Become a more successful networker
Please join the Karner Blue Toastmasters for a special meeting featuring a speech by Bill Ryan on career transitions and the importance of networking. Bill will offer some advice to help those considering career changes and keys to successful networking. Experts note that 70 percent of available jobs are not advertised. They are found through friends, family and others in your network. The meeting will be held on Nov. 19 from 5 to 6...
Book of the week
For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 2009, 288 pages Nonfiction The authors who brought us the popular “Freakonomics” are back with another entertaining yet thoughtful book about microeconomics. While the questions they ask seem humorous on the...
Dog training benefits
Life is getting harder for dogs. They are being forced out of public places, locked away and even euthanized because of one thing: us. If we all changed a few aspects of our lives with our dogs, life might get a little easier for them. Training, owner-education, management and responsibility are the key to having a society that co-exists happily with dogs. Training a dog takes work, believe me – I do it every day with some very...
Reunited at last!
The Concord High School class of 1999 is pleased to host its 10-year reunion! There are still a number of people we are trying to get in contact with, and we're hoping that as many people as possible can make it. If you're in contact with alumni, please help spread the word, by sending them to our website or have them contact us. Event information can be found at concordhigh1999.com, Facebook or classmates.com. The reunion...
CHS students who take German and like it
About two months ago, 22 students from Maximilian Kolbe Gymnasium, a high school in Wegberg, Germany, traveled to Manchester Boston Regional Airport to meet their exchange partners from Concord High School. The German students were whisked to their host homes, where they got cleaned up and fed, and were taken directly to Concord High’s homecoming dance. There’s no time for jet lag on this trip. The students were visiting as part of...
Concord to participate in this year's Wreaths Across America
The Concord Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol is participating in the Wreaths Across America program for the first year. This program honors our veterans buried in Blossom Hill Cemetery with a wreath placed on their graves. We have veterans buried in 13 cemeteries throughout Concord. There are more than 2,200 veterans' graves at the cemeteries. We are hopeful that in the coming years when the program grows we can collect...
Sing along if you know the words
Brush up on your Bon Jovi lyrics and buy yourself a mai tai, because every Friday night at 9, the downstairs lounge at Beijing and Tokyo, 61 S. Main St., gives locals a chance to exchange their hairbrushes for real microphones. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I’m talking about karaoke. Needing to experience this for myself, I dragged my fiancé, Rob, along to check the place out. We arrived around 9:30 p.m., and as we walked into the small...
Some things to consider before hopping onto your snowmobile
It's time to sign up for snowmobile education classes offered across the state. To operate a snowmobile in New Hampshire, any person older than 12 must have either a valid motor vehicle driver's license or have successfully completed an approved off-highway recreational vehicle safety education class taught by volunteer instructors trained by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Additionally, children younger than 14...
Give a gift with character
Radio stations are already playing Christmas music and the stores are decked out with holiday décor, and it’s not even Thanksgiving. This year, we’ve decided to throw in the towel and embrace holiday shopping early. As the saying goes, “if you can’t beat them, join them.” To that end, we decided to start a weekly series with suggestions for some different places to shop for friends and family. So, to some off-beat and out-of-the-way...
Do it for the animals
Barbara Perkins, Creative Memories consultant, will be conducting a fundraiser at the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire, 545 Route 101, Bedford, on Nov. 21 at 5 p.m. She will be demonstrating digital scrapbooking as well as how to make photo gifts, such as T-shirts, mugs and more. Fifteen percent of all sales will go to the league. Barbara will also give the shelter 15 percent of all orders placed on her website through Nov. 21....
Christmas at Canterbury
Canterbury Shaker Village offers a return to traditional Christmas with its second annual Christmas at Canterbury, Saturdays, Dec. 5 and 12, 3 to 8 p.m. The event is sponsored by Merrimack Savings Bank and New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Christmas at Canterbury celebrates Christmas of a simpler era, integrating 200 years of Shaker and historical Christmas traditions. Hundreds of luminaries will light the way as visitors take...
Ask the Elders:Thanksgiving traditions
Dear Elders, What did your family do for Thanksgiving when you were growing up? Did you have any family traditions? – Tom Turkey Roioli Schweiker Dear Tom, Since none of our relatives lived east of the Mississippi, we did not have big family parties. Often we would have another small family who did not have relatives nearby for dinner. The menu was turkey, of course, gravy, dressing and mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. Before the...
City Briefly
Good news Bicyclists take heart According to City Manager Tom Aspell’s weekly memo, bicyclists are going to get more room to ride on several city streets. Tom writes, “As part of this year’s street-repaving projects on Clinton Street, Pleasant Street and North Main Street, new pavement markings have been designed to allow wider shoulder areas to better accommodate bicycle travel. New bicycle lane markings have also been introduced...
Holiday giving guide
Last week we gave you pie; this week we're giving you an opportunity to give to an organization in need. Is this a feel-good month or what? You may thank us with stickers and donations toward our candy bowl fund, if you wish. (Just kidding, unless you really want to bring us candy. Also, we like motivational stickers best. And Skittles.) This is our third annual giving guide and our third year working with United Way of Merrimack...
Children's author David Elliott plays along
We’re just a bunch of big kids at heart here at The Insider, so when we heard children’s author and Warner resident David Elliott was coming to Gibson’s Bookstore, 27 S. Main St., on Nov. 21 at 3 p.m. to promote his new book, “Finn Throws a Fit” (Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering) we were instantly giddy. Not that David needs to do much promoting. “Finn Throws a Fit” has already been favorably reviewed by “Publishers Weekly” and “The...
The Community Players take on 'Godspell'
“Godspell” is about to cast its spiritual spell on another generation, as an ensemble multifaceted cast from the Community Players of Concord recycles this standby from the tail end of the Sixties (1970) to the tail end of this decade. With a recycling symbol as a logo, a reclamation yard as a setting and an infectious spirit permeating the Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., the players vow that this will be a...
Celebrate with a Tellabration at NHTI
A “Tellabration” produced by the Central New Hampshire Storytelling Guild, will be held at NHTI on Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Come celebrate the art of storytelling with such New Hampshire tellers as Peter Brodeur, Patricia Darcy, Nancy Donnelly, Meg Gilman, Angela Klingler, Matt Krug and Lauretta Phillips. Admission is by donation. Profits received will be given to the NHTI library. Enjoy free refreshments and a chance to talk...
Do good by surfing this new website
The New Hampshire Department of Cultural Resources is pleased to announce “Culture Cares,” a program that uses a centralized website to promote community service projects undertaken by cultural organizations across the state. New Hampshire's libraries, museums, historical societies, arts groups, theaters, movie houses and other cultural organizations have a long tradition of creating programming that contributes to...
The gift that truly never stops giving!
Donate a book to the Concord Public Library and help the library stock the shelves. It's a great gift idea for people at work, for your son or daughter's teacher – in fact, for anyone on your gift list. Budget reductions this year mean that the library will be buying half as many books as in previous years. Giving a book to the library is a gift that benefits our whole community! Buying a book for the library is easy...
Can't ignore the white elephant in the room
A Christmas White Elephant Fair will be held on Nov. 28 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Bow Community Building located at the Bow Fire Station on Logging Hill Road. The event is sponsored by friends of the Concord-Merrimack SPCA. All proceeds will be donated to the shelter. There will be coffee and baked goods for sale. The “white elephant” tables will have Christmas items, holiday decorations, books, tapes/CDs, ornaments,...
Oo la la . . . baklava!
There will be a Greek luncheon and pastry sale on Nov. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 68 N. State. St. There will also be a white elephant sale, bone china tea cup sale and a jewelry raffle. For more information, visit goarch.org or call 225-2961.
Rock out to feed others on Thanksgiving
Friends of Forgotten Children, 224 Bog Road, is pleased to welcome Dr. Harp's Blues Revue Band with special guest The Brooks Young Band on Nov. 22 from 3 to 7 p.m. The benefit concert will directly help the Friends of Forgotten Children's Thanksgiving Basket program. All attendees are asked to bring a food item or monetary donation of $10 or more. Friends of Forgotten Children expects to help more than 400 families this year...
Meet and eat with a South End garden club
The South End Organic Garden Club's last meeting of the season will be a potluck dinner and workshop held on Nov. 18 at Wesley United Methodist Church, 79 Clinton St. The potluck dinner will begin at 5:45 p.m. and the workshop will start at 6:30 p.m. We'll once again have a “harvest exchange,” so bring any surplus items from your garden or canned goods from the kitchen to trade. The club will also be drafting a...
