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LOOKING BACK ____________
SERVING THE TOWNS OF BRISTOL • BRIDGEWATER • ALEXANDRIA • HEBRON
A Light Shined and a Community Served
By Carolyn J. Phinney
light.
times, you can still shine your
During the darkest of
out the best and the worst in
COVID-19 has brought
may seem like years. Through
people over the months, that
many have had to make a
the feeling of disconnect,
choice on how they can still
be connected. Typically, that
mankind. Samantha Hooper
has been helping our fellow
company she works for, Mid-
is one of those people and the
organizations.
State Health, is one of those
locations in Bristol and
Mid-State Health, with
Plymouth, has made their
safe hub for COVID testing
Plymouth location a secure,
and resources. Though it pro-
Samantha Hooper explains the Quarantine Boxes to Governor Sununu.
Curbside Rapid COVID test-
vides many services (some like
ing, Nutritional Services, and
new service came to light due bly seen the posts and flyers the CARES Act. Even Gov- to one person seeing if it could around the Newfound Lake ernor Sununu came to Plym- which are funded by grants
the Food Security Program
and/or the CARES Act), a Quarantine Grocery Boxes.
be done. That program is the area about this fabulous pro-
By now, you have proba-
gram, Quarantine Boxes, that
MID-STATE was funded by a grant from
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Mark Dionne The Love Lights of Ukraine
Joins TTCC
By William niemann
van has carried a team of four
Staff to Help
mas, I was watching the news.
A few days before Christ-
New Hampshirites, who have
planned and are now bring-
Bring Great
ing to fruition, an endeavor to
A picture caught my attention.
It was a nighttime image of
children survive, and perhaps
help thousands of Ukrainian
Changes to
Europe taken from a satellite.
Except for a large region north
the Community even thrive, amid a brutal, un-
just war. The team comprises
of the Black Sea, the continent
Center
two couples, all of whom are
sparkled with myriad lights.
Co-Founders of Common
By Donna RhoDes
The dark region was the nation
Man for Ukraine. They include
of Ukraine. Drone and missile
BRISTOL – When Mark Di- Steve Rand, owner of Rand’s
strikes on power-generating fa-
onne was asked to write up his Hardware in Plymouth, and
cilities had compromised the
career objectives upon gradua- his partner Susan Mathison, a
nation’s ability to bring lights to
tion from Plymouth State Uni- well-regarded environmentalist
the lengthening winter nights.
versity in the 1980s, he stated and humanitarian. The other
That darkness notwithstand-
that he wanted to do “meaning- couple is Alex Ray, the Founder,
ing, if one descends from the
ful work,” and that he has done. and owner of the Common
satellite’s perspective and ap-
But when Tapply-Thompson Man chain of restaurants and
proaches Ukraine, perhaps not
Community Center was looking lodgings. He is accompanied
far above the woodland that
for someone to assist them as a by his partner, Lisa Mure, a
is a scene in our story, several
Grants and Community Engage- well-known advocate for access
beams of light come into view.
ment Manager, it was the right to behavioral health and af-
Reflected off freshly fallen snow,
job at just the right time in his fordable housing. Together the
they have illuminated the way
life.
team has directed the fundrais-
for a truck, accompanied by a
Dionne is a New Hampshire ing of two and a half million
van, on an important, heart-
native, now living in Sanborn- dollars under the auspices of
felt mission. The two vehicles
ton, who majored in writing at commonmanforukraine.org to
appear parked outside a large
PSU. Over the years, he worked be carefully dispensed by Pol-
building. The truck’s cargo in-
in various jobs, including time cludes food, clothing, genera-
A young Ukrainian girl stands in front of a burned building
LOVE LIGHTS
holding a Plymouth Rotary sign. Photo courtesy of Plymouth RC.
tors, gifts, and much more. The
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