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Saturday, August 29, 2009
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VOL. IV, No. 51
Hospice Volunteer Training
begins in Littleton Sept. 8th
We are pleased to announce
that a Hospice Volunteer training program will be offered by
North Country Home Health
and Hospice Agency beginning
Tuesday, September 8. The
training program will be held
over the course of six consecutive weeks on Tuesday evenings
from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the
North Country Home Health
603-915-6750
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Dampers • Repairs
Water Proofing
Fall Cleaning
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Justin Smith, Colebrook, N.H.
and Hospice Agency. Hospice
volunteers are being sought to
provide support and services to
patients and their families living in Littleton and the surrounding communities. There is
no charge for this training and
participation in the training
does not require a commitment
to becoming a hospice volunteer.
Hospice volunteers may provide care in a variety of settings,
including individual’s homes,
nursing homes, assisted living
homes and in the hospital.
Volunteers may help in a variety of ways, based on their interests and skills. Some volunteers
help by providing friendly visits,
writing letters, reading to
clients, running errands, helping with light housekeeping, or
making a meal. Volunteers may
provide respite care so family
caregivers may take a break.
Others prefer to help with outside chores, assisting with
transportation or walking the
dog.
Hospice training-----------(Continued on Page 15)
Auctioneer Lawrence “Gomer” Powell, seated, took a break while Mike Kopp took some bids on
items at the 39th annual Lancaster Rotary Club Charity auction under the big tent in Centen nial Park in Lancaster on Saturday, Aug. 15.
(Photo by Lyndall Demers)
NH’s Association of Local Historical Societies seeks
award nominations for local history successes
Pay tribute to local history by
nominating your local historical
organization or an individual for
preserving, interpreting or promoting appreciation and understanding of an aspect of New
Hampshire history.
Application materials for the
Association
of
Historical
Societies of New Hampshire’s
first annual awards program
are available at www.historical societiesnh.org or from Jennifer
Carroll-Plante, PO Box 1126,
Laconia,
NH
03247,
603.527.1278or lhmslpl@metro cast.net.
The Association of Historical
Societies of New Hampshire
(AHSNH) encourages historical
societies, museums, and private
individuals to nominate themselves or others in the categories
of
Research/Documentation,
Historical societies ------(Continued on Page 10)
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Obituaries
Real G. Perras
NORTHUMBERLAND —
Real Perras, 79, of Northumberland, passed away peacefully, Tuesday, August 18, 2009,
surrounded by his loving wife
and their nine children, at
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical
Center in Lebanon.
Real was born in Coaticook,
PQ on March 16, 1930, the son
of the late Arthur and Imelda
(Blouin) Perras. Real married
his wife Alice (St. Germain)
Perras on February 3, 1955. He
moved from Canada in 1948 and
worked on his parent’s farm in
Northumberland
eventually
purchasing the farm, where he
and his wife raised their family.
Real was quite a businessman, with his hands in different
businesses throughout his life.
Starting Perras Tree Service
and Perras Land Clearing businesses. For many years he
cleared power line rights-of-way
and ski areas throughout New
England and as far as Nova
Scotia, while still maintaining
the family farm.
In 1974, he started the
sawmill business Perras Lumber, Inc. in Northumberland,
which is currently run by his
three sons, Robert, Claude, and
Paul. In 1980 he opened the
first Ace Hardware Store in
New Hampshire, which is also
currently run by four of his
daughters, Louise, Susie, Claire,
and Denise. He opened his second Hardware Store in 1986 in
Gorham. Business continued to
grow and eventually he sold the
businesses in 2002. Semiretired he formed Perras Self
Storage with two locations, one
in Groveton and one in Gorham.
He also formed a land development company. He was a hard
working individual all his life,
even though he was retired. He
NOTICE OF MONTHLY MEETINGS
of the
LANCASTER PLANNING BOARD
Notice is hereby given that there will be a public meeting of
the Lancaster Planning Board upstairs in the Town Hall,
Lancaster, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, September 9,
2009 at 6:30 p.m. regarding the following cases:
Initial Business:
Review and approve minutes from prior meeting(s).
Public Hearings:
Site Plan Review:
Case #717 — Maureen Rainault, Gilbert Rainault &
Taylor Ingerson for a site plan review. Applicant requests
to operate a child daycare center in an area zoned residential. Special Exception approved by Zoning Board of
Adjustment February 25, 2009. (Tax Map P7 Lot 75, 5
Summer Street, 0.17 acres).
Other Business
Commercial Building Permit(s)
Other business:
Lancaster Planning Board
Steven D. Young, Chairman
was very proud of his children
and their accomplishments.
Real loved his wife dearly
and his family very much. He
was a loving husband, father
and grandfather. He enjoyed
spending the winters at his
home in Dania, Fla., with his
wife. The summer months he
lived here in Northumberland.
He enjoyed spending time with
friends in New Hampshire and
Florida playing cards, cribbage,
and shuffleboard.
Real leaves behind his loving
wife of 54 years, Alice of
Northumberland, his children
Claire and her husband Bruce
Prosper of Northumberland,
Dianne Pendleton of Tauton,
Mass., Robert Perras and his
wife Christine of Northumberland, Claude Perras and his
wife Laurie of Northumberland,
Louise and her husband Mark
Collins of Groveton, Denise and
her husband Russell Freeman of
Northumberland, Suzanne and
her husband Brian Batchelder
of Groveton, Theresa and her
husband Mark Rohloff of Jacksonville, Fla., Paul Perras and
his wife Lisa of Groveton, predeceased infant son (Michael
Perras). Nineteen grandchildren predeceased (Tod Jay
Collins), 22 great-grandchildren
predeceased (Jewelya BrownPerras). Also, brother Fern Perras of Lebanon, Indiana and sister Rejeanne Fregeau of Lancaster, New Hampshire; as well
as many nieces, nephews, and
cousins.
Calling hours were Friday,
August 21, at ArmstrongCharron Funeral Home, 100
State Street, Groveton.
Funeral Services were at the
St. Francis Xavier Church,
State Street, Groveton, on
Saturday, Aug. 22.
In lieu of flowers the family
requests donations be made to
the Tod Jay Collins Memorial
Scholarship Fund, 113 Wemyss
Drive, Groveton, NH 03582.
Sell Your Stuff
at Northern Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerceʼs
2nd Annual Community Wide
YARD SALE
September 26, 2009 ~ 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Yard Sales happening in the following towns:
• Lancaster
• Dalton
• Stark
• Jefferson
• Randolph
• Northumberland/Groveton
• Guildhall, Vt.
• Lunenburg, Vt.
• Whitefield
• Stratford
• Gilman, Vt.
Buy a star on our map to denote your yard sale location in any of the above
towns or Rent a space on Lancasterʼs Main Street,
in the parking lot in front of the Welcome Center $10.
• Maps of the entire region will be sold for $1 during the week before the yard sale at locations throughout the area.
• Weʼre asking that those having yard sales stay open from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. so that shoppers have
time to visit as many as possible.
• Weʼll be promoting the event throughout the summer and weʼre sure to have many people in the area
for peak foliage season.
I would like to rent a space in
Lancasterʼs downtown
Name __________________________________
Phone _________________________________
I would like a star on the map
Name __________________________________
Yard Sale Address ________________________
________________________________________
Please enclose check for $10 made out to _____________________ Phone _____________
“Northern Gateway Chamber of Commerce”. Mail
to: P.O. Box 537, Lancaster, NH 03584. Sign up Please direct your questions to 788-2530
and payment must be received by September 10.
or [email protected]
August 29, 2009
The New Cattle Company & Lounge LLC was set to open on
August 26. Pictured here from left are: Cheryl Bougie, Zorin
Vespucci, Crystal Gail Badillo, who is three, her mom, and
restaurant owner Gail Badillo, Derek Brannan and Tyler
Dancer. Others not present for the photo were Scott Barrett,
Rod Rodger, Lisa Bogdanowicz and Laurie Comings.
(Photo by Lyndall Demers)
The New Cattle Company & Lounge,
LLC is now open for business
By Lyndall Demers
LANCASTER — Noticeably
vacant, the Cattle Company at
24 Main Street, has been missed
by both locals, and visitors to
town. Now, new owner Gail
Badillo of town, is set to open
the restaurant under the new
name, The New Cattle Company
& Lounge, LLC, on Wednesday,
Aug. 26.
Gail is no stranger to the
restaurant business. When she
lived in Cape Cod, she ran a
restaurant, gas station, convenience store, and ice cream shop
business.
The New Cattle Company &
Lounge restaurant, at present,
will employ 11 people.
Cheryl Bougie will be the
breakfast cook, and Scott
Barrett and Rod Rodger will be
handling lunch and dinner fare.
All the food at the restaurant
will be homemade, including
homemade breads baked fresh
daily by Cheryl.
They will serve breakfast
every day, all day, and will also
serve lunch and dinner.
Delivery service will be available for lunch, dinner and pizza
items, and they will have takeouts, too.
Restaurant hours will be
from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. The lounge
will be open every day until 1
a.m. with food being served in
the lounge until midnight each
night.
The business will offer early
bird specials from 2 to 4 p.m.
everyday for $7.99. Specials will
include entrée, choice of soup or
salad, and dessert.
There will be dinner specials
for $9.99. Specials include
Chicken Pot Pie, pasta dishes
and shepherds pie.
They will offer soups, pizzas,
fish, steak, pork, chicken,
seafood, calzones, a variety of
appetizers including the new
sensation, deep fried pickles,
and more; and also a kids’ menu
with hotdogs, mac and cheese,
spaghetti and meatballs, and
chicken nuggets.
They plan to offer special
rates for fundraising events,
and can handle special parties,
and will do catering.
With seating for 140, including the deck seating, there will
be plenty of room for you to
gather your friends for a meal
out to relax.
To reserve seating, or for
more information, just call (603)
788-3577.
Guildhall
Public Library
The Guildhall Public Library
will be holding a book discussion
on September 9 at 7 p.m. They
will be discussing “Pocketful of
Names” by Joe Coomer. “In this
latest novel, Coomer offers the
rugged, yet stunning beauty of
Maine and the lobstermen and
their families who are dependent on the sea for survival.
“Pocketful of Names” is a deeply
human tale about the unpredictability of nature, art, family,
and the flotsam and jetsam that
comprise our lives.
Weeks Medical Center’s CEO
Scott Howe sliced the prime
rib for a young fellow during
Weeks Family Barbecue and
Safety Day on Thurs., Aug.
20.
(Photo by Lyndall Demers)
Next issue will be September 5
Deadline is September 1 at 4 p.m.
In this Journal:
Midge's column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 4
Crossword & games, Horoscopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 6
Rumors, Ramblings and Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 7
Dining Out and Having Fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 10
Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 11
Business Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 12 and 13
Upcoming Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 12, 13, 14
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 14
Great Northwoods Journal
August 29, 2009
Page 3
Classes at Birds of a Fe at h e r
FALL
CLASSES
Sign up sheets at the store for:
• After School Drawing Class • Basket making
• Felt Making • Loom Beading • Stained Glass
• Watercolor Painting • Weaving
Birds of a Feather
52 Main St., Lancaster, NH
(603) 788-2552
www.Birdsofafeathernh.net
(new website address)
MEMORY RECORDINGS
Preserve those Tapes, Records
and VHS Home Movies
on CD’s or DVD’s
Veterans from Iwo Jima, gathered for their annual get-together, at Joshua’s Grille in Lan caster on Saturday, Aug. 22, to catch up on the past year’s events. Seated in the front from
left to right are: Walter Berry, USS Alaska, Milton Paradis, “the only Seabee in the bunch”,
Roger Emery Sr., Marine Corps, and David Reed, Marine Corps. Standing in the back are
from left: Ken Forbes was on the Battleship Iowa, Ed Reichert served on the Battleship Texas,
Harold Long was also on the Battleship Texas, Stanley Glines was in the Navy, Raymond
Withington was a Marine, as was Sherward Farnsworth, Michael Michaud, of the US Navy
Seabees, and his dad, Robert Michaud who was a Sgt. in the 19th Bombardier Division.
(Photo by Lyndall Demers)
New from Great North
Woods Welcome Center
By Jean Tenney
LANCASTER — Did you
know that 24,000 years ago Mt.
Washington was completely covered by glacial ice? Neither did
we until we read the book. Recently two people from the
Connecticut River Joint Commission paid us a visit, and left
a lot of information, including a
book, “Where the Great River
Rises.” It is a beautiful book
with the history of the river and
pictures of the areas surrounding the river from the Canadian
border to Long Island Sound.
Anyone may come and read it,
Greg Cloutier delivered a
vacuum cleaner to a winning
bidder during this year’s
Lancaster Rotary Charity
Auction on August 15.
(Photo by Lyndall Demers)
Braxton Brown and others
were enjoying this white
snake at the Reptiles on the
Move presentation at the
Lancaster Town Hall recent ly. The event was sponsored
by Weeks Memorial Library.
(Photo by Lisa Brown)
but it cannot be removed from
the Center. We do have
brochures and videos that anyone may have.
We have not had many visitors from overseas this summer.
They usually come later during
foliage season. The exchange of
money is in their favor now and
that makes them happy to
spend. A couple from Montreal
came in on Saturday prepared
to attend the races at Groveton,
only to find them cancelled
because rain was expected, and
rain it did.
Kudos to Santa’s Village from
a lady from Rhode Island. Her
grandson had been asking to
visit Santa all summer and she
hesitated because she thought it
would be tacky. Was she surprised! She was amazed and
said it was the nicest place she
had ever seen and would go
again even if she didn’t have
children with her. We love to
hear compliments about our
area.
Call
788-4682
Great Northwoods Journal
Page 4
Editorial
Technology: we love it, we hate it
As a society, we have become somewhat dependent on computers. The internet connects us to not only individuals all
over, but other businesses all over the world. A great thing
indeed.
But, when it is not there, what happens is a nightmare.
Frustration doesn’t even begin to describe what is felt when
the help you get is, “We don’t know.”
In this business, with no internet or email capability we
are just about dead in the water. That is what we got through
this past week.
On Friday morning, we realized our email was not operational. Calls started coming in that emails sent to us bounced
back to the sender. After checking the usual connections and
powering off and powering on everything, and doing everything that they would tell you to do once you got the troubleshooters on the phone, we made the call.
“Well,” said the tech person on the other end, “we don’t
know what the problem is.”
When I asked if they were working on lines in the area,
they replied, “I don’t know.” That’s what the problem was one
other time, I thought, hoping that would be the easy answer.
They put us on a list and said a repair person would be calling that day when the work was completed.
Well, no one called. So Friday night, I called back, and was
told that my problem would be escalated, and that there was
“an outage” in my area.
When I questioned what kind of “outage” the person said,
“I don’t know.”
To make a long story short, we still, as of press time, did
not have internet access or email, and could not communicate
with the outside world other than by telephone. This made it
difficult to get these pages to press. With pages completed
they were burned to a CD and from my sister’s house where
her internet works, they were emailed to the press.
In the meantime, Fairpoint, is still working on the problem, whatever it may be. The last I heard was that “one computer thinks this is one thing and the other thinks the problem is something else, and until they agree, the problem won’t
be fixed. Could be three to five more business days.”
So in the meantime, if you’ve sent emails to us and they’ve
bounced back, please resend them to this address: www.lade [email protected] or call us at (603) 788-2660 and we’ll
take the information that way, or send it by fax to (603) 7884470, or by postal service, or drop it off here at 76 Mechanic
Street, Lancaster.
Thank you for your patience, and thank you to Barbara
Robarts at Weeks Memorial Library and my sister Joyce for
the use of your computers.
Public Utilities Commission is working on the issue now.
Anyone else experiencing a similar problem may call them at
1-800-852-3793.
— Lyndall G. Demers, Editor
Great Northwoods Journal
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August 29, 2009
Say, did you hear
about the time…
By Ed “Midge” Rosebrook, Jr.
…another old garage man saved the day?
This week’s story is written
by Lucy Wyman, whom I’ve
known ever since she pulled into
the Gulf station one day, driving
an old VW Beetle with the passenger seat missing. In its place
was a large stainless steel tank
she used for her job as a milk
tester. Over the many years
since, there’s one thing I’ve
learned about Lucy. She definitely is no wallflower and
although we may differ on a few
political views, I have enormous
respect for her steadfastness
and convictions that she brings
to the table. If Lucy had been
born back in the 1700s and was
one of the handful of settlers
who would have left Lancaster
that first winter, had it not been
for the pleading of 18-year-old
Ruth Stockwell, there would
have been two brave young
women’s names in the Town
History. Ruth Stockwell and
Lucy Wyman. She is our town’s
modern-day pioneer woman!
Hey Midge,
Reading your column of
August 15th, brings to mind one
July 4th when I was trying to
get my ’32 Chevy from my folks’
place in North Sandwich up to
Colebrook in time for the annual parade, which was quite an
event in the early ’80s.
I had a new gasket on order
from the auto-parts store in
Ossipee, but time was running
out, so I decided to use a silicon
caulk-style gasket that came in
a tube. I made the first leg to
Jefferson without incident, but
my oil pressure was so low I
couldn’t continue.
I parked in the lot above
Vyron and Ruth Lowe’s store,
crawled under the ol’ buggy and
dropped the pan. As I recall,
Jefferson was having its parade
that day and things were just
beginning to jump when I took
my oil pan in hand(s) and
walked down to Nate Brooks to
see if he might have a gasket for
me.
Nate must’ve been in his
eighties by then, and as far as I
could tell, spent most of his days
sitting by the big window in the
front of his shop watching the
world go by. Entering Nate’s
shop—what is now the westerly
adjunct to John Raymond’s current enterprise—was somewhat
like stepping through the
wardrobe into Narnia. There
was a single light bulb hanging
from the high ceiling with a long
pull cord on it, several chairs
and perhaps an old desk. There
was a high shelf along one side
of the wall, and it was to this we
went to seek a gasket for my car.
Nate produced a six-foot
stepladder and from the top of it
he methodically went through
the stack of flat, brown boxes
that lay beneath a healthy layer
of dust on the shelf. He would
hand each down to me and I
would read what it said on the
box and pass it back up to him. I
seem to recall that Nate had
gaskets for some pretty interesting and venerable vehicles and
while he had nothing for my ’32,
I did set aside a ’31 we found
which I was able to use. I don’t
remember what he charged me
for that gasket, but I would be
hard pressed to place a value on
that experience!
While he and I shared what I
now recall as a sepia-hued time
warp, the Jefferson parade
passed by outside. Not long
after, I was headed north again.
I made the Colebrook parade
that year with J.C. Kenneth
Poore celebrating his 93rd birthday in the passenger’s seat,
Mark Winer in the back seat
and Harold Davis riding shotgun on the running board.
That was a fine collection of
old-timers and they, along with
many other north-country characters, built the foundation for
my life here. Just a few years
later, most of the farms shut
down and an entire way of life
was fast disappearing. I shall
always be grateful that I was
here before that happened.
Lucy K. Wyman
Lancaster
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03584 or c/o Great Northwoods
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Letters to the Editor
It’s time to bring our money home
To the Editor,
Fifty years ago, President
Eisenhower warned—“Beware
of the military industrial complex”. Nothing came of it, but
that advice is still relevant. A
$636 billion Pentagon spending
bill was approved by a 400-30
vote in the House last month,
despite objections by the Obama
Administration. Every congressman’s job is to bring this money
“home” to local defense contractors and their lobbyists who
finance their election campaigns, very self serving and
perpetuating the wasteful
spending the president warned
of.
The Submarine U.S.S.N.H.
and carrier George Bush were
recently commissioned at a cost
of $7 billion. Military experts
agree they are obsolete in
today’s conflicts along with other weapons systems like the F22 Fighter Jet. The “proposed
missile” defense system in
Europe threatens our improved
relations with Russia with
another “Cold War”. We have
over 700 military bases around
the planet, and more under construction. Our “Defense Budget”
is larger than ALL NATIONS
COMBINED.
Our priorities should be
health care for all, school aid,
rebuilding our roads, bridges
and town halls. Whitefield’s
Town Hall is falling down. The
bridge in Beecher Falls can’t
support a fire truck. Reducing
the property tax burden would
help towns like Groveton and
Berlin. We need affordable
housing.
The
payroll
at
the
Portsmouth Naval Yard has
very little impact on the North
Country.
Members of Congress receive
the best possible health care
paid by others. They whine
about the cost of the same for
others.
Eight years ago, the same
debate resulted in NO Health
plan for millions. Call it
Socialized medicine, call it what
you want—it is time.
George Glidden
Whitefield
ExecutiveByCouncil
Report
Ray Burton
About a month ago, I attended the Canaan, Vt., Job
Resource Fair for the 230 Ethan
Allen Furniture manufacturer
employees who have been notified that they will be laid off at
the end of August this year.
Over half of these employees
live in New Hampshire. It was a
very moving experience to be
among the dozens of agencies,
colleges, state and federal
offices as well as other possible
resources for these workers concerning their employment
futures.
Commissioner Tara Reardon,
Department of Employment
Security and her offices
throughout the State, offer a
free public employment service
through a state and federal network, pay unemployment com-
pensation in a timely manner,
and develop and disseminate
labor market information for
public and private businesses.
Commissioner Reardon has
personally visited all of the
offices and spent all day at this
northern job resource fair to
assist anyone. I was proud of
her and her staff!
For the most recent annual
report of that agency, contact
my office at 271-3632 and rbur [email protected]. It is a pleasure to
serve you and this District.