■United Church of Penacook, located at the corner of Community Drive and Canal Street, is now renting spaces for their indoor/outdoor Spring Fair 2019, to be held April 13 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Spaces can be rented inside for $20 ($5 extra for a table) and outside for $10. Handmade craft items, product vendors, attic treasures, and baked goods will be available. Fair proceeds will support the United Church Food Pantry. If you have questions, call 715-1227 or email SpringFair@ucpnh.org.
CHERYL STINSON
news03303@aol.com
■Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night will be performed at the Hatbox Theatre at the Steeplegate Mall at 2 p.m. today. Women Who Make America will be performed on Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. For more information, visit hatboxnh.com.
■The Senior Program at the City Wide Community Center on Canterbury Road. has many activities to offer those 55 and older. Information on activities for all ages is available in the center’s latest brochure.
■The Concord Chapter of Adult Children of Alcoholics will meet Monday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church. To learn more, visit Adult Children.org.
■The Horseshoe Pond Toastmasters will meet Wednesday at noon at Northeast Delta Dental. For more information, call 223-3982.
■The Karner Blue Toastmasters will meet Thursday at 5 p.m. at the environmental services building. Call 568-3126 for more information.
■The next meeting of Concord Grange will be on March 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the I.B.E.W. Hall, 48 Airport Road. The Grange will be celebrating their 100th anniversary this year and they are planning several events. Grange Historian Dick Patten will be updating the Grange history. The Grange will be sponsoring the annual Easter Egg Hunt on April 20 at Keach Park. They will also sponsor Matt Finney’s Easter Egg Hunt on April 20 at 11 a.m. at White Park. Contact Grange Master Dick Patten at 496-2917 for more information.
CHRIS WEEDEN
224-1715
clweeden@comcast.net
■Read Between the Wines, A book and wine pairing event, will be held Tuesday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Join the Concord Public Library and Local Baskit, 10 Ferry St., for a literature and libations adventure through France’s well known wine regions. Each book will pair with a wine from the region in which the book is set or about. Featuring six books and six wines. Bring your Concord Public Library card to check out any of the featured books and be sure to purchase your book’s wine match for a perfectly paired evening! Registration is required. Register at concordpubliclibrary.net/registration or 225-8670, ext. 2.
■GoodLife Programs & Activities, 254 N. State St., is having Gentle Chair Yoga on Tuesday from 9 to 9:45 a.m. and Thursday, 11:15 a.m. to noon. There is no cost to attend but it is first come first serve with a maximum of 35. Older adults and seniors of all ages, those with yoga experience and those with none, and all levels of physical ability are encouraged to join in. For more information, call 228-6630.
■The Concord Public Library is offering Lapsit which is designed for babies up to 24 months and a parent or caregiver. The 30-minute session includes songs, movement, finger rhymes and stories. Each session is carefully planned to stimulate your baby’s mind and senses while laying a foundation for learning to read. Lapsit meets Monday and each Monday at 9:30 a.m. in the Blanchard Room. For more information, call 225-8670, ext 4.
■The Greater Concord Chronic Pain Support Group will meet Tuesday, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. (the second Tuesday of every month) at Unitarian Universalist Church, 274 Pleasant St. Whether you experience pain due to Fibromyalgia, migraines, arthritis, Lyme disease, CRPS, gastrointestinal, orthopedic or neurological issues, or other conditions, you may find help and hope by attending this group, which is sponsored by the nonprofit U.S. Pain Foundation. Learn from each other, from speakers and from resources. It is non-denominational, accessible and free. No registration is necessary. For more information, contact painconnection.org or call 540-3119.
■Concord Hospital’s Center for Health Promotion is offering a class titled Veggie Up the Awesome Way on Feb. 18 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Everyone knows eating vegetables is essential for good health but we can fall short on getting in the recommended five servings daily. Learn how to roast vegetables in an awesome way and with little effort. The cost to attend is $15. For more information or to register, call 230-7300.
■Kindergarten registration is now open for both west side schools (Beaver Meadow and Christa McAuliffe). Children who will be five on or before Sept. 30 are eligible. To register, go to enroll.sau8.org/2019. For more information, call 225-0840 (CM) or 225-0853 (BM).
■Happy birthday Jacob Plante, Brenda Morse and Christine Anderson!
LYNDA PLANTE
717-1632
soxpatscats@gmail.com
■Grab your reading glasses and spend some time at Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., this month. On Feb. 21 at 6 p.m., Linda Powers discusses parenting techniques as ways to nurture current and future generations as she presents Parenting Across the Life Span! Parenting takes many twists and turns as we invest our energy into nurturing others. There will be wonderful surprises and proud moments interspersed with times of intense worry, sadness, frustration and disappointment. Powers, who raised three daughters and is a child and adolescent psychotherapist, educator and former pediatric nurse, helps parents make sense of it all in this guide for helping children of all ages-from infancy into adulthood.
■On Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. at Gibson’s, Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted, comes to share her new memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, as she talks about finding herself and her place in the world after literary success. At 31 years old, fresh off a tour promoting her first collection, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Houston had “no job, no place to live except my North Face VE 24 tent.” On an impulse and a good instinct, she spent her royalties on a 120-acre ranch near Creede, Colo. It was more than she could afford, yet, 25 years later, it’s the piece of land that’s defined the largest part of her life. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country tells the remarkable story of “that girl who dared herself to buy a ranch, dared herself to dig in and care for it, to work hard enough to pay for it, to figure out what other people meant when they used the world ‘home.’ ” Houston is the author of the novels Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, the short story collections Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and A Little More About Me.
■Emerging Engineers emerges on the second and fourth Thursdays from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Concord Citywide Community Center, 14 Canterbury Road. From wooden blocks to Lego bricks, we provide the manipulatives for your emerging builder. Recommended for children up to grade five and their caregiver.
■Have you ever wondered what happens when the library closes? Let one of your stuffed animals, dolls or action figures find out for you. Join us for a special storytime and snack Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and then leave your friends with us overnight. We will keep you up to date by posting on social media. Come and pick them up the next day! This program is for all ages. Please only bring stuffed animals that are brave enough to make it the whole night in the library. Call 225-8670 for more details.
■Celebrate with your special someone at Tandy’s, 1 Eagle Square, at 6 p.m. and make Valentine’s Day 2019 your best one yet. Stick around after dinner for some great laughs with the Laughta In New Hampsha Valentine’s Comedy Day Show (tickets sold separately). Bring friends, or that special someone, to the Valentine Night grand opening of “Comedy Club at Tandy’s Pub.” A special night to celebrate Valentine’s Day (whether you’re alone, with the guys or gals, or that special someone), that will feature a night full of surprises, hilarious standup comedy with local favorites David and Seraphim Afflick and others all wrapped up in a Valentine theme at 8 p.m. Specials will also be available to order from Tandy’s Comedy Club menu and bar. Watch for a new show the second Thursday of every month. Tickets are $10 online at eventbrite.com (NoDoProductions) or by calling 715-0333.
■The N.H. Employment Security Student Transportation Recruitment event happens on Tuesday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at 45 S. Fruit St. Contact Sean O’Sullivan at sosullivan@ridesta.com or apply online at sticareers.com.
■On Thursday, at the Women’s Club of Concord, 44 Pleasant St., Feisty Pants will be serenading guests from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Chocolates and champagne will be served. The price is $10.
■Roses are red; violets are blue. If you forget Thursday, then you don’t have a clue! Don’t blow it! Make it special!
JEAN VER HOEVEN
856-304-5830
jeanann@voicenet.com