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New Boston prepares Winter Carnival

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:46:00 GMT

NEW BOSTON – It’s Winter Carnival time again in New Boston. On Saturday, Feb. 2, area residents can look forward to a day filled with winter activities topped off with the highlight of the evening, the lip sync singing contest.

The day’s outdoor activities, in the field behind the town hall, include sledding, snowshoe softball, snow sculpturing, snow golf, flag football and hay rides. Indoor activities in the white buildings include arts and crafts, movies and a magician. Also taking place nearby at the New Boston Central School is the PTA soup cookoff, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with prizes and bragging rights going to the first three places, and a full schedule of basketball games in the school’s gymnasium.

At night, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Central School gymnasium, the annual lip sync singing contest hits the stage.

The show is already fully booked with 25 acts who each paid a $5 entry fee for a shot at lip sync glory and cash prizes of $100, $50 and $25 for first, second and third place, respectively.

Mike Sindoni, director of the Parks and Recreation Department, said he was surprised at the variety of music performed by the kids in the contest every year. He described it as ranging from ’70s rock to classical to blues, although the big thing this year is Hannah Montana, he said. Most of the acts were groups, but there were a few brave souls who signed up as solo lip sync artists.

Sindoni said he expects a couple hundred attendees for the day’s activities, depending on weather conditions, and up to 400 for the lip sync contest.

Biblical tale to be told at dinner theater in New Boston

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:36:00 GMT

BY ROD HANSEN

An actor struggles to relive the trials of Noah, while the animals boarding his ark speak in confounding tongues that leave him even more befuddled.

That’s the story of “Jack, the Ark and the Aardvark,” the feature presentation of this year’s New Boston Community Church dinner-theater.

A play-within-a-play, “Jack, the Ark and the Aardvark” tells the story of Noah’s Ark through the adventures of Jack, a bewildered actor who portrays the biblical hero in a stage production.

Portraying Jack in the community church production is Eric Scoville, who last year played the title role in the church’s production of “Once Upon a Wolf.”

Other performers featured in the play include Pastor Woody Woodland as Yak, Kaydee Griffin in the dual roles of the Aardvark and Neighbor Two, Ashley Scoville as the Narrator and Kathryn Hulick as Llama and Neighbor One.

This year’s dinner theater offers the audience two other plays as part of “An Evening with Noah.” Other selections will include Kenny Ballou’s interpretation of Bill Cosby’s “Noah” routine, and Austin and Jeremie Clark starring in Mark Twain’s “Noah and the Bureaucrat.”

This year’s community church dinner-theater production is set for Friday, April 20, and Sunday, April 22, with dinner at 6 p.m. and performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. The dinner menu consists of chicken parmesan, salad, bread sticks and dessert.

Dinner and performance tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for children, while tickets for the play alone are $5.

Music presentation hosted by library

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:04:00 GMT

Popular music during World War II is the topic for a musical program featuring songs that raised American spirits and encouraged the war effort.

Calvin Knickerbocker, music educator and historian from Rivier College, brings a program featuring songs used as propaganda to boost morale on the front and at home.

The program will be at the Community Church of New Boston on Friday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m., and is hosted by The Whipple Free Library of New Boston’s Perspectives Program.

Refreshments will be served. This program is funded by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council. For more information, call 487-3391.