REMINDER

The Northwood Crankpullers Snowmobile Club will be hosting a Snowmobile Safety Course on December 13th, 2014 (8am- 2pm) at the Northwood Community Center, 135 Main Street in Northwood.  For registration and to reserve your child’s spot (ages 12-15) please contact the club President Jeremy DeTrude @ 833-7063 as soon as possible as space is limited.  There is no charge for this course, lunch will be provided and no riding gear is necessary; however please dress for the weather as we will be venturing outside.  Parents are encouraged to attend also.

PIE SALE AND SOUP LUNCH

Once again the ladies mission group would like to interest you in buying your holiday pies at their Pie Sale on December 13, Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Northwood Advent Christian Church (Route 107) 113 School Street, in the Narrows.  They will also be selling a nice homemade soup and cornbread lunch at 11:30.  It will be a good opportunity for some friendly conversation.  Can’t wait to see you.

Community Meeting with NH DOT to Discuss Safety Concerns on Rt. 4

Representatives of NH Dept. of Transportation will be present to discuss safety concerns on Route 4 with members of the Northwood community. This meeting will be held on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 6:30 PM in the Multi-Purpose Room at Coe Brown Northwood Academy. All members of the community are invited to attend this meeting to voice your concerns or to learn more about what changes are being recommended along this major road in Northwood.

Letter To The Editor

To the Editor,

First, did you see the reduction in your taxes in the new tax bills that just went out. The rate is based on four entities. The Town and State School rates were up slightly. The County rate was down very slightly. The local School rate was down an amazing 89 cents per thousand of your property value. A taxpayer with a $300,000 home saved $267.00, Awesome.

I want to address a letter that came in from a Northwood Resident. The School budget was approved by you last March and it included a very large purchase of Netbook computers and other related technology. We have been far behind other similar schools in integrating technology to our education process. He wanted assurance that all of this technology would be used for the purpose of “higher learning and not a giveaway for pre-teens to engage in social media”. He is absolutely right when he said “there are a lot of people in town watching how this turns out”.

Yes, yes and absolutely yes. Working with the SAU the School Board has put together a very good policy to regulate how this equipment will be used. There are multiple safeguards, lockouts and controls to insure that this equipment will be used specifically for higher learning. The new policy was established by incorporating great input from schools that have used similar technology for years and the savvy of several Board members that understand it all. If you are interested I can get you the policy to review. There is a $25 fee, non-refundable, and a very  cheap complete insurance available to those issued a Netbook computer. Thank you for your support and thank you for keeping us on our toes. Trust, but verify.

Tim Jandebeur

Northwood

Northwood Congregational Church Announcement

Maren C. Tirabassi offers a light hearted holiday program featuring excerpts from her new book, The Shakespeare Reader and other Christmas Tales at Northwood Congregational Church, 881 First NH Turnpike (Route 4), Northwood on Wednesday, December 17th at 6:00pm.

The three short stories in the book are set during the waning light of the holiday season. The Dark Ride is a tale about a retired couple trying to make a go of a failing Shakespeare-themed amusement park in rural New Hampshire…and a young man who befriends them named Will! Enter Friar Stage Left is a contemporary Romeo and Juliet story told by a young pastor facing his first Christmas in a new church. The Shakespeare Reader introduces us to Benedict, who fancies himself a sleuth based on the Shakespearean plots he imagines bubbling around the comings and goings of his colorful Harvard Square neighbors.

Maren Tirabassi is the author of nineteen books, including the recent From the Psalms to the Cloud and Caring for Ourselves while Caring for our Elders, a previous Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and currently the pastor of Union Congregational Church, UCC of Madbury, NH.

Maren’s program asks the question – what makes any story, from Dickens to a December episode of Modern Family, a “Christmas story?” Come and enjoy refreshments and laughter. She may even invite the audience to try a little storytelling of their own.