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Gilmanton NH News

January 6, 2010

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National Blood Drive Month


A Blood Drive will be held Thursday, January 7th at Pittsfield Elementary School on Bow Street from 3:30 to 8:00 p.m. (Note the extended time.) The Drive is sponsored by the PTO. Childcare will be provided. Dunkin Donuts has an offer, “give a pint, get a pound, when you help save lives by giving blood.” The need is constant. The gratification is instant.



 

Gilmanton Fire Dept.


On Sunday December 27, 2009 at 1:51 PM, the Gilmanton Fire Department was dispatched to a reported motor vehicle accident with ejection in the area of  1078 Province Road.


At 1:55 PM, while companies were enroute to the scene an updated status was given reporting that a person had been ejected from the vehicle and that a person was trapped under the vehicle, on this report an updated response was requested dispatching a total of two ambulances, two engines, and all available personnel.


At 1:59 PM, the first arriving company found a vehicle off the road that had rolled over and bystanders were lifting the vehicle to extricate a person pinned underneath.


At 2:03 PM a mutual aid ambulance from Belmont was requested bringing two additional paramedics to the scene.


At 2:13 PM the first patient was enroute to the hospital, by 2:28 PM all patients had been treated and were enroute to the hospital. A total of two patients were transported to Concord Hospital with Paramedic personnel from Belmont assisting in patient care.


The cause of the accident remains under investigation and is being investigated by the Gilmanton Police Department.


The Gilmanton Fire and Police Departments were assisted at the scene by the Belmont Fire Department and Belmont Police Departments.


The Belmont Fire Department covered the Gilmanton Fire Department.

 


 

“Winter Fun” During January At The Gilmanton Corner Public Library


Put on your parka and boots and come on down to the Gilmanton Corner Public Library for January “Winter Fun.” Please join us to make snowflakes, listen to the story of “Snowflake Bentley,” learn about our ideas on winter fun and one of them is....read a GOOD BOOK.


We will be accepting non-perishable donations for the Gilmanton Community Food Pantry after the holidays and throughout the year. During the winter months, please bring them on Wednesdays 3:00 to 5:00 or Saturdays 10:00 to Noon. 


If you have any questions about the Library or the Friends of the Library Group, please call Librarian Linda Hudziec at 267-6200.

 


 

Gilmanton Year Round Library Expands Hours to Sundays


In response to enthusiastic public interest, the Gilmanton Year-Round Library will open Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. beginning January 10. The members of the Gilmanton Iron Works Library Association have volunteered to staff the Gilmanton Year Round Library on Sunday afternoons throughout the winter to show their support for the community and the Year Round Library (The Gilmanton Iron Works Library is open each year from May to October).


The Sunday opening is in addition to the regular hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 12 noon to 7 p.m.,  Wednesday,  Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.   Volunteers from the GIW library include: Alice Bean, Sheila McDermott, Ann Hammond, Dorothy Woodhams and Susannah Chance. They would welcome others to join the volunteer crew for the Sunday open hours.


The popular children’s story time has also been expanded. In addition to story hours with Children’s library assistant Jenny Stevens on Wednesday mornings of each month, Melissa Caldon  hosts a story hour on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays. Lori Baldwin will be the story reader on the 2nd Saturday of the month.


Librarian Gary Mason, reports that by the end of November the library had more than 2000 visits from 524 borrowers, a dozen group meetings, nine story hours, and three events attended by 331 people.


At least eight regular volunteers work with the Librarians to provide the full library service now available to Gilmanton residents.   More volunteers are always welcome. To find out how you can help, contact  Gary Mason, Librarian, or Jenny Stevens, Children’s Assistant Librarian at 364-2400 or at  PO Box 413, Gilmanton, NH 03237.

 


Obituaries


 

Thomas Henry Sanville


Gilmanton - Thomas Henry Sanville, 63 died at his home in Gilmanton on New Year’s morning, January 1, 2010 with his wife by his side.  He was born in Concord, N.H. on June 28, 1946. He lived most of his life in Gilmanton.


Tom was a veteran of the Vietnam War serving with the United States Army from 1967 – 1969.


He worked as an auto mechanic and as a carpenter prior to moving to the field of maintenance and custodian.  Tom worked at Pittsfield High School for seven years prior to becoming employed by Joyce Janitorial Services for whom he worked for twenty years retiring in 2008 due to ill health.  During the twenty years while employed by Joyce Janitorial, Tom worked at the Laconia Police Department which he particularly enjoyed.  Other accounts included the Belmont Police Department and other area businesses.


Tom enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, snowmobiling and traveling.  His health improved enough that he was able to take a cross country car trip this past summer. He enjoyed revisiting places of interest that he had visited in the past as well as new ones.  He will be remembered fondly by his family and close friends for his sense of humor.


His family consists of his wife of 42 plus years, Evelyn (Jones) Sanville of Gilmanton, a sister, Beverly Jenness of Northfield, brothers Gerald Austin, Jr., William Austin, Sr. of Gilmanton, Wilfred Sanville of Gilmanton Iron Works, Dennis Sanville of New Durham and Robert Sanville of Franklin;  many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.


He was predeceased by his parents, William and Florence Sanville, a nephew, Peter Austin, a sister-in-law, Rita Austin and a great niece Isabella Rutherford.


The funeral service was held  on Tuesday, January 5, 2009, at the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home in Laconia.


The Rev. Christopher Stevens Pastor of the Gilmanton Community Church officiated.
A private burial will take place in the spring at Smith Meeting House Cemetery in Gilmanton, N. H.


Memorial contributions may be to the charity of one’s choice.


Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Laconia N.H., was in charge of the arrangements.


For more information and to view an on line memorial go to: www.wilkinsonbeane.com.

 


 

 

 











 
 

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