Spring
Clothing Swap In an effort to help manage the cost of clothing
for our local families, Epsom Bible Church will be holding a FREE
clothing swap on Saturday, May 14th from 9-12 noon. You may bring
donated clothing beginning at 8:30 am. All clothes need to be clean,
in good repair, and separated by size and gender. There is no cost
and you do not have to make a clothing donation in order to take
items. Call for more information or if you are interested in
volunteering at 344-8843.
Evergreen Lodge #53 and Ivy
Green Rebekah Lodge #36 are sponsoring another great Dinner/Cabaret
Show “The Roaring 20’s,” on Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14 at
the American Legion Hall. The show is directed by Elizabeth Lent and
features local talent including Georgia Perry, Abby Benner, Vicki
Watson and Joyce Heck to name a few. Special thanks to our great
pianist, Holly McCleery and drummer, David Goulet! The
dinner/show begins at 6 pm and includes appetizers, salad,
vegetables, turkey, roast beef, and dessert. Call Vickie at 736-4707
or Betty 736-8885 for reservations or for more info. Plan to join us
for a great night of good food and entertainment. Proceeds will be
used to help bring the historic Odd Fellows Hall into code
compliance!
Pittsfield Area Senior Center’s monthly
events for May will include a Helping Hands craft session beginning
at 9:30 am on Wednesday, May 11th. During this time, things
are made for people who are in need of support. On Thursday,
May 12th, during lunch, birthdays will be celebrated with cake and
ice cream. On Tuesday, May 10th at 12:45 pm, a Senior Center
planning meeting will be held. You are invited to come and
help plan activities and events. On Monday, May 23rd at
9:00 am, a VNA Health Clinic will be held upstairs. Call
724-8915 to make an appointment.
Valley Artisans 30th
Year Celebration
On May 7th Valley Artisans will open for its
30th season! It is also the day before Mother’s Day, which gives you
the perfect opportunity to get your last minute shopping done for
your deserving Mom. We have been scrubbing the floors, washing
windows and hunting for cobwebs, to make our beautiful building
ready for another year of selling and displaying the most creative
and award winning, juried, Arts and Crafts for you to purchase.
Our Artisan for the Month for May is Rachel Brown, who has been a
member for the past six seasons. For the past three seasons she has
been creating a unique line of handbags and fabric gift bags.
This year she is adding tote bags, in different styles and sizes, to
her line. She will be donating a fabric gift bag to our Free Raffle,
which we will be holding each month until December with a different
member highlighted. So come in each month and register, you
could win a beautiful piece of art created by our members. We are
also looking for members to our Craft Co-op, for more information,
come in to 10 Goboro Road, Epsom, NH or call 736-8200.
Coming
from Concord we are located 1/2 mile from the Epsom traffic circle,
on Route 4/202, take a left at the first light.
Coming
west on Route 4/202 take a right at the second light after Epsom
Fire Station.
“Writing Your Memoirs”
Take a joyful journey of fun and family,
share your experiences, and get the inspiration (and the tools) to
learn how to write memoirs.
Author Joan Day of Concord will
present “Writing Your Memoirs,” based on her book Thinking of
Yesterday Today at the Epsom Public Library on Wednesday, May
11, at 7:00 p.m.
Joan began her writing career in 2001 after
retiring as a human resources administrator for the State of New
Hampshire. She wanted to record her childhood memories in book form
so that she could share her stories and teach others a little
history of New Hampshire.
After many months of reminiscing with
family members and attending writing seminars, Joan wrote and
published Thinking of Yesterday Today, a heartwarming collection of
childhood memoirs about growing up on a dairy farm in Bath, New
Hampshire, during the 1940s and 1950s. She takes readers on a
journey, sharing her childhood memories of fun and togetherness on
her family’s farm.
During her 45 minute presentation, Joan
captivates audiences with her stories of childhood fun and family
togetherness on the family farm. It was a time of country capers,
cows and calamities. She also encourages audience members to share
their experiences and gives them the motivation, guidance and tips
on writing memoirs for their families and future generations.
During her presentation, Joan will: • Share tales of the “good
old days” through passages of her book. • Inspire audiences to
recall their childhood memories. • Provide tips on writing
memoirs and discuss why this is a special gift for family members.
• Host a question and answer session. Refreshments will be
served. Come join us for a fun-filled, enjoyable evening.
Book Sale
The library will hold another book sale from May 21 –
May 28. Donations of clean books, audio books, and videos in good
condition may be dropped off starting on May 14 during regular
library hours. Please do not leave donations outdoors.
The
Library does not accept donations of encyclopedias, textbooks, or
Readers’ Digest condensed books.
Letter
To my constituents in Allenstown, Epsom and Pittsfield: Wednesday
should have been a short session, but quite a few Representatives
decided that they had license to speak as long as they wished! We
passed ten bills at once, then agreed to Senate amendments on three
bills.
SB57, increasing the maximum allowable rate on title loans
to 25% per month, offered opponents a chance to lecture us on the
evils of debt and high interest rates while the proponents talked
about freedom of choice. We finally passed the bill, 180-171, with
Dan and I voting for it, Jon Richardson against, while Tony Soltani
did not make the session.
SB156, allowing car dealers to register
cars and send the fees to towns as well as the state, was vigorously
debated. Some tried to convince us that auto dealers were incapable
of remitting the taxes to towns, properly filling out title
applications, or determining which addresses are in which towns;
we’ve registered cars at dealers when we lived in other states and
never heard of problems with the process. The bill finally passed,
176-166, with Dan and I voting for it, Jon against. SB91, forbidding
towns to mandate sprinklers in homes, was another opportunity to
lecture the Houses. It passed, 223-91, with Jon voting against.
SB78, which ended the surcharge on vehicle registration on passage,
had a committee amendment to cut the gas tax by 5 cents/gallon
instead. That would be the same expected decrease to the Highway
Fund, but shared among all drivers rather than just those with May
and June birthdays. It’s a gimmick, agreed, but a well-intentioned
one. It’s fairer, and some gas stations will decrease their prices
due to the tax cut. It’s not enough per person to be really useful,
but it will help a little. The amendment was adopted, 201-108, and
the bill passed, 208-98, with Dan and I in favor and Jon opposed.
Representative Carol McGuire
[email protected]
782-4918
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