Happy Birthday to Mason Martineau, celebrating his 10th birthday on
November 21!
Concord: Annual Immaculate Heart Of Mary Christmas Fair On The
Heights Saturday, Nov. 22 9-5 PM & Sunday, Nov 23 9-1 PM Christmas
Crafts & Handmade Items, Cookie Walk & Baked Goods, Ornaments,
Jewelry, Nearly New Items, Christmas Decorations, Penny Raffle,
Silent Auction, 50/50 & Other Big Raffles, Santa And More!
Celebrating Birthdays this week are: November 19, Allison Quigley,
and November 22, Andrew Ward.
Happy Birthday!
DECORATED WREATH CONTEST
At the Pittsfield Christmas Tree Lighting
Mark your calendars - Saturday, Dec. 6 from 4:00-6:00pm for the
annual Christmas Tree Lighting Celebration sponsored by the Greater
Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce - Everyone is welcome to attend!
We will be having a DECORATED WREATH CONTEST again this year.
Everyone is invited to bring a decorated (anyway you’d like) wreath
to Dustin Park. The wreaths will be displayed inside PYW and will
be judged by the public. The winner will be announced at 6pm after
the Tree lighting and will receive a “Surprise Goodie Basket,”
donated by Louie Houle of Meadow Ledge Farm.
Please drop off your wreath by 3:45 pm at Dustin Park (PYW) and
please pick up your wreath by 6:15pm. Any wreaths that are not
picked up will be donated to local groups.
Get in the Holiday Spirit and show off your
creativity and bring a wreath. The contest is open to everyone!
For more information, contact Andi Riel at 435-6346 or visit the
Chamber’s website
www.pittsfieldchamber.org.
Church Fair Takes Place Saturday
Ho, ho, ho… the Christmas Fair at the First Congregational Church,
24 Main Street, Pittsfield, is happening this coming Saturday,
November 22, from 9 to 2. Sponsored by the Dorcas Guild, this fair
is the event you won’t want to miss.
The guild has been busy crafting all those special festive gifts
including mittens, hats, aprons, quilted items, girls’ dresses and
special gourmet and baked goods. Don’t forget the “Unique Boutique”
for outstanding values and the “Silent Auction” for those special
one-of-a-kind gifts.
Bring your friends and neighbors to shop and stay for a great corn
chowder and sandwich lunch with yummy pies for dessert. Parking and
wheelchair accessible entrance available at rear of church. For more
info, call the church office at 435-7471.
TOPS News
Submitted By Terrie Azotea
It’s been a couple of weeks and we have been busy at Tops going over
our manual.
Kudos to Joyce for making a few weeks weight loss. We talked about
some tips that were helpful for Halloween when there is such a
temptation with all that candy around. So hopefully everyone made it
through that weekend without too much of a weight gain. I know that
the holidays are right around the corner and the parties will soon
start. That is when we need to make our right choices.
Our Best Loser last week was Suzie, our Kops of the week was
Barbara. Great Job Ladies! We had Royality for the month and awards
were handed out, so I say awesome job to Claire, Suzie and Jon. Keep
up the good work. They gave us some tips on how they lost for the
month, like no soda, and going out to eat a lot can’t change the
food that helps us stay on track.
We played some Bingo and enjoyed some prizes handed out. If anyone
would like to join us on a Tuesday night, we meet at 5:30 for weigh
in and at 6:30 for our meeting at the Berakah on Fairview Rd. in
Pittsfield.We all welcome new faces. Any questions please call Janis
White at 491-5532 or Claire Coll at 435-7271. Hope everyone has a
good week and see you all lighter next week!
Pittsfield Christmas Tree Lighting and
Children’s Store Celebration
Save the Date, Saturday, Dec. 6 – the Greater Pittsfield Chamber of
Commerce will sponsor the annual Christmas Tree Lighting and
Children’s Store Celebration. Also a craft fair at the First
Congregational Church will be held.
On FRIDAY, DEC. 5, at 7:30pm – The Pittsfield Players Annual Free
Christmas Show, including Christmas readings and Caroling
sing-alongs, will be held at the Scenic Theatre.
On SATURDAY, DEC. 6 the day begins with the Pittsfield Elementary
School PTO sponsored Breakfast with Santa. Breakfast will be served
for $3.00 per person between 8:00-9:30am in the PES Cafeteria.
Photos with Santa will be available for $1.00 each. This is a
fundraising event for the PTO. Then after a hearty breakfast kids
can shop at the Children’s Store at the PES Gym from 9:00-noon. The
Victory Workers 4-H Club will be hosting a Cookie Walk at PES during
the Children’s Store – parents will have an activity to keep them
busy while the kids shop.
Volunteer “elves” will assist shoppers up to age 16 in purchasing
gifts for their parents, siblings, teachers or friends. The Store
is open to CHILDREN ONLY – sorry, no adults allowed. Most of the
items are new or nearly new and can be purchased for $1.00 or less.
Some items are more expensive. There is also free gift wrapping
available.
Anyone interested in donating items(new or nearly new), Christmas
wrapping paper, gift tissue, GIFT BAGS (the wrappers love gift
bags), tags or tape may drop them off to the various donation boxes
at Jitters Café, Pittsfield Post Office, Pittsfield Town Hall or
Northway Bank. Monetary donations are gladly accepted to help defray
some of the costs associated with the event. Please make checks
payable to: Greater Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce and mail to
Greater Chamber of Commerce, Attn: Children’s Store/Tree Lighting,
P.O. Box 234, Pittsfield, NH 03263.
HOLIDAY STORY TIME from 3:30-4pm at the Josiah Carpenter Library –
on Sat, Dec. 6 – All ages are welcome to come to the Library and
enjoy some Holiday stories with Mrs. Grainger.
Get in the Holiday Spirit and DECORATE A WREATH and enter it in the
Decorated Wreath Contest – decorate it anyway you’d like- drop it
off at PYW (Dustin Park) by 3:45pm (on Sat, Dec. 6) and the public
will vote for the best one! Winner will receive a Gift Basket,
donated by Louie Houle – Meadow Ledge Orchards.
The celebration continues at DUSTIN PARK from 4-6pm (on Sat., Dec.
6) The Christmas Tree Lighting Celebration is fun for the whole
family and is a great community event. There will be FREE horse
drawn wagon rides, Holiday music by the Joyce Family, cookies,
cocoa, popcorn, and candycanes to enjoy. Inside PYW (Pittsfield
Youth Workshop) there will be a Gingerbread House Display and
raffle, face painting, visit with SANTA (who will arrive via
Firetruck around 4pm), photos will be taken and available to
download from the town website OR feel free to bring your own
camera. HOT chili, chowder, and soups will be available for a
donation of a canned or packaged food (or purchased for a few
dollars) to benefit our LOCAL FOOD PANTRY.
A raffle for a (fresh) Christmas Tree will be held. Free -One entry
per person. The winner will be able to choose their tree from the
selection the Corinithian Lodge Masons will have available.
The Suncook Valley Area Lions Club will be collecting new and/or
handmade mittens, hats, scarves and socks for children. These items
may be brought to the Tree Lighting and dropped off. Prior to the
Tree Lighting, items may be dropped off at Jitters Café.
The Highlight of the Celebration will be everyone gathering around
the Christmas Tree, singing Holiday songs and counting down to the
Lighting of the TREE. The Blue Star Mothers group will be there to
assist anyone that would like to add a Star to the Tree.
For more information, please contact Andi Riel at
435-6346 or visit
www.pittsfieldchamber.org.
St. Stephen’s Holly Fair
Saturday Nov 22nd from 9AM to 2 PM, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
on Main St in Pittsfield will hold our annual Holly Fair which
offers many opportunities to shop for Christmas and enjoy warm yummy
food!
Our large Silent Auction features many unique collectible gifts like
antiques, fine art, and china, as well as practical gifts like a
smart DVD player. Our creative teams have made some great holiday
decorations. Our woodcrafters made Christmas trees, snowmen and
reindeer from birch logs in various sizes. This year we’ve added
amazing large wooden lighted trees for outdoor displays. There are
lovely wreaths for your front door and centerpiece arrangements to
grace your table.
Take a chance on a large red garden wagon that is brimming with
stocking stuffers. Second prize is an ice skating musical doll, or
third prize, a growing 2-3 foot snowman. Tickets are $1 each, 6 for
$5 or maximize your chances of winning with purchase of 25 tickets
fro $20! Just show up and you’ll have a chance to win the door
prize!
We will be selling delicious baked goods as well as offering a cafe
where you can relax for breakfast or lunch. The kitchen crew will
be serving up breakfast burritos or warm muffins for breakfast, or a
lunch of corn chowder, butternut squash soup and meatball subs.
Yummy grapenut pudding is one of dessert offerings.
The proceeds of our fair will help to pay for the
restoration of our historic Rose Window, so your shopping will
please your gift recipient while funding a great cause. For pictures
of fair items, listing of auction items or to learn about “The
Little Church with the Big Heart” visit our website
www.ststephenspittsfieldnh.org.
VA’s Center For Women Veterans Partners With The Center For American
Women And Politics
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Center for Women Veterans
(Center) entered into a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the
Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the
Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, the State University of
New Jersey, to increase women Veterans’ leadership and career
opportunities, which will benefit the Nation’s workforce and address
women Veterans growing needs.
The MoA will allow the Center and CAWP to leverage existing
resources and increase coordination of activities to help women
Veterans develop public service and community engagement skill sets,
so they will be prepared for public and community service
opportunities.
“Women Veterans often contact us for information about how they can
continue serving,” says Elisa M. Basnight, Director of the Center
for Women Veterans. “This MoA with the Center for American Women
and Politics presents a prime opportunity for the Center to help
prepare them for other forms of public service as it responds to a
persistent need women Veterans tell us they have, which is the
desire to continue to make a difference after the uniform.”
The Center, created in 1994 to monitor VA’s administration of
benefits and services to women Veterans and to advise the Secretary
on VA policy’s impact on Women Veterans, can provide advice to
CAWP’s on how it focuses its resource information to address women
Veterans’ issues.
CAWP is a source of scholarly research and current data about
American women’s political participation. Its mission is
to promote greater knowledge and understanding about women’s
participation in politics and government and to enhance women’s
influence and leadership in public life.
“The Center for American Women and Politics is delighted to
collaborate with the Center for Women Veterans to provide more
information and resources for women Veterans who want to engage more
fully in their communities. Women who have already put their country
first by serving in the military are exactly the people we need as
public leaders,” said Debbie Walsh, Director of the Center for
American Women and Politics.
Women Veterans represent one of the fastest growing segments of the
Veterans population—about 10 percent of the total 22 million
Veterans in this country. Today there are an estimated 2.2 million
female Veterans. The Center for Women Veterans participates in
collaborative initiatives with Federal/state/local governmental and
non-governmental stakeholders, to improve opportunities for women
Veterans.
For more information about women Veterans, visit
www.va.gov/womenvet.
Update On The Floral Park Cemetery Fence Fund
Submitted By Carole Richardson
Thank you – thank you – thank you - On Friday, November 7th a
fundraiser for the fence replacement was held at Jitters Café in
Pittsfield. A special thank you to Paul for such a generous
donation of his time, and providing a delicious all-you-can eat
Italian buffet, with the proceeds going toward the fence fund.
Thank you to all those individuals who attended to support the fund,
and to those who came and had no idea it was a fundraising project.
Special thanks also go to Art Morse of The Suncook Valley Sun, Rob
Freese of the Globe, Andi Riel for her column in the Sunday Concord
Monitor and to Paula Belliveau for her artwork on flyers and
articles advertising the event.
The fence fund now has approximately $6,000 for Phase 2 for the
fence replacement which is scheduled for Memorial Day of 2015.
Please keep the donations coming, we are well on our way.
As I have said before, every penny counts. The donation box at
Jitters has been helpful and I thank all those who deposit their
loose change in this box. Your continued support has
been overwhelming.
Letter To The Editor
November is upon us and it is one of my favorite months of the year.
For me, November is a time to give thanks, reflect and count my
blessings!
Today I write to to give thanks to all of you who supported the
Pittsfield Hanging Flower Baskets! This beautiful tradition lives
on, in memory of John Lenaerts, continued by your generous donations
and a few dedicated volunteers!
Thank you so very much for helping us keep downtown Pittsfield in
bloom!
Donna Keeley and the Pittsfield Hanging Flower Basket “team”
Oil Heat Council of NH – Ready to Help!
Submitted By Robert J. Sculley, Oil Heat Council of New Hampshire
In light of the recent news articles reflecting the ongoing concerns
at Fred Fuller Oil Company, I felt it critically important for
heating oil customers in New Hampshire to know that this is not an
industry-wide problem. There is no shortage of heating oil in New
Hampshire or the northeast. The issues impacting Fred Fuller Oil
customers are not reflective of the rest of the oil heat industry in
New Hampshire.
The Oil Heat Council of New Hampshire is comprised of
a network of fuel dealers located throughout the state of New
Hampshire. These dealers are part of the fabric of the local
communities they serve, and have served for decades. In addition to
the sale of fuels, these dealers provide a full range of
installation and maintenance services. For a complete list of these
fuel dealers and the services they provide, visit
www.nhoilheat.com.
I am confident that these trusted Oil Heat council members will
fulfill your heating needs and keep your homes and businesses warm
throughout the upcoming heating season. When choosing to keep your
family safe and warm, consider a trusted member of the Oil Heat
Council of New Hampshire.
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