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Warren, NH Resident Named Fellow By American Association For The Advancement Of Sciences_____________
AAAS and Crossroads Academy of Lyme, NH Announce 2012 Fellow neering, respectively) rosette pin on Saturday, 16 February from 8 to 10 a.m. at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2013 Peter Faletra AAAS Annual Meeting in of Crossroads Boston, Mass. Academy has been named a This years AAAS Fellows were Fellow of the formally announced in the A m e r i c a n AAAS News & Notes section of A s s o c i a t i o n the journal Science on 30 for the November 2012. Advancement of Science Faletra, a teacher at Crossroads (AAAS). Election as a AAAS Academy, Lyme, NH was Fellow is an honor bestowed awarded this honor: for distinupon AAAS members by their guished contributions as a menpeers. tor during 25 years of teaching, and for contributions to plant This year, 702 members have tissue culture as a means to help been awarded this honor by advance efforts in restoration AAAS because of their scientif- programs for critically endanically or socially distinguished gered plants. efforts to advance science or its applications. New Fellows will The tradition of AAAS Fellows be presented with an official began in 1874. Currently, memcertificate and a gold and blue bers can be considered for the (representing science and engiStory continues on page A3 Bermans Bits........................A4 Pic of the Week..........................A4 Nature Tracks............................A7 Real Estate/Homes.....................A7 North Country Happenings....A8 Earth Talk................................A9 Adventures of Homesteading...A14 Horoscopes........................A15 - PULL OUT SECTION B Hiking W/Tom & Atticus ........B1 Restaurant Guide.............B2, B3 Northcountry Cookin................B3 Letters & Opinions.................B4 Puzzles.....................................B5 Comics.....................................B6 Classified Ads.........................B7 Business Directory.........B8-B15 Church Directory.....................B8

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A Walk In The Woods_____________

By David Falkenham, UNH Cooperative Extension Grafton County Forester An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day Henry David Thoreau Hunting season is only three months long, thats only 25% of the year. This means that on January first, my wife and I will have to wait out another 75% of the year before we can go hunting again. For a kid my age thats a long time and if you think I have it rough, you should see the look in the dogs eyes. Thanksgiving for us equals four days of uninhibited walk-tillA really nice shot of a Great Blue Heron taking off. Great Blue Herons congregate at fish hatcheries, as they well know at the Warren Hatchery! They are the largest herons in North America. They eat mainly fish but will also eat other small animals. They have been known to choke to death on prey that is too large. A group of herons has many collective nouns, including a "battery", "hedge", "pose", "rookery", and "scattering" of herons. - Chris Mazzarrella Photo (see more of Chris photos at www.forestforward.com. you-drop hunting for my wife, stream down my face as I work dogs and I; after all January first hard to keep my dogs bell within earshot. If he makes a flush I is coming fast! dont want to miss it, a grouse The fall has been uncharacteris- dinner for Thanksgiving would tically warm and dry and as I be perfect. Its Thanksgiving grind my way up a hill in the Day and I am in a tee shirt. The National Forest, beads of sweat breeze blows strong through the leafless November trees but it offers little relief. The sky is a brilliant blue and my visor is pulled low over my eyes to keep the sun out. These are not the leaden snow filled skies of early winter that hunters hope for Story continues on page A5

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The Green family of Warren, NH hosted a pretty special guest recently. John and Deb Green, owners of Green Acres Sugarhouse and Greens Big Game Hounds of Warren, had none other than Hank Williams Jr. and his son Samuel for a few days for a hunting trek in the area. In the left photo, from left to right are: Mark Green, John Green, Samuel Williams, Hank Williams Jr., Bow Green and Robert Huckins. Pictured in the right photo are Hank Williams Jr., Deb Green and John Green. John is also a licensed NH Hunting Guide. For more information about Greens Big Game Hounds, you can find them on Facebook at Green's Hounds Green.

Warren, NH Resident Named Fellow By Frozen Pipes Can Be A Nightmare: American Association For The Keep Them From Freezing This Winter_______________________ The most Advancement Of Sciences_____________ AgentsProfessional Insurance Subject to a deductible, cover coveragetoexists for frozen-pipe damage an unoccupied home of New Hampshire Inc. homeowners policies
Continued from page A1 rank of Fellow if nominated by the steering groups of the Associations 24 sections, or by any three Fellows who are current AAAS members (so long as two of the three sponsors are not affiliated with the nominee's institution), or by the AAAS chief executive officer. which votes on the aggregate reminds homeowners and business owners that now is the time list. to prevent your pipes from The Council is the policymak- freezing. Winter can bring ing body of the Association, extreme, cold temperatures. chaired by the AAAS president, And, it does not have to snow and consisting of the members and sleet for your household of the board of directors, the pipes to freeze. Anytime the retiring section chairs, delegates temperature reaches 32 degrees from each electorate and each or below, if your pipes are not regional division, and two dele- properly winterized, it could gates from the National mean disaster for your home or Association of Academies of business. Science. damage resulting from frozen pipes, including the repair of the pipe, says Scott Johnston, president of PIANH. Your policy will cover dwelling damage, and damage to personal property, such as furniture and rugs. And, tenants of a residence can get similar coverage for personal property by purchasing a renters policy and business owners can purchase similar coverage for business property. However, PIANH warns, no

Each steering group then reviews the nominations of individuals within its respective section and a final list is for- Congratulations Peter! warded to the AAAS Council,

or business, unless heat is maintained in the building or the pipes have been drained. Even though most homeowners policies cover such damage, its important to prevent it before it happens. An eighth-inch crack in a pipe can send up to 250 gallons of water flowing a day, destroying equipment and files; wrecking floors and furniture; and costing homeowners and businesses a lot of money. By Story continues on page A5

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Incessantly scouring the universe for the weird, the wacky, and the stupid so you dont have to. a UN agency that has nothing to do with the Internetto take over its rules and workings. (Yeah, how bad could it be? If you ever did something terribly Greetings, and thanks for join- wrong online, the UN might ing me for another week. take the drastic step of (gasp) Starting us off are a few news passing a resolution.) stories you may have missed. First, Dawn Hern said she had , a Florida teenager is dead, and no choice but to get her dog the authorities say its all because of debarking surgery because her an argument over loud music. dog simply would not stop bark- Police say Michael David Dunn, ing. Most cities have a noise 45, who was in town for his ordinance, and Hern had already sons wedding pulled into a received complaints, fines and convenience store parking lot even a court summons about her with his girlfriend and asked barking dog. She doesnt care Jordan Russell Davis, 17, and who thinks shes cruel; she sim- his friends to turn down the ply didnt want her dog taken music they were playing in their away from her. Lucy Lou was SUV. Thenwhile Dunns girlHerns family dog. But like the friend and the driver of the SUV saying, her bark was worse than were in the storeDunn and her bite and it was causing Davis had an argument and the problems in her neighborhood. older man allegedly pulled out a Her town has a five minute gun and fired eight or nine barking ordinance. After five times, the Orlando Sentinel minutes its considered a nui- reports. Davis, who was sitting sance. (You know, some people in the back seat of the SUV, was I know could use a human ver- hit twice. Dunn and his girlsion of that surgery....) friend then left, and the next morning in their hotel room they Next, a number of countries are heard that someone had died trying to place the Internet after the shooting. Even so, they under the UNs controland returned home, where Dunn was the US needs to push back, and arrested that same day on soon, says L. Gordon Crovitz in charges of murder and attemptthe Wall Street Journal. The ed murder. His lawyer did not Web is so successful exactly offer any details, but said Dunn because its not run by any gov- was acting responsibly and ernment. But thats also why defending himself. many nations oppose its open nature, which makes it difficult Lest you wonder, yes, all it to censor or tax. So China, takes is one ticket to win giganRussia, Iran, and Arab countries tic lotto money, but you have a have been lobbying for the much better chance of: (1) I n t e r n a t i o n a l becoming President, (2) dying Telecommunications Union in an on-the-job accident, (3) becoming a movie star, (4) getting struck by lightning, and (5) dying in an asteroid apocalypse. [The Daily Beast]

These beautiful English Setters were in front of the Village Store in Franconia on a recent Saturday morning just watching people go by! L-Spencer R- Marley On the left is Spencer and on the right Marley. They belong to Ben Steele of Etna, NH. - Mickey de Rham Photo If you have a photo which you think could make it as our picture of the week, let us know. Email it to ncnewsnh@gmail.com. Your picture could become our next Picture Of The Week! a change: 01. password 02. 123456 03. 12345678 04. abc123 05.qwerty 06. monkey 07. letmein 08. dragon 09. 111111 10. baseball 11. iloveyou 12. trustno1. (My password is the same everywhere; no one would ever guess it. Its from the old Superman comics its MR._MXYZPTLK. Nope, you couldnt guess it in a thousand years! Im safe! food place offered the usual assortment of drinks with one proclaiming Minute Maid contains 0% juice. color pictures to prove it (I ordered the School Pack with 2 8x10s, 4 4x6s, and 24 wallet size.) If I am still around, the next one is in 10 years. At least How did it become December I know one of my systems is already? I remember an old say- okay. ing that Life is like a roll of toilet paper the closer to the end, I like DD coffee. I also like the faster it goes. Boy is that Eight Oclock Columbian. That true! said, Dunkin Donuts bid to hype their java exclusively as How can you tell when Public Best coffee in America has TV is holding a fund-raiser? been refused by the U.S. Patent Answer: they air shows I want and Trademark Office on the to watch (usually involving grounds that the desired trademusic)! mark is merely laudatory and descriptive of the alleged merit No offense meant in the follow- of applicants services and the ing I knew a guy who was half goods featured therein, accordJewish and half Japanese. Every ing to the Boston Globe. For December 7th he attacked Pearl those readers not in the habit of Schwartz... budda-boom. deeply perusing the US patent offices website as part of their Someone (besides me) actually leisure reading, coffee is reads my column and pointed defined as a hot, slightly bitter out the fact that I never followed drink made by pouring hot up for you on my colonoscopy, water over brown powder conwhich I had back in mid- sisting of coffee beans that have October. Bottom line, it was been ground and best as actually a piece of cake and used for referring to the person came back okay! I even have or thing that is the most satisfactory, appropriate, pleasant, effective, of the highest quality, etc. The reviewing board found Dunkins claims to be mere puffery and incapable of functioning as a trademark, without substantially distinguishing their product from other products in the category. Bitter news, indeed, but the company may still continue to submit evidence and arguments in support of registration. A Guatemalan doctors ill-chosen joke caused hours of delays for passengers at Miami International Airport. MiamiDade Police say Terminal J was shut down for more than an hour after Dr. Alejandro Hurtado, 63, replied that he had dynamite when a TACA airlines ticket agent asked if he had any hazardous materials in his luggage. As the ticket agent called police, Hurtado reportedly told the agent that he was joking. When police arrived, Hurtado was arrested and charged with falsely reporting a bomb threat at an airport. Hurtados luggage was searched by the bomb squad and was deemed safe. Everything was resolved at 2:00 p.m. and the airport returned to normal operations. [CBSMiami] Finally, Q: What would you think about a magic potion that turns people into cats? A: I dont know, but it would give me paws! Later

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I remember once seeing in a description of motorcycle rides that people in NH had to go by the sign in the Canaan area that reads Rudders Party Ponies. I have a different one of my own to add. When I pick up my daughter from her school in NY (or take her back), we pass by a place called the Petrified Creatures Museum of Public Service Announcement - Natural History. Gotta check it Be careful! The top twelve pass- out when it reopens in the words for computers follow. If spring. any are yours, it may be time for On one of the same trips (to or from NY), I saw a great example of Truth in Advertising! One of the drink machines at a fast-

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A Walk In The Woods___________________

ing and trim. If you cut down an aspen in your yard it makes however its hard to argue with good hot burning firewood. a beautiful day. In the summer, aspen cools the Finally we reach an old clear- air with its wispy quaking cut. Thick with aspen saplings sounds. In the fall aspen stands this clear-cut is a grouse color our hillsides brilliant yelhunters dream. Aspen, com- low and in winter the buds of monly called popple is an aspen are a critical survival food incredible tree. When an aspen for ruffed grouse and other local tree is cut in a logging operation bird species. In the early spring, the energy in the roots of the old the new shoots of aspen are reltree is put directly into repro- ished by bears looking for an ducing many new trees and the early food source after a long root system of the tree sends out winters nap. The aspen we have trailers or root suckers that in New Hampshire is the same quickly become aspen saplings species that cover the hill sides and eventually full grown trees. of the Rocky Mountains. These The new aspens grow thick and are quaking aspen, balsam fast. New aspen saplings can poplar and big toothed aspen. reach heights of ten feet tall in only two or three years. The Whenever you see a pure or saplings make great browse for nearly pure aspen stand it is deer, moose and bear and the indicative of some past disturdense young forest created by bance in the forest. Out west the clear-cut makes great cover these disturbances are usually in feeding and nesting habitat for the form of wild fires, where aspen was the first to colonize a countless species of wildlife. forest after it was burned. In the In our own backyards we can east the disturbances are usually improve wildlife habitat by sim- abandoned farms and old clearply cutting down a few aspen cuts. So the next time you are in trees, preferably in the winter. an aspen stand take a moment to This effort will create a thick do some forest forensics. You edge of shrubs and saplings in just might find the old cellar only a few years and best of all hole or logging road that tells there is no planting required. you what happened there in the The wood of aspen is used for last 60 100 years. You are also pulp, shipping crates, veneer very likely to find signs of lots filler in plywood, painted mold- of wildlife.

Warren Fiction Frozen Pipes Can Be A Nightmare: Keep Them From Freezing This Winter___ Writer Releases Continued from page A3 there may be a leak at the inside New Novel_________
valve. Youll probably need to taking a few simple precautions call a plumber to fix this. you can save yourself the mess, cost and aggravation frozen For pipes in crawlspaces and pipes cause. garages, it may be necessary to wrap the pipe with an electrical With a little attention and sim- insulator. These wraps act like ple maintenance, you can help heating pads for the pipe to keep prevent pipes from freezing, the fluid from freezing. says PIANH. Pipes that freeze most often are those exposed to If your pipes do freeze, dont the severe cold, such as those take any chances, warns located in unheated interior PIANH. If you turn on your areas like basements or attics, faucets and no water comes out, crawl spaces, garages and leave the faucet on, turn off the kitchen cabinets. Some meas- main shut-off valve for your ures PIANH suggests for safe- water supply and call a plumber. guarding pipes and property Take immediate steps to prevent include insulating the pipes in further damage. If damage has these areas. Additionally, make occurred, contact your professure you seal leaks that allow sional, independent insurance cold air inside near the pipes. agent. He or she will be able to Look for air leaks and use caulk guide you through the claims or insulation to keep the cold process, says Johnston. out and the heat in. Water supply to outside valves (hose bibs) PIANH is a trade association usually have a shut off valve representing professional, indeinside the house. The homeown- pendent insurance agencies, er should shut the inside valve brokerages and their employees and open the outside valve. If throughout the state. water continues to drip outside,

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The Rabbits Suffering Changes is based on the true story of the last Englishman to play in the finals of Wimbledon (Bunny Austin, a man Wilkin met and profiled for Tennis magazine quite a few years ago). But thats not the most unusual thing, odd as it may be to find a novel about a real person (Gore Vidal, T. Coraghessan Boyle, E. L. Doctorow and J. P. Moehringer have written this Story continues on page A6

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Thanksgiving Tradition with a Twist - Each year Wentworth Elementary School holds their Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner. Prior to this event, Principal Keith Charpentier challenges the whole school to collect at least 250 food items to be donated to the Warren/Wentworth Food Pantry. In exchange for this collection, he treats the entire school to a pizza party. This year to add to the schools donation, King Arthur Flour of Norwich, VT came to the school and put on a presentation to students in grades 4-7 on the art of bread-making. In return, each student was given the ingredients to make two loaves of bread; one for their family to enjoy and the other to be donated to the food pantry. In addition to the 250 nonperishables, WES donated 28 loaves of homemade bread to go with the Thanksgiving supplies the food pantry handed out on Friday, Nov. 16th. Carly Merluzzi; 7th grader, said It was a lot of fun making the bread; I do it at home with my Mom. Principal Charpentier would like to publicly thank Amy Driscoll of King Arthur Flour, the families of the children who participated in this Life Skills Program, as well as all the community members that donated food items for the pantry. -NCN Courtesy Photos

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Continued from page A5 kind of novel, but its still somewhat unusual). The odd thing is that his book begins like a classic British novel and then, halfway through, Wilkin breaks cover and writes it like non-fiction, like a memoir. When asked to explain, Wilkin says that such a structure is a kind of homage to his hero. Bunnys plunge into obscurity in the late thirties, after reaching worldwide fame and marrying a famous actress, was something he chose himself, giving up his tennis career--just when he was finally the favorite to win Wimbledon--to work for an obscure interfaith NGO called Moral Re-Armament. Wilkin says he wants to bring the reader this experience of conversion, reaching out for a new level of honesty, for thats what Bunny Austin did and thats what he hoped for from his loved ones, with what Wilkin calls dramatically mixed results. The book is available at amazon.com. Mr. Wilkin has taught writing at Phillips Academy for thirty-three years, meeting Bunny Austin as a result of a Fulbright Exchange Year teaching at Dulwich College, London. His wife Ellie runs the Black Iris Art Studio in Warren, NH.

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Warren Masonic Hall - breakfast from 7-9 on the first Sunday of each month. Hope to see you there. ----------------------------------------Breakfast - All you can eat, 2nd Sunday of each month from 7:30-10am at the Masonic Hall, North Haverhill, NH. $5adult; $2.50 child. ----------------------------------------The Warren/Wentworth Food Pantry, serving residents in Warren, Wentworth and Glencliff, is located behind the Warren Wentworth Ambulance Service building and is open every Friday from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. For eligibility information or to make a donation, stop by or call 764-5265. The pantry gratefully accepts food or monetary donations as well as donations of personal and household care items. ----------------------------------------Scottish Country Dancing, every Wednesday evening, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Fairlee Town Hall, Route 5, Fairlee Vermont. Cost is $3.00. All dances are taught, no partner is necessary, beginners are welcome. For more information, call (802) 439-3459. ----------------------------------------Nightly Entertainment Indian Head Resort, Lincoln 745-8000 www.indianheadresort.com Woodstock Inn, Station & Brewery 745-3951, Lincoln. www.woodstockinnNH.com ----------------------------------------Haverhill Memorial Post 5245 and their Ladies Axillary hold their regular monthly meeting at 7pm on the third Thursday of each month at the VFW Post in North Haverhill. All members are invited to attend. ----------------------------------------Piermont Parents meeting the Challenge NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) support group meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month, 79pm at the Horse Meadow Senior Center, North Haverhill, NH. Please Call Rebecca Ladd at 603989-5476 or email at rrladd@myexcel.com with any questions. ----------------------------------------For all upcoming events at D Acres - (D Acres is located at 218 Streeter Woods Road in Dorchester, NH.) Visit www.dacres.org. ----------------------------------------Wednesday Evenings- Mo the Clown - Elvios Pizzeria & Restaurant, Lincoln, NH 5-8pm ----------------------------------------If you have any talent at all, come join us on Thursday Evenings, Open Mic Night, at the Greenhouse Restaurant in Warren, NH. Come by to listen or join in! Junction of Routes 25 & 25-C in Warren, NH. Support our area musicians. Come join us! -0s farmhouse and outbuildings. ----------------------------------------To find out the on-going happenings at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness, NH. You can call 603-968-7194 or visit them online at: www.nhnature.org ----------------------------------------To find out the on-going happenings at the AMC Pinkham Notch Center where programs are free & open to the public: AMC Pinkham Notch Visitor Center, Route 16, Pinkham Notch, NH. For more information contact the AMC at (603) 466-2727 or www.outdoors.org. ----------------------------------------For on-going events at WREN (Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network) of Bethlehem, please visit www.wrencommunity.org or call them at: 603-869-9736. ----------------------------------------For ongoing schedule at Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth, NH, call 603-536-ARTS or visit them on the web at: www..plymouth.edu/silver ----------------------------------------Friends of the Library are establishing a Conversational French group at the Joseph Patch Library in Warren. We meet on Monday mornings, 9-10. Join us! All skill levels are welcome. For questions or sign up: call Luane Clark, coordinator, at 764-5839, or the Joseph Patch Library at 764-9072. ----------------------------------------Wentworth Historical Society meets monthly, 7:00 p.m, every third Thursday, April - Dec. at the Historical Society Museum in Wentworth. Join us for historical topics and stimulating conversation. ----------------------------------------Meditation Group in the Shambhala Buddhist Tradition Thursdays 6- 7 PM at Blissful Lotus Yoga Studio at 71 Main St, Plymouth NH. Open to new or experienced meditators of all traditions. Meditation instruction available. FREE Donations greatly appreciated. For more information: 603-764-9895 ----------------------------------------Sugar Hill Historical Museum: Open Fridays & Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy the new exhibit in honor of Sugar Hills 50th birthday: 50 Years Young: Five Decades of the Youngest Old Town in New Hampshire. Genealogy Library, Historical Photograph Archives, Gift Shop. Main Street, Sugar Hill, NH. Admission free. Memberships and donations gratefully accepted. Special tours may be arranged. For information, call Director Kitty Bigelow at 603-823-5275. ----------------------------------------The Baker's River Grange meets the 2nd and 4th Friday every month, 7:30 p.m., Grange Hall, Rte.25, Rumney. Visitors welcomed! ----------------------------------------Free tutoring for adults in the Plymouth/Bristol area - GED Test Preparation, Reading, Writing, Math, English as a 2nd Language, Basic Computer Skills. Call PemiBaker Literacy at 536-2998 for more information. for $5.00. Send list of names and checks to WHS po box 114 Warren, NH 03279 and the reading of names will be at our meeting 12/17 6:00 PM at our building all are envited to attend. We also have WHS Community Calenders on sale! Call Janice at 764-9949 or Donna at 764-9469 They are $7.00 each and make a great Christmas Present. Campton 8th Grade Silent Auction & Spaghetti Supper- Friday December 7th At Campton Elementary School. Auction & Spaghetti Dinner to support 8th Grade Class Trip. Dinner from 5pm to 7pm & Silent Auction from 5pm to 8pm Over 100 items donated for the silent auction. Good food, lots of funs, great time for all ages. Hawaiian Theme event, come dressed and help support your 8th Grade and have a great time. Call (603) 254-4028 for more info. ----------------------------------------6th Annual Holiday Bazaar Saturday, December 8th from 91 at the Learn and Grow Preschool in Haverhill, NH. ----------------------------------------Messaging and Marketing ClinicGetting your message out in todays world can be challenging. The NH Center for Nonprofits is offering a full-day interactive session in the North Country, led by Gary Stern of Stern Consulting International, for a mix of discussion, applying marketing disciplines to your own organization, and practice in effective messaging.

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Date: Thursday, December 13, from 9:00 AM 3:30 PM; $25 members; $50 not-yet-members at the Indian Head Resort, Lincoln. Pre-registration is required at http://www.nhnonprofits.org/trai ningdetails.cfm?ID=1199. This event is being offered at a reduced rate through the support of the NH Charitable Foundation and The Corporate Fund. ----------------------------------------Enfield United Methodist ChurchChristmas Pie Sale at the Enfield Methodist Fellowship Hall on Route 4, Enfield, NH. It will be on Monday, December 24, from 9 am till sold out. Pre-orders accepted until Wednesday, Dec 19 by calling Sandi Charbono at 603-632-7118 or Barbara Brady at 603-632-7194. ----------------------------------------The Warren Fire Dept. on December 15th will test and in your smoke December Events replace batteries Senior in Warren, detectors for any NH for free. All you have to do is Warren Historical Society - give us a call. Please call 764-9469 Memory bulbs are on sale 2 names and leave name , # and address.

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And, as it turns out, tened to music, took in the Thanksgiving Day is also a per- views, and ate a meal of quinoa, fect time to do this hike. sweet potatoes, avocado, black bean salsa, walnuts, and pumpThe morning air was cold but kin seeds. We talked, we fresh as we made our way along laughed, we counted our blessthe lower reaches of the Falling ings, and we enjoyed the shared Waters Trail. At the numerous solitude. Our only regret was stream crossings we had to that we didnt stay longer but watch our footing because of the there were miles to go and the sheen of ice on the rocks that day was slipping by and soon was often hard to pick up. the sun would be slipping Fortunately we safely made all towards the horizon. our water crossings and then started that slow, methodical On the climb up Mount Lincoln climb to the top. Its a steep I watched Atticus maneuvering hike, at times challenging, but up the rocks, between them, and its a beautiful walk through around them. I tried to rememmythical woods and as we fol- ber how many times weve been lowed the switchbacks through over Lincoln and Lafayette but I the forest the sun climbed the couldnt. What I do know is cloudless sky and turned every- that weve been climbing them thing a golden-green. That in for the last seven years and itself would have been memory weve done them in all kinds of enough worth saving, but on weather and in every season. I this day there was more to also know that while Atticus come. will soon be eleven and he still moves well, he wont be doing Just before we exited the trees these hikes forever, and so I near the top, we reached an ice watched him closely with the bulge in the trail and stopped to same love and admiration I put on our MicroSpikes. always do, but with the tiniest Theres a sense of comfort and sense of bittersweet sentimeninsurance whenever I feel their tality. little metal teeth cutting into the ice. First I hear it, then I feel it, He moves in these mountains as and Im always glad I brought if they are his old friends. Hes them along. And once through always felt comfortable with the icy section of the Falling them. Theres an ease to him Waters Trail we exited onto the wherever he is, a self-assuredridge above treeline and there ness that make me look on joy was not a cloud to be seen. Blue for him. But on a mountain its skies draped themselves over different. I understand that the mountaintops and the somehow or someway he was faintest of breezes and the warm made for this and each time we sun joined together to make sure climb its like hes coming home wed spend a pleasant two miles again. And while I dont think on the ridge. But we were hun- Atticus really cares whether we gry after working so hard to get climb four thousand footers or to this point and this being other desirable peaks, he knows Thanksgiving; we stopped to these places so well and has have our dinner. For me it was grown fond of them. They are a first a vegan Thanksgiving, familiar to him. and even though the traditional turkey dinner (and leftovers) is Its for this reason that I have my favorite meal of the year, I decided that over the next year didnt miss it in the least bit. or so well get to each of the Instead the three of us sat, lis- forty-eight at least one more time while hes still healthy and moving well. I understand that while that doesnt necessarily have to be the case, it could very well be our last time together on these two mountains. But instead of looking at that day that hasnt come, I decided to put my thoughts to the memories being made on that trip. be and there was much to see and do and say. It had become one of those days destined to be remembered. You know the kind. You recognize them as they unfold and notice the way you slip right into them and are then wrapped up for safe keeping so that you can always pull it back to you in a daydream for On top of Lincoln I picked him life is not always so kind and we up as I always do and we looked need these pockets of special back to where wed come from. times where we can reach them. (That stretch of rocky trail always reminds me of the Great The poet William Stafford has a Wall of China as it follows the few lines in one of his poems jagged and narrow spine of the that go like this. ridge.) Then we turned north and looked toward Mount Little corners like this, pieces Lafayette, the next peak on our of Heaven hike. Its a special place the left lying around, can be picked summit of Lincoln. You not up and saved. only get the breathtaking views People wont even see that you of Cannon, the Kinsmans, and have them, Moosilauke to the west, you get they are so light and easy to Garfield, the Twins, the Bonds, hide. Owls Head, the Presidentials, Carrigain, and the Hancocks to As we left the summit of the east. To the south are Flume Lafayette and walked down the and Liberty and the east-to-west mountain and into the sunset running Sandwich Range. But before making our way through on top of all that, you get the the last couple of miles under perfect view of Lafayette, which the guidance of a bright moon towers in front of you like some and starlit sky, it was clear wed magical beast that will one day made a memory with those little pieces of heaven wed found awaken. throughout the day and they will The climb up Lafayette is always be there for us when we always a challenge, but it was want or need them, just as they easier because of the special are now. views on a cloudless day. We stopped often to appreciate You can always follow and keep everything that was special and tabs on Tom and Atticus by visfor what we were experiencing. iting their blog regularly at: Better yet, wed seen a total of tomandatticus.blogspot.com. five people above treeline. Such sweet solitude made even more special by the friendship it For those who follow Tom & was wrapped in.three hikers Atticus on their adventures. in our own little world, in our Mojo Moose Gear now has own paradise, dancing over the official Following Atticus mountains, making memories, long and short sleeved t-shirts and having much to be thankful along with coffee/tea mugs on for on a day made for giving sale online at: thanks. www.mojomoosegear.com. We werent moving all that Really nice gear! quickly. There was no need to for we were where we wanted to Check it out.

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Thank you. They are perhaps the two most powerful words in the English language when you connect them. And I find myself saying those words again and again lately, especially while remembering fittingly enough our Thanksgiving Day hike. Every time we climb a mountain I understand it could turn into a savory memory, and most hikes are memorable in some way or another, but whenever we make it to Franconia Ridge and step out of the trees above treeline with the world beneath us and heaven not just above us, but by our sides as well, theres an even greater chance it will be a day to remember. We havent been on the ridge for a year and a half and Ive missed it. The entire night beforehand, knowing wed be up there soon enough, I felt like a kid on Christmas Eve. You see, I often avoid popular routes because of the crowds and we seek them out only on off times when people are busy with their lives. Midweek in winter is a fine time to go. So is night.

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and within twenty minutes the By Kathleen Jablonski, teams must prepare a dish using Field Specialist, 4-H Healthy Living, Youth and Family Team the provided secret ingredient (either apples, squash, or Are you a teen between the ages spinach), one dairy product of 12 and 18? Do you and a (provided), and ingredients friend like to cook and try new from the food supply pantry things? Enter the first 4-H Food (provided). Teams bring their Chef Challenge, Saturday, own cooking utensils, up to four ingredients of their choice, and January 5, 2013. knowledge of basic nutrition as The event, sponsored by well as their food preparation University of New Hampshire skills. An adult advisor is there Cooperative Extension is open to watch the progress and cheer to all teens ages 12 and over as the team on to victory. of the event date. You do not have to be a 4-H member to enter. It will be held from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon at the During the 20 minutes, each Horse Meadow Senior Center, team will have to prepare a dish, 91 Horse Meadow Road, North plan a presentation, and clean Haverhill, New Hampshire. up the preparation area. Each The $5.00/team entry fee covers team will be provided with a the cost of supplies and over- secret ingredient and allowed to use any pantry item in reasonhead. able quantities. Teams are chalWhats a food chef challenge? lenged with being creative and Modeled after the Iron Chef developing their own recipe competitions that are currently with the ingredients provided. popular, its a way for youth Teams must incorporate the partners to show off culinary secret ingredient into the dish skills. Each team (comprised of and may determine the exact two or three members and one amount of each ingredient to adult supervisor) is given a use. The ingredients provided to pantry selection of ingredients each team may also be used to

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Mother and daughter team Gail Piazza and Laura Piazza have been honored as an AwardWinning Finalist in the Health: General category of The 2012 USA Best Book Awards for their book Recipes for Repair: A Lyme Disease Cookbook. This comes on the heels of being awarded the bronze medal in the fourth annual Living Now Book Awards in the Cooking/Natural category in September. Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USA Book News, said this years contest yielded over 1,500 entries from mainstream and independent publishers. Our success begins with the enthusiastic participation of authors and publishers and continues with our distinguished panel of industry judges who bring to the table their extensive editorial, PR, marketing, and design expertise, states Keen in regard to this years contest. author of The Lyme Disease Solution. Dr. Singletons book had an entire chapter devoted to nutrition, and until that point, I didnt realize what an important role nutrition had in the healing process, says Sunapee resident Laura Piazza, co-author of Recipes for Repair. I contacted Dr. Singleton to see if he had ever considered publishing a cookbook specific to his diet. Readers and patients would tell me that the biggest impact from my book was the Lyme Inflammation Diet, so when Laura wrote to me proposing a book of recipes specific to the diet I was really excited about the idea, says Dr. Singleton. Im very proud to have my name associated with such a quality piece of work.

Scholarships for this event are Hops must be harvested at the proper stage of development to available for those with an insure the highest quality for brewing premium beer. inability to pay. In the ate 19th and early 20th century as many as 12,000 pickers The University of New were employed to harvest the crop. Hops enter commerce and are Hampshire Cooperative used in a variety of forms including dried cones in 200 lb bales, Extension is an equal opportuni- hop pellets, hop extract, etc. ty educator and employer. University of New Hampshire, First to promote commercial hop growing east of the Cascades U.S. Department of Agriculture was Charles Carpenter who planted his first rootstock from his and N.H. counties cooperating father's farm in New York in 1868. Though fairly isolated, farmers found that hops were one crop they could raise profitably. great, states Gail Piazza, coauthor of Recipes for Repair. My mission was to create recipes that allow not only Lyme patients but anyone desiring good health the freedom to eat enjoyable and nutritious meals and its very rewarding to know that this mission has been accomplished. Yakima Valley growers shipped eighty bales of hops westward in 1876. Acreage increased the following decade and once the railroad reached the valley the future success of hop farming was almost assured. In 1876 the principal hop farms were in the Ahtanum Creek Valley. In the early 1890's more farms were established making Yakima County the principal hop-growing area in the state.

Having developed recipes professionally for over 35 years, when we moved forward with the book I created recipes the Recipes for Repair features the way I always do that is, food anti-inflammatory diet devel- that looks beautiful and tastes oped by Dr. Kenneth Singleton,

Hop demands have become increasingly higher as each year passes. Right now, brewers have to supply a three year projection of their needs. This helps the farmers plan what hop to pant, which in turn helps prevent shortfalls. It is getting increasingly harder to get Much to my delight, my hus- hops that you have not projected for, but with the brewers and band and I loved the meals, growers continued teamwork most needs will be met. says Lyme patient, Sarah Carletti in regard to the recipes If you are ever in the area it's worth taking the drive to check out in the book. Overall, I feel the area. This is also Washington States wine country, so it is a healthier and better following great place to check out if you enjoy a variety of fermented beverthis diet. ages as I do. With taste and ease in mind, distinguished food stylist and Cheers, Butch home economics consultant, Gail Piazza, developed 151 recipes specific to Dr. Its What The Locals Read! Singletons diet. Professional photographer, graphic designer Northcountry News Read By Thousands! and chronic Lyme patient, Laura Piazza, designed the book and photographed the 55 color images of the recipes styled by Gail

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onions and salad dressing. Spoon a rounded tablespoonful into each wonton cup. Bake at 350 for 6-7 minutes or until heated through. Yield: about 4 dozen. Sausage Rollups

In a large bowl, combine sausage, onion, chives, basil, garlic, tsp paprika. Unfold pastry onto a lightly floured surface. Roll each pastry sheet into an 11 x 10 rectangle. Cut widthwise into 3 strips. Spread cup of sausage mixture down the center of each strip. Fold pastry over and press edges together to seal. Cut each roll into six pieces. Place seam side down on a rack in a shallow baking pan. Sprinkle with remaining paprika. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Yield: 3 dozen.

1 lb bulk pork sausage 1 small onion, finely chopped 2 tsp minced chives 2 tsp minced fresh basil or tsp Quick and easy appetizers made dried basil with bulk sausage to serve for a 2 garlic cloves, minced preplanned party or unexpected 1 tsp paprika, divided guests. 1 package (17.3 oz) frozen puff pastry, thawed

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Sausage Wontons 1 pkg (12oz) wonton wrappers 1 lb bulk pork sausage 2 cups (8oz) shredded cheese medium green pepper, chopped medium sweet red pepper, chopped cup chopped onion cup ranch salad dressing Lightly press wonton wrappers onto the bottom and up the sides of greased miniature muffin cups. Bake at 350 for 5 minutes or until edges are browned. In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; remove from heat and drain. In a large bowl, stir in sausage, cheese, peppers,

Warren Wentworth Food Pantry News

HELPFUL HINTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS! The pantry is located under the ambulance service and is open Fridays from 1-3 PM. The Pantry would like to thank the Wentworth Elementary School for over 250 food items and 28 fresh baked loaves of bread made by them, as part of the King Arthur Flour project. We would also like to thank the Warren Village School for donating over 200 food items and the Girl Scouts for their delicious homemade pies. We are grateful to all the kids who were involved at both schools!
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Well, its over! Thanksgiving People tend to be looking for the 2012! Another year another best bargains, instead of making With more and more people havThanksgiving. and sharing family memories. ing to work, and those looking for bargains, and out shopping Heres my problem! I fyou could Many stores are open, people something is being lost. Iam not call it that! I grew up in a time have to work, and even though quite sure what yet, but maybe period when families actually we talk about how much most its times with family, or tradiwere brought together by the people hate it, we just do it and tions, or making memories or holidays and spent time togeth- go along with it anyway! even just being able to take a er as a family unit. day to sit back and relax. Black Friday has turned into Something is going to come up Thanksgiving and Christmas Black Thursday evening, Cyber missing down the road. were two of the biggest in our Monday has turned into Cyber household. Each and every year weekend and to be honest, per- I;m not one to hold back, and we looked forward to it. The sonally, Ihate it all. Ill be the first toblame a lot of seeing of family, the over it on those box stores that just indulging, the stories, and all Cant we have just a couple of have to be open sooner to make those shared times and memo- days out of 365 that families can sure they get the almighty buck ries made. actually spend time together first. Those same box stores that without the stresses of everyday arent allowed to say Merry It was pretty much a sin to even life? Or thinking about having Christmas or Happy Hanukkah mention work on those holidays, to get to work? Have we actual- or anything else for that matter never mind actually having to ly become a society that just because it might offend somework on those holidays! Back doesnt care any longer? Are we one or be politically incorrect. then, if you didnt get to the that hurried that sitting with Humbug Isay, it never seemed store to pick up what you need- family for a half a day just cant to bother anyone in the past! ed before the holiday came, oh happen? well, you were out of luck or Are we losing something? You actually had to talk to your I certainly do not think of myself bet we are, and to perfectly honneighbor to see if you could bor- as being old-fashioned, and est with you, I think its quite row something.(Of course now I for the most part, have stayed sad. suppose you could email them!) right up with the times, but there are just those moments when I Nobody Asked, Just My Now, Iam finding myself in an ask myself, if in the future, there Opinion... almost lost and lonely time peri- will actually be any special holod - a very dark place at times. idays left at all. B.E.F. Holidays are seemingly getting much less important these days. Under Capitalism, Welfare tion among employers; its a States Main Function is collective cost of an entire Corporate Welfare industry that can be passed on to consumers as a cost-plus Thanks to a Twitter friend, I just markup, via administered pricstumbled across remarks from ing. 2005 in which Walmart CEO Lee Scott called on Congress to Marx had a lot to say about this pass a higher minimum wage: phenomenon, as illustrated by the Ten-Hours Act in Britain The U.S. minimum wage of (Capital, vol. 1 ch. 10). $5.15 an hour has not been raised in nearly a decade and These acts curb the passion of we believe it is out of date with capital for a limitless draining the times. We can see first-hand of labour-power, by forcibly limat Wal-Mart how many of our iting the working-day by state customers are struggling to get regulations, made by a state that by. Our customers simply dont is ruled by capitalist-and landhave the money to buy basic lord. [T]he limiting of factory between pay labour was dictated by the same necessities checks. necessity which spread guano over the English fields. The At first glance this seems decid- same blind eagerness for plunedly odd, coming as it does from der that in the one case exhaustthe CEO of a company which ed the soil, had, in the other, as you know if youve been fol- torn up by the roots the living lowing the Black Friday news force of the nation. is notorious for keeping its workers pay as low as humanly This common interest in prepossible. venting exhaustion of the soil, Marx argued, explained But if you think about it, theres the counterintuitive support of really no contradiction at all. many capitalists as exempliTheres a fundamental prison- fied by employer Josiah ers dilemma at the heart of cap- Wedgwood for the Ten-Hours italism. Its in the interest of Bill. large corporations collectively to guarantee sufficient purchas- The state, in many ways, funcing power to keep the trucks tions as an executive committee moving and the inventories of the economic ruling class, turning over. But its in the inter- carrying out for them in comest of individual large corpora- mon many necessary functions tions to keep labor costs as low its not in their interest to carry NOTICE TOWARREN RESIDENTS as possible. out individually. The state, in short, cleans up the capitalists The Warren Fire Dept. on December 15th Likewise, its in individual messes for them. will test and replace batteries in your smoke employers interests to pay only detectors for any Senior in Warren, NH for enough to maintain employees Things like the minimum wage, free. All you have to do is give us a call. in subsistence while theyre collective bargaining, and uniwithout Please call 764-9469 and leave name, # and actually of working, to save versal healthcare may be perenough a surplus ceived by individual capitalists address. against periods of sickness or as a restraint or an imposition. unemployment. But its in the But theyre supported by the collective interest of employers smarter capitalists especially to pay enough to cover the min- those in the industries that benimum reproduction cost of labor efit most from them. Just considpower. er the role of General Electric CEO Gerard Swope in the busiOvercoming such prisoners ness coalition behind the New dilemmas is the main purpose of Deal. the capitalists state. When the state mandates a minimum The minimum wage increases wage sufficient to facilitate the aggregate purchasing power reproduction of the workforce among the working class at (of course it doesnt in practice, large, and helps secure employoutside the European social ers a reliable pool of labor democratic model of capital- power on a sustainable basis. ism), the cost falls on all The welfare state keeps employers in a given industry unemployment, hunger and equally. And unlike the case of a homelessness from reaching private, voluntary cartel, indi- politically destabilizing levels vidual employers are unable to that without the state cleandefect for the sake of a short- ing up the capitalists mess at term advantage from double- taxpayer expense might crossing their competitors. So result in capitalism being torn funding the minimum reproduc- down from below. 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1. Where did the Marshall Tucker band get its name? 2. Name the group originally known as The D-Men. What was their most popular song? 3. Which group had a hit with "Take a Chance on Me," and when? 4. What was the title of the first album by Bob Marley and the Wailers outside Jamaica? 5. Name the song that has this lyric: "I done told you once, you (c) 2012 King Features Synd., son of a gun, I'm the best that's Inc. ever been." Answers The U.S. government kills 100,000 carnivores each year under the U.S. Department of Agricultures (USDA's) Wildlife Services program, mainly to protect livestock. However, the USDA's own statistics show that most livestock losses result from weather, disease, illness and birthing problemsnot predation! Credit: iStockPhoto/Thinkstock lethal control methods, like trapping, aerial gunning, poisoning, and denning (killing young in their dens), and some non-lethal control methods, reports the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). But driven by narrow agricultural interests, these predator control activities often ignore the greater public need for a healthy environment, fiscal responsibiliDear EarthTalk: A friend of ty, and safe public lands. mine told me that our government kills thousands of wild NRDC cites USDA statistics animals like bears and wolves showing that most livestock every year in the name of pro- losses result from weather, distecting livestock. How can the ease, illness and birthing probgovernment, which is supposed lemsnot predation. They also to protect dwindling numbers of argue that the lethal methods animals, instead be killing employed by Wildlife Services them? -- Amy Pratt, Troy, NY have led to dozens of human and pet injuries and deaths and Actually, the federal govern- degrade ecosystems that rely on ment kills some 100,000 carni- healthy predator populations to vores every year under the U.S. function. Also the two most used poisons, Department of Agricultures commonly (USDAs) Wildlife Services Compound 1080 and sodium program. While the program cyanide, go beyond killing anidoes much more than so-called mals and wreak havoc on entire predator controlthreatened ecosystems. and endangered species conservation, invasive species mitiga- Predator Defense, another group tion, wildlife disease monitor- committed to ending federal ing, airport bird strike preven- predator control efforts, says tion, rabies and rodent control that it is important to maintain killing bears, wolves, coyotes healthy populations of the very and mountain lions to protect predators Wildlife Services livestock does take up $100 mil- works to kill. When, for lion of the federal budget each instance, predators are around to keep deer and elk populations in year. check, more and varied kinds of Animal advocates say its not plants are given space and time fair to kill animals owned in to grow, in turn preserving and essence by the public trust and creating habitat for many differindispensable to ecosystem ent species. health just to protect privately held livestock, let alone spend Wildlife Services predator millions of tax dollars doing it. control work cries out for Working directly with commercial operators and state and local governments, Wildlife Services uses a combination of reform, says NRDC. The group recommends bringing more transparency to the process so the public can assess how tax dollars are being used; taking a more scientific approach instead of centering the program around the demands of commercial interests; holding the program to higher environmental standards; ending the cruelest, most hazardous and environmentally harmful killing methods; and requiring non-lethal methods when possible. There has been no decisive legislation to stop predator control efforts, but a bill introduced into the House by California Republican John Campbell III calls for amending the Toxic Substances Control Act to prohibit the use of Compound 1080 and sodium cyanide for predator control. The bill (H.R. 4214) was referred to committee and may or may not see a floor vote this year. CONTACTS: NRDC, www.nrdc.org; Predator Defense, www.predatordefense.org; H.R. 4214, www.govtrack.us/congress/bills /112/hr4214. EarthTalk is written and edited by Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss and is a registered trademark of E - The Environmental M a g a z i n e (www.emagazine.com). Send questions to: earthtalk@emagazine.com. S u b s c r i b e : w w w. e m a g a z i n e . c o m / s u b scribe. Free Trial Issue: www.emagazine.com/trial. 1. From a key ring. They rented rehearsal space in Spartanburg, S.C., and were given a key marked with the name of the previous tenant, a blind piano tuner by the name of Marshall

Tucker. 2. The Fifth Estate. Their 1967 "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" was so popular it was recorded and released around the world in five different languages. 3. ABBA, in 1978. The original title of the song was "Billy Boy." In the U.S., the record sold even more than the group's "Dancing Queen." 4. "Soul Rebel," in 1970. 5. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," by the Charlie Daniels Band in 1979. The Devil, looking for another soul to steal, challenges a young fiddle player to a competition with the prize being a gold fiddle.

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Nancy Tuite Director of Special Education SAU #23 Many parents have questions about the services that are provided for our special education students. We are required by law to provide services necessary for students to access their education. Services that are typically needed for students are resource room support in areas of deficit or in-class support in some cases. We provide a variety of related services if the needs arise including speech language, occupational therapy and physical therapy services. Some students have the need of counseling by the school psychologist or guidance counselor. If the needs of students are severe in the areas of functional life skills including health and personal care, behaviors, severe communication deficits or inclusion in the mainstream is limited because of safety or mobility, then a para educator may be needed for all or part of the day. We are very careful when these decisions are made because this limits social skills development, development of self-regulation behaviors and can cause the student to become dependent on adult assistance. The addition of any of these services on an individual education plan of a student are meant to be temporary and are provided to assist the student in becoming an independent adult. We have two alternative schools within SAU #23 for students having difficulty in the mainstream because of behaviors. French Pond School serves students in grades 4-8 and King Street School serves students in grades 9-12. King Street School can also help students with credit recovery and can prevent students from dropping out of school. If you have a concern about a child a referral can be made at any time. Referral forms can be obtained at SAU #23 Special Needs Office or at any of our schools.

Pictured from left to right are Jared Kwedor, Robby Vanlaarhoven, Devin Kwedor, Drew Donahue, and Teddy Wilkin with the 'Scouting for Food' collection of November 17th: 605 items. Missing is Ben Parsons, who assisted with our collection in Wentworth. These items were distributed to 9 food pantries all over the state, including the Warren Food Pantry. A special 'THANK YOU' to all residents of Warren and Wentworth who donated non perishable goods! - Courtesy Photo

Nations First Retreat For Wounded Soldiers & Veterans Is Slated To Open In June Of 2013____________________________
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U.S. soldiers and veterans the nation. wounded from war will soon have their own peaceful retreat Construction of the Boulder center the first of its kind in Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors located in Bluemont, Va. on the scenic foothills of Monday through Thursday the Blue Ridge Mountains has broken ground and is on sched6am-8pm Friday 6am-9pm ule to receive its first wounded Saturdays 8am-8pm veteran guests starting June Sundays 8am-6pm 2013.

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Lin-Wood After School Program kids cheering on recent turkey cart races, which are seen in the photo on the right. -NCN Courtesy Photos

On Monday, November 19 the Lincoln-Woodstock Food Pantry received 100 turkeys just in time for Thanksgiving from the Boston Red Sox.

Lin-Wood Food Pantry Receives 100 Acts 2013 Smugglers Notch Primitive Biathlon__________________ Annual four a Event trophies will be Of Kindness From Boston Red Sox______ The Eighteenth Primitive include nine target stages with is the year. for First Rifle and First Smugglers' Notch total of shots. A mis-fire awarded
England and beyond, the Red Sox are engaging in 100 Acts of Kindness with various notfor-profit organizations during the 100th anniversary season of Fenway Park in 2012. These acts will take on a number of different forms, including donations, volunteer efforts, and hosting community events. Biathlon, presented by the Smugglers' Notch Area Chamber of Commerce, and sponsored by the Vermont Trappers' Association and The Ancient Ones of Maine, will be held Saturday and Sunday, January 26th and 27th, 2013 on the grounds of the Sterling Ridge Inn and Log Cabins in Jeffersonville, Vermont.

Heather Hoyt, the Lin-Wood Food Pantry Coordinator was looking for the hidden camera last week when she received a phone call from the Boston Red Sox organization saying they wanted to deliver one hundred turkeys to the LincolnWoodstock Food Pantry.

Hoyt reports that the turkeys were distributed to the Food Pantry recipients, and Elvios Pizzeria & Restaurant who served FREE Thanksgiving dinThe 100 Acts of Kindness pro- ner on Thanksgiving. gram, is the signature charitable initiative of the 100th The Lin-Woodstock Food Anniversary celebration of Pantry is open on Tuesdays Fenway Park. from 11am-2pm and is located at the Lin-Wood Community About the 100 Acts of Center, 194 Pollard Rd, Lincoln Kindness: As a way to highlight NH. If you would like to make a and support the important work donation please contact Heather done by the many charitable Hoyt at 603-745-8958. institutions throughout New

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which made me feel a lot better." Keselowski, 29, of Rochester Hills, Mich., won the championship by 39 points in spite of finishing 15th in the most important race of his career to date. Even the Dodge celebration was muted. Dodge hasn't won a title since 1975, and it was only the Kes Is NASCAR's fifth ever. But Dodge is leaving Latest Superstar the sport for now, so there is litPerhaps it was unfair to expect tle prospect of an encore any NASCAR's Sprint Cup champi- time soon. onship to be a spine-tingling affair. Perhaps the unprecedent- Owing to Joey Logano's misfortune, ed, year-old battle between Saturday Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards Keselowski started first but didraised expectations to an absurd n't stay there. His Dodge was five lengths in back of Marcos level. Ambrose's Ford by the back Homestead-Miami straight of the first lap. That At Speedway, Jeff Gordon won the edge was short-lived, too, and 87th race of his career, and his by lap 40, Kyle Busch was more freshly minted archrival, Clint than three seconds ahead of Carl Bowyer, finished second. Edwards, with Keselowski sixth Somehow this competition was and Johnson ninth. bereft of drama. The race meandered along durAlluding in part to beating ing its first half, with Busch Bowyer without, uh, wrecking leading most of the time and the title contenders, Johnson and him, Gordon said. Keselowski, keeping wary tabs "I felt terrible about how I went on each other. An imperfect pit about it and still regret the way I stop put Keselowski behind his went about it, but, you know counterpart, but it was nothing what? I can't take (Phoenix) about which to be overly concerned. back. "What we can do is look forward and race guys as hard and clean as we possibly can, and this is a way to get some positive things going because this year has been real up and down." Brad Keselowski's championship was no surprise. He entered the race with a 20-point edge and took no chances. Jimmie Johnson's crew botched his shot on pit road and, thanks to a mechanical failure, didn't even finish second in the points. Bowyer did. Trevor Bayne's Ford grazed the wall twice in a span of about 10 laps, but those were just among the many footnotes drawing scant attention. The first two caution flags were for debris. In fact, it wasn't until lap 153 that Nationwide Series champ Ricky Stenhouse Jr. actually hit a wall with enough impact to slow the entire field. Then "poof" went the Chase. First, on lap 213, Johnson's crew failed him, leaving off a lugnut on the left-rear tire and earning a penalty. A few laps later, Johnson was back on pit road, but not to change tires. He coasted the famously reliable No. 48 down pit road because it was the way to the garage.

Brad Keselowki, driver of the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge, celebrates with a burnout after winning the series championship at the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. (Getty Images for NASCAR photo)

Littleton Food Co-op Partners With Littleton Area Senior Center__________________________________

The Littleton Food Co-op is happy to have the Littleton Area Senior Center as its December Partner of the Month. As the Co-ops partner, the Senior Center will receive all donations collected in the stores checkout canisters as well as $1 for every hand-tossed pizza sold Friday evenings in the Co-op Deli through the month. The Littleton Area Senior Center is a crucial part of our community and provides invaluable services to our seniors and others, said Co-op Manager Ed King. Were excited to partner with the Senior Center this month and help raise funds and spread the word about the good work they do. Founded more than 35 years ago, the Littleton Area Senior Center is one of eight centers under the non-profit umbrella of the Grafton County Senior Citizens Council, Inc. The Senior Center provides numerous services, from a daily congregate lunch and home delivered meals, to transportation to essential appointments, and a variety of fitness classes and craft groups. The congregate lunch, put on Monday through Friday, is attended by some 75 people each day. The home delivered meals program delivers daily meals to about 100 homebound seniors in the nine towns served by the Senior Center: Littleton, Bethlehem, Franconia, Sugar Hill, Easton, Lisbon, Landaff, Lyman, and North Monroe. Food is a lot of what we do, but its not all that we do, said Senior Center Director Kate Vaughan. Were a very busy senior center, and we have a lot going on daily. The socialization has a lot to do with why people show up here on a regular basis. Most events and programs at the Senior Center are open to the public. Senior Center events in December include a Christmas concert with pianist Stephen Cote on Dec. 11 and Christmas music with Dick Alberini and Trevor Hardy Dec. 12, with both events immediately after lunch, and the annual Christmas dinner Dec. 18. Senior Center staff and volunteers will visit the Co-op during Pizza Night Dec. 7 to share information about programs and activities at the center. For more information about the Littleton Area Senior Center or to volunteer, please call Kate Vaughan at (603) 444-6050. Member-owned Littleton Consumer Cooperative Society, Inc. strives to serve the North Country of New Hampshire and Northeast Kingdom of Vermont by providing a broad range of high quality food products, offered at a fair price, with outstanding service. Located at the intersection of Cottage Street and Route 302 (exit 41 off I-93), the Littleton Food Co-op is open daily, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. All are welcome to shop the Co-op, member or not. For more information or to become a member, please visit www.littletoncoop.org.

Perhaps the champion's caution was understandable and even smart, but he had sworn in the days leading up to the race that he would race to win, even allowing as how he was "afraid" It didn't take "points as they to race differently. run" to determine that "(Johnson) was going to win Keselowski was the champion. this race, and I know that," *** Keselowski said. "We were not Monte Dutton covers motoras fast as we wanted to be ... but sports for The Gaston (N.C.) my guys never gave up. We kept Gazette. E-mail Monte at working, and at the end we were nascarthisweek@yahoo.com. even capable of getting back up there enough to where it would- (c) 2012 King Features Synd., n't have mattered if he had won, Inc

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With all this attention to technology and the newest whatever that connects the most impulses, are we allowing ourselves to be blinded from our place in the Is this a new disconnection that wilderness of the planet? makes people fear the wilderI notice that I now carry my cell ness, look at it as something to phone just about everywhere, tame? If so, they might even even when hiking in the feel more comfortable with Presidentials. For many years, fewer trees and more wires to part of the hiking experience escape from whatever the real was leaving all that behind to world means to them. Have peoexperience the woods, whether ple been so massaged by techbackpacking or day hiking. nology that connecting with the Now, even though there may not natural world is a challenge? Or be reception where I am going, is connection now defined as it seems irresponsible to not be something one does with a hand prepared just in case help is held appendage? needed, even though I leave it off to save the batteries unless Recently, NPRs Krista Tippett needed. I have mixed feelings interviewed, Prof. Sherry about this new felt responsibili- Turkle, who directs the MIT Initiative on Technology and the ty. Self. Prof. Turkle recommended When my kids were little, I that we begin to edit what we loved to walk in the woods with do, take time to think about

them because they paused to explore each little waterfall, salamander, bird, chattering red squirrel, glistening cobweb, creaking tree as it strained in the wind, all forms of precipitation; they were totally present.

ually opened it up when it dinged, cutting off an opportunity to get to know a fellow hiker who had the sense to move on to someone who was present in the here and now and not off While cell phones are a boon to checking messages! communication in countless ways, must their ring or vibra- Time to think about whos in tion interrupt dinner or thinking charge of our priorities, enjoy or conversation automatically? and use our technology but not On a recent hike, Id forgotten be used by it. Clear choices to turn off my phone and habit- could enlighten this holiday sea-

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The cabins not quite donebut the woodstove is in, the pipes through the roof, and no snow came in this last week. Were continuing to work on indoor insulation and trim as we eagerly anticipate emptying our overpacked shed and moving in with finality. For this week, however, Ill take a reprieve from cabin tales to focus on the rest of the homestead. While the cold and snow of winter are (hopefully) imminent, these dark evenings are great for planning the work of the coming spring and summer. In particular, were thinking about the perennial stock to be planted once spring returns. While annual vegetable plants are essential for a full and varied diet here at Cosauke, perennials are also important. Rootstock planted in the present will yield remarkable benefits

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for decades and generations to come. Perennials are a boon the more mature the trees and shrubs, the more prolific they become yet the less work they require! You cant quite say that for annuals. Fortuitously, as autumn descended, a Fedco tree catalog arrived in the mailbox. This was the first cue. Since then, Ryan and I have had more than a month to decide on which trees, shrubs, and plants we want to purchase, and in which nook on the property we wish to plant them. Now, as the urgency for cabin construction is winding down, we can refocus ourselves on the thrill of planting for the future. So, as the afternoon wanes the sun sets behind the hill about 3:15pm Ryan and I slowly perambulate our clearings, pacing out distances and using animated gestures to sculpt our orchard dreams.

I like apples, Ryan likes pears; we both agree on peaches. More blueberries seems like an obvious choice (the wild raspberries and blackberries are already prolific). Lavender is selected for the herb garden, Ryan plans a cranberry patch, and I think about mulberries. As we walk about we imagine a few apple trees between the garden and the cabin, and a pair of peaches to welcome visitors from the wooded path to garden clearing. Pears will fit neatly past the sumac, and the additional blueberries can augment the existing patch past the hemlock where we like to take lunch. The cranberry patch is still taking shape, while I put mulberries off until next year when more space is cleared and the stump sprouts are tamed. And were not the only ones in the hubbub of making plans. Our neighbors and your neighbors are thinking ahead, too. The investment you put into perennials is like little else. What a way to steward for the future! Visit Fedcos website if youd like to peruse their offerings, or check out other sources such as Elmores Nursery, Oikos, & St. Lawrence Nurseries. The Grafton County Conservation District offers a perennial plant sale as well, with information available online. You can also be in touch with us at Cosauke regarding trees, tree orders, tree care, and perennial garden development. Opportunities and information abound! Invest in trees and celebrate the rewards for years to come. For garden design & maintenance, land management, & wildland services, as well as advice, stories, or commiserations please contact Cosauke via b.a.weick@gmail.com.

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Pasquaney Garden Club Last Meeting for 2012 The Pasquaney Garden Club of Bristol will end the 2012 program year with a Holiday Potluck Luncheon and Making Christmas Table Favors with Judy Kraemer & Marcia Anderson. The meeting will start at 11am at the Bristol Baptist Church on December 11. We will begin with a short business meeting. Cost of making the table favor will be $5.00. All members and guests are asked to bring something for the potluck luncheon which will immediately follow the business meeting and program. For information on the December 11th meeting contact Rebecca Herr 744-6526. The Pasquaney Garden Club is a member of NHFGC, Inc. District, Regional, and NGC, Inc. Plan to attend this meeting and learn more about local, regional and national events. After a short break, the 2013 meetings of the Pasquaney Garden Club will begin again in April 2013. Watch for Spring announcements regarding this meeting.

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COLLECTING By Larry Cox Fountain Pen Q: I recently found a fountain pen at a garage sale. I purchased it for a dollar, but think it could be worth much more. It is a Sheaffer "Lifetime Balance," black with what appears to be flakes in its design. I was told that it was originally a graduation present. -- Steve, Rio Rancho, N.M. ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Start preparing now to make sure you get the credit you're due for all that effort you put in to get that project off the ground. A new challenge emerges after the 15th. to work on current tasks on your own. But be open to a potentially useful suggestion from someone who admires you and wants to help. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Avoid rushing full gallop into that volunteer project without knowing what's expected of you. Take things a step at a time as you begin to find your way.

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