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Kiddie Pool 26/04/16

Family fun for whenever

Wild!

• Discover WILD New Hampshire Day is Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the NH Fish and Game Department, 11 Hazen Drive in Concord, according to wildlife.nh.gov/dwnh. Described as a family-friendly event, Discover WILD New Hampshire is free to attend and will feature more than 100 education and experiential exhibits, according to the website.

Exhibits include live animals, big fish, trained falcons, archery, an air-rifle range, a retriever dog demonstration and wild craft activities, the website said. Attendees can also meet a Fish and Game biologist and a conservation officer, the website said.

There will also be a food truck alley including Bubble Bee Milk Tea and Dumplings, Koz’s Haute Box, Smoke Shack, The Pink House Food Truck and Wicked Good Wood Fired Pizza, according to the exhibitor map available on the website.

• To celebrate this year’s Concord Reads book — Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell by Sy Montgomery — the Concord Public Library is holding an event with Reptiles of New England that will feature a variety of reptiles including snakes on Saturday, April 12, at 2 p.m. at the City Wide Community Center auditorium, 14 Canterbury Road in Concord, according to concordnh.gov/1983/Library, where you can register for the event.

On stage

• Epping Community Theatre will present the “revoluting children” of Roald Dahl’s Matilda Jr. Friday, April 17, at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.; and Saturday, April 18, and Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. at the Epping Playhouse, 38 Ladds Lane in Epping, according to eppingtheater.org, where you can purchase tickets.

• The Palace Youth Theatre, with performers in grades 2 through 12, will present the Young@Part edition of Monty Python’s Spamalot on Tuesday, April 21, and Wednesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at the Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St. in Manchester. See palacetheatre.org for tickets.

Storytime

• Maine author and illustrator Alexandra Thompson will be at Bookery, 844 Elm St. in Manchester, for a storytime with her new book Hazel & Herbert! on Saturday, April 18, at 11 a.m. See bookerymht.com.

• Wonderland Books and Toys, Maple Valley Plaza, 245 Maple St. in Manchester, holds weekly drop-in Saturday storytimes at 3 p.m., according to wonderlandbooksandtoys.com.

Game time!

• The New Hampshire Fisher Cats began a six-game series against the Chesapeake Baysox on April 14 that continues through the weekend with games on Thursday, April 16, and Friday, April 17, at 6:03 p.m. and Saturday, April 18, and Sunday, April 19, at 1:05 p.m. At Saturday’s game the team will play as the New Hampshire Space Potatoes, its first use of that alternate identity this season. After Friday’s game, stay for fireworks. See milb.com/new-hampshire for tickets.

Family movie theater fun

• Chunky’s Cinema Pub, 707 Huse Road in Manchester, has a few family events on the schedule. On Saturday, April 18, at 6 p.m. it’s family trivia night all about the Zootopia movies. Doors open an hour before trivia start time, according to chunkys.com, where you can purchase tickets. On Tuesday, April 21, it’s a special screening of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (PG, 2026) at 11:30 a.m. with a $5 admission price and the screening room lights slightly dimmed, according to the website.

This Week 26/04/16

Thursday, April 16

The Manchester Garden Club will discuss “Dahlias” with presenter Valerie O’Reily at its monthly meeting today at 12:30 p.m. at St. Hedwig Church, 147 Walnut St. in Manchester, according to a press release. See manchesternhgardenclub.weebly.com.

Friday, April 17

Catch comedian Jenny Zigrino tonight at 6:30 p.m. at this show presented by Wicked Joyful at the new Queen City Center, 215 Canal St. in Manchester. See wickedjoyful.com for tickets and find a story about the new venue and a discussion with Zigrino in last week’s issue of the Hippo. Find the April 9 issue in the digital library at hippopress.com. The cover story on local comedy starts on page 8.

Friday, April 17

The Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival will take place at the University of New Hampshire, Hamilton Smith Hall in Durham, today and Saturday, April 18, when there will be a small press fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tonight, the Nossrat Yassini Book Prize Reading will feature Diannely Antigua, Cornelius Eady, JeFF Stumpo and Adedayo Agarau followed by a “4X4 Team Slam,” all starting at 7 p.m., according unhpoetry.com. On Saturday, programming will run from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. and include panels, workshops, readings, a pop-up art and Cafe Mania, an evening of live poetry at Freedom Cafe from 9 to 11 p.m., according to the schedule on the website.

Saturday, April 18

It’s a good weekend for classical music. “Antonio Vivaldi, Four Seasons and Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5” with special guest soloist David Kim from The Philadelphia Orchestra” will be presented by the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra today and Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. at the Seifert Performing Arts Center in Salem, according to nhphil.org, where you can purchase tickets.

Saturday, April 18

Today is Record Store Day, a celebration of your local vinyl purveyors with special releases and limited-edition albums. See recordstoreday.com to find a participating store. At Pitchfork Records in Concord, they plan to open at 8 a.m., according to pitchforkrecordsconcord.com. Metro City Records, 691 Somerville St. in Manchester, will be open 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. See recordstoreday.com for more local participating record stores, including area Newbury Comics and Bull Moose shops.

Saturday, April 18

And “New Hampshire Passions” ispresented bySymphony NH music director finalist Tianhui Ng tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Keefe Auditorium, 117 Elm St. in Nashua, in a show that will feature a collaboration with Black Hole Symphony as well as a pre-show talk at 6:30 p.m., according to symphonynh.org, where you can purchase tickets.

Sunday, April 19

Check out “Chromatic Flow,” a new exhibition featuring the art of Adam Krauss and Dave Robb, at See Saw Art, a gallery space inside Mosaic Art Collective at 66 Hanover St., Suite 201, in Manchester, according to seesaw.gallery. The exhibit is on display through Sunday, April 26, and today’s open hours are from 1 to 4 p.m., according to the website, where you can find upcoming open hours for the gallery.

Tuesday, April 22

Author Kathleen Bailey will discuss her book, A History Lover’s Guide to New Hampshire, tonight at 6 p.m. in the George H. Bixby Memorial Library in Francestown. The event is free; see francestownnh.org/1201/Library.

Save the Date! Friday, May 1
The Community Players of Concord will present To Kill a Mockingbird Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 3, at 2 p.m. at Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St. in Concord. Tickets cost $20 for adults and $20 for 65+ and 17 and under. See communityplayersofconcord.org.

Featured photo: Record store day.

Quality of Life 26/04/16

Rowing for a cause

A New Hampshire woman has raised money for trauma recovery programs by solo-rowing more than 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, WMUR reported in an April 9 online article. “Renee Blacken [who live in Bethlehem] began the journey in January, rowing from the Canary Islands to Antigua,” WMUR reported. After 65 days alone at sea, she made history as the first woman to row solo in the Atlantic Dash, the report said.

QOL score: +1

Comment: “Blacken raised nearly $20,000 during her journey for the nonprofit Outdoor Adventuring for Good, which supports trauma recovery programs,” WMUR reported in an April 12 article. Seeatlanticdash.com for more on the event.

Thanks a lot, ticks!

“A tick-borne illness that can leave people severely allergic to meat and dairy is becoming a growing concern in New Hampshire,” Patch.com reported in an April 10 online article. The allergy, known as Alpha-gal syndrome, can induce an extreme allergic sensitivity to meat in previously unaffected patients and can be contracted through a tick bite. “The illness is carried most commonly by the Lone Star tick,” the article read. “Alpha-gal syndrome is becoming more frequent in New England as ticks move farther north, some say, due to climate change.”

QOL score: -1

Comment: Patch.com reported that “the CDC says the condition differs from typical food allergies because symptoms are often delayed by two hours or more after exposure and can appear suddenly after years of eating meat without problems.”

An old battery can still cause problems

According to an April 6 online article in the Concord Monitor, the batteries of an electric car that had been involved in a March 31 crash at the Bedford tolls spontaneously re-ignited in Merrimack days later. The Monitor article quoted Jim Bailey Sr., owner of Bailey’s Towing and Auto Body in Merrimack, who removed the car from the original accident site: “‘[T]his morning, I moved the car carefully to a different location. Within 15 minutes, the batteries shorted out and it went into thermal runaway,” the article quoted Bailey.

QOL score: -1

Comment: According to the Monitor article, “the resulting [second] fire took hours to put out with some 60,000 gallons of water.” For more on battery fires and the safe disposal of batteries, visit nhrecycles.org/recyclerightcampaign/how-properly-dispose-batteries.

QOL score last week: 45

Net change: -1

QOL this week: 44

What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire?

Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

News & Notes 26/04/16

Egg update

The peregrine falcon nest at the Brady Sullivan Tower in Manchester now has a clutch of four eggs as of April 14, which you can see via nhaudubon.org/education/birds-and-birding/peregrine-cam. According to the daily log on the YouTube page for Feed 1 (there are three feeds, each offering a different angle on the nest), a second egg was laid on April 8 (about 14 days after the first egg on March 25), a third egg was laid on April 11 and the fourth on April 14. According to the log, a message from biologist Chris Martin posted on April 11 said, “Third egg — that’s great! A good chance to see 1-2 more eggs between 13-17th April. Not much chance first egg will survive.” According to the log, “Peregrines have a body temp of 103-106F; Eggs need steady incubation temps of 99-100.5F to develop properly and hatch; Both males and females develop brood patches to transfer their heat to the eggs.” The cam offers livestreaming video of the nest via NH Audubon and the support of Peregrine Networks and Brady Sullivan Properties, according to the website. Last year the nest produced five eggs, of which three hatched.

Trades

Bring Back the Trades will hold a Skills Expo Saturday, April 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Londonderry High School (295 Mammoth Road in Londonderry) featuring local trades organizations, according to bringbackthetrades.org, which describes the trades as “career paths requiring hands-on work and specialty knowledge.” Trade careers described on the website include plumbing, HVAC, electrical work, construction, culinary careers, EMT and other medical careers, hairstylist, child care, manufacturing, welding, transportation careers and more. The event is free to attend and will also feature information on scholarships and internships, the website said.

Spring cleaning

It’s outdoor cleanup season.

Beautify Hooksett Day will be held Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Find details and sign up via the Hooksett Chamber of Commerce’s Facebook page.

SEE Science Center in Manchester is part of Park2Park, which will hold a cleanup on Monday, April 20, from 3 to 5 p.m. at parks in Manchester, according to see-sciencecenter.org, where you can find information on signing up to volunteer.

New Hampshire State Parks will hold a Bear Brook State Park cleanup day on Sunday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to the State Parks Facebook page. Volunteers are asked to meet at Hayes Field off Podunk Road in Allenstown — “Grab a drink, snack and some free swag then head out on the trails to help us clean up from winter storms. Bring gloves and hand saws. We will have some tools and gloves available for those who need some,” the post said.

Squam Lakes Association and the Lakes Region Conservation Corps will hold “Volunteer: Spring Work Day” on Saturday, May 2, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Holderness. “Help clear trails, rake campsites, and install swim lines to prepare for summer. Afterward, celebrate with a BBQ back on campus,” according to squamlakes.org, where you can register to volunteer.

The Hall Street Wastewater Facility, 125 Hall St. in Concord, will hold daily public tours from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Friday, April 17, to celebrate New Hampshire Clean Water Week, which runs April 12-18, according to the Concord General Services General Gazette newsletter. “See the science in action and find out how we protect the river from pollution and why wastewater treatment is essential for a healthy environment,” the newsletter said.

The Mosaic Art Collective, 66 Hanover St. in Manchester, will hold a movie in the gallery on Thursday, April 23, according to a post on its Facebook page. Doors open at 5:45 p.m., and an art movie starts at 6 p.m., the post said. Previous attendees vote on the next movie, the post said.

The 7th Evolution Expo, an event that “brings together a powerful collective of holistic practitioners, wellness businesses and conscious community members from across the region,” will take place Sunday, April 19, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord featuring 50+ vendors and exhibitors as well as workshops, presentations and live demonstrations, according to a press release. Admission costs $10 at the door or get free admission with advance registration at holisticnh.org/evolution-expo, where you can also see a list of vendors.

The Woman’s Service Club of Windham will hold its Spring Craft Fair on Saturday, April 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Golden Brook School, 112B Lowell Road in Windham, according to womansserviceclubofwindham.org.

Plenty of Laughs — 04/09/2026

on the cover

Get ready to laugh! Michael Witthaus talks with comedians and comedy show organizers about the local comedy scene including its newest locale, the Queen City Center. And he talks with some big name touring comics. Photo above and on the cover is of Jenny Zigrino, who will be performing Friday, April 17, at the Queen City Center. Courtesy photo is by Kim Newmoney.

Also on the cover John Fladd talks to the folks at 815 Cocktails & Provisions in Manchester ahead of their third annual Manchester Daiq-Off, where bartenders will compete to make the best daiquiri (page 16). Michael Witthaus talks to Hayley Jane ahead of the Hayley Jane Band’s show on Saturday (page 23). And as we do most weeks, we offer ideas for family fun in our Kiddie Pool column, this week on page 15. One of this weekend’s fun family events is the Kids Con New England, a celebration of comics, pop culture, reading and more, geared toward kids.

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News & Notes 26/04/09
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Kiddie Pool 26/04/09

Family fun for whenever

A con for kids!

Kids Con New England, the annual comic book and pop culture convention for kids, will take place Sunday, April 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Sheraton at 11 Tara Boulevard in Nashua, and feature comics, workshops, children’s books authors and illustrators, games, costumed characters, gaming, a kids and family cosplay contest, a scavenger hunt and more, according to a press release.

Guests for this year’s event include Jeff Kline (publisher of Darby Pop comics and a TV writer/producer), Rick Keene (cartoonist and comic artist for Disney and DC Comics), Richard Maurizio (cartoonist and comic artist “known for work on Looney Tunes, Animaniacs, Space Jam, Tom & Jerry and more”), Adam & Makana Wallenta (father and son creators of the Punk Taco graphic novels), Tim Jones (cartoonist of Sour Grapes), Mark Parisi (graphic novelist and cartoonist of Off the Mark), Jennifer E. Morris (graphic novelist and children’s author and illustrator of the Flubby series and Maud the Koala), Gina Perry (children’s author and illustrator of The King of Books, Aven Green Sleuthing Machine and the Let’s Draw book series) and Dave London (graphic novelist and cartoonist of Pet Peeves), the press release said.

See kidsconne.com for tickets (kids under 5 get in for free) and for a list of all the artists, vendors and guests. The website also offers a schedule of the planned workshops (such as “Draw Monsters with Chris Gugliotti” at 11:15 a.m.; “Puppetry Workshop with Julio Robles, the Mainer with the Muppets” at 1:30 p.m., and “Manga-Me! Draw with Jack Purcell of SHP Comics” at 2:15 p.m.). Performances scheduled for the day include School of Rock Nashua concert at 10:10 a.m., “Saber Guild: Chandrila Temple Padawan Training Initiatives” at 11:50 a.m. and 1:35 p.m., and Sages Entertainment Magic Show at 11 a.m. and 2:10 p.m., the website said. The day includes a cosplay contest at 3 p.m. and a cosplay parade, the website said. The School of Rock will also host a musical instrument petting zoo and the event will feature a sensory-friendly space, the website said. A games room will feature tabletop and indie games and Gamers Sanctuary will have its mobile video gaming trailer on site, according to the website, where you can also find information about on-site food concessions and nearby restaurants.

Music and a parade

• Ralph Waldo Emerson School for Preschoolers is hosting a Week of the Young Child Parade and Celebration on Sunday, April 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the statehouse lawn in Concord. The event will feature a Teddy Bear & Stuff Parade with musical performer Mr. Aaron at 11:30 a.m.; a free concert and dance party with Mr. Aaron at 11:45 p.m.; storytellers after the end of the concert and more, according to a press release. See emersonschoolnh.org.

Big screen, less noise

• Chunky’s in Manchester, chunkys.com, will host a sensory-friendly screening of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie on Tuesday, April 14, at 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. See the website for tickets.

• O’Neil Cinemas at 16 Orchard View in Londonderry also hosts sensory-friendly screenings where house lights are higher and there are no loud noises, according to oneilcinemas.com. Next up is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie on Saturday, April 11, at 10 a.m.

Tendies at bat

The NH Fisher Cats become the Manchester Chicken Tenders for the Tuesday, April 14, game against the Chesapeake Baysox at 6:03 p.m. The game is the first in a six-game run against the Baysox, which a game on Friday, April 17, followed by fireworks and a Saturday, April 18, game when the Fisher Cats become the New Hampshire Space Potatoes for the afternoon. See milb.com/new-hampshire.

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