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Great Northwoods Journal
February 6, 2010
Princess Sunrise
Verse tales for wise children and gentle grownups
Written and illustrated by Esther M. Leiper-Estabrooks
THE PRINCESS
What fun to have so many rooms
Plus servants all about!
Rinaldo makes syrupy syllabub;
While Mr. Jest, when I shout,
Like, “Button all your buttons,”
Plus, “Always wash your face!”
Or, “Do make sure your petticoats
Don’t drag or show their lace.”
Will juggle clubs, or tumble,
Then, curling in a roll,
He bounces to his feet again.
It’s really rather droll!
Or course, Vann wears breeches
(But they’re very shot ones yet!)
And Nanny picks him up to coo.
“My pretty poppet pet!”
He gables scads of nonsense
And the King calls him a Fool,
Though not a bit like baby Vann
Too young to know each rule,
He’s much too small for mischief;
Cut when he gurgle-goos,
But I’d rather he be a playmate
Were it up to me to choose!
It’s a girl!
Macy Mae Colby
Parker and Layne Colby are very proud to announce the arrival of their baby sister, Macy
Mae, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Macy was born at 8:27 a.m. at the New Hanover County
Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C., and weighed 7 lbs. 11 oz. Brett and Gretchen (Durgin)
Colby of Leland, N.C., are the proud parents.
Maternal grandparents are Bill and Penny Durgin of Lancaster, N.H. Reginald Abbott,
also of Lancaster, is the maternal great-grandfather.
Paternal grandparents are Sharon Thurston of Lancaster, and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Colby
of Lunenburg, Vt.
Executive Council Report
By Raymond S. Burton
The New Hampshire Department of Safety is the third
largest state agency in New
Hampshire. There are approximately 1,900 uniformed and
civilian personnel in this
agency.
This state agency touches the
lives of everyone throughout
New Hampshire through the
State Police, Motor Vehicles,
Safety Services, Fire Marshal,
Fire Standards and Training,
Emergency 911 Services, and
Homeland Security. Residents
and visitors alike depend on this
agency for everything from 911
calls to help in a tornado, ice
storm, or H1N1 planning and
administration.
Under the leadership of John
Barthelmes and his administrative staff, this agency coordinates responses and services
with New Hampshire Health
and Human Services, and New
Hampshire Department of
Transportation to name a few.
With the leadership of
Virginia Beecher at Motor
Vehicles and Commissioner
John Barthelmes, citizens can
now do on-line driver license
renewals. This major step, using
computer technology, allows
working constituents, especially
in rural areas, to renew their
driver license without traveling
long distances. In rural areas a
driver’s license is necessary to
get back and forth to work.
Through the New Hampshire
Department of Safety and their
grants management unit there
has been approximately $12
Million dollars, since 2003, allocated to towns, cities, and coun-
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Fun things to do
Crossword Puzzle
Across
C ro s swo rd answers on Page 10
1. Declines
5. Awakened
10. ___ carotene
14. "Get ___!"
15. Oblivion
16. "... happily ___ after"
17. Apple variety
18. Golden Horde member
19. Weaken
20. By ultrasound
23. Hawaiian tuber
24. Reverse, e.g.
25. Too late
28. Government agency for medical
research
30. Change, chemically
34. Spain and Portugal
36. Bleat
38. ___ Appia
39. Pregnancy issue
43. Sticker
44. 20-20, e.g.
45. Old measure of capacity
46. Bucks
49. "___ calls?"
51. Coach
52. Certain Scandinavian
54. The America's Cup trophy, e.g.
56. Angiospermous plants
62. "Your turn"
63. Kind of concerto
64. South American monkey
66. Artist Chagall
67. Questioner
68. Decorated, as a cake
69. ___ gin fizz
70. File
71. Wild edible mushrooms
Down
1. .0000001 joule
2. Bridges of Los Angeles County
3. Event attended by Cinderella
4. Untidy woman
5. Church part
6. Justification
7. "Beetle Bailey" dog
8. Chinese seaport
9. Like "The X-Files"
10. Buyer ___
11. "... there is no ___ angel but
Love": Shakespeare
12. Be a snitch
13. Affectedly creative
21. Pie cuts, essentially
22. "Wheels"
25. Arms and legs
26. Circa
27. ___ cotta
29. "A Doll's House" playwright
31. Deflect
32. Kid's name
33. Electric dart shooter
35. Amazon, e.g.
37. Appear
40. State of being abnormally large
41. Moved quickly
42. See circled squares
47. Unit of inertial force
48. Order to attack, with "on"
50. "Old ___"
53. Star bursts
55. Beat
56. Soccer ___
57. Elliptical
58. "I, Claudius" role
59. Bind
60. "Good going!"
61. Increase, with "up"
65. Driver's lic. and others
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February 6, 2010
• Longtime crew member
and part-time crew chief for
Steve Poulin’s No. 34 NASCAR
North and ACT entry, Richard
Fowler of Cambridge, Vt., died
peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 26
in Burlington with his family at
his side. Fowler’s passion for
life, his family and his work
spilled over to his involvement
in racing where he led the No.
34 team to a major win in
NASCAR North’s inaugural visit to Seekonk Speedway in
Seekonk, Mass., in the mid 80’s.
Fowler also served on Skip
Farrell’s potent Pepsi team with
drivers Beaver Dragon and
Poulin. Dick is survived by his
wife Carol, sons, Glenn, Craig,
Brent and daughter Karen
Wescom. Godspeed my friend—
you will be missed.
• Sprint Cup Series regular
Joey Logano picked up his second NASCAR Toyota All-Star
Showdown win Saturday night
at Toyota Speedway in
Irwindale, Calif., and rookie 16year-old Sergio Pena made a
historic debut on the national
stage. Logano at 19 years old, a
veteran, held off the 16-year-old
rookie Pena and two-time AllStar winner Matt Kobyluck for
the victory in the 225-lap race.
It was Pena’s first career start
in NASCAR’s top developmental
series and it came in the nonpoints, post-season event for the
K&N Pro Series East and West
divisions. Logano made his
mark by winning as a 17-yearold rookie in the 2007 edition
and crossed the line first in last
year’s Showdown, but was
penalized by NASCAR to last
place for aggressive driving on
the last lap. Logano wound up
leading a race-high 171 laps.
Pena, a Winchester, Va., native
who has only one year’s experience in Late Model race cars, led
the other 54 with the youngsters
swapping the lead five times.
• NASCAR announced that it
will relax some on-track rules,
putting racing back in drivers’
hands in 2010. The changes:
Bump-drafting rules will be
eliminated at Daytona and
Talladega superspeedway with
teams using a bigger restrictor
plate at Daytona. Eliminating
bump-drafting
rules
puts
responsibility for on-track
moves squarely back in drivers’
hands, which is a scary scenario
when you think back to the finish of last year’s spring race at
Talladega when rookie driver
Brad Keselowski’s brain cramp
almost succeeded in putting
Carl Edwards into the front
straight stands. Follow that up
with Mark Martin’s flip down
the main straightaway coming
for the checkers in the fall race
or Ryan Newman’s 20 minutes
pinned in a totally destroyed
race car, and it’s hard to follow
NASCAR’s rationality. Don’t
take me wrong, I think the drivers should be in charge of their
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on-track actions and reactions,
but it falls back to NASCAR to
penalize drivers for bone-head
on track moves that result in a
loss of positions and/or wins and
that could result in injury, and
maybe even death, to drivers or
fans. Last year at the Toyota
All-Star Showdown the sanctioning body took the win from
Joey Logano for aggressive driving on the last lap and moved
him to last place, which was the
proper move for the sanctioning
body. NASCAR needs to take
that same initiative and backbone to its top levels of competition and stop being afraid of
sponsorship rebuttal if it takes a
win from a highly backed team.
Stock car racing is and should
be a fender-bending, door-todoor contact sport regulated in
such a way to be appealing and
exciting to the fans, but not a
life-threatening danger to competitors and fans.
• It’s now official, stock car
racing’s newest media sensation, Danica Patrick will lace up
her driver shoes for the
Nationwide Series New England
200 at New Hampshire Motor
Speedway on June 26. Last
month NHMS executive vice
president and general manager
of the speedway, Jerry Gappens
flew to JR Motorsports in
Mooresvilloe, N.C., with over 20
pounds of fresh lobster for
Patrick and her crew to entice
her to include the “Magic Mile”
in her limited NASCAR schedule with Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s
team. Patrick reciprocated the
gesture last week adding the
New England 200 to her 2010
schedule. “This is great news for
our fans here in New England,”
said Gappens. “She is a talented
racecar driver and a major
sports personality that will
bring the national spotlight to
the largest sports and entertainment facility in New England.”
Beginning with her start in
karting in 1992 and extending
to her win at the 2008 Indy Car
Series event at the Twin Ring
Motegi Circuit in Japan, Patrick
has always been a force to contend with behind the wheel.
Word has it that Patrick didn’t
indulge in the lobster, but
Gappens will find the appropriate gift for the talented wheelgirl…perhaps he said, “a pair of
high-heeled
Christian
Louboutin’s.”
• The American Canadian
Tour (ACT) Tiger Sportsman
division’s tour took another big
step last week to becoming a
force of its own, with the naming
of a title sponsor. Bond Auto
Parts, a family run business
since 1956 with 37 locations
throughout Vermont and New
Hampshire, will become the title
sponsor of the 2010 ACT—fourevent series for the Limited
Late Model cars. The mini tour
will be known as the BOND
AUTO/WIX TIGER SPORTS-
MAN TOUR. “We are really
happy to be able to support this
ACT division, which will appear
in several markets that we service,” said Mark Mast, Vice
President of Marketing for
Bond. Bond Auto Parts will also
become the entitlement sponsor
of the Tiger Sportsman division
at all 2010 Thunder Road events
and continue its involvement as
entitlement sponsor of one of the
most historic events held at the
“Road” for the American
Canadian Tour, the Bond Auto
Labor Day Classic. The Bond
family has been an integral part
of stock car racing in Vermont
since 1980 when Ken Squire and
Tom Curley were asked by the
bank after a court decision to
take Thunder Road back after
the infamous “Tommy Kalamaris Affair.”
“When we were asked to take
Thunder Road back from the
bank in 1980, it was Bond Auto
that jumped on board to help us.
They have remained not only
loyal
corporate
partners
throughout the years, but great
race fans as well,” said Tom
Curley, President of ACT.
• Garage Garble •
• NASCAR’s top developmental series, formerly known
as the Camping World Series
East (Busch North Series) has
become the NASCAR K&N Pro
Series East and West. The seven
year agreement with the performance industry manufacturer of washable filters will continue to crown both East and
West champions through separate schedules of stand-alone
events and combination events.
• Restart rules will be the
same across all three of
NASCAR’s national series in
2010 with the Camping World
Truck Series the last touring
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NASCAR’s Juan Pablo Montoya succumbed to engine prob lems Sunday morning while leading the Rolex -24 Hours at
Daytona in a Ganassi-Felix Sabates entry.
(Photo by Steve Poulin)
series to adopt the double file, Hornaday, Jr. will be back with
shoot-out style restart.
• Defending and four-time Rumors ---------------------Truck Series champion Ron (Continued on Page 10)
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Councilor Ray Burton to visit
North Country on February 8
Councilor Ray Burton has
planned a day of meetings and
office hours for the public for
Monday, Feb. 8.
The schedule is as follows:
7-7:30 a.m., Office hour for
the
public
at
Lisbon
Laundromat, Main Street,
Lisbon.
8:30 a.m., Breakfast meeting
with Appalachian Mountain
Club, Chris Thayer and staff, at
Grandma’s
Kitchen
in
Whitefield.
11 a.m., Colebrook Resource
Meeting in Colebrook.
2 p.m., Dan Shallow,
Principal, North Stratford High
School.
3:30-4 p.m., Office hours for
the Public at Groveton Town
Office, Groveton.
5 p.m., Tour Ingerson
Proposed Drag Strip, Dalton.
Councilor Burton will be
shadowed on this tour by N.H.
Leadership Class Members
Deborah Ducharme and Allison
Hubert Jewett.
Councilor Burton can always
be reached at the N.H. State
House Office at 271-3632 and at
his home office at 747-3662.
NEK Methodist churches
to meet in Lunenburg
Weeks Memorial Library Doll Club met on January 30. Those in this group photo include:
Sarah Lewis, Ana Maher, Sophie and Lizzie Skidmore, Grace and Abigail Todd, Manika
Druke, Katherine Brown, Emily Kopp, Julianna Dami, Grace and Rachel Gensamer, Victoria
Whitcomb, Kate Ingerson, Mariyah Belair, Jennifer Wolfe, Hannah and Sarah O’Neill, Eliz Starting on Sunday, Feb. 7
abeth Gallick, Emma Portinari, Lily Brundle, and Lisa Brown, children’s librarian. (Missing
from photo: Adrianna Dami)
(Courtesy photo) until further notice, the NEK
Methodist churches in East
Concord,
Gilman
and
Lunenburg, Vt., will be having
Plans are underway for the which the kids then pilot down year, and more information their Sunday worship services
steep
race
course. about that event will be at the Lunenburg Methodist
Colebrook Winter Carnival, and the
Church on the common in
registration is now open for the Registration is free, and awards announced at a later date.
The
Colebrook
Winter
snow
bocce
tournament. go to the first finisher, best box
Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club, and best wipeout in three cate- Carnival will also feature
the event takes place from 7 gories: ages five to seven, eight dogsled rides from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m., food and beverages from
a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, to 11, and 12 and older.
The Peter Goudreau Sr. the Kiwanis Snack Shack, a
February 13 at the Colebrook
Show off your heartiest outfit
Snow
Bocce cribbage tournament hosted by
Country Club and at the school Memorial
in
honor
of Heart Health Month
Tournament was inaugurated in the Cribbage Cohorts at 1 p.m.,
gymnasium.
The day begins with a pan- 2005, named for the longtime and carnival games at the CES at the HerART Tea and Share
cake breakfast at the Country Kiwanian and Colebrook busi- gym from 2 to 4 p.m. with a $5 planned for Saturday, Feb. 13,
from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Lion and
Club from 7 to 10 a.m., with pro- nessman. Winners thus far are admission fee.
More information will be the Rose Bed and Breakfast in
ceeds benefitting the Colebrook as follows: 2005—Stratford
Elementary School seventh- and Pimps; 2006—Scissor Beaks; posted as plans develop, at Whitefield. And, while you’re at
eighth-graders’ annual trip to 2007—Right-n-Tight; 2008— w w w . c o l e b r o o k - k i w a n i s . o r g , it, learn something about heart
Washington, D.C. Tickets are Stratford Pimps; 2009—Scissor and may be obtained by calling disease, risk, and prevention.
But the HerART tea is about
available in advance or at the Beaks.
chairman Mary Jolles, at 237more than decorative hearts. It’s
door for $8 each, or for $7 with a
This
double-elimination 0979.
about taking good care of your
Winter Carnival button.
event also begins at 9 a.m., and
physical heart and the body it
Students are out selling but- traditionally features some
supports. Nurse Practitioner
tons now, raising funds to bene- heated competition among the
Kathi Govatski of Jefferson will
fit the Winter Carnival. Goudreaus and other families,
be on hand to provide informaThroughout the day of the carni- groups of friends and businesstion about heart health. Ms.
val, the CES students who are es. The entry fee is $50 for each
going on the Washington trip four-person team, and the deadthis spring will be selling citrus line is February 10. Registration
fruit orders, hot chocolate, pop- forms are available from Butch
corn and other items.
Ladd at 237-5501 or Renee
The ever-popular Cardboard Marchesseault at 802-266-3330.
Box Derby, which always feaPlans are also in the works
tures unique creations by the for the Canoe Race, which takes
contestants, begins at 9 a.m. place on the same slope as the
Cardboard boxes are trans- derby and begins at 10 a.m. The
formed into colorful creatures, Kids’ Snow Golf Tournament is
Brandon Rainault
machines, and even appliances new to the Winter Carnival this
Colebrook Winter Carnival set for Feb. 13
Lunenburg.
Services will begin at 10 a.m.
at the handicapped accessible
church. Anyone with questions
about the services may call Pat
Briggs at 802-892-5907 or
Maren Downing at 802-8927713.
HerART Tea Celebrates Hearts
and Health in Whitefield
Govatski has been working in
women’s health for care for 30
years, currently at North
Country Women’s Health at
Littleton Regional Hospital.
She’s a six-year north country
resident who enjoys outdoor
activities all year round.
A $10 donation covers both
the tea itself and a donation to
heart health. Gather your
friends for this pre-Valentine
get-together, and enjoy a celebration of hearts and what they
mean. To register, call 837-8778
by February 6.
Spelling bee winners
Lancaster School spelling
bee winners announced
The Lancaster School held
their school-wide spelling bee on
Friday, January 22. There were
19 contestants vying for the title
of “School Spelling Bee
Champion.” The participants
made it through eight rounds
before Brandon Rainault, Grade
5, won the bee with the word
intrigue. The runner-up was
Garrett Davidson, Grade 4.
The
Scripps
National
Spelling Bee is an educational
promotion sponsored by the E.
W. Scripps Company in conjunction with more than 280 sponsoring newspapers or organizations around the world. Its purpose is to help students improve
their spelling, increase their
vocabulary, learn concepts, and
develop correct English usage
that will help them all their
lives.
The program takes place on
two levels: local and national.
Sponsors organize spelling programs in their locales and send
their champions to the regionals. The Lancaster School winner, Brandon Rainault will go
on to Plymouth on Saturday,
March 6th. He will compete
against students from the North
Country. The winner of the
regional goes to the state level
on Saturday, March 20th.
Then, the winner of our state
goes to the finals of the Scripps
National Spelling Bee in
Washington, D. C.
Grade level winners from the
Lancaster School were:
Grade 3
Ben MacKillop, Catrina
Boggess, Sean Farrell, and
Gunner Carr
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