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New permanent Penacook pantry PANTRY FROM 1 high schoolers. “This food pantry allows us the ability to continue to supply these families throughout the entire year.”

As Fuller began to clean up a room just off the school gym used to store supplies, he noticed that the tiled floors and electrical outlets could serve a better purpose than storage space for forgotten items.

Now equipped with a refrigerator, freezer and three storage shelves, the space is home to the school’s food pantry.

In the fridge, fresh vegetables, salad kits and eggs are available.

Oats, pasta, rice, pancake mix and milk line the pantry shelves. When students come to the pantry, they can leave with a full meal that has all the ingredients, said Tracy Bricchi, the Penacook representative on the Merrimack Valley school board.

“A lot of times what will happen is if they get boxed macaroni and cheese, if fami-

lies didn't have milk at home then what would they do?

They ’d make it with water.

That would be terrible,” she said.

Bricchi knows the needs of students in the school district.

For 35 years she was an educator, spending over two decades in the classroom in Merrimack Valley. As a young teacher, she never thought that there could be a catch-all reason as to why a student wasn’t paying attention in class or lashing out. Now, she realizes that oftentimes these students were just hungry.

At the time, food insecurity wasn’t commonly talked about within schools. While working at CSI Charter School, Bricchi started a local chapter of End 68 Hours of Hunger, a national nonprofit that addresses food insecurity in schools.

The 68 hours represents the time between a student’s last meal in school on a Friday afternoon and the next available on Monday morning. One in six households in New Hampshire are facing food insecurity, according to the New

Hampshire Food Alliance from the University of New Hampshire. Most of these households have children.

Although the local chapter has since ended, the pantry will continue the work Bricchi started years ago – bringing awareness to childhood food insecurity.

“The more that we can bring it forward for everybody to talk about, it’ll only make things better for all the kids here," she said.

Through the partnership with New Hampshire Food Bank, Fuller will be able to restock the pantry through an online portal. It’s like placing a grocery order, he said.

A donation of backpacks to the school will also allow for students to bring items home.

The pantry opening coincides with Hunger Action Month, a national campaign from Feeding America each September. Throughout the state, events like the Concord Police Department’s Stuff a Cruiser drive on Sept. 15 and 23, will benefit New Hampshire Food Bank.

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Research Station, who admits to kind of enjoying cutting the grass. “You start something, you finish something, you get to see the result. It’s satisfying.”

But she, like most ecologists, knows that have a confession to make: I really like we have overdone our worship of flat, green the look of a mowed lawn. But I’m trying spaces surrounding our homes and would to kick the habit. like to see us dial it back.

I know the classic suburban lawn has the Lerman knows because ecological value of a parking she led a 2018 study about the lot, that the model of a frequency of law cutting. She weekly-mowed monoculture and other researchers cut the contributes to the alarming laws of 16 homes around decline of butterflies and wild Springfield, Mass. on three bees and other pollenschedules – weekly, every spreading beasts, and that other week, every three keeping our yards pristine weeks – and then studied the wastes water, fertilizer, time results for plants and bugs. and fuel for noisy machines.

They found that waiting two Messy is better when it DAVID BROOKS weeks to mow instead of docomes to ecosystems, even ing it weekly resulted in a sigsmall ones.

Granite Geek nificantly higher pollinator But when I do get around abundance but that waiting to mowing my yard, reducing three weeks didn’t improve it mostly because my haphazard non-monoculture to a level a lot of our natural pollinators are tiny, as height, I think it looks a lot better. I’m not small as a grain of rice, and tall grass can sure if this is because of my suburbia uphide small flowers. bringing or some ancestral memory of the The study also confirmed people’s preferEast African plains where humanity evolved, ences for their surroundings, if confirmation but I’m definitely not alone. was needed.

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Violators can be fined or, depending on the community, the town can cut your lawn and charge you for it.

Concord has also adopted this part of the code, setting a height limit of 10 inches. Code Administrator David Hall says he knows of no enforcement against any homes, and “only one issue with a business that was not maintaining their landscaping. That issue was resolved with a letter.”

Note that this doesn’t cover private homeowner associations, which are infamous for their Draconian approach to making everybody’s lawn an interchangeable green mat.

A decade ago, the Somersworth argument would have been a slam dunk in favor of

“When we’d come to the house after three weeks, the householder would run to our car while we were still getting the mower out, saying I’m so glad you’re here, my neighbors were getting upset and offering to come over and mow the lawn!” she recalled.

I thought of this research because of a story last week out of Somersworth via Foster ’s Daily Democrat. It concerns a woman who has been ordered to cut her lawn since parts exceed the town ordinance height of 8 inches. The ordinance is taken from the International Property Management Code, a set of guidelines adopted in part by many communities.

This section of the code says “premises and exterior property shall be maintained free from weeds or plant growth in excess of (jurisdiction to insert height). Noxious weeds shall be prohibited.

they ’re based on “I like the way it looks.”

For their part, pollinator lawn-mowing but things have fans argue that we’ve gone way overboard in making our changed. There is growing properties look pretty. We’ve concern about the decline in turned vast swaths of Amerpollinators and increased ica – NASA estimates lawns awareness about our surcover 49,000 square miles roundings as the climate turns feral, while droughts out throughout the country, about five times the area of New West are contributing to the Hampshire – into herbicideanti-green-lawn trend. laden wastelands.

You may have heard of That argument is gaining “no-mow May,” a push to leave lawns alone for a month sway. The state senate in Maine, for example, recently when many bugs are hungry passed a law that seems to from winter, and about creatundermine town ordinances ing “pollinator gardens” with about grass height, saying a mix of local flowers, which communities cannot put “an are often not very showy and unreasonable limitation on go under the general title of weeds, to attract native bugs. low-impact landscaping if the Most people, however, still property owner owns or has the right to exclusive use of like the look of lawns consisting entirely of short grass of a the property and maintains and regularly tends to the single species that stays low-impact landscaping.” green in winter (meaning it’s There are exceptions that I probably not native here).

They argue that this look pre- suspect will generate a lot of arguing. serves property values and For her part, Dr. Lerman is keeps out ticks, rodents and delighted with the new attenweeds. Peel back the arguments, though, and you’ll find tion to lawn ecosystems but fears it can go overboard and

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“For no-mow May, the intent is lovely but what I’ve heard it changing to ‘Oh no May ’,” she said. “This summer with all the rain we’ve had, lawns are going crazy, and no-mow May kind of boxes everybody in.”

She argues for “reducing maintenance throughout the entire growing season” and increased tolerance for something other than Kentucky bluegrass or whatever commercial seed type you’ve spent big bucks on. Variety is the spice of ecosystems.

She also says that signs help. Putting up a “beefriendly ” notice or the like lets neighbors know you’re not a slob who avoids yardwork.

You’re making an active choice for your property.

That argument is echoed

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She notes that the certification includes a number of conservation practices, some as simple as leaving clippings on your yard when you mow, but most are concerned with creating areas of plants favorable to native pollinators.

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PEMBROKE SCHOOL DISTRICT FACILITIES DEPARTMENT

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The Pembroke School District has immediate openings for a full time custodian. Qualified applicants should possess a strong work ethic, commitment and knowledge of cleaning school buildings in a friendly and efficient way. Prior cleaning experience a plus but will train the right applicant.

Workload to include but not limited to: vacuuming, washing windows, mopping, cleaning bathrooms, trash and recycle removal, washing desks and tables, filling dispensers and stripping and waxing floors.

Starting pay is

$15.00 per hour

Benefits to include: medical, dental, life insurance, NH Retirement, flex account, vacation, sick time and personal time.

Interested applicants should stop by Pembroke Academy and fill out an application or send a resume to:

Joshua Coughlin, CSFM 209 Academy Rd. Pembroke, NH 03275 jcoughlin@sau53.org • 603.485.7353 Pembroke School District is an EOE.

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HELP WANTED E.D. Swett is seeking to fill two positions in Peterborough, NH. The successful candidates will receive a minimum of 600 hours of structured, supervised training in aspects of bridge construction.

SCAN FOR AN APPLICATION

While preference will be given to women and minorities, the program is not intended to discriminate against any applicant whether a minority group member or not.

E.D. Swett is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

WE HAVE VERY COMPETITIVE WAGES • WE HAVE FULL HEALTH BENEFITS • DENTAL • 401K • • REFERRAL BONUSES • PAID TIME OFF •

E.D. SWETT INC. 8 INDUSTRIAL PARK DRIVE CONCORD, NH 03301.

CALL 603-224-7401 OR APPLY AT : EDSwett.com NE-425901

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Job Openings for SAU #85 SUNAPEE SCHOOL DISTRICT The following positions are open for 2023-2024: • Full Time Custodian • Starting Rate $18/Hr • Health/Dental Insurance • Retirement Plan • Paid Time Off 2021/2022/2023

• Special Education Paraprofessionals • Full Time w/benefits or Part Time • Para I or II Certification preferred • Experience Working with Children

NH’S PREMIER GENERAL CONTRACTOR IS NOW HIRING BRIDGE CARPENTERS, CRANE OPERATORS, BRIDGE LABORERS, PIPE LAYERS AND GENERAL LABORERS

• Bus Driver • Certified School Bus Driver • Regular & Athletic/Field Trip Transportation • CDL Training Provided for Qualified Candidates • Benefits per SAU 85 Benefit Package

• Substitutes • Rate: $115/Day • Grade Levels K-12 • High School Diploma • Working with Children is a plus

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HIRING

Please stop by SAU 85 to pick up an application or send a letter of interest, resume and current letters of recommendation (transcripts, if applicable) to:

Michele E. Flynn, SAU #85 70 Lower Main Street, Sunapee, NH 03782

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Or email: mflynn@sunapeeschools.org These positions will remain open until the successful applicants are hired.

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Warner Hometown Hero spent her career helping endangered species HOMETOWN HEROES FROM 4 One of Von Oettingen’s notable achievements was her pioneering work alongside her supervisor from New Hampshire Fish and Game.

They were the first to discover piping plovers nesting and successfully initiated protective measures at Seabrook Beach and Hampton Beach State Park, employing the use of fencing.

However, these efforts were not without their challenges. Von Oettingen often found herself in tense situations and even faced threats from individuals who opposed the installation of fences in economically important and frequently visited areas.

“I think my biggest challenge was just facing people and it’s just not one incident but it was year after year, month after month,” said Von Oettingen. “We didn’t have the training that we do now for negotiation.”

Reflecting on her early

Biologist Susi von Oettingen looks over her back yard in Warner on Wednesday, September 6, 2023.

“But I am so grateful that things have changed in that GEOFF FORESTER PHOTOS / Monitor staff because so many women have entered the field.”

The small whorled pogonia is a perennial member of the orchid family.

As she enters the next chapter of her life, Von Oettingen remains dedicated to her days in the field in 1985, Von biologists. It was a male-domi- equal and that was before we Oettingen remembers that nated field, she said. knew about inappropriate be- cause. She will continue to volunteer in monitoring there weren’t many women “It was challenging to be a havior in the office,” explants, bats, and roseate terns who were endangered species woman and accepted as an plained Von Oettingen.

because that’s where her heart truly lies.

“It’s a tough field but if you’re passionate about it, it’s not a tough field,” said Von Oettingen. “I’m still learning to listen and not be polarized.

You have to work within the law, but look for common ground.”

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