EATON column by Nancy E. Williams 12/18/18 447-5635
Tuesday night, December
18th is the 5th Annual Locals; Holiday Dinner party at Max’s
Restaurant and Pub. Cocktails begin at 4:30 and reservations
begin at 5:30 p.m. The $39 charge includes appetizers, choice
of soup of salad, sorbet interlude, choice of entrees that include
Prime Rib, Potato Gnocchi, Stuffed Haddock, and a delicious Brownie
Sundae for dessert. The evening helps to support the Freedom
Food Pantry and the Locals Helping Locals project. Please bring
canned goods, bathroom and paper products, or cash. The Pantry
serves Freedom, Effingham, and Ossipee. Last week we collected
canned goods an such and raised over $600. Also looking for shampoo,
toothpaste, toothbrushes, jelly peanut butter, macaroni and cheese
boxes, and surprises. It is the holidays.
Big exciting news at
Max’s for the winter: Starting in January Mac’s is
open Wednesday through Saturday; the Bar opens at 4:30 and dinner
is from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Max’s will be closed January 1st
through 8th. Then Wednesday will be the new Locals’ Night
through the winter with comfort food and drink specials; Thursdays
will be Oyster Orgy with two bucks a shuck and a chowder special.
Friday is “Friday at 5” when drinks will be $5 and
there will be $5 appetizers available from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Don’t forget the
Little White Church Christmas Eve Service and Pageant on Monday,
December 24th at 6 p.m. According to LWC president John Hartman,
“Hopefully, we still have our fantastic team together to
pull this off. Let me know if you can do your part or if I forgot
anybody or there are any changes we need to know about.”
The Team consider of Rev. Mary Edes doing the service, Alice
Burns and September Quint organizing the pageant, Tim Ostendorf
printing up the programs, Ellen Schwindt playing the piano, myself
with the column, and the LWC Board helping with the donation
plates. (Thomas Costello is bowing out this year from the pageant
planning, so call Alice at 447-6516 or September at 447-3450
to tell them who is participating this year. Thanks, Thomas!)
Please get your kids to the Little White Church by 5:15 on Christmas
Eve. This service has gone on for 72 years, the first year 1946
being held in the barn at Rockhouse Mountain Farm with Libby
Edge’s father, James Thornton Lodge presiding. It is such
a special, meaningful service that is filled with tradition and
will warm your hearts for this joyous season.
The next Opera Dinner
at the Inn at Crystal Lake will be on Thursday, January 17th
with “Wie Einst Lili Marlene,” a tribute to Marlene
Dietrich by mezzo-soprano Vanessa Schukis and pianist Scott Nicholas
and owner Tim Ostendorf. Mark it down on your calendars.
The Town Clerk/Tax Collector’s
Office at the Eaton Town Hall will be closed on Monday, December
24.
Looking for a sweet way
to keep your holiday healthy or need help finding a gift for
the serious chocoholic on your list? Local chocolatier and plant-based
chef Beth Nagle Griffin creates delicious, handcrafted organic
chocolate in a variety of both unique and traditional flavors
and styles using local organic maple syrup from Sap Hound in
Brownfield, ME. All of her chocolate is plant-based, gluten-free
and dairy-free, and is never made with cane sugar. Each chocolate
is packaged in biodegradable, earth-friendly packaging, so it
is as good for the planet as it is for you.
Where can you find these
amazing health and planet-conscious confections? Beth will be
selling beautiful holiday gift baskets of an assortment of her
chocolates as well as by the piece at the indoor Tamworth Farmers
Market at the K. Brett School in Tamworth on Saturday, December
22, and again on Saturday, December 29th from 9 a.m., to 1 p.m.
Her chocolate is the perfect little hostess or Yankee Swap gift,
a thank you for that hard-working teacher or an appreciation
for your favorite friend. You can also join The Chocolate Club
- a monthly or 3 month subscription in which you get a selection
of her handcrafted, nutritious and guilt-free chocolate. You
can learn more about Beth’s chocolate and The Chocolate
Club on her website at https://livingtheplantbasedlife.weebly.com/the-chocolate-club.html
Custom orders are welcome. Please place all holiday orders by
December 20 using the contact form on the website or e-mail Beth
at livingtheplantbasedlife@gmail.com
What a delight it was
to watch skaters all over the ice playing hockey or just enjoying
themselves this past weekend on Crystal Lake. I would like some
new fresh fluffy snow before Christmas, but it still looks pretty.
Thank you once again to my “tree-on-a lake/pond” people,
who keep me smiling and full of cheer. Ken, you started this
whole thing and Dana Cunningham wrote a song about your tree
on Crystal. I don’t head down Rte. 153 as much any more,
but I noticed the Harris’ tree and Burt Day’s. It just
warms me right up. So thanks and I will enjoy these views all
winter. Peggy, I love your reindeer, and John, nice tree on your
porch.
I would like to wish
everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a joyous new
year for 2019. May you have happiness, joy, and love in your
lives now and always.
