Advance tickets for the July 26 Northwood Bean Hole Bash will be available for purchase on Thursday, July 10th during market hours of the Northwood Farmers Market and Monday, July 14th at the Narrows Fire Station from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM.  Tickets are $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for children under 12 years old. 

Watch for our advertisements in the following weeks in The Suncook Valley Sun, including the schedule of events. Forms for the flea market/craft fair and the XC race are available at our website beanholebash.com along with photos from the 2013 Bean Hole Bash.

Save July 25 and 26, 2014 for a family event to celebrate the Town of Northwood, its organizations and businesses.

Northwood Memory Café

The third Wednesday meeting of the Northwood Memory Café will gather at Ma’s & Mine Restaurant at 188 1st NH Turnpike on Wednesday, July 16, 10:30 a.m. to 12 Noon .

Information on diets and exercises will be exchanged and medications and books. Come and share your successes and failures. Perhaps continue the conversation over lunch after the meeting. 

Anyone seeking information about memory issues is welcome. For information call Lucy Silva at 942-9848.

Northwood Republicans Meeting

The Northwood Republicans will meet Monday, July 14, at the Northwood Community Center. The Center is located on Main Street, around the corner from the Advent Christian Church. We hope to have present candidates competing in the Republican Primary to be held September 9th. If you are a candidate for office in that primary, we invite you to attend and speak. If you are a potential voter in the primary, we welcome your attendance.  For further information, please call 724-0320.

Congratulations to Anthony J. Toscano of Northwood (03261), a freshman majoring in Liberal Arts who was named to the Dean’s List by maintaining a grade term point average of at least 3.5 on a scale of four at Franklin Pierce University.

Letter To The Editor

When I started out with my colleagues at the NH Alliance for Retired Americans to write about the ARA’s 2013 Voting Record on senior issues, and compare our two Senators, I had no idea that I would soon be involved in researching the Affordable Care Act (passed in March 2010). 

Mr. Pollock has written in his latest letter that his insurance agent informed him that his wife’s NH Anthem healthcare policy would not cover her for anything but emergency care in Florida should they be there for several months. The agent stated that this provision was due to the ACA.  So I did some asking around.

The answer I got from everyone I asked who has worked in the insurance field or helped people sign up for policies was that this has nothing to do with the new healthcare law. The ACA and NH require certain healthcare options, but beyond that It depends on the policies and networks that the insurance company designs. The ACA is heavily free-market based, and the insurance companies were not told how to sell their product. That’s how the free-market works. And surely we all remember many price increases and policy changes before the ACA!

I am concerned about the reason Mr. Pollock tells us this agent gave, having found out the facts. I have heard a number of stories like this. I’d hate to think that someone would end up paying more for a policy that doesn’t meet their needs when they could have gotten a second opinion or gone on-line and researched the available policies themselves. Using politicized language in this important transaction seems unprofessional to me. 

The good news is that next year we will have at least 5 companies competing to sell policies in New Hampshire!

Lucy Edwards

Northwood

Eltruda “Trudy” May Warren

Eltruda “Trudy” May Warren, 72, of  Northwood  passed away on June 26, 2014.

Trudy was born in Laconia on September 5, 1941 to Lawrence Dolloff and Ruth (Blair) Dolloff.

She graduated from Laconia High School and went on to study interior design at Mount Saint Mary’s in Hooksett. Later on, she took continuing education classes in early childhood education.

Her love of children was reflected in her work as a Title I teacher at Pittsfield Elementary School.  Before retirement, she also worked as a Program Director at Alternate Route For Kids at Strafford Elementary School. 

Trudy’s love and appreciation for her family and friends got her through to the very end. She spent much of  her time with her children and grandchildren and was blessed to be a great grandmother  twice. She was an amazing cook who loved to spend time working in her garden. Her tenacity for life was inspiring and her patience, kindness  and wit made her loved by those who knew her. She spent her last few months living at The Meadow at Northwood where she made many new friends and enjoyed their company by playing weekly bingo and by learning to knit.

Trudy is survived by her two sisters, Madeline Connelly and Lorraine Bedard. She is also survived by her devoted son and his partner, Michael Warren and Denise Bean, her  loving daughter and her husband, Kimberly Warren and Randy Little; her adoring grandchildren, James Davis and his wife Becky Davis, Nikki Warren and Thomas Fletcher and his fiancée Brittany Mendonca and her precious great grandchildren,  Autumn Davis and Madison Fletcher.

A Funeral Service was held Thursday, July 3, in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, NH. 

Burial followed in Pine Grove Cemetery, Gilford, N.H.

Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements.  For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com.