Celebrating Birthdays are: April 14, Mary LeDuc, John Genest,
Jr., Kaela Marable, Laurie DePalma; April 18, Barbara Bouchard,
Brittany Frost; April 19, Linda Rafeal, Tony Snedeker, Anthony
Snedeker; April 20, Peter Teloian, Sr., Hope Elizabeth Teloian,
Brian Ward, Drew Wingate.
A Very Happy Birthday To One And
All.
Come join The Greater Pittsfield Chamber of
Commerce as we enjoy our monthly Business After Hours. The
event will be held at Chichester Massage on Tuesday, April 27th
from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. This event is located at 114 Dover
Road, Chichester. There will be light refreshments served
and a brief explanation of what services are provided at
Chichester Massage. A chair massage will be given to all
who want to participate. This is a networking opportunity
for your business, so remember to bring your business cards.
Everyone is welcome to come. If you are not a member and
are interested in becoming one, this is a great opportunity to
learn what The Greater Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce is
involved in and how it could benefit your business.
See our website at
www.pittsfieldchamber.org.
Concord Regional
CrimeLine Needs Your Help
If you know of a crime that has
been committed, contact the Concord Regional Crimeline at
WWW.concordregionalcrimeline.com. In either case, you will
be completely confidential and may receive a reward of up to
$1,000. If you see a crime in progress, DO NOT attempt to
intervene and call 911. Any information you can safely pass on
to the 911 dispatcher will be appreciated. Then you can call
CrimeLine with the information you provided to the 911
dispatcher.
Suncook Valley Soccer Club (SVSC)
sign ups for Fall will be held April 19th- 6-8 PM at the
Pittsfield Elementary School ; May 6th- 6-8 PM at the Pittsfield
Middle High School ; May 20th 6-8 PM at the Pittsfield Middle
School.
Check out
www.suncookvalleysoccerclub.synthasite.com or call James
Zensky at 435-7001 with any questions.
Come and join the
most popular sport in the World.
Meet the
Republican Candidates for Congress District 2 and Governor on
Sunday, April 18 at 2p.m.The event will take place at Circle 9,
39 Windymere Dr., Epsom and will feature a small group Q&A with
individuals. No speeches. For more information call 782-4918.
Letter
To the Citizens of Pittsfield,
With the passing of
the article on shrinking of the size of our Planning Board, I
feel that the people have spoken. What bothered me was what was
planned by our new selectman. He stated he would try to stop
this from happening. He claimed he was a man of the people. To
do this he would be going against what he believes.
I have
given this a lot of thought. When it first went down I felt he
was on the right track. I have changed my mind. The town may
need to go a little backward to go forward. Let the peoples’
vote count. Don’t do this; the people deserve better.
Gerard
A. LeDuc
Pittsfield Area Senior Center Weekly Activities
April 15-21
All activities begin at 10 a.m. and end at 11:30 a.m. unless
noted
Monday, Bingo; Tuesday, Games with Dan McGuire;
Wednesday, Crafts; Thursday, Bingo; Friday, 9:30-10:30, Chair
Exercise and Chair Dancing; 10:30-11:15, Senior Seated Yoga.
Volunteer Appreciation Week
The Pittsfield Area Senior Center
is celebrating volunteers this week. We are blessed to have 25
dedicated volunteers who are willing to roll up their sleeves
and provide a number of services for the Senior Center.
Volunteers truly create a sense of community between
themselves and it is wonderful to see people come together in
this manner. Celebrate the volunteer in your life. I’m
sure you all know at least one!!!
School Lunch Menus
April 19-23, 2010
CHICHESTER
Monday
-
Diced chicken and gravy with pasta, broccoli, blueberry parfait,
milk.
Tuesday - Homemade pizza, Caesar salad, fresh fruit,
milk.
Wednesday - Mozzarella cheese sticks, marinara sauce,
buttered whole wheat pasta, green beans, mixed fruit, milk.
Thursday - Nachos with cheese sauce, salsa, cucumber slices,
applecrisp with topping, milk.
Friday - Hot dog with roll,
French fries, corn, peaches, milk.
PMHS
Monday
- No
School
Tuesday - Meatball subs, cheese, veggies, fruit,
milk.
Wednesday - Mac and cheese, chopped ham, peas, bread,
fruit, milk.
Thursday - Chicken patties, roll, lettuce,
tomato, fruit, milk.
Friday - Tuna, egg or ham/cheese,
lettuce, tomato, bread, fruit, milk.
PES
Monday
- No
School - (Conferences)
Tuesday - Chicken noodle bake,
veggie, fruit, milk.
Wednesday - Tuna roll, chips, fruit,
milk.
Thursday - Taco salad with lettuce, tomato, fruit,
milk.
Friday - Pizza, veggie, fruit, milk.
Deadline for Pittsfield Foss Family Town Scholarship
Applications for the Pittsfield Foss Family Town Scholarship are
available through the Guidance Office at Pittsfield Middle High
School. The scholarship is provided through the generosity of
Richard and Lois Foss of Gilmanton, and is available to any
graduate of Pittsfield High School pursuing post-secondary
education at a 2-year, 4-year or trade school. Please contact
the Guidance Office at 435-6701 or email Guidance Director
Leslie Bergevin for more information ([email protected]).
Applications are due in the Guidance Office by May 1, 2010.
The
Pittsfield Players Announce Open Auditions For Encore! 2010
Encore is The Pittsfield Players singing troupe
that rehearses April - June then performs at The Steele Hill
Resort in Sanbornton, NH throughout the summer (last week in
June to the last week in August) on Tuesday nights plus one
night back “home” at the Scenic for Old Home Day in July.
Open auditions will be held upstairs at the Scenic Theatre, 6
Depot Street, Pittsfield (603) 435-8852 on Sunday, April 11 at
4:00pm and Monday, April 12 at 6:30pm. Bring your sheet music*,
singing voice and a great attitude.
Dee Dee Pitcher is this
year’s Encore director.
Encore is always a lot of fun, so
dust off those vocal chords and join us!
Please pass along
this information to anyone you know who might be interested.
*Some sheet music will be available
Letter To The Editor
Well Easter has come and gone. Hope
everyone had a great Easter. Maybe one of you out there received
a really great Easter present for your flower garden. Possibly
one of you received a huge brown (rust looking) head statue for
your garden. Not a Wal-mart type item but a real nursery
purchased item that cost $250.00. It is big, probably 2 or more
feet across and maybe close to 3 feet high. Mine was stolen some
time recently just before Easter. We kept it in the garage all
winter to keep it perfect. So, if anyone sees one out there for
sale some place I would ask to see their receipt; so you won’t
be buying stolen property.
Every year someone has to steal
something from our flower garden and I am so curious as to what
kind of a thrill that gives you. Maybe when you live on Social
Security, someone will give you the same kind of thrill,
hopefully!!!!!
So, to my neighbors who always stop and ask
me what’s new in my garden this year, there will be nothing new
for you to enjoy looking at, sorry. Thanks to some JERK who is
too lazy to get a job and buy their own stuff, but have to steal
others’ instead.
Ruth True
Pittsfield
8th
Annual Pittsfield Fiddle Contest
The Pittsfield Youth
Workshop (PYW) would like to invite you to the 8th Annual
Pittsfield Fiddle Contest on Friday, May 21st, 2010. The contest
will be held at the Scenic Theatre located at 19 Depot St. in
Pittsfield, NH. There will be a silent auction and refreshments
from 5:30-9:00 PM. The fiddle contest will begin at 6:30 PM,
with the youth contestants competing first, followed by the open
division in which anyone can participate. There will be cash
prizes for the first, second, and third place winners of both
divisions. PYW is currently looking for donations for the silent
auction, and sponsorship for the cash prizes. This is an annual
fundraising event organized and presented by The Pittsfield
Youth Workshop – all proceeds from the evening directly support
PYW programs and activities.
Please feel free to contact
Zach Powers, Executive Director of the Pittsfield Youth
Workshop, by e-mail at
[email protected] or by phone at (603)
435-8272.
The Pittsfield Youth Workshop is a non-profit
youth organization committed to providing programs and services
that empower youth by helping them to develop useful skills,
self-esteem, and meaningful friendships - by involving them in
activities that are interesting, challenging, and healthy
avenues to self discovery.
Granite State Scholars Announced
Commissioner of Education,
Virginia M. Barry, Ph.D., has announced the 2010 Granite State
Scholars. Representing 88 high schools around the State, 843
students earned the status as a Granite State Scholar.
In
accordance with RSA 188-D:39, the granite state scholar
designation shall be made by the Commissioner of Education by
the end of March. The designations were made from lists
submitted to the Commissioner’s Office by the high school
principals and participating colleges. The qualifications for
designation are: student must be a high school senior, under the
age of 21; student must be ranked in the top 10% of the senior
class; and must have scored at least 1200 on an SAT exam taken
on or before January 31st of the student’s senior year (or an
equivalent score on ACT).
This year 843 high school seniors
were designated as Granite State Scholars, up from 835 last year
and 750 in 2008. “It is an honor for these seniors.” Each
recipient will receive a certificate signed by the Governor and
the Commissioner.
Pittsfield High School recipients were
Michael John Adams and Kara L. Gingras.
Pittsfield 4th Graders Visit State House And History Museum
Submitted By Tracy Bascom, 4th Grade Teacher
Pittsfield
Students made their annual visit to the Museum of NH History and
the State House, as a connection to their study of New Hampshire
government and history.
They enjoyed all the great exhibits
that the Museum has about NH, including a wigwam and a Concord
Coach! At the Capitol building they had a tour of the Hall of
Flags, the House of Representatives, the Senate Chambers, and
the Governor’s office, led by Virginia Drew, the Visitor Center
Director and mother of one of Pittsfield’s 6th Grade teachers.
Senator Barnes joined the group, as he always likes to do as he
represents the citizens of Pittsfield.
The big surprise came
when Governor John Lynch himself showed up and joined the
students for a brief question and answer session, as well a few
photos. We don’t always get to visit with the Governor,
depending on his schedule, so this was a special treat for this
year’s 4th graders.
Staff Updates Families On Missing Personnel
by Staff Sgt.
Mareshah Haynes
Defense Media Activity-San Antonio
Submitted by Merrill A. Vaughan
Commander. American Legion
Peterson-Cram Post 75
More than 280 loved ones of American
servicemembers missing in action and prisoners of war gathered
recently for a briefing from the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing
Personnel Office here.
The mission of the office, called
DPMO, is to establish policies worldwide to account for all
missing servicemembers from all conflicts from all branches of
service.
“Today is our family update, and we do this in
cities across the country every month, meeting with family
members whose loved ones are missing in action from the Korean
War, Cold War, Vietnam War and World War II,” said Larry Greer,
the director of public affairs for the DPMO. “The gathering in
San Antonio is the largest one we have ever done.
“We’re
trying to give them an overview of what’s going on around the
world to recover their loved ones, and then later we’ll sit down
with them individually and have an analyst go over their
specific case,” he said.
By comparing the missing
servicemember’s DNA — obtained from hairbrushes, eyeglasses or
even licked envelopes, or from blood relatives — to samples
collected during excavations, analysts identify to whom the
remains belong. Analysts also are able to collect DNA from blood
relatives to compare to remains that have been collected during
excavations if there are no viable samples of the member’s own
DNA available.
During the update, family members had the
opportunity to give DNA samples.
The DNA swabs are sent to a lab in
Rockville, Md., and are checked, logged and
given a case number, said Timothy Herbert, a
mitochondrial DNA analyst with the Armed Forces
DNA Identification Laboratory.
In
fiscal 2009, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command identified 98
individuals including 26 from the Korean War, 19 from the
Vietnam War and 53 from World War II, according to the JAPC
annual report.
Submitter’s note: While I do not know if we
have any unaccounted for from Pittsfield, but it does give hope
to our friends and neighbors who have loved ones in war zones
around the world. The United States Government will not stop
searching for those that are unaccounted for. The hard part is
the waiting, the unknown of not knowing where a loved one is
being held captive.
Letter To The Editor
Last week, I wrote that Pittsfield
selectman Don Chase urged the selectmen to ignore the town
meeting’s approval of ballot article 2 (a resolution for a
5-member elected planning board) or, if ignoring the resolution
was impossible, to go to court to vacate it. In 2005, Don fought
to ratify an illegal petition to expand the board of selectmen,
to which Don sought membership, but this year, he fusses about
whether article 2 was legal.
Don claimed that Deputy
Secretary of State David Scanlan had said that article 2 was
illegal and should not have been on the ballot. Don also
attacked my ethics because I wrote article 2 and Don said that
it “was slid through the back door.” In fact, Don misrepresented
both Mr. Scanlan and me. Mr. Scanlan has responded IN WRITING
saying, “I firmly believe that I would not have stated the
article presented was ‘illegal’ or ‘slid through the back
door’.” Furthermore, two letters in the Sun, including one by me
on February 17, advertised and explained the proposal for a
planning board with five members instead of seven.
What is
more troubling than Don Chase is that none of the other four
selectmen objected to him. Don claimed that article 2 is illegal
because, he claimed, a town cannot reduce/increase members on
planning board. But the selectmen called a special town meeting
just last July to expand the planning board, and the Town
Attorney was there to support the expansion. Despite this recent
history, all five selectmen agreed to seek the Town Attorney’s
advice on whether to challenge article 2. These town officials
respect neither facts nor law nor Town Attorney expense to the
taxpayer when they attack my legislative proposals—or my ethics.
Jim Pritchard
Thank You
Pittsfield Middle High School Senior Seminar
students Mike Hayes, Briahnna Metcalf, Amanda Newton, Jordan
Scannell, and Melyssa Slayton would like to express heartfelt
thanks to everyone who helped make their Haiti Here fundraiser
and awareness event a huge success! We raised about $400 and
will be sending six large boxes of food and supplies to Haiti.
Special thanks to our sponsors who all donated supplies: Market
Basket, Wal Mart, Maxfield’s Ace Hardware, Shaw’s, and
Hannaford. We would also like to thank the Concord Monitor,
Suncook Valley Sun, and WOKQ 97.5 for their support in getting
the word out.
The
Pittsfield Players Present
DOUBT, A Parable
Has there ever
been a time that the foundations of your beliefs have been
shaken so harshly you became unsure even of yourself? Has there
been a time that, just when you thought you could count on what
someone would do or say, you realized you couldn’t have been
more wrong? Doubt is never so strong when we can’t trust
ourselves, our thoughts or our own feelings.
Wikipedia
defines doubt as a status between belief and disbelief,
involving uncertainty or distrust or lack of sureness of an
alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision. In John
Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt, A Parable” it is for you, the
audience, to decide your own certainty of the facts.
Don’t
miss this stunning show brought to life by The Pittsfield
Players, directed by Mal Cameron, produced by Jeff Gregoire and
starring; Marie Klinedinst, Brendan Berube, Sarah E. Rogers, and
Denise Gordon. The show is approximately an hour and half and
there will be a question and answer period, by the cast and
director, following the performance. The audience will be
encouraged to ask questions about the story and the performance
of it, as well as general theatre questions.
“Doubt, A
Parable,” written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning
author John Patrick Shanley will be presented by The Pittsfield
Players May 7, 8, 14 and 15 at 8 PM and May 9 at 2 PM at the
Scenic Theatre, 6 Depot Street, Pittsfield. Tickets, $12, are
available online at
www.pittsfieldplayers.com, by phone reservation, (603)
435-8852 or at the box office at the times and dates of the
performances.
Obituaries
Rita Mae (Moulton) Evans
Rita Mae (Moulton) Evans, 92, of
Greenland, New Hampshire, passed away on Sunday, April 4, 2010
after a short illness. She was born in Pittsfield, New
Hampshire on June 9, 1917, the daughter of Edward P. and Addie
(Cram) Moulton. Rita attended Pittsfield schools and was a
graduate of Pittsfield High School, Class of 1935. Her
hobbies included music, singing many years in church choirs,
sewing, knitting, and cooking.
Rita was a member of the Park
St. Baptist Church and a sixty-six year member of the American
Legion Auxiliary- Petersen Cram Post #75 in Pittsfield.
She
was a longtime current member of the Order of Eastern Star; NH
Order of Pythian Sisters, NH Rebecca Lodge and honorary member
of NH Pearl Harbor Survivors.
Rita attended the Greenland
Congregational Church where she was a member of the Women’s
Alliance and former longtime Secretary/Treasurer of the Carrie
Beck Guild. She was a founding member of the Greenland
Firemen’s Auxiliary.
Survivors include her daughter, Shirley
N. Smith; grandchildren, Julie E. Clarke and her husband George
M. Clarke and Ryan M. Smith; great grandchildren, Michael S.
Clarke and Jeremy T. Clarke; brother, Robert O. Moulton; niece,
Susan O. MacDonald and husband Roderick MacDonald; grand niece,
Katherine MacDonald; nephew, Kenneth Moulton.
Besides her
husband, Robert J. Evans who passed away in 1986 and her
parents, Rita was predeceased by her siblings, Elwyn W. Moulton,
Harold E. Moulton, Kenneth E. Moulton, Norma A. Eldredge, and
son-in-law, Michael J. Smith.
A graveside service was held
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at the South Barnstead Cemetery in
Barnstead, NH. Memorial donations may be made to the
Greenland Fire Department or American Cancer Society.
Please visit:
www.jvwoodfuneralhome.com to sign the online guest book.
