The community is invited to help welcome elementary school teachers and staff back to school with a fun art project. Stop by Harold Martin School or Maple Street School between 10 a.m. Saturday and and 4 p.m. Sunday and use chalk to write or draw a welcoming message by the front entrances to the schools. There will be some pre-drawn shapes waiting for you – feel free to use those or make your own! Some chalk will be available, but please bring your own if you have some. Please observe physical distancing and masking guidelines
Despite the disappointment of canceling the 2020 N.H. Pumpkin Festival in Downtown Laconia, festival organizer Lakes Region Chamber is excited to announce a new initiative, “Come Catch the Glow! Discover Autumn in the Lakes Region.” The event will take place throughout the month of October.
“Without the pumpkin festival and businesses experiencing the most challenging economic times, the chamber realized the need to create an initiative that supports our local businesses on a road to recovery,” shared Karmen Gifford, president of the Lakes Region Chamber. “We are moving from a summer of sunshine and outdoor social distancing, visitors and staycationers into cooler climates and what we call our shoulder months before winter activities start. It’s the chamber’s mission to create opportunities that help drive economic growth, promote a more engaged community that supports a thriving economy for businesses in the Lakes Region.”
“Come Catch the Glow! Discover Autumn in the Lakes Region” will take place the entire month of October with a new website ComeCatchTheGlow.com featuring an interactive map that drives consumers across our 24 towns and cities in the Lakes Region. The goal is to encourage consumers to visit local businesses while creating fun experiences, discovering or re-discovering and exploring safely without encouraging large gatherings. The Lakes Region glows with the colorful foliage, activities that only happen this time of the year offering bountiful fall flavors with fresh apples, pumpkins and perhaps a slice of butternut squash lasagna.
Columbus Day weekend will feature the discovery of glowing pumpkin displays hosted by local businesses across the region including Vista Foods, Prescott Farm, T-Bones & Cactus Jacks, and Chisholm, Persson & Ball PC & many more. If you are a business that is open for business in October and would like to be discovered in the Lakes Region Chamber’s Come Catch the Glow! Discover Autumn in the Lakes Region initiative, go to LakesRegionChamber.org or call 524-5531. The cost to participate is $100. If you are a business or a school that would like to host a pumpkin display, give the Chamber a call to learn how.
The Hopkinton Town Library requests that you return borrowed materials that you’ve had out since March. Materials can be returned to the book slot at the library and the Book Drop Box outside the Town Hall. Both are open 24/7 for your convenience.