Join human resources for monthly meeting
The members of the Human Resources Association of Greater Concord (HRAGC) will hold a special monthly meeting at 7:45 a.m., Thursday, March 19, at the Holiday Inn, 172 N. Main St. in Concord. The program for this meeting, entitled “WOW Your Customers, or Somebody Else Will,” provides participants with a fun and informative session on how to thrill both internal and external customers. “Whether you’re an inpidual business owner or a...
Girls Technology Day at NHTI set for March 18
On Wednesday, March 18, NHTI will host the third annual Girls Technology Day, an initiative of the New Hampshire Department of Education’s Career Development Bureau. In New Hampshire, and across the country, there is a severe shortage of women pursuing technical careers. Fewer than 2 percent of students pursuing computer science degrees in N.H. colleges, for example, are women. Girls Technology Day is one step toward trying to reverse...
VNA caregivers program to start March 25
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association is offering “Powerful Tools for Caregivers,” a six-week program that empowers family caregivers of adults to take better care of themselves. The program takes place Wednesdays beginning March 25, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., at Concord Hospital Center for Health Promotion, 49 S. Main St. in Concord. Learn tools to help reduce stress, improve caregiving confidence, establish balance in your life,...
Blues under the Stars at Discovery Center Friday
Come soothe your soul with a night of Blues under the Stars featuring the Bruce Marshall Group at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center on Friday, March 13, from 6:30-11 p.m. Grab a drink at the cash bar, a plate of hors d’oeuvres, and sit back and enjoy the powerful music that has spanned decades, all in a place where the history of the stars spans eons. The evening includes a silent auction with a variety of blues memorabilia and...
Artists’ reception Friday at Kimball-Jenkins
The Kimball-Jenkins School of Art is proud to present “Lighting out for Territory,” an exhibition of work by Paul Pollaro, Martin Mugar, Susan Carr, Addison Parks and Jason Travers. There will be an artists’ reception March 13, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Kimball-Jenkins, 266 N. Main St. The show runs March 13 to April 30. For more info on the artists, visit kimballjenkins.com.
March supper to feature cabbage, shamrock cake
The March supper at Grace Episcopal Church/Merrill Park (30 Eastman St.) will be held Friday, March 20, from 5 to 6 p.m. The supper is a corned beef dinner with cabbage, potatoes, carrots, Irish soda bread and shamrock cake for dessert. So come, bring your family and friends and take the night off from cooking. There is no charge but donations are welcomed and support our Take-A-Tote Ministry which helps to feed Concord’s hungry...
Concord Public Library Book of the Week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net and visit us on Tumblr (reading-rumblr.tumblr.com and concordteens.tumblr.com) and Facebook (facebook.com/ConcordPublicLibrary.)When Books Went to War: the Stories That Helped Us Win World War IIMolly Manning2014, 267 pagesNonfictionWhen the CPL Book Club recently discussed A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, one reader mentioned an NPR...
The Barley House surprised owner Brian Shea, and he hugged people
The Barley House is turning 15 this year (that means it can drive soon!), and as part of the celebration, the staff threw owner Brian Shea a suprise party Friday night, inviting all sorts of people he knows, This-Is-Your-Life style. And you know what? This really IS Shea’s life. Weird! He appeared genuinely surprised to see everyone, so we’d say the plan worked. Also, there was cake. That’s always an important detail.
Shake off the winter terribleness with an indoor spring arts market
This year, winter’s cold has many New Hampshire residents eagerly awaiting spring. The artisans of Concord Arts Market are prepared to deliver, with an indoor spring market featuring handmade artisan crafts and art. March marché made its debut March 7 and will take place on each Saturday in March at True Brew Barista. The roster of makers evolves each week, featuring some Concord Arts Market favorites as well as new faces, and all...
It takes many hands to hang all this cool artwork in just one day
Hilary Clinton once famously said, ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’ But since there are no real villages in New Hampshire, unless you actually consider Penacook one, and children, for the most part are raised by parents or guardians, it doesn’t really apply here. Although, if you make a couple word switches so it reads, “it takes a school community to hang a bunch of really cool art on the walls of a vacant storefront in the...
The snowbanks of Concord scavenger hunt
It snowed a little this winter. OK, it snowed a lot. But we figure you’ve got to have some fun if you’re going to survive the season with your sanity intact, so we put together this snowbank scavenger hunt. We found some of the most mountainous snowbanks in the city, and now you have to find them – for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to a Concord business of your choice. Email your answers to news@theconcordinsider.com and...
There’s lots to check out at the Concord Community Arts Center
Walk in the front door of the Rumford School and it might be a bit confusing. At first glance, it feels like you should be freaking out that you forgot to do your math homework and should be trying to come up with an excuse better than my dog ate it. But don’t worry, because while this large building used to house classrooms for learning, it’s now a place for the community to gather and embrace the arts. Welcome to the Concord...
Rania the cat came all the way from Spain to her loving forever home
Listening to the scratching of paws against cat litter isn’t typically music to one’s ears. But to Cory MacEachern Ghelli and Matt Ghelli one night in November, it probably sounded like a Beethoven symphony. That’s no knock on Ludwig’s catalog of work, by the way. It’s just the Concord couple was awestruck when Rania, the tiny kitten they’d adopted, the kitten that had just flown from Spain and been driven from New York to Concord,...
Red River won the Oscars with these Neil Patrick Harris cupcakes
Red River Theatres held their annual red carpet viewing party fundraiser during the Academy Awards last Sunday, and it was fabulous, mostly because of these tiny Neil Patrick Harrises that adorned the cupcakes on hand (each NPH meticulously cut out by former Monitor ad all-star and current Red River all-star Angie Lane).
John Bonner turns everyday life into art in this McGowan exhibit
Wondering what this colorful exhibition hanging on the walls at McGowan Fine Art is? Well, we can help with that: It’s “Crowd Source,” a collection of recent paintings by John Bonner. The show will be up until March 27 at McGowan, which you can find at 10 Hills Ave.
Raise a pinky at these fairy tea parties at the Kimby-Jenks mansion
Despite cold weather and mountainous snow, more than 20 little girls, dressed as fairies or princesses, gathered at the historic Kimball Jenkins mansion for the first ever fairy tea party last Sunday. This was the first of a series of four, leading to a final event, a Fairy Festival, scheduled for June 14, inspired by author and illustrator Tracy Kane’s award-winning Fairy House Series, which will involve building fairy houses, and a...
We’re starting to experience an avalanche of icicle photos
It may have taken a couple of gentle prods from us (thankfully for you not with real icicles) but you guys are totally coming through with some sweet pictures of frozen stuff. We’ve included the shot above, which came to us anonymously from a reader, but there’s plenty more where that came from. We’ll put together a photo gallery in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, if you are so inspired and want to contribute, feel free to send...
This Week In Concord History
March 3, 1993: The new $36.5 million federal courthouse in Concord makes the list of “pork projects” named by a citizens’ group that is a member of a coalition headed by Sen. Bob Smith. “Sen. Smith doesn’t necessarily agree with all the projects on the list,” says Smith’s spokeswoman.March 3, 1863: To the ringing of bells, the firing of cannon and the music of bands, the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment is feted in...
We asked for gingerbread destruction ideas, and boy did we get ’em
We weren’t sure exactly what we were getting ourselves into when we asked you, our beloved readers, for ideas on how we could destroy our three-month-old gingerbread house (not suggested: a gentle breeze, which would probably do the trick on its brittle foundation at this point).Turns out what we’re into is a world of primitive and modern weapons of destruction.We received one suggestion that we use a trebuchet, which is a medieval...
Missed Connections: Dunkin’ Donuts poetry and bloody prints
We at the Insider like to scour Craigslist’s Missed Connections to see if anyone in Concord wants to build an igloo for two is finding true love online. Here, presented unedited as always, are some of the best recent entries.Tall secretary – m4w – 64 (Concord)I ended up in the hospital a few weeks ago, and it was a life changing experience to say the least. I was sitting there in the ER and lord behold the view I had!...
City Briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell digs a tiny cube out of the snowbank in his yard to create a safe for his valuables. But snow-based combination locks aren’t as secure as he thought, it turns out, so all his stuff gets stolen. Thankfully he forgot to lock up the city memo, so it’s still here!Students check themselvesStudents rec themselvesSports Management students from NHTI recently visited the Parks & Recreation Department...
Documentary screening at True Brew March 23
N.H. Burning man presents a documentary film, Confessions of a Burning Man, at True Brew Barista (3 Bicentennial Square) on Monday, March 23. The film will be screened from 5:30 to 8 p.m. and cost of admission is a $5 donation. After the movie, there will be a Q and A about the annual burn in Nevada and events in N.H. Food and drink will be available for purchase.
Annual meeting, dinner for conservation district
The Merrimack County Conservation District invites you to its annual meeting and dinner on Thursday, March 19, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Cole Gardens in Concord, featuring Kevin Gardner, author of The Granite Kiss: Traditions of Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls. The night begins with social time before enjoying a true New England meal of baked ham, scalloped potatoes and baked beans, just to highlight some of the menu. Come...
Super Stellar Friday this week at Discovery Center
There’s fun for the whole family on Friday, March 6 at 7 p.m. for Super Stellar Friday at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, when Dave McDonald, M.Ed., science educator, former Discovery Center education director and host of Concord Community TV’s popular astronomy show, “The Sky This Month,” leads March’s Super Stellar Friday. McDonald’s 7 p.m. workshop for teens focuses on some of the universe’s more strange and unusual...
Trust scholarship fund seeking applications
Concord Hospital Trust, the philanthropic arm of Concord Hospital, announces the Concord Hospital Trust Scholarship Fund for nursing and allied health students. The fund, part of the trust’s endowments, was made possible by the generosity of Concord Hospital’s many benefactors, both past and present. Their vision was to inspire and enable students to pursue careers in the nursing and allied healthcare professions to enrich their...
VNA to host ‘Talk Early, Talk Often’ March 18
Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association is offering a free presentation “Talk Early, Talk Often” on Wednesday, March 18, from 5 to 6 p.m. at TLC Medical Day Care for Adults, 211 Loudon Road in Concord. Advance care planning is a gift you give yourself and your family. It is about doing what you can to ensure your wishes are followed if you are unable to speak for yourself or make your own decisions. While we do not like to think...
Mandolin festival concert at music school Saturday
The 13th Annual March Mandolin Festival will take place March 6-8, at the Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St. in Concord. This three-day event offers group lessons, jam sessions and workshops on a variety of topics, and presents two concerts, including one on the Seacoast and one in Concord. All lessons, workshops and jam sessions are sold out, but you can still go to the concerts. This year, the festival features nationally...
Quilters guild to host March meeting Friday
Capital Quilters Guild will meet at Havenwood, 33 Christian Ave., on Friday March 13 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. All quilters and friends are welcome to attend. Adele Scott, well-known quilter and teacher, who specializes in mastery of quilting and sewing techniques, will be presenting a lecture, My Favorite Products, Tips & Techniques. Saturday Adele’s workshop “On the Edge” will demonstrate these techniques. Cost for the workshop is...
Six-week parenting class of teens at Riverbend
Active Parenting of Teens is a free six-week workshop series at Riverbend Children’s Intervention Program at 105 Loudon Rd. Bldg. 3 in Concord. The workshop will be held Wednesday evenings, beginning March 18, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Turn the challenges of raising a teenager into opportunities for growth. Learn about teen brain development; methods for respectful discipline; skills for clear, honest communication; concrete strategies to...
Stamp collectors to meet March 17 in Bow
The Merrimack County Stamp Collectors’ regular monthly meeting will be held Tuesday, March 17, at 1:30 p.m. at the Bow Mills United Methodist Church, 505 South St., Bow. Anyone interested in stamp collecting is invited to attend. For more information, call Dan Day at 228-1154.
