Cazenovia College recently released names of students honored for
academic achievement during the fall semester of 2013. Cazenovia
College is home to about 1,000 degree-seeking students. Those named
to the Dean’s List have achieved a 3.5 or better grade point average
(GPA) for all courses attempted and have earned 12 or more credits
during the semester.
Among
the students on the Dean’s List are: Haley Bell, of Northwood, NH,
is a sophomore Equine Business Management major. A graduate of
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, she is pursuing a Bachelor of
Professional Studies in Management degree.
CBNA Sophomores Selected
In VFW Voice Of Democracy Contest
CBNA Voice of Democracy winner Daphne Jordan with Northwood
VFW Post Commander Shannan Brown and Adjutant Dan Barnhart
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy proudly announces the local winners of
the Voice of Democracy Essay Contest sponsored by the VFW.
Forty-six CBNA sophomores participated in the contest with the
assistance of their English teacher Mrs. Kathy Biery. The winners,
Daphne Jordan, first; Kristina Seavey, second; and Chloe
Bettencourt, third were selected by members of the Northwood VFW
Post and were presented with certificates and checks by VFW Post
7217 Commander Ms. Shannan Brown and Post Adjutant Mr. Dan Barnhart
at a recent school assembly. Since 1947, the Voice of Democracy
Program has been the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) premier
scholarship program. The contest is open to students in grades 9-12,
who are enrolled in a public, private or parochial high school or
home study program in the United States and its territories. . Each
year, more than 50,000 high school students compete for more than
$2.3 million in scholarships and incentives. This year’s theme is
“Why I am Optimistic about Our Nation’s Future?” To enter the
contest students were required to record a reading of their essays
to a CD. Entries are three to five minutes and are judged according
to originality, content and vocal delivery. Paper copies of the
essays are also submitted. Entries begin at the post level. Winning
students then have the opportunity to compete on the district, state
and national levels. Congratulations to these talented students.
Letter To The Editor
“If you
like your tax rate”
Although all polls showed that most Americans were satisfied with
their health care, the President asked everyone to have sympathy for
those who couldn’t afford health insurance. Additionally, he
famously and repeatedly promised that if we liked our insurance we
could keep it, if we liked our doctor we could keep our doctor, and
our insurance costs would go down $2500 as well. Period.
What
could be better? We could show compassion for the less fortunate
without any change in our own happy situation, and save money to
boot. Who could oppose such a plan? Thus was Obamacare passed,
though, sadly for millions, these promises turned out to be not
quite accurate.
Now in
New Hampshire it is town meeting season, and we will be asked over
and over to authorize expenditures from surpluses. Don’t worry, we
are told, in writing, below each such warrant article, “There is no
tax impact if this article passes.” So why shouldn’t we vote to
authorize money for all those worthy Capital Reserve Funds? They’re
such good causes, and they won’t cost us anything, right?
Well,
not exactly. It seems that if we voted no, and all that surplus
money were returned to the taxpayers, it would indeed have a tax
impact - it would lower our taxes. For example, the “no impact” tax
money asked for in the Northwood school warrant alone totals
$121,000. The problem for government is, of course, that if the
warrant article said “May cost you more in taxes” we might be less
likely to vote for it.
So we
might want to consider voting against items that promise “no tax
impact.” The money we save in taxes could help pay for those health
insurance increases.
Michael
Faiella
Northwood
Obituaries
Mary Bernadette (Barry) Gildea
Mary
Bernadette (Barry) Gildea, 86, peacefully left this world with
children by her side.
The
fourth child of Henry A. and Marie C. Barry, Belmont MA, she
graduated Emmanuel College with an A.B. in Biology, 1949. Married to
Robert Gildea they raised children in Lexington MA . Their marriage
lasted 30 years, their friendship for 65, during which she also
assisted her blind computer scientist husband in all ways.
“Nana”
helped raise grandchildren while living in Arlington, traveled
internationally, had poems published and laughed a lot. She became
an LMT and a certified Advanced Facial Rejuvenation and Reiki II
Master-Practitioner. Her spiritual path explored Catholicism,
Quakers, the United Brotherhood Movement, and the Unity Church.
Mary
was predeceased by her sisters Anne Bullock, Franklin MA and Francis
Curry, Dedham MA.
She is
survived by siblings Stephen Barry & Marie, Peabody MA; Marguerite
Sullivan & Roger, Hingham MA; Catherine Hooley & John, Las Cruces
NM; Louise Cronin, Milton MA.
Mary’s
leaves behind her children’s families -Michael and Joyce Gildea,
Westfield MA; Patricia Gildea, Cambridge MA; Kathleen and Mark Lord,
Northwood NH; Aileen Gildea-Pyne and Rick Pyne, Arlington MA; her
grandchildren- Bridget Gildea, Erin Hare, Katherine Lord, Joseph
Gildea, Edward Gildea, Timothy Pyne, 3 great-grandchildren, many
beloved nieces and nephews.
A
private service for her extended family will be held on Feb. 8.
Donations are being accepted in Mary’s honor made out to the Poetry
Society of New Hampshire, with memo “Mary Gildea Memorial Fund”,
mailed to Gordon Lang/PSNH, 170 Browns Ridge Road, Ossipee, NH
03864. Please write to
[email protected] with questions. A public
Celebration of Life picnic will be held on June 14, 2014 for Mary’s
many friends at a Portsmouth area park by the sea. For more
information see www.brewittfuneralhome.com
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