Wine and beer tasting at Old Town Hall in Bow
The Falcon Booster Club’s second annual “Taste of Bow Spirit” Wine and Beer Tasting event and silent auction will be held March 30 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Old Town Hall, 91 Bow Center Road. Contact Karen McGee at ishore@comcast.net for tickets.
Insider staff
NHTI Film Society to show ‘The Winding Stream’
The NHTI Film Society will screen The Winding Stream (not rated) on Friday at 7 p.m.
The “insider” and family view of the Carter family from A.P., Sara, Maybelle – including Johnny Cash and family – to the present. A documentary film rich in detail of the country, the times, the families, and, the music, music and music.
The film will be shown in the Sweeney Hall Auditorium, S-122. The screening is open to the public. Admission is free to NHTI students with valid NHTI ID; all others by donation (suggested $5).
For more information, call 271-6484 ext. 4101 or visit the NHTI website at nhti.edu.
Steve Ambra
Raptor migration talk at Audubon Thursday
The spectacle of large numbers of migrating hawks, eagles, falcons and other “raptors” has always captivated people, and historical accounts of this phenomenon in New Hampshire date back to the 1700s.
Conservation of raptors is now a major theme across the globe, and species’ population changes can provide evidence for conservation needs – or successes. N.H. Audubon maintains two active monitoring sites: Carter Hill Orchard in Concord and Pack Monadnock in Peterborough.
On Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Audubon’s McLane Center, Phil Brown, raptor observatory coordinator for N.H. Audubon, will review the history of hawk watching in N.H., detail the ongoing monitoring efforts in N.H. and beyond, and provide some analysis of migration trend data. The program will be filled with raptor photography that will motivate you to welcome back migrating spring raptors.
Ruth Smith
Learn all about waterfowl with a tour on Saturday.
Join Bob Quinn on Saturday for his now traditional afternoon waterfowl tour in the Concord area.
We will go where the ducks are during the afternoon but end up where we think the ducks will be toward sunset to watch the birds come in to roost. Sightings in prior years have included Northern Pintail, American Widgeon, Snow Goose and Gadwall.
Meet at the McLane Audubon Center at 2 p.m.
For more info, contact Quinn at RAQbirds@aol.com.
Bob Quinn
Screening of new documentary March 30
On March 30, at Red River Theatres, there will be a 14-minute preview of Dan Habib’s new documentary film, Intelligent Lives (working title), followed by a discussion of the issues addressed in this project.
If Micah Fialka-Feldman was born in the first half of the 20th century, his IQ score of 40 would have led him toward a life of institutionalization and involuntary sterilization. But Fialka-Feldman was born in 1984. Today he co-teaches and attends university classes at Syracuse University, has a vibrant social life and doesn’t let a number dictate his life’s path. However, most of the 6.5 million Americans identified as having an intellectual disability continue to live segregated lives based on early labels and a lifetime of low expectations.
The documentary film Intelligent Lives (full film coming fall 2017) explores how our narrow views of intelligence have led to the ongoing segregation of people with intellectual disabilities, and how Fialka-Feldman and others embody a new paradigm for what is means to be fully human. The film also features narration and a personal perspective from Academy Award winning actor Chris Cooper.
Panelists will include: Habib of the UNH Institute on Disability, Fialka-Feldman, Patricia Lampron (principal of the Henderson School, Dorchester, Mass.), and Jamaal Shaheed, whose son Naieer – a high school student at Henderson – is featured in the film.
Tickets for the screening and discussion are $10. Support for this event comes from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
Learn more and purchase tickets at redrivertheatres.org/2016/03/intelligent-lives-film-and-discussion.
Dan Habib
YMCA’s annual Spring Social is March 31
Please join us at the Capitol Center for the Arts for an evening of fun – while funding a good cause – at the Concord Family YMCA’s 12th Annual Spring Social, “In Good Spirits.”
This year the event will be held on Thursday, March 31, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Sample a variety of beer and wine selections, bid on auction items, and taste delectable appetizers from local restaurants in the Top Chef Cook-Off (then vote for the winner). All proceeds will benefit the YMCA’s Annual Campaign, making quality child care and wellness programs accessible to everyone in our community, regardless of their economic status.
Tickets for the spring social are $35 a person, and can be purchased at concordymca.org or by calling the Concord Family YMCA at 228-9622. You can also email ptaylor@concordymca.org for tickets. You must be 21 years old or older to attend this event.
Gina Brochu
Easter services at South Congregational Church
The South Congregational Church, located at 27 Pleasant St., will host the following Easter Sunday services: Sunrise Service, 6:30 a.m.; Chapel Celebration, 8 a.m.; and Sanctuary Celebration, 10 a.m.
For Holy Week services, please visit southchurchconcord.org.
Peg Wenzel
Join the SPCA for a trip to Foxwoods April 2
The Pope Memorial SPCA of Concord-Merrimack County is hosting its annual fundraising bus trip to Foxwoods Resort & Casino in Mashantucket, Conn. on Saturday, April 2, to benefit the animals and programs at the SPCA.
With onboard cash raffles and games, attendees will journey in a luxury Concord Trailways bus headed straight to the welcoming doors of Foxwoods. With a complementary $10 slot ticket and a $10 food voucher, join other animal supporters and casino lovers as you receive the whole day to experience all that Foxwoods has to offer – table games, exciting machines, fabulous restaurants and a new outlet mall for all your shopping needs.
Departure is from Concord Trailways Bus Station at 30 Stickney Ave. in Concord at 7:30 a.m. Estimated time of arrival at Foxwoods is about 9:30 a.m. Attendees are asked to meet at 4:30 p.m. to depart from Foxwoods by 5 p.m. Estimated return time to Concord is by 7:30 p.m.
The event does require tickets purchased in advance. Seating is limited – and selling fast. Ticket costs are $55 per person and as mentioned include $20 in resort credits received upon arrival. Tickets can be purchased at popememorialspca.org, by phone at 856-8756 ext. 234, or by stopping by the Pope Memorial SPCA information desk at 94 Silk Farm Road in Concord.
Lori Taylor
Flea market, antique fair at Everett Arena Saturday
There will be a giant flea market and antique fair at Everett Arena on Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Admission is $3 for adults, children 15 and under are free.
Insider staff
Exoplanet workshop for homeschoolers March 30
In association with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center will offer a special workshop for high school-level homeschoolers on searching for exoplanets on Wednesday, March 30, from 2 to 5 p.m. Thanks to funding from NASA, the workshop is free; students need to register in advance and are encouraged to bring their own laptop computers to the workshop.
The first exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – was detected less than 24 years ago. Since that time, several thousand exoplanets have been discovered. This is a truly exciting new field which needs citizen scientists around the world to help with detection and confirmation of new exoplanets.
In this workshop, students will learn about planets orbiting other stars, build physical and virtual models of exoplanets, detect a real exoplanet through use of Micro-Observatory data, participate in a live teleconference with an exoplanet researcher, complete a survey to help NASA evaluate the workshop, and have the opportunity to continue this work beyond the Discovery Center’s March 30 workshop by joining a worldwide community of citizen scientists focused on detecting exoplanets.
The Discovery Center has a limited number of laptop computers available for those students who do not have access to laptops.
To register, contact Sherie Moore at smoore@starhop.com or 271-7827 ext. 120.
Jayme Simoes
Fuel and electrical assistance available
The Concord Area Center would like to remind homeowners and tenants, fuel assistance funds are still available in Belknap and Merrimack Counties. Our office is open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Applications for electric assistance may be done at the same time. Call us for an appointment at 225-6880. The fuel assistance program ends April 30.
Our food pantry is open on Fridays, from noon to 4 p.m.
The Concord Area Center assists residents of Concord/Penacook, Bow, Canterbury, Dunbarton, Boscawen, Loudon, Chichester, and Hopkinton/Contoocook.
Patti Kirk
CRTC students offering computer help at library
Having trouble figuring out those fancy features on your new cell phone or tablet? Laptop running slow, freezing up or bombarding you with error messages? Problems with software, malware or spyware?
The Concord Regional Technical Center can help. Since the beginning of February, students from the CRTC Information Technology class have been manning a student run help desk at the Concord Public Library two days a week.
The student help desk is open Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 3 to 5 p.m., and is free and available to the public.
Students work on laptops, desktop towers, tablets, cell phones, pretty much anything electronic. The service is provided while you wait – drop offs will not be accepted.
David Moore
