5 Things: Big Bedford Ski and Skate Sale this Weekend

1. Ski and Skate Sale. The Bedford PTG invites you to its annual Ski & Skate sale where you can find big savings on new and used winter sports equipment and apparel. This year's event takes place this Saturday, Nov. 17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the Bedfod High School gymnasium. Mark your calendar to join local vendors bringing top name brand equipment both new and used, along with our tremendous consignment inventory of ski and boarding equipment, skates, and winter apparel and outfit your entire family for the upcoming season! Whether you are in the market for new equipment or simply want to sell your own, this sale is for you. Experts will be available to help fit the right ski, board, and boots to your ability! So grab a treat from our bake sale, shop this incredible sale event, and enter our raffle for a chance to win amazing prizes such as lift tickets, ski equipment, apparel, and so much more. Visit http://www.bedfordptg.org for additional sale details and learn how to include your own equipment in the sale to make room for new gear. Drop-off equipment for consignment on Friday, Nov. 16, from 5-8 p.m.

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3. The weatherman says ... According to Weather.com, yesterday's rain leads to abundant sunshine today. Though there is a 0-percent chance of rain, the predicted high temperature today falls to 47 degrees.

4. On this day ... in 1970, 37 members of the Marshall University football team and dozens of coaches, team doctors and boosters all perished in a plane crash in West Virginia. According to History.com ...

... a chartered jet carrying most of the Marshall University football team clips a stand of trees and crashes into a hillside just two miles from the Tri-State Airport in Kenova, West Virginia. The team was returning from that day’s game, a 17-14 loss to East Carolina University. Thirty-seven Marshall football players were aboard the plane, along with the team’s coach, its doctors, the university athletic director and 25 team boosters--some of Huntington, West Virginia’s most prominent citizens--who had traveled to North Carolina to cheer on the Thundering Herd. "The whole fabric," a citizen of Huntington wrote later, "the whole heart of the town was aboard."

5. Two days left to help local non-profit collect hygiene kits for Sandy victims. In the past decade, the Bedford family foundation, Color My World has donated over $33,000 in goods to families affected by the Indonesian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, Kate Earthquakes in Haiti, China, Chile and aid for Africa.  Color My World has also distributed over $2,000 locally to projects and families in need in New Hampshire supporting Angie's Shelter and New Horizons in Manchester. Currently the foundation is shipping hygiene kits to help people affected by Sandy.  Color My World is accepting part or complete Hygiene Kits consisting of:

• 4 Toothbrushes
• 2 Bar of Soap
• 2 Hand Towel
• 1 Tube of Toothpaste
• 2 Combs
• Packed in a 1 gallon zip lock bag

The organization is in major need of toothbrushes and toothpaste.

The project will runs through this Thursday, Nov. 15.  Drop off locations include the Bedford Library, YMCA Goffstown, YMCA Manchester, Trinity High School, Bedford Positively at the Bullock Agency, 11 Meetinghouse Road in Bedford (a box will be placed outdoors for “drive-by drop-off” Saturday, Nov. 3 through Nov. 15), Girl Scouts of America Green and White Mountains.  If you see the Model T with Bedford Positively signs and want to drop something there, you are more than welcome to do that as well.

Color My World Foundation of Bedford is a non-profit 501(c)3, tax deductible organization operated solely by The Hughes Family of Bedford, NH.  More information can be found at www.colormyworldkids.org

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