Fiona Hill to speak in Portsmouth on world disorders: Community news
Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum to host Fiona Hill in forum
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum is set to welcome Fiona Hill, a Brookings Institution senior fellow in foreign policy, Center on the United States and Europe, for a program called, “Current World Dis-orders: Is There Anything for Us Here?”
The forum takes place at Wentworth By the Sea Hotel on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m. Registration is required at japanamericanh.org/event-details/portsmouth-peace-treaty-forum-with-fiona-hill.
Hill is the author of "There’s Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century" (2023) and "Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (2015). She served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the U.S. National Security Council from 2017 to 2019.
This forum program is supported by the Japan-America Society of NH and Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman and Scott, P.A., with Portsmouth Athenaeum, World Affairs Council of NH and the Portsmouth Historical Society.
The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum supports ongoing research (PortsmouthPeaceTreaty.org), an exhibit in the John Paul Jones House Museum, a lecture series and the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Living Memorial cherry trees around the state.
Kittery area cemeteries announced to host National Wreaths Across America Day
KITTERY, Maine — Kittery area cemeteries will be an official location for the 2024 National Wreaths Across America Day for the fourth year. The cemeteries will join in more the 4200 locations across the country on Dec. 14.
The goal of Kittery Area Cemeteries is to raise enough funds to place 780 veterans' wreaths on the headstones of all the local heroes laid to rest there,to ensure that the individuals to served to protect the freedom of our country never be forgotten and to bring community together in patriotic commemoration.
Those interested in volunteering for Wreath Across America/Kittery Area Cemeteries are asked to come to the first meeting on Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. at the Masonic Naval Lodge Shapleigh Road, Kittery, or visit wreathsacrossamerica.org/MEOGCA, or Wreaths Across America-Kittery Area Cemeteries on Facebook.
Kittery School Department kindergarten registration for 2024-2025
KITTERY, Maine — To be eligible to attend kindergarten in September 2024, your child must turn 5 on or before Oct. 15. Call the Mitchell School office at 207-439-1707 to set up a registration appointment. The office is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 .m. Dates of registration: April 24, May 1, May 7, May 10. For information, contact Principal Alli Gamache at agamache@kitteryschools.com or 207-439-1707.
Children’s Museum of NH receives support from the Evelyn S. and K.E. Barrett Foundation
DOVER — The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire has been awarded a two-year grant totaling $80,000 from the Evelyn S. and K.E. Barrett Foundation to support a facility expansion project. This expansion will add two new exhibit spaces to the museum’s second floo. The Museum will launch this project in 2024, with the goal of opening the additional 1,000 square feet of engaging activities in late 2025.
Those who would like to learn more or offer their support for the project can visit childrens-museum.org.
More: Children's Museum of New Hampshire expanding, marks 40 years of learning through play
Step Up Parents receives $55,000 grant from NH Charitable Foundation
PORTSMOUTH —Step Up Parents announced a generous $55,000 grant award from the Oliver J. and Dorothy Penniman Hubbard New Futures Fund, Philbrook Children's Fund at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. The grant will provide critical funding to support organizational growth, capacity building, and programming for the nonprofit, which provides financial assistance and other support to families caring for children whose parents suffer from substance use disorder.
“We are so grateful for this amazing grant award,” said Jessica Parker, Step Up Parents executive director. “The funding will significantly increase our ability to make a positive impact in the community, grow and expand our services, and ultimately reach more kinship caregiver families than ever before.”
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