Easter egg hunt directory
Easter is coming up this weekend, and you know what that means, right? Easter egg hunts! Not real eggs, of course, but colorful plastic ones filled with rot-your-teeth goodies. With our egg hunt directory, you could theoretically spend the entire weekend stocking up on candy. Friday, April 10 A flashlight Easter egg hunt for Concord/Penacook residents in grades 5-9 is held at White Park at 7:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for those...
A new way to unwined
Have you always wanted to make your own wine but didn’t want to get your feet all grape stained? Well, thanks to Vintner’s Cellar Winery, 133 Loudon Road, you can make your own wine without traveling to California or Italy and keep your shoes on. How do you like them grapes? Last Wednesday, Katie and I met with owners Larry Crossley and Virginia Fressola for a little pre-noon wine tasting and to make our very own wine. I would...
Creative roundabout use
A couple of week ago (or maybe months . . . time flies by fast around here), Becky Levick called with a complaint in the guise of a story idea. I get this a lot. But she wasn't asking us to write about her rotten landlord or, as my grandmother often suggests, “the people living under the bridge.” This was something I wanted to investigate using guerrilla journalism techniques. It was the moment I had been waiting...
Concord police Log
March 26 Changing story At approximately 1:39 a.m., Officers Joshua Levasseur and Joseph Chaput were dispatched to 85 Manchester St. for the report of an ongoing domestic. According to Levasseur’s report, dispatch informed the officers that that a female caller was on the phone and sounded extremely upset and then hung up. “Office Chaput and I arrived shortly there after,” Levasseur wrote, “and once outside the apartment we could hear...
Ask the Elders: SmackDown
Dear Elders, What is there to do in town besides shop for useless knick-knacks, get drunk or help the umpteen thousand homeless, drug-addicted or otherwise suffering people of our city? Signed, Mr. Herr Jan Stickler Dear Mr. Mr., Wow, what neighborhood do you live in? I’d hate to stumble into it accidentally, but maybe I’d recognize it by the dark cloud of doom that must settle over it. The city I live in has music, theater, good...
City Briefly
Hey, thanks! Easter volunteers In this week’s memo from City Manager Tom Aspell, we learn of some good-deedery from the folks who attend the Recreation Department’s Senior Program. With some help from Colette Farland-Vogt and members of the Horseshoe Pond Place exercise program, seniors in attendance helped stuff over 3,500 Easter eggs with candy for the upcoming citywide Easter egg hunts. That was awfully nice of you, guys! The kids...
Stay healthy, soldiers
Our deployed soldiers go through rigorous training and incredible stress on their bodies, including carrying a backpack containing a seven-day supply of clothing, food, helmet and gear. This load can easily exceed their body weight, and all of that presses down on their spines. Infinite Health Family Chiropractic, 1 Fisher Ave. in Boscawen, is offering soldiers who have returned from deployment up to one year ago, a military care...
Did someone say free college planning?
The Center for College Planning at the NHHEAF Network Organizations offers New Hampshire families free assistance with understanding and evaluating college financial aid award packages. To help families evaluate financial aid award letters, NHHEAF will offer a 90-minute webinar titled “Understanding the Award Letter” on April 23 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Parents and students are invited to have their questions addressed...
These astronomy bowl winners are totally far out
The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, 2 Institute Drive, hosted New Hampshire's third annual Astronomy Bowl on March 28. Kritlapas Chanchaiworawit of Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro took first place with a scholarship of $1,000. Second place winner Samantha Ryan from Lakes Region Christian Academy in Laconia was awarded a $500 scholarship. In third place was Preston Morrissette from Lakes Region Christian Academy in Laconia, who...
S.O.S. (send over socks)
The Concord firefighters and police officers will be conducting a food and sock drive during April to benefit The Friends of Forgotten Children. Nonperishable food items, personal hygiene items and new socks are needed to help the less fortunate. Items can be dropped off at any Concord fire station or in the lobby of the police station on Green Street. For more information, call 674-8485 or visit fofcnh.org. Friends of Forgotten...
Take your chances with the moose lottery
If you want to hunt moose in New Hampshire this fall, enter the lottery and try your luck. Applications for the lottery cost $15 for residents and $25 for non-residents (nonrefundable) and are available online at huntnh.com or from any Fish and Game license agent. The deadline for entering the 2009 lottery is May 29. New Hampshire's moose hunt runs from Oct. 17 to 25. More than 15,100 applicants entered the lottery for the chance...
Don't cry, we shall meet again, Arts Telefest
Concord TV's fifth annual Arts Telefest successfully showcased 12 hours of local talent on March 29, that was viewed by the public on its website (from as far away as Switzerland), on Concord's local Channels 22 and 6, and on the Concord High School auditorium stage. More than 100 artists in all mediums were featured, representing 28 arts organizations and schools. The Concord TV studio and high school hallways were bustling...
Kudos to you, Lynne Guimond Findlay
Franklin Pierce Law Center recently feted Lynne Guimond Findlay's reaching the halfway mark in her pursuit of her juris doctorate degree with a dinner reception for the class of 2010. The traditional celebration recognized the intense preparation and work Findlay, a resident of Penacook, and her colleagues have undertaken in the past 19 months of study at the law center and anticipate the successful completion of their degrees. A...
“Healthy” and “fun” can finally be used in the same sentence!
The Concord Cooperative Market, 24 S. Main St., will host its second annual Spring Into Healthy Living Fair on Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. The co-op will raise a big top-style tent and close its parking lot to make way for more than 75 farmers and vendors. Free tastings and product samples of natural foods and goods with a focus on New England-made items will be offered. Other highlights include the co-op's wellness...
If only we were this disciplined
There’s good reason why Helen Appleby looks so great at 102 years old! This photo was taken on her birthday at Havenwood Heritage Heights Retirement Community. Helen comes to the fitness room three times a week and does a mile on the NuStep machine. Hmm . . . suddenly we feel like a bunch of slackers. . . . Anyway, Happy Birthday, Helen!
Book of the week
Do you want to know even more about the Concord Public Library? Well good thing the library has a website. Visit it at onconcord.com/library. The Shanghai Moon S.J. Rozan 2009, 373 pages Setting: New York City present and Shanghai 1938-1948 This is the ninth in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery series. This series was recommended to me several years ago, but I did not remember it until this new Rozan book crossed my path. Lydia Chin...
Free? We like Free!!
Leave your wallets and purses at home, parents, because this year’s second-annual literacy festival is totally, 100 percent FREE. You know the rule that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t? That’s not the case here. The Granite State Reading Council will be turning Merrimack Valley Middle and High Schools, 106 Village St., Penacook, into book central on Saturday, April 11, from 9 a.m.-noon. Volunteers will...
