The Insider is a third wheel in the bone zone – Tue, 17 Sep 2013
Pictured are Liz and Gary Dane standing under the Alaska Antler Arch in Fairbanks, Alaska, where they ended their awesome trip to Denali National Park – in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary! And who better to be a third wheel than the Insider?! Send your travel pics with the Insider to news@theconcordinsider.com.
Instagram photo of the week – Tue, 17 Sep 2013
It’s not all sunsets, foliage and food – sometimes Instagram pictures are of people, too! Instagram user @ayummymommy hooked us up with this pic of her daughter Annika Horne, 7, happily flying a kite in White Park. Looks like a perfect day in Concord!
Look at that lil’ iguana! – Tue, 17 Sep 2013
Lil’ Iguana of Lil’ Iguana’s Children’s Safety Foundation made a stop at Here We Grow Again on Sept. 5, and ran into 18-month-old Aurora Doane, who already has a firm grasp on the concept of sharing. She illustrated that fact by bringing a handful of toys to the Lil’ Iguana, one at a time. Good looking out, Aurora!
Centerpoint Block Party
Rock climbing, cotton candy and mechanical surfing on North State Street last week.
Bulletin Board: Girl Scout program links teens to State House
High school age girls with an interest in government service and advocacy are invited to apply for Girls Rock the Capitol, a legislative internship led by Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains. No Girl Scout experience is needed. This intensive program links girls to female legislators who act as mentors, while girls learn about and work on issues affecting the future of New Hampshire from inside the State House. Through GRTC,...
Bulletin Board: Baker’s Auction to benefit South Congo Church
There will be a Baker’s Auction put on by the South Congregational Church on Oct. 19 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at True Brew Barista. The guest auctioneer, Adam Sexton, will be auctioning services from local bakers to the winning bidders. Music will be provided by WindVine. All proceeds will support the cold weather shelter at South Church.
Bulletin Board: Grace Episcopal Church hosts September supper
Grace Episcopal Church’s September supper features meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn and a pudding trifle for dessert and will be held Sept. 20 from 5 to 6 p.m. 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 school children.Contact Grace Episcopal Church for more information at 224-2252 or...
Book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Leaving Everything Most LovedJacqueline Winspear2013, 338 pagesFictionMaisie Dobbs is an independent woman for her time. Having risen from a position of housemaid at age 13 to working as a nurse during the Great War to becoming a psychologist, she’s now in her late 30s and the owner of her own investigative business.Her latest client is the brother...
More things that just couldn’t make it over the Sewalls Falls Bridge
As we’ve established in previous issues, the Sewalls Falls Bridge is so old and rickety that the city of Concord has established a 3-ton weight limit for the bridge. Here’s an updated list of things that could not cross the Sewalls Falls Bridge safely.∎ 12 Wrestlemania III-era Andre the Giants∎ 25 12-year-old Andre the Giants (back when he was too big for the school bus and had to get rides to school from playwright Samuel Beckett –...
Bulletin Board: Chamber offers workshop on Affordable Care Act
The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce will offer a workshop, “The Affordable Care Act: Nuts & Bolts for Businesses,” Sept. 19 from 7:45 to 9 a.m. at the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce conference room at 49 S. Main St., Suite 104. A light breakfast will be served and seating is limited. The workshops are sponsored and presented by L. William Davis, II, CLU of Truncellito & Davis, and Kenneth C. Wolfe, CPA, of Nathan...
On ‘good cows’ and healthy eating habits
Two cows were outside the fence where the grass was green and lush. Yet rather than eat, they stared back through the electric fence at the “good” cows that had not escaped from the pasture Miles Smith Farm leases from St. Paul’s School. But these were not Miles Smith Farm cattle. These cows, both the “good ones” and the “escapees,” belonged to Steve Normanton of Litchfield. Some of you might have seen these escapees on the path...
Bulletin Board: $400K grant will improve YMCA child care building
Kids and teachers at the Concord Family YMCA’s Child Development Center will be warm and cozy this winter thanks to an Emergency Community Development Block Grant award of up to $400,000 recently approved by Gov. Maggie Hassan and the Executive Council. Grant funds will replace the failed heating and cooling system in the Concord YMCA’s firehouse building. The space is home to the YMCA’s Child Development Center pre-school program...
City briefly
Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell fills his lunch box with Oreo cookies and potato chips in hopes of making sweet first-day-of-school trades in the lunch room. But he gets hungry on the bus and eats all the cookies, leaving a trail of black crumbs that spell out the city memo. We’ve translated it for you here.Wait, what?You mean you’re not done?Following up on the completion of work last fall, the city’s paving contractor will begin...
Missed Connections: Near-misses and ‘blue’ jeans
We at the Insider like to scour the pages of Craigslist’s Missed Connections section to see if anyone in Concord even reads the stuff we strike through every week or if they just skip to the good stuff is finding true love online. Here, presented unedited as always, are some of the best entries.almost hit u in penacook – m4w (penacook concord)You are a beautiful brunette traveling on rt 3 in penacook towards concord, i pulled to far...
Bulletin Board: DDC seeking ‘Count Me In’ video submissions
Imagine not being allowed to play on the same sports team or participate in the same school activities as your peers because people make assumptions about you that are wrong. Imagine not being able to work in the same place, or even at the same wage, as other people simply because you were born “different.” Though these scenarios may seem impossible in today’s world, they’re just some of the unfair challenges kids and adults with...
Keith takes a journey around the world through the magic of drumming
My wife has made a career out of music, both as a classical singer and as a voice teacher, and I am inevitably asked whenever someone meets me for the first time at one of her gigs if I possess any musical prowess. My answer is usually, “no, unless you count a few months of clarinet ownership in third grade.” But that’s no longer entirely true. I now have 75 minutes of African drumming experience. That doesn’t mean I’m booking a...
Bulletin Board: Manhattan Short Film Festival coming to NHTI
On Oct. 4 and 5, NHTI will join venues around the globe in hosting the 16th annual Manhattan Short Film Festival, a worldwide competition to select the best short films of 2013. Throughout the week, theaters in more than 300 cities throughout the United States and across six continents will be screening the 10 finalists in this year-long competition. Every viewer will have the opportunity to rate the 10 films, and all votes count...
We get hawky and dovely with a pair of Concord-bound indie rockers from BK
Hawk and Dove make their New Hampshire debut on Sept. 20. We caught up with them and asked them all the tough questions one must ask a rock band.You must get asked this a lot, but which one of you is Hawk and which one is Dove? If that isn’t a thing, then which of you is more hawklike and which is more dovely?ELIJAH: This does come up often, and in 5 years we’ve never really answered it seriously, but the truth is there’s often a...
Bulletin Board: NHTI hosting four-part networking program
Are you making the most of your strengths and attributes? Is your image going to take your career to the next level?This fall, NHTI offers a four-part program geared to professionals looking to enhance their professional image while learning effective networking techniques. The price is just $199 for all four sessions.Session I: Be Visible – Making Connections that Count! Oct. 3, 5:30-8 p.m. Effective networking is a good business...
The new hotness at McGowan Fine Art
Latest exhibit ‘New To the Gallery’ runs through Oct. 11
This week in Concord history
Sept. 17, 1847: With 85 recruits for the 9th Regiment, Lieutenant Charles F. Low, son of Concord’s renowned General Joseph Low, sails for Vera Cruz, Mexico, and the seat of war.Sept. 18, 1987: In Concord, Elizabeth Dole defends her decision to quit her job as U.S. transportation secretary to help her husband, U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, run for president. “This is my choice,” she says. “I’m not going to be just out there standing by Bob’s...
Kids schooling kids
Back-to-school tips and advice from Christa McAuliffe School students
Eighth annual festival to celebrate Concord’s diversity set for Sept. 28
Nobody, with the possible exception of yogurt manufacturers, gets multicultural quite like Concord does. As evidence, we present the eighth annual Concord Multicultural Festival, which will return on a new date Sept. 28 “infused with a new energy” under fresh leadership, according to organizer Jessica Fogg. What hasn’t changed is the variety of cultural performances and selection of ethnic food that will be available during the...
We use Google’s newest toy to learn about Concord
Google’s recent innovation, the Ngram, is a tool that allows you to search a comprehensive database of books published between the years 1600 and 2008. Recently, it seems like every news outlet and every news outlet’s brother has been using this tool for clever journalistic endeavours. Are we a more “me-centric” society now than we were in 1666? Ask the Ngram! When did the word “galimaufry” go out of style and is its use inversely...
