Londonderry Orchards Expect Stellar Apple Crop

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Volume 14 – Issue 34
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Planning Board Continues
Woodmont Master Plan Review
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he application acceptance and public
hearing for the proposed Woodmont Commons development has
been continued to the
Aug. 28 Planning Board
meeting, after the Londonderry Planning Board
gave it careful scrutiny at
its Aug. 14 meeting.
Ari Pollock, an attorney representing the
developers Pillsbury Realty LLC, told the board, “A
week ago we placed a
nearly complete plan in
your hands. The missing
T
piece is the development
piece, but we’re working
on that.”
The 200-page Master
Plan for the project, the
first under Londonderry’s
Planned Unit Development (PUD) ordinance,
includes facts, procedures and mitigation
measures, Pollock said,
and has evolved over
many meetings. “I shoved
all the pieces in my briefcase and began to consider getting a larger bag,” he
said jokingly.
The plan has incorporated feedback from town
staff, peer review and
members of the public,
Pollock said.
Though the proceedings in the past had been
acrimonious, Pollock signaled the beginning of a
new cooperation when he
said, “This has been a
long and complex process
and has been frustrating
for all. The end may be in
sight.”
Pollock
continued,
“We recognize that the
task we’ve put in front of
you is a large one. You will
need time to think, and
we will try to be respectful of your needs.”
continued on page 3
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Impact Fee Audit Complete,
Panciocco Has Questions
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
Super Time
The annual Londonderry Old Home Day celebration featured unusually pleasant weather conditions last week, with most
activities centered on the Town Common. Thursday night, Aug. 15, was the
annual Kidz Night, where children took over the Common to take part in a
variety of fun activities. William Garrity, 3, enjoys an ice cream while he
plays in a sea of bubbles. See additional photos throughout this edition.
Photo by Chris Paul
Londonderry Orchards
Expect Stellar Apple Crop
PENNY WILLIAMS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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fter talking with
several Londonderry orchard owners
and managers, there is
only one conclusion to
reach – the upcoming and
almost upon us apple season is expected to be out-
A
standing.
The weather between
May and the present hasn’t been particularly kind
to strawberry, blueberry
and vegetable growers
but it has been great for
the apple crop. However,
as Sunnycrest Farms’ Dan
Hicks pointed out, “That
is why we diversify.”
Farms and orchards
can’t risk depending on a
single product because
each fruit and vegetable
reacts differently to the
weather.
season
Strawberry
was an uphill battle for
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own Attorney Michael Ramsdell advised the Town Council on Monday that the
Dec. 31, 2012 court-ordered audit of the town’s
impact fee assessments
dating back to 1994 has
been completed.
Ramsdell said a petition had been filed with
the Rockingham Superior
Court after town officials
discovered “issues with
the impact fee program
that had been administered for some period of
time.”
Ramsdell said the
court ordered that an
audit be conducted; it is
now complete.
“It took a significant
amount of time for that
audit to be done because
it covered an 18-year peri-
T
od,” Ramsdell said. “The
report is now actually on
the town’s web site. I
know it has been produced to counsel for the
other parties and I’m
happy to say that most of
the parties in the case
have had their matters
resolved. There is one
party left that frankly just
needs to file a motion to
get funds dispersed and
that have already been
paid into the court, and
then that’s going to leave
a group of parties that
have all expressed concerns and interest and
their attorney has a copy
of the audit report. We’ve
agreed that we are going
to sit down and between
the 3rd and 13th of September and see if we can
resolve those parties’
concerns and hopefully
put this thing to bed.”
However, as of press
time Tuesday afternoon,
the link to the impact fee
audit had not been posted
on the town’s webpage.
“It was given to IT
(Information Technology)
today to be posted. Keep
checking the town homepage today and it will be
there,” said Leiann Cotton
of the town’s Finance
Department on Tuesday.
Ramsdell also said
Monday night that the
impact fee ordinance curcontinued on page 4
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Apples
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those who plant and harvest and sell the berries,
and the rain and cold, followed by hot weather, didn’t do the farmers any
favors.
Hicks said, “The straw-
berry crop was a struggle.
All the rain we had was a
pain in the butt. Blueberries have been somewhat
affected by the downpours
but now seem to be coming along all right.”
At Mack’s Moose Hill
Orchards, Mike Cross said,
“Everyone had an awful
Daniel Lavoie carefully picks some of the ripened
Paula Reds at Mack’s Moose Hill Orchards last
week. Photos by Chris Paul
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time with strawberries but
the blueberries seem to be
doing well. We are picking
them and this weather is
good.”
But Hicks noted that
while they start at Sunnycrest in June with strawberries and the farm stand
bakery, it is the coming
apple season that looks the
best.
Cross said while vegetables in general, pumpkins,
peppers, and tomatoes
were not doing too well,
squash is doing fine. The
tomatoes were late getting
into the ground and the
same was true of the peppers. But the weather was
what hampered the vegetable crops.
Ken Merrill of Oliver
Merrill and Sons Farm said
the weather had a greater
negative impact on the vegetables than the others and
they are behind or not producing at all. But like Hicks
and Cross, Merrill sees his
apple crop as “looking
good, and we are starting
early with peaches and
apples, with the later varieties looking very good.”
Hicks expects his apple
crop to be one of the
largest in years. He said his
peaches have good size
and flavor and his apples
are getting color and the
plums look good.
“Right now we are in
September-like weather,
and that is very favorable
to the apples, giving them
good color and sweetness,” he said. “I am anticipating a spectacular sea-
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Rachel O’Callahan picks Jersey Macs last week at Moose Hill Orchards, near
the Londonderry Historical Society. The season is looking good.
son with a very, very big
crop for both our own picking and for the Pick Your
Own.”
Cross was equally
enthusiastic, noting, “The
apple crop is fantastic. All
the varieties have good
size. The cool weather
brings the color. I think our
apple crop is running a little bit late, which is fine
because it has put us in
better weather.”
The Merrill and Sons
farm stand will start after
Labor Day and be open
weekends from 9:30 a.m. to
5:30 p.m., and the weekend
Pick Your Own will run
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“We are hoping lots of
people will come and like
what we have to offer,” he
said.
Moose Hill opened
Wednesday, Aug. 14, and
Cross said the peaches and
apples were ready. He said
he hopes the weather
holds and brings the customers out to pick. Mack’s
farm stand and U-Pick
hours are: Farm Market, 9
a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. U-Pick
Apples and Pumpkins
opens Sept. 7, with hours
of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
“Last year was a terrible apple year but this year
looks really great,” he said.
Sunnycrest opened in
June and continues through November, with its farm
stand open daily from 9
a.m. to 6 p.m. and Pick
Your Own for items other
than apples 7 a.m. to noon.
U-pick for apples is daily
from 9 a.m. to 5 pm.
Oliver Merrill & Sons
Farm is located at 369
Mammoth Road, phone
622-6636. Mack’s Moose
Hill Orchards is located at
230 Mammoth Road, phone
434-7619. Sunnycrest is at
59 High Range Road, phone
432-7753.
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Woodmont
He thanked the board
for its time and effort and
noted, “I am confident
this project will make us
all proud.”
Pollock had team
members on hand, including Terry Shook and Tom
Goodwin of Shook-Kelley
Associates, who did a
short presentation on the
development style.
Shook’s PowerPoint
centered on how the project will benefit Londonderry.
The proposed “walkability” and mixed-use
retail area will attract people, Shook said, explaining, “People want to be
part of the civic discourse.” So-called “walkability” leverages residential value, he said, and in
commercial real estate a
walkability score of 80 or
more lends value to a
property.
Woodmont aims to
increase walkability with
buildings fronted on the
street, sidewalks “where
people want to go,” a mix
of uses among the buildings, connected streets
and a “park once” strategy. Shook’s second point
was economy, and he
noted that the infrastructure of Woodmont would
cost less to maintain
because it would be built
and used efficiently.
He added that the revenue is greater for a
mixed-use environment.
While New Hampshire
is still growing along with
all of New England, young
people are moving away
because of a perceived
“lack of options,” Shook
said. People desire choices, including shorter commutes, smaller homes, a
mixture of home types
and proximity to shops
and restaurants.
“The valued places,”
he said, “are sustainable
places. Sustainable places
are about balance between the built and natural landscape.”
More on-street parking
will meet that need with
savings on building costs
and less water runoff, he
said.
Woodmont Commons
will provide housing for
people in all stages of life,
a healthy lifestyle, and a
balance between “built”
and nature, and will contribute to the area’s economic stability, Shook
concluded.
Planning Board Chairman Art Rugg agreed with
the walkability option,
noting that he found a
survey claiming that of
today’s 20-somethings,
about a quarter don’t
have driver’s licenses.
They bike to work, walk
or take public transportation, he said.
“The Gen-Y’ers in our
office bike to work,” Woodmont team member Emily
Hynes said. “They’re not
looking for auto-oriented
places.
Hynes and Shook-Kelley partner Tom Goodwin
took questions from the
board and public and
tried to provide answers.
Board member Maria
Newman asked about increased traffic from Gilcreast to Peabody roads.
“Is there a possibility of a
traffic light, or a cutthrough?” Newman asked.
“It’s pivotal to the public
and us. Is it still on the
table?”
Goodwin said it was.
Newman said she was
concerned about traffic
where Pillsbury Road
connects with Hardy
Road. This is already a
“hot spot” for traffic, Newman said, adding, “I
thought there would be
more attention to that.”
Hynes said, “That
doesn’t prevent us from
doing that, at the subdivision or site plan level.”
Newman also noted
what she called “vagueness” in the section on
Compliance Alternatives.
“We have regulations and
standards,” she said. “I
know there will be
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waivers, but I still think
it’s vague.”
Hynes responded, “This
plan will be implemented
over the next 20 years. It’s
impossible to know what
will come up. We don’t
want to have to preclude
ourselves if something
better comes along.”
“What if the Planning
Board is not okay with it?”
Newman asked.
“Then we won’t do it,”
Hynes responded.
But Newman contended that there should be
stronger language. “Vagueness is scary,” she said.
Newman also referenced the growth management ordinance and
said, “We have it in place
for a reason. I don’t think
Woodmont can’t be held
to that standard.”
Member Lynn Wiles
brought up the idea of
perimeter buffers with
landscaping and said, “I
thought one of our concepts was like versus like
at the perimeter.” If similar uses are at the perimeters, what’s the need for a
buffer? he asked.
“There will be rare
times there are incompatible uses,” Hynes said.
Wiles also reminded
the developers, “We need
a development agreement. It is part of the Master Plan.”
He also wants to see a
phasing plan, “how you
see this building out.
Where the construction
will be in 2018, 2020.”
Goodwin replied, “Early
on in a project’s life, there
will be meetings with the
Planning Board.” But
Wiles wasn’t satisfied,
reminding him, “You have
to have a vision.”
He also asked for more
information on integrating the development with
the rest of town, including
the construction impact
and the impact on schools.
Mary Wing Soares echoed
community concern when
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she asked about the apple
trees, the remnant of the former Woodmont Orchards.
“We have talked endlessly about a perimeter
buffer of three rows of
trees,” Soares said. “Are
you going to preserve the
three rows of trees?”
Michael Kettenbach,
principal in Pillsbury
Realty LLC, responded,
“Apple trees are only
viable from their fifth to
20th year. After that, they
don’t give decent fruit. If
they’re going to be maintained, leave them where
they are. But they are
going to look horrible.
That’s a call the board has
to make.”
The trees may need to
be replaced to keep the
buffer going, Kettenbach
added.
Soares said, “Three
rows of trees - we need to
have that delineation.”
The board voted to
continue the public hearing to the Aug. 28 meeting.
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Editorial
Reporting the News
Contrary to what some people
think, our news staff neither takes joy
in other people’s misery nor likes to
shock our readers.
At the same time, it’s not the purpose of this paper to downplay criminal charges, even when they involve
matters that make some people
uncomfortable.
We received two letters and a few
phone calls recently when we printed
a story about charges levied against a
Londonderry man for child pornography. The charges include the phrase
“Indecent Exposure and Lewdness,”
in each of the six counts; in no way
did the story convey any kind of identification of the children who were
the subject of the photos. But for
some people, the article was too
graphic.
This week we are reporting on the
warrant issued for the arrest of Derry
Town Administrator John Anderson
for “lewd and lascivious conduct”
allegedly occurring at his home. Plenty of graphic rumors circulated about
what happened, even as a month-long
investigation by the state police and
later the county attorney’s office took
place, but our story addresses the
actions leading to the charges with,
we hope, only the amount of detail
needed for readers to understand
what is being charged.
Meanwhile in Chester, we have
been continuing to report on the new
charges levied against a local convicted sex offender. The legal process has
been going on for months, and in a
small town like Chester, residents
know or know of the man.
It likely is hard for many to accept
that people in our communities
exhibit behavior that leads to such
charges – and charges they are, not
convictions, as in most instances, the
cases have yet to go to court.
But we don’t make up these
things. And however difficult it is to
hear that people we may know are
alleged to have committed sexual
crimes, it happens.
Ignorance is not bliss. We may
think we’re isolated from unpleasant
crimes by our rural environment, but
we’re not. And a newspaper does no
one a service by downplaying one
crime as opposed to another. Is robbery more acceptable than a sexual
crime? Assault? What about drunk
driving that leads to a charge of
manslaughter?
Our towns are microcosms of the
larger society, and we are home to the
good, the bad and all the in between.
We try to write in good taste and
understand that we can’t satisfy
everyone. We will, however, continue
to report the news, as disturbing as it
Letters
Same-Sex Marriage
To the editor:
Referencing the letter,
“Same-Sex Marriage” by
Maurice Lavoie in the
Aug. 8 issue, in what relationship does Mr. Lavoie
place the Bible and our
Constitution? Clearly his
foundation is the Bible.
The Bible, perhaps, trumps
our Constitution?
What are we, who in
our secular endeavors
such as governmental legislation put the Constitution first or above the
Bible, to do? How might
we - secularists (not antireligion) in civic affairs,
converse with Mr. Lavoie
and others of the same
persuasion? Is there a
modus operandi to be
gained? Such would leave
most all of us in relative
comfort and civically at
peace.
The letter refers to
“different-sex” marriage,
one man and one woman,
as an “age-old tradition.”
I ask: slavery is an age-old
tradition, as is women
without voting or property rights - would he put
Blacks (or African-Americans) back in chains and
take
away
women’s
rights?
If not, he needs to do
more than cite age-old tradition. And he needs to
state clearly, if it is the
case, that our Constitution
- the Godless Constitution,
the Establishment Clause,
separation of church and
state - is of no value.
Further, missing a balanced treatment, the letter does not detail asserted weakness or outright
emptiness of arguments
supporting same-sex marriage. Such arguments are
constitutionally based:
the 14th Amendment, “. .
.No State shall make or
enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any State deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property without due process of law;
nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the
laws.”
Yeah, the slippery slope:
if same-sex marriage, then
marriage of three or more
persons, with a child, or logical extreme, with that
partridge in a pear tree of
the same sex? None of
that, any potential tipping
point is far, way far, very
way far, distant.
In passing, the letter
sides with Justice Scalia’s
minority opinion, disagreement with Justice
Kennedy’s opinion overturning DOMA (Defense of
Marriage Act). Well, Scalia years ago, much to the
chagrin of those who
know what makes a research science, opined
that Intelligent Design is
science - so much for
Scalia’s opinions.
It is fine for individuals
and groups, whose Bible
is command-guidance, to
live by the Bible. What of
others who do not hold
that particular faith? Is
intolerance at play here?
Talking across the divide is not easy, but always worth a try. If only
partially successful, the
antagonisms might be
reduced. And, if reduced,
that would leave only the
unreasonable, closeminded zealots and their
diatribes. They, shrug,
can be tolerated.
C C Mitchell
Londonderry
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Impact Fee
rently in existence needs
some amendments by the
council and the planning
board. He said they
should examine impact
fee ordinances in a half
dozen other communities
to try and put together
what he termed a comprehensive and “state of the
art, considering the law”
ordinance.
He said there was still
work to be done on
impact fee implementation, should the planning
board and town council
decide to charge impact
fees again.
“I think that the matter
will get behind the town
pretty soon. At least I’m
hopeful,” Ramsdell said.
Attorney Patricia Panciocco, who said she represented a group of developers named in the suit,
said she had hoped a couple of questions could be
addressed.
Chairman John Farrell
said, however, that the
council had not yet seen
the audit.
She said she hoped
that the board would consider some of the “broader ramifications” that
emerged in the impact fee
audit and consider tying
together all the loose
ends that were identified.
She said the questions
she was raising hopefully
would be considered at a
later date.
Panciocco said she
wanted the council to
look at how the impact
fees were handled and the
“fundamental flaws and
some of the studies on
which some of these have
been made.
“Although the audit
may be complete, I do not
feel that all the work is
done,” Panciocco said.
“That’s the main point I
wanted to put before the
council this evening.”
Farrell said town has
taken the matter very
seriously. “We have left no
stone unturned,” he said.
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Congresswoman Answers Questions on GMOs, Social Security
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ongresswoman
Carol Shea-Porter, D1st Dist., toured the
MegaFoods plant at 11
Delta Drive on Monday, as
Chief Executive Officer
Robert Craven discussed
with the Congresswoman
how food comes from the
farm and is turned into
vitamin tablets.
Craven said the facility
has 165 employees and
has been in business for
40 years.
C
“We have 130 products
that come straight from
the farm and have no
Genetically Manufactured
Organisms (GMO) in them.
The vegetables that we
have in our products are
tested in the lab to establish vitamin content and
quality, and the vegetables
are then sent to be dried
and put into powdered
form and then capsulated,” explained vice president of Research and
Development Rich Lafond.
“We go all the way back
to the farmers. Some operations distribute the processes out and only make
the finished product, but
we handle it all from
farmer to finished product,” Craven said.
After the tour, SheaPorter held a town hall
style question and answer
discussion in the company’s cafeteria with several
employees.
One employee asked
Shea-Porter about Medicare and Social Security,
and she responded that
Little Miss and Master Named
Social Security had been
put into place during the
Depression so people
would not be “put out on
the curb,” and said it
would be solvent for “30 to
32 years out, if we raise
the cap.” That drew relieved comments from the
audience.
Shea-Porter said anyone making less than
$112,000 per year pays
Social Security tax on
every dollar earned. If that
cap were raised, which
she thinks it should be,
The winners of
this year’s Old Home
Day Baby Contest
were announced on
Saturday, Aug. 17.
This year 15 tikes
were enrolled in the
contest - eight girls
and seven boys. The
Little Miss Londonderry sash went to
Emily Fey Chmielorz, shown at left
with this year’s Miss
Londonderry, Devenn Glickman. The
Little Master Crown
went to Barker
Bernard, shown with
his mom, Barbara
Bernard.
Photos by Chris Paul
there would be a solution
to the funding problem.
“Why shouldn’t everyone pay on every dollar,”
Shea-Porter said.
Regarding Medicare,
Shea-Porter said the United States has the healthiest
elder population in history
because of that program.
“My father hated it
when it came into effect
and said many times in his
later years how important
it was to him,” Shea-Porter
said.
She also said that if
anyone knew of waste or
fraud in the system or by
anyone involved, it should
be reported.
“We don’t want anyone
ripping the taxpayers off,”
Shea-Porter said.
Employee Scott Dugal
asked Shea-Porter about
pending legislation regarding GMO and non-GMO
labeling of food.
“Yes, we want legislation that will allow labeling of products that have
been genetically altered,”
she said. “Tell us what is in
our food. We want choice.
I was telling (Craven) that
we should have the choice
of what we buy. If we are at
a dairy cooler with a soft
drink or orange juice and
we choose the orange
juice, that is our choice
and we want that choice
with the food that we buy.
We are working on that. We
feel that the consumers
have a right to know what
is in their food.”
The final question came
from Craven’s executive
assistant, who asked
about college debt. SheaPorter said she had spoken with a soldier in his
40s, who was asking about
the same thing, and who
noted how hard it was on
his daughter. He was still
working to pay off his own
college debt.
“I think this will crush
us if we don’t deal with it,”
Shea-Porter said. “It is
leaving the middle class
behind and keeping others
from entering the middle
class. It is too great a burden. We have to deal with
the costs and provide
more support for people.
If we put this burden on
people who can’t afford to
send their children to college, we not only hurt
their children by denying
them a college education
but we hurt our society by
not having the education
available.
“An educated society
is our key to prosperity,”
Shea-Porter concluded.
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Band Camp Prepares Students for Coming Year’s Performances
Raquel Brooks and Keira Fitzmaurice rehearse their
parts in the “pit” ensemble during Band Camp.
PENNY WILLIAMS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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the Fourth of July,” Soucy
said. “This is in preparation for this year’s halftime show.” This year’s
theme is “Les Miserables.”
This year the band has
two senior drum majors
and one who is a junior.
The seniors are Joe Conti
and Danielle Souza, the
junior is Becky Walker.
Color Guard captains are
seniors Nina Battaglia and
Stephanie Conti. The musical arrangements and
show design for the Lancers were once again provided by Serge Beaulieu.
Camp began in earnest
with orientation on Sunday, Aug. 11, for the freshmen and newcomers, followed by the seniors. The
band camp ran each day
from 8:30 a.m. through 4
p.m., with a break for
lunch at noon.
The band members
had little time to catch
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admitted they were busy
just trying to provide oneon-one help, Becky Walker
said, “It is tough to be
everywhere at once but we
need to be. But everyone,
even the ones just starting
out, was doing well.”
Band camp is an intensive learning experience
where in four days the
band learns the design
and execution of the
moves and patterns they
will produce as they play
and march at their halftime performances. It
focuses on getting every
band member in step with
every note played.
Band camp requires
volunteers helping with
many of the details, and
the LHS Friends of Music
step up and provide support and assistance when
and where needed.
A patriotic Christian Erwin crashes the cymbals
during a Band Camp rehearsal last week.
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he Londonderry High
School Lancers Band
Camp is over but
was a highly successful
one, even if rather long, as
it started in May and continued through Aug. 15,
when the band’s inaugural
performance took place.
Band Director Andy
Soucy and his three drum
majors were upbeat about
the band, the practices and
the coming year. While the
main portion of the band
camp ran Monday, Aug. 12,
through Thursday Aug. 15,
the start of the camp and
preparations for the upcoming season began in
May, when rehearsals
started with eighth graders, followed by specific
group rehearsals through
the summer.
“The 290 students have
been meeting weekly since
their breath after their
first performance on Aug.
15, as they then marched
in Saturday’s Londonderry
Old Home Day parade.
Their next performance
will be Saturday, Aug. 24,
at 10 a.m. in the Allenstown Old Home Day
parade.
Drum Major Joe Conti
was particularly pleased
with the way things went
at band camp.
“The seniors really
stepped up and were really helpful and it made
everything
go
more
smoothly,” he said.
Danielle Souza said the
band camp success could
be traced back to the early
start in May and all the
work done through the
summer.
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L O N D O N D E R RY T I M E S
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A UGUST 22, 2013
Town Council Looks at Possibility of TIF District
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he possibility of a
TIF (Tax Incremental Financing) district located in the north
of town was discussed at
Monday night’s Town
Council meeting.
“In order to keep the
momentum, we felt it was
important to bring forward to the council what
those things might look
like,” said William Hart,
who served as acting
town manager prior to the
hiring of Kevin Smith.
“They are marked as ‘first
readings’ on the agenda
but they are not. They are
here to serve as a discussion point. We hope to
bring it forward in late
September as a formal
first reading, so this is just
an example of what these
things might look like.”
The council had previously heard information
about creating a TIF district for the Pettengill
Road area.
Hart said a TIF district
has two components.
“The first piece, the
Tax Incremental Finance
district, is a statutory or
legal construct created by
T
the legislature that allows
for changes in how property taxes that are collected by the town be allocated,” Hart said. The town
must adopt the legislation
that allows it to say,
“We’re going to have a TIF
district,” if such a district
is desired, he said.
Once that is done, the
next step would be to create the district and to
articulate the guidelines
of the district, including
what portion of the collected taxes would be
apportioned to whatever
may come from that, and
what specific needs the
town may have that
would be utilized through
the TIF district.
“Examples might be
transportation,” Hart said.
He said staff has developed a plan and some
guidance to the council as
to what it should do when
the time comes.
“It’s important to recognize that neither of
these actions binds the
town in any way,” he added. “Simply doing these
things doesn’t mean you
must have a TIF. What it
does mean, however, is
that all the pieces are in
place, should you as the
legislative body representing the citizens of
Londonderry decide that
it’s in their best interest
that that might be a mechanism to fund a road in
the north of town.”
Hart said a TIF district
has a beginning and an
end. The end comes when
the goals and objectives
of the TIF district are met,
and the beginning comes
when the town says, “one,
we’ve adopted the law,
and two, we have a district and these are the
rules and this is the
administrator.
“Once that happens, if
you decide going forward
to take advantage of that
particular financing opportunity, be it a bond or
some other financing opportunity, then you can
do that,” Hart said.
Hart added that if a
developer of the area
comes in before the TIF is
instituted, it is not a part
of the TIF.
Hart said the readings
were an opportunity for
amendments of the ordinance.
Councilor Tom Dolan
said the law was under
RSA 162 if anyone wished
to look it up.
Dolan noted that one
of the misconceptions
was that if the town
embraced a TIF district,
that meant it also embraced a bond, and that
wasn’t true.
“Only the voters can
vote for a bond at Town
Meeting,” Dolan said.
Councilor Joe Green
asked if the TIF district
meant that if the town
had one area as a TIF,
another one would have
to be opened somewhere
else. Hart said it did not
mean that.
Stu Arnett, contracted
planner for the town, said
Londonderry cannot include more than 10 percent of the land of the
town for a TIF. Creating a
TIF district for the Pettengill Road area would
include 5 percent of the
town land.
He added that the TIF
district only goes away
when the bond is retired.
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PA G E 9
Conservation Commission at Work on Open Space Stewardship
JAY HOBSON
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he
Conservation
Commission
has
come up with a plan
for open space, and the
town’s contracted planner, Stu Arnett, outlined it
for the Town Council.
“The design is a
phased approach and we
expect a lot of dialogue
with them (Conservation
Commission), and we will
update you on a regular
basis,” Arnett said.
“The Council has been
eager to get a stewardship plan in place for our
open space for the property that we have and the
Conservation Commission has moved forward
with that in a very
encouraging way,” Councilor Tom Dolan said.
Chairman John Farrell
said the regular updates
would be a good thing
“because one of the
requirements of the Town
Council as we move forward with open spaces is
that we want to see a
proactive stewardship
plan before we purchase
any more land.”
In other business at
Monday night’s council
meeting:
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• Police Chief William
Hart introduced two new
police officers to the
council. They were hired
to replace existing positions.
Officer Michael Tufo
joined the department
from the Milford police
department and Officer
Ryan Bukor is a Londonderry resident who joins
the department from the
Goffstown police department.
Also introduced to the
council was Catherine
Blash, who began her
position as Senior Affairs
Director on July 31.
• A brief discussion
took place concerning the
possibility of changing
the deliberative session
date. Town Manager
Kevin Smith said the
change according to
statute had to be within a
window of Saturday, Feb.
1, to Saturday, Feb. 8. The
current date is Monday,
Feb. 3. “The school deliberative session is Friday,
Feb. 7.”
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recreation department
schedules,” Dolan said.
Resident Reed Clark
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with the law in trying to
get both deliberative sessions done in one week.
Farrell said the council
approached the school
board to see if it wanted
to have the sessions backto-back and the school
board said it was not
interested.
The council decided to
research the issue and
see what was available for
dates.
• Hart, who served as
acting town manager
prior to the hiring of
Kevin Smith, said the
walking trail around the
Nevins Community was a
covenant binding on the
land and all parties
agreed to its discontinued
use.
Dolan said that although it wasn’t required,
a public hearing should
be held on the matter and
the council voted to hold
a hearing.
Farrell said a significant amount of money
was spent for an open
space lot adjacent to the
property at a special election, and he wanted to
look at what they had
“demonstrated to the voters” concerning that
property.
The council heard
from Nevins Community
resident Phil Marineau
regarding the walking trail
around the perimeter of
the development.
“I’m one of the directors of the community
and we have had three
meetings about the trail
and the residents do not
want the walking trail,” he
said.
Resident Ann Chiampa
asked if there were any
tax impacts by not having
the trail and Farrell said
that was a good question
for the town manager to
examine.
Councilor Jim Butler
said the reason residents
didn’t want the trail was
because of its proximity
to the houses, and something needed to be done
at the planning board
level so it wouldn’t happen again.
The matter is scheduled to be discussed
again at the Sept. 9 council meeting.
• Resident C C Mitchell raised a concern about
the Old Home Day Committee’s using town funds
to sponsor a religious
function on the Sunday of
the Old Home Day celebration at the Town Common. Citing the First
Amendment establishment clause and free exercise clause, Mitchell said
it is wrong that town
funds be used for such
activity.
Farrell said the funds
given to the committee
were primarily used for
the fireworks display.
Town attorney Michael Ramsdell, in attendance at the meeting for
another matter, said there
was no church/state violation.
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PA G E 10
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AUGUST 22, 2013
Town Manager Kevin Smith Settling In to New Position
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ew Town Manager
Kevin Smith began
his tenure on Aug.
15, just when the town
was gearing up to celebrate Old Home Day.
Some would say it is fitting that a man who calls
Lancer football games in
the fall and who graduated from Londonderry
High School would return
to his home town to
become Town Manager
during the annual Old
Home Day celebration
Smith currently lives
in Litchfield, and the
Newly appointed Town Manager Kevin Smith stopped in at the annual Old
Town Council approved a
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one year town residency
Photo by Chris Paul
requirement suspension
when it hired him. But are some residents who Smith said this week of it would be - meeting the
from his Litchfield home, live on the outskirts of his new job. “It’s been a staff - and it was nice
great first few days. It’s starting around Old Home
Smith is geographically Londonderry.
“I’m
loving
it
so
far,”
been primarily what I said Day because it gave me an
closer to town hall than
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opportunity to meet a lot
of people I hadn’t met
before and see folks who I
haven’t seen in quite
some time.”
Smith said he attended
all the events, went to
senior night and brought
his children to Kidz Night
activities.
“It was kind of like an
Old Home Day for me! It
was a great time to start,”
Smith said.
Smith said the staff
has been very warm,
“very welcoming.”
He said he has been
trying to get out to meet
the different battalions of
the fire department and
has been in daily communication with former acting town manager William
Hart, the town’s police
chief. Smith said Hart is a
great source of getting up
to speed and a “great
guy.”
“I also had a brief
meeting with (Superintendent of Schools) Nate
Greenberg, and it helps
having had a prior relationship with Nate as
well,” Smith said. “I’ve
known Nate for years
doing the football games.
We’ll have a great working
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Smith said there is a
large learning curve that
is still in progress with
the budget coming up and
the Woodmont and Pettengill Road issues.
“It has been a whirlwind these past few days,
meeting everyone and
spending time with some
of the department heads,
but it has been great,”
Smith concluded.
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Trust Funds Go to Library, Drop Off Center, Access Center Work
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he expenditure of
$18,282.17 was approved by the town
council Monday night for
various projects, including $752.17 for two addi-
T
tional servers for the
Access Center and the
repair of two outlets at
the center.
The Leach Library air
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two had been experiencing “multiple issues” and
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and William Hart, who
had been serving as acting town manager prior to
the hiring of Kevin Smith,
said three quotes were
received.
Also expended was
$730 from the Reclamation Trust Fund for a
fence installation at the
Drop Off center.
The council voted
unanimously to expend
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PA G E 11
Murray’s Auto Recycling Granted License Unanimously
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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fter a long and at
times contentious
procedure,
Murray’s Auto Recycling at 55
Hall Road received a new
license to operate from the
Town Council.
The junkyard, owned
and operated by Edward
Dudek Jr. , has been seeking its annual license, and
for the past several
months has been under
fire by several neighbors
who complain that the
cars crushed and stacked
before removal are stored
higher than the fence surrounding the property,
which they say is in violation of a 2009 agreement.
The abutters also claim
that Dudek has been operating outside the business
hours set forth in the
agreement and that the
fence, which is supposed
to be where the office trailer is located, is missing
and therefore also a viola-
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tion of the agreement.
Building Inspector and
Code Enforcement Officer
Richard Canuel told the
Council Monday night that
there were three options
for the town.
“Here we are, two
months and three hearings
later and certainly well
beyond the renewal date
for Mr. Dudek’s license,”
Canuel said. “The council
has heard testimony from
all parties involved and as
directed by the council,
negotiations to craft a new
agreement were not successful. We are no closer to
a resolution than we were
at the first hearing.”
Canuel said he has had
discussions with town
attorney Matt Serge, who
said the council had three
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enforcement and is not left
with arguable interpretation,” Canuel said.
Canuel said there were
two primary issues to be
clarified - the stacked vehicles rising above the top of
the fence, and the hours of
operation.
Councilor Joe Green
said he didn’t understand
how the Town Council
could overturn a ruling by
a judge.
Former Acting Town
Manager William Hart said
the stipulation reached by
the parties in court was
separate from the licensing authority of the town.
“So there are two different things going on - the
legal action adjudicated by
the court, which is an
agreement by the parties,
and the second is the
annual licensing function
of the town,” Hart said.
He said what Serge was
referring to is that the
council is dealing with the
licensing function only.
Council Chairman John
Farrell asked the lawyers
representing the three parties involved to use an
adjoining room to try to
reach agreement. The
town is represented by
Michael Ramsdell, abutters Gerard and Claudette
Adams of 54 Hall Road are
represented by Jonathan
Boutin, and Dan Corley
represents Dudek.
“We will be taking a
vote on this tonight and I
suggest the parties try to
work something out,” Farrell said.
The attorneys went
into the Woodmont Conference Room to discuss
the matter. Upon returning, the attorneys said an
agreement had been
reached.
Dudek, who said that
he had not been in the
room during the lawyers’
conversations, told the
council he could not agree
to the hours of operations,
including the arrival of his
employees’ trucks, as they
sometimes arrived from
deliveries after 5 p.m. to
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up their personal vehicles
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Lee LeBlanc of 58 Hall
Road said he’s been an
abutter for 35 years and
that the situation is “ludicrous,” as he sees no problem with the salvage yard.
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license renewal on the condition that the crushed
cars not exceed the height
of the perimeter fence and
the hours of operation not
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A UGUST 22, 2013
Theater Group Seeks Londonderry As Place to Call Home
JAY HOBSON
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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heater professionals Joel Mercier
and Walter Pineault
went before the Town
Council to outline a plan
T
to create a Londonderrybased theater group
called the New Hampshire Theater Factory.
“We have worked all
over the country and
Walter has worked in
England,” Mercier said
Monday night. “I am a
member of Actors Equity
Association, the professional union for actors,
and Walter is a member
of SAG (Screen Actors
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They were both from
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Saying they love the
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something in the theater
world, and so we started
working on this about two
years ago from the business perspective. We’ve
been developing a professional equity theater.”
That means a year-round
union theater, something
every other New England
state has, Mercier said.
“We have some terrific summer theater that is
union and some terrific
year-round theaters that
are professional but that
don’t work with professional Broadway unions,”
Mercier said, adding he
would like to “fix that.”
He said that in terms
of the theater world,
being union meant a New
York stamp of approval
for professionalism.
“Would you rather
have a certified plumber
or a non-certified plumber, it’s like that,” he said.
Mercier has been
developing the New
Hampshire Theater Factory for about two years
with three different
branches.
“The three branches
are our main stage season, which is a mixture of
plays and musicals that
are both commercial
pieces that you may
know about and some
lesser pieces; the second
branch is an education
program we have developed which is unlike anything here in New Hampshire and will take any
student that wants to be
involved in it; thirdly is
the new work development,” he explained.
“There’s a very limited
amount of theater companies that work with
new works to the point
that they become something special.”
Councilor Tom Dalton
asked if they had contacted the school district, as
some of the schools have
stages that the town does
not, and Mercier said
they would look into
that.
“What we would need
from the Town of Londonderry in the form of
support is, is this something that you would
want and buy tickets to.
Is this something that
you would help us find a
home?” Mercier said.
Council
Chairman
John Farrell suggested
the Grange and the Lions
Club and possibly the
Presbyterian church as
places they could look at
to call home.
Mercier said that they
had been in contact with
the high school drama
club and Val Psoinos,
who oversees the club.
Pineault said the
space they would be
looking for would have a
water supply, electricity
and facilities so that they
could hold workshops
and rehearsals as well as
performances.
“So we just wanted to
put it out there and introduce ourselves and we
will be looking into your
suggestions,” Mercier
said.
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A UGUST 22, 2013
PA G E 13
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LONDONDERRY SPORTS
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LHS Senior, PA Coach Win Annual Old Home Day Race
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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agnificent weather, a great crowd
of competitors,
and the continuation of a
beloved tradition all
helped to make the 2013
Londonderry Old Home
Day Lundgren 5K Road
Race an overwhelming
success last Saturday
morning, Aug. 17.
Some 288 folks finished the race, which was
run in temperatures hovering comfortably in the
low 70s, with a breeze to
make conditions still
more favorable.
Londonderry
High
School senior and crosscountry and track standout Damon Kilgore won
the event with his fine time
of 16 minutes and 56 seconds, dressed notably as a
character from the Mario
Brothers’ video game
along with his teammates
from the present LHS
cross-country contingent.
Former Pinkerton Academy running stalwart
and present PA teacher
and girls’ cross-country
coach Amy Bernard of
Hampstead was the first
M
Above, nearly 300 people came out in ideal summer weather to take on the annual Londonderry Old
Home Day road race last Saturday morning, Aug. 17. At right, Londonderry High senior running stalwart
Damon Kilgore won last Saturday’s annual Old Home Day Race, finishing in 16:56. Photos by Chris Paul
female finisher, gliding
across the finish line sixth
overall with her time of
18:41.
Finishing between Kilgore and Bernard was a
group of Londonderryconnected racers including race runner-up and
LHS grad Andreas Geiger
(17:23), third-place finisher and current LHS student Nick Leach (18:14),
and Londonderry High
graduate, athletic standout, and fourth-place finisher Todd Swenson from
Reading, Mass. (18:20).
The 33-year-old’s dad,
Ken, was a distance runner for the United States
at the 1972 Summer
Olympics in Munich.
Londonderry teen Jared Kane wound up fifth
overall (18:23), 18 seconds ahead of women’s
winner Bernard.
Former Londonderry
High coach and teacher
Larry Martin - the only
person to serve as the
Old Home Day race director since its beginnings
more than 30 years ago had every reason to feel
great about the way in
which the 2013 went off.
“It’s an old-fashioned
race, with no chip-timing.
People tell me every year
that we could make it
huge by doing this or
doing that, but we like it
just the way it is,” he said.
Proceeds from the
annual race go to the Londonderry Track Club.
While the 2013 race
drew mostly Londonderry residents - another
thing director Martin
aims at each year - folks
from many locales took
part in the event. There
were runners from other
parts of the Granite State
as well as Massachusetts,
Missouri, Pennsylvania,
Florida, North Carolina,
Connecticut, New York,
Nebraska, California, and
Sweden.
The age range of runners bounded everywhere from elementary
school-aged youngsters
up to Old Home Day race
veteran Lou Peters - an 88year-old gentleman from
Methuen, Mass., whom
Martin takes particular
pleasure in greeting and
pointing out each year.
This year’s race also
featured some of the future members of Londonderry High School’s crosscountry and track teams
in the forms of Granite
State Flash runners Lily
Law, Cailin Borovicka, Cole
Borovicka, Kalin Gregoire,
Ryan Young, and Andrew
Young.
Female age group winners included Jasmine
Brown of Londonderry
(12-and-under, 24:37); Sami
Tocman of Londonderry
(17-19, 21:08); Michelle
Toepel of Manchester (2029, 21:13); Amy Bernard
(30-39); Michelle Harrison
of Londonderry (40-49,
22:00); Nancy Peabody of
Londonderry (50-59, 23:39);
Terry Harrington of Salisbury, Mass. (60-69, 42:40),
and Sachiko Burkinshaw
33:07).
Male age group winners included Ryan Young
of Londonderry (12-andunder, 20:26); Nick Leach
18:14); Damon Kilgore (1719); Mike Robinson of
Derry (20-29, 18:49); Todd
Swenson (30-39); Brian
Arsenault of Hudson,
Mass. (40-49, 19:43); Paul
Leahy of Londonderry
(50-59, 20:32); Mark Brank
24:35); John Loker of Londonderry (70-79, 27:54),
and Lou Peters (80-105,
40:47).
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A UGUST 22, 2013
Cops Maintain Advantage in Softball Series with Firefighters
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he bats were booming but the defenses
were a bit sloppy
when the police and fire
departments from Londonderry played their
annual fundraising softball contest at the Matthew Thornton field Friday night, Aug. 16.
And as has been the
case seven of the last
eight years, the cops
walked away from the
contest with bragging
rights after collecting a
run-packed, 27-20 victory
over the fire department’s
determined squad.
The fire department
crew had busted a fiveyear winning run by the
police with a lopsided 236 victory in the 2011
game, but the cops
jumped right back on the
winning track last summer with a modest 11-7
victory and then bagged
the win in last week’s
slugfest.
The Londonderry Lions
Club sold hot dogs and
hamburgers to members
of the vocal crowd gathered to watch the contest,
and the state Lions Club’s
Camp Pride was the recip-
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Kevin Cavallaro belted in a number of runs during
the annual Old Home Day softball rivalry to help
his fellow cops to victory. Photos by Chris Paul
ient of funds raised by
both departments and
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Both offenses started
out like gangbusters in
the game, with the fire
crew beginning the battle
by plating five runs in the
top half of the first inning
and the police answering
with five of their own in
the latter half of that
frame.
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suffered their woes in the
field when the cops came
up to hit in the bottom of
the first, and the policemen received an RBI single from Nick Pinardi as
they went on to knot the
score at 5-5.
Cops’ third baseman
Ryan Kearney played
superb defense down at
the hot corner for his side
in the contest and helped
to hold the fire department squad to three more
runs in the top half of the
second. Phil LeBlanc
drove in a hit with a single
in that frame and Bo Butler bashed a two-run double as the fire crew
reclaimed the lead at 8-5.
But the bottom half of
the second was an utter
nightmare for the fire
crew, who had trouble
getting their defense off
the field as the police collected 11 runs on nine
hits and more errors than
the fire crew would have
liked to contemplate.
The cops slammed a
bunch of loud hits in the
huge half-inning, with
Dave Tallani was the starting pitcher for the firefighters in Friday night’s Old Home Day game.
Kearney hammering a
two-run homer and Kevin
Cavallaro and Chuck Nickerson each trouncing tworun triples.
With just two innings
down and five yet to be
played, there had already
been 24 runs scored and
the cops were grasping a
16-8 lead.
The pace of scoring
would slow down somewhat thereafter, but the
27-20 final provided
enough offense for anybody who enjoys that sort
of contest.
Along with the aforementioned players, the
victorious police team
included Bob Jones, Dan
Perry, Matt LaQuerre, Tim
Moran, Joey Bellino, and
Jay Ternullo.
Along with its above
mentioned members, the
fire department squad’s
players included Zach
O’Brien, Bryan Young,
Bruce Hallowell, Chris
Schofield, Kevin Barnett,
Jon Cares, Chris Cares,
and Mike England.
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A UGUST 22, 2013
PA G E 15
Ex-Lancer Ryan Griffin Standing Out in Houston Texans’ Camp
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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f everything continues
to move ahead for the
Griffin family, they’ll all
be able to puff out their
chests with pride this fall
and state, “Yup, there’s a
Lancer playing in the National Football League.”
Former LHS football
standout and University
of Connecticut star tight
end Ryan Griffin is doing
well in the Houston Texans’ training camp after
I
being drafted in the sixth
round by that NFL team
some months ago and
later signing a four-year
contract
that
runs
through 2016.
Griffin, who spent part
of his youth living in the
home that now serves as
the office of the Londonderry Times, is solidly
ensconced in the third
spot on the tight ends’
depth chart with coach
Gary Kubiak’s Texans.
He had an impressive
night for the Texas squad
in its first pre-season game
at Minnesota on Aug. 9,
making four catches for
37 yards with a long
reception of 21 yards in a
27-13 Houston victory.
The 6-foot, 6-inch, 256pound Griffin presently
finds himself behind Texans’ starting tight end
and seven-year NFL veteran Owen Daniels and 27year-old veteran Garrett
Graham on the depth
chart.
Gettin’ Going
The Londonderry High
football team began its
2013 double sessions with
magnificent weather on
Wednesday, Aug. 14, basking in mid-70 degree temperatures with a breeeze
blowing. Coach Jon Rich’s
team will work hard to be
a player in Division I this
fall after falling short in
2012.
Photo by Chris Pantazis
Starter Daniels is 30
years old and quite an
offensive force. He made
62 catches for 716 yards
and six touchdowns during the 2012 campaign.
Graham, who like
Daniels is a former University of Wisconsin stalwart, made 28 catches
last year for 263 yards
and three scores. He
made five catches for 49
yards in the pre-season
defeat of Minnesota.
During his superb collegiate career at Connecticut, Griffin assaulted the
U-Conn record book for
receptions by a tight end
throughout his career
and, after catching 29
passes (six for touchdowns and 484 yards) in
2012, his 10 career scores
and 116 receptions placed
him second all-time in
both categories among
Huskies’ tight ends.
Griffin earned his second straight second team
honor from the Big East
and was named U-Conn’s
Former Londonderry High School and University of
Connecticut football standout Ryan Griffin is doing
some impressive things in training camp with the
National Football League’s Houston Texans.
Offensive Player of the
Year following the 2012
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A UGUST 22, 2013
Ex-Lancer Manley Starting a Collegiate Football Coaching Career
CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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om Manley was a
force on the offensive line for the Londonderry High School
football squad before
graduating in 2009, and he
went on to more impressive work at Castleton
State College in Vermont
over the next four football
seasons.
Now the Londonderry
native is having one of his
football dreams come true
T
as he begins his first season in college coaching as
the new offensive line
coach at Plymouth State
University.
Manley, who pursued a
criminal justice degree
with a minor in coaching
at Castleton State, was
brought on board by PSU
head man Paul Castonia for
what should be a challenging campaign for the Panthers. He replaces Tom
Pabst, who was the Plymouth State offensive line
coach for 10 years.
"I knew that I wanted
to coach college football,
so I was applying to different schools all over the
country since about January," said the former
Lancer. "When I got back
to New Hampshire this
summer, I sent an e-mail
to coach Castonia and he
told me to call him. When
I called him, we set up a
time for an interview, and
about a week after that,
he offered me the job. It
feels amazing to be out
◆ here living my dream,
◆
doing what I love."
While Manley enjoyed
studying criminal justice in
college, he said he would
rather be a football coach
full time from now onward.
"I wake up every morning excited to be able to
coach football and/or
study game film every
day. It's a job where I'm
never looking at the clock
wondering when I'm going
to be leaving because I
love what I do," he said.
The Plymouth State
football squad had a
rough 2012 campaign dur-
ing Castonia's ninth season at the helm.
The Panthers went 2-8
overall and 2-6 in their
conference, allowing 339.1
total offensive yards and
23.7 points per game while
collecting 238.9 yards
worth of offense and just
11.2 points per contest. So
there will be some pressure to get things going in
a better direction with the
PSU program this fall.
The 2013 season will
begin with a game against
the Castleton State squad
for which Tom Manley
starred for the last four
years, earning several allconference selections in
the process.
"It'll be a good challenge for our team," he
said of the season-opener.
"I know they're gonna
come in prepared and
play us really tough."
In his final season of
helping to anchor the
Castelton offensive line as a
player last autumn, Manley
moved his Spartans' squad
to a 6-4 overall record and a
6-1 conference record for
coach Marc Klatt.
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CHRIS PANTAZIS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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usty Dustin’s golf
skills spoke for
themselves once
again this summer as he
successfully defended his
2012 Londonderry Country Club title with two
days of strong play during
the LCC championship
tournament last weekend.
The weather was perfect and the golfing was
impressive throughout
the two-day event, with
defending champ Dustin
leading everybody by
small margins in both the
net and gross scoring
departments after the
D
first 18 holes had been
played on Saturday, Aug.
17. But Roy Jenkerson
and Matt Hogan were
both close on Dustin’s
heels, and the shot of the
day belonged to Jenkerson, who nearly buried a
birdie attempt on an
approach shot on the seventh hole.
On day two on Sunday
in more superb weather,
all three of those golfers
battled it out through 18
more holes before Dustin
landed on top in the gross
division with his score of
144 and Hogan claimed
the net division win with
his final tally of 120.
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LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ew things spark more
pride in a high school
football program or
its members than having
players go on to enjoy
gridiron success at the
college level.
And coach Jon Rich and
his Londonderry High football program have a bunch
of former Lancers on college grid rosters as the
2013 collegiate season
nears.
Connor Richard is
stepping into his sophomore season as a defensive back on the Nichols
College (Dudley, Mass.)
football team. He contributed to the Bisons’
2012 campaign by playing
F
in six games with eight
tackles, including five solo
smacks. Richard had
three solo tackles in his
team’s 2012 contest
against Framingham State.
The Bisons are in the
midst of a rough patch,
having gone 1-9 in 2010,
winless in 2011, and 1-9
again last fall. Richard
and his teammates will
doubtless work hard to
change their team’s fortunes sooner than later.
Former LHS football
standouts Sean Ryan and
Harry Theodhosi are
both with the University
of New Hampshire grid
squad this autumn.
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playing in 11 games for
the 8-4 UNH team in 2012
and six games each in
2011 and 2010. Sophomore Theodhosi was a
walk-on with the Wildcats
this year and is a member
of their linebacking corps.
Ex-Londonderry High
lineman Jon Mounce
enters his junior year at
Merrimack College in
North Andover, Mass. He
helped that school’s football squad notch a 6-4
record last fall.
Versatile gridder Troy
Ward has moved on from
the LHS football program
to Springfield College
(Springfield, Mass.). Head
coach Mike DeLong be-
◆
gins his 30th season as
the top football man at
that school, and his 2012
crew notched an 8-3
record for him.
Ex-Londonderry Lancers Zach Capobianco
and Jed Sweetman are
both members of the 2013
Saint Vincent’s College
(Latrobe, Penn.) football
team. Capobianco is a
sophomore linebacker,
and Sweetman is an incoming freshman who will play
on the offensive line.
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football teammate Ian McMullen is a sophomore on
the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute team (Worcester,
Mass). The Engineers went
2-8 last fall.
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Day festivities. A concert by the Windham Swing Band followed the meal.
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Step Back in Time Aboard Memphis Belle B-17 Bomber
MATT RITTENHOUSE
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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ou don’t often get a
chance to step back in
time so completely as
when you climb on board
the Memphis Belle, a
restored
Boeing
B-17
bomber that’s visiting the
Manchester-Boston Regional
Airport this weekend.
The plane stands on the
runway like a sentinel of a
time past. Its glass nose rises
far above the tarmac, flanked
on both sides by giant, yellow tipped propellers. Painted army green, it is emblazoned on the side with an
iconic “Memphis Belle,” yellow painted bombs to designate each of its 25 missions
and yellow swastikas to note
enemy planes shot down by
its crew. It is covered with
weaponry, large 50 caliber
machine guns, from its nose
to both sides, to the ball turret and tail guns. It sits
aggressively on the ground
and it’s not hard to imagine it
readying for take off with a
score of its sisters.
The plane is in the area
thanks to the Liberty Foundation’s 2013 Salute to Veterans Tour. The plane is celebrating the 70th anniversary
of its historic 25th mission
and its first visit to New
Hampshire. The Liberty
Foundation is looking not
only to celebrate the plane
and its storied history, but
more importantly to connect
people with those who sacrificed everything in World
War II in planes just like the
Memphis Belle.
Sitting in Manchester last
weekend the bomber looks
almost as if it could have just
finished its 25th mission, but
to hear the experts tell of
those trips, it was likely in
Y
rougher shape then. Liberty
Foundation volunteer pilot
Bob Hill is a wealth of information on the plane and its
history.
For most of the war,
these planes went without
fighter escort and were hard
pressed by enemy planes.
Crew members regularly
dealt with exploding shells
slamming into and shrapnel
raking the sides of the echoing hull. The young crew,
generally between ages 18
and 27, devised makeshift
protection to add to basic
flak vests and metal helmets.
And to add to it all, there was
- and is - little in the way of
creature comforts inside.
It’s more or less just a
metal hull, guns, bombs and
no air conditioning. It was
cold for those flights, explained Hill. There were
heated suits, but these
worked intermittently, sometimes even burning their
wearers.
The real Memphis Belle
(this one is a true bomber,
but painted to look like the
iconic Memphis Belle for the
1990 film of the same name)
is credited as the first B-17 to
successfully complete 25
missions. This is something
of a miracle, as for every 25
missions the bomber fleet
went on, only five survived.
Of the 12,735 bombers produced between 1935 and
1945, 4,735 were lost in combat.
During a couple of flights
over the skies of Londonderry and Manchester last
weekend to let residents
know the plane is in town,
World War II veteran Al
Kramer stepped aboard. As
a young man Kramer, now
93, piloted a B-17 in combat.
He flew six and a half missions.
The last time he was on a
bomber was when he was
shot down, crash landing
behind enemy lines in
France.
It’s been 70 years since
he was last on the ship. “It’s
like I never left,” said Kramer
when asked about how it felt.
He said he remembers all of
the work he used to do on
board, leading his crew.
While the Memphis Belle is a
little less crowded with
equipment and machinery,
Kramer said it was nearly the
same as he remembers.
Kramer was reticent to
say more about the experience that saw him the only
survivor.
The crash was following
a raid on Stuttgart, and
Kramer was taken in by
French partisans and eventually secreted to England on a
fishing boat. His ordeal lasted about a month.
It’s that direct link to a
past best not forgotten that
the Liberty Foundation is
looking to showcase and
strengthen with their visits
around the country this year.
The foundation offers the
experience to take to the
skies in the bomber. It’s an
amazing and sobering experience to be taken up in one: to
hear the rush and whine of
the engines and propellers;
see the ground through gaps
in the metal plating; feel the
handles of the machine guns,
the rivets in the metal or the
radio dials. And with only a
little effort, as you squeeze
through the small confines
and see the 500-pound bomb
replicas, it’s easy to imagine a
small slice of what it must
have been like for the plane’s
10 crew members as they
took on mission after mission.
“It’s a step back in time,”
said Hill. “It’s an experience
that uses all five senses…
There’s even a taste to it.”
The plane is largely open,
with windows and a large
hatch above the radio area
open to the skies. It’s an
impressive experience to
World War II veteran Al Kramer stands by the bomber type
in which he flew 16 1/2 missions. Above left is Manchester
seen from the glassed in gunner area.
look down the spine of the abut the bombers and the
plane to the tail as it circles people who flew them that
over town.
even if you don’t fly, it’s
The flight experience worth a stop by the airport
takes 45 minutes, with about just to see the plane and
a half hour in the air. For Lib- hear a story or two and see
erty Foundation members the Memphis Belle take off
the cost is $410 per person again.
and $450 for non-members.
The airplane will be open
The foundation concedes to the public and available
that the cost of a flight does for ground tours and flights
seem expensive, but less so on Saturday, Aug. 24, and
when put into context of the Sunday Aug. 25. It is located
$4,500 cost per flight hour. at Manchester-Boston ReThe foundation spends more gional Airport at Wiggins Airthan $1.5 million annually to ways FBO, 1 Garside Way.
keep the B-17 airworthy and Visit www.libertyfoundaon tour.
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Kids Night Out
Kidz Night, held Thursday evening, Aug. 15, brought out tons of fun for area youngsters. Above and
clockwise, Wildlife Encounters shows one of its many animal friends; Minnie Mouse gives a hug to Emily
Bugenhagen; Ariana Bilodeau tap dances during New Hampshire Dance Academie’s performance; a group
of eager children pet a turtle that was wandering around the Town Common; and Emily Jastrem is greeted by Mickey Mouse.
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ings with their coaches.
For questions, call the LHS
The Londonderry High athletic office at 432-6941
School fall athletic Meet the ext. 2306. EXP822
Coaches Night will be held
Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 6 p.m. Flower Show
in the high school gym.
The Derry Garden Club,
This is a mandatory meeting a member of the New Hampand includes a welcome shire Federation of Garden
address by principal Jason Clubs, Inc., invites the pubParent, athletic information lic to its Standard Flower
and team schedules, and a Show, with the theme, “Chilpresentation by the head dren - Seeds of the Future,”
athletic trainer regarding held Saturday, Sept. 7, from
the new concussion proto- 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Boys
col and other medical infor- and Girls Club of Greater
mation. After the meeting Derry, 40 Hampstead Road,
in the gym, teams will have Derry. Admission is free.
individual sport team meet- There will be several design
classes and educational
exhibits, all geared toward
children. The public is welcome to enter horticulture
on Friday, Sept. 6. For more
information, call 434-0578.
For more information, visit:
derrygardenclub.org. EXP95
Meet the Coaches
Bees
The Leach Library presents a program on Monday,
Sept. 16, from 4 to 5 p.m.
with stories about bees,
beekeepers, and bee facts,
with each child receiving a
stuffed plush bee. Advance
registration is required and
begins at 9 a.m. Monday,
Sept. 9. To register, call 4321127 or stop by the Children’s Room. EXP95
at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3. To
register, call 432-1127 or
stop by the Children’s
Room. Parents may register
a maximum of 5 children per
program at once. For additional information about fall
programs, pick up a
newsletter in the Children’s
Room. EXP95
Young Adult Summer
Reading
The Young Adult Summer Reading Program participants have until closing
time Saturday, Sept. 7 to
turn in their reading logs.
The Janice Anagnos Memorial Prize and certificate is
awarded to the teen who
reads the most books from
June 1 –Sept. 7, 2013. EXP95
Bronze Award
Katie LaCerda, far left, and Anna Haas, far right,
were hard at work on Old Home Day making people who stopped by their
booth on the Town Common aware of the proper way of disposing of batteries. The girls are working on their Bronze Award for Girl Scouts with this
Photo by Chris Paul
awareness project.
Carpinone, director of Pupil
Services for the Londonderry School District, will
review the flow chart of special education staff and supports. She will also outline
helpful hints from the
school staff perspective for
engaging in the IEP (IndividBake Sale
St. Jude’s Women’s Guild ualized Education Program)
will host its annual bake sale meeting process. EXP829
on Sunday, Sept. 1, from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. at Mack’s Memorial Garden
Council #6949 Knights of
Apples on Mammoth Road.
Homemade pies, breads, Columbus of St. Jude Parish
muffins, cookies, cakes and in Londonderry will be
fall novelties will be for sale, transforming the existing
along with lunchbox treats garden along the north side
of the church into a Memorfor back-to-schoolers. EXP829
ial Garden in memory of the
unborn. The centerpiece of
Town Clerk Hours
Beginning Sept. 3, the the re-landscaped garden
Town Clerk/Tax Collector’s will be a memorial monuoffice at Town Hall will close ment featuring Jesus embracing a child. EXP829
at 4:45 p.m. daily. EXP829
Drop Off Center
The Londonderry Drop
Off Center now accepts
propane tanks from residents: 20 pound tanks are $4
each, and 1 and 2 pound
tanks, typically used to fuel
outdoor grills, are accepted
free. Residents should secure tanks upright in their
vehicle to avoid damage.
They should not de-valve or
otherwise further empty the
tank. Drop Off Center staff
will direct residents where
to deposit the tanks. The
Drop Off Center is open Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
April to November. Payment
is by check only. For more
information, call environmental engineer Bob Kerry
at 432-1100, ext. 137. EXP829
Londonderry Trail Walk
Children’s Programs
Free Meals
the Leach Library will offers
the following programs as
part of Fall Session 1: Story
Time, Shake Move & Read
and Toddler Time. Fall Session 1 runs Sept. 17 through
Oct. 10. Advance registration is required and begins
Community Meals Network provides free meals to
everyone at the following
Derry locations: Aug. 25,
lunch, noon to 1 p.m. at Seventh Day Adventist Church;
and Aug. 30, spaghetti supper from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at
First Parish Church.
KSpecial Education
The Children’s Room at Partnership
The Londonderry Special Education Partnership
(LSEP) will hold its first general meeting on Tuesday,
Sept. 3, at 7 p.m. in the
Moose Hill Conference
Room at Town Hall. As part
of the meeting, Kim
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John Daley, M.D., will
lead a free guided tour of
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on Thursday, Aug. 29, from 6
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people of all ages are welcome to join the tour to get
some fresh air and exercise
and learn about plans to
expand the rail trail system.
Meeting point is North Elementary School, 19 Sanborn
Lane. For more information,
call 537-3033. EXP829
Challenge Celebration
Derry Medical Center
has been participating in
the statewide 90-mile Challenge that asks people to
move a mile a day (or 20
minutes of sustained physical activity daily). A celebra-
tion of the culmination of
the 90-mile Challenge will
take place on Wednesday,
Sept. 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
at the Wellness Building at
Derry Medical Center, Suite
300, 14 Tsienneto Road,
Derry. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call 537-3033. EXP05
Hospice Training
Valerie Arnista, volunteer coordinator from Amedisys Hospice of Londonderry, will offer training sessions for prospective hospice volunteers in a class
that begins Monday, Sept.
23, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and
continues once a week for
six weeks. For more information, contact her at 4210414 or valerie.arnista@
amedisys.com. EXP95
Women’s Scholarship
The Londonderry Women’s Club is taking applications for an adult female
scholarship for school year
2013-2014 in the amount of
$500. The requirements are:
must be a female at least 23
years of age and a current
resident of Londonderry,
and must have completed a
minimum of half of their
credits toward their named
graduate degree in their current field of study from an
accredited, secondary institution, and be enrolled in a
subsequent year of study.
Deadline for receiving applications is Sept. 30. Applications are available at the
Leach Library. EXP95
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Residents Encouraged to Write Letters of Support to Military
PENNY WILLIAMS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
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he Friends Program
and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) have launched Operation Appreciation, a campaign to send
5,000 letters to members
of the armed services.
This is an initiative run
by Blue Star Families and
its theme is “Home of the
Free Because of the
Brave.” The campaign is
designed to have the letters ready to send by Sept.
1 so as to show the troops
that the people at home
T
support them, especially
on the 9/11 Day of Service
and Remembrance.
In Derry, Parks and
Recreation Director Eric
Bodenrader said the Bone
Builders program run
with RSVP has been supporting this initiative. He
said the Parks And Recreation Department has
forms available for anyone interested in getting
involved.
“We are networking it
through our seniors,” he
said. “The exercise program is spearheading the
effort, but we will continue
to get the word out and
plan to distribute the
forms at the Senior Picnic
on Aug. 28. The seniors are
working on encouraging
people to write the letters.”
The Londonderry Senior Center is similarly
involved in this effort.
Bonnie Ripvo said she has
the forms on her desk.
“We have people writing letters for this effort,”
she said. “We did this
years ago and haven’t the
last few years, but we are
doing it this year. It’s good
to have started doing it
again.”
The Hampstead dropoff is the Island Pond Baptist Church. Rev. Jim Wells
said his parishioners consistently write letters to
those in the armed services as well as sending
packages.
“We have boxes out to
collect letters for the
armed service personnel,” he said.
The Friends Program
is leading the project for
the 9/11 Day of Service
and Remembrance, encouraging people of all ages to
show their support for
active armed services
members, their families
and veterans.
The agency hopes to
send more than 5,000 letters and notes to Operation Appreciation, run by
Blue Star Families, which
will distribute them to
active personnel, their
families and veterans.
Some organizations are
hosting letter-writing events and others are encouraging their members
to write letters on their
own. Anyone can write one
or more letters of any
length, as long as they contain positive expressions
of appreciation.
Organizations or individuals who wish to join
the effort can drop off letters at the locations
above or mail them to the
Friends Program. For
mailing information, call
1-800-536-1193 ext. 214.
RSVP is a Senior Corps
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Community Service. The
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human services agency
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Londonderry Police Log
Selections from the Londonderry Police Logs
Monday, Aug. 12
6:49 a.m. Vandalism to
company vehicles at
Brook Hollow Pit, Auburn
Road.
12:12 p.m. Caller reporting dirt bikes in the
woods off Sunflower Lane.
1:02 p.m. Complainant
reports gunshots at end
of Faucher Road.
1:27 p.m. Theft of parts at
Ford of Londonderry,
Nashua Road.
2:20 p.m. Gunshots reported from dirt road off
Tokanel Drive.
Tuesday, Aug. 13
1:31 a.m. Caller on Orchard View Drive reported
loud noise like an explosion.
11:28 a.m. Caller on
Woodside Drive reported
explosion in area. Litchfield Sand and Gravel conducted a blast.
Wednesday, Aug. 14
6:04 a.m. Mailboxes damaged on Coteville Road.
1:18 p.m. Caller reported
someone drove over lawn
on Autumn Lane overnight.
Saturday, Aug. 17
7:05 a.m. Jeremy David
Malek, 29, 19 Fairway
Drive, Apt. 15, Derry was
arrested on Criminal Trespass, and was released on
$2,000 personal recognizance bail, with Derry District Court date of Sept. 9.
Sunday, Aug. 18
9:23 a.m. Kristy Lynn
Brunet, 31, 215 Groveland
Ave., Manchester arrested for Violation of Protec-
◆
A UGUST 22, 2013
tive Order, penalty; Criminal Trespass; and Resisting Arrest or Detention.
She was held without bail
and transported to the
Rockingham House of
Correction, with Derry
District Court date of
Sept. 9.
1:49 p.m. Ashley Nicole
Bellegarde, 24, 5 Gardner
Circle, Londonderry and
Brianna Lynn Bellegarde,
21, 5 Gardner Circle, Londonderry were each arrested. Ashley Bellegarde
was arrested for Simple
Assault, held on $3,000
cash bail and transported
to the Rockingham House
of Correction, with Derry
PA G E 23
Sept. 9. Brianna Bellegarde was arrested for
Simple Assault and Stalking, and was held without
bail. She was transported
to the Rockingham House
of Correction, with Derry
Sept. 9.
Monday, Aug. 19
9:08 a.m. Burglary reported on Page Road.
3:42 p.m. Items reported
missing from apartment
on South Road.
3:52 p.m. Gunshots heard
in distance on Kimball
Road, may be from firing
range.
3:56 p.m. Criminal mis-
chief reported to motor
vehicle on Clark Road.
5:39 p.m. Cheryl Elliott,
53, 167 West Road, Canterbury arrested on
Nashua Road for Driving
After Revocation or Suspension, Disobeying an
Officer, and two warrants.
Bail was set at $5,000 plus
$40 bail commissioner
fee, with Derry District
Court date of Sept. 9. She
was released to the Belknap County Sheriff’s
Office, who responded to
take custody of her on
their charges.
Garden Club Prepares for Once-Every-Three-Years Flower Show
PENNY WILLIAMS
LONDONDERRY TIMES
————––––––————–◆
very three years the
Derry Garden Club
members take a
deep breath, roll up their
sleeves, and ramp up the
labor-intensive
effort
needed to put together a
quality flower show, an
effort that requires every
member to help out.
The 2013 Flower Show
will take place from 1:30
to 4:30 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 7, at the Boys and
Girls Club of Greater
Derry on Hampstead
Road. The free flower
show is a gift from the
Derry Garden Club to the
community, and the public is encouraged to visit
and see what the club’s
dedicated gardeners are
able to do.
This year’s theme for
the show is “Children –
E
Seeds of the Future,” with
the show dedicated to
“the inner child in each of
us… Stimulate your interest, expand your horizons,
enjoy
each
moment.”
While much of the
work comes in the
months, weeks and days
just before the show, the
club members have been
in preparation mode for
the past year. Twenty-one
Garden Club members are
chairing the many committees necessary to put
on the event.
The show will have
three divisions of competition:
• Special Exhibits,
including two educational
sections and a third section devoted to projects
entered by local youths,
consisting of “Fairy Gardens” and a sunflower
challenge.
Auditions
August 27 & 28
at Dance Progressions,
109 Hillside Ave, Londonderry
Preliminary Round Show - Sat. Sept. 14
Final Round Show - Fri. Sept. 20
At Derry Opera House
29 West Broadway Derry, NH
email: [email protected]
or call 432-2129
for an application and details
• Horticulture, featuring locally grown items by
club members for judging.
Amateur gardeners are
invited to enter their
exhibits as well.
• Floral Design, by
Derry Garden Club members. All the class themes
pertain to children and
their activities.
Several club members
have won top awards
around New Hampshire
and the New England
area, including the top
award at the Boston
Flower Show. The local
flower show is an extension of the club’s mission
as an educational and
charitable organization
that strives to “promote
an interest in home and
gardens; aid in protection
of native plants, trees and
wildlife; further civic
beautification; and to affiliate with the New Hamp-
Pictured from left are Derry Garden Club Flower Show chairwoman Michelle
Mensinger, schedule chairwoman Blanche Garone and awards chairwoman Corrine Safron, in front of a potential exhibit grown by Safron in her back yard.
Photo by Penny Williams
shire Federation of Garden Clubs and the National Garden Clubs.”
Club member Corrine
Safron said the flower
show is a tremendous
effort, which is why they
only tackle it every three
years.
The involvement of
local youths in the show
is an extension of the
work of the club on a regular basis and also sup-
ports the show theme.
The Garden Club members urge the public to
come and see what the
members and the youths
have on exhibit.
For more information,
call 434-0578.
TOWN OF LONDONDERRY
TOWN OF LONDONDERRY
PLANNING BOARD
PLANNING BOARD
The Londonderry Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Moose Hill
Council Chambers, 268B Mammoth Road, Londonderry, NH to
consider the following:
CONT'D PLANS/PUBLIC HEARINGS/WORKSHOPS/
CONCEPTUAL DISCUSSIONS
The Londonderry Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Moose Hill
Council Chambers, 268B Mammoth Road, Londonderry, NH to
consider the following:
CONT'D PLANS/NEW PLANS/WORKSHOPS/PUBLIC
HEARINGS/DISCUSSIONS
7:00 PM Administrative Board Work
7:00 PM Administrative Board Work
A. Planning Board Workshop to review the 2013 (FY 2015 2020) Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).
B. Planning Board discussion about a proposed update to the
Zoning Ordinance, Section 1.2 Impact Fees.
A. Pillsbury Realty Development, LLC, Map 10, Lots 15, 23, 29C2A, 29C-2B, 41, 41-1, 41-2, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 54-1,
57, 58, 59, and 62 -Public hearing for formal review of the
Woodmont Commons Planned Unit Development (PUD) Master Plan [Continued on August 14, 2013 to August 28, 2013].
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