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Londonderry High Pantene
Donors Take ‘Before’ Photos
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he eighth annual
Pantene Beautiful
Lengths hair cutting
for cancer patients’ wigs
will be Jan. 10 at the Londonderry High School
gym, but last Friday, participants arrived for a
“before” picture, showing
the length of their hair
before it gets cut in January.
The hair cutting takes
on a party atmosphere,
with music and a sense of
doing something for
someone else. On Jan. 10,
friends and relatives will
come to the gym to
watch, as the participat-
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ing students, their hair
braided, get their braids
cut off by fellow students.
The 8-inch or longer
braids are then donated
to make wigs that are
given free to cancer
patients who have lost
their hair from the harsh
chemicals in their treatment regimen.
After the haircuts, the
students have their remaining hair styled by
professional hair stylists
who volunteer their time.
When all the cutting is
done, a group photo will
be taken by local photographer Roger Grondin,
who took the “before” pictures last week.
The event has produced
almost
1,200
donors over the past six
years. Just over 130
donors are signed up so
far for the 2014 event.
“We started pep rallies in 2004 when we got
the new gym and could fit
all the students in at
once,” said LHS English
teacher Steve Juster, who
organizes the event. “But I
thought we needed to do
a little something more.
We’ve got over 2,000 people and with all that energy in that room, more can
come of this.”
Juster said he contacted Pantene and the comcontinued on page 8
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School Board Drafts ‘Memorandum
of Understanding’ with Hooksett
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
The Hudson Firefighter Explorer Post, whose members include Londonderry residents, took part in training to enter and vent a house at 381
Mammoth Road on Saturday morning. Photo by Chris Paul
Fire Explorers Train
on Mammoth Road
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he house at 381 Mammoth
Road had thick white smoke
billowing from the doors and
windows, while youths ages 14 to 18
were entering the structure, all of
them members of the Hudson Firefighter Explorer Post, training to be
future firefighters.
The smoke, created from a
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machine that produces a thick,
non-toxic vapor, simulated the conditions that firefighters are greeted
with at a real fire.
Londonderry Firefighter Bruce
Hallowell watched carefully on Saturday along with other training
instructors as the Explorers
entered the building low and carried hoses to fight the simulated
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he school board has
drafted an agreement to be presented to the Hooksett school
district that allows some
Hooksett students to attend Londonderry schools.
Hooksett is expected
to vote on the memorandum in early December.
Up to 40 Hooksett students would be accepted
under the agreement.
Called a Memorandum
of Understanding, it outlines the agreement between Londonderry schools
and Hooksett regarding
student enrollment processes, tuition fees, terms
of the agreement, reservation of rights, payment of
tuition, financial and
school records.
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Noting that Manchester and Hooksett are parting ways for high school,
Londonderry School Board
chairman Nancy Hendricks said Hooksett has
been inquiring with several districts about tuitioning students. Hooksett
previously had an agreement to send its high
school students to Manchester.
“We happen to be one
of the districts that Hooksett has been looking
into,” Hendricks said at
the Tuesday, Nov. 19
School Board meeting.
Superintendent of
Schools Nathan Greenberg said the agreement is
a good idea because it
assists in offsetting the
loss of adequacy money money received from the
state to assist with education costs; allows the district a higher probability
of maintaining present
programs and services
pre-Kindergarten to grade
12; offsets the possible
future loss of stabilization
grants; and would not
require any additional
staff at the high school to
accommodate additional
students this year or next,
although staff reductions
will be recommended for
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Area’s Future Topic for Chamber Conference Session
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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drian
Markusic
looked out over a
crowd of people in
the Londonderry Council
Chambers. “How many of
you have ever bought a
garage door opener?” he
asked. Several hands went
up. “How many of you
installed it yourself?”
Fewer hands went up, with
one man quipping, “That’s
why it never worked.”
Markusic smiled and
said, “When you bought it,
it came with a little package of grease. That’s from
Kluber Lubrication. Our
products are everywhere you just don’t know where
they are.”
The Greater Derry/ Londonderry Chamber of Commerce held the third in its
Business, Industry and the
Local Economy breakfast
series Thursday, Nov. 21, in
the Londonderry Municipal Center. About 30 local
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businesspeople came out
to hear Markusic and Terry
Shook, founder and principal in Shook Kelley, discuss
the future of the area and
what it will take to get
there.
Markusic, Director of
Operations for Kluber
Lubrication, talked about
how his company has
grown to a worldwide operation from a small business
begun in Munich, Germany
in 1929. Where else can
Kluber grease be found? In
everything from wind turbines to DVD players, he
said. The company, headquartered in Europe, now
has facilities in China, India
and its North American
beachhead in Londonderry. It has 2,000 employees
worldwide and is valued at
500 million euros, he said.
Kluber products can be
found in the food industry
(“they’re not edible, but
they’re safe”); beverage
industry; marine industry;
and automotive industry,
where they are used for
seat adjustments and sunroof operation. They also
power knitting machines
for the textile industry.
Their success comes in
part from the fact that, “We
don’t sell a ‘product.’ We
sell a value, a solution. We
may develop a product for
a specific situation a customer has,” he explained.
Research and development is a big part of the
European operation and
they are building up an
R&D component in Londonderry, he said, focused
on solutions for the mining
industry.
Consistency is also
important, he added. Every
company under the Kluber
name is using the same raw
materials, and “we are in
the process of standardizing our manufacturing
equipment throughout the
world.”
Terry Shook, part of the
team creating Woodmont
Commons in Londonderry,
took the podium to speak
about how Woodmont
Commons is good for both
Londonderry and Derry.
The development, the first
Planned Unit Development
for either town, is creating
value in several ways, he
said. It will promote walkability, and he said the highest property values are in
places with a high “walk
score.” A neighborhood
with a “walk score” of 80 or
more is worth 29 to 40 percent more than one with a
lower walk score, he said.
Woodmont will have a
“park once” strategy, he
said.
Complexes such as
Woodmont cost less for the
taxpayer, he added, and
that is the second measure
of value. “The infrastructure costs less because of
higher utilization, and
that’s serious money for
the taxpayer,” he said. The
town services also cost
less because the area is
compacted, and a town can
save 10 percent on police,
fire, water and sanitation,
he said.
The development will
also offer choices in housing, he said. “Many communities struggle with losing
young people to the city -
Terry Shook, part of the team creating Woodmont
Commons in Londonderry, discusses the future
growth of the area with the Greater Derry/Londonderry Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Chris Paul
can’t we have both?” he
asked. Woodmont will have
multiple buildings, singlefamily homes, condominiums and more, and the
larger housing will be at
the perimeter, to match the
suburban-style
houses
already there.
The housing options
will appeal to seniors who
no longer want to struggle
with yards and snow, he
said. “Gen Y and the baby
boomers, we’re all looking
for the same things.”
And the complex will be
sustainable, another indication of value, he said.
“It’s all about balance,”
Shook said.
The session was sponsored by the Arnett Development Group. For more
information on Chamber
programs, call 432-8205 or
visit www.GDLChamber.org.
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Exit 5 Travel Center Design Goes to Heritage Commission
JAY HOBSON
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ranosian Oil Company is proposing
building a travel
center at its current Sunoco gas station site at Exit
5 off Interstate 93.
Project Manager Jeffrey Merritt of KeachNordstrom Associates and
Project Architect Frank
Coulter of Bohler Engineering, along with property owner Floyd Hayes,
met with the Heritage
Commission on Thursday,
Nov. 21, to discuss the
design of the building,
which Hayes said encompasses a refueling station,
restaurant and retail business.
“Today there is an
1,800-square-foot convenience store underneath
the canopy, with gasoline
pumps out front and
diesel pumps to the rear
of the building,” Merritt
said. “What we are proposing is a redevelopment of not only this
property but a merger of
two other properties that
Mr. Hayes owns. Just to
the south of where the
current station is, there
are two other small lots those parcels will be combined to form one parcel
for the proposal.”
Merritt said the proposal is to demolish the
existing building and to
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construct a travel plaza,
with a 15,080-square-foot
building. Of that building,
3,000 square feet would
be a convenience store,
3,080 square feet would
be a restaurant and the
balance, 90,000 square
feet, would be a retail
store.”
Merritt said access to
the facility will be “pretty
much the same as today, in
that we’re keeping the slipin and the center driveway,
but we are proposing an
entry at the Liberty Drive
traffic signal.” He said the
state took several portions
of the land for the I-93
widening project and the
developer is going to use
the land across from Liberty Drive to complete the
traffic signal.
“All of the gasoline
refueling stations will
remain out front, and
there will be the loss of
one diesel refueling station in the rear of the
building,” he said. “In the
past there has been a
drive-through window in
the back, and that will be
retained for whatever
restaurant goes in. Majority of the parking will be to
the south near the Liberty
Drive entrance.” Employee parking will be at the
rear of the building, with
tractor-trailer parking in
the back parking area.
Coulter said they want
to take an ugly site that’s
dominated by a gasoline
canopy and replace it
with an upscale convenience retail travel plaza.
The proposed colors
are neutral earth tones
and the base would have
a stone band. In order to
break up any monotony,
there are elevation breaks
and a pitch-roofed tower
on each side.
Lighting would be LED
(Light Emitting Diode)
around the buildings
façade.
Merritt said landscaping will be along Rockingham Road and will include purple lilacs at the
Liberty Drive entrance.
The facility will have a
rain garden, which he
said would look like landscaping while also serving as storm water treatment. However, he noted
the state says “you have
to let water infiltrate, but
the town says you can’t,
so it’s on the plan, but
that is a battle we’re going
to take up with DPW
(Department of Public
Works).”
Commissioner David
Colglazier asked about
lighting poles and Merritt
produced a drawing of
where the lighting would
be located. “They are wall
sconce grazing lights
designed to show the
depth of the stone walls,”
Merritt said.
Commissioner Jim Butler said he would rather
see clapboard than the
proposed stucco, and
Hayes said he would be
able to work with designs
that included a clapboard
look.
Butler showed a few
pictures of construction
that had hip roofs and not
flat roofs. Hayes respond-
ed that because of the ‘L’
shape of the building, a
hip roof would not be possible. Coulter said it could
be done but it would look
like a hat or it would be
such a low slope that it
would look out of place.
Resident Bob Saur,
president of Londonderry
Trailways, asked if there
would be accommodations
for people using the rail
trail across the street, and
Merritt said the state has a
sidewalk along the street in
front of the building.
The development team
said that they would take
the input from the commission and make changes if possible, and send
them electronically to
Comprehensive Planner
Jon Vogl.
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Londonderry Police Works with
Postal Service in Drug Arrest
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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n Friday, Nov. 22,
the Londonderry
Police Department,
in conjunction with the
United States Postal
Inspection Service, arrested Kyle Pedrick, 21, of
Londonderry on suspicion of the following
charges: Possession of
Controlled/Narcotic
Drugs; Possession of Controlled/Narcotic Drugs
With Intent to Distribute;
Manufacture of Controlled Drugs and Possession of Controlled/Narcotic Drugs.
The arrest was made
after Pedrick took custody of a package that
was delivered to his
house that contained approximately two pounds
of suspected marijuana.
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Kyle Pedrick
“The United States
Postal Service contacted
us and told us of the suspicious content of the
package and when the
package was delivered to
the address, Mr. Pedrick
came out to get it and
that’s when we arrested
him,” Londonderry Detective Chris Olson said.
According to Olson, a
subsequent search war-
rant of the residence
resulted in the seizure of
firearms and over $19,000
in cash. Also seized from
the residence was suspected Butane Honey Oil
as well as items that were
suspected to be used in
the manufacturing of the
Butane Honey Oil.
According to Olson,
butane is used to extract
the THC or high producing chemical from marijuana and when it is
extracted, it looks like
honey.
“We believe that this is
not an isolated occurrence. The guns were
found in his room and we
believe that they are his
weapons,” Olson said.
Pedrick was held on
$20,000 cash and was set
to be arraigned Nov. 10 at
Derry District Court.
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Editorial
Nice Idea, But...
The Derry Town Council has been
asked to ban smoking on all of its public properties, including parks and
recreational fields.
Concerned about the effects of second-hand smoke, the petitioner to the
Council said she had been unwilling to
take her children to the swings at
Hood Park because a woman was
smoking there.
We agree with the science that
shows second-hand smoke is harmful,
but we have a bit of a problem with
imposing laws that don’t lend themselves to enforcement.
A Town Councilor suggested the
possibility of a buffer zone for smoking
in town parks – prohibiting smoking
within a specified number of feet of the
playground. That’s a good idea. But
how to designate that space on Derry
rail trails, bike paths, and the dog
park? And more importantly, how to
enforce it so that people take it seriously?
We don’t doubt Derry can come up
with a way to forbid smoking at its various outdoor locations. We’d next like to
hear how the police are going to enforce
that ruling, considering there hasn’t
been a need thus far to station officers at
the dog park or the swing sets.
Would such a law be both well
meaning and conducive to public
health? Yes, definitely. But will it work?
Only if people regulate their own
behavior.
In Londonderry, dogs are not permitted on town recreation fields while
children are present. The LAFA – Londonderry Athletic and Field Association – website states, “we also respectfully request that people refrain from
smoking at the LAFA field complex.”
The Londonderry Youth Football and
Spirit Field Directory also notes there
can be no dogs on the fields or the
track.
It makes sense to keep dogs away
from youth sports activities, but is that
being enforced? Do dogs stray onto
the fields? And is that where police
funding should be directed?
It’s offensive to have to walk
through a cloud of cigarette smoke,
and young children – and the rest of us
- rightfully should be protected from
having to do so. But how to make that
enforceable is the heart of the question.
We don’t want self designated citizen enforcers and the potential for
escalation into fights. And we surely
don’t want an ordinance that can’t be
enforced without heightened and costly police presence - and that sets a pattern for disregarding regulations we
find inconvenient.
“No Smoking” signs can be posted
around the play equipment, and
maybe that’s all it will take. We’d like
to think so. But more than that? Hiring park and trail monitors? Unlikely.
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Historical Society Gains
Variance For Railroad Tracks
JAY HOBSON
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avid Colglazier, treasurer of the Londonderry Historical Society, successfully petitioned the Zoning Board
of Adjustment for a variance to allow a structure
within five feet of a rear
property line where 15
feet is required, so that
the Historical Society
could put donated railroad tracks on the back of
the Society property at
140 Pillsbury Road.
“We’re asking for a
variance on the back line
because we want to have
installation of some donated track, railroad track
and ballast, ties and a
switch that are coming
from an area off of Old
Mammoth Road,” he told
the Zoning Board at its
Wednesday, Nov. 20 meeting. “People are interested in preserving it. It’s
going to be donated by
the Railroad Historical
Society and we have gotten approval from the
Heritage Commission to
have it brought down and
have this put in place.”
Colglazier said it
would not be contrary to
the public interest because it would not be visible from the abutters’
property. Colglazier said
the abutters are Moose
Hill School and Orchard
Christian Fellowship.
“Along the back line
now there is some low
vegetation that was planted there, there’s a sloping
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bank to the north that
goes back 5, 6, 7, 8 feet,
maybe more, and then it
drops down into a ditch,
and there’s another
rounded bank on the
other side and it tapers
away,” he said. “The overall width of this installation is about 40 feet wide
from the property line. So
therefore I thought that
by being able to get within five feet of the property
line, we would not have a
crowding situation and
we would not be introducing something that would
be visible from their side.
“We would be about 40
feet away from anything
they would like to do and
actually be another five
feet beyond that,” he
added.
He said the Society
would like a bit more
space but is landlocked
with the church and
school and cannot expand in those directions.
“We want to make the
most use of the property
that we have,” Colglazier
said.
He added that the
value of the surrounding
property would not be
diminished.
“We can continue to
operate without the variance, but we would like to
have the variance so we can
continue to serve the public a little bit better by having more space for our collections,” Colglazier said.
Board member Larry
O’Sullivan asked Code Enforcement Officer Richard
Canuel how railroad track
qualified as a structure.
“If you look at our definition in the ordinance, a
structure is anything that
is constructed that requires a permanent location,” Canuel responded.
“I spoke to Mr. Colglazier
about this issue and that
at some point in the
future if they are fortunate to have donated a
rail car, that’s likely going
to be the location of that
car. It made sense now to
approach the board and
get this variance issue
addressed.”
Canuel said railroad
track is not exempted
from being a structure.
Board member James
Totten asked if there was
a square footage requirement to be a structure
and Canuel said no.
O’Sullivan asked if the
track would be covered
and Colglazier said that it
would not.
Colglazier said the
track would be 60 feet long,
56 inches wide, with two
sets of rails side by side.
During deliberation,
O’Sullivan said that he had
no objection to the request
and Totten agreed.
“Given the nature of the
particular piece of property and what its purpose is
and where it’s located, I
think it’s a fit,” Chairman
James Smith said.
Board member Jackie
Benard agreed.
The variance was
granted unanimously.
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Kitchen deficit incorrectly stated that the Alexander Eastman grant for fresh fruit
and vegetables was not awarded this year. At the time the story was written, the
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Lions, LHS Share Holiday Spirit
Londonderry Lions Club members got together with the Londonderry High School Pay It Forward club Monday morning at the Central Fire
Station to sort through the thousands of food items collected by local
schools, scouts and civic groups for 112 needy families receiving
Thanksgiving boxes. From left, Pay It Forward members Mary Miller and
Emily Holtshouser pack food boxes; Lions Ray Dion and Frank
Holdsworth prepare boxes; and, above, Mack’s Moose Hill Orchards
Photos by Chris Paul
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Training
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“fire,” while others went
in on a search and rescue
mission.
Hallowell had gone
through the program himself before becoming a
“call” firefighter and eventually became a Londonderry firefighter. He was
conducting the training of
those who might one day
follow in his boot steps.
“What we teach here
are the techniques used
and the actions we take
when fighting a fire, and
one of the first things that
we stress is safety. We’re
here to train, but we want
everyone to go home,”
Division Chief of Fire Prevention Brian Johnson
said.
“We also want them to
know that if they are seeking a career in the fire
department or police
department, that the
choices that they make
now will follow them,”
Hallowell said. “To be on a
fire department, when
they have to take the preemployment polygraph,
that one bad choice made
now could ruin a possible
career choice.”
Hudson Explorer Devon Carroll said that even
Members of the Hudson Fire Explorers take a
break Saturday during a training exercise in
Londonderry. Photos by Chris Paul
though it was very cold
Saturday, once the gear
was put on, thoughts of
the cold went away.
“Once your body gets
used to it, you don’t focus
on it for the rest of the
day. The focus is all on
the training and listening
to our advisors,” Carroll
said.
Hudson Explorer Nikole St. Germain, 14, has
only been an Explorer for
two weeks but had the
concept well in hand.
“For me it’s a new
experience but a great
experience. I thought it
was really educational
because beforehand they
didn’t just throw us into
it, they taught us what we
were going to do and I
liked that. When I was 5, I
decided I wanted to be a
firefighter and then I got
interested in animals and
thought that was the
direction I was going, but
now I’m back into it,” she
said.
Londonderry Explorers Matt Wood, 14, Sean
Lowe, 14, and Jamie
Grandmaison, 19, are all
learning what it takes to
become the firefighters
that they one day hope to
be.
“This is something
that you don’t always get
to do, to learn about your
career and get the training that you’ll use one
day,” Wood said.
“It’s a good learning
experience, and you also
get a chance to learn from
your mistakes as well as
from your instructors,”
Grandmaison said.
Nashua Explorers Phil
Justvig, 15, Patrick Bue,
15, and Nick Bue, 17, said
it was training that
showed them how to
trust each other and the
need to be there for their
fellow Explorers.
Nine out of the 14
Explorers taking part in
the exercise have family
members in the fire service. Corey Morin, the son
of Dave Morin, a captain
in the Hudson Fire Department and Explorer
Director, said that during
the program’s existence
of over 30 years, 50 current firefighters had been
Explorers.
Londonderry Battalion Chief Jim Roger said
the Explorers appreciate
the training that is offered
A Fire Explorer practices
entering a burning
building.
and the time and commitment given to the training
by the firefighters who
are helping them.
“We just started to be
involved,” he said of the
Londonderry department.
“I think it was September
that we did the first training session. We invited
them to the Central Station and we did some rope
rescue training and automobile extrication training. It’s good to give them
a little look into how a different department does
things and to have different instructors and at the
same time, the firefighters
who are instructing them
get an opportunity to have
a refresher by teaching the
techniques that they use
and passing them along to
the Explorers.”
Roger said the Explorers asked Londonderry if it
would be interested in
helping the Hudson group
with the training and Londonderry said “absolutely.”
“After a few training
exercises we said, ‘Hey,
you have some Londonderry kids in the program,
why don’t we form a partnership, and that way,
instead of Londonderry
trying to start its own
post, why don’t we just
share resources and we’d
probably have a better
program,” Roger said.
Roger said he wanted
to give kudos to Hallowell, who was given the
assignment to train the
Explorers and did a great
job. Roger also said that
Chief Darren O’Brien supported the effort from the
start, as did all the firefighters.
“What this program
does is give training and
information to the Explorers who will work their
way through it and
through the training until
they age out at 18, and
then they will have a lot of
the training they’ll need
to join the fire department,” Roger said.
One thing repeatedly
emphasized by Hallowell
and Roger was to be careful of the choices the
Explorers made now and
in the future, as the road
to being a firefighter is
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Hickory Woods Over-55 Development Granted Sign Requests
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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evelopers of the future Hickory Woods
over-55 development at 304 Nashua Road
(Route 102) requested a
special exemption from
the Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) to have a
sign placed in a spot
along Route 102 that is off
site yet still on property
owned by the developers.
They also requested a
variance to allow that offpremises sign to be 65
square feet, where 25
square feet is allowed.
John Kalantzakos and
D
Rick Welch of Hickory
Woods, LLC made the
requests in two separate
appeals at the ZBA’s meeting Wednesday, Nov. 20,
as one was a special
exemption while the
other was a variance.
“We are applying for
an off-premises sign for
Hickory Woods,” Kalantzakos said. “It was approved by the Planning
Board in the site plan and
subdivision plans we did
for the whole subdivision
a few months ago. We are
looking to get approval
for that sign because it
does meet all the criteria.
It will be the only offpremises sign for Hickory
Woods, and we are asking
for the variance from 25
square feet for visibility.
It’s in the Commercial
zone and basically we
would have to apply for a
building permit if this is
granted.”
Board member Larry
O’Sullivan asked if the site
was the same property as
the cell tower.
“We subdivided off the
cell tower on its own lot
and then we had the 55
and over on its own lot,
and that is a commercial
lot that we own,” Kalan-
tzakos said.
“So it’s still the same
ownership, just a different
lot,” O’Sullivan said.
“Correct,” Kalantzakos
said.
“If we didn’t subdivide
it, we could just put the
65-foot sign along that
lot,” he explained. “Eventually we will develop the
commercial lot, and this
is just a temporary sign to
kick off the marketing and
make sure we have visibility. The sign will be eventually reduced to 25
square feet and then that
will go away.”
O’Sullivan reminded
the board they had
approved a sign with time
restrictions of two years
in the past.
The Hickory Woods
developers are also the
developers of the Nevins
Community, and Kalantzakos said the Nevins sign
will be coming down
before the end of the year.
Kalantzakos said the
need for the 65-foot sign
was for visibility and 25
square feet would be too
small.
Board member Jackie
Benard asked if the sign
would be lit and Kalantzakos said it would if it were
25 square feet but would
not at 65 square feet.
The board unanimously approved the off-premises special exemption
with a two-year time limit.
As for the size of the
sign, the board approved
the variance, with restrictions that it not be lit and
that it would be the only
sign on the property.
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all the English teachers
and asked them to show it
to their classes, to see if
anyone wanted to get
involved in the hair cutting.
“Suddenly kids started
coming in,” Juster said,
noting they had a feeling
of involvement and being
part of something big.
“I’m sort of the set-up
person, and people send
me e-mails thanking me
for doing it, but I’m the tip
of a very big iceberg,”
Juster said.
Julia Frechette, 17, a
senior, donated hair in
her freshman year and is
donating for the second
time this year.
“I don’t mind donating
because I like change and
it’s a really good cause.
Two of my friends’ parents had cancer. One had
breast cancer and the
other, her dad has colon
cancer,” Frechette said.
Frechette said her
mom is supportive of
what she is doing.
The Austen sisters,
Abigail, 6, and Hannah, 17,
sat in front of the photographer and showed their
tresses that will be cut.
Abigail, a quiet Matthew Thornton Elementary School student, had
little to say, other than
that she looks forward to
her haircut.
“We’re doing it in
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honor of our grandfather
who passed away last
year on the day that they
are doing the cutting, Jan.
10,” Hannah said.
Their dad, Doug Austen, brought Abigail from
Matthew Thornton for
the photo shoot.
He said he’s very
proud of his daughters
and supports them 100
percent.
Junior Alex Burnelle,
17, said she’s donated
every year and this is her
third donation.
“I donated as a freshman, sophomore and now
as a junior. When I was in Londonderry High School senior Steph Pestka sits for her “before” photo, taken
eighth grade, my older by Roger Grondin last week. She will be one of the many students donating at
least 8 inches of their hair for wigs for cancer patients. Photo by Chris Paul
sister Jordan donated and
I cut her hair, and this Burnelle said.
told me that she wanted selves as they queued up
year Jordan and my mom
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will be cutting my hair,” beza, 14, is donating her it was beautiful,” Cabeza planned their day, all the
hair because of a friend.
said. “She passed away while planning to help
“When I was still in about a year later and I’m others whose lives have
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he traditional Christmas Tree Lighting
on the Londonderry
Town Common will take
place Sunday, Dec. 8. Festivities start at 2:30 p.m.
with entertainment and
refreshments.
As it starts to get dark,
at approximately 4 p.m., a
fire truck will bring Santa
and Mrs. Claus to oversee
the illumination of decorated trees.
The Londonderry Rotary Club works annually
with youth groups, local
non-profit organizations
and area businesses to
put on this event. Twentyfour trees will be available
for decoration by Girl
Scout troops, day care
classes, Cub Scouts,
church groups and others. The trees will be
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members of the Londonderry Christian Church
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“The STEP students
are incredibly excited to
be involved in such a
wonderful Londonderry
tradition. They love performing and reaching out
to the community and are
especially excited to get
all bundled up to help
families get into the holiday spirit.” said Musical
Director Yvonne Sarafinis.
Their performance will
include solo and group
numbers featuring holiday favorites such as
“Have Yourself a Merry
Little Christmas” and
“The Christmas Song,” as
well as new holiday tunes.
Hot cider, hot chocolate, coffee, and cookies
will be served as the community gathers to enjoy
the lights on the Common. Children can also
bring their wish list for a
visit with Santa.
John Timmeny, president of the Londonderry
Rotary Club, said, “For
over 20 years our members have been proud to
organize this event. We
donate and set up the
trees and lights because
we love to see how it generates big smiles and fosters happy memories.”
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School Test Privacy Concerns Raised, Answered by State
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderry resident
Laura El-Azem has
questions and issues
with the proposed School
District plans to change
testing from the NECAPs
(New England Common
Assessment Program) to
Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced testing.
Assistant Superintendent of Schools Andy
Corey said that about a
year ago, the district had
a discussion with New
Hampshire Commissioner
of Education Virginia
Barry regarding the utilization of the PSAT test in
lieu of the Smarter Balanced test at the high
school level, as previously reported by the Londonderry Times.
“The Commissioner was
very interested and set up
several meetings with representatives of the College
Board, myself, Nate (Superintendent of Schools Nathan Greenberg) and several other superintendents,”
Corey said. “The last meeting occurred this summer.
The Commissioner has
been very supportive of
our concept and has mentioned it several times in
public.”
El-Azem, who does not
currently send her chil-
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dren to public school,
hopes he’s correct, but
notes that Barry has said
there will be no waivers
granted from the Smarter
Balanced test.
She said she is concerned that Common
Core “is being slid in without public discussion and
is due to take effect in
2014.” However, the Common Core standards have
been discussed at several
meetings of the Londonderry School Board.
El-Azem thinks children should be taught the
same in each grade level.
“If I move to Colorado
and my fourth grader
leaves the fourth grade in
Londonderry and enters
fourth grade in Colorado,
she should be learning
the same things. In the
case of Londonderry,
Common Core is demanding less than what is
already in place,” El-Azem
claimed.
“Whereas Common Core
is a suggestion, Smarter
Balanced is not optional,”
she said. “It is going to be
required testing. It’s going
to be yet another test
foisted on the kids.” It
replaces the NECAPs in
New Hampshire.
She added that the
test is administered by
computer, “so there’s investment up front.”
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Gage emphasized. “We
don’t report personally
identifiable information,
but taxpayers need to
know where their money
is going and how it is
being used.”
Corey, Londonderry’s
assistant superintendent,
said the data El-Azem cited has been collected
since the Bush administration instituted No Child
Left Behind.
“We have been submitting data to the state since
No Child Left Behind came
into existence and prior to
that we had to have a local
assessment for the state,
and we used the Iowa
exam to prove that we
were monitoring students’
progress,” Corey said.
He explained that every
student is assigned an
identification number so
that when the results are
sent to the state, the state
receives only a number,
not a name, for each student.
“His number is not
associated to his name, it
is kept separately,” Corey
said of the process.
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information, they get a list
of numbers so that they
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Corey said he understands the concerns that
have arisen about privacy
since everything has gone
digital -“bank accounts to
Obamacare, all of those
things,” he said. “It is concerning to educators and to
be honest, myself, as I am a
parent and will have three
kids in that database.”
He said he understands the privacy concern because when a person is in high school, they
are not necessarily the
person they will be in 15
or 20 years. “People are
concerned about where
does this data go, how
long does it stay around
and does it come back to
haunt them,” Corey said.
He said that as more
information becomes available, those questions will be
answered but as it stands
now, the student’s identity
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Concerned about data
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York state, she said,
“although New Hampshire has some pretty
good privacy safeguards,
once it get shunted up to
the database as it is supposed to be, it will be
shared with DOE. The
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But Heather Gage,
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only information that will
be collected for the state
that is student identifiable is that the student
took the test.
“The other information,
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Officers from each state,”
she said. “A huge amount
of money was dumped
into Common Core during
the last round of stimulus,
and each state was
required to have a database for all the information that was gathered.”
El-Azem claimed the
federal government is
requiring that the information be shared onto an
“interoperable” data base.
“While that may not be
technically federal, requiring 50 states to have a
database that can be
interoperable is effectively a federal database,” she
maintains. “But where it
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Students Present Anti-Bullying Messages at Middle School
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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n Friday, Nov. 15,
about 60 Londonderry Middle
School students traveled
to the University of New
Hampshire in Durham to
attend a Stand Up To Bullying rally.
LMS Assistant Principal
Donna Dyer accompanied
the students, and said the
event had a positive
impact on their day-to-day
lives.
“The seventh grade
peer leaders and the
eighth grade peer mentors
went to UNH for the first
annual Stand Up To Bullying Rally, where they
learned terminology and
how to recognize bullying
when they see it,” Dyer
said.
She said the rally had
several speakers who
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spoke out against bullying,
one of whom was Miss
New Hampshire 2011, and
they talked about how
they were treated growing
up and what can be done
to stop bullying.
According to Londonderry Middle School Principal Richard Zacchilli,
when the students came
back, they wanted to offer
comments at the morning
intercom announcements.
“The words this week,
which is the state’s antibullying week, have to do
with kindness and terms
the kids would know, like
‘bystander.’ Bystander is a
word that we try to emphasize - that kids shouldn’t
be a bystander, that they
should get involved,” Zacchilli said.
Zacchilli said one of the
days last week was “hand
hug day,” where students
LMS students share an anti-bullying message of
“courage” over the intercom as LMS Principal Richard
Zacchilli holds the phone for them. Photo by Jay Hobson
as they shook hands
would tap thumbs in a
makeshift hand hug.
Last Friday, the last day
of anti-bullying week, the
word shared that morning
was “courage,” and the
students told their classmates that courage could
conquer fear or despair
and did so when as a
bystander to bullying,
someone takes action.
“Show your courage
and tell an adult if you see
bullying!” the students
said in unison.
The students, Ben
Doris, 12, Connor Gramstorff, 13, Patrick Cohen,
12, Michael Kennedy, 12,
Matt Town, 13, and Elizabeth Bacon, 12, gathered
around the telephone in
Zacchilli’s office to share
their anti-bullying message
with their schoolmates.
Each day of the week
featured a different activity
to promote kindness. Monday was a post-it note,
with nice wishes put in
lockers; Tuesday was “no
one sits alone day;”
Wednesday was five compliments day, where students shared with fellow
students five compliments; Thursday was “asking classmates how their
day was going day;” and
Friday was hand hug day.
Ben Doris said he
learned how to see people
in a whole new way and
that has been a big help.
“Bullying has been a
problem throughout ev-
eryone’s life and now we
know how to stand up to
it,” Patrick Cohen said.
Michael Kennedy said
that for the speakers to
stand up and share their
experiences with the students was very inspirational.
Elizabeth Bacon shared
how she was able to learn
how to help out her
cousins when they were
being bullied. She said one
of her cousins left school
because of bullying and
now she can help her
other cousins.
According to the students, they took away
from the rally the tools to
share with fellow students
and to give them the
courage to see and
become involved if bullying happens at their
school.
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School Board Mulls Conversion to Propane in Special Ed Buses
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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hether Special
Education buses
should be powered by gasoline, diesel or
propane was part of a Special Education transportation discussion by the
school board.
Jim Proulx of Proulx Oil
and Propane and Garrett
Scholes of Provider Enterprises bus services told
the board at its Tuesday,
Nov. 19 meeting the benefits of using buses powered by propane.
School District Director of Pupil Services Kim
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Carpinone said the RFP
(Request For Proposal) for
special education transportation went out to several companies, and three
bids were returned Oct.
18, with two of them meeting the specifications.
Of the two, she said,
Provider Enterprises, the
current vendor, had the
lowest bid. She said the
contract includes a twoyear good faith extension
clause.
In a memo to the
board, Carpinone said the
proposed FY 15 daily rate
per bus and four hour
monitor for Provider was
$290. The second bid,
from STA, was $321. The
memo states the current
cost per bus is $301, and
that subsequent years’
daily rate increases for indistrict buses is smaller
than the current contract,
at no increase for FY 16, an
$8 increase for FY 17, no
increase for FY 18 and a $7
increase for FY 19.
“There is no fuel escalation clause in the contract and the contract is
based on the price of gasoline. Provider Enterprises
is also proposing that we
look at a propane conversion,” Carpinone said.
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Carpinone noted propane is a cleaner, greener
as well as cheaper fuel.
“The system that we
use operates on both
gasoline and propane. It
starts using gasoline and
once the engine temperature reaches 135 degrees,
it automatically switches
over to propane. You have
the duplication of fuels, so
if by chance the driver forgets to fill the tank and he
runs out of propane, it
automatically switches
over to gasoline without
the driver having to do
anything,” Proulx said.
School District Business Administrator Peter
Curro said many public
transportation systems
use propane.
“More than 90 percent
of the propane used in the
U.S. is made in the U.S. It’s
a highly domestic prod-
uct,” Proulx said.
Board member Steve
Young asked why they
should care how the company fuels its buses.
“We transport the children with special needs for
you and some of the children have respiratory
issues,” Scholes said. “Propane, as a cleaner burning
fuel, helps keep the air
cleaner on the buses and
the school yards that we
transport to.”
He added that propane
costs less than gasoline.
Carpinone said the difference in cost is $32,400
or $4 per bus per day for
all buses during the fiveyear contract.
Board member Leitha
Reilly had concerns with
safety. “Can you give
assurances that this is not
in any way going to affect
the safety of our children,”
Reilly said.
“I meant no disrespect
to anybody if I seemed
cavalier in my response,
but I have way too much
invested in everything I do
and everything I do in my
business I have personal
guarantees on,” Proulx
said.
Board member John
Laferriere responded that
Proulx was right, Laferriere didn’t know him, and
at the end of the day,
“quite honestly I don’t
care.” He said he wanted
hard numbers of risk versus incidents.
“Fair enough, we can
provide that,” Proulx said.
The board voted unanimously to accept Provider Enterprises as the
provider. The decision on
whether to use propane
would be decided at the
next meeting.
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PA G E 11
Sonshine Soup Kitchen Volunteers Receive Awards
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderry volunteers at the Sonshine
Soup Kitchen in Derry
received the 2013 Spirit of
New Hampshire Award at a
ceremony at the Capitol
Center for the Arts in Concord on Nov. 14.
Don and Betty Moskowitz, Jean Manley, and
Suzanne Joudrey and
Derry resident Don Hines
were honored for their
volunteerism.
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“This was completely
unexpected,” Don Moskowitz said. “We basically
feel like we should give
back to help people. We
live a comfortable life, we
have three kids and five
grandchildren, and we
wanted to do something
other than monetary and
be an asset to the world
we live in.”
Moskowitz and his
wife have volunteered at
the kitchen for the past 12
years. He said they have
been doing everything
together since they married almost 48 years ago.
“We deliver meals to
shut-ins. The people at
the kitchen cook the
meals and put it into containers, and we deliver it
to people who can’t get
out,” Moskowitz said.
Moskowitz gets a little
emotional talking about
the people to whom he
delivers meals, especially
when names no longer are
on the list.
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LHS Students Chosen for
All-State Music, Jazz Fests
he Londonderry High
School Music Department announces that the following students have been selected
by audition to participate
in the New Hampshire AllState Music Festival in
Concord on April 10-12,
2014.
All-State auditions took
place at Manchester
Memorial High School on
Nov. 18.
• All-State Band - Joe
Conti, Trumpet; Maddie
Harper, flute.
• All-State Orchestra Stephen Marzik, Bassoon;
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Matt Marzola, Percussion.
• All-State Mixed Choir
- Cailey Blatchford, Alto
Voice; Maddie Doris,
Soprano Voice; Kylee
Quitayen, Soprano Voice;
Dan Cain, Bass Voice.
• New Hampshire AllState Women’s Choir Erin Conti, Soprano Voice.
In addition, the Music
Department announces
that the following students have been selected
by audition to participate
in the New Hampshire
Jazz All-State Music Festival, set for Pinkerton
Academy on Feb. 6-8,
2014. All-State auditions
took place at Souhegan
High School on Oct. 26.
• Jazz All-State Jazz
Band - Keith Perry, guitar;
Matt Marzola, drum set.
• Jazz All-State Honors
Jazz Band - Joe Conti,
trumpet.
• Jazz All-State Jazz
Choir - Dan Cain, Bass
Voice; Marc Lussier, Bass
Voice; Steph Conti, Alto
Voice; Rachel Hansen,
Alto Voice.
• Jazz All-State Honors
Jazz Choir - Erin Conti,
Soprano Voice; Maddie
Doris, Alto Voice.
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“You really get to know
these people and sometimes the people are older
and we’ve lost a number
of them, and you get
attached to them and
miss them when they’re
gone,” Moskowitz said.
Manley has been a
meal coordinator at the
kitchen for 23 years.
“What I do I do in conjunction with St. Jude’s
Parish,” Manley said. “I
make sure there are volunteers and that the food
is provided. I do it
because I feel everyone
needs to give back. When
we first moved to Londonderry, we joined St.
Jude’s and I was looking
for a place to volunteer.
A group of us have been
going ever since. The
group members have
changed over the years
but most have been with
us for about 10 years. It’s
really important to me to
be there.”
Manley said they volunteer at the kitchen one
day every two months or
about six times a year.
Derry resident Don
Hines is the chef who
cooks the meals at the
kitchen and has been
there for three years.
“I retired as a chef from
Tufts University and was
looking for someplace to
do some community service,” he said. “I asked
questions about volunteering and I did it and
liked it. The people are
really good and I’m a Vietnam veteran and not so
much of a people person,
and it has done a lot for
me. I’ve been cooking all
my life except when I was
in the service. I learned
my culinary skills on my
own and eventually became certified.”
Cynthia Dwyer, executive director at Sonshine
Soup Kitchen, said all of
the volunteers are crucial
to the kitchen.
“We count not only
people but meals served,”
she said. “We want people
that come in here for a
meal to leave full and that
sometimes means extra
servings, so we served 44
meals in October and a
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“I got involved because
of the Women’s Club back
in the ‘90s and I’ve been
doing it ever since,”
Joudrey said of her volunteer work. “We take turns
and now I drive about
once every three months. I
like knowing that we’re
helping people.”
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Crafts Abound at LHS
The Londonderry High
School Class of 2017 put
on a craft fair on Saturday
and attracted crowds of
holiday shoppers getting a
head start on the season.
At far left, Michele Doyle of
Ma’s Italian Biscotti sells
her homemade Italian
cookies; center, Ali Nelson
and Maggie Rutledge take
a break from selling raffle
tickets for items to benefit
the Philippine relief fund
to check out Sherry Dorman’s variety of crocheted
hats; and Laura Powers
and her niece Emily Powers sell their decorated
bottles.
Photos by Chris Paul
Issues Remain Unresolved Over Work in Town Forest
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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lean-up of the Town
Forest was back at
the Heritage Commission last week and
remains unresolved.
Chairman Arthur Rugg
recalled that in July, Kent
Allen had visited the commission to suggest making improvements to the
Town Forest by cutting
brush, brambles, bittersweet and poison ivy, and
getting rid of some of the
dead vegetation, but the
Conservation Commission wasn’t in agreement
with his proposal.
“That put us over a
barrel on whose property
it is and whose jurisdic-
C
tion it falls under, and
both of us are working at
it,” Rugg said of the Conservation Commission.
A site walk with Town
Forester Charlie Moreno
also took place, with comments made about the
best way to preserve the
forest.
Rugg said the Town
Forest is in the Historic
District, “which means
that any changes that
occur there have to come
before the Heritage Commission for a public hearing process.”
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day of the meeting, Nov.
21, with Town Manager
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did not recall the details
of the meeting.
“The short term thing
is that we’ve got things
cleared,” he said. “As we
go through the master
plan implementation process, that is what’s going
to determine things, but
also I think the Town
Council’s responsibility is
to determine who really
has jurisdiction there.”
Rugg displayed photos
of the forest and some of
the work that needs to be
done, including trees enveloped by bittersweet
and downed and rotting
trees.
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lot of bittersweet and
brambles out there, and
Deb Lievens mentioned
that in the spring, they
will be doing the bittersweet stuff (eradication),”
he said. “I have asked her
for the details. I think this
falls more on maintenance and not a change.”
Rugg said part of what
should be done was to
have a plan for what they
want for trails and open
areas.
Commissioner Pauline
Caron asked about the
manpower to do the
work. “There was something mentioned about
not being able to use volunteers because of liability,” Caron said, referring
to legal counsel raising
the issue of liability in
using volunteers.
Allen claimed the
issue involved volunteers
under 18 years of age running power equipment.
“I had to assure that
the help I was looking for
was to move piles of
things out, not with any
tools or equipment,” Allen said. “The town attorney got involved in the
whole discussion of volunteers and he needed to
be reminded that without
volunteers, Beautify Londonderry and a few other
things wouldn’t happen.”
“I exercise by building
trails,” said Bob Saur of
Londonderry Trailways.
“It’s not that we’re asking
volunteers to do construction or something
like that.”
Saur said there are no
plans to add trails in the
Town Forest. But he
noted it would be a good
idea to get a group into
the forest to get rid of the
Burning Bush plants
because they are an invasive, as is bittersweet.
Rugg said the purpose
of cleaning the forest was
to make it available for
people to use.
He said in the short
term, Allen will meet with
Smith to finish up work
that’s been started. “Middle term, we’ll start looking at the implementation
(Master Plan) and also to
start to look to see our
vision to use that area for
hiking trails and other
uses. Also what has been
discussed for the area of
the Town Forest is a skating rink.”
He said the proposed
rink would be 150 feet by
75 feet and would be located on the other side of the
wall from the Common.
“I don’t know what
you’d do with all the cars
for parking,” he added.
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Monopoly Squad Dominates Play in LHS Dodgeball Tourney
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ew events generate
the sort of excitement within the
Londonderry High School
community that the
school’s annual dodgeball
tournament does.
That was proven again
last week during the seventh annual LHS National
Honor Society Dodgeball
Tournament, bringing out
many LHS student/athletes for tons of fun and a
shot at the bragging
rights that come with winning the tournament.
The event - which featured more than 30 teams
competing - hit its most
climactic moments Thursday night, Nov. 21, when
late-round and championship-round play took
place. And when the
dodgeballs stopped zipping through the air in the
Londonderry High gym
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Nick Yennaco of the title-winning Monopoly contingent flings a ball at a member of the Thug Life squad during the championship match of the LHS National
Honor Society Dodgeball Tournament Thursday night, Nov. 21.
that evening, the Monopoly contingent had claimed the tourney title by
defeating the Thug Life
crew in the finals.
Led by team captain
Zach Tavano, the championship squad - which
chose the Jose Feliciano
seasonal chestnut “Feliz
Navidad” as its theme
song - included Brett
Evangelista, Tommy Corey, Brent Beaudoin, Rob
Del Signore, and Nick Yennaco. That determined
bunch had gotten to the
finals by bumping off The
Fast 5 squad in the tourney quarterfinals and the
Not in the Face team in
the semifinal round.
The runner-up Thug
Life bunch - which selected Jay-Z’s “Public Service
Announcement” as its
theme song - was led by
team captain Marcus
Wright and included
Adam McCaffrey, Scott
Beedham, John Derhak,
Keith Weidner, Jeff Baroody, and Spencer Flood.
That crew defeated
The Purple Disciples in
the quarterfinals and The
Ballarinas in the semis to
reach the championship
match.
The recipient of the
funds raised through the
tourney this year is Harbor Homes, a non-profit
organization that provides low-income, homeless, and disabled New
Thug Life team member John Derhak rifles the ball
at a Monopoly squad opponent during the championship match of the Londonderry High School
National Honor Society Dodgeball Tournament in
the LHS gym late last week. Photos by Chris Paul
Hampshire residents with
affordable housing, primary and behavioral
health care, employment
and job training, and supportive services.
The fall tournament
had begun with first-
round play on the
evenings of Tuesday and
Wednesday, Nov. 12 and
13, continued Wednesday,
Nov. 20, and came to its
exciting conclusion on
Nov. 21.
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Lady Lancer Soccer Quintet Collects All-State Honors
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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nybody who either
cheered for or against the Londonderry High girls’ varsity
soccer squad this fall
knows the squad had
plenty of talent. And even
though the Lady Lancers
didn’t get as close to a
state championship as
they would have liked,
the Granite State’s soccer
coaches recently acknowledged some of the talent
on that strong contingent.
Senior defender Maeve
Holland was named a
First-Team All-Stater and
subsequently an All-New
England selection as well.
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Emily Crocetti
Junior forward Emily Crocetti was also named a
First-Team All-Stater, senior forward Aliza Simpson
was selected as a Second-
Team All-Stater, senior
midfielder Kayleen Walberg received All-State
Honorable Mention recognition, and freshman
defender Gretchen McGrath was shown that her
impressive first season of
high school soccer was
worthy of All-State Honorable Mention recognition
as well.
Holland’s All-New England recognition is particularly impressive because the lanky LHS star
was asked to move back
to a defensive position
from up front this year to
help stabilize the Lady
Lancers’ back line. And
she was a standout doing
Maeve Holland
so, notching All-State
First-Team honors and
then the regional award.
“Any player who is
First-Team All-State in any
of the four divisions is eligible to be considered for
All-New England and AllAmerican,” said LHS coach
Derek Dane. “Coaches
have to nominate their
players and then speak on
their behalf to other
coaches at the end-of-season meeting. Coaches
from all four divisions are
present. Those coaches
then vote, and the top
vote-getter is the AllAmerican, and the next
four are All-New England.”
Dane also admitted
that the departures of Holland and her fellow seniors Simpson - who will
play college basketball at
the University of New
Hampshire - and Walberg,
Merissa Brousseau, Alexa
Bedell, Hannah Brownstein, Lindsey Michalewicz, Shannon Crowley,
Meghan O’Regan, Bethany
Griffin, Jamie Nesbitt,
Kristen Bourque, Jaimee
Cava, and Jordan Marett
are particularly meaningful to him.
“I’m going to miss this
group of seniors. They
came in during my third
season and helped us reestablish LHS soccer. They
played in three consecutive final-fours and won 65
percent of the games that
they played in. Fantastic
soccer players and better
people,” said Dane.
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Lancers’ JV Boy Booters Enjoyed a Superb 2013 Campaign
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he future looks bright
for the Londonderry
High School boys’ soccer program. And the performances put forth by
coach Forrest Mehlhorn’s
junior varsity contingent
during the fall 2013 campaign - along with the talent
on that squad’s roster - are
among the largest reasons
for the optimism within that
program at LHS.
Mehlhorn’s crew won 13
of its 15 regular season
games, outscoring the opposition by 44-11. And then in
the post-season JV tournament, the Lancers finished
T
an impressive second overall behind the Hanover High
Marauders.
The team was made up
entirely of sophomores and
freshmen, with the 10th
graders including goalie Tim
McEacharn, defenders Cullen Enwright, Connor O’Regan, John Galluzzo, and
Casey Tardif, midfielders
Scott Lynch, Drew Twombly,
Caleb Moscoso, Riley Trainor, Duncan Van Etten, Justin
Lagree, Elijah Ellis (a swinger
between varsity and JV),
Griffin Cowles (swing player), and Tommy Stanley
(swing player), and forwards
and strikers Tarik Dallahi,
Travis Lagree, Max Hastings
(swing player).
The freshmen included
defenders Ian Candella and
Nick Vanini, middies Brian
Frechette, Nick Daileanes,
and Jayden West, and forwards and strikers Jayden
West and Nalen Iarrobino.
Before getting to the JV
tournament the Lancers
had a regular season contest against Manchester
Central on Sept. 19 that
served as a milestone for
all that came after for the
squad.
“We were coming off a 31 loss to Hanover, which was
our first loss of the season,”
said Mehlhorn. “In addition,
it had been eight days of
rainy weather and canceled
practices, and a canceled
game since that loss. In the
game, Central scored first
and had the only goal in the
first half. Going into the second half, our boys started to
step up their game and
found energy and determination that seemed unbreakable. Scott Lynch scored
early in the second half with
an amazing strike from well
outside the 18-yard box. The
determination did not let up,
as Manchester scored a second goal to pull ahead again.
With only a few minutes left
in the game Elijah Ellis was
able to find the back of the
net to tie the game 2-2.”
Then in the first five seconds of overtime, the Londonderry team dug down
even deeper and wanted this
win. The locals potted the
game-ending golden goal
within two minutes on a
blast by Tarik Dallahi.
“That victory and the
momentum it started carried through the rest of the
season, and was a talking
point for motivation in the
end-of-season tournament
that helped in our semifinal
win over Pinkerton,” said
Mehlhorn.
In the JV tournament, the
Lancers got wins over Nashua South (3-0 score) and
Bishop Guertin of Nashua (20), had to settle for a scoreless tie with Pinkerton, but
then bested the Spaulding
squad from Rochester (2-0).
The latter victory placed
Londonderry in a semifinalround rematch with Pinkerton, and the Lancers had to
rebound from a 1-0 deficit to
take that match.
“With only minutes
remaining, Tarik Dallahi was
set up by Jayden West and
was able to break through
the defense and put one in.
The game ended in a tie and
stayed that way through the
five-minute sudden-death
overtime,” said the coach.
After the standard five
rounds of penalty kicks the
score was still deadlocked,
and it ended up taking the
total of seven penalty kick
rounds for Londonderry to
capture the win.
That challenging win
placed the Lancers into the
finals against that tough
Hanover crew, and the locals
wound up dropping the decision in another seven-round
penalty kick battle.
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Ex-LHS Soccer Standout Aims to ‘Pay it Forward’ in Nicaragua
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ormer Londonderry
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Massachusetts-Lowell
women’s contingent’s inauspicious first Division I
season came to an end.
The 2010 Londonderry
High grad - who played
four years on the Lady
Lancers’ varsity soccer
squad and was a captain
as a senior - was also
named a team captain on
this fall’s 2013 U-Lowell
women’s contingent. But
the Lady Riverhawks didn’t do much winning during the campaign.
“The soccer season
was not what Margaret
hoped it would be, with a
final record of 1-16-1 overall. But she learned a lot
and gained great experience as captain,” said her
proud mom, Bonnie McSpiritt.
And evidently the
younger McSpiritt impressed some folks with
her skills and leadership
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abilities, because U-Lowell assistant women’s soccer coach Jamie Gillis
placed an opportunity in
her path that has the former LHS star booter more
than a little excited.
“I’m very happy to be
able to say I will be volunteering to go to Granada,
Nicaragua in January for
the (Soccer Without Borders) T.E.A.M. Camp,” she
said. “First, I was very
honored that my assistant
soccer coach thought of
me to apply for the team.
I knew she asked me
because she felt I could
make a difference in
Granada and I was a good
candidate for it. I was
very excited when I got
my acceptance to be a
part of the Soccer Without Borders team. I have
recently ended my soccer
career at University of
Massachusetts-Lowell,
and this is the perfect
opportunity to do something more with what I
have learned from playing
soccer since I was 4 years
old.”
Prior to graduating
from Londonderry High,
McSpiritt decided that the
Former LHS soccer stalwart Margaret McSpiritt who recently finished up a fine, four-year sports
and academic career at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell - hopes to work with underprivileged
girls in Nicaragua in a soccer camp in January.
Photo by Beth Balbierz
Massachusetts
school
was the place for her to
pursue both soccer and
civil engineering after
being recruited to bring
her considerable soccer
skills to that university.
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She managed to maintain a high grade point
average while showing
plenty of prowess on the
college soccer pitch. But
the tough 2013 campaign
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LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ondonderry residents Hailey Sibley
and Samantha Fortier both impressed and
excelled with their performances at the Phan-
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Meet in Hampstead on
Sunday, Nov. 17.
The two Level 3 stalwarts put forth a bunch of
top-six finishes at that
competition, with Sibley
proving unbeatable on
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the uneven bars, thanks
to her score of 9.05. She
also bagged a second
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(score of 8.75), third
places on vault (9.05) and
in the all-around (34.75),
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Fortier snared a third
place in the floor exercise
(9.15), sixth places on
vault (9.225) and in the
all-around (35.4), and a
seventh place on the
uneven bars (8.95).
hawks battled through
left McSpiritt feeling as
though her days within
soccer were ending on a
down note. And she didn’t
want her soccer days to
end at all, period. So the
chance to work with
underprivileged girls
through the Soccer Without Borders program is
just the kind of thing she
needs.
“My last competitive
soccer game was Sunday,
Oct. 26. I thought to
myself, ‘This cannot be
the end of my soccer
career. It can’t just end in
one day.’ Then I got
accepted to Soccer Without Borders, and I knew
right when I read the email this was exactly what
I needed,” said McSpiritt.
“Soccer has been in my
life every day for the past
17 years, and now I have a
new dream involving soccer, a dream to help the
youth in Granada and be
their role model.”
The LHS graduate and
her fellow Soccer Without
Borders instructors have
to raise funds to make the
trip possible. And McSpiritt is in the midst of
doing that now.
“I have played soccer
for so long, it’s time for
me to help others with it,”
she said. “I cannot wait to
meet the girls of Granada
and show them the passion and joy I have for
soccer. These girls are
socially-isolated, economically-disadvantaged, and
face great challenges. To
be able to use soccer to
help these girls is inspiring. I want to bond with
these girls, give them positive encouragement, and
allow them to grow.”
Anyone wishing to know
more about the Soccer
Without Borders program
or to help McSpiritt with
her fundraising can do so
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Michelle Hart-Miller Hits 20 Years as LHS Sports Fixture
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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onsistency can make
the difference between success and
failure, comfort and discomfort, and trust or a
lack of trust.
And just about anybody who has interacted
with Londonderry High
School head athletic trainer and strength and conditioning instructor Michelle
Hart-Miller over the last 20
years will tell you the
school has been fortunate
to have had the consistency, talents, and cool head
she has contributed to
Lancer athletics.
Hart-Miller - a former
multi-sport standout at
LHS and a 1985 graduate
of the school - has been an
athletic trainer at Londonderry High since fall of the
1992-93 school year, when
she was hired on an asneeded basis just a few
months after graduating
from the University of New
Hampshire with a degree
in athletic training. By the
following year she was a
full-time athletic trainer at
her old high school.
And there she has
remained, making sure
Lancer athletes are prepared for practice and
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game action through the
strength and conditioning
program she created, and
assessing and treating
injuries during games or
practices.
“Michelle Hart-Miller is
a superstar in her field of
athletic training and as a
strength and conditioning
instructor,” said LHS athletic director Howard
Sobolov. “As a studentcentered
professional,
Michelle is constantly
updating her knowledge to
provide the Londonderry
High School student/athletes with the best
strength-training
techniques and latest protocols for assessing and
rehabbing injuries. In addition to her vast knowledge, she is one of the
most personable and compassionate people that I
know. She cares a great
deal for the kids, and there
is a mutual respect
between Michelle and the
athletes.”
Hart-Miller ran crosscountry, played basketball, and competed as a
skilled middle-distance
and relay runner for the
LHS girls’ spring track
team during high school.
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High School sports - as trainer and strength and
conditioning program director - have been many
over the last 20 years.
lemons and turning them
into lemonade, Hart-Miller
took the upset she suffered when her senior basketball season was ended
prematurely by a right
knee injury three games
into the 1984-85 campaign,
and turned it into a career.
That tear of her anterior cruciate ligament
placed Hart-Miller into
having to recover both
emotionally and physically from an injury that
wiped out the majority of
a high school hoop campaign. And over the last 20
years, Hart-Miller has
been able to sympathize
with LHS athletes forced
to sit on the sidelines
watching - like Lancers’
standout running back
Mike Ryan this fall for
example - because she did
it herself nearly 30 years
ago.
“When you’ve gone
through that kind of
injury, you understand the
mental and emotional aspects as well as what
they’re going through
physically,” said HartMiller. “But you try to keep
things positive, make sure
they get to the right surgeon, and make sure their
recovery goes the way it
should.”
Hart-Miller returned to
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Essex Community College
in Haverhill, Mass., while
working for her associate’s degree in athletic
training. She then had a
couple of false starts at
Colby-Sawyer College in
New London and at Keene
State before deciding that
the University of New
Hampshire was where she
belonged.
After getting her bachelor’s degree in 1992, HartMiller narrowly missed
out on getting an athletic
trainer’s job in the Exeter
school district. But Exeter’s loss became Londonderry’s gain when
Hart-Miller decided to
come home and accept
the per-diem job at LHS.
Her contribution of a
strength and conditioning
program came about a few
years later when she took
a class taught by former
Boston University, Boston
Bruins, and Boston Red
Sox strength and conditioning coach Mike Boyle.
“I began to realize that
high school kids could
really benefit from the
kinds of strength and conditioning programs I was
learning about. And the
first person I went to with
the idea was (longtime
LHS football coach) Tom
Sawyer,” said Hart-Miller.
“I had this whole pitch
ready for him, and he was
like, ‘Sure, go for it.’ So he
was very receptive right
from the start,” she said.
Her strength and conditioning work with LHS
athletes was designed to
help prevent some injuries
from happening at all. Her
work is not only considered vital by LHS coaches
today, but she still has
contact with former Lancers whom she helped
with injuries in years past
and are now her friends.
“It is impressive to me
every time I go to the
trainer’s room to see all of
the student/athletes spanning her 20 years here
who took the time to leave
Michelle with signed memorabilia and pictures from
their time at LHS, and in
some cases throughout
their college careers,
thanking her for all of her
hard work,” said Sobolov.
“I am also impressed by
the number of athletes
who return from participation in college athletics to
continue to work out in
our facility and make sure
they tell Michelle just how
prepared they were to
play at their respective
colleges. And then they
continue to work out at
LHS in the summer, since
our program is in many
cases better than their college programs.”
Hart-Miller said the
personal interaction with
student/athletes is what
has kept her at LHS for 20
years.
“A number of years ago
I had a chance to be a partner in a gym, but when it
came down to it, I decided
that I’d just miss working
with the kids too much,”
she said. “Establishing
relationships with the kids
and being a part of their
experience here are what I
enjoy the most. And I hope
to be here for a long time.”
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PA G E 17
Barbara Scott is Leach Library Artist For December
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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arbara Scott loves
pastels, and although she has
done landscapes and
worked with oils, her
passion is portraiture
and pastels.
“Pastels are my passion,” she said. “They
have a beautiful richness.”
Scott said she was
drawing even as a child,
and she would get her
pad and pencils when
TV’s Capt. Bob’s children’s drawing show
would come on.
“It’s funny because
B
nobody in my family is an
artist, but I’ve always
been interested in art,”
Scott said.
Scott said that when
she was laid off from work
several years ago, it was
her late husband who
said, “you’ve always wanted to be an artist, maybe
now is the time.”
“He would support my
art and go with me to
shows,” she recalled. “He
would even pack a lunch
and load up the car with
all that we needed to
bring - except my paintings. I told him I would
take care of those.
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Christopher Patrick
Russell.
Miss Forgione is a
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University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor of
Science degree in business. She is finishing her
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“After he passed five
years ago, it was really
hard going to shows,” she
said. “I would see other
couples and it was hard.
But now it’s a little easier
and I can imagine him saying, ‘what are you doing?
You can do this.’”
Scott explained that
with pastels, “you can get
that lifelike quality” and
noted that everything
from likeness to muscle
tone is important.
“I studied with Elaine
Farmer for about five
years but I always wanted
to get into portraiture
from day one, and Elaine,
who is a landscape artist,
knew that,” Scott said.
Scott said when she
attends workshops, she
does not allow anyone,
including the instructor,
to touch her work.
“It has to be all my
work. How can I sign it if
someone
else
has
touched it?” Scott said.
She works from photographs that she takes of
potential subjects.
“We were in Africa and
had stopped for breakfast
and one of the servers
was off a few yards away
taking a break, and the
way he looked, so pensive
and in his robes and turban, I just knew I wanted
to paint him, so I snapped
a picture,” she said. “He
didn’t even know I was
doing it, but I was able to
paint the portrait.”
That portrait of the
man, with a brilliant blue
sky and clouds in the
background, hangs in her
living room.
Another portrait, a
Marine squatting down to
pet and scratch a dog
behind the ears while
looking at the viewer,
hangs in her hallway leading to the upstairs living
quarters.
“This is where the muscle tone comes in,” she
said. “He is my nephew
and he was deployed in
Iraq, and the platoon he
was with kind of adopted Leach Library Artist of the Month for December is
the dog. When he was pet- Barbara Scott, pictured with her painting “Friends
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ting the dog, someone
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Scott’s work will be on
Scott’s advice to burpicture was snapped. It is geoning artists is to “rely display at the Leach
a wonderful moment - on what your eyes see, Library throughout Decthere’s a lot of emotion not what your brain says.” ember.
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and the Marine is smiling
while he pets the dog.” The
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Egyptian Finale
North School students completed their one-month Egyptian studies last week with an Open House,
giving parents a chance to see what the children have been learning. From left, Nicole Hamel admires her
son Nicolas’s artwork; James Howell shows his flipbook to his mom, Suzanne Howell; and Jordan Furlong
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LHS Drama Club to Host Annual Gingerbread Night
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he cafeteria at Londonderry High School
will be transformed
into a gingerbread house
assembly center complete with graham crackers and frosting on Dec.
12 from 6 to 8 p.m.
“This is our 11th
anniversary doing this
and it seems like it gets
more popular every year,”
said drama club advisor
Valerie Nelson. She said
the event isn’t really a
fundraiser because most,
if not everything that is
collected, goes into buying the ingredients and
other essentials needed
to put on the event.
“We do it because it’s
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fun and popular and has
become a tradition,” Nelson said.
Nelson recalled that
last year, the ingredients
were starting to run low
and they had to rush out
to get more.
Drama club students
walk around the café
dressed as elves and help
young children with their
sweet constructions.
“The kids really get
involved and love helping
the younger ones, while
at the same time having a
lot of fun themselves,”
Nelson said.
Every child at the
event will get a raffle ticket, with three or four
drawings held throughout
the evening, “so every
child will leave with some
kind of cool little prize,”
Nelson said.
“I love it because it
kicks off the holiday spirit
and kicks off the season.
Some people start asking
me about it at the beginning of the (school) year,”
Nelson said.
Two of the “elves’ who
will be helping the
younger children with
their gingerbread houses
are Mike Bolduc and Brandon Feliciano.
“It’s a really fun way to
celebrate with friends and
family and kick off the holiday season,” Feliciano
said.
For Bolduc, it’s about
giving back.
“Gingerbread Night is
one of the best ways to
give back to the community. It really helps to get
everyone into the holiday
spirit,” Bolduc said.
Nelson said that probably the biggest part of the
event is shopping for the
candy and graham crackers and decorations used
to create the houses built
by kids with creative imagi-
nations. Last year a high
school student built a
model of the starship Enterprise from “Star Trek.”
“Funds come from the
Haunted Woods fundraiser, which is our big fall
fundraiser, and from the
musical production we
put on last year,” Nelson
said.
Because they don’t
know how many people
are going to show up,
they have to keep an eye
on what is purchased and
be prepared in case a
shortage arises, as it did
last year.
“By the time it’s all
said and done, it’s about a
couple of hundred dollars,” Nelson said.
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is $10 per gingerbread
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AROUND TOWN
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Supermarket Shopping
A workshop titled
“Supermarket
Shopping
Savvy” takes place Wednesday, Dec. 4, from 6 to 7 p.m.
at Derry Medical Center’s
wellness center, 14 Tsienneto Road Medical Park,
Suite 300, Derry. Participants will learn how to plan
menus for the week, navigate the grocery store, and
master the food label. They
will also learn about “clean
eating”and tips to reduce
calories. A food demonstration is also featured. Presenter is registered dietitian
Allison Vernet. Cost is $10.
For information and registration, call 537-3033. EXP1128
offered from 5 to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 18, at
Derry Medical Center’s wellness center at 14 Tsienneto
Road Medical Park, Suite
300, Derry. Brad Spickard
will address helpful behavioral change strategies to
reduce all types of stress.
Cost is $10. For information
and registration, call 5373033. EXP1212
Workforce Re-entry
Londonderry Senior Center and Home Helpers host
free workshops for seniors
re-entering the workplace,
culminating with a job fair. A
computer class is offered 10
a.m. to noon Dec. 2 and 9 at
the Microsoft Store in the
Rockingham Mall. “Writing a
Stress Management
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Sacred Music and
Russian Folk Songs
Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, 7 p.m.
Russian A Cappella Quartet
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1 Hood Rd., Derry, NH
Cash Donations Accepted.
Reception to Follow
Call 432 2120 or visit
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Career Center will be at the
Londonderry Senior Center
Jan. 13 from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
“Dressing for Success” and
“Looking through the Eyes
of the Employer” are Feb. 10
from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Preregistration is required; call
Cathy at 432-8554 or Bonnie
at 845-3333. EXP1128
Rail Trail
Londonderry Trailways
celebrates the opening of
the first completed mile of
Rail Trail on Saturday, Nov.
30, at noon at the trailhead
off Sanborn Road at the
North Elementary School
parking lot. The celebration
includes a ribbon-cutting
ceremony and walk on the
Rail Trail. The first mile of
completed Rail Trail runs
from Symmes Drive at Exit 5
of Interstate 93 to Sanborn
Road. The work was funded
by a warrant article passed
at the March 2013 election.
The event will be held rain
or shine. For more information, visit www.londonderrytrailways.org. exp1128
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JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Pay It Forward
Club at Londonderry High School will
be helping the Lions Club
unload all of their Christmas trees from the delivery truck on Friday, Nov.
29.
The club has Assistant
Principal Katie Sullivan as
its advisor, and Sullivan
said the group helps out
various organizations and
individuals.
The club, which started three years ago,
donates members’ time
and energy “paying it forward” by helping organizations around the state.
“We help out organizations like the Arthritis
Foundation, soup kitchens, Breast Cancer Aware-
T
Owls
Leach Library presents a
free children’s program on
Monday, Dec. 2, from 4 to 5
p.m. on owls from around
the world with Eyes on
Owls. Participants will have
a chance to visit with different owls and receive a hooting lesson for each. Live
owls that may be present
include a screech owl,
snowy owl and Eurasian
Final Ski Club Sign-ups eagle owl. To register, call
The Londonderry Recre- 432-1127 or stop by the Chilation Ski Club holds its final dren’s Room beginning at 9
registration night Thursday, a.m. Monday, Nov. 25. EXP1128
Dec. 5, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Pete the Cat
at the Matthew Thornton
Leach Library presents a
Elementary School cafeteria
free children’s program fea(rear). For further informaturing a visit with Pete the
tion, including trip dates
Cat, star of the 2012 Ladyand cost, visit: www.londonbug Award winner “Pete the
derrynh.org/Pages/LondonCat: I love my white shoes”
derryNH_Recreation/ski or
on Monday, Dec. 9, from 4 to
email Ski Club Director Mark
5 p.m. Advance registration
Hamilton at lonskiclub@ais required and begins at 9
ol.com for questions not
a.m. Monday, Dec. 2. To regaddressed on the website.
ister, call 432-1127 or stop by
The club is going back to
the Children’s Room. EXP 1128
Saturday nights.
Friday Services
Etz Hayim Synagogue, 1
1/2 Hood Road, Derry conducts Friday night worship
services every week at a new
time, 8 p.m. For more information, visit www.etzhayim.org
or contact Rabbi Bryna
Milkow at 432-0004. EXP125
Winter Programs
The Children’s Room at
the Leach Library offers the
following programs as part
of Winter Session 1: Story
Time; Shake, Move & Read;
and Toddler Time. Winter
Session 1 is Dec. 11-19 and
Jan. 8-16. Advance registration is required and begins
Monday, Dec. 2. To register,
ness and Make A Wish
and others. Anybody who
reaches out to us and has
an event, they get in contact with us and we’ll
come,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan said there are
about 30 students in the
club, and they drive to
events using their own
vehicles and pay for their
own gas.
“We have had a great
group of students every
year,” she said. “When
someone wants to join,
we look at their ability to
commit, their desire to
give back to the community and their character.”
Sullivan said the Lions
Club contacts the club
every year to help unload
the trees. “So we get up
nice and early on Black
Friday and help out,” Sul-
livan said.
LHS junior Alex Walter,
17, said the club members
plan to get up about 7:30
a.m. Friday and unload
the trailers of Christmas
trees at the Lions Hall,
then stock them in the
area where they will be
sold.
“I want to do it
because it’s Thanksgiving
and everyone is together,” said Andrew Mitchell,
16, a junior. “Being part of
something that can bring
people together is always
helpful.” Mitchell has
been with Pay It Forward
for two years.
The Lions Club uses
the money from trees sold
at Christmas for charitable work and scholarships.
call 432-1127 or stop by the
Children’s Room. Anyone on
the waiting list for Fall Session 2 will automatically be
entered in Winter Session 1.
Anyone in Fall Session 2
must wait until Tuesday,
Dec. 3, to register. Parents
may register a maximum of
five children per program at
once. EXP1128
contact Christine at 4372866. Adoration and Divine
Mercy Chaplet will be available before Mass at 7:30
a.m. in the chapel. EXP1128
Book Sale Volunteers
Leach Library is looking
for Thursday evening volunteers to work in the book sale
room from 6 to 7:45 p.m. Anyone able to volunteer one
Thursday evening a month is
asked to call Sally Nelson at
432-1132 or e-mail [email protected].
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First Saturdays
Women of all ages are
invited to honor Our Lady
for First Saturday Devotions
on Dec. 7 at St. Patrick
Church in Pelham. The day
begins with Mass at 8 a.m.,
followed by the Rosary at
8:30 a.m. and the annual
Advent Prayer Service,
where participants will walk
through the Old Testament
in preparation for Christmas. Following the service
is a potluck breakfast and
fellowship time. For more
information, call Linda at
930-6436 or email [email protected]. To
carpool from Londonderry,
Garden Club
The Derry Garden Club
holds its annual Greens
Workshop at 10 a.m. Dec. 6
at the Boys and Girls Club of
Greater Derry, 40 Hampstead Road, Derry. Members
will bring greens to share
and containers for their own
use in creating centerpieces
or wreaths for the holidays.
An optional Cookie Swap
with recipes for members is
also featured, and donations
will be collected for the
Food Pantry. For more information, visit derrygardenclub.org or call 434-0578.
The Club is a member of the
New Hampshire Federation
of Garden Clubs (District IV)
New England Region and
the National Garden Clubs,
Inc. EXP125
Free Meals
The Community Meals
Network offers free, familyfriendly meals at the following Derry locations. Derry
residency is not required.
Nov. 29, spaghetti supper, 5
to 6:30 p.m., First Parish
Congregational Church, 47
East Derry Road; Dec. 1,
breakfast, 9 to 10 a.m.,
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Londonderry Police Log
Selections from the Londonderry Police Logs
Tuesday, Nov. 19
7:45 a.m. Report that
credit card stolen and
used while he was staying
at Sleep Inn, Perkins
Road.
8:14 a.m. Three unlocked
vehicle gone through
overnight and change
taken on Ash Street.
11:16 a.m. Pocketbook
stolen yesterday at Papa
Gino’s, Nashua Road.
5:44 p.m. Jacob Vachon,
18, Litchfield Road, Londonderry turned himself in
on warrant for Receiving
Stolen Property. Bail set at
$2,500 personal recogni-
zance, with Derry District
Court date of Dec. 9.
5:57 p.m. Anvar Bieler, 17,
Windsor Boulevard, Londonderry arrested for
Theft From a Building and
Criminal Liability for Conduct of Another. Bail set
at $2,500 personal recognizance, with Derry District Court date of Dec. 9.
Wednesday, Nov. 20
8:38 a.m. Matthew Lefebvre, 28, Norwich Place,
Londonderry arrested for
Simple Assault.
11:56 a.m. Theft of pocketbook from car on
Oakridge Drive.
10:49 p.m. Possible electrical fire on Constitution
Drive.
Thursday, Nov. 21
3:21 p.m. Report of theft
of medication at Moose
Hill Orchards, Mammoth
Road.
6:28 p.m. Caller reported
someone attempted to
break into home on Trolley Car Lane. Door kicked
in and window broken.
Damage noticed at 3 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 22
6:27 a.m. Caller reporting
gunshots, probably hunters, at Perkins and Rockingham roads. Did not think
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they were supposed to be
hunting before sunrise.
9:14 a.m. Terrance F.
Lyons, 39, 312 Mammoth
Road, Londonderry turned himself in on warrant
for False Report on Accident. Bail set at $1,000
personal recognizance
plus $40 bail commissioner fee, with Derry District
Court date of Dec. 9.
10:43 a.m. Kyle Pedrick,
21, 34 Anthony Drive, Londonderry arrested for
Possession of Controlled/
Narcotic Drugs, Possession of Controlled/Narcotic Drugs with Intent to
Distribute; Manufacture
of Controlled Drug, and a
second count of Possession of Controlled/Narcotic Drugs. U.S. Postal
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inspectors notified detectives about a suspicious
package for delivery in
Londonderry. His bail was
set at $20,000 cash, which
he was unable to post. He
was transported to the
Rockingham County Jail,
with Derry District Court
arraignment on Nov. 25.
1:50 p.m. Loose change
taken from unlocked car
overnight on Lori Lane.
Saturday, Nov. 23
7:18 p.m. Criminal mischief on Nutfield Drive.
9:15 p.m. Criminal mischief on Mammoth Road.
Sunday, Nov. 24
12:43 p.m. Tree down in
roadway at Constitution
and Capitol Hill drives.
1:53 p.m. Large tree
branch in road blocking
traffic.
2:35 p.m. Tree blocking
road at Welch and Noyes
roads.
3:12 p.m. Long hanging
wires across Old Derry
Road.
3:16 p.m. Manager at Market Basket, Garden Lane
reported female shoplifter just left area in dark
colored SUV, after putting
groceries in vehicle and
then driving at head
cashier as he tried to flag
her down.
3:27 p.m. Tree and live
wires down in Gilcreast
Road. 3:34 p.m. PSNH
notified.
4:01 p.m. Branch blocking one lane at Orchard
View Drive and Winding
Pond Road.
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the middle school due to
anticipated enrollment
decline.
He said that if in the
future the district had to
add or maintain current
staffing levels, the agreement would be an excellent return on investment,
even with the addition of
two teachers. Greenberg
emphasized Londonderry
would have total control
over the number of students admitted.
“Last year FY 13 to FY
14, we lost $1,757,149 in
adequacy money, which
represents 53 cents per
thousand,” Greenberg said.
“We tuition in 56 students,
which generated revenue
of $476,000, which was a
plus of 15 cents, so in
essence we were able to
negate that loss, and the
loss was only 38 cents per
thousand. So the tuition
offset loss was 15 cents
per thousand. In FY 14 to
FY 15, we anticipate losing another $583,884 in
adequacy or roughly 17
cents per thousand. Possible tuition from next
year will be, with the current 56 students and the
possible addition of 40
students,
$1,004,352,
which is 30 cents per
thousand, so the tuition
nets us a plus of 17 cents
per thousand, vs. what we
would lose next year.”
Greenberg said that
over a two-year period,
there is a possible tuition
revenue of $1,480,501 or
45 cents per thousand
revenue to offset a 70 cent
loss per thousand due to
the decline in adequacy
funding.
Greenberg projected
the revenue for the years
FY 14 to FY 17 and said
the cumulative revenue
gain over that period
would total $4,773,056, or
approximately $1.45 per
thousand.
The present stabilization grant is $1,295,082,
but Greenberg said there
is no guarantee the grant
will continue. He said the
FY 16 tuition of $1,432,352
more than offsets the possible loss of the grant.
“If, down the road, we
had to hire two additional
teachers because of
tuitioned students, at a
total cost of $136,000
(salary plus benefits) to
generate in FY 16 tuition
revenue of $1,432,352, the
return on investment
would be $1,295,952 - or a
900 percent return on
investment,” Greenberg
said.
The memorandum has
a five-year length, renewable in five-year increments; calls for a maximum of 40 students per
grade level moving forward, with a separate
process for Special Education students subject to
space availability, facilities, programs, staffing and
expertise; equal access to
all programs; tuition at a
first year base rate of
$10,290, with the parents
charged the difference
between the base rate
and calculated cost; supplementary tuition from
Hooksett in addition to
the base rate for special
education services; mutual termination of the
agreement at the end of
five years, with both
sides to meet not less
than 90 days prior to the
expiration of the agreement to discuss a possible
extension; and if a decision
to terminate is made, students in attendance can
continue through graduation.
Greenberg said the
Hooksett school board
was to hold a public hearing on the agreement Nov.
25, and a vote is scheduled for Dec. 5.
Board member Steve
Young asked school district attorney Matt Upton
what the difference was
between an Area Agreement and a Memorandum
of Understanding.
Upton said Area Agreements are covered by
statute, while a tuition
agreement or Memorandum of Understanding is
“basically a contract between two parties.”
Board member John
Robinson said the tuition
amount was $10,290 but
resident student cost of
education was around
$13,000, and asked Greenberg to explain the difference.
Greenberg said Londonderry is not incurring
any additional costs
because of tuitioned students and the tuitioned
students lower the perpupil cost due to the revenue. He likened it to an
aircraft that was nearly
full with full fare passengers but had a few seats
unfilled; the airline then
reduces the cost per
empty seat to fill the
plane and thus maximizes
its profit.
Robinson
clarified
that instead of losing
$3,000, the district would
be gaining $10,000, and
Greenberg agreed.
Board member John
Laferriere said they had
been working for a year
to look for creative ways
to reduce overhead and
produce revenues, “and
tuition was a pretty good
place to look.
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“We looked at what
was going on between
Hooksett and Manchester
and unfortunately we capitalized on a bad situation
with Manchester, but I
think at the end of the
day, Hooksett and Londonderry are going to
make out on the deal,”
Laferriere said.
Laferriere asked what
the agreement does in
terms of class size, quality of education and athletics.
“What happens to Billy
if Billy gets bumped
because a kid from Hooksett makes the team and
Billy doesn’t,” Laferriere
asked.
Greenberg said once a
student is accepted at
Londonderry High School,
he or she has equal access to all programs and
services, which include
co-curricular and extracurricular activities.
“We have some sports
programs where there are
cuts, so it is possible that
a Hooksett student might
take the place of a Londonderry student for a
particular sports team,
whether it be cheerleading or basketball,” Greenberg said.
Classroom size would
not be impacted, he said,
adding that quality of education would be enhanced because of additional
revenue, which over the
long term would permit
the district to continue to
run the programs it is running now.
He said that if the district were to keep losing
adequacy money and didn’t have tuitioned students, it “would be hard
put to maintain staffing
levels, which in turn, I
think, would have a negative impact.”
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Laferriere asked Greenberg about how the building projects expected in
town would impact the
agreement.
Greenberg said that
according to the agreement, the district has control over how many Hooksett students can be
accepted, and if there
were only two accepted
because of an influx of
new Londonderry students, then that’s how
many would be accepted.
Resident Al Baldasaro
asked if the school district would charge a special needs student what
the state is paying for adequacy and Greenberg said
no. Greenberg said that
for a hypothetical student
getting four units of
speech and language
services, the district
would calculate its cost
for speech and languages
per unit and that would
be added on to the
tuition.
“We would not get adequacy for the tuitioned
kids; that would go to
Hooksett,” Greenberg said.
Board member Leitha
Reilly asked what “Right
of Refusal” means, and
Greenberg said the district could refuse students.
Upton said in the
beginning of September
the district would let
Hooksett know how many
spaces were available,
and Hooksett would give
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Londonderry a list of
pupils proposed for enrollment for the ensuing
school year. Londonderry
would get access to
school records, discipline
records and special education records and would
confirm the students.
“What would have to
happen to make us sorry
we ever got involved in
it?” Robinson asked
Greenberg said it
would be a miscalculation
on the number of slots
available
Robinson asked if the
Hooksett school board
would have any say in
school operations and
Greenberg said it would
not.
The Memorandum of
Understanding was ac
cepted unanimously. A
copy of the Memorandum
is available at the Londonderry Times website at
www.nutpub.net.
On Monday evening,
Nov. 25, the Hooksett
School Board held an informational meeting to look
at what Superintendent
Charles Littlefield said
were the “global options”
Hooksett has before it.
“”We have a more
global plan and one of the
parts of that plan would
be the Memorandum of
Understanding (with Londonderry), but Hooksett
as yet has not taken any
action on the several
MOUs before it,” Littlefield said.
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