Claremont
Bicycle Maintenance - Get Ready to Ride
Class Size: Min: 2 Max: 4
2 Mondays: 3/26, 4/2 5:30-7:00 PM
Claremont Cycle Depot, 12 Plains Road, Claremont
Member Class Fee: $15 Non-member Fee: $35
Get your bike ready for the new biking season and learn how to keep it running smoothly into autumn. This is a hands-on class - bring your bike, any tools you may have (though we will have tools you can use) and dress appropriately.
Daq Woods works at Claremont Cycle Depot and has over 25 years experience working on bicycles. He has been coaching a mountain bike camp for kids for over 10 years.
Computers: Using Excel In Your Life
Class Size: Min: 5 Max: 14
3 Thursdays: 4/12-4/26 1:00-2:30 PM
Granite State College, 27 Pleasant Street, Claremont
Member Class Fee: $30 Non-member Fee: $50
Do you want to make technology work for you? Learn to create EXCEL spreadsheets, such as address lists and budgets and merge those spreadsheet into a mail merge document to create address labels or letters. Explore ways to name, categorize and save your documents so that you can find them again. Some familiarity with the simpler tasks of word processing is recommended.
Dan Poor, a faculty member at GSC, recently retired as Registrar and Director of Technology at Kimball Union Academy. In addition to being a teacher and administrator in NH and VT public schools, he has also worked in computer support, sales and training.
Craft a Memory: Scrapbooking and Card Making for the Beginner
Class Size: Min: 6 Max: 15
4 Wednesdays: 4/4-4/25 6:30-8:00 PM
Fiske Free Library, 108 Broad Street, Claremont
Member Class Fee: $30 Non-member Fee: $50
Using your own photos, small momentos, stickers, scraps of paper and other embellishments, learn how to put them together to showcase your memories. Alternating weeks between creating scrapbook pages and greeting cards, you'll learn about different cutting techniques, various adhesives and combining textures and prints for items you can keep or give away.
Sherrie LaClair has been scrapbooking for 15 years. She loves working with crafts and sharing her love of crafting with her 4-H club, Creative Clovers. She shares her expertise with the public during Wednesday Craft Nights at the Fiske Free Library.
Fly Tying: An Introduction
Class Size: Min: 4 Max: 8
6 Wednesdays: 4/18-5/23 10:00-11:30 AM
Granite State College, 27 Pleasant Street, Claremont
Member Class Fee: $35 Non-member Fee: $55
Fly tying is part of the sport of fly fishing and is also a craft in its own right. Learn to tie ten different patterns of flies chosen for their usefulness in New England waters. Develop the skills needed to tie many other patterns not included in this course. Discussion will include the natural foods that the flies imitate, how to choose which fly to fish and how to fish these flies. Materials and tools will be provided. This course is offered with the co-operation of the Aquatic Resources Education Program of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.
Walt Ryan has been fishing in NH for many years and has been tying flies for more than twenty-five years. He has been a volunteer Let's Go Fishing instructor for the Aquatic Resources Education Program since 2005.
Poetry: The Quill of The Soul
Class Size: Min: 4 Max: 8
4 Tuesdays: 4/3-4/24 2:30-4:00 PM
Granite State College, 27 Pleasant Street, Claremont
Member Class Fee: $25 Non-member Fee: $45
Come fall in love with poetry by writing from your heart.
Through a series of in-class writing prompts, students will compose first drafts of poems to capture and encapsulate emotions, experiences and imagery. There will also be take-home writing assignments and opportunity to work on revisions each week. Poetry has an enormous benefit for everyone regardless of age or experience, so come and develop your mind and open your heart with poetry.
Dianalee Velie has taught poetry, memoir and short story at universities and colleges in New England and in private workshops throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. She is the author of three books of poetry and a collection of short stories.