TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2011
VOL. 20 NO. 11
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Timberland Owners observe 100th in Berlin BY GAIL SCOTT THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
Welding students Shawn Bunnell, Tom Rozek and Brice Corrigan stand with Berlin High School welding instructor Dennis Carrier after the statewide Skills USA competition where Corrigan took first place and Rozek took second place. Corrigan will move on to the national Skills USA challenge in June. (CRAIG LYONS PHOTO)
Gorham student heading to national welding competition BY CRAIG LYONS THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
BERLIN— For the second year in a row, a student from the Berlin Career and Technical Education welding program took the top spot in the statewide Skills USA competition. Brice Corrigan, of Gorham High School, won the statewide competition and will move on to the national Skills USA competition, in Kansas City, Mo., in June. This is the second year in a row a welding student from the area has gone on to the national Skills USA challenge. Two other Berlin students competed in the statewide challenge. Tom Rozek took second place and Shawn Bunnell placed ninth.
“[They] made me very proud,” said Dennis Carrier, B.H.S. welding instructor. Carrier said all three students are equal in talent, but the competition is intense. “It was pretty nerve-wracking,” said Corrigan. He said he needed to weld a bunch of small projects during the competition. He added the gas metal arc welding (G.M.A.W.) was the most difficult. Carrier said there’s also a written exam that’s part of the statewide competition. He added that Corrigan, Rozek and Bunnell all did outstanding on the written exam. Corrigan finished six points ahead of Rozek for first place, and Rozek finished 10 points ahead of the third place winner.
BERLIN—On March 30, 100 years after its founding at the Mt. Madison Hotel in Gorham, the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association celebrated its centennial at the Brown House on Main Street, observing that W. R. Brown of the Berlin’s Brown Co., was a moving force in the establishment of the organization in 1910. In honor of the centennial, the association presented the Northern Forest Heritage Park with a handsome plaque, created by “Gov. John Lynch’s official sculptor,” Andre Belanger, as NHTOA executive director Jasen Stock put it at the unveiling of the plaque. The plaque observes: “in commemoration of the founding of NHTOA and its original organizing meeting, called by W.R. Brown and held March 30, 1911, in Gorham, New Hampshire, and in recognition of NHTOA members and their 100 years of supporting the New Hampshire working forest.” Among the several speakers to the small group gathered for
the occasion, Berlin Mayor Paul Grenier offered greetings from the city, congratulations to the association, and thanks for the association’s years of positive impact in Coos County. He noted that the population of Berlin was about back to where it was 100 years ago. Further, Grenier urged the association to help with the speedy approval and construction of the Laidlaw Berlin Biopower facility and noted that, in his view, there should be “a moratorium on the continued acquisition of working forest lands in Coos County by the federal government. . . . Outside environmental groups have a disproportionate influence on the proper management of these lands through the legal processes afforded to them by law. In many cases, they are simply delay tactics and cost everyone….” In conclusion, Grenier wished the association “another successful hundred years.” In the line-up of speakers, N. H. State Forester Brad Simpkins and retired U.S. White Mountain National Forest Forest Service see TIMBERLAND page 18
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Hiker injured on Mt. Washington BY CRAIG LYONS THE BERLIN DAILY SUN
PINKHAM’S GRANT— The U.S. Forest Service Monday rescued a man off the Lion Head Trail after he fell during his descent from Mount Washington. While hiking with a group of people a man, who the U.S. Forest Service didn’t have any identifying information about, slipped, fell and collided with a tree during his descent from Mount Washington along the Lion Head Trail, according to Justin Preisendorfer, a snow ranger for the forest
service. The man was believed to have suffered injuries to his upper leg and hip, though the U.S. Forest Service wasn’t sure of the full diagnosis. Preisendorfer said he’s not sure what caused the man’s fall. After the fall, other members of his hiking party called 911, at 10:40 a.m., and went to a first aid cache on the trail to start delivering care before authorities arrived, said Preisendorfer. U.S. Forest Service snow rangers with help from the Appalachian Mountain Club see HIKER page 19
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Sheriff Gerald Marcou and deputies Keith Roberge, Raymond Landry and Royce Hutchinson unload a desk outside of the county attorney’s new office in the former Lancaster National Bank building, on Middle Street, in Lancaster. The sheriff’s department volunteered to help with the move Thursday along with representatives from state police, N.H. Fish and Game, the Colebrook Police Department and the staff at the county attorney’s office. The county attorney and his staff will occupy offices on the third floor of the building temporarily while the county commissioners continue working on a plan to find suitable office space. (CRAIG LYONS PHOTO)
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