Poetry celebration
NHTI is proud to present its 10th annual Celebration of Poetry, featuring poet David Budbill. The event takes place on April 5 from noon to 3 p.m. in the Library Living Room. There will be a reception and open mic reading following Budbill's presentation. Members of the college and the community are invited to listen and participate. Admission is free. For more information contact Alan Lindsay at 271-6969 or...
Save our landmarks
The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance's 25th Anniversary Preservation Conference will take place on April 8 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester
Education grants
The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce announces that applications for this year's Funds for Education business grants for teachers are now being accepted.Through the business grants program, the chamber awards grants to teachers who have developed innovative teaching programs for use in capital-area schools. Recipients demonstrate that their projects fit a specific educational need, are unique to their respective schools and...
Wellness fair
On April 5, NHTI Health Services, together with nursing students and faculty, is sponsoring the 16th Annual Wellness Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Dr. Goldie Crocker Wellness Center on the Concord campus. Over 60 student and community participants will be on hand with exhibits relating to the fair's theme, “Highway to Health.” There will be demonstrations, health screenings and more, with free healthy...
This Week in Concord History
March 22, 1851: Former New Hampshire governor and U.S. senator Isaac Hill dies at the age of 63. Hill was once editor of Concord's New Hampshire Patriot and served in President Andrew Jackson's “Kitchen Cabinet.”March 22, 1965: The Monitor reports growing disapproval of a bill to impose a $5,000 minimum pay law for teachers. Towns would have to foot the bill and leaders say it would infringe on local control. The...
Literature festival
The Granite State Reading Council of the International Reading Association will be celebrating New Hampshire's second official Literacy Day on April 9 by conducting a Festival of Literacy at the Merrimack-Valley Middle and High Schools in Penacook. This free event will involve parents, children, authors, illustrators, teachers, and other professionals involved in promoting literacy. The celebration will take place between 9 a.m....
Last of the season
Page to Stage, Concord City Auditorium's showcase of new works by New Hampshire playwrights, presents the season's final program on March 27, as Granite Playwrights, Ink returns with a second program of their new short plays. Fine tuning their work for production at the Boston Playwright's Theatre in June, the group will present staged readings by leading area actors and welcome audience feedback.The season's first...
Employee of the year
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Concord recognizes Wanda Miner as the hospital's employee of the year. Wanda is a rehab nursing tech, who has worked for HealthSouth since 2007. She was nominated by her co-workers because of her diligence and passion for providing exceptional patient care. HealthSouth honors Wanda for her service as a member of the Falls Prevention Team and recognizes her achievements as a Blood Glucose...
Girlfriend's Danes are a pain
Dear Casper and Bill,I recently met a girl who's fine and dandy. She's fun, smart and funny, but – as you probably guessed – there's a problem: She has three enormous Great Danes (all males) who scare the crap out of me. They don't like men, and one of them even sleeps in her bed. Going over to her house isn't fun because I fear being mauled. Any suggestions on how to cope?Dear Danish Dandy,We have your...
Funding future leaders
The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce's “Leadership Greater Concord” program is trying to raise $20,000 to endow a scholarship for the program. The fundraiser is centered on artist and program member Rebecca Kinhan's painting “Downtown at Dawn, Concord, New Hampshire.” The painting will auctioned off at the chamber's annual Richard G. Warner Scholarship Fund Breakfast on March 24. Reproductions of...
A different kind of learning
Step into the CSI Charter School in Penacook and you're not likely to find a bell buzzing between classes, teachers standing at the front of classrooms lecturing pupils on math and history, or students standing around gossiping in the hallways.Things are done a little differently at CSI. For starters, the school doesn't have teachers, it has coaches. There isn't structured class time, either: Students come in on their own...
Summer jobs open
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell gets out his shovel, goes out in his yard and digs us up a city memo. Why he buried them out there, we have no idea. Pop open that treasure chest and take a peek . . . can you dig it?Tom wants you!The recreation department is currently accepting applications for summer camp staff, lifeguards, water safety instructors,and tennis instructors, Aspell writes.The minimum age to be a lifeguard is 15 years...
We're green with envy
Cooking.com presented “Top 10 Corned Beef Recipes for St. Patty's Day” last week, and at least one Concord restaurant also implied that the day of green beer was intended to honor St. Patricia. They should have been advertising St. Paddy's Day, from Padraig, a form of the name familiar to sports fans in recent years due to the ascent of one Padraig Harrington to the top ranks of golfers.Joyceans recall that Leopold...
