Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell dresses up like a pretty little princess and parades around City Hall. Then, he scrawls a city memo on the bathroom mirror in bright red lipstick. Once we’re able to shake that image, we copy down the memo – and here it is!
cooking up a reception
Everyone in the Kitchen!
The Friendly Kitchen will be holding an open house Dec. 13 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., to showcase its new facility at 1 S. Commercial St., Aspell writes. The public is welcome to attend. If you can’t stand the heat, though, you’ll be asked to leave the kitchen.
The city supported the project by securing a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant to fund construction of the facility. The grant provided roughly 25 percent of the total funds needed for the project. By our count that means the other 75 percent was roughly a lot of money.
that sinking feeling
Wowza, that’s a big hole
During a review of the infrastructure prior to the Main Street Redesign Project, the General Services Department discovered a large sink hole on North Main Street at Warren Street, Aspell writes. It measured 8 feet in circumference, was 10 feet deep, and it took 16 cubic yards of flowable fill to fill the void, after efforts to jam a square peg into the round hole proved futile.
Contents of the hole included dinosaur bones, Jimmy Hoffa and a memo written by Tom Aspell’s distant ancestors. The investigation has been completed, and no other areas like this were found.
escape to paradise
Or just back to Green St.
As part of the Green Street Community Center refurbishment, the city’s contractor has re-installed the fire escape, Aspell writes. The fire escape was painted – polka dots? Plaid? – and reinforced prior to the re-installation, making it safer and more secure. It’s also now not flammable!
Stuff just got real
This sounds intense
Fire Department crews have been training on rescue techniques for trapped firefighters, Aspell writes. The training has included hands-on work in locating, disentangling, and removing unconscious persons through dark, smoke filled, and extremely tight spaces. Disentangling persons? That’d be a sweet band name.
Hooksett firefighters also participated in the training, as the two departments respond automatically to major emergencies in each other’s jurisdictions to serve as a responder rescue team.
