Free ice cream and hot dogs, you say?
Beat the summer heat and cool off with some frosty, free treats at the Co-op.
The event will include a sundae bar with approximately 20 topping choices. Samples of frozen desserts and snow cones will be available from a variety of New England and all-natural companies.
Chefs from our award-winning Celery Stick Café will serve up some of their favorite desserts. Children’s activities, live music and grilled hot dog samples will be available in the parking lot, weather permitting.
Kids are invited to bring their bikes to run an obstacle course. The Co-op has partnered with S&W Sports to bring a certified bicycle safety expert to teach children useful tips while they ride. Come on down to chill out with these tasty treats and catch up with your neighbors.
This event is open to the public; reservations not required. Just drop by from 6 to 8 p.m. Visit concordfoodcoop.coop or call 225-6840 for details.
Maria Noel Groves
Concord Cooperative Market
Pig! Pig! Pig!
Grace Episcopal Church and the Quality Cash Market invite East Concord residents to a pig roast fundraiser on Aug. 22 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Merrill Park. The cookout will feature roast pig, hamburgers and hot dogs, games and live music. The church and the market invite all families of East Concord to come and celebrate the unique community of the village.
While the event is free, donations will be accepted. All donations will support Grace Episcopal Church’s new ministry to provide weekend meals to local public schoolchildren enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program.
Originally formed in 1883, Grace Episcopal Church began worshipping in a rented room above the local general store, today the Quality Cash Market. Since then, the church and market have worked together to serve the families in the village of East Concord.
Grace Episcopal Church
Join the Live and Let Live Farm fundraiser
Join the volunteers and animals at the Live and Let Live Farm (LLLF) Rescue for the inaugural flea market and bake sale, Aug. 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come set up a table and sell your crafts and white elephants or come to shop.
This event will happen rain or shine inside our new indoor rehab arena. Table space can be purchased for $25 or $50.
We have some great donations from local artists and friends of the farm. Come out and check us out. Any reasonable offer will be accepted.
For more information or to purchase table space Call Live and Let Live Farm Rescue at 798-5615. For directions go to the website liveandletlivefarm.org.
Jan Sargent
The Audi has got some good friends
Twenty years of service by June Iffland of Bow was recognized with her designation as the 2010 Friend of the Year. She was one of five people who met in 1991 to chart the course of the preservation of the Concord City Auditorium, and 20 years later she remains as stalwart.
Tom and Tootie Arnold were the recipients of the Golden Pineapple Award, celebrating quiet behind-the-scenes efforts that keep City Auditorium affordable and accessible for everyone.
The Arnolds’ support of the city’s non-profits and sports teams and economic development projects is extraordinary, but none of these efforts has quite the delicious flavor of the more than 20,000 scoops of ice cream handmade at Arnie’s Place and brought down to Prince Street for 20 years of Gala Season Openings. Their gift was acknowledged with a plaque.
Carol Bagan
Concord City Auditorium
Scholarships galore
Sixteen healthcare students recently received nearly $27,000 in scholarships through the Concord Hospital Trust Scholarship Fund.
The following recipients received nursing scholarships: Ariel Abbott, Amy Locke, Patrick M. Dineen, Erica Lindsay Kowalski, Chelsea True, Allison Sonberg, Suzanne Anderson, Megan Crawford, Chelsea Tierney, Sarah Strempfer, Jade Chandronnait, Erin Parnell, and Kate Osborne. In addition, three allied health awards were given to: Samantha Parlier, Chelsea Donohue, and Carly Moses.
Jennifer Dearborn
Concord Hospital
That’s a ton of food
Eleven local social service agencies, area food pantries, and church groups were the recipients of 1.8 tons of non-perishable food as part of the Capital Region Food Program’s Year-Round Distribution Project in August.
Recipient agencies included: Blueberry Express Daycare, Boscawen Congregational Church Food Pantry, Boscawen Human Services, Centerpoint Food Pantry, Concord Human Services, First Congregational Church, Immaculate Conception Church, Pittsfield Food Pantry, St. Paul’s Church, St. Vincent DePaul Society, and Suncook/Allenstown Community Action Program.
Capital Region Food Program
