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Chichester NH News

July 30, 2008

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OK, folks, the time has come to get serious about Old Home Day! Chichester's Old Home Day is scheduled for August 16. The deadline for space at Carpenter Park is August 8. If you are a vendor or someone from a Town church, club, or committee who is going to set up a booth, you must notify Jaan Luikmil (798-4987) by August 8 or be turned away.

You need to have items for the "Attic Treasures" Flea Market to Stacy Luikmil on or before August 8 so they can be priced. Call her at 798-4987 to arrange for pick-up if necessary. No items will be accepted at the park on Old Home Day.

Call Elaine Coffey (798-4909) or Julie Raposa (798-4715) if you want to enter the Pie Baking Contest on Old Home Day. Double-crust fruit pies will be judged and prizes given. Let's have some good participation and give the judges a work-out!

We are still looking for students who could use community service hours to help with parking, trash barrel duty, etc. on Old Home Day. Contact Jaan Luikmil at 798-4987 if you can help out.

Call JoAnn Luikmil at 798-5483 if you can bake cookies for dessert at the noon meal on Old Home Day.

There is still time to sign up for the Old Home Day Parade. The theme this year is "Days Gone By." Dust off your town history, decorate your float or vehicle, and participate. Call Jaan Luikmil at 798-4987 and he'll add you to the line-up.

An addition to the Old Home Day events at Carpenter Park this year is the NH Draft Horse Association Obstacle Course. BIG horses will be going through their maneuvers in a section of the graveled parking lot at Carpenter Park.

The Chichester Food Pantry is asking for donations of non-perishable foods, paper goods, laundry soap, or personal care items such as toothpaste on Old Home Day. Cash is always welcome, too! Bring your donations to the Chichester Grange Booth where there will be boxes to fill.

The Old Home Day Variety Show will be held on Thursday, August 14, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Chichester Central School. For a two-dollar donation you can see a good show.

Weather permitting, there will be a Cruise Night with live music at Carpenter Park on Friday, August 15. Other Friday night activities will be exhibit set-up and putting the bean-hole beans into the ground.

Chichester Grange will meet only once during the month of August. That meeting will be Wednesday, August 20, at the Grange Hall.

CYA

The next meeting of the Chichester Youth Association will be held on August 3, 2008, at 6:00 pm in the Selectman's Conference Room at the Town Hall.

This meeting is open to all Chichester residents.

Chichester Town Library Mindtrap

Do you like riddles, brain teasers, and puzzles? Do you enjoy solving them? Well we have a game for you! MINDTRAP. It's a game full of hundreds of puzzles, mysteries, brainteasers, conundrums and trick questions, all designed to challenge the way you think.

Here is an example of one of the riddles: "Two of the fastest horsemen in the kingdom proposed to the king's daughter. The king didn't like either suitor, but he wanted to look fair so he suggested a horse race in which the winner would have his daughter's hand. The only catch was that the winner would be the person whose horse came in second. The king was certain the race would never take place because he felt that neither horseman would let the other win. Finally, the king's daughter made a suggestion to the the two horseman that would guarantee a fair race. What did she suggest?

Stumped? Think you know the answer? Well if you enjoy this one then you will love playing MINDTRAP with us at the Chichester Town Library on August 6 at 6:00 P.M. Anyone over the age of 12 is welcome to come and play and have a good time. Please come, we'd love to see you there!

Out Of Your Attic Thrift Shop News

By Ruthi True

Backpack Project Started

We are on a roll with our backpack project and could use your help. We do this every year for all the close surrounding towns and up North as well. Items we need if you can help are New Backpacks, Notebooks, Trapper Keepers, Scissors, Rulers, Erasers, Pencil Sharpeners, Colored Pencils, Pencils, Glue Sticks, Crayons, Markers. We expect more will be needing our help with the rising cost of everything else out there. The big department stores have some good deals right now on things. My daughter bought a lot of things to donate and got a bag full for a great price. We give the back packs to the school nurses to make sure the neediest kids get them.

Start your school shopping early and save money. School shopping doesn't require a lot of effort or running around if you shop at Out Of Your Attic Thrift Shop at 345 Suncook Valley Road in Chichester. We have a lot of nice donated items for school clothing and get different items each day we are open. Cost conscious shoppers will find great buys here. Counting pennies should not mean sacrificing quality. We have good quality at good prices.

Wish list items asked for by customers:

• Canning jars by a lot of folks.

• CHUCK NORRIS items like shirts, DVD'S, anything Chuck Norris.

Thanks for your continued support as always.

John Herbert West, 66, of Depot Road, died Saturday, July 26, 2008 at Concord Hospital after a brief illness.

He was the son of Herbert G. and Adah A. West and had lived in Chichester most of his life. He graduated from Concord High in 1960 and from Keene State College in 1964. He held a Master¢s Degree from the Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English. A middle-school English teacher, he taught for three years in Gorham, NH, and for thirty-four years at Rundlett in Concord. He was a 52 year member of Chichester Grange, a member of Suncook Valley Pomona Grange, the Agate Past Masters¢ Association, the NH State Grange, and the National Grange. Grange was his joy, and he held many offices in the organization including Master (President) of the NH State Grange from 2003 to 2007.

At the time of his death he was serving as Chaplain of the National grange. He was also active in the Epsom Circle Breakfast Club and was recording secretary of the Merrimack Valley Retired Educators.

He was predeceased by three brothers, Kenneth, Robert and Ralph West and a sister, Eleanor West.

He is survived by Hannah (Lacy), his wife of 30 years, his daughter Mary of Concord, his daughter Anne and her husband Martin Boisvert of Pittsfield, a sister Kathryn Smilo of Naugatuck, CT, a sister-in-law Irene West of Concord, nephews, nieces, and cousins.

Calling hours will be held from 6PM to 8PM on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at the Bennett Funeral Home, 209 North Main Street, Concord with a Grange service at 7PM. A mass of Christian burial will be held at 11AM on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Pittsfield. Burial will be at the Pine Ground Cemetery in Chichester.

Memorial donations may be made to The New Hampshire State Grange, C/O Gail Turcotte, 53 Oak Hill Road, Barrington, NH 03825, and earmarked for the State Grange Building.