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Zoning Board Denies Variances
For Workforce Housing Project
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ttorney Jay Leonard, speaking on behalf of developer
Tom Monihan, sought
three variances from the
Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) to build workforce housing on Perkins
Road.
All three variances were
denied at the board’s Nov.
15 meeting.
The developer sought
variances: to construct
buildings with 24 rental
units where the ordinance
allows buildings to have
only 16 units; to allow
three-year phasing of construction where the ordinance calls for five years;
and to have 240 rental
units, 50 percent of them
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as workforce housing,
where the ordinance
states 75 percent are to be
workforce housing.
The meeting had been
continued from Oct. 17.
Leonard told the ZBA,
in justifying the variance
requests, that it would be
more profitable for the
builder to have fewer
buildings, with more tenants per building. He also
said that with 75 percent
workforce housing tenants, the rents would not
be profitable enough –
thus the request for a
reduction to 50 percent
workforce housing, allowing higher rents to the
other 50 percent.
“The three restrictions
that we are asking for
waiver from are really sim-
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ple restrictions in the
sense that they do not
relate to density, do not
relate to the number of
units, it is a permitted use
and it is in an appropriate
zone,” Leonard said.
Leonard said the property involved is approximately 26 acres and a second portion directly to the
south is about 17 acres
and is not part of the project. He said, however,
there is a plan to put elderly housing on the southern acreage.
Because of time constraints, the public did not
have an opportunity to
speak at the October
meeting, but was given a
chance last week. When
Chairman James Smith
continued on page 10
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Council Works to Get Town
Budget Below Default
Helping Hands
Fifth grade student council members gathered on Friday morning at South Elementary School to load up a fire truck with
the food the school had collected over the past few weeks. The food was
brought to Central Fire Station to be sorted and distributed to needy Londonderry families. Additional photos on page 6.
Photo by Chris Paul
Council OKs Capital Reserve Funding
for Fire and Ambulance Vehicles
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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equests to expend
$905,000 from the
Ambulance Capital
Reserve Fund, Fire Department Equipment Capital Reserve Fund, and
the Fire Apparatus Capital Reserve Fund for a fire
pumper truck, an ambu-
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lance, a staff car and six
defibrillators have been
approved by the Town
Council.
Councilor Jim Butler
asked at Monday night’s
meeting if three bids were
necessary before the
town could take action.
Finance Director Susan
Hickey said the items were
put out to bid, seeking as
many bids as possible.
Butler said he wanted
to bring to the council’s
attention that “we only
have two quotes for the
ambulance, one quote
from the pumper and two
quotes for the defibrillators, so we’re required to
continued on page 6
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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udget discussions
continued at Monday night’s Town
Council meeting from Saturday’s workshop (see
related stories pages 2, 3).
Interim Town Manager
Bill Hart told the council
he found several errors in
his budget report.
“The initial budget
submitted to the council
was $140,000 below default. In preparing for my
presentation to the council and budget committee
for this past Saturday, a
couple of significant errors were discovered. The
errors are mine,” Hart
said.
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Hart said police overtime should have been
approximately $35,000,
and $60,280 should have
been added to the town
manager’s Management
Service in General Government line items. Those
two restorations total
$94,000. He also noted a
correction to the Solid
Waste line of $10,990 and
a correction to the default
of $4,935.
Hart proposed four
recommendations for the
budget. The first two
focus on non-personnel
reductions and the second two focus on personnel or salary reductions.
“I would recommend
that the budget commit-
tee and town council
focus on options one and
two, as they spread the
proposed reduction across all town departments, with as little pain
to services as can be mustered. Further, it puts the
charge for those reductions in the hands of the
business area experts
continued on page 18
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N OVEMBER 22, 2012
Police, Fire Cite Contract Obligations, Downshifting in Rising Budgets
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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epartment heads presented their budgets to the combined town council and
budget committee on Saturday, and personnel contract obligations and
downshifting of retirement were frequently the
culprits in rising costs.
Fire Chief Kevin MacCaffrie began the proceedings
by outlining his department’s need to increase his
budget 6 percent from the
current $5,927,717 to
$6,276,854, a difference of
$349,137.
MacCaffrie said many
of his line items had no
changes and the increases were due to contractual obligations and the
increased retirement and
health costs associated
with “downshifting” from
the state to towns.
“All increases in the
Fiscal Year (FY) 14 proposed budget are driven
by prior contractual obligations and dramatic
increases in the town’s
portion of retirement
costs as a function of
downshifting from the
state and substantially
increasing medical rates,”
MacCaffrie said.
MacCaffrie said he
faces a contractual obligation of a 2 percent
increase in salaries and a
clothing allowance.
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He pointed out the fire
department is running
“well below minimum
standards in regards to
number of personnel to
meet mission critical
services.” And he suggested adding staff to meet
those needs, reducing
some replacement coverage, and increasing ambulance coverage.
Town Council Chairman John Farrell wanted
to know what happens
when a call comes in.
“A call comes in and
911 takes the call and
drops the call to us after
they assess what the priorities are and a dispatcher types in the address
where the call is to, and
our program dispatches
the appropriate apparatus,” MacCaffrie explained. “For instance, an automobile accident requires
an engine and an ambulance and possibly the
rescue. We had the rollover on (Route) 102 by I93 the other night, which
required all personnel to
go to that. So it varies
from whether you get an
ambulance, an ambulance
and an engine, or an
ambulance, engine and
rescue. If it’s a fire, three
engines, a ladder and outside mutual aid.”
Councilor Tom Dolan
noted the fire department
is the second highest revenue source due to ambu-
lance revenues.
MacCaffrie said his
department has three basic
sources for revenue - ambulance, fire prevention and
fees, and miscellaneous
reports for insurance.
“We bill out about
$700,000 per year and
take in about $550,000 per
year,” he said. “Currently
we’re down on revenues
because we don’t go to
the Elliot as frequently
(and) there are a lot more
underinsured and uninsured people in the current economic times that
we have. We make an
effort through our billing
service to collect everything that we can.”
Farrell took a quick poll
of the council when MacCaffrie said the department didn’t take an aggressive stance on billing
because of direction from
the Town Council.
“The council doesn’t
feel that way anymore you get aggressive with
billing,” Farrell said after
polling the council.
Police Lieutenant Chris
Gandia presented the
police budget and discussed the department’s
switch from the traditional Ford Crown Victoria
sedans to an SUV style.
“Currently we do a
three-year lease and these
are going to be the new
cruiser designs,” he said.
“The Crown Vic is not going
to be in production, and we
found this one to be the
most beneficial for us.”
He said the SUV is larger than what police drive
now. “It’s going to allow
us for better operations
out on the road,” Gandia
said. “As years have gone
on, we’ve actually increased the amount of
equipment that we carry,
AEDs (automated external defibrillators), different weapons systems,
you open up the trunk of
the cruisers we’re using
now and you can barely
get in there, and you open
up the hatch on one of
these things and there’s a
lot more room.”
Gandia said the cost of
the vehicle would be less
than expected on the
budget due to reducing the
fleet by one vehicle and
realizing better fuel economy. The new vehicles will
be leased in March.
Farrell brought up the
inadequacy of the Crown
Victoria during snowstorms, and Gandia said
they are not used during
snowstorms. Instead, Londonderry Ford lets the
town borrow SUVs during
snow events. The new vehicles should work in snow.
“We don’t make anything - we don’t have any
intrinsic value like a company that generates revenue,” Gandia said of the
Police Department. “There’s
no offset, so we need to
manage our expenses as
best we can.”
He said the department’s most important
asset is its personnel: uni-
Boxed
Bounty
Lions Club President
Ray Dion, along with
other Lions, sort through
the thousands of items
collected throughout the
town over the past few
weeks to ready boxes for
distribution for more
than 120 needy Londonderry families . Donations
came from the Lions, the
school district, Sunnycrest Farms, Mack’s
Apples, Hannaford, Granite Ridge Energy - which
provided all the pies - and
American Legion Post
#27 and Kay Stowell, who
donated turkeys. Londonderry
Self-Storage
donated the boxes. Local
residents also dropped
by to donate turkeys. The
Lions Club has been
organizing the distribution for over 30 years.
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station, animal control
and administration. And
as a result, personnel
costs drive the budget.
Gandia echoed MacCaffrie’s assertion that
the highest impact to the
department was the
increased cost of retirement and health expenses
from downshifting.
“The budget is 93 percent personnel costs and
is 98 percent non-discretionary costs. Many of the
increasing costs are out of
management’s control,”
Gandia said.
He also noted that
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reduced and of those costs
that are discretionary,
measures have been taken
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N OVEMBER 22, 2012
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Council, Budget Committee Review FY 14 Figures
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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s part of Saturday’s budget session with the Town
Council and Budget Committee, Public Works
Director Janusz Czyzowski noted that the current year’s solid waste
and recycling budget is
$1,911,807 and the proposed FY 14 budget is
$1,926,351. He said fuel
costs have risen and
adjustments had to be
made slightly in FICA
costs and retirement
benefits.
Czyzowski said the
town has 40 miles of sewers, five pumping stations, 1,163 residential
connections, 365 commercial connections and
56 industrial connections.
He said the FY13 budget
was $3,003,606 for sewer
and the proposed FY 14
budget was $2, 661,129.
For FY14, gasoline was
budgeted at $70,000 and
street cleaning and maintenance at $501,858. He
also said street paving
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and reconstruction for FY
13 was on a $500,000 warrant article and FY 14 is
zero because of the Roadway Maintenance Trust
Fund.
Czyzowski has $220,000
budgeted for salt at an
estimated unit cost of
$56.76 for an estimated
3,876 tons.
The council and budget committees had no
questions and complimented him on his budget
Finance
Director
Susan Hickey told the
council and committee
that most increases are
based on New Hampshire
Retirement and medical
increases, a message similar to the one presented
by the fire and police
departments (see related
story page 2). “Pretty
much in every budget
that’s where the increases
were,” she said. “Departments came in with the
directive of setting their
budgets below default,
which is where they needed to be.”
The Planning and Eco-
nomic Development budget, according to Hickey,
has a total decrease from
FY 13 of $5,700, due to
departmental reorganization that took effect in
July 2012. She said management services was
pulled out and is shown in
the town manager budget.
“If management services was included in the
budget, it would increase
by $11,217 or 2.75 percent. The increase in the
New Hampshire retirement and health is
$11,522. The remaining
line items have been level
funded,” Hickey said.
She said zoning had a
total increase from FY 13
of $43,179 or 7.8 percent
and was due to a requested increase in overtime
caused by additional
meetings, mandatory benefits such as state retirement, health insurance
and workers’ compensa-
tion. The remaining operational line items are flat.
Capital Improvement
Projects include open
space
bonding
at
$600,000, Pettengill Road
bonding at $12,534, zoning ordinance update at
$200,000 and the Road
Maintenance Trust Fund
at $320,000.
Projects recommended by the town manager
were Expendable Maintenance
Trust
Fund,
$200,000, zoning ordinance $50,000 and Road
Maintenance Trust Fund,
$400,000.
Hickey said the recommended funding for the
Capital Reserve include:
ambulance, $75,000; cable
equipment, $100,000; fire
apparatus, $335,000; fire
equipment, $150,000 and
highway, $150,000.
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N OVEMBER 22, 2012
Editorial
Black Friday Blues
When schoolchildren are asked
what Thanksgiving means to them,
they usually say something about
food or being thankful. They don’t
tend to say “shopping” or “Mom has
to work at the mall.”
But that’s what quite a few major
retailers seem to want us to focus on
this year, with stores pushing the
start of Christmas shopping to
Thanksgiving Day itself. Cram in the
turkey and head out to shop - Black
Friday is now Black Thursday.
It means you’re getting a day off
from work (and kids are losing two to
three days of school) so you can buy
Christmas gifts early, rather than go
to Grandma’s for Thanksgiving dinner and family time.
For years, retailers have been
pushing back the start of Christmas –
Santa Clauses and holiday wrapping
paper are already in the stores while
you shop for Halloween candy. Now
major retailers are giving their lowpaid employees the raw end of the
deal by making them work on
Thanksgiving instead of being home
with their families. And we’d bet the
CEOs of major retail stores aren’t
spending the day in their corner
offices.
We can all understand why doctors, nurses, paramedics, police and
firefighters don’t always get to celebrate Thanksgiving – and any other
holiday – with their family. Fires and
other emergencies don’t check the
calendar, nor do childbirth or illness.
But getting first in line for a sale
on a big-screen TV? Grabbing up discounted socks? Those are not emergencies.
We can all use a sale, but we can
also use a break from work and a
chance to relax with family or
friends. That’s the heart of Thanksgiving, and that experience helps us
realize what we really are thankful
for.
But when low wage workers have
to choose between their job and
their family time so retailers can
have one more day to lure in shoppers, a line has been crossed.
This country is long changed
from the Norman Rockwell images of
big families crowded around the
Thanksgiving dinner table, but most
of us still mark the occasion by gathering with family or friends and pausing for a few hours from the constant
jabbering of the online world.
Sure, after dinner we can log on
and see what’s on sale. But we find it
hard to accept that the only way
major retailers can compete with
online shoppers is to make their
sales staff skip Thanksgiving. If that’s
true, why not keep every store open
24/7, just like the internet.
And if that’s what we’ve come to,
what, other than greed, does Thanksgiving mean today.
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To the editor:
After four miserable
years with Barack Obama
as President, I was confident that a majority of
Americans had realized
their mistake in 2008 and
would correct it in 2012. I
apparently gave the
American people too
much credit.
As I physically and
emotionally recover from
the result of this election,
I’ve been trying to explain
how this could happen
and who is responsible.
I’ve identified five Obama
constituencies and I
would like to say a few
words to each. For the
sake of brevity, I will submit my thoughts in several parts.
First, the takers. These
are people who voted for
Obama because they think
he is Santa Claus and will
give them free stuff. There
are a record number of
people receiving Food
Stamps and disability
under Obama.
Politicians know that
people who are dependent on the government for
their check will always
vote for the politician that
will promise them more.
The Democratic Party has
become experts at this.
I’m not talking about
those who are legitimately
ill and can’t work, or those
down on their luck. I’m not
talking about those who
worked hard all their lives
and are now retired and
on Social Security.
I’m talking to those of
you on disability because
your baby toe hurts and
those of you who just can’t
seem to find work, year
after year, decade after
decade, generation after
generation. If you have any
love for this country, find a
job. If you can’t find the
job you want, then sweep
floors until you do. But do
something!
No one expects someone with a bad back to
work construction, but if
you’re able to walk through
the mall, then you’re not
too disabled to work.
Second, the entitled.
These are union members
who voted for Obama
because he bails out their
fat pensions with taxpayer money. They think
they’re entitled to $25 per
hour plus benefits, regardless of their qualifications.
They think they are so
important that their jobs
should be guaranteed
through tenure. They get
what they want through
intimidation and threats
and have no problem
physically assaulting a
disabled Tea Party activist because he dared
disagree with Obama.
Recently, another great
American business has
fallen victim to union
greed and will shut its
doors. How does that help
the American worker? If
you have any love for this
country, quit the union
and stand on your own
two feet. Millions of us do
it every day.
There was a time when
the country needed unions, but now they only
promote mediocrity. You
are crippling the country
and you should be
ashamed.
I will address the remaining three at a future
time.
Red Forman
Londonderry
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Irony
To the editor:
News in the aftermath
of the Benghazi deaths
reveals that John McCain
thinks Obama and Susan
Rice are not too bright. A
sense of irony floods my
mind.
At the Naval Academy
McCain ranked academically, if my memory is correct, 884th in a class of
889.
C C Mitchell
Londonderry
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Brand Recognition
To the editor:
It was disappointing
that Jay Hobson referred
to those directing Election Day traffic as simply
“attendants.” The people
trying to maintain order
in the Londonderry High
School parking lot were
ALERT volunteers, there
at the request of the Londonderry Police Department, which is responsible for their training.
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Londonderry Kicks Off Holidays with Town Common Tree Lighting Dec. 2
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderry will kick
off the 2012 Holiday
Season with a tree
lighting and carol singing
Sunday, Dec. 2, at the
Town Common.
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The event is sponsored by the Londonderry Rotary Club.
Girl Scouts will lead
the crowd in carols and
other seasonal songs
beginning at 3:30 p.m., followed by the Londonder-
ry Christian Church band.
The lighting will be at 4
p.m.
Santa and Mrs. Claus
will arrive in a fire truck
and take requests from
children shortly after the
bandstand performances.
Free hot cider, hot
chocolate, coffee and
cookies will be offered.
Community groups are
invited to decorate their
own trees on the Common.
Twenty trees will be
nondescript group encompassing everything
bad. They appear mired
in pervasive fear and
insist there be no compromise. Actually, a sense of
fear of the very process of
compromise pervades.
They seem to see it as giving up on their principles.
Once that point is
reached, the word compromise has no meaning
other than one succumbing to the demons portrayed. It is a line being
crossed by individuals in
both parties, to their discredit.
But the very concept
of “them and us” ignores a
history of coming together to overcome virtually
every major national crisis we have experienced.
In short, “them and us” is
the problem, not the solution. We only find longterm effective solutions
when all of us come
together to build it.
No one individual or
group of individuals has a
monopoly on all of the
good ideas or all of the
bad ones. To insist on
“my way or the highway”
or we must “win at any
cost” only prevents solutions. It is an arrogance
we cannot afford.
Instead, political bridges need rebuilding using
the concept of "we.” Only
by coming together can
desired and lasting solutions be cast.
Common ground can
be reached without foregoing our heartfelt principles. We have a choice of
working together as a
team or going it on our
own. In a changing world,
the team approach makes
the most sense. We must
remember that government should be forging a
view of the collective, not
of an individual.
Who among us knows
the perfect way? No one
set up Sunday, Nov. 25, in
the morning, and are
available for decorating
beginning that afternoon.
Longtime
Rotarian
Reed Page Clark said in
the spirit of the holidays,
the Rotary will provide a
bin for non-perishable
food items, which will be
donated to the St. Jude
Church Food Pantry.
For more information,
call Caron Renik at 7657735.
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vival as an organization.
James F. Pratt
Continued from page 4
ALERT Board of DirecTeam) maintains an ongo- tors
ing training schedule durLondonderry
ing the course of the year.
That schedule includes
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Search and Rescue, Shelter Management and First
Rebuilding Bridges
Aid as well as Traffic Control, to name just a few.
To the editor:
In order to maintain a
The results of the Nov.
viable and well-trained 6 election left many feelorganization, ALERT must ing hopeful, but for others
also maintain fund raising the very opposite is their
and recruiting efforts. For truth. Many of our friends
these reasons, public re- express a great fear of
cognition of our “brand” what might be coming
is critical.
down the road. This is
We strongly believe hardly surprising, due to
that the more the public the unrelenting demonizasees of ALERT on the job, tion of virtually every
the stronger will be their elected official and every
support.
candidate brave enough
ALERT volunteers do to suffer the slings during
not provide their services these last umpteen years
to the town for accolades of continuous campaigns.
or any other consideraClearly, anger exists.
tion but we do feel that For still others, that anger
public recognition of our has been transformed
efforts is vital to our sur- into a hatred for “them,” a
Correction:
An article in the Nov. 15 edition misidentified the planning
board member who interrupted Tom Freda by citing the names of large companies that have moved to Londonderry. Mary Wing Soares made the comment about the large companies.
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to our country's need to
embrace that concept,
not run from it. Politics is
the art of compromise, of
sharing of ideas toward a
common goal.
Division must transform itself to unity. Elected officials, regardless of
party, are to be respected.
The trust in them, conveyed by their voting constituents, requires that we
do so. Conversely, it is
imperative that elected
officials realize the trust
their constituents have
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Thanks for Donations
To the editor:
Thanks to all who participated in Scouting for
Food recently.
In Londonderry we
collected, sorted, and
packed 123 boxes of food,
exceeding last year’s
total.
Half of the proceeds
were received by St.
Jude’s Food Pantry, while
the other half will be distributed by the town to
needy residents in time
for Thanksgiving.
Brian D. Williams
On behalf of BSA
Scouting for Food
Londonderry
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N OVEMBER 22, 2012
Council Collection
Fifth grade student council members from South Elementary School
organized a food drive at the school over the past few weeks where each class was asked to contribute
100 items. In the end, over 2,500 items were boxed up to be distributed at the fire station on Monday,
Nov. 19. The students helped load up a fire truck on Friday, Nov. 16. Above the fifth-graders show off the
Photos by Chris Paul
signs they had made just before they performed their collection song.
Continued from page 1
get three written quotes
and we haven’t gotten
three written quotes for
any of those items, and
I’m a little concerned
about that.”
Fire Chief Kevin MacCaffrie responded that an
RFP (Request For Proposal) went out.
“No one responded to
them other than a couple
of letters that said, ‘we
remedies if three bids did
not come in.
Hickey said that if
three quotes are needed
but do not come in, the
town can clear that with
the town manager, whose
decision it would be on
whether to approve the
purchase.
“There are actually a
couple of exceptions worth
noting,” Interim Town Manager William Hart explained. “The exception
does lie with the town
manager, secondly there
is a second exception that
often times the products
from the fire department
or (Department of Public
Works) or police may
come from what’s referred to as a sole source
vendor. In other words no
one else makes that product so sometimes that can
be an exception. Lastly,
the relatively common
exception is we go to the
state bid and the state
with its aggregated purchasing power can often
get lower bids for commonly purchased products that we might not,
acting alone, be able to
get.
“Unfortunately we are
up against some time constraints with respect to
the very positive lease
rates that we’re getting on
these products,” Hart
added. “What I can do is
work with the chief and
address questions with
the council. It was my
intention, once we’ve concluded this process, to
review it with the chief
and see how we could do
this better and report
back to the council with
that information.”
Butler asked if the
specifications requested
were too tight, and said
he couldn’t believe in the
current economy that
only one quote for a
$500,000 pumper truck
would come in.
“I’m open to anybody
who would want to bid.
As a matter of fact I got
into a conversation with
an ambulance person and
I asked him to bid,” MacCaffrie said.
Town Council Chairman John Farrell asked
Hart if he recommended
going ahead due to the
favorable rates. “You
want the council to
approve this?” he asked.
“Yes. Just so it’s clear,
we worked hard to get
these favorable rates, as
they have come down
considerably from where
we started at,” Hart said.
Councilor Joe Green
made the motion to
accept the order as written and Dolan seconded
the motion, adding that
he suggested the two
chiefs come back and tell
the council how it worked
out and to give the council “additional confidence
that we are using the taxpayers’ money wisely.”
Hart responded that
he would do so. The vote
was unanimous in favor.
A warrant article authorizing the purchase was
approved by voters.
The council also voted
unanimously to authorize
the town treasurer to expend from the Fire Department Equipment Capital
Reserve Fund the sum of
$14,406.30 to replace the
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don’t want to bid on your
pumper’ or on this particular item. We sent bid
specifications to every
company that we could as
well as everybody that
requested them,” MacCaffrie said.
Councilor Tom Dolan
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Dance Studio Brings Blankets to Storm-Impacted New Yorkers
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Melissa Hoffman
Dance Studio of
Hudson has donated blankets and other
sundries needed by people still without power in
the areas of New York and
New Jersey that were devastated by Hurricane
Sandy last month.
“Last week we brought
65 blankets to New York
and we’re bringing 22
more (this week),” dance
instructor Sandi Duncan
said.
The Shaker Road
School in Concord made
the 22 blankets for the
Nov. 20 trip to New York.
“The blankets are
fleece and we put two
blankets together and
make cuts around the
edges and tie the cut
pieces together and join
them with knots, so
there’s no sewing involved. They are very
warm,” Duncan said.
Duncan said other
dance studios are getting
involved and are holding
blanket-making parties.
“They all accepted the
challenge. A studio that I
used to own made 25 of
them,” Duncan said.
Melissa Hoffman, owner of the studio, said the
effort brings a sense of
community.
“By doing this the kids
get to help out those that
have a need, and it brings
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the dance community
together and we can give
back to the community,”
Hoffman said.
Hoffman said they
were able to fill two SUV’s
and drive them to the
area of New York where
fires destroyed homes
and people have lost
everything. They’ve seen
the damage and the need
at Far Rockaway, Breezy
Point and Broad Channel.
“We went to Breezy
Point where the fires
were, and we came to a
checkpoint and the police
officer saw what we were
doing and waved us
through, saying ‘we need
you guys’,” Duncan said.
“We drove through
areas that had boats in
the middle of the road
and when we got to one
place, there were all these
cars that hadn’t been far
enough inland and they
were towing them all
away. When we asked
where they were going,
the guy said that they had
all been under water and
were junk, scrap,” Hoffman said.
Ten-year-old Paige Corlis got involved along with
her fellow dance students. “I like helping people,” Paige said.
Hoffman and Duncan
said they have a Christmas drive every year and
this seemed to naturally
go along with it.
They said there are
places that haven’t been
reached by anyone yet
and one person came to
them to try to help a family with children who are
still without electricity or
help.
“We leave about 5 a.m.
and drive the five hours
to New York and deliver
the blankets and everything and then turn
around and drive home
and get back about midnight. It’s worth it,” Duncan said.
Even though this humanitarian effort is going
on, Hoffman said the studio’s Christmas drive is
on as well, and anyone
wishing to donate can
visit Operation Miles to
Smiles on Facebook for
more information.
Melissa Hoffman Dance Studio students are shown with blankets destined for
Hurricane Sandy victims. Photo by Jay Hobson
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N OVEMBER 22, 2012
Planning Board Seeks Grant To Study Water Supplies
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ack Munn, chief planner with the Southern
New Hampshire Planning Commission (SNHPC),
went before the planning
board to discuss applying
for a $20,000 grant to
study Londonderry’s ground
water aquifer.
He said the study
would look at all the
water supply sources in
the community and pro-
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vide an inventory update.
Munn showed a graphic with the town’s public
water sources.
“This shows the state’s
listing of all your public
water supply sources,” he
said. “What we do is go
through this list and say,
‘yes, these are still in
operation or no, they’re
not in operation.’ Then
we confirm that in the
plan and then we go out
to the site. The advisory
committee is usually
involved with these operations.”
He noted that Pennichuck is the largest
water supply source in
town and has agreed to
participate in developing
the plan.
“Basically we incorporate water users and
water supply operators,
and then we do a field
check around the well
head area looking for
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Trailways Volunteers Find
Syringes At Kendall Pond
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderry Trailways President Bob
Saur met with the
Conservation Commission to discuss clean-up
activities at Kendall Pond,
and advised them that as
a couple of volunteers
were clearing away brush
and undergrowth to make
the parking lot more visible from the street, they
discovered syringes.
The cleanup was geared to making the area more
noticeable to the public for
possible recreation.
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A few days later on a
return trip to clear brush,
several more syringes
were found.
Saur brought some of
the syringes to the police
and told them where they
were found.
According to Londonderry Police Lieutenant
Kevin Cavallaro, when
incidents like this occur,
increased patrols and
enforcement are initiated
to curtail the behavior.
Saur suggested to the
commission at its Tuesday, Nov. 13 meeting the
possibility of widening
the sight lines to Kendall
Pond by clearing more
undergrowth in an effort
to increase visibility and
hopefully discourage illicit activity.
Londonderry Trailways
also noted the success of
a fundraising campaign
that offers residents and
others the opportunity to
donate $40 per foot of rail
trail in an effort to raise
funds to maintain and
pave the trail. At the Nov.
6 election, $2,000 was
raised at the polls. The
donations are tax deductible.
potential contamination
sources,” Munn added.
“These could be activities
or uses that may have
spillage of oil and petroleum and hazardous substances. Then we work
with the committee and
rank the vulnerability and
the risk associated with
those potential contamination sources either as
being high or low. And if
there are some high (risk)
ones, then we can bring
that to the attention of
the advisory committee
and the advisory committee then begins to look at
all the regulations, policies and plans the town
has in place. That includes best management
practices, spill containment, things that deal
with emergency management and addressing spills,
and then they decide
what are the best measures for protecting that
water source.”
According to Munn,
the next step is to create a
list of recommendations,
which then becomes a
plan that goes to the planning board.
Munn said that in
Derry, where the SNHPC
recently did such a
study, an extensive list
of recommendations was
provided, and they used
everything from education to conservation to
maintaining existing regulations.
“What we’d like you to
consider is that for this
grant to get approved by
the state, the state needs
to have a letter from the
planning board that shows,
number one, that you recognize the purpose of
doing a source water protection plan; two, that you
would participate by attending advisory committee meetings as you can,”
he said. “Three, that you
will consider any sort of
possible options, measures or actions that the
advisory committee would
suggest to you.”
He added that nothing
is mandatory, either with
the plan or the recommendations. “It’s all advisory,” Munn said.
Planning Board alternate Leitha Reilly, who is
an alternate Londonderry
representative on the
SNHPC board of commissioners, asked if there
were three or four
aquifers in Londonderry.
“That’s a key question
for the advisory committee and for you, the planning board,” Munn said.
He said the town has
several aquifers and
those, along with the well
heads for private suppliers, would be identified.
Planning board chairman Arthur Rugg, also an
SNHPC board commissioner, called for a motion
and on a motion by Laura
El-Azem and a second by
Lynn Wiles, the planning
board voted unanimously
to have Rugg sign the letter requesting the grant.
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N OVEMBER 22, 2012
PA G E 9
Area Seniors Urged to ‘Link Up’ with Services Available
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ill McLaughlin, Human
Services Director for
the Town of Derry,
looked out over a sea of
mostly silver heads. “How
many of you are on Food
Stamps?” she asked.
When no hands were
raised, McLaughlin said,
“That’s what I thought.”
They are as proud now
as when they survived the
Depression, fought to preserve democracy, and
rebuilt a nation on family
and faith. But there’s help
available for the struggling
senior, and McLaughlin
and Connie Young, program director for ServiceLink, spread out a
range of options this past
week at the Marion Gerrish Community Center.
Phyllis Katsakiores,
Derry Town Councilor and
chairman of Police Chief
Ed Garone’s Senior Advisory Committee, welcomed Derry and Londonderry seniors between
pouring coffee and pass-
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ing out doughnuts. The
Committee was formed
more than a decade ago at
Garone’s instigation. “It
addresses the concerns of
citizens - everything that
concerns seniors is important,” Katsakiores said.
She interrupted herself to hug a grizzled man
in a Pearl Harbor baseball
cap, saying, “Hey, buddy,
glad you could come.”
Officers Joyce Chadwell and Dan Komenda of
the Derry Police Department were there to pass
out material and answer
seniors’ questions, and
the forum was also filmed
for future use by Derry
Community Television.
McLaughlin went first,
describing the parameters
of her office. “We provide
emergency basic needs
assistance,” she said, listing food, electric bills,
mortgages or rent, and
“life-saving medications.”
McLaughlin described
the federal Fuel Assistance
Program, but said it doesn’t
start until Dec. 1. “That’s
where local welfare comes
in - we can get you an emergency 100 gallons,” she
said. But the federal program now has a local office
on Crystal Avenue, “and if
you’re cold, you should be
applying,” she said.
Deanna Mele of Londonderry asked how
often the funds were disbursed.
They are disbursed in
any amount from $100 to
$975, McLaughlin said. “But
we don’t have the money
yet, so we don’t know the
numbers,” she added.
McLaughlin said Federal Fuel Assistance looks
only at income, not at
assets, while Derry local
welfare looks at both.
Pat Dowling, a local
Realtor and member of
the elder committee, said
she had an elderly client
who had to sell her house,
and was having “a very
hard time. I took her to Jill
and she sat down with
her, and now she’s 100
percent better off.”
Katsakiores asked about
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electricity. “It’s high cost,
but it’s something all of us
need,” she pointed out.
McLaughlin said those
applying for fuel assistance can apply for electrical assistance at the
same time, and get 50 to
70 percent reductions in
their bills.
She can also get grants
for them through her
office, but she warned
that local welfare is not
free. In certain situations
clients would have to
arrange a pay-back schedule or have a lien placed
on their house.
But it’s an option, and
she urged struggling seniors to give her a call.
Young said her agency,
based in Salem, covers
western Rockingham County. That includes Derry and
Londonderry, she said.
Young said her agency
complements the work
available through local welfare offices. She observed,
“If you have the right information, you may not get in
an emergency situation.”
ServiceLink does exactly what it says - it links people to available services,
Young said. “As we’re
aging our needs change,
and we need to draw on
new resources,” she said.
This can be anything
from applying for Medicare for the first time to
help with prescription
drugs to advice against
health care fraud. “There
are resources for your prescriptions, low-income
subsidies, pharmaceutical
company programs,” she
said. If needed, they can
help a senior file an appeal
to Medicare, she said.
Medicare paperwork
is a big part of their job,
Young said. “The state
looks back five years at
your paperwork - it’s
enough to make the average person ‘run for the
hills,’” she said. But her
staff is trained in the red
tape and fine print, and
they even do house calls.
“We are for the older
adult, the disabled, the
chronically ill and the family caregiver,” she said.
Katsakiores said she
had taken an older friend
to Service Link when it
was time to apply for
Social Security Disability.
“They sat with her for
four hours - but she got
it,” Katsakiores said.
Katsakiores asked how
the Affordable Care Act,
also known as Obamacare, would affect seniors and Medicare.
Some of the changes
are good for seniors,
Young said. There’s a free
health screening in the act,
though she emphasized it
does not replace the annual physical. And the act
includes a provision to
close the hated “doughnut
hole,” the gap between
prescription subsidies.
Young said she’d been
contacted by a group that
will explain the Affordable
Care changes in detail to
seniors, and Katsakiores
said, “We want them.”
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Teen Airlifted To Boston
After Route 102 Rollover
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he teenage driver of
a Hyundai Elantra
was flown by DHART
helicopter to a Boston
hospital after the car he
was driving struck an SUV
in the eastbound lane of
Route 102 over Interstate
93 and rolled over.
According to police,
Randy McGibbon, 19, of
Derry was driving a 2010
Hyundai eastbound on
Route 102 when he struck
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a stopped SUV that was
waiting to take a left turn
onto I-93. McGibbon struck
the right rear corner of the
vehicle driven by Michael
McGrade of Wilton, causing McGibbon’s vehicle to
roll over twice.
The collision occurred
about 5:15 p.m. Nov. 14,
and McGibbon was extracted from his vehicle
by Londonderry Fire Rescue using the Jaws of Life.
McGibbon sustained
substantial head trauma
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N OVEMBER 22, 2012
Kevin Coyle Ready for Work as County Commissioner
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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evin Coyle is ready
to work. The prosecutor for the Londonderry Police Department, a Republican from
Derry, won the election
for the County Commissioner seat for District 3.
He joins fellow newcomer
Tom Tombarello of Sandown, District 2, and
incumbent Kate Pratt, District 1, to oversee the
affairs of Rockingham
County.
Coyle won over Democrat Bob Davidson of Nottingham.
Though Democrats reigned in the November
general election, Coyle
said he isn’t worried
about getting along with
them. “I do what I think is
right, and people respect
me for it,” he said.
Besides, Coyle said,
partisanship doesn’t matter quite as much at the
county level. There are
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certain things the county
has to provide, such as a
home for the elderly and a
means for incarceration,
and it doesn’t matter
what the ruling party is.
The county portion of
the tax rate is the smallest
portion for any town, and
Coyle said he would try
hard to manage the funds
they are given to work
with. For him, it comes
down to “wants” and
“needs.”
“I’m going into this
making sure the needs get
properly funded to get the
job done,” he said. “I want
to take a fresh look at
everything - taxes are
high for everyone.” If
there’s money left over
for a few wants, that’s
fine, he said, but he doesn’t see all the “wants”
being funded.
In particular, Coyle
said, he’s going to be looking at the biggest county
expenses - the nursing
home, human services,
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with her family by her side.
She is survived by her husband, Ludwig; children Timothy, Pamela, Brian, Kristofer, Gretchen,
Rachel, Ludwig and Hans; and eight grandchildren and one on the way.
A memorial service was held at Calvary Bible
Church in Derry. Graveside services were held
Nov. 19 in the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery
in Boscawen. The arrangements are in the care of
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the jail and the sheriff’s
office. The nursing home
brings in some revenue
from Medicare, Medicaid
and private care services,
and he’ll be looking at
that offsetting revenue
too, he said.
Coyle will represent
District 3, which includes
Derry, Auburn, Londonder-
ry, Candia, Chester, Deerfield, Northwood, Nottingham and Windham.
The outgoing commissioners, Maureen Barrows
of Exeter and C. Donald
Stritch of Auburn, have
been very helpful in the
transition, he said.
Though he won’t be
sworn in until January, his
work has already begun,
Coyle said. “We are dedicating some time to it
now, because the new
budget is due Jan. 15,” he
said.
Coyle, a former Derry
Town Councilor who
chose not to run for
reelection the last time
around, said he plans to
keep his job with Londonderry, and is sure it will
work out. The LPD is open
24-7, he said, and if he has
county business in the
daytime, he will come
over at night and work on
paperwork for the prosecutor’s job.
“It’s quieter then,” he
said.
that the burden of proof is
on the applicant to satisfy
all five of the variance criteria. Every single one of
them - all five. If in the estimation of the zoning
board the applicant doesn’t satisfy that, then you’re
not to grant the variance.
If they do satisfy all five,
then you should grant the
variance.”
Brown added that the
variance request from
phasing and growth management was not in the
spirit of the ordinance.
Michael Thompson of
52 Perkins Road said he
was opposed to granting
the variances because the
number of potential renters would have an impact
on the school system. He
said “a horrendous traffic
problem at exit five (of
Interstate 93)” would
result from granting the
variances.
During his rebuttal,
Leonard said the traffic
issue would be addressed
at the planning board and
traffic issues at the end of
Perkins Road were caused
somewhat by current construction, which would
alleviate problems when it
was finished. He also said
the issue wasn’t about
density.
ZBA member Larry
O’Sullivan said it was his
understanding that without the variances, the project would come to a
standstill because it
wouldn’t be profitable.
Leonard responded
that it would have to be reevaluated.
During deliberations
the spirit of the ordinance
came up repeatedly and
that the public interest of
the ordinance was not
being met.
On reducing workforce
housing from 75 percent
to 50 percent, Neil Dunn,
Larry O’Sullivan, Jim
Smith and James Totten
voted against the decrease, with Jay Hooley in
favor.
On increasing the number of units from 16 to 24
per building, Dunn, O’Sullivan and Smith voted
against allowing the increase, and Hooley and
Totten voted in favor.
The entire board opposed allowing a change
in phasing.
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asked for those in favor of
the project to come to the
podium, no one did so.
When the residents who
were opposed were invited to speak, several abutters and residents took
turns at the podium to
address their concerns.
Alice McArdle told the
board, “For the past 35
years I have lived at 55
Perkins Road, and have
enjoyed the country, rural,
tranquil life.” She said of
her concerns, “density in
the rural area is inconsistent with the character of
a quiet neighborhood an
AR-1 (agricultural/residential) zoning. Number two,
the dwelling units will generate an increase in traffic
and put an inordinate
stress on the rural roads
system in the immediate
neighborhood. Number
three, this neighborhood
density is one unit per
acre and accordingly, a
consistent density should
be no more than nine units
or 9.3 acres. Number four,
this variance request will
drastically change the
character of our neighborhood. Therefore, I am not
in favor of allowing this
variance and setting an
irrevocable
precedent
which will open the floodgates to future changes of
character of this peaceful
neighborhood. I urge this
board to deny this request
for increasing the density.”
Several of the opponents said traffic was an
issue and cars on Perkins
Road would make turning
onto Perkins Road from
side streets more difficult.
Jill Moss of 60 Bartley
Hill Road said there would
be 240 additional cars on
Perkins Road if the variances were granted, and
not all of them would be
going north and turning
onto the highway - many
would be traveling south
down Perkins Road to use
town services and other
destinations.
“I think you have a real
safety issue by putting
that many apartments in
that area,” Moss said.
Mike Brown of 5
Carousel Court said, “I just
want to remind the board
and the general public
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PA G E 11
Schools, Community Agencies Join Forces to Give Kids a Chance
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he odds were working against Kelsey
Carroll, a senior at
Somersworth High School.
Raised by an alcoholic
mother, she went to live
with her father, a stern exNavy disciplinarian who
didn’t understand his
daughter’s ADHD (attentin deficit hyperactivity
disorder) or other needs.
She was a senior at 19,
having repeated her sophomore year, and as she
walked through the high
school corridors, she
bristled with attitude.
But Kelsey graduated,
and a coalition of area agencies and schools is working
together to see that there
are more Kelseys.
Kelsey’s story is told
in “Who Cares About
Kelsey?” - a documentary
by Dan Habib, filmmaker
in residence with the
Institute on Disability at
the University of New
T
Hampshire.
The film was shown
Tuesday, Nov. 13, in the
Stockbridge Theatre at
Pinkerton Academy. More
than 300 people attended
the screening and stayed
for a discussion with Carroll and her guidance counselor, Kathy Francoeur.
The showing was sponsored by the Endowment
for Health and hosted by
the Regional Community of
Practice, a collaborative
project of health care, educational and social service
organizations serving Derry,
Londonderry, Hudson and
Litchfield.
Chris Harper, dean of
academic affairs at Pinkerton, introduced Habib.
A press release described the film this way:
“Kelsey Carroll has one
goal - to graduate from
high school - and plenty of
reasons why she shouldn’t. She has dealt with
homelessness, self-mutilation and ADHD. ‘Who
Cares About Kelsey?’ is
the story of Kelsey’s transformation from a defiant
and disruptive student to
a motivated and self-confident young woman.”
“This is the beginning
of a discussion,” Harper
said as he introduced
Habib. “We talk about No
Child Left Behind and we
need to mean No Child
Left Behind.” Harper referred to “community
partners” and emphasized
the fact that, “It’s not just
Pinkerton doing something. We need to ensure
that these students find
success in education.”
As Habib took the
stage to introduce his
film, he said the inspiration for this kind of documentary began with his
own son Samuel, now a
seventh-grader. Samuel
has physical disabilities,
and Habib shot “Including
Samuel” as a way to
explore “how we can be
fully inclusive. All kids
should be welcome in our
public schools.”
After “Samuel,” he
said, he began to consider
children with emotional
and behavioral difficulties. “I wondered, ‘How
can I show what it looks
like to have a child with
significant disabilities included?” he said.
Somersworth is now a
national model after reducing its dropout rate by
75 percent and its discipline rate by 50 percent,
Habib said.
The viewer meets Kelsey Carroll as she is driving to her part-time job in
a local supermarket. “I
think I scan my pillow in
my sleep,” she says jokingly. She is funny, honest
and achingly self-aware.
“I have a lot of anger,”
she says as she navigates
the halls of Somersworth
High School. “I don’t
think, I just do.” She talks
candidly about being
caught with a controlled
substance freshman year,
though it turned out to be
her own prescription
medication.
She is shown in class,
with a counseling team, at
home and in training with
the Rollinsford Volunteer
Fire Department.
In her sophomore year
the school introduced
PBIS (Positive Behavior
Intervention Support) and
a PBIS component called
RENEW, which focuses on
at-risk students like Carroll.
Principal Sharon Lampros says of Carroll, “She
has the ability to become
a champion of the underdog.”
But Carroll has to fight
her past and a good part
of her present, noting in
one poignant moment,
“You don’t get your hopes
up for anything.”
Carol Van Loon, a Londonderry school staff
member, wrote the grant
for “Kelsey” and helped
organize the conference.
“New Hampshire is one of
three study states developing this community of
practice,” she said. “We
hope it will serve as a
model. We’re using the
film as a catalyst for
action at the local and
regional levels.”
Community partners
were already in evidence
as representatives of community agencies including
The Upper Room, the Community Alliance for Teen
Safety (CATS), the Center
for Life Management and
the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists staffed tables in the
lobby.
The “conversation” will
continue Jan. 17 at 4:30
p.m. in the Hudson Memorial School library. The
snow date is Jan. 24.
For more information
about the documentary,
visit www.iod.unh.edu/.
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ondonderry Fundraising Partners Inc.,
(LFP), a new nonprofit corporation, is
launching its first event
and providing an opportunity for businesses to
connect with Londonderry youth organizations to
raise money.
The purpose of LFP is
to serve as a resource to
organize and promote
fundraising for Londonderry youth programs. Participation is free and open to
any business or Londonderry youth organization.
The idea of LFP began
in the fall of 2010 when LTown Garage in North
Londonderry began a
fundraising program with
the Londonderry High
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money for the band’s trip
to the 2011 Rose Parade
in Pasadena, Calif. L-Town
provided a free car
inspection to anyone who
would donate the $29
inspection fee to the
band. That program has
continued and has raised
over $20,000 for the LHS
Band and Color Guard.
The success of that
program
gave
Mark
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Garage, the idea to
encourage local businesses to offer similar programs. Although he and
his business are not
involved in the management of LFP, which is led
by a Board of Directors,
his business is participat-
ing as a donor organization.
“I think it would be
great for the community
to have multiple businesses offering programs,
even with similar promotions,” Phillips said. “The
goal is to support the
youth of Londonderry.”
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LONDONDERRY SPORTS
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Fall Dodgeball Event Sees Success Again At LHS
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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t doesn’t seem possible,
but folks who attended
all four days of competition of the 2012-13 Londonderry High School
National Honor Society
Dodgeball Tournament
say the event was even
better competitively and
more exciting than in past
years.
More than 30 small
teams made up of LHS students played in the tourney on the competition
nights, Wednesday and
Thursday, Nov. 7 and 8,
and Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 13 and 14, in the
Londonderry High Gymnasium. And the funds
raised through the event estimated by Honor Society faculty adviser and
LHS English teacher Mary
Shank to be around $2,000
- will go to the Manchester
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The annual tourney
started out with 34 teams
competing, but when there
were just two left and all of
the proverbial marbles
were on the table, the Rancho Chupacabrajes’ squad
defeated the Super Troopers in the title match on
Nov. 14 to win the crown
and the bragging rights
that went with it.
I
“Super Trooper” Brian Greene winds up during the final match against the
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The championship
squad was made up of
Stephen Wong, Tom Newman, Scott Hudson, Ryan
Maloney, Kelly Smith,
Mike Vitale, and Tommy
Corey.
The runner-up Super
Trooper crew included
Anthony Ferrara, Dylan
Holland, Rob Hart, Kenny
Desmarais, Brian Greene,
and Tom Beedham.
“By far one of the most
exciting and surprising
tournaments yet,” said
Shank. “After doing this
for six years, I saw some
of the best upsets by
underdogs ever. It really
made for a very entertaining four days of competition. I was also thrilled to
see a greater showing of
parents out to support
their kids. That’s always a
great thing to see.”
The final night of the
event also received exposure this time around by
LHS teacher Karen Robinson and her broadcasting
students covered the lateround action live on LEO.
And as always seems
to be the case, many of
the LHS students on the
different teams showed
imagination and a sense of
humor in naming their
squads.
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N OVEMBER 22, 2012
Blue Lion Cheerleaders Enjoy Great 2012 Campaign
The Londonderry Blue Lions’ ‘Blue’ team, made up of young ladies aged 10
and under, enjoyed a fine 2012 season with many great showings at tournaments both far and near.
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he 2012 campaign
was a memorable
and impressive one
for the Londonderry Blue
Lions’ cheerleading squads.
And the girls, their coaches, and their parents
shouldn’t have any difficulty remembering the
season for multiple reasons.
The local organization,
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through nine, had its Blue
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the recently-completed
campaign.
The Blue squad for
young ladies 10 and
under, led by head coach
Shawna Howard and her
assistant coaches Jackie
Curran, Marissa Lucci,
and Lizzy Domingue, finished first at the London-
derry Fall Classic, second
at both the Bedford Season Premier tourney and
the Stacy Stott Tournament, and third at the
Derry Harvest competition and the Reggie Lewis
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That contingent’s cheerleaders included Sydney
Rankin, Alexandra Kelly,
Mikayla Cantone, Olivia
DeAngelis, Cassidy Douglas, Alana Mobbs, Nicolette Brunelle, Sara Campagna, Grace Casarano,
The Blue Lions’ ‘Silver’ team, made up of young ladies aged 11 to 13, was
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PA G E 15
LHS Soccer Boosters Hand Out Annual Scholarships
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ith Londonderry
High School’s girls’
and boys’ varsity
soccer squads both making it deep into their Division I tournaments this
fall, there was plenty to
celebrate when the booters and their supporters
got together recently.
The Londonderry Goals
Association (LGA) - the
soccer booster club of
LHS for nearly 30 years
now - held its annual
banquet on Nov. 11 at the
Radisson Hotel Manchester Downtown and named
the recipients of the 16
scholarships awarded to
seniors who played soccer at the local school
this fall.
Tori Sailor, a threeyear varsity starter for
the Lady Lancers, was
awarded the third annual
Dave Kelly Community
Service Scholarship. The
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scholarship to honor
Kelly, who has given
countless hours of service to Londonderry’s soccer programs. Sailor was
chosen based on a written essay in which she
described how soccer has
influenced her life both
on and off the field.
Kenny Desmarais, who
spent three years on the
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Londonderry High soccer stalwarts Tori Sailor, left, Kenny Desmarais, and
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Other seniors receiving LGA scholarships
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LHS boys’ varsity soccer
squad, received the Brian
Hanafin Memorial Scholarship. Desmarais was
selected by boys’ varsity
coach Jeff Colbert for
making contributions to
the LHS soccer program
in a way that reflects the
spirit and character of
Brian Hanafin, a former
LHS soccer player who
passed away in 2004 after
a battle with a brain
tumor.
Hanafin was a graduate in the class of 2000, a
tri-captain of the soccer
team and, in 1999, an AllNew England soccer selection for New Hampshire. He went on to play
soccer at Plymouth State
College, where as a freshman he was named that
school’s men’s soccer
rookie of the year.
Aimee Charest, a twoyear varsity player on
coach Derek Dane’s girls’
team, was this year’s
recipient of the Shannon
MacDougall
Memorial
Scholarship. Charest was
chosen by Dane for
reflecting the spirit and
character of MacDougall, a Lancer soccer player who was killed in an
automobile accident while
still a student at Londonderry High.
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L O N D O N D E R RY T I M E S
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N OVEMBER 22, 2012
LHS Junior Varsity Boy Booters Both Won And Developed
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderr y High
School junior varsity
boys’ soccer coach
Kevin Brassard wound up
with plenty of reasons to
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be proud of his charges
this fall.
The JV booters posted
a 13-2 season record and
fell just a victory short of
a post-season championship, snagging a run-
ner-up finish at the junior
varsity tournament.
Brasssard’s bunch boasted plenty of talent, including strikers Elijah Ellis,
Cody Woods, Max Hastings, and Lewis Carroll;
midfielders Keith Foley,
Scott Beedham, Alex
Champa, Tom Cranmer,
Jonah Bencal, Scott
Lynch, Andrew Brunelle,
Nick Brodeur, and John
Derhak; defensemen Amir
Daouk, Keegan Krawic,
Andrew Tharrington, Alex
Young, Casey Tardif, Luke
Charbonneau, and Brendan Enwright, and goalie
Keith Weidner.
When thinking back on
his contingent’s 15 per-
formances of the campaign, Brassard pointed
to his squad’s efforts in a
2-1 edging of those archrivals from Pinkerton
Academy as being among
the best.
“What made the Pinkerton game special was
coming back after being
down 1-0 in the first three
minutes of the game due
to a penalty,” he said.
And summing up the
big picture, Brassard was
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more than a little happy
with how his charges had
blended by the time the
campaign ended.
“Overall, I was very
pleased with the way the
team came together. At the
start of the season, we had
a lot of individual talent. By
the end of the season, we
had come together as a
team, trusted each other,
and our possession improved as a result,” he said.
“It was a great season.”
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Lady Lancers’ JV Soccer
Squad Wins Lots And Grows
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
Signin’ on
the Line
Londonderry High School
pitching standout Ryan Moloney
signs his letter of intent to attend
and play hardball at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
this past Monday, Nov. 19, at LHS.
In the photo below, the talented
right-handed pitcher poses with
his proud parents, Jim and
Colleen Moloney, moments after
making his signing official.
Moloney has been a key member
of coach Brent Demas’ Lancer
pitching staff for several seasons.
Photos by Chris Paul
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he Londonderry High
School girls’ varsity
soccer team is losing some heavy-duty talent to graduation in the
spring. But judging by
what the Lady Lancers’
junior varsity soccer squad
accomplished this fall,
there will be plenty of talent lined up to step into
the void at the varsity
level in 2013.
Coach Dan Alexander’s LHS junior varsity
booters posted an exceptional, 12-1-2 record, and
repeated as the state’s JV
champs as well. And they
showed the kinds of talent and determination
that would make any
T
coach happy to have
them under his charge.
The squad was led by
captains Jamie Cava (a
junior), Rachel Stevens,
and Kassie Moore (both
sophomores).
The contingent also
included senior Steph
Peters, juniors Beth Griffin
and Andrea Falcon, sophomores Sara Bell, Chelsea
Lewis, Leanna Geiger,
Chelsea Austin, and Becky
Walker, and freshmen
Breda Holland, Emily Davison, and Jackie Luckhardt.
“I was thrilled by the
strength and determination that the girls showed
throughout the entire season,” said coach Alexander. “Not only was the
team blessed to have such
great captains, there were
many others that contributed to this great season.”
And honing in on just
one or two high-points of
the successful campaign
wasn’t at all easy for the
coach.
“There were many
highlights over the season, from a nine-game win
streak to exchange student Andrea Falcon scoring her first goal in the
United States, and capping the season off by
winning the Division I JV
state championship for
the second straight year
with a 2-0 victory over
rival (Manchester) Central High School,” said
Alexander.
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PA G E 17
Athlete Overcomes Cancer, Credits Mind And Body Discipline
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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arbara Woo, 45, is a
devoted woman. She
devotes everything
she has to what she does,
whether it’s kickboxing,
bodybuilding, mixed martial arts or dance, and in
all of them she excels.
Together with her husband, Roger, she teaches
kickboxing at Woo Kickboxing in the Apple Tree
Mall.
Woo was diagnosed
with breast cancer in
April 2011 and she devoted herself to getting
through it.
“I went in for a routine
mammogram and there
was something funny on
the mammogram that required additional testing,
and shortly after that I got
the phone call from my
doctor saying that the
tests revealed that I had
Ductal Carcinoma in situ,
better known as DCIS, and
that I had to have surgery
to have it removed,” Woo
said.
The surgery didn’t get
all the cancer, however,
and she was back on the
operating table two weeks
to the day after her initial
surgery.
After the second sur-
B
gery, Woo had to endure
37 days of radiation therapy.
“This November is one
year of my being cancer
free,” Woo said.
Woo said the only day
of class she missed during her cancer fighting
experience was the day
she went in for surgery.
“I refused to let cancer
take me down. I decided
that I had too much to live
for,” Woo said.
Woo is a petite yet
muscular woman. A former ballet dancer, she
loved to dance and from
an early age studied ballet. She taught ballet when
she was 16 years old.
Barbara Woo and her husband, Roger Woo, are picShe is also a former
tured at their gym. Photo by Jay Hobson
Miss Hawaiian Tropic, has
fought using mixed mar- trainer and when she first visit, the trainer said
tial arts in a cage, and went to see her on the that Woo should comteaches kickboxing. She
placed in body building
competitions a mere 11
weeks after answering an
ad inviting her to join a
gym.
“Four months ago I
received a gift certificate
in the mail for lifting
weights at a workout facility and I thought, ‘I think
I’ll do that,’ I’ll go join and
you know, just to tone up
my body,” Woo said.
Woo hired a nutrition
pete. After a day of training Woo said, “Why not.
I’ll try it. I’ll step out of
that box just like I preach
about.”
For her body building
competition, her husband, Roger, was her
weight and physical trainer. She dropped 16
pounds and reduced her
body fat to competition
requirements. She eats
healthy and credits that
and her physical regimen,
positive thoughts and
focus with helping her
stay healthy.
She entered two competitions in five divisions.
At the 2012 Granite State
Open Body Building and
Figure Championships,
Woo placed second and
fifth. At the 2012 INBF
“Monster Mash” Body
Building, Bikini, Figure
and Fit Body Championships, Woo placed second in Masters Women
Figure, fourth in Fit Body
Tall and fifth in Open
Women Figure Tall.
Woo said she tells her
students they need to
step out of their comfort
zone and “put the blinders on.”
Her philosophy is
noted on a sign over a
door at the kickboxing
studio that reads: “I can
do this if I make myself do
this.”
Her husband and her
three children are Woo’s
life. Like the rest of her
accomplishments, there’s
only one word that fits
her feelings for her family
and theirs for her - devotion.
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Budget
Continued from page 1
who are in the best place
to make them, the department heads,” Hart said.
Hart said option one
involves the finance director and town clerk/tax collector to make significant
reductions on July 1 as
they see fit. He said option
two makes town-wide
reductions to achieve the
stated goal. He recommends option two.
“The overarching view
is to reduce by $150,000,”
council chair John Farrell
said.
Councilor Tom Dolan
asked Hart for input regarding whether to forego
bonding and put money
into road work. Finance
Director Susan Hickey
said she believed the theory is if they were paying
for debt, then the town
was paying interest, and
with all the bonds that
were being entered into,
eventually the town
would be paying more in
interest than it would be
worth. By putting money
into a trust fund each
year, they would get to a
level where they wouldn’t
be paying debt service
interest and other bond
issuance costs.
Hart said that the big
three departments - fire,
police and public works are where the money is.
He said he didn’t include
the library because the
library staff agreed to voluntary cuts by not taking
Cost of Living Adjustment
(COLA) increases and
merit increases totaling
$22,500.
Councilor Joe Green
asked if that was in addition to the $8,000 the
town asked for from the
library, and Hart replied
that it was “a double dip.”
Budget Committee
member Chris Melcher
asked if there were employee reductions for the
town, and Hart replied
that under options one
and two, there were none
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but under option three,
there was a reduction of
one person either from
police or fire.
Melcher asked if it
then made sense to have
a warrant article requesting a police officer when
one of the options was to
cut a position.
Hart said that everything was on the table,
but he agreed with Melcher’s assessment.
According to Hart, if
the police were to hire an
uncertified recruit officer,
salary would be $49,000
with benefits, retirement
at $12,000, health insurance at $9,000, dental at
$500 and other benefits to
total $76,966. For a certified officer, the cost
would total $101,000.
“I would suggest in
terms of budgeting, that
we use the latter figure,
not the former, and the
primary reason for that is
this will be, from a budgeting perspective, an
ongoing expense,” Hart
said. “So notwithstanding
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the initial inclination by
consensus to consider it
as a warrant article, in
year two it will become
part of the budget and as
such, part of the default
budget, and the incremental budget increases
borne by the taxpayers
will be marginal, approximately $1,000 and change.
The amount to allocate
would be approximately
$100,000.”
Farrell summarized by
saying the town had taken
a $452,000 downshift from
the state. “We’ve taken
$275,000 increase in health
benefits for a total of
$727,000,” he said. “We
now asked for $150,000
below default, and taking
into consideration that we
don’t want to cut too deep
or too far.”
He would like Hart to
return next Monday with
a budget $100,000 below
default, with Hart and
Hickey to decide where
that is going to come
from. All council members agreed.
Responding to a Saturday question about the
increase in Tax Collector
/Town Clerk retirement,
Hart said Monday night,
“As the council is aware,
the retirement accounts
have increased based on
the assessments given to
the town by the New
Hampshire Retirement Assessment system. Those
increases are not just pertinent to police and fire,
they are also pertinent to
civilian employees, and
those increases were
reflected in the town
clerk’s budget.”
In other business at
Monday’s meeting:
• Hart said he was
looking into bathroom
repairs at the Senior Center. “Initial concern was
that given the age of the
building itself, it’s not as
simple as simply repairing
the bathroom because the
corridor has some concerns in the sense that it
may not be ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)
compliant,” he said.
“We need to replace
them,” Councilor Jim Butler said.
• Hart, in his role as
police chief, recognized
several police officers,
part of his effort to let the
council and residents
“know of some good
things that have happened
in the police department.”
At Monday night’s
meeting, Hart recognized
recently hired police officer Narcisso Junior Garcia, who is currently attending the police academy; officer Jake King, who
reinstituted the Police
Explorer program; Sgt.
Shannon Coyle, the first
female to be promoted to
the ranks of supervisor;
and Sean Doyle, who was
promoted to the rank of
Detective.
Hart also introduced
members of his command
staff: Captains Gerry Dussault, Bob Michaud and
Paul Fulone, and recognized Sergeant Patrick
Cheetham for making
sure that the outstanding
jobs that staff do is recognized.
• Mike Speltz, a member of the Master Plan
Steering Committee and an
alternate on the Conservation Commission, told the
council it is difficult to
have one person do the job
of two people.
He asked the council to
restore the full capacity of
the planning staff, which
has not had a director
since Andre Garron resigned.
Noting that the town is
updating its master plan
and is in the midst of
reviewing the Woodmont
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to restore our planning
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Londonderry Police Log
Selections from the Londonderry Police Logs
Tuesday, Nov. 13
11:25 a.m. Theft of chainsaw at Burger King,
Nashua Road.
1:52 p.m. Burglary reported on High Range Road.
Wednesday, Nov. 14
12:30 p.m. Renee Dionne,
30, 51 South Road, Londonderry arrested on
warrant for Simple Assault and Obstructing Report of Crime or Injury.
She was released on
$2,000 personal recognizance bail, with Derry District Court date of Dec. 10.
4:28 p.m. Theft of wallet
from car yesterday at
Cracker Barrel Ole Country Store, Nashua Road.
Thursday, Nov. 15
6 a.m. The Woodworks on
North Wentworth Avenue
reports two trucks had
about 180 gallons of diesel
taken from the tanks. One
truck was at North Wentworth Avenue and the
other at Delta Drive.
1:45 p.m. Officer reporting hunter close to Londonderry Middle School,
Mammoth Road.
3:01 p.m. Caller on Hovey
Road reporting hunters
on his property, he told
them to leave, and they
responded with obscene
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comment. Officer located
hunters’ vehicles.
4:48 p.m. Thomas Rugo,
65, 9 Ridgemont Drive,
Londonderry turned himself in on warrant for Criminal Threatening (intimidation, etc.). No bail or court
information provided.
5:08 p.m. Kevin J. Malone,
2 Nutfield Drive, Londonderry arrested following
motor vehicle accident at
Wendy’s on Nashua Road.
Suspect vehicle left and
headed west on Route
102. Complainant followed him, and they
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Twenty volunteers turned out
last Saturday to cut down
trees, clear brush and tackle
an overgrown jungle on the
Cohas section of the Rail Trail
in north Londonderry. In 2013,
the goal will be to remove the
tracks and improve drainage
in a few spots. About 1,500 linear feet of trail was cleared,
with an additional 500 feet
cleared two weeks earlier. The
clean-up was orchestrated by
Londonderry Trailways, and
some volunteers with the
Derry Rail Trail Association
Courtesy
took part as well.
photo
pulled onto Palmer. Officers attempted to stop
vehicle but it continued
moving. Vehicle stopped
in Hannaford parking lot.
Malone was arrested for
Disobeying an Officer, Driving While Intoxicated
(second offense), Open
Container of Alcohol, and
Conduct after an Accident. He was released on
$10,000 personal recognizance bail, with Derry District Court date of Dec. 10.
Friday, Nov. 16
7:43 a.m. Kevin Michael
Landry, 39, 174 South
Road, Londonderry turned
himself in on warrant for
Unauthorized Use of Propelled Vehicle/Rental Property. Bail was set at $5,000
personal recognizance plus
$40 bail commissioner fee,
with Derry District Court
date of Dec. 10.
Saturday, Nov. 17
12:25 a.m. Loud party
reported on Coteville
Road. Police found nothing loud.
10:02 a.m. Criminal mischief reported on Orchard
View Drive.
3:27 p.m. Vehicle on fire
in road at Nashua and
Mammoth roads.
7:29 p.m. Jason R. Palmer,
35, 15-B Reed St., Londonderry arrested for First
Degree Assault, Simple
Assault, Criminal Threatening (use of deadly wea-
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pon) and Criminal Restraint. Bail was set at
$5,000 cash, which he was
unable to post. He was
then transported to the
Rockingham County Jail
in Brentwood to await
arraignment in Derry District Court on Nov. 19.
10:27 p.m. Theft of services reported at 501 Pizza &
Subs, Mammoth Road.
Sunday, Nov. 18
8:08 a.m. Michael D.
Austin, 49, 43 West Rosedale Ave., Manchester
arrested on Londonderry
warrant for Conduct After
an Accident. He was
released on $1,000 personal recognizance bail,
with Derry District Court
date of Dec. 10.
12:19 p.m. Burglary reported on High Range
Road.
1:34 p.m. Sick fox reported on Chase Road.
2:16 p.m. Caller reported
hunters on caller’s property on Mammoth Road.
Monday, Nov. 19
9:35 a.m. Harley D. Valley,
17, 12A Auburn Road, Londonderry arrested at Londonderry High School,
Mammoth Road on Londonderry warrant for Simple Assault and Disorderly Conduct. Bail was set at
$2,500 personal recognizance plus the $40 bail
commissioner’s fee, with
Derry District Court date
of Dec. 3.
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The Greater Londonderry
Chapter of Business and Professional Women (BPW)
holds its 14th annual holiday
charity auction Dec. 5 at 6
p.m. at the Yard Restaurant,
1112 Mammoth Road, Manchester. All proceeds will benefit the YWCA Crisis Center,
which provides direct services to victims of domestic violence in the Greater Derry and
Manchester Area. Auction
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Friends of Library
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The Friends of the Londonderry Leach Library’s
annual Holiday Craft Sale is
now on display at the Library.
The items include spoons
with various cocoas, teas and
coffees, along with handmade
poinsettias, scented soaps,
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Interfaith Choir Concert Lessons and Carols
The Interfaith Choir presents “Rejoice and Be Merry”
on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m.
at Hampstead Congregational
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The St. Jude Parish adult
choir will present the 12th
annual Advent Lessons and
Carols on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 4
p.m. at the church, 435 Mammoth Road. The concert will
feature traditional and contemporary Advent music and
readings from Sacred Scripture heralding the expectation of the birth of Jesus
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First Saturday Devotions
Women of all ages are
invited to join an Advent
Prayer Service on Dec. 1, to
walk through the Old Testa-
ment in preparation for
Christmas. During the morning participants will be honoring Our Lady at First Saturday Devotions at St.
Patrick Parish, Main Street.
Pelham in the Knights of
Columbus Hall. The program begins with Mass at 8
a.m., followed by the Rosary
Boy Scout Troop 1910 from Londonderat 8:30 a.m. and a potluck
ry recently hiked Mount Monadnock starting from Gilson Pond. Pictured with
breakfast. Adoration will be
the rocky peak in the background are Patrick Strong, from left, Ryan Ziegler,
available before Mass at
Tristan Crane, Trevor Pascarelli, Alan Rankin, Nick Codner, Alex Hawk, and
7:30 a.m. in the chapel. For
Sean Daley. To see additional photos or to learn more about the troop, visit
more information, call Linda
Courtesy photo
http://www.troop1910.net/.
at 930-6436 or email
[email protected]
om. To carpool from Londonderry, call Christine at mostly from 6 to 8 feet in comedy and incorporates p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at Lon437-2866.
length and freshly cut in audience participation and donderry Middle School for
North Stratford, will be volunteer assistants. The grades 7 and 8. Admission is
Santa Live
available, along with a good program is open to all ages. $6. Drinks and snacks will be
Santa and Mrs. Claus will selection of 9-foot and taller Advance registration is sold.
be visiting the Londonderry premium trees and a few required and begins at 9
Access Center on Saturday, smaller trees, including a.m. Monday, Dec. 3. To reg- Poinsettia Sale
The YMCA of Greater
Dec. 15, from 1 to 3 p.m. “Charlie Brown” size. The ister, call 432-1127 or stop
Londonderry
is selling poinKids can visit and tell Santa Knights, assisted by several by the Children’s Room at
settias to help support its
what they want for Christ- Confirmation students, will the library.
Reach Out for Youth and
mas live on CTV-20. Santa be selling trees on SaturFamilies campaign this holiwill be giving out goodies days and Sundays from 9 Lions Christmas Trees
and telling stories, and kids a.m. to 6 p.m., and Mondays
The Londonderry Lions day season. From now until
can sing their favorite through Fridays from 6 to 8 Club’s annual Christmas Nov. 30, purchase poinsetChristmas carols. This is an p.m. until they are gone. All tree sale begins Friday, Nov. tias and 50 percent of the
opportunity to get a picture trees are usually sold out by 23, at the Lions Hall, 256 sale will directly support
of your child on Santa’s lap, mid-December. All proceeds Mammoth Road. The trees the community. Fill out an
and it is free. For questions, go directly to charities and are fresh from Vermont. All order form at the YMCA of
call the access center at 432- organizations supported by sizes, including tall trees, Greater Londonderry’s Wel1147.
the Knights of Columbus are offered. Some local come Desk at 206 Rockingand St. Mark’s Parish, which delivery can be arranged. ham Road. For more inforK of C Christmas Trees serves parts of Londonder- All proceeds from the mation, call the Y at 437St. Mark’s Council #10488 ry, Windham, and Hudson.
Christmas tree sale goes to 9622.
of the Knights of Columbus
Lions Club charities, most
presents its biggest fund- Magic Show
of them in Londonderry. Hoedown
Leach Library presents a
raiser of the year, its 23rd
Magician Andrew Pinard Soup Kitchen food donajourney
to the Old West on
annual Christmas Tree Sale. will be at the Leach Library tions are also being collectMonday,
Nov. 26, from 4 to 5
The sale begins Saturday, on Monday, Dec. 10, from 4 ed.
p.m., for stories for children
Nov. 24, at Chuck’s BP Sta- to 5 p.m. performing “Aleof legends from the Old
tion on Route 102 (Nashua jandro’s Olde Tyme Magik Middle School Dance
Road), between Dunkin’ Showe.” Performed in a
A Middle School dance West. The program finishes
Donuts and Crossroads style reminiscent of the hosted by Londonderry with a campfire sing-along.
Mall. Over 400 top quality Vaudeville era, the show Police Explorers Post 1137 All participants will receive
native balsam fir trees, blends classic magic and takes place from 7 to 9:30 a red bandana. Advance reg-
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istration is required. To register, call 432-1127 or stop in
at the Children’s Room.
‘Nutcracker’
The New England Dance
Ensemble’s “The Nutcracker” takes the stage at the
Windham High School Theater on Saturday, Nov. 24, at
7 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 25,
at 2 p.m. This full-scale holiday production includes a
cast of 100, featuring American Ballet Theater and
Broadway stars from New
York City. For more information, visit www.NEDE.org.
For tickets from $20, visit
www.tix.com or call 1-800595-4TIX.
N OVEMBER 22, 2012
(DD form 214), dependent bury Road or Wiley Hill
Email
membership card to the Vet- [email protected]
erans of Foreign Wars or m or visit www.momAmerican Legion. Pre-regis- sclubofnorthlondonderry.w
tration is required. To locate eebly.com for more informaa class, visit aarp.org/finda- tion.
course or call 888-AARPUsed Toy Sale
NOW (888-227-7669.
A used toy sale takes
MOMS Club of North
place in the basement of St.
Thomas Aquinas Church on
Londonderry
The MOMS Club of Crystal Avenue in Derry on
North Londonderry meets Dec. 1 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
several times a week to sup- All toys are in good to great
port mothers who are home condition. All proceeds will
during the day with their fund the St. Thomas food
children. Playgroups, park pantry.
days, field trips, service
projects and Mom’s Night Women’s Pick Up
Out are among the activities Basketball
Londonderry Adult Reoffered. Mothers who live
north of Ash Street, Pills- creation sponsors a wo-
Free Classes for Veterans ID card (DD Form 1173) or Road are invited.
In recognition of veterans and their service, the
AARP Driver Safety Program
is offering its Driver Safety
classroom refresher course
free to all veterans as well as
active military personnel,
regardless of age, throughout November. The offer,
which waives the normal
course registration fee, is
available to anyone who
served or has served in any
branch of the military,
National Guard or Reserves.
Spouses, including widows,
also are eligible. On class
day it will be necessary to
present a form of military
identification such as a military ID, discharge papers
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men’s pick up basketball
night every Wednesday at
North School at 7 p.m. This
is not league play, so participants do not have to commit
to attending every week. No
specific talent level is
required and there is no
charge. For more information, call Michele at 540-0881.
strengthen relationships.
Contact Pastor Dave Harrison at 432-4630, for more
information.
Historical Society
The Londonderry Historical Society meets the
third Tuesday of each
month downstairs at the
Leach Library. For more
information, visit: www.Marriage Mentors
Londonderry Christian Londonderryhistory.com.
Church has Marriage Mentors certified in using the MOMS Club of South
Prepare/Enrich® Inventory Londonderry
to help people build a
The MOMS Club of Lonstronger marriage. Marriage donderry is a support group
Mentors operate in a confi- for mothers who are home
dential, non-judgmental, with their children during the
non-threatening role of day. The group meets several
friendship, support, and
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Open Hands, Open Hearts from New Hampshire to New Jersey
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
and through her husband,
Dave, got an offer of
loaned trucks from McDevitt Trucking Company in
Manchester.
Then the real miracle
began. DeLuca and the
Citarellis originally planned on filling a boxcar
with donated food, warm
clothing and medical supplies for Hurricane Sandy
survivors in New York
and New Jersey. But their
collection stirred Granite
Staters from Bradford to
Keene to Portsmouth to
Salem, and developed
into Operation New
Hampshire Cares.
The DeMoulas family
offered 12 of their Market
Basket stores to serve as
drop-off locations, and 12
other local businesses,
strategically
placed
throughout the state,
joined up. The program
drew in everyone from a
Salem Cub Scout troop to
the Malden Mills factory,
which donated “a ton” of
fleece blankets, DeLuca
said.
The collection overflowed from the boxcar to
a tractor-trailer truck,
also loaned by McDevitt,
DeLuca said. “We were
overwhelmed,” he said.
They had to turn
potential donors away at
the end, he said, because
there was no room in the
trucks. “We had 24 pallets, stacked to the gills,”
he said.
DeLuca and his partners knew they didn’t just
want to drop the items at
a warehouse. “We wanted
it to be personal,” he said.
They delivered part of the
load to a charity called
Grandma’s Cupboard in
Toms River, N.J., and took
437-5855, ext. 7223 between
9 a.m. and 3 p.m. No child
continued from page 21
will be seen without an
times a week for play dates appointment.
and other outings with the
children. If interested in partic- Clothing Ministry
Donations of children’s
ipating, contact [email protected] or visit www.mo- clean, wearable clothing of
all sizes maybe brought to 5
mscluboflondonderry.org.
Isabella Drive. In addition,
baby equipment, sheets,
Child Find
Londonderry School Dis- blankets, backpacks, and
trict offers a free community kids’ shoes are also acceptChild Find program for all ed. This is the St. Gianna’s
Londonderry residents age children’s clothing ministry
2 1/2 through 5 years 11 in the Londonderry/Derry
months who are suspected and Manchester communof having vision or hearing ities, and all items collected
problems or developmental are brought to established
concerns. Child Find takes outreach programs and
place at the Londonderry given to the needy. Call Liz
Early Education Program with questions at 437-6678.
(LEEP) at Moose Hill School,
150 Pillsbury Road, on Dec. Toys for Tots
Pack and Ship London6, and Feb. 7 and April 4,
2013. Parents of preschool- derry at the Postal Center in
ers are encouraged to the Crossroads Plaza is
schedule an appointment accepting donations for
by calling Kathy Kelley at Toys for Tots now through
Dec. 15. Toys for Tots collects new, unwrapped toys
and distributes them as
Christmas gifts to less fortunate children in the community. Toys for Tots is in need
of toys for teenage boys and
girls, although any donations are appreciated. Pack
and Ship Londonderry is
open Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m.
NUTFIELD NEWS
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eil DeLuca never
thought he’d have
to turn people
away from stuffing an 18wheeler with goods for
people affected by Hurricane Sandy.
He just wanted to help.
DeLuca, a local businessman, knew he had to
do something after the
Halloween hurricane that
passed over New England
lightly, but devastated the
mid-Atlantic states. “I
knew I had to help them
out,” he said in a phone
interview.
He became worried
when he went on Facebook to locate friends
from New Jersey, and saw
the images of destruction
and loss. He contacted a
friend, Glennis Citarelli,
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Around Town
Christmas Open House
Saturday Dec. 1st 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday Dec. 2nd 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Handmade Balsam Wreaths • Pure NH Maple Products
Syrup - Cream - Candy - Sugar
Maple Gift Baskets & Specialty Products
For more info call (603) 887-3672 or visit
www.folsomsugarhouse.com
Office Closure
Town Offices will be
closed from 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6.
Town Hall will re-open at
12:30 p.m. to conduct regularly scheduled town business.
Neil DeLuca and Londonderry Times Publisher Deb Paul load items into a
vehicle headed to New Jersey to help Hurricane Sandy survivors. The Londonderry Times office was a collection site for DeLuca. Photo by Jim Lockwood
the rest of it to the Harmony Masonic Lodge,
also in Toms River.
The response of those
receiving the donations
Band at Monarchs
touched their hearts, DeLuca said, and he’s happy
to have helped. The disaster also awakened a
desire to help more on a
local level, he said, and all
leftover items will be
delivered to the New Horizons Homeless Shelter in
Manchester.
sections 203, 204 and 225 to
the general public. These
tickets are available at a discounted price of $12 (face
value $20) and can be purchased by contacting Mary
Wing Soares at 247-1679 or
by email at mjws2000@
gmail.com. Tickets will also
be available Wednesday,
Dec. 5, before the Friends of
Music meeting at 6:30 p.m. at
Londonderry High School
and on Thursday, Dec. 6, during band rehearsal from 6 to
7:30 p.m.
Hampstead Road, Derry.
After a business meeting,
the program will be “Our
Annual Greens Workshop,”
with members sharing
greens and arranging centerpieces and wreaths. A
casserole luncheon and
optional cookie swap are
planned. Members will
donate to the Food Pantry.
The Derry Garden Club is a
member of the New Hampshire Federation of Garden
Clubs, Inc. (District IV), New
England Region, and National Garden Clubs, Inc. For
information about joining
the club, call 432-7195 or
visit: derrygardenclub.org.
The next scheduled meeting
will be March 1.
On Sunday, Dec. 9, at 3
p.m. at the Verizon Wireless
Arena, not only will the audience be treated to hockey
between the Manchester
Monarchs and the Worcester Sharks, but they will also
be entertained by Londonderry High School’s marching band and color guard,
over 300 members strong.
They will fill sections 201,
202 and 226, creating a patriotic vision of red, white and
blue, fitting for those playing the National Anthem to Garden Club
start off the game. The
The Derry Garden Club
marching band and color meets Friday, Dec. 7, at 10
guard will take to the ice to a.m. at the Boys and Girls
perform during the first Club of Greater Derry, 40
intermission, as has become
tradition. The band has the
opportunity to sell tickets in
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The Londonderry Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on
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A. Pillsbury Realty Development, LLC, Map 10, Lots 15, 23,
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54-1, 58, 59, and 62 -Public Hearing for formal review of the
Woodmont Commons Planned Unit Development (PUD)
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