Flu Clinic
Cornerstone VNA will be hosting a flu vaccine clinic at the
Northwood Town Hall on Tuesday, October 11 from 3:00-4:00 pm.
Flu vaccines are covered by most major insurances. Please bring
your insurance card with you. Cost is $40. without insurance.
For further information call 332-1133.
Have you been considering becoming a Realtor? We are looking for
a few good agents!! EXIT Reward Realty and EXIT Realty Great
Beginnings will be hosting a real estate pre-licensing class!
November 4, 5, 6 and 11, 12, and 13. You will complete the
course in 2 weekends! Hours are 1pm to 5pm Friday and 8am to 5pm
Saturday and Sunday. Classes will be held in Concord. Please
email Sandy Kelley to register,
[email protected] or
call 435-7800 ext. 201.
Letter To
The Editor
Affordable Health
Care in NH
“Health Care Costs Rise by Most in 32 Years” says the September
16, 2016, CNN headline. Even worse, CNN reports that the
percentage increase in premiums on the Obamacare exchanges is
expected to be in “double-digits this year.”
Further, New Hampshire Public Radio informs us that now
employees are paying an ever larger share of their
employer-provided health insurance bill, and “high deductible
health plans are the new normal.” NHPR tells us that “overall,
health insurance premiums for a family covered by an employer
health plan” has risen to an average cost of
$18,142.
Meanwhile, a Politico report about what it calls “Obamacare
sticker shock,” says that “in New Hampshire, two of the
five carriers want to sell plans with rate increases above 30
percent.”
This bad news must come as a disappointment to those who
believed President Obama’s promise that Obamacare would
“cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a
year.”
Michael Faiella
Northwood
LRPA After
Dark Celebrates Halloween
With A Month Of
Scary Cinema!
Throughout October, join Lakes Region
Public Access Television each Friday and Saturday night at 10:30
p.m. for a scary good time! “LRPA After Dark” celebrates
Halloween with four frightening films from Hollywood’s past.
This weekend (October 7 & 8), we get the ball rolling with
1959’s darkly comic horror film “A Bucket of Blood,” directed by
Roger Corman and starring Dick Miller, Barboura Morris and
Antony Carbone.
Meet Walter Paisley (Miler), busboy at
San Francisco’s Yellow Door Café, the hangout for a crowd of
beatnik poets, artists and musicians. It also attracts a pair of
undercover police officers, looking to make a drug bust. Walter
is naive and talentless, but is filled with blind admiration for
this group and wants desperately to belong. He particularly
wants to impress Carla (Morris), an artist on whom he’s
developed an unrequited crush. No one, including Carla, thinks
he has any creative gift. They treat him with open disdain, but
that doesn’t change Walter’s mind. One night, he goes home and
works on a sculpture, only to be frustrated with his lack of
success. He accidentally kills his landlady’s cat, which, after
he recovers from his shock and disgust, gives him a morbidly
wicked idea. The next day, he brings his newest work of art into
the café – an incredibly lifelike sculpture of a cat! Leonard De
Santis (Carbone), the café’s owner, proudly displays this piece
of art, which earns Walter the respect and praise that he was so
eager to receive. One night, after receiving a suspicious gift
from an admirer, an undercover detective follows Walter home,
with tragic (!) results. What’s an up-and-coming artist to do?
“A Bucket of Blood” is one of director
Roger Corman’s most beloved movies, and has rightly earned its
place as a classic B horror film. Not only does it satirize the
often phony, pretentious world of art, but has also been hailed
as Corman’s sly commentary on the film world. He made this movie
in five days on an almost non-existent budget, and many critics
(especially those in Europe) hailed the film as a marvel, and
began to recognize Corman as a truly important filmmaker. The
irony is delicious, and so are the high-camp horror hijinks.
It’s not to be missed! So grab your candy corn and join LRPA
after dark for this beatnik horror classic from the past.
Mark your calendars for these coming
Halloween treats:
October 14 & 15: 1922’s “Nosferatu”
(silent)
October 21 & 22: 1965’s Planet of the
Vampires
October 28 & 29: 1968’s Night of the
Living Dead
Letter To The Editor
To the Editor,
A parent email prompted this missive.
Sports at Northwood School has become far too political. It is
led by exactly the same small group of millennial parents that
are driving the “I want it, I want it now, and I want someone
else to pay for it” movement at our school. They are more
concerned about expensive bats than education.
Sports is supposed to be a learning experience. To be a team
player, to learn to follow rules and regulations, to see the
value of being in shape, to have pride in your school are just a
few reasons to have sports in public schools. Every student that
meets the grade criteria should be allowed to play regardless of
their ability. Parents of all students pay the same taxes.
Their children all deserve the same education.
But in Northwood everything is
limited. Only so many can be on this team or that team, meaning
only the best make it. So really it is only a learning
experience for the gifted, either athletically or in this
parents accusation, gifted in who you know. Easy to figure who
the coaches are. The parents of an outstanding athlete thinks
that all of the rules should be centered around their student.
The less gifted athletes get nothing yet they pay the same.
Their lesson is that public money for sports is only for the
few.
Want to see fair, go to a unified
sports soccer, basketball or volleyball game at Dover High.
Unified sports is a team comprising a range of very athletic to
severely handicapped athletes. That is a team concept that I can
respect. It’s athletics of all abilities teaching parents the
values of team sports. Public money should be fairly
distributed.
Tim Jandebeur
Northwood
CBNA Students Commended In 2017 National Merit Scholarship
Program
Headmaster David Smith of Coe-Brown Northwood Academy
announced today that seniors Emilia Cronshaw of Strafford,
Joshua Hall of Barrington and Zackary Pine of Strafford, have
been named commended students in the 2017 National Merit
Scholarship Program. A letter of commendation from the
school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which
conducts the program, will be presented by the headmaster to
these scholastically talented seniors. About 34,000 Commended
Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their
exceptional academic promise. Although they will not
continue in the 2016 competition for National Merit
Scholarships, Commended Students placed among the top five
percent of more than 1.6 million students who entered the 2017
competition by taking the 2015 Preliminary SAT/ National Merit
Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
“The young men and women being named Commended Students have
demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success,”
commented a spokesperson for NMSC. “These students
represent a valuable national resource; recognizing their
accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in
their academic development, is vital to the advancement of
educational excellence in our nation. We hope that this
recognition will help broaden their educational opportunities
and encourage them as they continue their pursuit of academic
success.”
CBNA Seniors Named Semifinalists In 2017 National Merit
Scholarship Program
Officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently
announced that Coe-Brown Northwood Academy seniors Davio Deluca
of Nottingham and Caroline Lavoie of Barrington have been named
as Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Mr.
DeLuca and Miss Lavoie join approximately 16,000 other
Semifinalists nationwide in this 62nd annual Merit Scholarship
Program. These two seniors, along with other academically
talented students, have an opportunity to continue in the
competition for some 7,500 National Merit scholarships worth
about $33 million that will be offered next spring. To be
considered for a Merit Scholarship award, Semifinalists must
fulfill several requirements including submitting a detailed
application and essay to advance to the Finalist level of the
competition. About 90% of the Semifinalists are expected
to attain Finalist standing, and more than half of the Finalists
will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar
title. Congratulations to Davio and Caroline on this
achievement. Visit
www.nationalmerit.org for more information about this
competition.
CBNA Landscaping Class Keeps Campus Beautiful
CBNA agriculture students Daniel
Gallant (left) and Tyler Millette with the help of Luke Belbin
hard at work with the Pinkham Hall landscape renovation.
The Coe-Brown Northwood Academy
landscaping class has been busy during the start of the school
year by renovating landscaping on campus grounds. With the new
addition of the foyer to front of Pinkham Hall, the foundation
plantings were replaced with new plant material. Students used a
simple symmetrical pattern to create a formal, neat looking
entrance to the main building. Class members Nicole Anthony,
Luke Belbin, Steven Chase, Daniel Gallant, Logan Goodwin, Kevin
Hennessey, Jacob McHugh, Tyler Millette, Troy Russo, Paige
Trela, and Faith Wilson, under the tutelage of agriculture
teacher Sarah Ward and mentor Charles Whitten, learned about
soil preparation, correct planting techniques, laying down
fabric cloth, and mulching and then used arborvitae, weigela,
and ground cover roses to complete the project. Their efforts
resulted in a lovely, pleasing area to complement the new look
of the Pinkham Hall lobby
