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A sure sign of spring. The flower boxes on the bridge begin to bloom!

Spotlight On - Market Basket, A Quarter Century in Rindge

Conant Student’s Poker Run T-shirt Design Is a Winner!

by Bob SchaumannAlthough I have shopped in Market Basket before, when I stopped in on a rainy Monday morning to meet with Store Manager Bill Dube, I got to experience where most customers don’t get to go – the “upstairs” office. Here on the balcony that sits above the Customer Service area, Bill Dube is able to gain a bird’s-eye view of the store and his customers.

“I don’t like sitting up here – but it is where our computer is. I’d much rather be down on the floor – I like to be where my customers are,” says Bill. With 44 years of service with Market Basket – in-cluding when it used to be called DeMoulas – Bill has seen a lot of customers in the nearly ten differ-ent Market Basket stores in which he has served as Store Manager.

Bill started his career with the store while in high school. A graduate of Nashua High School, Bill was working part-time packing groceries at the checkout area at the age of sixteen. He went up through the ranks, becoming a cashier, the assis-tant head cashier, and moved upward from there. With 37 years’ experience as a store manager, Bill’s first store was in Tewksbury, followed by stints at Chelmsford, Chelsea, and other locations. For the past 15 years, Bill has overseen the Rindge Market Basket store.

With 325 as-sociates working with him, Bill also interacts with numerous sales repre-sentatives and vendors. An estimated 21,000 customers come through the Market Basket doors each week. Bill values them all. “You want to treat people the way you want to be treated. As the store manager, I want the customer to be #1. When a customer asks for a hard-to-find item, my associates will take our customer to where the product is found on the shelf. We like to greet people – if my associ-ates are within ten feet of a customer, I want them to say hello.”

The concept of providing good value to the customer is not lost on Bill, who – in his store manager role – has likely “seen it all.” “We try to give good value and good service. We want to pay attention to our customers and focus on their

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The Jaffrey Chamber’s Motorcycle Poker Run Committee asked students in the art classes at Conant High School to submit a design concept for our official t-shirt this year. We received sev-eral submissions, and from those, the committee selected Kirkland Pyhala’s design. Kirkland is a Conant senior. His concept was then adapted for use on the t-shirt for this year’s ride.When asked what inspired him for the design, Kirkland said, “Well, I knew there were a lot of poker runs going on. I wanted to make the image stand out by incorporating an image of the state of New Hampshire.”Kirkland received a $50 cash award.

L-R - Chamber President Max Mitchell with Kirkland Pyhala and Karrie Mitschmyer, Conant art teacher.

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From the PresidentCommunity is a house-hold word around here. After all, it is inher-ent in our identity –

in dedication of the betterment of our community. But what is the definition of commu-nity? On the surface it seems like a simple enough con-cept. When I think about it more, the meaning of commu-nity is actually fairly complex.

It starts with people. The peo-ple who live in a geographically defined area are the founda-tion of any municipality. They live here, work here, shop here and raise their families here. The business sector of any town or city provides the goods and services necessary to sustain our lives. In addition, they pro-vide necessary jobs for our

residents. Local governments and schools provide the essen-tial services required to support infrastructure, education and safety for residents, business and industry. Let us not for-get the nonprofit sector that delivers essential services to those that depend on them.

At our March breakfast, Diane Fukuda spoke about the impor-tance of industries taking interest in primary education. Our grade schools, mid-dle schools and high schools give their students the skills and experiences that compa-nies need in future employees. She discussed the challenges nonprofit institutions face com-peting with the same pools of financial supporters. These are just a couple examples of the intricate relationships amongst the various players in any com-munity. It is not just the people, the buildings or the roads

that define a community. It is the way all of its individ-ual parts work together in a sort of social “eco-system.”

Our identity is founded on these principles, which is why our membership is not only made up of businesses but also indi-viduals, families and nonprofits. Certainly, our business mem-bers are the backbone of the Chamber, and we are fully ded-icated to ensuring that they are getting the maximum benefit for

their membership. We believe, however, that they are only one piece of a bigger picture, and that is why we extend invita-tions to join beyond just the business community. Although this sets us apart from a tradi-tional chamber of commerce, I believe the diversity of our membership is our great-est strength and provides the foundation to carry out our mission and realize our values.

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All proceeds from the 27th Annual Walk for Animals go directly to the care of the

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needs to ensure that they have a good shop-ping ex-perience from the time they

arrive inside the store until the time that they are in their car and headed home.”

Speaking of home, Bill lives in Nashua – “a 55-minute commute via the back roads.” Married to Cynthia, they have three grown children and four grandchildren (with one on the way). Spare time – which is a rarity in this busy manager’s life – consists of relaxing rides on the family 22’ Bowrider boat on Lake Winnipesaukee, as well as spending time refinishing furniture. Bill proudly points to his wife’s grandmother’s 75-year-old maple dining room set that he refinished, and which now graces their dining room. Work-ing on his lawn is another one of Bill’s favorite things to do.

Market Basket joined the Jaf-frey Chamber in 2014 and was pleased to be invited by the Chamber to join. “We have many customers in Jaffrey and we welcome them here. As a matter of fact, we draw from

many neighborhoods within a 35-mile radius of our Rindge location. Thus, membership with the Jaffrey Chamber makes sense – any time we can gain favorable publicity/awareness, it is always good to help our business.”

The Rindge Market Basket cel-ebrates its 25th anniversary as a member of the local community. Constructed in 1990, the store is approximately 65,000 feet in size and is one of 75 Market Basket stores in New Hampshire, Mas-sachusetts, and Maine.

Bill likes the Rindge store. “There is something unique in every store. My associates and our customers are down-to-earth. Many of my associates are from large families and were brought up to be well-man-nered. The company values the employees. We promote from within. The retail grocery in-dustry is one that demands long hours – but the company com-pensates us fairly,” Bill claims.

As we shared, Bill would rather be “on the floor where my customers are.” The next time you are in Market Basket, look for a grandfatherly-looking gentleman in the aisles, one who enjoys working with his many associates that make Market Basket the popular supermarket that it is today.

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Halvorson New Media Completes Spring “Semester” of Social Media Workshops Christine Halvorson of Halvor-son New Media presented 9 workshops in social media mar-keting for businesses to about 28 participants throughout the months of March and April. She next plans to repeat the series in the fall of 2015. The times and venues of those classes are yet to be determined. She welcomes suggestions at chris@Halvorson-NewMedia.com or as comments to her business Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/HalvorsonNewMedia.

Workshop participants ranged from realtors to local retailers, representatives from nonprofits and area churches, and craft-ers and artists who wanted to learn how to get the word out about their creative products. Topics included Facebook and advanced Facebook techniques such as paid ads, Twitter, Video Marketing, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, blogging and tips on creating graphics for those who are not graphic designers.

The most common question posed by the students was “Isn’t Facebook dying?” The answer is no. In a report just published by the Pew Center for Inter-net and American Life, 7 in 10 teens ages 13 to 18 still use Face-book daily. For all other age groups, Facebook’s popularity shows no signs of slowing down. “Facebook is constantly chang-ing, but there’s no change in the fact that anyone wishing to promote themselves, their orga-nization or their business needs to use Facebook as one tool to do that,” says Halvorson. “The eyeballs – as the advertisers says – are still all on Facebook.”

In addition to her spring work-shops, Halvorson taught an all-day bootcamp-type ver-sion of those same topics at the Nackey Loeb School of Com-munications in Manchester in April. She will be present-ing two sessions under the auspices of the Monadnock Chapter of SCORE in Keene in May and has recently been retained to consult with the OSHA Education Center in Manchester and the Endow-ment for Health in Concord. Longtime clients for whom she has produced social media con-tent include the Monadnock

Community Hospital, the New Hampshire Small Busi-ness Development Center, and Customer Perspectives, a Hooksett-based customer service evaluation firm.

Halvorson can be reached at Chris@HalvorsonNewMe-dia.com or 603-203-0593.

Hospice at HCS Volunteer TrainingHospice at HCS is offering a vol-unteer training program starting in June for those who are inter-ested in becoming volunteers. The training will begin on June 1 and continue on Monday eve-nings from 5 to 8 pm through July 13. Training will be held at the agency’s Peterborough office at 45 Main Street, Suite 316.

Volunteers are members of the hospice care team, pro-viding support to the patient and to family members. After completing the training, vol-unteers assist hospice patients with interests such as writ-ing letters, reading, playing board games, scrap booking, or may accompany a patient to a community event or to visit friends; volunteers also pro-vide respite to family members. Hospice volunteers are espe-cially needed during the day, but time can be very flexible and work around employ-ment and travel commitments.

The training program is offered free of charge, but class size is limited and pre-registra-tion is required. To register, contact Lorraine Bishop, Hos-pice at HCS Volunteer Coordinator, at 532-8353 or lbishop@HCSservices.org.

Hospice at HCS is a not-for-profit hospice with offices in Peterborough, Charlestown, and

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Member NewsKeene. Care is provided wher-ever a person calls home – their own home, or in an assisted liv-ing facility or nursing home.

The Invisible ThreadCon-toocook Valley Transpor-tation Company (CVTC) is a nonprofit orga-

nization creating, coordinating and deliver-ing transportation solutions for the Monadnock Region.

Our volunteer drivers get resi-dents of the Eastern Monadnock Region to non-emergency medical and social service destinations. Our carpool-ing program facilitates and encourages the formation of car-pools. Anyone driving within or through the entire Monad-nock Region can use our

online ride-board; visit www.MonadnockRideshare.org.

Transportation is the invis-ible thread that binds our communities together:

• When our neighbors can’t get to the grocery store or the food bank, our community suf-fers from food insecurity.

• When our elderly neigh-bors drive past their ability to do so safely, our communi-ty’s roads are more hazardous.

• When our neighbors cancel healthcare appoint-ments because they can’t get to them, our communi-ty’s physical health suffers.

• When our neighbors can’t get a job because they have no way to get to work, our com-munity’s economy suffers.

• When people don’t carpool because they can’t see the advan-tages, our environment suffers.

But when there are alternatives to operating a personal vehicle,

communities increase their overall wellbeing by improv-ing the lives of its citizens and growing social capital through an increase in the interactions between people of all ages and abilities. This in turn increases tolerance and makes it easier for communities to make decisions that increase the welfare of all.

CVTC’s mission is to make that invisible thread visible and strong. Please consider supporting us by becoming a Volunteer Driver. 1-877-428-2882 x 5 www.cvtc-nh.org

Planning Begins for 99th First Church FairThe sun is getting higher in the sky, bringing with it the prom-ise of spring and summer . . . and First Church in Jaffrey’s 99th Annual Fair, scheduled for Wednesday, August 5 from 1 to 4. If you are planning a move, any spring house clean-ing, or know folks who will be moving, we are ready and will-ing to pick up goods for sale in our various booths. It’s never too early to begin in order to prevent last-minute scram-bling as we near Fair week.

Keep us in mind, and call Tom Gundlach at 532-7192 for any merchandise pickups or Janet Grant at 532-5731 if you wish to bring anything to her garage. All items, from white ele-phants to art, antiques, and books, should be clean and in good condition. Please note

that we are not accepting fur-niture this year. Most funds raised by the Fair support local organizations that serve Jaf-frey and Monadnock area families and scholarships for Conant High School students.

Jaffrey Woman’s Club Announces College Scholarship WinnerJaffrey Woman’s Club Col-lege Scholarship chair Dorothy Bacon (at left) recently pre-sented an envelope containing a $2,000 check to 2014 Schol-arship Winner Kristin Baranowski. Kristin is attend-ing New England College where she is in the pre-physi-cal therapy program. She was chosen for the Honors pro-gram at NEC and was on the Dean’s List for her first semes-ter! In addition to taking a full course load, she works 30 hours a week at a store in Jaffrey and does work-study at New Eng-land College. Although she is very busy with her studies and work, Kristin is enjoying col-lege and is very appreciative of the scholarship the Jaffrey Woman’s Club awarded her.

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Member NewsThe Jaffrey Woman’s Club Col-lege Scholarship is awarded to a graduating senior from Conant High School. All applications are reviewed for scholastics, financial need, community service and spirit, individual qualities, abilities, character, and goals. Every applicant is given a copy of the Club’s “Statement of Purpose,” which is a guideline for awarding this scholarship.

The object of the Jaffrey Wom-an’s Club is to promote civic, cultural, and charitable projects in support of the community, and the encouragement of per-sonal enrichment. Membership in the Jaffrey Woman’s Club is open to all area women; if you have an interest in joining, please call 532-7386, message us on Facebook, or email us at jaf-freywomansclub@gmail.com .

Outdoor Dining at the Woodbound Inn Summer is almost here and the time for al fresco dining has arrived again at the Woodbound Inn! We will be reopening our patio in May and are working on enclosing the porch to make the dining experience better for our guests. We will also be roll-ing out our new summer menu soon so be sure to follow us on Facebook to stay updated with the latest news and events.

Show Mom how much you care and leave the cooking to us at the Woodbound Inn. We will be featuring a deli-cious Mother’s Day brunch on May 10 from 10:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. Make your reserva-tions soon before it’s too late!

New Spring Menu at J.P. Stephen’s RestaurantStop by J.P. Stephen’s Restau-rant and Tavern and enjoy our new spring menu. We have a pub menu and happy hour spe-cials every day with potato skins, nachos, steak and cheese. We also have crab cakes, bour-bon glazed ribs, fried oysters, NH pot roast, grilled chicken sandwich, chicken parmesan, traditional baked haddock, fish and chips, rack of ribs, jam-balaya, fish or chicken tacos, melt in your mouth steak tips served every day, all day.

Our dinner entrees consist of char-grilled barbecue-glazed salmon, char-grilled 16 oz rib eye, pan-roasted chicken, Mediterranean shrimp, char-grilled double-thick pork chop and a whole lot more.

We are now open Mondays and we have live music: Jeff Wat-son on May 2, Ken Macy on May 28 and June 12. Trivia

nights with Nolan Foley every Thurs-day night. Irish music every other Thursday night.

MHS to Hold 27th Annual Walk for AnimalsMonadnock Humane Society is pleased to announce the 27th Annual Walk for Ani-mals will once again be held at the Keene Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Swanzey on Satur-day, June 20 from 10 am to 2 pm, rain or shine. This is MHS’s biggest and most important fundraiser of the year. MHS hopes that local businesses will consider supporting the Walk with either a cash or in-kind sponsorship. Many different options are available. Employees can also form a team and sup-port the Walk as participants.

Every year, members of the community help to raise money by finding friends, family, col-leagues, businesses, co-workers - any animal lovers - to spon-sor them. MHS’s website has complete information and fund-raising tools for those who want to join the Walk. Fund-raising occurs between now and the date of the Walk event. Then, on June 20, walkers fetch their sneakers, leash up their dogs (or walk without a dog) and take a walk together on this special day. Everyone can par-ticipate as either an individual

or as part of a team. Children are encouraged and welcome to participate. The public is wel-come to join the festivities. Prizes will be given to the top fundraisers in Adult, Youth, and Team categories, and lunch (donated by local businesses) will be provided to all walkers.

CJ the DJ from Fitzwilliam will provide music and entertain-ment during the event. Each walker receives an event tote bag filled with wonderful dis-count coupons and gifts donated by businesses (including a plush toy from Douglas Cuddle Toys!).

All proceeds from the Walk for Animals go directly to the care of our homeless animals. Partic-ipation in the Walk for Animals - as an individual walker, part of a team, as a sponsor, or as a volunteer - will make a differ-ence in the lives of thousands of animals as well as the peo-ple in our community. For more information, visit www.monad-nockhumanesociety.org. If you would like more informa-tion on being a Walk Business Sponsor, please contact Carol

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Member NewsLaughner, caroll@humanecom-munity.org or 603.352.9011, ext. 115 or visit our website.

MHS is a private, nonprofit organization that serves the Monadnock region, covering 44 towns and the approximately 140,000 residents. MHS cares for an average of 1,800 ani-mals each year with a staff of 30 and the help of over 400 volun-teers. Its mission is to foster a compassionate community by promoting and providing for the well-being of animals. MHS receives no state or federal fund-ing, and is not affiliated with any other agency or organization. It is supported by the generos-ity of those in our community.

The Kittens Are Coming . . . The Kittens Are Coming!

Yes, this is what you’ve all been wait-ing for! In May Kitty Res-cue and Adoption will start

having kittens ready for adop-tion! We have received many calls about kittens, and because we have had such a long win-ter, the kittens are coming a little late this year. But please don’t forget about the older cats. KRA

has many great cats ranging from one and a half years old to seniors who are also looking for new homes and families to love!

Kitty Rescue does not reserve kittens over the phone or through email. As with any adoption, you should come to the shelter to meet and bond with your new prospec-tive family member. Kittens are adorable, but it is possible that they will live to be almost 20 years old. Are you and your family ready to make that com-mitment to your new kitten?

KRA volunteers see so many displaced cats come through their door – it’s heartbreak-ing. Some can’t be helped, like when an older family member passes. The effect this has on the poor cat is sad. They go from a loving home that they have known all their life to a new home with 120 cats. They don’t understand and are very fright-ened when they arrive. These are the cats that KRA tries to place quickly into new homes, so as to ease their trauma.

Please consider your adop-tion as a commitment to that cat or kitten for their life. If you are planning to move, have a baby, get a dog, retire and travel, how will this affect your new feline friend? Most of the time, the cat/kitten will adapt; however in some cases, those are the reasons the cat has found its way into a shelter.

Kitty Rescue and Adoption is also looking for foster homes for pregnant moms, moms with babies and orphaned babies who need bottle feeding. If you would like to experience the miracle of birth, please don’t let your cat have kittens. Check with a local shelter and see if you can foster a preg-nant mom. There are so many unwanted kittens born each year. KRA is still offering dis-counted feline spay and neuter vouchers, if you need help

Please visit the shelter Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6 to 9 pm or Saturdays from 9 am to 1 pm. You can also reach them by phone at 532-9444 or through email at info@kit-tyrescueandadoption.org.

The Park Theater Awarded $50,000 By Timken Foundation of Canton

On March 19th, the Trustees of the Timken Foun-dation of Canton awarded $50,000 to The Park The-atre for the rebuilding of its

facility in Jaffrey. “We are con-vinced that the reopened Park Theater – along with the diverse cultural and entertainment programs it plans to provide – will greatly benefit every-one in the Greater Keene area,” noted Bob Bauman, General Manager of Timken’s Keene, New Hampshire facility.

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Coming EventsMAY 2MHS Spring Celebration & Annual MeetingMonadnock Humane Society, Swanzey

Monadnock Humane Soci-ety will hold a Spring Cel-ebration and its Annual Meeting on Saturday, May 2 from 2 to

4 pm in the Guinane Training Center. The first half of the event (the Spring Celebration) will begin at 2 pm. Delicious home-baked desserts and cookies will be provided by the Coun-try Life Restaurant of Keene.

Live music entertainment will be provided by local band Santa Croce. Santa Croce is made up of six brothers and sisters with unique harmonies, song struc-tures and instrumentation, dedicated to spreading posi-tive energy. To hear some of their songs, visit their website at www.santacroceband.com.

The second half of the event will start at 3 pm. It will begin with an Awards Ceremony honoring three individuals – Compas-sionate Citizen of the Year, Outstanding MHS Employee, and Outstanding MHS Vol-unteer. The Outstanding MHS Volunteer of the Year and the Outstanding MHS Employee of the Year will be nominated

by the MHS Volunteers, Board of Directors, and Staff. The MHS Compassionate Citi-zen of the Year will be given to a person in our community, and nominations are accepted from anyone in the Monadnock Region. To nominate some-one you know, please go to the MHS website for guidelines and to complete a form. Dead-line for nominations is April 28.

The Annual Meeting will fol-low the Awards Ceremony with a special guest speaker, MHS Transition Leader Joe Olsen. The meeting will con-tinue with the election and re-election of board members.

All events are free and open to the public. All ages are wel-come. Plenty of parking.

MAY 3Electric Earth Concerts Presents Borromeo String QuartetFirst Church, JaffreyOn Sunday, May 3 at 4 pm, the Borromeo String Quartet will perform at the First Church, 14 Laban Ainsworth Way, Jaf-frey. This marks the fourth

consecutive year that Borromeo has been presented by EEC, giv-ing Monadnock region residents an intimate experience with this globally acclaimed quartet.

This year’s program brings Russian music to the fore with works by Piotr Iliych Tchaikovsky and Dmitry Shosta-kovich. Written one hundred years apart, Tchaikovsky’s 1st and Shostakovich’s 12th quartets span an epic period in Rus-sian life. The program concludes with the F major Quartet Op 77 No. 2, by Franz Joseph Haydn.

The Borromeo Quartet’s genius for making the great repertoire vivid and meaningful has been celebrated in countless reviews and awards. While each member of the quartet brings virtuosity

to their playing, their inno-vative use of technology adds a level of interactive sophis-tication. Instead of reading their individual parts, the players watch the full musi-cal score, putting their lines in the context of the entire piece. Conventionally, this process would require an

unmanageable frequency of page turns, but by reading the music from computer screens, the musicians accomplish that step with the tap of a foot.

Admission is $25. Mid-dle and high school age students are admitted without charge. For more informa-tion or to order tickets, visit

ElectricEarthConcerts.org. Contact: Laura Gilbert, 646-522-3352, eeconcerts@gmail.com

Electric Earth Concerts is a year-round concert series based in the Monadnock Region of southwestern New Hampshire. Our name and philosophy are inspired by Beethoven’s words “Music is the electric soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.” EEC honors his idea that music is fertile ground for the spirit. At the heart of the organization is a desire to make music in an environment alive and open to creative discov-ery. EEC’s mission is twofold: to present diverse, challenging, and often interdisciplinary concerts in acoustically fine locations around the region, and to bring music to places where it can make a difference — to schools, rehabilitation centers, and group homes for the disabled.

Electric Earth Concerts is hon-ored to have been voted “Best Musical Encounter of 2014” by NH Magazine Best of 2014.

Artistic Directors: Jona-than Bagg (919- 417-0469) and Laura Gilbert (646-522-3352). Learn more at: Electricearthconcerts.org

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MAY 9Spring Buffet DinnerUnited Church of JaffreyBack by popular demand! Sam-ple a variety of homemade hot dishes, salads, desserts and bev-erages at the United Church’s buffet dinner on Saturday, April 11 from 5 to 6:30 pm. Please note the change in hours.

The United Church is located at 54 Main Street in Jaffrey. Cost: $9 adults and $5 for chil-dren. Take-out is also available.

MAY 16Plant SaleJaffrey Woman’s ClubThe Jaffrey Woman’s Club is holding its annual “Everybody Loves a Plant” Sale on Satur-day, May 16 from 8 am to noon at the Cutler Memorial Build-ing on the corner of Main & School Streets in Jaffrey. As always, this sale will feature a bountiful array of shrubs, herbs, annuals and perennials for the yard, just in time for Memo-rial Day weekend planting!

If you have plants you would like to donate, they will be cheerfully accepted at the Cutler Memorial Building on Friday, May 15 between 3 and 6 pm. For further information, please contact Tuesday at 532-7456 or Kathleen at 532-6707. Pro-ceeds from the plant sale will go to support the Club’s chil-dren’s dental care program, high school scholarship, ACE

scholarship and preservation of the historic Cutler Building.

The Jaffrey Woman’s Club pro-motes civic, cultural, and charitable projects in support of the community. Mem-bership is open to all area women. For information, email us at jaffreywomans-club@gmail.com, call 532-7386, or visit us on Facebook.

MAY 30MDS 5K/1-Mile RaceDowntown Keene

Monad-nock Develop-mental Services will host

its first annual Run~Walk~Smile 5K/1Mile in downtown Keene on Saturday, May 30 to help raise funds for critical dental care for people with develop-mental disabilities. Savings Bank of Walpole is lead sponsor of this event, with co-sponsors Clark-Mortenson Insurance;

C&S Wholesale Grocers; IPG Employee Benefits; Print Fusion; Raynor Dental; Donald Hudson, DMD, and Mark Wirant, DDS, along with a number of area dentist and businesses. Run-ners, walkers and sponsors are partnering with MDS to fos-ter improved health outcomes, well-being and dental care.

People of all ages, abilities and fitness levels are invited to par-ticipate and can choose to run or walk the 5K, or run/walk the one-mile course. Check-in begins at 7:30 am, rain or shine, at the bike path near MDS and Whitney Brothers, 93 Rail-road Street. The event kicks off at 8:30 am with the 1-mile walk on the Rail Trail. The 5K Run begins at 9 am. The race course starts and finishes at the Whit-ney Brothers’ parking lot near Community Way, following the bike path to Water Street, wind-ing through several streets in east Keene, over to Eastern Avenue, and back. The awards ceremony for all age groups will

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be held at the conclusion of the race at approximately 10:30 am.

Pre-event registration for the 5K is $25 per person, $15 for the 1-Mile walk or children aged 12 and under. Day-of-race reg-istration is $30/$20. The first 100 participants to register will receive a free T-shirt. All pro-ceeds benefit the MDS Dental Fund to help pay for critical dental work and emergencies for people with developmen-tal disabilities. Visit www.mds-nh.org for full details and to register online.

JUNE 6Comedic Hypnotist Frank Santos Jr.Jaffrey American LegionJoin us on Saturday, June 6 as we start our 2015-16 year with a night of adult comedy featuring Frank Santos Jr. The fun begins at 6 pm at the American Legion, 20 Webster Street, Jaffrey.

Sponsorship packages are avail-able: $500 Diamond (includes 10 tickets and drink tokens, full-page ad; only one Dia-mond package is available); $300 Platinum (includes 6 tickets and drink tokens, half-page ad); $150 Gold (includes 4 tickets and drink tokens, one-third page ad); $60 Silver

(includes 2 tickets and drink tokens, business card ad).

Tickets prices: $20 advanced sales/$25 at the door. Call 532-7975 for more information.

Your participation enables us to continue to provide services to our veterans and the surround-ing community. The American Legion is the nation’s largest veterans’ organization, com-mitted to making sure that all veterans receive the benefits they deserve for their sacrifices they’ve made to our country.

The John Humiston Post 11 has long been a favorite gath-ering place for veterans and has hosted many family events and provided valuable com-munity services, such as American Cross blood drives, transportation, and veter-ans’ and family assistance.

Jaffrey Chamber of Commerce

Ron Despres Memorial Golf ClassicFriday, June 19, 2015Shattuck Golf Club, Jaffrey

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