Northwood Recreation REMINDER
Summer
Sports
The
Northwood Recreation Department has a variety of sports camps and
activities for all ages to choose from this summer.
Visit
www.northwoodnh.org for registration information and additional
information about these programs. Details can be found in our
brochure on the website. Or call the Recreation Department at
942-5586 x209 with questions.
PRESCHOOL
OPENINGS!
Are you
thinking about enrolling your child in preschool for next fall? The
Center School in Northwood is accepting registrations for the
2014-2015 school year. The Center School is a parent cooperative
preschool located next to the town hall in Northwood, which provides
a developmental program for three, four, and five year-olds of
Northwood and surrounding towns. There are openings in our two-day
(T/Th) program and three-day (M/W/F) morning programs. Call or
email us soon to get an information packet or to make an appointment
to come for a visit! For information, please email at director
Karen Andersen
[email protected] or call her at the school at
942-7686. Check us out on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TheCenterSchoolNorthwood
U.S.
Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) announced today that a member of her
staff will be holding office hours on Tuesday, May 20th in Northwood
to assist New Hampshire citizens with official business.
Residents who are interested in meeting with a member of the
Senator’s staff should stop by the town offices from 1:00- 2:00
PM or call Simon Thomson at (603) 880-3335 to schedule an
appointment.
NORTHWOOD FARMERS MARKET
starting May 22, corner of Rts. 4 and 202/9, 3:00-6:30.
The
Market starts again in May,
then once a week through Labor Day.
On
Thursday afternoons you’ll see the flags and tents announcing we
have local foods to sell to you.
So
bring your friends and neighbors, too. See you
at the NFM !
Holy
Land Presentation
Have
you ever thought of going to visit the Holy Land? Now is your chance
- at least visually. Peggy Wallace and June Leone have enjoyed the
trip and will be showing their pictures to us on Saturday, May 17,
at 6 p.m. at the Northwood Advent Christian Church, 113 School
Street (Route 107-The Narrows).
Please
take advantage of this opportunity to “travel” with us. See you
there. Light refreshments to follow.
High
School Registration
The
Northwood School district is encouraging all parents of home
schooled and private schooled students in 8th grade who are
considering attending Coe-Brown Academy in the fall to please
contact Coe-Brown Academy to initiate the registration process.
School for incoming freshmen starts in mid-August and there are
summer expectations of incoming freshmen that will be important to
complete prior to the start of school. Please contact the main
office at 942-5531.
Northwood Elementary Kindergarten Screening Day
The
Northwood Elementary School is again seeking registrations for
students entering kindergarten in the fall of 2014. Kindergarten
registration packets are now available at the school’s main office
or on the website – http://www.northwood.k12.nh.us. Materials required for
registration are proof of a current physical, updated immunization
records, and a copy of your child’s birth certificate, as well as
documentation of residency in the town of Northwood.
The
office will be contacting parents who have registered their child
about bringing their child in for a screening and information day to
occur on May 21, 2014. The entire session will take about 90
minutes and will include some informal activities for the students,
screenings for speech and occupational therapy, and basic early
childhood academic skills in math and reading. Parents will be
given the opportunity to briefly meet Mrs. Lisa Magnusson,
kindergarten teacher, and the current administration – Mr. Richard
Hartford, Principal, and Mrs. Lisa LaBella, Assistant Principal.
Chesley
Memorial Library
Get
Caught Reading: Get Caught Reading at the Chesley Memorial Library!
May is “Get Caught Reading Month” so we invite you to send in your
photos of you, your family, and your friends reading…here at the
library, at home, on vacation, wherever you are “caught” reading! We
will post the photos on our library web site with your permission.
“Get Caught Reading” is a nationwide public service campaign
launched by the Association of American Publishers to remind people
of all ages how much fun it is to read.
Pajama
Storytime: Pajama Storytime returns to the Chesley Memorial Library
on Tuesday, May 13. Join us at 6:00 pm in your favorite pajamas and
sit back to listen to stories read by our special guest, Sandy Ross.
Find out how Billy’s pet spider, Helen, helps out at the zoo in “Be
Nice to Spiders” by Margaret Bloy Graham…and enjoy some spider
cookies before you leave!
DP-8
Workshop: The Chesley Memorial Library will host a drop-in work
session for the New Hampshire Revenue DP-8 Form for Low and Moderate
Income Homeowners. For a fourth year, CASH VITA volunteers are
again available to assist eligible homeowners with completing the
form for FREE! A copy of the December tax bill and the federal
income tax return is needed to complete the application. If
homeowners have not filed a tax return for 2013, CASH VITA
volunteers can also help taxpayers complete their federal income tax
return or an informational copy for FREE. Join a CASH VITA volunteer
at the library on Thursday, May 15, from 10:30am-12:30 pm; no
registration required.
Junior
Book Club: The Junior Book Club (third grade and up) will meet at
the Chesley Memorial Library on Wednesday, May 21, to discuss “The
Dark Hills Divide” by Patrick Carman. Read about twelve-year-old
Alexa as she fulfills her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious
forests and mountains that lie beyond the walled city she lives in
after finding the key to a secret passageway. Multiple copies of
the book are available at the library now; pick up your copy today
and join the fun!
Letter
To The Editor
The
Embattled Farmers
It’s
spring. New Hampshire farmers markets are back in business. Farmers
markets around the country are leading America back to local
self-sufficiency, family farming, backyard gardening, and less
dependence on petroleum-based food supplies. They encourage healthy
eating and healthy land use. And they foster humane treatment of
farm animals, so shockingly absent from factory farms.
Yet
these local markets face many obstacles, as outlined by Joel
Salatin, one of the nation’s leading organic farmers. Made famous
by Michael Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma and the documentary
film Food, Inc., Salatin says the main problem facing local farmers
is what he calls “the food police.”
He says
the farmer’s problems, “from drought to predators to flood to cash
flow, are nothing compared to the emotional, economic, and energy
drain caused by government bureaucrats.” For example, “in the early
1970s when, as a young teen, I operated a farm stand at the curb
market, precursor of today’s farmers markets, the government said I
couldn’t sell milk.” These and other experiences with government
regulations caused him to write a book called “Everything I Want to
Do is Illegal,” describing his “run-ins with government officials.”
However, the problem is not just government, according to Salatin,
but the agricultural corporate/government partnership in league
against small farmers:
“As the
food police have demonized and criminalized neighbor-to-neighbor
food commerce, the food system has become enslaved by the industrial
food fraternity. And just around the corner is the National Animal
Identification System coming on strong, under the guise of food
safety and biosecurity, which will annihilate thousands of
non-industrial farms. We don’t need programs; we need freedom. If we
really had freedom, farmers like me would run circles around the
corporate-welfare, food-adulterated, land-abusing industrial farms,”
he says.
The
Northwood Farmers Market opens May 22nd.
Michael
Faiella
Northwood
Letter
To The Editor
On May
1, 2014, I was fortunate to chaperone Northwood’s 4th grade field
trip to the State House in Concord. During this trip, we were able
to meet with Representative Hodgkin who did a great job talking to
the kids about his role in our government. We also had a wonderful
tour guide and enjoyed seeing the Chambers of both the House and
Senate.
What
diminished our visit was Senator Reagan’s presentation to the kids.
Senator Reagan turned what was intended to be a learning experience
into an opportunity to present partisan politics, when he chose to
compare taxation to stealing. This opportunity should have been a
factual presentation focused on helping our 4th graders understand
what taxes are and what the role of our legislature is.
As a
follow-up to the visit, I wrote an e-mail to Senator Reagan
indicating my disappointment. His response was to accuse me of not
wanting my “children to pay attention to the world in which they
live” and suggesting that my recommendation that presentations to
4th graders be factual “is the partisan stance.” If you’d like to
read the full text of the e-mail exchange, please let me know.
To
Senator Reagan, I’d like to suggest that teaching young children
that stealing and taxation are the same thing is NOT civic
responsibility or being a good role model. Nor is it unpartisan.
You will not have my vote in the upcoming election cycle and I hope
other parents consider joining me.
To the
teachers in Northwood and elsewhere in NH - Thank you for teaching
and providing information and knowledge in an unbiased way so that
our children can grow up to think critically and develop their own
thoughts about the role of their government.
Nikki
Roy
Northwood
Obituaries
Helen
(Gaspar) Mainheit
Helen
(Gaspar) Mainheit, 54, passed away Sunday May 4th.
She was
born in North Truro MA of Helen and Raymond Gaspar. She graduated
from Provincetown High school, in 1977, and married two years later,
on April 21st 1979 to Joseph Mainheit. In 1991 the two settled in
Northwood with their three children.
She was
known for her charismatic attitude and enthusiasm in everything she
did. She loved to be around children and over the years was active
in girl scouts and FFA.
She was
survived by her husband Joseph Mainheit, of Northwood and three
children; Joseph Mainheit, of Lexington KY, Jesse Mainheit, of
Strafford, and Cheryl Toussaint, of Sanbornville. She was also
survived by seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
A
memorial will be held on Saturday, May 17th from 10am to 2pm at her
daughter’s home in Sanbornville. For more information please contact
family.
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