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Halloween Candy CollectionAmherst Girl Scout Brownie Troop 20066 is col-

lecting and distributing Halloween Candy donations to the residents of the Amherst Village for Hallow-een Trick or Treat. Please drop off your donations at the Amherst Library, or Moulton’s Market through October 26th. Questions can be directed to troop leader Shannon Daniel at 672-3552. Thank you for your support in making this a wonderful communi-ty event!

Final HHW Collection of 2013 November 2

The Nashua Regional Planning Commission is holding its final Household Hazardous Waste Collec-tion of 2013 on Saturday November 2 in Nashua.

FINAL Household Hazardous Waste & Electronics Collection of 2013, Saturday November 2, 8:00AM-12:00PM, Nashua Public Works Garage, 9 Stadium Drive, Nashua

Residents of Amherst, Brookline, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield, Merrimack, Milford, Mont Vernon, Nash-ua, Pelham, and Windham can attend

$10 user fee per vehicle, additional charges for quantities exceeding 10 gallons or 20 pounds, addi-tional charges for electronics recycling

For more information and a complete list of ac-cepted items, please visit: http://www.nashuarpc.org/hhw or call 603-424-2240.

Implementing The ‘Affordable Care Act’ in New Hampshire

Representative Cindy Rosenwald of Nashua, vice chairman of the NH House Finance Committee will speak to the Amherst and Milford Democrats on Wednesday, October 30th at the Unitarian Uni-versalist Church at 20 Elm St., Milford. Doors will open at 6pm. Join us for a potluck supper at 6:30 before our 7pm speaker. A question and answer session will follow Cindy’s presentation.

For more information, visit http://www.amherstn-hdemocrats.org/

R.A.D. Program Offered by Police Department

The Amherst Police Department will offer its sec-ond R.A.D. program for women of all ages beginning in early November. The two-hour training classes will be held on Saturdays for four weeks beginning November 2nd, and ending November 23rd. Details and enrollment information may be found on the Amherst Police Department website at www.amher-stnh.gov/emergency-services/police-department, or interested parties may contact the Amherst Police Department at 673-4900.

Benefit Concert at the Congregational Church

On Sunday, November 24, at 4:00 p.m., the Congregational Church of Amherst, United Church of Christ, will host “A Harvest of Song,” a concert to benefit the restoration project for the church’s his-toric Johnson Tracker Organ. Featured performers will include The Nashua Flute Choir, under the direc-tion of Eileen Yarrison; Michael Havay, organist; and Sara Phelps, soprano. There is no charge to attend, but donations will go toward the organ restoration, scheduled for 2014. The church is at 11 Church St. on the Amherst Village Common. For more informa-tion, go to ccamherst.org or call the church office at 673-3231.

Library Holiday Book SaleSupport the Friends of the Library and get your

shopping done early at the holiday book sale, November 4th through the 8th.

BOY SCOUT TROOP #613 – HALLOWEEN DINNER – OCTOBER 31, 5-8PM – HOT DOGS, CHILI, BEVERAGES – AMHERST VILLAGE

“Do you hear the people sing?”Actorsingers in Les Misérables – Local Actor Plays Jean Valjean

“The Kennedy Assassination: 50 Years Later”, on Monday, November 11 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Details are below and a photo to accompany the text will follow up in a sepa-rate email.

JFK Assassination: 50 Years Later

Quartet and Saxophonist Andrew Frankhouse in Concert, November 10

“Twenty Million People” Produced by Amherst Native

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NASHUA – Set in the year 1815 during a revolutionary period in France, Les Mis is a musical about conflict, loss, love, and hope. We fol-low the story of Jean Valjean who has just been released on parole af-ter spending the last 19 years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread. He breaks parole and changes his identity. In-spector Javert, the police officer who releases him, makes it his mission to track down Valjean and bring him to justice as he believes that criminals cannot be changed. With his new identity, Valjean becomes the mayor of a small town and adopts Cosette, the daughter of Fantine, a poor factory worker who dies of tuberculosis. Val-jean becomes involved in the ongoing revolution to fight for freedom and de-mocracy and ultimately makes it his responsibility to ensure that Cosette has a safe and happy future by saving the man she loves. Based on a book by the same name written by Victor

Hugo. Music written by Claude-Mi-chel Schönberg with original French lyrics written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel. English libretto translated by Herbert Kretzmer.

Cast includes 44 talented actors and actresses from 21 surrounding towns in New Hampshire and Mas-sachusetts, spanning as far as Warner and Boylston, MA. Lead roles include Valjean (Maxwell McGrath of Am-herst), Javert (Mark Schwartzberg of Bedford), Cosette (Ashley St. Martin of Manchester), Madame Thénardier (Debra Buckley of Warner), Thénardi-er (Don Higgins of Derry), Fantine (Shawna Ciampa of Lowell, MA), Éponine (Sheree Owens of Pembroke), Gavroche (Benjamin Morton of Nash-ua), Young Cosette (Darcy Rae Hinkle of Nashua), and Young Éponine (Kris-tina McCarthy of Hudson). Directed by William McGregor with musical

AMHERST – Boston sax-ophonist Andrew Frank-house and his quartet will give a late afternoon con-cert at the Amherst Town Library on Sunday Novem-ber 10. The group will play one set, beginning at 5:00 PM, as part of the Library’s Anna Boardman Concert Series.

Frankhouse’s quartet will perform a range of materi-al, including Great Amer-ican Songbook standards, Frankhouse’s original com-positions, and what the sax-ophonist calls “new stan-dards”, including songs made famous by Michael

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AMHERST – On Mon-day, November 11, Veterans Day, the Amherst Town Li-brary is offering the presen-tation “The Kennedy Assas-sination: 50 Years Later” at 2 p.m. in the Johnson Meeting Room of the Library. Chris-topher Daley, a lecturer on historical topics throughout New England for over 20 years, presents a 90 minute multimedia slide presenta-tion in which the audience will relive that tragic day, November 22nd, 1963, in vivid detail through the use of witness statements, pho-tographs, diagrams, pic-tures and videos of the sites in Dallas, and of course the famous Zapruder Film. Since the publication of The Warren Report in 1964, the

debate has raged—was Lee Harvey Oswald the lone as-sassin or were there other gunmen? The lecture will examine the question of lone gunman vs. conspir-acy by scrutinizing the life of Lee Oswald himself, wit-ness testimony, ballistics, and autopsy evidence. Mr. Daley will attempt to dispel myth and adhere strictly to the facts.

Mr. Daley is currently a history teacher in the Lake Regional School System in Kingston, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s De-gree from Bridgewater State University. He has formerly served as the Chairman of

NEW YORK, NY – The subject line of the email read - Feature Film by Amherst Native. That got my inter-est. “Hi, My name is Chris Prine and I co-produced, edited, and acted in Twenty Million People, a feature film that will be playing at the upcoming New Hampshire Film Festival. So far, we have been accepted to 18 festivals in 4 countries, have won 5 awards, and screened to sold-out crowds in New York City and London.”

I’m hooked! Who is he? Chris Prine is an Amherst native

who graduated from Souhegan High School in 1998 and UNH in 2002

where he began producing sketch comedy and short films. He moved to New York City in 2005 and contin-ued making films, including an award winning web series. He is a writer, director, editor, actor, and composer who took home “Best Web Series” and “Best Comedy” at the Independent Television Festival in L.A. for “Octane Pistols of Fury.” Previous work as a filmmaker includes “Man-Man” (New York Television Festival), “The Stryker Files,” “Sandwich of Terror”, “Scissor Cop”. He also appeared in “Wunder-

Chris Pine, 1998 graduate of SHS, and Amherst native

A cast of 44 actor-singers include lead roles by Maxwell McGrath (Jean Valjean) and Shawna Ciampa (Fantine), in two November weekend performances in Nashua.

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Autumn in Amherst

The beautiful maple trees in Amherst Village, come alive with brilliant color.