PRESCHOOL OPENINGS FOR THE FALL!

Are you thinking about enrolling your child in preschool this fall? Are you looking for a place where your child can make friends, learn in a program that encompasses all learning styles and abilities? Do you want your child to go to school at a place where children are allowed to express their normal curiosity while being stimulated and learning new skills? Now is the time to call and learn about The Center School!

The Center School in Northwood is currently accepting registrations for the 2014-2015 school year. There are openings in our Monday/Wednesday/Friday and Tuesday/Thursday classes. Or, if you are interested, your child could come all five mornings!

The Center School is a parent cooperative preschool located next to the town hall in Northwood.  It provides a developmental program for three, four, and five year-olds of Northwood and surrounding towns. Call or email us soon to find out about the school or to get an information packet! For information, please email at director Karen Andersen [email protected] or call her at the school at 942-7686. Check out our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TheCenterSchoolNorthwood.

Act quickly! School starts the first week of September.

Northwood Elementary School Junior Achievement

Northwood Elementary School is excited to invite members of the Northwood community to be Junior Achievement volunteers!  This is an opportunity for you to be involved with the school, and to share your experiences with the next generation.

Junior Achievement (JA) is a national program that provides educational programs free of charge to schools and other organizations.  They provide all of the materials as well as training, if desired, to present the programs.  The 1st grade examines “Our Families”, and the next grades progress through “Our Community”, “Our City”, “Our Region”, and “Our Country”.  Middle and high school offerings focus on Economics, Business, and Finance.

The program has been offered on a limited basis for the past few years.  In order to expand and give every student the opportunity to benefit from the different modules, we need your help!  The teachers at NES are very enthusiastic about this program but JA guidelines require community members willing to participate in the program. Teachers remain in the room to provide support; the volunteers present the information to the students.  

You will need to complete a background check and fingerprinting at the SAU, and fill out a few forms, but we will try to make it as painless as possible!  JA provides an optional 30 minute training session which covers classroom management and an overview of the kits.

Once you are set to go, you will be paired with a teacher and the two of you will schedule the best dates and times for you to present.  Programs run 5 to 8 weeks and take about 45 to 60 minutes each, depending on grade level and program.

For more information on Junior Achievement, please visit their website at  www.janewengland.org. If you are interested in supporting NES and being part of this program, please contact Kelly at [email protected].

2014 Northwood Bean Hole Bash

Thank you to the citizens, businesses, organizations and the Town of Northwood for helping to make the 2014 Northwood Bean Hole Bash a success. With your help, over 300 Bean Hole Bash suppers were served.

We appreciate the support of Coe-Brown allowing us to use their fields, parking lots and their tables and chairs, Coe-Brown FFA for donating the wood used for the bean pit, the Northwood Congregational Church for the use of their tent and the use of the parking lot at St Joseph’s Church.  Additional thank you to the Suncook Valley Sun for publishing the articles for event, Linda Smith of Sign Spectrum for repainting the sign, all of the Northwood businesses that donated gift certificates and items for the raffle including the beautiful serpentine Windsor chair donated by D. R Dimes and everyone that helped at any time during the event.  Thank you for supporting and making this community event possible.

We are looking for your suggestions to make the 2015 Bean Hole Bash even better.  Please send your suggestions and comments (good or bad) to Northwood Bean Hole Bash Association, PO Box 353, Northwood, NH 03261. If you would like to join us to help plan next year’s event, our next meeting will be October 8. 2014 at the Northwood Community Hall at 7:00 PM.

Letter

Northwood

Re-Elect Bruce Hodgdon For State Representative

I would like to introduce myself as your current State Representative for the Town of Northwood.

My name is Bruce Hodgdon I am a native of Northwood where I also attended Brookside School in the Narrows, Northwood Elementary School and Coe-Brown Academy. My Wife (of 43 years) and I have two children, a son David, daughter Jen and six delightful grandchildren. I am president of Hodgdon & Son Inc., a construction company you may have noticed on projects for the Town of Northwood, Northwood Elementary School, Coe-Brown Academy, Meadows at Northwood and other projects in the surrounding communities.

I was elected in 2012 and signed on to the House Transportation Committee because this is an area I am very familiar with being an owner of commercial vehicles and a holder of a commercial drivers license. While on this committee I co - sponsored hb587 this bill helps cdl drivers with their medical cards and prevents unnecessary re testing. 

I am honored to have the endorsement of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance and the National Federation of Independent Business. If elected to my 2nd term I will continue to vote for Responsible spending, reducing regulatory burdens on small business and homeowners, limited government, increasing job growth, protecting the 2nd amendment and uphold and protect the New Hampshire and United States Constitutions.

Please vote September 9, 2014 and November 4, 2014.

Thank you,

Bruce Hodgdon

Letter To The Editor

To the Editor,

My hat is off. I am so proud of all of you that work for, or supported the employees of, Market Basket. Win or lose I’d still be proud but, oh my it must feel good to win. I wish you all the best. I hope Market Basket comes back stronger than ever. Way to go, makes me proud to be a Market Basket shopper.

Tim Jandebeur

Northwood

Letter To The Editor

The Pope’s Visit

In case you missed it, last week the Pope visited South Korea to minister to its 5.1 million Catholics.  And while hundreds of thousands gathered for a public mass in Seoul, the NY Times reported that at a rally of hundreds of Protestants a few blocks away, “a Presbyterian pastor shouted ‘the enemy king has appeared at the center of our nation.’ … The evangelican Protestants sang hymns and danced, shouting that they were sounding ‘the trumpets of spiritual war’ against the ‘idol worship’ and ‘satanic forces’ … Roman Catholicism represents.”

Pretty strong stuff, but not so far removed from the fear and hatred I heard expressed growing up as a Southern Baptist.  It left me a strong believer in the first Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the establishment of religion by the state – i.e., the separation of church and state.

For this reason, I am dismayed that the NH Supreme Court has left standing the Education Tax Credit, despite a lower court’s decision that it unlawfully diverts public money to religious schools.

If the court does not re-visit this decision as it said it would should a case be brought by a plaintiff with “standing,” it would be my goal to join with other legislators to undo this law.

Please don’t see this as opposition to religion.  You practice yours and I’ll practice mine.  But we must not allow the state to intrude into these matters of faith, however round-about.

And if you don’t see the merits of separation – and tolerance – I suggest that you look to Iraq and the problems that Shiia and Sunni are running into in an attempt to govern their country.  At least in Washington, they aren't shooting at each other.

Tom Chase

Northwood

Candidate for the NH Legislature, Rockingham District 1