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LANCASTER — Help cele-brate the Rialto Theatre’s one-year anniversary with JazzAcross the Generations — a con-cert for all ages by the SisterCity Jazz Ambassadors. Theconcert takes place on Saturday,

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Sister City Jazz Ambassadors present JazzAcross the Generations at Rialto Theatre

Sister City -------------------(Continued on Page 19)

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ObituariesJohn Joseph MacAneney

TOWN OF LANCASTER, NH PLANNING BOARDSUBMISSION OF APPLICATION/PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSAL

LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICENotice is hereby given in accordance with RSA 676:4 & 675:7 that an application for site planreview described below will be submitted to the Lancaster Planning Board on Wednesday,December 12, 2012 at 6:30 PM at the Lancaster Town Hall during a regular meeting of theBoard. Minor Site Plan Review:Case# 761 – Ashley Reardon-Packard – Applicant requests minor site plan approval to con-struct a parking area of approximately 11 new spaces for passenger cars at her dance les-son studio. Land Zoned Commercial. (Recently Merged Tax Map P03-Lots 015 & 044 (0.47acres combined) 291 Main Street & 4 Kilkenny Street).Upon a finding by the Board that the application meets the submission requirements of theTown of Lancasterʼs Site Plan Review Regulations, the Board will vote to accept the applica-tion as complete, and a public hearing on the merits of that proposal will follow immediately.Should a decision not be reached at the public hearing, the application will stay on thePlanning Board agenda until such time as it is either approved or disapproved.

Available information may be viewed at the Lancaster Town Office, Monday throughFriday during regular business hours. Should you wish to arrange a time to view thefile or if you need assistance to attend this meeting contact the Planning/ZoningCoordinator, Benjamin S. Gaetjens-Oleson, at the Town Office at (603) 788-3391.

Per order of the Lancaster Planning BoardJustin F. Carter, Chairman

GROVETON — John JosephMacAneney, known as “Jackie”of Groveton and formerly ofMassachusetts died Monday,Nov. 19, 2012 at the FlorenceNursing Home and Rehab inSouth Carolina. John sufferedfrom Parkinson’s disease andCOPD.

He was born on January 20,1964 raised in the state ofMassachusetts also resided for atime in Groveton, then was aresident of South Carolina. Heis the son of the late Joyce Ann(Knapp) Morse of Groveton and

the late Mr. J. MacAneney ofMassachusetts.

John spent summers as achild in northern NewHampshire vacationing and vis-iting his late grandparents whoresided in Groveton, Leslie andBertha Knapp. John enjoyedmusic, writing, drawing, as wellas passing time playing a gameof cards with friends and family.

John is survived by his sib-lings, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry

MacAneney obit------------(Continued on Page 19)

Clifford “Cliff” Mills Patten,49, of Kingsport, Tenn., passedaway November 20, 2012 at hisresidence after an extended ill-ness.

He was born in Nashua,N.H., on May 5, 1963 and wasthe son of Gordon and SueArmstrong of Middleburg, Fla.and Groveton, N.H. He was ofthe Baptist faith. Cliff enjoyedkarate, as well as being a blackbelt instructor, golfing, andspending time with his sons. Hewas a member of Warriors PathFire Department of Kingsport,Tenn. Cliff attended Milford,

N.H. and Sarasota, Fla., schools.He was a member of the U.S.Marine Corps. Cliff moved toGreenville, S.C., as a managerof McDonald’s and later movedto Groveton, where he became aCNA in health care. He movedto Tennessee, where he workedat Delta Air Lines, at Tri-CitiesRegional Airport. Later, hewent into food service and lossprevention services.

Cliff was preceded in deathby his paternal and maternal

Clifford“Cliff”Mills Patten

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Harold “Pickle” Smith, 84, ofCrawford Street, Littleton, diedpeacefully Saturday, November24, 2012 at the VA Hospital inWhite River Junction, Vt., aftera lengthy illness.

He was born in Brunswick,Vt., on July 10, 1928 a son ofRoy E. and Charlotte (Marshall)Smith.He grew up inBrunswick, Vt., the youngest offive children. Harold was a

graduate of Stratford HighSchool.

He was in the MerchantMarines for 18 years and an SP3in the U.S. Army for two years.When he returned home he wasa property caretaker.

“Pickle” was an avid out-doorsman, gardener, apple piebaker, root beer brewer, deerwhisperer and storyteller. After20 years traveling the world on

Merchant ships and in theArmy, he returned to his child-hood home to tend to the familyland. He nurtured friendships inthe same manner he nurturedthe soil. His heart and frontdoor were always open and hekept a list of every birthday offriends and family, never failing

Harold “Pickle”Smith

Smith obit--------------------(Continued on Page 19)

WEST STEWARTSTOWN —Mrs. Marie-Jeanne Thibault,83, of West Stewartstown,passed away at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center inLebanon, on Friday morning,Nov. 23, 2012, with members ofher family by her side.

She was born on March 9,1929, in St. Edwidge, Québec,daughter of the late Armandand Aldea (Crête) Viens. Marie-Jeanne attended school inCanada and moved to the U.S.in her late teens with her hus-band, Laurier Thibault.

Marie-Jeanne worked formany years for the BeecherFalls Division of Ethan Allen asan inspector. She was a veryprivate lady, and she was an

Marie-Jeanne Thibault

Thibault obit-----------------(Continued on Page 19)

Beverly Jean (Osgood)Willey, 81, of 101 Burke St.,Nashua, passed away peacefullyon Wednesday morning, Nov. 7,2012, at the CommunityHospice House in Merrimackafter a lengthy illness.

A resident of Nashua,Beverly was born in Lancaster,N.H., Feb 6, 1931. She was thedaughter of the late Harwood P.Osgood and the late Grace(Correll) Osgood. She was thewidow of the late Alfred S.Willey Sr. (USCG, RET), whopassed away on Dec. 10, 1996.

Beverly will be lovingly

remembered as a devoted moth-er, grandmother, and great-grandmother, as well as onewho always “told it like it is.”She was also a lover of all ani-mals, especially her best friendand companion, her late dogPunky.

Beverly is survived by threesons and two daughters-in-law:Alfred S. Willey Jr. of Nashua,James P. and Donna Willey ofNashua, and Harwood A. andFaith Willey of Newport News,Va., as well as several grand-children and great-grandchil-dren.

There will be no local servic-es. Beverly will be laid to rest at

the Village Cemetery in Stark,beside her late husband andmany generations of her family,overlooking the covered bridgeand her most cherished child-hood memories; a fitting placefor one of the most loving, hum-ble, and giving Moms to rest ineternal peace. As was her wish,there will be a small, private,family service in the spring.

As was also her wish, if you’dlike to make a donation in hername, please send them to theHumane Society, 24 Ferry Road,Nashua, NH 03064-8109.

Local arrangements areentrusted to the Bailey FuneralHome, Lancaster.

Beverly Jean Willey

TOWN OF LANCASTER, BOARD OF SELECTMENNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS

The Town of Lancasterʼs Board of Selectmen will hold public hearings on Monday,December 17, 2012 at 6:30 PM at the Town Hall concerning the following matters:

Adoption of FEMAʼs revised Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) and Revision of theBuilding Code Ordinance:Pursuant to RSA 674:57, by resolution of the Town of Lancaster Board of Selectmen, all landsdesignated as special flood hazard areas by the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA) in its “Flood Insurance Study for the County of Coos, NH” dated February 20, 2013,together with the associated Flood Insurance Rate Maps dated February 20, 2013, aredeclared to be part of the Town of Lancasterʼs Building Code Ordinance and are hereby incor-porated by reference.

Acceptance of unanticipated monies over $5,000.00:To accept an Emergency Management Performance Grant from the NH Department ofSafety, Homeland Security in the amount of $11,364.00 to pay no more than 50% of the costto the purchase and equip a new Mobile Emergency Operations Center (EOC)/commandvehicle and four portable emergency scene spot lights and authorize a signatory for any andall paperwork relevant to the grant.

Per order of the Lancaster Board of SelectmenLeon Rideout, Chairman

LANCASTER – Lisa FayePhillips Winkley, 43, diedMonday, November 26, 2012 atWeeks Medical Center,Lancaster.

Lisa was born in Meriden,Connecticut on April 4, 1969.She was the daughter of JosephW. Phillips and Maryanne(McDade) Huskey.

She was raised in Maidstone,Vt., and has worked various jobsduring her lifetime includingw a i t r e s s i n g . She will beremembered as a kind-heartedperson who would do anythingfor family or friend. Her grand-son Jeremy was her greatestlove and he brought her muchenjoyment.

Family members include herdaughter Felicia McKearney ofGroveton; a grandson JeremyBenoit; her parents, both ofLancaster; two sisters, HeatherPhillips Kenison of Guildhall,Vt., and Mandi Avery of NorthWoodstock. Her husband AllenJames Cawley Winkley prede-

ceased her on June 22, 2012.There are no visiting hours.

Services will be held at a laterdate at the convenience of thefamily.

Donations may be made inher memory to Toys for Tots,Lancaster VFW, c/o Rosalie Leo-nard, PO Box 147, Lancaster,NH 03584.

Please go towww.baileyfh.net for more infor-mation or to send an online con-dolence.

Lisa Faye Phillips Winkley

Lisa Faye Phillips Winkley

COLEBROOK — Jason R.Wood, 23, of Colebrook, diedunexpectedly at his residence inColebrook, on Monday morning,Nov. 19, 2012.

He was born on July 29,1989, in Lancaster. He attend-ed local schools and was a 2007graduate of Colebrook Academy.After high school, Jason enteredthe U.S. Air Force, and heenjoyed being stationed inAlaska as a munitions special-ist.

Jason loved to hunt, and heespecially loved to be out fish-i n g . He was one who wasalways willing to try somethingd i f f e r e n t . He loved spendingtime with his friends, 4-wheel-ing, snowboarding, and“Jeeping.” He was also fond of

target shooting. Jason loved tohelp people, and would offer his

Jason R. Wood

Jason R. Wood

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Next issue is due out on Dec. 8Deadline is Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 4 p.m.

In this Journal:Midge's column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 4Off Your Rocker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 4Crossword & Games, Horoscopes . . . . . . . . .Page 6Dining Out and Having Fun . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 9Wildlife Along Israel’s River . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 10Business Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 12 and 13Upcoming Events . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 12, 13 and 14Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 18 and 19

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Per order of the Lancaster Planning BoardJustin F. Carter, Chairman

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…they all left, but one?

The Off Your Rocker ClubBy Corinne Comeau

Hello, hello…The Off YourRocker Club meeting/column(#164) is herein brought to orderand in session (and all thatalmost pompous stuff).

Thanksgiving is all over forthis year, but today (Nov. 27) Iam roasting a turkey. Yup, I didhave some at my son’s home onturkey day (delish), but mostly Iconcentrated on my fab familyand enjoyed the joshing andlaughter and love. So, now Ishall eat myself into a stupor,feasting on a small bird (13pounds) bought at a low and fineprice early in the month andstashed away in the depths ofthe freezer. Naw, it won’t all beingested today. The plan is tochop it up into a lot of singlemeals and stash them (in freez-er bags) back in the freezer.Yum. (Gravy and stuffing andeverything super good).

Thank you, thank you, thankyou for the very kind and flat-tering words sent to the Lettersto the Editor column at theGreat Northwoods Journal, forme, last week, by two “gotta-be-wonderful” Off Your Rockerpeeps. Wow, my ego got such aboost…I am still floating abouttwo feet above terra firma, sincereading them. I am so delightedto realize that you agree withthe thoughts expressed in thecolumn, and that you appreciatethem. Again, thank you, Kate,and thank you Joy. I hope to bein touch with both of you soon.Many of you so kind meetingreaders do tell me in person that

you love reading our weeklymeeting “blurbs” and I need youto know that I truly love hearingthose really generous words ofencouragement, too. Thank youall.

How are the chickens youask? Okay, I know, you did NOTask, but you know me. I have toblab about their doings anyway.They have me puzzled (this isour first winter “together”)because, sometimes, in the a.m.,I open the coop door and no mat-ter what the weather (freezingor not), they come barreling outwith attitudes that clearlyshout, “Oh, yay, we’re free, we’refree…thank God, we’re free, andthey race around and act goofy.Then, other days, as I shove thefresh food and water in, theyback away and, just as clearly,seem to be screeching, “Shut theblankety-blank, darned fooldoor, you unfeeling klutz” andthey stay in. My “good morningguy and girls” is rebuffed. But,maybe they are on to something,which we mere people creaturesare not tuned into, i.e., theweather. Today, they did notwant to come out, but today theweather is looking more andmore “iffy” as the day progresses(SNOW???).

This coming Christmas looks,for sure, like a “get busy andproduce homemade stuff forfolks” kind of occasion. Geesh, Iam so lazy, but have to truly getoff my rocker (put that bookDOWN, Corinne) and getcrackin’. At least, I need to fig-

ure out what exactly I shouldmake…right? Got any ideas?

Not much to report, thisweek, peeps of mine, or maybetoo much, actually, because thenews from overseas is, as ever,so scary. So much brutality andhorror, but I am trying for anoptimistic point of view today.Next week, I will report onwhether or not that is “working”for me. So, see ya then, andplease take good care of you andplease (most of all) God, bless usall.

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Letters to the Editor

As a rule, November “the nomonth” is the month with thefewest sunny days. You knowthe old saying, no sun, noleaves, no green, November, etc.I could add more, but for thisNovember, I’d be short-changingit, if I said anything other than“Wow, what a great November!”

Now, it did start out in thefirst week, looking like the typi-cal gray, gloomy and depressingmonth, as usual. But the secondhalf came in with cloudless blueskies for days on end, with starfilled heavens at night. Thetemps were a pleasant 45° or50° daily and 20° at night.

This is not the type of lead inweather one would expect forthe soon to arrive “end of days”due on the 21st of December.With only one exception—thiswas picture perfect fall weather.The one tiny exception was, wehave no more living creaturesup here on Hill Street! No crows,no fox, no squirrels, no deer, nobirds of any kind—no nuttin’.

Folks, I’ve never seen any-thing like it. If not for a distantchainsaw or Bill Thompson’swoodsplitter once in a while,there would be no sound. It’seerie, I tell ya!

The wife and I go for walksaround the fringe of our proper-ty and the other day, we stoppedto look for birds. In all of our

leafless yard trees, we strainedto scan each and every branchfor many minutes, looking forone single, solitary bird. It wasdead quiet.

As to not forget what theyused to look like, I now flipthrough the pages of ourReaders Digest North Americanwildlife book, occasionally.

My binoculars still sit on thewindowsill ready to be picked upat the first sign of life. Our birdfeeder has been put up, full ofseed, just waiting; waiting.Hmmm, I ain’t gettin’ it.

The first glimmer of life cameon the morning of Thanksgiving.I was sitting in my chair thatmorning after breakfast lookingthrough a magazine that camein the mail called, “4 Legs and aTail”. One particular story inthere was called “Skunk”, byTom Browe. He tells of hisunfortunate incident when atthe age of five, he took a directhit from his pet skunk’s built-inmace shooter, straight into hismouth.

Man. Talk about spoilin’ thetaste of supper that night!Anyways, as you recall,Thanksgiving Day was anotherin that string of absolutely gor-geous weather, so I went outsideabout ten that morning for awalk-a-bout. As I came aroundthe north end of the house, there

digging in our back lawn was abig beautiful, more white thanblack skunk! She flipped her tailup immediately upon hearingme. She didn’t shoot, but withthat skunk story still fresh onmy mind, I stayed back out ofrange, just in case. In a few min-utes, figuring out that I was nothreat, she went back to forag-ing. After weeks of no wildlifeand the first thing one sees is askunk! Perhaps the rest decidednot to let her in on their massexodus plans.

“In case you haven’t heardMissy,” I began, “In about amonth there’s gonna be a bigchange around here. Yep, you,me, this back lawn you’ve beendiggin’ up and makin’ look like adriving range on free golfSunday; gone. All gone. The restknew it. That’s why they leftearly. You see, God already tookthe chosen ones and left the restof us to fend for ourselves. Say,are those grubs any good? Wehaven’t canned one single itemfor this upcoming disasterthingy.”

—Comments may be sharedby writing to Midge Rosebrookat 25 Hill Street, Lancaster, NH03584 or c/o Great NorthwoodsJournal, 98-B Main Street,Lancaster, NH 03584 or byemail to greatnorthwoodsjournal@myfairpoint.net

Business as usual in WashingtonTo the Editor,

Little change will occur.Bureaucracy will still be there.Three intelligence agencies, notsharing information, but spyingon each other reveal scandal atthe highest level; nearly a mil-lion employees on the payrollthere. CIA drones assassinatedtribal leaders and their familiesin three countries; we invadedten years ago. Many are killedin this conflict. It’s called “collat-eral damage”—700+ militarybases, some with secret prisonsin 100 countries, and war con-tractors pouring concrete formore permanent bases there.Water boarding and confine-ment without trial is okay. Mr.Asang from Australia founded“Wiki Leaks” to reveal atrocitiescommitted in Iraq and

Afghanistan. Bradley Manning,an Iraq vet, faces court martialand possible firing squad for hispart in it. Ancient Rome killedmessengers of bad news—Washington the same.

There was outrage on 9-11when 3,000 Americans werekilled. That same day and everyday, 20,000 children died ofpoverty and hunger. Where isthe outrage? One-and-a-halfmillion tons or ordnance wasdropped on labs Laos andVietnam, two of the poorestcountries in the world, by one ofthe richest. A child is blown upan average of once a week, evenafter all these years. Where isthe outrage?

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To the voters of Coös 7,I want to take this time to

thank everyone who came out tovote in near record numbers onElection Day! I also want tothank my supporters and thosewho helped with my campaign—you truly made a difference. Weran an issue-oriented campaignand strived to talk to as manyresidents as possible. Your sup-port is humbling and an honor.Though there were attempts todistract from the real issues, westayed focused on what mat-tered to the residents of Coös 7.As I travel to Concord to repre-sent all residents of Coös 7, Iwant to keep an open discussionwith all the residents.

I will continue to travel toeach town. As always my phone

603-631-4151 and email r i d e -o u t 4 r e p @ g m a i l . c o m a n dh t t p : / / w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m / R i d eout4Rep will be open to all. Iencourage everyone to sharetheir ideas with me. I am look-ing forward to starting to workon those issues we discussedduring the election cycle.

I also want to take thisopportunity to thank WilliamBill Remick and Evelyn Merrickfor their service and commit-ment to Coös County. Their will-ingness to serve is admirable.Thank you both again, for yourservice.

Sincerely,Representative-elect

Leon H. RideoutLancaster

Rep.-elect Rideout appreciatessupport and vows to keep “opendiscussion with all residents”

Dear North Country, I appreciate the opportunity

to be welcomed so warmly intothe 58 communities of N.H.Senate District 1 during therecent campaign season. It was

a privilege to meet wonderfulpeople and get to know the com-munities so well, as a part of

Appreciated warm welcome andmeeting wonderful people

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