Attend pollinator workshop Saturday
There will be a pollinator workshop at the Audubon’s McLane Center on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon.
Master Gardner Meg Miller will help teach you how to identify and support bees, butterflies and other native pollinators in a New England garden.
Cost is $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers.
For more, visit nhaudubon.org/calendar/ pollinator-workshop.
Laura Deming
Summer baseball signups ongoing
Sign up for Concord Little League Summer Baseball.
Summer baseball is a fun and relaxing league with the expectations that each player plays when they can for their team. This is a month long season beginning the second week of July and finishing the second week of August and played at Concord fields.
Team will be comprised of approximately 15 players per team to cover for players who want to go on vacation, camp, special nights, etc. Summer baseball is open to youth ages 8 to 12 from Concord and surrounding communities.
The cost is $35 per player and each player receives a MLB replica T-shirt and hat which they can keep. Forms can be found under the “CLL Resource” page of our website at concordnhlittleleague.org, by emailing gford15@comcast.net and at the Grappone Park concession stand in Concord.
Applications are due on June 30. For questions, contact Gary Ford, summer ball coordinator, at 724-7405.
Alison Nyhan
United Way gives out support money
Granite United Way’s annual campaign mobilizes more than 20,000 donors and corporate supporters to raise more than $8.7 million across the state of New Hampshire. The campaign benefits more than 750 nonprofit agencies and programs providing services to more than 350,000 individuals.
Local volunteers from Merrimack County on Granite United Way’s Community Review Team dedicated the last few months to evaluating program proposals and determining their investment recommendations that were made to the local Community Impact Committee for Merrimack County. Together, the volunteer Board of Directors and Merrimack Valley Community Impact Committee, announced that more than $2 million in support will be delivered to this community during 2017.
This year the volunteer teams focused their Request for Proposal on four of the focus areas within Community Health Improvement Plan for the region; the misuse of drugs and alcohol, access to comprehensive behavioral health services, educational achievement and economic well being.
“Each year I am impressed with the dedication shown by our local volunteers who lead the grant funding decisions. This year they were presented with a tremendous number of quality applicants, and they contributed hundreds of hours to the decision process,” said Patrick Tufts, President and CEO of Granite United Way.
Through Granite United Way’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, more than $1.3 Million in federal refunds, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, was delivered to low to moderate income households in Merrimack County.
Granite United Way collaborated with several local organizations to ensure that the Cold Weather Shelter was open and provided a safe, warm shelter for and average of 30-40 homeless individuals each night in Merrimack County this year.
For more information about Granite United Way, visit graniteuw.org.
Karrie Eaton
Nominations sought for awards
As part of its ongoing celebration of supporting the arts in New Hampshire, the N.H. State Council on the Arts is seeking nominations for the 2017 Governor’s Arts Awards.
The awards, which are non-monetary, publicly recognize outstanding contributions made by individuals, organizations and communities that have reached distinguished levels of achievement as they support the cultural life of our state.
Categories for the 2017 Governor’s Arts Awards include: Arts Education, Arts in Health, Creative Communities, Distinguished Arts Leadership, Folk Heritage and Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure, a lifetime achievement award.
To be eligible for nominations, individuals must reside in New Hampshire or have made significant contributions to the arts while living in New Hampshire; nominated organizations, cities and towns must be physically located in New Hampshire.
The deadline for nominations is Aug. 1. Nominations are being accepted exclusively online.
To learn more about the Governors Arts Awards, visit nh.gov/nharts.
Shelly Angers
College essay workshop offered
College-bound high also school seniors are encouraged to register for a College Essay Workshop, a four-hour guided learning program, offered by The NHHEAF Network Organizations’ Center for College Planning as part of the organizations’ Summer Boot Camp programming.
During this workshop, the organizations’ college counselors will guide college-bound high school seniors as they begin the college essay process. Participants will: Review successful college admission essays; Learn what colleges are looking for in a college essay; Practice brainstorming using common application essay prompts; Start composing a draft essay; Receive individual time to discuss essay topic choice with experienced college counselors
The workshop will be held July 17-20, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the NHHEAF Network Organizations, 4 Barrell Court. Cost is $25.
To register, call 1-800-525-2577, ext. 119
For more information, visit nhheaf.org/summer-boot-camp.
Tori Berube
Discovery Center open 7 days a week
The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is now open its summer hours, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week through Labor Day.
The Discovery Center is all about flying this summer, with Take Flight!, a new interactive exhibition on the science of aviation , and a new planetarium show – also called Take Flight – on the history and future of human flight.
The Discovery Center is also open the first Friday night of each month this summer, featuring classic science fiction movies, and a look at stars, planets and more in the night sky through telescopes courtesy the New Hampshire Astronomical Society.
Later in the summer, the Discovery Center will celebrate the solar eclipse with special activities all day on Aug. 21.
For more information, visit starhop.com.
Jeanne Gerulskis
State Grange seeking nominees
The New Hampshire State Grange has honored citizens, public servants, agricultural farms and media for many years.
The New Hampshire State Grange Agricultural Committee has honored Century Farms since 1953. The Century Farm Awards recognizes farms that have been owned by the same family for 100 years. State Agricurtural Director Norman Brandt is seeking farms throughout the Granite State for the 100-year award. Brandt announced two new Farm Recognition Awards of 50 years and 300 years in the same family.
Contact Brandt at 642-5074 or 793-1072 or email fishbramdt995@aol.com.
The farms can be dairy, beef cattle, horse, alpaca, apple or any fruit, vegetable orchards, Christmas Tree farms or organic farms.
The nominees must be submitted by July 30. They will be judged and some awards will be presented at the N.H. State Grange Session at The Margate in Laconia on Oct. 27 and some will be at the farm selected.
State Community Service Recognition Awards Coordinator Dick Patten is reminding Granges and communities who don’t have a Grange to submit nominees for Citizen of the Year, Law Enforcement Officer, Firefighter, Public Service, First Responder, Educator and Granger of the Year.
The Law Enforcement category may include county sheriff’s, police chiefs and if a town does not have a police department, they can suggest a state trooper who covers that area or deputy sheriff.
Nominees for media category including a local newspaper, radio or television personality need to be sent as soon as possible with a final deadline of Aug. 30.
Please send nominees to Dick Patten, 30 Pinewood Trail, Concord, N.H., 03301 or email dickpatten7@gmail.com.
For more info, call Patten at 496-2917.
Dick Patten
