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HAMPTON | TheHampton Garden Clubrecently held its annualbanquet at the TownlyneGrill in Exeter. Election ofofficers was held and offi-cers re-elected were Presi-dent Laurel Lent, VicePresident Karin Jacobson,Secretary, Mary Hildreth,and Treasurer SandyTaube.

Since the Hampton Gar-den Club brings cheery

flowers to the Lane Libraryinside, it is time to make itlook spiffy outside. The tra-ditional library springcleanup will be held onWednesday, May 11 (with arain date of May 12) at 6p.m. Members are asked toplease meet at the librarywith garden tools, gloves,brooms and energy. Forthose who are just gettingstarted and don’t have gar-dening tools, come alonganyway … the fun and

GARDENING GROUP — The Hampton Garden Club recently held its election of officers. Re-elect-ed to their posts were (from left) President Laurel Lent, Vice President Karin Jacobson, Secretary,Mary Hildreth, and Treasurer Sandy Taube.

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HAMPTON FALLS |The public is invited to joinhealth care professionals,concerned individuals,family members and othersinterested in learning moreabout suicide — both sur-viving and preventing it —at a conference taking placein Hampton Falls.

Professionals and laypeople will share newinformation about causesand effects of suicide,including depression andbipolar disorder, at the FifthAnnual Erik CogswellMemorial Conference, tak-ing place on Thursday, May5. The conference, titled“Surviving and PreventingSuicide,” will run from 9a.m. to 4 p.m., at Faro Gar-dens Conference Center,located on Route 1 inHampton Falls. It is spon-sored by Seacoast MentalHealth Center, the ErikCogswell Memorial Fund,NAMI Family York Maineand the Suicide PreventionPartnership.

The keynote speakerwill be Bev Cobain, a regis-tered nurse with credentialsin psychiatric/ mentalhealth nursing. Her ownstruggle with depressionand the suicides of threefamily members — mostrecently the 1994 death ofher young cousin, KurtCobain, front man for thepopular band, Nirvana —ignited a passion in Bev toeducate professionals, laypersons, and youth aboutdepression and the signifi-cant public health issue ofsuicide.

A resident of Costa Ricaand the mother of two sons,Bev Cobain is the author of“When Nothing MattersAnymore: A Survival Guidefor Depressed Teens.” Thispowerful book is her wayof dealing with Kurt’sdeath, and reaching out toteens with a life-savingmessage: You don’t have tobe sad, discouraged, ordepressed. There is help

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and hope for you. Duringher visit to the Seacoast, shewill also conduct a work-shop at Portsmouth HighSchool on Friday, May 6.

The Annual ErikCogswell Memorial Confer-ence was designed to raisecommunity awareness sothe stigma attached to bipo-lar disorder and other men-tal illnesses won’t preventpeople from living every-day life or working towardrecovery. The 2005 confer-ence will address issues of“Preventing and SurvivingSuicide.” If untreated, therate of suicide among bipo-lar disorder patients is atleast five times that of thegeneral population. But evi-dence indicates that treat-ment with effectivemedications plus regularcounseling reduces thisrisk.

“A full spectrum ofresources will be presentedthat will appeal to all agegroups and types of partici-pants, from seasoned pro-fessionals to individualswho may have just beendiagnosed, or their fami-lies,” says Diane Cyr, a Sea-coast Mental Health CenterFamily Advocate who coor-dinates the conference andthe monthly Bipolar Disor-der Support Group.

Conference attendeeswill represent a broad rangeof personal interests andexperiences brought togeth-er because suicide hastouched their lives in someway. In addition to thespeakers, the conferencewill feature a ResourceExhibition to provide addi-tional information and sup-port.

Noted leaders in thefield will participate inpanel discussions and pre-sentations, including AlanBerman, Ph.D., executivedirector of the AmericanAssociation of Suicidology;Elaine Frank, co-chair of theYouth Suicide PreventionAssembly; Ken Norton ofthe National Alliance for the

Mentally Ill NH, workingon the “Frameworks” youthsuicide prevention project;and Effie Malley, programdirector of the Suicide Pre-vention Partnership.

The annual ErikCogswell Memorial Confer-ence was created in memoryof a young man who suf-fered from bipolar disorderand died by suicide. Sinceits inception in 2000, theconference has annuallygathered experts in the fieldalong with individuals whoare affected by the illnessand their families and care-takers. One of the manypositive outcomes was thecreation of a Bipolar Sup-port Group that meetsmonthly at the CommunityCampus in Portsmouth.

Bipolar disorder affectspeople’s thoughts, feelings,perceptions and behavior —even how a person feelsphysically. According to theAmerican Foundation forSuicide Prevention, almosttwo million Americans suf-fer from bipolar disorder.Also known as manic-depressive illness, episodesof depression alternate ormix with periods of mania.Although many effectivetreatments are available,bipolar disorder is often notproperly recognized andtreated, which can result inyears of needless suffering,or death by suicide.

To register for the confer-ence, or for more informa-tion, call (603) 431-6703 ext.4003. Conference informa-tion and the registrationform are readily availableon the SMHC Web site atwww.secoastmentalhealth.org.

Founded in 1963, Sea-coast Mental Health Centeris a comprehensiveprovider of psychiatry,counseling and psychologi-cal services in the Seacoast.It provides accessible, highquality mental and behav-ioral health services for peo-ple of all ages in a safe andconfidential environment.

camaraderie that will beexperienced during thisevening is very muchworth the effort. Refresh-ment hostesses for this funevent are Jane Eiras andBobbie Kittredge; thismonth’s library flowers areprovided by Jane Eiras andMary Jo Murphy.

The June 8 meeting willbe held back at the FirstCongregational Church onWinnacunnet Road inHampton at 7 p.m. Thiscomes at the perfect time,as Tom Mickey (a MasterGardener with a graduatecertificate from HarvardUniversity’s LandscapeInstitute) will provide aslide presentation on“How to Design a Perenni-al Garden.” Many garden-ers scramble yearly toperfect their perennial gar-den; come join the Hamp-ton Garden Club inlearning how to experiencefewer gardening struggles.Refreshment hostesses willbe Karen Ryan and MarciaGaudioso; the library flow-ers are by Priscilla Cairaand Catherine Fletcher.

For information onmembership in the Hamp-ton Garden Club, or any ofthese events, call Mary Hil-dreth at (603) 926-3114.

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SPORTS SCENES

GREAT JOB — The NHE Bantam 3team recently hit the ice in Exeter forValley Bantam Championship playagainst Medford. Pictured here are(back row, from left) Coach Doskocil,Matt Facey, Jeff Solomon, NateDoskocil, George Demopoulos, MattKleinman, Myles Johnson, CoachJohnson, Will Gager, and Coach Moran;(middle row) Ted O’Connor, KevinKlingelhoefer, Jason Ciaramitaro,Bobby Fuller, AJ Mazetta, and BrianKeith; (front row) Matt Coombs andChristopher Moran. Missing from thephoto is Nick Brock. In other scenesfrom the championship, Myles Johnsonlooks to make a pass out front; ChrisMoran readies for a shot on net; andMatt Kleinman looks for a quickrebound. NHE finished the Valley regu-lar season in third place and advancedto the bantam championship game withwins over Greater Lowell and Reading.Medford finished the Valley regular sea-son in fourth place and advanced to thebantam championship game with winsover Wakefield and North Andover.

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WINNACUNNET NOTEBOOK

By Tom Haggerty

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HAMPTON | Math skillsadd up to victory ,and futureeducators at WinnacunnetHigh School explore teachingcareers by attending a work-shop. Here’s the scoop onwhat’s happening this springat WHS.

WHS MATHLETE

CHAMPSThey are the champions

once again. According to ourfaithful correspondent ZackCoburn, the WHS MathTeam has concluded yetanother successful year ofcompetition.

“The last Tri-State MathLeague meet of the year washeld on April 6 at Amesbury,where Winnacunnet defeat-ed second-place Pinkertonby three questions in order tofinish in first place for theyear by 10 questions, addinga seventh victory to itsrecord. In the junior varsitydivision, Winnacunnetdefeated second-placePinkerton in order to win forthe year by six questions.

“Coach Steven Latvissaid, ‘It would have beeneasy to concede to Pinkerton.They had the momentum,[but the team] worked reallyhard in order to overcome itssecond-place finish at thefifth meet.’”

High scorers for the meetincluded Zack Coburn(grade 11), Kenon Fachon(10), and Marshall Roch (12)with perfect scores of 27; andMike Tonry (11) with a scoreof 21.

“The Mathletes represent-ed Winnacunnet well in theleague rankings for the year,”reported Coburn. Roch fin-ished in fourth place in theTri-State Math League, andErik DeVolder finished in thetop 10. In the junior class,Coburn finished in third,Tonry in sixth, and EdmondWong in eighth.

In the sophomore class,Fachon finished in second,and Jon Coulp-Yu, AnnaKane, and Victoria Mason allfinished in the top 20. Shan-non Tsaltas, who was onlyable to attend three out of sixmeets, also finished in thetop 20 in the sophomore

class. In the freshman class,Gabbie Burns finished in thetop five.

On March 23, Winnacun-net competed in the StateMath Contest at PlymouthState University, where it fin-ished in fourth place. Thisyear, the team will not becompeting in the New Eng-land meet, since the date con-flicts with April vacation.

“It will be a good compe-tition next year with Pinker-ton,” Coach Latvis said.“We’ll miss the seniors, but Ithink we have strong under-classmen.”

Congratulations to all theteam members and to CoachLatvis for their winning sea-son, and my thanks to ZackCoburn for keeping usabreast of the Math Team’sactivities throughout theyear.

TEACHING WORKSHOPEight members of the

Exploring Teaching class,part of the statewide FutureEducators Academy, attend-

ed the yearly conference andawards banquet held atKearsarge Regional HighSchool on April 14.

Along with students fromseven other New Hampshirehigh schools that offer thoseinterested in becoming edu-cators an opportunity to par-ticipate in the Academy, theWinnacunnet students wereaccompanied by their WHSteacher Rebecca Thompsonand Experience Based Educa-tion Director, Janis Petrou, fora workshop and celebration.

In the workshop, studentspicked up useful and rele-vant techniques and hints forclassroom discipline fromnationally-recognized speak-er Arnie Bianco, author of“One-Minute Discipline:Classroom ManagementStrategies That Work.”

Students attending theFEA gathering include Mallo-ry Anderson, MichelleBouchard, Lyndsey Boutin,Sarah Bowden, Michelle

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