REMINDER
BCEP Change of Hours
Effective January 1, 2018
B.C.E.P. Solid Waste will have new hours of operation:
Tuesday – Saturday 8:00AM
– 4:00PM
Scales close at 3:45PM
Closed Sundays and
Mondays
Come to the Chichester
United Methodist Community Supper on December 27 and eat Chicken
Cacciatore. These suppers are free and open to all. Donations are
gratefully accepted and used toward future suppers. Enjoy a great
meal at 6 p.m. with your friends and neighbors.
Chichester Grange will
meet on Wednesday, January 3, upstairs in the Grange Hall. The
evening will begin with a Soup Supper at 6 p. m.
Out Of Your Attic
Thrift Shop News
Submitted By Carol Hendee
The Chichester school can
use woodwind instruments in good condition. You can drop them off at
The Attic and we will get them to the school.
The Attic is also a place
to drop off items for the Chichester Food Pantry, which can use just
about everything for the new year. Many food and toiletry items were
given out over the holidays.
This week, anything glass
or china is 1/2 price, to celebrate the beginning of 2018!
Our usual hours are Mon.
8-12; Tues. & Thurs 8-4; Wed. 11-4 & Sat. 10-4 on Rte 28 North from
Chichester & Epsom & Concord-near the Pittsfield line.
247-7191.
Live And Let Live Farm’s
Rescue & Sanctuary “Celebrating 20 Years On Paradise Lane In
Chichester”
Documentary Film “ Voices
In The Dark” To Play At Red River Theater In Concord NH., Jan. 3,
2018, 6 PM
Submitted By Scott
Philbrick & Teresa Paradis, Executive Director/Founder, Live and Let
Live Farm’s Rescue and Sanctuary
With December now upon
us, along with the cold, shortened days and snug clothing from
holiday excesses, it’s always emotionally puissant to reflect on the
events and goings on throughout the previous year. For those
of us at Live and Let Live Farm’s Animal Rescue and Sanctuary, 2017
will be most remembered for some rather significant celebrations,
there are some highlights that stand out as noteworthy.
The biggest, and most
obvious celebration is that 2017 brought the 20th anniversary of
LLLF’s sparse and speculative beginning. While the 1997
genesis was the official beginning of the operation, LLLF’s
Executive Director, Teresa Paradis got the rescue bug at an early
age, and has been rescuing animals for more than half a century.
She took in her first rescue at age nine— an abandoned pregnant cat,
whom she took in and cared for, and when the kittens came, arranged
for all to find homes, including the mama. Since then, one
thing has led to another— some through fate, some through tenacious,
relentless determination— and in 1997 Paradis found herself able to
fulfill the lifelong dream of establishing an animal rescue and
sanctuary “focusing on horses and animals of agriculture” with her
husband Jerry Paradis and daughter Heather Evans.
Paradis hesitates to even
guess the number of horses and other animals she’s rescued in the
past years, but she is confident the number is well into the
thousands; from all over the nation, and even Canada. One of
the keys to being a successful rescue operation is the ability to
adapt to the ever changing needs and complexities of animal rescue.
Paradis is a natural at “reading” those changes. The great
Bobby Orr, who was so ridiculously good at what he did that he
essentially changed the way the game of hockey was played, was once
asked what his secret was. He replied that when everyone else
would skate to where the puck is, he would think, and skate to where
the puck was going to be. Teresa Paradis is very good at
skating precisely to where that proverbial puck is going to be.
A few years back, when
the explosive proliferation of pregnant dogs being abandoned
(especially in southern states) became apparent, LLLF stepped up and
began coordinating with other rescue operations throughout the
nation to get these desperate pregnant mamas to a safe place to give
birth, care for their pups in foster homes, and find eventual
adoptive homes. So far in 2017, LLLF has rescued over 600
abandoned dogs/pups, cats/kittens from states like TN, NC, GA
etc. and New England states, coordinating adoptive homes for
them.
One of the sweetest
celebrations of 2017 was the final legal disposition of the case
that the LLLF community has come to refer to simply as “the D-Day
rescue.” Three years, four months, and five days after the
June 6, 2014 rescue of four stallions and one mare from grievously
execrable conditions, the last of the criminal appeals of the second
of two defendants, was finally concluded. Staying true to
LLLF’s tradition of giving each rescued horse a new name to signify
the beginning of their new life free from neglect or abuse, they
were all given D-Day related names: Churchill, Patton, Neptune,
Normandy, and the mare, Rosie, for Rosie the Riveter. As of
October, all five were legally freed, in totality, from the web of
ties to their tormented past.
Additional celebrations
of the year include one of our most remarkable volunteers, Rebecca
Howland, a local independent filmmaker; owner and founder at
Somnambulist Entertainment, who has spent almost a year producing a
documentary film about LLLF, entitled “Voices in the Dark.”
Rebecca has completed the final phases of the film’s production,
which is scheduled to be released for viewing at Concord’s Red River
Theatres, www.redrivertheatres.org on
Wednesday, January 3, 2017 at 6 pm followed by a Q & A panel.
“Voices in the Dark” will then make appearances at several film
festivals throughout the northeast.
2017 also saw three new
fundraisers for LLLF… a car show, an art show, and a golf
tournament. We’re celebrating having partnered with PetSmart,
implementing a very promising program that promotes pet adoptions,
resulting in over 250 pet adoptions so far. Through it all we
continue to house and care for an average of 75 horses… plus the
usual array of goats, sheep, cows, pigs, rabbits, dogs, cats, exotic
birds, guinea pigs, and various breeds of poultry and other
beautiful creatures. Some are just abandoned, some are
emaciated, some are turned over due to financial hardship (a very
loving, selfless act), and some are “orphaned” when their human
passes away. But all are taken in, loved, rehabilitated to
whatever degree necessary by hundreds of volunteers and supporters,
and most often, adopted into ideal loving homes.
Many, many more
paragraphs could be filled in reporting all the wonderful things
that 2017 has brought to the wooded confines of LLLF. Don’t
get us wrong— there’s been plenty of sadness, angst, and
exasperation throughout the year; there always is in this line of
work. Yet we continue on, as one cohesive team, beating our
collective bow against the bleak waves of the relentless tide of
animal abuse and neglect. But for now, as 2017 winds down in a
whirlwind, we pause, and choose to celebrate the victories, the
joys, the heartwarming successes. And we wish all of our
volunteers, friends, readers, and supporters, a very blessed and
tremendous 2018.
NOTE: Please consider
contacting Live and Let Live Farm if you’re considering adopting a
loving family companion by emailing [email protected] or join us
for our Sunday guided tour. Financial contributions are
desperately needed and greatly appreciated, as the costs to operate
such a facility are staggering. Contributions are tax deductible.
Donations can be sent to: Live and Let Live Farm’s Rescue, 20
Paradise Lane, Chichester NH 03258. Donations can also be made
with credit or debit cards, at:
www.liveandletlivefarm.org.
We welcome you for our weekly guided tour, held Sundays at 2:30 pm,
to meet the animals of Live and Let Live Farm. If you’re
looking to adopt or become part of the working hands and caring
hearts of our volunteer family, the tour is where it all begins.
Obituaries
Ida L. (Findley) Kenerson
CONCORD-
Ida Louise (Findley) Kenerson, passed away at the home of her
daughter on December 20, 2017 in Chichester at the age of 95.
She was born on June 13,
1922 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Preston S. and Ida (Blackman)
Findley. She resided in Concord.
Ida previously worked for
Bell Telephone and the New Hampshire State Hospital.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, David E.B Kenerson, who died in 1975.
Ida is survived by her
daughter, Anita Prickett and her husband John of Chichester;
granddaughter, Laura Prickett and her husband Jared Rice; and
grandson, John Prickett and his wife Amy. She had five great
grandchildren who she dearly loved and enjoyed: Bayleigh, Elijah,
Sydney, Ben and Daniel.
At Ida’s request, there
will be no service and burial will be at the convenience of her
family at a later date. Donations in Ida’s memory may be sent
to the Concord Regional VNA Hospice, 30 Pillsbury St. Concord, NH
03301 or the Epsom Bible Church 398 Black Hall Rd. Epsom, NH 03234.
Assisting the family with arrangements is the Still Oaks Funeral &
Memorial Home in Epsom. To share a memory or offer a
condolence, please visit www.stilloaks.com
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