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This month on www.parentingnh.com:
Winter fun with your family
If you love winter, cold and snow, this is definitely your time of year. Be sure to make the most of it and get outside. There’s lots of fun to be had throughout the Granite State. Be sure to check out our web-exclusive lists to plan time with your family. Winter carnivals and festivals: www.parentingnh.com/wintercarnivals Where to go sledding in NH: www.parentingnh.com/sleddingNH Cold weather not your thing? Keep an eye on our online calendar for events you can take your family to that you don’t have to bundle up for. January is a popular month for theater productions for both kids and adults. If staying healthy or getting fit is one of your New Year’s resolutions, click on the “Health” tab on our home page at www.parentingnh.com for health articles and tips from PNH. Also, don’t miss this month’s feature story about family fitness activities on Page 32.
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time Girl Scout troops are kicking off cookie season on Jan. 1, with booth sales starting Feb. 15. This year, Girl Scout Cookies will sell at $5 a package and as always 100 percent of the net revenue from Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains cookie sales stay local. The program applies cookie earnings to power amazing experiences for girls through local programming, while girls and their troops decide how to invest in impactful community projects, personal enrichment opportunities, and more. Girls will also sell cookies through the Digital Cookie® platform, an innovative and educational web-based addition to the cookie program that helps girls run and manage their Girl Scout Cookie businesses online. The Girl Scout Cookie Program teaches essential entrepreneurial skills and powers amazing experiences for girls as the largest girl-led business in the world. GSGWM will kick off this year’s cookie season with a Girls Scouts Friends and Family event at the SNHU Arena in Man-
chester on Saturday, Jan. 13, with the Manchester Monarchs. For more information on this event or the cookie sale, go to www.girlscoutsgwm.org or call 1-888-474-9686.
Seth Meyers’ shows to benefit child victims of abuse in the Granite State Seth Meyers is coming home to help our kids. On Saturday, Feb. 10, the host of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” will be in Concord at the Capitol Center for the Arts to perform two shows benefiting Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire and the Granite State Children’s Alliance, New Hampshire’s network of Child Advocacy Centers. Meyers, a New Hampshire native and 13-year veteran of “Saturday Night Live,” will perform at 7 and 9:30 p.m. There will be a VIP reception and meet and greet with Meyers before the first show, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Nearly 100 percent of the proceeds
from the two shows will be donated to CASA of NH and the Granite State Children’s Alliance, thanks to the generosity of Meyers, event sponsors and the Capitol Center for the Arts. Proceeds will be split evenly between the two agencies. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $78 and $58. There are a limited number of tickets available for $250 and include the VIP reception and meet and greet with Meyers and preferred seating for the show. For the 9:30 p.m. show, tickets are $125 for preferred seating and $78 and $58. There is no VIP reception before the second show.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE
Create the cover of Parenting NH’s March issue Is your child a master of the marker? A captain of the crayon? We are looking for some talented New Hampshire kids to bring color and personality to the cover of March’s Parenting NH, our special summer camp issue. We will choose winners from three age groups: age 7 and younger; age 8-10; and age 11-13. Of the three, one will be chosen to be the cover and the other two winners will be featured inside. Just cut out the drawing on the next page, and let your kids have fun coloring it in! Parents, please mail it back to us, along with your name, your child’s name and age, address, phone number and email. THE DEADLINE TO ENTER IS MONDAY, FEB. 12, 2018. Crayons, colored pencils or markers will be accepted. Bold colors are encouraged. Feel free to leave the background area white. For more information, or to download a PDF of the coloring page, go to www.parentingnh.com. Submissions will be accepted via mail to Parenting NH Magazine Editor, McLean Communications, 150 Dow St., Manchester, NH 03101 or email the entry as a PDF attachment to editor@ parentingnh.com. Children of Yankee Publishing Inc. or McLean Communications employees are not eligible.