American Legion Post 39 will conduct the public Memorial Day Program on May 30th The Color Guard will be assembling at 9 am at the Legion Hall, 8 Kearsarge Mtn. Rd Extension (near Reed's North.). Post members will be placing flowers with a Gun Salute and playing of Taps at the Soldiers' Monument on Kearsarge Mountain Road, at a grave in Pine Grove Cemetery, and in the Warner River from the bridge going across the river on North Village Road to Riverside Park. Anyone is welcome to join the walk and observation. To participate as part of the Color Guard or 21 gun salute (you do not have to be a Veteran), please contact Commander Charles Trowbridge 603-456-2992.

Condolences to Scott Reid and family on their loss of family members Stephen and Wendy Reid in April. www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/concordmonitor/name/stephen-reid-obituary?id=34916773

The family and friends of Charmaine Lucile Rose invite you to a Celebration of her Life on Sunday, June 5th at 2:00 pm at NH Audubon's McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Rd, Concord. Charmaine died peacefully on December 21, 2019 in Concord where she lived for the previous 13 years. She lived in Warner NH for 30 years prior to Concord.​

Be the most creative host in your neighborhood – host a bat count this summer! New Hampshire’s two most common bat species, the little brown bat and the big brown bat, use buildings as their summer roosts. Abandoned houses, barns, church steeples – and even currently-occupied structures – can provide a summer home to female bats and their young. Colonies can be monitored by conducting a “bat count” at a summer colony in your area. You can count bats as they exit their summer roost at dusk in June, then again later in the summer to see how the colony has grown as pups begin flying and report your findings to New Hampshire Fish and Game.  For information on how to count bats and report your counts, check out the New Hampshire Fish and Game website: https://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/surveys/bats.html. You can also subscribe to the NH Bat Counts newsletter at https://unhoutreach.tfaforms.net/217785.

Want to help plan Warner’s 250^th  Birthday (Sestercentennial) celebration in 2024? Come to a planning meeting on Thursday June 2^nd at 7 pm at the Warner Town Hall.  Should it just be a week-long event or events throughout the year? How can we celebrate it during the Fall Foliage Festival? We need ideas and people willing to help organize events. You don’t need to know Warner’s history as you will learn it as we go along. The Warner Historical Society has a committee researching and writing Warner’s history from 1974 to 2024. The society will also be planning an exhibit commemorating Warner’s past and present for that summer. Let’s make this a fun and creative event!

Season's OPENING CELEBRATION at the NH Telephone Museum, Friday May 27, 6-7 pm. Hors d'heuvres, bagpipes and good cheer! Please note that although free, RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. Just sign up from the website. The gathering is followed by a talk by Ted Zelewski, Mind on Fire: an intimate history of Alexander Graham Bell. Please reserve your seat in advance. There is a $5 fee for the program.

The Nature Discovery Center Museum season begins June 4. The Museum will be open Saturdays and Sundays in 2022.

MKIM Spring Plant Sale and NH Herbal Network’s Herb and Garden Day. In addition to the Herb and Garden Day activities in the powwow field, Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum (MKIM) will be having a plant sale and raffle at the front entrance. Local gardeners can drop off plant donations at the museum front entrance a few days before the event. To avoid the spread of jumping worms, we ask that you rinse the roots of garden plants and re-pot in a clean pot with sterile potting soil. This does not need to be done with house plants. Donations of planters and pots are also welcome!

The museum will be open and regular admission applies to tour the museum (free for members). There is no charge to shop at the plant sale (by donation) or to shop the MKIM gift shop or at the Herb and Garden event sales area.

Details about registration and costs for the Herb and Garden event can be found here. https://nhherbalnetwork.wordpress.com/herbday/

The Pillsbury Free Library will be holding a mini book sale on Sat. June 4 from 9:30 to 12:30 to clear out storage space. No new donations are being sought, as we have plenty to sell! Volunteers needed to set up on Friday June 3 or pack up at 12:30 June 4.

Over 70 Food Pantry clients received a free Tray It Forward seedling tray this week to help them grow their own veggies and herbs. Participation has doubled over last year, a good sign that home gardening is alive and well! Ongoing support and education is planned throughout the summer via the WCNH Facebook page and printed materials. A shout out to FEED Kearsarge and all those who brought this program to fruition.

Two raised beds are now in place behind the WCNH parking area. A pilot program - the Tray It Forward Warner Victory Garden - will contain duplicate seedling trays and serve to offer WCNH clients education on veggie/herb planting/growth. All Victory Garden produce will be donated to the Food Pantry.  

We will also have a pollinator’s garden which will be used as part of The Butterfly Project for local classrooms. All food produced will be distributed to clients of our food pantry.

Red Cross Blood Drives in Warner: the next one will be on TUESDAY June 14, 11:30 am - 5 pm at United Church of Warner. www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/. "The short amount of time it takes to donate can mean a lifetime to a patient with a serious medical condition. We urge eligible donors to join us in the selfless act of giving blood"

Donations to help the people of Ukraine can be dropped off at the United Church of Warner Parish House at any time through June 10th. They will be taken to the Slavic Church of Manchester for shipping to where they are needed.

Cash donations can be made online or an in-person cash or check donation can be dropped off In the church sanctuary during the Sunday 10am worship service

The list of acceptable needed items and an online payment link can be found at https://ucwarner.org/ukraine.

Sunday Soccer will return to Bagley Field on May 29. This is all-ages, all-community, no-fee pickup for the joy of the game. We're considering a time cut-off for younger players so the teens and adults can enjoy some more physical play.

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Covid 19 ALERTS

Merrimack County is now rated as HIGH risk by the CDC County Check Tool (based on hospitalizations and deaths, not total cases). at this level, CDC advises "wear a mask indoors in public.."

9 of 10 NH Counties including Merrimack are now rated HIGH risk of Community Transmission and Rockingham is at MEDIUM risk according to the CDC covid-19 data tracker site https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view:

Warner's new cases reported: 10 since last Thursday, 11 active as of 5/26/22. Total so far 649. www.wmur.com/article/covid-19-cases-nh-town/37155089#. Note positive home tests are not included.

Note: Family Tree Health Care in Warner is now offering on-site vaccines to patients

CDC guidelines for isolation and quarantine:

Up to THREE orders of FREE at- home rapid tests delivered by USPS are available from https://www.covidtests.gov/ the third set contains eight, shipped in two packages.

If you have health insurance through an employer or Marketplace, your insurance will pay you back for 8 at-⁠home tests each month for each person on your plan.

More about insurance reimbursement.

Town by Town www.wmur.com/article/covid-19-vaccine-nh-town/37373063.

Warner: 67.5% fully vaccinated, 75.5% at least one dose.

Merrimack County (CDC) over age 5: 73% fully vaccinated, 88.3% at least 1 dose.

To get a COVID-19 vaccine: vaccines.nh.gov or call 211. You can also schedule a vaccine through your doctor's office. Vaccinations for Covid-19 are FREE, and available for ages 5 and up. Second boosters available 4 months after the first, for ages 50+.

NH fixed vaccination sites include Concord, 8 am to 2 pm every day . https://convenientmd.com/vaccine/concord/

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different.

IT'S SYNC Audiobook Season! From April 28th until August 17th, check out AudioFile Magazine's FREE audiobooks for teens! 2 per week - download now and read later if you don't have time to read until vacation. Learn more at https://audiofilemagazine.com/sync/

From May 26 to June 1, the 2 Free SYNC Audiobooks to download:

The Real Herge by Sian Lye

Fans of the classic graphic novel series Tintin will enjoy this biographical audiobook about its creator, Herge. Listeners will learn about his lower-middle-class childhood in Belgium, his experience as a teenage illustrator for a Boy Scout magazine, and his years as the illustrious and sometimes controversial originator of the beloved boy reporter.

Someone Like Me by Julissa Arce

In this YA memoir, Julissa Arce tells the story of her childhood in Mexico and her teen years as an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. Her heartfelt delivery makes the audiobook sound like a friend revealing her hidden tragic past.

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Tuesday evening Library hours! The library is now staying open until 8 pm on Tuesdays (but not Thursdays) as of May 3. To keep within budgeted hours, we have dropped the Wednesday morning hours (now opening at 1 pm) - but keeping Monday mornings, 10 am to noon, for now.

Covid protocols at the Library: We are no longer holding returned items in quarantine, so they can be returned inside when we are open, instead of placing them in the Book Drop slot outside. Masks are optional but encouraged, during library visits unless/until Covid numbers rise again. Curbside pickup is an option for anyone.

Thanks for helping us provide safe space for our most vulnerable residents, of all ages!