The Concord Fire Department has a new truck to show off
Over the last couple weeks, you may have noticed a brand-new fire engine rolling around town.That’s because the Concord Fire Department unveiled its brand new Engine 5, a Pierce Arrox XT, at the start of this month.Its permanent home is the Manor Fire Station on Village Street, on the Penacook side of town, but since the fire houses all cover for one another and go to calls in other parts of the city depending on severity, you’ll...
Farmers markets to move at end of October
Attention produce fans: Time is running out to hit up Concord’s outdoor farmers markets.As you well know, Capitol Street in downtown Concord turns into one giant farmers market every Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to noon, offering shoppers fresh fruits, veggies, baked goods, dog treats and more from about 40 vendors.What you might not know is that the market is still going, but only for another week or so – the final day of this market will...
Don’t miss the first ever Fall Fiddle Fest
If you’re among the many people out there who think there’s not enough fiddle in this world, we found the solution for you: the first ever Fall Fiddle Festival at Concord Community Music School (23 Wall St.).As its name implies, this festival – to be held Saturday – is a celebration of all things fiddle. There will be a set of workshops running throughout the day for fiddlers of all skill levels and styles, in which participants (it’s...
Concord Community Music School offering new mini courses
With classes in Music as a Healing Art, expanding your vocal horizons, classical and folk string playing and successful music auditioning, musical mini-courses at the Concord Community Music School invite the public to build their toolbox of musical skills. Taught by the music school’s award-winning faculty, these courses will take place Oct. 26 through Dec. 8 at the music school, 23 Wall St. Registration is required for all musical...
Audubon Enchanted Forest a spooky good time for the family
It must be getting close to Halloween because this weekend the N.H. Audubon McLane Center property will transform into an enchanted forest.Follow the glowing jack-o-lantern trail into the nighttime forest where you’ll encounter larger than life creatures and characters as they present skits about mysterious activities in nature. Gather around a campfire for engaging stories, enjoy indoor seasonal games, refreshments and activities for...
Let’s hear it for Making Strides
If you missed last week’s issue, then you might not know that Sunday was kind of a big deal around these parts.It was the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, so if you happened to see lots of people, like 4,500 of them, in the Memorial Field area wearing pink, that was why.The annual walks are held in more than 300 communities nationwide during October (breast cancer awareness month), bring in lots of money for research,...
Taste of Concord to be a mouth-watering affair
We all know that Concord is home to lots of great dining establishments.And while that’s a great thing to have, after all, variety is the spice of life, it can also lead to some big decision-making problems.Let’s face it, going out to eat can get a little spendy, so you can’t do it every day. But we want to eat and try it all, which means choosing the right place to eat can present quite the challenge.Luckily, once a year, you don’t...
CYPN Young Professional of the Month: Seana McDuffie
The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce’s Concord Young Professionals Network (CYPN) introduces you to another “Young Professional of the Month,” Seana McDuffie. How old are you? 27 Where do you live? Concord. Where do you currently work? I own 8-Bit Retro — soon to be New Hampshire’s first bar and arcade! Where did you go to school? Washington, D.C. and the United States Marine Corps. What do you like to do for fun? Hang at home with...
Bulletin Board
Red carpet gala at Discovery Center Join the Junior Service League of Concord for its Red Carpet Gala on Saturday, from 7 to 11 p.m., at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. The 2016 gala beneficiary, Hope on Haven Hill (hopeonhavenhill.org) is a residential substance use recovery home for pregnant women and their babies up to one year postpartum. Tickets are $85 and include dinner, dancing, a live auction and raffle. Dinner will...
Book of the Week: ‘Before the Fall’
Before the FallNoah Hawley2016, 320 pagesThriller (Fiction) On a foggy but calm night, a plane carrying 11 people takes off from Martha’s Vineyard. When it crashes into the ocean 16 minutes later, Scott Burroughs – a down-on-his-luck painter – and 4-year-old JJ, the son of the plane’s multimillionaire owners, are the only two to survive. As the media gathers to publicize their story, coincidences begin to pile up, and questions start...
This Week in Concord History
Oct. 18, 1963: Trailing Barry Goldwater by a 2-1 margin in a Wall Street Journal poll of New Hampshire voters, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller comes to Concord with his wife Happy to say he intends to run a vigorous primary campaign. Oct. 18, 1988: Attorney Ray D’Amante announces the name of Concord’s soon-to-be-built mall: Steeplegate. Concord, he says, is a city of steeples and they will be incorporated into the mall as a...
Here’s all the day-of info for the Making Strides walk
Sunday, Oct. 16 Memorial Field 70 S. Fruit St. PARKING: The entire Governor Hugh Gallen State Office Park is available for your parking needs. Please enter the parkway off Pleasant Street or Clinton Street. Please avoid using Fruit Street. There will parking signs and attendants available to assist you. Shuttle buses will be available from 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. to shuttle participants from the parking area to the field. ACCESSIBLE...
Mike Wagner: Men can get breast cancer, too
The color pink is synonymous with breast cancer awareness. Most people instinctively think of women when they think of breast cancer, but the disease knows no gender boundaries.Although rare – breast cancer is about 100 times less common among men than women, according to the American Cancer Society – an estimated 2,600 men will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2016, and about 440 will die of it. One of the problems, according to the ACS,...
Meet the Real Men Wear Pink team
It takes everyone to create a world free from the pain and suffering caused by breast cancer – both women and men alike. In an effort to create a unique platform to invite men to show support for this important cause, the American Cancer Society is engaging and empowering male community leaders in the fight against breast cancer through the Real Men Wear Pink campaign. Each Real Men Wear Pink candidate is charged with a fundraising...
Now a survivor, Lisa Ober continues to walk
In 1993, Lisa Ober participated in the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Concord, walking to support her best friend’s mom, Linda, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Ober went off to college but continued to walk with Linda and her team from work. Through the years, Ober has walked on other teams in other cities wherever she was at the time.In 2014, as Ober’s 40th birthday approached, having her...
Concord walkers are doing a fine job raising money
Since 1993, more than 12 million walkers have raised more than $750 million in the first against breast cancer.And Concord’s walk is holding up its end of the bargain.Each year, nearly 300 events are held across the United States, bringing in more than $60 million.And of those almost 300 walks, Concord is the highest per capita Making Strides event in the United States! According to National Making Strides Against Breast Cancer per...
Go Try It: Help Concord add to its total
Typically, when we tell you to go out and try something, we’ve done it ourselves. We like to have an idea of what kind of situation we’re sending our readers into because without all of you guys, where would that leave us? But we feel pretty comfortable about the fact that while we’ve never participated in the Concord Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, it’s totally something that you should go try.In case you didn’t notice,...
Stories of hope are what drive team leaders
Amanda Robinson Team: The Breathe BabesWE ARE RALLYING ALONGSIDE ALL THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY BREAST CANCER TO FAN THE FLAME OF HOPE. I am leading a team who is passionate about joining our community to support those who are fighting, surviving, thriving, and honoring during the walk. Chelsea ParadoreAmerican Cancer SocietyCANCER STOLE MY FATHER FROM ME AND SINCE THAT MOMENT I HAVE BEEN DETERMINED TO OBLITERATE CANCER. As...
Celine Boucher has been a volunteer from the start
The success of Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks depends on volunteers and community engagement. The Concord walk, led by a team of volunteer directors and supported by American Cancer Society staff, is one the most successful breast cancer walks in the nation. Thanks to the passion and determination of volunteers like Celine Boucher, Concord has earned the distinction as the top per capita fundraising event in the U.S. for...
Survivors to be the stars of the show
At Concord’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, cancer survivors are our guests of honor. We understand that the experience of a cancer diagnosis and treatment is as unique as each individual – and likewise, a survivor’s experience at Making Strides reflects that uniqueness: participating just a little, a great deal or to whatever extent they are comfortable and the day is meaningful. What is a survivor? Cancer survivorship...
How does cancer change your life?
So you are cruising along in life – working, playing, always assuming there will be plenty of time to do the something you’ve been planning – or dreaming about for another day… after all there’s always tomorrow. But then out of the blue, when least expected and certainly not part of the plan – you hear the words “You Have Cancer.” These words have been described as shocking, numbing – in fact, monumentally frightening. Almost...
Remember to get a mammogram
Mammography is an effective procedure that can detect cancer in breast tissue years before physical symptoms develop. In recent years the technology utilized for mammography has improved vastly, leading to more definitive results.3D Breast Imaging (Tomosynthesis) provides a more detailed view of the entire breast and has been shown to improve breast cancer detection rates, especially for invasive cancers in patients with dense breast...
Join the fight against breast cancer
On Sunday, the Concord community will once again walk to raise awareness and funds for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event. We invite you to join us as we unite as the courageous, the determined, the innovative, the passionate, the empathetic and the caring. Who will you be? Together we can free the world from the pain and suffering of breast cancer and all cancers. Our Making Strides event in...
There’s support out there waiting to help
It takes a lot of resources to fight cancer – often more than any one person has. The American Cancer Society makes sure no one person has to do it alone. They partner with volunteers, organizations and health systems across the country to help with patients’ most pressing needs, including transportation, lodging and emotional support.The American Cancer Society has programs and services to help people with cancer and their loved ones...
The Discovery Center is about to show you how the universe began with a Hubble exhibit
Have you ever wanted to go back in time? Not like a few days or weeks, but millions of light years?If so, there’s only one way to do it – unless you know something very big that nobody else in the history of the universe has ever figured out – and that’s by checking out the New Views of the Universe exhibit at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center.The exhibit, which opened Saturday, is all about the Hubble telescope and how it allows...
Check out a Japanese-style play at the Audi
The Children’s Theatre Project, the youth division of the Community Players of Concord, has taken on quite the task: perform a centuries-old work of drama in the traditional Kabuki style in front of hundreds of people at a historic, prestigious venue in downtown Concord.If you’re thinking, “So what?,” you have no idea what a big deal this undertaking is.Kabuki is a classical Japanese dance-drama, notable for its very stylized motions...
Concord’s finest crushed tacos for charity
If you’re familiar with these pages, you’re probably quite familiar with a little something called the Taco Gigante.It’s the behemoth 2-pounder filled with seasoned chicken, taco beef, pork carnitas, bacon, lettuce, refried beans, Mexican rice, salsa fresca, cheese queso sauce, hacienda and picante sauces, crema and pickled jalapenos that Margaritas breaks out around this time of year, and yours truly famously failed to finish it in...
