VOLUME 33, NUMBER 50 MAY 21, 2009 FREE

THE WEEKLY NEWS & LIFESTYLE JOURNAL OF MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY

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Looking Back: New From M&D: Gaby Griswold sailed to France M&D Productions is in 1916 at the height of WWI, now offering the on-stage committed to helping the troops drama, ‘Facing East,’ in whatever way she could … A at their new theatre 4 in North Conway … B1 A SALMON PRESS PUBLICATION • (603) 447-6336 • PUBLISHED IN CONWAY, NH Page Two Guest Appreciation Days!

May 23-24-25, Publishing and Remembrance May 29-30-31, A Tree Grows in North Conway By Steven Caming It was an instructive time working Contributing Writer with Steve in the art of what was possi- N A SUNNY MORN- ble — doing well by doing good and June 5-6-7 ing in late April, a small even enjoying the process. In many Ogroup of people gathered ways, a newspaper creates and becomes in North Conway to remember the intangible roots of the community. someone and plant a tree. It was a Each generation has its season, its sto- 9 am to 5 pm spindly little sapling, showing the ries and personalities…and as the leaves promise of green tips and a life to fall away it is the stories that remain, to come. More important was what flourish in the rediscovery and retelling could not be seen…the young roots of a new spring. that had begun to find their way It was an honored and mysterious into the strange new soil that would position to be the court scribe in Admission is only now be home. ancient times. To be the transcriber of Above those roots an engraved history remains both an art and a sci- granite marker remembered Steve ence and is one of great responsibility. $21 per person Eastman, founder and former pub- Not just to posterity, but so that each lisher of the newspaper you’re read- of us, in our time, might have a better ing right now. When he came to this understanding and clearer vision of valley more than three decades ago, ourselves…in hindsight, maybe the (regularly $25) • he had a few things in common with struggling news industry can learn a that spindly little sapling that now lesson from a small town publisher bears his name —Steve’s own tenta- that got it right: that bad news for its Ages 1&2 Free tive roots took hold in a way that cre- own sake doesn’t sell, it doesn’t help ated a newspaper that bound together The Eastman family gathered recently to plant a and it doesn’t reflect very well on the a community within its pages…pages tree at the Whitaker Homesite Recreation Area in source that celebrates it. made of paper and so a tree seems remembrance of their husband, father and brother, This is not a news flash. even more apropos to the occasion. Steve Eastman, co-founder and former publisher of And after the wave of 21st cen- But it’s the roots that hold fast to a The Mountain Ear, who passed away April 25, tury bad news crests and washes over place, that claim a spot in time and 2008, from brain cancer. Standing in the top photo us, taking back out on the tide with it NH Public TV through the seasons of a life. In the (left to right) are Steve’s daughter, Emily, his broth- the worst of the trash, what will pages of Steve Eastman’s paper the er, Dave, his sister, Mary Borowski, and his wife, remain are the roots of why newspa- history and characters, events and evo- Sarah. Kneeling are Steve’s son, Grant, and his pers were important to start with: Day - June 6 lutions of these mountain communities brother, Tom. (Steve Caming/Mountain Ear Photo) they are part of the community — found their venue and their audience. they are our collective bulletin board, He surrounded himself with an eclectic petitive media. memory and sounding board. They mix of voices, family literally and figura- At a time when the newspaper indus- matter because our daily lives matter and Featuring tively, and told us all stories that defined try as we know it is facing weakening because they can both reflect and inspire our life and times. revenue and an increasingly fragmented the angels of our better nature. The Unlike some publishers, nationally audience, the collective answer can’t be good ones can, anyway. and locally, who often seem to celebrate ever more salacious stories in bigger I miss my friend…his name is on a “Super Why!” the lowest common denominator in type. Somewhere along the line (written boulder in one town park and now a tree the pursuit of any edge, even a bleeding or otherwise) must be a sense of journal- in the other. Forevermore passers- by one, Eastman’s years at the helm were istic purpose — to determine what kind will know the name of a newspaper and “Curious different. The news was there, but of person you are, what kind of commu- publisher who once lived his life here. not the sensationalist overtones that nity you want to live in and what kind of What they won’t see are the roots that George” have come to mark so much of the com- newspaper you want to publish. hold all the stories. ▲ On the Cover Inside Index Memorial Day, 2009 Biz to Biz Expo Arts & Entertainment...... Page B1 The Mt. Washington Valley Chamber Monday, May 25, is Memorial Day and Calendar...... Page B4 The Mountain Ear would like to honor of Commerce honored a wide variety of Route 16 • Glen, local businesspeople at the annual Down Stream...... Page A12 all the men and women who have Business to Business Expo at the served our country in times of war as Mount Washington Hotel on May 18. Entertainment...... Page B6 well as in times of peace. We wave the Page A17 On the Rockpile...... Page B20 New Hampshire flag for all of you. (Steve Caming Photo) On The Links Nooks & Crannies...... Page B10 Golf columnist Pru Smith is back to 603-383-4186 bring readers another season of all the Real Estate ...... Pages A5 & A17-20 golf news that’s fit to print.. Page B12 Sports ...... Pages B14-17

Page A2 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Ear Marks

Carroll County 4-H offers Green Thumb Teams for kids Summer gardening fun for kids and parents CONWAY — This summer 4-H will be plant and tend their own gardens. By the Although the program will meet weekly, and the Mount Washington Valley Green partnering with two different community summer’s end, each participant will have program participants are free to come and Team on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., garden efforts to offer kids and their parents their own small crop of flowers and fresh tend their gardens during the week. The beginning on June 30 through Aug. 11. an opportunity to get involved in vegetables. cost of the program is $10 per child for In addition to each child’s yardstick gar- gardening. This program is set up for children ages seven sessions and scholarships can be made den bed, families can lease an additional Carroll County 4-H is working with the 5 to 13 and a parent or adult to meet once a available for families in need. All children garden 4’ x 10’ garden bed from the MWV Mount Washington Valley Green Team in week for games, activities, and planting and and parents from surrounding communities Green Team for $25. For more information Conway and the Green Mountain tending their own “yardstick” garden beds. are welcome to join the Green Thumb on the Valley Community Garden, contact Conservation Group in Effingham, to run a Participants will learn how plants grow, Team or lease their own garden plot Jen Andrews at 475-3587. summer 4-H Green Thumb Team garden- about garden soils, “good” and “bad” insects through either community garden. The Effingham 4-H Green Thumb ing program. Kids can sign up to be part of and food and nutrition from our gardens, as The Conway 4-H Green Thumb Team Team will meet at the Green Mountain a Green Thumb Team and will meet week- well as how to plant and tend a small veg- will meet at the Valley Community Garden Conservation Group Office on Huntress ly for garden fun and an opportunity to etable garden. on Tasker Hill Road, hosted by Russ Lanoie Bridge Road in Effingham on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., beginning on July 2 to Aug. 13. Additional 4’ x 8’ garden beds can be leased by families through the season Come get dirty and grow with the Valley Community Garden for $15. For more information on the CONWAY — The Valley Community venient water supply. Generous sponsorship and support from Green Mountain Conservation Group Garden is slated to hold a grand opening Educational programs and mentoring by Blue Sky Environmental and U.N.H. Community Garden, contact Tara and celebration of the spring planting sea- master gardeners will be offered. Cooperative Extension, as well as the time Schroeder at 536-1859. son on Sunday, May 31, from 12 to 5 p.m. at Additionally, the Valley Community of many kind volunteers, have helped to get For more information about the 4-H the garden site at 397 Tasker Hill Road in Garden will also be a host site for the 4-H the project this far; however, in order to Green Thumb Teams, 4-H clubs or pro- Conway, eight-tenths of a mile from its Green Thumbs youth gardening program. make the community garden a viable proj- grams or to register for one of the 4-H intersection with N.H. Route 153. The Kids ages 5-13 and interested parents can ect this summer, the Valley Community Green Thumb Teams, contact Claes public is invited to come and sign up for a sign up to participate in 4-H Green Garden still needs more volunteers, spon- Thelemarck, Extension Educator for 4-H plot or just see what the program is all Thumbs, which will meet weekly on sors and cash contributions. Also needed are Youth Development at the UNH about. There will be activities, food, and Tuesday mornings from 10 a.m. to noon donations of gardening equipment, such as Cooperative Extension in Conway at 447- planting of the plots. from June 30 through Aug. 11. 4-H Green garden carts, tools, soil, compost, organic or 3834. The not-for-profit Valley Community Thumbs is a program of UNH Cooperative heirloom seeds or seedlings. In addition, The University of New Hampshire Garden is a project of the Mt. Washington Extension 4-H Youth Development. More Russ Lanoie is looking for donations of Cooperative Extension is a public institu- Valley Green Team’s Local Food and information on the Green Thumbs pro- leaves that people are still raking from their tion with a longstanding commitment to Sustainable Agriculture Subcommittee. gram is available by contacting Claes winter clean up, for composting. He can be equal opportunity for all. It is the policy of The mission of the VCG is to create a Thelemarck at 447-3834. reached at 447-5266 to arrange for pick up UNHCE to abide by all United States and chemical-free garden of fresh vegetables As a project of the of the Mt. and delivery. New Hampshire state laws and University and flowers for distribution to underserved Washington Valley Green Team — a pro- To learn more about the Valley System of New Hampshire and University area residents. In addition, it will be a gar- gram of the Mt. Washington Valley Community Garden and how you can be a of New Hampshire policies applicable to dening experience that benefits all area resi- Preservation Association in affiliation with part of it, contact Jennifer Andrews, discrimination and harassment. It does not dents through gardening education, men- the Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Chairperson of the Valley Community discriminate on the basis of race, color, reli- toring and volunteer participation. Commerce — the Valley Community Garden, at 475-3587 or [email protected] gion, sex, national origin, age, veteran’s sta- For the 2009 season, VCG is creating a Garden is a community-conscious, not-for- to volunteer, reserve a plot, or to ask ques- tus, gender identity or expression, sexual community garden where one section of the profit initiative. Conway resident Russ tions or offer comments, ideas or concerns. orientation, marital status, or disability in garden is designated the “giving garden,” Lanoie has very generously offered a 100- Visit the VCG blog site at http://mwvgar- admission or access to, or treatment or planted and harvested entirely by volun- foot-by-100-foot lot, as well as compost, dens. wordpress.com. And don’t forget to employment in, its programs, services, or teers. The harvest from this plot will be water and lots of “sweat equity” by provid- come and enjoy a day in the garden on activities. ▲ donated to local food pantries and other ing the materials to build the raised beds. Sunday, May 31! ▲ agencies for distribution to those in need. Organic seedlings have been started at the Another area is divided into individual, 4- Kennett Middle School sustainable class- foot-by-8-foot rental plots. Plot rental fee is room with the help of students and teachers. 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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page A3 Established 1976 PUBLISHER Richard Piatt

FOUNDING EDITORS R. Stephen Eastman The WWI Adventures of... Jane Golden Reilly

MANAGING EDITOR Nina Perry Going Over There with the Doughboys

COPY WRITING/ PROOFREADING By Steve Caming Nina Perry Contributing Writer Kristina Whitten e are, each of us, living bits of history in CONTRIBUTING WRITERS the making. The times of our lives bear Ann Bennett witness to the process of now becoming Pru Smith W Steven D. Smith then… and we carry within us that living history. Peter Minnich Books and movies serve up mere glimpses of the Steve Caming events they seek to portray and though some view Linda Tucker through the prism of history is better than none at John Harrigan all, nothing compares with an eyewitness. CONTRIBUTING Even decades later, there is a visceral quality to a PHOTOGRAPHERS Steven D. Smith story well told by one who was there. There is a quiet Joshua Spaulding power in bearing witness and then sharing what you’ve Linda Tucker seen. Even if much is lost in translation, even if the Steve Caming emotional impact is but a pale echo of the original ADVERTISING SALES moment — that moment can still be passed on from Shannon Houde a passionate teller to a captivated listener. Such is COMPUTER GRAPHICS, oral history… DESIGN & COMPOSITION Amanda Dunleavy here’s was a fiery glint in try, felt her talent for music could her diary entry was a portent of Gaby Griswold’s eyes as she comfort some of the many soldiers things to come: “I’ve learned a lot – who were being blinded by mustard and among it all, I’ve learned to love LAYOUT DESIGN Trecalled her adventures dur- ing World War I. gas. Taking her summer vacation Paris. I’d not have missed it for the Emily Killinger A high-spirited woman when I from teaching school, she obtained a world. I’m going back again.” As fate met with her more than 20 years passport and planned her departure. would have it, she was going back OFFICE MANAGER ago, her apartment in North “It was the United States’ first sooner than she’d have imagined. Kristina Whitten Conway was suddenly transformed experience with a European war and into the villages and cities of France the State Department just wasn’t AMERICA DECLARED WAR DISTRIBUTION as her descriptive narrative unfolded. prepared for preventing nationals on Germany. The date was April 2, from going into a war zone,” she 1917. Bill Collins Her life when I met her was far more sedate than in those turbulent war noted in her journal. “I was elated that we, too, could John Myers years, but through her detailed rec- Years later, Gaby’s daughter play a part in the war to end all wars. Darlene Westfall ollections, we traveled back through Gabrielle, herself an accomplished There was really something very Tina Lamy time to relive some of her amazing journalist, wrote this of her mother’s special and idealistic, perhaps even experiences. motivation for going “over there”: naïve, about that war. It was a cause “Having graduated Class of 1912 worth fighting for, a crusade in the THE YEAR IS 1916. AROUND with a B.A. from Hunter College, by best sense of the word. The allies the globe all eyes are focused on 1916 my mother had been teaching would win and that would be the end The Mt. Washington Valley MOUNTAIN EAR is elementary school English for sever- of wars forever — there would never published on Thursdays as an independent newspa- Europe as the winds of war reach per by Salmon Press. The publication is printed 51 gale force. In the United States, al years. At the time she left for be another war,” she said in an inter- weeks each year and is distributed from Ossipee to France, she was teaching by day (at view. Gorham, New Hampshire, and also in Fryeburg Teddy Roosevelt is calling on and western Oxford County, Maine. President Wilson and the American P.S. 186), while working after school Living alone with her widowed The MOUNTAIN EAR office is located at hours for her Masters at Columbia. mother, Griswold received a letter Mountain River Village on Route 16 in Conway, people to rally ‘round the flag and New Hampshire. Please direct all correspondence get in on the fighting. As she was both concerned about the from a friend still serving with the to: The MOUNTAIN EAR, P.O. Box 530, war in France and fed up with teach- ambulance corps in France. In it, her Conway, N.H. 03818. In the trenches of France, the car- The telephone number to call for general informa- nage of “modern warfare’ takes a ing, she jumped at the chance to go friend explained that small groups of tion and display advertising is 603-447-6336. overseas and perform music therapy women were arriving in France to For classified advertising call 877-766-6891. heavy toll on both sides. Early tanks, The Fax number is 603-447-5474. machine guns, and airplanes add to for French soldiers blinded by the work with the U.S. Army through Ear on Web: war.” groups like the Red Cross, the newhampshirelakesandmountains.com the destructive capabilities of the E-mail: [email protected] for news or allies and the Germans. Sailing on the old French liner, Salvation Army and the YMCA. [email protected] for ad material Chicago, Griswold found herself on Wanting to get her mother’s reac- The yearly bulk mail subscription rate is $35 and is More and more horror stories of payable in advance. trench warfare and mustard gas a 13-day journey, zig-zagging across tion without directly asking, Gaby reach America. While the wheels of the Atlantic to hopefully avoid the left the letter conspicuously on a ADVERTISING DEADLINES torpedoes of German U-boats. table and watched from another Advertising insertion orders must be placed one week government grind slowly yet inex- in advance of publication date, and advertising copy orably toward a declaration of war, Her shipmates included volun- room as her mother read it, appar- must be received in our office by Monday at 5 p.m. some people decide the time for teers for the American Ambulance ently without incident. “She took it LETTERS POLICY action is now. Corps, and an assortment of others like the brave soul she was and I The Mountain Ear welcomes Letters to the Editor Having made contact with from all walks of life, eager to join in immediately set in motion the appli- pertaining to local community issues. All corre- “Lighthouse,” a benevolent organi- the “great adventure.” cations, interviews and examina- spondence should be signed, include a return address, and be addressed to P.O. Box 530, Conway, zation for the blind based in New The first summer passed quickly, tions, medical and otherwise, pre- N.H. 03818, faxed to (603) 447-5474 or e-mailed to York City, Gaby Griswold, at the age as the young woman spent her days liminary to being considered by the [email protected]. All letters should be received prior to publication and be no longer than of 24, decided her time for action trying to help French soldiers adjust YMCA,” she recalled. 300 words. The Mountain Ear reserves the right to had come. to the darkness of their new handi- Upon being accepted, Griswold edit letters for length and clarity and to not publish cap. As the season came to a close, was fitted with the traditional grey letters deemed unsuitable. Griswold, being of French ances-

Page A4 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 ABYABY GRISWOLDRISWOLD

uniform and cape, and once again considered part of the American found herself at the French line pier Expeditionary Force. that she had sailed from the first The journey passed uneventfully, time, but it was very different than it and the ship approached France by had been a year and a half earlier. way of the Bay of Biscay. Prior to “The strictest military precau- docking at Bordeaux, all hands on tions were observed because there board raucously sang together, was a large contingent of American “…And we won’t be back till its over, troops on board. We sailed at mid- over there!” night under cover of darkness and Griswold was assigned to the Hut slipped out of the harbor and the Equipment Department. It was her narrows with no lights showing,” she job to keep the YMCA huts in the remembered. Along with the troops, the small group of “Y” women was GRISWOLD continues Page A6 Attitash Realty

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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page A5 Griswold Continued from Page A5 leave areas equipped with soft drinks, snacks, paper, pens and tables for writing, games, cigarettes and an assortment of other supplies to relieve those coming out of the trenches. “Not an easy task in a country that had already been at war for three years,” she noted. Her arrival in Paris coincided with the unveiling of a new weapon by the Germans — Big Bertha. This was a mammoth artillery piece hidden well behind the German lines. It was so large and so far away from its target, that once aimed at Paris it could not deviate right or left or it risked miss- break through the line before the nearby chateau that had been con- ial. Each was wrapped in an Army ing the city entirely. By raising or Americans could reinforce it, the verted into a hospital, the women grey blanket. As they were buried, a lowering it slightly it could continue Germans launched a major offensive prepared for the coming night. bugler blew a mournful Taps. Never on the “path of destruction,” which at Chateau Thierry, a location just Wearing gas masks as they slept in again would that tune sound the the Parisians had learned to avoid 50 miles from Paris. Griswold went shell holes, Griswold and her coun- same to those who watched and lis- once the shelling began. to bed that night listening to the terparts got what rest they could in tened that day,” she said. Griswold “Once she got started, Big Bertha sounds of distant gunfire. The preparation for the coming day. returned to that place many years came down regularly every 15 min- untried Americans proved them- “We were at a crossroads and it later, by which time that field had utes, like clockwork, until the selves in battle, and the line held. seemed a good place to be if we were become one of the large American French planes put her out of busi- “In our department at the ‘Y’ we to catch the troops on the move,” cemeteries, with their orderly rows ness. It was the same for the second decided to take some immediate she said. It was rumored that the of white crosses that were scattered and third Bertha, as well as those comfort to the men coming off the Germans were going to bomb the about France. that followed,” she recounted. front lines. We loaded a half-ton chateau that night despite the red On the morning of the third day, Griswold wrote of Paris being truck with supplies, obtained move- crosses displayed everywhere. There the “Y” contingent headed back to blacked out at night, of the trains ment orders, and four of us in our was no air raid that night, though. Paris. That night the Germans that stopped running at 10 p.m. and Model-T joined a convoy to the After setting up a makeshift stand bombed the chateau, killing many of of the underground shelters being front lines,” she remembered. at dawn, they waited for the troops the wounded as well as others. But used for bomb shelters. On one of Passing through Chateau Thierry, rotating off the front to pass by. Griswold and her colleagues were her first nights in Paris she was Griswold saw her first glimpse of the “They came doggedly plodding determined to continue the program exposed to another by-product of total destruction following the along, then suddenly, as though elec- of serving the men as they came out war – an air raid. “It started with the house-to-house fighting in the town. trified, they spied us and came run- of the trenches, and this was organ- wail of a siren, then another, until all “I remember looking into what had ning over. Some stared in disbelief, ized from Paris. of Paris was a cacophony of wailing. once been a bedroom as we drove others cried out, ‘Gosh, its great to Well over a year later, Griswold The German planes could only carry slowly by. The iron frame of a bed see you! How did you get here? and the YMCA were still dispensing four bombs so we got into the habit was still there and standing in the Where did you come from?’ as they supplies and smiles to the men com- of counting the explosions while lis- middle of the empty frame was a big crowded around to get a drink of ing off the lines. It was a year of liv- tening to the sharp crack of anti-air- dog, waiting faithfully for the master chocolate or light up a cigarette,” ing dangerously. By October of 1918 craft fire,” she wrote. “Suddenly I who might never return,” she wrote she recalled. rumors of an armistice being signed heard a sound like an enormous later. This little oasis of comfort stood were circulating everywhere. “We whistle which kept getting louder in The convoy passed through town out in stark contrast to the surround- couldn’t decide whether we didn’t intensity and higher in pitch. A near- after deserted town, the desolation ing hospital, tents full of wounded, believe them, or whether we were by explosion followed.” and destruction complete. The area and scenes of devastation. “There just afraid they weren’t true,” she Once the “all-clear” was sounded had been liberated so recently that were thousand of flies, the air was said. the streets would fill with people, signs along the road still read “Gas” fouled by the odor of decay. In the Finally, it was announced that the church bells would ring and the and “Keep Gas Masks on.” Still, they haste of the push through that armistice would be signed insistent, rhythmic sirens of fire moved forward, as the sounds of bat- region bodies were left in shallow November 11 at 11 a.m. Unable to engines heading to the scene of the tle got louder. graves and the flies found these stay in her office any longer, she and bombings could be heard. “Big Arriving at their destination just breeding places,” she wrote. her cohorts took to the streets to cel- Bertha by day and air raids by night behind the lines, the “Y” contingent As the last of that wave of soldiers ebrate. “And celebrate we did! The kept Paris awake and listening,” she reported to the commanding officer passed, Griswold witnessed a sight streets were full of people, cheering, said. just as a deafening explosion shook she could never forget. yelling, waving flags, hugging and the ground. The Germans had final- “From the tents behind the hospi- kissing anyone they met. Church MORE AND MORE AMERI- ly hit the ammunition dump, the tal a procession came, carrying the bells pealed triumphantly, autos cans were arriving to bolster the war- captain explained. bodies of those who had died during honked their horns, and fire trucks weary French troops. In an effort to Falling back a short distance to a the night across into a field for bur- ran their sirens. The three of us who

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Page A6 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 nal begin to communicate the feel- elderly woman who had lived it as a ing of the night. young girl. “You couldn’t have squeezed a piece of paper between any two peo- GRISWOLD SPENT HER ple there, so dense was the crowd; next few months roaming the coun- just a big, solid, exuberant, happy tryside on a salvage expedition to see mass of humanity. Even the lamp- what equipment could be distributed posts were alive with men and boys to needy French organizations. The clinging to them. There were digni- aftermath of war was not a pretty taries in all the balconies on the front sight, as she found village after vil- of the building, and shouts of ‘Vive lage reduced to so much rubble, and La France’ were everywhere. In the families wandering back to see what middle balcony stood the famous was left of their homes. As she wrote opera singer, Marthe Chenal, clad in then, “The marvel is that France blue – French blue. As she sang the could ever again become the gra- French national anthem the crowd, cious, smiling land that it once was electrified, joined in. When she had — and happily is again.” finished the anthem she opened wide Upon her return to America a few her arms and stood there, a living months after the war ended, French flag, a blue panel draped Griswold went about the business of from her right arm, white on her living a life well ahead of its time, as body, and red draped from her left she had both a family and a career in arm. The thousands in the streets advertising and publishing well had been to Chateau Thierry went would be Americanized – prices up, took a breath as one, followed by an before most women had dreamed of to a little restaurant to celebrate with quality down, privacy gone – com- explosion of applause, cheers and entering the workforce. a bottle of champagne,” she remem- pletely spoiled.” cries of “Vive La France” that rose to She carried her history with her bered. She noted that when she and That night all Paris was in the the heavens and echoed around the throughout her life, as we all do, and her friends found a good restaurant streets. A mass rally was to be held world. Peace had come at last! It was when asked, Gaby Griswold had they never told other Americans that night in front of the opera hall. an exhilarating moment, even as told quite a story to tell… and now it’s about it because “…in no time it Griswold’s own words from her jour- almost 70 years later by a delicate told. ▲

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page A7 Valley Focus & Folks

left: Key Club members assemble Infant Safety Kits for Memorial Hospital. Kennett High School Key Club members recently assembled approximately 100 Infant Safety Kits for Memorial Hospital. These kits con- tain items such as a “rubber duckie” bath water temperature sensor (to pre- vent infant burns from scalding bath water), safety covers for electrical out- lets, and other valuable safety items. The individual safety items were sup- plied to Kennett Key Club by the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute of New England. In the photo, Key Club members Abigail Kelly, Olivia Kramp, and Mallory Tinkham delivered the kits to Kristine Descoulias of Memorial Hospital. The Family Birthing Center at Memorial Hospital will distribute the kits to the parents of newborn babies. (Courtesy Photo)

below: Alesis Bragg receives Good Citizens Award. Alesis Bragg of Madison has recently been awarded the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizens Award. DAR stands for dependability, service, leadership and patriotism to an outstanding degree. Alesis is a senior at Pine Tree Academy in Freeport, Maine. In the fall, she will be attending Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tenn., where she plans to study nursing. Alesis is the daughter of Stuart and Meribeth Bragg of Madison. (Courtesy Photo)

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Jean Potter Murphy (left) and Jean Potter Murphy Margie Riforgiato, ARNP, of White Mountain Com- responsible for munity Health Center. (Courttesy Photo) establishing fund at health center WMCHC helps low-income PCOS patients with payment for tests

CONWAY — The White Mountain Community Health Center recently announced that it has added a new pri- vately funded patient assistance fund. The Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Fund assists low income patients with payment for tests relating to the diagno- sis of PCOS. The force behind the fund is Jean Potter Murphy. Jean, even with a med- ical background, had never heard of PCOS when a family member was diag- nosed several years ago. Her journey has led to a flurry of public awareness efforts, the founding of a local PCOS support group and the establishment of the PCOS Fund at the health center. PCOS is defined by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as “a disorder that results from abnormal levels of certain types of hormones.” PCOS not only presents problems during the menstrual cycle including pain and irregular periods, but also presents in symptoms such as excess hair on the face and body, acne, dark- ened skin color or change of texture of the skin seen on neck, armpits and inner thighs, obesity, fertility problems, hair loss and more. If you or another woman in your life has been diagnosed with PCOS or expe- rience some of the symptoms listed here, contact your healthcare provider to obtain diagnostic tests and treatment. For more information and support visit pcossupport.org. ▲ CONSERVE

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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page A11 Down Stream

Of all the hazards a paddler can encounter, a moose is rarely considered Whitewater paddling on Downes Brook takes a wild turn By Darron Laughland Special to The Mountain Ear DOWNES BROOK IS A MEDI- um size creek that drains into the upper reaches of the Swift River. The Swift is an old friend to the paddlers in the val- ley, and we log more days on it than any other river. When it runs high, over three feet on the boaters gauge in Cabin Gorge, the upper reaches and tributaries of the Swift are likely at a runnable level. In classic springtime conditions, Jim Cochran and I decided to haul our boats up Downes as far as the snow pack con- ditions and time would allow. Early spring hiking with boats can be great, as jackets, helmets, and gear can be stowed in the cockpit, and the boat hauled by rope, sliding along on the snow. We got an early start, to take advan- tage of the firm snow, and made pretty good time. As it is very infrequently run, if at all, we took precautions and stopped every few hundred yards to scout, look- ing for ice shelves and downed trees which might form strainers. Strainers, like the kind one would find in the Threading the needle between the boulders at Downes Brook. (Darron Laughland Photo) kitchen, let the water through while holding people and boats, creating very each covered by a pile of snow. The fin- moose stood in the middle of the creek. the moose not turned away, it would dangerous or lethal situations. Two ish was punctuated with two small drops Behind him now, I started yelling have likely pounded Jim and his boat hours later, our progress had slowed sig- and I hooked into an eddy to await Jim. “MOOOOSE!” repeatedly. Jim, not into the bottom of the river, defending nificantly as the snow had softened, Things then strayed from the typical really sure what the commotion was itself from a big hot dog-looking yellow resulting in a lot of post-holing, and we paddling adventure. about, was frantically looking around, “attacker,” a less favorable outcome for had to get in our boats repeatedly to Jim put on up around a bend and out then back at me confused, and around sure. The rest of the run gradually mel- fjord the river where the trail crossed of view because of the snow. Using my again, the moose still out of view. lowed to class two, and eventually as we many times. paddle I knocked a hole in the wall of Meanwhile, the anxious moose was got close enough to the road we hopped After passing a fun looking steeper snow in front of me and waited for him feverishly scrambling up an icy ledge, out and carried our boats to the car. section, we arrived at a river-wide strain- to come down through the staircase. I working very hard to get up and out of One of the great aspects of whitewa- er and decided that due to the increasing looked around, trying to find a place the drainage. ter paddling is seeing wild places and difficulty making our way upstream due where I could safely hop out of my boat As Jim rounded the last boulder, the nature in its rawest form. Downes Brook to softening snowpack, we would gear and climb up to take a picture. Because reason for my hollering and gesturing is a true wilderness paddle that takes up and make our run down, starting just of the snow bank, it would have been a became instantly clear as he was only a hard work and lots of snowmelt and rain below the strainer. bit tenuous, so I stayed put, much to my few paddle strokes away from literally to make it go, and will always be one of Jim got out to take some pictures and later dismay. going under the moose. The moose my favorite paddling runs, due to Jim’s set safety. I would then catch an eddy A moment later Jim’s yellow boat spun around and ran across and up the near intimate moose encounter. after running the section, and watch for came blasting around the corner, drop- bank on the other side, as Jim slid into Paddling remote steep creeks and him from my boat. I perched my boat ping through the staircase, and as he the eddy the moose had just been trying wilderness runs requires expertise and high on a rock and did an otter slide passed I watched his descent through the to climb out of . skills in tandem with the right gear and down the snow, skipping across an eddy next few boulders. As I followed his I pulled in next to him and after sev- training to use it. As with all sports, take into the current, followed by a quick progress, a dark movement grabbed my eral minutes of stunned expletives and a a lesson and learn the right skills, and turn to enter the rapid. The “S-shaped” attention, and I looked down river and discussion about how no one would take the time to develop them. See you section had several large boulders in it, just around the next set of boulders, a believe our story, we realized that had on the river! ▲

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Page A12 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page A13 Valley Round-Up

Kennett High School Key Club February Members of the Month. From left to right are Katie Gustafson, a senior at Kennett; Shai-Ann Fellows, a sopho- more; Katherine Badger, a junior; and Mallory Tinkham, a freshman. Key Club “Members of the Month” are chosen by Club officers for their outstanding contri- butions to community service through Key Club activities and are awarded a cer- tificate plus a gift from the sponsoring Kiwanis Club of Mt. Washington Valley. (Courtesy Photo)

Critter Capers Keeping Moxie’s Memorial Garden growing

Sandy from the CAHS shelter and Moxie. (Courtesy Photo)

ome of you might remember read- low kitty who would jump up on your ing about Moxie the kitty at the shoulders and give head butts. She is SConway Area Humane Society greatly missed. who was suffering from inoperable can- There will be a memorial garden cer. Moxie was in a lot of pain these created by the cat adoption center for past few days and the shelter staff Moxie. Anyone wishing to donate a agreed it was time to end her pain. perennial plant or a bag of soil to the Many, many people came by to sign project can contact Ann at CAHS at Moxie’s card and to visit the little yel- 447-5955. ▲

Page A14 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Business News &&MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY REAL ESTATE LISTINGS

Boston Magazine Zeb’s General Store in North Conway chooses Zeb’s for was recently chosen by Boston Magazine as the best country store in the state. its ‘mind-blowing (Tom Eastman/Mountain Ear Photo) selection of goods’ Zeb’s General Store selected as N.H.’s best country store

NORTH CONWAY — Boston Magazine’s 2009 Travel Guide to New England has chosen Zeb’s General Store as its top choice for country stores in New Hampshire. The travel guide is published annual- ly by Boston Magazine. The publica- tion features the best attractions in New England by state. The listings include dining, lodging, attractions, diversions and activities for kids. The travel guide held its own contest in the magazine for the best country stores in New Hampshire. It stated, “The state’s country stores are famous for their grab-bag inventory — every- thing from hand crafted candles and soap to penny candy and local preserves. But which ones really have the goods?” The answer was Zeb’s General Store, which was cited for a “mind blowing selection of syrup, honey, handmade soaps, pancake mixes, scrubs, lotions, salsa, cheeses, and home décor laid out over the store’s two sprawling levels.” David Peterson, co-owner of Zeb’s General Store, was very pleased to receive this prestigious recognition. “We are most gratified to learn that a respected publication such as Boston Magazine has chosen us as number one in the state for country stores. We have worked hard over many years to offer our local traffic and visitors a shopping experience unlike any other. It is nice to see that being acknowledged by Boston Magazine. It is also a testimony to our great staff who contribute to the warm and friendly atmosphere reminis- cent of the old time general stores.” For further information on Zeb’s General Store, visit www.zebs.com. ▲

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page A15 Business News

Bennett will manage AMC’s North Country work with youth and teens Dave Bennett is new AMC Education Program Coordinator PINKHAM NOTCH — Dave Bennett is strengthen its commitment to sharing the the new Education Programs Coordinator beauty and wonder of the region with at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s youth through educational outdoor pro- (AMC) Pinkham Notch Visitor Center. gramming, Muller noted. He will manage the AMC’s North Country Bennett has worked in outdoor educa- Youth Outreach and Teen Wilderness tion for several years, and has guided back- Adventures programs, according to Andrea country skiing and dog-sledding adven- Muller, AMC’s North Country Youth tures in Colorado and kayaking trips in the Education Director. San Juan Islands off the coast of “We are excited to have Dave on board Washington State. Between guiding posi- to lead our educational outreach efforts tions, he worked as a carpenter, helping to with local students,” Muller said. “He will build low cost community housing in be building on the natural science and out- northwestern Washington. He has held door educational programs we provide for multiple positions with AMC, including students in local schools, and is also backcountry shelter caretaker and Teen involved in after-school programs designed Wilderness Adventures instructor. to help kids learn about and explore the Bennett holds a degree in biological sci- natural world,” she said. ence with an option in education from AMC’s Teen Wilderness Adventure Plymouth State University and is currently programs are designed to help teens devel- working toward his master’s degree in edu- op outdoor skills while also learning team- AMC Education Programs Coordinator Dave Bennett (Photo by Rob Burbank) cation, also at Plymouth State. work and other interpersonal skills. He holds the National Ski Patrol’s Basic Through its North Country Youth grams to additional local schools in the gramming for students. It is our goal to Avalanche training certification as well as Outreach program, AMC instructors work future, according to Muller. help develop a continuum of curriculum Wilderness First Responder certification with local school teachers and local stu- Through the work of Bennett and oth- that focuses on specific classroom goals and and he is a Leave No Trace Master dents to help apply concepts learned in the ers, AMC will continue to support youth community needs while fulfilling New Educator. classroom through hands-on experience in programming for such organizations as the Hampshire Frameworks,” said Bennett. More information on the AMC’s North the outdoors. Some of the schools partner- Boys and Girls Club of Littleton and the AMC is supported in its community Country educational outreach efforts is ing with AMC include Milan Village, Gorham Family Resource Center’s Project outreach work through a generous grant available by contacting Andrea Muller at Whitefield Elementary, Colebrook Youth program. “This is a wonderful from the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund. [email protected] or 466-2721, ext. Elementary, Groveton and Gorham opportunity to work with North Country AMC’s recent award of a three-year grant 8132. ▲ Middle. AMC hopes to expand these pro- educators to provide fun, engaging pro- enables the organization to continue to

Meeting to be held at Tech Village in Conway from 4 to 6 p.m. MicroCredit-NH orientation for self-employed biz owners, June 2 CONWAY — MicroCredit-NH, a non- MWV Economic Council’s Technology ship options will be offered. all stages of development.” profit program of the New Hampshire Village, 53 Technology Lane in Conway. “MicroCredit-NH works with both To register for the orientation, contact Community Loan Fund that provides MicroCredit-NH assists both new and new and experienced business owners,” Presby at 620-0745. For more informa- business development resources existing microbusinesses. The orientation said MicroCredit-NH Regional Man- tion about MicroCredit-NH and its busi- statewide, will offer a free orientation in will provide details about MicroCredit- ager Joyce Presby. “With a wide variety ness events statewide, visit www.microcre- Conway for local self-employed individu- NH’s services, which include business of business resources available, the pro- ditnh.org. ▲ als and microbusiness owners (businesses education, loan capital up to $15,000, the gram effectively serves businesses in with up to five employees, including the Individual Development Account (IDA) owner). The event will be held on matched savings program and networking Tuesday, June 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the opportunities. A variety of local member- Passages

Births Maternal grandparents are Deb Abigail Ruthie Williams SantaMaria of Center Conway and Lou Abigail Ruthie Williams was born Gagnon of Fryeburg, Maine. on April 28 to Heather Rivard and Paternal grandmother is Rette Joshua Williams of North Conway. Herlihy of Ossipee. The 6-pound, 7-ounce girl was born Bryson joins siblings MacKenzie, at Memorial Hospital in North Hunter and Jack at home. Conway. Maternal grandparents are Megan Lillian Li Wong Get a special rate for ordering 2 or more web subscriptions on-line. Berry and Frank Meserve of Lillian Li Wong was born on May 2 (These packages are web-only and must be ordered on-line). Moultonborough. to Alisa and Christopher Wong of Paternal grandparents are George North Conway. and Rose Williams of Virginia. The 6-pound, 15-ounce girl was Special package pricing: Abigail joins siblings Ginnie and born at Memorial Hospital in North Franki Lynn at home. Conway. Any 2 papers: $40 (reg. $72) Any 7 papers: $110 (reg. $252) Maternal grandparents are Gary Any 3 papers: $60 (reg. $108) Any 8 papers: $120 (reg. $287) Addison Elizabeth Battles Brooks of Center Conway and Donna and Gary Rochussen of Center Any 4 papers: $80 (reg. $144) Any 9 papers: $130 (reg. $322) Addison Elizabeth Battles was born on April 29 to Cheryl and Crispin Conway. Any 5 papers: $90 (reg. $180) Any 10 papers: $140 (reg. $357) Battles of Jackson. Paternal grandparents are Wah-Hon and Dany Wong of North Conway. Any 6 papers: $100 (reg. $216) All 11 papers: $150 (reg. $392) The 7-pound, 15-ounce girl was born at Memorial Hospital in North Announcements of Conway. Editor’s Note: births, adoptions, engagements, wed- Maternal grandparents are Rob and dings, deaths and memorial services may Debbie Husson of Fremont. Go to any of our websites and click on Multi-Paper Buy: be sent to the Passages Editor, c/o The Paternal grandparents are Bill and Mountain Ear, P.O. Box 530, Conway, Meredith News (www.meredithnhnews.com) Berlin Reporter (www.breporter.com) Sue Battles of North Conway. N.H. 03818, or emailed to Granite State News Coos County Democrat Addison joins brother Sawyer at (www.granitestatenews.com) (www.cooscountydemocrat.com) [email protected]. Items must home. Carroll County Independent Mountain Ear (www.mtear.com) be submitted by Monday noon for publi- (www.carrollcountyindependent.com) cation on the following Thursday. We are The Baysider (www.thebaysider.com) Bryson Tai Herlihy Record Enterprise glad to publish engagement and wedding (www.record-enterprise.com) Winnisquam Echo Bryson Tai Herlihy was born on (www.winnisquamecho.net) photos (enclose self-addressed, stamped April 29 to Aimee and T.J. Herlihy of The Courier (www.courier-littletonnh.com) Gilford Steamer (www.gilfordsteamer.com) envelope and kindly print address on Center Conway. back of photo for photo return). Fill out the subscription form on-line and start using the websites today. The 6-pound, 15-ounce boy was born Questions? Call the Circulation Dept. at 1-866-294-0320. at Memorial Hospital in North Conway.

Page A16 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Awards handed out for wide variety Business Brief of achievements Annual Business Karla’s Pet Rendezvous to Business Expo ‘Love is a Four-Legged Word’ at Karla’s By Linda Tucker honors local Contributing Writer ON MAY 30 THE MOUNT businesspeople Washington Valley will host the grand opening of a premier resort at 1513 NORTH CONWAY — The Mt. White Mountain Highway in Madison Washington Valley Chamber of – but you won’t be staying there. Commerce announced their annual busi- However, your furry friends will defi- ness awards winners at the 11th Annual nitely find it quite welcoming. Business to Business Expo, May 18 at the Karla’s Pet Rendezvous offers all the Mount Washington Hotel’s Presidential amenities of five-star lodging: private Hall. bungalows or five-tier townhouses, cli- In recognition of the highest concen- mate controlled rooms, comfy beds, tration of entrepreneurs in the state, the soothing music, bedtime snacks, social Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of hours, a styling salon and spa, indoor Commerce (MWVCC) recognized suc- and outdoor recreation areas, and a per- Colleen Bray (left) full-time groomer and Karla share the love with some furry cessful businesses with the Student sonal trainer and physician on site. If friends. (Photo Courtesy Karla’s Pet Rendezvous) Entrepreneur of the Year, Fledgling your pet desires a special meal, a Entrepreneur and Fledgling Employee of delightful repast will be whipped up in In addition to its overnight housing, some one-stop shopping by taking the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year and the well-stocked kitchen. Karla’s also offers Doggie Daycare. advantage of the retail shop on premis- Employer of the Year awards. After 30 years in the pet grooming Similar to a toddler preschool, this pro- es to pick up food and supplies. Additionally, two new awards were added business, Karla Schwarz has finally real- gram is geared especially toward pup- Everything at Karla’s Pet Rendezvous is this year for Sustainable Business of the ized her dream of a full-service pet pies. It enables them to learn social competitively priced. Year and Nonprofit of the Year. Award resort. Along with her two daughters, skills, gain faith in people and feel safe Although the Grand Opening isn’t winners are listed below: Cassidy and Payton, and with the assis- in new situations through a half or full until May 30, Karla’s has been open to • The Student Entrepreneur of the tance of an animal trainer, a veterinari- day program. If you’re in the Valley on the public since April 1. Year Award was given to Lily Brennen an and a friendly receptionist, Karla has vacation, while you’re out shopping, Karla’s motto is “Kindness comes and Lisa Carper in recognition of their taken pet care to a whole new level. dining and exploring, Karla’s offers to from the heart,” and she has been pro- business, Ladybug Photography. Her spacious, state-of-the-art facility provide plenty of playtime to keep your viding loving care and outstanding serv- • The Fledgling Entrepreneur of radiates cleanliness and comfort. If you dog entertained and out of trouble. ices to pets and pet owners for over 30 the Year Award went to Katrina Coravos choose the Premier Gold VIP experi- Two large outdoor play yards and years. She got her start as an apprentice for her efforts in creating and sustaining ence, your pet will have 24-hour human trail hikes ensure that each pet experi- groomer down in North Carolina, but Katrina's Organic Market and Café and attention, playing all day and cuddling ences plenty of freedom in non-restric- has been offering her grooming servic- for developing a successful small business up to a doting caregiver at night. On a tive surroundings. es in the Valley since moving here with in a challenging economy. recent tour, I was invited into Karla also knows that a clean pet is a her husband many years ago. After tak- • The Fledgling Employee of the “Madame’s Parlor,” where a pet can happy pet! While professional groom- ing a three-year hiatus to spend time Year Award went to Diane Mello, who enjoy his or her own living room, com- ing may be great for some, the Pet with her young children, she’s now was recognized for her contribution to plete with a fireplace, couch, chair and Rendezvous is unique in offering a self- expanding her services with her chil- the success of The Metropolitan Coffee TV. serve pet washing room that makes dren by her side. House. According to Karla, there are 30 bathing the dog a simple and pleasura- “Eventually, 15-year-old Payton will • The Entrepreneur of the Year rooms where the dogs sleep. “Some of ble event. Everything in the room is inherit the empire,” jokes Karla. Award was given to Russ Seybold of them are suites. We have doors that go geared to making the task effortless and “Cassidy, age 18, is studying business, Conway Scenic Railroad. Seybold was between them. They’re not kennels. entertaining. No appointment is neces- but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out recognized for sustaining and growing We went for homey — not the kennel- sary. You can bring the kids, a cup of that she ends up here, too.” Conway Scenic Railroad, and for his ded- concrete-chain link atmosphere.” coffee, your friends, your friend’s dog… The Schwarz family includes three ication to promotion of the 17 attractions In the salon, your pet can receive Gather the gang or go solo, but leave children, two dogs, three cats, and cur- of the White Mountain Attractions everything from a warm hydro-massage the hassle at home. With two waist- rently, eight adorable labradoodle pup- Association. bath to a pedicure, shampoo, spa-spritz level tubs to eliminate bending, an pies that will soon be looking for • The Employer of the Year Award and facial. If your pet prefers to “ruff- automated hypo-allergenic shampoo homes. The pet resort is conveniently went to Gary Sullivan of the White it,” he or she will enjoy deluxe sleeping dispensing system, electric grooming situated on Route 16 just two miles Mountain Hotel. Sullivan was recognized accommodations plus three walks and tables, warming blow dryers, brushes, south of Conway Village. For informa- for the excellent working environment one hour of group play-care every day. combs, towels, and botanical colognes, tion on their services and rates, you can he’s created for employees at The White If your pet requires a bit more pamper- this do-it-yourself option is affordable visit their website at www.karlas Mountain Hotel and Resort and for ded- ing you can upgrade to a larger room and fun. pets.com or call them at 447-3435. ▲ ication to his employees. and two, three or four hours of group While you’re visiting, you can do play. COMMERCE continues Page A20

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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page A17 Owner Shawn Bergeron re-certified as National Electrical Code Inspector Kim Frechette certified as ADA Plans Examiner at H.E. Bergeron NORTH CONWAY — Bergeron Plans Examiner and the Re-certifica- Architectural Barrier-Free Design, the been in effect in the state of New Technical Services of North Conway tion of owner, Shawn Bergeron, as a New Hampshire State Building Code Hampshire for well over 20 years and recently announced the certification of National Electrical Code (2008) and the U.S. Dept. of Justice ADA its intent is the practical safeguarding associate Kim Frechette as an Inspector. Standards for Accessible Design of persons and property from hazards Americans with Disabilities (ADA) The New Hampshire Code for (ADAAG) are the accessibility codes arising from the use of electricity. It is that apply in the state of N.H. This a minimum standard that contains pro- certification, and Frechettes’ experi- visions that are necessary for safety. ence and ability in applying ADA Bergeron Technical Services offers a requirements, make her highly quali- variety of independent inspection and fied for applying the accessibility land use technical services. Bergeron requirements in construction projects Technical Services, LLC is located in administered by Bergeron Technical North Conway at 50 Seavey Street. and as a code consultant for design Call 356-0022 or email shawnb@berg- professionals and building owners erontechnical.com for more informa- needing to comply with the require- tion or visit the website at www.berg- ments. erontechnical.com. ▲ The National Electrical Code has Real Estate Showcase

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CLASSIC CAPE CONWAY LAKE AREA Home with stunning Cute as a button, Moat Mt. views (Trees 2 bedrooms and loft, need cutting), 4 bed, screened room on deck 3 bath, fireplace, overlooks babbling brook, double lot 4.6 Ac. 2 car includes existing mooring garage, 2 family rooms, in cove at beach, pine full walkout basement, interior, fireplace. good value at $299,900 Just $144,900 MLS 2777768 MLS 2777958

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OPEN HOUSE Hale’s Location Country Club Enjoy unlimited deeded Golf, low taxes, low annual fees and breathtaking views... Sat., May 23 • 10 am - 3 pm Sun., May 24 • 10 am - 3 pm Please join us at 29 Samuel Hale Drive Call Brenda 603-986-1144 Direct

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page A19 left: Award winners at the 11th annual Business to Business Expo, held May 18 at the Mount Washington Hotel, proudly display the trophies they received for their outstanding contribution to some aspect of the local business community. (Photo Courtesy Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce)

Commerce Continued from Page A17

Among the new awards offered in 2009, the Nonprofit of the Year Award, sponsored by the Mt Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce, is given in recognition of the work and community service offered by the Valley’s non-profit organizations. The Nonprofit of the Year Award was given to two deserving organizations, Friends of Tuckerman Ravine and the Gibson Center. The other new award, sponsored by the Mt. Washington Valley Green Team and the Mt. Washington Valley Preservation Society, recognizes the Sustainable Business of the Year. The award was given to Gordon Cormack of Cormack Builders in recognition for his contribution to promoting the value of green initiatives in the business environ- ment and his work toward continuing sustainability. According to Janice Crawford, Executive Director of the Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce, “It was tough deciding among all the qualified candidates for the awards this year, as so many deserving people were nominated. All those nomi- nated should know they have the respect [email protected] of their colleagues and community,” fin- ished Crawford. For further information regarding the Business to Business Expo and the awards handed out there, visit www.mtwashing- tonvalley.org ▲ CANOE ◆ KAYAK ◆ CAMP ◆ YOUTH PROGRAMS ◆ ADVENTURE RENTALS ◆ SALES ◆ SHUTTLE ◆ DEMOS Now open for rentals... Canoe, Kayak or Camp on the Saco River, Enjoy the majestic beauty of the White Mountains from the most Andorscoggin River, beautiful Saco River. Saco Bound is northern New England’s pre- Magallowy River and mier outdoor recreation outfitter since 1972 with a record of safe- Lake Umbagog! ty, professionalism and customer service. Our riverside facility, private landings and campgrounds are for the convenience of our customers. We do all the work and shuttles, you have all the fun! Family Friendly Programs... Canoe, kayak or tube down the crystal clear Saco. Stop on one of Canoe*Kayak*Whitewater the sandy beaches that line the river for miles and swim, picnic, Rafting*Pontoon * fish or camp. It’s affordable family fun for all ages. Our paddling Cruises*Paddling shops feature new, used and demo canoes and kayaks as well as Instruction*Camping an extensive collection of water sports accessories.

Canoe & Kayak Sale Family Whitewater Rafting, New • Used • Demo Instruction and Pontoon Tours of Lake Umbagog Call Our Northern Waters Shop 603.482.3817 40% OFF (about an hour from N. Conway) Canoe Rentals Memorial Day Weekend! *off summer weekend rates 1 coupon per person • Not to be combined w/ any other offer Expires 5/28/09 On the Saco River Since 1972, on Routes 302 & 113 2 Miles East of the Blinking Light in Center Conway Village Sale prices are for in-stock items only and may not be 2 Miles West of the NH/ME State Line combined with any other offer. Some sale items listed may be #2 canoes or kayaks. Not responsible for typo- graphical errors. Sale for a limited time. (603) 447-2177

Page A20 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Entertainment Arts Recreation Drama explores Mormonism&& and its attitudes toward sexuality M&D Productions presents ‘Facing East’ through May 30 n an intense exploration of the Mormon faith and its attitudes Itoward sexuality, Carol Lynn Pearson’s “Facing East” opened at the new M&D Production theater in North Conway on May 14 and will continue for three weekends of Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays, closing on May 30. All shows are at 8 p.m. This touching drama starts at an open grave as a Mormon mother and father grieve for their 20-something son. The mother, Ruth (Karen O’Neil), is rigid in her belief that homosexuality is a sin. Yet her husband, Alex (Kevin O’Neil), exclaims, “I need a funeral that speaks the truth,” and no mention was made during this service that their son, Andrew, was gay and had committed suicide. Hidden truths not only shadow their son, but also their own marriage. Alex seems more sympathetic to the issues that his son faced, while Ruth seems to cling to the Mormon tenets as the only thing that gave her marriage meaning once she realized her husband’s infideli- ty. We meet Marcus (Jeff Warrach), who visits the grave with a bouquet of long- stem red roses, believing that the rest of the funeral party would long have gone to the reception. This moving production raises many questions that are especially pertinent in California, Iowa and Vermont with the legalization of same-sex marriages and the move- ment to pass a constitutional amend- ment prohibiting them. “This play isn’t just about sexuality or suicide, or even being Mormon,” says M&D director Ken Martin. “It’s about faith and the two sides of Christian love.” Call M&D at 662-7591 for tickets and further information. ▲ Carol Lynn Pearson’s “Facing East” opened at the new M&D Production theater in North Conway on May 14 and will continue for three weekends of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, closing on May 30. (Courtesy Photos)

NEW ARRIVALS

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page B1 Valley Round-Up

Great Glen Trails to host popular weekly running series Salomon Spring Trail Running Series returns on Thursdays The eight-week Salomon Spring petitors who complete six out of eight Trail Running Series presented by weeks and awards for the top three in Smartwool will run every Thursday each category. A Memorial Weekend Concert featuring the Seacoast Wind Ensemble will be held free of from May 14 through July 2 at Great Registration for kids is just $10 for charge at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy on Glen Trails. The series features long, the entire series; adults will pay $45. Saturday, May 23, at 7:30 p.m. under the direction of Richard C. Spicer. short and mini courses great for all abil- The one time race fee is $9 for adults (Courtesy Photo) ities and the entire family. and $2 for kids. Registration is available The series features three courses for online at www.GreatGlenTrails.com or Memorial Weekend concert to be held both runners and walkers. Participants day of the race. can log their times between 3:30 and Great Glen Trails will open for the at Fryeburg Academy, May 23 7 p.m. All courses utilize the carriage season for biking and kayaking on roads and singletrack of the Great Saturday, May 23, at 10 a.m. Great Glen Seacoast Wind Ensemble concert Glen Trails system. The long course is Trails will remain open weekends 3.5 miles, and the short course is through June 6, when daily operations approximately two miles. Meanwhile, will commence. For more information, to honor America’s Military the mini course is set up perfectly for call 466-2333 or visit www.GreatGlen Memorial Weekend has been set donation permits the presentation of kids. There will be raffle prizes for com- Trails.com. ▲ aside as the official time to salute our this exciting concert free of charge. country’s veterans and honor our mili- The concert program will honor area tary personnel. In keeping with this tra- Veterans and provide a musical salute to dition, the White Mountain Musical thank those who have and continue to Arts organization invites the communi- serve in the armed forces to preserve Randy Armstrong World Fusion Ensemble ty to attend the third annual Memorial our nation and insure our freedom. A brings exciting mix of music Weekend Concert, featuring the colorful display of the flags from the Seacoast Wind Ensemble, on Saturday, various branches of the armed services May 23, at 7:30 p.m. will be presented under the direction of Benefit performance for The concert will be held at a new Mt. Marine Corp Major Frank McCarthy. Washington Valley location, the recent- The concert will end with the tradition- KHS Music Program June 5 ly completed Leura Hill Eastman al playing of the Armed Forces Medley, Performing Arts Center located on saluting, in order of establishment, the The Randy Armstrong World Fusion Armstrong is a nationally recognized Bradley Street at Fryeburg Academy. United States Army, Marine Corps, Ensemble presents a community perform- World Music specialist who has been The performance by the Seacoast Wind Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. ance Friday, June 5, at 7 p.m. in the Loynd recording and performing internationally Ensemble — a Sousa-style 50-piece Reminiscent of the marching band Auditorium of Kennett High School in for years as a soloist and with his trio. band — has been underwritten by seen and heard playing “Seventy-six North Conway, as a benefit for the KHS retired Air Force personnel, Jim and Trombones” in the movie “Music Man,” Music Program. MUSIC continues Page B7 Karen Umberger, whose generous the Seacoast Wind Ensemble is a 50- The group will perform an exciting mix piece concert band founded in 1984 and of World Fusion, Jazz, and New Acoustic dedicated to providing excellence in music, with music drawn from sources as music performance and education in the diverse as mainstream American jazz, tradition of the great American bands Native American flute playing, West which characterized the John Philip African drumming and North Indian sitar Sousa era. motifs — all blended by the ingenious As one of the region’s premier con- combination of acoustic, high-tech, syn- cert bands, the Seacoast Wind thesized technology. The group performs Ensemble is under the direction of on over 25 traditional and ethnic instru- Richard C. Spicer. A resident of ments from around the world. Portsmouth, Spicer, formerly of New Hampshire Public Radio, is an accom- plished music director, performer, and historian, with special interest in right: Randy Armstrong Trio will American musical culture. As a band perform at Kennett on June 5. conductor, he has worked with the (Courtesy Photo) Boston University Concert Band, and in the New Hampshire capital, he former- ly directed historic Nevers’ Second Now taking Regiment Band, founded in 1879. CLIMB ABOARD The concert is free, but an opportu- reservations online at CLIMB ABOARD nity to make a donation to the WMMA conwayscenic.com! will be available. There is plenty of TThhe VVaalllleyy TTrraainn! parking and the Performing Arts Center is handicap accessible. Be sure to bring the family to this very special evening which will feature a military color guard and a rare opportunity to hear tradition- Valley Train ▲ Now Running Daily departures from North Conway Station al, great concert band music. Bartlett: 11:30 am (1-3/4 hrs rt) Conway: 1:30 pm (55-min rt) Memorial Day Weekend Departures- Saturday & Sunday May 23 & 24 Conway: 10:30, 1:30 pm, 4:30 (55-min rt) Bartlett: 11:30 am, 2:30 (1-3/4 hrs rt)

Labradoodle Puppies! First generation, all yellow & apricot in color, 2 males & th In the heart of North Conway Village 6 females, ready to go May 30 . $800, all shots, must spay/neuter. For more information call 603-356-5251 or for online reservations visit www.conwayscenic.com Call 603-447-3435

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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page B3 Calendar

What to Do 2637. Giant Indoor Yard Sale. The Mt. Washington Friday 22 Valley Habitat for Humanity will hold a giant indoor yard sale today and tomorrow at the Lenox Building A.A. Meetings. There are several AA Meetings held on Route 16 in North Conway from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily throughout Carroll County. Call 1-800-593- Items for sale include furniture, appliances, power 3330 or go to www.nhaa.net to find one near you. tools, building materials, windows, doors, kitchen Al-Anon. From 8 to 9 p.m. at the Gibson Center, cabinets, hardware and paint. Proceeds benefit the corner of White Mountain Highway and Grove MWV Habitat for Humanity. For more information, Street in North Conway. call 356-3832. Community Food Center. The Guided Hike and Yoga. A guided hike led by a cer- Sandwich/Tamworth Community Food Center tified yoga teacher will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 based at St. Andrew’s in the Valley Episcopal Church p.m. at Burntmeadow Mountain, Route 160 in on Old Route 25 is open every Tuesday and Friday Brownfield, Maine. The cost is $25 per person and from 10 a.m. to noon and Tuesday evenings from 5 to includes brown bag lunch, gentle yoga and medita- 7 p.m., except for holidays. tion. For more information, call Leslee at 207-625- ‘Facing East.’ M&D Productions will present Carol 4756. Lynn Pearson’s “Facing East” at the M&D Jackson Library Book Sale. The Friends of Jackson Production Theater in North Conway. The show is Public Library will host their annual used book sale an intense exploration of the Mormon faith. The today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the show will run Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 Jackson Town Hall. For more information, call 383- p.m. until May 30. Tickets are $25 per person. For 9076. more information or to reserve your tickets, call 662- Madison Church Supper. The Madison Church 7591. will hold a supper at the Madison Elementary School Friday Painters’ Open Studio Group. The new at 5:30 p.m. The menu includes baked chicken, stuff- Open Studio sessions will meet Fridays from 9 a.m. ing, salads, rolls and pie. Adults are $8 and children until noon at the MWVAA’s office, located next to the are $3 each. RSN studios on the lower level of Norcross Place in Puppy Playgroup. At Four Your Paws Only located North Conway village. Artists should bring their own on White Mountain Highway next to D’Angelo’s supplies and are also welcome to bring a brown bag Street in North Conway from 11 a.m. to noon. All lunch. The Friday Painters group is free for members puppies must be on a leash and up to date on vaccines. and a $5 donation is suggested for non-members. No aggressive dogs please! For more information call Junior Rifle Team Meetings. The Fryeburg Fish 356-7297. and Game Junior Rifle Team meets every Friday at 7 Village Artisan Fair. The first annual Village Artisan p.m. in the Harold N. Sanborn Room of the Fair will be held on the grounds of the MWV Brownfield Recreation Center in Brownfield, Maine. Chamber of Commerce in North Conway Village New members welcome, for more information, call from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Talented artists from all over On Sunday, May 24, join the Jackson Area Chamber 207-935-2625. Wildquack Duck River Festival. New England will display and sell their work. For of Commerce for the running of the Wildquack Duck Race on the Wildcat River in Man of La Mancha. Arts in Motion will present The more information, call the Chamber at 800-367- Jackson Village. Activities in the park will begin at 10 a.m., with the race starting at 2 Man of La Mancha at the Eastern Slope Playhouse on 3364. Main Street in North Conway, today through p.m. Your Duck Race ticket could win you $1000 or one of more than 70 other valuable WMMA presents the Seacoast Wind Ensemble. Sunday. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 White Mountain Musical Arts will present the prizes. For more information call 383-9356 or on the web:www.jacksonnh.com. p.m. with a matinee on Sunday at 2 p.m. Admission is Seacoast Wind Ensemble in a return Memorial (Courtesy Photo) $15 per person and $10 for seniors and students. For Weekend performance at the Performing Arts Center more information or to reserve tickets, call the Box in Fryeburg, Maine. The evening will feature a con- Office at 356-5776. Life Drawing Sessions. The Mt. Washington Valley month. For more information call 323-8510. cert honoring area veterans and provide a musical Arts Association located at Norcross Circle in North Monthly Supper. The Knights of Columbus will salute to thank those who have served. Tickets are Conway will hold life drawing session on the second Wednesday 27 hold their monthly supper from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Our available in advance and at the door.Call 356-5544 for and fourth Mondays of the month from 6 to 8 p.m. Lady of the Mountains Church in North Conway. more information or to order tickets. Camera Club Meeting. The North Country The menu includes roast pork dinner served with The class is $10 per session for members and $12 for Camera Club meets Sept. through May on the first gravy, mashed potato, green beans and applesauce. Sunday 24 non-members. Artists should bring their own materi- and third Wednesdays of each month at 7 p.m. in the als including the medium of choice and a drawing Adults/$8 and Children/$4. Argentine Tango Class. Join Isabel Costa, Ham Room of the Conway Public Library. The first board. For more information or to register, call 356- meeting is informational and the second is competi- Nature Author Series. Tin Mountain Conservation Argentine native, at the North Conway Community 2787. tion (digital and prints). Contact Ed Bergeron, Center located on Bald Hill Road in Albany will pres- Center for tango lessons. Intermediates with some President, at 356-6936 for more information. Also, ent the Nature Author Series at 7 p.m. at the Nature Tango experience meet at 1 p.m. and beginners meet Mountain Garden Club Meeting. The Mountain visit our website: www.northcountrycameraclub.org. Learning Center. Joyce Major will share her experi- at 2 p.m. Classes are $10 per person/per lesson. No Garden Club will hold the monthly meeting at Our club is a member of the New England Camera ences and read from her book, “Smiling at the World: partner necessary. New students welcomed anytime. Christmas Farm Inn on Route 16B in Jackson. Coffee Club Council. Come check us out, all levels are wel- A Woman’s Passionate Quest for Adventure and For more information call 383-9403. and refreshments will be served at 9:30 a.m., a busi- ness meeting at 10 a.m. and followed by the program come! Love.” Donations are $3 per person or $5 for families. Comedy Show Fundraiser. The 302 West For more information or to make a reservation, call “Pruning Matters Made Easy” at 11 a.m. The meet- Cancer Support Group. Every third Wednesday a Smokehouse and Tavern in Fryeburg, Maine will host ing is free and open to the public. For more informa- Tin Mountain at 447-6991. a night of fundraising for the Harvest Hills Animal cancer support group will meet at Saco River Medical tion, call 383-9375. Group located on Greenwood Avenue in Conway Story Time in Denmark, Maine. The Denmark Shelter. Tammy Pooler and Freddie Stone will enter- from 7 to 8 p.m. Cancer patients, caregivers, family Library will host story time on Fridays from 9:30 to tain. Dinners are served from 5 to 8 p.m. and the Preschool Story Time in Lovell. The Charlotte members and previous patients are invited to attend. 11:30 a.m. For more information call 207-452-2200. show will start at 9 p.m. Tickets are on sale at $10 per- Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell, Maine is holding person. For more information or to make your reser- story time for preschoolers age five and under on This is free and open to the public. For more infor- Story Time in Effingham. The Effingham Public Mondays at 10 a.m. For more information call 207- mation, call Donnarae at 356-3448. Library hosts infant and toddler story time from 11 to vation, call 207-935-3021. 925-3177. Community Coffee Klatch. Meets at the Chocorua 11:30 a.m. For more information call 539-1537. Spanish Lessons. Learn conversational Spanish with Isabel Costa every Sunday at the Met in North Quilt Making. The Freedom Christian Church Public Library from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Coffee, tea, Story Time at MWV Children’s Museum. The Ladies Guild will meet every Monday, weather per- sweets and great conversation are all part of this MWV Children’s Museum presents its weekly half- Conway. Beginners will meet at 10:30 a.m. and inter- mediates will meet at 11:40 a.m. New student wel- mitting from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to make quilts for char- morning. Bring a friend or come alone. All are wel- hour story time at 10 a.m. at the museum in North ity. Bring a bag lunch. All welcome, no matter age or come. Conway. Children from ages birth to six years old are come. The cost is $10 per person/per lesson. For ability. For more information call Pauline at 539- Computer Tutoring. Every Wednesday, free one to the focal audience for this fun and informative story more information or to signup, call 383-9403. 4709. one computer tutoring at the Gibson Center. Co- time. Call 356-2992 for more information. Wildquack Duck River Festival. Join the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce for the running of the Rafferty’s Fundraising Night. Rafferty’s Restaurant sponsored by the Kennett Retired Teachers Saturday 23 Wildquack Duck Race on the Wildcat River in and Pub in North Conway will hold fundraising night Association and the Gibson Center. Call to set up an from 5 to 8 p.m. with 10 percent of the proceeds to be appointment at 356-3231. Bird Watch Canoe Trip. Join Tin Mountain Jackson Village. Activities in the park will begin at 10 donated to the White Mountain Community Health Conservation Center staff for a 7 a.m. canoe trip of a.m., with the race starting at 2 p.m. Your Duck Race Diabetes Workshop. The Diabetes Center at the Center. For more information or to make a reserva- the Brownfield Bog to view the return of migrating ticket could win you $1000 or one of more than 70 Memorial Hospital in North Conway will offer a tion, call 356-6460. birds. For more information or to make a reservation, other valuable prizes. For more information call 383- four-part program called “The Facts and Myths of call 447-6991. 9356 or on the web:www.jacksonnh.com. Square Dance Workshop. The MWV Stompers Diabetes,” from 10 a.m. to noon. The sessions are will hold a square dance workshop every Monday designed to help those with diabetes learn how to Building Raised Bed Gardens. Tin Mountain Yoga Classes. An eclectic style of Kripalu Yoga is from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Conway Elementary School. control and monitor their condition. Pre-registration Conservation Center located on Bald Hill Road in offered every day except Fridays by Carlene of For more information call Arthur at 447-5527, is required. For more information or to register, call Albany will present a workshop on building raised bed Symmetree Yoga. The groups will practice Hatha Charlene at 207-647-9464 or Barbara at 356-5546. 356-0796. gardens with gardener Anne Bennett from 1 to 4:30 yoga postures paired with breath, meditation and p.m. at the Nature Learning Center. Get hands on relaxation. Classes are $13 per person. Times and U.S. Census Bureau Test Sites. If you are interest- Dinner Bell North. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in experience in constructing and gardening in raised locations vary throughout the Valley. For more infor- ed in working with the U.S. Census Bureau, test sites Fryeburg, Maine will hold their Dinner Bell free din- beds. Bring gloves and sturdy shoes. For more infor- mation or to schedule a class, contact Carlene at 662- for jobs are set up in Conway at the N.H. ner every Wednesday from 5 to 6 p.m. mation, call 447-6991. 8664 or on the web at www.symmetreeyoga.com. Employment Security office at 1:30 p.m. and at the Folk Band for Beginners. Mountain Top Music Gibson Center in North Conway at 6 p.m. every Carroll County Pancake Breakfast. The Carroll Center in Conway will offer Folk Band for Beginners Monday 25 Monday. County Commissioners announce the Second every Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Learn to Agape Food Pantry. Agape Food Pantry is open Annual Carroll County Pancake Breakfast in celebra- play traditional American folk songs. Classes are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 3 p.m., Tuesday 26 tion of County Week. The breakfast will be held at taught by Seth Austen. Cost is $12 per class. For more located at the Ossipee Valley Bible Church on Route the Mountain View Nursing Home in Ossipee from Adult Singer Classes. The Mountain Top Music information or to signup, call 447-4737. 16 (across from NAPA) in West Ossipee. 8 to 10 a.m. All county residents are invited. Learn Center located in Conway Village will hold adult Grief Group. A grief group will be held from 9 to about county government and meet the county Canterbury Trails. The Fryeburg Walking Group at singer classes with Lillian Lee-Morse from 6:30 to 8 10:30 a.m. in the meeting room at The Met in North employees. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church walks 1/2 to 1 mile p.m. every Tuesday. For more details or to register for Conway Village. The program is free and open to the on Mondays and Thursdays at 1 p.m. Rain or snow, the class, call 447-4737. Celebrate Effingham Yard Sale. Celebrate public to discuss feelings about the death of loved we cancel. All welcome. Wear comfortable shoes and Effingham will hold its annual yard sale from 9 a.m. CAHS Volunteer Orientation. The Conway Area ones. For more information call Jeff at 986-4977 or warm clothes. For more information call Bebe Toor at to 1 p.m. at the Effingham Municipal Building on Humane Society will hold volunteer orientation from Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care Services of NCC at 207-935-2068. School Street in Effingham. All kinds of surprises and 3 to 4 p.m. If you love animals and would like to help, 356-7006. great buys. For more information, call 539-7178. Conway Dinner Bell. Conway Dinner Bell at the be a CAHS volunteer. For more information, call Nature Nuts. Tin Mountain Conservation Center Congregational Church (brown church) on Main 447-5605. Evening Program Series. The Appalachian presents “Nature Nuts,” the nature program for chil- Street in Conway Village serves a free community Mountain Club Evening Program Series will present Managing Money in Tough Times. The UNH dren ages three through five and their caregivers from dinner from 5 to 6 p.m. All are welcome. For infor- “Tales from the Trail,” with AMC volunteer Pete Cooperative Extension Service will offer a workshop 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the TMCC Nature Learning mation call 447-3851. Lane for a presentation on his 2001-2002 on “Managing Money in Tough Times,” from 6:30 to Center on Bald Hill Road in Albany. For more infor- Appalachian Trail hike. The program begins at 8 p.m. Gibson Center Programs. The Gibson Center for 8 p.m. at the office located on Main Street in Conway. mation call 447-6991 or on the web at www.tin- and is free and open to the public. For more informa- Senior Services in North Conway offers a number of There is no charge to participate but pre-registration mtn.org. tion, call 466-2727. activities and informational programs for seniors, is required as class size is limited. For more informa- T.O.P.S. Take Off Pounds Sensibly will meet including yoga and mobility classes, a game day, com- tion or to pre-register, call 447-3834. Freedom Food Pantry. Open every Saturday from Wednesdays from 5 to 6 p.m. (4:30 p.m. weigh-in) at puter labs, dances, support groups, movies, health 10 a.m. to noon for residents of Freedom, Effingham Story Time in Tamworth. The Cook Memorial the O.C.C. building at the corner of Dore Street and related service programs and trips. Call 356-3231 for and Ossipee at the First Christian Church in Library offers a story time for young children from Moultonville Road in Center Ossipee. For informa- details. Freedom Village. For more information call 539- 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on the first three Tuesdays of each tion contact Linda Littlefield at 539-8090.

Page B4 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Valley Vision Channel 3 Schedule: 23 Saturday subject to change 26 Tuesday subject to change MAY 15 TO MAY 21, 2009 6:00AM FRYEBURG SELECTMEN (5/7) 9:00AM KENNETT SOFTBALL (5/22) (Schedule Subject to Change) 8:30AM YOUR WORKOUT 12:00PM VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH: website: www.vv3tv.org 9:00AM FRYEBURG LACROSSE (5/18) I DARE YOU phone: 603-356-8941 10:30AM SILVER STAR CEREMONY 3:00PM TBA 12:00PM KENNETT SOFTBALL (5/20) 5:30PM KENNETT SOFTBALL (5/22) 1:30PM HONOR OF OUR PEOPLE 7:00PM PAWPRINTS 22 Friday subject to change 3:00PM CONWAY CABLE COMMISSION 7:30PM SCHOLAR BOWL: STUDENTS GAME 5 5:00PM CONWAY BOARD OF SELECTMEN 8:00PM VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH 6:00AM UNSUNG HEROES 28 Thursday subject to change 6:30AM NORTH CONWAY RAILROAD CLUB (5/19) 9:00PM CONWAY CABLE COMMISSION 6:00AM CONWAY BOARD OF SELECTMEN 6:45AM FOR YOUR PAWS ONLY OPENING 7:00PM NH HOUSE (5/6, 5 HOURS LONG) (5/26) 7:00AM VALLEY PRIDE DAY 27 Wednesday subject to change 8:30AM YOUR WORKOUT 8:30AM YOUR WORKOUT 24 Sunday subject to change 6:00AM CONWAY CABLE COMMISSION 9:00AM RECREATION WEEKLY 9:00AM KENNETT SOFTBALL (5/20) 6:00AM NH HOUSE (5/6, 5 HOURS LONG) 8:30AM YOUR WORKOUT 9:30AM BREAKFAST WITH PHIL 10:30AM HONOR OF OUR PEOPLE 12:00PM CONWAY SELECTMEN (5/19) 9:00AM PAWPRINTS 10:00AM PAN FESTIVAL 12:00PM RECREATION WEEKLY 3:00PM REC WEEKLY 9:30AM SCHOLAR BOWL: STUDENTS GAME 5 12:00PM PAWPRINTS 12:30PM SCHOLAR BOWL 12:30PM BREAKFAST WITH PHIL 3:30PM BREAKFAST WITH PHIL 10:00AM VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1:00PM VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1:00PM FRYEBURG GIRLS LACROSSE 4:00PM FRYEBURG LACROSSE 12:00PM KENNETT SOFTBALL 5:30PM MWV CHORAL SOCIETY SPRING CON- 3:00PM CONWAY CABLE COMMISSION 3:00PM CONWAY BOARD OF SELECTMEN 3:00PM UNSUNG HEROES 5/26) CERT 5:00PM PAWPRINTS 3:30PM NORTH CONWAY RAILROAD CLUB 5:00PM RECREATION WEEKLY SCHOLAR BOWL: STUDENTS GAME 5 3:45PM FOR YOUR PAWS ONLY OPENING 6:30PM KENNETT SOFTBALL (5/22) 5:30PM 5:30PM BREAKFAST WITH PHIL 4:00PM VALLEY PRIDE DAY 9:00PM VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH: 6:00PM VALLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH 6:00PM PAN FESTIVAL 5:00PM KENNETT SOFTBALL (5/20) I DARE YOU 7:00PM RECREATION WEEKLY 7:00PM EGGS & ISSUES 6:30PM HONOR OF OUR PEOPLE 7:30PM BREAKFAST WITH PHIL 8:00PM TUCKERMAN INFERNO REDUX 7:00PM FRYEBURG LACROSSE (5/18) 25 Monday subject to change 8:00PM PAN FESTIVAL 8:35PM HONOR OF OUR PEOPLE 8:30PM SILVER STAR CEREMONY 6:00AM KENNETT SOFTBALL (5/22) 9:00PM CONWAY BOARD OF SELECTMEN 9:00PM NORTH CONWAY WATER 9:00PM FRYEBURG SELECTMEN (5/7) 8:30AM YOUR WORKOUT (5/26) PRECINCT (5/27)

White Mountain Stamp Club. The White have a weekly trail running race series for all abilities more information or to reserve your tickets, call 662- Saturday 30 Mountain Stamp Club meets on the second and ages. Every Thursday for eight weeks, from May 7591. Wednesday of every month at 1:30 p.m. and gain on to July 2 from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Racers can run/walk the Bartlett Historical Society Hours. The Bartlett the third Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the 3.1 mile course. Short course available along with a Friday Painters’ Open Studio Group. The new Historical Society will suspend their hours through home of Barbara Savary, located at 1724 NH Route mini course perfect for the kids. Awards for top three Open Studio sessions will meet Fridays from 9 a.m. the winter. Anyone wishing to tour the Historical 16 (on the corner of the south end of Bald Hill Road in each category. Prizes for competitors who com- until noon at the MWVAA’s office, located next to the Society may do so by appointment. For more infor- in Albany). Everyone interested in collecting stamps is plete six out of eight weeks are based on a raffle at the RSN studios on the lower level of Norcross Place in mation call 383-4110. welcome to attend. Fore more information call end of series awards party. Event fee: Adults: $45 / North Conway village. Artists should bring their own supplies and are also welcome to bring a brown bag Bird and Flower Walk. The Tin Mountain Barbara at 447-5461 or email at [email protected]. Kids: $10 / One time fee: $9/2. For more informa- Conservation Center in Albany will offer a bird and tion, contact Great Glen Trails at website: lunch. The Friday Painters group is free for members and a $5 donation is suggested for non-members. flower walk at the Stone House in Chatham from 10 Thursday 28 http://www.greatglentrails.com/Summer-Page- a.m. to 1 p.m. This is a great opportunity to view both Canterbury Trails. The Fryeburg Walking Group at 216.html or call 466-2333. Junior Rifle Team Meetings. The Fryeburg Fish field and forest birds, as well as late spring flowers in St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church walks 1/2 to 1 mile Storytelling Dinners. The Corner House Inn in and Game Junior Rifle Team meets every Friday at 7 bloom. Participants will meet at the Chatham Town on Mondays and Thursdays at 1 p.m. Rain or snow, Center Sandwich will hold the final evening of story- p.m. in the Harold N. Sanborn Room of the Library on Route 113B. For more information, call we cancel. All welcome. Wear comfortable shoes and telling dinners at 6:30 p.m. Dinner with a smorgas- Brownfield Recreation Center in Brownfield, Maine. Tin Mountain at 447-6991. warm clothes. For more information call Bebe Toor at bord of tales by various tellers. Cost for dinner and New members welcome, for more information, call 207-935-2625. Freedom Food Pantry. Open every Saturday from 207-935-2068. entertainment is $18.95 plus tax and gratuity. For 10 a.m. to noon for residents of Freedom, Effingham Grief Support Group for Children and Teens. reservations or more information call 284-6219. Man of La Mancha. Arts in Motion will present The and Ossipee at the First Christian Church in The Mountain of Hope grief support program for U.S. Census Bureau Test Sites. If you are interest- Man of La Mancha at the Eastern Slope Playhouse on Freedom Village. For more information call 539- children and teens is held every Thursday at the ed in working with the U.S. Census Bureau, test sites Main Street in North Conway, today through 2637. Sunday. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 Ossipee Concerned Citizens Ossipee Crossings on for jobs are set up in Bartlett at the Josiah Bartlett Inn to Inn Spring Herb Tour. The Country Inns in Dore Street in Center Ossipee from 7 to 8 p.m. The Elementary School at 1:30 p.m. every Thursday. p.m. with a matinee on Sunday at 2 p.m. Admission is $15 per person and $10 for seniors and students. For the White Mountains will host their first annual Inn program is sponsored by the VNA-Hospice of to Inn Spring Herb Tour today and tomorrow. The Southern Carroll County. Pre-registration is Friday 29 more information or to reserve tickets, call the Box Office at 356-5776. theme this year is culinary herbs. Guests will sample required. Contact Sheryl Power at 569-2729 ext. 230 A.A. Meetings. There are several AA Meetings held the culinary use of thirteen different herbs, one at for more information or to register. daily throughout Carroll County. Call 1-800-593- Storytelling Festival. Lovell’s Brick Church for the each separate inn location. For more information or Jam Band/Recording Class. Mountain Top Music 3330 or go to www.nhaa.net to find one near you. Performing Arts in Lovell, Maine will open the 2009 to make a reservation, call 800-421-1785. season with the Mountain Storytelling Festival at 7:30 Center located in Conway Village will hold a jam Al-Anon. From 8 to 9 p.m. at the Gibson Center, band/recording class with Chad Cummings from 7 to p.m. Enjoy an evening with five storytellers. Tickets Sunday 31 corner of White Mountain Highway and Grove are available at the door and are $10 for adults and $5 9 p.m. Drop in are welcome. For more details or to Meisters Mini-Golf Tournament. The Meisters Street in North Conway. Call 800-593-3330 or go to for children under 12. Refreshments will be served. register for the class, call 447-4737. Mini-Golf Tournament will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. www.nhaa.net to find one near you For more information, call 207-925-2792. at Banana Village in North Conway. $15 per person ‘Life in the Freezer’ Antarctica Program. The Community Food Center. The Story Time in Denmark, Maine. The Denmark and $50 for a foursome. The tournament will benefit Friends of the Madison Library will present a talk and Sandwich/Tamworth Community Food Center Library will host story time on Fridays from 9:30 to the AbilityPlus program in the Mt. Washington slideshow on Antarctica with Hersh Sosnoff at 7 p.m. based at St. Andrew’s in the Valley Episcopal Church 11:30 a.m. For more information call 207-452-2200. Valley. For more information or to sign up, call 374- in the Chick Room of the Madison Library. on Old Route 25 is open every Tuesday and Friday 2688. Refreshments will follow the program. Call 367-8545 from 10 a.m. to noon and Tuesday evenings from 5 to Story Time in Effingham. The Effingham Public for more information. 7 p.m., except for holidays. Library hosts infant and toddler story time from 11 to Valley Community Garden Planting. The Valley 11:30 a.m. For more information call 539-1537. Community Garden will be planted at the garden site Madison Library Toddler Playgroup. The ‘Facing East.’ M&D Productions will present Carol Madison Library will hold toddler playgroups every Story Time at MWV Children’s Museum. The located at 397 Tasker Hill Road in Conway from 12 Lynn Pearson’s “Facing East” at the M&D to 5 p.m. The public is invited to come and sign up for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. through November 20. Production Theater in North Conway. The show is MWV Children’s Museum presents its weekly half- Toddlers, babies, and caregivers meet and mingle in hour story time at 10 a.m. at the museum in North a plot. For more information, call Jenn Andrews at an intense exploration of the Mormon faith. The 475-3587. the children’s room. Call 367-8545 for more informa- show will run Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 Conway. Children from ages birth to six years old are tion. p.m. until May 30. Tickets are $25 per person. For the focal audience for this fun and informative story Spring Trail Running Series. Great Glen Trails will time. Call 356-2992 for more information.

2009 season to begin with storytelling on May 29 Mountain Storytellng Festival at the Lovell Brick Church Lovell’s Brick Church for the and intermingled with tales from world cul- Performing Arts will open its 2009 season ture. In “The Lion-Maker,” Lovell story- with the Mountain Storytelling Festival at teller Jo Radner weaves a Sufi parable 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 29. The evening around the true history of a Maine farmer will feature five storytellers from the who was knighted by Queen Victoria for his Mountain Storytelling Guild, an associa- amazing — and sinister — scientific inven- tion of talespinners from western Maine tions. and nearby New Hampshire. Finally, in “Jordan’s Delight,” by David This sampler will showcase a wide range Neufeld — a gifted Sweden artist in stone, of stories for adults and families, blending landscape, photography, painting, story- folktales and true stories, fiction and fact, telling, and physical comedy – a Down East hilarity and drama. Andy Davis, of Albany, sailing expedition turns into an otherworld- will bring out a new story, “Every Dog Has ly love story. Its Day,” in which personal experience All five raconteurs are celebrated profes- frames an eerie Scottish legend. Traditional sional performers, and their program, in the Scotland features again in Madison teller near-perfect acoustics of the Brick Church, Olga Morrill’s rendition of a northern folk- will demonstrate much of the variety of the tale about a seal hunter’s extraordinary — contemporary art of storytelling. and dangerous — adventure. The Mountain Storytelling Festival Adventure moves south in the British takes place at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 29, in Isles with “Alfie’s Autumnal Adventures,” a the Brick Church for the Performing Arts side-splitting and heart-warming story by on Christian Hill Road (off Route 5) in Marion Posner of Tamworth, based on the Lovell Village. Tickets, available at the true story of an English bus driver’s journey door, are $10 for adults, $5 for children 12 across Europe to rescue refugees. (“Oh, and under. Refreshments will be served. For Alfie, you can’t, dear,” said his wife; “you are more information, go to www.lovell- geographically challenged!”) (clockwise from top left) Jo Radner, Andy Davis, Olga Morrill, Marion Posner, and David brickchurch.org or call 207-925-2792. ▲ Two other stories are rooted in Maine Neufeld will perform at the Mountain Storytelling Festival on May 29. (Courtesy Photos)

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page B5 Entertainment

Lounges, Taverns & Pubs (N)=Nightlife, (D)=Dining, (A)=Afternoon, (B)=Brunch Almost There - Albany Rafferty’s - North Conway Simon Crawford Sat. May 23 (A) Classic Pop Stump Trivia Night Thursdays (N) Trivia

Club 550 - North Conway Red Fox Bar & Grille - Jackson DJ Sunday & Wednesday (N) Karaoke/Dancing TBA Sun., May 24 (B) (9 a.m.) Jazz DJ Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. & Sat. (N) DJ/Dancing Red Jacket Mountain View - North Conway The Conway Cafe - Conway Village Tugg Brothers Fri., & Sat., May 22 & 23 (N) Classic Pop Open Mic Night Wednesdays (N) Harlenwolf Record Shop Red Parka Pub - Downtown Glen The Corner House Inn - Center Sandwich Grown Up Prom Thurs., May 21 Adult Prom Night Jill Ducsai Fri., May 22 (N) Rock & Roll Adam Ezra Group Fri., & Sat. May 22 & 23 (N) Rock Audio Kickstand Sun., May 24 (N) Rock Delany’s - North Conway Preface Wed., May 27 (N) Rock Shannon Door Pub - Jackson Village Dennis O’Neil & Thurs., April 21 (N) Celtic/Folk Homestead Restaurant - North Conway Jon Deveneau Acoustic Open Mic Thursdays (N) Host: Tom Rebmann Marty Quirk Fri., May 22 (N) Celtic/Folk Marty Quirk Sat., May 23 (A, N) Celtic/Folk Inn at Thorn Hill - Jackson Kevin Dolan & Sun., May 24 (N) Celtic Folk Mike Jewell Saturdays (N) Solo Piano Simon Crawford

May Kelly’s Cottage - North Conway Up Country Tavern - North Conway Dennis & Davey Fridays (N) Celtic Crooners DJ Kristen Thursdays (N) DJ /Karaoke/Dancing Celtic Seisuins Sundays (A) Irish Music DJ Fri., May 22 (N) DJ /Dancing DJ Sat., May 23 (N) DJ /Dancing

Wildcat Tavern - Jackson Village Dine at The White Mountain White Mtn. Boys Sat., & Sun., May 23 & 24 (N) Rock The Wentworth - Jackson Village Hotel & Resort Judy Herrick Fri., & Sat., May 23 & 24 (N) Piano Come and experience our new summer dining menu In Ledges Dining Room and The Tullamore Tavern White Mountain Hotel - North Conway Heather Pierson Fri. and Sat. (D) Piano • Panoramic Dining at its finest Michael Jewell Sunday (B) Piano • "Lite Bites" featuring smaller portions • "Award Winning" Seafood Chowder and Chili ••• • Gourmet Salads and Sandwiches • Signature Entrees featuring local ingredients • Delectible Desserts ...... Always Homemade and Always Fresh! WWEE HHAAVVEE SSTTEEAAMMEERRSS IINN BBEEEERR && Breakfast served Daily 7-10 am (9am on Sunday) Lunch served Monday - Saturday from 11:30 am LLOOBBSSTTEERR RROOLLLLSS TTHHIISS WWEEEEKKEENNDD Dinner served daily from 5:30 - 9pm Grand Sunday Brunch served from 9am - 1:30 pm Reservations Suggested (across from the Voted Best of NH 2009 Gluten Free Menu Available • Take Out Available West Side Road @ Hale’s Location, North Conway, NH • 603-356-7100

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Page B6 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Valley Round-Up Come discuss the future of the arts in the region with others who care ACT! hosts World Cafe: Cabaret on May 30 for public input Looking for a chance to have a voice in artists and cultures they’ve been exposed to enlarge upon themes that arose in the inter- engaged and entertained. There is no fee for the future of the arts in our region? Arts through ACT performances, and about views and turn dreams into plans for action. participation in this event, and breakfast and Council of Tamworth invites you to a spe- opportunities they’ve had to interact direct- ACT’s World Café: Cabaret is being lunch are included; our request is that you cial gathering — a fun, relaxed day of play- ly with performers in intimate venues. facilitated by ACT Board Member Vince are able to be present for the entire event. ful inquiry and planning — on Saturday, They’ve talked about the beauty of expos- Pelote and his colleague Lynne Route of If you would like to participate or have May 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Tin ing multiple generations to the arts — DaVinci Consulting in Intervale. The struc- questions, contact Vince Pelote at 978-660- Mountain Conservation Center in Albany. about the kids that come to “adult” shows ture of the event is rooted in an Appreciate 3721 or [email protected] by The theme of the gathering is World Café: and the adults who show up for puppet Inquiry-based approach to strategic plan- May 27. Cabaret, and the event grows out of ACT’s shows or storytellers — and the ways ACT ning known as SOAR (strengths, opportu- For more information about Arts ongoing strategic planning process. fosters the artistic development of youth. nities, aspirations, results). Council of Tamworth, visit www.art stam- For several months now, ACT’s strategic And they’ve talked about the exciting possi- Come be inspired and enlivened, worth.org. ▲ planning committee has been interviewing bilities for collaborations among the diverse community members about the place of the arts organizations in the area. Arts Council of Tamworth in their lives and ACT is excited to share these stories and in the life of our community. During these more with all interested community mem- interviews and meetings the committee has bers, and would like to build upon them. At heard wonderful stories about how ACT is the World Café we will be combining the a cultural and social experience that offers a information from the interviews with your unique quality of life to our community. thoughts and stories to tell what we believe People have talked about the diverse will be a powerful story. Our hope is to use these ideas to build momentum toward cre- ating a future for the Arts Council and for arts in our region that nourishes all of us. We are seeking you out because we want to hear what you think, so the gathering will Music be highly interactive. You will have the Continued from Page B2 opportunity during breakfast and lunch to meet and chat with others, and the struc- Friday's ensemble also includes tured part of the day will be collaborative Armstrong's trio members Volker and creative as well, as we communally Nahrmann of Germany and Jose Duque of Venezuela, and guest artists Shamou of Iran and Theo Martey of Ghana. . Armstrong, Shamou and Martey have FONDUE FONDUE FONDUE OFF $10 FOR IN BRING AND SAVE been a part of the World Cultures per- Gift Certificates Available Bargain Matinees Daily NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN B Fri: forming artists' series at Kennett High 4:20, 6:30, 8:45; Sat & Sun: 1:50, 4:20, 6:30, 8:45; Mon: 1:50, 4:20, School for the past three years. "Each has 6:30; Tue to Thu: 4:20, 6:30 TERMINATOR SALVATION C Fri: 4:10, 7:00, 9:20; Sat & Sun: performed for the school's ninth graders 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:20; Mon: 1:15, 4:10, 7:00; Tue to Thu: 4:10, 7:00 and provided valuable hands-on work- ANGELS & DEMONS C Fri: 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30, 9:30; Mon: 1:00, 2:00, shops to our students," says Therese 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30; Tue to Thu: 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30 Davison, KHS music teacher. “The STAR TREK C Fri: 4:30, 7:10, 9:35; Sat & Sun: 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35; Mon: 1:40, 4:30, 7:10; Tue to Thu: 4:30, 7:10 themes of optimism, diversity, and world GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST C Fri: 4:30, 7:10, 9:35; peace represented through music promise Sat & Sun: 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35; Mon: 1:40, 4:30, 7:10; Tue to Thu: 4:30, 7:10 Grand Reopening!! to permeate the evening,” she continues. X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE C Fri: 4:00, 6:40, 9:00; Sat & Sun: 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:00; Mon: 1:30, 4:00, 6:40; Tue to Thu: Sunday Spectacular – Mix & Match appetizer, Entrée and Dessert $29.99 for 2 "The musicians are exceptional, the music 4:00, 6:40 is beautiful, and the message is important. Saturday Prime Rib – Not Your Ordinary! Chef Gary’s Secret Touch! 10 oz. - I hope everyone can come out for the per- $16 10 oz.—14 oz. - $21 formance. It's going to be a wonderful Monday German Value Night – Schnitzel or Sauerbraten Dinner $16 – your choice

DANCE FLICK C Fri: 4:30, 7:00; Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00; AVE AND BRING IN FOR $10 OFF FONDUE FONDUE FONDUE Fondue, Fondue, Fondue -- Cheese, Surf and Turf, concert! We hope to help the KHS Band S Mon to Thu: 4:30, 7:00 AND Chocolate . members and Dance Team attend UMass THE SOLOIST C Fri: 4:30, 7:00; Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00; Band Day next fall with proceeds from the Mon to Thu: 4:30, 7:00 ALWAYS Catch of the Day – Fresh, expertly prepared evening.” Times for Friday-Thursday, May 22-28, 2009 Veal Oscar – Back by Popular Demand – with lobster! Tickets for the concert are available in Come join us Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday now advance at the North Conway Music through June 21 and then open 6 days a week! (Closed Tuesdays) Shop or by calling the Kennett High School Performing Arts Department at Gift Certificates Available 356-4343. Ticket prices are $10 for adults, www.yourneighborhoodtheatre.com $5 for students, and $20 for families. ▲

Fri. 5/22 Tom Yoder 5-8 pm Coming Soon ... Sat. 5/23 Tom Yoder & Tom Dean 5-8 pm Sundays with Sun. 5/24 Joel Cage 5-8 pm Jon Sarty Check Out 603.383.8916 www.shovelhandlepub.com at Whitney’s Inn next to Black Mt. • www.shovelhandlepub.com

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page B7 Valley Round-Up Mt. Washington Auto Road to host Bicknell’s Thrush Tours The Mt. Washington Auto Road will Thrush has been found in only two primary a chance to glimpse these elusive birds. And, host five guided Bicknell’s Thrush Tours in locations: Mt. Katahdin in Maine and Mt. they are quite elusive. Even though they are last approximately two hours. Cost is $45 2009. These special opportunities will be Washington in New Hampshire. The often heard along the Auto Road, they are per person. Advanced reservations are offered in June and will provide birders the unique yet harsh climate is just what the rarely seen. However, the Bicknell’s Thrush required. chance to spot the rare Bicknell’s Thrush. birds prefer, due to the combination of low Tours will leave early from the base of Mt. Lodging packages are available at the More often heard than seen, Bicknell’s vegetation and abundant moisture. Washington, even before the Auto Road Appalachian Mountain Club's Joe Dodge Thrush is an extremely rare species with Because of the uncommon access provid- opens to the general public, in order to limit Lodge or the Eagle Mountain House. Be very limited breeding grounds. In fact, in the ed by the Mt. Washington Auto Road, the the amount of traffic on the Auto Road and sure to mention Mt. Washington Auto Road northeastern United States, Bicknell’s new Bicknell’s Thrush Tours will give guests to increase the chances of a sighting. Bicknell’s Thrush Tours for special rate. Bicknell’s Thrush Tours will depart June For complete details or to book a tour, 6, 10, 13, 14 and 17 from the base of the Mt. contact Mary Power at 466-3988 or visit ▲ June 6 is Free Fishing Day in N.H. Washington Auto Road at 5:30 a.m. Tours www.MtWashingtonAuto Road.com. Free Fishing Day is coming on Saturday, Adults just get one day to fish free in the June 6, so make plans to get out and try your Granite State, but kids under 16 do not Open to contestants in grades 4, 5 and 6 luck on New Hampshire’s ponds, streams need a license to fish in New Hampshire. and lakes. State residents, and nonresidents, Season dates, limits and all other fishing Miss MWV Pre-Teen Event can fish any inland water in the Granite regulations must be followed on Free State that day without a fishing license. Fishing Day. Anglers fishing for brood stock set for June 14 “Most people who hook a fish once can Atlantic salmon in the Merrimack and lower hardly wait for the chance to do it again. Pemigewasset rivers must have a fishing In response to numerous requests be no talent option, nor will there be any Free Fishing Day is your chance to give it a license and a special permit. from “younger sisters,” the organizers of sales requirements. try,” says Karina Walsh, N.H. Fish and For specific details on fishing rules, con- the Miss Mount Washington Valley The goal is to give these younger Game’s Let’s Go Fishing program coordi- sult the 2009 New Hampshire Freshwater Teen Scholarship Event will host the ladies a taste of what is involved in the nator. Fishing Digest available at 2009 Miss Mount Washington Valley Teen event and to use it as a stepping Free Fishing Day kicks off 2009 www.fishnh.com/Fishing/fishing.htm, or Pre-Teen Event on June 14, at the Eagle stone into that program. By teaching National Fishing and Boating Week (June 6 wherever fishing licenses are sold. The Fish Mountain House, in Jackson. The the girls some of these skills at a younger - 14) in New Hampshire, a nationwide and Game website www.fishnh.com has tack- event is open to girls currently in grades age the organizers hope to instill more observance encouraging families to have fun le tips, lake depths, info on where fish have 4, 5 and 6 who live in those towns whose confidence in the contestants. together on the water. been stocked, and fishing forecasts for vari- high school students attend Kennett The registration deadline is May 22, Free Fishing Day is the perfect chance to ous parts of the state. High School and Fryeburg Academy. so parents of potential contestants are introduce non-angling friends and family to The website also has regional fishing According to Board of Directors urged to contact DuFault for a registra- the sport, especially if you fish for some- guides with suggestions on where to fish President Lisa DuFault, “This will be a tion packet right away. Call 374-6241 thing easy to catch, like bluegills or yellow from the shoreline, currently available for scaled-down version of the Teen event.” or email [email protected] with perch. “Make an adventure out of it, grab Manchester/Nashua, the North Country Contestants will be scored in Interview, questions or to request registration your rod and make a picnic lunch you’ll and southwestern N.H. Public Speaking and Poise. There will forms. ▲ surely have a great time catching these fish,” If you get hooked on Free Fishing Day, Walsh says. “For just a few dollars, you can enjoy the fun year round. Licenses are avail- buy an inexpensive rod and reel and a few able online at www.fishnh.com or from any hooks and non-lead sinkers to get started on of 250 friendly local license agents Six storytellers to spin their yarns an activity people of all ages can enjoy.” statewide. ▲ for the audience’s delight Corner House Inn storytelling season ends with gala on May 28 The Corner House Inn’s 21st season popular, and book up quickly. If you’d of Thursday Storytelling Dinners draws like to experience this fun evening, make to a close on Thursday, May 28. The your reservations now by calling the season traditionally ends with a Corner House in Center Sandwich at “Storytelling Gala,” when six different 284-6219. The evening kicks off at 6:30 tellers will spin yarns after dinner. p.m. The cost is $18.95 per person, plus This year’s season-ending gala will tax and gratuity. For more information include performances by N.H. seacoast and reservations contact the Corner teller Deb Ballou, Angela Klingler from House in Center Sandwich at 284-6219 Salem, storytelling sisters Cora Jo or online at [email protected]. Ciampi and Lauretta Phillips, White After a summer pause, the next sea- Mountain storyteller Andy Davis, and Jo son of Storytelling Dinners at the Radner from the nearby woodlands of Corner House will commence on the Maine. last Thursday in October. ▲ Storytelling Gala dinners are very

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Page B8 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Kids K Fun Run also scheduled 31st Annual Jackson Covered Bridge 10K Race set for June 6 The White Mountain Milers will overall male and female walkers will also once again sponsor the annual Jackson receive awards. Covered Bridge Foot Race and Kids K All participants receive lunch at the Fun Run. Recognized as “one of New completion of the race. Lunch for fami- England’s top 100 road races” by New ly and friends can be purchased for $6 England Runner Magazine, the 31st for adults and $3 for children. T-shirts running is set to take place on Saturday, will be given to the first 125 entries. June 6. Additional T-shirts can be purchased for This unique 10-kilometer footrace $10. Proceeds from this race will go to race will begin at 9:30 a.m. for walkers the White Mountain Milers Scholarship and 10 a.m. for runners. The Kids K Fund. Fun Run will start at 11:30 a.m., follow- This year’s race is presented by Red ing the race. Timing of the 10K race will Fox Pub and Wentworth Golf Club of be conducted by Granite State Race Jackson. The pre-registration fee is $20 Services. The race will begin at the and must be received by May 29. After Jackson Covered Bridge and winds May 29 and onsite, registration is $24. through quaint Jackson Village and Interested runners and walkers may reg- along the scenic Jackson Falls. The ister on line at: www.active.com. A down- course includes a 1.5-mile uphill at the loadable registration form can be found start rising about 500 feet in elevation. at the White Mountain Milers website at Awards will go to the first and second whitemountainmilers.com. For more fastest overall male and female runners. information, contact Race Director Awards will also be given to the top run- (Mtn. Ear file photo) Lorraine Tilney at jackson10K@hot- ners in 10 age divisions. The fastest mail.com or at 383-6153. ▲

Jackson Women’s Sewing Club and Historical Society presentation Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau to speak June 3 at Red Fox The Jackson Women’s Sewing Club and African American traditions. She will Artists Foundation and the MacDowell reservations are required. Cocktails will be the Jackson Historical Society are very “read” them for their cultural context, his- Colony. available for purchase starting at 12:30 p.m., excited that textile artist, author, storyteller torical meaning and significance; political, Her presentation will follow the annual and lunch will be served promptly at 1 p.m. and Abenaki poet, Cheryl Savageau, will be religious, and geographical influences; and Jackson Women’s Sewing Club luncheon. Savageau’s presentation will follow at 1:45 speaking at the Red Fox Bar and Grille in the differing aesthetics they embody. This year’s luncheon will feature lighter p.m. and no reservations are necessary if Jackson on Wednesday, June 3, at 1:45 p.m. Savageau received her M.A. from the fare from the Red Fox summer menu. you plan to attend only the presentation. The Sewing Club and the Historical University of Massachusetts and her quilts Guests will enjoy seafood, egg and chicken For luncheon reservations, send a check Society are sponsoring this unique program have been shown at the University of New salad sandwiches on Chef Roland’s home- for $16 by May 30 to Helene Matesky, P.O. in conjunction with the New Hampshire Hampshire in a contemporary Native made bread, served with a wonderful new Box 458, Jackson, NH 03846. Checks Humanities Council. The presentation is Artists exhibit and at the Abbe Museum’s summer salad of spinach and pears with should be made out to the Jackson open to the public free of charge and no Twisting Paths exhibit in Bar Harbor, maple dressing. Chocolate mousse and Women’s Sewing Club. For additional reservations are required. Maine. She is a recipient of fellowships and non-alcoholic beverages are included for information, call Helene at 383-9271 or With her slides and quilts, Savageau will residencies in poetry from the National $16, including tax and gratuity. Bobbi Meserve at 383-9755. ▲ focus on quilts from Native American and Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Everyone is invited to the luncheon, but

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page B9 NooksNooks && CranniesCrannies

above: The east shore of Echo Lake offers a striking view across the water to the huge slab face of White Horse Ledge. The trailhead for this state park gem is just a few minutes' drive from downtown North Conway. left: Echo Lake and the Green Hills highlight the view over the Saco valley from an outlook on the north shoulder of White Horse Ledge. This fine perch can be accessed by a short, steep climb along the Bryce Path and the northern end of the White Horse Ledge Trail. (Steve Smith/Mountain Ear Photos) Paying a visit to a Valley gem Echo Lake and the view above By Steve Smith Lake State Park it amazes us that such a Contributing Writer gem is a mere couple of minutes drive EVERY TIME WE VISIT ECHO from downtown North Conway. Off-

Page B10 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 season, before there are fees and beach- prose-poet Thomas Starr King. We went left and soon commenced ther of us took a tumble. loving crowds, is a great time to visit We continued north along the pond another steep climb with a thick carpet We walked back along the west shore the sparkling glacial kettle pond that past a pair of Canada geese that had of oak leaves making for iffy footing. of Echo Lake, admiring the golden gives the park its name. With a little bit taken up temporary residence. Another After some easy ledge scrambling we shimmer of the evening sun on the of steep climbing, you can then look open spot provided a look back at emerged on the outlook ledge on the water, and had plenty of time to stop for down on it from the ledges above. Middle and South Moat. This is a north shoulder of White Horse, about ice cream at the Cold Stone Creamery. Recently Carol and I had a partly shoreline to be savored. 700 feet in elevation above Echo Lake. The hike described here is 2.4 miles sunny late afternoon free, so we drove a We followed the trail around to the This is one of the finest perches from round trip with 700 feet of elevation short distance down West Side Road northwest corner of the pond and which to survey the broad Saco valley. gain. For more photos, visit our hiking from the River Road junction and turned right on the wide, yellow-blazed Two miles away the buildings of down- blog at http://mountainwandering. parked on the dead-end road spur out- path that connects with the Bryce Path. town North Conway poked above the blogspot.com. side the gate for the Echo Lake parking This stretch was a beautiful stroll trees. Cranmore, Black Cap and their lot. (The gate was open, but we pre- through a deep, dark forest of hemlock bumpy Green Hills neighbors closed in A SAFETY NOTE: On May 3 there ferred not to take a chance on it being and pine. We stopped to examine the the east side of the valley. Kearsarge was a rockslide on the Webster Cliff closed later, since the extra walk was rusting hulk of an old car. (Any readers North was prominent to the northeast. Trail a mile or so above its trailhead on only 200 feet.) know the story behind this vehicle?) Best of all, perhaps, was the raven’s-eye Route 302 in Crawford Notch. It is Our plan was to stroll alongside the At a five-way junction at the foot of view of green-tinted Echo Lake, nestled reportedly dangerous to cross the unsta- pond on the Echo Lake Trail, and then the cliffs I made a short side foray up to below in the pine forest, with the White ble slide area on the trail, so this route is tackle the short but steep Bryce Path up a small clearing where a climber’s cabin Mountain Hotel nearby. best avoided until trail crews can to the saddle between Cathedral Ledge once stood. The former view up to the A lone hiker came by to share the address the situation. ▲ and White Horse Ledge. The full four- White Horse slabs is now mostly over- view for a few minutes — the only per- mile loop over White Horse Ledge is a grown. son we encountered on the trails. White Editor’s note: Pick up “The AMC nice half-day hike, but our time was Then we headed up the Bryce Path, Horse seems to be far better known to White Mountain Guide” for maps and limited, so we planned to ascend only to which according to the AMC White rock climbers than to hikers. descriptions of these and other trails in the big outlook ledge on the north Mountain Guide was laid out in 1907 by If it weren’t so late in the day, we the White Mountains. shoulder of White Horse. James Bryce, then the British ambassa- might have continued another 0.4 mile Steve Smith, author of “Wandering The Echo Lake Trail makes an easy dor to the U.S. Though short, the climb and 300 feet up to the summit of White Through the White Mountains: A Hiker’s and very scenic one-mile loop around up to the saddle between the ledges was Horse, where more ledges provide Perspective,” has hiked and written the pond, with some great water-and- steep, leading up rock steps and two log views east to the Green Hills and south- about the White Mountains for more than mountain views along the way. From staircases through a forest of tall oak west up to the looming Moat Range. 20 years. He owns the Mountain the trailhead sign at the edge of the and hemlock. There was one tricky lit- Instead, we picked our way slowly and Wanderer Map and Book Store in parking lot we dropped down near the tle ledge scramble near the top, then the carefully back down the steep trail to Lincoln, and lives with his wife, Carol, in shore and followed the gentle path grade eased off to the junction where the saddle, and again down the even Lincoln. through stands of tall pines to the beach right leads to Cathedral and left to steeper Bryce Path. Despite an occa- on the east side. Here we sat awhile on White Horse. sional bit of unintended leaf skiing, nei- a picnic table to admire the vistas. The best view is straight across the pond to the huge rock-slab face of White Horse Ledge. Often you can Do you watch climbers working their way up, Did she say want to we need to but it had rained that morning and it go for a was midweek, so the cliffs were quiet. talk? I’ve always had a hard time picturing walk? the outline of the “white horse” that gives the ledge its name. Maybe more artistic people see it better. When I got home, I found a somewhat doctored 1907 postcard shown in Ed Webster’s rock climbing guide, with the white horse clearly visible at the left end of the cliff known as the South Buttress. In his classic 1876 guidebook, “The White Mountains: A Handbook for Travellers,” Moses Sweetser wrote, “New-comers at North Conway are seldom allowed to rest until they have seen, acknowledged, and complimented the equine form of this amorphous spot.” Local legend held that if an Maybe it is time to get your unmarried woman looked at the “white hearing tested. horse” from the sandy shore of Echo It might help improve your Lake and counted to one hundred, the first man she saw was destined to quality of life. become her husband. Looking north up the pond we could ENT Associates of NH also see the humpy profile and dark face of Cathedral Ledge, which was noted Shaun McArdle, Doctor of Audiology at Memorial Hospital for its “soaring gloom” by 19th century (603) 524-7402 (800) 464-7402

The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page B11 On the Links

Let the games begin! Wentworth & NCCC kick off season with member scrambles left: Proudly displaying their ‘winning whisks’ are NCCC Opening Scramble team winners Dave O’Sullivan, Pat Johnston, and Captain Tom Merrill. Missing from the picture is team member Michelle Szympruch. (Pru Smith/Mountain Ear Photo)

challenged” golfers. Steve Smith, Jr. knocked out one of his best to take Men’s Long Drive Honors while Jeff St. Cyr claimed the prize for Men’s Closest to the Pin. Betsy Eaton proved her skill at both the long and short game, taking home the prize for both long drive and closest to the pin! Tournament Director Laurel Tessier, a total non-golfer, did a superb job organizing this event. She sends big thank yous to all the generous local merchants for their prize donations and to Steve Goodwin, Chad McCarthy, Tim Roberts, John Miller and Phil Richardson for their help in making this first tournament a success. See you next year, Laurel! By Pru Smith NCCC Opening Scramble Contributing Writer On the morning of Saturday, May 16, “FORE” FRIENDS AND WEL- 76 NCCC members hit the links for the come to golf season 2009! Memorial Opening Scramble tournament, fueled Day Weekend is upon us and the spring by a scrambled egg buffet breakfast. round of tournaments, both club and Taking first place was the team of charity, have area golfers in full swing. Tom Merrill/Pat Johnston/Dave TEENNTT SAALLEE O’Sullivan/Michelle Szypruch. One T S Conway Fire Dept. Tourney shot back with position decided by a Making their first appearance in the match of cards were second place team Friday, May 22 thru Monday, May 25 Gus Oullette/Lynn Hobbs/Marilyn All kinds of fun stuff: tournament line-up, 48 players teed it Flip Flops NH Tees up on Sunday, May 17, at the NCCC Lutzer/Ed Saber, and third place team Jr. Guy’s for the first annual Conway Fire John Sullivan/Martha Jamieson/John $5.99 $9.99 Department tournament. Boddy/Janet Saunders. Finishing fourth Swimsuits Plaid Shorts First place was decisively won with a were Bill Burns/Pat Henry/John Layered $24.99 $19.99 Jr. Hoodie five stroke lead by team Ian Meserve/ Gallo/Linda Dallaire, followed in fifth Tank Tops Sweats Chris Bartlett/Chuck Seavey and Phil by Kent Graham/Fran Rancourt/Dave Carhartt Drew at 61. In second at 66 was team Ty Veno and Walter Jaronski. $9.99 Winter Jacket Clearance $14.99 Labbe/Mark Keenan/Jim Machoski and Ron Theriault and Cheryl Veno Bob Gallagher. Placing third at 67 after showed their early season strength, win- Kid’s Printed Mud Boots a match of cards was team Will ning long drive honors. Taking home and More!!! Owen/Devin Copsey/Colin Richard prizes for closest to the pin on holes and Brad Boerenger. 4,7,13 and 15, respectively, were Paul At the corner in Glen, NH • 383-9575 At, shall we say, a somewhat higher Harlow, Fran Rancourt, Peter Gulazian Junction Routes 16 & 302 score, the team of Elaine Grant/Dave and Tom Merrill. (Next to Glen Junction Restaurant) Floyd/Dick Floyd and Bill Grant gra- This first member event of the sea- OPEN Daily 8am to 5pm ciously accepted the prize for the “most son concluded with an evening pizza party social where the winners were announced. The above-mentioned win- ning team was presented with the first ever “Best Scramblers Whisk Award” with Captain Tom Merrill receiving the now coveted “red whisk” to add to his trophy cabinet! The evening included a celebratory cake for birthday “boys” Al Goyette and Dave O’Sullivan.

Opening Scramble at Wentworth The Opening Scramble at Wenthworth on Sunday found 36 hardy souls battling the tough “spring”(?) con- ditions. Sharing the winners spot were tie teams James Porath/Ken Lowry/Kathy Gilligan and team Roger LeBlanc/ Mike Dineen/Nancy Lundquist and Daryl Mazzaglia. A pot luck dinner in the old club- house provided a warm and welcome end to the first member event. Earlier in the week on Tuesday, May 12, the Ladies League played their beginning of the season scramble. On the leader board in the winning spot was the team of Ellen Eierman/Kathy McIntosh/Kathy Gilligan and Daryl Mazzaglia. A couple of Wentworth members are starting the season off right with career rounds. Joe Mazzaglia shot his career 89

Page B12 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Conway Fire Dept. Tournament Chairman Laurel Tessier (center) with the winning team of Ian Meserve, Phil Drew, Chuck Seavey and AFTER the tournament was over!!

Chris Bartlett. The sun came out on 5/15 and Don Ekberg carded a life- (Pru Smith/Mountain Ear Photo) time low of 86 on 5/9 - congrats gentle- the golfer or aspiring golfer of all ages. men! A strong Junior Program will be held in the Green Room at Indian Over at Hale’s Location starting soon. It will be an intense six- Mound on May 21 and 28 and June 4 ics include instruction in the short game Over on the West Side, Hale’s Julie week program taught by Assistant Pro and 11. The program hours are Monday, at 5 p.m. and a full swing clinic will be Rivers’ On The Links group played at Fred Torres with a variety of times avail- Tuesday and Wednesday at noon, 1, 2, held at 6 p.m. home last week. able to fit your schedule. Sign up will be and 3 p.m. For the ladies, Tuesday clin- Saturdays you can attend a general The Preferred Liars topped the field clinic for all ages and abilities. Get help at -6, followed in second by Team Par with chipping and putting at 10 a.m., Tee at -4 and the Crushers in third at - The Meister mini-golf tournament set for May 31 then conquer your bunker and sand trap 3. Overall, the battle is on between the fears at 11 a.m. Wicked Wackers at -40 with the Ridge Benefit for adaptive sports “Spring is a great time to take a les- Gang breathing down their necks at - son and get ready for the golf season,” 38. says Fred Torres. “Indian Mound offers Men’s League for Members and program in MWV a variety of clinics for all levels of golfers Homeowners starts on Tuesday, June 2. AbilityPLUS in Mt. Washington two clicked, The Masters, The and budgets.” Ladies League will begin on Monday, Valley is proud to host the First Annual Meisters, it sounded like a fun idea,” For further information, go to June 15, with A and B Divisions. For The Meisters Mini-Golf Tournament said Erik Corbett, Program Director of www.indianmoundgc.com or call the Pro those of you with aspiring golfers of the at the Banana Village mini-golf course AbilityPlus in MWV. “I ran it by the Shop at 539.7733. junior variety, clinics for 4-7 year olds on Sunday, May 31, from 3 to 7 p.m. folks at Cranmore and they said go for And so, my friends, we’re off start on Monday, June 1, from 5:15- Modeled and named after the it.” again...another season of tournaments, 6:15. immensely popular Meisters ski races There will be a green jacket awarded league play, “grudge” matches, career For further information on any held at Cranmore throughout the win- to the top male and female players, as rounds, holes in one and hopefully some league or clinic, contact the Pro Shop at ter, this event is aimed at bringing the well as prizes for the best Caddyshack- good golf stories — if you have one, 356-2140. 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The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page B13 Sports Highlights

Kennett High Varsity Boys Tennis Eagle boys net wins over Sachems, Knights By Joshua Spaulding and the results were just the same as the Hirschfeld trailed early, rallied to tie his Monday, May 11, and though things Sports Editor first time the two teams met, with match at number four at seven, but fell were close in the individual matches, the NORTH CONWAY — The Kennett Kennett taking a 6-3 win over the 9-7. Clippers won 8-1. boys’ tennis team came up a bit short in Knights. Andrew MacDonald won 8-3 at num- “I feel like a broken record. I’ve been the first match of the penultimate week Brett Guerringue won the number ber five, winning seven straight to take saying all year that it could’ve been 5-4 of the regular season, but rebounded in one singles match with an 8-1 decision, the victory. us,” Bailey said. The Eagles lost four style with wins in the final two matches while Joey Murphy dropped an 8-2 deci- Carter Butler won 8-5 in the final matches that were within two games. of the week. sion at number two. singles spot. Guerringue played well and picked The Eagles traveled south to Ryan Kasianchuk continued his In doubles play, Guerringue and up an 8-1 win in the top spot. Murphy Wolfeboro on Friday, May 15, for a strong second half of the season with an Murphy won 8-1 at number one, also played well, but was unable to get rematch with the Knights of Kingswood 8-5 win at number three. Isaac Kasianchuk and Hirschfeld fell 8-3 at over the bump and fell 8-6 at number number two and MacDonald and Butler three. Sponsored by: won 8-5 at number three. Kasianchuk moved up to the third The Eagles also picked up a win over spot for the first time and dropped an 8- Carroll County Independent Laconia on Wednesday, May 13, as they 6 decision, while Hirschfeld fell 8-0 at Granite State News bested the Sachems by a 6-3 score, with number four. MacDonald and Butler Baysider / Winnisquam Echo the top four boys recording big wins to both dropped 8-1 decisions in the fifth Meredith News / Record Enterprise set things in motion. and sixth spot respectively. Gilford Steamer Guerringue won 8-3 at number one, In doubles play, Murphy and Salmon The Courier Murphy won 8-4 at number two, Guerringue fell 9-8 (7-5 in the tiebreak- press Coös County Democrat Kasianchuk won 8-2 at number three er) at number one. The duo won 11 Newspapers Berlin Reporter / Mountain Ear and Hirschfeld won by the same score at straight points to go up by an 8-7 score number four. before falling. NewHampshireLakesAndMountains.com “They played great,” coach Chris “They really, really fought through,” 5 water Street / Meredith NH / 603.279.4516 Bailey said. Bailey said. “It was fun to watch.” MacDonald fell 8-1 at number five Kasianchuk and Hirschfeld fell 8-6 at and Butler lost 8-6 at number six. number two. Shane Love and Tristan The Eagles won two of three doubles Weber lost an 8-0 decision at number matches to put the game away. three. Guerringue and Murphy won 8-3 at “Had we had our full lineup, I think number one, with Kasianchuk and we could’ve done real well,” Bailey said. Hirschfeld fell 8-2 at number two. The Eagles were playing without MacDonald and Butler won 8-3 at num- Thomas Stapinski and Oren Bentley. Fantasy ber three. The Eagles finished up the season FantasyFantasy “That was the best doubles I’ve seen after deadline Wednesday against them play,” Bailey commented. Oyster River. ▲ RACING LEAGUE The Eagles hosted Portsmouth on Fantasy Racing 2009 TOP 50 TEAMS Here are the Salmon Press Fantasy Racing League top 50 as of May 18. Kennett High Varsity Girls’ Tennis For complete standings go to NewHampshireLakesandMountains.com 1 John Ayers A Race Odyssey Lancaster 6192 Eagle girls split a pair on the road 2 David Beaudin D&M Motorsports Lincoln 6165 3 Claude Reed Rico Racing Lancaster 6093 4 Willie Dodge Legion #2 Lebanon 6079 By Joshua Spaulding rematch with the Sachems on 5 Jonathan Hayward Payday Racing Wakefield 6068 Sports Editor Wednesday, May 13, and came off the 6 Robert Lucas AmpedUp-2 Littleton 6063 NORTH CONWAY — Kennett girls’ courts with a solid 8-1 win. 7 Jeff McLellan Rock Racing Conway 6057 tennis coach Jon Judge has been “We played very well against 8 Marianne Fedele Sweet Pea Racing Littleton 6047 crunching the numbers. Laconia, but they let us play well,” 9 Shawn MacLeod SKH Racing Lancaster 6033 As he figures it, if teams that are sup- Judge said. “Every team we’re supposed 10 Stan Kelly 6 Creamy Pints Concord 6028 11 Dick Robie 13 Inc. Bethlehem 6025 posed to win do just that and his girls to be able to beat, we have. When 12 Jason Walsh Walsh Motorsports II Wolfeboro Falls 6015 are able to best Oyster River in the sea- we’ve been the underdog, we have 13 Jason Walsh Walsh Motorsports Wolfeboro Falls 6007 son finale, then the Eagles should played tough against those teams.” 14 Todd Colpitts Bond 25 Racing Littleton 6000 squeak into the Class I playoffs. The Eagles swept the singles match- 15 Chase Pilotte Got Captain Jefferson 5993 The Eagles picked up one more win es against the Sachems, allowing Judge 16 Shawn Chaplin SMC Motorsports Plus Littleton 5980 in that quest last week, but dropped a to sub in at doubles play to get some 17 Willie Dodge Legion #1 Lebanon 5966 tough one to a very good Portsmouth other players experience on the courts. 18 Craig Hyrd Hurdicane Racing Harrison, Me. 5942 19 Tom Sullivan Canvasracers Gilford 5936 squad to start the week. 20 Nathan Corrigan CSP Motorpsorts Gorham 5934 The Eagles headed to Laconia for a GIRLS TENNIS continues opposite page 21 Jeffrey Stevens J Stevens Racing Littleton 5904 22 Don Hayward Rookie Racing Union 5904 23 Larry Day Yellow Bus Racing North Conway 5892 24 Susan Brothers Team Bino II Sanbornville 5870 25 Stan Kelly Kellyboys Concord 5869 26 Robert Lucas AmpedUp-1 Littleton 5837 27 Richard Lapointe On The Hill One Berlin 5825 28 Patrick Connors Risanjax Alton 5808 29 Brad Gooden TNT Racer Lisbon 5796 30 Susan Brothers Team Bino Sanbornville 5787 31 Carolyn Barney CMG Racing Lancaster 5786 32 Chuck Janeczko Dr J's Garage Enfield, Ct. 5784 33 Tracy Simula Checkered Flag Racing Bristol 5779 34 Richard Piper Tires or Tracks Racing Mirror Lake 5778 35 Chase Pilotte Team Frankenstein Jefferson 5773 36 Larry Day Middle Age Motorsports North Conway 5768 37 Shyler Boisselle Risky Racing Groveton 5764 38 Min Kennett Midnight Moon Racing Groveton 5753 39 Don Merrill Don's Juans Littleton 5748 40 Carissa Boisselle Total Eclipse Racing Groveton 5745 41 John Myers Dummy 1 Center Ossipee 5745 42 Jeff Barney Jig Head Racing Lancaster 5744 43 Kerry Lapointe On The Hill Three Berlin 5735 44 Wayne Deyette Granite State Racing Stratford 5727 45 Chris Lynch Courty-14 North Conway 5722 46 Diane Bourbeau Gimp Milan 5716 47 Melody Barney Peaches-N-Cream Racing Lancaster 5707 48 Cynthia Verrill Skid Mark Racing Effingham 5704 49 Jeff McLellan Mini Mac Motorsports Conway 5701 50 Hilda Downs Over The Hill Racing Union 5699 For Complete Results Go To: NewHampshireLakesAndMountains.com

Page B14 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Kennett High Varsity Baseball Eagles survive scare in seventh to best Bobcats at home By Joshua Spaulding with Weigold making a nice play. The Sports Editor runner bolted for home and the senior NORTH CONWAY — The Kennett gunned him down for the second out of baseball team made things interesting in the inning. the top of the seventh inning, but in the After a base hit put runners on the end, the Eagles held on and exacted corners, Sires struck out the next batter some revenge on the Bobcats of to preserve the win. Plymouth on Friday, May 15. “I was proud of the team,” said coach The Eagles, who had dropped a 14-2 Bob Burns. “They did an excellent job decision to the Bobcats just two days and defensively we made the big plays.” earlier, were looking for a bit of revenge The veteran coach praised Clements when their local rivals came to town, but for his ability to hang on to the ball on things didn’t start out so well for the the plays at the plate. black and white. “It was a good effort all around,” Plymouth took advantage of an Eagle Burns continued. “They regrouped after error in the first inning and went on to the 10-run game over there.” score three runs in the frame, taking a 3- The Eagle coach noted that his team 0 lead before Kennett even came to the was outside in the rain on Thursday, plate. working on things they didn’t execute When the Eagles did step in against well in the first game with Plymouth, Plymouth’s Kyle Underwood, they did and it paid off with some solid play on some damage, starting in the first Friday. inning. The Eagles dropped a 14-2 decision Seth Shackford led off the game with to the Bobcats on Wednesday, May 13, a triple, but was forced out at the plate most of the damage being done in the on a fielder’s choice one out later. A Pitcher Jeff Sires fires to first while falling to the ground in an unsuccessful attempt to fourth inning. Nick Kevlin walk and a base hit by gun down a Plymouth runner in Friday’s 5-4 win. The Eagles picked up an 8-6 win over Michael Larson plated one run and a (Joshua Spaulding/Mountain Ear Photo) Kearsarge on Tuesday, May 12, and fell double by Justin Clements tied the score to Laconia by an 8-7 score on Monday, at three. ner in scoring position. then gunned the ball to Kevlin at first to May 11. Dave Ingram followed with a base hit Thirdbaseman George Weigold complete the 6-2-3 double play. Sires “Hopefully we’ll get back at them a and Kennett had a 4-3 lead. A Scott made a nice play on a ground ball to get struck out the next hitter to end the little,” Burns said, as the Eagles were Saunders base hit made it 5-3 before the the first out and a missed suicide squeeze inning. heading to Laconia after deadline Bobcats got out of the frame. allowed Clements to cut down another Plymouth had one final chance in the Monday. “You never can tell, day to Plymouth plated another run in the runner trying to score for the second top of the seventh inning. The first bat- day.” top of the second, closing the gap to 5- out. Another error kept Plymouth alive, ter reached on an error and the second The Eagles will finish the home sea- 4, but Clements threw out a runner try- but Sires struck out the next batter to batter drilled a shot to center, with the son with a game against Kingswood on ing to steal second to help squelch the get out of the inning. runner trying to score from first. Friday, May 22, at 4 p.m. The boys head rally. Plymouth went at it again in the Shackford fired a throw to Lanciaux, on the road on Tuesday, May 26, for a Plymouth put two runners on in the sixth, trying their best to get a runner who hit Clements with another great 4:15 p.m. contest with Lebanon and third, but Jeff Sires induced a pair of across the plate to tie the game. throw and the runner was out for the travel to Dover for a 4:15 p.m. meeting ground balls to get out of the inning Two walks and a bunt hit loaded the first out of the inning. with St. Thomas on Thursday, May 28, without any damage. bases for the Bobcats. With the infield The next batter grounded to third, wrapping up the regular season. ▲ Plymouth threatened in the top of in, the next batter drilled a shot to short- the fifth inning, with a Kennett error stop. Alain Lanciaux fielded the ball and and wild pitch putting a Plymouth run- fired home for the first out. Clements GIANTGIANT INDOORINDOOR YYARDARD SALESALE Saturday, May 23, 2009 • 9-4 Guerringue and Mailman fell 9-8 (6 Sunday, May 24, 2009 • 9-4 Girls Tennis in the tiebreaker) at number one dou- bles, while Simonds and Canavari lost Continued from opposite page 8-2 and Blakely and Van Deursen fell 8-5. Lee Guerringue won by an 8-4 score “We were right there with them,” at number one, while senior Lacey Judge said. He noted that the Mailman dropped an 8-1 decision at Portsmouth coach also pointed out number two. that the Eagles were certainly better Heather Canavari played in the than their record indicates. third spot and picked up an 8-5 victory, The Eagles finished up the season New Location: while Courtney Simonds won 8-0 at with a home match with Oyster River White Mt. Hwy, Rt 16 number four. after deadline Wednesday. Former Lenox Store next to Chowder House Casey Blakely bounced back from If the Eagles qualify for the Class I her first singles loss of the season with tournament, they will be on the road just north of Green Granite Inn an 8-0 win in the fifth spot and Cassidy for the first round game on Van Deursen won by an 8-1 score at Wednesday, May 27, at 4 p.m. ▲ Furniture, Appliances, Power Tools, Hardware, number six, giving the Eagles a 6-0 Paint, Building Materials, Windows, Doors etc. lead heading into doubles. Sara Hopkins and Amanda Hayford stepped into the top doubles spot and dropped an 8-5 decision. Maddie Plausché and Nicole Schiller won 8-6 at number two and Alexa Phelps and Chelsea Seekell picked up an 8-4 win in the third dou- bles spot. “We’re just starting to hit our stride and the season ends next week,” Judge said. “We’ve made some major improvements (from the start of the year). We are a different group of ten- nis players.” At Portsmouth on Monday, May 11, the Eagles were swept by the Clippers, though the Kennett girls did hold their own against the elite team in Class I. Guerringue fell 8-4 at number one and Mailman dropped an 8-0 decision at number two. Simonds lost 8-0 at number three and Canavari lost 8-2 in the fourth spot. Blakely dropped an 8- 4 decision at number five, the first sin- gles loss of the year for the freshman, while Van Deursen fell 8-1 in the sixth spot.

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Kennett High Varsity Softball Eagles exact a bit of revenge on Bobcats By Joshua Spaulding Saunders then struck out the next two bat- the inning when the Eagles plated a couple ple on base,” Ames noted. “They hit the ball Sports Editor ters and the Eagles rallied in the bottom of of more runs to take the lead. well. Once we started it’s one of those things NORTH CONWAY — It was the toughest the frame. With one out, Janos walked and that’s just contagious.” week of the season for the Kennett softball Billert led off with a triple and Sam Janos Saunders laced a base hit and stole second. The veteran coach noted that the win team, with four games in five days against a followed with a grounder to first. Billert was Whitney Roberts followed with a long base was probably his team’s biggest of the year, couple of solid opponents. off on contact and beat the throw home to hit to right, plating both runners to give particularly given the fact that the Eagles The Eagles were able to end the week on tie the game at one. Kennett a 3-2 lead. The Eagles threatened lost to the Bobcats 2-1 a couple days earlier. a high note, salvaging a split of the four Plymouth plated a run in the top of the for more, as McPherson beat out an infield “Plus that puts us over .500 for sure and games with a big 9-2 win over rival fourth to take the lead back and threatened hit, Bishop hit a fielder’s choice and Ashley sets us up in pretty good shape for a top- Plymouth on Friday, May 15. The win came to do more in the top of the fifth. Smith walked to load the bases, but the eight finish at least,” he said. just two days after the Bobcats handed coach The first batter in that frame doubled to Eagles couldn’t plate any insurance runs. Saunders also offered praise to her Peter Ames’ troops a 2-1 loss in Plymouth. left field. The next hitter followed with a However, in the bottom of the sixth, they catcher for a solid game behind the plate. The Bobcats got off to a quick start base hit to center. The Plymouth coach did just that. At Plymouth on Wednesday, both teams against the Eagles in North Conway Friday, waved his base runner around third, looking With one out, Billert reached on an error scored in the first inning, but Plymouth got as the visitors plated a run in the top of the for an insurance run. Billert, who normally and stole second. Janos got a base hit and a run in the sixth to take the lead and held first inning to take a 1-0 lead. plays second base but was filling in for Saunders walked to load the bases. Roberts on for the win. The Eagles threatened to at least tie the Alyssa Chick in centerfield, made a perfect followed with a base hit to plate one run and On Tuesday, May 12, the Eagles hosted game in the bottom of the second inning, as throw to catcher Katie Bishop. The sopho- McPherson cleared the bases with a double, Kearsarge in a makeup game and got a gem a double by Amber McPherson, a base hit more receiver held on to the ball and the making it 7-2. Bishop reached on an error of a performance from Roberts to pick up by Katie Bishop and a walk to Kristina Drew runner was out. and a wild pitch plated another run. A base the 17-0 win. loaded the bases, but the Eagles couldn’t “That was probably the play of the hit for Smith made it 9-2. The sophomore pitcher threw a no-hit- score and Plymouth held on to the 1-0 lead. game,” said Ames. “It was a great throw and Plymouth got a pair of hits to open the ter, striking out 11 and facing only one Pitcher Molly Saunders got a bit of Katie did a good job to get the throw and seventh, but Saunders got a pop up to cen- more than the minimum as the Eagles defensive help in the top of the third, as Alex make the tag.” ter and two strikeouts to end the game. cruised to the win. Billert made a nice grab in center field. The play proved critical in the bottom of “We finally got a couple of hits with peo- “She really pitched well,” Ames said, noting that she would get the start against Laconia after deadline Monday. The Eagles fell to the Sachems at home on Monday, May 11, by a score of 12-4. It was a close game through the first five innings, as the Sachems had a 3-1 lead heading to the sixth. However, they came up big in the sixth and seventh, adding a total of nine runs in the two frames to walk away with the win. The Eagles will be in action at home Friday as they entertain Kingswood at 4 p.m. in the final home game of the regu- lar season. On Tuesday, May 26, they head to Lebanon for a 4:15 p.m. contest and on Thursday, May 28, the Eagles head to Dover to take on St. Thomas at 4:15 p.m. ▲

King Pine Triathlon returns May 31 MADISON — The King Pine Triathlon and Duathlon returns to Purity Spring Resort in Madison on Sunday, May 31. The event is offered as the perfect season opener for veterans, as well as for beginners looking to experience their first triathlon or duathlon, as last year’s race featured a total of 54 percent first-time racers. The event begins with a 1/3-mile swim in the waters of Purity Lake, followed by a 12.5-mile bike ride along the roads of Madison and Freedom. The race concludes with a 3.8-mile run around Purity Lake’s trail and road system. The event is open to all ability groups age 14 and older and athletes are also allowed to enter as a relay team. The duathlon will skip the swimming portion, instead adding another running portion prior to the biking section. There will also be a youth division, with a 75-yard swim, one and a half mile moun- tain bike ride and a half-mile run. The youth division is open to kids ages 6 to 14. On Saturday, May 30, athletes can pick up their race packets from 1 to 6 p.m. and at 5 p.m. there will be a meeting for first time competitors with the race director and a USAT official. On race day, the transition area opens at 6 a.m., with a mandatory pre-race meeting at 7:30 a.m. and competition beginning at 8 a.m. The kids’ race will begin at 10:45 a.m. For more information on how to regis- ter or more specifics on the course, visit the event web site at www.kingpinetri.com. ▲

Page B16 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, May 21, 2009 Kennett High Track Eagles warm up for Wilderness Meet at home, May 23 By Joshua Spaulding Kim Theophelakes was first in the Quin Schreiber teamed up to Sports Editor javelin with a toss of 101 feet, nine inch- take first place in a time of NORTH CONWAY — In preparation es, with Kalin Billert taking sixth at 79 4:32.4. The 4X100-meter team for the annual Wilderness Meet, the feet, three inches. Theophelakes was of Theophelakes, Townsend, Kennett track team headed to second in the 300-meter hurdles with Smith and Megan Darcy was Newfound for the Bristol Lions her time of 50.5 seconds. second in 54.4 seconds. Invitational on Saturday, May 16. Liza Townsend took the top spot in Hannah Wright was second The Eagles girls put up some impres- the triple jump with a leap of 31 feet, in the 3,200 meters in a time of sive performances and picked up a num- half an inch. She was also second in the 13:38, with Shannon fourth in ber of wins. 100-meter hurdles with a time of 17.4 13:42. Brianna Moore won the 1,600 meters seconds, with teammate Maddy Smith Emily Leich was second in in a time of 5:29.6, a new personal best. taking third in 18 seconds. the pole vault with a height of Teammate Molly Shannon was fifth in The 4X400-meter team of Melanie seven feet, a new personal best. 6:00. Allen, Theophelakes, Sadie Miller and Darcy was third at six feet, six inches and Kaitlin Burton was fourth at the same height. Liz Major was second in the long jump at 14 feet, seven Tough week. The inches. Patti Malone was second Kennett boys’ lacrosse in the discus with a toss of 100 team had a tough week, feet, seven inches, a personal Ryan Goodson (left) and Mike Albert take off from dropping two deci- best, with Dani Wilbur fourth the start of the 100 meters at a recent home meet in sions. The boys fell to at 86 feet, 10 inches and Alaina Conway. The Eagles will host the Wilderness Meet Merrimack Valley by Hayford sixth at 75 feet, seven on Saturday, May 23. an 11-7 score at home inches. Malone also was second (Joshua Spaulding/Mountain Ear Photo) on Wednesday, May 13. in the shot put at 27 feet, 11 and They then headed to one half inches. sixth in the 3,200 meters in 11:19. Pelham and fell by a 9- Allen took third in the 400 meters in “It went pretty well,” coach Bernie 0 score on Friday, May 66 seconds, with Schreiber fourth in Livingston said. “It was a good precur- 15. Chris Andreani 67.5 seconds. Billert was third in the 800 sor to the Wilderness Meet. All in all it (above) and the rest of meters in 2:40.9, followed by Miller in was a good day.” the Eagles will head to fourth in 2:41.5 Vicky Weigold was fifth The Kennett coach was looking for- Somersworth on in the 200 meters in 28.8 seconds ward to hosting the Wilderness Meet, Friday, May 22, for a returning from injury, with 20 schools in attendance this 4:30 p.m. game and For the boys, Zach Switaj was the top Saturday at Kennett High School. will wrap up the regu- scorer, finishing first in the 800 meters “It’s going to be a big week, but it’s lar season with a 4:15 with a personal best time of 2:03.6. going to be nice having it here for the p.m. game with Gilford Switaj teamed with Josh Brown, Sam kids and to showcase what we have at home on Wednesday, Burroughs and Dalton L’Heureux to here,” he said. “I think we’re going to be May 27. finish second in the 4X400-meter relay able to put on a very good meet.” (Joshua Spaulding/ in a season best 3:43.4. The Wilderness Meet will kick off at Mountain Ear Photo) Andrew Pray took second in the 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 23, at the high javelin with a personal best throw of 145 school in Redstone. ▲ feet, four inches and Peter Haine was

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Week of May 12 through 18 All the signs of summer can be seen and heard at the summit

By Stacey Kawecki The valley’s turning green! Weather Observer Summer is just around the corner! Mount Washington Observatory WEATHER (Mount Washington Observatory Photo) AFTER A QUICK DIP BACK MT. WASHINGTON into winter last week, the summit warmed up quite nicely. The couple inches of snow OBSERVATORY melted away just in time for Wednesday’s shift change. The weather could not have Compiled by Observatory Staff been more pleasant; plenty of sunshine, Date High Low Prec. Snow light winds and temperatures only a little May 12 33 21 —— cooler than normal. 13 38 27 0.16” — On Saturday, the Mount Washington 14 41 29 — — State Park opened its doors to the public 15 43 34 — — for the first time since October! The 16 46 37 0.28” — Mount Washington Auto Road also 17 47 19 0.49” — opened to private cars to the summit, and 18 27 16 Trace Trace the first visitors of the summer season Highest recorded wind gust,May 14, experienced a variety of weather. 80 miles per hour out of the South. Saturday began in the clear with cloudy skies and temperatures in the lower 40s. Winds were fairly calm, and even a little bit of sunshine kissed the mountain top. ships are available in the summit museum However, an approaching warm front and gift shop. brought fog, wind, and significant rainfall The temperature eventually bottomed to the summit before the storm was done. out at 16°F early Monday morning. Fog Between Saturday and Sunday, 0.77 and mist intermittently graced the sum- inches of rain fell upon the summits. mits as high pressure battled with lower Winds shifted to the west and northwest level moisture, and a surprise snow shower on Sunday morning and rain changed to made the crew scratch their heads. freezing rain as temperatures began to Monday proved to be yet another beauti- plummet. Temperature fell a whopping 18 ful day for visiting, unless one desired to degrees in only three hours! Luckily, the feel some real Mount Washington wind colder, drier air whisked away the fog and speeds. The average wind on Monday was freezing rain so that more visitors could only 19.3 mph. experience the chilly summit air and visi- So, as the winds begin to take on sum- bility up to 100 miles. mer properties (aka, not howling every Members of the Mount Washington day) the crew’s ears become more aware of Observatory can even get a tour of the the surrounding sounds: cars driving up facility, including an exhilarating trip to the the road, the Cog Railway whistles, hikers, top of the tower, where you can feel the dogs, visitors, and even bird songs and wind unimpeded! Temporary member- raven calls. Summer has arrived. ▲

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