Emerick Culver and Dillon Clough, both 11, stand and cheer with a group of Kennett students at the climate rally, held in association with 350 New Hampshire, at the Four Corners in Conway Village on Friday afternoon. The friends live right in Conway Village and decided to walk over and join in the rally. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Rain pours on the group of around 20 students and locals (spread on each corner of the intersection) at the climate rally, held in association with 350 New Hampshire, at the Four Corners in Conway Village on Friday afternoon. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Kennett senior Lily Orth and a handful of her peers hold up their soaked signs to the passing traffic at the climate rally, held in association with 350 New Hampshire, at the Four Corners in Conway Village on Friday afternoon. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Some of the protestors, most from Kennett, hold up their signs together at the end of the climate rally, held in association with 350 New Hampshire, at the Four Corners in Conway Village on Friday afternoon. From left, back row: senior Emma Arnold, senior Molly Arnold, senior Jack Martin, junior Mara Taylor, North Conway resident Austin Orth, senior Erin Stokes; front row: senior Lily Orth, senior Amy Burton, senior Levi Robert, and junior Rosie Sherlock. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Emerick Culver and Dillon Clough, both 11, stand and cheer with a group of Kennett students at the climate rally, held in association with 350 New Hampshire, at the Four Corners in Conway Village on Friday afternoon. The friends live right in Conway Village and decided to walk over and join in the rally. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Rain pours on the group of around 20 students and locals (spread on each corner of the intersection) at the climate rally, held in association with 350 New Hampshire, at the Four Corners in Conway Village on Friday afternoon. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Kennett senior Lily Orth and a handful of her peers hold up their soaked signs to the passing traffic at the climate rally, held in association with 350 New Hampshire, at the Four Corners in Conway Village on Friday afternoon. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Some of the protestors, most from Kennett, hold up their signs together at the end of the climate rally, held in association with 350 New Hampshire, at the Four Corners in Conway Village on Friday afternoon. From left, back row: senior Emma Arnold, senior Molly Arnold, senior Jack Martin, junior Mara Taylor, North Conway resident Austin Orth, senior Erin Stokes; front row: senior Lily Orth, senior Amy Burton, senior Levi Robert, and junior Rosie Sherlock. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
CONWAY — Despite a steady downpour, several dozen people turned out for a “climate strike” at the Four Corners in Conway Village last Friday, joining with other protesters across the state in coordination with a group called 350 New Hampshire that called for the coal-fired Merrimack Generating Station in Bow to be shut down.
Organized by 17-year-old Kennett seniors Levi Robert, Lily Orth and Amy Burton, the group gathered at the Routes 16 and 153 intersection in Conway Village at 4 p.m. to hold signs with messages like, “Gen Z needs climate action now,” “Build a renewable future,” and “Close Bow, end coal.” Many honks of support greeted the soaked protesters.
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