Stamp collectors to hold meeting
The Merrimack County Stamp Collectors will hold its monthly meeting at the Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South St., Bow, on Tuesday, Oct. 15 beginning at 1 p.m. We invite all who are interested in stamp collecting to attend, share their interest, buy, sell and trade. Meet other collectors and learn more about their hobby and enjoy the fellowship of others with varied interests in Philatelic resources and issues. Gain new insight and knowledge, sharing news articles and stories about stamp collecting. For more information call Dan Day at 228-1154.
Dan Day
Capital Area Memory Cafe
The Capital Area Memory Café for memory-impaired individuals and their family members is Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m. at Granite Ledges of Concord, 151 Langley Parkway. This month is our “Expecting the Unexpected.”
Enjoy an opportunity to socialize and build relationships with others who have memory impairment. Family members can speak with healthcare professionals and learn more about resources while their loved ones are engaged in meaningful and supervised activity in a relaxed home-like environment.
Cafes are free and no registration is required. Refreshments are provided. For more information, call 230-5673 or email Jennifer.Brechtel@crvna.org.
Andy Morse
NHTI Film Society double feature
On Friday at 7 p.m., the NHTI Film Society will hold a 100th Anniversary Double Feature, screening the following films:
One Week (Not Rated, 1920, 25 mins.) A sublime Buster Keaton silent comedy short! A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit’s component numbering.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Not Rated, 1920, 67 mins.) The silent film that started German Expression and led to Film Noir, the original psychological horror film that still packs a wallop today. Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders. Or does he? Considered one of the greatest – and most influential films – of all time. With English subtitles.
The films will be screened at the Sweeney Auditorium on the campus of NHTI. Admission is by donation ($5 suggested) and NHTI students with a valid NHTI ID are admitted free. For more info, call 271-6484, ext. 4101.
Steve Ambra
Jazz Sanctuary this Sunday
This Sunday at 1 p.m., Jazz Sanctuary – First Church/Third Sunday will present “Country Music and The Jazz of Coming Together” at Concord’s First Congregational Church (177 N. Main St.). Inspired by Ken Burns’s recent eight-part documentary, Country Music, this will be a musical and conversational exploration of the inherent spirit of coming together in music that is often cited as a sign of America’s divide. BJ Steinberg will be featured on pedal steel guitar along with vocalist and pastor Emilia Halstead and the WildVine Jazz Sanctuary House Band of Jock Irvine (bass), Ed Raczka (drums) and Tim Wildman (keyboard and trumpet). Admission is free with the half-hour jazz set at 1 p.m. and The Jazz Worship Experience at 1:30. All are welcome!
Tim Wildman
Free concert at United Church
On Monday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m., a renaissance flute consort, Tres doulx, will perform at United Church of Penacook as part of Avaloch Farm Music Institute’s community outreach. The concert will feature four flutes with a program that includes explanations of the instruments and issues surrounding 16th century performance.
On Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m., Boland Dowdall Plus One with flutist Jan Boland, guitarist John Dowdall and pan flutist Rodney Garnett will perform world music for flutes and guitar. The concert will feature music from Moldova and Peru where the pan flute, a series of varying length reed or wooden tubes activated by blowing down into the open holes, is a common and prominent instrument.
Find additional concert information and directions at ucpnh.org.
Lynne Raleigh
Stuff-a-Cruiser nets 8,000 pounds of food for families
The New Hampshire Food Bank teamed up with the Concord and Manchester police departments to generate nearly 8,000 pounds of food for those in need in New Hampshire. Together with police in Manchester and Concord, the New Hampshire Food Bank hosted four “Stuff-A-Cruiser” food drives in September to raise awareness, money and food for the 1 in 9 New Hampshire residents who are food insecure, meaning they do not know where their next meal will come from. During events, supporters were encouraged to stuff police cruisers with food donations, and in doing so, generated the equivalent of 6,605 meals for the hungry.
“We are extraordinarily thankful to the Concord and Manchester police departments for their support and to the people of New Hampshire for their donations during our Stuff-A-Cruiser events this year,” said Eileen Liponis, executive director of the New Hampshire Food Bank, a program of Catholic Charities New Hampshire.
The Concord Police Department hosted three Stuff-A-Cruiser events in Concord outside Market Basket, Hannaford and Shaw’s Supermarkets, producing 6,242 pounds of food, or the equivalent of 5,202 meals. Manchester police also held a Stuff-A-Cruiser event outside Market Basket in Manchester, generating 1,684 pounds of food, or the equivalent of 1,402 meals.
Nancy Mellitt
