This Weekend’s LRPA After Dark Feature:
1944’s “Christmas Holiday”
Join Lakes Region Public Access Television at 10:30 p.m. this
Friday and Saturday night (December 8 &9) for our “LRPA After
Dark” presentation of 1944’s noir-ish melodrama “Christmas
Holiday,” starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly.
Before shipping out overseas, Lt. Charles Mason discovers, via a
telegram, that his fiancée has married another man. He decides
to go and confront her in person, but bad weather forces his
plane to San Francisco to land in New Orleans. While in The Big
Easy, Mason meets a man who takes him to a nightclub/brothel.
Performing there is singer Jackie Lamont (Durbin). Mason offers
to buy Jackie a drink, but instead she asks him to take her to
midnight Mass, as it is Christmas Eve. Jackie becomes
uncontrollably upset during Mass, after afterward tells Mason
her story (through flashbacks). Her real name is Abigail, and
she’s married to a man named Robert Manette (Kelly) who is
serving a life sentence for murder. Robert came from a prominent
New Orleans family where he lived with his domineering mother in
the family estate. When he and Abigail met, they felt an instant
connection. Robert warned Abigail that he was a gambler, but
that he would give it up if she married him. They lived
for several months in wedded bliss, but then Robert began
staying out all night. One evening, Robert murders his bookie,
and his mother covers up the crime, expecting Abigail to assist
in this deception. The police catch Robert; he is convicted and
sent to prison. Robert’s mother blames Abigail for not being
supportive. Abigail changes her name to avoid being recognized,
but stays in New Orleans to be near Robert, as, despite
everything, she still loves him. Soon after telling Mason her
story, Robert breaks out of jail and heads straight to find
Abigail. Can a Christmas miracle save the day?
Despite the fact that its two leads, Deanna Durbin and Gene
Kelly, were both big Hollywood musical stars in their day,
“Christmas Holiday” is a rarely seen film. It also casts
both the actors completely against type: Durbin, usually the
good girl, playing a “hostess” in a questionable “nightclub,”
and Kelly, always the charming, affable hero, here playing
anything but. Christmas is really only the background to this
story, which is dark and complicated. If you’ve never seen Gene
Kelly play a “bad guy,” this is the film for you. So grab your
popcorn and join us after dark for this rare screen gem from the
past.
Join LRPA After Dark as we celebrate the holidays all month
long:
December 15 & 16: 1980’s “A Christmas Without Snow”
December 22 & 23: 1935’s “Scrooge” followed by Christmas
cartoons
December 29 & 30: 1941’s “Meet John Doe”
And
on Monday December 25: a day of family-friendly holiday movies,
shows and cartoons!
Northwood School Quarter 1 Honor Roll 2017-2018
Ms.
Jocelyn Young, Principal and Mr. Adrian Alford, Assistant
Principal are pleased to announce the honor roll for the first
quarter.
Grade 8 High Honor Roll
Megan Brieger, Skye Loto, Eva Roy, Kiara Summers, Anne Thoms
Grade 8 Honor Roll
Mikaela Belanger, Burke Bulger, Jordan Dean, Mallory Farrar,
Nicole Gaedtke, Lucas Laliotis, Alexander Quaglia, Seth Quinney,
Natalie Sinnamon, Parker Tatem, Elizabeth White
Grade 7 High Honor Roll
Caleb Adams, Megan Adams, Aidan Cox, Nathaniel Curtis, Olivia
McGrail, Allie McGuigan, Tyler Tkaczyk
Grade 7 Honor Roll
Rylye Coe, Gabri-el Collins, Adam Ludwikowski, Zachary
Ludwikowski, Cecilia Mello, Ean Pinard, Katerina Xanthopoulos
Grade 6 High Honor Roll
Kyla Demontigny, Andrew George, Somer Loto, Olivia Swett,
Makennah Tatem
Grade 6 Honor Roll
Alyviah Blad, Braiden Currier, Bailee DeTrude, Campbell
Hartford, Maxwell Heigis, Jaida Hurd, Michaela Linskey, Kiley
Murphy, Judith Quinney, Hannah Shortt, Holly Smith, Julia
Stevens, Elizabeth Wolf
Grade 5 Honor Roll
Ryan Bailey, Lillian Biron, Jeremy Bisson, Eilah Crawn, Amy
Demaine, Caleb Edgecomb, Lillian Gonzalo, Kaylyn Harlow, Anthony
Hoyos, Cameron Lee, Aiden McGuigan, Isaiah Petrin, Aiden
Quaglia, Ryan Rodler, Constance Russo, Aiden Severance, Emili
Sheldon, Shayanna Spenard, Emily Valli
Letter To The Editor
Many are wondering, why does a member of the school board pick
and choose only the negative statistics to present in the local
paper? For instance, on the most recently available
standardized test scores from the NH DOE website, out of 12
possible categories (reading and math scores for each of grades
3,4,5,6, 7 and 8), Mr Jandebeur only reports to us the 2 out of
12 that have dropped (grades 3 and 4, reading). Of the
other 10 categories, where significant leaps were made from the
previous year, he makes no mention. He mentions only 17
percent of the test scores, the ones that trended down.
Another way of saying this could be that he disparages the total
of 24 points that were a decrease but makes no mention of the
total increase in improvement, an impressive 96 points.
And he makes a point of telling us he spent $132 to put the bad
news in the paper. Sad, really, that he spent that hard
earned money, not to celebrate the 96 percentage points gained
in improvements of the students of the school he represents, but
their 24 points lost.
In
the same letter he states “While Facebook says that the cost of
education in Northwood is $14K per student, in reality it is
closer to $20K. While Facebook touts how well we are doing
educationally the reality is quite different.” Yet he sites not
a single source for this dollar figure. Facebook didn’t
come up with these numbers, the NH DOE did and it’s quite
clearly stated on their website how they are figured, which is
more than Mr. Jandebeur is willing to supply.
Some in town applaud him for his “transparency”. Where is
the transparency in tossing out numbers to scare and anger
people without providing the sources of his “information”?
That’s irresponsible plain and simple, made even more egregious
by the unfortunate fact that he is an elected official of the
town.
Sincerely,
Beth Benham
Letter To The Editor
Unconditional Love is as Close as Your Nearest Rescue
Mary’s Dogs Rescue and Adoption is a nonprofit organization
located on Route 4 at 984 First NH Turnpike in Northwood.
It was founded in 2011 by Mary Doane in an effort to make a
difference in the lives of dogs and people. To date,
Mary’s Dogs has rescued and re-homed over 2,500 dogs. Most
of the dogs and puppies come from high kill shelters in the
South. Our dogs are friendly, sweet, snuggly, and playful.
They were abandoned, neglected or, in most cases, just never
given a chance in the first place. By the time our dogs or
puppies are in their furever homes, they’re healthy, vaccinated,
and microchipped.
This Holiday Season, consider adopting one of our dogs or
puppies. Not interested in a puppy, we have older, more
wiser dogs too ~ and they are already house trained! You
can view our adoptable furbabies at marysdogs.com. Dogs
have a way of finding the people that need them and filling a
space we didn’t even know we had. If you cannot adopt one
of our special rescues, please consider donating to our
organization. Your donation is tax deductible. We
are always looking for blankets, towels, dog treats, tennis
balls, paper towels, Clorox Wipes, and stuffed squeaky toys.
We are also looking for volunteers to help with our rescue.
This is a perfect opportunity for those Seniors that need to
fulfill their community service requirements. Email us at
[email protected]
for more information.
Saving one dog will not save the world, but for that one dog,
the world will change forever!
Happy Holidays!
Kristen Kiernan
Volunteer at Mary’s Dogs
Letter To Editor
The
transfer station is a big financial part of the town budget.
It’s important to be able to accurately account for all the
recycling programs. If any of these programs are not working, we
need to find a better one. There are many recycling programs in
the state, so options are available to find programs that work
for us.
When it comes to answers about individual costs and revenues, I
am at a loss. Generally, we, as residents and taxpayers, leave
the running of the town to the people we elect and the people
they hire to do these jobs, but if we have questions, we need to
find answers. It should not be as complicated as it is to get
these answers.
I’ve been asking fairly simple questions for a while now but
with the process we have in place it is very difficult to find
answers to specific questions. We need to find a way to more
easily see what each recycling program is doing. To simply say
they are doing well is not enough; we need to know they are
doing well and that means seeing the numbers.
The
transfer station is a large expense, and one we can control to
some extent. We need to find a way that enables us to more
easily access information about our recycling programs. I’m sure
the financial end of it is accurate; it’s just difficult to find
individual answers about individual recycling areas.
We
cannot improve our recycling programs without knowing how they
are working now.
Til
Next Time,
Viena Dow