Youth theater at Capitol Center
RB Productions will return to the Capitol Center for the Arts stage this weekend for three performances of Beauty and the Beast, Jr.
Put on by the theater company’s summer youth program, the shows will be held Friday at 7 p.m., and Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m.
Tickets are $15, and $12 for students and seniors.
For more info, visit ccanh.com/series/upcomingevents.
Insider staff
Hospice volunteer training Aug. 29
Concord Regional VNA is seeking volunteers to offer companionship and support to hospice patients. The next eight-week training session starts Aug. 29 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Concord Regional VNA Hospice House, 240 Pleasant St.
Hospice volunteers assist with: Providing companionship to hospice patients; reading to hospice patients; holding a hand and lending a listening ear; running errands for hospice patients; cooking meals at the Hospice House; providing pet therapy, music therapy and therapeutic arts; giving Reiki, massage or therapeutic touch; assisting staff with office work (e.g. filings, mailings); facilitating grief support groups; and connecting as a veteran volunteer with patients who are also veterans.
Call 224-4093 or 1-800-924-8620, ext. 2826 or email lisa.challender@crvna.org by Aug. 11 to learn more.
Andy Morse
Concert Sunday at St. Paul’s Chruch
Join St. Paul’s Episcopal Church as we celebrate our bicentennial year with a summer concert series.
This Sunday’s concert features Music of Love & Longing with pianist Catharine Dornin and the St. Paul’s soloists. The concert begins at 4 p.m.
Tickets are $7 and available in the parish office, Gibson’s Bookstore at the door or by visiting stpaulsconcord.org.
St. Paul’s
Book reading about Mount Washington
For two centuries, Mount Washington has been the object of countless writers’ wonder and fascination.
In Mount Washington: Narratives and Perspectives, more than 20 previously written pieces inspired by New England’s highest peak have been carefully selected, and collectively these cover nearly every aspect of the mountain’s storied past. Tag along on early explorations of the White Mountains and its fabled Presidential Range on Aug. 2 at 5:30 p.m. at Gibson’s Bookstore.
Editor and area historian Mike Dickerman explores the captivating history of one of the Granite State’s most remarkable places.
Elisabeth Jewell
Loudon Road is getting a facelift
Construction on Loudon Road began on Sunday and will continue through Sept. 1 (weather permitting).
Pavement improvements along Loudon Road, between Hazen Drive and D’Amante Drive, will include alternating daytime/nighttime construction.
Major paving operations will be completed in the overnight hours, typically between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. Curbing and sidewalk improvements will be completed during the day. Lane closures and traffic delays can be expected.
Any questions or comments related to the project should be made to the Engineering Services Division at 225-8520. Weekly project information will be available at concordnh.gov.
City memo
Chamber gives out Business Grants
Through the Business Grants program, the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce awards more than $5,000 annually to teachers who have developed innovative teaching programs for use in Capital area schools.
Recipients of the six grants chosen this year demonstrated their projects fit a specific educational need, were unique to their respective schools and were not supported by their school system’s annual budget. Funding for the Business Grants program is raised through the Chamber’s Annual Funds for Education Golf Tournament held each August.
At Bishop Brady High School, Susan Seagroves will continue her well-known “Knitting for Payson” program for students and teachers, training them how to knit and sell finished products at craft fairs, and use the proceeds as a fundraiser for Payson Cancer Center.
Shawn Moseley’s students at Rundlett Middle School will learn how to become community leaders and organizers through its Student Ambassador Program. Students meet weekly to plan events and school service projects, learn to seek charitable causes and how to organize donations by contacting businesses.
At Concord’s Broken Ground Elementary School, fourth- and fifth-grade students will have the chance to improve their writing and journalism skills in the after-school newspaper team led by Fiona Quirk. And Matthew Finney will lead a Young Culinary Specialists project designed to teach all students how to plan meals, purchase food and be involved in all aspects of food preparation.
At Bow High School, Michelle Hlavaz’s Child Development students will promote literacy through its Connecting Through Books project. Students will choose books from Gibson’s Bookstore that they will read and gift to younger children at day care and community centers throughout the community.
Recipients will be recognized at the October Business After Hours at Merrimack County Savings Bank.
For more info, contact the Chamber at 224-2508.
Kristina Carlson
