The Samuel H. Wentworth Library is pleased to offer several different passes this season:

• Children’s Museum of NH in Dover. It provides 50% off the admission price for up to 4 visitors. Spring is a great time to visit – reserve it soon. 
• McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. The pass provides free admission for four people.
• Discounted admission to the Currier Art Museum in Manchester with a pass from our library.
• Squam Lakes Natural Science Center - The 2024 trail season at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center has begun! Use your library card to reserve the library pass for discounted admission
• Wright Museum, Wolfeboro. World War II Museum

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Radon Detector Available at Library
The library now has a digital radon detector that you can check out to learn if your home is safe from radon. Radon is a colorless, odorless gas that diffuses up from New Hampshire’s granite-rich substructure and seeps into our living spaces and water. This gas can have harmful effects on human health. Thank you, Mark & Peggy Longley, for your generous and important donation of our easy-to-use Airthings Corentium device! Give the library a call to learn more and/or to reserve the detector. 603-284-6665.

Driver’s Education Grants
The Sandwich Children and Youth Fund offers grants of up to $800 per each cycle (school year, September 1st to June 30th, and summer session, July 1st to August 31st) for a total of $1600 per child per year. The grants can be used for programs such as: day/overnight camps, athletic programs and sports lessons, driver’s education, advanced educational programs, arts/music/dance lessons, licensed child care, student trips, lifeguard certification and college. The Fund for Sandwich Children and Youth is available to any and all residents of Sandwich. Students may be up to 26 years old, and must be children of legal residents of the Town of Sandwich. You can find out more at the town website at sandwichnh.org, and click on Boards and Committees, Trustees of Trust Funds.
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Doris L. Benz Community Center
Joan Merriman writes: For those of you new to Sandwich, and perhaps planning a family gathering, class reunion,  or some other sort of meeting let me introduce you to the Doris L. Benz Community Center. The Benz Center is a newly-refurbished, post-and-beam  building at 18 Heard Road in town, which can easily hold 50 people.  We have a kitchen stocked with silverware, cooking vessels and implements, dinnerware and condiments; a lawn with 2 new picnic tables, and a large parking lot.    We have a very nice AV system, large screen, and free WIFI.
We are a nonprofit, and operate through donation.  We ask for a small donation of $50 from Sandwich residents who want to use the space for social event—an incredible deal! The space is used as a meeting place by a wide variety of organizations -- no charge for nonprofit groups. Come and check us out -- call 603 284 7211  or email [email protected] for more information, or to make a reservation. 

​Radon Testing
Radon gas is the leading natural cause of lung cancer and has other harmful effects on human health. New Hampshire is now offering free radon-in-air testing for all residences in the state. All you have to do is fill out an online application at http://aelabs.com/nh, and the analytical laboratory will send a test kit to your address. By the way, if your results are high, you may wish to consider radon-in-water testing. (Contact Mark at [email protected] for that.)

We Care
We Care is a welcoming, all-volunteer group of neighbors who believe that all of us can play a meaningful role in taking care of each other and fostering mental health in our community. We are children, siblings, parents, grandparents, colleagues and friends, new and lifelong residents.  For more information or if you are interested in joining us, please contact Dan Kusch, 568-3191 or Emilie Coulter, 707-6886.

Tamworth Community Food Center Welcomes You
Located at St Andrews Church, 678 Whittier Road, Tamworth, NH. General Questions: 603-960-4067. For Tamworth and Sandwich residents. Please review the following: Reusable bags are recommended: Wear a mask (masks available if needed); A volunteer will greet you; Shopping lists available on site.; Tables and chairs are set up for this; Volunteers will pack your items while you wait: The “free table” of miscellaneous goods is available. Tamworth Community Food Center, PO Box 141, Tamworth, NH 03886

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​Email Bridie at [email protected] to let us know!