come out of your own pocket? Yearning to
buy something different, or a gift for a special occasion? Or
just lots of extra fruits and vegetables?
Starting June
2nd, sign up for our drawing, at no cost. Just share your
e-mail address with us. Once a month we will pick one lucky
winner for a $25 gift certificate to spend at the Northwood Farmers
Market. You don’t have to be present to win, but the e-mail
address does need to be a working one, so we can let you know you
were picked. And do keep an eye on our blog
http://northwoodfarmersmarket.blogspot.com/ and/or Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Northwood-Farmers-Market/160824287285
for upcoming events. We have a lot planned for this summer!
CBNA
Alumni Collect Donations For Food Drive
CBNA Alumni Class of 1980
is collecting donations for the Douglas Jackson Memorial Food Drive.
Alumni attending the banquet on June 11th are encouraged to bring
food items or health care items to the banquet. Space will be
provided for the collection of food and/or healthcare items beside a
display board about our late classmate Doug.
This is the second
year of the four year campaign created in Doug’s memory. Last year’s
donations were delivered to the Town of Northwood. This year’s
donations will be delivered to the Town of Nottingham. In the next
two years donations will be delivered to the towns of Deerfield and
Strafford. Help pay homage to an Eagle Scout and all-around nice guy
who left this world way too soon. Thank you so much.
Lisa Allen
Kennard Class Agent 1980
[email protected]
Letter
Vote, please. On June 7th all Northwood voters will have the chance
to exercise their right to have a say. The Northwood School
Board wants to set up a committee to consider withdrawing from our
SAU.
If you vote yes, and after careful consideration the
committee feels it is in our best interest you will have a final
say, again by voting. I am very conflicted on this issue. If
the idea was to see if it would save taxpayers without jeopardizing
students I’d be all for it. The School Board though sees it as a
control issue, not even making much of a pretense that it will save
money.
Consider a few issues. We are one third of an SAU that
includes Strafford, Nottingham and Northwood. We are almost
identical in population, number of students, percent of special
education students and students with an IEP ( individual education
plan). At a much lower cost per student, the other two towns educate
their students far better than we using the same SAU. I concluded
long ago that the SAU is not the dog to kick here. The committee
will be costly, more than the board suggests.
I am afraid that
it will distract from the real issue, our inability to educate our
students to the best of their abilities even with more money per
student than our counterparts. But, it is not a bad question.
Take time to tell the board how your heart feels on this issue. Get
involved, vote on Tuesday, June 7th next to the town hall.
Questions? Feel free to call me (942-5463) or them.
Tim
Jandebeur Northwood
Local
Students Named to KSC Dean’s List
Keene State College has
released the Dean’s List for the spring semester 2011. Among the
1,450 students named to the Dean’s List are:
Barnstead Tyler
Richard Donnelly
Chichester Nicole Marie Conner
Epsom
Sara Halsey Archibald; Kyle Jeffrey Paquette and Kayla Grace Reeves
Northwood Amanda Beth Fuller; Benjamin Parker Merrill; Courtney
Jayne Small and Courtney Jo Tuck.
The Dean’s List designation is
bestowed to those Keene State College undergraduates enrolled in a
degree program who have completed a minimum of six credit hours in
the semester, receiving no failing or incomplete grades. A 3.5 or
higher grade point average on a 4.0 scale is required to earn the
Dean’s List honor.
Letter
At the Exeter town hall meeting with my congressman, Frank Guinta,
he assured me that, as people over 54, the Medicare changes he voted
for in Paul Ryan’s budget will not affect me or my husband at all.
However, he was not able to assure me that our children and
grandchildren will have the economic security that real Medicare
provides when they reach retirement age.
Since that meeting, I
have learned more about the Ryan budget that Mr. Guinta voted for.
Besides more tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, it takes
away the Medicare improvements in the Affordable Care Act that will
cut costs for us old folks. I am particularly upset about the
donut hole fix that Carol Shea Porter worked so hard to get.
That will save our family a lot of money. And who’s to say
that once real Medicare is gone for the young, some future Congress
won’t decide it’s too expensive for the dwindling number of
beneficiaries of the real thing.
You ran accusing Carol
Shea Porter and other Democrats of trying to cut Medicare when they
were trying to cut costs, not benefits. Now you are trying to
abolish it completely and you think you can fool us by not changing
the name. Vouchers to buy private insurance, if we can get it,
are not going to provide any security in old age when most of us
have the highest healthcare costs in our lives. No, I’m not
buying, Mr. Guinta.
Lucy Edwards Northwood
Letter
To The Editor
There is such irony for New Hampshire residents
this year, as we’ve watched radical legislation of all kinds
proposed and often passed by the NH House, sometimes in underhanded
ways with the assistance of Speaker O’Brien. The list of these
episodes grows longer, but yesterday’s halt to voting on the Right
to Work bill was especially noteworthy, when O’Brien stated
shamelessly that the timing wasn’t quite right for the vote, despite
the fact that there were 380 of 400 members present.
Epsom Rep.
Tony Soltani questioned why the vote wasn’t proceeding as scheduled
when O’Brien had publicly stated before Wednesday’s session that the
vote would be held, and was escorted back to his seat by the
sergeant at arms for his insolence. It became very clear why the
vote wasn’t being taken. With so many members present, O’Brien
couldn’t get a great enough percentage to override the Governor’s
veto of the bill. And so the pressure tactics on possible “rogue”
legislators continues.
So much for the “liberty” that is waved
about so much these days by Free State Project idealists, Tea
Partiers and others in the Legislature, who with Speaker O’Brien as
the ring leader, have been working in sometimes undemocratic ways to
deconstruct government in ways that will do great harm to NH’s
economy, environment, social safety net, and more.
More NH
residents need to pay closer attention to what the more radical
Republicans are up to at all levels of government these days, in the
name of “liberty.“
Victoria Parmele Northwood, NH
Northwood Recreation Update By Kathy Boudreau, Recreation
Director
The Summer Brochure is out!!! View it now on our
website; http://recreation.northwoodnh.org/. Highlights include
Summer Concert Series, Swimming Lessons, British Soccer Camps,
American Red Cross Babysitting Class & Safe on My Own Class, Adult
Soccer, and Adult Softball, Bear Cub Running Club, Summer Soccer,
and a trip to Foxwoods. If you would like to receive an email
notification as well as a copy of the brochure contact Kathy
Boudreau at the Northwood Recreation Department at
[email protected] or 942-5586 x209.
Obituaries
George
Everts Richards
George Everts Richards was born December 10, 1924
in Boston ,Massachusetts to Wilfred and Eleanor Richards. He
attended schools in Deerfield and Coe Brown Academy in Northwood ,
N.H.
George entered World War II on July 2, 1943. He was a
machine gunner for Headquarter Company 3rd Battalion , 507th
PIR of the 82nd Airborne Division. He jumped behind the lines in
Normandy and also fought in the Battle of the Bulge under the 17th
Division. After his discharge on January 5, 1946, he
returned home to Northwood and married the love of his life,
Leatitia Guptill on December 10, 1948. They raised three
children Frank, William and Mark. Upon retirement, he moved to
Port Richey, Florida in 1994.
He was involved in volunteer
work at Bayonet Point Hospital for the past 12 years. George was an
active member and volunteer at the neighborhood Palm Terrace Club.
He loved to dance and bowl.
George never met a stranger
and was always there to help someone. He loved his wife, his family,
life and people. He was a man of his word who worked hard to
take care of his family.
He is survived by his wife of nearly 63
years Leatitia Annie Guptill Richards; his three children Frank
Richards and his wife Susan of Longview, TX; William Richards of
Miami, Florida; Mark Richards of Somersworth, N.H. He leaves behind
six grandchildren, Joseph and Paul of Longview, TX; Brian and
Stephanie of Miami, Florida; Tracey Torba and her husband Mike
of Kodiak, Alaska and Zack Richards of Somersworth, N.H., as well as
two great-granddaughters Violet and Rory. He is also survived by a
brother Edward Richards and his wife Lorraine and numerous nieces
and nephews.
A memorial service was held in Port Richey, Florida,
May 19, 2011. George’s ashes will be put to rest at a later date at
the Ridge Cemetery in Northwood, N.H..
Donations in his
memory can be made to the VFW - American Legion of Northwood c/o 5
Lakeview Dr., Northwood, N.H. 03261.
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