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The Colebrook Chronicle
COVERING THE TOWNS OF THE UPPER CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2015
603-246-8998
VOL. 15, NO. 25
Hoping For Partial Opening In 2016:
Balsams Expects To See Substantial Advances In 2015
Sleeping giant: the sprawling Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch has seemingly remained quiet for much of last year, with planners
saying much has been underway behind the scenes. They expect to resume work on the renovation later this year. Charles Jordan photo.
By Donna Jordan
It has been three years and
three months since the Balsams
Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville
Notch was closed down and three
years since it was purchased by
local businessman Dan Hebert
and partner, Dan Dagesse, the
former owner of Berlin City Auto.
Many wait anxiously for what is
next at the legendary resort—
with plans revealed this year of
a new partnership and a new
influx of cash toward the resort’s
rebuilding.
The Chronicle spoke with
the partner’s media and marketing
coordinator,
Scott
Tranchemontagne of Montagne
Communications, who looked
back on the progress for the
resort during 2014. The year
began with the confirmation that
ski resort developer Les Otten
would formally join the team
looking to recreate the resort.
“This created great excitement
and optimism–because of his
success transforming Sunday
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Early Published Account Of Our Region:
From Harper’s New Monthly In 1860:
Visiting “Coos And The Magalloway”
(Editor’s note: With a momentary lull in news, we take this
opportunity to share with readers
an extended excerpt from a favorite historical piece. First published in Harper’s New
Monthly Magazine in February 1860, this story titled simply
“Coos and the Magalloway” is
believed to be the first detailed
published account of a visit to
our region. The author was trav-
eling with a group with its destination to visit the remote
Magalloway region. But to get
there they first stop in Lancaster
and proceed to Colebrook and
pass through Dixville Notch. It is
a fascinating account of our earliest days.)
The tourist who has in summer time stood upon the top of
Mount Washington can not forget the view which stretches
away to the northern horizon.
Immediately below him winds
Power Outage
Caused By
Pole Fire
From “Coos and the Magalloway” (1860): “The forest becomes dense
and gloomy, and the branches interlock over our heads. We emerge
into a little meadow and before us suddenly stand the shattered and
ragged walls of Dixville Notch.”
About 4,400 customers in the
North Country were impacted by
a power outage that began at
about 7:15 a.m. on Sunday, Dec.
28.
According to Public Service of
N.H. spokesperson Martin Murray, the cause of the outage was
equipment failure on a pole in an
off-road location in the town of
Stratford, near Tetreault Road.
Clydesdales Danny and Tex are giving sleigh rides throughout the
winter at The Glen at Bear Tree in Pittsburg. For more, see page 10.
Courtesy photo.
Meeting Set To Discuss
Status Of Stratford Police
This week, the Stratford
selectmen’s office has announced
it will be hosting an information
meeting on Monday, Jan. 12, at
6:30 p.m., to discuss the Stratford Police Dept. The meeting
will be held at Kimball Hall in
Stratford Hollow immediately
following the regular selectmen’s
meeting.
At the Dec. 1 Stratford selectmen’s meeting, the town’s police
chief, Stewart Walling, pre(Continued on page 2)
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Friday, January 2, 2015
Balsams
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River from a sleepy little ski hill
into a world class resort–not to
mention resorts he developed in
Utah, California and elsewhere,”
said Tranchemontagne. He
added that Otten’s “unique
vision” and ideas for saving,
restoring and expanding the Balsams “is unlike anything previously imagined.” Otten’s vision
for
the
Balsams,
said
Tranchemontagne, could be well
beyond anything that had been
imagined for the resort. “Nobody
understands the resort business
better--and he spent a lot of time
analyzing why the Balsams had
been failing as a business for
many years.” Otten also brought
into the partnership his “dream
team of resort developers” for the
Balsams, including David Norden, Burt Mills, Ed Brisson, Ed
Joyce and David Depres, “each
with a record of helping to
develop successful resorts in New
Hampshire, New England, and
around
the
world,”
said
Tranchemontagne. “The team
understood from the beginning
that the Balsams had to experience a rebirth. It had to become
a 21st Century, all-season resort
that incorporated what we call
‘new era’ thinking and planning.
Yes, we would preserve and protect the Balsams' legacy–the Dix
House, the Hampshire House,
the Hale House and the Ballot
Room–but today’s Generation X
family demands more. It's about
providing meaningful experiences for them, to help them
reconnect with each other, but
also to connect with one of the
most beautiful, wild, scenic landscapes in the Northeast. We had
to bring back the Balsams’ worldclass cuisine–but also give guests
exciting and engaging activities
for every season.”
The first few months of the
partnership included testing the
vision for the resort’s rebirth and
asking a lot of questions, said
Tranchemontagne–research that
was needed to validate or disprove the assumptions and ideas.
“As the warmer weather arrived
we were able to do even more
research on the property itself–
which guided the master plan
development,” he said. “Speaking
to the North Country Chamber
dinner was a real highlight and
a significant step for the project.
It was the first unveiling of the
preliminary vision and it was so
warmly received--it gave the
team a very nice feeling that we
had a lot of support behind us.”
The summer was spent working
with the engineers and land
planners to refine the vision, he
said. “Projects of this scope often
experience several refinements
up until permits are applied for.
We also met several times with
key leaders at the state and local
levels answering their questions
and receiving their input,” he
said. It was also at this time that
the team began earnest discussions with financial institutions
and potential funders. “All have
gone very well. There is tremendous interest and the talks are
ongoing,” said Tranchemontagne.
The Balsams Wilderness Ski Area in Dixville Notch will see a major
expansion of trails and facilities. Charles Jordan photo.
The road into the Balsams resort is currently closed to unauthorized traffic.
Charles Jordan photo.
The Hampshire House is one of the historic structures that
will continue to serve guests after the Balsams reopens.
Left photo: The main entrance to the resort. Right photo: The main entrance to the Balsams Wilderness Ski Area. Once the restoration and
rebuilding is completed, the resort complex is expected to be able to compete with other top resorts in the country, with 1,000 jobs anticipated.
The fall and early winter
months were focused on preparing
permit
applications.
Tranchemontagne said there is
a great deal of work and
resources involved from preparing the permits to actually submitting an application–like the
water withdrawal permit for
snowmaking which was recently
announced. “It’s a sign to everyone that the project is ‘real,’ so to
speak. We expect to submit
another major application–for
the DES wetlands permit--early
in the New Year,” he said. The
application for a water withdrawal permit is part of the
expansion of the Wilderness Ski
Area, which is part of the resort
properties. Tranchemontagne
said that, even though the Balsams gets the most snow in New
Hampshire, the ski area will
need to have a strong snow-making operation as well.
Tranchemontagne said that
the resort’s team has been
“extremely grateful” for the support they have received from
North Country leaders like Senator Jeff Woodburn and County
Treasurer Fred King and the
County Commissioners. “Local
leaders in Colebrook and Errol
have also been generous and
supportive. The North Country
Chamber has been solidly with
us–as have members of the gen-
eral tourism community, including the OHRV community.
Harry Brown with Ride the
Wilds has been a real friend,
offering advice and support
along
the
way,”
said
Tranchemontagne. “It should be
noted that a portion of Ride the
Wilds runs through our property
and we're glad it does. We are
truly committed to collaborating
with established businesses and
programs throughout the North
Country and stimulating the
entire economy.” The resort’s
developers report that, once permits are received, they expect to
break ground—anticipating that
to take place this spring.
Once the developers break
ground this year, construction is
expected to take about two
years—and that’s just for the
first phase of the project. The
resort could be partially opened
in 2016. Part of the first phase
is the expansion at the Wilderness Ski area, including a mountain lodge, a south base complex,
new trails, a new ski lift, a new
four-season gondola, and a lift
service that is expected to
extend to the Balsams village.
The village includes the historic
resort properties across the road
from the ski area that will be
preserved—like the original Dix
House, the Hale House and the
Hampshire House. Two new
hotel buildings will also be constructed on sight. A marketplace, an adventure center and
town homes are also part of the
construction plans, as well as
renovations at the Panorama
Country Club and golf course,
hiking and mountain biking
trails
When completed, the resort
is anticipating 1,000 employees.
Locally, there has been high
anticipation for the resort’s
progress, with many realizing
that, while it brings a large
influx of tourists, it would also
bring a large amount of jobs.
Outage
The
failed
equipment
resulted in a power cable coming
in contact with a cross arm on
the pole and causing a portion of
the pole to burn.
PSNH crews utilized a special “track belt” vehicle to access
the area and replaced the cross
arm and failed equipment.
Power was restored to all customers shortly after noon on
Sunday.
The outage impacted customers in the towns of Clarksville,
Colebrook, Columbia, Pittsburg,
Stewartstown and Stratford.
Stratford Police
sented his resignation, which
was effective on Dec. 31. At that
time, the selectmen noted that
residents should be aware the
town would not have regular
police coverage. Two part-time
officers will handle police duties
as needed. Town officials said
there had been a lot of discussion among residents about the
idea of not having a police
department. The Jan. 12 meeting is a way for residents to
discuss the future of the town’s
police department—should it be
dissolved and the town contract
services with another, or should
the department continue with a
new chief.
Many residents have also
asked the selectmen to change
the hours of the department so
that an officer is on duty during
the evening. The selectmen
anticipate the public meeting
will answer what the townspeople want from their police
Stratford Police
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Outdoors
department. In the meantime,
the town has already received a
proposal for police services from
another town.
The police department has
operated as a part-time department and the current budget is
$39,000 for the year. Besides the
chief, the town also employs two
part-time officers who fill in as
needed. Walling has served as
the town’s police chief for many
years. He wrote in his resignation, “This is to inform you that
as of Jan. 1, 2015, I will no longer
continue as your Police Chief. I
wish to thank you for your support over the years and also the
residents of the town.”
WARM WEATHER
CREATES ICE HAZARD
Following several days of mild
weather and spring-like conditions in late December, N.H. Fish
and Game Dept. Conservation
Officers (COs) have observed
some extreme hazards to snowmobilers and other outdoor
enthusiasts in and around the
state’s waterways. Fish and
Game officials are concerned
that more seasonable temperatures forecast for this week are
going to allow many areas to
skim over with ice and snow, a
condition that may make lakes
look safe, but still be far from
safe. It will take many, many
more days and nights of sustained cold to build consistently
strong ice across New Hampshire. Outdoor enthusiasts are
reminded that the presence of a
snowmobile track leading out
People
onto a lake does not mean that
the lake is safe.
In the North Country, Conservation Officers conducting snowmobile patrols have observed
large expanses of open water on
several waterbodies. Much of the
open water cannot be seen from
shore or areas in which trails
access lakes. In many cases there
is an appearance of good ice as
far as the eye can see, but views
from higher elevations reveal
large areas of open water that
riders might not encounter for
over a mile after venturing out
onto some of the larger lakes.
While conducting snowmobile
patrols throughout the North
Country, Conservation Officers
have observed large expanses of
open water on several waterbodies. Much of the open water cannot be seen from shore or areas
in which trails access lakes. In
many cases there is an appearance of good ice as far as the eye
can see, but views from higher
elevations reveal large areas of
open water that riders might not
encounter for over a mile after
venturing out onto some of the
larger lakes.
Of particular concern are
Lake Francis and First Connecticut Lake in Pittsburg, neither of
which is completely frozen over,
but both of which are located in
the heart of available snowmobiling. In many instances over the
years, snowmobilers have relied
on the more consistent cold that
northern Coos County has to
offer when making the decision
to venture out onto the ice. While
some riders would never dream
of venturing out on a mid-state
lake at this time of year, they
would readily cross waterbodies
such as Lake Francis or First
Connecticut Lake. Pittsburg has
not been spared from warm
weather this season, however,
resulting in exceptionally dangerous ice conditions. As of Dec.
28, 2014, Conservation Officers
estimated that 40 percent of
First Connecticut Lake was still
open water.
Fish and Game officials are
concerned that more seasonable
temperatures forecasted for this
week are going to allow many
areas to skim over with ice and
snow, a condition that will make
lakes look safe, but be far from
safe.
Fish and Game is urging all
those heading out onto the ice to
exercise caution as they do so.
Though all ice is potentially dangerous, the U.S. Army Cold
Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H.,
offers a “rule of thumb” on ice
thickness: There should be a
minimum of six inches of hard ice
before individual foot travel, and
eight to ten inches of hard ice for
snow machine or All-Terrain
Vehicle travel.
Keep in mind that thick ice
does not always mean safe ice. It
is possible for ice to be thick, but
not strong, because of varying
weather conditions. Weak ice is
formed when warming trends
break down ice, then the slushy
surface re-freezes. Be especially
careful of areas with current,
such as inlets, outlets and spring
holes, where the ice can be dangerously thin.
Tips for staying safe on the ice
include:
Stay off the ice along the
shoreline if it is cracked or
squishy. Don’t go on the ice during thaws.
Watch out for thin, clear or
honeycombed ice. Dark snow and
ice may also indicate weak spots.
Small bodies of water tend to
freeze thicker. Rivers and lakes
are more prone to wind, currents
and wave action that weaken ice.
Don’t gather in large groups
or drive large vehicles onto the
ice.
If you do break through the
ice, don’t panic. Move or swim
back to where you fell in, where
you know the ice was solid. Lay
both arms on the unbroken ice
and kick hard. This will help lift
your body onto the ice. A set of
ice picks can help you pull yourself out if you do fall through the
ice; wear them around your neck
or put them in an easily accessible pocket. Once out of the water,
roll away from the hole until you
reach solid ice.
Anglers should also be aware
that lakes specifically managed
for lake trout and salmon can be
fished only through the ice from
Jan. 1-March 31. No open-water
fishing is allowed on these water
bodies during that time period,
regardless of ice conditions.
There is no such restriction on
other so-called “General Regulation” waters, which do not have
a defined ice fishing season and
are available for open-water fishing year round. For more information, consult the 2015 New
Hampshire Fishing Digest, available
at
http://wildnh.com/pubs/fishing.h
tml.
To download a brochure from
Fish and Game called “Safety on
Ice - Tips for Anglers,” visit
http://www.wildnh.com/Outdoor
_Recreation/ice_safety.html.
Police, Fire, EMS Reports
This past week Command Sgt. Major Brad Cross with the U.S. Army,
who commands the 89th Military Police Brigade at Ft. Hood, Tex.,
paid a visit to Jean Brooks Lawton of Stewartstown to present her
with a Certificate of Appreciation and a personalized coin box on
behalf of all soldiers of the 89th Military Police Brigade. Command
Sgt. Major Cross stated, “Jean sacrificed thousands of hours putting
together hundreds of personalized care packages to send countless
military men and women, keeping the much needed morale boosted
while serving in combat zones around the world. Her selfless dedication will never be forgotten.” Stephanie Hughes Cross photo.
VT. STATE POLICE
On Dec. 27, at 7:27 a.m., Vt.
State Police, Derby Fire and
Rescue and Derby and Newport
Ambulances responded to a single-vehicle crash with entrapment on Vt. Rte.111 in Derby,
near the Dumas Road. The operator, Sasha Uran, 26, of Canaan,
Vt., had been traveling west
when she started fishtailing due
to her speed on the black ice.
Uran was unable to maintain
control of her vehicle, traveling
off the east-bound lane of travel
into some trees. The fire department used the Jaws of Life to
extricate Uran from the vehicle.
On Dec. 29, Danny Martin,
60, of Colebrook, was traveling
south on Broad Street in Lyndonville, Vt., when he reportedly
failed to stop for two vehicles
waiting to turn into an adjacent
parking lot. Martin’s truck
struck the rear of a vehicle which
was being operated by 58-yearold Joseph Benning of Lyndonville. As a result of the collision,
Benning’s vehicle was forced
forward, and collided with the
rear of a vehicle driven by
Renee Colburn, 37, of St. Johnsbury. No injuries were sustained.
45TH PARALLEL EMS
Two members of the Board of
Directors of Wounded Warriors
at 45 North and three Pittsburg
hunting and fishing guides completed an American Red Cross
First Aid/CPR/AED class at the
45th station.
The following is the ambulance call activity report for the
period from Dec. 21-27:
On Dec. 21, at 2:03 a.m., the
department responded to UCVH
for an interfacility transfer to
DHMC. The patient was transported to DHMC. At 10:05 a.m.,
the department responded to
UCVH for an interfacility transfer to Weeks Medical Center.
The patient was transported to
WMC. At 10:06 a.m., the department responded to Columbia for
a medical emergency. The
patient was transported to
UCVH. At 10:52 p.m., the
department
responded
to
Canaan, Vt., for a medical emergency. The patient was transported to UCVH.
On Dec. 22, at 1:18 p.m., the
department responded to Colebrook for a medical emergency.
UCVH.
On Dec. 23, at 1:37 p.m., the
department responded to Columbia for a medical emergency. The
UCVH.
department responded to Stewartstown for a medical emergency. The patient refused
transport.
department responded to Colebrook for a lift assist. The patient
refused transport. At 8:09 a.m.,
the department responded to
Colebrook for a lift assist. The
patient refused transport.
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So How Cold Does It Get Around Here?
Every generation loves to tell young upstarts,
“They just don’t make winters like they used to.”
We’ve had our share of old-timers show us photographs taken many years ago showing what looked
like fence posts surrounded by snowbanks until
they sagely informed us, “Those aren’t fence posts–
they’re the tops of telephone poles.”
The other day a discussion surfaced on Facebook
after WCAX (Burlington) meteorologist Gary Sadowsky posted this on Channel 3’s page: “Think it's
cold out there today? Take a look at what happened
on this day (Dec. 30) back in 1933. A bitter cold
morning produced the lowest temperature ever
recorded in the state of Vermont . . . 50 below zero
in Bloomfield, which is along the Connecticut River
in the Northeast Kingdom. Any old-timers still out
there who remember that bitter cold morning?”
While we wouldn’t call us an “old-timer” (possibly
we’re in denial here), you don’t have to go back to
1933 to experience such a drastic temperature drop.
You still have to go back a ways, however–nearly
36 years. We know because we were there.
On Feb. 12 1979, it registered -50 in Guildhall
and Pittsburg. This editor was working at the Coos
County Democrat at that point and it took us all
night to get the car door unfrozen and the car
started to get from Clarksville to Lancaster that
morning. We had to build a little tent around the
driver’s side door on our Ford LTD and kept working the car door with a hair blower. Eventually the
door opened and it then took a heater, a serious
battery booster and a couple more hours to get the
battery started. We saw car and truck hoods up in
nearly every driveway along Route 3 as we drove
south that brutally cold morning.
The Democrat had weather readers all over the
region back then including the two in Pittsburg and
Guildhall that week recorded -50. We took a picture
of the thermometer at the Democrat’s door that
Monday morning and it was reading -48 shortly
after 7 a.m. We ran the picture on the front page.
It all makes the drop in temperatures that we
experienced this week with the arrival of the new
year seem downright balmy.
Charles J. Jordan
A memory from the Balsams’ past: Charlie Jordan took these two photos a few seconds apart as Dec. 31,
1978 rolled into Jan. 1, 1979 in the ballroom of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel. As we mark the beginning
of this new year 2015, hopes are for the return of the Balsams to its past glory.
Letters
Letter to the Editor:
I would like to thank Claudette Hook, and the staff of Claudette and Dean’s Restaurant in
North Stratford for allowing me
to hang the NH Blue Star Families’ “Heroes Wreath” in the restaurant for the holidays.
I would also like to thank
Bryant and Ray Wheeler-Bowen
of Bloomfield for donating the
beautiful wreath.
Hoping to do it again next
year.
Janet Washburn
Brunswick, Vt.
Editor: Charles J. Jordan; Publisher: Donna Jordan
Reporter/Photographer: Angela Wheeler
Reporter/Photographer: Samantha McMann
Canadian Correspondent: Corey Bellam
Sports Photographer: Tina McKenzie
Colebrook Office Manager/Video Editor: Thomas Jordan
NH Blue Star Families’ “Heroes
Wreath.” Courtesy photo.
Police, EMS
UCVH. At 4:50 p.m., the department responded to Colebrook for
UCVH.
department responded to Colebrook for an alarm activation.
The ambulance was canceled
while en route. At 5:22 a.m., the
department responded to UCVH
for an interfacility transfer to
Androscoggin Valley Hospital.
AVH. At 9:32 a.m., the department responded to Colebrook for
UCVH. At 9:59 a.m., the department responded to Stewartstown
for a medical emergency. The
UCVH.
UCVH. At 1:36 p.m., the department responded to Columbia for
an alarm activation. The ambulance was canceled while en
route.
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Guest Column
DEALING
WITH FLOODING
(Editor’s note: The following
column is by David L. Deen of
the Connecticut River Watershed
Council,)
There is flooding somewhere
in Vermont every year. When
the most recent super flood,
Tropical Storm Irene, deluged
Vermont, our infrastructure,
roads, culverts and bridges bore
much of the brunt of the subsequent flooding. The human species is nothing if not adaptable
and we are responding to the
potential for future flooding
based on what we learned from
instructive occurrences that
happened during those trying
times.
The proper sizing of culverts
was one of the key lessons. During high water events, rivers
and streams move water, sediment and debris. If a bridge or
culvert opening is undersized
several bad things happen. The
sheer amount of the flow can
exceed the ability of the culvert
or bridge to move water forming
a small reservoir. If the stream
then goes around or over the
structure, it is usually flowing
over erodible materials, soil,
sand or even gravel roadbed.
Debris carried in a high flow
can block culverts if they are too
small to pass it on down the
river. Again, the water rises
above the height of the structure,
a small reservoir forms and
again when it overtops or flows
around the structure it finds
erodible substances.
Whether from high flow levels
or trapped debris, once water
flanks a structure the water
seeks a path through erodible
material. Any such cut will
become bigger and eventually
breach the structure itself releasing not only the high flow but
also the reservoir held upstream
of the structure. Whoosh, a super
charged release of water can take
the culvert or bridge out and
even when the structure survives, that slug of water moving
downstream is looking for ways
to make more trouble, high erosion on land and destruction of
facilities downstream.
Right sized structures that
can accommodate at least 125
percent of the bank full flow of a
stream usually survive high
water events. The win-win message in this situation is that
culverts and bridges that are
designed to handle 125 percent
stream flows are large enough
so they pass aquatic organisms
during normal flows connecting
the up and down stream reaches
of a stream. This connectivity is
key to healthy river life. Most
aquatic organisms migrate up
and/or downstream during one
or more of their life phases.
Blockage of fish migration to
their upstream spawning habitat is one easily understood
impact of undersized culverts.
One of the key questions during a storm, the answer to which
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Community News
homemade squash dinner rolls.
Diners were given a choice of
chocolate or coconut cream pie.
At the children’s party at the American Legion Post in Canaan: Russell Humphrey with his grandson
Chance, waiting for his visit with Santa. Courtesy photo.
Santa and helper elf Billie Brockney at the Christmas party held last
week at the American Legion Post. Courtesy photo.
Mrs. Claus and Santa (who had a striking resemblance to Debbie
Brooks and Haven Haynes, Jr.) were on hand at the children’s party
held that the American Legion Post in Canaan recently. Courtesy
photo.
COOS COUNTY
NURSING HOSPITAL
It was a festive, busy week at
CCNH. Residents listened to
Christmas stories, reminisced
with their own stories and
played Christmas word games.
Christmas movies were played,
including “A Rockette’s Christmas” and “A North Pole Christmas.” Fresh popcorn was served
at the movies. In the Special
Care Unit, residents had fun
playing What’s in the Stocking.”
Big Ed joined us to sing
Christmas songs. He was joined
by his wife Jackie and dog, Fred.
Four generations of the Rancourt family graced us with their
beautiful
voices
caroling
through the halls. Lots of people
dropped by with holiday gifts.
Bonnie Knapp and Sally Frizzell
of the American Legion of
Groveton brought lap quilts to
veterans and other residents.
The Pittsburg Road Runners
dropped off pretty wall hanging
decorations they made for residents. Santa Claus and his elf,
Mischief, gave out slippers and
socks donated by the Sons of the
American Legion. Boxes of cookies and fudge, gifts from family
and friends have been appearing
everywhere. The bakers of
Derry, a group of over 60 volunteers, sent six boxes of cookies
for residents and the staff.
Joyce Frizzell won the Blackout Game in Prize Bingo. A
game of Winter Words was
played. Dice games were played
in the SCU.
Christmas Day was very
busy. Staff members distributed
the filled stockings left by Santa
and the gifts from staff and
family members. Some residents
went out with family members
while others had family dine
with them here. A wonderful
Christmas dinner was served of
roast pork loin with cranberry
glaze, cheesy mashed potato
bake, green bean casserole and
CANAAN SENIORS NEWS
Father Craig, Donald Miles,
Gilbert Marchesseault, Michael
Renkas, Lee Hanks, Lillian
Hicks, Debbie Brooks, France
Pariseau and Rejean Bissonette
were guests at the Canaan
Seniors for their Christmas dinner on Wednesday. Jean-Nil
Theroux entertained the seniors
with his great music. Suzanne
Roy and Maurice Jalbert won
the free meal drawings. Father
Craig and Suzanne Wheeler
won the 50/50. Everyone sang
“Happy Birthday To You” to
Therese Rougeau, who was the
only December girl there. She
also got the birthday certificate.
Christmas gift winners were
Father Craig, Therese Rougeau,
Adrienne Roy, Marcel Marquis,
Suzanne Wheeler, Lillian Hicks
and Alice Lyons. Ethan Allen
donated two Soloman’s gift certificates that were won by David
Gray and Jean-Nil Dube.
There was no dinner on Dec.
31, but will resume on Jan. 7,
with a spaghetti and meatball
dinner.
CHILDREN’S PARTY
AT AMERICAN LEGION
The children’s Christmas
Party held at the American
Legion Hall in Canaan on Saturday was very well attended.
Approximately 40
children
visited Mr. and Mrs. Santa, who
resembled Haven Haynes and
Debbie Brooks. All the children
received stockings from the
Legionnaires, toys from the Sons
of the Legion, with bars, cookies
and fudge, hot chocolate and
punch made by the Auxiliary
and several friends. Some Elves
were on hand to help. They were
James Reynolds, “Adviser” Zach
Brown,
Markus
Lapierre,
Anthony Nite and Andrew Belleville, all from the Canaan
Builders. Club. They did a great
job with the punch and hot chocolate and helping Santa with the
toys. Kitchen elves were Billie
Brockney, Donna Allen and Mary
Noyes. Toys were donated by
Toys for Tots and little children’s
clothing was donated by PACS of
Pittsburg.
Everyone had a wonderful
timeand wished A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
GROVETON FISH AND
GAME CLUB MEETS JAN. 15
The Groveton Fish and Game
Club, Inc., will hold a member’s
meeting and membership drive
in the Region 1 N.H. Fish and
Game meeting room at 629 Main
St. (Rte. 3) in Lancaster on
Thursday, Jan. 15, at 6 p.m.
In a drawing, one lucky 2015
member will receive a free 2015
membership. Offered for sale at
$10 each are sharp-looking
green, camo and hunter orange
hats with the club’s logo on the
crown.
The group will also discuss
ongoing projects and improvements to its facilities.
ARTISTS/PERFORMERS
INVITED TO AANH EVENT
Artists and arts supporters of
all ages are invited to perform,
present and display their work–
and enjoy the work of others–at
an informal “BYOP–Bring Your
Own Poetry, Painting, Performance, Presentation…” on
Thursday, Jan. 15 at Moose
Muck Coffee House in Colebrook.
BYOPs are hosted each year
by the Arts Alliance of Northern
New Hampshire as an informal
celebration and showcase of the
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the Androscoggin; near it coils
the Grand Trunk Railroad; and
beyond rise the successive peaks
of mountains, some bald and
glittering in the sun, and others
clothed in deep foliage, until
they become blue and shadowy
in the distance. The Percy range
lifts its snow-white tops toward
the northwest; and beyond them
the green Monadnock guards
the west bank of the Connecticut. In the northeast the mountains of Northern Maine are
seen, with the naked top of Escohos on their left; while the
ragged spurs of Camel’s Rump
rise directly at the north, higher
even than those shattered crags
which form the jaws of Dixville
Notch. Lifting up against the
northern horizon, blue and
misty, stretching eastward and
westward, are the peaks of the
Canadian Highlands–that windswept range which forms the
boundary between the United
States and Canada. Sections of
the Connecticut valley on the
west, and the valleys of the
Androscoggin and Magalloway
on the east, appear between the
mountains; while, sparkling like
mirrors set in the deep green of
the forests, the Umbagog chain
of lakes repose far up in their
wood-encircled basin.
Over nearly the whole of this
broad and wild region is thrown
the gloomy mantle of the forest.
A few farms and villages are
visible near by, and then comes
the dense and unbroken wilderness. Who that has gazed upon
this wild panorama has not
desired to penetrate the secrets
of those gloomy solitudes, or
conjectured what legends peopled those gorges and ravines, or
what deeds of adventure those
dusky valleys might reveal?
Lancaster, the shire town of
the famous County of Coos, in
New Hampshire, was the starting point of our party. This
charming town is one hundred
and eighty-five miles from Boston by railroad and stage, and is
at the outlet of one of those
streams which rise among the
White Mountains and flow westward into the Connecticut. The
village is spread out upon those
broad meadows which even here
border that noble stream. A
broad and shaded street, intersected by a few cross avenues,
rows of neat cottages with a few
elegant
residences,
three
churches, an academy, a courthouse, a jail, three hotels, one of
which is very large and elegant,
with stores, shops, and a bank,
make up the village.
On a cloudy morning in September the long two-horse
wagon was drawn up in front of
the Lancaster House. Mount
Washington was capped, and
slight drops came down slowly
through the humid air. It was
circus day in the shire town. Joe
Pentland was coming, and all
was bustle and excitement.
Already strange-looking vehicles, loaded with passengers,
were driving in from the adjacent country. A crowd of the
curious had gathered upon the
piazza of the hotel as we came
down, in thick boots, gray pants,
red flannel shirts, and slouched
hats.
Here was the fellow who had
come, with his wife and children,
twenty miles to see the circus.
He had left his "burned-piece"
just in the nick of time, and his
oats in the stook, and some stone
wall which he was in a hurry to
build, and his house that was to
be shingled anew, and was bent
on seeing “them chaps” ride six
horses, and laying up a store of
clown’s jokes. He wore his best
blue coat and gray pants, and
high collar, and boots rubbed
with tallow, and had brought
with him his dinner and provender for his horse. Already he had
invested in a stick of candy, and
stood surveying our wagon with
that cool, thin, sharp visage
which is the type of a thoroughbred Yankee, at whom the whole
world laughs, but whose owner
outwits the whole world.
Near by stood quite a different individual, whose oft-hand
manner, easy motion, erect figure, and confident eye showed
him to be a man of the world. He
was the proprietor of a meadow
farm, and lived in the same
large house which his grandfather had built in the early days
of Coos. He had been a member
of the Legislature; owned the
eighth of a township, from which
he took lumber to the markets
below; and that very morning
had ridden over to the village,
behind a spanking black colt, in
a new Concord wagon. You may
some day see him dash up to the
Crawford House with a span of
bays which he is breaking, dine,
talk a few moments with Joe
Gibbs, light a cigar, crack his
whip, and roll away again. He is
a type of the young men who are
seen in all this upper country.
We were all seated in the
wagon. There were two barrels
of pilot bread and half a barrel
of pork. There was a Champagne
basket, in which was a medley
of articles. There were fry-pans
and kettles, a huge coffee-pot
and a bag of sugar. There was a
tent, a tripod, a compass, and a
transit. There were guns, pistols, powderflasks, and long
knives. In short, we were completely prepared for a month's
camping in the woods. The stars
and stripes–an old tattered flag,
which had seen several expeditions of this kind waved from a
corner of the wagon, and all was
ready.
“All ready!” called out the
Colonel, the leader of the expedition, as he climbed into the
wagon. Dan drew up the reins,
flourished the whip, and we
rolled slowly away. Three cheers
burst spontaneously from the
crowd as we drove off, bright
eyes and smiling faces appeared
at the windows, occasionally a
white handkerchief waved an
adieu, and the village was
behind us.
Onward we went up the Connecticut. First came Northumberland, then Stratford, and at
last, in the dusk of the evening,
Colebrook, forty miles from Lancaster. Cheerily the lights of the
little village shone as we rose
over the hill and brought them
into view. Right merrily, and
with a prodigious clatter of
wheels, did we drive up to the
door of the only tavern.
A dozen individuals or so
stepped out of the two stores and
the tavern to inspect the new
arrival, and gathered curiously
about the wagon. Among them
we were gratified to meet again
our old friend, “The Squire,”
whose acquaintance we had
made on the Umbagog years
ago. His locks were whiter than
when we had seen him, his voice
slightly more tremulous as he
gave us his hand, but he was still
vigorous in mind and body,
active and vigilant in business as
when he first pioneered his way
to this region of mountains. The
Squire was a native-born gentleman, well educated, and a splendid specimen of an old
mountaineer and lumberman.
After supper we talked long
before the wood fire. Captain
Jones had come in; he was anxious to know about the Atlantic
cable, and his surprise was
unbounded when he learned that
it was not an inch in diameter.
Jim Sturtevant protested that he
had seen trout in the Magalloway which would bite it off the
first time. Bill Wright, “an old
true-blue Isaac Hill Democrat,”
gave it as his opinion that it was
a Federal trick to bind this country to England.
“I go agin’ havin’ any thing to
dew with them British,” persisted Bill.
Enter Major Eleazer Archibald. A chair for Major Archibald; and Major Archibald
saluted each individual patronizingly. The Major proceeded to
rub his hands before the fire and
to assert, with caution and dignity, that there had been some
prospect of rain; and then
advanced the opinion that the
nights would begin to grow cool
before the end of September.
Assented to by the whole company. The Major soon struck
upon the universal theme of
politics, and after descanting
oracularly upon the tariff, Kansas, Cuba, and the whole list of
topics, he came to the question of
the removal of the shire town of
Coos county from Lancaster.
Here a fierce dispute arose
between him and the Colonel,
waxing warmer and warmer,
until Bill Wright broke off the
discussion by declaring that he
was “agin' havin’ any county seat
at all.”
“No county seat?” vociferated
the Major.
“None at all,” reiterated Bill;
“courts are a humbug, got up to
feed a lazy set of lawyers and
cheat us poor devils.”
The Major was commencing
an argument with Bill on the
propriety of courts of justice,
when the Squire lighted his
pipe, which he had been filling,
rose, and wishing us a pleasant
trip, walked out. We accompanied him along the short street
of the now silent little hamlet.
The lights in the two stores were
blown out, and the loungers had
scattered. Echoing musically
upon the air came the murmur
of the Connecticut and its more
noisy tributaries, while as we
looked out the giant hills, shooting far up into the starry sky,
stood grimly, like mighty and
silent Titans, sentinels of the
night.
Never was a lovelier morning
than that upon which we started
to cross over the ridge of land
which separates the Connecticut
from the Umbagog. Our route
lay in a southeasterly direction:
first, up the valley of a small
stream, called the Mohawk; then
through a gap in the mountain
ridge, which is only less famous
than the White Mountain Notch
because more remote from traveled routes; thence down the
opposite slope to the valley of the
Androscoggin and the basin of
Lake Umbagog.
Now the road wound along
the valley; now it coursed along
the sides and over the very tops
of high hills, from which we
looked down upon farms, and
around upon the crowded groups
of mountains clothed with the
magnificent foliage of autumn.
The road becomes rougher, the
farms disappear; we plunge
down, down into a deep ravine
through which foams a torrent.
A few strokes of the axe repair
the trembling pole bridge, and
we rattle across it; up we clamber
on the other side, over rocks,
roots of trees, and stumps; down
again and up again. The forest
becomes dense and gloomy, and
the branches interlock over our
heads. We emerge into a little
meadow and before us suddenly
stand the shattered and ragged
walls of Dixville Notch.
Not more than a hundred feet
in width, the walls of mica slate
rise to the height of a thousand
feet on either side, and overhang
the path like gloomy and broken
battlements. The frosts and
storms, in their action of ages,
have chipped these dark walls
into all fantastical shapes–sometimes like the massive angles of
some impregnable fortress–
sometimes leaving ragged columns like the ruins of old towers.
The path, just wide enough for
one wagon-track, is hewn into
the side of the chasm. On one
side rises the threatening clift,
while below yawns the gulf.
Dan gave the Colonel the
reins, leaving him to drive
through; while the rest of us
dismounted. Blowing a tin horn
which we carried–the same
which afterward disturbed the
solitudes among the crags of the
Canadian highlands–it gave out
a blast like a war-trumpet; then
dying away a moment, as if
concealed among the broken
rocks, it leaped out in a thousand commingling tones, clashing, contending, echoing, until
they died away in varying
cadences of melody. We discharged our fowling-piece at an
eagle hovering over a cliff, when
from behind every rock came a
discharge as if guerrillas were
hidden there. Altogether this
notch is a most remarkable natural curiosity, rarely seen by
tourists, never by the languid
summerers on the luxurious
couches of the Glen House or the
Profile House, but only by those
who are ready to diet a week on
salt pork–to be shaken beyond
the reach of dyspepsia over
roads rougher than the passage
down Ararat–or to face swarms
of black flies and mosquitoes.
The sun rose brilliantly, and
a sky of cloudless blue hung over
the mountains and forests,
before the large batteau had
swung from the shore above
Errol Falls, and turned its prow
up the Androscoggin. The barrels and boxes and bags and
packs and baskets were piled
into the elegant craft, and from
the prow floated the old tattered
flag. In the stern, with paddle in
hand, sat the Colonel. At the
oars sat two of our party–a
round, portly, muscular fellow,
and a slender, but nervous and
active, native of Coos. The narrator found a seat in the bow;
while at other convenient places
were stowed the mail-carrier for
the Magalloway settlement--a
sharp-visaged frontiersman–
and a still smaller, but keeneyed and wiry hunter, who was
bound for Parmachene Lake, to
spend three months in trapping.
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Dan stood upon the bank
near his horses and wagon as we
were ready to push off.
“Yes, Sir,” said Dan, “I should
like to go on with ye.” But just
then his horses started, the batteau swung into the dark
stream, the oars dipped, the
wheels of Dan’s wagon rattled
across the rough bridge, a blast
from the tin horn echoed along
the shore, and we glided merrily
up the Androscoggin.
Durkee’s Landing, on the
Magalloway, was the first point
made. This Magalloway settlement, of about thirty families, is
the last on the borders of Maine
and New Hampshire, lying
along the Magalloway River for
about eight miles. No road connects it with the rest of the
world, but the only avenue is the
river and the Umbagog Lake.
The river, starting in the Canadian highlands, is nearly a hundred miles in length; and the
meadows which border it at this
point are broad and very fertile.
Loading our baggage upon a
hay-cart, and sending it forward, the company amused
themselves during the heat of
the day by smoking their pipes
under the awning of the rough
wood-shed, telling stories, shooting the rifle, and collecting from
Durkee information respecting
the region.
Toward sunset we started for
a walk of eight miles–to Captain
Wilson’s, the last house on the
frontier. It was hot and sultry,
and we sweltered along under
the weight of our packs, guns,
and axes. The long shadows
came on speedily, and soon the
sun, after resting a moment in a
gorge of the mountains, sunk
amidst a flood of golden light,
leaving us to darkness and
swarms of mosquitoes.
The woods through which the
road led was musical with their
hum. If we stopped a moment,
myriads of the blood-thirsty
wretches assailed us, ensconcing
themselves in our hair and
necks, until some tough-billed
fellow would bore through our
shirts and transfix our backs. As
a last resort we lit our pipes,
after which the whole swarm,
evidently becoming delirious
under the influence of tobaccosmoke, screeched with indignation, but kept aloof. In four miles
we began to apprehend something of the pleasures of a summer tour in the backwoods, or,
at least, that part of it which
consists of traveling on foot over
rocks and among stumps with
packs lashed to our backs. Walking brought perspiration; perspiration produced thirst; thirst,
heat, and fatigue combined produced faintness. There were
stumblings against rocks; there
were splashings through water
and mud; there were imprecations on the whole race of mosquitoes; there were remarks
deprecatory of the general
nature of hot weather; and mutterings about the length of miles
on the Magalloway River.
“What's that?” said John,
resting a moment against an old
stub.
We heard the sound of wheels
echoing into the woods, and
presently a horse and wagon
came slowly and noisily on
through the darkness.
“How far to Captain Wilson's?” all inquired at once.
“Are you goin’ to Cap’n Wilson’s?” returned the driver.
It was Captain Wilson’s
wagon sent out to meet us.
“Hawkum, for this is the best
goin’ you’ll have,” said the
driver, and the wagon jolted on.
We emerged into open land,
passed one or two cottages, then
a school-house in which was a
cheerful light: then the roar of a
cataract fell upon our ears: we
crossed a bridge hung above the
foam, went up a gentle slope,
and were at the door of Captain
Wilson, the last settler on the
frontier.
The Captain was a native of
the vicinity of Portland, and was
allured to this region just in the
dawn of the great Eastern land
speculation. He came to this spot
by the Escohos Falls, surrounded on all sides by lofty
mountains, twenty-five years
ago, and settled in the expecta(Continued on page 13)
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Clydesdales Danny and Tex are giving sleigh rides throughout the winter at The Glen at Bear Tree in Pittsburg. (People are asked to give them a call to make a reservation at
538-9995 as this fills up fast.) This photo was taken on Friday, Dec. 12, at The Glen. When warm weather subsequently melted most of the trail, the rides continued using a large
wagon. Courtesy photo.
region’s talent and artistic enterprise. The Jan. 15 event in Colebrook is an evening for local
artists, craftspeople and arts
organizations, with time to order
from Moose Muck’s menu at 6
p.m. and presentations at 6:30
p.m.
Writers, dancers, actors,
musicians, storytellers, visual
artists, and traditional artists
and craftspeople of all ages and
artistic experience are encouraged to bring work, and to talk
about their art-making process.
Visual artists attending the gathering are invited to bring a stand
or easel to display their work.
Cultural organizations and educators are also invited to give
brief presentations on their organizational or school arts activities.
“This is a great opportunity
for artists of all kinds to meet one
another, for families to share a
night out together and for the
public to experience the range of
arts in northern New Hampshire,” said Arts Alliance Program Manager Jamie Feinberg.
“We’re especially excited to get a
chance to highlight artists and
organizations from the Colebrook
area, where we have many member organizations doing fantastic
work in the visual and performing arts.”
“We've discovered some amazing artists at these events,” said
Executive Director Frumie
Selchen. “It’s always particularly
interesting to hear painters and
other visual artists talk about
the thinking behind their work,
and to talk about it with them.
We hope that by adding a new
location in Colebrook, we’ll be
able to offer more North Country
artists a chance to share their
work.”
Participants are invited to
buy food before the presentations
begin. Moose Muck’s full menu
will be available. There is no
admission fee, but donations
(and the purchase or renewal of
Arts Alliance memberships) are
welcome. The Muck Coffee House
is at 25 Parson St., Colebrook.
Pre-registration is requested,
particularly for those interested
in performing or bringing artwork, and for organizations that
wish to give a brief presentation.
Presenters will each have two
minutes to perform or present
their work. To register, or for
more
information,
visit
www.aannh.org, call 323-7302,
or email programs@aannh.org;
presenters may leave their name
and information on what they
will present or exhibit.
The Arts Alliance of Northern
New Hampshire is a non-profit
organization that promotes, supports and sustains culture, heritage and the arts in Northern
New Hampshire. The Arts Alliance serves as a network for arts
information and arts programming, with a particular interest
in providing arts opportunities to
North Country audiences by
coordinating projects and presentations in schools and community
sites throughout the region.
OPEN MIC IN
COLEBROOK JAN 3
Organizers of the open mic
series in Colebrook announced
this week that the next one will
take place on Saturday, Jan. 3,
from 6- 9 p.m. at Trinity United
Methodist Church, 26 Bridge St.
The evening promises music
and fun for all ages. There is a
$3 donation suggested.
For further information, call
Mary Haynes at 237-8095, Sharon Leicht at 246-7717 or Barbara Woodard at 237-8216.
TRI COUNTY CAP
ACTION PROGRAMS
On a single cold night in January in the North Country of
New Hampshire, there were 204
homeless individuals, and of
those homeless individuals, 64
spent the night unsheltered. The
reasons individuals become
homeless are many and varied,
Community News
but Tri County Community
Action Programs is here ready to
assist those experiencing homelessness and/or a homeless emergency with our Direct Client
Services program; 10 Bricks,
funded solely through individual
and
community
donations.
Through this fund Tri County
Community Action Programs is
able to provide on average
$15,000 in services to those experiencing homelessness.
Some examples of the uses of
these funds are as follows:
Bus travel to get someone
home to a relative or friend that
will help them.
Travel fare to an emergency
shelter.
Food, in the event they are
hungry and no community dinner is available.
Hotel, if they need a night or
two between arrangements.
Proper clothing.
Doctor fees for a physical to
get someone into a rehabilitation
program.
The goal of Tri County Community Action Programs Homeless Programs is to assist the
individual or family experiencing
homelessness the help they need
and to get them from point A to
B with dignity and respect. Outreach services are offered all over
the Tri County area of northern
New Hampshire–Coos, Carroll
and Grafton counties. It works
closely with other agencies so as
not to duplicate any service provided, and to stretch already
limited funding dollars. The
Outreach Personnel are known
as the “boots on the ground”
folks that will go to the homeless
situation and not wait for them
to walk through the door.
During 2013 Tri County Community
Action
Programs
assisted a total of 920 individuals experiencing homelessness.
920 individuals who without the
assistance of Tri County Community Action Programs Homeless Outreach Specialists would
have gone on to remain unsheltered, sheltered in conditions
not meant for human habitation,
cold, hungry, sick and forgotten.
Tri County Community
Action Programs receives limited state funding for the operation of Homeless Programs.
These funds do not cover the
majority of direct client service
needs, causing a large gap in
what we would be able to do to
assist individuals if it were not
for community and individual
support dollars. You can help.
That is why we are asking for
your support, the support of the
communities we serve to provide
financial charitable contributions to our 10 Bricks program.
These dollars solely serve the
needs of the homeless. The
support received over the years
has been invaluable and we wish
we could quantify it, but can’t.
There is no way to translate
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is quiet or driving, there is a
steady and unrelenting groove to
the music that supports the lyric
and delivers the story in an
effortless and magical way.
“Many songwriters such as
Bruce Springsteen, or John Mellencamp have been heralded as
modern day Woody Guthries or
keepers of the American rural
spirit, but that mantle might be
better entrusted to musicians
like Dana Robinson who embody
both the heart and the soul of
folk music,” wrote a reviewer for
folk music magazine Dirty
Linen.
Tickets for the Robinsons concert will be $15 and are available
in advance at Fiddleheads on
Main Street in Colebrook. The
Tillotson Center Committee will
have coffee, tea and snacks available for a small additional price,
which helps to raise funds for the
facility. For more information on
the concert, call 237-9302 or 2468998.
For more on this and other
upcoming GNWCA events, visit
www.gnwca.org.
Social News
The Great North Woods Committee for the Arts will be hosting another of its popular coffeehouse concerts
on Friday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m., in the gallery at the Tillotson Center in Colebrook. Featured will be the folk
duo Dana and Susan Robinson. Courtesy photo.
what our Homeless Outreach
Specialists see into words, but
the assistance they able to provide is truly life changing. From
all of us at Tri County Community Action Programs, we thank
you.
A donation to the 10 Bricks
fund can be made by check, made
payable to TCCAP and mailed to:
HOIP, 262 Cottage St., Littleton,
NH 03561. All donations are tax
deductible; TCCAP’s tax ID
number is 02-0267404.
ROBINSONS COMING TO
TILLOTSON CTR. JAN. 9
The Great North Woods Committee for the Arts will be hosting another of its popular
coffeehouse concerts on Friday,
Jan. 9, at 7 p.m., in the gallery
at the Tillotson Center in Colebrook.
This performance will feature
the husband and wife duo of
Dana and Susan Robinson, who
will bring their guitar and clawhammer banjo music featuring
songs that speak for farmers,
Appalachians, Native Americans, and the American prairies.
Dana and Susan Robinson
capture the imagination of their
audience, evoking a transformative experience that conveys the
essence of rural America. Underpinning the songs is the undeniable rhythm of their trademark
guitar/banjo sound. Whether it
Jade Stephanie Marquis and Evan Kelsea of Pittsburg were united
in marriage on Nov. 30, 2014, in Northumberland by Justice of the
Peace Min Marshall Kennett. The couple both graduated from
Pittsburg School in 2011. Jade is the daughter of Normand Marquis
and Johanne Pouliot of Pittsburg and Evan is the son of Arlene Kelsea
of Pittsburg and James Kelsea of Florida. Jade is currently living
and working in Concord at Concord Hospital and Evan is working
in New York as a diesel mechanic for the 10th Mountain Division in
the U.S. Army at Fort Drum, N.Y. Mary Hebert photo.
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tion that the country would
become populous, and consequently bring him wealth. But
he has lived here twenty-five
years, and still finds himself on
the frontier, with no settler
beyond him nearer than the
Megantic Lake in Canada. He
has led the life of a woodsman,
a farmer, a surveyor, and an
explorer. Many are the adventures he has met in this wild
region. Often has he coursed
through the trackless woods,
between his house and Quebec,
camping on a winter's night
under the shelter of a few fir
boughs, or living for days on
moose meat. Time and exposure
have now bowed his form, and
furrowed his brow, and silvered
his hair; but he is still active and
enterprising, and enthusiastic
in regard to the development
and prosperity of this region
where he has spent his life. He
has been a member of the Maine
Legislature, has a respectable
law library, and is the Justice of
the Peace and the legal adviser
of the whole settlement.
We now prepared for the
woods. A party of eleven were
collected, consisting, in addition
to that already mentioned, of the
Captain and six experienced
woodsmen. The object was an
exploration and re-marking of
lines. The party divided, and six
started through the woods on a
straight line, and five followed
up the river in boats, carrying
the stores. The two squads filed
slowly into the woods at two
different points, and each disappeared.
Two days the boats sped up
the Magalloway, between the
silent banks overhung with fir,
pine, birch, and maple. The river
winds among the mountains in
all directions. The Rio Grande is
not more crooked. Over the tops
of the trees bald mountains are
constantly seen, but otherwise
nothing relieves the monotonous
pathway, excepting where a
crane soars clumsily into the air,
or a flock of ducks start up
ahead, or we discover where a
moose has just scrambled up the
soft bank, or when a fugitive
trout is taken as we drop our
hook into the water.
At night of the second day we
encamped at the mouth of the
Magalloway. Finding a level
spot near the bank of the river,
at the mouth of a little brook
which came over the hill the tent
was pitched. Soon the fir boughs
were spread down for the bed,
and a big fire blazed in front. We
took an abundance of trout,
some of them weighing nearly
four pounds, and that night
there was a banquet of roasted
trout and frizzled pork, while
stories were told around the
camp fire.
When morning dawned the
rain was coming down in torrents. All through the day it
poured constantly. The wind
rose and swept over the forest
with a continuous roar. Clouds
hurried swiftly through the
heavens, and the old trees
writhed and groaned as their
tops
bowed
and
swayed
together. It was that terrific
storm which swept over the
North about the middle of September of that year.
As night again came on the
Magalloway rose wildly within
its banks and lifted our boat
from its moorings. The little
brook became a torrent, and
roared close by our tent. The
water streamed through our
cloth roof. Settling down to sleep
as best we might, we heard the
excited Magalloway lashing its
banks and the roar of the winds,
while occasionally the dull,
heavy sound of a falling tree
announced the master of the
gale. Hark! there was a crash,
and an old dry tree plunged into
the whirling water.
“Do you hear that noise?” said
one of the men, starting up suddenly from under his blanket,
and turning his ear up to catch
the sound. His quick sense had
detected the sound of a human
voice mingled with the howling
of the storm and the creaking of
the old forest trees.
“That was a man’s voice,
sure,” said he, starting up to his
feet.
Again it was heard, like a
long, low, tremulous halloo, and
answered promptly by the
woodsman. Again fainter, and
again answered. The woodsman
listened long, but not catching
the sound again, at last slowly
rolled himself in his blanket.
“A wet night they'll have of
it!”–most likely somebody from
Joe York's camp,” muttered the
other woodsman, and both were
still again.
How much are we creatures
of education and habit! To us few
things could have been more
startling than the weird tones
which in that solitude were
detected in the bowlings of the
storm. But the hunters had
camped too many times on the
snow, and too often following the
moose up that valley had been
overtaken by night in the dead
of winter, to attach much importance to the occurrence. So they
slept. Black as Erebus was the
night; and as the fire, hissing
and spluttering, threw its flickering light out into the darkness,
making the spectral shadows of
the huge trees dance to the
music of the gale, we slept the
sleep of neophyte woodsmen.
Not long after the sun had
come out and the clouds scattered, an elderly man–a woodsman–came to the camp. He was
drenched with water shaken
from the bushes, and wore an
anxious face. Two of his sons, he
said, had started from a camp a
few miles above to search in the
woods for a “logging chance,”
and had not returned. We told
him of the sounds we had heard
in the night. He raised his gun
and discharged it; then listened
a moment; but hearing nothing,
walked slowly into the forest. A
few hours later voices were
heard in the woods, and Captain
Wilson, with another of the men,
arrived at the camp, having
started from the other party the
day before. Being caught by the
storm, they had found quarters
in the woods overnight, and had
been twenty-three hours without food. Toward night three
more of the party, who had gone
in with the stores, arrived. They
also slept out in the storm under
a little covering of birch bark.
Guest Column
indicates the potential for damage is how much and how quickly
does the overland flow from
heavy rain get into the river.
With large areas of impervious
surface that do not absorb any of
the runoff, all the rain not
absorbed into the ground quickly
runs into the stream. Add
together enough parking lots,
large buildings and roads in a
watershed area and the water
levels rise rapidly increasing the
erosive power of a stream. Undisturbed riparian buffers slow
down the runoff giving the
ground a chance to absorb some
of the rainfall lowering the rise
in water level. The win win lesson here is that a healthy riparian zone adds woody debris (food)
to a stream, allows for the use of
riparian zone by wildlife and
provides shade meaning higher
dissolved oxygen levels in the
water by keeping the water temperature lower.
We know that there will be
floods. Given that reality, it
would be reasonable to ask, are
there choices that we can make
that will attenuate floodwaters
in the future? The answer is yes
and the experiences of Rutland
and Middlebury is a prime case
in point. Rutland and Middlebury sit on the banks of Otter
Creek. Their experience is
enlightening when you compare
what happened during TS Irene
in Rutland when the Otter Creek
flooded and then in Middlebury
30 miles downriver. Otter Creek
flooded Rutland with river flows
of almost 19,000 cubic feet per
second (CFS) on Aug. 28, 2011,
which is the highest flow ever
recorded for the river in Rutland.
Even with added flow from tributaries to Otter Creek between
Rutland and Middlebury, the
flow in Middlebury peaked four
days later at only 7,000 CFS with
little flooding or damage.
The answer to why the rush
of floodwater slowed down with
a lower crest in just 30 miles was
the intact floodplain between the
cities. The land between them is
broad, flat, has extensive wetlands and is for the most part
undeveloped. The floodwaters
spilled onto the floodplain as
nature intended. As the river
level fell, the floodplain gradually released the floodwater back
into the river to then flow safely
past Middlebury.
The win-win nugget here is
that intact floodplain is a flood
release valve but also that the
open land welcomes wildlife in
the wetland areas and agriculture on the rest of the land.
You might look at the website
floodready.vermont.gov. There
you will find features about flood
resilience including how to use
natural flood protection, improve
infrastructure and ways to fund
improvements. We know what to
do to minimize the impacts of
flooding. Let’s just do it!
–David L. Deen,
Upper Valley River Steward
for the Connecticut River
Watershed Council.
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Around The Region
TRINITY UNITED
CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE
The big doors of Trinity
United Church in Cookshire
swung open at 2 p.m. to greet the
community to a Christmas Eve
service like only Trinity can hold.
Student Minister Tami Spires
welcomed everyone to their service filled with hymns, stories,
and hope, to put all in the spirit.
Tami also invited Rev. James
Potter from the Lennoxville
United Church to assist in the
service celebrating the birth of
Jesus. The singing was loud and
the Christmas message was clear
as Tami and James welcomed
Christ. A small skit was done
depicting the Nativity scene to
include angels,
Mary, and
Joseph, and also people playing
lambs and even one playing a
donkey. This brought a smile
from all. This play was written
to perfection by Tami, and at
times brought many laughs from
all.
Student Minister Tami Spires
sure has brought new life into
the area’s United Churches with
her youthful ways and pure love
of children. The service wound
up a little after 3 p.m., with all
heading home with a song in
their heart and a big smile.
–Corey Bellam
SAWYERVILLE BAPTIST
CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE
The Sawyerville Baptist
Church came alive on Christmas
Eve at 7 p.m., with Pastor Michel
Houle welcoming everyone with
open arms to their Christmas
Eve service. The service started
with a packed church, all celebrating the birth of Jesus. The
service included many hymns
being sung by the voices of the
church and the words of inspiration of Pastor Michel Houle.
Every Christmas Eve, this
historic Baptist Church flings
open its doors to the whole community. It doesn't matter what
faith you are–you just come on in
for a good time. The rafters were
vibrating with song to celebrate
the birth of Jesus. The message
was clear from the mouth of the
Pastor.
Pastor Houle, along with his
flock, sure brought Christmas in
with a special meaning this
year. A small lunch was served
after the service and fellowship
was enjoyed by all. Then it was
time to head home and wait for
Santa.
–Corey Bellam
LENNOXVILLE CHURCH
HOSTS TURKEY DINNER
Christmas day was a busy one
at Hope Community Church in
Lennoxville, Que. On Christmas,
the church came alive with holiday music and spirit when the
doors swung open at around
10:30 a.m. to a wide array of
activities and songs to put all in
the spirit.
The fun all kicked off with
singing and games for both
young and older. At around
11:30, the doors to the kitchen
came open and the smell of roast
turkey drifted through the hall,
and it was time for a little over
160 people to sit down for a very
tasty meal. The Hope Community Church has held this turkey
dinner for a few years now and
it has certainly grown into a big
event. This meal is for everyone
that wants to attend. A lot of
people have family that lives a
long ways away, and maybe they
don't get home for Christmas, or
maybe a spouse passed away
and it is kind of lonely this
Christmas–or maybe you just
want someone else to do the
cooking that day. Whatever reason, they were more than welcome to come to Hope
Community Church and have
Christmas dinner amongst
friends and future friends.
It is a well-named church,
because it sure brings new hope
into lives this time of year, and
throughout the entire year. The
dinner was tasty and the day was
filled with family fun. Everyone
sure was having a great time.
–Corey Bellam
FLU HITS
SHERBROOKE HOSPITAL
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS)
administration
told
media
recently that they will be limiting the number of visitors per
patient to one until further
notice, because of concerns over
the spread of the flu. The limitation that is often done in one
form or another over the past few
years is a very effective way the
hospital uses to stop the spread
of the flu as it moves towards its
peak. This year, the restrictions
are in place just a bit earlier,
according to Dr. Alex Carignan,
who is a Microbiologist and Doctor at the CHUS. He says the flu
is hitting early this year, and
with the holiday season upon
everyone, he says restrictions
have to be in place because people are coming together and the
risk of flu rises fast.
Across the Eastern Townships, there have been 48 confirmed cases of the influenza to
date since the start of the season.
They are trying to contain the flu
within the hospital. The CHUS
is now in preventative mode.
They are letting the patients
have only one visitor at a time.
Most hospitals have barred visitors altogether. The CHUS
hasn’t reached that point yet, but
could soon.
Limiting visitors is not the
only way they are fighting the
spread of the flu. They are also
vaccinating as many workers as
possible. Any worker that has
any sign of flu is told to stay
home, and not to bring anything
to work. Despite all of this, the
flu is hard to control. If the rate
of flu increases, they will be
forced to stop all visitors. All
The Sawyerville Baptist Church held a Christmas Eve service with Pastor Michel Houle and Austin Bailey
welcoming the congregation with open arms. Corey Bellam photo.
Student Minister Tami Spires of the Trinity United Church in Cookshire, Que., explains to a group of
bright-eyed children how the candy cane got its shape. Corey Bellam photo.
It was a packed scene at the Hope Community Church for its annual Christmas Turkey Dinner event in
Lennoxville, Que. Corey Bellam photo.
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Around The Region
Start the new year with the 18-piece Swing North Big Band, returning to the Now Playing Newport Music
Series on Sunday, Jan. 4, at 4 p.m., at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 44 Second St., Newport, Vt. Courtesy
photo.
hospitals have antibacterial
hand wash at all doors, and also
masks if visitors figure they need
one due to sickness. All people
have to do is use it.
–Corey Bellam
SLAIN SOLDIERS
REMEMBERED
Two Canadian soldiers killed
on home soil have been selected
as Canada’s News Makers of the
Year for 2014. The first soldier
killed was Warrant Officer
Patrice Vincent, age 53, and
described as a very quiet person
that was always eager to help
everyone. He died after Martin
Rouleau, age 25, ran over him as
he and other soldiers walked in
a parking lot in St. Jean sur
Richelieu, Que. He was wearing
his uniform. Two days later, with
the country still in shock from
Vincent’s death, terror struck
again at the nation’s capital of
Ottawa, when Michael Zehaf
Bibeau shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo
as he stood guard at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier near Canada's parliament buildings in
Ottawa. Cpl. Cirillo was just
standing guard with another
soldier, when Mickael Zehaf
Bibeau came running from
behind the monument and shot
Cirillo in the back with a hunting rifle. Zehaf Bibeau then ran
towards the Parliament building,
burst through the front door, and
started shooting, before dying in
a hail of bullets from House
Security and RCMP officers.
Once again, Canadians were in
a state of shock, along with the
whole world.
Thousands of Canadians lined
the route the day of the funerals
to show support for those two
men that died. This year, these
two very brave and family-oriented men were chosen to be
2014’s News Makers of the Year,
to show respect for their ultimate
sacrifice. In very close second
was Kevin Vickers, the Sgt. at
Arms at the Parliament Building in Ottawa that put the final
shot into Michael Zehaf Bibeau.
This has certainly been a year
that shocked the world.
–Corey Bellam
LITTLETON CONCERT
SERIES AUDITIONS
“Not Your Mom’s Musical
Theater” group is holding auditions for its 2015 concert series,
“Something Wonderful I Missed,”
which highlights music from
Broadway and off-Broadway
musicals.
Concerts will be held in March
8 (The Musicals of 1965), May 24
(The Musicals of 1975), July 12
(The Musicals of 1985), Sept. 20
(The Musicals of 1995) and Nov.
22 (The Musicals of 2005) at the
Derry Opera House. All Derry
concerts are on Sundays at 4,
with dress rehearsal prior. Additional performances will be held
in the North Country and will
highlight both local and southern
New Hampshire performers.
Actors are encouraged to audition for any and all of the concerts that interest them and to
bring their calendar and conflicts
to auditions.
This is the fourth year of the
concert series, which features
two emcees who share the often
hilarious history of the songs,
which are performed by the cast.
All roles are unpaid, but those
who audition will also be considered for Not Your Mom’s Musical
Theater’s professional touring
company, which offered two
North Country tours in 2014.
Audition requirements are as
follows:
Singers, please bring two contrasting songs that illustrate
your range and versatility, keeping in mind that the group showcases shows from 1965-2005 in
this concert. No more than 32
bars each. A short monologue is
welcome but not required. Please
bring a resume if you have one.
A pianist will be provided.
Emcees, please come prepared
to read from a script and talk to
the director about your interest
in the show. A short comedic
monologue is also welcome.
Please bring a resume if you
have one.
Folks are welcome to audition
as both an emcee and a singer,
which is possible to do.
“Not Your Mom’s Musical
Theater” is also raising money
for a secret show to be held in
September of 2015. To learn
more about the show and get
involved, email the organization.
Auditions for that show will be
held in February or March.
For more information, visit
www.notyourmomsmusicaltheat
er.com,
or
email
at
notyourmoms@gmail.com.
SWINGING EPIPHANY
CELEBRATION
The great Swing North 18piece big band returns to the
series for the second year on
Sunday, Jan. 4, at 4 p.m. at St,
Mark's Episcopal Church, 44
Second St., Newport, Vt.
The program will again be in
a “lessons and carols” format. All
the music will be offered to highlight the familiar prophetic gospel texts that are part of the
Christmas story. The program
includes jazz interpretations of
traditional Christmas favorites,
as well as well-known jazz standards. Selections included are
“Silent Night,” “God Rest Ye
Merry Gentlemen,” “Greensleeves,” “All of Me,” “Accentuate
the Positive,” “Sing, Sing, Sing!,”
And “How Sweet It Is (To Be
Loved By You).” There are 16
songs in all, with vocals by Janet
Edmondson and featured instrumentalists Peter Storrings, Burr
Morse, Dennis Cote, Rick Owen,
Rich Bonevie, Jim Torres, Scott
Labun, and Sally Fishburn.
Readers are Rev. R Cameron
Miller, Rev. Rollie Norris, Dr.
Sara Doncaster, Christine Moseley and Penny Thomas.
Over its 36-year performance
history, the band has consistently engaged many of the finest
musicians in the twin state area.
The current membership is
drawn from an area which
ranges from Montpelier, Vt., to
Berlin. Several of Swing North’s
current members are music educators with degrees from such
acclaimed schools as New England Conservatory, Berklee
School of Music and Boston University. Some received their
musical training in the U.S.
Navy Jazz Band others are the
product of local high school music
programs. Many of the musicians in Swing North also perform in other organizations
including Maple Leaf Seven, Vermont Jazz Ensemble, Twilight
Jazz Group and local town bands.
Swing North big band performs under the musical direction of Phil Brown, who is also
the music director at South Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Tickets are available online at
the
series
website,
www.nowplayingnewport.com or
by leaving a message at the
church at (802) 334-7365.
NEWPORT ORCHESTRA
DOCUMENTARY
“An Introduction to the Newport Area Community Orchestra” is a short documentary by
budding Vermont filmmaker Stacey Vos. The film showcases Stacey’s fresh voice and light touch
as she tells the story of a local
orchestra that is growing to
prominence in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Stacey’s creativity
and artistic approach capture the
whimsical, diverse and talented
spirit of this orchestra and her
film is just what was needed to
bring attention to the many hidden musical talents that are
surprisingly prevalent in this
corner of Vermont.
Stacey Vos Films specializes
in social, cultural, and nature
documentaries as well as personalized tribute films celebrating
wedding anniversaries, milestone birthdays, retirement, or
the remembrance of a loved one.
She can be contacted at
staceyvosfilms@gmail.com.
The Newport Area Community Orchestra is now in it's
fourth season. The orchestra
was founded in February 2011.
Since then, it has grown to fifty
members and is continuing to
grow each year. The number of
concerts each season has also
increased along with the addition
of several ensembles. They are
the Northeast Kingdom Chamber Players, NACO Piano Trio,
and the First Universalist Parish
Ensemble.
The orchestra members come
from all works of life with some
members in their 70s and others
as young as eighth grade. Some
members are retired and others
are still active in the work force.
A recent collaboration with Stanstead College has provided the
orchestra with more student
musicians and an opportunity for
their students to play in an
orchestra. It has also made the
orchestra an international organization.
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Obituaries
Elizabeth Washburn
ELIZABETH WASHBURN
WEST STEWARTSTOWN–
Elizabeth Heath Washburn, 95,
of West Stewartstown and formerly of Pittsburg, passed away
early on Tuesday morning, Dec.
23, 2014, at the Coos County
Nursing Hospital in West Stewartstown.
She was born on Oct. 8, 1919,
in Pittsburg, a daughter to the
late Archie and Laura Heath.
She attended the local school and
was later married to Kenneth R.
Washburn.
Elizabeth was an avid “73”
player and a reckless bidder. She
enjoyed playing the piano, wrote
several songs and was quite good
at it. She enjoyed playing for the
residents at the nursing hospital.
She also enjoyed swimming
when she could find an indoor
pool. Elizabeth loved to travel to
Florida with her husband when
he was alive, but did not like
rattlesnakes. She will be missed
by all her family and friends.
She is survived by her son,
Samuel A. Washburn and wife
Leslie of Placitas, N.M.; a daughter, Sandra Washburn of Minneapolis,
Minn.;
four
grandchildren, Samuel A Wash-
burn, Jr., in Poland, Kassandra
Nicole Washburn of California,
Leslie Pettit in Texas, and Jennifer White in Minnesota; four
great-grandchildren, Savannah
Rae Walraven, Jade Sierra
Braven, Gaby Jo White, and Joci
Lynne White, all of Minnesota;
as well as many other relatives
and friends.
Elizabeth was preceded in
death by her husband, Kenneth
R. Washburn; her sisters, Lois
Farrar, Alta Judd and Leora
Wheeler; and two half-brothers,
Paul and Clifton Clogston.
There are no public calling
hours. Services and interment
will be in the spring at the
Indian Stream Cemetery, of
which notice will be given.
Condolences may be offered
to the family online by going to
www.jenkinsnewman.com.
Funeral arrangements in
New Hampshire are under the
direction of Jenkins and Newman Funeral Home in Colebrook.
MARITA L.
CAMPBELL-MEACHAM
LANCASTER–Marita
L.
Campbell-Meacham, of the
McKee Inn in Lancaster passed
away at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center on Wednesday,
Dec. 24, 2014, at the age of 71.
Marita was predeceased by
two husbands, Richard Anthony
Campbell and Morris Meacham.
Marita leaves behind one son,
Scott Campbell and his wife
Ellen; five grandchildren, Nicholette, Anthony, Alexander, William, and Christopher. She also
leaves behind many cherished
friends at the McKee Inn as well
as her beloved caregivers from
Northwoods Home Health.
There will be no calling
hours. All are invited to attend
a memorial service to celebrate
her life on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015,
at the McKee beginning at 11
a.m. Please go to baileyfh.net for
more information or to send an
online condolence.
Bernard A. Covill
BERNARD A. COVILL
PITTSBURG–Bernard
A.
Covill, 87, of Pittsburg, passed
away on Sunday evening, Dec.
28, 2014, with his beloved family
by his side and after a period of
declining health.
He was born on Sept. 12,
1927, in Pittsburg, son of the late
Forrest and Hilda (Dearth)
Covill. He was a graduate of
Pittsburg High School and a
veteran of the U.S. Army.
A well-known figure in Pittsburg, Bernard worked earlier in
his life in the woods for St. Regis,
and later for the State of N.H.
Dept. of Transportation for more
than 30 years. He was a former
member of the Pittsburg Ridgerunners and enjoyed snowmobiling.
He leaves behind his wife of
more than 67 years, Katherine
(Banks) Covill of Pittsburg; one
son, Forrest Covill and wife
Linda of Pittsburg; one grand-
son, Forrest Covill of Pittsburg;
five brothers, Gordon and wife
Norma, Robert and wife Margaret, Leslie and wife Ruth, and
Gary and wife Hilda, all of Pittsburg, and Edwin and wife Betty
of Whitefish, Mont.; two sisters,
Linda Covill and Geneva Shallow, both of Pittsburg; as well as
numerous nieces and nephews.
Bernard was preceded in
death by a brother, Lindsey, and
a sister, Joanne Foote.
There are no public calling
hours. Services and interment
will be at a later date at the
Pittsburg Hollow Cemetery.
Expressions of sympathy in
memory of Bernard may be made
to the Farnham United Memorial Methodist Church, c/o Mrs.
Norma Covill, P.O. Box 103,
Pittsburg, NH 03592.
Condolences may be offered to
the family online by going to
www.jenkinsnewman.com.
Funeral arrangements in New
Hampshire are under the direction of Jenkins and Newman
Funeral Home in Colebrook.
John F. Goddard, Jr.
JOHN F. GODDARD, JR.
GILFORD–John F. Goddard,
Jr., 92, of 28 Dockham Shore
Road, died at his home on Friday,
Dec. 26, 2014.
John was born on Sept. 21,
1922, in Salem, Mass., the son of
the late Pauline (Schriner) and
John F. Goddard, Sr. He resided
in Swampscott, Mass. for several
years before moving to Gilford 80
years ago.
John served in the U.S. Army
Air Corps during World War II
and was co-owner of Laconia
Hardware Store in downtown
Laconia for 50 years, and was
part owner of the Holusin Lodge
in Groton. He was also a director
and trustee of Laconia Savings
Bank, now Bank of New Hampshire, for many years.
John was an avid snowmobiler and hunter. Two of his
favorite places were his camp in
West Stewartstown and his
Lodge in Groton. He was a member of the Laconia Rotary Club
and had perfect attendance for
fifty years. He had been a member of the Mt. Lebanon Masonic
Lodge 32 F. & A.M. since 1947
and was Past Master in 1953.
He was also a member of the
Bektash Shrine, past president
of the New England Hardware
Dealers, a past member of the
Winnipesaukee Yacht Club and
a member of the Belknap County
Sportsmen’s Club.
He leaves behind his wife of
sixty-five years, Mary Lou
(Spear) Goddard, a son, Gregory
Goddard, and his wife, Denise,
and a daughter, Wendy Barrett,
all of Gilford; two grandchildren,
Jennifer and Jeremy; a brother,
Wallace Goddard, of Saylorsburg, Penn.; a niece, Mary Jane
Moir and husband, Glenn, and
their children, Daniel Stone and
Annika Stone, all of Penacook
and several nephews and nieces.
There will be no calling hours.
A memorial service will be held
on Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, at 3
p.m. at the Gilford Community
Church, 19 Potter Hill Road,
Gilford. Rev. Michael Graham,
Pastor of the Church, will officiate.
Spring burial be in the family
lot in Pine Grove Cemetery in
Gilford. For those who wish, the
family suggests that memorial
donations be made to Special
Olympics New Hampshire, 650
Elm Street, Manchester, NH
03101.
Wilkinson-Beane-SimoneauPaquette Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant
St., Laconia, is assisting the family. For more information and to
view an online memorial, go to
www.wilkinsonbeane.com.
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2014 Ram 2500, SLT, bench front
seat, 8.4 in. u connect touch screen,
4x4, spray-in bedliner, remote start,
11,000 miles. $35,000. (603) 2467241. 1/9
Services
Music Lessons: Guitar, Ukulele,
Banjo, Mandolin, Bass, Dulcimer,
and Voice. Children ages 5-8 for
$60/month, includes instrumental
rental. All other students, $75,
instrument rental $15. Roberta’s
Studio, (603) 331-1628. TFN
Would like to haul your junk and
unwanted vehicles. Call Rusty
Edwards. (603) 237-5676. 7/31/15
Farm Fresh
!**NORTH COUNTRY**!
**MARKETPLACE
& SALVAGE**
104 Colby Street, Colebrook
603-631-1221
Wanted
Top dollar paid for junk cars and
trucks. Also, steel, batteries,
aluminum cans. Call (603) 636-1667
days or (603) 636-1304 nights. TFN
Help Wanted
Part-time position: individual must
be self-motivated, enjoy interacting
with customers and possess the skills
of communication, basic math and
keyboarding. Job will consist of
Customer Service, Data Entry,
Process Warranties, Process Web
Orders, Shipping and Receiving.
Email
resume
to
mike@northernoutlet.com or mail to
Northern Outlet, 61 Main St.,
Colebrook, NH 03576. No Calls. TFN
one person or couple. Cozy two
bedroom, second floor apt. w/new
kitchen in quiet building. Laundry in
unit. Rent includes: heat, hot
water/sewer, large storage area,
trash/snow removal and DirecTV.
Lots of parking. $660/month. Nonsmoking. First month plus one month
sec. dep. and references req. (603)
237-8708. TFN
Commercial Rental
For Rent
Locate your business next to the
newly renovated and expanded high
volume Family Dollar Store in
downtown Colebrook. 2,200 square
feet available in a great location with
excellent foot traffic and off-street
parking. Flexible lease terms and
competitive rates.
For more
information please call Boni at 603447-0029, ext. 2. 1/9
Colebrook—in-town, very nice,
heated 2 br. Apt., DSL included, with
kitchen, dining, living, washer/dryer
hookup,
carpeted.
No
pets.
References required. Call (603) 2378301. TFN
Cut, split, delivered. Jones Brook
Farm, Guildhall, Vt. (802) 328-2013.
12/31/15
Firewood
Nice neighborhood, in town, ideal for
LINE CLASSIFIED
http://www.marketplaceandsalvage.com/
Offering Local Produce & Products
Open: Tues.-Fri. 9-5
Sat. 9-12
TFN
ADVERTISING
BUY 2 WEEKS, GET THE
THIRD WEEK FREE!
$4 per week for
up to 30 words,
12 cents per word if
over 30 words.
WINTER
HELP WANTED
Diamond Peaks Store
And Motel
Rte. 26, Colebrook
Apply In Person
At The Store
Drop your classified
and payment at our
downtown Colebrook office:
4 Titus Hill Road
(at the corner of
82 Main Street)
Or mail to:
PO Box 263,
Colebrook NH 03576
Classifieds must be
accompanied by payment.
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Sports
Michaella Biron of Colebrook edged around the Spartan defenders for a shot at the hoop during the
Holiday Hoop Classic in Groveton on Monday evening. Samantha McMann photo.
Colebrook’s Sedrick McKinnon goes up for a jump shot in game one
of Groveton's Holiday Hoop Classic on Dec. 29. Samantha McMann
photo.
Mohawk Nakea Cross tries to find a lane to the hoop and finds the hand of Spartan Mackenzie Sanborn
instead. Samantha McMann photo.
Colebrook's Lexi Lawson closes the door on Spartan Katelyn Nelson
during the game last Monday night. Samantha McMann photo.
This offensive foul by Spartan Tim Voigt sent Colebrook’s Sedrick McKinnon to the hospital in an
ambulance when his head hit the floor. Coach Trask says that McKinnon was released from the ER later
that night with five staples in his head and a diagnosed concussion. Samantha McMann photo.
The Spartans and the Mohawks fought a fierce battle on the
basketball court. Samantha McMann photo.
Page 20
Sports
Spencer Smith, grandson of Rick and Linda Samson of Stewartstown, has been chosen to attend the 2015 Olympic Development
Program Regional Championship tournament in Phoenix, Ariz.
Spencer is one of 18 elite youth soccer players in the state of Oregon
who will attend this tournament and represents the Portland Timbers
Youth Academy. Spencer currently plays for the Portland Timbers
Academy Reserve team and the Eugene Timbers Futbol Club, Celtic
Black. He is a freshman at South Eugene high school where he played
for the varsity team this fall and finished the season undefeated
claiming the 6A Southwest Conference Championship title. He resides
in Eugene, Ore., with his mom Kristi and sister Maddy. Spencer is
formerly of Lunenburg, Vt. Courtesy photo.
Groveton Varsity Girls stopped for a team photo prior to their game against Profile on Dec. 16. Front,
from left: Alicia Lesperance, Breana Mosher, Cassady Brown, Kennedy Lambert. Back: Assistant Coach
Alan Wheelock, Gabrielle Caouette, Arianna Woodwoord, Kiana Martin, Tanisha Singer, Abbey Pelletier,
Danielle Bilodeau, Kaylee Young, Coach Tim Haskins. Samantha McMann photo.

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