Pelham - Windham News | October 7, 2011 - 3
The Word Around Town... Letters to our Editor
Dig Pink and Wear Black to Beat Breast Cancer On Friday, October 14 at 5:30 p.m., the Windham Jaguars Varsity
Volleyball team will be playing to win - by helping to beat breast cancer. Te team is raising money to support the Side Out Foundation’s efforts to raise awareness and funds to black out breast cancer. In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, all donations collected during their October 14 game against Pelham High School, as well as all fundraising efforts collected in the previous months, will be donated to the Side Out Foundation. Please help support the players and this worthy cause by attending the
Varsity Volleyball game at Windham High School. Te team is asking that all fans wear black to show their support of blacking out breast cancer, and a donation of $1 for students and $2 for adults would be very much appreciated! Tax-deductible donations may also be made at
http://www.side-out.org/ application/ous/fundraising_page/45777. When you get to the game, just tell us you made your donation online!
Windham High School Girls Volleyball - Windham
Windham Helping Hands Reaches Out Windham’s Helping Hands Seniors committee, along with Apple Acres
in Windham, supplied pies for the Windham Senior Center’s September monthly meeting. All the attendees were invited to enjoy delicious apple and peach pies from Apple Acres. Te orchard owned and operated by Samuel J. Nassar Jr. and his wife, Jean Nassar, offers many homemade goodies as well as apples, pumpkins, cider and more! On another note, Windham’s Helping Hands would like to thank the
Windham Presbyterian Church for their generous donation of $1,000. Te money will used to purchase warm winter coats for children in the community. Windham’s Helping Hands is very appreciative of this gift.
Patti Letizio - Windham
Breakfast and Raffle Tickets on Sale for Annual Common Man Charity Breakfast Tickets are now available for the 11th Annual Common Man Charity
Breakfast hosted by the Common Man Restaurant and the Windham Fire Department. Join us on Sunday, October 16 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Common Man Restaurant on Range Road in Windham. We will be serving up all of your favorite breakfast items and raising money to benefit New Hampshire MDA and Windham’s Helping Hands. Meet and greet local celebrities Erin Fehlau and Jamie Staton of WMUR Channel 9. Enjoy great family fun with everything from a clown twisting balloons to a fabulous chocolate fountain! In addition to great food and conversation, enter our raffle and win one of these phenomenal prizes: An EU2000 Generator donated by Nault’s Windham Honda (a $1,200
value!), two night stay at the Common Man Inn in Plymouth, a $200 gift certificate to the Prime Butcher of Windham, two tickets to the New England Patriots vs. Miami Dolphins on December 24, a Golf Foursome, 18 holes and cart at Windham Country Club! Raffle tickets are $5 each or 3 for $10. Te winner’s name will be drawn at the breakfast. You need not be present to win. At the breakfast, check out our Silent Auction. We have over 40 items, something for everyone including: signed sports items, get-aways, gift baskets, jewelry, gift certificates for restaurants and stores, movie tickets, home furnishings, event tickets, free memberships, free exercise sessions, dinner for four at the Windham Fire Department, prepared by Windham’s finest firefighters and so much more! You could even win a ride to school in a fire truck! Everyone attending the breakfast will be eligible to win five tickets to Canobie Lake Park’s Screeemfest/Oktober Fest! Breakfast and Raffle Tickets can be purchased, prior to the event, at the Common Man Restaurant, the Windham Fire Department (stop by during their Open House this Saturday, October 8) or through one of the committee members of Windham’s Helping Hands. Breakfast tickets are $12 for adults and children under 10 are $6. If you cannot make the breakfast but would like to make a donation, please send a check to: WHH, P.O. Box 4073, Windham, NH 03087 (specify that it is a breakfast donation) Very few tickets will be sold at the door, if any, so please purchase tickets
in advance. Denise Dolloff - Windham
Windham High School’s Reputation Builds Collateral for All
I am writing to cast a bright spotlight on the current Windham High
School (WHS) staff, students, and parents that have selflessly and willingly rolled up their sleeves and assumed the lion’s share of responsibility in establishing the reputation of Windham High School. Clearly, the WHS facilities have become a hub for the town. Sports teams, civic groups, performing groups, and politicians populate the school
and grounds around the clock, adding cultural, social, and intellectual value only imaginable prior to the school’s construction. What many may not realize, however, is the lasting collateral value that is developing around Windham High School in its emerging educational reputation. Te current students of Windham High School, their devoted parents, and the diligent WHS staff are in every sense paving the way for those that follow, and, in doing so, building capital for every resident and business in town. In less than three years, Windham High School has risen from an
entirely unknown and unproven educational establishment to a place that has achieved remarkable accomplishments. It began with hiring the right staff. WHS teachers have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment, leap-frogging the school to noteworthy status within New Hampshire and beyond. A deep debt of gratitude is owed to the teachers and administrators demonstrating exemplary work in not only teaching classes and inspiring students, but investing overtime in laying foundational building blocks that are raising Windham High School to the high ideals expected from Windham’s parents. Let us hope that the School Board offers these teachers equitable contracts and incentives that ensure their continued motivation and retention. WHS teachers have not only stepped up to the plate, but many are repeatedly hitting the ball straight out of the park. We must also fully appreciate the students. Te stakes are so high for our high school’s early matriculating students; those that go after will reap the benefits of their upfront investments. Te first groups of WHS students have conducted their high school years under a microscope and charged with building intangible assets. Tey are rising to the occasion. Tis year’s seniors, applying to colleges in an extremely competitive arena, face the paradoxical challenge of hailing from a school with no historical reputation, no test score “trends” that speak of its academic rigor, and no alumni connections to enhance application portfolios. In essence, the first WHS “upperclassmen” are having to not only promote themselves to prospective colleges, but to also market and explain their newborn school to scrutinizing college admissions personnel. In that sense, they are truly partners in plotting Windham High School on the map of academia. Subsequently, it is these students’ “college acceptance” rates that will initially set off the school’s all-important reputation and, in the eyes of colleges, begin to comparatively weight Windham High School graduates against other prospective applicants. High stakes indeed. In these first few years, Windham High School NECAP scores, extra-curricular programs built from scratch, nascent school spirit, and awards garnered by staff and students alike, are creating a sort of brand identity and quality association that have tremendous future implications for all. Distinguished so soon by award winning teachers, unique and accelerated academic offerings, solid sports programming and participation, technology leading infrastructure, and early standardized test results, WHS is truly beginning to raise eyebrows in academic circles. Tat’s a good thing on so many levels. Te school’s aesthetic beauty is to be admired, and the facilities put to good use. It is the hard-earned reputation of this school, however, that will earn academic collateral for the future, and, in doing so, significantly influence the local real estate values many leverage and enjoy. It is my hope that throughout this high-stakes year, the work ethic,
creativity, and equity investments of our first high school cohorts are recognized and supported by the School Board, parents, businesses, and the good citizens of Windham, NH.
Donna Bramante InDelicato - Windham
Host Families Needed for Junior
Hockey Players
Each season the Cyclones Hockey Club of Hudson recruits talented junior hockey players from across the country, Canada and Europe. Tese players show great potential to play at the college level, and beyond but do not live within a reasonable driving distance of the arena. To take advantage of this great opportunity, the players need families willing to share their homes, and become a “home away from home” for them. We are currently looking for host family in Windham, Salem, Pelham, Londonderry, Derry, Litchfield, or Hudson to house a young man from California. He will be taking classes at a local college while pursuing his hockey opportunities and dreams. Cyclones players have proven
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to be great role models for younger children in the billet family, as they demonstrate hard work and determination to achieve tough goals. In most cases, very strong bonds are made between the player and his billet family as well as with the player’s family. Te player needs a bed, bureau, closet space and a desk or table and chair. Families receive a monthly billeting stipend of $300 for each player. Host families have included traditional two-parent families, single-parent families and “empty-nesters” too. All that’s really needed is a willingness to help a player pursue his dream by providing a good home. Tis player arrived on September 29, will go home for a few weeks over the holidays, and leave at the end of March when the hockey season ends. If you are interested in the possibility of being a host, please call Denise
Dolloff at (603) 475-1289. Your willingness to share your home and family is all it takes, and you will truly make a difference in a player’s life.
Denise Dolloff - Windham
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