Come and join us this Saturday for an evening of pure enjoyable
entertainment
VARIETY SHOW
Saturday, January 29, 6:30-8:30,
Gilmanton IW Old Town Hall.
$5 Adult, $3 Children (12 and under).
Some
of our talented entertainers include : Jim Barnes, Roy and Brenda Buttrick,
Steve and Veronica Lende, Libby Beyrent, Mike Manning, Matt Williams.
There are singers, flute, poetry, guitar, actress, musicians.
If you would
like to entertain there is still time, call Sandi 267-8273.
We will also
have a silent auction and snacks.
The proceeds go to Gilmanton
Community Church Mission trip to the Dominican Republic, (laromania.org).
The people that are going will help to work on construction of the Good
Samaritan Hospital, installing water filtration systems, play with children
in the orphanage, and help with the medical clinics in the Bateys.
Correction
Alexa McNamara, who won the Gilmanton School
Geography Bee is a 6th grader.
Letter
Gilmanton Residents
It’s that time of year again when all of
the town departments must present their budgets for next year.
On
February 3rd there will be a Public Hearing for our Town Budget and on Feb.
10th another Public Hearing for our School Budget. These Town Meetings
are important to all of us because, if you haven’t had the time to attend
the individual board and budget meetings, this is the time to add your
input. This can be a chance for all of us to speak our minds and hopefully
make substantial changes to their budgets BEFORE the final vote occurs.
Please don’t confuse these meetings with the Annual Town Meetings in March
where we vote on the final Town and School budgets.
These past few years
have been tough for most of us; loss of jobs, lowering wages, increases in
the cost of living across the board, and more. In many of these areas
we don’t seem to have much of an impact when we object, i.e. the cost of
gasoline for our cars and work equipment. However, in our own towns we
DO have a say in how our money is spent if only we would go to the meetings
once a year and talk with our town and school committees.
If you want to
be heard, please join us on the above dates at the Iron Works Old Town Hall
at 7 PM for each meeting. Take action now!!
Roger and Elena Ball
Gilmanton Iron Works
A Great Big Thanks!
The GCC Food Pantry and Thrift Shop and the Gilmanton
School would like to thank all those who helped out in so many ways with
this year’s Adopt-a-Child program and the Christmas food baskets. Your
more than generous support of this program made it possible for us to
provide gifts for 70 children in our community and to provide 48 food
baskets to families in need of assistance. This year the GCC Food
Pantry was also able to provide 48 children with winter outerwear.
We would also like to say a great big thank you to the Santa Fund of Laconia
for giving us a generous donation to help us out with the winter clothing
and the Adopt-a-Child program. We thank all those who support the
Santa Fund and its efforts to help the children of Belknap County.
The
GCC Food Pantry and Thrift Shop thanks you for your generous donations which
continue to help us to provide assistance to those who are in need in our
community. The pantry and thrift shop are open on Monday 9am – 1pm,
Wednesday 3pm – 7pm and Saturday 10am – 2pm on RT 140 in Gilmanton Iron
Works to receive your donations of food items, personal care items and good
quality used clothing and shoes.
The GCC Thrift Shop is open to the
public. During the month of JANUARY everything in the shop is 50% off.
Come in and check out all the wonderful clothing and wearable accessories we
have to offer for the whole family. Parking is located in the
Gilmanton Community Church parking lot.