Men’s Breakfast
Calling all men! The Center Barnstead Christian Church will be having a
free Men’s Breakfast on Saturday, March 14th at 7:30 AM. This will be a good time of food and fellowship. Don Hackett
will be the speaker. He will be sharing his testimony. We look forward to
seeing you there! The Center Barnstead Christian Church is located next to
the Town Hall on Route 126, off Route 28. For more information, please call
the church at
269-8831.
Barnstead Old
Home Day Is Off To A GREAT Start!
The first organizational meeting for
Barnstead Old Home Day 2009 was a great success, with many of last year’s
Committee members returning to assist again, and with a few new people
stepping forward to help for the first time. If you are interested in
helping to organize this year’s event, we can certainly still use some more
people!
The next meeting of the Old Home Day Committee is scheduled for
Wednesday, March 11, 2009,
6:30 p.m. at Barnstead
Town Hall. We hope to see
you there.
This year, Barnstead Old Home Day will help celebrate the
centennial year of organized fire rescue service in the town of Barnstead. The Old Home Day Committee will be
working with representatives of Barnstead Fire Rescue, Inc. to craft a
fitting celebration of 100 years of fire protection services in our town.
Look for descriptions of the Old Home Day events and activities in upcoming
articles. For more information regarding Old Home Day, call Eileen
Murley
at 435-6692.
Library Says
Thank You
The Oscar Foss Memorial Library in Center Barnstead would like
to say a HUGE thank you to the members of the Center Barnstead Christian
Church.
On Sunday, February 7th, we discovered a broken air handling unit
in the basement of the library which basically turned the library into a
sauna and there were several inches of water on the basement floor.
Rick Simoneau, one of the members of the Board
of Trustees noticed that we had a room full of books for our book sale and
wanted to get them out FAST! There were also several storage books and goods
that we kept in the basement. Rick
made a quick trip over to the Center Barnstead Christian Church and came
back with a large group of very helpful volunteers who proceeded to “bucket
brigade” the books upstairs. They took an hour out of their busy lives to
help us save what we could and we wanted everyone to know how very grateful
we are. It is so nice to know that there are always caring, giving people
who are there to help you out. THANKS AGAIN to each and every one of you for
your help!
Letter
Dear
SVS Readers:
When it comes to priorities, I am amazed by the apparent
lack of local wisdom. Yesterday at the State House, State Sovereignty was a
huge issue (HCR6). However considering declining resources such as cheap
crude oil, little attention is being given to regional food production. Less
than 5% of food consumed in NH is grown here. Cheap oil enables its
transport from Florida, California,
Chili, China, etc. This is clearly
unsustainable! When fossil fuels sky rocket again, so will food and domestic
energy. So many people are now “on the edge” we must reconsider priorities!
So we in Barnstead are in the process of co-creating a permaculture farm
school, where anyone (especially young people) can learn to produce local
food without poisons - GMO’s and petro fertilizers and do it year
round. We are open to co-participation. Inventors, students and teachers,
more land and facilities, etc. We have survival in mind! We think folks are
ready. Our PC. school will be farms based on the following examples:
1.
Positive Panloving Relationships
2. Enhancing Biological and cultural
diversity
3. Blending with nature
4. Global connections and synergies
5. Bio regional self reliance (localization)
6. Grass roots democracy,
etc.
We hope farm schools will pop up everywhere. For more insight, we
encourage you to google “The Power Of Community.”
Talk to us.
Green
Fire Permaculture Farm, Barnstead,
NH 03225.
603-776-7776
or 207-351-7853.
www.ecotopia.us (soon).
Bruce Shearer
