Youth firearms classes to be held

Sunset Mountain Fish & Game Club will be offer a program to instruct youth on safety, marksmanship, cleaning and safe storage of firearms. Classes start on April 15 at 9 a.m. and wrap up at noon, followed by a hamburger and hotdog lunch. Firearms, ammunition and targets will be provided by the club at no charge. All instruction and shooting will be one-on-one with an instructor on the firing line. Hearing and eye protection will be provided. Participants may bring their own 'eyes and ears' and personal firearm subject to review and approval by the instructor. All personal firearms will remain under the control of the Sunset Mountain Fish & Game Club when on premises. The classes run once per month through October and a parent of guardian must accompany each child. For more information or application forms, call Gordon Fifield at 225-3730 or email Doug Kean at dougkean@live.com.

• Spring yoga class begins Wednesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. for eight weeks at the Parish House. The cost is $80. Class size is limited. To register, send check payable to Judy Egan, 53 Pickard Road, Canterbury, N.H. 03224. For more information, call Judy Egan at 783-9065 or Nancy Jackson-Reno at 746-2728.

• Want to get outside more? Want to explore different areas besides around your house? If you answered yes to either of these questions, consider coming to an Earth Day Quest April 15 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Kimball Pond. There will be activities for the kids and a Quest (scavenger hunt in nature) around the pond. This is open to anyone, kids and adults, and it's free! You may want to bring boots with the possibility that it will be mucky around the pond.

• Joan Leggett of Canterbury is the 2012 recipient of the Country School Association of America Service Award. Leggett is the program coordinator for the Canterbury Historical Society's One-Room Schoolhouse and she has worked hard to develop a curriculum which mirrors a typical day in a one-room schoolhouse.

• Parish House and sanctuary clean-up and organize day will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call John Scarponi, trustees chair, for more information.

• The deadline for the Bruner Family Scholarship is April 15! Canterbury students who are currently enrolled juniors or seniors in college studying in the fields of science, education or engineering are urged to apply. Students may get an application by visiting nhcf.org and following the 'student aid' link.

• The annual Pick-Up-All-The-Litter-That-Has-Accumulated-Along-The-Side-Of-The-Road-Over-The-Course-Of-The-Winter-Day is Saturday. Blue bags for roadside trash and recycling are available only from Patrice Rasche or at the transfer station. If you want to sign yourself or your organization up for a specific stretch of road, call Rasche at 783-9360 or email mattieandriley@yahoo.com.

• The library trustees will meet tomorrow at 7 p.m.

• Story hour with Linda Kotusky will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the library.

• The book group is reading State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. Copies are currently available at the library for the April 17 meeting at 7 p.m.

• Teen Time Read will finish up the review of The Fire Within by Chris D'Lacey tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the library.

• 'A Garden for Wildlife: Natural Landscaping for a Better Backyard' will be held Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the library. Donna Miller, a natural resource steward from the Speaking for Wildlife program, will talk about 'A Garden for Wildlife,' a 35-minute slide presentation that shows how to help wildlife by altering your landscaping and gardening practices. Participants are encouraged to bring photos of their landscaping and/or yard.

• Two Old Friends will perform Thursday at 7 p.m. at the library.

• The library is putting on a flower power fundraiser. Stop by and order from a selection of flowering plants including freesias, dahlias, summer daffodils, lilies, gladiolus, Mexican shellflowers and many others. Orders must be in by April 23.

• Thirteen students in grades one through five entered this year's Young Inventors Program. Hannah Scott, Eamon Kelley and Matthew Landry went to the State Celebration on March 24.

• Enrichment teacher Karen Gingrich is working with four fifth graders in the next month to create an oral history about the Worsted Church of Canterbury. Under the guidance of our local historian, Mark Stevens, Zachary Ennis, Zackery Duclos, Katherine Wieck and Alice Riley will interview people who remember the church, stories about the church and people who tried to save the church and its beautiful artifacts as it burned in the 1950s. The resulting video will be made available to the community.

• The collective Lockwood families would like to extend an invitation to our friends in town to help us celebrate some family milestones...birthdays to be exact! Bob Lockwood just turned 80. Lucyann Zeller will be 50 in May and Becca Camire turns 10 in April. Join us for an open house Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the town hall. Stop in to reminisce with Bob, welcome Lucyann into 'middle age,' and give Becca advice on all the things she has to look forward to! Stay for a little while, or a long while. Come dressed up or as you are, and bring stories to share. (No gifts, please!)

• Spring community sing and potluck supper will be held Saturday at 6 p.m. at Concord Friends Meeting House, 11 Oxbow Pond Road. Anyone who loves to sing, play or listen to music is welcome to attend. The potluck supper will be held from 6 to 6:45 p.m., then share in a song circle. Copies of Rise Up Singing will be provided, but you are welcome to bring other song books. Instruments are encouraged. RSVP to Ruth Smith at ruthnaturally@myfairpoint.net or 783-4656.

Ginny Wright

731-2448

wriginny@gmail.com