The Town Pantry would like to thank
Mike
Mobbs for his financial
contribution to purchase new shelving for the pantry and
Shane
for helping to install the shelving. The pantry is in need of donations of
laundry and detergent/cleaning items.
The March 9th Historical Society Program on Local Indian History
and Lore by Tim
Patterson
was postponed due to weather. It has been rescheduled for Monday,
March 23, at 7 p.m. in the
Historical
Society
Building
on Main Street.
Come and learn about Native Americans in this area. All are welcome.
Refreshments will be served.
The Chichester Library has added the following career planning
reference books to their collection. It is hoped that these valuable
books will help citizens of Chichester
with potential new jobs and job changes: 2008 Guide To America’s
Federal Jobs - a complete directory of US Government Career
Opportunities, Peterson’s Master The
Police Officer Exam - 2008, Peterson’s
Master The Firefighter Exam - 2008, Peterson’s
Master The Postal Exams - 2008. Stop into your library and take a
look at our books on career planning and job hunting. Call us at 798-5613 if you have any questions.
Letter
Thanks Mr. Kenneally for a job well done here in Chichester. I know it was not an easy job, but I
appreciate the fact that I could always depend upon you and your crew to
keep the roads safe for travel at all hours of the day and night.
I am pleased that we have our own town road crew, and I trust that this
same consistent high quality service to which we have been accustomed to
will continue with our newly elected Road Agent. It is well documented that
utilizing contracted services for snow removal, grading, and excavating are
costly and far from reliable. We here in Chichester
have been blessed for some time by having an experienced full time Road
Agent fully qualified to operate the town owned equipment such as the
grader, excavator, plows, and bucket loader, as well as recognizing not only
the financial but the environmental ramifications of purchasing quality
supplies.
I would also like to thank
Mr.
Mara for suggesting in his Letter
To The Editor (Suncook
Valley Sun dated 3/4/09), that
townspeople read the minutes posted on the town’s website, chichesternh.org.
It was truly enlightening to see what the former Road Agent had to endure
simply in order to do his elected job. It is a wonder that he could have
maintained such consistent high quality work in light of such apparent
sniping and backbiting from the Selectmen. In the private sector, I would
hazard a guess that such treatment would be considered workplace harassment,
subject to legal recourse.
Congratulations Mr. Plunkett on your win. I certainly hope that
you will be treated with more respect than Mr. Kenneally
was.
See you on the roads !!
Bette Bogdan
Letter
I would like to thank
David
Kenneally for the fine job that he
and his crew have done here in Chichester
for many years as our Road Agent.
I appreciate the fact that you and your crew were out many holidays,
weekends and so many long, late nights keeping our roads safe.
Congratulations to
Jim
Plunkett for his win. Mr. Plunkett,
if I may make a suggestion? After reading the Selectmen’s minutes at
chichesternh.org, I would suggest that before every Tuesday night
Selectmen’s meeting, you stop by Chief
Clarke’s office and request a Kevlar vest. It will
help deflect all those knives that will be tossed at you by the Selectmen
when your back is turned.
Richard Holloran
Chichester
School District
Meeting
On the 30th Anniversary of her move to
Chichester,
Sally
Kelly, School
District Moderator, opened the meeting promptly at 9 a.m. After the Pledge
of Allegiance to the flag, Principal
Pamela Stiles gave
her report on the state of the school. Again this year Chichester Central is
among the finalists in the Excellence in Education program.
School Board
Chairman John
Porier
gave an overview of the budget, which had been kept to bare bones this year
in keeping with the national economic situation. The small number of
students in the Grade 2 class and a change in state guidelines for class
size will result in a single classroom for next year’s grade three and
one less classroom teacher to pay for.
Art, Music, Spanish,
Physical Education, and the Library will be cut back from three hours per
week to 2.5 hours, resulting in additional savings. Also, there will be only
one bus taking high school students to
Pembroke
Academy
next year. The number of student riders does not justify more than one bus,
but the bus route will have to be modified for fewer stops to keep the ride
to a reasonable amount of time.
The reduction in
the Spanish program means that Spanish will not be offered to students in
Grades one, two, and three. Early elementary school is a prime time for
learning languages, and an attempt was made to restore money to the budget
to keep the Spanish program at its current level. However, the motion
failed. A similar motion to keep two classrooms at the third grade level
also was defeated.
The budget
passed as written at $5,374,742.10. The meeting closed at 10:50 a.m., making
it one of the shortest school district meetings in recent memory.
Letter
To The Citizens Of Chichester,
Thank
you all for coming out and voting on Election Day. It was amazing to
see such an overwhelming response at the polls.
It just goes to show that the citizens of
Chichester
are proud and responsible people.
I’m dedicated to working hard to ensure safe roads and fiscal responsibility
for our town.
Please contact me with any questions or concerns.
Thank you for your support,
Jim Plunkett
Chichester Road
Agent
Out Of Your Attic Thrift Shop News
By Ruthi True
Thrift Shop Shy??
Do people ever stop you on the street and say “Hi, did you get that at
the thrift shop??” Of course not, why not shop at your local thrift shops
and look decent? Who knows where you bought it except you? You can buy
designer clothing cheaper at a thrift shop than you can buy a brand new
outfit at a mall or department store
Once you get used to thrift store shopping you will have to force
yourself to pay full retail. For you folks who won’t shop thrift stores,
please keep shopping wherever and when you clean out your stuff, keep
bringing it to us as you help our non -profit shop at 345 Suncook Valley
Road in Chichester, NH, to continue our many projects that have helped
several people.
I”ve helped in thrift shops for 13 years now and just because a thrift
shop is in a better location or is a BIG chain thrift store shop it doesn’t
make the deals any better. At the Out Of Your Attic Thrift Shop in
Chichester
we get some really neat stuff, brand names and sometimes totally new items.
If you are a regular at our shop and you’re looking for something that you
don’t need that minute just mention it to us and well be on the look out for
it. We’ve kept many people happy with our wish list. The local donators who
read the Suncook Valley Sun Paper never let us down and we always seem to
find those folks their items eventually.
With the sign of the times, more people should be shopping their local
thrift shops, and local stores in general.
Wish list:
1) Baby walker or jumper.
2) Snowshoes for someone
making syrup to get to sap taps.
3) Custard cups (2 people looking for
some).
SMILE, REMEMBER BIRDS HAVE BILLS AND THEY STILL SING!!!!