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Canterbury Shaker Village Wool Festival

admin — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:27:00 GMT

Canterbury Shaker Village Wool Festival in Canterbury NH - Filmed and produced by Cheryl Senter for the New Hampshire Union Leader.

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See related story in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Sunday, December 23, 2007.

Guillermo Sexo - Hurried Moments

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:56:00 GMT

Friend's band, Guillermon Sexo - Their studio song "Hurried Moments" coupled with live footage at Great Scott's in Boston, MA

Boston Band Guillermo Sexo

admin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:14:00 GMT

A classmate of Cheryl Senter's has a band, Guillermo Sexo. Cheryl and several others went to Great Scott's and video taped them performing . The editing was done by Cheryl.

Guillermo Sexo will be playing at the Middle East in Boston Nov. 16. 2007

Tristan Henry-Wilson - A "Neue American Painter"

admin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:28:00 GMT

Tristan Henry-Wilson, an amazing young artist considered by some to be a rising artist in "Neue American Painting".

His client list includes:
System of A Down, Velvet Revolver, Armor For Sleep, Beloved, BPM Magazine, DIW Magazine, From Autumn to Ashes, HBO,Hopesfall, Impose Magazine, It Dies Today, Murder By Death, Poison The Well, Recover, Rockpile Magazine, Signatures Networks, and SRQ Magazine.

See more of his work on thewhiteleaf.com

For the full story pick up the Friday, September 28th edition of the New Hampshire Union Leader.

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Rob Holland from Nashua. Second Best Aerobatic Pilot in the World!

admin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:13:00 GMT

Daniel Webster College graduate Rob Holland at the 2007 Pease Air Show 'Wings of Hope' doing what he does best!

Visit his web site - http://www.ultimateairshows.com

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See related story in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Tuesday, September 4, 2007.

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Grafton Old Home Day Reminiscence

admin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:30:00 GMT

The 'Road Kill Cafe' was one of many fond memroies brought up during the Grafton Historical Society sponsored "Grafton Memories" at the Grafton Christian Church. This was an opportunity for young and old to share their memories of Grafton.

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Salsa Dancing in the Upper Valley

admin — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:33:00 GMT

Every Saturday night at Gusanoz restaurant in Lebanon, N.H. the tables are pushed aside for dancing to live Latin music.

Quick-quick-slow. Quick-quick-slow.

The salsa rhythm is at the core of Saturday nights at Gusanoz Mexican Restaurant in Lebanon, where dozens of people with diverse backgrounds come to learn and practice their flirtatious salsa dance steps.

After guests dine on authentic and delicious Mexican cuisine, the staff at Gusanoz clears away tables and chairs to create a makeshift dance floor.

Live Latin music acts such as the Black Beans, which performs the first Saturday of each month, or Latin-influenced DJs, have made Saturday night salsa dancing at Gusanoz an Upper Valley tradition.

“Primarily, it’s just something we wanted to bring to the community, because it didn’t exist here,” said Nick Yager, who owns the restaurant with his wife, Maria Limon, a native of Mexico. “We wanted to give people a chance to experience more of the Latin culture.”

Yager said he and his wife, who doubles as his personal salsa instructor, have enjoyed salsa dancing together for years. The couple started offering salsa dance nights at the restaurant about two years ago, and they also host Monday night salsa dance lessons taught by their friend and instructor Nellie Ferland.

“She has her own methodology of teaching, and it seems to be pretty popular and effective,” Yager said.

Turnout at the restaurant on Saturdays has been “pretty solid,” Yager said, with a multi-cultural crowd packing the small restaurant on Lebanon’s Miracle Mile. Yager said he’s met people from Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Cuba, and elsewhere. And all of them tend to have their own dancing style.

Those who take to the dance floor cover a wide range of skill levels. Yager said the beauty of salsa dancing is that it’s easy to learn, but the more difficult (and often sexier) moves can take years to master.

“I think it’s something that’s very easy to pick up the basics, but it has kind of an unlimited ceiling to develop your skills,” he said.

There is no cover charge at Gusanoz on Saturdays, which is also billed as “kids day” at the restaurant. Children can hit a piñata there every weekend for free. For more information, visit gusanoz.com or call the restaurant at 448-1408.

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Concord Unitarian Universalist Church Drum Jam

admin — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:04:00 GMT

Seven iInternational student volunteers lived at the Concord Unitarian Universalist Church for two weeks. While there, they were able to join in on the once monthly drum jam held at the church.

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The Magic of Thunderbirds

admin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:32:00 GMT

A slide show on vintage Thunderbird cars and their owners by Cheryl Senter for the Union Leader.

See a related story about New Hampshire's Thunderbird community in the New Hampshire Union Leader on July 23.

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Slideshow: Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad

admin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:18:00 GMT

A video slide show of a trip on the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad by Cheryl Senter.

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Sculpted by Sarah: Nashua mom ran into bodybuilding

admin — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:31:00 GMT

Sarah Crane used to get up before the sun, in the hours when she said skunks and newspaper delivery people were the only others on the roads, and run.

She ran every day, training for a half-marathon, but also trying to change the way she looked. Too thick in the legs and butt. Running 40 to 60 miles a week was the way she tried to lose that size.

Then her husband, Mark, as husbands seemingly often do, brought her whole approach to a screaming and heartbreaking halt. He said her butt and legs weren't looking any thinner. Right up there on the list of what not to say to a woman.

But he also suggested she try something different: Get into a gym and hire a trainer to help her develop an exercise routine that would get her the look she wanted. She did.

That was almost six years ago. She hasn't come out since. You could say Sarah Crane lives in the gym.

She dedicated herself to the sport of bodybuilding and became a personal trainer. In November, she even left her job as a dental assistant to open her own gym, Lifetime Fitness Center in Nashua, and now works over 40 hours a week with clients.

Crane, 38, recently finished sixth at the World Natural Bodybuilding Federation's Pro Natural American Bodybuilding Championships and is now training for the Pro Natural International Championships, Sept. 22, in Kansas City.

Crane grew up in Wisconsin, a farm girl who lived an active outdoors life. She ran track in high school and did gymnastics, but never thought about going to a gym.

"I felt you didn't need a gym to be in shape," Crane said.

And then came her husband's blunt assessment of her training. She realized she needed help.

She joined a local gym and her son Matthew started to come along. They learned from trainers that good health wasn't just about trying to burn fat on a treadmill, but also about healthy eating and proper exercise.

She says she is actually eating more than she used to -- up to six meals a day -- but has cut out processed food. A typical meal is a small piece of chicken, a handful of green beans and a sweet potato.

As the lifestyle changes took hold, her body began looking the way she always wanted it to.

It was Matthew, then 16, who wanted to enter a bodybuilding show, but he wanted his mother to do it, as well. She agreed.

She won that first show in 2004 (the first of three shows she has won), earning her pro card in the World Natural Bodybuilding Federation, an organization that tries to weed out competitors who use performance-enhancing drugs like steroids by requiring all entrants to take a polygraph test and certain ones to take a urine test.

The money isn't much (top prize at last month's event was $600) but Crane said she doesn't do it for the money.

The challenge for her is to sculpt her body and then show it off on stage, especially during the short routine done to music.

"I never knew how much I like to entertain," Crane said. "I love doing the routine. To hear the audience go crazy is incredible. It makes you keep going. It seems like a lot of work for just 60 seconds, but I love getting up there."

A lot more, it seems, than getting up in the early morning to run with the skunks and newspaper boys.

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