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Small school, a giant role

In retirement, he’s still delivering

She’s teaching through dance

Running to support a para-athlete

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At 274 students, Loudon Elementary School is too small for both a principal and vice principal.

At some schools without an assistant principal, crafting a master schedule, coordinating standardized testing, or addressing behavioral issues might all fall to the principal.

At Loudon Elementary, they have come to rest on the shoulders of reading teacher Stephanie Pike.

“She’s just such a team player and willing to do anything that’s going to help the school be better,” said firstyear principal Dave Bartlett.

Stephen Donahue retired from the Postal Service 12 years ago, but these days, he’s busier than ever.

Whether leading a Scout troop or climbing a ladder to hang a sign for a local business or installing a new floor for a community organization, Donahue’s retirement has been filled with satisfaction that’s not driven by a paycheck. He moved to Franklin 40 years ago and has given a lifetime of service since retiring.

“He is one of those people who humbly takes action,” said Sarah Stanley of the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton.

For Sindy Chown, dance is belonging: within one’s own body, within a culture, within a community.

“When someone dances with their heart, you see it in their face,” Chown said.

Chown started dancing as a toddler in her hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia.

For the last five years, Chown has taught dance in Concord, both traditional Colombian dances and other styles, for free. Alongside her daughter, Soraya, Chown teaches weekly classes of kids starting at age five who perform at events and festivals around the state.

Hopkinton physical education teacher Jordan Whitaker ran her third Boston Marathon this year – but her first as a support runner to a para-athlete.

“It’s awesome to be able to be a part of that,” said Whitaker. “It’s nice to feel like you’re proud because you’re doing something for somebody else. It’s not for me … The idea of helping somebody else or raising awareness for somebody else is really awesome.”

Whitaker explained that for para-athletes, support runners offer whatever support is needed, be it physical or mental.

Bob Wolfe heard the story nearly 25 years ago about a 10-year-old boy sprawled out on the side of a road in Sierra Leone shortly after a rebel fighter had cut off his legs.

“That was it,” Wolfe said.

“That was all I needed.”

It convinced Wolfe to create a pair of youth sports leagues in the Concord area that featured refugees. The goal for all these years is to give them a chance to play structured games with new equipment and supervision and ease the adjustment needed to blend in naturally with a powerful form of culture shock.

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Finding peace on the court

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Jim Cilley, one of Pembroke’s assistant basketball coaches, has imparted lessons beyond the court.

With off-the-court obstacles as a single dad, basketball’s been Cilley’s place to reset.

Pembroke senior Joe Fitzgerald grew to understand that basketball can be a space to find peace. “He really just shows that no matter what’s going on in your personal life, you can always come to the basketball court and that all goes away and you could just do what you really love,” Fitzgerald said.

Maria Pacelli (above) remembers sitting at her father’s bedside as he took his final breaths. She was in college at the time. Even in the depths of her grief, something within Pacelli bloomed.

She knew that, eventually, she wanted to get involved with hospice and find a way to help others in similar states as her father.

Now, decades later, she dedicates part of her week to volunteering with hospice patients in the Concord area through Granite VNA.

A giving neighbor steps up Liz Wolf showed during the recent holiday season that no unselfish act is too tall for the Andover resident. Her friend, Jenny Bodwell, was diagnosed with liver cancer last summer. During her treatment, Bodwell expressed an interest in transforming the 75-foot blue spruce in her front yard into a Christmas tree.

Wolf led a group of volunteers to weed Bodwell’s garden and pick potatoes while Bodwell rested from energy-zapping infusions. Wolf coordinated the effort, getting word out that Bodwell was sick and could use some help. She gathered the volunteers, secured a construction lift that reached 65 feet and raised money to buy the Christmas lights.

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Roger Sanborn’s years of dedication to the town of Boscawen were worthy of a Town Meting proclamation.

“On most any town board, when something comes up that needs to be done, the common phrase is, ‘Let’s ask Roger,’ ” wrote Elaine Clow.

“Being the generous and good-natured guy that he is, he says yes. This list doesn’t begin to cover all the things he has done behind the scenes and with little fanfare or recognition. He is certainly worthy of this.”

Rebecca Carlman knows a new blanket can go a long way for those living out of a tent in Concord. After experiencing a period of homelessness herself, she loads what supplies she can like deodorant, trash bags, disaster blankets and pillows into the trunk of her car and passes them out to anyone she can find who needs them.

“We do clothes, toiletries, everything,” she said. “We were here last week with socks, hats, blankets.”

Emily Ricard, history buff and chairwoman of the Concord Young Professionals Network, tries to make a difference in the lives of kids through organizations like the mentorship Circle Program and the Make a Wish Foundation.

“You build the wish,” Ricard said. “We can take it fast or we can take it slow.

Sometimes we can raise the money and get it done within a few weeks. Other times it could be a few months.”

Two questions drive Journee LaFond’s work in New Hampshire. “Where are the Black people and where are the queer people?” said LaFond. ” Day to day, LaFond works as a therapist for a private practice that specializes in serving marginalized communities. After hours, LaFond plans and hosts events for LGBTQ and Black community members in the Concord area, namely the city’s pride celebrations in June.

Lifeline at the library In her 30 years at the Concord Public Library, whatever it is that people sought, reference librarian Robbin Bailey has helped them find it.

“People come into the library, and they’re looking for Robbin,” said Assistant Director Mat Bose, who’s been at Concord’s public library for about six years. “I think it was one of the first things I noticed. … When people think of the library, they very often are thinking of her.”

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Wherever they are, Greg Pollock and Amber Brouillette are recognized as “the sunflower people” by Concord residents thanks to their Sunfox Farm, a sprawling 20-acre sunflower field on Loudon Road, that bursts into vibrant bloom during the summer months.

Off Exit 14 on I-93 in the heart of the city, the field has become a rural oasis for Concord residents during the August sunflower festival.

Ross Mingarelli generally does things by himself. He operates CandleTree, his store on Main Street, as a one-man operation. He drives his ax-throwing truck solo. He runs his tree service company with his own two hands. But he has a hard time thinking about lonely dogs. So every week he drives between the Darbster Rescue locations in Manchester and Chichester to check in on his four-legged friends who need a little love.

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Odette Kanzayire has been tutored by Terry Irwin, a volunteer with Overcomers Refugee Services, for more than a year. In weekly sessions, they sit side by side in a windowless study room, the U.S. and world maps hung above them, a whiteboard and a copy of the Pledge of Allegiance tacked to the wall. Kanzayire is one of Irwin’s two current clients.

He and his wife moved from Concord to Exeter in January, but he travels to the capital city every Friday to spend the day with his tutees. Kanzayire is one of numerous New Americans Irwin has supported in his more than 10 years of volunteering in Concord.

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Stacy Duffy, of Concord, has run Girl Scout Troop 10162 for the past nine years, guiding her daughter, Madison, and her friends through projects and community service. Alana Kimball, whose daughter, Caia, is in the troop, thought enough of the decade-long impact that Duffy has had on these young women to nominate her as a Monitor Hometown Hero.

The regular customers at Alan’s of Boscawen know that owner Alan Andrian has a big heart. Over the last 40 years, he has made “endless donations” to schools and youth organizations.

Andrian donates sandwiches to people down on their luck, or to rescuers who might need some refueling during an emergency, or shelters, or anyone, really, who’s hungry.

It’s possible that no one in the region has coached more games than Merrimack Valley’s Tom Burke, who started with middle school basketball in 1970 at the age of 19. Since then, Burke has coached roughly 125 teams and over a thousand male and female athletes across multiple sports and age ranges. Last year, he coached the grandchild of a former athlete.

Randy and Holly Silver wasted no time taking over the Bittersweet Fabric Shop, which has been a staple in Boscawen for more than 50 years. It features sewing machines and fabrics for sale and hands-on instruction by a couple whose pragmatic approach to a great American institution has shown that quilting and sewing remain remain as popular and treasured as ever.

Nancy Peperissa, of Penacook, crochets cotton to make soft skull caps for chemotherapy patients.

“I started making them before I knew anyone with cancer,” Peperissa said. “I’d give most to the Payson Center and I’d give some away. If one of my hats can put a smile on someone’s face who is going through chemotherapy, that will make it all worthwhile.”

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A force for dedication, caring

Megan Katsirebas of Epsom, now a freshman at Franklin Pierce University, set out to restore the Scout House, an old community building where decades of Boy Scouts had been meeting. The restoration had previously been slated as an Eagle Scout project but fell to the wayside when the pandemic hit. Katsirebas decided to take ownership of the project. “It taught me a lot about perseverance and dedication,” she said.

Leanna Lorden has fewer hands-on roles since being promoted to COO at White Birch Center in Henniker.

But Lorden hasn’t disappeared from the lives of inWhere lights shine bright dividuals who have benefited from her caring nature, David Cleveland has been carrying on a family tradition that lights up a and, conversely, who have New London field. Called “The Little Tree in the Big Field,” it’s essentially a had a huge impact on her.

Christmas tree, white lights blazing, standing in the middle of a long, flat, Lorden has been working 20-acre stretch of land, a welcome mat for residents and visitors alike at there for 13 years. The nonChristmas time. David has been anchoring a 6-foot Christmas tree – real profit features before- and and artificial – in the middle of his family’s land since 1987. He swears he’s after-school programs, never missed a holiday season. The tree’s effect is eerie, calming, beautiful, acting as a supplement to all rolled into one as Mount Kearsarge stands high in the background. regular public schooling.

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Lawre Murphy and Brenda Bartlett share responsibility for teaching the Bone Builders class, sponsored by the Friends’ Program, at the Boscawen Public Library.

They work with some who haven’t yet reached retirement age, but their core group includes seniors from 65 years old into their 80s.

They’re taught to stretch, bend, reach, balance, move, weight train, anything and everything that can stop or reverse osteoporosis and improve muscle strength.Other benefits, such as increased energy levels and improved mental health, are also part of the formula.

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Jim Marshall coordinates the annual tree sale for the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Concord and will even tie them down on the car roof for you.

“It’s a lot of fun,” he said.

“It’s a lot easier than selling raffle tickets. People go away with a smile, say, ‘Merry Christmas,’ and you feel good that they got a good product for a good price.”

Elevating Franklin High School Dan Sylvester, the Franklin athletic director, known around school as “Mr. Sly,” has helped make the sports program more competitive, respected and Best Buddies champion successful.

Ten years after Cheyenne Boucher and Owen Sansoucie were paired up as Best Buddies “He’s just a guy that goes at Pembroke Academy, they still remain close today. behind the scenes and goes Besides fostering friendships, Best Buddies helps promote an integrated job market, of- above and beyond to make fers leadership development, and provides resources for family support and independent sure our kids have all the living. Best Buddies spans 45 countries and all 50 states, with the goal of impacting as supports and resources they many people as possible for the better. need to be successful,” said Principal David Levesque.

“Happy life,” Owen said of his friendship with Cheyenne. “We laugh a lot.”

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Cheryl Stinson, of Penacook, and her fellow Concord Monitor columnists called town criers, have brought the news to you for decades.

To honor their efforts, they were given a 2024 Spirit of NH Award.

Stinson’s first column was published on April 16, 1995, before the widespread use of email, town websites and social media.

“I never envisioned that 29 years later I’d still be doing it,” Stinson said.

Lori Rowe’s home is known around Pembroke as the “fairy house” or the “fairy garden.”

It started three years ago when she put out a display of hand-painted fairy houses with little gnomes and knick-knacks.

This year, Rowe decided to have neighborhood kids paint rocks that formed colorful “snakes” growing across the grass. She set up a table and chairs with supplies and a prize bucket for them to decorate the rocks.

Devoted caretaker Greenest thumb in of little library the county Mary McEvoy-Barrett saw the sandy-brown little library in Rollins Park in Concord had a split up its side and it hung off the back of its bearings, like it had taken a good punch.

She realized she couldn’t just leave it like that. Not only was this little free library in her favorite park, it was a special one because it helps keep the memory of her book-loving sister alive.

She fills the little free library with books from her late sister, Ellen.

John Silver, a lifelong Boscawen resident, grew up on a large dairy farm. Now the grounds maintenance supervisor takes care of a massive farm that grows 27 kids of product at the 600acre county complex property where the nursing home and jail are located.

He oversees a crew of maintenance staff and a rotating handful of inmates.

“I learned this from my father,” he said. “This is what I did as a kid, with gardens and cows.”

Bleeding for his favorite cause Over the past five decades, David Bugbee of Concord, has donated more blood than perhaps anybody else in the state, although it’s hard to be sure.

He has given a pint of blood to Red Cross more than 200 times since he was a student in the early 1970s.

It’s an impressive streak considering the human body contains about 10 pints of blood.

“When they put (the needle) in, I always look away,” he admitted.

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Mark Aquilino and Todd Wheatley spent countless hours this organizing a fishing tournament unlike any other. They brought together veterans on the seacoast with a local fishing group for a multi-day competition to catch the heaviest tuna. From July 27 to Aug. 2, 26 boats of veterans, fishermen, and community members set out on their mission to win. The true prize, however, was the $117,000 raised for veteran service organizations across the state. Aquilino and Wheatley sit on the board of Swim With A Mission, a nonprofit which supports veterans.

A science teacher and an English teacher might sound like an unlikely duo to embark on an intense outdoor project. But for former Belmont Middle School teachers Tim Lamendola and Greg Wood, it was a natural fit. The two have worked over the last two years with 18 of their seventh- and eighth-grade advisory students to help clear a roughly mile-long trail behind the school, hoping that it can be used for educational purposes, for cross country races and general enjoyment. Almost every Friday, teachers and students headed out with rakes, chainsaws and other tools to get to work.

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When Linda Sarette laid her father to rest at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen in 2019, the section where he was buried had no garden.

It was an omission that bothered the Sanbornton resident so much she asked the cemetery to create one.

She’s now in charge of maintenance. Several days per week for the last five years, Sarette has traversed the cemetery’s winding grounds to plant flowers, cut down trees, weed tree beds, and tend to gravestone.

Each time Glenn Morrill drives around the traffic circle in Franklin and the long grass blows in the breeze, he jokes the swaying blades are waving hello. The long grass at the rotary is one of many spots Morrill can look at to know he contributed to the “behind-thescenes beautification.”

Along Central Street, kayaks are repurposed as flower beds. In one, sweet potato vines are planted with petunias and long grass. Old bikes are refurbished as planters, too.

From his seat in a shaded booth downtown, Jim Milliken gestures at Main Street. “I painted every parking meter you can see,” he says. He also changed the lightbulbs in traffic lights and touched up the paint around parking spaces. In the nearly 80 years Milliken has lived in Concord, he has found numerous ways to serve his city. The work comes not from an incentive for recognition or power, but rather from a pride in and love for the place he has always called home.

As chair of New Hampshire’s Parole Board since 2022, Roger Phillips, now 80, has taken on the often unpopular job of ruling on whether incarcerated people are ready to reenter society.

“Roger is the Atticus Finch of Concord,” wrote Dan Wise, a Concord resident who used to work for the state’s Bar Association.

“He is the epitome of a community-minded lawyer who is involved in the civic life of his community.”

Asked what Lenny O’Keefe means to Bishop Brady High, then-athletic director Annie Mattarazzo didn’t know where to begin.

“He is just a gift,” she said.

“Lenny is an incredible soul.”

He retired from his job at the Merrimack County jail and now works part-time in the Concord Police Department’s community service unit with his comfort dog, Liberty. But when he’s not taking Liberty around town, there’s a good chance he’s behind the wheel of a Bishop Brady school bus.

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Amidst the chaos, the Great Library is set on fire, and Kiela manages to escape with several crates of spell books, along with her (2024, 377 pages, Genre: best friend Caz (a sentient spider plant!) in tow. Caz is Fantasy) the result of a arah Beth Durst has spell gone awry, written several fanand the origins of tasy books for all his creation are ages, and her newest reshrouded in myslease, The Spellshop, is a cozy retreat into a magical tery. He’s a plucky, loyal, and world of mythical creatures, spell books, and de- loveable character, lightful baked goods. Kiela who can somehow holds a prestigious position see, hear, and speak despite not as a librarian in the Great Library of the city of Alys- having eyes, ears, or a mouth. sium, taking care of the Kiela and Caz make it to empire’s ancient and precious spell books. The em- safety by sailing to a remote pire has fallen prey to cor- northern island, Caltrey–her ruption, magic is outlawed, birthplace and where her deand rebels have attempted ceased parents’ cottage is located. The cottage has long to take over the city.

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Monthly dances hosted in Concord The New Hampshire English Country Dance Society (NHECDS) will host monthly English dances in Concord at the Auditorium of the Howard Recreation Center (HRC), located at the intersection of Brown and Kent Roads on the Gallen State Office Park campus.

Dances take place on Sundays from September through June, excluding July and August. The next event is scheduled for Sunday, Jan.

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Dec. 26, 1776: Col. John Stark’s troops lead the attack on the British and Hessians at Trenton. Capt. Joshua Abbot’s Concord company and Ebenezer Frye’s Pembroke company march with Stark. Frye, “being very corpulent,” tires quickly and tells his men to move ahead “as fast as they please” under Sgt. Ephraim Stevens. The battle lasts 50 minutes. The Patriot victory is a turning point of the Revolution.

Dec. 26, 1900: The police foil a murder for hire in Concord. The hit man turns in the woman who offered him $10, her rings and a pair of opera glasses to kill her estranged husband. The woman, 26year-old Carrie Sinclair

Huntoon, is a Concord belle who can trace her ancestry to the Pilgrims. She will be found insane and committed to the asylum.

Dec. 27, 1979: The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that New Hampshire has 100 more farms than in 1978: 3,200 compared to 3,100.

Dec. 27, 1975: The New York Times reports that more than half the cells at the New Hampshire state prison in Concord are damaged beyond use by inmates angered over the refusal of officials to release a dozen prisoners

from solitary confinement for their Christmas meal.

Three people are injured in the four-hour disturbance and about 100 inmates are transferred to new locations.

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Dec. 27, 1925: Charles D. Parker, the last survivor of the short-lived Indian Stream Republic, dies. As a small boy, Parker took part in the establishment by his father of the new republic, in what is now the town of Pittsburg. The republic’s founding was the result of a land dispute between the United States and Canada.

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Dec. 28, 2000: The Census Bureau announces the state’s official 2000 population: 1,235,786. New Hampshire grew by 11.4% in the 1990s, faster than any other northeastern state but considerably slower than the state grew in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

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