Fred's Fund a nonprofit organization for CHAD (Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock) is hosting a youth baseball pitching and hitting clinic on Nov. 21 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The clinic will be held at the Concord Sports Center, 2 Whitney Road. Special guest instructors will include Ken Joyce, hitting coach and instructor for the Toronto Blue Jays; Mike MacDonald, pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels and Simon Williams, outfielder for the Kalamazoo Kings and prior member of the St. Louis Cardinals. Miss New Hampshire Outstanding Teen Katrina Rossi will be there throughout the day and Gov.…

The Center For Health Promotion at Concord Hospital is offering a CPR course on Nov. 19 at 5:45 p.m. This program will teach you how to give CPR to an adult, child or infant and first aid basics for children. This program is designed for those who do not need a certification card. The cost is $35. To register, call 230-7300.

In between trying the recipes from our pie contest, stop by the Concord Public Library to pick up a book. For more information about the library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net. Strategies for Successful Career Change Martha E. Mangelsdorf 2009, 213 pages Nonfiction Are you between jobs? Or is your current career getting stale? If you’re entertaining the idea of making a change, this book provides a good outline…

The Edward Jones Concord branch, 95 N. State St., is collecting new and clean coats for the needy during regular business hours through Dec. 2. For more information, call Lauren Flieder at 223-3012.

Dear Tweens, Do kids ever talk face-to-face or does everyone just text all the time? Emily Hewey I think that some kids talk face-to-face more and some text more. In my opinion, people talk in person more because most humans have a social life, and by having a social life, you talk face-to-face. They might talk face-to-face more because when a child is at school, they talk with their…

New Hampshire's first turnpike was not Interstate 93 or I-95; it was the Concord to Portsmouth Turnpike. In 1791 the Legislature authorized a committee to survey and layout a road from Concord to Durham Falls with a branch to Newmarket. Henry Gerrish, a committee member, was also a surveyor. His notes and route survey are in a file at the University of New Hampshire library, together with a sketch drawn to a scale of 200 rods to the inch. The Legislature specified that the road was to be a public road, meaning toll-free. It also specified that the towns that it passed through were to maintain…