The Laconia Daily Sun, January 14, 2012

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Police Chief Robert Cormier said after several weeks of interviews

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Gilford strip club fails to make a go of it as ‘juice bar’

Mardi Gras Cabaret North closes; liquor license was suspended after October 18 drug raid

By Gail OBer

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

GILFORD — The owner of the property that was home to a local strip club said yesterday the club’s management told him they would not be reopening.

“She (the club manager) gave me a letter today, said landlord Will Drew, the owner of the Kings Grant Inn on Kimball Road and its various liquor licenses and live entertainment permits. “She is vacating

the premises.”

The former Mardi Gras Cabaret North was targeted by 4-month long N.H. State Drug Task Force investigation that resulted in a raid on Oct. 18, 2011.

Three dancers at the club

that night were arrested, five more people were arrested the same night in their homes by their respective police departments, and a ninth man has been indicted for violations of see MardI Gras page 8

No dedicated rep for Tilton; town told U.S. Constitution trumps the state’s

TILTON — Speaking to the selectmen on Thursday evening, Rep. Paul Mirski (R-Enfield), chairman of the Special House

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the requisite population to its own seat, Tilton is among 59 of the 152 qualified towns deprived of specific representation by the redistricting plan, which Mirski’s committee will recommend to the House on Wednesday.

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Obama asks for power to shrink 6 economic agencies into 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking more power to shrink the government, President Barack Obama on Friday suggested smashing six economic agencies into one, an election-year idea intended to halt bureaucratic nightmares and force Republicans to back him on one of their own favorite issues.

“The government we have is not the government we need,” Obama told business owners he’d gathered at the White House. Lawmakers seemed willing to at least consider his ideas.

Sounding like a manager of a disorganized company, and looking like one by pointing to slides as he spoke, Obama asked Congress to give him a kind of reorganization power no president has had since Ronald Reagan. It would guarantee Obama a vote, within 90 days, on any idea he offers to consolidate agencies, provided it saves money and cuts the government.

His first potential target: Merging six major trade and commerce agencies into a one-stop-shopping department for American businesses. The Commerce Department would be among those that would cease to exist.

Attacking senseless duplication across the executive branch he runs, Obama said: “Why is it OK for our government? It’s not. It has to change.”

Politically, Obama is seeking advantage on the turf often owned by Republicans: Smaller government.

He is attempting to directly counter Republican arguments that he has presided over the kind of regulation, spending and debt that can undermine the economy — a dominant theme of this year’s debate and one often cited by his potential re-election rival, Republican Mitt Romney.

Obama said he would use his expanded authority

to recommend the collapsing of other agencies across the government, not just in the business field, without getting specific. Congress would keep the final say over any proposal. But fast-track power would give Obama a stronger hand to skip much of the outside lobbying and turf battles and get right to a vote.

Congressional reaction was mixed, but generally followed a pattern from both parties — support for making government more efficient, and wariness about how Obama’s plan could upend the trade American trade agenda or undermine the prerogatives of Congress.

Republicans skeptically pointed to Obama’s past promises as the size of the nation’s debt keeps growing.

“It’s not often that we see real proposals from this administration to make government smaller,” said Rep. Fred Upton, the Michigan Republican who is see OBAMA page 11

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Joran van der Sloot knew his guilty plea in the strangulation death of a young woman he met at a Lima casino was a big gamble as he tried to get a reduced sentence. On Friday, the poker-loving Dutchman lost.

A three-judge panel sentenced him to 28 years in prison, discarding his claims of contrition in a killing his lawyer said was triggered by trauma from being the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway.

Asked if he accepted the sentence, Van der Sloot, standing in a green T-shirt and faded jeans in a hot Lima courtroom, said he would appeal.

The sentencing marked the latest chapter in the tabloid-sustaining saga and came a day after a

judge in Alabama declared Holloway legally dead as her parents try to bring Van der Sloot, 24, to the U.S. for a related crime.

“I believe he is beyond rehabilitation,” Dave Holloway in Birmingham, Ala., after that hearing.

The Peruvian judges said Friday that due to time already served, van der Sloot’s sentence would end in June 2038.

While the parents of Holloway and Flores want him to experience the greater deprivation of a U.S. prison, they will have to wait for him to serve his time before any extradition on U.S. charges related to his alleged extortion of Holloway’s mother, a Peruvian legal expert said. see PERU page 20

PARIS (AP) — Standard & Poor’s swept the debtridden European continent with punishing credit downgrades Friday, stripping France of its coveted AAA status and dropping Italy even lower. Germany retained its top-notch rating, but Portugal’s debt was consigned to junk.

In all, S&P, which took away the United States’ AAA rating last summer, lowered the ratings of nine countries, complicating Europe’s efforts to find a way out of a debt crisis that still threatens to cause

worldwide economic harm.

Austria also lost its AAA status, Italy and Spain fell by two notches, and S&P also cut ratings on Malta, Cyprus, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The downgrades on more half of the countries that use the euro could drive up yields on European government debt as investors demand more compensation for holding bonds deemed to be riskier. Higher borrowing costs would put more financial pressure see next page

Beijing Apple store cancels Peru court sentences Van der Sloot to 28 years iPhone launch because crowd was just too big

BEIJING (AP) — Raw eggs splattered and streaked the gleaming windows of Beijing’s Apple store Friday, hurled by angry and frustrated shoppers when the launch of the iPhone 4S was canceled due to fears over the size of the crowd.

The incident highlighted the role of Chinese middlemen who buy up wildly popular iPhones or smuggle them from abroad for resale at a big markup.

Hundreds of customers — including migrant workers hired by scalpers in teams of 20 to 30 — waited overnight in freezing temperatures outside the Apple store in a shopping mall in Beijing’s east side Sanlitun district.

When the store failed to open as scheduled at 7 a.m., the crowd erupted in anger. Some pelted the store with eggs and shouted at employees through the windows.

A person with a megaphone announced the sale was canceled. Police ordered the crowd to leave and sealed off the area with yellow tape.

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N.H. Supreme Court Texas mom gets 45 years for killing her backs ‘Bigfoot’s’ right to 6-year-old son at a New Hampshire motel free speech in state parks CONCORD (AP) — The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Bigfoot’s right to romp around Mount Monadnock — and against a state regulation governing special events at parks.

The court ruled unanimously Friday that the language of the regulation is so broad it would apply to six people holding a private prayer service, three people carrying campaign signs at a mountain’s peak or even a lone protester.

Keene entrepreneur Jonathan Doyle and the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union Foundation appealed after state park officials barred Doyle, an amateur filmmaker, from wearing his monkey costume and interviewing other hikers about a Bigfoot sighting at Mount Monadnock in September 2009.

Park officials said Doyle had failed to pay $100 for a special-use permit 30 days in advance and secure a $2 million bond, as required by the regulation. The permit regulation applies to all properties operated by the state Department of Resources and Economic Development.

The court says the regulation violates constitutional free speech rights by requiring someone to get a permit 30 days in advance for any “organized or special events which go beyond routine recreational activities.”

The justices called the regulation “panoptic”— including in one view everything in sight.

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“In our view, the policy initiatives taken by European policymakers in recent weeks may be insufficient to fully address ongoing systemic stresses in the eurozone,” S&P said in a statement.

Stocks fell Friday as downgrade rumors reached the trading floors of Europe and the United States. But the declines were nothing like the wrenching swings of last summer and fall, when the debt crisis threw the markets into turmoil.

The Dow Jones industrial average in New York was down 0.5 percent. Stocks fell 0.6 percent in Germany, 0.5 percent in Britain and 0.1 in France.

Tiny quake recorded near Franklin

FRANKLIN (AP) — A small earthquake was detected near Franklin, N.H. — not that many would have noticed.

Weston Observatory at Boston College says the 1.4-magnitude quake was recorded at 5:02 p.m. Thursday about 3 miles southwest of Franklin. It lasted about 2 seconds.

Such small quakes are usually not felt.

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A Texas woman was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison for suffocating her 6-year-old son in a New Hampshire motel room and leaving his body along a dirt road in Maine.

The discovery of Camden Hughes’ body last May set off a nationwide effort to identify him. Meanwhile, his mother, Julianne McCrery, called his kindergarten daily to report him absent with appendicitis.

McCrery, 42, of Irving, Texas, later told prosecutors she had planned to kill herself and that she killed Camden because no one else was fit to raise him. But prosecutors say they have evidence McCrery felt the boy was an inconvenience and that she planned to go about her own life after killing him.

Senior Assistant Attorney General Susan Morrell questioned McCrery’s assertion that she planned to kill herself by ingesting potentially lethal castor beans. Morrell pointed out that McCrery had attempted suicide several years earlier by the same means and had failed.

“This case raises more questions than there are answers for,” Morrell said.

McCrery spoke tearfully at her sentencing hearing, calling her son “extraordinary.”

“I am very sorry to have caused the intense pain and suffering to my precious son Camden,” she said.

“He did nothing whatsoever to deserve that by my hand, and he was not an inconvenience to me.

“My sorrow is intense and unbearable.”

Defense attorney Julia Nye said an insanity defense was considered, but McCrery rejected that option.

“She chose to accept responsibility for her actions,” Nye said.

McCrery pleaded guilty in November to kneeling atop her son as he laid face-down on the floor of their motel room floor in Hampton, N.H. She told investigators she covered his mouth with her hand as he struggled to survive. Morrell said the pressure McCrery applied to Camden was so great it bruised one lung and the base of his skull.

McCrery’s son and brother both told her during remarks to the court that they love and forgive her.

Her brother, Chris Hughes, asked Superior Court Judge Tina Nadeau to shorten the sentence a bit so her other son, Ian McCrery, “might possibly have some time with her.”

Nadeau held to the agreed upon 45-year sentence, adding, “There’s nothing I can say here today to lessen the devastation.”

Julianne McCrery thanked a family from South Berwick, Maine, for discovering Camden’s body and later starting a children’s charity in his memory.

She called them “angels on earth” for trying to bring some comfort to her son.

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She and her in-laws soon discovered his body, which was under a green blanket 30 feet from the road.

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‘The people’ are getting it right, again The people have spoken — all 126,185 of them. That’s how many votes turned Mitt Romney into the Republican nominee, for all intents and purposes. In a country with more than 300-million people, less than a tenth of a half of a percent have picked one of the two men who could be the next president of the United States.

You call that a democracy? It’s a system that is almost too easy to attack. In a matter of a week, in two small states that in so many respects are not representative of the diverse, urban country in which we live, in a process that, by design, is dominated by activists and ideologues, the rest of the candidates are basically toast. The fat lady is tuning up.

But that doesn’t mean the process is over. It’s in the media’s interest to keep something going as long as they can. There will be all kinds of attacks on Romney. Conservatives will try to coalesce. It’s actually in Romney’s interest to weather more attacks about not being conservative enough; nothing could be better to position him for the general. But it would take something pretty cataclysmic for Romney to lose at this point.

Political scientists have spent decades explaining all the things that are wrong with this system.

Folks like me, who helped craft this system (in my case, on the Democratic side), have written endlessly about the goals it was intended to serve — many of which, by the way, don’t have much to do with picking the candidate most likely to win in the fall. It is a system that is supposed to allow insurgents a fair chance; parties a chance to build; voters a chance to send a message; small states a say they wouldn’t otherwise get. Agree or disagree, I think most students of the process, if we were starting from scratch, would never end up with it.

But here’s the truly amazing part.

Time after time, it actually works.

I say this as a Democrat who would have loved to see President Obama run against Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum or, best of all, Ron Paul. (Be still, my heart, there is still hope he will run as a third-party candidate, in which case Democrats would immediately abandon every position of principle they took to try to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot and support Paul’s First Amendment rights, while Republicans would do just the opposite.) So I’m not saying, in partisan terms, that I’m happy about this. But I don’t know how anyone who claims to be an expert in presidential politics could honestly say that someone other than Romney was the right person for the Republicans. Don’t believe them if they do.

This is not a close question the

way Barack vs. Hillary was. Mind you, I like Jon Huntsman, think he’s a good man, but Obama’s ambassador to China was just not going to be the one to make the case against the president — unless you give him credit for all the jobs China created while he was there. In any event, he just doesn’t have Romney’s claim to gravitas on the economy.

As for the rest, what can I say? As each took their turn as flavor of the month, I would check out their positions and pinch myself because it was too good to be true.

Santorum wants to privatize Social Security, require schools to teach intelligent design, eliminate the separation of church and state, and punish people who did the wrong thing like getting cancer at 5. Whew.

Paul wants to get out of the UN and turn the clock back on civil rights (he has problems with the 1964 law). He says he’s anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic, and he refuses to denounce the supremacists who are supporting him. How do you spell “hallelujah”?

Newt Gingrich, former housing historian, has brilliant ideas and wacky ideas and shows equal enthusiasm for both.

Rick Perry.

Mr. 9-9-9.

Need I go on?

All of this might be clear to me, but it’s not inevitable that people who are much more conservative than your average swing voter would see it that way. And they are the deciders in this process. Conservatives are understandably upset that with the possible exception of Huntsman, Romney is probably the least conservative candidate in a race that is all set up to give the power to conservatives, as it does to liberals on the Democratic side. Even now, various conservatives are trying to push for a unified approach to take on Romney, pointing out that if Santorum, Gingrich and Perry had been one candidate instead of three, they would have 11-delegates to Romney’s whopping 12.

True enough, but that’s not how it worked — or will.

None of this is to say that Romney is a sure shot against Obama. The president is an amazingly skilled politician. Unemployment is heading in the right direction. Obamacare may be unpopular, but the father of Romneycare is going to have a hard time making that case.

Romney is vulnerable on his own record: of “firing people” at Bain Capital and of some pretty dramatic flip-flops on choice and gay rights, complete with taped debates in which Romney fights back against the attack that he wasn’t pro-choice or anti-choice but “multiple choice.” see next page

LETTERS Hands Across the Table serves those hungry in body & spirit To the editor, What’s for dinner tonight?

This is an every Tuesday question that is answered at St. James Church in Laconia when the newest Lakes Region program, Hands Across the Table, kitchen crew of the day, serves over one hundred meals to guests who partake of this free community dinner.

The program is thriving under the auspices of the Laconia Interfaith Community. Last Tuesday’s dinner menu featured 12 gallons of mushroom barley soup, 15 gallons of chicken a la king, 50 pounds of potatoes and vegetable chili. For dessert there as home-made peach cake and ice cream, with more than 120 pieces served. Chef Lou Gaynor oversees all meal preparation and the tables are set with tablecloths and china.

EVERY Tuesday night?

Yes, every Tuesday night with food

preparation and service rotating among members of the Laconia Interfaith Community. This gracious concept serves those who are hungry in body and spirit and makes everyone involved feel good.

What’s for dinner this Tuesday? I don’t know yet, but this event is part party atmosphere, part family rhythm, always includes children and, just like at a dinner party at your house, the leftovers go home with the guests.

Last week, Temple B’nai Israel offered the menu mentioned above.

This week the hosts are members of the Gilford Methodist Church. There are no formal invitations. Just come to St. James Church Parish Hall on Main Street in Laconia at 5:30 on Tuesday and you’ll see what I am talking about.

Barbara Morgenstern Gilford

More & more Granite Staters are fed up with motorcycle noise To the editor, Although there are loud bikers and their apologists who attempt to justify the abusive behavior of loud riding, their efforts are likely to fail. Increasing numbers of New Hampshire residents (as well as residents of all other states) are fed up with motorcycle noise pollution and want something done about it.

New Hampshire Citizens Against Loud Motorcycles and Rep. Michele Peckham are offering a sensible beginning solution with HB-1442. Most motorcycles made after 1982 must have an EPA noise compliant exhaust and a label embossed into the muffler

stating such. It’s illegal under federal law to replace the noise compliant exhaust with one that isn’t compliant or to tamper with the legal muffler to make more noise. This information must appear in every owner’s manual under the bold face, upper case title, TAMPERING WITH NOISE CONTROL EQUIPMENT PROHIBITED. Those who want to curb motorcycle noise pollution would do well to contact NHCALM via their Facebook page or website and become involved with the current efforts to enact effective legislation.

Andy Ford Portland, Maine

Isn’t it time the taxpayers questioned Gilmanton School Board?

To the editor, I am concerned that the Gilmanton School is increasing its budget by more than 3-percent. This means that our taxes will increase next year, probably by the same amount as they did this past year — an average of over $300.

It is well known that last year the School Board over budgeted by more

than $500,000. How do we know that they are not doing the same thing this year? Isn’t it time that the taxpayers questioned the School Board?

Perhaps it is time for cuts to the administrative budget and not just teachers and programs.

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THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Saturday, January 14, 2012 — Page 5

LETTERS The very fine Bristol ‘dam’ is appreciated by most residents To the editor, I received a flyer today after exercising my much loved right to vote. This flyer was given to me to ensure that I knew important up coming dates of meetings and hearings as a service provided by the Newfound Area Taxpayer’s Association — a service that I very much appreciate.

This group of taxpayers has formed out of concern for the budgets of the Newfound area towns and School District. As much as I can gather these individuals have come together to voice the need for fiscal responsibility and decreased spending. At the core of this mission is a belief, all or in part, that communities are over serviced, certain groups are under serviced and of course the continual rhetoric that people are being taxed out of their homes, or worse… to death. I am sure there are other reasons this group exists and some of these ideals are probably leaner or more substantive than I have described them. However this is how I understand it and stand, happily, to be corrected.

I commend everyone who stays involved with their governing, no matter what their beliefs. This group is no exception to that and I hope soon to find myself with the time to attend a meeting and become better informed of their mission and goals. As I seek this information I hope others will do the same. The acquisition of knowledge and reasoned application guided by your beliefs is the best course of action no matter what the cause or goal. Suggested action based solely on beliefs, well, see The Crusades.

I would like to comment to this group that political satire and coy grammar should only be used when one has assessed all of its implications and most importantly those implications, if any, that devalue your cause.

At the top of the afore, and long ago, mentioned flyer is a cartoon by Mike Luckovich. The cartoon portrays a damtype structure with many holes that the taxpayer is attempting to plug with as many anatomical pieces and parts as he has. Of course I believe this cartoon is designed to show that after 11 organ systems and 206 bones there are no more pieces and parts, and that the taxpayer is stretched thin and can no longer fill these holes. This cartoon implores far too many literal and metaphoric implications for me to not see it as an adequate representation of the town of Bristol — however, in a far different light than its desired intentions.

The town of Bristol, taxpayers and elected officials, have built a “dam” (its services). It’s a very fine “dam”.

It is something that was a recognized need and although there has been a considerable expense involved and not always what you care to see in your panorama, it fits the bill and is doing its job. The “dam” is appreciated by most of Bristol’s residents and taxpayers, and attracts other families and businesses to live and work in the community. Oddly, there are some who chose to move to Bristol during or after the “dam” was built. This interesting subclass chooses to bemoan the “dam’s” existence; I suspect these folks do such things as go on a ski trip though they dislike the snow.

The “dam”, the services of the town of Bristol, was built by the taxpayers, Selectboard, Budget Committee and department heads with equal parts adequacy, innovation and prudence.

A dam, just like the components of the services provided, must be maintained, otherwise there will be holes.

It is irresponsible to think that maintenance costs will not increase from year to year. Employees of the “dam” will go to other “dams” in search of newer, bigger, more intriguing experiences. The cost of recruitment and retention of employees will increase as they become smarter, more efficient and potentially more indispensable. Materials, education costs and imposed or improved standards will drive the cost changes that go along with maintaining the “dam”. A gallon of milk costs me about 20-percent more than it did this time last year.

I certainly do not advocate 20-percent increases in any budget, but well derived cost increases that correspond with current maintenance practices are to be expected. In times like this they should be applauded.

There are other unintended inferences that were derived from this flyer, but I will leave those for another time.

I again appreciate the concern of this group and others like it. I ask that you evaluate all the information before deciding the best course of your actions. I believe that you will find that the town of Bristol is providing a level of service that is maintained and funded with adequacy and prudence in mind, and is the foundation for a growing community. Please don’t only focus on the bottom line as it will get us nowhere but the bottom.

Ben LaRoche Bristol

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As for the changes to Motorcycle Week, any one who has lived here for any length of time, knows if they don’t like all the noise, they plan to be away on vacation that week.

Bev Buker Gilford

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LETTERS

ENERGY RETROFITING THE GILMANTON ACADEMY BUILDING The article in last week’s edition of the Sun announced the Town of Gilmanton’s award of a $32,750.00 grant by the NH Land & Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) for the restoration of the windows at the Gilmanton Academy.

These funds will be added to the $56,585.00 approved by voters at the 2011 Town Meeting for energy conservation work at the Academy (CDFA loan) that will allow for a full restoration of all 51 wooden windows in the building. Some of the funds approved at Town Meeting have already been used for additional insulation and weatherization of the building.

The Board of Selectmen would like to thank members of the Energy Committee Nathaniel Abbott, Paul Callahan, Amy Russell, Dick deSeve and Sue Hale-deSeve for their work on the Energy Committee and successful acquisition of the CDFA loan for energy retrofitting the Academy building. The combination of the CDFA loan funds and the LCHIP grant funds will allow the Academy building to be completely energy retrofitted all while being historically restored.

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To the editor, Recently, Russ Wiles gave Tony Bouton’ s year end assessment, titled “Obama’s established unprecedented record of socialist failure”, a big thumbs up. Russ starts by calling the president delusional and narcissistic.

We heard that wingnut noise about Clinton, too. Myself, I think its the religious right and the tea party that are terminally deluded with an overdose of pie-in-the-sky. Tony’s point by point article is pretty much what Fox Snooze has told him to say. In fact, I could almost hear FBN’s Eric Bolling a-hollering from the back. Set in the economic complexities of the last decade, Tony’s claims are anything but accurate after some digging.

Tony’s #1 claims that consumer confidence is the lowest in 30 years.

Have you ever noticed that righties never mention the Crash of 2008?

Even before the crash, the market was on its way down. From October of 2007 to the crash in October 2008, the market lost 46-percent of its value.

Almost half of the market wiped out and Tony forgot! Tony’s #1 isn’t even true because from 2006 to Dec 2008 consumer confidence dropped off a cliff. From late 2007 to January 2009 consumer confidence was lower than it had been for many years and lower than it is now. When the president took office it soon shot up a notch. It’s still not high enough but that is due mostly to the Road Block Congress which 86-percent of Americans now disapprove of.

In #2, Tony reminds us that unemployment has been above 8-percent for quite a while but again forgets the job destroying Crash of 2008. Almost half of our net worth lost and Tony doesn’t seem to remember how that would effect investment, production and jobs. Hello! Anyone home? Mr. Boutin also neglects to note we have had 22 straight months of adding jobs since we got our head out of the water in late 2009. Unemployment dropped

again last month and over 350,000 jobs were added.

In the matter of #3, our present upswing in poverty levels began in 2006 under Bush, not Obama. I can even remember the news articles then. Bush was a corporatist that did the bidding of those who seek to corner America’s capital through legislation. The OCCUPY movement is a response to such anti-democratic, aristocratic behavior.

Then Tony really steps in it on #4.

He blames the president for the credit downgrade when Moody’s statement made clear it was the recalcitrant Congress, especially in regards to raising revenue that warranted the downgrade. You can’t pay the bills without raising capital. Never in our history has Congress held raising the debt ceiling hostage to other demands.

Tony forgot that, too.

Tony’s #5 is that Obama has the worst job record in 50 years. Did Tony mention that the unemployment during the Reagan recession went from 7.2-percent in July 1981 to 10.8-percent in December 1982?

Those supply side tax cuts really worked! Then Reagan raised taxes 11 times and the debt ceiling 17 times.

Tripled our national debt, too. And don’t forget the crash of 1987, which wiped out 23-percent of the market’s value and $500-billion in one day. The fact that in the last year of Bush’s presidency we lost at least 2.6-million jobs is also forgotten by Mr. Boutin In the last four months of 2008 the country bled over 2-million jobs. It was the worst job loss since 1945 and the first time in 70 years that there were two months in a row of over 500,000 jobs lost. That is the economic wasteland Obama inherited and Tony blames it on Obama.

In my next letter I will cover Tony’s claims 6-10. Charts for all my claims can be found at lakes-region-politics. blogspot.com James Veverka Tilton

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LETTERS Cornhusker con-man Nelson finally had to answer to Nebraskans To the editor, The infamous Ben Nelson, DEMOCRATIC senator from Nebraska will forever be remembered for his 60th vote that enabled the passage of Obamacare.

He held his vote complaining loudly about the legislation being too expensive and most importantly objected to the abortion wording given that two out of three Nebraskans were signaling thumbs down on the legislation. Pelosi and Reid had guns to Nelson’s temple and Obama had a bazooka pointed at his backside.

Democrats had waited 50 years for this moment and it was not going to fail on the one yard line because some cornflake, Nebraska senator was concerned that TWO THIRDS of his constituents opposed Obamacare. The Democratic Gestapo made it clear he would vote “yes” or be politically floated out to sea on a block of ice, never to be heard from again.

Ben Nelson was as overtly bribed for his vote as any politician in history.

SELLING HIS SOUL and INTEGRITY, Nelson demanded that EVERY Nebraskan FOREVER be shielded from a penny of cost that Obamacare ever added to that state’s cost of Medicaid after it’s implementation. Nelson knew huge increases were coming post Obamacare and he wanted to shelter Nebraska from what eventually will be billions of dollars in additional costs to every Nebraska taxpayer. You understand the implications of this? This meant taxpayers in the other 49 states (including NH) were going to pay Nebraskan’s share for them. Did you recall even ONE N.H. Democrat in office at the time oppose this FRAUD. YOU

DIDN’T! Despite the insanity of this NEON bribe, it was agreed to. Nelson also bargained for numerous other SPECIAL regulatory exceptions for some of Nebraska’s largest employers, including Mutual of Omaha for his vote. The concessions he won were so egregious they were called the “Cornhusker Kickback” and became the most famous of all the atrocities that got Obamacare passed.

Cornhusker, con man Ben Nelson finally has to answer to Nebraskans for the “yes” vote screwing he gave them.

Guess what? Last week Ben Nelson took the coward’s way out again. He quietly informed the media he was retiring, seeing the hand writing on the election wall that it was going to be a very difficult and bitterly contested election for him after his Obamacare vote.

In recent weeks, Democrats offered him more bribes, throwing him almost a million dollars of donkey cash to convince him to run again, even though they knew he was no sure winner. Democrats felt it was the least they could do for a guy they threw directly under the bus for Obamacare. It was a waste as he was unwilling to face what he sure knew was a hot branding iron marked “traitor of the people”. Ben Nelson’s departure means improved certainty Republicans will indeed take control of the Senate. To this moment, the majority of Nebraskans and the majority of Americans, by over a 40 million majority, want Obamacare STOPPED. Obama and Democrats say “stick it where the sun don’t shine”.

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MARDI GRAS from page one the state’s Controlled Drug Act for his alleged role in drugs sales police alleged to have either happened at the club or were generated by actions taken at the club.

To date, seven people have been indicted by a Belknap county grand jury for various violations of the state’s drug laws.

Police seized some drugs the night of the raid, the biggest amount being seven bags of cocaine said to have been found in one of the dancer’s pack of Newports.

“Due to the occurrences, negative publicity, and accusations from Oct. 18 on they can’t sustain the business,” Drew said. “I have accepted their termination.”

Since the raid, conducted by local police, the state police SWAT, the county SWAT, and members of the drug task force, club management has had the state Bureau of Liquor Enforcement suspend the license to sell alcohol pending an upcoming series of hearings, while Gilford selectmen attempted, but later

backed-off, a move to revoke the business’s “unusual and live entertainment” permits.

Statements made by former Mardi Gras management and staff allege the police action on Oct. 18 was as deliberately destructive as possible.

Photographs taken by The Daily Sun two days later showed a holes poked in a wall when keys to a locked door were allegedly offered and safes and beer coolers pried open when management said the keys and combinations were offered.

Club management also said the in-house security surveillance system was ripped out by the wires and there were loose and dangling wires from where the cameras had been.

All of the cash assets of the club and the individual dancers were seized including the $300 in cash members of the Drug Task Force used the pay for the private party that lured two of their targets to the bar that night.

Management also said the members of the task force left a $130 bar tab and took the ATM machine that dispensed $1 bills.

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After its liquor license was suspended, the club stayed open until early January as a “juice bar.”

After discussing it on Wednesday during a public meeting, Town Administrator Scott Dunn made available to the public a draft rewrite of Gilford’s live and unusual entertainment ordinances.

Dunn said Wednesday night the town attorney had not yet reviewed the proposed changes. Selectmen scheduled a public hearing on the proposed changes for Jan. 25.

TILTON from page one said. “It’s our right to our own representative. It’s extremely aggravating.”

The federal and state constitutions require that the boundaries of all federal, state and municipal electoral districts be redrawn every 10 years to embody changes in population reported by the United States Census. This year, for the first time, lawmakers have struggled to square two constitutional principles in redrawing the House districts.

First, the districts must comply with the federal constitutional principle of “one person, one vote.” Since the population of the state in 2010 was 1,316,470, the ideal size of each of the 400 House districts is 3,291. Acknowledging that federal constitutional principles trump state constitutional principles, the House Special Committee on Redistricting has insisted that districts deviate no more than five-percent above or below the ideal size.

Second, in 2006, the New Hampshire Constitution was amended to provide that “when the population of any town or ward, according to the last federal census, is within a reasonable deviation from the ideal population for one or more representative seats, the town or ward shall have its own district of one or more representative seats.”

Since the population is distributed unevenly across towns and wards, the “one person, one vote principle” leaves most towns and many wards to elect more or less than a whole number of members, which is impossible. To minimize the deviation, the committee chose to combine some towns in districts with multiple seats where representatives are elected at-large, with no assurance that each town will be directly represented.

According to the constitution, Tilton, with a population of 3,567, qualifies as a House district with one representative. But, the plan in place would continue to pair Tilton with Sanbornton in a district with two representatives, both of whom are currently residents of Sanbornton.

Mirski explained that with 2,966 people Sanbornton is 325 shy of qualifying as a district, with a deviation of nine-percent. “You can’t get around the federal criteria,” he said, explaining “you have to find a place for Sanbornton and the only place you can stick it is Tilton.”

“I wish you wouldn’t put it that way,” remarked Selectman Joe Jesseman.

Tilton is not alone in Belknap County. Meredith, with a population of 6,241, qualifies for less than the two representatives it has elected since 2002. Gilford, on the other hand, has been among four towns that together return seven House members, but with 7,126 people, warrants more than two seats on its own. The committee chose to combine the two towns in one district electing four representatives, with no assurance that each town would be represented.

“I will not vote for this plan,” declared Representative Bob Greemore (R-Meredith). “I’m not going to take it.”

Equally troubled, Representative Alida Millham (R-Gilford) suggested that the committee was applying the mathematics of “one person, one vote” too strictly and overlooking federal case law that recognized reasonable grounds for departing from the 10-percent deviation principle. The constitutional provision entitling qualified towns to their own seats, she indicated, represented reasonable grounds.

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GILFORD — A large crowd turned out last Thursday night to cheer for local celebrity Jesse Thompson, who appeared the Wheel of Fortune television show, filmed in November, which was aired that night.

Only Thompson and his wife, Alison, knew what had happened during the competition, which kept the suspense level high for the 75 or so people who turned out for the invitation only event, which ended up raising nearly $3,000 for the Make A Wish Foundation.

Loud cheers went up around the dining room as Thompson was introduced by Pat Sajak and immediately struck an irreverent tone, well known to his friends, by saying that he had ‘’a smoking hot wife’’ and has been rated “HD perfect’’ by the makeup

people for the show.

Cheers continued to resound as Thompson pulled into an early lead after identifying the phrase “A Snappy Dresser’’ and ‘’The Biggest Game of the Season’’ on the contest board.

But he later lost the lead, and the game, when he couldn’t identify ‘’Hooray for Hollywood’’ (from a 1937 movie) and finished second with $11,250 to $28,842 for the eventual winner.

He said that the road to the show began a year ago when he and his wife were watching the show and he was really clicking, coming up with the answers long before the contestants.

“I said to her ‘if you love me, you’ll sign me up for this.’ She did and I got an e-mail in September inviting me to an audition in Boston. This has to be a see next page

from preceding page Mirski said that minimizing the deviation ensured that the plan was constitutional on its face, which in turn ensured that the burden of proving it is not would fall on those who challenged it. On the other hand, if the plan departed from the specified deviation, the burden of defending it would fall on the House. “We cannot make a proposal that is not

prima facie constitutional,” he insisted.

Ironically, Mirski recalled that he was foremost among those who championed the constitutional amendment that assured qualified towns representation. “It was intended to restore small town representation,” he said. “I’m completely in your corner in principle.”

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Young skiers contest Gus Pitou Memorial Slalom Race for a 47th time GILFORD – On Sunday, January 8th, the Gunstock Ski Club (GSC) hosted the 47th Annual Gus Pitou Memorial Giant Slalom Race on the Cannonball Trail at the Gunstock Mountain Resort. This race was a N.H. Alpine Racing Association sanctioned “open” event for boys and girls aged 8 to 14 from across New Hampshire. It’s held each year in memory of Gus Pitou, Gilford resident Penny Pitou’s father, who died at the age of 53, in the sixties, after Penny’s Olympic triumphs.

Gus Pitou contributed greatly to the growth of junior skiing in the 1950s and 1960s in the Lakes

Region. Although he loved to ski himself, his passion was teaching young children the sport. The first Gus Pitou Memorial was held in 1966.

Trophies and medals for racers were given for the top 10 places. Gus Pitou’s grandson, Christian Zimmermann, handed out the awards to the winners, with assistance from Gus Pitou’s great-grandchildren Zoe and Zane Zimmermann.

The race was run by the all-volunteer efforts of the parents of the Gunstock Ski Club. The top three places in each age group were as follows: in J6 (ages 8 and under) girls, Celine Sommer took first, Sophia

from preceding page joke, was my first thought. I called the number and it was the real deal — ‘You got to be kidding me’ was my next reaction followed by high-pitched screaming and awkward dancing,” Thompson recalls.

He said that he did well in the audition and within a few weeks was told that he was selected as a contestant.

“My sister Kalee lives in LA with her husband Dan and their handsome son Otto, so it was a great opportunity to spend time with them and have some local support for my big television debut,’’ Thompson wrote on his Wheel of Fortune blog. ‘’It was surreal experience,’’ Thompson said after the show aired, explaining that he decided to turn his 15 minutes of fame into something good for the community by doing an event for a charity and chose Make A Wish because he knows of the good work that it does and is a friend of Julie Baron, the organization’s chief executive officer, who also happens to be a Gilford resident.

Thompson, 33, is a 1997 graduate of Gilford High School where he was a member of the soccer and ski teams. He is the vice president of Northern Design Precast of Loudon and sails a J-80 sailboat in Winnipesaukee Yacht Club events during the summer and continues to compete in skiing during the winter months.

Baron said that she was thrilled with the donation made by Thompson and noted that Make A Wish, now in its 25th year, will be granting its 1,000th wish to a sick child later this year.

She was especially grateful for the contribution of Roland, Lauren and Nickie Lyons of the Lyons Den, who provided snacks and appetizers for the crowd that turned out for the event.

Thompson, who kicked in $1,000 of his own money for the benefit, also held a drawing at the end of the evening to pick up the bar tab of a lucky ticket holder.”

“I’m really pretty proud of him,’’ said Nub McLean, a high school classmate of Thompson.”He’s a colorful character and really made a good impression on television.’’

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APPLE from page 2 Employees posted a sign saying the iPhone 4S was out of stock.

“We were unable to open our store at Sanlitun due to the large crowd, and to ensure the safety of our customers and employees, iPhone will not be available in our retail stores in Beijing and Shanghai for the time being,” said Apple spokeswoman Carolyn Wu. The iPhone 4S quickly sold out at other Apple stores in China, Wu said. She said the phone still will be sold in China through Apple’s online store, its local carrier China Unicom Ltd. and authorized resellers.

Wu declined to comment on what Apple might know about scalpers buying iPhones for resale.

China is Apple’s fastest-growing market and “an area of enormous opportunity,” CEO Tim Cook said in October. He said quarterly sales were up nearly four times from a year earlier and accounted for onesixth of Apple’s global sales.

Apple’s China stores are routinely mobbed for the release of new products.

The company has its own stores only in Beijing and Shanghai, with a handful of authorized retailers in other cities, so middlemen who buy iPhones and resell them in other areas can make big profits,

said Wang Ying, who follows the cellphone market for Analysys International, a research firm in Beijing.

“Apple is making a lot of money, so it is not too concerned about the scalpers,” Wang said.

Wang and other industry analysts said the size of the underground trade and price markups are unclear.

In Shanghai, stores limited iPhone 4S sales to two per customer. Several hundred people were waiting when the stores opened, bundled up against the cold. Some passed the time playing mahjong.

Buyers included 500 older people from neighboring Jiangsu province who were hired by the boss of a cellphone market, the newspaper Oriental Morning Post said. They arrived aboard an 11-bus convoy and were paid 150 yuan ($23) each.

Online bulletin boards were filled with comments about Friday’s buying frenzy, many complaining about or ridiculing the scalpers.

An Apple contractor manufactures iPhones in China, but new models are released in other countries first. That has fueled a thriving “gray market” in China for phones smuggled in from Hong Kong and other markets.

ARREST from page one Police arrested her Jan. 12 with the assistance of the Meredith Police and Judge Edward “Ned” Gordon ordered her held on $50,000 cash-only bail after her appearance in 6th District Court, Franklin Division yesterday morning.

On Nov. 4 at 7:50 p.m., three masked men entered Kay Jewelers at the Tanger Outlet Mall.

At least one man brandished a gun and ordered everyone in the store to the floor while a second man used a hammer and began smashing the glass cases. A third man gathered jewelry into a bag.

After grabbing about $200,000 in cash, the three fled on foot, running around the southwest end of the strip mall, by Starbucks, where they got into a car allegedly driven by Falls.

The entire robbery was taped on store surveillance, pieces of which aired repeatedly on WMUR Channel 9 News.

Cormier said more arrests are expected in the near future and wanted the thank the public for the many tips and leads they brought to police.

“This was a very violent crime, which terrorized the store employees and patrons,” Cormier said.

Katie T. Falls (Tilton Police photo)

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OBAMA from page 2 chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “I look forward to reviewing the proposal and hope that it will be the first of many to unravel the red tape.”

Indeed, Obama promised more plans to shrink things if given more power, citing inefficiencies all across the government.

In an unusual united front that underscored some bipartisan skepticism, the chairmen of two of Congress’ most powerful committees joined in a statement that questioned the president’s desire to wrap the U.S. Trade Representative office into a new agency. The House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont, said government cannot be reduced “at the expense of programs that are helping businesses, ranchers and farmers create jobs.”

For Obama, it was all about common sense.

He spoke of business people who deal with the government as part of their daily life and are exasperated by a maze of agencies, permits and websites.

“We can do this better,” he told them. “So much of the argument out there all the time is up in 40,000 feet, these abstract arguments about who’s conservative or who’s liberal. ...You guys are just trying to figure out, how do we make things work? How do we apply common sense? And that’s what this is about.”

Obama had an imperative to deliver. He made the promise to come up with a smart reorganization of the government in his State of the Union speech last January.

Not in decades has the government undergone a sustained reorganization of itself. Presidents have tried from time to time, but each part of the bureaucracy has its own defenders inside and outside the government, which can make merger ideas politically impossible. That’s particularly true because “efficiency” is often another way of saying people will lose their jobs.

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Average Big Lake sale below $1M first time since 2003 It was a great end to the year with 15 waterfront sales on Winnipesaukee in December at an average of $675,300. That compares to nine sales last December at a much higher average price of $1,306,044. Only three of the 15 sales last month were over the million dollar mark, resulting in the low average sale price.

The least expensive sale in December was at 65 Cow Island in Tuftonboro. This classic Lake Winnipesaukee summer camp has the desired knotty pine interior, wood floors, a first floor bedroom, two large bunk rooms upstairs, a wood stove, and the requisite screened porch where you can sit and tell lies all night. The camp sits on a .79-acre level lot with 150-feet of shallow sand bottom frontage and crystal clear water. This property was offered at $324,500 and sold for $282,000 after 190 days on the market. This property is currently assessed for $352,900 so I’d say you have a pretty happy camper there.

Out at 62 Varney Point Left in Gilford there’s a new owner that will be tearing down the existing structure to make way for her dream home.

The existing home, which was built in 1930 and remodeled in 1988, was not quite to her tastes.

But the fantastic westerly views and 115-feet of shorefront which features a 24’ x 32’ boathouse, attached dock, and breakwater was. The property was offered at $1.195-million and sold for $925,000 after 121 days on the market. That’s just over the new assessed value of $896,540. It will be interesting to see what she builds there…

The largest sale of the month was at 97 Pleasant Street in Meredith. This 1960’s vintage, three bed, four bath, 4,000-square-foot home has been nicely updated throughout. It features a first floor master, eat in kitchen, double sided fireplace, recreation room, screened porch, and a three car garage. It sits on a .48-acre lot with 136-feet of frontage, dock, and has great views down Meredith Bay. This home was first listed in 2006 at $1.75-million, re-listed in February 2011 for $1.3-million, and sold for $1.1-million which is just under the $1.19-million assessment.

So how did we do for the year on the Big Lake?

Pretty darn good, I’d say! The total number of sales were up from 96 in 2010 to 107 in 2011 for an 11.5-percent increase. However, the average sale price was down below the $1-million mark for the first time since 2003 when it came in at $994,688. The average price is down partially due to some weakening in waterfront prices but also because more lower priced and fewer higher priced homes sold compared to the prior year.

There were 69 properties sold below $1-million last year compared to 52 in 2010. On the high end there were just four sales over $3-million while

there were nine in 2010. The total sales volume for waterfronts sold was $106.4-million in 2011 compared to $120.7-million in 2010. The largest sale on the lake for the year was at 31 Wallace Point in Wolfeboro at $4.325-million.

There were four sales on Winnisquam last month at an average sale price of $370,250, compared to just one last December. The largest sale for the month was at 264-3 Black Brook Road in Sanbornton. This property consists of a three bed, three bath main house, a one bedroom guest house, and a three car detached garage on a .65-acre lot with 125-feet of frontage. This house was first listed in June of 2009 at $725,000, listed in 2010 for $659,900, and in 2011 for $649,900. After another $20,000 price reduction it sold for $575,000 which is just over the current assessment of $556,000.

This brings the total on Winnisquam to 23 sales in 2011 at an average price of $480,536. That’s a 44-percent increase in total sales from the 16 sales posted in 2010. Just as on Winnipesaukee, the average sale price was down for the year when compared to the prior year’s average of $560,000.

Over on Squam there was just one sale in December and that was the property at 50 Route 113 in Holderness. This is a 1926 vintage, four bed, two bath, 1,600-square-foot New Englander on a 1.71-acre lot with 114-feet of shore front, sandy beach, and a dock. It was first listed in 2009 for $729,000 and then re-listed this year at $699,000.

It was reduced to $499,000 and sold for $450,000.

The property is currently assessed at $624,710. Do you see a pattern?

There were just seven sales on Golden Pond in 2011 at an average $1.036-million. But that is somewhat better than the five transactions in 2010 although the average sale price was about one half of the $2-million average posted then.

We’re hoping that 2012 will be a great year for sales on all the lakes in the area. After all, there’s no place more beautiful and better to live or vacation in than the Lakes Region and right now many people believe there is no place to invest than in lakefront property. If you are considering a waterfront property this may just be one of the best times ever to buy. So contact your REALTOR® and go take a look. You may just find the home you’ve always dreamed of…

For complete information on these and all the other waterfront sales visit www.lakesregionrealestatenews.com . You can also receive these reports by email. Roy Sanborn is a REALTOR® for Roche Realty Group, at 97 Daniel Webster Highway in Meredith and can be reached at 677-8420. Data was compiled as of 1/10/12 using the Northern New England Real Estate MLS System.

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Linda Taylor, 64 CENTER HARBOR — Linda Taylor, 64, of Center Harbor, NH, passed away peacefully in her home with family and friends by her side on January 11, 2012.

Born in Laconia, NH on April 18, 1947, she was the youngest daughter of six children of Paul and Marion (Gray) Taylor. She was raised in Sandwich, NH; was a longtime resident of Derry, NH and has lived in Center Harbor for the last several years.

Linda opened and operated her own hair salon called Winnipesaukee Hair Care in Meredith, NH for many years. She loved to do arts and crafts, hiking, camping, biking, going on long walks, and traveling. However, more than anything she loved her family and taught everyone that family is the most valuable thing in life. She was a very nurturing woman to not only her family and friends but as well as the many other lives she touched.

Linda is predeceased by her step-father, Arthur Richards.

Linda is survived by her four sons, Greg McCormack, of Effingham, NH, Doug, Scott, and Steve

McMaster, all of Derry, NH; a daughter, Tina Hashem, of Center Harbor; four sisters, Pauline Barter, Eileen Rodgers, Dot Stack, and Carrie Hall; one brother, William Taylor; eight grandchildren, Danielle, Matt, and Kevin Hashem, Tanya and Sasha McCormack, Jacob McMaster and Camryn McPhail; and her loving companion of many years, Ron Shaw, of Center Harbor.

In Lieu of flowers, contributions in Linda’s memory may be made to the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Breast Cancer Charity.

Calling Hours will be held on Monday, January 16, 2012 at Mayhew Funeral Home (Rtes. 3 and 104) Meredith, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. A Funeral Service will follow the calling hours at the Funeral Home, Pastor Murray Nickerson will officiate. Interment will be at Center Harbor Memorial park at the convenience of the family.

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PLYMOUTH — Embracing a technology that has come of age, New Hampshire Electric Co-op (NHEC) is the first utility in New Hampshire to offer only LED outdoor lighting solutions.

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source that is used as indicator lamps in many devices and is increasingly used for other lighting.

While LED technology has been in use since the 1960’s, it has only recently been adopted as the technology of choice for outdoor area lighting. LED streetlights last five times as long as traditional High Pressure Sodium (HPS) lights (23-25 years) and use less than half the energy. LEDs also provide more even lighting and a truer rendering of colors, which means no more orange hues at night.

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lights in its service territory and will be phasing out existing HPS lighting fixtures when they fail by replacing them with LEDs. LED fixtures have a higher upfront cost, but more than make up for it with a 25-year life and reduced operating costs.

Effective as of January 1, monthly charges have been changed to reflect the transition to LED technology. NHEC will be providing a choice of three lights – two cobrahead roadway fixtures and a floodlight fixture. Charges for the roadway fixtures will be 90 cents less per month or $2.70 less per month, depending on the fixture. The monthly charge for floodlight fixtures will be $1.95 more per month.

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LACONIA — Joan Cormier, executive director of the Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation announces that applications, along with the important instructions and applicant appraisal forms, are now available and may be downloaded from the foundation’s website at: http:/www.lrscholarship.org under the For Applicant section.

Applications have been mailed to last year’s applicants and are also available through the guidance offices of Belmont, Gilford and Laconia high schools.

The majority of LRSF scholarships are restricted by donors for graduates of Belmont, Gilford or Laconia High Schools – or – residents of Belmont, Gilford or Laconia.

For a list of all scholarship funds and requirements, check the “For Donors” section of the website.

A list of donor exceptions and requirements may be found in the For Applicant section. Only one appli-

cation is necessary for all LRSF awards, with the exception of the John Mullen Essay Competition and the Annalee Thorndike Art Competition, which are described in the For Applicant section.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

It may be time to disassociate yourself from something that you believe increases your self-worth. This act will reinforce that your worth doesn’t really have anything to do with what you own or do.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You have done something that is extremely creative, unique and worthy of the attention it will get. If you don’t really want to be visible, noticed and rewarded for your efforts, that’s just too bad.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll provide a stable and loving authority for someone who is a child or acts like one. You relish the role, which makes your relationship a strong and mutually affectionate one.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Just because you happen to enjoy an activity doesn’t mean it isn’t work. You’ll work hard and provide an example of hard work for those who need the role model.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 14).

You’ll not only do what’s necessary for your own success; you’ll also be the sole reason for someone else’s success.

Your agreement helps a project take off.

February brings increased mental control. You’ll study an area of knowledge and become an expert. The camaraderie of friends will help you meet physical goals in May. Libra and Pisces people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 19, 3, 20 and 18.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You get an impulse, and you act on it. If you ask for permission, you are changing the power dynamic or reinforcing a fictional hierarchy that really only exists if you agree to it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll be in a mood to mingle, and you’ll do this well. You’ll be around many interesting, accomplished and attractive people. The one with a sense of humor will steal your heart every time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll take part in truly interesting conversations. As you listen, you provide a sounding board of truth for others who will note how their ideas resonate with you -- even if you don’t say a word. Your expressions are telling.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You like to see someone who is behind catch up.

You’ll support another person’s effort to do this, and the next time you’re behind, you’ll be all the more motivated to sprint to the finish.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You have a decision to make and an action to take. Will your future self approve of this action? Not the person you are now living at a date in the future, but the person you want to be in the future.

Would that person approve?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You can’t always do what you think needs to be done in order to develop in the way you want to develop. Prior responsibilities prevent it. Those same responsibilities are far more important to your development than you think.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The job you finish somehow makes more work for you. The fact that you don’t mind this one bit is evidence that you are doing something you truly enjoy. You’ll keep going, all smiles.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2012. There are 352 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 14, 1952, NBC’s “Today” show premiered, with Dave Garroway as the host, or “communicator,” as he was called.

On this date: In 1639, the first constitution of Connecticut the Fundamental Orders was adopted.

In 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War. In 1858, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and his wife, Empress Eugenie, escaped an assassination attempt led by Italian revolutionary Felice (fay-LEE’-chay) Orsini, who was later captured and executed.

In 1900, Puccini’s opera “Tosca” had its world premiere in Rome.

In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.

In 1953, Josip Broz Tito (YAW’-sihp brawz TEE’-toh) was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country’s Parliament.

In 1963, George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of “segregation forever.”

In 1968, the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeated the AFL’s Oakland Raiders, 33-14, in Super Bowl II. In 1969, 27 people aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, off Hawaii, were killed when a rocket warhead exploded, setting off a fire and additional explosions.

In 1972, the situation comedy “Sanford and Son,” starring Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson, premiered on NBC-TV. In 1986, Vinicio Cerezo was inaugurated as Guatemala’s first civilian president in 16 years in a ceremony attended by Vice President George H.W. Bush.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation; the leaders joined Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk in signing an accord to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.

One year ago: In an unprecedented popular uprising, Tunisian protesters enraged over soaring unemployment and corruption drove President Zine El Abdine Ben Ali from power after 23 years of iron-fisted rule.

Today’s Birthdays: Blues singer Clarence Carter is 76. Singer Jack Jones is 74. Singersongwriter Allen Toussaint is 74. Actress Faye Dunaway is 71. Actress Holland Taylor is 69.

Actor Carl Weathers is 64. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 64. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd is 60. Rock singer Geoff Tate is 53. Movie writer-director Steven Soderbergh is 49. Actor Mark Addy is 48. Actor Dan Schneider is 46. Actress Emily Watson is 45.

Actor-comedian Tom Rhodes is 45. Rock musician Zakk Wylde is 45. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 44. Actor Jason Bateman is 43. Rock singermusician Dave Grohl is 43. Actress Jordan Ladd is 37. Soul singer-songwriter Marc Broussard is 30. Rock singer-musician Caleb Followill is 30.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS 2nd Annual Launch-A-Wish sky lantern flight at Moulton Farm in Meredith. Festivities begin at 3:30 and launch is at 4:30, just as dusk is falling. Magic and beauty created as dozens of multi-colored, candle-lit balloons float skyward to benefit the Kian K. Kline Memorial Scholarship Fund. Suggested donation for each sky lantern launched is $25.

“Political Suicide”, an program of four darkly funny and provocative new plays by Ernest Thompson. 8 p.m. at Pitman’s Freight Room (94 New Salem Street) in Laconia.

For ticket information and/or reservations call 744-3652 or visit www.whitebridgefarmproductions.com.

Squam Lakes Association Winterfest. Noon to 3 p.m. at the SLA Resource Center on Rte. 3 in Holderness. For more information visit www.sqaumlakes.org.

“Finding Your Voice” program for girls attending Alton Central School. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Prospect Mountain High School cafeteria. Hosted by the Alton Community Youth Activities team. Call Carol Wallace at 875-8221 for more information.

Prophet and Evangelist Max Navarro at the Margate Resort Conference Center in Laconia. 7 p.m. All are welcome to see healing miracles and hear the prophetic word.

Tilton Winter Farmers’ Market. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday through March across Rte. 3 from Tilton AutoServ.

27 vendors. www.TiltonWinterFarmersMarket.com.

Al-Anon Meeting at the Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Saturday in the firstfloor conference room. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome.

Call 645-9518.

Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton.

4:30 to 5:30 p.m. An outreach housed at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street, downtown. provides a free hot meal open to all members of the community. All are welcome to eat and all are welcome to help out. For more information, especially about volunteering, please call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at markk@trinitytilton.org.

Free clothing ministry, Closet 2 Closet. Open the second and fourth Saturday of every month. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Calvary Assembly of God, 100 Academy St., Laconia. 524-7559.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at Laconia Middle School. 3:30 to 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Laconia Human Relations Committee. Potluck dinner will follow program. Sarah Dan Jones will celebration of song and dance after dinner.

“Political Suicide”, a program of four darkly funny and provocative new plays by Ernest Thompson. 2 p.m. matinee and 8 p.m. at Pitman’s Freight Room (94 New Salem Street) in Laconia. For ticket information and/or reservations call 744-3652 or visit www.whitebridgefarmproductions.com.

MONDAY, JANUARY 16 Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recovery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA. Monday nights at 7 p.m. at the Laconia Congregational Church Parish Hall. Call and leave a message for Elizabeth at 630-9969 for more information.

Laconia Chapter of Barbershop Harmony Society meeting. 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church. Guests and singers of all ages and skills are invited to attend these Monday night rehearsals. For more information call Guy Haas at 279-2230.

Parish of Blessed Andre Bessette Respect Life Committee meeting. 7 p.m. at the Sacred Heart School Gym in Laconia, front room. Public welcome. For more information call 528-2326 or 524-8335.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: How do you deal with ignorant relatives? My wife and I have two teenagers and three children under the age of 12. We live an hour away from family and see them during holidays, birthdays, cookouts and such. I am close to both of my parents and speak to them daily. I believe they should have a good relationship with my kids. We also have nieces and nephews who live an hour away across state lines.

I recently found out that my parents have bought these nieces and nephews cellphones (to keep in touch) and special notebooks for them to write back and forth, and they also send them little gifts. Once a month, they are invited to spend the night at my parents’ house, while my kids have spent two nights there in four years. When I see my parents, they talk about how they never see my nieces and nephews, but I get to hear all about the stuff they do and their daily email chats.

I don’t understand how my parents can be so blind. They do nothing with my children. There is no bad blood between us. We are close. All I know is that I am sick of seeing my children hurt and tired of answering questions about why Grandpa and Grandma don’t call or let them stay over like they do with their cousins. How do I make this better? -- Vermont Dear Vermont: Grandparents sometimes don’t realize they are playing favorites, and there are a variety of reasons behind it. Often, they feel they must overcompensate for those kids who need them more. In your parents’ case, it’s possible that they know you will always keep your children close, but they aren’t so sure about the nieces and nephews, so they work harder at it. You need to tell your parents how you feel, and let them know that they are inadvertently damaging their relationship with your children. We hope they will

recalibrate their energies to be more even-handed.

Dear Annie: I am 15 and very overweight. I’ve been this way since I was little. I’ve tried losing weight, but can never seem to keep it off for long.

What bothers me most is the intolerance at school. I hear the fat jokes and the whispers. I’d love to have a boyfriend, but the guys in my class only like the skinny girls. This has destroyed what little self-confidence I had.

I don’t understand why people can’t accept all body types.

Nowadays you have to be thin to be considered pretty. I want to feel pretty, too, and know that people can like me as I am.

Why can’t these attitudes be changed? -- Confused in Connecticut Dear Confused: That’s an excellent question. Attitudes like these are culturally entrenched and reinforced by media images. Fat jokes and nasty whispers are a form of bullying and should be reported to the school authorities. But instead of focusing on romance, simply work on being a good friend.

Friends will see you through the rough spots.

But we also are worried about you. Extra weight can cause all kinds of physical problems. Please talk to your parents and have them make an appointment for you to see your doctor and a nutritionist. Get some exercise. Work on being healthy, regardless of your size.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Noisy Dog Next Door.”

I don’t disagree with your suggestions to call the neighborhood association and the humane society, but a quieter solution is available, too. There are battery-operated devices that emit a high-pitched sound that is uncomfortable to the dog.

(Humans cannot hear it.) We used this for our neighbor’s dog. When he barked, we’d push the button and say, “No, Fido!” It worked like a charm. Now we only have to step out the back door for the dog to stop barking. -- It’s Quiet Again

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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BEAUTIFUL Puppies: Apricot, red, mini poodles. Champ background. Good price. Healthy, happy and home raised.

253-6373.

NORTH Country Auctions, LLCJanuary 28st, 2012- 9am. Heavy equipment & general merchandise auction. To be held at our auction barn located at: 438 Plains Road, Tamworth, NH 03886. We are now accepting consignments! Heavy equipment, trailers, auto’s, industrial tools, building supplies, boats, farm equipment, landscaping equipment, and more! Call us today for more information: (603)539-5322 Email:

LACONIA Curves Franchise for Sale: Currently operating. Terrific location includes updated equipment. Be your own boss & help women get fit. For more info., contact Brenda at 528-0808.

GILFORD 3 bedroom condo, $1300/monthly. Parking, garages available. Heated pool, tennis court. Close to shopping and lake.

Boat slip available. Washer/Dryer hook up available. NO PETS. References & security required.

781-710-2208.

DACHSHUNDS puppies. Heath & temperament guaranteed. $450 (603)539-1603.

FULL EUROPEAN bloodline German Shepherd puppies. Sire/ dame on premisis, health certificate. Call for information.

Colebrook, NH 603-667-1752.

GOLDEN Retriever puppies, born 11/20/11. First shot, home raised, cat friendly. 6 males. $500.

744-2317.

POMERANIAN puppies, 3 males, 2 females, color sabel. $500.00 deposits accepted and payments accepted. To be paid by or before Feb 3, 2012. Parents on premises .524-6750 or 630-4104.

REDBONE coon, mixed, male 18 mths neutered, shots, great with kids, natural hunter, loyal.

Laconia 998-4944 cell SHELTIE puppies available , 1 boy 1 girl $400.00 health cert. 1st shots 267-8729

Announcement WE Pay CA$H for GOLD and SILVER No hotels, no waiting.

603-279-0607, Thrifty Yankee, Rte. 25, Meredith, NH.

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Auctioneer: Doug Ryan Lic #2739.

Autos 1994 GMC Pickup extra cab, long bed, 100751 miles. Runs good.

Inspected. Asking $2,000. Call 491-6405 2003 Dodge SLT Pickup: Clean Florida truck, no rust, 5-speed, nice interior, 121k highway miles. $3,995 firm. Call Phil, 393-7786.

2007 Toyota Corolla LE- 9,500 miles, automatic, like new! $12,900. 286-4900 2008 Toyota Tacoma access cab, 4wd, TRD off-road pkg. 59k miles, $20,500. (603)493-4994.

BUYING junk cars and trucks ME & NH. Call for price. Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

CASH paid for unwanted or junk cars and trucks. Same day service possible. 603-231-2859.

TOP DOLLAR PAID for junk cars & trucks. Available 7-days a week.

P3 s Towing. 630-3606

LAKE LOT- WILL TRADE (up) for commercial property or other?

207-754-1047

Employment Wanted COMPASSIONATE LNA/Care Giver. 30 years experience. Great references. Will travel, do overnight. 603-875-1232

For Rent LACONIA: (2) 2-bedroom, 2nd floor apartments on Gilford Avenue , with on-site parking. Both walking distance to pharmacy, church & school. Housing welcome. (1) is $800/month, heat and hot water included, with coin-op washer and dryer on site.

(1) is $800/month plus utilities (natural gas), with washer/dryer hook-ups. Call 630-3958.

APARTMENTS, mobile homes. If you need a rental at a fair price, call DRM Corp. Over 40 years in rentals. We treat you better!

524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at 373 Court Street, Laconia.

AT Weirs Beach. Nice 2 Bedroom/ 1-Bath. Heat/HW incl Laundry hook-ups. $890/month. $500 security. 296-5314.

BELMONT- 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex. New carpet/paint.

Washer/Dryer hookups, porch, deck. Private $850/Month.

617-909-9892

BOATS

BELMONT: 2 bedroom, 3rd floor. Coin-op laundry and storage space in basement. $235/week including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

DOCKS for Rent: 2012 season, Lake Winnisquam Point. Parking, bathrooms, showers, launch on

Gilford- 1 bedroom, includes all utilities, washer/dryer. TV, Internet. Great view! No smokers/pets.

GILFORD house- Furnished or unfurnished, 4-bedroom, 2-car garage, in-ground swimming pool, fenced yard. $1,700/Month + utilities. 455-9253 GILFORD, 2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, Balconies, no smoking/pets, $890/month plus utilities, Security deposit and references, 603-455-6662 Gilford- One bedroom, second floor includes heat, hot water and electricity. $740/Month.

One month!s rent and one month security deposit required.

603-731-0340.

GILFORD- 3 bedroom 2 bath house. 2-car garage, tons of room, nice view. Walk to lake.

Rent to own. $1,400/Month + utilities. Bill 293-0685 GILFORD: 1 or 2 bedroom apartments from $175/Week includes heat & utilities. Pets considered. Security/References.

556-7098.

GILMANTON Iron Works Village.

One bedroom apartment, second floor. No pets/smoking, includes basic cable & utilities. References & security deposit required. $700/Month. 603-364-3434

LACONIA 2 bedroom 1 1/2 bath apartment for rent. Clean & Neat, heats easily.

No Pets $800/Month + Utilities

603-630-2883 LACONIA 1 Bedroom- Washer/ dryer hookup, storage, no pets.

Security Deposit & references.

For Rent

For Rent

LACONIA 2 BR Elm Street area, spacious, clean. first floor, porch, parking, washer/dryer hook ups. $825/mo. plus utilities References and deposit required.

603-318-5931

Laconia- 1+ bedroom duplex apartment, off street parking, walking distance to stores, no pets/smokers. Security deposit and references required. $800/Month, includes heat/hot water. For additional information, call 524-2575 between 5 and 8pm.

LACONIA Contractors yard with work bay & storage area. $900/Month 603-630-2882 LACONIA FIRST FLOOR Large 3Bedroom 2-bath apartment.

Storage, deck, parking, No pets/No smokers, security deposit and references required. $900/Month plus utilities.

875-2292

LACONIA LAKE OPECHEE 2nd floor, private entry, 4-room, 1-bedroom apartment. Includes electric, heat, on-site laundry, plowed parking, use of waterfront & Wi-Fi access.

No Smokers, $775/Month + security deposit.

524-1917 LACONIA, NH Three Bedroom Apartments $800.00 per mo. Utilities Not Included. NEW YEAR SPECIAL NO SECURITY DEPOSIT. Pay first months rent and move in Section 8 Welcome, Income Restrictions Apply Well Maintained Units, Off Street Parking, No Pets Allowed. Contact us today for more info!

1-800-742-4686 The Hodges Companies 201 Loudon Rd. Concord, NH 03301 LACONIA Province St. 4 bedroom apartment. Private parking, laundry, bright & clean, no pets. $1,000/Month + Utilities.

508-423-0479.

LACONIA, 3 room, near LRGH. Sunny, 1st floor, parking, yard, basement, hook-ups, good area $675/monthly, $160/weekly heated. 1/2 month move-in discount. 998-7337.

Laconia- 2+ Bedrooms, 2nd floor, washer/dryer hook-up. $225/Week + utilities. References/deposit required. No pets/No smoking.

528-6205 LACONIA- BIg 1-bedroom close to downtown. Includes plowing, 2-car parking & washer/dryer.

Plenty of closet space. 2nd floor. $200 heat credit, no dogs/smoking. $170/Week + 4-week security deposit. Credit & criminal background check required. Leave message for Rob 617-529-1838 Laconia- Clean, spacious 2 bedroom. Includes heat/hot water, washer/dryer hookups, no pets/smoking. $875/Month.

528-1829 Laconia- Great downtown Location. Rooms for rent. Share kitchen & bath. Utilities included. $107-$115/Week.

524-1884 Laconia- Large 1-bedroom apartment. Washer/Dryer in apartment, close to downtown, small pet OK. $180/Week + 4-weeks security.

455-5736 LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. $145/week 603-781-6294 LACONIA- Large, sunny, 1st floor.

3 bedroom, hardwood floors, heat/hot water included. $1,050/Month. Call 566-6815 Laconia- Spacious 2 bedroom, hookups, garage, porch, no pets. $750/Month + utilities 603-455-0874 LACONIA: 1 & 2 bedroom apt.

W/D hookups, off-street parking, $600-$650 per month +utilities.

556-3146.

LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2nd floor in duplex building. $235/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234 www.whitemtrentals.com.

New Franklin Apartments, LLC Elderly and Disabled Housing Now Accepting Applications for Project-Based Section 8 Subsidized Apartments HUD Income Limits Apply One & Two Bedroom Units Available Located in Tilton, Franklin & West Franklin

Apartments Available Now For more information, please contact 603-286-4111 Or TTY 1-800-735-2964

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS LOCHMERE MEADOWS Tilton, NH Spacious 2 Bedroom Townhouse Style Units Rent based on 30% of adjusted monthly Income Heat & Hot Water Included in rent Two of the four buildings are non-smoking Credit, Criminal, & Landlord Checks No Pets Please CONTACT US TODAY! 1-800-742-4686 • TDD # 1-800-545-1833 Ext. 118

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For Rent

For Rent

LACONIA: Prime 2-bedroom apt. on Gale Avenue. Walk to town and beaches. Very large rooms.

Beautiful hardwood floors, loads of closets. Private porch and garage. $1,000/month, includes heat and hot water. 524-3892 or 630-4771.

LACONIA: 1-bedroom for rent, heat/HW/electric included, no smoking, no pets, security deposit required. $750/month.

528-1685.

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 LACONIA: Messer St., 3 Room, 1 bedroom with sunporch, 2nd floor. $165/Week. Includes heat/ electric. $500 security. 524-7793 MEREDITH– 2 Bedroom, 1.5 bath, 3 story townhouse style Condo.

Garage, plowing, washer/dryer included.

Non-Smoker. $950/month + Utilities. 603-455-7591

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MEREDITH: Beautiful downtown apartment. 2-bedroom, 3-bath, private parking. $1,250/month.

491-5983.

AMAZING! Beautiful pillowtop matress sets, twin $169, full or queen $249, king $399. See AD under “Furniture”.

MATTRESS & FURNITURE CLOSEOUTS AND OVERSTOCKS!

FULL-TIME gas attendant, apply in person at 415 Union Ave.

NORTHFIELD: 2 bedroom, 1st floor, includes basement, $210/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

BEDROOM-SOLID Cherrywood Sleigh bed. Dresser, mirror, chest, night stand. New! Cost $2,200 sell $895. 235-1773

NORTHFIELD: Trailers for rent in small park with on-site laundromat.

2 bedroom, $225/week.

3 bedroom with additions, $235/week.

Rent includes heat, electric & hot water.

524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

Laconia- 1 bedroom subsidized apartment. Must be elderly or disabled. Preferece given to elderly applicants with extremely low income. ($14,800 or lower). EHO. Please call Mary at Stewart Property Management 603-641-2163

Tilton Downtown- 2 bedroom apartment. $700/Month, Heat & Hot water included. 781-315-2358 TILTONTWO CLEAN, UPDATED one bedrooms.

Heat/Hot Water included, no dogs. $640-$660/Month.

603-393-9693 or 916-214-7733.

TILTON-LARGE 2 bedroom, all utilities included. $850/Month or $212.50/Week. We accept section 8. 617-501-9611 WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency and a cottage including heat, hot water, lights and cable. $175-$185 per week. $400 deposit. No pets. 387-3864.

MEREDITH One bedroom apartment on second floor. 16X22 ft. deck, Open concept, cathedral ceiling, very elegant and rustic.

Plowing, parking, dumpster & utilities included, $850/month.

455-5660 MEREDITH- 2 bedroom duplex apartment, off street parking.

Parade Rd., no smoking/Pets.

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GREEN FIREWOOD- cut, not split $130/cord, cut & split $175/cord.

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72 Primrose Drive •10,000 Sq, Ft. WarehouseManufacturing. $5,800

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• 3,000 Sq. Ft. Office Space $2,800

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• 3,340 Sq. Ft. WarehouseManufacturing $1,800

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BRICKFRONT Restaurant and Lounge now hiring

Dishwasher/Experienced Line Cook Apply in person at: 134 Church St., Laconia

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Interviews now being accepted on a first come, first served basis. Growing company needs 20 people to fill immediate openings. We offer: Rapid advancement, bonuses & paid vacations, on the job training. Apply today/ start tomorrow. All depts. open. Mgmt. training from day one. Call Mon.- Fri. 9-5 only for immediate interview (603)822-0219. Have pen & paper ready.

Help Wanted BEYOND the Fringe seeking 1 stylist w/ clientele 25-35 hrs/wk.

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CARE AND COMFORT NURSING Immediate opening for Full Time Male LPN or RN for adolesent male. Also looking for LNA!s with at least two years experience.

Call 528-5020 or fax resume to 528-0352.

Now Hiring Part Time Front Desk Attendant With Excellent Customer Service Skills!

Nights and Weekends a Must.

Please Apply In Person 177 Mentor Ave. Laconia, NH 03246

NOW Hiring Part/ Possible Full-Time Employment Office work, etc. Good working conditions.

Must be a person who can handle details. $12-$14/hour.

Send resume to: Laconia Daily Sun, 1127 Union Avenue #1, BOX B, Laconia, NH 03246 (The Laconia Daily Sun receives resume’s on behalf of our client. Please do not email resumes or call the Daily Sun for information regarding this position.)

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Help Wanted

Now Hiring Part-Time Night Security Requires Light Maintenance Duty Please Apply In Person 177 Mentor Ave. Laconia, NH 03246 POSITIONS available in Housekeeping, Breakfast and Laundry: We are looking for hard working people willing to clean and to do various tasks! Part-time positions, with potential for full-time hours available. Must be flexible, reliable and dependable. Weekends a must. Please apply in person at Fireside Inn & Suites, Junctions of Routes 11 & 11B, Gilford, N.H. No calls please.

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Attorney Rodney Dyer, Senior Partner at Wescott, Dyer, Fitzgerald & Nichols, P.A and 2011 Good Scout Honoree is ngratulated

by Barry Leonard, Senior Vice President – Commercial Services for Laconia Savings Bank and 2011 Good Scout Award Luncheon Chair. (Courtesy photo)

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New tires. Cat House 524-5954 SALES, SERVICE, performance parts. New & used parts, complete line of accessories for Snowmobiles & ATV!s. Pre-owned sleds.

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MEREDITH — The 20th annual Good Scout Award Luncheon, held in December at Church Landing, raised over $45,000 to benefit The Daniel Webster Council Boy Scouts of America.

The event was chaired by Barry Leonard, senior vice president - commercial banker for Laconia Savings Bank, which was the presenting sponsor for the event.

The Daniel Webster Council honored EPTAM Plastics as the Corporate Honoree and Rodney Dyer as the Good Scout Honoree for the 2011 Good Scout Awards.

“Both EPTAM Plastics and Rodney Dyer are very deserving of being the recipients of this year’s Lakes Region Good Scout Awards,’’ said Leonard. “EPTAM has proven itself to be a model manufacturing company in New Hampshire providing a beneficial work environment for their employees and continuing to give back to the community. Rodney Dyer is not only a talented attorney, he has established himself as a pillar in the Lakes Region Community. His resume of accomplishments is both long and very impressive.”

EPTAM Plastics was established in 1981 and is noted for its state-of-the art manufacturing which serves markets such as medical, energy, semi-conductors, military/aerospace and commercial. It has been recognized on numerous occasions as a model company that continues to serve and give back to the community, supporting the Belknap County Economic Development Council, the Belknap Mill, and LRGHealthcare.

Attorney Rodney N. Dyer, a senior partner at see next page CALENDAR from page 15

MONDAY, JANUARY 16 Breast Cancer and Beyond support program. 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Lakes Region General Hospital Women’s Imaging Center. Tea will be served. For more information call Ginny Witkin at 527-2940 or write vwitkin@lrgh.org.

Pinochle game at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (Parade Road) in Laconia. 6:30 p.m. All are welcome.

Mahjong game time at the Gilford Public Library.

12:30 to 3 p.m. New players always welcome.

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Saturday, January 14, 2012— Page 19

Laconia Savings offers pre-sales at Meadowbrook Ringtone halts New York GILFORD — The Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion announces an exclusive pre-sale partnership with Laconia Savings Bank, which follows on the success for the program in 2011.

Laconia Savings Bank customers will have the opportunity for an exclusive presale and additional premium seat holds for every event in the 2012 Eastern Propane Concert Series, by simply using their Laconia Savings Bank credit card or debit card for the ticket purchase.

“We are very excited to continue to partner with Meadowbrook,” said Vickie L. Routhier, Laconia Savings Bank’s director of marketing and public relations. We now have 21 New Hampshire offices and our customers live throughout the state. We are very pleased to provide them a ticket pre-buy opportunity so they can better enjoy New Hampshire’s

premiere outdoor concert venue.”

“We are very pleased to have the opportunity to continue this program with such a dynamic organization. There is great synergy between Laconia Savings Bank and The Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion. Both companies were founded right here in the Lakes Region and continue grow while remaining connected to our community,” said RJ Harding, Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion president. Laconia Savings Bank recognizes the tremendous value that the exclusive pre-sale is to their loyal customers and we are thrilled to provide the opportunity.”

The Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion will host a multitude of concert events encompassing many different genres throughout the summer season.

Visit www.meadowbrook.net for a complete listing of the schedule of events.

2nd vegan cooking class & dinner at Pines on Wednesday

NORTHFIELD — The second monthly vegan cooking class and dinner will be held at Pines Community Center on Wednesday, January 18 from 5:30–8:30 p.m. The menu is Pomodoro y Fagioli; Sicilian Orange and Fennel Salad; Barley Risotto Primavera; and Carrot Cake with Coconut-Cardamom Sauce. An educational DVD on clinical nutrition by Michael Greger, M.D., will also be shown.

Attendees will help to prepare the dishes with assistance from organizers Louisa Dell’Amico and Lucy Carrillo. “Our goals are to have fun cooking, create a delicious meal, and educate the public about cooking with healthier ingredients,” said Dell’Amico.

“Food can truly be a medicine. In fact, many foods are more powerful in fighting disease than anything you can buy at a pharmacy,” she said.

Pomodoro y Fagioli is a soup with a kidney bean and tomato base, both of which are nutrient dense.

Not only are beans an excellent source of protein, they are also high in soluble and insoluble fiber.

Soluble fiber helps to slow the rate at which sugar is absorbed into the bloodstream and is believed to improve blood sugar control in diabetics as well as reduce the risk of heart disease. Barley is another excellent source of soluble fiber.

Lycopene is an important antioxidant that helps to prevent heart disease and cancer. The richest source of lycopene is cooked tomatoes. The cooking process destroys some of the vitamin C in tomatoes, however, it greatly enhances the absorption of lycopene. Lipid peroxidation occurs when fats in the blood or in cells lining the bloodstream are damaged by oxygen. Lycopene lowers the risk of lipid peroxidation. Lycopene has also been shown to decrease total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride levels. Furthermore, research has shown that men with high intakes of lycopene have lower rates of from preceding page Wescott, Dyer, Fitzgerald & Nichols, P.A. has been practicing law since 1964. He served two terms as the Mayor of Laconia, was chair of the Laconia School Board, Chairman of Laconia Savings Bank and the recipient of outstanding service awards from the Belknap Mill Society and the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce. He is also a co-founder of the Lakes Business Group and the Lakes Region Community Health and Hospice.

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Fennel has its own set of antioxidants including vitamin C and several flavonoids, as well as a phytonutrient called anethole which has been shown to reduce inflammation and prevent the occurrence of cancer. “Most people don’t realize that their kitchen can also be their medicine cabinet” Dell’Amico says, “but I’m not going to claim that everything we’re making is healthy. I would have preferred to use hulled barley (which is considered a whole grain) for the primavera, but it takes an hour and a half to cook so we had to go with pearled barley. I also would have omitted the carrot cake, but I’m afraid if we get too austere, no one will want to come. But I would remind people that sugary foods should be eaten only occasionally, and in very small portions.”

Dell’Amico says, “The other point I’d like to emphasize is that all the wonderful phytonutrients and antioxidants mentioned here are found only in plant-based foods. They are not present in meat and dairy products. Some people believe they can’t live without meat and dairy. I would say that the higher your intake of animal products, the higher your risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. All the scientific research backs me up on this one.”

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A fee of $18 covers the cost of both the class REDUCED and the dinner.

Philharmonic performance

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the dreaded sound at any live performance — a ringing cellphone.

That’s what happened Tuesday night at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall toward the end of Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony by the New York Philharmonic.

Conductor Alan Gilbert stopped the orchestra until the phone was silenced.

Betsy Vorce, speaking for Lincoln Center, says an announcement is usually made before every performance telling audience members to turn off their phones. If a device does go off, ushers discreetly ask the owner to turn it off.

This time, when the iPhone went off, it was the conductor who turned his head to signal his displeasure. But the ringing from the first row persisted.

Gilbert asked that the offending noise be turned off and finally stopped the orchestra until it was.

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Plymouth area planning ambitious Soldier On facility for homeless N.H. vets

By AdAm drApcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

PLYMOUTH — A group of people is working to bring a permanent home for veterans to the Plymouth area. The facility will be a product of the Soldier On non-profit organization, which has 15 sites in nine states and is considered the best in the business of caring for homeless veterans.

“It’s the gold standard,” Cathy Bentwood said about Soldier On. Bentwood is the executive director of the Bridge House in Plymouth, which provides resources and shelter to persons in crisis. Bentwood said she and others started a discussion about a year ago to think of a way to provide services designed for the specific needs of veterans. In July, town Selectman Valerie Scarborough brought her an article about Soldier On’s unique model.

“This is a really beautiful model,” said Bentwood.

About two months ago, the coalition of entities pursuing the project received word from Soldier On that the organization was as interested in Plymouth as Plymouth was in Soldier On. In addition to Bentwood, those furthering the local project include the Lakes Region United Way’s Joyce Palmer, former state senator Deb Reynolds, representatives from local and county government, Alex Ray of the Common Man and others.

What makes Soldier On unique, compared to a conventional homeless shelter, is that it offers permanent housing, in which residents have an ownership stake, with the services they need to get their lives back on track. Services include mental health therapy, substance abuse counseling, job training and even employment opportunities.

At some of its facilities, such as the one in Pittsfield, Mass., Soldier On operates an emergency shelter, a transitional facility and a permanent housing arrangement. Bentwood said the plan for the Plymouth-area facility, which will be the first Soldier On project in New Hampshire, will only offer long-term

housing as there are pre-existing shelters and transitional services for veterans in the region.

Bentwood said the state’s official count of homeless veterans is reported as about 450, though she thinks the actual figure is likely much higher. Bentwood believes veterans are especially vulnerable to finding themselves in crisis. In addition to the human failings that all people are susceptible to, veterans might be dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder or, increasingly, traumatic brain injury. Symptoms from these afflictions might make it difficult for veterans to find or hold a job in an already meager jobs market.

The facility that is planned for the Plymouth area would have space for about 50 veterans living in small, single-residency units. By the time they’re ready to move into the facility, the concept holds, the veterans would have already reached a point of stability and would be ready for employment. Veterans would buy their way into the facility by paying an initial fee of about $2,500, and then would pay a relatively small, inclusive monthly rent, such as $500. If the veterans choose to move out, they would “sell” their share back to the cooperative.

Organizers are still looking for a site to build the facility. Nick and Melissa Gretz have offered to donate a parcel in Thornton to the cause, Bentwood reported, and that land is being evaluated for its suitability.

Taylor Caswell, president of the Soldier On Development Company, the construction subsidiary of the non-profit, said facilities are typically built for $100,000 to $125,000 per unit. For a 50-unit project,

the estimated total cost would be between $5-million and $6.25-million. Buildings are designed to be “very sustainable,” with photo-voltaic electricity generation and high-efficiency boilers to keep costs low for residents. HUD vouchers will help ensure that residents who aren’t able to earn enough money will be able to pay their rent, while funding from the Veterans Administration pays for services.

Money to pay for the initial cost of construction is cobbled together from what’s available, Caswell said. “We try to take advantage of whatever we can get our hands on.” In past projects, funding schemes have utilized state and federal grants, financing provided by local lenders and the sale of tax credits.

Caswell said that a key point of Soldier On’s success is that the facilities operate as a cooperative of residents, with each facility its own corporate structure led by an elected board of directors. The residents have collective ownership of their fate – they decide who is welcome to move in and they are empowered to govern themselves.

“We don’t have a lot of guys walking around in suits and ties telling veterans what do to, we have veterans telling veterans what to do,” he said. Veterans have a natural sense of duty and camaraderie, he said, and they develop a strong, supportive community that keeps each resident moving toward a brighter future. “It has worked exceptionally well,” he said. “The community ends up becoming a family.”

“We’re thrilled to looking at doing something in New Hampshire,” said Caswell. “There’s a great need.

PERU from page 2 The three female judges showed no sign of believing his contrition for the May 2010 killing of Stephany Flores. Their sentence, which took a clerk nearly two hours to read as Van der Sloot repeatedly wiped sweat from his brow, said he was guilty of “firstdegree murder with aggravating factors of ferocity and great cruelty.”

Van der Sloot stood passively as the clerk detailed how he elbowed Flores, a 21-year-old business student, in the face, beat her repeatedly, then strangled her with his bloodied shirt.

Van der Sloot’s expression didn’t change when the sentence was rendered, including the judges’ order to pay $75,000 in reparations to the victim’s family. No members of Van der Sloot’s family attended the trial.

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