Hundreds of nonprofits are expected to participate in this year’s NH Gives, a 24-hour online giving event held by the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits each June that rallies Granite Staters to give to nonprofit organizations doing great work in New.
SHELBURNE â âI was just doing my due diligence; I had a bunch of questions about the Riverlands project,â District 1 Executive Councilor Joe Kenney (R-Wakefield) said when asked why at the Feb. 3 governor and Executive Council meeting he had tabled a motion on a grant for the Androscoggin Riverlands Project.
âMy attention is drawn whenever I see a large swath of land in my district being transferred where state dollars are involved,â he said at an interview on Feb. 19 at the Town & Country Inn.
Kenney tabled a motion authorizing the N.H. Department of Environmental Services to award a $761,668 Aquatic Resource Mitigation Fund grant to the Maine-based Mahoosuc Land Trust.
WHITEFIELD â New Hampshireâs award-winning Weathervane Theatre has received a $20,000 grant from the Local Grants Program of the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund through The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
The Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund supports projects in Coos County and bordering communities in the United States and Canada focusing on community revitalization.
The purpose of the grant is to provide current and rising high school seniors in Coos County a pair of tickets to a production of their choice at the Weathervane Theatre, and to revamp Windsock, Weathervane s summer day camp program. The overall goal is to increase the next generationâs exposure to live professional theater as well as participation in the performing arts.
Outside all winter: In N.H. and in the Lakes Region, unsheltered homelessness rises
Tim Haddock is a regular for lunch at Isaiah 61 Cafe in Laconia, which offers a weekday respite from the cold and a source of donated coats mittens and sleeping bags during cold weather. Roberta Baker Laconia Daily Sun
Freeman Toth has the weighty job of finding people before it is too late.
As one of two homeless outreach and housing stability coordinators for the Community Action Program of Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Toth combs the woods, encampments, parks and gazebos, shelters, soup kitchens and cars. He looks for people who have no consistent place to sleep or to escape life-threatening weather. Late last year he discovered a young man passed out on railroad tracks in freezing temperatures.
StageWright Films is at it again. It s set to put a third play to film, the first not written by one of its principals. We re making a movie, owner, filmmaker, actor and director Bill Humphreys says. We re doing Not on This Night, (NOTN) which is kind of interesting.
The play was written by Evelyn (Evie) Jones, a former Kittery resident who passed away some years ago. Humphreys first saw the play when Act One produced it maybe 20 years ago at Winnacunnet High School s theater. (The play was also produced at Seacoast Repertory Theatre, The Players Ring and Garrison Players.)