Congratulations to Joel Boulanger, a Finance major from
Northwood, who is among 700 students in Coastal Carolina
University’s new Honors College.
LRPA After Dark Celebrates Halloween With Its Third
Annual “Shocktoberfest,” A Month Of Scary Cinema!
This
Weekend’s Feature: 1968’s “Spider Baby”
It’s baaaaack! Throughout October, join Lakes Region Public
Access Television each Friday and Saturday night at 10:30 p.m.
for LRPA After Dark’s 3rd Annual “Shocktoberfest,” a scary
celebration of vintage horror films. This weekend (October 26 &
27), we close out the month with a cult classic from 1968:
“Spider Baby,” starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Carol Ohmart, Beverly
Washburn, Jill Banner, Sid Haig and Quinn Redeker.
On
the outskirts of town, a rundown mansion houses the Merrye
family: three young adults named Ralph (Haig), Elizabeth
(Washburn), and Virginia (Banner), plus an elderly aunt and
uncle who live in the basement. They suffer from a genetic
degenerative brain disease – “Merrye Syndrome” -- that leaves
them demented, regressively childlike, and occasionally
murderous. Since the death of the siblings’ father, the family
has been looked after by their loyal chauffeur and caretaker,
Bruno (Chaney), who loves them despite their many issues. Bruno
protects them from the outside world as best as he can, but the
progressive nature of their disease makes it harder and harder
to cover up their misdeeds. The family’s secretive existence is
shattered by the arrival of distant relatives Emily (Ohmart) and
Peter (Redeker), along with their lawyer and his assistant. The
greedy cousins have learned of Mr. Merrye’s death, and hope to
gain possession of the mansion. The siblings don’t trust these
outsiders, believing that they want to split up the family. The
cousins insist on spending the night at the mansion. When Bruno
leaves to run some errands, the visitors get an unforgettable
lesson on just what the “Merrye Syndrome” is all about. Will
everyone make it out of the mansion alive?
In
an article for Turner Classic Movies, film critic Richard
Harland Smith wrote, “Regardless of what may have inspired it or
what subsequent films it may have influenced, “Spider Baby”
remains very much its own animal.” Perhaps no truer words have
ever been written about this blackly comedic horror film.
“Spider Baby” has no graphic violence or nudity, but its creepy
atmosphere and sexual innuendo definitely leave an impression
upon its viewer. Director Jack Hill, a protégé of filmmaker
Roger Corman and a UCLA film school classmate of Francis Ford
Coppola, shot this film in a mere 12 days for $65,000. He
got great performances from his cast, including the very young
Sid Haig, who went onto a successful career in horror films, and
particularly Lon Chaney, Jr., who many critics felt gave the
performance of his career. Quentin Tarantino has listed Hill’s
movies (including the “Blaxploitation” films “Coffy” and “Foxy
Brown”) as being influential on his own. “Spider Baby” was shot
in 1964, but sat unreleased for nearly four years due to
bankruptcy and distribution problems. It was eventually released
to drive-in theaters with other campy classics such as “Dr.
Terror’s House of Horrors.” Many filmgoers and critics of its
day had no idea what to make of it, but more than 50 years after
its debut, “Spider Baby” is rightly considered a cult classic.
This film can still divide an audience – viewers either love it
or hate it. Watch it for yourself and choose a side! So grab
your candy corn and join LRPA after dark for this funny, freaky
and frightening film from the past.
Letter
Dear friends,
My
name is Terry Roy and I am running for the District 32 State
Representative seat that covers Northwood, Candia, Deerfield and
Nottingham. I have two decades of experience in law enforcement
as well as having served in the U. S. Army during the Cold War
and Persian Gulf War with the 3rd Armored Division. I live in
Deerfield and am a recently retired stay-at-home dad for my 13
year-old son.
I
have a starkly different view of this job than my opponent. I
believe that this is a volunteer position to represent your
interests in Concord vs a platform for imposing my views on you.
Unlike my opponent, I think the money you earn belongs to you
and the more of it you keep the better. I think that the
government exists for the sole purpose of fulfilling its
constitutional obligations. I believe that “Live Free or Die” is
more than a saying on our license plates. I think the citizens
of Northwood do not need Mr. Coursin telling us what firearms we
may own or how long we must wait to buy them. We do not need Mr.
Chase to tell us we must wear a helmet on our motorcycles or
where we should send our children to school. We do not need a
socialist master plan for our lives and make no mistake, that is
what they want. We are citizens and not subjects. We need good
representation because WE know what’s best for our communities
and our families.
If
you honor me with your vote, I pledge to provide you with
excellent representation. I have no agenda but yours and though
we may not always agree, I will always listen and represent you.
Terry Roy
Deerfield
Candidate for State Representative
Rockingham District 32
https://m.facebook.com/roy4rep/
Letter To The Editor
Take
Off The Pro Gun Mask
Merriam Webster defines the word pro-gun as “favoring the right
to own guns and opposing legislation restricting this right”
David Coursin is obviously not pro-gun, David Coursin is pro GUN
CONTROL.
David Coursin loves gun control. This past summer he
teamed up with extreme gun control groups like Gun Sense to give
extreme gun control seminars at a left wing summit. David has
also written editorials for the Concord Monitor on his extreme
gun control. Please read these editorials which are titled
“Let’s Redefine What It Means To Be Pro Gun,” “Nobody Can
See through the NRA’s Blindfold,” and “Let The NRA Feel Our
Strength,” in which David outlines his 12 step plan for extreme
gun control and rails against the NRA, who provides hundreds of
gun safety classes in NH each year.
These editorials reveal the truth of David Coursin’s extreme gun
control agenda that he is hiding from Northwood voters.
Why is David Coursin hiding the extreme gun control editorials
that HE WROTE? Why is David Coursin deleting links to
these editorials off of his Facebook page? What else is
David Coursin hiding?
Northwood voters deserve better and they deserve to know the
truth about David Coursin and his extreme gun control agenda.
Lies, falsehoods, and misrepresentations from a candidate
seeking to be elected is completely unacceptable. Demand David
Coursin be truthful and transparent, demand David stop hiding
his exteme gun control agenda.
Don’t take my word for it, read David Coursin’s extreme
gun control editorials and see for yourself. I will be happy to
send you links to them or copies of them. Please
email me at [email protected].
Cheryl Dean
CBNA Theatre Students To Present Love’s Labor’s Lost
From left – Ferdinand (Cooper Leduke), Berowne (Brian Downer),
Longaville (Aiden Schutte), and Dumain (Connor Nowak) swear an
oath for no fun, food or females in CBNA Theatre’s production of
Love’s Labor’s Lost
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy Theatre will proudly present William
Shakespeare’s romantic romp, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday October 25, 26 & 27, 2018, in the Gerrish
Gym on the CBNA campus. One of Shakespeare’s early
comedies, this adaptation is set in Navarre High School, circa
1999. The story concerns four students, led by Ferdinand, who
swear oaths of no fun, no food and no females in order to focus
on their studies, and ask a bunch of other students to do the
same. However, when four young ladies led by the Princess of
France, come for a visit, they (of course) break those oaths by
falling in love, writing poetry and disguising themselves as
Russians (What???). Witty wordplay, misdirected love
notes, tricks, the prom and the course of true love ensue.
The cast includes seniors Braelin Ash, Shayla Ashley, Brian
Downer, Mackenzie Flanders, Cooper Leduke, Lily Marston, Paige
Marston, Olivia Roach; juniors Emily Dallaire, Patrick Helm,
Brianna Jackson, Shannon Jackson, Mirah Johnston, Connor Nowak,
Caitlin Reynolds, Rylee Rogers, Lauren Rose, Eva Turcotte;
sophomores Mary Katherine Patteson, Ben Poirier, Clayton Price,
Aiden Schutte, Darin Sweet, Jordan Trahant and freshmen
Sabrinalin Jeffers, Mairead O’Shea, Calvin Swett and Caleb
Yates. Production stage manager junior Madison Bowen will be
leading an experienced production team of skilled theatre
technicians who will bring Love’s Labor’s Lost to life. The
production is directed by faculty member Elizabeth Lent with
assistance and choreography from faculty member Kolby Hume.
Reserved tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and
seniors, and are available at
http://cbnanh.booktix.com.
For further information, call 942-5531, ext. 237, or email
[email protected] . Hope
to see you there.
CBNA Forensics Students Remotely Access Electron Microscope
Students, from left Jacob Rich, Emma Tobbe, and Olivia Roach,
looking at forensic samples on a conference call with Mrs. Nancy
Cherim of the UNH Instrumentation Center.
Recently, Coe-Brown Northwood Academy Forensics students had the
opportunity to remotely access a Scanning Electron Microscope
(SEM) courtesy of the University of New Hampshire’s
Instrumentation Center through the collaboration of science
faculty member, Mrs. Tiffany Thompson, and Mrs. Nancy Cherim, an
Analytical Instrumentation Scientist at UNH.
Forensic students and science faculty members had the
opportunity to submit forensic samples to be analyzed. Through a
video conference call with Mrs. Cherim, students were able to
examine and measure the size of many different samples such as
dog hairs, human hair, and other plant and animal specimens.
From this opportunity, students were able to experience what is
like to be a forensic scientist in the real world and see the
difficulty in matching hair evidence to a single person or
animal.
Letter To The Editor
Candidates’ Night Question
I
attended Northwood’s Candidates’ Night last Thursday, 10/18, at
the Town Hall, and listened with interest as the candidates for
Rockingham District 32, Democrat Tom Chase and Republican Terry
Roy, delivered their prepared remarks. Then the floor was opened
to questions.
Given the issues of sexual assault raised by the recent
Kavanaugh hearings and State Senator Jeff Woodburn’s arrest for
domestic abuse, I asked the two candidates if they had ever been
involved in similar incidents. Both said, “No.”
The
question was also prompted by a Google search that turned up an
article In The Gardner (MA) News dating from the time of Mr.
Roy’s service on the police force there. The headline
reads: “Ex-cop files suit against city officials.”
The
article deals with the very convoluted case of Mr. Roy’s
termination, but it is the final paragraph that is noteworthy.
“Roy is also claiming that his termination violated an agreement
between himself, the city, {Mayor) Manca and (Police Chief)
Dufort in June 1999. Roy says that according to that
agreement, the 1997 domestic assault complaint filed against him
would be deleted and not used against him in disciplinary
actions, provided there were no similar incidents for a period
of one year.” [Italics added]
I
think that given Mr. Roy’s public denial, an explanation is in
order. We deserve better from those who would represent
us.
Sincerely,
Ted
Wilkinson
Northwood
Letter To The Editor
Impressions
I
got up this morning, thinking about last night’s Candidate’s
Night.
I
had worn a coat and tie(!), hoping that by giving up the straw
hat and suspenders for the evening, I might make a better
impression. I also wrote my remarks to be sure not to talk
beyond my allotted three minutes.
I
used that time to make the point that, as the seventh wealthiest
state in the nation - and with an ever-growing GDP - we have the
money to better meet our needs. However, the structure of our
tax system and its lopsided reliance on property taxes does not
generate the revenues needed to meet those needs.
Over the course of the evening, many of those needs were touched
on. A mentally ill teenager spending two weeks sedated in an
emergency room because no bed is available in a psychiatric
unit. The opioid crisis that touches so many lives. The lack of
affordable housing.
My
opponent, Terry Roy, a self-described avid hunter, noted that
the Fish & Game Commission, which relies on hunting license
sales, no longer has the money to do the many things it needs to
do. But when I asked how additional revenue might be raised, he
had no answer.
Senator John Reagan suggested “better managers” could manage us
out of this financial squeeze.
Yes, to a point. But at some point we must raise more revenue to
repair the 250+ “red flagged” bridges around the state before
they collapse.
As
always, former moderator Robby Robertson provided guidance,
almost keeping Joe McCaffrey from talking too much - and saying
too little. And Joe, to his credit, acknowledged that he’s “just
getting warmed up” when the time expires.
In
contrast, David Coursin was clear, thoughtful and concise. Let’s
send him to Concord to represent us.
Tom
Chase, candidate
Rockingham Co. District 32
Letter To The Editor
Chris Roundy for Senate
Northwood’s Candidate Night confirmed my decision to vote for
Chris Roundy for State Senate District 17. Roundy presented a
fresh voice, new ideas and an openness to listen to constituents
and work to solve problems facing our communities and our State.
As
an attorney for individuals fighting to get benefits they’re
entitled to under federal and state law, Roundy has seen
firsthand how unnecessary bureaucracy costs the state money in
avoidable legal battles while denying people their due.
Streamlining the process of applying for disability benefits was
the first idea Roundy presented as a way to save public funds.
In
contrast, Senator Reagan who claims to be a “tax fighter,” used
a late night maneuver last May to resurrect the school voucher
bill that had already been killed twice by the NH House. By
eliminating provisions in the House bill that limited
eligibility for vouchers based on income and attending a school
unable to pass state standards, Reagan’s version would have cost
tax payers even more -- an estimated $265 million cut in state
funding to local school districts and $239 million in state
funding to fund vouchers over 13 years.
When asked about the constitutional amendments that will be on
the ballot next month, only Roundy was able to offer an
explanation. It was surprising that a sitting Senator couldn’t
explain either amendment, given that he would have voted on
them.
Roundy’s open and inviting demeanor contrasted sharply with
Reagan. I know I want a State Senator who is approachable,
knowledgeable, and who I can trust to listen to my concerns and
represent me in Concord.
Please join me in voting for Chris Roundy on November 6.
Grace Mattern
Author and Nonprofit Advisor
Northwood
