Manchester Urban Ponds Restoration Program needs you: Get involved individually or by organizing a group from your workplace, school or non-profit organization.
On March 28 City Year New Hampshire honored 15 community leaders with City Year’s Bridge Builder Award at City Year’s 15th annual Starry Starry Night Benefit Gala.
This new effort is a partnership between Stay Work Play and young professional organizations throughout New Hampshire to host local nonprofit fairs in Manchester, Windham, Laconia, Claremont and Concord on Tuesday, April 21.
Hope for NH Recovery’s five-year plan calls for two peer-based recovery community centers, in Manchester and Portsmouth, with additional regional sites to follow in each of the state’s 13 public health network regions to help those in recovery from addiction.
“This evening I stand before you full of pride. Full of pride for a city that accomplishes so much in different ways every single day. In the past year alone so much has happened in this city, so much pride we have to share and more importantly we have seen Manchester lead the way.”
Despite our differences and diversity as a group, we learned something about one another, our cultures, and even had a few laughs along the way.
“It is shocking that in this day and age, we would leave a group of people struggling with an entirely treatable disease unable to access basic care.” – Tym Rourke, on the need for addiction treatment and services.
The Free State Project has since 2003 been actively recruiting Libertarians to pledge to migrate to New Hampshire until they reach 20,000 commitments, at which time they will effectively be turning the state into a stronghold for their ideals.
Building On Hope, a New Hampshire-based volunteer organization, will select a winner for an ‘extreme makeover,’ NH style.
Paul LeBlanc hopes to help steer the U.S. Department of Education in raising the bar for competency-based learning.
Lots of accolades and accomplishments for students and teachers in this month’s Manchester School District newsletter. Read it here.
Longtime board member honored for his service to the NH Food Bank.
A deeper look at how NH’s designated Alcohol Fund failed and what’s happening to increase recovery options for those battling addiction.
The Franco American Centre and Millennium Running have your Fat Tuesday, aka Mardis Gras, plans covered.
Logan International Airport has also cancelled most of its flights, according to this CNN story posted at 8 a.m.
You can help Friends of Manchester Animal Shelter raise money for the homeless animals of Manchester, AND score a cool T-shirt.
Admission to the NH Farm & Forest Expo is $7 per person. Young people age 16 and younger admitted for free. Save $1 off the admission price by bringing two non-perishable food items to benefit the NH Food Bank.
Current openings for jobs in Manchester via Craigslist, Snag-a-Job, the Leddy Group, and the City of Manchester.
The company’s re-branding initiative will officially take place on February 2. Customers will receive more information regarding the brand change after the launch.
The public is welcome to join the Manchester Food Co-op Board of Directors for a “Design Your Store” meeting to help move the project forward at City Hall on Jan. 14, from 5-7 p.m.