WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011
VOL. 20 NO. 84
BERLIN, N.H.
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JAG students spend summer building Mount Jasper trail BY BARBARA TETREAULT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
BERLIN -- Residents can enjoy a new hiking trail up Mount Jasper thanks to the efforts of the Berlin High JAG Program. About a dozen students spent three weeks cleaning brush, raking, moving lots of rocks, making stairs and rock bars. The result is the first designated trail up the mountain. Both the students and trail coordinators are enthusiastic about the new trail. “You guys did amazing work,” said Appalachian Mountain Club Backcountry Resource Conservation Manager Sally Manikian. “I’m proud that we got to blaze a new trail for people to hike up,” said Berlin High Senior Hailey Gabicki. Other JAG students worked with the city’s Public Works crew and Berlin Recreation and Parks. In a first for the local program, the JAG students were out- sourced to work on community projects this summer instead of being used to help clean in the school system. Berlin High Youth Specialist Lisa King, who oversees the JAG Program, said the idea was to get the students working outside the school for the summer. She said in November she spoke to then Community Services Director Laura Viger about using some of the JAG students at Parks and Recreation. Viger retired so King followed through with Terry Letarte at Parks and Recreation and Michael Perreault at Public Works. Using the JAG students to build the trail up Mount Jasper came out of a discussion between Manikian and Berlin High Principal Gary Bisson. Manikian was talk see JAG page 7
This summer students in the Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) Program worked on several community projects. A large group built a formal train up Mount Jasper. Most of the crew stopped to pose for a picture during their last week of work. (l-r) Back row, Cody Laflamme and Tim Duchesnaye. Middle row, Byrant Godin, Joshua Haley, Jonathan Croft, Ashley L’Heureux. Front row, Matt Costa, Hailey Gabicki, and Sarah Coy. Kneeing, AMC trail leaders Ryan Wilford and John Toussaint.
Randolph Community Forest marks its 10th anniversary BY GAIL SCOTT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
RANDOLPH/JEFFERSON—The 10th anniversary of the Randolph Community Forest was observed Saturday with a gathering of many of the people who made the unique community establishment possible. All were recognized in a celebration that revealed a new sign at the parking lot at the entrance to the Pond of Safety Road, commemorating the Community Forest and the financial and technical assistance the Town of Randolph received from many sources to make the Forest possible. The Community Forest is regarded as unique because it was established to accomplish specific purposes, says David Willcox, of Randolph, one of the founders of the Community Forest concept in Randolph. “Many towns have town forests, but most of them were acquired by accident—land foreclosed for nonpayment of taxes or coming to a town as a gift under someone’s will or being purchased to provide a municipal water supply or some such,” explained Willcox following the 10th anniversary ceremonies. “The Randolph Community Forest was the first acquired specifically for the purpose of being managed for specific purposes—recresee ANNIVERSARY page 8
Some of the many people who helped in the creation of the Randolph Community Forest (l-r) front: Bill Carpenter, of DRED Division of Forest and Lands; Cathy McDowell, president of the Randolph Foundation; Digit Taylor, of N.H. Land and Community Heritage Program; Marcy Lyman of the Quebec-Labrador Foundation and Community Forest Collaborative, of Manchester; David Willcox, of Randolph. l to r: back: Rodger Krussman, of the Trust for Public Lands; Walter Graff, of the AMC; Phil Bryce, former N.H. State Forester; Susan Francher, of the NH Forest Legacy program; Brendan Prusik, UNH Coos County extension forester; Jack Savage, vice president of the Society for the Protection of NH Forests; Katie Stewart, Androscoggin District Manager of the WMNF George Pozzuto, former Androscoggin district manager of the WMNF and now Milan selectman; John Scarinza, chairman of the Randolph Forest Commission. (GAIL SCOTT PHOTO)
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