First Time Home Buyer Event on March 25th from 10:30 to 12:30 at Sun Rise Pointe Café, 50 Pointe Place #33, Dover. Join Our team of experts will guide you on all the steps needed to get you into your dream home! Call 603 674-2890 to register.
All You Can Eat Breakfast to benefit charity at the Elks Club #1210, March 12th from 9am to noon. Cost $12, $10 for seniors and veterans, under 5 free. The Elks lodge is just south of the Epsom Traffic Circle at 24 Old Mill Rd, Epsom.
The Award- Winning Art Center Presents: “Art From The Outside” featuring the work of Bunkt.
Brian Wagoner, known in the art world as Bunkt.
Abstract Art that speaks volumes! Bunkt’‘s artwork is imaginative, energetic, naughty, expressive, mysterious, and reveals raw emotion.
A self- taught artist, Brian discovered art at the age of 44. Through destruction, taking trash and transforming it into something that is whole he found a way to express himself.
A teacher and counselor by education and professional training, Wagoner previously spent time as a wilderness counselor for children who struggle in standard school environments. Bunkt’s artwork is personal and portrays many characters, wildlife and life experiences.
Rebecca Proctor, owner of the Art Center mentioned that “she immediately fell in love with Bunkt’s work because it speaks to her and his work has been hanging at the Art Center ever since.”
“Art From The Outside” will be on display at the Jim Reagan Gallery located at the Art Center March 6 through the end of April with a reception on Saturday, April 1, from 6pm to 9pm. The public is invited to attend.
Please visit the Art Center located at 1 Washington Street, Suite 1177, Dover, NH. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm and Saturday 10am – 2pm. Visit www.theartcenterdover.com or call 603-978-6702 for more information.
Woodman Museum presents the Dover Middle School Art Show March 30- April 2 at the Thom Hindle Gallery. This free special exhibition begins with a reception on Thursday the 30th from 5-7 pm and open for viewing Friday to Sunday from 11am to 3pm. Exhibit at 15Summer St Dover.
Showstoppers Celebrates 70 Years of Garrison Players Musicals
In 1953, the seeds of Garrison Players were planted with a production of Brigadoon staged in the Dover City Hall auditorium by a group of local actors. In celebration of the organization’s 70th birthday, its Showstoppers troupe will present a Broadway revue featuring selected favorites from seven decades of the community theater’s musical productions.
Shows represented include 9 to 5, Annie Get Your Gun, Baby, Brigadoon, Camelot, The Fantasticks, Fiddler on the Roof, Finian’s Rainbow, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Good News!, Guys and Dolls, Honk!, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, The Music Man, Nunsense, Oliver!, Once Upon a Mattress, The Pajama Game, South Pacific, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Performance dates are March 10 and 11 at 7 p.m. at Garrison Players Arts Center, corner of Roberts Road and Portland Avenue (Route 4), Rollinsford. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at garrisonplayers.org or at the door.
The Great New England Holiday Specialty Food & Artisan Shows. Mar 11th, 10-4 | Mar 12th, 10 – 3pm. The Rim Sports Complex – 311 Winnacunet Rd – Hampton. 130+ exhibitors. Special St Patrick Day Fun with Irish Dancers and green beer. Food trucks | Cocktails | $100 Door Prize | Holiday Music. $5 Entry- valid both days – Ages 14 & under free of charge.
The Dover area Winter Farmers Market will be at the Wentworth Greenhouses in Rollinsford on March 4th from 10 am to 2 pm. See www.seacoasteatlocal.org for more info.
28th Annual Peeper 5k Run/Walk is Saturday, May 6th in 2023. Starts at the Barrington Elementary School with an out and back course in a country setting. For more details and the link to Registration, please visit: https://barringtonchamber.org/Peeper-5K Race hosted by the Greater Barrington Chamber Of Commerce.
The Joe B Parks Riverwalk Public Gardens is seeking garden tenders for the 2023 season. Check out the garden here http://www.joeparksgarden.org/ for additional information about the garden. Click contact us to volunteer or call @ 603-817-1843. Come join the fun!
Cornerstone VNA Welcomes Three New Board Members
Rochester, NH – Cornerstone VNA, your local nonprofit home health and hospice care organization, is pleased to welcome and introduce the newest members of their Board of Directors, Marilyn Staff, RN, David Richard, and Laura Davie.
According to Julie Reynolds, RN, MS, President/CEO, “We are thrilled to have Marilyn, David and Laura join our dynamic and steadfast Board of Directors. In addition to sharing a passion for our mission, they all bring extensive experience in health care and leadership skills.” Julie adds, “Marilyn, David and Laura are joining our board during an exciting time as we kick off our 110th year anniversary, and work together to honor our past, celebrate the present, and look ahead to the bright future of our VNA.”
A graduate of Boston College, Marilyn Staff, BSN, RN, CCM has been an RN for over 35 years and is currently the Director of Care Coordination at FedPoint located in Portsmouth, NH. For over 8 years, she has been overseeing Care Management and Fraud Waste and Abuse for the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program. She has extensive senior leadership and clinical operations management experience in various settings, as well as significant risk and audit experience. A strategic, analytical, and visionary leader, Marilyn is a past member of the Massachusetts Home Care Alliance and collaborated to establish the first Salem State Universality (previously SSC) Nursing shadow program.
David Richard is currently the sales manager for liquid fuels and equipment as well as head of community outreach for D.F. Richard Energy in Dover, NH. Prior to re-joining his family’s business in 2015, he was an occupational therapist for over 20 years in various settings, including skilled nursing facilities (SNF), and visiting nurse agencies. He has also held department management positions in SNF settings, including lead therapist positions in various VNA settings.
David shares, “I am honored to be a part of such a passionate group of professionals that provide much needed home health services to the greater Rochester area and beyond. Additionally, I have experienced Cornerstones VNA’s services firsthand as they have provided amazing care to my mother in her final weeks. All I can say is that I was much impressed with the level of compassion and level of communication to myself and my siblings. It was comforting to all of us. I would not hesitate to recommend Cornerstone VNA to anyone in need of at home care.”
Rochester resident, Laura Davie, is the Director of the Long Term Care and Aging focus area at the Institute for Health Policy and Practice (IHPP). She is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center on Aging and Community Living (CACL), a collaboration between IHPP and the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. Laura joined IHPP in 2005 and provides leadership, project management, facilitation, and evaluation across multiple projects focused on person-centered options for older adults to support them to live and age in communities of their choice. Currently, Laura is a Cornerstone VNA Hospice Volunteer, an active member of the Tri-State Learning Collaborative on Aging’s Advisory Board, and is a collaborative partner in the NH Senior Leadership Series. Laura was a New Hampshire Public Health Association Board Member (2009-2016) and served as Vice President (2011-2015).
Laura shares, “As a hospice volunteer these past two years, I have learned about the breadth and depth of services Cornerstone VNA provides and the high caliber of people they employ. Joining the board is an opportunity to serve Cornerstone VNA, but also our community. Sustaining and expanding home-based services is vital to the health and well-being of individuals in need of care and their caregivers.”
Cornerstone VNA currently serves Rockingham, Strafford, Belknap and Carroll Counties in New Hampshire and York County in Maine. The team at Cornerstone VNA provides award-winning care and support through five distinct programs: Home Care, Hospice Care, Palliative Care, Life Care-Private Duty and Community Care. For 110 years, Cornerstone VNA has been committed to bringing services to people of all ages so that families can stay together at home, even when facing the challenges of aging, surgical recovery, chronic or life-threatening illnesses or end-of-life care. To learn more about Cornerstone VNA, visit www.cornerstonevna.org or call 800-691-1133.
