10-week parenting class offered at Riverbend
Riverbend Community Mental Health is offering a free 10-week parenting series titled, The Incredible Years!
Parenting children ages 2 to 8 years old can be a difficult time for both parents and children.
Learn new skills to handle problem behaviors; strengthen family relationships and reduce family stressors; increase your knowledge of child development; gain support and share information and ideas with other parents.
Classes start Tuesday, Jan. 19, and will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m., at the ChIP office in Room 102, 105 Loudon Road.
For more information or to register, call Judy Stowell at 228-0547, ext. 4038
Judy Stowell
Concord Chorale open sing at Concord High
Singers are invited to the Concord Chorale Open Sing on Wednesday, Jan. 6 at 7:15 p.m. in the Concord High School band room. Meet the director and membership, sing through a few Mozart “Requiem” movements, and then schedule an audition.
Enter through the Fruit Street side door near the corner of Pleasant Street, across from the gas station.
For more information, call Deb at 731-2244, email info@concordchorale.org or visit concordchorale.org and facebook.com/ConcordChorale.
Nina Bonney
NHTI Winter Open House scheduled for Jan. 6
See yourself on a new pathway at NHTI. Whether it’s directly into a career, or continuing at a four-year college or university, envision the future you want.
Explore NHTI at our Winter Open House, Wednesday, Jan. 6, from 5 to 7 p.m., in the Wellness Center Gym. Learn about our 70-plus academic programs, tour our 240-acre campus and find out about campus life at NHTI. Meet current and former students, academic department heads and representatives from admissions and financial aid.
Contact the admissions office at 230-4011 or nhtiadm@ccsnh.edu for further information – or just come join us. Open to all prospective students and their families.
Can’t make the Winter Open House? We have “Drop-in Tuesdays” weekly from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Get a 15-minute overview of the college and bring your questions for admissions and financial aid representatives. Campus tours available for those who arrive by 5:15 p.m. No reservations required or schedule a tour at your convenience at nhti.edu/sign-campus-tour.
Doug Schwarz
Gibson’s Book Club to meet Monday at 7 p.m.
Gibson’s Book Club will meet for the first time in 2016 on Monday at 7 p.m. at the bookstore.
Our book club is open to all. We’ve chosen an eclectic, ambitious list of books for the coming year. Join us for every meeting, or deal yourself in as the spirit moves you.
Most of the titles are in paperback, or should be by the time we’ll read them, and they will all be discounted 25 percent from the publisher’s price for the following year, whether you join us for meetings or not.
All meetings unless, otherwise noted, are on the first Monday of the month, and begin at 7 p.m., to give you time to have dinner and relax a bit first. Parking is free in the Capitol Commons garage and on the street, after 5 p.m.
January’s book is Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
For more info, email gibsonsevents@gmail.com
Gibson’s Bookstore
N.H. State Library receives Keppel Award
The New Hampshire State Library is pleased to announce that, for the sixth year in a row, it has received a Keppel Award from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services and the U.S. Census.
The Keppel Award is given annually to state libraries that submit prompt, complete and high-quality public library data to IMLS. Information provided through the survey accurately reflects trends at public libraries; it is used by Congress, state governments, educators, librarians and the general public to better understand how people use public libraries.
“New Hampshire’s public libraries excel at serving our communities in both new and traditional ways, and library patrons continue to benefit from that,” said Michael York, state librarian. “Last year, our public libraries hosted more than 45,000 programs, with almost 750,000 people attending. Internet services were used more than a million times. More than 11 million items were checked out – and that includes physical items like books, magazines, music and movies, as well as downloadable e-books and audiobooks.”
Public libraries send their annual data to the New Hampshire State Library; it is compiled by Janet Eklund, state data coordinator, who then submits it to IMLS. The full report is available at nh.gov/nhsl.
Francis Keppel served as U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1962 to 1965. He was a member of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, a precursor to IMLS, from 1978 to 1983.
The New Hampshire State Library promotes excellence in libraries and library services to all New Hampshire residents, by assisting libraries and the people of New Hampshire with rapid access to library and informational resources through the development and coordination of a statewide library/information system; by meeting the informational needs of New Hampshire’s state, county and municipal governments and its libraries; and by serving as a resource for New Hampshire.
For more information, visit nh.gov/nhsl.
Shelly Angers
New planetarium show at Discovery Center
Cosmic Origins, a new planetarium show about what humanity has learned from the Hubble Telescope’s view into Deep Space, opened at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center on Dec. 26.
Recommended for ages 12 and up, Cosmic Origins joins the Discovery Center’s roster of daily shows during this week, which include Magic Tree House Space Mission, Dawn of the Space Age, Tonight’s Sky and Sunstruck.
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph was installed in May 2009 by NASA astronauts during the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Developed by the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Ball Aerospace and the Experimental Astrophysics Group at the University of California – Berkeley, COS has enabled the Hubble to “see” in the ultraviolet wavelength, making available to scientists a wealth of information on the formation of stars and galaxies in our universe, what exists between the stars and more. Cosmic Origins explains how COS works, and explores the knowledge gained from COS about the early universe.
For more information, visit starhop.com.
Jayme Simoes
Music school offering piano and voice workshops
The public is invited to attend and participate in the Concord Community Music School’s annual Piano and Voice Workshops, which run Jan. 4-8 at the music school, 23 Wall St. All workshops are free.
Workshop topics include sightreading, ear training, rhythm, phrasing and stage deportment. All ages and musical abilities are invited to participate, and observers are welcome.
For a complete list of workshop topics, visit ccmusicschool.org.
Liz Faiella
Zonta Club of Concord wants to say thank you
The Zonta Club of Concord sends sincere thanks to the scores of businesses, donors and attendees who helped to make Zonta’s 25th Annual Holiday Auction a huge success.
The funds raised will create scholarships to nontraditional women students at NHTI and other area women in high school through post-grad studies. A chapter of Zonta International, the Concord Club works to empower women through service and advocacy. Since 2006, Zonta has provided more than $22,000 to 33 NHTI students, and half again as much to other area women students. None of this work would have been possible without such generous support from the Concord community.
To find out more about the Zonta Club of Concord, visit concord-nh.zontadistrict1.org.
Ellis Robinson
‘Life After Loss’ support group starts Jan. 20
Concord Regional VNA is offering Life After Loss, an eight-week adult grief support group on Wednesdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. beginning Jan. 20 at Havenwood-Heritage Heights, 33 Christian Ave. Trained grief facilitators provide an opportunity for grief support and education to participants who have suffered a recent loss.
The group size is limited to 12 participants and sessions are free. Pre-registration is required. To register, call 224-4093 or 1-800-924-8620, ext. 2828 or e-mail Carmella.Dow@crvna.org.
Andrew Morse
