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NASHUA – “Drug court works,” speaker after speaker drove home that point at Nashua Adult Drug Court’s second gradu-ation ceremony on Thursday.

Yet there was another message that came out just as clearly: drug

court heals.That was evident in the tears

shed between mother and son and a soon-to-be-husband and his new family. It could be seen in the beaming eyes of a Hollis woman whose granddaughter pulled her-self out of her mean-girl funk to emerge a functioning, sober mother whose mission is to help

others do the same.It was there in the dozens of

friends, family and drug court team members who watched the

By KATHRYN MARCHOCKIStaff Writer

Drug Court program graduates 3Family, friends listen to loved ones speak of rebuilding lives

Staff photos by TINA FORBES

Elm Street Middle School teacher Denise Rock looks inside the hydroponic greenhouse at the school on Thursday.

romoting nutrition education, access to local food and stu-dent gardens in city schools, the Nashua Farm to School

project took another step toward setting final objectives this week.

During a Wednesday evening meeting at Nashua High School South, organizers brainstormed how to achieve Farm to School goals, such as how to establish school and community gardens,

and incorporating garden and healthy food projects with cur-riculum.

“Today we’re developing our lo-cal Farm to School network with all of you,” said Stacey Purslow, speaking to a couple dozen teach-ers, cafeteria workers, business owners, nonprofit and hospital representatives, city health of-ficials and parents. The Farm to School initiative was launched by the University of New Hamp-shire’s Sustainability Institute in 2003, with Purslow heading it since 2009.

The meetings are designed to

help community stakeholders fo-cus on specific projects and goals to implement in Nashua. Purs-low’s role is to facilitate network-ing and collaboration between agents and resources already in the community.

“Basically, we’re trying to get you and your organizations to align priorities with Farm to School,” she said.

Although ideas are still evolv-ing, many agreed they want to see better access to locally sourced food in cafeterias, more

By TINA FORBESStaff Writer

Plants & pupils

Budding Farm to School project growing

MERRIMACK – The state Department of Environ-mental Services announced Thursday that the results of air quality testing at the Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics smokestacks indi-cate small amounts of perflu-orooctanoic acid – or PFOA – present in the plant’s emis-sions.

“The stack emissions test-ing conducted on May 2 and 3, 2016, showed low-level concentrations of perfluoro-chemicals (PFCs), including PFOA, being emitted, which would translate to less than

2 ounces of PFOA being re-leased per year,” DES said in a press release.

DES added that, “these emissions do not violate any ambient air quality standard, either state or federal.”

While no party has been de-clared responsible for PFOA contamination of local water supplies over the course of the ongoing, monthslong in-vestigation into their source, the investigation began after Saint-Gobain officials tested for, found and voluntarily disclosed the presence of the chemical in their tap water in late February.

By MATTHEW MEDSGERStaff Writer

Emissions tests show little PFOAMerrimack | DES announces results of air quality examination at Saint-Gobain.

CLEVELAND – In an ap-peal to anxious vot-ers, Donald Trump pledged Thursday night that “safety will be restored” if he is elected president, using his Republican convention address to denounce Demo-crat Hillary Clinton as part of a political class causing the na-tion’s troubles.

“As long as we are led by politicians who will not put ‘America First,’ then we can

be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect,” Trump said, ac-cording to excerpts released ahead of his address.

Trump’s speech on the closing night of the Republican convention marks his highest-profile opportunity to unite his fractured Re-publican Party and quiet Americans’ concerns about his preparedness for the White House.

Trump is promising “profound relief” and

By JULIE PACE and ROBERT FURLOW The Associated Press

Restoring safety theme of RNC finaleCleveland | At GOP convention, Trump says politicians have to ‘put America first.’

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graduates, seated, Tyler Le-tourneau, Krys-

tal Boyle and Timothy Belden, of Nashua Adult

Drug Court on Thursday.

Staff photo by KATHRYN MARCHOCKI GRADS | PAGE 8

‘I’m so proud of my mom today. I’m happy to have her back in my life.’AARON DAVIS14-year-old whose mother, Krystal Boyle, graduated from Nashua’s Drug Court program on Thursday

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“simplified” taxes for the middle class,” an end to ex-cessive regulation, and infra-structure projects that will create millions of jobs, ac-cording to the excerpts.

Trump took the stage in Cleveland facing a daunting array of challenges, many of his own making. His nominat-ing event has been consumed by a plagiarism charge, un-usually harsh criticism of Clinton, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s dramatic refusal to en-dorse the GOP nominee from the convention stage.

Overseas U.S. allies as well as voters at home closely watched his address, which comes the day after his sug-gestion that he might not de-fend America’s NATO part-ners as president.

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Trump was introduced by his eldest daughter, Ivanka, one of his most polished and effective advocates.

Father and daughter took the stage together in the afternoon for an extensive walkthrough, taking turns standing at the podium and staring out into an arena that will be filled with jubilant del-egates by evening.

“I love the media,” Trump said with a smile as he tested the microphone.

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Farm | Nashua 1 of 3 pilot communitiesnutrition education, and community and school garden projects across district schools, among other ideas.

“To every single person here it makes sense to have gardens in schools,” said Andrew Morin of Regenerative Roots Association, a nonprofit organization promoting sustainability.

He said whether gardens are hydroponic, aquaponic or through traditional agriculture, the goal is to establish gar-dens throughout Nashua schools.

Once the group decides on a plan, some funding will be available to support the projects.

Recently, Nashua was one of three “Beacon Communities” in New

Hampshire, along with Colebrook and Somer-sworth, selected to pilot a Farm to School consor-tium program over the next two years. Partners in the program include Healthy Eating Active Living, the New Hamp-shire Food Alliance, UNH Cooperative Extension, Health Care Without Harm, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, the state Department of Education, the Bureau of Nutrition Programs, UNH Sustainability Institute, Farm to Institution New England and New Hamp-shire Farm to School.

Present at the meeting were Elm Street Middle School teachers Denise Rock and Darcy O’Hara, who had led the charge on gathering grant money and constructing a hydroponic

greenhouse at Elm Street, which opened last fall.

While the greenhouse predates the Farm to School project, Rock and O’Hara asked about ways to improve the green-house, such as improving solar energy input.

“I have a greenhouse not being used at North, but I don’t know where to be-gin,” said Karyn Lawless, from Nashua High School North’s food service pro-gram. “No one’s using it and it’s huge.”

O’Hara cautioned that time is a big obstacle for supporting student gardens, and getting volunteers involved is key. “People get excited about it, but it’s a huge time crunch for teachers,” she said.

At Elm Street, Rock and O’Hara have involved a

team of volunteer teach-ers to help support the greenhouse, although the two of them are still heavily involved. To that end, the teachers left the meeting early to present a new greenhouse grant for approval before the Board of Education Finance Com-mittee, which passed.

The group is set to progress toward setting actionable project goals at the next meeting. The next Nashua Farm to School meeting date has not been announced, but members hope to reconvene before the start of the school year on Aug. 30.

More information about the program can be found at www.nhfarmtoschool.org and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/nashuafarmtoschool.

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three graduates rebuild their damaged lives, frayed relationships and ruined ca-reers.

“I was 9 years old when my mom went to prison for the first time for bank rob-bery,” Aaron Davis, now 14, said as his mother, Krystal Boyle, wiped tears from her eyes.

“I am proud of my mom today. I’m happy to have her back in my life,” Davis told the more than 120 court and corrections officials, judges, police and prosecu-tors and other dignitaries who attended the gradu-ation ceremony at Hills-borough County Superior Court South.

Like other drug court participants, Boyle was at high risk of continued criminal behavior and had a high need for substance use treatment, said Judge Jacalyn Colburn, the drug court’s presiding justice. Boyle’s criminal record dated back to 1999 and in-cluded felony offenses for which she served jail and prison time. She pleaded guilty to a heroin posses-

sion charge and entered drug court on April 13, 2015, Colburn said.

“I overdosed. I totaled cars. I’ve been behind the (prison) wall so many times I called it my home. And, sadly, I attended so many funerals,” said Boyle, who was described by her case manager as the “founding member of the Mean Girls Club.”

After her last heroin overdose in December 2014, Boyle said she found herself behind bars yet again.

“Can you guess what I was thinking?” she asked. “I don’t care.”

Through drug court, Boyle said she learned if she didn’t change, she like-ly would self-destruct.

Her goal now? Finish classes in human services at Nashua Community Col-lege, then “hopefully earn myself a seat on this team” as a drug court case man-ager, said Boyle, who had regained custody of her son two days earlier.

Drug courts offer non-violent offenders at high risk of continued criminal behavior and high need of substance use treatment an alternative to incarcera-tion through judicially su-pervised programs.

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Since then hundreds of area private wells have shown the acid present at levels above the state’s 70 parts per trillion ambi-ent groundwater safety standard. After this dis-covery, and following a state advisory to avoid drinking water measured above the established safe limit, Saint-Gobain has been funding the pur-chase and distribution of bottled water to affected families.

Saint-Gobain, along with most other Ameri-can companies, has since stopped using PFOA, and DES said potential sources for the PFOA found in the stack emissions include chemicals supplied to the company for manufactur-

ing purposes and residual chemical residue in the stacks from past use.

“Saint-Gobain has agreed to clean these resi-dues from the stacks and perform new emissions testing in early August,” DES said. “DES will ob-serve the testing from start to finish. DES is also seeking formulation de-tails from Saint-Gobain’s suppliers to determine whether the chemicals being supplied to the com-pany contain PFOA or perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS).”

Exposure to PFCs like PFOA has been shown to have a probable link to sev-eral serious health condi-tions, including some types of cancer.

For more information about the ongoing inves-tigation into the presence of PFCs in southern New Hampshire water supplies visit des.nh.gov.

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