Process Started to Clearcut 8-Acre Nansen Ski Jump Parcel
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Volume 119 No. 40 © WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013 50 cents PHOTO BY EDITH TUCKER Director Melinda Beaulieu of Gorham built block towers in the toddler room on Thursday morning at the Gorham Community Learning Center. She hopes that community members from Gorham, Shelburne and Randolph will come at 5:30 p.m. to the Wednesday, Oct. 9, Open House to celebrate GCLC’s 35th year of serving the community. Gorham Learning Center marks 35th year with Oct. 9 Open House By Edith Tucker Learning Center. ing on Main Street where it has [email protected] Beaulieu was a student her- been since,” Beaulieu explained PHOTO BY EDITH TUCKER GORHAM — The Gorham self back in the days when the in an on-site interview on Thurs- Rollie Baillargeon, left, of Gorham and Curtis Cloutier of Berlin, who both work for contractor Couture Community Learning Center program, started in 1978, was day morning. “Now the Center Construction of Berlin, spent time this past week covering up window panes that were recently broken, (GCLC) will celebrate its 35th a two-mornings-a-week social offers morning and afternoon apparently by youthful vandals, on the Brown Company’s historic Research and Development Building. year of operation providing a nursery school for a few 3- and preschool, morning and af- The colorful public murals that PSU students designed and painted still look as fresh and interesting foundation for educational suc- 4-year-olds in the basement of ternoon toddler programs, as as when they were installed in 2011, however. cess and lifelong learning with the Congregational Church. well as kindergarten transition an Open House, starting at 5:30 When she was a teenager at and pick-up, plus structured af- p.m. next Wednesday, Oct. 9. Gorham High School, Beaulieu ter-school programs that serve Melinda Beaulieu of Gor- was a Center volunteer and children from 18 months old up TheBy Jodymany Houle thingswards) Paper Towelsinvented and soon, In in1922, Berlinan employee of ham, who earned her B.S. in then she became a staff mem- to 12 years. Contributing writer metal wall-mounted towel dis- Brown Company, Hiram A. Early Childhood Education ber during her college years. “We have an ongoing re- BERLIN – For anyone who pensers contained the brown Farrand invented the “Farrand from Granite State College in “In 1999, the Gorham Com- lationship with the Ed Fenn is a native of Berlin, stories paper towels all over the nation Rapid Rule,” which was the first May, has been the Center’s di- munity Learning Center became School and SAU #20’s special from the rich history and her- and are still in use today. measuring tape. Farrand start- rector for nine months. She has a non-profit and moved into the education program. Our pre- itage here are sure to have Around the turn of the cen- ed a factory, Hiram A. Farrand long been associated with the Family Resource Center build- see OPEN HOUSE, page A9 been etched in their brains. In tury, the research and devel- Inc., in Berlin in 1927. The build- a close-niche, self-sufficient, opment department was added ing was located on the corner of proud community that thrives to the mill in an effort to exper- Champlain and Coos Street. on tradition while shifting and iment and develop new prod- In 1891, John Goebel and adapting to modern needs, riv- ucts. During this period, many Thomas Griffin earned a pat- Process started to clearcut eting stories have been told of things were invented. Besides ent for the “flower-pot shelf.” the past. The history of hock- paper, the mill created caustic It could be placed in two posi- ey and boxing, logging and the soda named “White Mountain tions; interiorly of the window 8-acreBy Edith Tucker Nansen Ski Jumpsissippi River. parcel paper mills, ski-jumping, and Caustic Soda,” cellulose floc within the room, and exteriorly [email protected] Once used for local, state many other things may have (used to make products such of the room and the window. MILAN — Director Ben Wil- and national ski jumping con- come up in some conversations as cellophane), solka floc (used In 1923, Leo Louis Barbin son of the state Division of tests, the jump has fallen into reflecting back. Among the sto- in products such as foods and invented the “nursing-bottle Parks and Recreation’s Bureau disrepair and has not officially ries, one may have heard of the beverages, pharmaceuticals, holder.” The device would be of Historic Sites has started the been used since the 80s. The many things that have been in- floor tiles, plastics and ad- placed in a baby’s crib, car- ball rolling to clearcut the eight- state-owned Nansen Wayside vented here. hesives, rubber, welding rod riage, or bed where the infant acre site on which is located Park is across the road on Some of the inventions in- coatings, and filters - including could easily reach the bottle the historic Nansen Ski Jump the Androscoggin River, and clude paper towels, precursors cigarettes), artificial leather that sat in the device. off Route 16, near the Berlin-Mi- it received some much-need- for Crisco and cellophane, pea- (mainly for shoes) called onca It has been a common mis- lan town line. ed drainage and maintenance nut oil, a breakfast cereal, baby leather, bermico piping, pow- conception that Tupperware Regional forester Maggie work this past summer. bottle holders, the flower pot der containers used for WWII was invented in Berlin. It was Machinist explained in a recent “We’re just at the beginning shelf, powder containers for weapons, and peanut flakes (a actually invented in Massachu- telephone interview that she of the process,” Machinist said. PHOTO BY EDITH TUCKER guns, a certain type of leather, breakfast cereal.) setts. However, the inventor, expects to be ready for the re- Director Ben Wilson of the If approved, the tree cutting a kind of hockey stick, and the The mill also created raw Earl S. Tupper, was born on a quired “in-house” review that state Division of Parks and would likely be done in the year casserole are just to name a peanut oil which was used as farm on Cates Hill in Berlin in will give Fish and Game, the Recreation’s Bureau of Historic 2014. few. cooking oil. The oil was extract- 1907, but when he was three, state Division of Historic Re- Sites, in collaboration with North Wilson said during a recent Brown Company Paper Mill ed from peanuts and was used the Tupper family moved. Af- sources and other stakeholders Country regional forester Maggie Parks Department tour that he is credited with earning 600 pat- to create the development of ter working in a chemical com- a chance to weigh in with their Machinist, has started the pro- would also like to install one ents. William Wentworth Brown Kream Crisp shortening. Proc- pany, Tupper created plastic, opinions and, possibly, con- cess under which the 8 acres or more interpretive signs and took over Berlin Mills Company tor and Gamble sued Brown non-breakable containers, cerns. of state-owned land surrounding possibly to have some sort of in the 1880’s and the name was Company for their similar plates, cups, bowls, and gas Machinist and Wilson are the Nansen Ski Jump off Route safe platform constructed that later changed to Brown Compa- product, Crisco, but in the end, masks. Inspired by sealed paint proposing to clearcut the over- 16 in Milan could be clearcut. would allow visitors to get an ny. The superintendent of the Brown Company won its case. lids, he also created airtight grown property, from boundary in the late 30s was the largest idea of what ski jumpers saw mill, William E. Corbin, along However, the mill eventually lids. In 1938 he founded the line to boundary line, revealing steel ski jump east of the Mis- see SKI JUMP, page A9 with some chemists, developed sold the patent to Proctor and Tupperware Plastics Company. the remarkable structure that Nibroc (Corbin spelled back- Gamble. Hockey was, and still is popular in Berlin. Recently, a Word on the Street: popular former Berlin Junior Maroon hockey player, John M. Normand, a Berlin hockey legend who has many achieve- “HowBy Edith do Tucker you think the Red Sox are doing? How about the World Series?” ments under his belt, patented [email protected] a dry-land training stick. He is BERLIN — When the Mari- currently negotiating with sev- ners won on Saturday against eral companies. the Oakland Athletics, the Red The precursor for the mod- Sox clinched the best record in ern casserole was invented by the American League. Canadian immigrant Elmire Joli- Game 1 of the American coeur in 1866 in Berlin. League Division Series will be played on Friday, Oct. 4, at Boston’s Fenway Park against CALENDAR ............................ A7 the winner of today’s wild-card CLASSIFIED........................B5-B7 playoff game. The Red Sox will EDITORIAL ............................. A4 have home-field advantage HAPPENINGS ......................... A7 throughout the postseason, OBITUARIES & SERVICES ....... A6 and the deciding game of any playoff series will take place at SPORTS ..............................B1-B4 PHOTOS BY EDITH TUCKER Jean Bartoli John Martin Jordan Whiting home. According to the Boston Gary Lamontagne Globe’s statistician, the Red the Red Sox are doing, the 1994 relative youth, Lamontagne Berlin replied, “I don’t think Sox were 53-28 at Fenway this to the Baltimore Orioles on Berlin High School graduate said that as a lifelong fan he’s about them; I’m not a sports season. Sunday afternoon. They haven’t replied, “They’re above expec- experienced both the good and fan.” When he was young, he The Sox are won 97 games won 98 games since 2004.