Barking Dogs Alert Derry Homeowner to Garage Fire

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Stearns Faces Back Surgery,
Council Meets in Non-Public
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
As a special meeting
approached to discuss a personnel issue, several Town
Councilors said they didn’t
know what the next step
would be regarding a Town
Administrator.
A special nonpublic
meeting was scheduled by
Council Chairman Tom Cardon for Tuesday, Aug. 25,
after the Nutfield News went
to press. The Nutfield News
filed a Right-To-Know
request for its minutes.
The reason for the meeting was listed as RSA 91:A,
(a) The dismissal, promotion, or compensation of any
public employee or the disciplining of such employee,
or the investigation of any
charges against him or her,
unless the employee affect-
ed (1) has a right to a meeting and (2) requests that the
meeting be open, in which
case the request shall be
granted; (b) The hiring of
any person as a public
employee; and (c) Matters
which, if discussed in public, would likely affect
adversely the reputation of
any person, other than a
member of the public body
itself, unless such person
requests an open meeting.
While no one would
state who was the subject of
the meeting, one current
issue is the future of Administrator Galen Stearns, who
went on paid medical leave
July 16. The Town Council
appointed recent hire Chief
Financial Officer Susan
Hickey as Interim Town
Administrator the following
Tuesday, but has announced
no permanent plans.
Cardon said Monday
morning that the Council
has not decided what to do
about the administrator situation. He declined to comment on whether Tuesday’s
meeting would be focused
on Stearns.
Stearns, reached by
phone on Monday, said he is
currently undergoing therapy, with a date for back surgery in mid-September. “I’ll
recover from that and see
how things stand then,” he
said.
Stearns said he has had
no official contact with the
Town Council, but that
Councilor Phyllis Katsakiores had telephoned him
to see how he was doing.
Stearns was hired this
past October after two
searches conducted by the
Council to find a successor
continued on page 10
Barking Dogs Alert Derry
Homeowner to Garage Fire
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Debbi Cox is used to the
barking of the two dogs that
share her home. They’re
very sociable, she says, and
often alert the family to
passers-by.
Their bark Thursday,
Aug. 20, was different and
may have saved the Cox
family’s lives.
Bandit, a blue heeler
border collie owned by
Cox’s daughter Courtney
and Cox’s own Bailey, a
bloodhound/foxhound/boxer mix, are credited,
along with a working smoke
detector, with saving the
family home after a garage
fire that day. The two dogs’
barking alerted Cox that
something wasn’t quite
right, and kept the fire confined to the garage.
Cox works two jobs
from her home office. She is
state coordinator for New
Hampshire Agriculture in
the Classroom and Administrative Assistant for the state
Association of Career and
Technical Education Administrators. When Bandit and
Bailey started barking, she
at first thought they had
spotted a pedestrian.
But they weren’t looking
out the window, and Cox
finally noted the anxiety in
their barks. It was, she said,
“Incessant.”
“Bandit was very protective, and he wouldn’t leave
my side,” she recalled. “I
finally got up to investigate.”
As Cox left the computer the smoke detector went
off. “I was walking in the
direction of the garage,
through the kitchen,” she
said. “The garage door has
glass at the top. All I could
see was flame.”
“That changed my perspective, and I began to
move faster,” Cox said. “I
grabbed the dogs, grabbed
my purse, and called 9-1-1
as I was going out the door.”
The Derry Fire Department responded.
Battalion Chief Jack
DERRY GETS TRUMPED
Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump made an appearance at Pinkerton Academy last week to a full
house and then some. Trump is leading his fellow candidates in the Republican polls.
He is shown making his way onto stage. See story on page 2. Photo by Chris Paul
Progress Made on Blight,
Broadway Pets Coming Down
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Broadway Pets is coming down.
Demolition on the building, which has remained
vacant for years, was scheduled to begin last Friday,
according to members of the
Property Maintenance Committee.
While the former pet
store is its biggest coup so
far, the committee has made
progress on other blighted
and neglected properties,
members said in the Aug. 19
meeting.
Assistant Building Inspector Bob Wentworth said
the “take-down” was scheduled to begin Aug. 21, with
the third floor disassembled
by hand. The other two
floors will face a wreckers’
ball, he said, and demolition
is estimated to take a week.
Mike Fowler, director of
the Derry Department of
Public Works, said that police, fire and Public Works
have met and explored all
safety considerations.
For now, Wentworth
said, the property will be
filled in and leveled off.
“That is a positive outcome,” Fowler said, and
Wentworth agreed, saying,
“A big one.”
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Nutfield News • August 27, 2015
Trump Packs in the Crowds at Stockbridge Theatre
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Jill Mika drove from
Long Island to stand in line
for an hour in 90-degree
weather.
“Yes, we did it just to see
Donald Trump,” the woman
in a purple “Trump” T-shirt
said. “I like his charisma, his
confidence, his honesty and
bluntness, his passion.”
The faithful came, from
as far as New York and as
near as Derry, to see the real
estate mogul, reality TV star
and Republican Presidential
candidate. They lined a sidewalk outside Pinkerton Academy on Wednesday, Aug.
19, to hear Trump’s “Make
America Great Again” message and to pledge their support.
Glenn Neagle, business
manager for Pinkerton, estimated that by the time
Trump took the stage, there
were 850 people in the
Stockbridge Theatre and
another 200 watching live
from the gym. Trump’s estimate was higher: “We have
2,500 people,” he said during his message.
Early arrivals gathered
outside the building as early
as 3:30 p.m., while two
Derry policemen, two Derry
firefighters and the State
Police bomb-sniffing dog
went through the building
for security. The line grew as
the day went on, and news
crews from New Hampshire
and around the world
quizzed the people who had
come to see Trump.
Anthony Ventura of
Derry said he hadn’t come
for the media circus, but to
see Trump. “I want to hear
about some of the great
things he stands for,” he
said.
“I like the way he talks,
his beliefs. He’d be a great
candidate,” he said.
Bob Carrier of Derry had
been standing in line for an
hour, and fanned himself
with some Trump promotional material. “The country needs to go in a different
direction,” he said. “We
need to get a non-politician
in there. He’s a businessperson, and he’ll get us back on
track.”
Alexandra Simoes and
her husband, Jorge, drove up
from Topsfield, Mass., and
she clutched a copy of one
of Trump’s books. “He’s
tough,” she said. “He says
what needs to be said.
Nobody else does.”
Jorge Simoes added,
“He’s different from any
other candidate and I like
that he has a business perspective instead of political.
It’s ideology, not demagoguery.”
Derry Republican Chair
Jim McEachern, State Rep.
David Milz, R-Derry, and
Milz’s wife, Pamela, were
also at the event. They didn’t
say if they were supporters
but David Milz noted, “The
first time a candidate comes
to Derry, we always go out
and hear what they have to
say.”
Inside the Stockbridge,
the atmosphere was part pep
rally, part revival meeting
and part media circus. Television crews from the national stations set up equipment as Trump staffers figured
out how to handle an overflow
Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump references his book, handed to him to sign by a supporter
at his Pinkerton Academy appearance last week.
Photo by Chris Paul
crowd, with one spokesperson
pleading, “Move to the center
of your row.”
State Rep Steve Stepanek, R-Amherst, a co-chair
of Trump’s New Hampshire
campaign, warmed up the
crowd, which got increasingly restless and noisy. “We
want Trump!” echoed across
the room.
Trump took the stage at
7:30 p.m., to ear-piercing
screams. “What do I like
about New Hampshire?” he
said when the audience had
quieted down. “You are
hard-working people who
love your country.”
He began by criticizing
other candidates, in particular Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush
and Scott Walker, whom he
said were “spending a tre-
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mendous amount of money
in negative ads against me.”
“Look at what’s wrong,
even within our party,”
Trump said.
He said the United States
doesn’t have “victories” any
more and pointed to the
recent nuclear deal with
Iran. “That will go down as
one of the worst deals in history,” he predicted.
The United States got
nothing back from the
“deal,” he added.
When a CBS reporter
asked John Kerry if he were
planning to negotiate for
four Americans in Iranian
prisons, Trump said Kerry
responded, “I don’t want to
bring that up. I don’t want to
complicate the negotiations.”
“We should have doubled and tripled the sanctions,” Trump said. “It’s
inconceivable that we couldn’t get them out.”
But he’s not a fan of
“trades,” he added, noting
that the Sgt. Bo Bergdahl
trade last year brought a traitor back to the United States
and released five “mostwanted killers” back to the
battlefield.
The Trump bluntness
was evident as he said, “We
have people running this
country that are incredibly
stupid, and that don’t have
America’s best interests at
heart.”
He touched on his
recently-released immigration policy, the first formal
policy he’s offered, and said
that a large proportion of the
gang members in crime-ridden cities such as Chicago
and Baltimore were illegal
residents. “My first day, they
are out of here,” he proclaimed.
He also discussed the loss
of American jobs to other
countries, particularly Nabisco, which is building a plant
in Mexico. “That is an American company,” he said.
Ford is also building a
$2.5 billion plant in Mexico,
he said, adding, “Maybe we
could have the illegals drive
the cars across the border.”
His speech was punctuated with cheers from the
audience at several points,
and with boos whenever he
mentioned Hillary Clinton.
In the question-and-
answer portion of the Town
Hall forum, one woman
said, “President Obama has
been criticized for his
‘hubris.’ My concern is people may say that you have
hubris.”
“We’re different people,”
Trump responded.
It takes “guts” to run for
President, he observed,
adding, “I get attacked every
day by the press, and most
of it is dishonest.”
But it is worth it, Trump
said, noting, “As much as
I’ve done in business, this is
more important. What I’ve
done won’t matter if this
country falls apart.”
A man from the audience said he had read
Trump’s plan for immigration reform and asked, “Can
you speak to any other policies?”
Trump responded by
pointing to his business
career. “When I want to
deal, I don’t sit down and
say, ‘I’m going to do 14
points.’ In business, you go
in and you get it,” he said.
He has been criticized
for saying, “I want to make
the country rich again and
then great,” he said. “One
man said, ‘Isn’t that kind of
crass?’ No. We need that
mentality.”
And though he’s selffunding his campaign, Trump
noted that money is still coming in. “One woman sent
$7.24,” he said. “She doesn’t
want an ambassadorship. She
wants her country back.”
“The potential of this
country,” Trump said, “is in
its people.”
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Ideas Suggested for Ongoing Promotion of Downtown
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Andy Day doesn’t mind
promoting other downtown
businesses, even if they’re in
a similar line of work. When
Drae, the tapas bar, opened
across the street, Day, owner
of both Cask and Vine and
The Drinkery, took pictures
of the opening and posted
them on his own Facebook
page.
“When one of us succeeds, we all succeed,” Day
observed.
Day and Steve Trefethen, both downtown business owners, gave their input
to the Derry Economic
Development Committee at
its Monday, Aug. 24 meeting. The committee, chaired
by Town Council Chairman
Tom Cardon, is charged
with finding new ways to
promote economic growth
in Derry, in order to expand
the tax base, reduce the tax
burden on residents, and
improve quality of life.
Day goes door to door
talking to his neighbors, and
said he senses frustration
among the business owners
on West Broadway. They all
have different ideas about
how to improve downtown
and business in general, he
said.
“My personal opinion is,
you don’t need more bigbox stores,” he told the committee.
Day thinks that if downtown has three or four good
bars and restaurants, places
people want to go, then it
will lead them to browse in
bookstores and specialty
shops.
He didn’t know about
some of the ways the town
assists businesses and said,
“We need anything that will
say, ‘If you come to town,
this is what you have to
work with.’”
And he encouraged Cardon and the other town officials to show leadership.
“We need you to get out
there and say, ‘Hey, I’m
going here for a haircut, or
here for a drink,’” he said.
Commercial
Realtor
Steve Trefethen has been
involved in a number of
efforts to shore up downtown. His points included
“laying the groundwork”
before going to the town to
approve an Economic Development Coordinator. But
he’s not sure that a group of
“well-organized volunteers”
couldn’t do as good a job.
Web site woes
One of Derry’s shortcomings is its Web site, Trefethen said.
His own site, for his
Summerview Real Estate,
gets 8,000 to 10,000 hits a
week, Trefethen said.
There’s very little about him
on the site, he said, but
instead there are maps,
available sites, sale information. A town economic development Web site should
have all these plus information on the infrastructure,
workforce and educational
facilities.
Trefethen hired an information technology (IT) professional to build his Web
site, but he has an art background and helped out with
design. He made sure he had
capacity for links and SEO
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built, it’s cost him very little,
he said. He spends about
$25 a month for maintenance, but other than that,
“I’ve spent less than $4,000
in five years.”
Committee member Chris
Black, an IT professional,
observed that he had been
on the town Web site and
even he “found it convoluted.”
Black also said that a
Web site should be “mobilefriendly.”
“I have a laptop, a desktop and an iPad and I almost
never use them,” he said.
“Everything is on the
phone.”
The state Department of
Resources and Economic
Development keeps a list of
available commercial property, Planning Director
George Sioras said, adding,
“We could link to that.”
And the Web site could
be a source of revenue,
member Marc Flattes said.
“We should write up a proposal, put it out on the street,
and see how much businesses will pay us to be on
there,” he said.
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Marketing is key, Trefethen said. “You need to
identify where the money in
your community is coming
from, and go after that market big-time,” he said.
Member Terri Pastori
asked, “What kinds of businesses would enhance this
community?”
First, Trefethen said,
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observed. “We sell to the
same people over and over.
You don’t want to lose what
you have.
“Retention is everything,” Trefethen said.
One thing he’d like to
see is a trade or career
school downtown, which
would bring Millennial
money into town. “Kids
spend more than their parents do,” he observed. The
downtown would also be
fertile soil for the faculty
members to spend their
lunch and dinner dollars.
He also observed that it
wouldn’t hurt to do more
“streetscaping,” to make the
area more attractive. His
business is located on the
south side of Broadway,
near the Londonderry line,
and his crew plows to the
line. “If people can’t get out
of their cars, they won’t
come into my office,” he
observed.
Trefethen said he’d like
to see some kind of recreational facility for youths 14
to 18. He’d also like to see
the definition of “downtown” expanded to Broadway to South Avenue, Maple
Street to Park Street and
more of Crystal Avenue.
“And you have to clean up
the town-owned land, sell it
and develop it,” he said.
The Derry Opera House
is the linchpin of a new
downtown, according to
Trefethen. He and his wife
frequently attend shows at
Manchester’s Palace Theater, and he’d like to see
some kind of cooperative
relationship between the
Opera House and the Palace.
“If one of their touring companies or performers has a
second day with no bookings, they could come here,”
he said.
One of Day’s ideas is to
show the movie “Casablanca” at the Opera House, with
three or four eateries offering deals for the same night,
and calling the event “Here’s
Looking at You, Derry.”
“If you get people to the
Opera House in the evening,
you’ll get them downtown,”
Trefethen said.
Tentative Court Hearing
Date Set for Budget Petitions
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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A hearing on whether the
Derry Town Council is legally obligated to act on eight
“referendum petitions” submitted by residents has been
tentatively scheduled for
Aug. 31.
Neil Wetherbee, one of a
group of residents who submitted the petitions in June,
said Tuesday that a date for
the hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 31 at Rockingham Superior Court in Brentwood, but added that the date
was “in flux” depending on
the availability of the attorneys.
The eight referendum
petitions ask the Council to
vote to overturn eight budget
decisions regarding the following: cuts to police personnel, cuts to police overtime,
cuts to fire personnel, cuts to
fire overtime, cuts to public
works personnel, cuts to public works overtime, the closing of a fire station and the
elimination of the Human
Resources Director position.
According to the Town Charter, if a referendum petition is
not acted upon, it calls for a
special election.
At a special meeting July
28, Council Chair Tom Cardon announced that the
Council would not be acting
on the petitions on the advice
of its attorney, Devine, Millimet of Manchester, and
would not be holding a special election.
The group of citizens, led
by Wetherbee, Brian Chirichiello and Michael Gendron, then engaged their own
attorney, Jon Meyer, and
Meyer has filed a motion
with Superior Court.
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Editorial
Work
Underway
Part of a Tradition
When you are weighed down by
your garden’s summer squash, wondering what to do with the voluminous supply of tomatoes, and reeling from a
bumper crop of peaches, it’s hard to
think of cold nights and crisp mornings.
But the bounteous harvest is a sure sign
that summer is winding down.
That makes it a great time to visit the
local farm stands and the Wednesday
afternoon Derry Farmers Market, to take
advantage of the close-to-home purveyors of fresh fruits and vegetables, farm
fresh eggs and locally raised meat.
There’s much to be said for the new
focus on local food - grown close to
home - but we’re especially fortunate in
our towns, where farms may be hundreds of years old and part of a tradition
that is too easily taken for granted.
Farming is a struggle, and its unpredictable nature makes it a gamble at
best. So patronize the farms that contribute to the rural beauty of our towns –
they’re local businesses, after all - and
discover for yourself how fresh, local
food easily wins out over store bought.
And while the calendar may still say
August, before you know it, you’ll be
figuring out where to tie the cornstalks
and how big a pumpkin to put on display.
Meanwhile, the late summer signs –
yellowing of leaves and yellowing of the
light - tell us to get ready. You may still
be driving to the beach, but if you
haven’t done so already, it’s time to consider how much fuel for the furnace to
pre-buy. It’s time to start hauling the
firewood closer to the house, and getting
the furnace or the chimney checked. The
message, of course, is get prepared.
Batteries? Lamp oil? Extra water?
It’s never too early to prepare for power
outages, a New Hampshire fact of life.
Summer takes so long to arrive, and
lasts such a short time. Even as we complain about the heat and humidity, we
know the days of ice and snow will
inevitably follow.
But look at the positive side - we’re
fortunate to have a chance to experience
all four seasons, each unique and special
and intense. And none of them are boring.
It’s still summer, still time to wear
white and fire up the barbecue and
lounge in the water. Still time to sit on
the screen porch with the Red Sox on the
radio. Still time for the pumpkins to turn
orange and the apples to ripen. And still
time to preserve our local crops to enjoy
in the cold months ahead.
So enjoy the last weeks of summer.
Fall will be here soon enough – and then
comes winter.
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going on at First Parish
Congregational Church as
it approaches its 300th
anniversary in 2019.
Workers were preparing
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Restoration of the steeple
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Letters
‘Nicety’ Needed
To the editor:
Dear Taxpayers of Derry,
Can anyone blame the
abutters of this want to be
new home of Dumpster
Depot?
Really? Should Derry
consider this a favorable
business for our town? Right
now, we have dollar stores,
numerous tattoo establishments. Way too many used
car dealerships, which by
the way lure in car thefts by
the hundreds. We have a
Super Walmart, Job Lots
and a few too many coffee
shops. If it wasn’t for
Pinkerton Academy, I’m
really not quite sure what
Derry offers.
In closing, I’m all for
people looking to fulfill their
dreams of a prosperous business. But who the heck
wants a Dumpster Depot
near their overpriced property-taxed home.
I will add, I get enough
bottles and other various discarded trash in front of my
home courtesy of people
who feel the need to discard
their crap versus waiting till
they get home or otherwise.
Downtown has certainly
made an effort with some
businesses that add value to
our town. I hope they prosper. It certainly would add a
little “nicety” to our used car
dealership town.
Elizabeth Kiley
Derry
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Solar Up Event
To the editor:
A Chester and Derry
Solar Up Event is scheduled
for Aug. 31 at the Derry
Municipal Building, 14
Manning St., third floor to
educate residents about the
benefits of solar power. The
event is open to all residents
and will be held from 7:30 to
9 p.m.
In addition to providing
information on how solar
power works for residential
applications, background
information on other
deployments in New Hampshire and New England will
be provided.
Experts will be available
for a question and answer
period at the end for anyone
who needs to know more
about the SolarUpNH program, including how to sign
up for the discount program
running from Aug. 1
through Nov. 30.
Learn more at http://
solarupnh.com/our-communities/chester-derry/.
Please join us in learning
how to protect yourself from
rising energy costs as well as
helping to protect our environment.
Jeff Moulton, PE
Derry Solar Up
Committee
Derry
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Highway Safety to Look at Crosswalk Near Cumberland Farms
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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The Derry Highway
Safety Committee will
investigate ways to improve
safety at the East Broadway
crosswalk between Santander Bank and the Cumberland Farms plaza.
The committee met Thursday, Aug. 20, and learned that
several community members
have complained about the
crossing. Superintendent of
Operations Alan Cote noted
that drivers coming east have
two left-turn lanes, one onto
Manning Street and one onto
Crystal Avenue. “Traffic in the
left lane,” he said, “could create an issue.”
Cote said, “It is incumbent on pedestrians and
incumbent on motorists to
exercise caution.”
Installing a crosswalk
signal would be more trouble than benefit, Cote said.
“The amount of back-up
would be detrimental and
create more issues,” he said,
including pressure on motorists to push their way
through. “The mentality
would be, ‘I got stopped at
this light, I’ve got to make it
through the next one.’”
Committee chair Scott
Savard suggested, “How
about a crosswalk sign like the
one at the library?” The town
has a freestanding, moveable
“pedestrian crossing” sign that
is usually set up outside the
Derry Public Library.
“We could,” Cote responded, “but the one at the
library gets ‘wiped out’ on a
regular basis. You can put up
signs until you’re blue in the
face, but it’s common sense
and common courtesy that’s
lacking.”
Fire Chief Michael
Gagnon said that in his
observations, the problem
comes when parents with
children in programs at the
Tokyo Joe karate studio try
to cross the street. “If it’s
just adults, it’s no problem,”
he said. “But I’ve seen
issues with children.”
Gagnon added, “What if
we set up some kind of
warning device?”
“The only way that
would be any help would be
if it’s in the driver’s sight
line,” Cote responded. “And
in the winter, it would be
destroyed, even if it was
bolted down.”
Many of the karate stu-
he can live with that, pointing out, “In winter people
tend to drive more slowly.”
But Cote warned, “It is a
matter of education,” and
said it would be good to get
the downtown business owners involved.
The committee agreed to
table the matter until September and discuss it with
Police Chief Ed Garone,
who was absent.
Cote said he preferred
some kind of concrete warning device, noting, “If people run over it, they’ll never
run over it again.”
The committee also discussed and tabled a request
from a Union Street landlord
who complained about people parking on both sides of
the street. Administrative
Assistant Sharon Jensen said
dio patrons park in the Manning Street public parking
lot or other public lots on
that side of East Broadway,
while the Wall Street lot on
the Tokyo Joe side of the
street is near-empty. “If the
patrons parked in the Wall
Street lot, that would eliminate the problem,” he said.
Savard pointed out that it
isn’t just the young ninjas,
but the young musicians
crossing the street to go to
Daren’s Music for lessons.
He suggested, “We should
hit all the businesses on that
side, and encourage their
patrons to use the Wall
Street lot.”
If they do go with a
warning device, Cote said,
he prefers a bolted-down
model. Even that wouldn’t
last in the winter, he said, but
the man called her and said
that people are parking on
both sides, it’s a narrow
street, and his tenants are
having problems getting in
and out.
“He asked if there could
be a ‘no parking’ sign on one
side of Union,” she told the
committee.
“We can’t get through
with our apparatus,” Gagnon
said. “I think it’s a reasonable request.”
The group discussed
what side would be better for
prohibiting parking. Cote
said, “My gut reaction is the
inner side of the ‘horseshoe.’
We can allow parking on the
outer side, because there’s
more open space.”
The committee agreed to
look at the street and discuss
it in September.
Lot Line Adjustment Sought for Chakarian Farms Parcels
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
The Derry Conservation
Commission has approved
Chairman Margaret Ives to
sign off on a plan to divide a
former farming business
into two lots.
At its Monday, Aug. 24
meeting the Commission
heard from Neil McCarthy
of Promised Land Surveying, who represented the
owners of Chakarian Farms
at 114 Island Pond Road.
The owners are planning to
subdivide the property into
two lots, one of which will
hold the current single-family home and one that will
hold the farm stand.
McCarthy told the Commission the original parcel is
46 acres, with the farm stand
to the west and the house to
the east. “The proposal,” he
said, “is to divide the property into two parcels.”
The subdivision has
already gone before the
Zoning Board of Adjustment, which approved a
variance for the eastern lot
as having no frontage.
McCarthy said the
frontage issue will be
addressed by the eastern lot
having an easement on the
driveway to the western lot.
“There will be no extra exits
or entrances,” he said.
Ives noted that there was
a wetland across from the
existing house and McCarthy said that existed as
part of the town GIS (Geographic Information System) map. “We did not put
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Buffer Agreed to for Windham Road Storage Property
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Plans to create a buffer
between a proposed 44,000square-foot self-storage facility and its nearest neighbor received a go-ahead
from the Planning Board.
The board met with Eric
Mitchell, the engineer for
Crom LLC, in its Aug. 19
meeting. After hearing Mitchell’s buffer plans, the
board voted unanimously to
accept the buffer plan.
The site plan was approved earlier this year, with
one of the conditions being
that Crom come back with
an acceptable buffer plan.
The property is PID
01023-001, 003 and 004 at
125 Windham Road and is
the result of a lot line merger approved by the Zoning
Board of Adjustment (ZBA)
in its Oct. 9, 2014 meeting.
In May 2014 Edward
Smith, owner of Granite
Clover Self-Storage and
doing business as Crom
LLC, purchased the former
287-unit Derry Self-Storage
at 125 Windham Road for
$1 million. Crom later
acquired 117 and 119 Windham Road and the lots were
merged. The property at 117
Windham Road includes the
rental home and shed.
In the Nov. 5, 2014
meeting, the Planning Board
agreed unanimously to take
jurisdiction of the project
and agreed on a split vote to
give conditional approval to
the application. One of the
conditions of the approval
was that the landscape plans
be agreed upon by both parties. The vote was 6-2.
Randy Chase and Marc
Flattes were the dissenting
votes, both objecting to
structures in the buffer zone.
Maureen Rose, owner of
115 Windham Road, has
been critical of the process,
noting that when she bought
her home the area was
zoned residential and is now
zoned Industrial V. She has
expressed concern that the
storage facility will affect
her view, rural atmosphere
and quality of life, and in
last week’s meeting she
expressed her thoughts in an
e-mail read by secretary
Michael Fairbanks.
Rose is concerned about
a septic system for the rental
home on Crom’s property,
which currently exists in her
50-foot buffer. “It needs to
stay in the rear,” she wrote.
She’s also concerned
about a shed that is an accessory to the rental home and
straddles her 50-foot buffer.
She wrote that she doesn’t
currently object to the shed,
but will if the owners move
it closer. “The existing location could be grandfathered
in, but not a new one,” she
wrote.
Currently, Rose wrote,
the rental home, septic, shed
and perimeter drain are all in
her buffer to some extent.
The existing single-family
home occupies the eastern
end of the buffer and the
septic system is on the western end.
In the public hearing
Nov. 5, 2014, Rose requested two rows of arborvitae be
planted for screening, and in
the August meeting Mitchell
confirmed that his client
would do so. But Rose cautioned in her e-mail, “The
new trees need to be a safe
distance from my trees so
the roots don’t spread to my
trees.”
Mitchell said the septic
was behind the house because the house’s well is in
the front yard. “If the system
fails, it’s better to have it
behind the house,” he pointed out.
Member Randy Chase
reminded the board that septic is subject to state
approval, and “We can’t say
where it should go. It
depends on the soils, the
amount of bedrooms, etc.”
Fairbanks pointed out,
“If they come in with a new
system or a new location,
they’ll have to have it
approved anyway.”
Chase also said he would
like to see the shed closer to
the rental home. “I didn’t
agree with having the house
or shed in the buffer in the
first place,” he said.
“I don’t like it in the
buffer, but I don’t want to
see it any closer to Ms.
Rose,” Flattes agreed.
But Mitchell countered
that a shed for residential
use in a buffer is “not out of
the ordinary.”
The board voted unanimously to approve the buffer
plan.
Derry Man Arrested in Londonderry
Sherwin Williams Store Robbery
KAITLYN G. WOODS
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
Londonderry Police arrested a Derry man for the
alleged robbery of the Sherwin Williams last month.
Douglas Lynch, 31, allegedly entered the store on
July 16 just after 9 a.m.,
walking around inside the
store for a while before approaching the female cashier.
The woman told police
Lynch allegedly placed his
hand in his pocket and stated
“give me all the money you
have or I’ll shoot you.”
The cashier forfeited
approximately $200 in cash,
and Lynch allegedly fled the
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Derry Police Officer’s Use of Deadly Force Ruled Justified
KAITLYN G. WOODS
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
The New Hampshire
Attorney General has concluded Derry Police Officer
Kevin Ruppel’s use of deadly force in the shooting of
Andrew Toto, 53, on Jan. 21
was legally justified.
Attorney General Joseph
A. Foster released on Tuesday, Aug. 25 a report summarizing his Office’s findings and conclusions based
on information gathered
during the investigation.
This is the first time that
the name of the officer
involved has been made
public.
Interviews of Toto’s family members and friends
reveal he suffered from
mental health issues, alcoholism and drug addiction;
and that he threatened on
several occasions to commit
“suicide by cop.”
Toto’s wife, Jean Toto,
told police on the day of
the shooting her husband
had been diagnosed with
paranoid schizophrenia,
but was not receiving medical treatment or taking
medication.
She said Toto had been
drinking heavily on and off
since the Saturday before
the shooting, and was suffering emotional distress related to the passing of a friend
and inquiries into the welfare of their child following
an incident where her husband picked their daughter
up from school while intoxicated.
The call sent Toto into
distress and he was heavily
intoxicated thereafter, causing his wife to check in on
him from work and monitor
his whereabouts.
Jean Toto said the following day, her husband
made threats of suicide and
left their home, drunk, in his
truck. Toto had previously
threatened “suicide by cop”
twice within the past two
years.
A chemical analysis of
Toto’s blood after the shooting revealed a blood alcohol
content of .222.
Ruppel, who was interviewed by investigators
from the New Hampshire
State Police Major Crime
Unit on Jan. 29 and again on
July 23, reported he was
parked in his cruiser when
he heard dispatch broadcast
an alert for a blue Chevrolet
pick-up truck in the area of
Pinyon Place on Jan. 21
around 8 a.m.
He spotted the truck
traveling in the opposite
direction on Scobie Pond
Road, and when he turned to
follow, the truck accelerated, driving into the oncoming lane of traffic and passing two other vehicles.
Shortly after initiating
the pursuit, Toto stopped his
truck in the road on Julian
Road.
Uncertain of Toto’s intentions, Ruppel slowed his
cruiser to a stop at a distance
on Scobie Pond Road.
The drivers of the two
vehicles Toto passed in the
road gave reports of the incident that were consistent
with Ruppel’s account.
Toto exited the truck
holding what Ruppel believed to be a rifle. Ruppel
yelled “Gun!” over his radio.
As Toto leveled and aimed the rifle at the cruiser,
Ruppel got out and took
cover behind the rear of his
vehicle. The two civilian
motorists he passed were
stopped behind him in the
road.
Ruppel heard a shot fired
and tried to advise dispatch.
Fearing for his safety and
the drivers in the road
behind him, Ruppel returned
fire.
Ruppel described the
exchange of fire as being
similar to “whack-a-mole,”
with each man firing, then
ducking for cover. He thinks
he fired five to six shots at
Toto at that time.
Believing his and civilian lives were at imminent
risk, Ruppel fired at Toto.
He saw Toto twitch, after
which he immediately took
cover. When he peeked out
again, Toto was lying down
under the truck.
Jacqueline Lane of 46
Scobie Pond Lane, whose
home faces Julian Road, saw
Toto holding what she
thinks was a rifle, moving
up and down behind the
truck for cover and aiming
his rifle down Scobie Pond
Road.
Lane said after hearing a
“barrage” of gunshots, she
saw Toto hold his hands in
the air, and slowly fall to the
ground.
Lane said she thought he
going to surrender, but then
saw he was slowly falling to
the ground. She told police
she believed Toto had
already been shot before he
put his hands up.
Physical evidence, the
officer’s cruiser camera video, Toto’s autopsy and other
investigative interviews with
witnesses and responding
officers also confirmed Rup-
pel’s account of the incident,
and that his use of deadly
force was legally justified.
Toto was transported to
Parkland Medical Center in
Derry. He was unconscious
when he arrived at the emergency room, and was later
pronounced dead.
The autopsy revealed
Toto died from a single gunshot would to the chest.
Derry Police Capt. Vern
Thomas said all officers
undergo intensive training
for deadly force incidents,
which includes regular firearms training.
“We always know there’s
the potential for something
like this to happen, so we
make sure officers are well
versed in that,” he said.
Thomas said there are
peer groups to which officers who experience such a
highly traumatic incident
can go for counsel.
All officers must also
undergo a psychological
evaluation before returning
to work.
Derry Police Department Stands by ‘Visible Tattoo’ Policy
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
The Derry Police Department responded this week to
a letter from a reader criticizing its “archaic” tattoo policy.
Alicia Wright wrote in
part, “This tattoo policy prohibits any individual with
visible tattoos in the ‘uniform of the day’ from being
hired on to Derry PD. This
means that many well-quali-
fied United States military
veterans (like my husband
for example) with tactical
excellence are unable to even
be considered as a candidate
in the hiring process because
they have tattoos below the
elbow.”
Wright continued, “Our
U.S. military personnel have
the honor of wearing the
most professional uniform
our country has to offer and
protect our nation, yet they
are being discriminated
against to protect our community. Many towns like
Salem and Manchester have
abolished this rule. I’d like to
see Derry get on board and
hire only the most elite,
qualified individuals to keep
us safe, regardless of the ink
on their arms.”
Wright called the policy
“archaic.”
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Police does not allow tattoos
that are visible while an officer is in uniform. “Several of
our officers have them,” he
said, “but they’re not visible
while they’re on duty. The
prohibition is against visible
tattoos.”
The policy has been
unofficial for a while but was
put into writing this past
April, Thomas said.
The rationale for the policy is, “As a police agency,
we are responsible for projecting a certain image. A
professional image instills
confidence.”
He said he is not aware of
any job applicant who has
had their “ink” removed in
order to work for Derry
Police.
It’s not usually a deal-
breaker, according to
Thomas. “We tell people
about our policy well ahead
of time,” he said.
The policy has not faced
a formal challenge, he
added, saying, “No one who
already works here would
violate the policy, and the
challenge would have to
come from someone who
works here.”
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Little Milfoil Growth Found This Year at Beaver Lake
PENNY WILLIAMS
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
The annual Beaver Lake
Improvement Association
(BLIA) meeting featured
Amy Smagula, Exotic Species coordinator for the New
Hampshire Department of
Environmental Services (DES),
who said the lake has seen
little active growth of the
invasive plant Variable Milfoil this year.
A plant suspected to be
milfoil has also been spotted
in the Beaver Lake meadow
and will be addressed this
week.
Smagula updated BLIA
members last weekend on
the status of Variable Milfoil
in Beaver Lake. For years
Beaver Lake avoided Variable Milfoil but last year
things changed. Despite the
Lake Hosts, Weed Watchers
and educational and informational campaigns, milfoil
was found growing in
Beaver Lake on Sept. 8,
2014, when BLIA member
Ken Kimball sent a picture
to Dan Scharlach of a weed
growing in the lake that he
and his neighbors, Bill
Davidson and Bob Delitta,
were concerned about.
Scharlach forwarded the
pictures to Smagula, who
confirmed it as milfoil and
asked that the area where the
weed was found be marked.
She sent divers within days.
When Smagula did the
end-of-year lake survey, several other spots were found
with milfoil, and she had
these treated by divers as
well.
At present, Smagula
said, Beaver Lake has seven
identified milfoil areas.
These have all been treated
by Smagula’s team of two
divers, and she said she
thinks they are all under
control. She added that the
floaters found last year all
probably started at the original patch of milfoil.
“I have seen very little
active growth this year,” she
said. “However, I expect to
see new sites identified for a
few years but I believe eradication is possible with
enhanced Weed Watcher
activity and waterfront checks
and immediate action by my
divers. These divers don’t
cost BLIA anything, as they
are department employees.”
She said if the growth
gets out of hand, she may
have to use a contracted
service and that would cost
BLIA.
The most recent finding
of milfoil this summer was
within the Town Beach
swim line, Smagula said,
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sites will be rechecked and
any new growth removed.
The DES has the sites
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and removes anything new.
Any newly identified sites
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Beaver Lake Milfoil map.
Smagula said the weed
grows from the shore out to
a depth of about 12 feet.
Weed Watchers and waterfront homeowners should
watch for it and send anything suspicious to BLIA
President Rob Tompkins,
who will forward it to her
for confirmation.
Milfoil also has been
spotted in the meadow on
the far side of the fishing
bridge. Smagula said she
will have divers respond this
week and if it is confirmed
as milfoil, she will prohibit
boats from entering and
leaving the meadow, as well
as halting any fishing activity on the meadow side of the
bridge, to stop the spread of
the weed into the lake. She
said special netting would
be erected to cut off access
to and from the meadow and
any activity on the meadow
side of the bridge would be
illegal. Signage will be put
in place, and DES and New
Hampshire Fish and Game
will enforce the restriction
to the meadow.
She told the members
that restrictions that have
been put in place at other
bodies of water have been
respected, and enforcement
hasn’t been a problem. She
said she will notify the
BLIA of her meadow findings and whether the restriction will be implemented.
In other business at the
meeting:
• Courtney Magoon
reported on the Lake Host
program that she staffed this
summer along with Amanda
Parnigoni and Marissa Clark
and three BLIA volunteers.
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
The Derry Conservation
Commission will take a site
walk of a proposed three-lot
subdivision before allowing
Chairman Margaret Ives to
sign off on the plans.
The Commission met
Monday, Aug. 24, to hear a
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Tompkins noted that
dues amounted to approximately $2,500 per year, with
$2,000 of that sum devoted
to milfoil control. He urged
everyone to encourage those
who are among the 130 families owning lake property to
become BLIA members and
pay dues, and said a membership drive has been
launched. The BLIA is now
a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
• Tompkins said lake
water quality is checked
monthly during the summer
and is tested by BLIA members Laurel Powers and
Anne Marie Dudley, who
volunteer their time to get
the samples and take them to
Concord for the testing.
Tompkins said the results so
far this year show the water
quality remains good.
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The coverage was from 7
a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays
through Sundays.
She said Mondays saw
the least boat traffic and
weekends and evenings
were the busiest. Between
June 20 and Aug. 2, 1,036
boats used the lake. The
busiest day was July 5, when
97 boats were put in - 41
motorboats, 47 kayaks and
six Jet Skis. The public
launch has nine parking
spaces.
She said there were no
finds of milfoil either on
boats going in or coming out
this year but there have been
saves in the past.
• Tompkins said the 60
hours of Lake Host coverage
costs the BLIA $6,000. The
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The area is zoned LDR,
or Low Density Residential,
and each lot would have
more than the three required
acres. Each has adequate
frontage, McCarthy said.
There are two small wetlands on the current property, one of 3,200 square feet
near the Mill Road side of
the property and one of
1,800 square feet near the
middle of the property.
“The subdivision meets
all the requirements and we
did not have to go before the
Zoning Board,” McCarthy
said.
The project has also
been submitted to the state
and has its state approval, he
said.
There are proposals for
two new houses, one off Kilrea Road and one off the
Mill Road side. The existing
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KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Wisconsin Governor Scott
Walker acknowledged State
Rep. Al Baldasaro, R-Londonderry, after the retired
Marine Sergeant introduced
him. “I have Marines on
staff,” Walker said. “When
you’re going into battle,
they’re good people to have
with you.”
Walker is facing a battle
on two fronts: as one of a
crowded field of Republican
Presidential candidates, and
for a country that has
changed over his lifetime. He
needs to win one before he
can win the other. A small but
enthusiastic crowd met with
him Friday, Aug. 21, at the
Derry Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post to hear his plans
for both.
The chairs were set up in
a circle and around a table for
the crowd of about 50 people. Baldasaro said he was
honored to introduce Walker
and pointed to the work
Walker did in Wisconsin for
Right-To-Work. “I’m honored to have someone here
who has the guts to stand up
for what’s right,” Baldasaro
said.
Baldasaro introduced
State Sen. Regina Birdsell, a
Coast Guard veteran, who
led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Birdsell represents Derry,
Hampstead and Windham.
Though Walker answered
any questions put to him, the
focus Friday was on veterans’ issues and national
defense. “I talk a lot about
freedom,” Walker said. “We
are endowed with it by the
Creator, we enforce it with
the Constitution, and our
brave men and women in
uniform defend it every day.”
Walker noted that during
tough economic times in
Wisconsin, his predecessor
stopped the GI Bill. “I reinstated it,” he said. His goal
was not just to get people
educated, he said, but
because “no veteran should
ever serve in harm’s way,
come home and not find a
job.”
He has made getting vets
back in the workforce a priority, and said that “Our veterans’ unemployment rate is
lower than the general state
unemployment rate. For anybody that wants to work, our
goal is zero percent unemployment.”
Wisconsin, he said, is
aggressively working with
employers and targeting key
industries such as motor
transport. “Veterans are used
to being deployed, and their
families don’t mind if they’re
gone for a few days,” he said,
explaining why truck driving
has proved a good fit. His
administration has also
helped vets find jobs in
health care and information
technology, he said.
“We need to replicate this
across the country,” Walker
said.
Wisconsin added another
veterans’ home and increased
services, he said, adding,
“On the national level that’s a
huge problem, and that’s
unacceptable.”
There’s no accountability, a trend he is seeing in the
Federal government, Walker
said.
“There is not a system set
up to hold you accountable,
or to reward you for doing a
good job,” he noted.
And veterans need not
just quality health care, but
timely health care. He is in
favor of “choice” programs,
which allow veterans to
obtain services at qualifying
health care providers with
their Veterans Administration
(VA) benefits.
“It’s not just a problem,
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks to veterans
Friday at the Derry Veterans of Foreign Wars Post. He is a
Republican Presidential hopeful.
Photo by Chris Paul
it’s costing us lives,” Walker
said.
In the larger context of
national security, Walker
observed that the best President has been Ronald Reagan, who rebuilt the military.
“He stood with our allies and
he stood for our values,”
Walker said.
But Walker added he is
not in favor of giving the
Pentagon a blank check. “We
need to make sure the money
is spent on military needs,
not on the bureaucracy,” he
said.
Walker outlined several
points on security and
defense including the following:
• Investing in the Department of Defense and military
budget;
• Not looking to be “the
world’s policeman. “I won’t
send anyone into harm’s way
unless it’s a direct threat to
national security,” he said.
This would also include the
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ple and a plan for victory, he
said.
• Not “leading from
behind, a term he used to
describe Obama/Clinton/Kerry
on defense issues. “Once you
draw a line in the sand, do
not back away,” he said.
• Terminating the nuclear
deal with Iran. “I would reinstate the sanctions, add more
crippling sanctions, and go to
our Allies and urge them to
do the same,” he said.
• Finishing the job in
Iraq. “We have 3,000 troops
still in Iraq, but the administration has restricted their
use,” he said. “A general told
me, ‘These air strikes are a
drizzle, and we need a thunderstorm.’” He would “unleash the power of the U.S.
military to do what it needs
to do,” he said. “Confidence
begets confidence, weakness
begets weakness.”
• Support for Israel. “We
are treating Israel like a foe
and Iraq like an ally,” Walker
said. The world is at war
against Christianity, against
Jews, against moderate Muslims, he said, and containment is not enough.
Baldasaro asked how
Walker would hold the VA
accountable. Walker said he
would make sure the hospitals and clinics were living up
to the standards set for them
and that a choice program is
instituted for health care.
“Morally and practically,
it is the right thing to do,” he
said.
A Vietnam veteran said
that after he came home, “the
country was not enamored of
its veterans.” The attitude
changed after Desert Storm,
the man said, but is slipping
back into its post-Vietnam
attitude.
“People are taking the
fact that they are veterans off
their resumes,” he said. “This
is wrong.”
Walker agreed, but pointed out, “it’s not that they’re
disdained so much as forgotten. That’s why we want to
have clear objectives with
any military action and be
straight up with the American people about how long it
will take.” With the situation
with ISIS, for example, “It’s
not going to go away in a day
or a week.”
Birdsell said she’s concerned about the “political
correctness” move in the military. “They are putting their
lives on the line, yet I hear
stories about them not being
able to practice their faith,”
she said.
Walker responded that
this country was founded on
religious freedom. He gave
the example of William
Penn, whose statue stands
59 High Range Road
Londonderry, NH
above the Philadelphia City
Hall, and said, “This freedom needs to be protected.”
“The current President,”
he claimed, “picks and
chooses what laws he wants
to enforce, what parts of the
Constitution he wants to support.”
On a more immediate
level, he said, “We need the
Joint Chiefs focused on the
threat that’s out there and not
on political correctness.”
Walker described more of
his defense strategy. “I think
we should have an overall
philosophy that the use of
force should be driven by
threats to our national security,” he said. “We don’t have
to be the world’s policeman,
but we do have to take
action.”
He was critical of the
Obama/Kerry attitude toward
Israel and particularly Ukraine and said he would
advocate for sending support
to Ukraine. In addition, he
said, he favors working with
NATO to have some troops
present in the Baltic states,
“enough to show Putin.
“Do we go ‘all out’ or
wait till they show up on our
border?” he asked, referring
to threats to the U.S. “When
we do use force, we need to
make sure there’s a clear
objective.”
He will take action himself if necessary, he said, but
prefers to go to Congress to
get support.
An older man wearing a
VFW cap said, “Veterans
aren’t as concerned about
their benefits as they are
about national security.”
Why does Walker want
the job of President? Because,
he said, his travels have
shown him that “people
haven’t given up on America.”
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Webb wrote in a press
release that the first responders were Truck 1, Engines
2 and 3, Medic 1 and Car 1.
Due to information from the
caller, Car 1 immediately
requested mutual aid in the
form of a tanker and engine.
Truck 1 responded in place
of Engine 1, which was out
of service due to scheduled
maintenance.
Upon arrival, Webb
wrote, Car 1 observed a light
haze of smoke from the
garage. The garage windows
were fully smoke-stained,
and the garage door inside
the house was hot. The call
was upgraded to a “Working
Fire.”
Crews deployed hose
lines to the interior and the
rear of the house. Additional
crews forced open the
garage doors. A ventilationlimited (smoldering) fire
was found in the rear of the
garage and it briefly flared
Stearns
for former Administrator
John Anderson. Stearns, a
Windham resident and former Antrim administrator,
came on the job Nov. 3. His
starting salary was $115,000
per year.
Several Councilors were
unhappy with Stearns earlier
up and was quickly extinguished by the interior crew.
Smoke and heat damage
was limited to the garage
and garage contents, with
moderate smoke damage to
a parked car. Minor smoke
damage to the residence was
limited by early ventilation.
There were no injuries to
civilians, firefighters or the
dogs.
After metering for carbon monoxide and hydrogen
cyanide and ventilating, the
occupants were able to safely re-occupy the house,
Webb wrote. The garage
will require extensive cleaning and some remodeling.
Mutual aid to the scene
was provided by Windham
and Chester, while Londonderry, Manchester and Salem provided station coverage.
Webb wrote, “This fire
was an example of the
importance of building
codes, fire codes, and smoke
detectors. The combination
of double layers of sheet
this year when he came in
with a budget proposing to
trim $1 from the tax rate,
after the Council had directed him to craft a budget cutting $2 from the tax rate. He
was praised by other members of the community, who
thought the cuts from the
Council’s directive would be
too steep.
The Council eventually
worked out its own budget,
Debbi Cox poses with Bandit, left, and Bailey. They
alerted the family to a fire that started in their home’s
Photo by Chris Paul
garage last week.
rock and a fire-rated door contained the fire and smoke
that separated the garage to the garage.”
In a phone interview Frifrom the house greatly limited the spread of the fire and day, Webb said the response
cutting $1.21 from the tax
rate, a budget that was
approved 4-3 and went into
effect July 1 of this year but
continues to be protested by
some residents.
Albert Dimmock, vicechair of the Council, said he
had heard “nothing yet”
about what the Council
plans to do in the Stearns
matter. “Nobody’s heard
from him, and the Council
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has not met,” Dimmock
said.
Dimmock declined to
speculate on the reason for
the meeting.
Katsakiores, who had
just returned from a religious retreat, said, “I prayed
for Derry and for Mr.
Stearns.” Katsakiores, a
devout Catholic, said she
prayed for unity in the
Council, which has seen
several split votes since the
budget vote. Katsakiores,
Joshua
Bourdon
and
Richard Tripp often vote differently from Cardon, Dimmock, Mark Osborne and
David Fischer.
“It is chaos,” Katsakiores
said. “We feel shut out. We
need to work together.”
She has called Stearns to
check on his welfare and
said she still considers him
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time for the fire crews was
10 minutes. “It was in District 4, the ‘tail end’ of the
district,’ he said. Though the
Fire Department sustained
budget cuts after the May 19
Town Council vote, Webb
said this incident was “not
seriously affected” by the
cuts.
After an investigation by
the Derry Fire Prevention
Bureau, Webb reported that
the nature of the fire was
accidental in origin. It started in the garage and was the
result of an electrical malfunctioning, he said.
Webb added that the
smoke detectors played their
part in allowing the occupant to become aware of the
fire and notify the Fire
Department.
But Cox will always give
the credit to the two canines.
The family had never
before had a fire, she said.
“It’s something we always
tried to be cautious about.
When it was happening, all
the speeches played back in
my mind, such as not grabbing things on the way out,”
she said. The only things she
took were the pets and the
purse.
And because of the pets,
it’s not as bad as it could
have been. Cox said, “I just
think of the things that were
in that garage - paint cans,
wood pellets.” With these
combustible items, she said,
“A couple more minutes and
we could have lost the
house.
“Everything,” Cox said,
“played in our favor.”
The family has lived in
the Mill Road home for 30
years. In addition to Cox and
her daughter, she has a son,
Ryan, and a husband, Sean.
Bailey and Bandit received a lot of attention,
including an appearance on
a local television news show,
and, Cox laughed, “It’s
going to their heads.” On
Saturday, she said, they were
both “kind of lethargic - I
think it’s catching up with
them.”
her Administrator. “He is
still a town employee till the
termination of his contract,”
she said.
Councilor Joshua Bourdon said, “I have no idea
what’s going on, besides
what you report.”
The Council has been on
a light schedule over the
summer, and Bourdon said,
“I’d like to see us get back to
having regular meetings, so
we can work on some of
these issues.”
As far as Stearns is concerned, Bourdon, like Katsakiores, still considers him
the Administrator. “I’d like
to see him get better, like to
see him get back to work,
like to discuss some of these
things and see some
progress,” he said.
Councilor Richard Tripp
said, “All I know is that
we’re having a meeting
Tuesday night. I can’t comment on that.”
Tripp also would like to
see Stearns back on the job,
at least for a while. “We
need to work with him. If
he’s doing things we don’t
like, we need to talk about
it,” he said. “He may be a
diamond in the rough and
just need some polishing.”
Tripp was elected to the
Council after the executive
search was concluded and
was not involved in Stearns’
hiring. “I don’t want to go
through the administrator
search again,” he said. “That
was painful.”
But he wonders if a
search would even bring
resumes. “Derry has been so
poorly represented by all of
this - who would come?” he
asked.
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Astro Gridders Looking to Defend Their Division I Crown
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
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The old saying goes that
“Pinkerton Academy football doesn’t rebuild, it just
reloads.” And folks who follow New Hampshire Division I football will be
interested to see if that’s the
case again this autumn after
PA coach Brian O’Reilly’s
2014 gridders tallied an
undefeated championship
season last fall.
Seventeen seniors graduated from that contingent
this past spring, and the
Astro bunch took the biggest
hits on the offensive and
defensive lines.
Eleven of those 17 grads
played on one or both of
those lines, including stalwarts like Noah Robison,
Justin Poitras, Markaveus
Barnes, and Bryson Pacocha. So line play - especially if the Astros can’t stay
away from the injury bug will figure big in the defending champs’ plans this
autumn, as will the performances of star senior running
The Astros have been digging in on line play this summer
in hopes of repeating as Division I champs.
Photo by Chris Pantazis
back T.J. Urbanik, who will
also play in the defensive
backfield and serve as a tricaptain with fellow 12th
graders and returning starters Mike Curley (running
back/linebacker)and Kaelan
Queiros (lineman).
“Our strengths are our
experience in our offensive
and defensive backfields,
and our weaknesses are
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depth on the offensive and
defensive lines,” said the
coach of his 2015 troop. He
is entering his 38th season as
PA grid coach with a career
record of 272-106 and 11
stats championship.
Along with the tri-captains, the Astros’ returning
starters from the championship team include seniors
Kyle Cantalupo (kicker),
Darius St. Germain (lineman), Joey Lydick (guard/
linebacker), Brett Dattilo
(running back/defensive back),
and Tyler Gendron (quarterback/defensive back). The
junior returning starters
include offensive and defensive backs Nick Coombs
and Nico Buccieri.
The rest of the academy
contingent’s seniors are
James Tulley (RB/DB); Pat-
rick Chamberlain (line);
David Pariseau (line); Matt
Allard (G/LB); Trystan Brown
(end); Evan Boisse (end);
Brandyn McColligan (back);
Mark Regan (split end/DB);
Tyler Seccareccio (end);
William Gibbons (line), and
Greg Gesel (SE/DB).
The champions’ juniors
include Ryan Albrecht
(quarterback/DB); Christian
Gendreau (line); Nick Acciard (line); Adam Morin
(RB/ LB); Ryan Philibotte
(end); Kyle Hajj (SE/DB);
Trevor Hajj (SE/DB); Nathan Barnhart(SE/DB); Ben
Sayward (RB/LB); Michael
Faragi (RB/LB); Jacob Minassian (RB/DB); Robert
King (center/LB); Ben Robertson (line); Austin Fields
(line); Caleb Gibbons
(line); Dylan Fischer (line),
and Matt Payan (SE/DB).
Sophomores include Matt
Newman (back); Kayden Baillargeon (SE/DB); Terrell Hicks
(back); Ty Hicks (QB/DB);
Tyler Behsman (SE/DB); Jared
Collins (G/LB); Jacob Bourassa
(line); Austin Trammell (line);
Jacob Northrup (line); Josh
Ladipo (SE/DB); Ethan Poole
(line); Josh McCormack (line);
Austin Penland (SE/DB);
Mark Hayward (QB/DB);
Jadyn Ruimwijk (SE/DB);
Kaycee Scheibert (back);
Alex Smith (SE/DB); Travis
Briggs (SE/DB), and John
Robinson (SE/DB).
The defending champions get their 2015 campaign rolling on the evening
of Sept. 4 by playing host to
the Red Raiders of Rochester’s Spaulding High
School.
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Astro Boy Booters Face Fresh Challenges in Title Defense
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
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With five players having
graduated from coach Kerry
Boles’ 2014 Division I
champion Pinkerton Academy boys’ soccer team and a half-dozen newcomers
joining the fold - the 2015
version is going to be a different entity than the one that
hoisted the championship
trophy last November.
Boles has been around
high school soccer long
enough to know that his
2015 defending champs will
be watched closely throughout the campaign, with all
opponents seeing them as a
team to beat in tough D-I.
“We have to realize that
this team is not the defending state champion,” said
Boles. “We do have a mon-
ster target on our backs and
we will face tremendous
battles this year, but we need
to find our own identity and
not live on last year’s laurels. With that said, I’ve
been happy thus far regarding our pre-season workouts
and look forward to another
fun season.”
Gone from last autumn’s
troop - which posted a 14-51 record en route to Division
I glory - are grads Kyle
Hicks, Alex Ebner, Eric
Werner, Chris Ronan, and
Matt O’Brien.
This year’s battle-tested
Astro returnees include starters and seniors Andrew
Brochu (midfielder/forward),
Colin Coutts (midfielder),
the highly-versatile Sean
Donohue (defender/middie/
forward), Stuart Graves (defense), and Hayden Pavao
(goalie). Also stepping back
into starting spots are junior
defender Sean Muller and
sophomore middie/forward
Cole Perry.
Other returning letterwinners from the 2014
championship crew are seniors Ryan Forkey (middie)
and Conor Rathburn (middie) and juniors Cobi Moore
and Trevor Morrison, both
of whom can play in the
midfield or at forward slots.
The Astros’ crew of
promising newcomers is sizable and will be asked to get
a good bit of work done as
the 2015 campaign rolls
forth after the academy
squad’s opener against the
Merrimack High Tomahawks in Derry on Sept. 1.
That faction of newbies
includes versatile senior
Daniel Dorci (middie/for-
ward/defense), juniors Anthony Rivera (defense/middie), Bennett Meagher (middie), and Matt Morrison
(middie/defense), and sophomores Stryker Coyle (defense) and Nolan Morrison
(middie/defense).
“It will be important for
us to remain healthy this
season, and we will also
need the younger players to
develop this season,” said
Boles. “We have six new
varsity players, so it will be
vital for them to progress
relatively quickly in order to
make positive contributions.”
Asked which Division I
opponents he sees as the
teams to beat this fall, Boles
responded, “Hanover, Concord, Exeter, Bedford, and
(Manchester) Central. Don’t
forget about Londonderry.” Senior defender Stuart Graves is one of the defending
D-I champion Pinkerton Astros’ key returnees for the
2015 campaign.
Photo by Chris Pantazis
Derry’s Berberian Repeats as New England Golf Champion
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
——◆—–––
Derry resident and former Pinkerton Academy
golf standout Rich Berberian Jr. has enjoyed a productive month of August on the
links, winnin three tournaments and tallying more
than $20,000 in prize
money.
The last of his wins was
the biggest, and it came last
week when the 27-year-old
successfully defended his
2014 New England Professional Golfers’ Association (NEPGA) title by
winning the 2015 event at
the Concord (Mass.) Country
Club.
Berberian, who is a
member at Hoodkroft Country Club in Derry and
Windham Country Club where he’s also an assistant
pro - registered scores of 66,
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The Norton (Mass.)
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finished three strokes behind
Berberian as the event’s runner-up.
On the third and final
day of that title event, the
Derry golfer tallied seven
birdies, three bogeys, and
two double-bogeys. Over
the three days, Berberian
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Lady Astro Booters Bring Back a Battle-Tested Bunch
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
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As his 2015 team prepares for its season-opening
match at Merrimack High
School on Sept. 1, Pinkerton
Academy veteran girls’ soccer coach Steve Gundrum
can derive comfort from the
fact that a slew of skilled
players from his superb
2014 crew are back in the
fold and ready for another
run at a Division I title.
The soft-spoken Gundrum will be the first to say
that there’s a huge amount
of work to be done before he
and his Lady Astros can
even contemplate hoisting a
championship plaque overhead. But any coach would
be overjoyed to have 16 battle-tested veterans back
from a squad that went 14-5
the season before and got as
far as the Division I final
four.
Among those 16 players
are 10 returning starters,
including seniors Keara
Doolan (midfielder), Catherine Goodwin (defense), and
Sammy Mitchell (goalie).
The returning junior starters include forward Julia
Bousquet, defender Megan
Jarvis, and middies Nicole
Gonya, Mel Roberge, Reanna Romaro, and Courtney
Velho. Nicole Alves is back
at forward as the lone returning sophomore starter.
Other players who come
back with important varsity
experience to their credit are
seniors Erin Batchelder (defense), Molly Gingras (keeper), Kyra Goucher (middie),
and Emily Hallee (middie),
junior Kyra Stariknok (middie), and sophomore Brittany Johnson (defense).
The crew of promising
newcomers includes seniors
Christina Ridenour (middie)
and Kasey Russo (defense),
sophomore Abby Jepson
(middie), and freshman Katie Ziniti (middie).
When asked what his
2015 team’s keys to success
will be, Gundrum said, “As
always, no injuries, finishing
opportunities, and a bit of
luck.”
The veteran Pinkerton
Academy mentor anticipates that Exeter, Bedford’s
Lady Bulldogs, Manchester
Central, Bishop Guertin of
Nashua, and Londonderry’s
Lady Lancers will be among
the upper-echelon contingents this autumn.
Youthful Nicole Alves and the Pinkerton Lady Astros
aim to take a run at the D-I crown again this fall.
New PA Golf Coach Has a Seasoned, Deep 2015 Team
CHRIS PANTAZIS
NUTFIELD NEWS
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After serving as a volunteer assistant coach in the
Pinkerton Academy golf
program last autumn, Jeff
Sojka now finds himself that
program’s lead guy, replacing Joey Lee.
And the varsity squad
Sojka inherits features plenty of talent and depth, with a
bunch of players carrying
comparable talent into the
2015 campaign.
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they visited the Salem High
Blue Devils after Nutfield
News press time.
The academy crew returns a skilled bunch of
players who occupied starting spots during all or part of
the 2014 campaign; that
crew includes seniors Matt
Hall, Marshall Halpin, and
Nate Ralston, and sopho-
mores Jarrod Foster, Lauren
Thibodeau, and Erin Dello’
Russo.
Also boasting varsity
experience in returning from
the 2014 contingent - which
finished fifth out of 10 teams
in the Division I championship match last fall - are
junior David Currier and
sophomores Noah Kierstead, Ty Letoile, and Lewis
White.
Sojka enters his first varsity coaching campaign knowing that tough teams like the
defending champions from
Bedford High School will
keep his Astros’ hands quite
full this season, but also that
his crew has more than
enough talent to worry the
opposition as well.
“As long as each golfer
plays their game, we’ll be
successful,” said Sojka.
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Republican Candidates Hold National Education Summit in Londonderry
Jeb Bush
Carly Fiorina
John Kasich
Scott Walker
Bobby Jindal
Chris Christie
KAITLYN G. WOODS
“From our perspective, it
was extremely successful,”
he said of the daylong
Summit held on Aug. 19. “It
was fantastic; we have nothing but praise and gratitude
to the school, teachers and
students who volunteered to
help with this event.”
The American Federation
for Children and co-sponsor
The Seventy Four, a nonprofit focused on Kindergarten-Grade 12 education
reform, transformed the high
school’s gymnasium into a
television studio for the
event, which drew spectators
and members of the press
from throughout the country.
School District Facilities
Director Chuck Zappala,
who worked with the company hired to produce the
event, said he and members
of his staff prepped the gym
on Sunday, in advance of the
Wednesday event.
“They showed up on
Monday morning around 5
a.m. with about 30 people
and two tractor trailers,” said
Zappala, who worked to
accommodate crews as they
spent the following two days
setting up the television studio. “Personally, I thought it
went excellent.”
Zappala said there was
only one hiccup - the air conditioner that crews brought in
to cool the gymnasium during the event failed to start.
By the time Zappala and the
company hired to provide the
unit got it running, the
machine was playing catchup, and the gym got pretty
warm during the Summit.
After the gym was
cleared, Zappala said he was
happy to find no damage to
the floors, thanks to interlocking panels the company
laid down to protect the sur-
face while hauling in big
equipment.
Once the District is able
to compile the costs for food
service provided to attendees, the District’s work to
prepare the gym for the event
and a consultation with the
District’s structural engineer,
Zappala said he will submit
to the American Federation
for Children a bill for full
reimbursement of labor.
Kicking-off the Summit
was former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush, a long-time advocate
for Common Core, who
called for a broader debate
about standards for student
achievement.
The moderator, Campbell
Brown, an award-winning
journalist who co-founded
The Seventy Four, pressed
Bush on how he could know
states have high standards if
every state has different standards.
“You know if a state has
high standards because you
have experts that know it,
and if you assess to those
standards faithfully - it’s not
like pornography, where you
know it if you see it. But
clearly low standards - you
know it. That’s what most
states have had,” Bush said.
The former governor
argued that higher standards,
along with real accountability, school choice,
ending social promotions
and rewarding teachers for
continuous improvement
will raise student achievement.
Following Bush was
Carly Fiorina, former chief
executive of Hewlett-Packard, who was the only candidate speaking to have never
directly influenced or implemented education policy as
an elected official.
Fiorina emphasized the
importance of local control
and argued federal oversight
is stifling creativity and ingenuity in the classroom.
She also called for “a top
to bottom audit” of all education funding to determine
where money is not being
efficiently expended and
where more funding is needed.
Fiorina spoke against
teachers’ unions, saying
“they are usually on the
wrong side of these issues,”
and emphasized the importance of using technology in
the classroom as a tool to differentiate instruction.
“Technology is not a silver-bullet,” said Fiorina, noting technology could never
replace teachers in the classroom.
“We’re not just preparing
kids for a job, we have to be
educating citizens. We have
to be building their character.
We need to expose children
to art, music and philosophy,” she said. “We get so
focused on preparing children for careers, we forget to
feed their souls.”
Other speakers at the
Summit were Ohio Gov.
John Kasich, who expressed
support for the Common
Core standards; Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker, who
argued for more local control
over education and described
NUTFIELD NEWS
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week to discuss Kindergarten-Grade 12 public
education reform during the
New Hampshire Education
Summit, zeroing in on hotbutton topics like Common
Core and school choice.
Of the 800 people who
registered for the event,
about 550 attended the
Summit throughout the day,
with maximum attendance
reaching 450 attendees, according to Matt Frendewey,
communications director for
the American Federation for
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Derry Teen Has Years of Volunteering Behind Her
PENNY WILLIAMS
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Rebecca Polk, 15, of
Derry started out as a visitor
to the Menter Family Farm
on Warner Hill Road. At age
5 she was fascinated with
the animals and kept returning. Soon she offered to help
by feeding the horses.
The Menter sisters,
Marsha and Marilyn, are
friends of Polk’s family, and
were happy to encourage
her. Her volunteer efforts
started out by bringing carrots and apples for the horses, which later turned into
being a regular helper at
feeding time.
Polk takes her volunteer
efforts seriously and finds
they are helping to shape her
life goals. Meanwhile, vol-
Summit
Continued from page 14
his support for Wisconsin’s
voucher program to support
educational choice; and
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who said he is suing the
federal government over
Common Core and touted
New Orleans’ all-charter
school system as an example
of educational choice increasing student achieve-
unteering at the farm has
evolved into a job.
“I loved being at the
farm and helping with the
horses, and when they said
they needed extra help, even
as little as I was I jumped at
it,” she said. “I started out
with simple things such as
filling water buckets and
bringing the horses fresh
hay. As I got older I was able
to help with baling the hay
and bringing it in from the
field. I very quickly got to
know all the animals and
their feeding schedules and
was able to really help with
that. They have 25 to 30 animals in all - goats, horses
and a donkey.”
Polk said she is impressed with what the sisters
have accomplished. They
have developed a separate
professional business, an
animal assisted psychotherapy and personal development enterprise called Hoofprint Path, separate from the
farm. Marsha Menter has a
counseling degree and
Marilyn Menter is a horse
specialist.
Polk said she knows first
hand that being able to work
with the horses and to interact with them can help with
a variety of different problems. She fills a critical role
for the family farm by feeding the animals and cleaning
the stalls.
Polk started a paper collection for the farm, and she
and her grandmother make
regular rounds to friends,
family, and commercial establishments, picking up
newspapers and magazines
that they bring to the farm,
where they are shredded and
used as bedding for the animals, saving the farm considerable money.
“I want to be a psychologist, so this volunteer job
has been perfect for me,”
Polk said. “I see it as a
unique hands-on experience.
I spend two days a week
there during the school year
but last summer I was there
nearly every day.”
Marsha Menter said of
Polk’s volunteer efforts,
“Becca is hardworking,
responsible and compassionate. We have come to rely on
her, and trust her with the
care of our animals, many of
which have special needs.
We feel fortunate for her
long-term commitment to
our farm and our animals.”
ment.
Closing out the Summit
was New Jersey Governor
Chris Christie, who changed
his mind about Common
Core after watching the policy fail in his schools for four
years.
“You know who I found
hated Common Core the
most? Teachers, parents and
students,” Christie said. “The
thing that offended parents
and teachers the most was
they felt like decision making was being taken away
from them.”
Local officials and residents who attended the
Summit expressed pride the
School District was selected
to host the event, and students invited to volunteer and
shadow members of the production team and press covering the event said they
appreciated the learning
opportunity.
Cindy Miller, a video
production student at the
high school, had the chance
to go behind-the-scenes,
watching production crews
set up lights and equipment.
“It opened up many different potential careers to
me,” she said.
The ability to work with
the students and teachers and
administrators to get a
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Rebecca Polk carries a bin filled with newspapers and
magazines that she will deliver to the Menter Family
Farm for shredding into bedding for the farm animals.
Rebecca has been volunteering at the farm since she
was 5 years old.
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al was rewarding,” Frendewey said.
Students had a chance to
meet candidates backstage
and shadowed producers
working for major television
networks from satellite
trucks.
“They got a really great
working knowledge,” School
Board member Leitha Reilly
said of the students’ opportunity to volunteer during the
Summit. “We talk about college ready, but what about
career ready? These students
were working behind the
scenes and learned what it’s
like to be out in the field for
a few weeks. What a fabulous opportunity for students.”
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Awana Club
Calvary Bible Church’s
Awana Club begins Sept. 9
from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m. and is
open to children ages 3 to sixth
grade. The church is at 145
Hampstead Road. Awana is a
club where kids play games
and hear lessons that help them
come to know, love and serve
Christ. For more information,
visit http://cbcderry.org/getconnected/childrens-ministries/awana/ . The club runs
from September to May on
Wednesday nights
Model Railroad Fun Night
Seacoast Division of the
National Model Railroad
Association holds Derry Fun
Night the second Friday night
of each month from 7 to 9 p.m.
at the Marion Gerrish Community Center, 39 West
Broadway, Derry. Members of
Seacoast Division will explain
how to get into and enjoy
model railroading. The series
theme is “So….you want
to…..” and topics such as
scenery construction, track
planning, locomotive selection
and maintenance, model building, and model railroad operations will be addressed over 10
months. The first meeting is
Sept. 11 and involves building
model railroad telegraph and
electric utility poles. For more
information, visit: seacoastnmra.org/calendar.
Recovery International
Anyone struggling with
stress, tension, anxiety, panic,
fatigue, sleeplessness, worry,
anger, fear, helplessness or
hopelessness is invited to
attend Recovery International,
a peer-led, self-help group. A
new group meets Thursdays
from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Robie
House, 183 Mammoth Road.
For questions, call Orchard
Christian Fellowship at 4256231.
High School Equivalency
Free “HiSET” High School
Equivalency Prep Class registration is Monday, Sept. 14, at 9
a.m. at the Marion Gerrish
Community Center, 39 West
Broadway, Derry. Classes meet
Mondays and Wednesdays from
9 a.m. to noon for 12 weeks,
Sept. 21 to Dec. 9. For more
information or to reserve a
space, call Adult Learner
Services of Greater Derry at
432-1907, email [email protected], or visit our
www.GreaterDerryLiteracy.org.
Tutor Workshop
A Volunteer Tutor Orientation Workshop for Adult
Learner Services of Greater
Derry will be held at the Derry
Public Library on Monday, Sept.
21, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tutors
work one-on-one with adult
learners to help them improve
reading, writing, math or English skills, or prepare for the
HiSET high school equivalency
test. Scheduling is flexible, once
or twice each week for two
hours, usually at the library.
Training, materials, and ongoing
support are provided. For information or registration call 4321907, email [email protected], or visit
www.GreaterDerryLiteracy.org.
Health Fair
Derry Seventh-day Adventist Church presents a free
Community Health Fair Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12 and
13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the
church, 7 Brook St., Derry.
Counseling; testing of blood
glucose, cholesterol/lipids, blood
pressure, dental wellness, vision
and glaucoma, BMI and EKG
are offered. A vegetarian cooking class takes place Sunday,
Sept. 13, from 3:30 to 6 p.m.,
with a vegetarian potluck following. Lectures on happy living, smoking, and sexual predators are at 11 a.m. and 2 and 4
p.m. Sept. 12, and on stress
management and natural medicine at 1 and 2:30 p.m. Sept.
13.
Genealogy Roundtable
The monthly meeting of
the Genealogy Roundtable will
be at the downstairs meeting
room of the Derry Public
Library on Tuesday, Sept. 8,
from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Meetings
are informal and allow discussion of research. Everyone is
welcome, regardless of experience.
Poetry Panelist
Robert Crawford of Derry,
a Robert Frost Farm Trustee
and Director of the Hyla Brook
Poets, will be a panelist speaking about “Robert Frost and the
Metaphor of the New England
Landscape” at the inaugural
New Hampshire Poetry Festival, set for Saturday, Sept. 19,
at the New Hampshire Institute
of Art in Manchester. The festival is organized by the Poetry
Society of New Hampshire and
New Hampshire Institute of
Art. For more information or to
register, visit: www.poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org/fest/
or facebook.com/nhpoetryfest.
Strengthening Families
New Hampshire Children’s
Trust presents free training at
The Upper Room – A Family
Resource Center in Derry.
Beginning Sept. 22, Maria
Doyle and Julie Day lead
“Bringing the Protective Factors Framework to Life in
your Work,” aimed to strengthen families and prevent child
abuse and neglect. Additional
sessions are Sept. 29 and Oct.
6. The training is geared to
those working with children
and families: childcare and
social workers, teachers, nurses, coaches. Funding is by
Citizens Private Bank and
Trust: The Ann DeNicola
Trust. Registration is now
open. For details and registration, visit: NHChildrensTrust.org/Trainings or contact
Julie Day at [email protected].
Stone Work
Kevin Gardner, a stone wall builder and author,
spoke to a large crowd in the Robert Frost Farm barn on Sunday, Aug. 23. Gardner
gathered buckets of area stones to illustrate the difficulties in using New England
stones for constructing walls. Gardner has 30 years of experience in building,
restoring, and repairing traditional New England-style dry stone walls. He wrote
“The Granite Kiss” on traditions and techniques of building New England stone
walls. The talk was sponsored by the Robert Frost Farm Board of Trustees and
Friends of the Robert Frost Farm.
Photo by Chris Paul
system, its manufacturing of
Free Movie
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munity
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monthly Senior
call the library at 432-6140.
Movie Afternoon on Friday,
Library Card Sign-Up
Aug. 28, at noon. The featured
September is Library Card film is “The Sons of Katie
Sign-up Month, and the Derry Elder.” The program is for ages
Public Library joins with the 50 and above.
American Library Association
Senior Gym
and public libraries nationwide
Starting Thursday, Sept. 3,
to encourage every child to
the
Derry Recreation Dehave a free library card. From
will begin a new propartment
morning programs for infants
gram
for
Greater Derry senior
to preschool children, to aftercitizens
age
50 and above. Stop
school activities, the library
the
gym
at
Veterans Hall, 31
by
offers a free resource for parWest
Broadway
from 2 to 4
ents to encourage literacy and
p.m.
every
Thursday
for open
academic achievement in their
time
to
practice
basketcourt
children. For information on
ball
skills,
play
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pick-up
how to sign up for a library
card, visit the Derry Public game, and make new friends.
Amoskeag Mill Talk
Library in person or online at For questions, call 432-6136.
In a free illustrated talk, www.derrypl.org.
Hearing Screening
Manchester author Aurore
Senior fitness
Free hearing screenings,
Eaton will introduce her new
evaluations,
hearing aid mainStarting Monday, Aug. 31,
book about the Amoskeag
tenance
and
cleaning, minor
Manufacturing Company and from 10 to 10:45 a.m., stop by
hearing
aid
repairs
and doctor
its 105-year history in a pro- the Derry Parks & Recreation
referrals
are
offered
the first
gram titled “The Amoskeag Department at 31 West
month
for
of
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Wednesday
Manufacturing Company – a Broadway for the start of a fall
all
ages.
Call
the
Derry
Parks
&
History of Enterprise on the fitness class for persons age 50
Recreation
Department
for
an
Merrimack River,” set for and above from Greater Derry.
appointment at 432-6136.
Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 Call the Recreation office at
p.m. at the Derry Public 432-6136 for additional inforSenior Baton Twirling
Library. The talk will include a mation.
Derry Recreation is considlook at the company’s canal
ering offering Senior Citizen
Baton Twirling for ages 50 and
above. Depending on interest, a
class will be held in the near
future on Thursdays or Fridays
from 1 to 2 p.m. To be placed
on the interest list, call the
Recreation office at 432-6136
Senior Zumba
Derry Recreation presents
a senior Zumba program at
Veterans Hall, 31 West
Broadway twice a week,
Mondays from 5:30 to 6:30
p.m. and Fridays from 6:15 to
7:15 p.m. Cost is $5 per person
per class. For more information, call 432-6136.
Golf Tourney
Community Crossroads’
26th annual Golf Challenge
takes place Thursday, Sept. 10,
at Candia Woods Golf Links in
Candia. To play or put together
a team, be a sponsor or donate
prizes, call Community Crossroads at 893-1299 or register at
www.communitycrossroadsnh.org. All money raised goes
directly to the support and
services of persons with developmental disabilities or acquired brain disorders and with
long-term care needs. Community Crossroads serves Atkinson, Chester, Danville, Derry, Hampstead, Newton, Pelham, Plaistow, Salem, Sancontinued on page 17
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Senior Picnic
The Derry Parks and Recreation Department’s Senior
Summer Picnic takes place
Sept. 2 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at
Gallien’s Town Beach, 39 Pond
Road. The event is catered, and
DJ Greg Sowa will play both
classic and new music for
dancing. The beach will be
open just for seniors. The meal
will include picnic favorites
served by the Parks &
Recreation employees. This
event is for persons age 50 or
over. For more information,
call the Recreation office at
432-6136.
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entrees, a starch, a vegetable, in Londonderry or St. Thomas
and a beverage. For more infor- Church in Derry during weekThe Derry Parks and mation, call the Recreation day business hours.
Recreation Department hosts a office at 432-6136.
‘Tick Talk’
fall foliage trip to Castle in the
Children’s
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Fall Foliage Trip
Church, UCC, 47 East Derry
Road, East Derry. Learn how to
prevent tick infestations, how
to handle vaccinations, and
more. This is a free event.
Donations are accepted and
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Congregational Church, UCC.
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church at 434-0628.
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Derry, 40 Hampstead Road. film to the Frost Farm on Aug.
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Antoinette Drouart, a member the film is about a young man’s
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KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
NUTFIELD NEWS
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Drug Charge Levied
A Derry man was arrested Aug. 19 and charged with
possession of a controlled
drug.
Andrew Roy, 21, of 5R
Berry St. was found walking
at the intersection of South
Avenue and Birch Street by
a patrolman on duty. “He
appeared to be impaired,”
Thomas said.
Thomas said the officer
felt it wasn’t safe for Roy to
be out, and took him into
protective custody.
“While they were patting
him down,” Thomas said,
“the officer found a glass
bowl and a grinder containing a substance consistent
with the odor and appearance of marijuana.”
Roy received a summons
and a court date of Sept. 24.
Darlene Nyberg-Fulton,
41, of 27 Linlew Drive #9,
was arrested after police
were called to her home for
a reported domestic dispute
between Nyberg-Fulton and
her adult son. Derry Police
Capt. Vern Thomas said, “It
is alleged by Ms. NybergFulton’s son that she pushed
him into the wall and struck
him in the face.”
Family Dispute Leads to
Bail for Nyberg-Fulton
Arrest
was set at $1,500 personal
A Derry woman was recognizance, with a court
arrested Aug. 24 and date of Sept. 10.
charged with two counts of
simple assault.
Ready for School
Lt. Katie Mayes of the Greater Derry
Salvation Army prepares to distribute the 178 backpacks filled for school-going
children by members of the community.
Blight
Police Chief Ed Garone
asked about pedestrians and
Wentworth said there would
be a sidewalk detour.
Other “distressed properties” include the following:
• 357 Island Pond Road.
Wentworth said the property
is no longer in probate and
the Wells Fargo mortgage
company is trying to sell it.
• 213 Island Pond Road.
Atty. Jonathan Boutin will
petition the courts for a
removal of the building under
RSA 155:B. Member Al
Dimmock observed, “That
building has been boarded up
for 14 years.
• 7 Sheldon Road. Wentworth said the owner is planning to subdivide and sell
the property. “The building
is still in bad shape but
secured,” he said.
• 19 Elm St., former
home of Fishercraft and now
occupied by a tenant. The
town has taken the building
for taxes, Tax Collector
Dawn Enwright said, and is
in the process of putting out
an eviction notice to the tenant and a repurchasing
notice to the owner. They
have until Oct. 1 to vacate
the premises, she said.
Fowler said the tenant
had asked for the “right to
repurchase,” but as he is not
the owner, he has the same
rights as anybody else at
public auction. The town
will need to do a cost-benefit analysis on whether to
tear down the building, he
said.
• 6 to 8 East Broadway.
The owner has cut the grass
and obtained a building permit for repairs. “We’ll see
how it goes,” Wentworth
said.
• 102 Chester Road. The
town had ordered the owner
to remove the dilapidated
barn by July 31, Wentworth
said, but the demolition
company said it was so busy
it couldn’t get to it until September.
• 142 Chester Road.
They could not reach the
owner, Wentworth said. The
building is “not in bad
shape, but the windows are
open and it needs to be
secured,” he said.
• 58 English Range
Road. One of the issues was
unregistered vehicles, and
Wentworth reported that at
the last inspection there
were four to five vehicles, all
registered, on the property.
• 43 East Derry Road.
All the unregistered vehicles
are gone, Wentworth said,
and he is asking Boutin to
file a motion to dismiss the
case.
• 46 Floyd Road. Wentworth said there were at
least 25 unregistered motor
vehicles, including dump
trucks and asphalt trucks.
The property is leased to a
businessperson from Arlington, Mass., and the owner
has issued an eviction
notice, Wentworth said.
• 49A Beaver Lake
Road. The building has a
collapsed roof and Boutin
has sent a letter to the owners.
• 305 Hampstead Road.
The unregistered vehicles
have been taken care of and
“it is not an issue,” Wentworth said.
• 8 Aiken St. The owners
have until the end of August
to repair a garage roof or
remove the garage.
• 64 Crystal Ave. The
owner has been asked to
remove a skimobile trailer
covered with signs. “It hasn’t happened,” Wentworth
said, and the matter will be
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