The Dame School Community Center?
To celebrate the Concord Literary Festival, we’d like to provide you with this fine piece of reading material: the highlights from City Manager Tom Aspell’s weekly memo.
“Save the date!” Tom wrote with excitement (hence the exclamation point), “The Concord School District together with the City of Concord will be hosting a community forum on Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Dame School, 14 Canterbury Road, in the cafeteria.”
According to Tom, the forum is being held to discuss the possible conveyance of the Dame School to the city for the purpose of developing a new community center.
Yes, that’s right: a brand spankin’ new community center. Some of you may like this idea, others may not. Either way, Tom encourages you to attend. Don’t let Tom down . . . save the date.
Well-read dogs at the Concord Public Library
For some time now, Paws for Pages (a program run by the Concord Public Library) has been helping wee ones with their communication and reading skills. During the program, kids read to Lily, a Labrador Retriever, who is certified through Therapy Dogs International.
We imagine Lily enjoys her time with the children, but Mango wanted a chance, too. Mango, a yellow lab and also certified through Therapy Dogs International, is the newest addition to the Paws for Pages family. Visit the library and meet Mango on Oct. 20 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the children’s room.
Mango won’t start her stint until November, so Lily will be holding down the fort on Oct. 21 at 3:30 p.m. in the children’s room.
For more information, visit concordpubliclibrary.net or call 230-3693.
Sidewalk construction
Even though he was busy practicing reading to Mango and Lily, Tom had to put down “Green Eggs and Ham” to write this next tidbit.
According to Tom, construction is scheduled to begin this week on the Rockingham Street sidewalk project. The project will entail about 2,200 linear feet of sidewalk along the north side of Rockingham Street from Broadway to South Street, he wrote.
“The project is part of an ongoing neighborhood improvement program to improve safety and pedestrian access through the neighborhood,” Tom added. “Work is expected to continue through mid- to late-November, weather permitting.”
Gather up your leaves
No, Tom doesn’t want to jump into your leaf pile. He announced that leaf collection will begin Nov. 1. At the start of the month, Tom wants you to place your leaves un-bagged at the curbside and the fine folks at the General Services Department will pick them up.
“ONLY LEAVES WILL BE PICKED UP,” Tom added in all caps. Clearly, this is a sore subject for our city manager.
“Any unacceptable material, which has been illegally deposited in the public right-of-way, MUST be removed by the abutting landowner,” Tom wrote, furiously. “Examples of unacceptable material include branches, brush, concrete, metal goods and construction demolition material.”
“If you have bags of lawn debris you can bring them to the Fort Eddie Road Processing Center.”
Okay, okay, we get it – we’ll have to take care of our own metal goods and branches.
A job well done
Kathi Jordan. What a gal.
Jordan, secretary of the Concord Country Club Women’s Golf Association, collected money to purchase non-food items for Concord Human Services. After raising enough dough, Jordan delivered about 30 bags filled with essential items to Concord Human Services. The donation will be shared with the Rape and Domestic Violence Center, the memo stated.
Concord Human Services wants to extend a warm thank-you to the association and to Jordan for her hard work to coordinate this donation.
