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Speak Up, Epping! Newsletter Volume 6, Issue 5 Epping, New Hampshire September-October, 2013 ____________________________ About this Newsletter It has been very frustrating considering the fact This Newsletter is produced by the Speak Up, that the service was scheduled to start July st Epping! Communications Group. The purpose of 1 . The information from Mercedes-Benz, who is the newsletter is to provide information about building the Sprinter vehicles, has been inaccurate upcoming events and pertinent information from and unreliable to say the least, but I am pushing community organizations. Please note that no them every week at this point to try to speed up the editorial, political or religious views will be accepted delivery of the vehicles. Hopefully they can get their and the Communications Group reserves the right act together this time and actually deliver on what th to edit submissions. If you would like to submit they have promised (for the 4 time)! material for and/or receive this newsletter I apologize to the Epping, NH residents for the electronically, please visit our website at delay in service. Please feel free to contact us at www.SpeakUpEpping.org. 1-800-245-2525 or e-mail questions and comments to [email protected]. Jamie Dowd Check Out Our Newsletter Website President Be sure and check out our Speak Up, Epping! website: www.speakupepping.org, Each new issue of the Newsletter will be available by downloading it from the website. You can also access news from Highnote Festival the issue separately by topic and find late breaking The 13th annual Highnote Festival, a non-profit news, past Newsletters, town links and calendars. benefit for the Adam McPhee Memorial Foundation, Check out our Facebook page! Join us for more will be held on Saturday, September 14th from late-breaking news and events that did not make 2:00 pm until dark at 173 Prescott Road in Epping. our Newsletter deadline. You can connect with us Music and events will be held, rain or shine. Enjoy and with other local friends, services, businesses Northstar Fireworks, helicopter rides by Harvard and organizations. Helicopter and tethered hot air balloon rides by Re/Max, weather permitting. The cost is $15.00 for Update on the Flight Line Express adults. Kids and high school students admitted free. A message from Jamie Dowd, President of Tickets will be available at the gate. The Festival Flight Line, Inc. grounds are handicap-accessible. The new "East West Express" is just waiting for Activities include arts and crafts for all ages, hay delivery of the new vehicles to begin service. The rides, a rock climbing wall, snowmobile water cross, vehicles were supposed to be delivered in June, dunk tank, local artisan exhibit booths, a horseshoe then were delayed to July, then August. The latest tournament and a professional log rolling demo. update is that they will be here in September. The Entertainment will be provided by Blue Matter, good news is that the first two vehicles The Road Cases, Wayne from MAINE and the are supposedly in the production line and being Shoestring Theater Giant Puppetry for kids of all built as we speak! ages. Food will be available from Zampa Bistro We will start the service as soon as the vehicles and Billy Goat Grubb arrive. My best guess at this point is that we will The 5K Race starts at 12:30 pm. The first 100 start mid September but it may be as late as to register receive a free T-shirt and free admission. October 1st. For more information, please contact us at www.highnotefest.com. www.SpeakUpEpping.org Page 1 of 21 [email protected] th Senior Moments October 8 in Portsmouth. Members will be attending for a day filled with educational Now that the grandchildren are back in school, resources, vendors and free health screenings. our days become our own again. Our monthly Gotta share this…It really happened. Mom, age movie club has become a welcomed two-hour 82, experienced her first airplane ride. Once high in retreat from the outside world... the air, she felt a cool breeze (from the air vent This year's Christmas project will be to fill as big above) and called over the flight attendant and a box as we can with food items for the Epping said: "I think someone left a window open." Top Food Pantry. Food will be gathered for the next that one if you can. few months and dropped off at the Fire Submitted by Irene R. Cote, Secretary Department. We encourage others to drop off food. Watson Academy Continues to I guess the year of 2013 can be considered the Educate! "Club On The Rails" summer. First we ventured It has been quite an education for the Watson back to the Trolley Museum in Maine. There have Academy Repair Committee since March, when been several changes over the last 20 years. Next, voters appropriated zero funds to reopen our we boarded the Downeaster to Old Orchard Beach, earthquake-damaged school. We've learned about ME. Of course that included great seafood, community awareness and appreciation for old shopping and scenery. Our last train adventure buildings, geology, technology, publicity, and was to be an exclusive ride on the private Allen bureaucracy. Most lessons have centered on Train, right here in Epping. However, that ride was patience and persistence. postponed until October. Of course lunch always Our committee consists of nearly 30 individuals, follows. each uniquely qualified, all unified around the Some upcoming trips this fall include Rockport, urgent need to reopen the Watson Academy MA for a day of museums and shopping, then a building for public use. We readily agreed that it is visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in important to speak up and encouraged our Board of Boston. This is another "must see" for everyone - Selectmen. “Watson Academy” has appeared on so amazing it's hard to describe. We'll be making a Selectmen agendas throughout the summer. We Christmas shopping trip to the Candy factory in provided the Board with information previously Laconia before long. We always welcome lacking and suggested strategies for moving suggestions from others about places to visit and forward. tour, especially factories in the area. It seemed that the major holdup was our Ms. Arley Moore of TIGER LILLIES FLORAL insurance company’s slow acceptance of the fact SHOP, located on Route 125 in Epping, was our that the 1883 structure remained amazingly sound guest speaker at our August meeting. She during a seismic event last October. While explained how she got started as well as the many numerous site visits have viewed damage in the other resources in her shop besides flowers. What basement and linked it to violent shaking of support really caught our attention is that flowers can be columns, well … it has taken a while for the shipped through her shop much less expansively insurance adjusters to come around. and with better service then if we use the yellow Fortunately (and finally) now, as of this printing, pages. She also brought some fresh floral we are seeing serious consideration of our arrangements which were raffled off to happy claim. Contractors have submitted quotes and winning members. Our interest peaked when she proposals on how to make the Epping icon safe to mentioned that floral arrangement classes are held reopen as a community center. We have learned a weekly at a very reasonable cost. We plan to take lot. Through the process, estimated repair costs these classes to make fall and holiday have dropped dramatically from the original price arrangements. Others should check out her shop tag of $200,000 to $300,000 down to something and join us on creative night. Call her at 734-4565. perhaps less than $50,000. Give it another week to Club members will participate at the Day of see how the bids come out. Surely, by our next Caring on September 11th, sponsored by the issue, ducks will have lined up for a happy romp to Rockingham Nutritional Program. The event is in resolution of our Watson Academy earthquake Plaistow each year and several organizations crisis. Until then … gather to assist in their fundraising project. Carol Clapp for Dear Watson The Senior Healthy Living Expo will be held on Co-chair Repair Committee www.SpeakUpEpping.org Page 2 of 21 [email protected] technology from Paul Smith's, which is located in Epping Lions Club the Adirondack Park of New York State. “We Serve” Alexis Burke of Epping, N.H., was among a record We Want YOU to Join the Epping Lions Club number of graduates - 3,169 - presented with www.epping.nhlions.org diplomas at UMass Lowell's 2013 Commencement We are looking for innovative people who desire exercises on Saturday, May 18 at the Tsongas to become involved in improving our community Center at UMass Lowell. and having fun doing it. The Epping Lions Club was established in April, 2009. We support sight Justin York of Epping, NH, was awarded a Master programs and services including vision screenings, of Education degree in Counselor Education from nd eyeglass recycling, and provide assistance to local Plymouth State University at their 142 families in need of eyeglasses. We support Commencement ceremony on May 18, 2013 community programs as well as participate and sponsor some exciting events, such as the Devon Bernard of Epping was named to the Lamprey River Canoe Race and the Highnote Dean's list at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for Festival. With your involvement and ideas we look the Spring 2013 semester.