Spina Bifida PSA

My daughter, Chelsea Phillips, is an aspiring film major made the following Public Service Announcement for an assignment last year. It features her nephew, Jacob who was born with spinda bifida at CHaD and continues to be an out patient there in their nationally acclaimed spina bifida clinic.

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Jacob is only one of the children you can help by purchasing one of our fine NH Photo Tour 2007 calendars.

Won't you help?

Order yours today for only $15USD to insure you get yours while they last!

All profits from this high quality, full sized, calendar will be donated to CHaD (Children's Hospital at Dartmouth).

Mt. Washington from Mt. Chocorua

Mt. Washington from Mt. Chocorua, originally uploaded by mineral2.

Mt. Washington from Mt. Chocorua

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So, the NH Photo Tour 2007 Calendar Project was laid to bed early this morning. (For those of you not amiliar with the term, laid to bed refers to when the design production portion of a printing project is finished and handed over to the printers.) Which of course, meant that I had no laid myself to bed. Oh well, as the expression goes, I'll sleep when I'm dead. I just feel like walking dead today. Tomorrow is another day. It does feel great knowing that the project is completed and wil be in our hands in time for Thanksgiving!

On another note, who says there isn't a problem with global warming? Sure there are other factors involved, but if you look at the trend in the weather, you can see it is definitely a major player in the fact that NH's skiiers have lost "approximately 60 percent of its downhill ski areas since the 1970s." That is a pretty sobering number. As a person who has just discovered skiing in the past 6 years, I look forward to those great huge dumps of snow (well, truth be told, it wasn't just skiing that makes me love snow, I always have.)

There is a big problem connected with that number though since skiing plays a big part in our state's economy. They say that most of the warming in the past century has occured after 1975 and that over the course of this past century, the average temperature has risen 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

It is claimed that there are other reasons why NH is suffering a loss of ski resorts, but ultimately, who wants to ski when there is no snow? Bottom line. I, for one, am glad that it finally has started to feel like winter is approaching. It felt strange the other day to think about Thanksgiving less than a week away with 70 degree weather.

Things Are Looking Up!

IMG_4289, originally uploaded by ThomasRizzo.

By Steve Goldman

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The NH Photo Tour 2007 calendar project is in full swing and going well! In just one day of publicising it we have over 100 orders! That's $500 for CHaD! That's incredible!

Please help get the word out. The calendars are at the printers and will be ready for pickup on Wednesday. If you have your order in, they will be shipped out then. If you don't have your order in, what are you waiting for?

These are beautiful calendars highlighting 13 of New Hampshire's finest amature photographers from all over the state. The price is right at only $15 per calendar with $5 from each calendar being donated to CHaD. They will make wonderful Christmas presents you can feel good about giving, because you are actually giving twice.

You can order through PayPal by clicking the button below:

Or you can mail a check or money order made out to:

Tracy Lee Carroll

to the following address:

NH Photo Tour
131 Daniel Webster Hwy Box 143
Nashua, NH 03060-5224
USA

You can also read the press release on Now Public.

NH Group 2007 Calendar

NH Group 2007 Calendar, originally uploaded by StarrGazr.

Photo Credits

1. Cover by Daman Sidhu - The Bridge,
2. January by Michael J. Dailey - Franconia Ridge Towards Mt Lincoln,
3. February by Tim Somero - BeingVeryVeryFrugalLaundryDryingInWinter1,
4. March by Tina - pondside,
5. April by Bob - Monarch on Clover,
6. May by Darren Hewson - Crotched Mountain 2,
7. June by Bruce Denis - Some signs don't have words, some do.,
8. July by Spencer Batchelder - Lowering Old Glory,
9. August by Cindy Ware - June,
10. September by Tracy Lee Carroll - High Hopes -- Rained Upon,
11. October by Jeff Forbes - Golden Leaves,
12. November by Marc Hadley - Fallen Leaves in Water,
13. December by Mike Cosolo - RVP-06-1-2

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

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The calendar is almost on its way to the printers!

Order yours today for only $15USD to insure you get yours!

All profiits from this high quality, full sized, calendar will be donated to CHaD (Children's Hospital at Dartmouth).

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New Hampshire Photographers Keep their Focus on Philanthropy

Flickr Members Create Calendar to Benefit the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth

Members of the New Hampshire group on the photo sharing website Flickr have devised a way to use their skills to benefit their own community. Group administrator Tracy Lee Carroll came up with the concept to put the group's members to work and allow them to become part of a project that was meaningful and gave back to the community they love. A calendar that highlights the State of New Hampshire and the talent that lies within to be sold over the internet to benefit CHaD (Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth).

ChaD one of the nation’s leading children’s care facilities was described as a “children’s hospital within a hospital” by the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions, Inc. CHaD is New Hampshire’s only children’s hospital with two locations serving the families of New Hampshire, Vermont and beyond.

The response to a simple thread posted two weeks ago was overwhelming from the group’s members and is a prime example of New Englanders sense of community and giving. “I'm behind this 100%. Let me know what I can do to help organize this”, was Mike Costolo’s response, just one of the members participating in a project that evolved into a calendar that will be available for sale by Thanksgiving.

The Calendar will be available for purchase through the groups website NH Photo Tour via PayPal with any major Credit Card or bank account or a check or money order payable to Tracy Lee Carroll may be sent to the following address:

NH Photo Tour
131 Daniel Webster Hwy Box 143
Nashua, NH 03060-5224
USA