Albany news: The annual Albany Picnic will be held on July 19 in the Albany Town Forest starting at 11 am. Enter through the Saco Ranger Station. This a a great time/place to meet friends and neighbors you may not have seen all winter. There’ll be great food (town supplies hot dogs and burgers- residents whose names begin with A-M please bring a dessert, N-Z please bring a salad) There will be games for the young and a raffle too. Bring along your bathing suit and take a dip in the Swift. This is an opportunity to visit the forest as well.
The Albany Historical Society will open the museum on July 16 from 9am to noon. There is no charge to visit the museum and there’s lots of great items of interest to see. Are you interested in genealogy? Check out the books and papers that are kept in the museum.
Tin Mountain will host North Conway’s Farmer’s Market on July 10 from noon to 1 pm on July 10. Local vendors will be selling vegetables, meat, cheese, coffee and other great items. At 7 pm Ed and Kathy Bergeron will be there to talk about their recent bike trip through Italy.
Gibson Center: There’s a Craft and Artisan Festival going on this weekend on the front lawn. Don’t miss it. Tuesday take a ride to see/hear the Boston Brass Concert. Call 356-3231 for reservations. The Summer Ballroom Dance is this Thursday from 6-8 pm. Hostess Alice Clapp will play popular dance tunes. Cost $5. On Friday, July 11, after lunch, board the Center’s bus for a trip to Oxford Casino. Again call for reservations.
Library: On Wednesday at 10:30 am it’s Story time for Little Ones. At 5 pm the program is Magic of Science. On Thursday at 5 pm the White Mountain Amateur Radio Club meets.
UNH Ext: With STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education being so important today, the 4-H club is helping to meet this need through events and after school programs where students take part in a myriad of hands-on STEM projects. The Hikin’ Heron Club explores the outdoors with its first of six hikes on July 10 starting at 9:30 am at the Community School in Tamworth. They will hike Jackman Pond. This is open to all youth ages 5-12. Another group, the Blacksmith Club, is learning the art and science of forming steel. They meet on July 9 at 4 pm at the Josiah Bartlett Elementary School. Also on July 9 the Gardening Club continues their Family Gardening Program with Tips for Feeding Children. Call Amanda Royce at 447-3834 for further information. Remember, Carroll County Farm Day is July 26.
World Fellowship: We caught a terrific performance at the Fellowship last Sunday. It was a one woman show called “One Drop of Love” starring Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. Today Thea Hopkins, critically acclaimed Boston performing songwriter, will be performing at 7:30 pm. On Wednesday, July 9 at 7:30 pm Andy Davis will be relating his experiences as a human rights worker in Guatemala fifteen years ago and his recent return to that country to see how things have changed…or not.
Brian Wiggin and Ken Rancourt will present the program, Local Cemeteries, at the Conway Historical Society meeting at Salyards Center on July 8 at 7 pm. The Conway Historical Society’s Eastman-Lord House museum will be open for guided tours the next day, June 9, from 2-4 pm.
Here are some dos and don’ts for keeping healthy and comfortable during high heat days. Never leave a child, disabled or elderly person or pet in a closed car. Clean air conditioner filters and ducts often. Keep the windows closed and shades down during the heat of the day and open windows in the cooler evenings. Avoid strenuous physical activities and don’t use electrical appliances during the hot part of the day. Check on elderly friends, relatives, and those who are disabled. Use adequate SPF sun-protection whenever you are outdoors. Drink plenty of water and avoid sweetened drinks, caffeinated or alcoholic beverages.
Doris Meyer’s memorial weekend was last week. Her daughters were there for the entire weekend. There were folks from as far south as North Carolina and east to Maine and Vermont. Doris was an avid hiker and loved northern New Hampshire for its mountains. For that reason, her ashes were strewn atop Mount Chocorua so that she could always be where she loved the most. Doris lived the last eight years of her life with her daughter Lauren O’Reilly and Lauren’s husband, Tom in Albany. When we were there on Sunday, Stan and I met Dick and Shirley VanDyne at the memorial. Many from people from the hospital also attended as the last years of Doris’ life were spent as a volunteer at Memorial Hospital.
Bethany Plummer and son, Andrew, visited Arthur and Mary Leavitt on the weekend. Andrew had been in Gilmanton with the Boy Scouts for the week and will be spending part of the summer at Homeward Bound, a dog rescue service.
Stan and I celebrated our fifty-fifth wedding anniversary on Friday, June 27. We waited until Saturday evening to have an anniversary dinner though. Oh how quickly the years have gone!
Hope everyone enjoyed the parades and picnics yesterday. Take it easy in this heat and have a great week!