Category Archives: EVENTS
Fifth Annual Walpole Clean Up Day – 4/23/17
This year everyone will meet at the Transfer Station (not the Town Hall) at 8:00 am, where volunteers will be treated to donuts from Joanie Joan’s Baked Goods Company (YUM!) and hot coffee before they pick up their blue bags and their maps of preferred roads to tackle.
After picking up trash for three hours and getting the great satisfaction of making our roads beautiful again, they return at 11:00 am with their booty to the Transfer Station, where they will collect prizes for Most Trash, Most Tires, Most Unusual, Grossest Garbage, etc.
So come for the fun and help spruce up our town! Wear boots and gloves – it’s messy out there! Rain or shine.
If you have any questions, call Tara Sad at 756-4861.
April Clarion Now Online
It may seem like we just received the March issue, but Ray Boas writes:
“I am waiting for an email to pick up the hardcopies for mailing, but have posted the April 20 page issue of THE WALPOLE CLARION on the website so you can read it now.
Click here for the full issue
or, copy/paste this link to your browser –
https://walpoleclarion.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/clarion-april17-topress.pdf
The deadline for the May issue is Friday, April 21. Thank you,” RAY BOAS, Publisher
Saving Our Songbirds – 4/21/17
SAVING OUR SONGBIRDS KEEPING COMMON BIRDS COMMON
Sponsored by the Hooper Institute, Walpole NH
Please join us at 7:00 PM, Friday April 21st at the Walpole Town Hall, 34 Elm Street, for a presentation on “Saving our Songbirds”, discussing changes in bird populations that have occurred over the past century in our region.
The long-awaited chorus of spring songbirds will soon unfold around us, as migrants return from their southern winter quarters. Sadly, this magical chorus has lost volume in recent decades, as many of our most iconic songbirds in New Hampshire and Vermont have declined, some of them dramatically. Chris Rimmer‘s richly illustrated talk will examine songbird population changes – both natural and human-caused – and what is being done to address the myriad threats facing our songbirds. A “full life cycle approach” to conservation will be highlighted by two charismatic species – the Bicknell’s Thrush and Bobolink – that the Vermont Center for Ecostudies has studied intensively for the past 25 years.
Chris Rimmer is the executive director of the VCE. Founded in 2007, VCE is a non-profit wildlife conservation group based in Norwich, Vermont. The VCE advances wildlife conservation with the combined force of scientific research and informed citizens. Because conservation is as much about people as it is about ecology, VCE’s motto is, “Uniting People and Science for Conservation.”
This event is a benefit for the Hooper Institute Youth Internship Program. Tickets to the event cost $15 and are available at the door, at Galloway Real Estate, The Walpole Grocery, Jake’s Market, or by calling Karen Galloway at 603-756-4781.
Through the Hooper Institute Youth Internship Program, more than 200 youth have been placed in a variety of Walpole businesses related to agriculture and the environment. Students get hands-on experience maintaining and harvesting produce, working with cows, horses, sheep, goats, poultry, and even mentoring children enrolled in Hooper’s summer camps. For many students, this is their first job and teaches them skills, work habits, and work preferences that will prepare them for future careers.
For more information, please contact: Karen Galloway at 603-756-4781
Dance Classes – 4/2 & 9/17
From the sound of the weather forecast, winter isn’t quite over yet. If you are looking for a change of pace in your exercise regime or just a chance to have some fun, check this out! – Lil
Dance Lessons for a Great Cause
Benefitting the Youth Christian Education Program
at the Walpole Congregational Church
Sunday April 2 & 9
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Classes will be taught by newer Walpole resident, Mark Lightner, owner of multiple Arthur Murray dance studios. There is a requested donation of $30 per couple for both classes. Come and join the fun.
Walpole Historical Society Speaker Series – 4/7/17
The History of Geological Change in New England with David Howell
On Friday, April 7, 2017, research geologist David Howell will relate how the New England we know today has been on a continuous journey for 350 million years. Dr. Howell is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the U.S. Geological Society of America and was a consulting professor at Stanford University.
“The region around today’s Walpole is essentially a 350 million year old ‘ledge,’” explains Dr. Howell, “In the Walpole region, we have opened and closed ocean basins, witnessed volcanic eruptions, experienced giant earthquakes and the Earth cracking beneath our feet, been over ridden by the bull dozing of continental crust, and more than once been buried beneath a mile of ice.” This Speaker Series presentation will provide an opportunity to understand both our region’s geological development and the resulting geology in which we have lived in Walpole in recent centuries. Dr. Howell welcomes questions.
The Walpole Historical Society Speaker Series is free, and the public is invited to attend. The event begins at 7:00 PM on Friday, April 7, 2017, at the Walpole Town Hall, 34 Elm Street, Walpole.
Head Up!
Sarah forwarded this copy of a letter from the DOT. Janet Clough also commented that the Police chief has been working closely with them as well. Sounds like we will be in good hands, just a little inconvenienced. – Lil
On Tuesday April 4th the Bridge over the Connecticut River between Walpole and Westminster, Rte 123 will be reduced to one way alternating traffic While Cold River Bridges removes and replaces expansion joints, strips pavement and repairs any deficiencies found . On this date the signals will be operational, new pavement markings will delineate the new pattern through the work zone, and Cold River Bridges will be placing barriers across the bridge defining the work zone and travel way.
This work is scheduled to be completed prior to the date of August 11, 2017
Today New England Signals Systems is hanging signals heads in the intersection. These will be covered until April 4th.t
Thank you,
Rick Oberst
Rick.Oberst@dot.nh.gov
Open Audtitions – 3/30 & 31/17
OPEN AUDITIONS The Walpole Players was founded thirty years ago, and had its first production staged for Old Home Days 1987. That first play, ‘George Washington Slept Here’, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, will again be presented to the community by the 2017 Walpole Players the last two weekends in June during Walpole’s Old Home Days celebrations. To fill the cast of 9 males (including one teenager) and 8 females, auditions will be held in the Helen Miller Theater in Walpole on Thursday, March 30, and Friday, March 31 at 6:30 pm. Rehearsals will begin after Easter. The story follows Newton Fuller, who, in the 1940s, moves his family from the city to rural Pennsylvania and an old farm. The problems that ensue involve endless repairs, disagreeable neighbors, troublesome guests, a supposedly rich uncle, and many more side-tickling adventures. No preparation is required to audition. For additional information contact co-directors Tara Sad 603 756-4861 or Ray Boas 603 756-4545. |
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