■A $1,000 Bow Garden Club scholarship is currently available for a graduating Bow High School senior entering college who is in good academic standing and is planning to further their education within a college curriculum majoring in any of the following fields of interest: horticulture; conservation, environmental science, forestry, plant science, geo-science, hydrology, atmospheric science or meteorology. Completed applications are due by April 1. They should include an essay stating his/her educational goals and recounting any activities related to these goals. In addition, two letters of recommendation from current high school teachers/counselors and a copy high school transcripts are required. The recipient of this scholarship will be notified at the annual Bow High School Senior Awards Night held prior to graduation. Please send completed applications to Ruth Brack, BGC Scholarship Committee, 229 Elm St., Penacook, NH 03303. For more information, email bracr@comcast.net or call 753-2470.
■The Merrimack County Stamp Collectors will hold its monthly meeting at the Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South St., Bow, on Tuesday, beginning at 1 p.m . They invite anyone interested in stamp collecting to attend, share their interest and to buy, sell and trade. and to meet other collectors and to learn more about Philatelic resources and issues. For more information call Dan Day at 228-1154.
JOYCE KIMBALL
bowcomnews@comcast.net
■Community breakfasts at the Dunbarton Congregational Church Vestry continue through February from 8 to 10 a.m. Come enjoy a hardy, homecooked breakfast of eggs or pancakes, bacon or sausage, home fries, homemade breads, coffee, tea, juice or cocoa. Proceeds go to the vestry restoration payment. Cost for everything $10 or $8 includes two eggs or two pancakes, two sausage or two bacon, two slices of toast, and a drink. Everyone is welcome.
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is this month’s selected book at the library. Discussion will be Wednesday at noon. Books are available at the library now.
■Chair yoga sessions for adults with Sherry Gamble on are on Thursdays at 10 a.m. at the library.
■The week of Feb. 24 to 28 is winter vacation for schools. March 7 is the Dunbarton Annual School District meeting at the school. On March 10, voting day, there will be no school. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the school.
■Kids in first- through fourth-grade can sign up for Reads to Dogs at the library. The next session will be Feb. 27 from 3 to 4 p.m. Please call the library now to schedule your 15 minutes of reading time and confirm the schedule. Please note there will be three dogs to choose from this time.
■Knitting for kids (of all ages) is every Friday after school at 2:30 p.m. at the library. 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. They are collecting bags. Please drop your donations off at the bin in the library or at the Dunbarton Congregational Church (DCC). If you’re interested in helping with this project, contact Sue Johonnett at DCC or contact the library.
■The DCC Book Club is reading Angels in My Hair by Lorna Byrne. Discussion at the Vestry on March 5 from 7 to 8 p.m. All are welcome.
NORA LEDUC
774-3141
dtowncrier@gmail.com
■Congrats to JSRHS sophomore Ryan Flaherty who has been selected to participate in the 2020 Capital Area Student Leadership Program (CASL), which is offered annually through the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce.
■Congrats to WMS Spelling Bee winner, seventh-grader Hunter Lambert, and runner-up, sixth-grader Landon O’Connor.
■Do you have questions about the Henniker or John Stark District school budgets? School board members Zach Lawson and Deb Urbaitis will be at Abby’s Cafe in Henniker from 7 to 10 a.m. on Friday and again on Feb. 26 to answer your questions.
■Henniker community concerts continue with Decatur Creek on Feb. 23 at 5 p.m. at New England College, 98 Bridge St., in Henniker.
TOM DUNN
dunn.t@comcast.net
■On Monday, GHSS Crafty Critters will make handkerchief sachets. A great way to make a memorable keepsake. If you have any hankies that are important to you, this is a nice way to use them. All supplies will be provided for a $2 fee per sachet. Join at St. Mary’s from 10 a.m. to noon. Call Barbara Hays at 464-2692 with questions.
■The Mystery Book Group will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Fuller Public Library to discuss The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelidis. This group meets the third Tuesday of the month. Stop by if you are interested!
■On Wednesday, GHSS is hittin the Heights. Join GHSS for our monthly Concord Heights shopping excursion. We’ll stop at a variety of businesses, i.e. Wal-Mart, Target, Dollar Tree, Ali’s to name a few. Lunch will be at the Windmill on your own. Group is leaving Shaws at 10 a.m. Cost is $6. Call Linda Kowalski at 464-5264 to reserve a seat.
■On Thursday at the GHSS Senior Luncheon, we’re serving lasagna, caesar salad, plenty of garlic bread and a sweet dessert. Lunch is at St. Mary’s starting at noon. Cost is $5. Call Marie Merrow at 464-3067 and make your reservation before Monday Feb 17.
NANCY SHEE
nshee71@gmail.com
■Stop by The House of Art, 846 Main St., Contoocook for handmade cards and a group show of local art made specially for Valentines Day. This show closes today.
■The Contoocook Farmers Market is held every Saturday 9 a.m. to noon at the Maple Street School. SNAP/EBT accepted. For more information, visit facebook.com/ContoocookFarmersMarket.
■Senior lunch at the Slusser Center on Wednesdays at noon at the Slusser Senior Center, 41 Houston Drive next to the town library. Suggested donation $4.
■The program Public Art and the “For Freedoms” Project with Prof. Jon Gitelson will be Feb. 23 at 4 p.m. at the library. Gitelson will look at how art can stimulate community conversations.
■Cookies with Cass will be on Feb. 24 at 1:30 p.m. and March 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hopkinton Town Library. There will be a Town Meeting Review Q&A with Town Administrator Neal Cass.
■Sensory Hawaiian Program with Mokihana Scalph will be held at the Hopkinton Town Library on Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. A free family program.
■Sweets with Steve will be held March 6 at 1:30 p.m. at the Hopkinton Town Library. The topic is the School Budget Q&A with Superintendent Steve Chamberlin.
KATHLEEN BUTCHER
724-3452
kathb123@comcast.net
■Main Street Warner Mural Project coordinators are looking for artists to develop a distinctive painted mural artwork that celebrates the history and promotes the town of Warner. Submission deadline is March 1. Full request for proposal can be found at warnerhistorical.org.
■Conservation biologist Christine Schadler will speak on the eastern coyote on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. at MainStreet BookEnds. At a time when contests award hunters who kill the greatest number of coyotes, scientists and conservationists are raising public awareness of the critical ecological role coyotes play in our natural environment, and how they keep the ecosystem in balance.
■On March 1 at 4 p.m., BookEnds BookGroup will welcome Boston author She Moeschen to present on League of Extraordinarily Funny Women: 50 Trailblazers of Comedy, a celebration of the most groundbreaking women in comedy who used humor to shake up the status quo and change perceptions of gender and comedy forever.
■On March 8 at 2 p.m., join former UNH English professor Deborah Brown for a poetry workshop at BookEnds. Workshops are designed to combine lessons and exercises on aspects of craft (image, diction, metaphor) with a small amount of critique and in-group writing.
■“Abby Hutchinson’s Sweet Freedom Songs: Songs and Stories of the Struggle for Abolition and Woman Suffrage” will be held at the Warner Town Hall on Wednesday at 1 p.m. (Snow day March 4). Deborah Anne Goss appears as Abby Hutchinson Patton, recalling mid-19th-century U.S. and New Hampshire history and performing rousing anthems, heartfelt ballads, and humorous ditties sung during anti-slavery and early women’s rights struggles. In the 1840s and 1850s the Hutchinson Family Singers strongly influenced the opinions of the era with their popular songs promoting healthy living and social justice-most prominently the abolition of slavery. Participants are encouraged to join in the singing on several choruses or read a poem or political diatribe of the time.
■Warner’s Snow Train Era will presented Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Warner Town Hall. Warner had the first “Snow Train” in the state. Beginning in 1931 ski clubs from Massachusetts and Dartmouth came by train to ski on the hills of Warner. Before the end of World War II, Jack Chandler and partners had purchased a rope tow from Contoocook and installed it on “Breakneck Hill.” By the late 1940s, Boston area businesses were enticed to bring their workers to ski, skate, slide, and dance in Warner for their annual employee outings. On one weekend the John Hancock Company brought 1,400 employees to Warner whose population was a little over 1,000 residents. Time management was essential by the Warner Development committee to move, entertain and feed the immense crowd. Organizations, school and church groups all pitched in to host these large events and earn money to pay for class trips, capital improvements and programs. Enjoy the stories and new photographs about this phenomenal event in Warner. Tickets available at the door, office, online and at MainStreet BookEnds. Admission is $10.
■Simonds Elementary School’s Winter Carnival will be Friday.
■School winter break will run Feb. 24 to 28.
NEIL NEVINS
456-3614
info@mainstreetbookends.com