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Emme Carmody, 7, gets a big hug from SpongeBob SquarePants as he 

marches with the rest of the Old Home Day Parade along Mammoth 

Road on Saturday. Photo by Chris Paul 

Crowds Flock to Town Common 

for Londonderry Old Home Day 

KATHLEEN D. BAILEY 

LONDONDERRY TIMES 

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Amanda Mack and her family 

settled into their lawn chairs 

under a spreading tree on the 

Methodist church lawn. They had 

been at the Common area of Londonderry 

since 7:30 a.m., Mack said. 

They came first for the road race, 

would stay through the parade and 

enjoy the rest of the day. 

"This is our spot," Mack said 

with a smile. "We come here every 

year." 

The area around the Town Common 

was full Saturday as Old Home 

Day festivities reached their peak 

attendance. While not everyone 

arrived as early as Mack and her family, 

thousands of people found their 

way to the center of Londonderry for 

a day of food, fun and all things Londonderry. 

It was a good day for the weather, 

with sunny skies, and it was a good 

day for nonprofits, whose booths 

ringed the Common. St. Jude's 

continued on page 2 

School District Expects to 

Return Surplus to Taxpayers 



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The Londonderry 

School District will 

be returning approximately 

$300,000 to taxpayers 

after the Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2011 budget 

year, Finance Director Peter 

Curro told the School 

Board at its August meeting. 

Curro wrote in a memo, 

"We estimate the Londonderry 

School District yearend 

fund balance to be 

$347,943." According to 

Curro, the total operating 

budget expenditures are 

estimated at $63,389,324 

instead of the approved 

budget of $63,548,355, 

bringing a positive vari- 

ance of $159,031. 



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The Londonderry 

School Board is calling 

for a change in 

the system, after its otherwise 

well-performing district 

was named a District 

In Need of Improvement 

(DINI) in the federal No 

Child Left Behind rating. 

Assistant Superintendent 

Andrew Corey presented 

the No Child Left 

Behind data, and also a 

snapshot of the Iowa test, 

another assessment used 

in Londonderry, at the Aug. 

16 School Board meeting. 

Corey said the Londonderry 

School District 

made Adequate Yearly 

Progress, or AYP, at all 

schools in the "Whole 

School" and "Economical- 

On the revenue side, 

Curro is estimating a surplus 

of $94,317. The district 

is required to transfer 

the remaining funds, 

$94,595, from the South 

School construction and 

renovation project. After 

transferring $50,000 to 

the Maintenance Trust 

Fund as approved by the 

voters, the year-end surplus 

is a net gain of 

$297,943, which will be 

used to offset the tax rate 

for FY 2011-12, Curro said. 

The numbers are 

pending the School District 

audit, which took 

place last week, Curro 

said. The FY 11 audit will 

be complete and available 

in December. 

Board member Steve 

ly Disadvantaged" categories. 

In math, all schools 

except Londonderry Middle 

School made AYP in 

the "Whole School" category. 

In math also, all the 

schools except Londonderry 

High School made 

AYP in the "Economically 

Disadvantaged" category. 

But in order for a 

school or district to make 

AYP, it must reach the 

required "index" or goal 

for each subgroup, including 

Whole School, Economically 

Disadvantaged 

and Educational Disabilities, 

and if any subgroup 

fails to make the target 

index or a 10 percent gain 

over the previous year, 

the school is designated 

as a School In Need of 

Improvement (SINI). 

Young asked Curro what 

taxpayers can expect to 

see on a tax rate, and 

Curro said if these figures 

hold, they can expect a 

drop of 3 cents per $1,000 

valuation. 

With an anticipated 

"hole" due to an expected 

rise in health insurance, 

the district controlled its 

expenses in the second 

semester. Superintendent 

Nate Greenberg said the 

district held the line on 

substitute teachers, only 

calling in a "sub" if a regular 

teacher were absent, 

and not doing so for an 

instructional aide. The 

only exception, Greenberg 

said, was one-on-one 

aides. 


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Board Favors Testing Change After 

‘District in Need of Improvement’ Label 

In reading, each school 

matched or beat its index 

in Whole School. Londonderry 

High School, in 

which only juniors are 

tested, had an index of 

89.0 and had 92.2 percent 

make AYP on the test; 

Londonderry Middle 

School, testing grades 7 

and 8, had an index of 

91,with 91.2 percent making 

AYP; North School, 


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Audrey Gagnon, left, and Courtney Quirk participate 

in the Sack Race across the Town Common on 

the afternoon of Old Home Day last Saturday. 

Old Home 

Continued from page 1 

Catholic Church sold apple 

pie slices and "Sloppy 

Judes," while its Knights of 

Columbus group sold fried 

dough. St. Mark's Catholic 

Church sold frappes, and 

its Knights offered a putting 

green. Across the 

Photos by Chris Paul 

street, both the Lions and 

the Methodist Church sold 

burgers, hot dogs and 

sausage sandwiches. 

Victory Baptist Church 

offered a bake sale and 

free lemonade. The proceeds 

from the baked 

goods would help the senior 

class at Victory Christian 

School with its senior 

trip, parent Beverly Cham- 

Maelyn Romboli hams it up with her mom, Kristen 

Romboli, for the judges during the Baby Contest 

held at Londonderry High School on Saturday 

morning. 

bers said. 

"Try the monkey bread, 

it melts in your mouth," 

she told a prospective customer. 

The volunteers at the 

nonprofits were happy to 

sell their wares, and just 

as happy to recruit. Dave 

Donovan chaired the 

Friends of Londonderry 

Hockey booth, where 

people could buy hot 

dogs, chips, soda and 

candy, or take their turn 

in a "shooting booth." "We 

support middle school, 

high school, all hockey," 

Donovan said. 

"Do you have an application 

for members?" a 

man asked him, and Donovan 

whipped one out. 

Children waited in line 

for one of several bounce 

castles and a climbing 

wall. They played oldfashioned 

games like sack 

race under the direction 

of the Londonderry YMCA, 

while their parents scooped 

up literature from 

youth organizations ranging 

from Girl Scouts to the 

Wildcat football organization. 

An animal show by 

the Granite State Zoo 

Wildlife Encounters drew 

more than 100 children. 

Visitors to the Common 

could also get their blood 

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House during Junior Militia Recruitment at Old 

Home Day. 

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booth or take a chance on 

a handmade quilt from 

the Londonderry Seniors. 

And they could eat. 

Denise Brouilette and her 

husband, Bill, of Chicopee, 

Mass., sat at a picnic 

table with their niece 

Emily Thomas, 8, and 

nephew Frank Thomas, 6, 

both of Londonderry. It 

was barely 10 a.m. and 

they were chowing down 

on burgers and fries. 

"It's the atmosphere," 

Denise said with a smile. 

As the public address 

system played "Saturday 

In the Park" by Chicago, a 

lone blue balloon escaped 

and floated toward the sky. 

The community also 

welcomed back Reed 

Page Clark, a longtime 

resident and member of 

the Old Home Day Committee. 

Clark had fallen 

earlier in the week and 

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for a few hours in the 

afternoon to attend the 

Saturday event, with a 

walker, and to see the 

fruit of his labors. He then 

returned to the hospital 

for rehabilitation. Clark is 

responsible for the 

booths on the Common. 

He and his wife, Phyllis, 

spent the afternoon in the 

Old Home Day Committee 

booth, and greeted 

friends from that spot. 

The Common was full 

from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., 

when the booths closed 

down and the nonprofits 

packed up. Crowd estimates 

centered around 

3,000 people, both at the 

Common and for Friday 

night's fireworks, with 

even higher numbers for 

the midway booths that 

attracted the youngsters. 

For other Old Home 

Day event stories, see 

pages 10, 11, 12 and 23.

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Thursday, Aug. 18, to 

finalize its recommendations 

to the Planning 

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Projects considered at 

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Unit (SAU) office, 

estimated at $100,000 

(architects and engineering) 

and $2.9 million, construction; 

rated Priority 2, 

slotted for Fiscal Year 

(FY) 16; 

• School district auditorium, 

$500,000 (architects 

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million (site prep), $15 

million (construction), 

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renovations, $2.6 million, 

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and engineering), 

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$50,000 (furniture 

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at North School in Coming Year 



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Mary Coltin has 

welcomed students 

back to Londonderry’s 

North School 

for 18 years, 16 as assistant 

principal and two as 

principal. “I am excited 

about everything,” she 

said, including the 477 

children who will walk 

through her doors Monday, 

Aug. 29. 

Coltin said she’s looking 

forward to the Professional 

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ties being implemented in 

all the district schools. 

The communities, which 

bring teachers together 

every other week, foster 

an attitude of “these 

aren’t my kids, these are 

our kids,” she said. 

Coltin was impressed 

with the amount of professional 

development 

her teachers took part in 

over the summer. They 

went to workshops on 

team-teaching, assessment, 

and the math curriculum, 

she said. 

“We looked at the 

math curriculum, to make 

sure they’re teaching the 

skills we want,” she said. 

They also developed common 

formative assessments 

for math, she said. 

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• Several high-priority 

projects are not yet funded, 

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include the Pettingill 

Road upgrade, $12,348,000, 

Priority 2, FY 13; GIS (Geographic 

Information System) 

Maintenance Program, 

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$140,000, Priority 2, FY 13. 

Farrell said Garron will 

be working with Finance 

Director Sue Hickey on 

spreadsheets, and the 

committee will make its 

recommendations to the 

Planning Board at its second 

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"For us, it ends there 

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School starts next week, and the 

shadows of late summer bring the 

unmistakable message that the season 

is on the wane. It may be too 

hot to think about winter clothing, 

but the time for scarves and hats 

and boots will be here before we 

know it. 

But even as one season fades, the 

opening of the school year brings 

with it a sense of everything new 

once again. The collection of empty 

notebooks, sharpened pencils, new 

pens, and for the younger set, 

untouched crayons carries with it an 

excitement about things to come. 

And for those of us long past worrying 

about the first day of school, we 

nevertheless have our memories. 

With budget cuts in place, this 

will be a leaner year than in the 

recent past, although compared to 

schools in many other parts of the 

country, ours are well staffed, programs 

such as art and music are not 

considered luxuries - nor should 

they be - and our buildings are in 

good shape. And it’s likely that our 

children will continue to learn and 

thrive, even with funding cuts and 

fewer staff. 

With the exception of the Freshman 

Academy building at Pinkerton 

Academy, this has been a quiet summer 

for school projects. Most districts 

have acknowledged the eco- 

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nomic hardship faced by many taxpayers, 

and only a bare minimum of 

remodeling and renovating has taken 

place, with the focus on the necessary, 

rather than on the “nice to 

have.” In Londonderry, that meant 

that Matthew Thornton Elementary 

School at long last has a sprinkler 

system, an improvement surely 

worth the price. 

And while the school districts 

may be leaner, that doesn’t mean 

nothing new is happening. In Hampstead 

and Derry, for example, fullday 

kindergarten is being offered as 

an option, in addition to the usual 

half-day program. 

The start of school also brings a 

word of caution - children will be 

walking along the edge of roads and 

in crosswalks, and drivers will need 

to watch the road even more carefully 

than usual. That means paying 

attention to the reduced speed limit 

signs in school zones, and watching 

for school buses signaling their 

stops. 

For parents, the start of the 

school year brings feelings of nostalgia, 

and the reality of the years that 

are passing can’t be avoided. But 

there’s nothing like the opening of 

school to remind us of all we have 

yet to learn, and of the excitement 

that knowledge of new things can 

bring. 

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Memories of St Jude’s 

To the editor: 

We returned to St 

Jude’s this month, after a 

time lapse of at least 25 

years. 

The faces of the congregation 

looked older 

now and fewer than in the 

days when Londonderry’s 

residents, young and old, 

joined together, just after 

the war, to work together 

to give you the best 

schools, the best in rural 

living. 

I remember the people 

who formed a church family; 

with hands on workmanship, 

the church was 

built. The aisles are still 

filled with the ghosts of 

those who have passed. 

There was Mrs. Paquin, 

cooking in the kitchen, 

donated by the Donati 

family. Helen Poitras, 

peeling potatoes; Mrs. 

McKinney, Tootie Hayard, 

Rita Day, who helped 

organize the airlift of 

goods to Korea. Dear 

Father Shea turned chaplain 

and received those 

goods for the needy. Jociie 

Noyce. The Theaubeaults, 

Aurea Addams, 

Mrs. Manning and the 

many things that were 

done to assist the Laconia 

school. Lucille Lamontagne, 

who cared for the 

babies of Catholic Charities. 

I could still see, 

through my tears, her 

husband, passing the basket. 

No family in Londonderry 

that needed help 

did not get attended to by 

these ladies. Rounds were 

made and whatever help 

they could give, was given 

by these angels of the 

Women’s Guild of St 

Jude’s. 

I feel blessed to have 

been part of their growth 

and the growth of Londonderry. 

We must look 

ahead to the future, but 

let’s not forget how we 

got to the present. Their 

spirit is still there, in the 

church we all built, 

together with some of the 

finest priests in the diocese. 

I’m sure I’ve left out a 

few no less important 

people. I’ll think of them 

tomorrow. 

There is a scrapbook 

with many pictures, recording 

the history of St 

Jude. Please contact me if 

anyone is interested in seeing 

them. I would like to 

pass them on. I can be 

reached at vcstcyr@aol.com 

Virginia (Rheaume) 

St. Cyr 

Londonderry 

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Paying Taxes 

To the editor: 

You know it is the 

political season when the 

Democrats start engaging 

in class warfare. 

Time to tax the rich, so 

says Barack Obama, and 

so says Warren Buffett. It 

is quite hypocritical that 

a man like Buffett, who is 

worth $50 billion, espouses 

higher taxes. Mr. Buffett 

makes his money in 

capital gains and dividends, 

not salaried 

income, therefore he pays 

the lower capital gains 

rate. 

He does not have to do 

that. He can pay himself 

salary and then pay the 

government his ‘fair 

share.’ Even when he 

passes on, Mr. Buffett will 

not pay the high death 

tax, as he is donating the 

majority of his net worth 

to the Bill Gates charity, 

yet another billionaire. 

Why not donate all of 

it to the federal government? 

After all, didn’t Joe 

Biden say that it is ‘patriotic’ 

to pay taxes? Does 

this mean Mr. Buffett is 

unpatriotic? 

Does that mean that 

the nearly 50 percent of 

the American population 

who don’t pay a cent in 

federal tax are unpatriotic? 

What total nonsense! 

For all of you that feel 

they should pay more 

taxes, you can easily do 

so. Just go to www.treasury.gov 

and search on the 

word ‘donate’ and you 

will find the way to voluntarily 

donate more money 

to the federal government. 

As for me, I am 

Taxed Enough Already! 

Andy Greco 


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continued from page 1 

with grades 3-6 tested and 

an index of 91, had 92.3 

percent making AYP; 

South School, grades 3-6, 

with an index of 91, had 

92.6 percent making AYP; 

and Matthew Thornton, 

grades 3-6, with an index 

of 91, had 94.4 percent 

making AYP. 

But the schools did 

not reach their indexes in 

other categories, notably 

"Educational Disability," 

where scores ranged from 

70.7 percent to 76.6 percent. 

They are "solid 

scores," Corey said, but 

not enough for No Child 

Left Behind, which requires 

meeting the Whole 

School Index or a 10 percent 

gain for AYP. 

It's a conundrum for 

the Londonderry Board, 

who pointed to other 

indices of a successful 

school district: a 1 percent 

dropout rate and a 

97 percent attendance at 

two- or four-year colleges. 

Corey said within two 

years, the New England 

Common Assessment Program 

(NECAP) is moving 

to a spring rather than a 

fall testing, which may 

help. The current test is 

administered six weeks 

into the new school year, 

which doesn't allow reteaching 

on concepts the 

children might have forgotten 

over the summer, 

he said. Also, the fall test 

doesn't allow teachers 

time to address weak 

spots - the results come 

out in March or April, he 

said, near the end of the 

school year. 

Corey listed the measures 

the district is taking 

to address the rating, 

including a special math 

committee that met all 

summer; co-teaching between 

regular and special 

education teachers; outside 

consultants; and Professional 

Learning Communities, 

which foster 

communication among 

teachers. 

Board member Ron 

Campo noted that by its 

very nature, No Child Left 

Behind dooms schools 

and districts to failure, 

because special education 

children are usually 

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Surplus 

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"We broke even on the 

budget for subs," he said, 

noting that the regular 

education sub use was 

over by $35,000, but the 

special ed subs were 

under by $30,000. 

Greenberg said he 

expected to keep the controlled 

spending going 

forward, especially if the 

$1.1 million the district is 

asking for in the October 

special election "goes 

away." 

The board's next meeting 

is Tuesday, Aug. 30, at 

7 p.m. in the Town Office 

Building. 

"We dug ourselves out 

of a hole, and the credit 

goes to everyone's efforts," 

Greenberg said. 

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not able to meet the 

Whole School indices. 

Board chairman John 

Robinson expressed frustration, 

saying, "At what 

point do we say, 'This is 

stupid - we're not going to 

do it anymore?'" 

Robinson said, "At 

some point we have to 

decide if the tests are 

meaningful, or say, 'This 

is meaningless - let's stop 

playing the game.'" 

But Superintendent Nate 

Greenberg reminded him 

and the board that if they 

don't submit test results 

to the federal government, 

they are risking 

about $1 million in special 

education funding. 

Corey did a brief presentation 

on the Iowa test, 

another form of assessment 

administered in Londonderry. 

He likes the 

Iowas, he said, because 

they track a child's progress 

over time. He gave a 

sample of an Iowa chart in 

a brief PowerPoint. "We 

do not dip below the 

national average in any of 

their charts," he said of 

Londonderry. 

Greenberg also offered 

hope, saying that the 

state Department of Education 

is looking at another 

testing model, "Smart 

Balance," which uses multiple 

indicators to determine 

a child's progress. 

"We are chasing something 

we can't achieve," 

Robinson said of the 

NECAPs and No Child Left 

Behind. 

Relief may be in sight, 

with the Obama White 

House planning to reform 

No Child Left Behind with 

more flexible standards of 

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accountability and “waivers” 

for states and districts 

showing a commitment 

to education. 

Melody Barnes, director 

of the White House 

Domestic Policy Council, 

said recently that the 

administration plans to 

reform No Child Left 

Behind by an accountability 

system based on measuring 

annual student 

growth by college-and 

career-ready standards, 

data collection, and quality 

of teachers and principals. 

U.S. Education Secretary 

Arne Duncan agrees 

with Robinson, saying 

recently that No Child 

Left Behind forces 

schools and districts into 

“one size fits all packages 

that don’t work.”


Fire Crews Train with Vehicle Stabilizing Equipment 

Captain Jim Roger, left, coaches his son and summer 

intern, Dan Roger, on prying a door from a 

car that has been crushed under a bus. 

Photo by Chris Paul 



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Londonderry Fire and 

Rescue tested its 

new vehicle stabilization 

kit this week in a 

training exercise, and the 

equipment passed with 

flying colors. 

Fire Captain James 

Roger said the department 

purchased the equipment, 

which helps emergency 

personnel stabilize cars in 

accidents so they can get 

to the victims, a year ago. 

They received a matching 

grant of $9,000 through a 

Highway Safety grant. 

The department had 

already owned a smaller 

kit for passenger cars, 

Roger said. The new equipment 

allows them to work 

on a variety of vehicles, 

including buses, trucks, 

mini-vans and SUVs. 

Roger said Londonderry 

sees more than its 

share of motor vehicle 

accidents “for a town our 

size,” from its proximity 

to Interstate 93, 15 miles 

of which runs through the 

town, along with New 

Hampshire routes 102 and 

128. 

The department holds 

all-day training three times 

a year involving all four 

groups of the Fire Department. 

The vehicle stabilization 

training is held at 

S&S Metals and Recycling 

on Rockingham Road. The 

owner, Vito “Dick” Solimini, 

is a big help to the 

department and provided 

cars for multiple scenarios, 

Roger said. 

One scenario was a 

regular sedan car tipped 

on its side. “We simulated 

trapped people, and used 

the vehicle stabilization 

kit to make the vehicle 

safe before we cut the 

roof off the car,” Roger 

said. 

The second exercise 

was trickier and involved 

a faked accident with a 

school bus on top of a car. 

“The car lost control 

and went under the 

school bus,” Roger said. 

“It’s what we call an 

‘under-ride’ scenario, and 

we used the new equipment, 

including a hydraulic 

lift, to lift the bus 

and keep it in place.” 

He said of the S&S 

staff, “They are able to 

reproduce any scenario 

we want.” 

Roger did the evaluation 

of the training and 

said the equipment 

worked the way it was 

supposed to. The only 

fault he found with the 

equipment was the “cribbing” 

or timbers provided 

to shore up the vehicle. 

The timbers were cheaply 

made, in his opinion, and 

he said the department 

will most likely replace 

them from a local hardware 

store. 

He also praised the 

teamwork among the Fire 

Department personnel, 

saying, “They didn’t miss 

a step.” 

Roger said the exercise 

pointed out the need 

for more fire personnel. 

The department is running 

teams of nine, he 

said, and it was evident to 

him from the exercise 

that at least one more 

trained person is necessary. 

“People say, ‘Oh, it’s 

just one person,’ but in 

emergencies, being down 

a person is an exponential 

decrease of what we can 

do,” he said. 

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Gunsmith’s Battle with Town Over Gun Sales Awaits Judge’s Ruling 



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Rockingham Superior 

Court Judge John 

Lewis has taken the 

case of a local gunsmith’s 

battle with the Town of 

Londonderry under advisement 

after counsel for 

both sides argued Second 

Amendment rights and 

town zoning laws in a 

hearing Monday. 

Robert Lee, of 27 Isabella 

Drive, had his conditional 

use permit to 

operate a home business 

revoked in December 2010 

after a woman allegedly 

stole a Ruger revolver and 

box of bullets in November 

2010 and ran through 

the residential neighborhood. 

At that time, Senior 

Building Inspector Richard 

Canuel became aware 

that Lee was not only 

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ing to his conditional use 

permit, but also selling 

them, and revoked his 

special exemption. 

Lee appealed the decision 

to the Zoning Board 

of Adjustment (ZBA), 

which heard his case Jan. 

19. The ZBA denied the 

appeal and voted unanimously 

to uphold the revocation. 

In March the ZBA 

denied a second request 

for an appeal. 

At that time, Lee said 

he had a state permit to 

sell firearms, issued by 

the town Police Department, 

and a Federal 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 

and Firearms (ATF) 

permit. His attorney, Evan 

Nappen, reiterated the 

fact of the two permits in 

the Monday hearing. 

Nappen said Chapter 

159 of the New Hampshire 

firearms law says the 

Law Offices of 

Andrew D. Myers 

state has the authority 

and jurisdiction over 

firearms, unless otherwise 

specifically proved 

by statute. “There is a 

strong intent by the legislature 

for the state to be 

the regulatory body,” he 

said. 

He said Lee’s federal 

license, obtained in 2001, 

allows his client to sell 

firearms within the scope 

of the federal law, Title 18. 

Noting that firearms 

are a controversial issue, 

Nappen used another 

example. “Let’s say you’re 

a person who repairs 

clocks, and you’ve got a 

home business,” he said. 

“If you sell a clock, is that 

a violation? There are 

more laws regarding guns 

than clocks.” 

Nappen said not being 

allowed to sell guns 

means Lee is not allowed 

to use his licenses, “and 

it’s unreasonable, unlawful 

and contrary to state 

regulations.” 

Nappen cited the New 

Hampshire state constitution 

and the “right to bear 

arms,” but Lewis said, 

“That refers to the right to 

have a firearm.” 

Town Counsel Matthew 

Serge didn’t question 

Lee’s right to sell 

guns, just his right to sell 

them at 27 Isabella Drive. 

Serge said when Lee applied 

for his special exemption 

in May 2005, the 

language specifically said 

he could repair guns on 

the property. The conditional 

use permit was specific 

in saying that the 

receiver, the part of the 

gun that fires, was only 

allowed to be sold as “an 

integral part of the repair 

of weapons.” 

“The town,” Serge 

said, “has the inherent 

authority over zoning.” 

He too quoted Title 18, 

saying the federal statute 

specifies that “when you 

apply for a license, you 

are certifying that you follow 

local zoning.” 

Serge interpreted the 

Second Amendment this 

way: “There is no ‘constitutional 

right to sell 

firearms.’” 

He concluded by saying, 

“There are appropriate 

places to sell and inappropriate 

places to sell.” 

Lewis asked Nappen, 

“Is your client still involved 

in the sale of firearms?” 

and Nappen said, “Yes.” 

Lewis ordered counsel 

for both sides to prepare 

memorandums and submit 

them to him within 20 

days. He said he was taking 

the case under advisement. 

After the hearing, Nappen 

said, “I think it went 

very well. There’s a lot of 

laws on our side, from the 

Constitution down to 

state preemption.” 

Canuel said, “It went 

well. We’ll have to wait on 

the judge’s decision - it 

will come down to our 

attorneys and then to us.” 

A group of abutters 

attended the hearing. 

They asked that their 

names not be used, but 

expressed concern over 

Lee’s being allowed to 

continue the sale of 

firearms. “I would just like 

the sale of guns taken out 

of our neighborhood,” 

one man said. 

Another neighbor 

said, “My 3-year-old and 

4-year-old ride around the 

cul-de-sac on bikes. We 

are zoned residential.” 

And a retired woman 

said, “Our neighborhood 

has changed. There are a 

lot of young families, and 

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AWiley Hill Road resident 

will be allowed 

to finish 

building a shed on his 

front lot within the 40-foot 

setback, with several conditions, 

after meeting 

with the Zoning Board of 

Adjustment (ZBA). 

Peter Shveshkyeyev 

and Lilia Saprykina, owners 

of 20 Wiley Hill, Tax 

Map 5, Lot 27, requested a 

variance to allow an 

accessory structure within 

the setback area. While 

several ZBA members 

expressed doubt that the 

shed could not have been 

located in another part of 

the lot, and wondered 

what would happen if an 

adjacent road were developed, 

they voted 4-1 to 

allow the variance. Alternate 

member Jay Hooley 

cast the dissenting vote at 

the Aug. 17 meeting. 

Shveshkyeyev represented 

himself before the 

board. He said he was 

building the shed to 

house a trailer for his son 

to live in temporarily. 

Shveshkyeyev said his 

son had recently had an 

accident and needed a 

place to rehabilitate. 

Board members expressed 

concern about 

the unused road to the 

side of Shveshkyeyev and 

Saprykina's property. 

While the shed is not currently 

fronting on an 

active town road, they 

were concerned about 

what would happen if the 

town or another owner 

chose to develop the 

road. "We treat it as a 

'paper road,'" member 

Larry O'Sullivan told 

Shveshkyeyev. 

"I will buy part of the 

road," Shveshkyeyev told 

the board. 

Chairman Matt Neuman 

shot back with a grin, "Did 

you bring your checkbook?" 

O'Sullivan reminded 

Shveshkyeyev, "A variance 

is forever. If the road is 

improved, there will be 

issues to have something 

that close to the road." 

Looking at schematic 

drawings provided by 

Shveshkyeyev, Neuman told 

him, "It seems you have a lot 

of property to work with." 

But both Shveshkyeyev and 

Building Inspector Richard 

Canuel responded that 

most of the land is hilly and 

has poor soil. 

Board members also 

expressed concern that 

Shveshkyeyev had started 

work on the shed without 

"pulling permits." 

Canuel brought another 

piece to the problem when 

he told the board, "For a 

building 400 square feet or 

more, you have to have 

permanent footings, and 

that makes it meet the definition 

of a structure." But a 

building less than 400 

square feet but still with 

permanent footings is also 

judged as a structure 

because of the footings, 

and is subject to setback 

regulations, Canuel said. 

Shveshkyeyev has put permanent 

concrete footings 

on the shed, which is partially 

finished. 

Neil Dunn, board member 

and clerk of the group, 

said he could support the 

variance if it were conditional 

on the road being 

opened, used or activated. 

O'Sullivan said, "I think 

that's a reasonable alternative 

- if the road ends up 

being used, it gets taken 

down." 

Canuel told them the 

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of Deeds. 

Both Neuman and O'Sullivan 

suggested a site walk 

to see if there were any 

other place Shveshkyeyev 

could put the shed, but 

Canuel told them, "You 

won't come up with anything 

different than you 

have tonight." 

Hooley did not think 

that not granting the variance 

would result in a hardship 

for Shveshkyeyev. He 

pointed out that Shveshkyeyev 

had brought in fill 

to level off the area where 

he began the shed, and that 

"he could have filled it in 

somewhere else. The same 

amount of fill in a different 

location might have made 

it viable." 

The board deliberated 

and decided to make a 

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with the following 

conditions: the variance 

will expire if and when the 

road is activated, the variance 

is recorded at the Registry 

of Deeds, and Shveshkyeyev 

completes all the 

necessary permitting. 

In other business, the 

board heard a request from 

Benjamin and Mandy Levison, 

3 Watercrest Drive, to 

allow a special exception for 

an adult day care business 

office as a home occupation. 

The property, Tax Map 

5, Lot 15-7, is zoned AR-I. 

Representing himself, 

Levison told the board he 

and his wife want to establish 

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out of their home. "We 

would have a home office 

but would not see clients 

there," he said. "We would 

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Levison said the home 

office would be in an unused 

bedroom and would 

take up 5.5 percent of his 

3,500 square feet of living 

space. Mandy Levison, a 

licensed nursing assistant, 

would be the only employee 

at this time, although 

their daughters, both with 

medical experience, may 

join her at a later date. 

Levison said there will 

be no signage, no client visits 

and no parking lot. "The 

occupation is incidental 

and secondary to the use of 

the property as a dwelling," 

he said. 

Board members were 

initially confused by the 

wording "adult day care" in 

the request. Canuel said it 

clarified the business for 

state licensing purposes. 

The special exception 

was unanimously approved 

by the ZBA.

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Rotary Governor Visits Londonderry in Fight Against Polio 



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When Jan McElroy 

was teaching 

school, the father 

of one of her students 

went to Mexico. He 

caught polio and died, 

McElroy said, adding, 

"That was in 1976." 

The black-and-white 

photographs of people in 

iron lungs or children 

walking with braces are 

part of America's past, 

due to public education 

and the Salk vaccine. But 

polio is still an issue in a 

handful of countries, and 

McElroy, now District 

Governor of the Rotary 

Clubs of Southern New 

Hampshire and Southern 

Vermont, is dedicated to 

making it part of their 

pasts, too. 

McElroy, of Henniker, 

came to Londonderry 

last week on her annual 

visit to the Londonderry 

Rotary Club. At a meetand-greet 

at the Coach 

Stop, she took a few minutes 

to talk about eradicating 

polio, one of 

Rotary International's 

causes. 

McElroy remembers 

canvassing for the March 

of Dimes, a charity dedicated 

to helping polio victims 

and research, in the 

1950s. She also remembers 

seeing a cousin in an 

iron lung. "And several of 

my friends had it, including 

one who you wouldn't 

have known it until they 

got post-polio syndrome 

as an adult," she said. 

She remembers the 

caution of those times - 

"We couldn't go swimming, 

we couldn't go to 

the movies." 

While the United States 

has eradicated polio, it's 

still alive in its "wild form," 

McElroy said. "That's when 

the virus is loose in the 

population, and it can still 

affect people," she said. 

There are four countries 

where it's a serious problem 

- Pakistan, Afghanistan, 

India and Nicaragua. 

Nicaragua had an 

outbreak five years ago, 

she said, and it spread to 

affect 23 countries. Health 

workers swarmed the 

countries to give inoculations, 

she said. 

McElroy said Rotary 

took on polio as a cause 

in 1984. Since then, the 

international service 

organization has raised 

$700 million to treat and 

eradicate the disease. Its 

most recent goal is another 

$200 million, she said. 

Bill and Melinda Gates 

gave $355 million toward 

the cause, and by the end 

of this year, Rotary hopes 

to raise the $200 million, 

she said, adding that it 

has $185 million so far. 

Is it working? There 

are only 300 cases reported 

from around the 

world, McElroy said. 

But that's not good 

enough, she added. "The 

problem is, if it's anywhere 

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airplane to one of those 

countries, we could have 

a population that's affected 

again," she explained. 

Children are particularly 

susceptible, she 

said, and she urged parents 

to have their children 

vaccinated. 

McElroy oversees 60 

Rotary clubs with 2,400 

members. 

As McElroy promoted 

the cause, George Brooks, 

president of Londonderry 

Rotary, chatted with some 

of his members. Like 

McElroy, Brooks remembers 

when polio ravaged 

the United States. A boyhood 

friend was affected 

along with one of his own 

members, longtime resident 

Reed Clark. 

"We are very close to 

eradicating it," Brooks 

said. "I hope in our lifetimes, 

it's gone." 

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OBITUARY 

Gavin Benson 

Gavin R. Benson, 53, of Londonderry 

died Aug. 20, 2011 at 

Brigham and Women’s Hospital 

in Boston, Mass., after a long 

and courageous battle with 

cancer. He was surrounded by 

his wife and two daughters. 

He was born Oct. 25, 1957 in 

Berkeley, Calif., the son of Larry D. Benson and 

the late Margaret (Owens) Benson. 

He had lived in Londonderry since 1995. 

He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree 

from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

and a Master of Education in Instructional Technology 

from Boston University. He also attended 

Marlboro College in Vermont. He was employed 

at School Specialty in Nashua as a Senior Project 

Manager for online “virtual labs” used in high 

school biology and science curriculum. 

He loved to swim and was a member of a U.S. 

Masters Swimming Team, the Granite State Penguins, 

before his illness prevented him from participating. 

He was also an avid sailor who loved to 

sail his boat on Lake Winnipesaukee and Lake 

Massabesic, where he was a member of the Massabesic 

Yacht Club. 

Throughout his life, even during his illness, he 

had a voracious appetite for reading, learning and 

keeping up with current events. 

Survivors include his wife of 24 years, Cindy 

(Romano) Benson of Londonderry; two daughters, 

Jessalyn and Rachel Benson of Londonderry; 

his father, Larry D. Benson, of Lexington, 

Mass.; his sister, Cassandra Benson, and wife, 

Mary Alice Wells, of Provincetown, Mass.; his sister 

Amanda Benson and husband, Anthony 

Forster, of Lexington, Mass.; and his brother, 

Geoffrey Benson and his wife, Nancy, of Hampstead. 

Calling hours were Aug. 23 at the Peabody 

Funeral Homes and Crematorium, Derry. A funeral 

service was celebrated on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 

at 10 a.m. at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 3 

Peabody Row, Londonderry. In lieu of flowers, 

donations can be made to Dana-Farber Cancer 

Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston, Mass. 02115 or to 

the Lymphoma Research Foundation, 115 Broadway, 

13th Floor, New York, NY 10006. To send a 

condolence or for more information, visit: 

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Literacy will be the 

focus this fall at Londonderry 

Middle 

School, according to Principal 

Richard Zacchilli. 

The reading emphasis will 

reach across the curriculum, 

he said. 

Zacchilli expects 1,185 

sixth-, seventh-and eighthgraders 

when he opens 

his doors this coming 

Monday, Aug. 29. "We are 

one of the largest middle 

schools in New Hampshire," 

he said. He and his 

staff make it manageable 

by dividing the school 

into teams, and the teams 

are named after weather 

events, he said. "There 

are the 'Twisters,' the 'Hurricanes,' 

the 'Tsunamis,' 

the 'Thunderstorms' and 

so forth," he said. 

The 11 1/2 teams 

"make school a little 

smaller," Zacchilli said. 

Middle school, especially 

a new one, can be 

overwhelming, and Zacchilli 

has planned two orientation 

times. 

Incoming sixth-graders 

are invited to an orientation 

Friday, Aug. 26, 

from 9 to 11 a.m. Seventhand 

eighth-graders new to 

Londonderry are invited 

to the school the same 

day from 2 to 3 p.m., he 

said. 

While new positions 


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“What’s exciting? A 

new school year,” 

Carol Mack, principal 

of the Matthew Thornton 

School and the Moose Hill 

Kindergarten, said when 

asked what was new and 

exciting at her schools. 

On Monday, Mack and 

her staff will welcome 600 

students to Matthew 

Thornton, a grades 1-5 

school in the center of 

town, and 250 to Moose 

Hill, a separate facility on 

Pillsbury Road. The 250 

kindergartners are divided 

evenly between morning 

and afternoon sessions, 

Mack said. 

This summer Matthew 

Thornton underwent a 

were put on hold pending 

the outcome of the state 

retirement contribution, 

Zacchilli said there will be 

a few new faces at LMS 

due to resignations and retirements. 

Denise Pleickhardt 

will join the staff as 

Special Education Coordinator. 

Sue Dvorak joins 

the staff as a Special Education 

teacher, Samantha 

Brown as a seventh-grade 

math teacher, and Greg 

MacKenzie as a half-time 

music teacher. 

The literacy initiative 

will be implemented in 

several ways, Zacchilli 

said. 

Teachers have focused 

their professional 

development on reading, 

learning how to promote 

reading in non-languagearts 

classes. There will be 

a variety of book groups, 

Zacchilli said, from allgirls 

to all-boys to mixed, 

depending on the stu- 

◆ 

dents involved. There will 

also be book groups 

where a teacher eats 

lunch with a group of students 

and discusses a 

book, he said. If it involves 

a middle-schooler 

and a book, he's listening. 

Also planned are 

spelling bees, geography 

bees and, at this writing, 

"all the clubs and activities 

will go on as planned," 

he said. 

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Sobriety Checkpoint Nets Arrests 



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and State Police Troop B 

from Bedford resulted in 

several arrests of impaired 

drivers this weekend, 

Lt. Tim Jones of the 

Londonderry department 

said Tuesday. 

A sobriety checkpoint 

at Exit 4 from Interstate 93 

to Route 102 brought 

three arrests of impaired 

drivers by the Londonderry 

officers, Jones said. 

The checkpoint was 

authorized by the Rockingham 

County Superior 

Court, and was conducted 

under guidelines from 

the New Hampshire Attorney 

General’s Office. 

Londonderry officers 

were chosen for the project 

and were paid overtime, 

Jones said. Their 

assignment was to dedicate 

themselves to finding 

impaired drivers, according 

to Jones. They did not 

catch speeders or answer 

other calls. 

“The contact with the 

driver is minimal,” Jones 

said. If the officer suspects 

the driver of being 

impaired by drugs or 

alcohol, he or she is 

allowed to stop the driver 

and ask, “Have you had 

anything to drink?” 

“At this point the officer 

makes an assessment 

from cues,” Jones said. 

“The most obvious one is 

usually the smell.” 

If the officer suspects 

a drug or alcohol issue, 

the stop becomes more 

like a regular motor vehicle 

stop, Jones said. “You 

can ask them questions or 

give the field sobriety 

test,” he said. 

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The Londonderry Wildcats Cheerleading Squad displays 

one of their routines in front of the reviewing 

stand during this year’s Old Home Day Parade, held 

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Karen Flanders announced 

the Londonderry 

Police 

Honor Guard, followed by 

both the Police Department 

Command Vehicle 

and the Fire Department 

Command Vehicle. Referring 

to Fire's victory over 

Police in the annual softball 

game the night before, 

she said jokingly, "They 

must have some of the 

policemen in the back." 

It was a day of coming 

together for Londonderry, 

as the town turned out for 

the Old Home Day Parade 

Saturday morning. Flanders 

and her husband 

Jim, the "color commentators" 

for the parade, 

made good-humored jests 

at the marchers and each 

other. But nobody really 

minded as the community 

lived out the parade 

theme, "Friends Forever 

Get Together." 

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State Senator Sharon Carson, 

R-Londonderry and 

State Representative Al 

Baldasaro, R-Londonderry. 

Gov. John Lynch 

walked the parade route. 

The Town Council and 

School Board walked the 

route to the reviewing 

stand, where they joined 

the Flanders. 

The two most honored 

people were both named 

Bob: Grand Marshal Robert 

Lincoln and Citizen of 

the Year the Rev. Robert 

Coutu of St. Jude Parish. 

Each was honored for his 

service to the community, 

and each got cheers as he 

passed by. 

The Londonderry Lancers 

marched proudly in 

their blue-and-white uniforms. 

Alvirne High School's 

Broncos, their red, white 

and gold gleaming in the 

sun, also performed. The 

parade also featured two 

bagpipe bands, the New 

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and a Dixieland band. 

The soldiers from Captain 

Morrill's Revolutionary 

Reenactors set off a "cannon," 

which caused small 

children to cover their ears 

and Karen Flanders to say, 

"I can't hear any more. Can 

anyone else?" 

"What?" one of the 

Town Councilors quipped 

back. 

There were antique 

cars and baton twirlers, 

the champion Girls Lightning 

Softball Team, and 

the Bureau of Liquor 

Enforcement Mobile Command 

Center van. The 

Indian Pathfinders, a 

group promoting activities 

for fathers and daughters, 

had a float advertising 

their organization. 

"We can't join, we don't 

have girls," Karen Flanders 

called out to one of 

the dads. The quick-thinking 

father responded, "We 

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around the parade route on 

little red motorcycles. The 

Roller Girls of Manchester 

skated the route, and the 

Londonderry Wildcats Spirit 

Team stopped to do a 

cheer. The PVC Pirates, 

Londonderry's award-winning 

robotics team, had a 

motorized armchair riding 

the route and reminded 

viewers, "Friends 4-Ever 

Build Robots Together." 

In the midst of the frivolity 

and fun, a reminder 

came of those not able to 

enjoy a sunny day in Londonderry. 

The MooreMart 

organization of Nashua, 

which sponsors care packages 

for troops overseas, 

had a small marching unit 

and, later, a booth on the 

Common. Mack's Apples is 

the local drop-off for 

MooreMart donations. 

The parade concluded 

with the traditional fire 

trucks, and the viewers 

dispersed, most to sample 

the food and activities 

on the Common. 

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Michelle Mayer, a 

Londonderry High 

School graduate, 

class of 2011, and the current 

Miss Monadnock, finished 

singing “A Moment 

Like This” and looked 

down at the three judges 

in “Londonderry Sings,” 

the town’s “Idol”-style 

competition. She focused 

on Nick DeFrancesco, a 

recent LHS graduate, and 

grinned. “Be nice,” she 

said jokingly. 

She needn’t have worried. 

The second annual 

“Londonderry Sings” gave 

a gentle boost to seven 

young performers, with a 

liberal dose of encouragement. 

DeFrancesco and the 

other two judges, Mark 

Berglund and Bob Napolitano, 

sat at a separate 

table in front of a stage in 

the Londonderry High 

School cafeteria. Mary 

Wing Soares, organizer of 

the event, introduced 

each contestant. As the 

youths stepped onstage 

the entire audience, not 

just their own cheering 

sections, clapped and 

shouted encouragement. 

Haley Dumaresq, a 

freshman at LHS, sang 

“King of Everything” as 

the first number. “It’s a 

great song for your 

voice,” Napolitano said, 

while Berglund said, 

“Your voice is great, but 

maybe you could move 

around more.” 

Vicki Stubbs, also an 

LHS freshman, sang “Invisible.” 

While Berglund 

praised her voice and Napolitano 

said she looked 

“comfortable,” DeFrancesco 

reminded her to 

move around more. 

Andrew Vivian belted 

out “How to Save A Life,” 

and Napolitano said the 

song was perfect for his 

voice, and praised the 

passion Vivian brought to 

the number. 

There were two a cappella 

numbers, one planned, 

one impromptu. 

Maddie Davis, who will be 

a freshman at LHS this 

fall, sang “All That Jazz” 

from “Chicago” without 

accompaniment. “I can 

tell you love singing,” 

DeFrancesco told her. A 

cappella is tough, he said, 

and he urged the audience 

to give Davis another 

round of applause. 

“The karaoke versions 

all had these weird 

‘breaks,’” Davis said, “so 

I decided to go without 

them.” 

“You nailed it,” Napolitano 

said. 

As Tom Soares, 13, 

took the stage, a child in 

the audience yelled out, 

“Hi, Tom!” Soares acknowledged 

his friend with a 

wave and plunged right 

into his song, “I’m Yours.” 

He sang to music from a 

cell phone but he and the 

audience could barely 

hear it, and he said later 

that he tried to download 

the song to a CD and it 

didn’t work, so they 

downloaded it to the cell 

phone of his mother, 

Mary Wing Soares. 

It didn’t matter to the 

judges. “I’ve had to work 

with a lot of things, but 

never with a cell phone 

for music,” DeFrancesco 

said, and Soares received 

an impromptu round of 

applause. 

Marissa Russell accompanied 

herself on the 

guitar as she sang “For the 

First Time.” DeFrancesco 

said, “Even though you’re 

accompanying yourself, 

you have to sing ‘through’ 

the guitar, and you did a 

good job of that.” 

The judges praised the 

last act, Mayer, for her 

stage presence, with 

Napolitano saying, “your 

time in the pageants has 

served you well.” 

“This is the part I don’t 

like,” Soares said jokingly 

as she prepared to announce 

the winners. “But 

they’re the ones responsible,” 

she added, gesturing 

to the judges. 

The judges’ determinations 

were third, Tom 

Soares; second, Michelle 

Mayer; and first, Maddie 

Davis. 

“I feel pretty good,” 

Davis said after the competition, 

as she prepared to 

open her envelope of gift 

certificates. “I did it last year, 

and I came in third behind 

two of my best friends.” 

She chose the song 

from “Chicago” because it’s 

one of her favorite musicals, 

and because people in 

contests seldom sing songs 

from musicals, she said. 

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As she stood chatting 

with friends 

after the Old Home 

Day Senior Barbecue, 

Polly Reed said she liked 

the potato salad best. "It 

was wonderful," she said, 

adding, "I don't know who 

made it." 

Former Town Historian 

Marilyn Ham said, 

"The best thing is that I 

didn't have to make it!" 

After years of caring 

for their families and working, 

it's finally their time. 

The Londonderry Old 

Home Day Committee saluted 

its seniors with the 

annual barbecue in the 

Lions Hall Pavilion, followed 

by a Big Band concert 

on the Town Common. 

The Lions volunteered 

along with Old Home Days 

Committee members and 

teens from area youth 

groups. Seniors filled their 

plates at a long table, then 

relaxed under the shaded 

pavilion. 

George and Mary Costigan 

said they'd been coming 

to the barbecue for years. 

"When somebody does 

something nice for you, it's 

good to be able to take 

advantage of it," she said. 

The seniors finished 

their platefuls, then snacked 

on chocolate chip 

cookies baked by the Old 

Home Day Committee. As 

they chatted, Carole Connolly, 

organizer of the dinner, 

cupped her hands to 

her mouth. "Anyone who 

has trouble getting across 

the street to the concert, 

you should go now," she 

called out. "If you have 

trouble walking, we have 

a golf cart." 

Community volunteer 

Mary Soares was the designated 

driver. "This is 

one of my favorite parts 

of Old Home Day," she 

said as she loaded up the 

cart with seniors. 

Gladys Frederick, founder 

and administrator of 

the Londonderry Senior 

Center, said as she helped 

to clean up, "This is great! 

It's our seventh year." 

Connolly, also a volunteer 

at the Senior Center, 

said she thought seniors 

liked the camaraderie, the 

socialization. "When they 

come at this time of the 

year, summer, they can 

have family and friends 

bring them," she said of 

the non-drivers, adding 

that it's harder to get out 

in winter. The swing concert 

began at 6:30 p.m., so 

those who don't drive at 

night can take in most of 

it, she said. 

The event is free but 

tickets are required. Connolly 

said she had room 

for 200 of her peers, but 

only 160 took tickets. She 

attributed that to several 

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Seniors Turn Out for Londonderry Old Home Day Barbecue 

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Classes Start Monday at 

Londonderry High School 



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School Principal Jason 

Parent is going 

back to school this year - 

his own. 

Parent said one focus 

of the 2011-12 school year 

will be increased “walkthroughs” 

in the classroom. 

Members of the 

administrative team will 

be dropping in on classes, 

looking at student work, 

checking out how stu- 

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dents are engaged in the 

classroom, and making 

sure all lessons are student-centered. 

Parent said the school 

recently finished its 

NEASC accreditation process 

(New England Association 

of Schools and 

Colleges), and will be putting 

its recommendations 

into place. “We will adjust 

our procedures according 

to their recommendations, 

and maintain the 

practices that drew posi- 

tive comments,” Parent 

said. 

In addition, Parent 

said, the school staff will 

be trained in CPR (cardiopulmonaryresuscitation), 

with the goal of having 

100 percent of the 

staff certified in CPR. That 

will earn LHS a “CPR Safe 

School” status, he said. 

Parent will welcome 

1,725 students on Monday, 

Aug. 29, a number 

comparable to last fall’s 

enrollment. 

Next Classes: 

September 6th thru October 20th 

(Mon & Wed afternoons) 

September 6th thru October 20th 

(Tues & Thurs evenings) 

October 24th thru December 14th 

(Mon & Wed afternoons) 

October 25th thru December 15th 

(Tues & Thurs evenings) 

Classes held at Londonderry High School 

Tuition: $635.00 

From left, Betty Gilkinson, Sandy Nolan and Ann Dotten enjoy a joke and 

some handwork before the concert with the Windham Swing Band Aug. 17, 

part of Londonderry Old Home Day. Photo by Kathleen D. Bailey 

causes, including the 

economy, people needing 

rides, health problems, 

and deaths. 

But the seniors making 

their way across the 

street to the Common 

were occupied with living. 

Marilyn Ham, who moved 

to Derry last year, said the 

Old Home Day events are 

truly Old Home Days for 

her, because she doesn't 

see her Londonderry 

friends as often anymore. 

"It's a great way to 

involve seniors, old-timers 

and new-timers," she said. 

"Look at how happy 

everyone is," Reed chimed 

in. 

The Hams are former 

parade marshals, Chet 

said. "We love Old Home 

Days - the parade, the barbecue, 

everything," he 

said. "It's getting back 

with old friends." 

He also liked the hot 

dogs, Ham added. While 

he appreciates the convenience 

of his new home 

in an assisted living facility 

in Derry, he said, "all our 

meals are served to us." 

Across the street, the 

Windham Swing Band 

tuned up in the band 

shell, and seniors snapped 

their lawn chairs 

open. Betty Gilkinson, 

Sandy Nolan and Ann Dotten 

sat together. Gilkinson 

was crocheting a small 

bag and Dotten was knitting 

a hat. 

"It's the first time any 

of us have been to a senior 

event in town, and it's 

wonderful," Gilkinson said. 

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everyone who was able to 

should rise for the National 

Anthem. The Windham 

Band soloist sang the 

Anthem in a clear soprano. 

Though it was technically 

a solo, older, shakier 

voices, who remembered 

names like Bataan and 

Normandy and Saigon, 

joined in. 

Connolly also paid tribute 

to Reed Page Clark, the 

"Mayor of Londonderry." 

Clark and his wife, Phyllis, 

were regulars at the swing 

concert, she said. This 

year they weren't able to 

attend because Clark had 

fallen and was in the hospital, 

so she said, "Say a 

prayer for Reed." 

Gov. John Lynch 

stopped by briefly to chat 

with the seniors and hear 

their concerns.


Kidz Night a Hit for All Ages 



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Joseph Fontenot, 5 1/2, 

came running to his 

mother, Grace, and 

father, Joe. “Look at the 

python,” he said. “They 

let me touch it!” 

Thursday night, Aug. 

18, was a time of discovery 

and old-fashioned fun, 

as the younger set took 

over the Londonderry 

Town Common. The annual 

Kidz Night, sponsored 

by Londonderry Old 

Home Day and headed up 

by Tim and Tammy Siekmann, 

drew hundreds of 

children, teens and their 

resident adults for fun, 

food and the occasional 

reptile. 

Joseph met the python, 

a lizard and other 

creatures at the Granite 

State Zoo’s booth on the 

Common. As she kept a 

watchful eye on Joseph 

and Sophie, 4, Grace 

Fontenot said this was 

their first Kidz Night and 

their first Old Home Day. 

“We moved here in May - 

it’s our first everything,” 

she said. 

Karen Creed munched 

a hot dog as she strolled 

the Common with her son 

Owen, 11. They’re longtime 

Kidz Night fans, she 

said. She’s been going 

since Owen was 1. “My 

middle son is in the high 

school drum line, so we 

got here early,” Creed said. 

Owen said he likes the 

bounce houses, especially 

the obstacle-course one. 

As for his mother, she likes 

the variety of Kidz Night. 

“There are the bounce 

houses, booths with local 

organizations, the drum 

line, karate demonstrations,” 

she said. “It 

brings all the families 

together.” 

A half dozen bounce 

houses had waiting lines. 

Police cars were open for 

inspection, and across the 

street at the Lions Hall, fire 

personnel explained their 

vehicles to the children. A 

small train circled the 

Lions property. Costumed 

characters included the 

Buckle Up Bear, Vince the 

Crash Test Dummy, 

Sponge Bob, Mickey and 

Minnie, and Max, the mascot 

of the Manchester 

Monarchs. 

Parent Teacher Organization 

(PTO) groups and 

child care centers offered 

old-fashioned games such 

as ring toss. One of the 

longest lines was at the 

booth where several 

clowns twisted balloons 

into fantastic shapes. The 

Knights of Columbus sold 

popcorn, the Lions grilled 

burgers and dogs, and two 

ice cream trucks made sure 

everyone stayed cool. 

The stage hosted 

everything from karate to 

karaoke. The last two acts 

were the professionals, 

children’s singer Judy Pancoast 

of Goffstown and the 

Mad Science crew with a 

show on water wonders. 

After Kidz Night, middleschool 

students had their 

own event, Movie Mania, 

with “Grownups” featuring 

Adam Sandler. 

For parent Kate Craigie, 

it was a familiar and welcome 

ambiance: she grew 

up in Londonderry, and 

has attended Old Home 

Day all her life. She 

brought her son, Sam, now 

2, last year and came back 

this August with Sam in 

the front of the stroller 

and Gabriella, 2 1/2 

months, in a baby carrier 

firmly attached to the handles. 

“She’s just observing 

tonight,” Craigie said with 

a smile. “But Sam’s very 

excited about the ‘choo 

choo train.’” 

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The Londonderry Fire 

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the Londonderry Police 

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Old Home Days’ charity 

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The runs came early 

and often in the 2011 contest, 

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Thornton Elementary 

School field last Friday 

night, Aug. 19, but the 

fire department squad 

managed to be a great 

many runs better than the 

cops in the hard-hitting, 

23-6 contest. 

Even more importantly, 

fire department members 

and the members of 

the Londonderry Administrative 

Employees Association 

donated $1,020 

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Becky Barden gained 

a bunch of her 

knowledge about 

and passion for cheerleading 

during her years 

as a student-athlete at 

Pinkerton Academy. And 

her new job as the Londonderry 

High School fall 

spirit squad coach has 

her imparting that knowledge 

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youngsters at Pinkerton’s 

rival school. 

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The new LHS coach - 

who has worked with 

many Londonderry cheerleaders 

since beginning 

her coaching career as a 

tumbling instructor - is 

intent upon using her 

experience as a cheerleader 

and a coach to give 

her Lady Lancers the 

opportunity to be successful. 

“I’m focused only on 

the opportunity to give 

my athletes the best environment 

for success possible. 

My approach will 

simply be to offer a compilation 

of the most effective 

methods I’ve witnessed 

by my many amazing 

coaches, both in 

cheerleading and other 

sports as well,” she said. 

And it certainly has to 

have sunk in with the LHS 

spirit squad members 

pretty quickly that coach 

Barden and her assistants, 

JoAnn Dodge and 

Amanda Robbins, are 

going to be sure that the 

girls put in the kind of 

work that will be necessary 

for them to be at 

their best at all times. 

“Physically I have a lot 



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There were both ups 

and downs experienced 

by members 

of Londonderry’s tennisplaying 

Burbine family at 

the prestigious United 

States Tennis Association 

Sectional Tennis Tournament 

in Hartford, Conn., 

last Wednesday and 

Thursday, Aug. 17 and 18. 

Recent Londonderry 

High School graduate and 

tennis star Alex Burbine - 

who is now off to Siena 

College in New York State 

Pinkerton Academy graduate Becky Barden has 

taken over as the fall spirit squad coach at Londonderry 

High School. The former Lady Astro athlete 

is intent on getting the very best out of her 

Lady Lancers. Photo by Chris Pantazis 

of goals/hurdles for them 

to achieve,” said Barden. 

“Individually I want them 

to leave the season knowing 

how to overcome 

their fears and reservations. 

Most importantly I 

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at Tennis Sectionals in Hartford 

to start his collegiate 

career - and his 18-advanced 

level team won a 

New England title at the 

sectionals and will next 

play at the USTA nationals 

in Arizona in late October. 

But the Team Rippit 

18-intermediate level 

squad coached by Alex’s 

dad, Skip, which had won 

a state championship a 

week earlier, thanks in 

large part to the exceptional 

play of LHS tennis 

stalwarts Cassie Burbine 

and Harrison Max, lost by 

a final score of 140-128 to 

want a strong team bond. 

I would like for each of 

them to experience the 

satisfaction you can get 

from offering all you have 

up to the team and its 

goals.” 

the New England champs 

from Connecticut. 

Cassie Burbine - Skip’s 

daughter and Alex’s sister 

- ran into one of those 

tough decisions we all 

face at times when the 

sectionals coincided with 

Londonderry High volleyball 

tryouts, and she 

ended up having to stay 

home or risk losing a 

potential roster spot on 

the volleyball squad. 

“The team missed her 

production but still competed 

well,” said coach 

Burbine. 

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The new face in the 


School boys’ varsity 

soccer picture isn’t actually 

a new face at all. 

Jeff Colbert - who is 

the new LHS boys’ varsity 

soccer coach, replacing 

veteran Shawn Diaz - contributed 

to two of the 

three state championships 

the school’s boys’ 

varsity soccer program 

has collected in its 30plus 

year history, first as 

a player and then as a 

coaching staff member. 

The former Lancer allstate 

booter and team 

captain returns to the 

squad for which he played 

all four of his high 

school soccer seasons following 

a couple of highly 

successful campaigns 

leading the Campbell 

High School boys’ varsity 

contingent. And even a 

few moments of casual 

conversation with the 

low-key Colbert let one 

know that he’s nothing 

short of overjoyed to be 

in this new position. 

“I couldn’t be happier. 

This job has always been 

on my radar. This is my 

dream job,” said Colbert. 

The 1997 LHS graduate 

has had an obvious passion 

and talent for soccer 

since youth, as his four 

years on the varsity level 

for the Lancers clearly 

show. Colbert was a 

skilled sweeper on Londonderry 

teams that won 

plenty of Class L games 

between 1993 and 1996, 

including their first state 

championship in Colbert’s 

senior season of 1996. 

He was a tri-captain on 

that title-winning club 

during the fall of 1996, 

after making the all-state 

team in his junior season 

of 1995. And he makes no 

bones about the fact that 

his playing and coaching 

careers benefitted greatly 

from the presence of former 

LHS varsity coaches 

like Paul Bonneville, current 

New Hampshire 

Phantoms’ soccer team 

owner Jim Dedeus, and 

Tony Lepore. 

“I’ve had some of the 

best coaches the state 

has ever had contribute 

to my success,” said Colbert. 

Following graduation 

from Londonderry High in 

the spring of 1997 Colbert 

moved on to New Hampshire 

College (now Southern 

New Hampshire University) 

to study sports 

management, and although 

he didn’t continue 

to play the sport there, he 

did begin his soccer 

coaching career during 

that period. 

The former Lancer 

was brought on to coach 

the LHS freshman boys’ 

squad under Tony Lepore 

for a season, and he then 

served two seasons as the 

LHS junior varsity coach 

and as a varsity assistant 

coach under Joel Ogbunamiri, 

contributing to the 

title success of the 1998 

Londonderry boys’ squad. 

Colbert’s work with 

special needs individuals 

at The Moore Center in 

Manchester - where he’s 

now a clinical case manager 

- then necessitated a 

five-year absence from 

soccer, which he admits 

left a void in his life. 

“When I stopped playing 

soccer, I really wanted 

to coach and give something 

back, but profes- 


Jeff Colbert is Back Where He Started with LHS Soccer Squad 

He has been a standout player and a sub-varsity 

coach in the boys’ soccer program at Londonderry 

High in the past, and now Jeff Colbert - shown 

working with young goaltender Jeff Baroody last 

week - has become the main man in that strong 

LHS program. Photo by Chris Pantazis 

sional and financial considerations 

didn’t make 

that possible for a while,” 

he said. 

But when the opportunity 

arose for Colbert to 

be able to consider a return 

to coaching, there was 

an opening for a boys’ junior 

varsity coach/assistant 

varsity coach at 

Campbell High, and one of 

his old Londonderry contacts 

was Dan Kiestlinger, 

until recently the Campbell 

athletic director. 

Colbert served in that 

position for a year, and 

then the Campbell varsity 

boys’ job opened up. And 

the ex-Lancer was in that 

position for each of the 

last two years, leading the 

Cougar boys to a pair of 

10-win seasons and tournament 

appearances. 

Of course, Colbert still 

had it in the back of his 

mind that if the Londonderry 

varsity job ever 

opened up, he’d jump at 

it. And he and his wife, 

Amy - a Pinkerton Academy 

graduate who is in 

sales management for a 

hotel on the seacoast - 

were more than a little 

excited upon learning 

that the LHS job had 

become available and 

again when Colbert got 

the gig he so desired. 

The 33-year-old LHS 

grad makes it perfectly 

plain that he’s one of 

those coaches who looks 

at sports as a part of the 

big picture in a young person’s 

overall development. 

He’s not hugely 

concerned about individual 

wins or awards, but 

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winning as anybody. But 

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the fact that we’re preparing 

boys to be men and 

playing a part in their 

maturation process and 

their development as people.” 

And Colbert’s approach 

to specific game 

play definitely exhibits 

that philosophy as well. 

“When we play a game, 

I want to be able to sit 

down and see (the players) 

implement what 

we’ve worked on,” he 

said. “I won’t be stomping 

up and down the sideline 

yelling and screaming. I 

want to give the guys the 

chance to show that they 

can run things themselves 

as much as possible. 

You need to have and 

maintain structure, of 

course, but it’s important 

for the kids to be able to 

show that they can put 

what we’ve worked on 

into action.” 

And in that way, a successful 

LHS grad is intent 

on helping to create 

future successful LHS 

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Former Lancer Linemen Looking to Contribute to College Squads 



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They all know very 

well what it feels like 

to be down in the 

trenches, doing the dirty 

work that is necessary if 

their football team is ultimately 

to succeed or fail. 

Several former Londonderry 

High School lineman 

got their respective 

jobs done during their 

careers in Lancer uniforms 

over the last few 

years. And now Troy 

Mansfield, Tom Manley, 

Josh Nitso, And Jon 

Mounce are doing their 

best to contribute to their 

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Class of 2011 graduate 



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This summer, two impressive 

New Hampshire 

Diamond Gems’ 

select softball squads reminded 

everyone what 

Londonderry High School 

and Pinkerton Academy 

athletes can help to 

accomplish when they 

put their talents together 

on one squad. 

It has already been 

documented on these 

pages in recent weeks 

that the Diamond Gems’ 

18U Orange tournament 

squad - which featured 

LHS Lady Lancer Lindsey 

Mansfield reported to Norwich 

University in Northfield, 

Vt., recently to participate 

in the school’s 

preseason football camp. 

Management major Mansfield 

and the rest of the 

Cadets will open up their 

new season on Saturday, 

Sept. 3, when they travel 

to Springfield, Mass., to 

take on Western New England 

College. 

Mansfield was a football 

and basketball standout 

during his four years 

at LHS. 

Norwich, an NCAA 

Division III school, is a 

member of the Eastern 

Collegiate Football Conference 

(ECFC), which consists 

of fellow members 

Anna Maria, Becker, 

Bolduc and PA Lady 

Astros Heather Pelletier 

and Kayla Komaridis - had 

an immensely productive 

summer campaign for 

coach Jim Rines. 

But there was another 

Gems’ contingent - the 

18U White team - which 

enjoyed a superb summer 

season and exposed its 

athletes to college coaches 

and scouts at eight 

tournaments while compiling 

a glittering, 34-12-1 

record. 

The team was coached 

by Londonderry’s Steve 

Kraytenberg, and the 

squad’s list of key players 

Castleton, Gallaudet, Husson, 

Mount Ida and New 

York Maritime. 

And having mentioned 

Castleton State College in 

Castleton, Vt., we come to 

an ideal segue to Mansfield’s 

former fellow Londonderry 

High lineman 

Tom Manley, who enters 

his junior season on the 

Castleton Spartans’ grid 

contingent. 

Manley played in seven 

games for the Castleton 

crew in his freshman season 

of 2009, and he played 

in all nine of the 5-4 Spartans’ 

contests last fall. 

Moving south to 

Worcester, Mass., former 

LHS lineman Josh Nitso 

enters his junior year as 

an offensive lineman on 

included Lady Lancers 

Samantha Nitso and Rachel 

Kraytenberg and 

Lady Astro Melanie Dusseault. 

Third baseman Nitso 

and versatile Kraytenberg 

(first base, third base, 

designated player) had 

been number one and 

number two respectively 

in home runs and runs 

batted in for the Londonderry 

High team during 

the 2011 spring campaign. 

And the two young ladies 

duplicated those efforts 

over the summer with the 

Diamond Gems. 

And Pinkerton pitching 

stalwart Dusseault did 

quite a bit more work in 

the pitching circle over 

11/3011. 

the Worcester Polytechnic 

Institute grid squad. 

The WPI contingent 

went 3-7 overall for firstyear 

coach Chris Robertson 

last fall. 

Nitso and his college 

team will find themselves 

battling the Merrimack 

College squad in their season 

opener in North 

Andover on Saturday, 

Sept. 3. And the Merrimack 

crew includes freshman 

offensive lineman Jon 

Mounce, who is a business 

major at that Massachusetts 

school. 

Former Lancer Mounce 

joins a Merrimack team 

that went 4-6 overall and 4- 

4 in the Northeast-10 conference 

for third-year 

coach John Perry last fall. 

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the summer with the 

Gems, notching credit for 

13 pitching victories and 

contributing offensively 

and at third base some as 

well. 

The White squad averaged 

6.1 runs per game 

scored and allowed just 

an average of 2.6. But 

those were just a few of 

the things coach Kraytenberg 

ended up being 

proud of. 

“This team is a firstyear 

18U team, and nine 

players were still 16U eligible. 

That’s pretty good, 

as we played a lot of 

teams that had first-year 

college players on them. 

We faced pitchers that 

played for Merrimack Col- 

Former LHS football standout Troy Mansfield poses 

with his proud mom and dad during that school’s 

football arrival day earlier this month. 

lege, Quinnipiac University 

and Assumption College. 

During our Virginia 

Beach trip we faced a girl 

that was committed to 

play for Virginia Tech,” 

said the coach. 

Nitso, who now moves 

on to college softball at 

Keene State during the 

forthcoming school year, 

was an absolute powerhouse 

for the Diamond 

Gems. 

She led the team in a 

score of offensive categories 

along with homers 

(8) and RBI (44). They 

included hits (51), extrabase 

hits (23), batting 

average (.451), on-base 

percentage (.500), slugging 

percentage (.867), 

total bases (98), runs 

scored (44), and triples 

(eight). 

Rachel Kraytenberg 

was tops on the team in 

doubles (14) and second 

in a slew of categories, 

including extra-base hits 

(19), RBI (32), average 

(.402), on-base percentage 

(.436), slugging (.615), 

and total bases (75). She 

was also third on the 

squad where hits were 

concerned (49), and she 

was one of only a handful 

of Diamond Gems who 

played in every one of the 

team’s 47 contests. 

Pitching standout Dusseault 

hurled in 27 of the 

team’s games, compiling a 

fine 13-4 record in a little 

more than 113 innings. 

She struck out 60 batters 

while walking just 24, and 

her earned run average 

ended up at a strong 2.72. 

The Lady Astros’ 

standout also smacked 13 

hits for the Diamond 

Gems, driving in seven 

runs and compiling a .283 

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Iowa Native Balster Wins 32nd Lundgren 5K Road Race 



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The vast majority of 

the 280 runners who 

took part in last Saturday’s 

32nd annual Lundgren 

5K Road Race were 

Londonderry residents. 

But the one who finished 

first was a native of Monticello, 

Iowa who was just 

visiting Londonderry by 

way of Los Angeles, Calif. 

Former collegiate running 

standout Kevin Balster 

was in Londonderry 

visiting the family of his 

girlfriend, Chloe Baldwin, 

and the idea of running in 

the Old Home Day race 

appealed to him. Balster 

and Baldwin met while he 

was studying law at the 

University of California at 

Los Angeles (UCLA) Law 

School and she was doing 

an internship in that city. 

The 26-year-old former 

Wartberg College running 

standout won the event 

with a time of 16 minutes 

Iowa native Kevin Balster finished 

the annual Lundgren 5K in first place 

with a time of 16:52. 

and 52 seconds, outdistancing 

runner-up Mitch 

Sroka of Londonderry 

High School track and 

cross-country fame by 

nearly a minute (17:42). 

Sroka was followed 

immediately by his LHS 

cross-country teammates 

Andreas Geiger in third 

place (17:51), James Mercier 

in fourth (18:00), and 

Devereux Geiger in the 

fifth spot (18:15). 

The first female finisher 

was LHS grad and former 

Lancer athlete Elizabeth 

Troisi, who ended up 

16th overall with her time 

of 20:08. 

“The numbers are 

down a bit from the 350 

(runners) that we had last 

year, but it was a good 

group and we keep the 

tradition going through 

race number 32,” said 

race director Larry Martin, 

who is the one and 

only director the event 

has ever had. 

Martin himself won 

the Lundgren race twice 

during the 1980s, posting 

times 20 seconds or so 

below that registered by 

Kevin Balster in his victorious 

run this year. 

While the majority of 

runners were Londonderry 

residents, the final 

results showed that athletes 

came from all over 

the place. There were finishers 

from many parts of 

Massachusetts as well as 

New Jersey, Vermont, 

North Carolina, and even 

Sydney, Australia. 

The aforementioned 

Londonderry High crosscountry 

runners made 

their presence known right 

from the start of the race 

when, dressed as Roman 

soldiers, they set themselves 

up at the front of the 

starting line. 

And when official 

starter Al Halpern lifted 

the starter’s gun, team veteran 

J.R. Winn yelled out 

LHS grad and former Lancer athlete 

Elizabeth Troisi finished first among 

the women in a time of 20:08. 

Lancer cross-country runners get off to an aggressive start of the annual 

Lundgren 5K Road Race on Saturday morning. Photos by Chris Paul 

“Spartans!” 

Individual female age 

group wins were notched 

by Alexa Mayo of Londonderry 

(12-and-under girls, 

23:45); Alissa Rogers of Londonderry 

(13-16s, 21:10); 

Troisi (17-19s); Rebecca 

Ford of Manchester (20-29s, 

20:22); Amy Jose of Londonderry 

(30-39s, 22:48); Carolyn 

Morgenstern of Derry 

(40-49s, 22:38); Nancy 

Jacovina of Sandown (50- 

59s, 23:45); Carol Mack of 

Londonderry (60-69s, 33:32), 

and Sachiko Burkinshaw of 

Londonderry (70-79s, 31:52). 

On the guys’ side of 

the ledger, age group 

titles were grabbed by 

Jack Stuart of Londonderry 

(12-and-under, 21:41); 

Josh Leahy of Londonderry 

(13-16s, 18:33); Mitch 

Sroka (17-19s); Balster 

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of Portsmouth (30-39s, 

20:52); Chris Albrecht of 

Londonderry (40-49s, 20:11); 

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Teacher/Writer Hosts Seminar for Local Teachers 



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Though she’s published 

four books, 

Penny Kittle doesn’t 

think of herself as a great 

writer. For many years, 

she resisted the idea of 

“journaling” along with 

her students. She finally 

realized, she told a roomful 

of Londonderry middle 

and high school teachers 

on Monday, that “it 

didn’t have to be perfect,” 

and illustrated her point 

by talking about learning 

to golf with her father. Her 

journaling on the golf lessons 

resulted in a moving 

mini-memoir after her 

father died, one she 

shared with her students. 

“When you’re that vulnerable,” 

Kittle said, “you 

can teach them anything.” 

Kittle, a nationally 

known writer, teacher and 

consultant, brought her 

experience to Londonderry 

High School this week 

for an all-day seminar 

with English and Special 

Education teachers from 

the middle and high 

schools. Her topic was 

teaching students with 

special needs in the general 

education English 

/Language Arts classrooms. 

Kittle shared several 

techniques with the Londonderry 

teachers, 

including Quick Writing. 

“Having them write daily 

in a notebook is a most 

effective tool,” she said. 

“On its own, a single entry 

may not seem like much, 

but they build over time.” 

Kittle advised the 

teachers not to just have 

the children free-write or 

list activities. “I always 

have them write about 

something they’ve read,” 

she said. 

She illustrated her 

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slam-style poetry. One by 

Sarah Kay was a love letter 

to Kay’s infant daughter. 

After the video, Kittle 

asked teachers to call out 

lines that had impressed 

them. “The ‘win’ in winsome,” 

one teacher said, 

while another noted, “The 

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kissing the shore.” 

“They hear Sarah 

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get it out of their heads,” 

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teachers to do a “quick 

write” with their students 

every day. 

“It gets them off the 

mark quickly, and you can 

work on particular revision 

skills,” she said. 

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she said, explaining, 

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they’ll always remember.” 

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this ring,” “It’s cancer,” 

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arrested and charged 

with embezzling more 

than $7,000 from the company. 

Leslie Karen Therrien, 

38, of 68 Lucille St., Manchester, 

turned herself in 

to the Londonderry 

Police Department on a 

warrant Wednesday, Aug. 

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with embezzling $7,650 

from Homes of New 

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office. 

She was released on 

$10,000 personal recognizance 

bail. Her court date 

is Sept. 7 in Derry District 

Court. 

“We lost him,” “We are 

pleased to inform you,” 

and the all-important “I 

hope you can forgive me.” 

Kittle has each student 

work in a composition 

notebook. They do a 

collage in the front of 

“things that matter to 

them,” and that often 

sparks writing, she said. 

She allows students to 

fold over a page when 

they don’t want anyone to 

read it, and said, “You 

should think of the notebook 

as a place of power.” 

You should also see a 

“mess” when you open 

the notebook, she said, 

with words crossed out, 

added and replaced. “It’s 

a model of process, moving 

from chaos,” she said. 

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Humanities Kim Soucy said 

the seminar was part of a 

district-wide effort to 

improve differentiated 

instruction in the classroom. 

“I heard her present 

at the New Hampshire 

Council of English Teachers 

Workshop several years 

ago,” she said of Kittle. 

Soucy said she likes 

Kittle’s presentations 

because “She is still 

actively teaching. She 

can bring the ‘real world’ 

to her seminars.” 

Joanne Franklin, a middle 

school Special Ed 

teacher, agreed. “This is 

one of the best workshops 

I’ve been to,” 

Franklin said. “She gives 

us 10- to 15-minute segments 

I can incorporate 

into what I’m doing.” 

The first idea seventhgrade 

English teacher 

Joanne Tray will incorporate 

is the “book share. 

She’s going to use her 

Smart Board to show 

“book trailers” similar to 

movie trailers, she said. 

Kittle is always reading 

for “craft,” she told 

her seminar students. She 

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teachers read one of his 

pieces on the Haiti earthquake, 

and had them pick 

out techniques they liked. 

They pointed out personification, 

punctuation and 

the use of fragments. 

“Those verbs are pretty 

awesome,” Kittle said. 

“He won’t send me his 

rough drafts,” Kittle said, 

adding with a smile, “I 

asked him.” 

Kittle is a professional 

development coordinator 

for the Conway School District 

and teaches writing at 

Kennett High School and in 

the Summer Literacy Institute 

at the University of 

New Hampshire. She has 

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1-5 students this fall, 

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Boyd said this year the 

school has added “reteaching” 

to its program. 

There will be a “reteaching 

and enrichment block” 

to help students who didn’t 

do well on assessments, 

she said. 

Boyd is also looking 

forward to the second 

year of Professional Learning 

Communities for 

teachers, saying, “We are 

trying to get better at 

that.” 

And she is also antici- 

The Inventioneers, 

Londonderry’s 

FIRST LEGO League 

(FLL) champions, joined 

forces this summer with 

the Southern New Hampshire 

Montessori Academy 

to help students ages 

6 to 9 develop their preengineering 

skills. 

The Inventioneers, FLL 

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taught three summer 

camp sessions, all 

with a LEGO theme, as 

part of the Montessori 

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the math curriculum and 

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assessed in math, she 

said. 

When the homework 

is done, South School 

offers a varied menu of 

extracurricular activities. 

The Jump Rope Club begins 

meeting after school 

in September. South 

School has an active jump 

rope club, including a 

traveling team that does 

demonstrations for the 

American Heart Association’s 

Jump Rope for 

Heart program. 

Boyd is also excited 

about the Apprentice Gardener 

program, where 

students in grades three, 

four and five work on various 

horticultural “learning 

experiences.” They do 

In June, the week-long 

camp was called “Intro to 

LEGO Robotics” and focused 

on robot building 

techniques and mechanics. 

Week two, held in 

July, honed in on LEGO 

simple machines and 

vehicles. Week three, 

Young Inventors, held in 

August, taught campers 

how to bring their own 

inventions from concepts 

on paper to working 

LEGO models. 

The Montessori Academy 

joined with the 

Inventioneers for the 

school beautification, work 

in a small indoor greenhouse 

and learn about 

gardening topics ranging 

from hydroponic (water) 

gardening to vermiculture. 

Classes may also sign 

up to feed the koi fish at 

the pond in the courtyard, 

and learn about 

marine life and algae control. 

“And we have a very 

active drama club, with a 

play planned in April,” 

Boyd said, adding that the 

name of the play is “top 

secret” for now. 

While Boyd originally 

planned on 511 students, 

due to a smaller firstgrade 

contingent, her 

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lead and is joined by 

Jaiden Evarts, 13, and 

Paige Balcom, 17, as counselors. 

Nearly 70 area students 

participated in the 

program. 

For more information 

about the Inventioneers, 

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or email: 

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Londonderry Police Log 

Selections from the Londonderry Police Logs 

Tuesday, Aug. 16 

6:04 a.m. Caller reported 

someone broke into 

American Carpet on Harvey 

Road during the 

night. 

2:20 p.m. Counterfeit $20 

bill reported at Shell Food 

Mart, Nashua Road. 

3:38 p.m. Caller reports 

property under contract 

on Mammoth Road has 

been broken into all of the 

copper has been stolen 

from the house. 

Wednesday, Aug. 17 

2:16 p.m. Criminal mischief 

to church on Hall 

Road. Girls seen knocking 

over flower pots, taking 

down sign and placing it 

in the hall. 

3:19 p.m. Leslie Karen 

Therrien, 38, 68 Lucille St., 

Apt. 1F, Manchester in station 

to turn herself in on 

warrant for Theft: Embezzlement. 

She was released 

on $10,000 personal recognizance 

bail, with Sept. 7 

Derry District Court date. 

5:40 p.m. John Paul 

Tamasi, 46, 6 Easy St., 

Windham arrested for 

Conduct After an Accident. 

He was released on 

$1,000 personal recognizance 

bail, with Derry District 

Court date of Sept. 7. 

Friday, Aug. 19 

10:28 a.m. Verizon employee 

from Verizon Wireless, 

Nashua Road reported 

picketers are on the 

grass, which is private 

property, and are crowding 

the mailboxes. 

1:37 p.m. Illegal dumping 

reported on Mountain 

Home Road. 

4:58 p.m. Subject reported 

bunch of trash dumped 

in front yard on Mountain 

Home Road. 

10:11 p.m. Caller reported 

what sounded like 

small explosion in area of 

Essex Court. Possibly a 

transformer. Londonderry 

Fire en route. 

10:14 p.m. Londonderry 

Fire responding for car 

fire at Grange Hall on 

Mammoth Road. 

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Saturday, Aug. 20 

1:43 a.m. Caller reported 

two vans, one white and 

one gray with a trailer, 

pulled up to help caller 

with caller’s vehicle on 

Perkins Road and stole 

money from caller’s 

purse. 


wallet stolen at Londonderry 

Flea Market, Avery 

Road. 


boards on barn windows 

removed at Bancroft Road 

residence. 

5:32 p.m. Londonderry 

Fire advised that subject 

was causing problems in 

area of bandstand on 

Town Common, Pillsbury 

Road. 

7:23 p.m. Theft of gas at 

Lukoil, Mohawk Drive. 

11:16 p.m. Caller reported 

loud party on Raintree 

Drive. Homeowners advised 

they will quiet down. 

Monday, Aug. 22 

8 a.m. Theft of copper 

from UPS, Perimeter Road. 

MISSING DOG 

A 7-year-old male red-tri Australian 

Shepard named Tye. He was last seen 

on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 6, 

near Stonehenge Road and Route 28. 

May have been injured. 

Please call with any 

information 434-7951


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Hampshire First Lunch 

Hampshire First Bank, 68 

Nashua Road, invites the 

community to stop by to 

say hello and have a free 

lunch of steamed hot dogs, 

chips and a beverage while 

supplies last Mondays 

through Fridays from noon 

to 2 p.m., now through Friday, 

Sept. 2. 

Volunteers Needed 

The Town of Londonderry 

is looking for volunteers 

for the following positions: 

Elder Affairs Committee, 

one Alternate, three-year 

position; Londonderry Arts 

Council, one Ad Hoc position; 

Planning Board, one 

Alternate, three-year position; 

and Zoning Board of 

Adjustment, one Alternate, 

three-year position. If interested, 

visit: www.londonderrynh.org 

and click on “Town 

Services A-Z” and “V” to find 

the volunteer form. For 

questions, contact Margo 

Lapietro at mlapietro@londonderrynh.org 

or call 432- 

1100, ext. 120. 

Clothing Pickup 

The Big Brother Big Sister 

Foundation will be in 

Londonderry on Friday, Aug 

26, to collect donations of 

gently used clothes, shoes, 

books, jewelry, household 

items and small toys, as well 

as musical instruments. To 

schedule a pick up, call 

(800) 483-5503 or email: 

donate@bbbsfoundation.or 

g and include name, 

address, zip code and 

phone number. For a fee, the 

group will also pick up electronics. 

To arrange that, 

email: electronics@bbbsfoundation.org 

Fall Bulb Sale 

The Friends of the Londonderry 

Leach Library is 

holding its annual Fall Bulb 

Sale, with 27 varieties of 

spring and summer blooming 

bulbs, including a rock garden 

collection, Pink Buttercups, 

Candy Club Tulips, 

Stargazer Lilies, and Rhapsody 

Irises, as well as mixtures 

featuring Daffodils, Crocuses 

and Hyacinths. Orders 

can be placed at the Library’s 

main desk until Saturday, 

Sept. 26. 

RC Flying Show 

Four New Hampshire 

Radio Control Airplane flying 

clubs will demonstrate their 

aircraft and flying skills at the 

2010 New England Radio Control 

Fly-In from 10 a.m. to 4 

p.m. Aug. 27 and 28 at the 

New Hampshire Flying Tigers 

airfield on B Street in Derry. 

Performances by helicopters, 

gliders, aerobatic planes and 

scale models are planned, 

and the public can try flying a 

radio control airplane. Along 

with flying demonstrations, 

aircraft will be on display, and 

food will be available. A complete 

RC airplane package 

will be raffled and door prizes 

CLUTTER CLEANERS 

Need to make space in that 

barn, attic or basement? 

Want to get rid of all that 

junk and clutter? 

If you don’t have the time or 

energy we can help. 

Call for a free evaluation! 

(603)275-5580 

for participating pilots are 

offered. The event is held by 

the NH Flying Tigers, the 

Southern NH Flying Eagles 

and the Southern NH Radio 

Control Club. For details, 

visit: www.newhampshireflyingtigers.com 

or call Paul 

Lockwood at 437-2847. 

Bake Sale 

The Londonderry Senior 

Citizens, Inc., hosts its third 

annual bake sale at Mack’s 

Apple Orchard on Mammoth 

Road on Saturday, Sept. 3, 

from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Featured 

will be homemade pies, 

cakes, loaf breads and special 

desserts. Proceeds will be 

used toward continued 

improvements at the Londonderry 

Senior Center. 

Holistic Moms Network 

A new chapter of the 

Holistic Moms Network is 

forming to encourage support, 

share information, and 

resources among families 

that are interested in a 

healthy lifestyle, natural 

healthcare, whole foods and 

the environment. An Open 

House takes place Wednesday, 

Sept. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at 

Londonderry Nurse Practitioners 

Whole Health Consultants, 

50 Nashua Road, Suite 

103. For more information, 

visit: greaterderrynh.holisticmoms.org. 

Book Club 

The Book Club is seeking 

new members. Meetings 

are held the first Tuesday of 

each month from 10 a.m. to 

noon at the Klint Clubhouse 

on Winding Pond Road. For 

more information, call 421- 

1828. 

Art on the Common 

The Londonderry Arts 

Council hosts its seventh 

annual Art on the Common 

Fine Art Show on Saturday, 

Sept. 10, on Londonderry’s 

Town Common, corner of 

Mammoth and Pillsbury 

Roads, from 10 a.m. to 4 

p.m. The show features the 

paintings of New Hampshire 

artists in oil, pastel, acrylic, 

watercolor, pen & ink and 

colored pencil. Rain date is 

Sunday, Sept. 11. For more 

information, call Barbara 

Scott at 434-4799 or email: 

artonthecommon@londonderryculture.org 

MooreMart Collection 

On Sept. 8 and 9, Moore- 

Mart hosts its annual Halloween 

Care Package Event 

and Soccer Ball Drive. Residents 

can help U.S. troops 

by donating a new soccer 

ball with pump and inflation 

needle and/or decorating 

and filling a gift bag no larger 

than 8- by 10- by 3-inches 

with patriotic items, candy, 

healthy snacks, and encouraging 

notes. Requested 

items are toothbrushes, 

toothpaste, dental floss, 

playing cards, new white 

athletic socks, licorice, 

Ramen noodles, candy, 

power and granola bars, 

trail mix, peanuts and beef 

jerky. Financial donations 

for postage are welcome. 

Drop-off sites are Mack’s 

Apples in Londonderry and 

Walgreen’s Pharmacy on 

Crystal Avenue in Derry 

before Sept. 8, or contact 

Emil Ouellette at Emilolet@aol.com 

Subject matter: 

Mooremart. For more 

information, visit: www.mooremart.org. 

Antique Appraisal 

The Robert Frost Farm 

presents an Antiques and 

Collectibles Appraisal on 

Sunday, Aug. 28, at 2 p.m. at 

the Frost Farm, 122 Rockingham 

Road (Route 28), Derry. 

Herc Pappachristos, an 

appraiser and auction manager 

with Grogan & Co., of 

Dedham, Mass., and a member 

of the Frost Farm Board 

of Trustees, will offer 

appraisals for $5 per item. 

For more information, call 

432-3091. 

Catholic Faith 

St. Jude Parish will host 

a program this Fall for those 

contemplating entering the 

Roman Catholic faith or 

who currently are Catholic 

but have not completed 

their sacramental preparation 

for Eucharist or Confirmation. 

The Rite of Christian 

Initiation of Adults 

(RCIA) enables individuals 

to learn more about the 

Catholic faith while attempting 

to discern if they are 

being called to become 

Catholic. The program is 

also ideal for persons baptized 

into the Catholic faith 

and wishing to complete 

their sacraments of initiation. 

The sessions are informal. 

Anyone interested in 

learning more about the 

program may call Ann Marie 

Hilchey at 548-0531 or the 

parish office at 432-3333. 

Job Seekers Support 

Residents struggling 

with issues of unemployment, 

which brings on financial 

insecurity, strained relationships 

with family and 

friends, as well as discouragement 

and depression, 

are invited to attend the Job 

Seekers group, sponsored 

by Orchard Christian Fellowship 

and meeting Mondays 

at 9 a.m. upstairs in the 

Robie House, 183 Mammoth 

Road. Contact Lee Carvill at 

425-6231 or lcarvill@or- 

-chardnh.org for more information. 

Others can help by 

letting the group know 

about job openings, donating 

a gift card to a local grocery 

store, or donating a 

product or skill to the unemployed. 

Bereavement Group 

A Bereavement Support 

Group meets every Wednesday 

from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at 

Amedisys Hospice Services, 

1E Commons Drive. Registration 

is not required, and 

attendance is free. The focus 

of the group is on providing 

mutual support, and learning 

about the grieving process 

and ways to cope with loss. 

For more information, contact 

Laurie Klotz, Amedisys 

Hospice bereavement coordinator, 

at 421-0414. 

Night Out 

Orchard Christian Fellowship 

is hosting a “Night 

Out” for parents of special 

needs children the second 

Friday of each month from 6 

to 9 p.m. at the Londonderry 

United Methodist Church. 

The free program offers parents 

a three-hour respite 

and the opportunity to 

socialize with like-minded 

others while their children 

and siblings enjoy dinner, 

crafts, games and playtime. 

For more information or to 

register for the program, 

contact Pauline or Pat McKivergan 

at 425-6231 or send 

e-mails to pmckivergan- 

@orchardnh.org. 

Bereavement Support 

An ongoing Bereavement 

Support Group meets 

on the second and fourth 

Thursdays of the month 

from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Elliot 

Medical Center, Londonderry. 

The group offers a safe 

place to express feelings, 

learn coping skills, and gain 

a sense of value and purpose. 

The group is free. To 

register or for more informa- 

tion, call social worker Barbara 

Pines at 552-1533. 

Checklist Purge 

The verification process 

of the voter list required by 

RSA 654:39 every 10 years 

has begun. Anyone on the 

Londonderry Checklist who 

has not voted in the last four 

years will soon receive a 

removal letter and will be 

purged unless he or she reregisters 

by Aug. 31, 2011. 

To do so, a person must 

show proof of citizenship, 

identity and residency (affidavits 

are available for those 

missing documentation). 

MOMS Club of South 


The MOMS Club of Londonderry 

is a support group 

for mothers who are home 

with their children during the 

day. The group meets several 

times a week for play dates 

and other outings with the 

children. If interested in participating, 

contact SLMOM- 

SClub@gmail.com or visit 

www.momscluboflondonderry.org. 

Library Building 

Joppa Frasch, a paraprofessional 

and soccer coach 

at LMS, is building a library 

for the underprivileged children 

in her homeland of 

Papua New Guinea, one 

book at a time. Ongoing 

donations of reading material 

appropriate for children in 

elementary and middle 

school are now being 

accepted. Those wishing to 

send books are encouraged 

to enclose photos of themselves 

tucked inside the 

books, with a few sentences 

about the donors and their 

lives in New Hampshire. 

Books may be mailed to: 

Aimalu Primary School 

(Mararamu Village, Umboi 

Island), c/o Mr. George Lapu, 

P.O. Box 3410, LAE, Morobe 

Province, Papua New 

Guinea. For more information, 

send emails to Frasch 

at zoltan@zoltans5.com. 

Clothing Ministry 

Donations of children’s 

clean, wearable clothing of 

all sizes maybe brought to 5 

Isabella Drive. In addition, 

baby equipment, sheets, 

blankets, backpacks, and 

kids’ shoes are also accepted. 

This is the St. Gianna’s 

children’s clothing ministry 

in the Londonderry/Derry 

and Manchester communities, 

and all items collected 

are brought to established 

outreach programs and 

given to the needy. Call Liz 

with questions at 437-6678.

Scholarship 

The Londonderry Women’s 

Club is taking applications 

for an Adult Female 

Scholarship for the school 

year 2011-2012 in the amount 

of $500. The requirements 

are: must be a female 

at least 23 years of age and a 

current resident of Londonderry, 

and must have completed 

a minimum of half of 

their credits toward the person’s 

named graduate degree 

in her current field of 

study from an accredited 

secondary institution, and 

be enrolled in a subsequent 

year of study. Deadline for 

applications is Sept. 30. 

They are available at the 

Leach Library. 

Historical Society 

The Londonderry Historical 

Society meets the 

third Tuesday of each 

month downstairs at the 

Leach Library. For more 

information, visit: www.- 

Londonderryhistory.com. 

GriefShare 

Orchard Christian Fellowship 

sponsors Grief- 

Share, a weekly grief recovery 

seminar/support group 

for people grieving the 

death of someone close. It 

meets Wednesdays from 7 

to 9 p.m. at the office of Dr. 

Philip Stebbins at 184 Mammoth 

Road Suite 4, Londonderry. 

For more information, 

call 425-6231. 

Senior Blood Pressure 

Rockingham Visiting 

Nurse Association and Hospice 

sponsors a free blood 

pressure screening, including 

general health assessment, 

medication information 

and counseling on 

other health services, from 

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, 

Sept. 6, at the Londonderry 

Senior Center, 575 Mammoth 

Road. No appointment 

is necessary. 

Foot Clinic 

Rockingham Visiting Nurse 

Association and Hospice 

sponsors a foot clinic 

Thursday, Sept. 8, at the 

Mayflower Grange Hall, 575 

Mammoth Road for individ- 


uals 60 years and older who 

are unable to perform their 

own foot care. Clients will 

receive a basic nail trimming 

and foot assessment, 

but no treatment of corns or 

calluses. Appointments are 

required, and a donation pf 

$20 for the first visit and $15 

for subsequent visits is suggested. 

For further information 

or to schedule an 

appointment, call 580-6668. 

Diabetes Support 

Rockingham Visiting 

Nurse Association and Hospice 

sponsors a Londonderry 

Diabetes Support Group 

on the third Friday of the 

month from 10 to 11 a.m. at 

the Londonderry Senior 

Center. The next meeting is 

Friday, Sept. 16. Facilitator 

is Paul O’Hara, registered 

nurse and certified diabetes 

educator. Call 1-800-540- 

2981 for further information. 

Holiday Closure 

The Leach Library will 

be closed on Monday, Sept. 

5, in observance of Labor 

Day. 

Young Adult Summer 

Reading 

The Young Adult Summer 

Reading Program saw 

more than 450 teens signing 

up to participate. Participants 

have until the close of 

the library at 2 p.m. Saturday, 

Sept. 3, to turn in reading 

logs. The Janice Anagnos 

Memorial Prize and cer- 

◆ 

tificate will be awarded to 

the teen who reads the most 

books from June 1 to Sept. 3, 

2011. 

Synagogue Open House 

Etz Hayim Synagogue, 1 

1/2 Hood Road, Derry holds 

a Prospective Member 

Open House on Friday, Aug. 

26, at 7 p.m. Join the congregation 

for services, a tour of 

the building and to learn 

about membership. Dessert 

will be served following 

services. All family members 

are welcome. For more 

information, call 432-0004 or 

email: office@etzhayim.org. 

Apple Country Fair 

St. Peter’s Episcopal 

Church hosts its 24th annu- 

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FIREWOOD 

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LOCAL LISTINGS FOR LOCAL READERS 

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PAINTING 

J&R Painting, Interior Painting Dry- 

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PETS 

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TREE REMOVAL 

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grinding, trimming. Fully Insured 

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Fine Trimming. Insured. 603-483- 

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YARD SALE 

Estate Sale, Furniture, Dishes, etc. 

8am to 2pm Saturday and Sunday 

August 27th and 28th. 25 Chasebrook 

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AUTOS WANTED 

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES 

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Musical Instruments Clarinet/Flute/ 

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$300/Day depending on job. No 

experience. All looks needed. 1-800- 

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crawl spaces, humidity & mold control. 

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Around Town 

continued from page 21 

al outdoor Apple Country 

Craft Fair on Saturday, Sept. 

10, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

and Sunday, Sept. 11, from 

9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The craft 

fair will feature more than 60 

juried crafters from all over 

New England. Baked goods, 

grilled foods, coffee, baked 

potatoes, apple crisp, and 

craft raffles are also featured. 

Hand-woven baskets 

made by Nicaraguans will 

be available, with proceeds 

from their sale benefiting 

the people of Nicaragua. St. 

Peter’s is on Mammoth 

Road at the corner of 

Peabody Row, next door to 

Mack’s Apples. For information, 

email: stpeterscraftfair@gmail.com. 

‘Meet the Coaches’ 

Night 

The fall athletic “Meet 

the Coaches” night will be 

held Monday, Aug. 29, at 6 

p.m. in the Londonderry 

High School gym. All student 

athletes and their parents 

are expected to attend. 

Guest speaker William Harris 

will discuss the benefits 

of participating in an interscholastic 

athletic program. 

In addition, each coach will 

hold individual team meetings 

following the group 

presentation. Call the athletic 

office with questions at 

432-6941, ext. 2306. 

Contra Dance 

A New England Contra 

Dance takes place Sept. 9 

from 8 to 11 p.m., with a 

newcomers’ session at 7:30 

p.m., at the Londonderry 

Senior Center, 535 Mam- 


moth Road. Flare Eire will be 

playing, and Alice Morris 

will be calling. Admission is 

$8 for adults, $5 for seniors, 

and $3 for ages 12 and 

under. For more information, 

call 529-1586 or email: 

weareampm@gsinet.net. 

Clothing Pickup 

The Big Brother Big Sister 

Foundation will be in 

Londonderry on Friday, Aug 

26, to collect donations of 

gently used clothes, shoes, 

books, jewelry, household 

items and small toys, as well 

as musical instruments. To 

CLUTTER CLEANERS 

Need to make space in that 

barn, attic or basement? 

Want to get rid of all that 

junk and clutter? 

If you don’t have the time or 

energy we can help. 

Call for a free evaluation! 

(603)275-5580 

schedule a pick up, call 

(800) 483-5503 or email: 

donate@bbbsfoundation.org 

and include name, address, 

zip code and phone number. 

For a fee, the group will also 

pick up electronics. To 

arrange that, email: electronics@bbbsfoundation.org 

Journey Fundraiser 

Several members of 

Journey Church, a Church 

of the Nazarene, will have 

their heads shaved Sunday, 

Aug. 28, at the church, 5 

Tinkham Ave., Derry to 

show solidarity with Jake 

◆ 

Jollymore, 17, of Litchfield, 

who is undergoing chemotherapy. 

Jake was recently 

diagnosed with an aggressive 

cancer and is undergoing 

chemotherapy. The 

event is a fund-raiser for the 

Jollymore family; Jake’s 

medical expenses are 

expected to top $6,000 for 

chemotherapy alone. His 

mother is a widow and 

works full time. Pledges and 

donations are sought for 

this event. For more information, 

call Rev. Frost at 

234-2711 or 890-1560. 

◆ ◆ 

First Londonderry Fair Gets High Marks on Old Home Day 



————––––––————–◆ 

Christine Rook waited 

in the shade on 

the Grange Hall 

porch as judges finished 

evaluating the handmade 

items in the first-ever Londonderry 

Fair. “I like it,” 

she said, “that they limited 

the entries to Londonderry 

people.” Rook said 

she was happy to test her 

creative skills against 

Londonderry friends and 

neighbors. 

Londonderry’s creative 

types had all kinds 

of chances to shine on 

Saturday. While some 

sang or played an instrument, 

the Londonderry 

Fair gave another kind of 

talent a chance to be 

seen: the fine and domestic 

arts. Children and 

adults could enter their 

work in each of six categories, 

and win ribbons 

and prizes. But more than 

that, their work could be 

seen by their peers. 

TOWN OF LONDONDERRY 

PLANNING BOARD 

The Londonderry Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on 

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Moose Hill 

Council Chambers, 268B Mammoth Road, Londonderry, NH to 

consider the following: 

NEW PLANS 

7:00 Administrative Board Work 

The Fair was the brainchild 

of Old Home Day 

Committee member Bob 

Ciarletta. He and committee 

member Janet Cichocki 

hammered out the categories 

- cakes, cookies, 

knitted and crocheted 

work, painting, drawing 

and photography. The 

work was displayed in the 

Grange Hall before and 

after judging. 

Rook entered both a 

painting and a photograph. 

She found a challenge 

in knowing what to 

submit for a photo - she’s 

a professional photographer 

who has taken pictures 

all over the world, 

but the contest rules 

specified a Londonderry 

scene. “But I didn’t want 

to do the popular areas - 

the church buildings, the 

town center,” she said. 

“Everyone was going to 

have those.” 

Instead, Rook chose to 

submit a photograph of 

the crypt in the cemetery 

A. Brook Hollow Corporation, Map 18, Lots 13-97 & 13-99 - 

Application Acceptance and Public Hearing for a 17 Lot Conservation 

Subdivision located on Hunter Mill Road and Manter 

Mill Road within the previously approved Mill Pond Subdivision. 

next to Mack’s Apples. It’s 

an unusual subject, she 

admitted, but she was 

driving by late one night 

and noticed the way a 

tree hung over the cemetery, 

and a photograph 

was born. 

Doreen Stubbs submitted 

entries in cake baking, 

cookie baking and photography. 

Her photo entry 

was a pond at Mack’s 

Apples. Her cake was a 

Pennsylvania Dutch Apple 

Pie Cake and her cookies, 

the popular peanut 

butter and jelly “thumbprints.” 

“I was the thumbprint 

and the jelly filler,” her 

husband, David, said. 

Both women liked the 

idea of Londonderry Fair. 

“It’s awesome,” Stubbs 

said, adding, “It reminds 

me of the Rochester Fair 

or the Big E (Eastern 

States Exposition),” although 

she said a dozen 

Londonderry Old Home 

Day events could fit into 

the Big E. But the Big E 

has a building dedicated 

to “handmade everything,” 

she said. 

With the judging completed, 

the women and 

their companions trooped 

back into the hall to 

see what they’d won and 

admire everyone else’s 

work. Cichocki, who 

organized the fair along 

with Ciarletta, began cutting 

the cakes. She hesitated 

a split second 

before cutting into the 

first-place winner for 18 

and older, a freestanding 

apple tree covered in 

piped green icing. The 

creation, by Laura Holden, 

had tiny red apples 

hanging from the branches. 

They weren’t M&Ms 

but were shaped out of 

marzipan, Cichocki said. 

“We are encouraged,” 

Cichocki said. “I think 

we’ll do it next year, but it 

depends on what the 

committee wants.” 

She and Ciarletta were 

ready for the tasting with 

paper plates, napkins and 

forks on a separate stand, 

and fair entrants and their 

relatives lined up for free 

cake and compliments. 

“We had a good 

response for our first 

year,” Ciarletta said. “It 

wasn’t too big and it wasn’t 

too small.” He had 47 

entries in all six categories, 

which, he said, was 

“enough to get us started.” 

“It fits with the Old 

Home Day idea,” Ciarletta 

said. 

The winners in each 

category were: 

Cakes, ages 8-12, Emily 

Holland, first; Paul Criscione, 

second; Laura Ciarletta, 

third; 

Cakes, ages 13-18, Kate 

Ciarletta, first; 

Cakes ages 18 plus, 

Lauren Holden, first; Jennifer 

Locke, second; Erika 

Fleming, third; 

Cookies ages 8-12, 

Laura Ciarletta, first; 

Cookies 18 plus, Joan 

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Loring, first; Doreen 

Stubbs, second; Rosemary 

Colonna, third; 

Painting, 8-12, Emily 

Neville, first; 

Painting 13-18, Kailey 

Martin, first; 

Painting 18 plus, Tom 

Bianchi, first; Tom Abruseze, 

second; Marion 

Maney, third; 

Pencil drawing, 8-12, 

Abby Haas, first; 

Pencil drawing, 13-18, 

Kailey Martin, first; Kate 

Ciarletta, second; 

Photo, 8-12, Laura Ciarletta, 

first; 

Photo, 13-18, Lauren 

Jabczanka, first; 

Photo 18 plus, David 

Cattarin, first; Ben 

LeBlanc, second; Linda 

Lampkin, third; 

Yarn crafts, 8-12, Laura 


Yarn crafts, 13-18, Kate 


Yarn crafts, 18 plus, 

Rosemary Colonna, first; 

Joanne Ciarletta, second; 

Jennifer Locke, third.

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