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AMHERST – Lorraine Alice Hamilton of Amherst, New Hampshire, Beach Haven, New Jersey and Rancho Mirage, California died June 14, 2020 from pancreatic cancer at her home in California. She was 73 years old and a participant in the trial of a new cancer drug at NYU Langone in New York City since April 2019. She hoped that results from the trial would improve care for other patients who develop this cancer. She was with her family when she died and was
Letters
Thank You from the Amherst Lions Club
To the editor:
The Amherst Lions Club would like to express our sincere gratitude to the participants, donors and supporters of our 6th annual Lions Club Fire and Ice chili cook off contest and ice cream social. The 2022 edition of this event was held at the Amherst Middle School March 11th, 2022 and was a huge success. Despite its postponement from its original February date, we had well over 200 community members who enjoyed the festivities.
This year we had: 10 individuals, 3 area Lion Clubs, and 3 restaurants participating in the competition. We had many different varieties of good tasting chili. Thanks to all the cooks for the many variations.
Congratulations to this year’s trophy winners (there were three): William Swift who won people’s choice for best individual chili, Mike Sills of the Bedford Lions Club for best Lion’s chili, and Amherst’s own Moultons Market for best restaurant chili. All receive an engraved trophy for the year.
Congratulations also go to the three youngsters who won in our picture coloring contests. They were Everleigh G,under 5yrs.; Clara L, 6-10 yrs. and Jodi G,11 to15yrs.
We would like to pass on a special thank you to the various performers we had at the festival. The “jazz” ensemble groups coordinated by Kevin Swift of the Amherst Middle School, our own Don Towers playing guitar and of course, Krickey the clown with her balloon antics. A thank you also to the Amherst recreation department which was poised to offer family ice skating albeit the weather didn’t cooperate this year.
As with most of our events we also provide free vision checks with our instantaneous Digital Vision Screener. This year we provided these services to 25 young people.
We are also very grateful for the contributions from our Lions Club Platinum and Gold sponsors for 2022. Ponemah Crossing Dental, Budget Blinds, McGuigan Financial, Cardoza Flooring, AG New England and LaBelle Winery. Thank You all.
The Amherst lions appreciate the support of the community in events such as this; it provides an opportunity to share the generosity with local charities. If you are interested in learning more about the Amherst Lions Club and our activities, please contact us at amherstlionsclub@gmail.com
Sincerely,
Bill Loscocco
Amherst Lions Club
2022 chair- Fire& Ice chili cook-off
Help Ukrainian Immigrants
To the editor:
I am guessing that many people in the USA want to help the Ukrainian people. One way to help is to find out how many people in your community would like to bring to their community several Ukrainian families. Next, the town should check to see if there might be jobs and housing available. If that looks good, your town might pick families that have fled to Poland, as that shows that they are willing to go elsewhere.
Next the town needs to see how to help the Ukrainians adjust to their new life. Are there people that would be free to help the Ukrainians fit in? Is there housing available? Are there jobs available? The most important thing may be to have a community that will welcome them. If you do, your town may grow even better because of the kindness of your people.
Patrick M. Eggleston
Amherst
Don’t Vandalize the Village
To the editor:
Congratulations to the Board of Selectmen for obtaining 100% approval of their articles on the March town meeting ballot. All passed with healthy margins – except one.
I hope the Selectmen take very careful notice of that one article, which passed with a razor-thin margin (33 votes out of 3,055). This was Article 30, “Village Area Multimodal Road Infrastructure Design & Engineering.” It’s no surprise this article barely passed. In my opinion, if all who voted “yes” had read the full description of it in the Voter Information Guide, it certainly would have failed. This article is not about simply engineering improvements for five streets in the village. It is about “developing a vision” and “expanding the scale and scope” of permanent changes to “include additional streets” and “intersection improvements” village-wide.
Here we go again.
Past “visions” for the village have included radical ideas, such as turning the large common into a giant one-way traffic circle, putting a traffic-calming roundabout where Main/Carriage/Boston Post intersect in front of Moulton’s Market, and paving over the entire Pierce Common near Town Hall to create a 42-car parking lot. Fortunately, all of these “visions” offended the citizens, who came out in large numbers to soundly defeat them. It should be clear by now that the majority of Amherst’s residents value the rural simplicity of the village, which has evolved naturally over time. They do not want our charming historic village to look “engineered” like a modern suburban development.
Dear Selectmen: Especially now, at a time when people’s faith in their elected representatives is at an historic low, please don’t fail us by vandalizing Amherst’s most-important asset for the sake of some engineer’s “vision.” Once such damage is done, there is no going back.
Bill & Tracy Veillette
Amherst
