Preschool Openings!

Now is the time to think about enrolling your child in preschool! The Center School in Northwood is accepting registrations for the 2012-2013 school year.

The Center School is a parent cooperative preschool located next to the Town Hall in Northwood, which provides a developmental program for three, four, and five year-olds of Northwood and surrounding towns. There are openings in our two-day (T/Th) program and three-day (M/W/F) morning programs. Call us soon and come for a visit! For information, please call director Karen Andersen at the school at 942-7686.

Local Students Named To Northeastern University Dean’s List

Northeastern University is pleased to recognize those students who distinguish themselves academically during the course of the school year.

Benjamin Calegari, of Deerfield, a music major and Mallory McCoy, of Northwood, an International Affairs major were recently named to the University’s dean’s list for the fall semester, which ended in December 2011.

To achieve the dean’s list distinction, students must carry a full program of at least four courses, have a quality point average of 3.5 or greater out of a possible 4.0 and carry no single grade lower than a C- during the course of their college career. Each student receives a letter of commendation and congratulation from their college dean.

Holy Week Services At First Baptist Church In Northwood

Maundy Thursday Service will be held on Thursday, April 5, at 6:30 pm at the First Baptist Church of Northwood on Route 4 (next to Hannaford). All are welcome to attend this service of remembrance.

Easter Morning Sunrise Service will be held on Sunday, April 8, at 6:30 am in the cemetery behind the First Baptist Church of Northwood (next to Hannaford), followed by breakfast in the Fellowship Hall. Cost is a free will offering.

Change Of Time: Easter Sunday Worship Service at the First Baptist Church of Northwood will be at 9 am for Easter Sunday morning only. Come and worship with us and celebrate the victory of Christ’s resurrection.

Letter To The Editor

In this neck of the woods - Northwood - a lot of people know we have climbed out on limbs we ourselves, or others, have been sawing at... and the recent town vote may suggest there is a growing idea to quit sawing.

Our first SB2 election had a pretty good turnout - over 800 voting with 795 at the poll plus absentee ballots. And not posing as a mind reader, I think it would be safe to say there is a majority of people in this community who want to see the money already being spent to be even more carefully spent. Some I have heard repeat their concern that too much is already being spent as of many yesterdays past.

With home values often half of what they were at last assessment and many day to day living costs up, (most notably gasoline and fuel oil doubling over what it was only three and a half years ago, which drives up the price of almost everything else) folks are not in the mood of seeing the taxes they’ve paid not put to maximum best use. I think people realize that certain government functions have to be paid for, but not wasted on poor performance or wish lists. Obviously our local votes can’t improve housing values or gas prices but there is a great concern that what we are paying for in local government be well spent.

At this point, it seems to me, all town departments and our elementary school need to heed the concerns of the people paying the bills and be willing to "tighten belts" and improve quality. Some new approaches, some creative thinking is in order. Why not?

Sincerely,

Joseph McCaffrey

HLWC News

Submitted By Lucy Silva and Roberta Stearns

Harvey Lake Woman’s Club provided their usual food table at the March 13th town voting.

The spring comfort pillow workshop was held on March 23rd. The 2012 yearbooks will be available at the April meeting.

Tuesday, April 3rd, is the Annual Reciprocity Tea. GFWC clubs from the local area have been invited to join us for the afternoon. The Coe Brown Northwood Academy Music Department will provide the entertainment.

Three of our members have recently been dealing with health issues. Please keep Lois DeTrude, Jean Lane, and Marion Lenaerts in your thoughts. Long-time member, Jane Bell, passed away this winter. She will be missed.

HLWC is a service organization and a member of General Federation of Women’s Clubs-NH. Its object is to promote sociability and culture and to make itself a power for good in the community. All women in the area are invited to join us.

Letter

A commenter in our local paper recently said, regarding the attempt to repeal the right to marry for our NH LGBT family members, friends and neighbors:

"The liberal legislature spent four years ramming through an extremist agenda that is contrary to historical NH standards and now things are being put back the way they belong and no amount of spin from the liberal left will change that."

Not only did this current legislature agree with that "liberal legislature," but two of our local representatives, Jim Sullivan and Kyle Tasker, voted to keep the rights of our citizens intact. NH has never taken away rights once granted, and did not do so on March 21, 2012.

Our commenter has not been in NH long, and like so many of our current legislators and their supporters, does not understand that their dream of a "libertarian paradise" where it’s "every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost" is not the NH way. He can’t grasp that we care about our communities, and our neighbors, and always have.

I can dream that this is a turning point, that perhaps this strange and alien legislature will suddenly decide to support our public schools, our separation of powers into executive, judicial and legislative branches, our pride in our environment and our infrastructure, and our desire to build a state that we can point to with pride. I’m tired of being made fun of in the national media.

I’m not holding my breath, however.

Lucy Edwards

Northwood