Popzup Popcorn holiday sale, Lights of Love: Community news update
Popzup Popcorn holiday factory sale
SOMERSWORTH — The Popzup Popcorn annual holiday factory sale will take place on Friday, Dec. 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Popzup Popcorn Factory is located at: 22 Canal St., Suite 358, Somersworth.
ARCH to honor Jessie Aikman with Heritage Award
ROLLINSFORD — The Association for Rollinsford Culture and History (ARCH) will honor a longtime supporter, the late Jessie Aikman of Rollinsford, with the 2023 ARCH Heritage Award, given annually to recognize those who have made significant contributions to the preservation of the history, heritage and culture of Rollinsford and the lower Salmon Falls region. The award will be presented to Aikman’s family at the ARCH dinner and auction on Saturday, Nov. 18 at Spring Hill in South Berwick, Maine.
ARCH and the Rollinsford community were stunned and saddened by the untimely passing a few months ago of Aikman, who died from injuries received in a riding accident. Both personally and as the owner of Back Channel Canvas, a business located in Eliot, Maine, Aikman was a steadfast supporter of ARCH and the historic Colonel Paul Wentworth House. She was a significant donor to the initial capital campaign to return the Wentworth House to Rollinsford and also sponsored the organization’s annual fundraising event every year since 2009. A resident of the Sligo area of Rollinsford and like her mother Robin Aikman, who passed just two weeks after Jessie, she was a strong advocate for conserving Rollinsford’s rural and agricultural heritage. Said Nancy Dickinson, co-president of the ARCH Board of Directors, “We at ARCH will miss Jessie’s friendship and support but more importantly, her spirit which was an inspiration to us all.”
37th annual Lights of Love returns to in-person
ROCHESTER — Cornerstone VNA, a local nonprofit provider of high-quality, skilled care at home, announces that the 37th Annual Jane Cooper Fall Lights of Love Celebration will be held in person at the First United Methodist Church in Rochester on Dec. 6, at 4:30 p.m.
Community members can participate in this annual holiday tradition to honor, remember, and celebrate those who have had a special impact on their lives. With each $5 donation, tribute names will be included as part of the special Lights of Love event. Visit cornerstonevna.org/lightsoflove for more information and to order your Lights of Love. If you prefer to mail in a paper copy of the order form with a check, you can download the form from the Cornerstone VNA website or call 603-332-1133 x1109. All orders must be received by Nov. 27 to be included in the event program.
Community members are welcome to attend Lights of Love in person, which will include music by the Choir of the First United Methodist Church and the Witherell Hand Bell Choir. Please register by calling 603-332-1133 x1109. If you are unable to attend, the event will be recorded and posted to cornerstonevna.org/lightsoflove a few days following the event.
Portsmouth task force on historical archives to hold public information meeting
PORTSMOUTH – The Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Historical Archives plans a public information meeting at the Portsmouth Public Library on Tuesday, Nov. 14. The program is scheduled for the library’s Levenson Room starting at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
The purpose of this meeting is to provide an overview of the work of the Task Force since its creation in last year to study the feasibility of a public/private document archive that would provide the city and private organizations with a proper climate controlled and fire protected facility to preserve these records.
Chaired by Councilor Vincent Lombardi, the Task Force includes representatives from the Portsmouth Public Library, Strawbery Banke Museum, the Portsmouth Athenaeum, Portsmouth Historical Society and other archives professionals and collectors. They will outline the report that considers options to create a public/private archive to protect documents related to the city’s past, present, and future which they intend to present to the City Council before the Task Force sunsets at the end of the year.
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