INSIDE: 16 VOICES 26,000 COPIES Please Deliver Before FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2006 Vol. 32 | No. 40 | 2 Sections |40 Pages THE buzz ON BEEKEEPING Lessons learned about bees BY LIZ PREMO ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER LEE | Maureen Dean loves honeybees. A member of the Seacoast Beekeepers Association (of which her husband George is Cyan president and with whom she owns four backyard beehives) Magenta Maureen enjoys what she calls “a very rewarding hobby.” When she first became a keeper of bees, “I found myself Yellow sitting in front of the hive, watching them come and go,” she says. “It was very relaxing — almost as good as watching Black a fish tank.” That relaxing hobby — “some people call it an art,” says Maureen — has generated a couple of hundred pounds of “Dean brand” honey just this year, produced through many hours of rewarding labor. A pretty sweet deal, indeed. The importance of honey- bees — and those humans who manage their hives — cannot BUZZ Continued on 17A• Merger complete for SELTNH BY SCOTT E. KINNEY ly completed we can now and board time, SELTNH combine. The merger was ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER devote the full focus of our will be able to concentrate announced in July. EXETER | Earlier this combined organizations to more financial and human “We want to thank the month, two groups dedi- address the conservation resources on direct land New Hampshire Charitable cated to the conservation of challenges and opportu- protection work, ultimately Foundation for its guidance, land joined forces to create nities of our region,” said conserving more land. Exist- leadership and support as the WE SPECIALIZE IN SERVICE OF one supergroup. 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Donna Buckles Trainer/Manager www.clicknfix.net ● 30 Mirona Rd, Portsmouth BOARDING • TRAINING • CAMPS • SHOWINGS • SALES ATLANTICNEWS.COM VOL 32, NO 40 | OCTOBER 13, 2006 | ATLANTIC NEWS | PAGE 3A . TOWN NEWS Dalton heritage set in stone BY LIZ PREMO love performed by Rev. Ira S. ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER Jones. Yet among the famil- (Editor’s Note: This is the iar names of Tuck, Nudd, first of a two-part series of arti- Towle, Lamprey, Dearborn, cles about the Dalton Genea- Knowles, Hobbs, Leavitt, logical Society and its ties to the Palmer and others appearing Seacoast area.) on these stones, one name HAMPTON | It is said — Dalton — was absent. that good things come to And so it has been year those who wait. For Dalton after year — until now. family members in New When Founder’s Day 2006 Hampshire and in various comes around this weekend, places around the globe, a a brand new stone celebrat- time for good things to come ing the Dalton name will has arrived. be among those which have But first, a little history been already in place for 81 lesson. years. When a Founder’s Day This fresh view of the local tribute was established in scenery was accomplished Hampton back on October thanks in part to the efforts 14, 1925, a series of stones of several people — and one was settled into the trian- of them just happens to have gular patch of land known firmly-anchored Dalton roots as Meeting House Green in her family tree. ROCK-SOLID — Lenny Dalton, Millicent Craig, Cathy Scheel, Howard Dalton, Kelvin Dalton, Memorial Park (or Founder’s It was California resident, that in 1925, there were “no Arnold Dalton, Clyde Dalton, Michael Dalton, Elizabeth Aykroyd, and Roger Syphers are pictured Park) along Park Avenue. Millicent Craig, who discov- Daltons in town, [so] nobody here with Founder’s Park’s newest stone honoring the Dalton family. Cathy, Kelvin, Arnold and Upon these stones were ered the Founder’s Park requested it” when the rest Clyde are direct descendents of Rev. Timothy Dalton, who originally settled in Hampton in 1638. Cyan metal plaques bearing the oversight several years ago, of the family stones were — Atlantic News Photo by Liz Premo surnames of the founding when she had seen a graphic established. Magenta families who first settled in of the park on the Internet. With her own personal this seaside community of “I couldn’t understand and well-documented fam- New Hampshire back in the why there was no [Dalton] ily connections to the Great 1630s. stone,” she says, explaining Britain-based Dalton Genea- Yellow This project was a labor of how she later discovered DALTON Continued on 26A• HealtH & Fitness For all Black If your child is struggling in language arts or mathemat ics and needs some extra help, Brainwaves Learning Center cTan phrovidse o nFe-oan-lonle, assistance.