Afternoons or evenings…the choice is yours! The
Northwood/Nottingham Evening Book Discussion Group will meet at the
Chesley Memorial Library on Tuesday, April 26th, at 7:00 p.m. to
discuss “Broken For You” by Stephanie Kallos.
The
afternoon Book Discussion Group will meet at the Chesley Memorial
Library on Thursday, May 5, at 2:00 p.m. to discuss “A Girl Named
Zippy” by Haven Kimmel. New members are welcome in both
groups; call 942-5472 for more information.
During the
most Holy of weeks, St. Joseph Church in Northwood and Our Lady of
Lourdes in Pittsfield open their doors and welcome you to join us.
The Holy Week Masses will be: • Holy Thursday, April 21st at
7:00 pm at Our Lady of Lourdes in Pittsfield. • Good Friday,
April 22 at 7:00 pm at Our Lady of Lourdes. • Easter Vigil
Saturday, April 23rd at 7:30 pm at St. Joseph Church in Northwood.
• Easter Morning Masses on Sunday at 8:00 in Pittsfield and 10:00 in
Northwood.
Our regular weekend Masses beginning the weekend of
April 30/May 1 will be: • Saturdays at 4:00 pm and Sundays
at 8:00 am in Pittsfield. • Saturdays at 6:00 pm and Sundays at
10:00 am in Northwood.
Chesley
Memorial Library News
Mystery Night Whodunnit? Who killed
Mr. Boddy? Find out in this fun free mystery night at the
Chesley Memorial Library. Team up with your friends to be the
first group to solve the mystery and win prizes. Then hang out and
have some pizza!
• For ages 11+ • Thursday, April 20, 6:00 pm
Registration is not required, but is extremely helpful.
Register by calling the library at 942-5472 and speaking with
Danielle. You can also email her at
[email protected]
or
visit her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/chesleylib).
Going Green Gardening Program, Thursday, April 21, 2011, 6:00 pm.
It’s spring and time to Go Green at the Chesley Memorial Library!
The library is inviting teens (aged 11+) to participate in our
Library Garden program. This multi-part program will feature
Master Gardener Margaret Walker and will include topics such as
organic gardening, vermiculture, native plants and more.
Throughout the program we will design, build, plant and harvest a
library garden as we figure out the best methods for our location.
Teens can earn community service hours for Coe Brown by tending the
garden over the summer months.
Registration is strongly
recommended. Register by calling the library at 942-5472 and
speaking with Danielle. You can also email her at
[email protected]
or visit her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/chesleylib).
Sticks-n-Strings Have you ever wanted to learn to knit? If you
are a teen, aged 11 and up, this is your chance! The Chesley
Memorial Library is offering a free knitting class for teens during
April vacation week. Sticks-n-Strings will be held on Wednesday,
April 27th from 6:00 to 7:45.
Needles and yarn will be provided
for everyone who wants to learn to knit. Do you crochet
instead of knit? Bring your materials and join us! Yarn
will be provided for those who crochet as well. Plenty of
assistance will be offered during the program as well as snacks.
Teen Book Club Dinner, Thursday, April 28 at 6:30 pm, ages 12+,
Registration required.
You are what you eat. Cat smart, sassy, and
funny—but thin, she’s not; until her class science project. That’s
when she winds up doing an experiment—on herself. Before she knows
it, Cat is living—and eating—like the hominids, our earliest human
ancestors. True, no chips or TV is a bummer and no car is a pain,
but healthy eating and walking everywhere does have its benefits.
Join the Teen Book Club for dinner as we discuss Fat Cat by Robin
Brande. Members are invited to come early (5:30pm) to help
prepare our dinner based on Cat’s story. Registration is
required for this program, so call the library at 942-5472.
Aldo
Leopold Day a Big Success!
Attendees Steve and Brenna Roy reading from A Sand County Almanac.
On
April 2, 2011, the Northwood Area Land Management Collaborative
(NALMC), Bear-Paw Regional Greenways, Northwood Conservation
Commission and the Friends of Northwood Meadows State Park hosted
the first “Aldo Leopold Day” in New England.
The event was
held at Coe Brown Academy, and attracted over 100 residents of
Northwood and surrounding communities. The day was introduced
by Carl Wallman of NALMC, and kicked off by Dr. Tom Lee, UNH
Associate Professor of Forest Ecology who gave a fascinating
presentation about Aldo Leopold’s work within the context of the
American conservation movement. Local volunteers including
Steve Bailey, Harmony Anderson, Richard Moore, Becky Rule, and Steve
and Brenna Roy shared readings from Leopold’s seminal work, A Sand
County Almanac.
We then enjoyed a bountiful and delicious
potluck supper contributed by many event attendees, more readings
from A Sand County Almanac, and a special Leopold cake donated by
Hannaford Supermarket.
After dinner, the Aldo Leopold
Foundation’s new movie Green Fire - Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic
For Our Time about his life and work was debuted in its New England
premiere. Following the movie, Ellen Snyder introduced Karen
Bennett of UNH Cooperative Extension who led an animated group
discussion on how Leopold’s views on land ethics and conservation
can help to sustain communities here in New Hampshire.
“The land
ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include
soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.”
- Aldo Leopold.
If you missed this informative and entertaining
event, Green Fire will be screened again at the Red River Theatre in
Concord. For more information, contact Carl Wallman at 435-5209 or
[email protected].
Many thanks
to the Aldo Leopold Foundation
http://www.aldoleopold.org and to all the volunteers who helped
make this event possible.
Exciting Season For Northwood Lake
Jim Vaillancourt, President of
the Northwood Lake Watershed Association, recently sent this letter
to the membership.
“Hello Everyone: I awoke this morning and
looked down the lake. The ice is gone overnight. It had
been disappearing, west to east over the past two weeks. Last
night when the sun went down, over half the lake was covered in ice.
This morning, the ice is down by the island and the Boy Scout Camp.
You can water ski in the middle of the lake. So, if you are
keeping track of such things, mark your calendar - ice out the night
of April 11, 2011.
With ice out we begin our work on the lake.
Lake Host, water quality testing, Weed Watchers, treatments for the
invasive milfoil and phragmites, diving to handpull milfoil,
fundraising, and newsletters.
If you are into landscaping
at your special place at the water’s edge of Northwood Lake, we have
a special program for you on Saturday, July 16. Every day in
August we will be drawing for our fund raising calendar. If
you, or your business, would like to donate an item for a day,
contact Doug Chamberlin at
[email protected] soon. The days are going quickly:
from a helicopter ride over the lake to an oil change for your car
to pampering yourself.
We are in the final negotiations to bring
a special Loon Starry Night to the lake on a night in late July or
August. A lecture about the night sky will be held in the
MIDDLE of the lake.
Membership forms will be in your mail box in
early May. Please join us this year, there is a lot going on
here on the lake - ice out just starts the fun.
Jim Vaillancourt
PS: Two
loons have returned so far. The ducks, of all varieties, are
stopping off for a rest on their journey north.”
More
information? Contact us at
www.northwoodlake.com
Northwood Congregational Church Holy Week Activities
NCC invites
all to join in the Holy week activities at the church.
Thursday, April 21st, is Maundy Thursday with Communion and Tenebrae
service at 7 pm. On Good Friday, April 22nd, the sanctuary
will be open from 3-7 pm for prayer. On Easter Sunday, April
24th, there will be a 7:00 am sunrise service, an 8:00 am breakfast,
as well as the traditional 9:00 am service.
The church is
located on Route 4 just east of Coe Brown Northwood Academy.
All are welcome; please join us during this Holy week season.
Letter
SB2. Senate Bill 2 is the bane of some and a wonderful thing
to others, I’m one of the others. If you haven’t read “An Obituary
for Town Meeting” by Rebecca Rule, you should. She is a
wonderfully fun read when she sticks to her forte. I remember
her once telling me that she was a social liberal but fiscally
conservative. My interpretation, support everybody on your
money but leave mine alone.
Really though, SB2 gets rid of
libraries, bridges, roads, schools, fighting for freedom, and won’t
take care of the poor????? Good grief! It is amazing when you
think about it that the very same group that feel the U.S.
Constitution is a living document that their liberal judges can
change, at will without an amendment, are so deathly afraid of a law
that allows more of you to participate in your future. Think on
that. SB2 does not even get rid of Town Meeting but of course facts
don’t get in their way.
I cannot change the minds of SB2 haters,
nor can they change mine. But It is the law now in
Northwood and far more of us will have the opportunity to vote in
the privacy of a booth on the direction of our town. Budgeting, for
officials, is simply a matter of management, planning and
presentation. The Selectmen understand this as does Mr. Lemire our
Administrator and will have no problem. The Northwood School Board,
however, will have a far harder time though. Budgeting, as
history shows, is not what they feel is an important part of their
job.
Tim Jandebeur Northwood
Northwood Recreation Update Kids Fishing Derby – April 30th
Join the Northwood Recreation Department on Saturday, April 30th at
Lake Shore Farm (located at 275 Jenness Pond Rd in Northwood) for a
spring Fishing Derby. Kids, bring your fishing pole, your
bait, and your family. Then sit back and relax around the banks of
Lake Shore Farm’s beautiful pond setting. The derby will begin
promptly at 8:00 am and continue until noon for children 16 years
and younger.
Prizes will be awarded in a variety of
categories; including first fish caught and last fish caught.
Register when you arrive. The cost is $7.00 per resident
family and $9.00 per non-resident family. Light concessions
will be available for your convenience.
Contact the
Recreation Department at
[email protected] or 942-5586 x209 for more
information.
Letter
To all
Northwood Residents:
The
Northwood School Board has scheduled a Special School District
Meeting to be held on Monday, May 9 at 7:00pm in the school library.
The purpose of this special meeting is to consider forming an SAU
withdrawal committee.
As most of you know, the Northwood School
is currently part of SAU 44, a three-district SAU that also includes
the towns of Strafford and Nottingham. After careful
consideration, the Northwood School Board feels that we should look
at the feasibility of becoming a single district SAU. The
process begins with a special school district meeting (and a
subsequent ballot vote) to form a withdrawal committee.
At the
hearing on May 9, the Board will present its reasons for
recommending the formation of this committee. Citizens will
have the opportunity to speak and ask questions. Since
Northwood is now an SB2 town, no vote will be taken on May 9.
The actual ballot vote on the issue will be held on Tuesday, June 7,
at the Parish Center at St. Joseph’s Church. The polls will be
open from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm.
If the
town votes to form a withdrawal committee, this committee will
research all aspects of withdrawal and will make a final
recommendation to the town. If the committee recommends
withdrawal, the committee will then create a withdrawal plan that
will be presented to the town and the state for approval.
We
strongly encourage residents to come to the hearing on May 9.
The Board’s presentation will explain the financial, educational and
administrative reasons that support the formation of an SAU
withdrawal committee.
Thank you. The Northwood School
Board
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