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Northwood NH News

September 26, 2012

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Crafters Wanted For CBNA Craft Fair


Crafters are wanted for the 10th annual Holiday Craft Fair which will be held at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy in Northwood, NH on Saturday, November 3, 2012, from 9 am until 3 pm. The fee is $50 per space. For more information or to register for this event, please contact Jill Forward at (603) 942-5531 or by email at [email protected]. The application is also available on the school website www.coebrown.org.



Watershed Good News

The Northwood Lake Watershed Association Dive Team and Lake Host Programs helped prevent exotics from forming in the lake this season.

Brad Hall, Director of the Northwood Lake Watershed Association Dive Program, reports the 2012 milfoil dives were successful.  Diving eliminated the need for chemical treatments on the lake. Ten diving events were completed, 63 harvesting hours and 2,135 gallons of milfoil were taken from Northwood Lake.  Hand harvesting will continue through September, working on areas that have used DASH (Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting) this season to continue to clean those areas. The Dive Team needs volunteer divers for 2013. Volunteer Tenders are also needed to help with the disposition of milfoil and exotic plants removed by the divers.

Good news also from the Lake Host Program.  There were no invasive aquatic species catches officially identified in 2012, reports Joyce Lothian, Point Person for the Northwood Lake Host Program.  Lake Hosts perform courtesy inspections of vessels entering and leaving the lake at the town launch. The Lake Host Program was developed by the NH Lakes Association and the NH Department of Environmental Services to educate and prevent boaters from spreading exotic aquatic plants to lakes and ponds in NH.  Training is provided and volunteers can choose their hours. More volunteers are needed for 2013.

Keep the Northwood Lake good news coming!  Volunteer for the above programs at www.northwoodlake.com


Letter
Ovide’s Outside Agenda

Ovide Lamontagne says he wants to be “Scott Walker on steroids!” Do you know who Scott Walker is? He’s the Libertarian-GOP governor of Wisconsin! Why do we want our governor to be like the governor of another state more than 1,000 miles away with an entirely different set of challenges?

Why does Ovide Lamontagne want to be a governor for NH who is supporting the radical legislative agenda of introducing and too often passing boilerplate bills that were written by corporations and organizations outside of NH?  Many of these bills were passed in Wisconsin over the last two years, and in other states as well. Can’t we elect people who can create their own legislation based on what NH and NH communities need?

Why does Ovide Lamontagne want to cut even more from the NH budget at the bidding of Bill O’Brien, the Speaker of the NH House majority for the last two years, downshifting more costs to the towns and cities, in a state with one of the highest per capita incomes in the country and more millionaires than public school teachers?

Why does Ovide Lamontagne want to come between women and their doctors, and between employers and employees in contract negotiations, and between seniors and the Medicare we know, love and depend on?  Is this Live Free or Die?

Before you vote, make sure you ask Ovide, and other Libertarian-GOP candidates as well, why they want to force an out-of-state agenda on NH?

Lucy Edwards
Northwood


Letter To The Editor

First, again, thank you for electing me to the School Board. It’s a most difficult job. This is, in my opinion, the worst ever School Board. I enjoy it and hope to bring some changes to it.

That’s a horrible thing to say, yet it’s how I feel; I say what I think. I’ve spent hours trying to understand what is wrong with the Board and why. Recent chaos (resignations and lawyers again) in the SAU brought it to clarity in my mind. We simply let it all run by itself. We are so afraid of “micro managing”, lawyers and unions that we do nothing. And of course that plays right into the hands of the SAU, Administration and unions.

Let me give you some for instances. The SAU Superintendent has resigned effective 6/30/13. Finally, after a year and a half and after the resignation, I was allowed to participate in a review of him. Really, after! In fact I have never had the opportunity to review the Principal or Vice-Principal.

Months ago I asked the official Chair to bring four subjects to the agenda. He graciously agreed. They were, Dr. Ludwell, another member of the SAU, Mr. Hartford and the extreme high cost of Special Education. We have yet to discuss three of those subjects. Minutes will show that numerous work meetings that were agreed upon, never happened. The most recent, a budget workshop before I go kayaking for ten days, hasn’t happened. The town is well into their budget prep, very proactive. We have a black hole, someone else gave that to me. It doesn’t matter how much is suggested, info given, info asked for, it’s sucked up and gone, gone, gone.

It’s that simple, I’m a simple guy. Can you imagine a family of kids with no parents? How about the Board of Directors of Walmart, Staples or whoever not having input on how their companies are being run? Messes, budget chaos, oh yeah.

Tim Jandebeur
Northwood


Letter

On election day at the Northwood polls, I had a chance to ask John Reagan, candidate for the NH Senate in District 17, about voter ID.  I wanted to know why we needed to show an ID when we voted, when we had gone through the registration process already.  I heard that there has been only one case of identity voter fraud in NH in the past 30 years. 

I Googled voter identity fraud and found out that the latest study says you are much more likely to be struck by lightning than find a case of voter identity fraud. It’s also much easier to commit fraud with absentee ballots, which this voter ID law does not address at all. It sounds like a solution in search of a problem to me.

I was surprised by Mr. Reagan’s response to me.  Instead of having a conversation with me, a constituent - he’s one of my state representatives - about this issue, he got very irritated with me, as if I were wasting his time.

And he told me that the Democratic Convention had very strict ID rules.  Does he think a political convention is an election? Either he’s not very knowledgeable or he was trying to fool me. I hope he hasn’t forgotten that I am a voter, and I talk to a lot of people who are voters too.

I’m going to talk to Nancy Fraher, I hear she’s a retired teacher and knows how to work with others. 

Ben Edwards
Northwood


Letter
Sacrifice

On September 18, the Northwood Historical Society presented a program on Northwood’s Grand Army of the Republic and the sacrifice of Northwood soldiers during the Civil War.

The event was held the day after the 150th anniversary of the battle at Antietam. This battle is known as the bloodiest day in American history, a day when more than 23,000 Americans were killed or wounded.  Considering that the US population was then one tenth of what it is now, the equivalent number of soldier casualties in 2012 would be over two hundred thirty thousand ­--all in one battle on one day.

Communist mass murderer Joseph Stalin was once reported to have said that the death of one man is a tragedy, but a million deaths is merely a statistic. The slaughter of the Civil War was more than just a statistic to the families involved, however.  In Northwood, for example, two families each lost two sons in the war, while one family lost three. Stalin would probably just shrug.

Michael Faiella
Northwood


Letter

I was having coffee with my neighbor earlier today, and she asked me if I had seen Bruce Hodgdon’s letter in the Sun introducing himself to the voters of Northwood. Had I noticed that while believing in “limited government,” most of the construction projects he mentioned working on (Town of Northwood, Northwood Elementary School, Coe-Brown Academy) are government projects.  So if he doesn’t want to limit that governmental activity, what does he want to limit?

I noted that he had also attended the government (aka public) schools in Northwood, and I assume that his two children did also. Is this an aspect of government he will seek to limit? Will he join with House Speaker O’Brien in continuing to de-fund the University System, so that tuition continues to rise, driving up student debt and pricing college and technical training further out of reach?

Also unspecified is what his belief in “protecting individual liberties” means. Does this mean he will support the right of women – and men – to make their own decisions regarding their health?  Or is it code for something else?

Thanks to a program on PBS the other night, I had the occasion to revisit Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, where he speaks of “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”  In this moment when “government” is held up by some as our enemy, it is important to remember that we are the government.  And should Mr. Hodgdon be elected to represent us, I hope that he will use the opportunity for the people.

I, for one, will need more specifics before I entrust him with that responsibility.

Tom Chase
Northwood


Hadley Appointed Northwood Selectman

Jim Hadley of Old Mountain Road was recently appointed as a selectman by the Selectboard to fill the unexpired term of former selectman Alden Dill who recently moved out of Northwood. Hadley is a 25-year resident who was first elected as a selectman in 2001. He also was appointed in 2006 to fill in for a selectman who had resigned due to health reasons.

Hadley has served on various boards and committees in Northwood. He has a Masters’ degrees in Public Administration, Business Administration and Community Economic Development. He will serve until the next election in March 2013.


Obituaries


Michael Gagne

Michael Gagne, 57, of Cheryl Lane, Northwood, died Saturday, September 1, 2012 after a battle with cancer.

He was born on July 1, 1956. He was a great father and loving husband, as well as a veteran.

He is survived by his wife, April; a daughter, Nicole Davis; his mother, Mary; three sisters one brother and two grandchildren, Alexa and Corra Mountain.

He will be sadly missed and always loved.

 


 


 

 











 
 

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