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School Board gets its just desserts
Move over Nancy Faucon.
When Faucon, the Londonderry school district's food service director, gives a presentation to the School Board, she always brings delicious cookies — not as a bribe for more money, of course.
The ante has just been upped by Matthew Thornton principal Carol Mack. She treated everyone at last week's School Board meeting to peach shortcake topped with vanilla ice cream.
Back to spelling lessons
Grinnell Elementary kindergartner Myles Hawkesworth, 5, knows how to spell and write his name, according to mom Shereen.
Too bad the Derry News misspelled it in a photo caption on the front page last week.
Myles is enjoying the start of the school year, according to his mother.
"He likes it," she said of her son's response to school. "He comes home spelling words."
The Derry News staff will try to do the same.
Church as watering hole?
Temperatures soared as students headed back to school, but one Derry church offered a quick way for students to cool off.
Trinity Assembly of God on North Main Street offered free water and ice pops to Pinkerton Academy students heading home after a long day at the nearby school.
The church offers parking spots to several Pinkerton students and wanted to continue to help out on very hot days.
Jen Schultheis, church youth and children's ministry director, said it was just a way to continue to reach out and do something nice.
"And they were extremely thankful," she said. "It was just a way to connect and do something nice."
Heroes, any way it's sliced
With the Sept. 11 anniversary approaching, Birch Heights retirement facility in Derry will honor local heroes with tasty pies, delivered to the Derry Police and Fire Departments on Sept. 9.
"We wanted to express our appreciation to our local heroes who respond to us every day," Birch Heights community relations manager Lucy Darling said.
The value of wartime weeds
During World War II, Derry's local garden club was relatively new, founded in 1935. Its members jumped right in to the war effort to do their part.
As war raged on, club members gathered milkweed to send off to make insulated life jackets. As Grenier Field at the Manchester Airport was used as an air base during that time, club members delivered their wartime milkweed there.
