On your Mark, Get REC, Go! That’s right! Newmarket Recreation never stops! We now invite you, our town residents, to read what their recreation department has accomplished in their community in the year 2009. By going the extra Smile we are committed, as you will read below, to REC Your Day…
REC our Residents Year with new and innovative Seasonal Recreation Programming
In an effort to get more adult programs at the center, we added several hobby classes to encourage more leisure recreation for this population. We added both a guitar lesson class and a floral arrangement class! In our guitar lesson class students are introduced to rhythm guitar and chord progressions and song transposition. In our floral class each student learns the basic art of floral design and gets to take home the centerpiece that they created. Another program we added last fall was our Tutus & Tap Shoes class where students ages 4-5 years are introduced to the basic concepts of ballet and tap. With close to 90 participants in both of these programs this past year, t-ball and flag football continues to be our biggest sports programs that we run. Newmarket Recreation Hershey’s Track & Field program also continues to keep Newmarket kids on track with their running abilities. Hershey Track & Field Games is an exciting track and field event to promote active lifestyles, sportsmanship as well as provide an opportunity for kids to be the best that they can be. Newmarket recreation will continue to expand and grow our yearly programs as best we can in order to accommodate our all ages of our very busy resident recreators!
REC Every Newmarket Residents Day in our Seasonal Special Events Way
The following will be our brief annual RECap of the “Traditional and Favorite” special events! Winter: Our Some Where Over the Rainbow Little Girls Dreams Do Come True! Themed Daddy Daughter Date Night was definitely an evening of enchantment for this annual favorite event. Approximately 150 little girl’s dreams did indeed come true as they danced the night away with their favorite guy in the whole wide world. This is a Friends of Newmarket Recreation Fundraiser. Spring: Colorful eggs again lit the ground up like a rainbow as 400 children scattered to find the over 2,009 eggs that were hidden for our Annual “Eggs”cellent Easter Egg Hunt located at Leo Landroche field each year. Summer: Summer began by celebrating our 20th Annual Fishing Derby at Amanda and Tom DeBlauw’s pond on Lang’s Lane. Since this event was our 20th we had an amazing turnout with over 240 kids participating. Unfortunately, we also said goodbye to long time volunteer, Richie Shelton, who retired his position as one the organizers of this annual event. He will certainly be missed by all. He promises to stop by though! As always we partnered with the town’s Conservation Committee and the Boys Scouts who stocked over 750 rainbow trout and brook trout. Kids of all ages arrive as early as 6:30 in the morning just waiting to lure a few fish out of the pond. Fall: Our Happy Halloween Haunt & Costume Parade was a bit soggy this past year. Unfortunately, the parade had to be canceled, but kids in costumes still turned out to Main Street for some other indoor fun and festivities. This event is a great collaboration with the re:discover (new)market organization in support of the local businesses. Our annual Mother and Son Dance themed “Wipe Out! Mother & Their Beach Boys” was a colorful success! Our Moms and boys just couldn’t get enough of the sunshine and beach ball fun! We also added a Festive Fall Family Night to our special events line-up this past fall as well. We here at the Newmarket Recreation Department are continuing to look for ways to bring the whole family together to spend quality time. Winter: The 2009 Season of Giving started again with the Annual Giving Tree during the Town Tree Lighting Ceremony. Finishing up the year, we would like to thank Santa Claus again for taking time out of his busy December schedule to visit at our Annual Winter Wonderland Christmas Party.
REC Newmarket Kids with a 2008’s Summer Theme!
Our 8-week Summer Camp was themed Unwind and Rewind in 2009. Campers had fun playing various games where they rewinded into the past visiting such decades as the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s 90’s and even the new Millennium. During the 80’s week we even did a camp wide Thriller Dance, which you can now see on YouTube. Parents continue to give us positive feedback on our summer camp program telling us their kids just love all the creative special events, field trips, and sports & game activities and, of course, the awesome staff. Our continued success with inclusion in camp keeps our friendship facilitators very busy. A friendship facilitator helps bridge social gaps between children to make sure that all children are supported in camp to give them the best experience that they possibly can have. This year’s registration numbers topped off at a total of 370 campers from preschool age children on up to 9th grade. This number includes our Little “Rec”tile Preschool Summer Camp for ages 3-5, our regular 1st Rec from the Sun Adventure Camp for 1st - 6th grade, and our increasingly popular TEEN T.U.R.F. Camp geared for 7th to 9th graders. Registration for any of our summer camp programs start on March 1st for Newmarket residents.
If We Build It They Will Come! and we will REC Your Day
We finally started our huge B-field retro-fit this past fall. It you haven’t stopped by the fields lately, it’s quite a project. The redesign includes two new U-12 soccer fields and a championship High School softball field that will be lighted by Musco lighting. There will also be a new scoreboard for the softball and soccer fields, and all these fields will be sodded and irrigated. The Leo Landroche A-Field baseball and soccer field will be also fully lighted by Musco Lighting. These additions will make the Leo Landroche Field Complex one of the premier athletic complexes in the NH Seacoast. The redesign plans were created by Ironwood Design Group in Exeter, NH, and the engineering was created by CMA Engineering of Portsmouth. This project has taken years to achieve and has now become a reality for the Town of Newmarket. Congratulations to all who made this and continue to make this dream a reality!
REC the Pre-Teens and Teens of Newmarket in the Club Chameleon Way
In addition to all the other things Club Chameleon does (i.e. monthly weekend trips for teens ages 10-16 years - 56 trips since its inception - and their endless community service projects around town each year), were excited to announce that this past year a new branch of Club Chameleon was formed in partnership with the Epping-Newmarket Coalition for Youth and Families. This branch is made up of Chameleon members who feel that underage drinking and drugs are a major problem in their schools, and want to actively be part of the solution. This is a brand new program, and at this point has 10 committee members. They have created the name of this branch, “Chameleons for Community Change” as well as a logo and catch phrase, which states Create a Solution for the Informed Teen Population. The teens received a $1000 grant to do a social marketing campaign based around underage drinking. They are planning on doing a series of events including commercials on the local access channel and alternate activities for teens to do instead of parties. Look for them in 2010. Last year we mentioned The Chameleon Connection Mentoring Program with the athletes of the University of New Hampshire and how it continues to get rave reviews from parents and teens. Well this past fall Club Chameleon partnered with Linked Together, an after school program for elementary age students, to create their own mentoring program. Chameleon members meet after school with these children to help with homework, play games, talk, and overall spend time with them. How’s that for paying it forward?
REC our Senior Citizens Day, with the Sunrise Sunset Newmarket Senior Activity Center
Newmarket Recreation is happy to finally announce that we officially opened Phase 2 (1250 sq. ft. multi-use function space) in our Sunrise Sunset Activity Center for our active 55+ population Get Up Get Active Be Alive at 55 last summer. The official ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Tuesday, July 9th. The center is located at 2 Terrace Drive (the old ambulance building). Currently we have daily programming from 8:45am (coffee hour) until approximately 2:30pm Monday - Friday. The center is also home to the Rockingham Nutrition Meal on Wheels program. Bingo on Monday mornings and Thursday afternoons is still a huge draw for many of our seniors, as well as board games and card playing on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. This past fall we implemented Wii Bowling into our activities and got an amazing response. Over 15 seniors are active bowlers on Tuesday morning! Our partnership with the Exeter Hospital Education Services is still going strong. Last fall we introduced our Fit for Life Fridays, with our friends at Exeter Hospital, entitled Brunch and Learn. Topics of discussion vary each month and the morning also includes fun social games, a raffle, and of course, a healthy delightful breakfast buffet. What a way to start our senior’s days! With all that’s going on at the new center we hope you’ll take an opportunity to stop by and see what else we have going on!
REC the Tax Payers Day by Making 2009 Revenue
With the expansion in programming and the increased attendance numbers in our very popular summer camp program, we were especially excited to announce that we brought in over $209,000 in revenue for the Town of Newmarket in the 2008/2009 fiscal year! This revenue helps to keep stable your recreation tax spending dollars and still allows growth.
Our Supporters REC Newmarket Recreation’s Day!
Friends of Newmarket Recreation isagroup of volunteers is committed to joining together in pursuit of community unity and supporting a diverse range of recreation opportunities for all members of our community. They engage in volunteer efforts and fundraising on behalf of this mission in support of the Newmarket Recreation Department. They are excited about supporting a number of ongoing initiatives such as Club Chameleon, the Sunrise Sunset Senior Center, and various inclusive recreational activities. If you would like to help contribute, please call 659-8581. Another organization we would also like to acknowledge and thank is the N.C.E.P. for their continued support. N.C.E.P. is a non-profit organization and stands for Newmarket Community Education. Partnership. We encourage you to check them out @ www.ncepconnectioninaction.org
We’re here to REC your Day in “EVERY” way by inviting each and every resident of Newmarket to participate and enjoy themselves in Newmarket Recreation activities! In exchange we will continue to create an inclusive recreational culture so that all members of our community, regardless of differences of background can participate in a recreational outlet that they enjoy throughout the year.
Jim Hilton Aimee Gigandet Anneliese Fisher
Recreation Director Assistant Recreation Director Operations Manager
2010 NEWMARKET RECREATION SPECIAL EVENTS SCHEDULE
Each year we do several brochure mailings to everyone listed on our mailing list. These brochures give a detailed description and scheduling of all the programs we offer. If you are not on our mailing list, we encourage you to come down to the Recreation Department, located in the Community Center on 1 Terrace Drive, and register to receive our next mailing. While you’re there, be sure to pick up the Winter/Spring 2010 activity brochure. We also are now on Facebook and Twitter under Newmarket Rec. If you would like regular email reminder blasts of upcoming events, log onto the town website www.newmarketnh.gov and sign up for email newsletters under the Recreation Homepage. In the meantime, please refer to the brief outline below of our 2010 annual special events and programming seasonal sign-ups:
JANUARY Winter Enrichment Classes begin (pick up brochure)
FEBRUARY Daddy Daughter Date Night on 2/11
MARCH Spring enrichment classes begin (pick up brochure)
Registration for our Summer Camp 3/1, Fifth Grade Dance on 3/2
APRIL Easter Egg Hunt on 4/3
MAY Hershey Track and Field practice begins
JUNE Summer enrichment classes begin (pick up flyers)
The 21th Annual Fishing Derby will be on 6/19, First Rec from the Sun Summer Adventure Day Camp and our Little “Rec”tiles (8 wks) starts 6/23
, unless A AUGUST Drive-In Movie 8/9, End of Camp 8/13,
SEPTEMBER: Fall enrichment classes begin (pick up brochure)
Little “Rec”tiles Preschool Playgroup school term begins
OCTOBER: Annual Halloween Haunt on Main Street 10/23
NOVEMBER: Mother & Son Dance 11/18, Flag Football Super Bowl Party on TBA
DECEMBER: Annual Giving Tree on 12/4, Annual Christmas Party on 12/18
