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David Bownes seeking Ward 2 council seat; Kaileif Mitchell running for mayor LACONIA — With the close of the filing period yesterday, the field in the mayoral election as well as in the race in Ward 2 increased from two to three. Kaileif Mitchell, the moderator in Ward 5, became the third candidate for mayor, joining former city councilor and current state representative Bob Luther and Ed Engler, the editor and president of The see CITY page 11

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A few of those Bike Week vendors are actually local folks BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — Among the more than one hundred licensed vendors hawking their wares at Motorcycle Week most are itinerant traders travelling from one event to the next, while only five are associated with local businesses and perhaps another handful based in New Hampshire. Three — Cormier’s Sugarhouse of Alton, Rollin’ in the Dough of Sanbornton and Magnetic Therapy Jewelry of Gilford — are doing business at the rally for the first time. Carolyn’s Creameree of Loudon is at The Weirs for the fifth year and Sharky’s Hot Dogs and Sausages of Tilton for the third time. Dennis Cormier, who operates a sugarhouse with his wife Judeann, said that city officials told him he was the first to ever offer maple products, a quintessential New Hampshire speciality, at Bike Week. Apart

candy,” he remarked, “The machine didn’t stop for over an hour.” “Except for the maple drops, maple tea and pancake mix, we make everything we sell,” Cormier said. “I’m not going to tell anyone I make it when I don’t.” A culinary arts students who entered the food business at the age of 12, Cormier and his wife met when they For the cookie monsters at Bike Week, Wayne Tardif and Elizabeth Marad of Rollin’ discovered they were in the Dough offer a variety of fresh baked treats at the Weirs Beach Drive-In The- both tapping maple atre. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Michael Kitch) trees, he in Brentwood from candy and syrup, he offers maple and she in Candia. Now they gather sap cotton candy, which has proved a favorfrom an 11-acre sugarbush in Alton, where see VENDORS page 9 ite. “The other day it was non-stop cotton

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Weather forecasts for the weekend look pretty good, which means traffic for the wrap-up of the 90th Annual Laconia Motorcycle Week rally should be heavy. This couple was photographed earlier in the week crossing the Weirs Channel Bridge on a Harley-Davidson Street Glide model. (Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)

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