My Concord June 2023

JUNE 24, 2023

The people, businesses and events of the Capital City

CHECK IT OUT: Fireworks will be on display the week of Fourth of July in many communities in central New Hampshire.

Check you local government website for details. Above, Concord just unveiled its new splash pad at White Park.

AROUND THE CITY Scenes from Concord

A former pop-up pizza shop opened in downtown Concord this week at its first brick and mortar location on Pleasant Street.

Owner Greg Sturgis specializes in Sicilian and Detroit-style pizzas with an Italian spin.

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Concord pitcher Maddy Wachter (center) leads the celebration after the Tide won the Division I softball championship on June 10 at Plymouth State.

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The Rev. Denis Brunelle of St. Paul’s Church greets one of the two llamas outside the church before the celebration of life service for former Concord Monitor editor Mike Pride on June 3. Pride, who retired from the Monitor in 2008 and went on to lead the Pulitzer Prizes, requested the presence of llamas at his service, though no one knew just why.

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Dawn and her sister now operate a successful dog walking business, sometimes covering up to 5 miles a day.

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Lexi Myers, who suffers from a rare form of brain cancer, said she felt strong the morning of June 10, about 45 minutes before Merrimack Valley High School’s graduation ceremony.

She had pushed herself the day before, on Friday, rising from her wheelchair during rehearsal and walking to the area behind the school where the diplomas would be awarded in a matter of hours.

“I just had the energy so I figured why not?” said Myers, sitting under the school’s front entrance canopy before Saturday’s ceremony.

And there, she did it again, this time with the bleachers bursting at the seams and a white picket fence surrounding the huge grassy expanse, every standing-room-only space claimed.

Myers’s pair of recent un-aided walks represented the longest she’s moved in a long time.

She’s been fighting a rare form of brain cancer for seven years – setbacks and promise messing with her psyche the whole time – and only recently has gotten some encouraging news: The medication she’s been on for two months has made her feel better.

“My tumors are shrinking, actually,” Myers said.

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Merrimack Valley graduate Lexi Myers was able to walk up to the podium to accept her diploma during ceremonies earlier this month.

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“I am excited, yes,” Myers said under the canopy during a pre-graduation interview. “I can’t wait.”

Myers missed far too much high school to have earned a diploma. She was included in the ceremony, though, and hopes to work toward her GED one day.

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She was more subdued this last time.

Muhammad Ali’s words in a “The past couple of (prescripmetaphorical manner, telling the tions) did not work,” Myers said, “so students they’d need to rise from I didn’t have hopes for this one, but the canvas and continue fighting. it ended up working.”

Myers was already good at that.

She still uses a wheelchair.

As her close friend and wheelchair Through high school, Darrahchauffer, Zay Darrah-Easter, said in Easter left her classes early to bring an email, “I can tell you she’s inMyers to her next class. credibly resilient and she’s showed The wheelchair was nudged aside, just how strong she is.” at least temporarily, the past few She was diagnosed in grade school days. Myers had planned to walk to with pediatric ependymoma the podium on graduation day by anaplastic. Tumors had grown in a herself, with Darrah-Easter small area near her brainstem and standing close by if she needed help. cerebellum.

That had been Friday’s plan during She began daily trips, five days rehearsal as well. She moved slowly per week, to Boston for treatment. but surely.

She still travels to Georgia once a “She let me know, ‘I want to walk,’ month for checkups and wonders ” Darrah-Easter said. “I said, ‘Okay, why she can’t have it done closer to I’ll wait here if you need any help.’ ” Myers is petite, 4-foot-11, 90 home. For years, her life was afpounds, which is only 10 pounds fected in dark ways.

“It was a lot for me,” Myers said. lower than her normal weight. Her “My taste changed. I don’t like stuff head was shaved. She had a scar on that I used to like. It was really the left side, and the glasses she hard.” wore dominated her small face. Her She underwent three surgeries. cap read, “Rock Star,” because that’s She’s taken a medicine-cabinethow her family sees her.

She spoke softly, but her message sized worth of prescriptions in a process that is more trial and error was clear. than anything else. Her hopes “I feel pretty good,” Myers said. “I feel pretty strong. I have the energy soared with possibilities each time today.” something new was introduced.

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