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Northwood NH News

June 6, 2012

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Congratulations to Amanda Knowlton of Northwood, who graduated from Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, cum laude with a Bachelor of Science - Physical Education/Teacher Preparation.

 


 

CBNA Student Receives 2012 DEKALB Agricultural Award

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CBNA senior Jenna Brown the 2012 recipient of the DEKALB Agricultural Accomplishment Award

 

Jenna Paige Brown, a senior at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, was recently presented with the CBNA’s highest agricultural honor, the DEKALB Agricultural Accomplishment Award, sponsored by the Monsanto Company.

 

Brown, the daughter of Randy and Judy Brown of Strafford, received the award for excellence in academics, leadership and agricultural work experience. Brown’s significant experiences and accomplishments have included training pulling steers for local 4-H shows and for the Big E in Springfield, MA, and serving in a variety of FFA offices, including serving as the CBNA Much-To-Do chapter president this year. Miss Brown is under the supervision of Sarah Ward and Charles Whitten, agricultural education instructors at Coe-Brown.

 

For the past 63 years, the DEKALB Agricultural Accomplishment Award has been received by more than 160,000 high school seniors from across the country. The award has become a symbol for excellence in agricultural education. As the 2012 winner of this award, Brown’s name will be recorded on a permanent plaque displayed at Coe-Brown.

 

Monsanto, a long-time supporter of agricultural education, FFA, 4-H and other farm youth organizations and initiatives, has sponsored the DEKALB Award, named for its brand of seed, since 1998. Monsanto is a leading global provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products that improve farm productivity and food quality.

 


 

CBNA Youth 2 Youth Holds Mock Accident Demonstration

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Members of the Northwood, Strafford and Epsom Rescue Squads use the jaws of life to free accident "victims" in a recent mock accident demonstration at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy.

 

On May 11, 2012, Coe Brown Northwood Academy’s Youth 2 Youth Organization hosted a "mock accident" in conjunction with David Wakeman and the Northwood Fire and Rescue Department. This demonstration illustrated the disastrous effects of driving under the influence of alcohol.

 

Youth 2 Youth’s goal was to educate other youth to the dangers of substance use and the importance of making wise decisions. The 700 students watching the staged accident were witness to the possible consequences of one student making a bad decision.

 

The impaired driver had hit another car, seriously injuring three fellow students and causing the death of another. Fire and Rescue squads from Northwood, Strafford, and Epsom arrived at the scene with sirens blaring. The fire trucks, ambulances, and later a hearse from Purdy Funeral Home made the "accident" realistic, as they attended to the "bleeding" victims as if it were a real event. In order for the observers to understand the process and consequences, CBNA’s School Resource Officer, Pat Potter narrated the rescue.

 

As prom and graduation season arrives, so does the increase in risks of teen alcohol related accidents and deaths. CBNA’s Youth 2 Youth hopes this season passes with only the joys and successes and that tragedy is avoided.

  


 

Northwood Planning Board Seeks Your Input

 

Last month the Northwood Planning Board included a survey in The Suncook Sun and asked that you fill it out and return it with your comments. There has been a good response and the Board has decided to extend the deadline for receiving the surveys so people who did not return them will still have time to do so. We also encourage summer residents to provide their comments by filling out the survey.

 

If you no longer have your copy or never received one and would like to participate, they are available online at www.northwoodnh.org. Please read the article on the front page of the website and it will provide you with details on how you may receive a copy and where to place them when completed.

 

The completed surveys will be compiled by Town Planner Elaine Planchet and will provide valuable information to the Board for the update to the Town’s Master Plan.

 

For further information contact Ms. Planchet at [email protected].

 


 

Northwood Teacher Honored

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Mr. Alan Robertson, 5th and 6th grade special education teacher at the Northwood Elementary School, was recently honored as the recipient of the VFW District and State Citizenship Education Teacher Award at a presentation in the presence of his peers.

 

As a former social studies teacher at the school, Mr. Robertson instilled the importance of citizenship in his students through a variety of methods. Students participated in the VFW-sponsored Patriots Pen essay contest, shared in stories told by Mr. Robertson and pictures shown about military experiences, and viewed the Broadway musical 1776.

 

The Northwood School is proud of Mr. Robertson’s honors and thank him for his years of dedicated service to the students of Northwood. We hope that through his work of educating the students about the importance of citizenship, the young people of Northwood will grow up and become involved in community services that will further instill this important quality we all should possess.

 


 

Spanish Students Garner Honors

For the first time at the Northwood School, students in Ms. Rebecca Rush’s 7th and 8th grade Spanish classes took the National Spanish Exam given to students across the country enrolled in a high school level Spanish I course. Thirty-three Northwood students took the exam this year, with fourteen of them earning national recognition for their assessment in Spanish Achievement (Vocabulary, Grammar, Structure) and Spanish Proficiency (Listening and Reading Comprehension).

The following is a list of the students and their honor:

 

Premio de Plata

(Silver Prize)

Cassandra Barnhart, 7th grade

Premio de Bronce

(Bronze Prize)

Emily Barnes, 7th grade; Ryu Kondrup, 8th grade; Thomas Sheehan, 7th grade; Julie Souryavong, 8th grade; Sarah Turmel, 7th grade

 

Premio de Honor

(Honorable Mention)

Miranda Adcock, 7th grade; Nicole Beaupre, 8th grade; Chloe Bettencourt, 8th grade; Erin Docko, 8th grade; Alex Gray, 7th grade; Grace Mele, 8th grade; Sophia Menjivar, 7th grade; Billie Pingree, 8th grade.

 


 

Letter

 

In the wake of Memorial Day we should remember the great sacrifices of the Civil War: 625,000 soldiers killed, 500,000 maimed, 200,000 civilian deaths, and the South devastated. But was it necessary to inflict over 1,000,000 casualties and untold misery and destruction to end slavery?

 

In fact, there is every reason to suppose that slavery would have ended peacefully here, just as it did everywhere else in the Western World, without a bloody conflict. [See Greatest Emancipations: How the West Abolished Slavery, by Jim Powell of the Cato Institute.]

 

Another casualty of the war was the voluntary nature of the Federal Union as understood by the Founders and the Thirteen Original Colonies.

 

Early on, Americans thought states had the right to secede. Take the Hartford Convention of 1814-15. Unhappy with the War of 1812, the New England states, including two delegates from New Hampshire, met to discuss secession. Although they decided not to secede, they did agree that "separation by equitable arrangement will be preferable to an alliance by constraint."

 

In contrast to what later happened to the southern states, however, the Federal Government never threatened war over the Hartford Convention. On the contrary, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "God bless them both, and keep them in Union, if it be for their good, but separate them, if it be better."

 

Ultimately about 4,000,000 slaves were freed, as millions of others world-wide had been without war. In America, one person died for every five emancipated. What also died was the Federal Government’s fear that states might secede if it overstepped its Constitutional limits.

 

As so often happens, the costs of war are seldom correctly thought through, before or afterwards. The benefits of war are almost never what we imagine them to be, and the alternatives are rarely considered carefully enough.

 

Michael Faiella

Northwood

 


Obituaries


 

Constance P. Milligan

 

Mrs. Constance P. Milligan, 78, a Northwood resident since 1985, died Saturday, May 19, 2012 at the Pleasant View Health Care Center in Concord.

 

Born in Manchester on May 10, 1934, Constance was the daughter of Avila and Violet (Duhamel) Turgeon. She was a graduate of Pembroke Academy and prior to her retirement in 2004, spent 45 years as a title examiner with the State of NH, working for the Dept. of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles. She enjoyed crocheting and was an avid reader.

 

Constance was the widow of Steadman "Ted" Milligan, who died in 1997 and to whom she was married 44 years. She is survived by her son, Mark Milligan and granddaughter, Patricia Milligan, both of Northwood.

 

Friends and family may call on Friday from 5-8 pm at the Still Oaks Funeral and Memorial Home, 1217 Suncook Valley Highway in Epsom. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Saturday at 11 am at St. John the Baptist Church in Allenstown, followed by burial in St. John the Baptist Cemetery.

 

The Petit Funeral Home of Pembroke is in charge of arrangements and offers an on-line guestbook at www.petitfuneralhome.com.

 


 


 

 











 
 

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