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spring and experience pride of place along with the satisfaction that comes from nurturing their plants. The Middle School and Souhegan High School had their own planting events with assistance from com-munity and Amherst Garden Club volunteers. The Souhegan event fo-cused on community service and the notion of the pink blossoms in spring being a silent expression of support for those who have been af-fected by the disease.

The October meeting of the Am-herst Garden Club focused on pink refreshments, bulb horticulture and pest control, and sales of pink tulips and narcissus bulbs to the mem-bers. Amherst Garden Club has been planting their civic gardens with pink tulips and narcissus at Town Hall, Moulton’s Oval, Town Library, Brick School, The Wigwam Garden, North and South Triangle Gardens.

Boy Scout Troop 22, planted their bulbs at The Amherst Congrega-tional Church, where they meet regularly. Bulbs have been pur-chased and placed at the Amherst Baptist Church and the Messiah Lutheran Church. Many Amherst residents are planting pink in their gardens, neighbors helping neigh-bors, and Summerfield, Atherton and The Fells condo associations have been planting pink displays for spring bloom. The Black Forest Bakery Café will be in the pink this spring along with Clark, Leighton and Thomas, PC, and Mike’s Auto. The project is sold out for this year. Sales and contributions are being rolled up and an announcement will be made regarding the final proceeds earmarked for the Amer-ican Cancer Society.

The Plant It Pink project is em-braced by the town in many ways. The meaning of the pink tulips and narcissus as a sign of support for cancer survivors, people in treat-ment, and those who have lost loved ones and friends, as well as raising funds for a cure is well appreciated.

The Plant It Pink project provides an expression of remembrance of those we have lost to cancer. The project has given an opportunity for those affected to celebrate their completion of treatment and ex-press hopefulness and encourage-ment for their loved ones in treat-ment. As the last bulbs are planted and snow blankets the area, we can smile a bit as we think about the coming PINK display this spring.

The Plant It Pink committee and volunteers express a sincere Thank You to the good people of Am-herst for their support. We can all be proud as we pass the pink flow-

ers bobbing about in the spring sun. At the very least we may have a few well fed voles and deer but we will have accomplished the fundraising and educational aspects of the proj-ect! Maybe, just maybe, this fund-raiser will support the purchase of the one beaker and researcher that finds the way to defeat breast can-cer. The American Cancer Soci-ety breast cancer research fund will benefit from the proceeds and is very excited about proliferating other Plant It Pink projects in New Hampshire thanks to the program launched in Amherst.

u Plant it PINK Fall Activities continued from page 1 Souhegan Students Selected for All-State Jazz BandAMHERST -- Congratulations

to the three Souhegan High School students selected for the 2014 NH All-State Honors Jazz Band. Jason Emmond was selected for Bass (#1 overall score); Jack Facey was select-ed for Trumpet (#2 overall score), and Kole Nunley was selected for Trombone (#2 overall score).

This is a huge accomplishment for these students. They will take part in the 2014 NH Jazz All-State Festival held at Pinkerton Academy from February 6-8, 2014. These stu-dents will have the honor of work-ing with esteemed director/com-poser/arranger Dave Rivello from the Eastman School of Music. Jack Facey, Kole Nunley,

Jason Emmond

Local Scholars Recognized by NH Pop Warner

NASHUA – New Hampshire Pop Warner, a national youth foot-ball and cheerleading program, recognized its “Little Scholars” in a banquet in Nashua on October 12th. Athletes are considered Little Scholars if they are 5th or 6th grad-ers and achieve an average grade of 96% or higher in the previous school year; placing them in the top 3% ac-ademically of over 400,000 national Pop Warner participants. The Am-

herst Patriots are proud to have 21 participants recognized at the event with Tyler Hall and Evmorfia Al-ton receiving additional scholarship recognition.

“Pop Warner prides itself on be-ing more than just an athletic or-ganization,” says Joe Civiello, Pres-ident of the Amherst Patriots, “The Little Scholars program is one of the things that sets it apart from other youth sports organizations in the

state. We seek to provide a fun ath-letic learning opportunity for youth football players and cheerleaders, while emphasizing the importance of academic success. Not only do we hold the players to a minimum grade level to participate, we real-ly try to recognize and reward ac-ademic excellence in our football players and cheerleaders.”

Little Scholars for the Amherst Patriots Include: Aidan Ahearn, Evmorfia Alton, Luke Civiello, William Drake, Sal-vatore Fabbio, Lauren Fredette, Timothy Greene, Tyler Hall, Thomas Hornor, Nicholas Jordan, Ethan Lim, Khaled Nazeer, Steven Pariselli, Alexander Walulik, Tait Grondstra, Paul Trombi, Connor Reardon, Samuel Sirois, Benjamin Warren, Andrew Wold and Nicholas Wilson.

Amherst Middle School Communications Club: Online and All Up In Your News

AMS Communications Club is the Amherst Middle School’s news-paper. Produced by Ms. Service’s Seventh Grade Core and More class, Mrs. Stockwell, and any other interested members of the school, the newspaper is filled with stu-dent-written articles about the hap-penings at AMS.

One of the writers, Leah Carlson, says, “It’s really exciting and a lot of the stories are really good.” Some of the stories include an article on Hayley Reardon, a high school stu-dent who is a songwriter who visit-ed AMS in September; a report on one of the latest dances; an article on sixth and eighth grade camps, and a Word of the Day as well as many student and teacher-cen-tered feature stories. We are up-dating the site weekly. Expect great things about our school and won-derful student written articles! Visit the AMS Communications Club at http://www.sau39.org/domain/271 or search “AMS Communications Club” on Google to read our stories.

This is the AMS Communica-tions Club, and we’re getting all up in your news!

The Derryfield School Middle School Players Present Guys and Dolls

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Saturday, November 16th 1:00-3:00 pm

Tour campus and learn about our K-8 program, merit scholarships and financial aid,

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MANCHESTER - The follow-ing students from AMHERST per-formed in The Derryfield Mid-dle School’s musical production of Guys and Dolls: Silas Howe ‘18 play-ing Rusty Charlie, Antonio Imbria-no ‘19 playing Joey Biltmore, and Is-abelle Plotsker ‘18 playing a Hot Box Girl.

All the hot gamblers were in town, and they were all depending on Na-than Detroit to set up this week’s incarnation of “The Oldest Estab-lished Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York.” The Derryfield Middle School Players sang and danced to the well-known tunes of “Fugue for Tinhorns,” “Luck Be a Lady,” and “Sit Down, You’re Rock-ing the Boat.”

Isabelle Plotsker as a Hot Box GirlSilas Howe as Rusty Charlie

Souhegan students lend a hand with planting tulips.

Wilkins students love the color pink!