On Saturday at the Barnstead Elementary School at 9 a.m., a fun-filled day of activities is planned for the entire family! A big parade, lots of kids activities including a bouncy house, great food, farmers market and lots of vendors. Don’t forget to pick up your Game Card to play! How to play: Stop at the OHD Vendor Check-in Tent and pick up your Vendor Game Card. Visit each vendor and ask them to initial your card. After you have finished collecting all of your initials, come back to the check-in tent and enter to win the raffle for lots of prizes! Please note: You must have at least 15 vendor initials to enter raffle.
Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care is pleased to provide a free showing of a bold new documentary film that will rock our world when it comes to our understanding and battle against cancer. Join us on Sept. 19 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Concord City Auditorium, Green and Prince streets for The C Word. With a dose of good humor, heart and a touch of rock ’n’ roll beat, The C Word reveals the forces at play keeping us sick and dares to ask: if up to 70 percent of cancer deaths are preventable … what are we waiting for? This presentation is free and does not require registration, however, space is limited. For additional information, contact Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care HOPE Resource Center at pcccinfo@crhc.org or 227-7000, ext. 6937. Learn more about Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care’s Anticancer Lifestyle Program at anticancerlifestyle.org.
Bringing a repertoire of “hard-driving blues and laid-back folk tunes” all the way from Tyler, Texas, singer-songwriter Dave Sherman will headline the monthly concert at the Andover Community Coffeehouse on Sept. 15, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Highland Lake Grange Hall in East Andover. The concert is free and open to the public (though donations are accepted). Also appearing onstage will be up to a dozen open-mic performers.
Local author Connie Evans will talk about her new book Ebenezer Mudgett and the Pine Tree Riot on Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. at the Weare Public Library, 10 Paige Memorial Lane. The book is a fictionalized version of one of the most important and least recognized events in New Hampshire history. On April 14, 1772, Ebenezer Mudgett and a small group of resolute settlers lit the fuse to bloody revolution, and, ultimately, the independence of millions of Americans. For more information on this and other programs at the Weare Public Library, email wearepl@comcast.net, call 529-2044, or visit wearepl.wordpress.com.