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Great Northwoods Journal
December 8, 2012
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Apply for free children’s
books and storytelling for
your community program
WATERBURY CENTER, Vt.
– Community programs in
Vermont and New Hampshire
that serve rural, low-income,
and at-risk children are encouraged to apply to the Children’s
Literacy Foundation (CLiF) for
one of our At-Risk Children
program grants.
The programs selected will
receive a collection of books for
an on-site library, an interactive
storytelling presentation, and
two brand-new children’s books
for each of the children you
serve to take home and keep.
CLiF provides programming
and books free of charge to
qualified programs.
To qualify, your organization must be able to host an
event with at least 25 children
ages 12 and under. At least
40% of those children must
qualify for free or reduced
lunch or other assistance programs. We have provided pre-
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Happy
Birthday
Andrew!
Santa’s Village workers delivered lots of toys to the John W. Weeks VFW Post #3041 in Lan caster for Toys for Tots. This year, between this delivery and toys that will go to North Strat ford, Santa’s Village donated over $10,000 worth of toys (including $200 that seasonal helpers
donate during the year). Kneeling from left are Mary Chandler of VFW Ladies’ Auxiliary, and
Erin Hicks from Santa’s Village. Standing behind them are Ryan Jordan and Patrick McGil licuddy. Mark Ridley and Bruce Hicks helped with the delivery, but were not in this photo.
Anyone who would like to donate new, un-wrapped toys or games may contact Theresa Ster ling at 616-9088, or Mary at 586-4001. Anyone wishing to make a monetary donation may
send it to Toys for Tots, PO Box 147, Lancaster, NH 03584.
(Photo by Lyndall Demers)
Love,
Grandma
Peaslee
Carol sing to be held December 15 at
Congregational Church in Lunenburg, Vt.
The Top of the Common
Committee invites everyone to
their Christmas Carol Sing on
Saturday, Dec. 15 beginning at
7 p.m. in the historic Congregational Church at the top of
Lunenburg, Vermont’s town
common.
Through strong volunteerism
and
assistance
by
a
Preservation Grant, made possible by a partnership between
the Freeman Foundation and
the Preservation Trust of
Vermont, the Congregational
Church building is now open for
public functions!
Come and join in this
Christmas event, being part of
the first public gathering in this
historic building. Experience
the ambiance created by lighting from the nineteenth century
chandeliers and wall sconces,
amazing interior woodworking,
and exquisite stained glass windows.
The building is not heated, so
dress as you would for a country
sleigh ride or outdoor carol sing.
This is a free event and the
building is now handicapped
accessible. General parking is
available in the school lot
behind the church and, weather
permitting, off the roads around
the common.
Information
about
the
restoration work on this building and other events sponsored
by the Committee can be found
by visiting www.topofthecom mon.org
Project Youth’s Giving for the Holidays
Project Youth’s Gorham
Afterschool Program will be conducting a Road Toll to help raise
funds to support their Give Back
for the Holidays initiative. On
Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 3:30 p.m.
the Gorham Middle School students in the Project Youth
Afterschool Program will be sta-
tioned in the Sears parking lot
to collect funds for an initiative
that will support teens helping
teens. The students have each
chosen a card from the WalMart Giving Tree and will be
using the funds raised to purchase gifts. Who better to shop
for a teen than another teen!
Late Nite Madness
Weekend Is Here!
Colebrook’s annual Late Nite
Madness downtown shopping
extravaganza is here, with
activities scheduled for this
Friday and Saturday, December
7 and 8. Organized by the
Colebrook Downtown Development Association’s Promotions
Committee, the goal of this
event is to encourage local
Christmas shopping and a festive atmosphere downtown.
Stores will be open until 10
p.m. on Friday, and the Brady
family Percheron horses will
provide hayrides from 5:30 to 8
p.m., sponsored by Citizens
Bank and the First Colebrook
Bank. Rides depart from the
Twinkle Tent at First Colebrook
Bank, where cookies and hot
cocoa will be offered, and the
Key Club Elves will be out and
about downtown.
Local young people will present a Christmas skit at the former Sutton Place building (now
Golden Locks) at 6 and 7:30 p.m.
Student carolers will also perform there at 6:30, then raise
their voices as they stroll
around Main Street. Fireworks
sponsored by Brooks Chevrolet
will bring the evening to a close
at 8:30 p.m.
On Saturday, Kheops International will host Santa’s
Workshop at the Tillotson Center from 1 to 3 p.m., during
which time the Brady family
will again offer horse-drawn
hayrides in memory of their late
patriarch Francis Brady, leaving from the Tillotson Center.
Two new contests join this
year’s Late Nite Madness lineup, starting with a weekendlong 50/50 raffle to benefit the
CDDA. Tickets will be on sale
Friday through Sunday, available at Aime’s Card & Gift,
Hicks
Hardware,
Hill’s
Department Store and Jaime’s
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The students will shop, wrap
and deliver each gift. If you are
not able to pass through the
road toll and would like to help
the students reach their goal,
please contact Naomi Levesque
at the Family Resource Center
at 466-5190 ext. 314. Project
Youth is a program of the
Family Resource Center, for
more information about Project
Youth go www.frc123.org.
148 Main Street (Old Coös County Courthouse)
Lancaster, NH 03584
(603) 631-0046
www.centerforacupuncturenh.com
267 Main Street
Lancaster, NH 03584
(603) 788-2719
Toll Free: 877-788-2719
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Customize your own gift set, or select from
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Lancaster
Weather
Summary
Week of November 25 to December 1
TEMPERATURE:
High Week
34
11/29
Low Week
4
11/30
High 1 Year Ago
62
Low 1 Year Ago
19
Normal High
39
Normal Low
23
Record High
65
2004
Record Low
-14
1989
Degree Days This YTD 1875
Degree Days Last YTD 1580
Avg. Degree Days YTD 1760
Note: Degree Day Year begins July 1
and ends June 30.
PRECIPITATION:
Total Week
0.09
Total This Month
0.05
Normal This Month
0.28
Total This Year
38.65
Normal For Year To Date37.02
Total Snow This Month
0.7
Normal Snow This Month 0.8
Total Snow This Winter 3.6
Normal Snow This Winter 6.9
Note: Melted Precipitation Year begins
Jan. 1 and ends Dec. 31.
WINTER
MARKET
Saturday,
Dec. 15
from 9 to noon
Lancaster Town Hall
Do some holiday shopping!
• Crafts • Breads
• Candies
• Winter Vegetables
• and much more!
More Info: Lane Nevins Remember: Parking is also available at Town Hall,
Lancaster Bank building, and at the police station
603-568-2877
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December 8, 2012
Fun things to do
Crossword Puzzle
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Across
1. Gator’s cousin
5. Hamster’s home
9. Coffeehouses
14. 100 kurus
15. Building additions
16. Adult (2 wds)
17. Support paid by divorced
spouse (pl.)
19. Star bursts
20. “Comprende?”
21. After-bath wear
22. Young haddocks split and
boned for cooking
23. Course of study outline (pl.)
25. Absolute
26. “Aladdin” prince
27. Big game
28. Afflict
31. The final irritation
35. Small hand drum in India
37. “Thanks ___!” (2 wds)
38. Overhangs
40. Big loser’s nickname?
41. Recipient of a gift
43. For a song (2 wds)
45. “Absolutely!”
46. “Cool!”
48. ___ v. Wade
49. Do-nothing
51. Advise
55. Resembling a pine cone
57. Think (over)
58. Get a move on
59. Kind of battery
60. Global
62. Moved back and forth while
suspended from above
63. “... or ___!”
64. “Your turn”
65. Schoolteacher’s disciplinary
strap
66. “Cold one”
67. Cautious
Down
1. Category
2. Life of ___
3. Architectural projection
4. Video maker, for short
5. Member of a religious community
6. Accused’s need
7. Delight
8. Cousin of -trix
9. Musical performance without
theatrical staging
10. Prior to, old-style
11. Pleasing
12. “Good grief!”
13. Attends
18. Certain exams
22. “___ Cried” (1962 hit)
24. Caffe ___
25. Ratty place
27. Lifeboat lowerer
29. Hip bones
30. Aladdin’s ___
31. Disney dog
32. ___ vera
33.
Daughters’
husbands
(hyphenated)
34. ___ O’Reilly on “M*A*S*H”
36. Bloodless
39. Leisurely walker
42. Blow up
44. “Things ___ be worse.”
47. Moray, e.g.
50. ___ list (college)
51. Invoke misfortune
52. Hindu deity
53. Downy duck
54. Apprehensive
55. “Check this out!”
56. “Field of Dreams” setting
57. Blemish
60. Fly catcher
61. “Awesome!”
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December 8, 2012
To the victor go the spoils.
And this season we’ve got two
big winners. First, of course, is
2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series
champion
Brad
Keselowski. Keselowski outlasted and outperformed 11 of the
best drivers in the world over
the 10-race stretch known as the
Chase for the NASCAR Sprint
Cup. In doing so, the 28-year-old
captured the first NASCAR premier series championship for
owner Roger Penske—and set
the sport on high alert that a
youth movement is upon it.
Second, winner number 2 —The
fans. NASCAR needed a new
champion and with Keselowski,
racing’s image took a turn for
the better. Keselowski is a hardnosed, aggressive, all out driver
who has worked his way, without the benefit of driver development programs, through the
ranks and file to emerge as a
champion. Keselowski has
scraped and battled to the top,
his family literally was on the
brink of losing its home a few
years ago, after being forced to
close their racing shops following decades of success in the
ARCA series. Keselowski is
exactly what NASCAR needed
to return old fans and attract
the younger generation to the
stands of the world’s greatest
sport. The new champion is a
return to the old NASCAR—to
what made it such a great sport.
He’s beer sloshin’ not champagne sipping, he’s old school to
the point, not politically correct,
he arrives at NASCAR functions
in jeans and a tee shirt, not a
suit or tux, he’s tech savvy but
with dirt and grease under his
finger nails, not manicured and
shined and he drives like every
lap is his last in his final race.
He’s not stuck on his own selfimportance evident by his postrace comments after earning the
world’s highest motorsports
crown. I’m not big enough, fast
enough, strong enough—no person is… only a Team can do
that,” Keselowski uttered as
beer sloshed from an oversized
glass out of both sides of his
mouth down his chin and onto
his sponsor’s “Miller Light” driving suit. What an image… perfect for Brad—perfect for his
sponsor—but most of all perfect
for the sport.
Vermont’s own Motorsports
broadcasting pioneer Ken
Squier was presented the prestigious NASCAR Buddy Shuman
Award during the 2012
NASCAR
NMPA
Myers
Brothers Award Luncheon last
Thursday in Las Vegas during
“Champions
Week”.
The
Shuman award is sponsored by
Federal-Mogul’s
Champion
brand of spark plugs, wipers
and chemical additives. Squier
is credited with convincing CBS
television to undertake the first
live, flag-to-flag broadcast of a
NASCAR race and is widely rec-
Great Northwoods Journal
Ken Squier was honored by NASCAR last week, as the recip ient of the prestigious Buddy Shuman Award.
(Photo by Steve Poulin)
ognized as one of the pre-emi- NASCAR national series presnent voices of the sport. Squier ence in Canada for a seventhbecame the 56th recipient of the consecutive season. Also beginaward, which is presented ning in 2013 as was recently
annually to an individual who announced by NASCAR, at road
has played a key role in the con- courses and tracks measuring
tinued growth and success of 1.1 miles in length or less, the
Cup racing. Squier’s broadcast- driver age restriction will be
ing career jump started at a lowered to 16 years old.
very young age. He announced Currently, the minimum age to
his first stock car race, at compete at the national series
Morrisville (Vt.) Speedway, at level is 18. The balance of the
14. The “Voice of Vermont” went 2013 NASCAR Camping World
on to announce and promote Truck schedule, the series’ 19th
races at Vermont tracks season, maintains a familiar
throughout the 1950s and ‘60s. feel, opening with Daytona
In 1960, at age 21, he built the International Speedway on
famed quarter-mile Thunder February 22 and culminating on
Road International SpeedBowl November 15 at Homesteadin Barre, Vt., which he still co- Miami Speedway. Next year’s
owns and announces at weekly. schedule also includes a return
Squier was also co-founder of to Rockingham Speedway for
the Motor Racing Network the second consecutive season.
(MRN) in 1969. He’s now presi- Earlier this season, Rockingham
dent and owner of Radio re-joined NASCAR national
Vermont, Inc., which operates series competition for the first
several stations in the Green time since 2004.
Mountain State.
Garage Garble
It’s a throwback to True Grit
Former Joe Gibbs and Wood
as
NASCAR
last
week Brothers Racing crew chief
announced the 2013 schedule Michael “Fatback” McSwain is
for the NASCAR Camping fixing to return to the Sprint
World Truck Series, a slate that Cup Series garage next season.
includes two exciting firsts: the McSwain has been away from
series’ first race on dirt and its the sport since stepping down as
inaugural international event. crew
chief
for
Wood
On July 24, the trucks will make Brothers/JTG Racing at the end
their dirt debut at Eldora of the 2007 season, but revealed
Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, this week that he will return to
the .5-mile track owned by racing and field a new team in
three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup the full, 36-race Sprint Cup
Series champion Tony Stewart. schedule next year, with sponThis event will be the first of sorship
from
Waterbury,
two Wednesday night races for Vermont-based ice cream maker
the series, joining Bristol Motor Ben and Jerry’s. B & J’s will
Speedway’s popular mid-week support
the
sponsorship
race on August 21. Canadian through sales of a special new
Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP), a flavor, “Fastback,” vanilla ice
2.459-mile, 10-turn road course cream laced with bacon fat, hot
in Bowmanville, Ont., will host dog slices and licorice-flavored
its inaugural truck event on jellybeans.
Brad Keselowski won his
September 1, becoming the first
road-course track for the series
Rumors----------------------since 2000, and ensuring a
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December 8, 2012
Winners of the Lunenburg NH the Beautiful, Inc. awards grant to Coös
Gingerbread Bazaar prizes County Recycling, Stratford and Lancaster
LUNENBURG, Vt. — The
Top of the Common Committee
is pleased to announce the winners of the Gingerbread Bazaar
free door prizes, raffles, and contests. Congratulations everyone!
The free door prizes were
awarded as follows: to Syrus
Phillips – gingerbread scented
candle donated by Aunt Sadie’s
of Lunenburg and a pair of
snowflake earrings donated by
Carol Wenmark; to Gerrie
Pinnette – three-piece candle
votive donated by Al and
Loretta Pitt and candy filled
ceramic Santa donated by Judy
Young; to Arlene Allin – gingerbread scented candle donated by
Aunt Sadie’s and bath set donated by Al and Loretta Pitt; to
Kim McDade – tree ceramic decoration donated by Al and
Loretta Pitt and recordable photo card donated by Larry and
Lorraine Odell; to Mary Pire
–Santa votive donated by Judy
Young and recordable photo
card donated by Larry and
Lorraine Odell; to Pat Dupont –
I Play gift box donated by Larry
and Lorraine Odell; to Louise
Mossberg – collectable TY
“Libearty” white bear donated
by Judy Young.
Some great cookie stacking
attempts were made by visitors
of all ages! The winners in each
age group were awarded a
cheese/one topping personal pan
pizza donated by Pizza Hut of
Littleton. The winners were:
Caroline Adams and Dexter
Lawson in the under age four
group; Kaden Balch and Kierra
Charest in the 4-6 age group,
Ben Glover and Macy Adams in
the 7-9 age group, Karissa Cole,
Ashley Allin, and Hannah
Showalter in the 10-12 age
group, and in the 13-adult age
group, Judy Balch.
The counting jar winners
include: the large jar of assorted
chocolate candies – Capri Colby
with an exact guess of 215; the
candy cane container – Marie
White with an exact guess of
140, both donated by Dollar
Tree in Littleton.
The Gingerbread House
Contest entries were outstanding, demonstrating great creativity with various edible
items! The winners were chosen
by “People’s Choice” votes during the bazaar. In the
“Purchased
Cookies
and
Crackers Group” category, first
place went to Becky Lawson and
Nancy McLain – candle donated
by Aunt Sadie’s of Lunenburg
and Family Pizza Special donated by Lancaster House of Pizza;
second place went to Dianne
Peyton – one topping pizza
donated by Lunenburg Variety
Deli and recordable photo card
donated by Larry and Lorraine
Odell. In the
“Traditional
Adult” category, each winner
received a gingerbread scented
candle donated by Aunt Sadie’s
EPSOM — Coös County
Recycling was awarded $ 5,000
toward the purchase of a glass
pulverizer. The award was presented to Superintendent of
Corrections Craig Hamelin by
John Dumais of NH the
Beautiful. Also present were
Scott Grassette and Marilyn
Weir. “This equipment will
allow us to reduce the amount of
stockpiled glass, and at the
same time, will create a useable
and marketable product that
can be used by local and state
projects”. NH the Beautiful
applauds the Coös County
Recycling for continuing to
improve the efficiency of its
recycling program.
The Town of Stratford was
awarded $ 2,100 toward the purchase of Glass Crusher. The
award was presented to Facility
Manager Charles Goulet by
John Dumais of NH the
Beautiful. Also present were
Jim Chapple, Town of Stratford
and Marilyn Weir, NRRA. “This
equipment will allow us to crush
and stash the pile of glass for
Lancaster Recycling Center
Bill Brown, Dennis Patnoe and John Dumais
use by our contracted agent to
use in ditches or town roads,”
said Charles. NH the Beautiful
applauds the Town of Stratford
for continuing to improve the
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Town of Stratford
John Dumais, Jim Chapple, Charles Goulet and Marilyn Weir
Appalachian Supply Inc.
St. Johnsbury, VT
(802) 748-4513
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Coös County Recycling
John Dumais, Scott Grassete, Craig Hamelin, Marilyn Weir
C r o s s w o rd a n s w e rs from Page 6
efficiency of its recycling program.
The Town of Lancaster was
awarded $2,300 toward the purchase of a Glass Pulverizer. The
award was presented to
Transfer Station Manager
Dennis Patnoe by John Dumais
of NH the Beautiful. Also present were Bill Brown, Town of
Lancaster and Marilyn Weir,
NRRA. “This Glass Pulverizer
will improve the way we handle
glass by eliminating the need to
hire outside companies to
process the glass. The pulverizer will pay for itself after a couple year’s of use,” said Dennis
Patnoe,
Transfer
Station
Supervisor. NH the Beautiful
applauds the Town of Lancaster
for continuing to improve the
efficiency of its recycling program.
NH the Beautiful, Inc.
(www.nhthebeautiful.org) is a
private non-profit charitable
trust founded in 1983 and supported by the soft drink, malt
beverage, and grocery industries of New Hampshire. By
offering municipal recycling
grants (over $2.5 million) and
signs, anti-liter programs, and
technical assistance to recycling
programs, NHtB is a unique
organization that represents a
voluntarily-funded alternative
to expensive legislation intended to achieve the same end
results. New Hampshire the
Beautiful, Inc. is now supporting the NRRA School Education
Program
(the
Club). The
Northeast Resource Recovery
Association (www.nrra.net) is
administrator for the New
Hampshire the Beautiful programs.
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