Sping Home Improvement Section: Pages B1-B3 THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2018 COVERING ALTON, BARNSTEAD, & NEW DURHAM - WWW.SALMONPRESS.COM FREE Impressive showing for Bob in Detroit Prospect Mountain robotics team competes well at world championships BY TIM CROES tinuously improve on,” Contributing Writer Hikel said. “This robot DETROIT, Mich. — increased its capabili- Two weeks ago, the ro- ties, and as everyone else botics team at Prospect got better, so did we.” Mountain High School Prior to last season, was flying high, as Team the PMHS team had 319 came away as the traveled to the world New England District championship in three Champions, and traveled straight seasons, but in to Detroit last week in 2017 they didn’t go to the hopes of being crowned world championship and world champions. mentor Ty Tremblay, an Team 319, also known alum of the PMHS robot- as “Big Bad Bob,” fought ics team, thinks that not hard during the qual- going to the world cham- ifying rounds but got pionship last year made knocked out in semifi- this year’s run possible. nals in the Tesla Division The team worked hard of the U.S. FIRST World on developing a robot Championship that was that could win. Bob add- held in Detroit, Mich. ed the ability to pick up from April 26 through 28. team mates and score bo- Team 319 finished the nus points, but this func- qualifying rounds with a tion wasn’t added until 5-5 record, but their robot just before the district was ranked as the num- TIM CROES championship in Bos- ber 16 seed out of more MEMBERS OF TEAM 319 work on the robot “Bob” from the pit during the U.S. FIRST World Championship that was held in SEE ROBOTICS, PAGE A10 than 60 robots. The team Detroit from April 25 through 28. spent hours in their hotel alliance then picked the finals in the Tesla Di- on Friday night scouting team from Manchester, vision and was swept other teams, in the hopes Team 238, and their alli- in two matches in the Barnstead BOS gets an they would be drafted ance squeaked by with best of three format. But into the quarterfinals, a 2-1 win in the quarter- head mentor Brian Hikel and began strategizing finals. Their final match knows that his team on who they would then was so close that the mar- learned a lot in compet- earful regarding roads try to pick as a team gin of victory was only ing against the best in mate. three points, with a final the world and this season A vocal public chimes in on highway department performance On Saturday morning, score of 325-322. they built a robot that the top eight seeds draft- Unfortunately, Big they had supreme confi- BY MARK FOYNES heated at last week’s agenda items was the ed their picks and Team Bad Bob and the num- dence in. Contributing Writer Barnstead Board of Se- approval of a replace- 340 from Churchville, ber four alliance was “We learned to make BARNSTEAD — lectmen meeting. At is- ment truck for the N.Y. picked Bob and their knocked out in the semi- a robot that we can con- Things got a little sue between residents highway department. and members of the The proposed 2005 In- BOS is the condition ternational from Man- of many town-main- chester has about 38k Who was Bertha Damon? tained roads - and the miles on it and is not Bestselling author rediscovered during a local historical preservation effort board’s inability to expected to require an take action at present expenditure of more BY MARK FOYNES er of language. A conser- considered all things things full circle. When about the employment than $20k from the Contributing Writer vationist - and with a ten- “modern” to be off-put- the book was published status of the current highway vehicle fund. ALTON — Unbe- dency to look at things a ting. She considered the in 1938, Damon was 57 - road agent. Comparable vehicles knownst until just re- little sideways - her best- technological advanc- that’s the age Grandma The Tuesday, April have recently sold be- cently by many local his- known work was a 1938 es of the late 1800s to be Griswold was when the 24, public meeting tween $12k and $15k. torians, a barn that will memoir titled Grandma “indulgences” that had five-year-old Bertha was was flanked by a pair A pair of informa- be taken down and reas- Called It Carnal, which the potential to corrupt left in Grandma’s care in of executive sessions, tional items were brief- sembled in an effort to went through at least six Americans’ “moral sen- 1886. which were open only ly discussed relating to erect the Zechariah Boo- printings. sibilities.” As Grandma Damon’s rural up- to BOS members. the police department. dey Farmstead complex The volume recounts put it, a “carnal” lifestyle bringing on a working Among some of the Selectmen’s secretary in New Durham once her small town Con- involved “grasping for SEE DAMON, PAGE A9 quickly-expedited SEE BARNSTEAD, PAGE A11 belonged to a New York necticut girlhood in the more and more things Times best-selling author late 1800s. In spite of its and missing more and who summered here on suggestive title, there more values.” a 250-acre farm on Chest- is nothing salacious in Her book was greeted nut Cove Road. the tome. Rather, the with critical acclaim, The Bertha Damon’s path book describes Damon’s Saturday Review raved, to Alton took a circuitous strong-willed, stoic, yet “Grandma is more than route. loving grandmother who amusing or odd or even Bertha Damon (née possessed a marked Pu- striking; she is a figure Bertha Louise Clark) ritanical streak that de- of significance in the pat- led a life that began in fined her personality and tern of American life.” rural North Stonefield, helped shape the char- Damon’s literary suc- Conn. before removing acter of her two adopted cess was a lifetime in the to Providence - and then granddaughters. making. Her memoir was to the San Francisco area Grandma Griswold almost a way of bringing and the soaring heights of California’s Sierra Mountains. She was lov- Silent auction at PMHS on Friday ALTON — Prospect Mountain High School INDEX is hosting its inaugural silent auction on Fri- t day, May 4, from 6 to 9 p.m. at PMHS. Proceeds will benefit the robotics team, BOB 319, the Fu- Volume 12 • Number 18 ture Business Leaders of America (FBLA), the PMHS band and music department, as well as Business .......................A7 the PMTA Scholarship Fund. This event effects Churches ......................A8 nearly every student at PMHS. The theme for Classifieds ............B8–B11 this year is none other than May the Fourth Be With You. Childcare provided for children 10 and Editorial Page ..............A4 under for free (child care is in the gym). Ticket John Harrigan ............A12 price includes beverages and heavy appetizers. Letters ..........................A4 Entertainment is provided by the PMHS band. A COURTESY PHOTO Obituaries ....................A8 few of the items up for auction are a Fisher Cats Sports ...................B4 - B7 luxury suite with 20 game tickets, lift tickets to April in Paris Gunstock, Cranmore and Pat's Peak, theater 24 pages in 2 sections Members of the Prospect Mountain World Cultures Club pose with The Baysider in front of tickets to Palace Playhouse, Seacoast Rep, Roch- the Eiffel Tower during their trip to Paris during the school break. Pictured (l to r), Hannah ©2018, Salmon Press, LLC. ester Opera House, Capitol Center for the Arts, Bureau, Caitlin McCracken, Brittany Rogers, Brianna Duggan, Anna DeRoche, Peter Long, Call us at (603) 569-3126 and so much more! Don't miss out on this amaz- Melody Kelly and Jane Alfonso. If you have a photo of you and The Baysider in a unique email: [email protected] ing event to come support the students of PMHS. location, send the photo and pertinent information to [email protected]. www.salmonpress.com A2 THE BAYSIDER, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2018 AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES BE PREPARED: RED CROSS URGES BLOOD AND PLATELET DONATION MANCHESTER, NH (April 23, 2018) — This May, the American Red Cross is calling for donors to give blood and platelets regularly to be prepared to meet the needs of patients in emergency situations. According to the National Trauma Institute, trauma accounts for approximately 41 million emergency department visits and 2 million hospital admissions each year. In March 2015, Kevin Frame suffered life-threatening injuries in a head-on collision during spring break. He received blood products to treat internal injuries immediately after the accident and during multiple surgeries while recovering. “Without the blood and plasma products made available from donations, I would not be alive today to continue my rehabilitation journey,” said Frame, who had to relearn to swallow, speak and walk after the accident. Regular blood, platelet and plasma donations help ensure that blood is available at a moment’s notice. In fact, it is the blood on the shelves that is used to help save lives at the time of an accident or sudden illness. In trauma situations, when there’s no time to check a patient’s blood type, emergency personnel reach for type O negative red blood cells and type AB plasma because they can be transfused to any patient, regardless of blood type. Less than 7 percent of the population has type O negative blood, and only about 4 percent of the population has type AB blood.