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1 i THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE AUGUST 5, 1990 NH5 Little town shows it has alot of heart it' By Carolina M. Mata CONTRIBUTING REPORTER '1 New Hampshire. Freedman was recognized by the Board of Trustees of the University System of New Hampshire for achievements that reflect those attributes of personal and public service that convey every connotation of a good Catherine Doherty, assistant professor of theater at New England College, received the 1989-90 Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award. She was one of several faculty members recognized nationally for resourcefulness and leadership as a private college educator. Jordan HaO, a student in the fourth grade at Woodman Park School, in Dover, has been recognized as New Hampshire's 1990 Robert Frost Youth Poet for his poem, "A Year." The sponsors of the first Robert Frost Youth Poet Program invited all New Hampshire fourth grade students to create a poem based on the theme "Outdoor New Hampshire." It is winter.

The floor boards creak and the cool winter air tingles my cheeks while I milk the cow And start afire in our home to cook some porridge For breakfast On my New Hampshire farm. It is spring now and planting Season. I keep the fire going in the sugar house And I also plant the garden with tomatoes and corn With sweet potatoes, my favorite! On my New Hampshire farm. It is summer now the garden's growing great' I climb trees and swim in my pond. I clear land for A Pasture for the cows and chop it into firewood For the fire.

On my New Hampshire farm. It is fall now and picking time, too. On Halloween Night I go trick-or-treating yum! It is getting Colder so we go hunting for deer for the winter. I skin the deer for clothes. On my New Hampshire farm.

have never had to ask," said Davis. "Things are just done." And three cheers for: Mary Connelly, MSW Mobile Community Health Team Project coordinator, who received the Visiting Nurse Association of Manchester and Southern N.H. Employee of the Year Award for 1990. The project's primary mission is to provide health care to the homeless. She received recognition for her professionalism, dedication, leadership and excellence in social work.

Dr. Anlndya Datta, an associate professor of economics and chairman of the business department at Plymouth State College, is the recipient of the college's 1990 Distinguished Teaching Award. Students and alumni cited Datta's teaching skills, knowledge of his discipline and commitment to his students. Elenore Freedman, director of the N.H. Alliance for Effective Schools and the N.H.

School Improvement Program, received the Granite State Award at commencement exercises at the University of i'i 4 1 vi tfrf GLOBE STAFF PHOTO BILL RYERSQfl Carol Davis of East Kingston tends to flowers near her home. 3 DEAN'S IQnifH nrifTi-Pi tp- 1 c- WPMBWIWWP A KINGSTON Three Cheers for East Kingston, a small town that pulled together to I help one of its own in a time of need. "I was diagnosed in December as fieeding a liver transplant," said Carol: Davis. "Blue Cross-Blue Shield wasn't sure they tu wou cover the CflCCrS cost of the oper- ation (approxi mately $200,000) because the doctors couldn't pinpoint the source of the disease. There are some that Blue Cross will not cover." MM Davis said once the word started fc spread that she needed an expensive operation, things began to hap- En- IM "The response was amazing," Jaid Davis.

"Even people I don't piovr and people I have never met ijho were new to town were organizing fund-raisers, pushing $5 into donation cans, appearing at the house wth meals and cleaning up." "Piles of wood would appear at my house, people did the laundry and they took care of my husband arid daughter because I was in and out of the hospital so frequently," said Davis. David Conti, the fire chief, said, "When we found out that Carol needed the transplant and the insur ance problems, several of us decided we, had to get together and do some thing." fire department is the largest organization in East Kingston, Conti said. "We spearheaded the efforts and started the legwork, but the people of the town really did all of the work." "The small-town mentality is that we stick together, we grieve together and we help out," said Conti, who said he remembers a time when everybody in town helped in a crisis -no questions asked. "This is the first time in the past 10 or 15 years I have seen the town react like this. I was afraid the spirit was dead." After months of spaghetti dinners, donations at grocery stores s(nd calls to the local government, Cross-Blue Shield paid for the operation.

I What Conti calls a large sum of money has been deposited in a trust fund for Davis. Although the surgery is over, Davis must take 15 pills daily, costing $1,300 a day, so that her body does not reject liver she received. "Physically, there are things I can't do," said Davis. "Mowing the lawn and lifting are impossible. Ill have to be careful around people wfho are sick, but eventually it will unprove." 1 In the meantime, the town continues to provide Davis and her family with whatever support it can.

"I Hot times almost over Give the air conditioners a break. The worst of the summer is over. According to Weir Lundstedt, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service bureau in Concord, the last two weeks of July and the first week in August are the hottest of the summer. "I don't mean it will be cold, but it should begin to taper off," said Lundstedt of the coming weeks. Based on the average, Iwinds should be gusting at 5.3 Jniles per hour in a northwesterly direction.

Average precipitation for the month is 3.26 inches. Lundstedt said the average number of clear days in August is partly cloudy is 12; and cloudy is 11. The hottest day so far was July 18 with a temperature of 293 degrees. The record high for August 2vas in 1975 when on the 2d, Jhe temperature reached 101 degrees. The record cold for that Tnonth was the 29 degrees of 5ng.

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