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Film highlights affordable housing push in Conway


CONWAY — A new documentary about New Hampshire s demographic challenges featuring Conway was aired recently.
Efforts by a group in Conway to change zoning laws related to affordable housing were among the topics covered by the filmmakers.
The Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, along with several other community organizations, partnered with New Hampshire PBS to offer an online screening of Jay B. Childs “Communities & Consequences II” on Jan. 26. About 90-100 people logged in to view it.
In 2008, a filmmaking team consisting of Childs of Portsmouth, demographer Peter Francese of Exeter and former state Commissioner of Agriculture Lorraine Merrill of Stratham published a book and made a movie about the  decline of the state s young workforce. It was called “Communities & Consequences: The Unbalancing of New Hampshire’s Human Ecology. ....

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Cook Memorial Library to host 'Communities & Consequences II' screening Jan. 26


TAMWORTH — “Every citizen, business and organization has a stake in the economic health of the Granite State,” reads the tagline for the New Hampshire PBS film, “Communities & Consequences II: Rebalancing New Hampshire’s Human Ecology.”
The Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth along with several other Mount Washington Valley-area community organizations, will partner with New Hampshire PBS to offer an online screening of Jay B. Childs “Communities & Consequences II” on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m.
At this interactive screening, participants will watch the documentary online, share thoughts, ideas and questions in a chat space, and then have an opportunity to engage in an online question and answer with panelists Andrew Dean, chair of Mount Washington Valley Housing Coalition, Marianne Jackson of Mount Washington Valley Age Friendly Community and Shannon Rogers, State Specialist of Nature Based Economic Development on UNH Cooperative Ext ....

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