Ed. Note: The following comes from Rev. Susan Kershaw, Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. CCB
St. John's Spring Craft Fair May 2 in Town Hall
Longer days and blooming flowers signal the return of the annual Spring Craft Fair at the Walpole Town Hall, on Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. This year’s event features 30 local artists displaying superb work, including members of the Walpole Artists Cooperative, Saxtons River Artists, and Cheshire Craft Guild. Artists will be selling beautiful handmade work including quilts, woodcarving, wooden toys, framed photography, watercolor paintings, fiber and textile art, note cards, handmade fragrant soaps and lotions, jewelry, painted glassware, homemade jams, tea and scone mixes, baby items, baskets, and pottery. There will be lots of great gifts suitable for Mother’s Day (May 10), Father’s Day (June 21), weddings and graduations. St. John’s Café will be selling baked goods and light lunch throughout the day. Dealing directly with local artists is a great way to buy beautiful work at reasonable prices. Support local artists and come to the Walpole Spring Craft Fair! Please call 756-4533 for more information.
The Real Twist Ice Cream Stand, next to Real To Reel in the North Meadow Plaza in Walpole, is now open for the season. April hours are: weekdays 3-8PM; Saturday 12-9PM; Sunday 12-8PM. Starting in May, they will be open 12-9, seven days a week,
The Real Twist serves exceptional soft serve ice cream and fat free frozen yogurt, including your favorite cones, sundaes, flurries, frappes and more.
Area singers and instrumentalists have joined the Walpole Congregational Church Choir to present Gabriel Faure's "Requiem", a well-known and loved choral work for the Lenten season. All are welcome to the public concert on Good Friday evening--tomorrow--April 10 at 7:00 pm. Music Director, Ken Olsson, will conduct the chorus, soloists and string quartet.
The First Congregational Church in Walpole, NH is on the village common and is wheelchair accessible.
Art After School, an innovative program for children in grades one and higher, resumes for a six-week Spring Session on Wednesday, April 15, 3:30 p.m., at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Elm Street, in Walpole. Art After School encourages creativity and builds community. Professional artists, including Racheal Scott of Walpole Artisans and retired art teacher Joan d’Alessio, lead each session. Spring session projects include drawing, going on a nature hunt to find items for a special sculpture project, painting on T-shirts, and drawing in the style of famous artists. The cost is still just $15 for 6 weekly sessions. Scholarships are available so that every interested child can participate.
Art After School welcomes new participants. Interested students need to be in grade one and higher. Parents need to fill out a registration form which they can get by contacting Susan Kershaw at St. John’s Church (756-4533 or rector@stjohnswalpole.org).
Here are several calendar notices/reminders for Walpoleans. Whew! I think I need to move to a smaller, quieter place! I can't keep up! CCB
TONIGHT! 7:00 P.M. TOWN HALL SELECTMEN'S ROOM Hearing on suggested restructuring of High Street from Main Street east into a one-way street. Selectmen's regular meeting to follow at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 5 TOWN HALL Palm Sunday Pancake Breakfast sponsored by Walpole Village School from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Admission by contribution. One of my favorite events of the year in town!
Sunday, April 5 at BURDICK'SKeene Family YMCA drop-by reception to learn about the new facility opening in spring 2010.
Friday, April 10 7:00 p.m. at the Congregatonal Church.Area singers and instrumentalists are joining the Walpole Congregational Church Choir to present Gabriel Faure's "Requiem", a well-known and loved choral work for the Lenten season. All are welcome to the public concert. Music Director Ken Olsson will conduct the chorus, soloists and string quartet.
Monday, April 13 at Town Hall. Ernie Vose reports that the Cheshire County Farm Bureau is holding a meeting that is open to the public. The main subject is organic farming, but Ernie expects discussion on the proposed--and controversial--federal Food Safety Modernization Act and the new slaughterhouse for Westminster. Tom Sloan of the NHDAMF will be the main speaker.
Thursday, April 16 The Friends of the Walpole Town Library will hold their annual meeting at the library at 7:00 p.m.
The Friends of the Walpole Town Library plant sale, scheduled each year on the Saturday before Mother’s Day, will be held on the lawn of the Bridge Memorial Library, Main Street, Walpole on Saturday, May 9, beginning at 9:00 am. This popular event will go on until everything is sold, usually well before Noon.
The sale features healthy perennials, small shrubs, groundcovers, veggies and other plants donated by area residents. Among the favorites donated last year were hybrid daylilies, Shasta daisies, asters, roses, ladies mantle, pachysandra, ferns, dahlias, heirloom tomatoes, mint, chives and many others.
All area gardeners who would like to donate plants or volunteer to help with pre-sale digging and potting or who have pots to donate are encouraged to call or e-mail chairman Lucy Weber at 756-4338 (lwmcv@comcast.net), Sarah Tucker at 756-9280 (sjtuc@aol.com), or Gretchen Hurlburt at 756-3145.
Proceeds from the sale benefit both the Bridge Memorial Library and the North Walpole branch, located in North Walpole in the Fire Department Building on School Street.
The Walpolean’s corporate parent, WorldwideMedia Inc. (WMI), announced today that it has acquired a giant screen Sony Jumbotron from the old Yankee Stadium now being demolished in New York City and will be installing it on the Common in Walpole this spring.
Formerly used for showing replays and scores in “The House that Ruth Built”, the huge TV-like screen is 35 feet wide by 28 feet high and has its own massive speakers behind it.
Walpole’s new Jumbotron will be placed on top of the bandstand at the north end of the Common facing south.
“This will be a tremendous gift to the town of Walpole!” said Alf Wheeler, spokesperson for WMI on Wednesday. “This giant screen will serve the town’s insatiable needs for Walpolean news and other information and special events year around and bring us into the 21st century!”
The Jumbotron will show The Walpolean postings the moment they appear on The Walpolean web site at www.thewalpolean.com, and each posting will remain on the giant screen—with appropriate music playing—for 30 minutes. Then the posting will go into The Walpolean archive for future call up when people wish to conduct Walpolean research.
When people wish to research past Walpolean postings on the Jumbotron, they will have the opportunity to turn on the big screen with a switch located at the base, something like the switch at the Walpole gas station where one can turn on the air compressor for filling tires.
In addition to the Walpolean postings, the Jumbotron will bring Walpole events to the giant screen for everyone to conveniently see. Initially, Walpole Selectmen meetings will be shown on the Jumbotron on the Common in a special summer series called “The Selectmen at Sunset.” Chairs and tables will be set on the Common for people to watch the meetings on Thursday evenings from 7:30 to their conclusion. And the Women of Walpole have agreed to sell cold beer, popcorn and pretzels during the meetings. For regular Sunday evening concerts in the summer, the Jumbotron will provide close-up videos of the musicians, crowd shots and feature those dancing in the streets to the music.
“We understand that the Planning Board and the Zoning Board will have to do their usual review of the plans,” noted Wheeler on Wednesday, “but we are confident that they will see the tremendous advantages to the town in this new installation. The timber frames supporting the Jumbotrons will be made locally and have a rustic look to fit in with their surroundings.”
Wheeler added that WMI is encouraging Walpole residents to suggest additional uses for the Jumbotron.
