REMINDER
Due to new NHSA requirements, registrations are now done online
only via our website.
www.northwoodcrankpullers.com. Any registrations done prior
to 12/31/2015 will save $10.00. Any questions or concerns
please contact us via the website. Please be patient this
is a learning process for all of us.
Letter To The Editor
The Christmas spirit is alive and well
in Northwood! I am so pleased to announce our Northwood Holiday
Food Drive - Drive Thru was a huge success! Thank you to all who
donated so generously to ensure our neighbors won’t go hungry
this Holiday season.
I would also like to thank Northwood
Garage for their generosity as well as all the local businesses
who spread the word and posted fliers. A huge thank you to the
Northwood GOP for collecting and delivering all our donations!
We are so blessed to have such a great volunteer like Meg at the
Northwood food pantry to ensure our neighbors don’t go hungry.
Cheryl Dean
Northwood AC Church Holds Christmas
Eve Service
The Northwood Advent Christian Church, 113 School
St., will hold a Christmas Eve Service Thursday at 7pm. This
special time for the family will include Carols, readings, a
children’s story, trumpet playing, singing and a short
devotional message on the “Meaning and Purpose Of Christmas” by
Rev Plummer. Everyone is invited and welcome to attend. It will
be a great time to reflect on what Christmas is really about and
bring Christmas in to your heart. Join your friends, family and
neighbors Thursday, 7pm.
Letter To The Editor
Nancy Heath (SVS 12/16) has agreed
women have had equal pay since 1963.
Without the federal Equal Pay Act,
Lilly Ledbetter would not have been able to take her employer to
court for breaking the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Lily also would
not have won her case or have been the landmark case that
improved the existing federal Equal Pay Act of 1963.
If Nancy has actually experienced a
violation of the equal pay law, she too could have taken her
employer to court, but as she stated it was simply a department
cost cut that affected her whole department (both men and
women).
So why are there dishonest
presidential candidates making false promises of equal pay?
Nobody can give women rights that we already fought long and
hard for an won in 1963. Women have already empowered themselves
to fight that battle and won, you can’t take that away from us!
No presidential candidate can take credit for something we
already did!
Shouldn’t Bernie Sanders and Hillary
Clinton be empowering women with the information they need to
report any violations of the Equal Pay Law? Shouldn’t they be
encouraging women to use the rights they already have? Bernie
and Hillary aren’t going to take credit for something empowered
women already did on their own in 1963!
I find these candidates disgusting
because they are intentionally lying to women to get votes. This
is the war on women.
Cheryl Dean
Letter To The Editor
So, why do I support Bernie? He’s been
in the background of my political universe for quite a while,
and when I first heard that he was exploring a run for
President, I was interested. When he declared his candidacy I
was more interested, but like so many of us, I wasn’t at all
sure that this was a viable endeavor. I watched and listened,
and this fall I took the leap to being a supporter.
Bernie has a long, long record of
doing the sort of politics that I admire. Nothing seems to
distract him from learning where our country doesn’t work for us
and introducing legislation in the Senate with real fixes. While
the bills probably won’t pass this Congress, it does change the
conversation! Most changes don’t happen if we don’t talk about
them.
But what I appreciate the most is that
he supports campaign finance reform AND refuses to take
corporate money. His campaign runs on small individual donations
and tons of grassroots power. He draws big crowds of curious
people, who have never seen a candidate like this before. The
young love him, us old people love him, women and men love him.
And holding signs for him recently I learned that lots of people
who are not Democrats will honk for Bernie, too.
Bernie can win if we vote for him. If you are a Bernie
supporter, and believe, as I do, that his campaign can revive
our faltering democracy, mark your calendar for February 9th and
make sure you have a plan to vote. Tell a friend, and pledge to
hold each other responsible for voting. If you can’t make it to
the polls, arrange with your town clerk to get an absentee
ballot. http://sos.nh.gov/ElectForms.aspx Do it now!
Lucy Edwards
Northwood
In place of Secret Santa or a book
exchange, the three 4th grades in Northwood School decided to
donate money to the Northwood Fire Department’s holiday toy and
fund drive for the less fortunate in the town. Students brought
in a total of $350, which included some of their own money. On
Wednesday, 14 $25 Visa gift cards were presented to two fire
fighters from Northwood.
Letter To The Editor
Veteran and Baby Boomers
A sincere thak you! You built our
roads, bridges, dams, buildings, treatment plants, etc. You gave
us freedom and infrastructure.
Construction and war are dangerous and
I wonder how many of you have knife-jabbing arthritis pain.
Is that why the numbers are so high
when it comes to how many pain pills are sold?
Due to the number of heroin addicts, I
now have to pay for a doctor’s appointment every month to get my
pain medication. My yearly cost has gone from $500 a year to
$1,500 a year. Thank Hillary! In case you don’t know, that is
sarcasm!
I probably don’t have it as bad as
some. What about people who are wheelchair bound? How much more
difficult is it for them to get to a doctor? Why do the
lawmakers punish the veterans and the baby boomers? These people
are truly in pain, not heroin addicts who need mental health
care!
Is there anyone out there who is
having trouble getting their pain medication?
Lawmakers, take off your blinders and
look at the big picture!!
Mike Smith
Northwood
Letter To The Editor
Budget Matters
The Budget Committee completed its review of the Town budget
earlier this month in what seemed to be near record time, mostly
because the Selectmen have been careful to spend sparingly.
Nevertheless, there are two warrant articles that caused some
discussion.
The first is an article to “Create a Red Listed Bridge Capital
Reserve Fund” with an initial deposit of $84,000. Raising
this money is necessary to repair a bridge on Bow Lake Road that
the State DOT “red listed” three years ago, and which needs to
be repaired within 7 years of that date or be closed. So
the plan is to raise $84K each year for the next 3 years so that
we will have the estimated $252,000 needed to do the repair.
(I don’t know why we didn’t start saving sooner.) There is a
chance that we may get some of the money back from the DOT 8-10
years from now. But given the state of the state’s
infrastructure and the legislature’s seeming unwillingness to
raise the gas tax again, I’m not going to hold my breath.
But I may vote for representatives who would consider this.
The second article calls for the addition of a full-time patrol
officer for a sum of $55,884. Chief Drolet made a strong
case for this addition, noting the increase in “calls for
service” from 2005 (837) to 2015 (3,368 and counting).
Since we’ve spent around $25,000/year in overtime recently,
adding an officer seems appropriate.
The Committee was moved to vote 11-1
in favor of the article, with Selectmen representative Jandebur
voting against, reflecting the Board’s opposition, which he
suggested stemmed from the Chief’s not having the supporting
data when he initially presented the proposal.
Come to the Town Deliberative Session, Saturday, Feb. 6 to
express your opinion. More next week.
Tom Chase
Budget Committee member
Northwood
