■The Merrimack County Stamp Collectors will hold its monthly meeting at the Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South St., on Jan. 21 at 1 p.m. (weather permitting). They invite all who are interested in stamp collecting to attend, share their interest, buy, sell and trade and to gain new insight and knowledge sharing news articles and stories about stamp collecting. For more information, call Dan Day at 228-1154.
■The Bow Garden Club has gone into “hibernation” for the winter months. Their new garden club year will begin on April 13. Anyone requiring information about the garden club’s activities and/or membership are invited to visit bowgardenclub.org.
JOYCE KIMBALL
bowcomnews@comcast.net
■Community breakfasts at the Dunbarton Congregational Church Vestry are held Sundays from 8 to 10 a.m. Come enjoy a hardy, home-cooked breakfast of eggs or pancakes, bacon or sausage, home fries, homemade breads, coffee, tea, juice or cocoa every Sunday during January and February. Proceeds go to the vestry restoration payment. Cost for the whole shebang is $10 or $8 includes two eggs or two pancakes, two sausage or two bacon, two slices of toast and a drink. Everyone is welcome.
■On Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., a local author visit with Bethanee Syversen at the library.
■The Public Library Reading Group is reading 100-Year-Old-Man-Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Book discussion at the library will be Wednesday at noon.
■On Thursday at the elementary school, kindergarten through third-graders will perform their band and strings winter concert from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
■Town offices will be closed Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan 20, and there will be no school on MLK Day.
■Supervisors of the checklist will meet Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. at the town office for correction of the checklist. Party changes will not be accepted at this meeting.
■Knitting for Kids (of all ages) is held every Friday after school at 2:30 p.m. at the library. Please bring your own projects, or you’ll get help to start one. Also, the knitters at the library are teaming up with the DCC “Green Team” Plarn Project. Please bring your plastic grocery and shopping bags to the library. They will turn these bags into plastic yarn called “plarn.” The plarn will then be crocheted and knitted into bags, door mats and sleeping mats for the homeless.
NORA LEDUC
774-3141
dtowncrier@gmail.com
■Weare filing period for town offices is Jan. 22 to 31 and the open positions are: selectman, moderator, library trustee, trustees of the trust funds, cemetery trustee, and board of fire.
■At HCS on Jan. 24, the artist in residence from India will have a final performance with students and artists at 7 p.m. in the gym. Free and open to the public. Then on Feb. 3, Henniker School District Board meeting will be at 6:15 p.m. in the school library. Meeting will recess at 7 p.m. to the Café for the deliberative session.
■At JSRHS on Friday, John Stark Regional High School Board meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. Meeting will recess at 7 p.m. for the public hearing on the proposed 2020-21 John Stark School budget. Both meetings are in the school library.
■John Stark Regional High School art teacher Bess French has two of her assemblage sculptures, “Virtue” and “Luck,” included in a nationally-juried exhibition later this month at Nazareth College in New York. Her works will appear from Jan. 24 through March 1, along with the work of 31 other artists who were selected to be showcased in this exhibit.
TOM DUNN
dunn.t@comcast.net
■On Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Church, Lissa Robichaud is hosting a paint party for Crafty Critters. She will be providing all the materials. You will be creating a 16- by 20-inch acrylic painting under her careful direction. The cost is $15 per person. Come try something new, you will be glad you did. Please reserve your space by calling Barbara Hays at 464-2692.
■GHSS Lunch ‘N Learn on Monday will discuss the N.H. election process at St. Mary’s Church at 12:30 p.m. Our guest will be Barbara Cavanaugh, who is the Deering Supervisor of the Checklist. She’ll give us an outline of the processes for voting, rules and regulations from the government and answer all the questions you might have. A light lunch will be provided for $2. Call Linda Kowalski at 464-5264 for a seat.
■On Monday, the Fuller Public Library Military Book Group will meet at 2 p.m. to discuss The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer. All are welcome to join.
■On Tuesday, GHSS is “Hittin’ the Heights.” The GHSS bus stops at a variety of businesses. Lunch will be at The Red Apple Buffet, on your own. Group is leaving Shaw’s at 10 a.m. Cost is $6. Call Linda Kowalski at 464-5264 to reserve your seat. Snow date is Friday.
NANCY SHEE
nshee71@gmail.com
■The Contoocook Farmers Market every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Maple Street School. SNAP/EBT accepted. For more information, visit facebook.com/ContoocookFarmersMarket.
■Concord Regional VNA is holding a Senior Health Clinic at Slusser Senior Center on Feb. 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. All Senior Health Clinic services are provided for a suggested donation of $10, however, services are provided regardless of a person’s ability to pay. Services offered include foot care, blood pressure screening, B-12 injections, medication education, and nutritional education. Call 224-4093 or (800) 924-8620, ext. 5815 for an appointment.
■Senior lunch at the Slusser Center on Wednesdays at noon at the Slusser Senior Center, 41 Houston Drive, next to the library. Suggested donation of $4.
■Emily Fischer Field’s work is at the House of Art in Contoocook through January. Open Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. Emily grew up in Contoocook and works full-time as an artist in London, England.
■Hopkinton High School Interact Club is hosting it’s annual post-holiday inside yard sale. All donations will be sold to help raise funds for service projects in Puerto Rico and the community. Please donate anything in good condition, except clothing and shoes. Donations are accepted at the high school front office from Jan. 17 to 24. The yard sale will be Jan. 25 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Please note the change in date!
KATHLEEN BUTCHER
724-3452
kathb123@comcast.net
■At The Local on Jan. 21 at 7 p.m., there will be a special fundraiser featuring trivia games. In 2020, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to our Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Women of Warner have been hard at work organizing events that will take place throughout 2020! Get your favorite trivia team together and come help us raise some funds to help pay for many of these programs! Study up on the American Suffragists! There’ll be prizes and a gorgeous raffle basket offered! Snow date is Jan. 28.
■Warner is excited to make Why They Marched by Hopkinton scholar Susan Ware, our town read to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Meet Susan at this year’s Tory Hill Author Series! The book is available at the Pillsbury Free Library and MainStreet BookEnds is pleased to offer this book at 20% off price to all participants. BookEnds BookGroup will discuss this book on July 12 (because of July 4 weekend) at 4 p.m.
■Today at 4 p.m., BookEnds BookGroup will discuss Amy Snow by Tracy Rees.
■Join in the BookEnds Gallery on Jan. 22 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. for an update on the rail trail progress.
■The N.H. Telephone Museum will host a silent film screening with live musical accompaniment at the Warner Town Hall on Sunday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. for a screening of the 1925 silent film Seven Chances starring Buster Keaton, accompanied by musician, Jeff Rapsis. Admission to the event is $10 per person or $5 per person if you are a member of the N.H. Telephone Museum. There will be popcorn and drinks available for a nominal fee and, as an added bonus, Jeff will also accompany the 1920 short comedy, Number Please! starring Harold Lloyd. All proceeds benefit the museum. Tickets will be available at the door or you can call the museum at 456-2234 to reserve seats.
NEIL NEVINS
456-3614
info@mainstreetbookends.com