Weather
permitting, the season begins on June 18th for the Locke Lake Golf
League. All Locke Lake members are welcome to join this adult group.
Groups of four are challenged weekly to different events and play twice
around for their total score. Tee time - Thursdays @ 9:00 a.m.
A one
time fee is collected at the beginning of the season to cover expenses
of awards and the barbeque in September.
For
further information, contact Bob Nuccitelli at 269-2433 or Bob Dailey at
776-6118.
Barnstead Police Department
Calls
for service for the week ending 05/23/2009:
ARRESTS
Name: Male
Juvenile
Charge: Simple Assault
Court: Laconia Family Division
Bail: Released to Parent
Incidents:
Criminal Trespass, (5); Criminal Threatening, (5); Disorderly Conduct,
(3); Officer Safety Information, (1); Domestic Disturbance, (1);
Assault, (2); Breach of Peace, (4); Illegal Dumping, (1);
Harassment, (4); Vandalism, (2); Identity Theft, (1); Suspicious
Activity, (4); Neighbor Disputes, (1); Property Checks, (5); Civil
Matters, (3); VIN/HIN Verifications, (2); Fingerprints, (1); Follow Up
Investigations, (6); Fire/Rescue Assist, (4); 911 calls, (2), Assist
Other Agency, (3); Juvenile Matters, (6); Alarms, (1); Service of
Paperwork, (4); Animal Complaints, (6); Motor Vehicle Complaints, (4);
Radar Patrols, (2); School Zone Patrols, (4); DWI, (1); OHRV Complaints,
(2); OHRV Patrol, (1); Traffic Stops, (16); Total Calls for Service: 69.
Motor
Vehicle Collisions:
05/21/2009 - Two vehicle collision on Route 28 @
Peacham Road.
05/21/2009 - Single vehicle collision on Route 28
Respectfully,
Sgt. Joseph G. McDowell Jr.
OFML 2009 Summer Reading Program Registration
Barnstead’s Oscar Foss Memorial Library invites you and your children to
join us for the 2009 Summer Reading Program, supported in part by
a grant from the NH State Library and donations from the Byrne
Foundation, CHILIS, Cogswell Benevolent Trust, and the NH Library
Association. This year’s theme is “Summertime... and the Reading is
Easy,” designed to encourage reading for pleasure in a relaxed, fun
environment. Read for six weeks and enjoy summertime fun, too!
Kids,
teens and adults, come be a part of all the activities: six weeks of
crafts and activities planned for each Tuesday morning, 10 a.m. to noon;
see a local play in week 6 (pre-registration required); enjoy a SRP
Finale Performance on August 11th; weekly challenges/prizes; Kids Cuddly
Raffle; Teen Candy & Ice Cream Raffle Basket; Adult Movie Night Out
Raffle Basket; Ice Cream Social and lots of new books and audio books
for all ages!
Sign
up/Registration begins Monday, June 15th and ends Saturday, June 27th.
The first book must be recorded by July 3rd, and the last book must be
recorded by August 8th. Signup and decorate a hot air balloon to fly in
the library! For every book or equivalent, participants get a raffle
ticket towards the final drawing, and add a summertime hot air bubble to
fill the giant hot air balloon! Those kids and teens who complete the
six-book minimum or equivalent will receive a SRP prize packet and a
reading certificate.
Here’s
a chance to keep your kids reading over the summer, and to share
the summertime reading fun together! For more details and information,
please contact the library at 269-3900 or come to the desk.
Sails Aloft!
Busy Women In North Barnstead
By
Joyce Beairsto
Barbara Moulton, President of the Women’s Fellowship
of the Congregational Church of North Barnstead (UCC) along with over 15
other women in the community are busily making plans for the year. The
fundraising activities such as bake sales, participating in Old Home
Day, and the Fellowship’s annual Pumpkin n’ Pine Fair in November.
Other
activities include an annual retreat in July, a candlelight service in
the fall, as well as participation in the state-wide United Church of
Christ’s Women’s Fellowship Meeting in October.
Meetings are held in different women’s homes monthly, often with a
program of some sort. All women in the community are invited to
participate. In May, Dot Wenblad, who has no electricity and lives
on a road not maintained by the town, spoke on “Living Off the Grid” at
Connie Mitchell’s home.
The
June meeting will be at Barbara Moulton’s home in Alton. For
further information call Barbara at 875-5651.
Local Students Named To NHTI Dean’s List
The
following area students have been named to the Dean’s List at NHTI-
Concord’s Community College in recognition of their academic achievement
during the Spring 2009 semester:
Barnstead: Samantha Cota, Nicketa Fife, Kory Nerdahl.
Barrington: Courtney Atwood, Kendra Deon, Paul Harnum, Erika Reimers.
Center
Barnstead: Brad Bentley, Jacob Browning, Nicholas Fegley, Kenneth Hutto,
Mykel Obrenovich.
Chichester: Kathryn Downey, Amy Edmonds, Samantha Fortier, Morgan
MacCleery, Samuel Schreier, Trili Timm.
Gilmanton: Caroline Corriveau, Abbey Ritter.
Northwood: Eva Baker, Kyle DiFruscio, Michael Haroutunian, Derek Lovely.
Pittsfield: Trisha Cate, David Rushford.
Strafford: Lauren Catano, Alexander Pape, Ryan Thibeault.
Jeremy & Beth Everson
Jeremy
& Beth Everson will be visiting with the Center Barnstead Christian
Church this Sunday, June 7th. Jeremy will be speaking during the 9:00 AM
Morning Service and the 10:15 AM Adult Sunday School Class. The Everson
family are missionaries with New Tribes Mission in Chihuahua, Mexico.
They are in the process of learning the Spanish and Mexican national
culture in preparation for a ministry of spreading the Gospel to the
unreached and remote peoples of this country. So far, they have
completed one year of this preparation and hope to be finished within
one more year. Come this Sunday and hear more about how God is working
in this family’s life. The Center Barnstead Christian Church is located
on Route 126, next to the Town Hall. For more information please call
the church at 269-8831.
First Friends Of Suncook River Can Drive A Success!
Pictured here is the Bilodeau family with Friends
of the Suncook River member, Pam Miller.
FOSR hosted
a Can Drive Clean Up during the week of May 4th. Enough cans were
collected between the Barnstead collection location and the Epsom Can
Trailer location to nearly fill the Can Trailer! The FOSR Recycle for a
Better Environment Can Trailer is permanently located at Webster Park on
Rt. 28 in Epsom.
Sarah
Bilodeau of Barnstead won a Friends of the Suncook River t-shirt and a ½
gallon of locally made maple syrup for her efforts. If you would like to
learn more about Friends of the Suncook River or would like information
about upcoming kayak and hiking events, please visit the website
www.friendsofsuncookriver.org or email
[email protected].
Obituaries
Ella Mae (Dame) Moore
Ella
Mae (Dame) Moore passed away peacefully in her sleep at 1:50 AM (PDT) on
Sunday, May 31st, 2009, at the age of 89.
She had been residing at
Barton Memorial Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Facility in South Lake Tahoe,
California, for the past two years.
Her husband, George W. Moore,
passed away in 1979.
She is survived by her daughter, Dianne (DeeDee)
Moore of South Lake Tahoe, California; and her son, Bradley Moore, of
Long Beach, California.
Ella Mae was born in Loudon, New Hampshire,
on November 24th, 1920, but grew up in Center Barnstead.
While doing
defense work in Massachusetts during WWII, she married and soon returned
to Barnstead Parade until moving to Tujunga, California, in 1951.
She
resided in Tujunga until August, 2007. While visiting her daughter in
South Lake Tahoe, California, she fell and was not able to return to her
home in Tujunga.
Sheila A.
Semeraro
Center Barnstead - Sheila A. (McIntire) Semeraro, of
Center Barnstead and formerly of Burlington, Mass., a devoted wife,
mother and grandmother, passed away at the Merrimack County Nursing Home
in Boscawen the morning of Saturday, May 23, 2009. The wife of Joseph J.
Semeraro, she was 72 years old.
Sheila was born in Cambridge, Mass.
She was the daughter of the late Thomas and Gertrude McIntire. She was
raised and educated in Watertown, Mass.
In 1962, Sheila and her
husband settled in Burlington, where they raised their five sons. Sheila
received an associate degree from Cardinal Cushing College. She worked
as a bus driver for Fiore Bus. She also worked as a secretary for Travis
Associates and Raytheon. Sheila was very involved with the Cub Scouts
and the Boy Scouts in Burlington. She was the head den mother for Pack
525. She was a talented seamstress, and she enjoyed sewing, knitting and
crocheting. Sheila and her husband moved to Center Barnstead in 1999.
Her most important role in life was that of wife, mother and
grandmother. Sheila and her husband, Joe, would have celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary June 13.
Sheila was the beloved wife of
Joseph J.; loving mother of Joseph Jr. and his wife, Sheila, of
Billerica, Mass., Thomas and his wife, Debra, of Groton, John and his
wife, Tammy, of Burlington, Paul and his wife, Jennifer, of Pepperell,
Mass., and Robert and his wife, Sara, of Burlington; sister of the late
Paula Oliver; and grandmother of Zach, Danny, Mac, Crosby, Jake, Maddie,
Gabby, Johnny, Nicole, Vanessa, Alex, Katie, Emma, Gina, Anthony and the
late Morgan.
A funeral service was held Thursday, May 28, 2009, at
Edward V. Sullivan Funeral Home, Burlington.
A Mass of Christian
burial followed at St. Margaret's Church, Burlington.
Interment was
in Pine Haven Cemetery in Burlington.
Memorial donations may be made
to the Alzheimer's Association, 311 Arsenal St., Watertown, Mass. 02472.
For more information, go to: Sullivanfuneralhome.net or
saintmargaretschurch.net.
