In This Issue:Municipal Election is Nov. 7

Let Daylight Saving Timeserve as a reminder for firesafety

Veterans Day ceremony, parkdedication to be held Nov. 11

City offices closed for VeteransDay

Next Dover Art Walk is tonight

Dover Turkey Trot returns thisThanksgiving

Dover Chamber seekingnominations for annual awards

Sunday hours at the RecyclingCenter

Woodman Museum exhibit,events focus on Doverdisasters

Check it Out! at the DoverLibrary

Fall leaf collection begins inNovember

Online survey seeks input onproposed climate changechapter of Dover Master Plan

This Week in History

City of Dover employmentopportunities

Stay informed with City ofDover special announcements

Friday, November 3, 2017

Municipal Election is Tuesday, Nov. 7

The municipal election is Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. Voterswill choose candidates for City Council, School Board,and all ward positions, including moderators, wardclerks, supervisors of the checklist and selectmen.

A complete list of candidates for Mayor, City Council andSchool Board can be found at the 2017 MunicipalElection page here.

Polls on Election Day, Nov. 7, will be open from 8 a.m. to

City boards and commissionsseek to fill several vacancies

Discover Dover with Peek atthe Week

Meetings this week: Joint Fiscal Committee,Nov. 6, 6 p.m.

The Joint FiscalCommittee, whichcomprises the SchoolBoard and City Council,will hold a regular meetingon Monday, Nov. 6, 2017,beginning at 6 p.m., inRoom 305 at theMcConnell Center.

To view the meetingagenda, click here.

City Council, Nov. 6, 7p.m.

The City Council will hold aworkshop session onMonday, Nov. 6, 2017,beginning at 7 p.m., inRoom 306 at theMcConnell Center.

To view the meetingagenda, click here.

City Council, Nov. 8, 7p.m.

The City Council will hold aregular meeting onWednesday, Nov. 8, 2017,beginning at 7 p.m., inCouncil Chambers at CityHall.

To view the meetingagenda, click here.

To view televised meetingsonline, on demand, visitwww.dover.nh.gov/dntv.

7 p.m.

Polling locations are as follows:

Ward 1 - St. Mary's Church Hall, Chestnut StreetWard 2 - First Parish Congregational Church, 218Central AvenueWard 3 - Langdon Place, 60 Middle RoadWard 4 - Elks Lodge, 282 Durham RoadWard 5 - St John's Methodist Church, 28 CataractAvenueWard 6 - Riverside Rest Home, 276 County FarmRoad

Not sure of your ward? You can access an interactivemap with ward information and locations here:

Online Ward Map

Daylight Saving Time also areminder for fire prevention

Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 a.m. It'sa good time to change and test the batteries in smokealarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

Dover Fire and Rescue reminds residents that onesimple step can help save their lives and the lives ofthose around them. Everyone is encouraged to use theextra hour they "gain" from Daylight Saving Time tochange the batteries in smoke alarms and carbonmonoxide detectors, test alarms and remind friends,family, neighbors and fellow community members to dothe same.

"Eighty percent of child fire fatalities occur in homeswithout working smoke alarms," said Dover Fire ChiefEric Hagman. "It's a tragic statistic that could be reducedby adopting the simple habit of changing your batterieswhen you change your clocks."

According to the National Fire Protection Agency, 71percent of smoke alarms which failed to operate hadmissing, disconnected or dead batteries. Changing

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smoke alarm batteries at least once a year, testing thosealarms and reminding others to do the same are some ofthe simplest, most effective ways to reduce these tragicdeaths and injuries.

"The peak time for home fire fatalities is between 11 p.m.and 7 a.m., when most families are sleeping," Hagmansaid. "Smoke alarm maintenance is a simple, effectiveway to reduce home fire deaths. Children and seniorcitizens are most at risk, and a working smoke alarm cangive them the extra seconds they need to get out safely."

A working smoke detector doubles your chance ofsurviving a home fire.

For more information about fire safety, call Dover Fireand Rescue at 603-516-6148.

Veterans Day ceremony, parkdedication to be held Nov. 11

A Veterans Day ceremony will be held on Saturday, Nov.11, 2017 at 11 a.m., at the City Hall auditorium.

The ceremony will include an invocation, Taps, posting ofcolors, and the national anthem. There will be remarks byCity officials, including Mayor Karen Weston, veteransand guest speakers, Lt. Charles "Johann" Sung and Gen.Mark Sears, retired.

A dedication ceremony of the new Dover Veterans Parkwill follow on the grounds of the McConnell Center.

The master of ceremonies is Davide Wiggin, Dovercommander of the Disabled American Veterans.

City offices closed for VeteransDay

City administrative offices, including City Hall, will beclosed on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017, for Veterans Day.Regular hours will resume on Monday, Nov. 13, 8:30 a.m.to 5:30 p.m. The Public Library is also closed on Friday,Nov. 10, for Veterans Day.

Veterans Day is a parking holiday in Dover. Meteredparking is not required on parking holidays.

Trash pickup and curbside recycling are not affected by

the holiday and will follow a regular schedule.

Next Dover Art Walk is tonightThe next Dover Art Walk is tonight, Nov. 3, from 4-8 p.m.,in downtown Dover. This is the ninhth in a series ofmonthly art walks, held on the first Friday of each month.

The walks begin at Washington Street Mills, where peoplecan pick up a map, and visit galleries and studios in themill. A variety of downtown businesses will host art andlocal artists, including Adelle's; Nicole's Hallmark; VillageGoldsmith Gallery; The Falls Grill & Tavern; Pin Ups;Photosmith; Roots Juice Bar; Five Sirens Gallery; RossFurniture; Gyro Spot; Pear Tree Paper & Gifts; Just theThing; Spires Creative Media, and the Dover WineCompany.

Those completing the walk will receive a gift.

Some of the artists may be present in their own galleries,or at various locations along the walk, and areenthusiastic about talking to the public about their work.

Visit the Dover Art Walk website at doverartwalk.com formore information.

The Dover Art Walk is hosted by Dover Main Street, RSPStudio Custom Framing, the Dover Business andIndustrial Development Authority, and D Graphics.

Dover Turkey Trot returns thisThanksgiving

The fourth annual Dover Turkey Trot is now open forregistration.

This 5K road race on Thanksgiving morning is designedfor runners and walkers of all ages and abilities. TheDover Turkey Trot is the 11th and final race of the DoverRace Series and Garrison School's largest fundraiser.

Make Dover Turkey Trot your final race to earn yourDover Race Series jacket.

Sign up family, friends and children and make the DoverTurkey Trot a Thanksgiving morning tradition.

For more information, visitwww.facebook.com/doverturkeytrot andwww.doverturkeytrot.com to register.

Dover Chamber seekingnominations for annual awards

The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce is nowaccepting nominations for their Business of the Year,Citizen of the Year, Non-Profit of the Year and Volunteer ofthe Year awards. Winners will be announced at theAnnual Awards Dinner in Jan. 19, 2018.

The deadline for nominations is Friday, Nov. 17.

For more information, or to nominate a business,organization or person, click here.

Sunday hours at the Recycling

Center continueThe City of Dover Recycling Center on Mast Road willopen for additional weekly hours for several Sundays inOctober and November.

The Recycling Center will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30p.m. on the following Sundays:

Nov. 5Nov. 12Nov. 19Nov. 26

The Recycling Center's regular hours are Tuesday,Thursday and Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

For more information about the Recycling Center, call516-6450.

Woodman Museum exhibit, eventsfocus on Dover disasters

Dover Library's annual booksalecontinues this week

The Friends of the Library's annual, two-week-long,gigantic fall booksale at the Dover Public Library is nowunder way.

Thousands of paperbacks, hardcover books, and mediaitems for all ages. Many of the sale items are booksdonated to the library, while others are items discardedfrom the library's collections. Booksale prices were furtherreduced on Nov. 1, and during week two of the booksale,Nov. 6-12, the remainder of the items will be sold for thebargain price of just $1 per bag or boxful. Any leftoverbooks will be given away for free beginning Monday, Nov.13.

All proceeds benefit the Friends of the Library, a 501(c)3charitable organization which last year donated over$15,000 to the library for museum passes, children's andadult programs, furnishings and equipment. Applicationsto join the Friends of the Library are available at thelibrary's circulation desk.

Membership is $10 annually or $7 for seniors. Friendswho work at the booksale receive a 50 percent discounton purchases. Call 516-6050 for more information.

Library hours are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 9a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday 1-5 p.m. TheLibrary will be closed on Friday, Nov. 10 for the VeteransDay holiday.

The library requests that no further book donations bemade at this time. Donations will again be accepted afterNov. 19.

For more information, please call the Circulation Desk at603-516-6050.

Visit the Volunteer Fair at theDover Public Library on Nov. 18

November and December are called the "giving season."As we get closer to the holidays, more and more peoplediscover a kindness in their hearts that leads them towant to help others. This season, OWLS and the DoverPublic Library hope to make the opportunity to give backa bit easier by setting up a Volunteer Fair in the library'sLecture Hall.

Hosted on the top floor of the Dover Public Library onSaturday, Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the VolunteerFair welcomes people to learn about, and chat withrepresentatives of, several local non-profits that are doingwonderful things in the area and who are looking forvolunteers to aid their organization.

Participants include the Dover Children's Home, the NewHampshire Tax Aide program, the Cocheco ValleyHumane Society, My Friend's Place, SOS Recovery,Community Action Partnership of Strafford County,Riverside Rest Home/Hyder House, the WoodmanMuseum, and Zebra Crossings.

Volunteering is not only important to help run thesevarious organizations, but also teaches valuable skillsthat can be used later in life and in future jobs.

The Fair is sponsored by OWLS, a community servicegroup affiliated with the Dover Public Library. OWLS wasstarted in 2016 with the mission to get more individualsinvolved in the community and the world. This isaccomplished through projects and lectures that seek toinform and educate on important issues.

The Volunteer Fair is free and open to the public. All agesare invited to attend, get information on the variousorganizations, and hopefully make a match and decide tovolunteer in their local community. Note: there is noobligation to sign up for any volunteer position, unless youwant to.

For more information, visit the OWLS website atowlsnh.wixsite.com/volunteer or call the Library at 603-516-6050.

Fall leaf collection begins in

NovemberThe City of Dover 2017 fall leaf collection will take placeon the following weeks:

Nov. 6-10Nov. 13-17Nov. 20-25Nov. 27-Dec. 1

Bagged leaves will be picked up on the same day astrash and recycling.

Leaves must be placed curbside in biodegradable paperleaf bags. No brush will be accepted. Paper bags can bepurchased at your local hardware or home improvementstore.

Grass clippings, leaves, brush and yard waste are alsoaccepted at the Recycling Center during regularoperating hours, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 8:30a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

For more information, contact the Community ServicesDepartment at 516-6450.

Online survey seeks input onproposed climate change chapter

of Dover Master PlanThe City of Dover is developing a new chapter of theMaster Plan to address changes in climate. The ClimateAdaptation Chapter is being led by a steering committeecomprised of Dover citizens appointed by the PlanningBoard. The Dover Planning and Community DevelopmentDepartment, Strafford Regional Planning Commissionand University of New Hampshire Cooperative ExtensionService are providing support for the project.

The Steering Committee has already held a publicworkshop to gather feedback on the first draft of theClimate Adaptation Chapter of the Master Plan. An onlinesurvey is also available to provide feedback to the

Steering Committee. There are six main topic areas of thechapter. Each topic area has at least one issue andassociated objective or objectives, and each objectivehas several draft actions. The Steering Committee islooking for your feedback on these draft actions.

To access the survey, click here.

As the project proceeds, draft documents and othermaterials will be available on the Master Plan section ofthe the City's website here.

Once a draft of the new chapter is complete, it will bepresented to the Planning Board for review. At that point,the Planning Board will hold a public hearing, followed bya meeting for adoption once final edits have beencompleted.

For more information, contact the Planning Department at516-6008.

Support the Dover Veterans Parkwith engraved brick donation

A new City park to honor all veterans is expected to beconstructed and open this fall, in time for Veterans Day.The park will be located on the front lawn of theMcConnell Center.

To help fund the construction and maintenance of theDover Veterans Park, park organizers have launched abrick donation campaign. The bricks will be installed onthe entrance walkway and engraved with the name,military rank and branch and years of service forindividual service members. Bricks can be purchased byanyone wishing to honor a veteran who has served ourcountry. A red 4-inch by 8-inch brick costs $50. A larger8-inch by 8-inch brick costs $100.

Brick donations can be made online here.

The Dover Veterans Park was first proposed by acommittee consisting of Mayor Karen Weston, CityCouncilor John O'Connor, City Manager J. Michael Joyal,Jr., and Recreation Director Gary Bannon. The CityCouncil subsequently included some funding for the parkin the annual Capital Improvements Program. TheMcConnell Center was chosen as an ideal locationbecause it is near some of the City's memorialmonuments and named after Capt. Joseph McConnell, aDover native, Korean War Veteran, and the first Triple JetAce.

The Dover Veterans Park is intended to recognize allveterans.

For more information about brick donations, visitwww.dover.nh.gov or call the Dover RecreationDepartment at 516-6410.

The following events are recorded in "Notable Events inthe History of Dover, New Hampshire: From the FirstSettlement in 1623 to 1865," by George Wadleigh,"Historic Rambles About Dover," by Robert A.Whitehouse, "Port of Dover: Two Centuries of Shipping onthe Cochecho" by Robert A. Whitehouse and Cathleen C.Beaudoin, and several other historical sources. For more on the history of Dover, settled in 1623 and theoldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire andseventh oldest in the country, visit the Dover PublicLibrary, Locust Street; and the Woodman InstituteMuseum, Central Avenue. The Public Library alsomaintains an online collection of historical information,located here.

Nov. 6, 1818 - Franklin Academy in Dover isincorporated, receiving a liberal endowment for the timesfrom public-spirited citizens, the chief of which was in theland on which it was built and several adjoining lots, byDaniel Waldron. Franklin Academy was a private collegepreparatory school which stood at the brow of the hill onthe west side of Central Avenue between Waldron Streetand Orchard Street. It was two stories high and made ofred brick with a bell tower up over the front door whichfaced the Avenue. It was the first public building in Doverbuilt of brick. The dedication ceremony was held onSaturday, Dec. 5, 1818 and two days later, on Monday,the first term started. When the building was first built,

there were beautiful lawns in front of the building, runningdown to Central Avenue and on the North side going tothe river since Waldron Street had not been built at thattime. It is claimed that the bell was a gift of CaptainWilliam Flagg of Dover who was in command of a"Privateer" ship during the war of 1812 and he had takenthe bell form a merchant ship which he captured. CaptainFlagg, who built the beautiful home now known as theTidewater Farm on the Cochecho near the Salmon FallsRiver was one of the original trustees of the school. Theschool operated until 1896 and at the time of its closingwas completely surrounded by homes and factories. Thelargest enrollment at the school was approximately 100students in 1881.

Nov. 5, 1857 - Suspension of gold and silver paymentsby the banks follow numerous failures throughout thecountry. All manufacturing operations in Dover aresuspended for a time.

Nov. 4, 1863. - Governor Gilmore issues a proclamationfor a draft of 3,768 men to fill the quota of NewHampshire for 300,000 more soldiers, called for byPresident Lincoln, of which number Dover is required toraise 72 men.

Nov. 6, 1889 - "The Knife Factory of Hobbs & Flagg atBellamy Mills is a lively place nowadays; work is rushingwith them. They have shipped this week knives to SanFrancisco, Chicago and Milwaukee, in this country, andto Leeds, England. They have orders to be filled in NewZealand, the Cape of Good Hope, Japan and Africa.They are manufacturers of nine-tenths of all the knivesused in tanneries in this country and Canada and have alarge trade in tanneries abroad. The knives they makeare from 38 to 80 inches long, 4 1/2 inches wide, and 5/8of an inch at the back. This is one of the industries whichhave been spreading the fame and high reputation ofDover worldwide." (The Daily Republican)

November, 1912 - Three young men from Dover take aboating trip down the Bellamy and Piscataqua rivers andland on Goat Island, near Fox Point, in Newington. JamesMurtagh, who has lived there for more than 20 years as ahermit, came out of his shanty and threatened the boyswith his double-barreled shotgun. The boys quickly left theisland and returned to Dover.

M U N I C I P A L M A T T E R S

City of Dover employment

opportunitiesWant to work for the City of Dover? The City's websiteoffers an updated list of open positions, including jobdescriptions and a downloadable application foremployment.

The City of Dover is now hiring the following positions:

Engineering Document CoordinatorSeasonal maintenance workerLifeguardsSwim instructor

For more information about these positions oremployment opportunities with the City of Dover, clickhere.

Stay informed with City of Doverspecial announcements

Want up-to-date information about road work,emergencies, special projects, and other importantinformation? Sign up now to receive specialannouncements via email.

In addition to Dover Download, the City of Dover offers avariety of e-mail updates, including emergency and roadclosure information, Police Facility and Parking Garageupdates, Silver Street reconstruction news, news from thePublic Library, waterfront development, and more.

To sign up for one or all of the City's updates, click here.An e-mail address is required to access the specialannouncement mailing lists.

Your City needs you!City boards and commissions seek to fill

several vacancies

The City of Dover is a vibrant community due in largepart to the energy and talent of citizen participation onboards and commissions.

The City's boards and commissions encourage publicparticipation and are seeking new members to fill severalvacant positions.

Joining one of the City's numerous boards commissions

not only offers a chance to give back to the community, itcan be a rewarding and valuable experience, and helpsshape the City's future.

For a complete list of the City's boards andcommissions, as well as more information aboutvacancies and how to apply, click here.

To download an application for board and commissions,click here. Completed forms should be returned to theCity Clerk's Office. Committee application forms are kepton file for one year from date of submission.

For more information, contact the City Clerk's office at516-6018.

Time to register your vehicle?Save time, register online

Did you know you can save yourself time and a trip toCity Hall by registering your vehicle online?

Online vehicle registration renewal is easy, safe andsecure. You can register online by providing a PINnumber or your license plate number. Your PIN number isprovided by the City of Dover and can be found on yourrenewal notice.

For your convenience, you can now pay for motor vehicleregistration by credit card.

For more information on the E-registration process, clickhere.

Missed the meeting?Catch it again online

Don't forget: If you missed the live City Council, SchoolBoard or Planning Board on Channels 22 and 95, youcan catch it again, online and on demand.

Simply visit www.dovernh.viebit.com to begin watchingmeetings on demand. Online meetings are organized byagenda item for convenience.

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