LEBANON — The Carter Community Building Association will kick off a year of activities connected to the group’s 100th anniversary with a winter celebration on Saturday.
The event will take place outdoors at the Canillas Recreation Area and pavilion behind the CCBA’s Winterell Recreation Center from noon-2 p.m. A groomed party for cross country skiing and snowshoe hiking will be available, outdoor games will be set up for kids, and hot chocolate, snacks and a warming fire will be set up for all to enjoy. The celebration is free and open to the pubic. It is also the first of a monthly series of events the CCBA has planned for the coming year as it recognizes a year of service dating back to the association’s founding in 1919.
For more information, visit www.joinccba.org or call the Witherell Center at 603-448-6477.
POST MILLS — The Aloha Foundation will hold its Ohana Ski-O ski orienteering event on Saturday at the Ohana Family Camp.
This outdoor activity is open to skiers, snowshoers and fat-tire bikers at various times of the day. Orienteering involves the adventure of a treasure hunt, with participants using a map and compass to locate pre-placed control flags around the woods. Point values vary with each flag, and participants will have an hour to gather as many points as possible. While competitive in design, the Ohana Ski-O is gears as a fun event for individuals and groups alike.
Anyone with past orienteering experience — or none at all — is welcome to attend. Ski start times will run between 10 a.m.-1 p.m., with times available for snowshoers and bikers between 2-3 p.m. The cost to participate is $5 per person along with one nonperishable food donation; the family fee is $15 along with the donation. Food will be available, and a raffle is planned as well.
For more information contact the Aloha Foundation’s Kevin Brooker at kevin_brooker@alohafoundation.org.
NEWBURY, N.H. — Sumer Finley claimed fourth place for the boys and Kait Christensen was fifth among the girls to highlight the Ford Sayre Ski Council’s U10s in a combined slalom-giant slalom meet at Mount Sunapee on Saturday.
Racing on firm snow and in cold conditions, Finley led three other teammates to top-20 results. Rowar Riordan was 16th and Leo Bengener took 18th for FSSC, with four other competitors — Owen Osterberg (21st), Benjamin Gentine (23rd), Ellis Anderson (24th) and Henry Kocher (27th) — cracking the top 30.
Josie White was Ford Sayre’s second female finisher behind Christensen, taking 17th place. Salome Baertschiger (26th), Piper Hutchins (27th), Ariella Hirschler 929th) and Zinnia Fuld (30th) also broke into the top 30.
NEWBURY, N.H. — Maggie Higgins and Sam Ames gave Ford Sayre a sweep of the girls and boys U12 divisions during Sunday’s Bob Skinner Cup races at Mount Sunapee, a race that doubled as the club’s first state giant slalom qualifier of the winter.
Higgins easily captured the girls’ two-run giant slalom, her combined time of 1 minutes, 27.46 seconds good for a win of nearly three seconds over Mount Sunapee’s Orli Feldman. FSSC’s Reese Hamlin was third (1:33.46), with Campbell Madden taking sixth (1:34.880) and Allie Vogelien claiming ninth (1:37.14).
Ames also won by nearly three seconds in the boys’ U12 race, checking in at 1:25.10 for two runs to top teammate Andrew McGuire (1:27.92). Ford Sayre also put Ty Christensen in fifth (1:30.57), Gavin Munson in sixth (1:3076), Abraham Musty in eighth (1:31.96) and Henry Ruth in ninth (1:32.19).
Kate Levy impressed for Ford Sayre’s U14 girls by placing second (1:26.55), joining Casey Havrda (seventh, 1:29.79) and Sadie Higgins (ninth, 1:30.28) in the top 10. Ethan Munson’s third-place result among U14 boys (1:23.30) led FSSC, which also had Nicholas Reiss in sixth (1:24.87), Zachary Tracy in seventh (1:25.37) and Zander Doyle in ninth (1:26.20).
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Upper Valley Aquatic Club will stage its official Swim-a-Thon at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center on Feb. 16, raising funds to support the club’s competitive and instructional programs.
Most of the club’s 125 swim team members will be participating over a two-hour period, with the goal of swimming a combined 200 lengths of the pool. Donors are encouraged to support the effort either through a flat donation or one based on the distance a swimmer completes.
Funds raised by the event go toward the purchase of new equipment, provide scholarships for swimmers, cover meet fees and help pay for travel to competitions. Ten percent of the donations raised will go directly to the UVAC financial aid fund, while 5 percent of the money will be given to the USA Swimming Foundation.
Contact the center’s Lisa Vallejo Sorensen at 802-296-2850, ext. 111, or email uvacswim.org for more information.
MANCHESTER — The Hanover Squirt Green youth hockey team recorded a 5-3 win over the Manchester Flames on Jan. 29 to cap a three-wins-in-four-days stretch to close the month.
Ronan Przydzielski powerd the Wild over the Flames with a hat trick. Conor LeRoy assisted on the first goal, the second came unassisted, and Lucia Peraza and Benjamin Fogg helped set up the third. Fogg also scored twice.
Two days earlier, the Wild produced the second of two back-to-back shutouts by blanking Lyndonville, 3-0, at Union Arena in Woodstock. Timothy Rudd, Przydzielski and Bryson Tucker scored the goals, with Leon Schwerdtfeger, Fogg, Jackson Souther, LeRoy and Conor Fox earning assists. Savo Ftorek and Michael Anderson combined on the shutout in the Hanover goal.
Hanover also blanked Rochester, 1-0, on Jan. 26 in Rochester, N.H., as Peraza set up Przydzielski for the Wild’s only goal and Ftorek picked up another shutout. Katherine Moseley’s strong forechecking game and the play of Charlie Ferland, recently returned from a broken arm, also factored into the victory.
EXETER, N.H. — Jackson Watts’ third-period goal broke a tie and sent the Hanover Bantam Greens to a 2-1 win over New Hampshire East at Phillips Exeter Academy on Sunday.
Griffin Urnezis gave the Wild a 1-0 lead in the first period, only to have the host Eagles tie the contest late in the second. Watts followed his goal by joining Julian Correa, Satch Bowie and Cooper Anderson in protecting the goal — and goaltender Dill Eisendrath — the rest of the way.
Hanover visits Upper Valley for a 10 a.m. contest on Saturday.
HANOVER — The Hanover Parks and Recreation Department has rescheduled its annual Occom Pond Party from Saturday to Sunday from noon-3 p.m. on Occom Pond.
This year’s 23rd edition will include family skating, ice castles, couch potato races and a variety of other fun events for all ages. The Hanover Rotary will make food options available, and music will be part of the day as well.
Parking is available in the Maynard and Dewey lots, with shuttles providing transportation to Occom Pond. Contact Liz Burdette at liz.burdette@hanovernh.org for more information.
FAIRLEE — The ice is all set, and so is the Upper Valley Trails Alliance for its annual Skate-a-Thon fundraiser on Lake Morey.
The Upper Valley Trails Alliance’s annual opportunity to do laps on the Lake Morey Skating Trail to benefit the UVTA has been rescheduled for Feb. 17 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The day — which had been slated for last Sunday but was called off by snow — revolves around the skating trail, a 4½-mile loop on the lake that is also the longest groomed trail of its kind in the United States.
The entry fee ranges between $10 and $25, depending on the participants age and UVTA membership status. The fee comes with free Nordic skate rentals (on a first come, first served basis) along with hot chocolate, soup, lunch and raffle ticket. Skaters can earn additional raffle tickets with each lap they complete.
All proceeds from the day go toward the UVTA’s work to develop and maintain recreational hiking trails and other outdoors programs throughout the Upper Valley. The Skate-a-Thon has been making turns on the Lake Morey Skating Trail since 2003.
Tickets are available online at www.uvtrails.org and can also be purchased on the day of the event by cash, check or credit card. For more information, contact the UVTA at 802-649-9075 or info@uvtrails.org.
WILDER — Northern Lights Gymnastics sent athletes to three different events in the month of January.
The Wilder gym delivered nearly 50 competitors to Essex Junction, Vt., on Jan. 5-6 for the Royal Classic. NLG had a pair of second-place all-arounds, with Hanover’s Brooke Nigriny (36.700 points) earning one for Level 3 Junior C and Hanover’s Alicia Sanyal (34.325) grabbing the other for Level 5 Senior. Grantham’s Kailyn Rappaport took third in Level 3 Senior A all-around action (35.600), and Vershire’s Sydney Schoenbeck claimed third place all-around in Level 4 Senior A (34.050).
With Enfield’s Allie Curtis winning her division, Northern Lights’ Level 5 team took third place at the Boston Classic Level 4-9 meet in Norwood, Mass., on Jan. 12-13. Curtis won the bars (8.525) en route to a top all-around tally of 34.825 points in Level 5 Junior competition. Teammate Whitney Aldrich, of Lebanon, was one spot behind in second (34.525).
A small NLG contingent also traveled to the Winter Carnival Level 6-9 meet in Dracut, Mass., on Jan. 25-27. Etna’s Samantha Simmons had the best day, taking third in the vault (8.900) and claiming fifth overall (33.500) in Level 8 Junior competition.
LEBANON — Registration is underway for the Shamrock Shuffle 5K, the unofficial start to the Upper Valley’s outdoor running season.
The 18th edition of the Shuffle is scheduled for March 16, with an 11 a.m. start for the kids 1-mile fun run and a noon start for the 5K run around downtown Lebanon. The race begins and ends on Colburn Park in front of Lebanon City Hall.
Once registered, runners can pick up their race packets on the night before the race, from 6-8 p.m. at city hall and can also be received the day of the race. Runners are encouraged to register online through www.shamrock5k.com; pre-registration (through March 10) is $22.50 for ages 17 and older, $17.50 for ages 13-17 and $12.50 for ages 12 and younger; late registration fees increase $2.50 across the board after March 10. Long-sleeve T-shirts are guaranteed to all pre-registrants to desire to have one.
Call Lebanon Rec at 603-448-5121 for more information or assistance.