RB Productions to perform this week
RB Productions will present James and the Giant Peach, Jr. this weekend at the Capitol Center for the Arts.
Show times will be Friday at 7 p.m., and Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and available at the CCA box office or at ccanh.com.
Clint Klose
Concert in Eagle Square on Thursday
The Shana Stack Band will perform in Eagle Square on Thursday at 7 p.m., as part of the free downtown summer concert series.
The group focuses on new Top 40 country, and original music written by member Ed Leavitt. Most recent winner of Live Act of the Year by the Limelight Magazine Awards along with runner up for Male Vocalist of the Year (Ed Leavitt), The Shana Stack Band is one of the leading entertainers in New England.
For more info, visit shanastack.com.
David Gill
Event for WNHN in Concord on Sunday
Concord’s low power community radio station, WNHN 94.7FM, will have an off-the dial event on Sunday, from 1 to 6 p.m., at 15 Rumford St. (the home of Arnie Arnesen).
The reception/fundraiser will be an opportunity to meet show hosts, producers and volunteers, and learn more about community radio.
For the price of an entree, you’ll get a smorgasbord of visual delights from historic architecture, funky up cycling, eclectic art and the shoes – public art for the foot. Help us keep your community radio station well heeled.
Tickets cost just $19.47. More information and tickets are available at wnhnfm.org.
JH Simoes
AARP event at Audubon on Aug. 2
We all think about “what’s next?” But often wonder where to start and how to make it real. That’s why AARP New Hampshire is offering a Life Reimagined Check-Up on Aug. 2 at 6 p.m. at the N.H. Audubon McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Road.
The 90-minute check-up is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
At this free Life Reimagined Check-Up, you start where you are in life and – through a series of fun, simple exercises – see where the possibilities lead you. You gain insight into where you are in life and where you want to go; discover new methods and practical tools to help you plan your next move; and connect with a Life Reimagined guide and people in your community who can support you along the way.
Space is limited and registration is required. RSVP to aarp.cvent.com/LRConcord2016.
Jamie Bulen
Kickoff event for NAMIWalks NH
Join us to kick off the NAMIWalks NH season with a lunch on Aug. 4, from noon to 1:30 p.m., at O Steaks and Seafood.
All are welcome and admission is free, and includes a delicious lunch and dessert, engaging speakers, games, fun golf-themed activities, and inspirational messages. Don’t miss a keynote speech from local filmmaker Dan Habib.
To RSVP, please visit tinyurl.com/KOL2016RSVP by Thursday.
Register to walk or make a donation online for the 14th Annual NAMIWalks NH on Oct. 2 at namiwalks.org/newhampshire.
Every year, mental illness impacts the lives of one in five adults and children across the United States. Last year, NAMIWalks NH supporters helped NAMI New Hampshire to provide support, education and advocacy to more than 15,000 Granite Staters affected by mental illness – adults, children and their families.
Learn more about NAMI New Hampshire by visiting NAMINH.org.
Rebekka Donovan
MV student attends STEM program
Michael Wenzel of Penacook recently attended the National Youth Leadership Forum: Explore STEM Program at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Mass.
Wenzel is an incoming freshman to Merrimack Valley High School. Wenzel was nominated by his eighth grade science teacher Deb Banaian for the STEM program. To be accepted in this program: you needed to be nominated by a teacher, must excel academically with a 3.5 GPA or higher, must have leadership potential, and finally, career aspirations that are in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.
Through the program the students went on field trips to the Boston Museum of Science, the Boston Nature Center and to a lab to do various experiments on water.
They worked with engineering design processes to design and program robotics for competitions, as well as how to improve the world by using robots. They learned how to create and program games using the Kodu Gaming System and went to seminars on ethics in medicine, water desalination, personality types and careers, and ACT engage and personal leadership plan.
Peg Wenzel
Northern Pass workshop Thursday
Community members are invited to participate in a structured workshop to identify places and areas of beauty, use, history and tradition that are within 10 miles of the proposed Northern Pass transmission corridor that may be affected by the Northern Pass Project. The workshop will be held Thursday at 6 p.m., at the Heights Community Center, 14 Canterbury Road.
The workshop is being held by Peter C.L. Roth of the N.H. Attorney General’s Office, who represents the interests of the public in the Site Evaluation Committee (SEC) proceeding to review the application of the project. Roth has engaged experts to provide evidence on the project’s potential impacts on the state’s scenic, historic and cultural resources. The SEC must consider these impacts in assessing proposed energy projects.
If you are unable to attend, you may provide written information via e-mail to peter.roth@doj.nh.gov or by mail to Peter C.L. Roth, Environmental Protection Bureau, Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, 33 Capitol St., Concord, 03301.
City memo
Free concert at Penacook church
United Church of Penacook is hosting a free concert featuring David Kaplan on the piano and Catherine Gregory on the flute on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at 7 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.
Directions to United Church and additional information about the concert and the musicians are available at ucpnh.org.
Kaplan and Gregory are in residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen this summer.
Lynne Raleigh
