The Laconia Daily Sun, October 6, 2012

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Union of linemen working for Electric Co-op agrees to new contract PLYMOUTH — Members of the union representing 85 employees of New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC) have voted to approve the terms of a new five-and-a-half-year contract, the company reported on Friday.

The agreement still needs the approval of the NHEC Board of Directors, which will be meeting on Monday to consider ratification.

NHEC management will be recommending approval of the new contract by the 11-member Board of Directors.

The vote cast Friday by members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1837 will avoid the possibility of a work stoppage by union linemen.

After an agreement on September 27 to extend the existing contract for one week, representatives of NHEC and the IBEW reached a tentative agreement on a new contract during a bargaining session on see CO-OP page 11

Unemployment dips below 8%

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Newfound superintendent will be out at least a month due to illness BRISTOL — Newfound Area School District Superintendent Marie Ross is taking a personal leave of absence that may last 30 to 60 days, the school board announced on Friday. Board Chair Vincent Paul Migliore of Bridgewater said Ross experienced a sudden illness during a family visit that caused

her to be hospitalized at the renowned Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.

“We anticipate this leave to be of an undetermined period at this point, but may be for 30 to 60 days in duration, according to her husband and spokesperson, Sherman Ross,” said Migliore in a prepared statement.

Migliore did not offer any clarification as to the type of illness Ross is suffering.

Ross remains under observation Johns Hopkins after being transferred there from Memorial Hospital under emergency circumstances when she took ill on September 29.

“We hope Dr. Ross will have

a speedy recovery and return to us soon,” said Migliore. “In this district we have all become so accustomed to her positive presence and ebullient personality.”

“With Dr. Ross away for only a few days, her ‘A-Team’ has stepped into the breach and is ably managing district affairs,” see rOss page 11

Democratic candidate for State Senate in District 2 Bob Lamb of Holderness stands to answer a question at a Friday morning forum at the Woodside building at the Taylor Community in Laconia hosted by the Belknap County Economic Development Council. The council invited the six candidates for the three Senate seats that contains portions of Belknap County. Also shown in this photo (from left) are Republican Senator (District 2) Jeanie Forrester of Meredith, Republican candidate in District 6 Josh Youseff of Laconia and Democratic candidate in District 7 Andrew Hosmer of Laconia. Not pictured are the two candidates for the District 6 seat, Democrat Richard Leonard and Republican Sam Cataldo. (Alan MacRae/for The Laconia Daily Sun).

Biz community sizes up N.H. Senate candidates LACONIA — No fewer than three of the 24 members of the New Hampshire Senate will represent parts of Belknap County for the next decade and all six candidates for the three seats addressed the issue of economic development and the business climate at a forum sponsored by the Belknap County Economic Development Council (BCEDC) at the building

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BOSTON (AP) — About 300 to 500 defendants, including some “pretty dangerous people,” may be released into Boston streets because of the alleged mishandling of evidence at a Massachusetts drug lab, a prosecutor said Friday.

Chemist Annie Dookhan is charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly skirting protocols and faking test results at the now-closed state drug lab. At least two dozen defendants whose cases Dookhan handled have been released, including career criminal and convicted rapist Marcus Pixley.

Pixley was released on bail earlier this month but failed to show up for court Wednesday.

Quincy police arrested him Friday; a judge doubled his bail to $2,000 and set his next court date for Oct. 15.

Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley said see LAB page 16

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate dropped below 8 percent for the first time since the month President Barack Obama took office, a surprising lift for both the economy and his re-election hopes in the final weeks of the campaign.

The rate, the most-watched measure of the country’s economic health, tumbled to 7.8 percent in September from 8.1 percent in August. It fell because a government survey of households found that 873,000 more people had jobs, the biggest jump

since January 2003.

The government’s other monthly survey, of employers, showed they added a modest 114,000 jobs in September, but it also showed job growth in July and August was stronger than first thought.

Obama, eager to shift attention from a disappointing performance at the first presidential debate, said Friday that the report showed the country “has come too far to turn back now.”

His Republican opponent, Mitt Romney,

countered: “This is not what a real recovery looks like.”

The drop brought the jobless rate back to where it was when Obama was sworn in, in January 2009, and snapped a 43-month streak in which unemployment was 8 percent or higher — a run Romney had been emphasizing.

The October jobs report comes out Nov. 2, four days before the election, so Friday’s report provided one of the final snapshots see UNEMPLOYMENT page 12

FBI finds friendly fire is likely culprit in shootings of Border Patrol agents PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI said Friday a preliminary investigation has found friendly fire likely was to blame in the shootings of two border agents along the Arizona-Mexico border, shaking up the probe into an incident that re-ignited the political debate over security on the border.

The shootings Tuesday about five miles north of the border near Bisbee left one agent dead and another wounded.

“While it is important to emphasize that

the FBI’s investigation is actively continuing, there are strong preliminary indications that the death of United States Border Patrol Agent Nicholas J. Ivie and the injury to a second agent was the result of an accidental shooting incident involving only the agents,” FBI Special Agent in Charge James L. Turgal Jr. said in a statement.

Turgal didn’t elaborate on the agency’s conclusions but said the FBI is using “all necessary investigative, forensic and ana-

lytical resources in the course of this investigation.”

Ivie was shot and killed after he and two other agents responded to an alarm triggered by a sensor aimed at detecting smugglers and others entering the U.S. illegally.

One of the other agents was shot in the ankle and buttocks, but was released from the hospital after surgery. The third agent was uninjured. see BORDER page 23

NEW YORK (AP) — As the tally from a deadly meningitis outbreak rose Friday, health officials identified the medical clinics across the country that received steroid shots for back pain now linked to the illnesses.

Authorities took the step to help identify

everyone who may have gotten sick — or may still get sick — in the outbreak.

“All patients who may have received these medications need to be tracked down immediately,” said Dr. Benjamin Park of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“It is possible that if patients with infec-

tion are identified soon and put on appropriate antifungal therapy, lives may be saved,” he said in a statement.

The CDC said the number of cases of the rare fungal meningitis reached nearly 50 cases, and spread to a seventh state Friday. see MENINGITIS page 11

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Democrats hiding behind Big Bird Mitt Romney ruffled a lot of feathers over his proposal to eliminate taxpayer funding for governmentsponsored TV. As soon as the GOP presidential candidate singled out PBS for cuts during the presidential debate in Denver, the hysterical squawking commenced.

Left-leaning celebrities immediately erupted on Twitter. “WOW!!!

No PBS!! WTF how about cutting congress’s stuff leave big bird alone,” Whoopi Goldberg fumed. “Mitt is smirky, sweaty, indignant and smug with an unsettling hint of hysteria.

And he wants to kill BIG BIRD,” actress Olivia Wilde despaired.

“Who picks on Big Bird!!! #bulliesthatswho,” actress Taraji Henson chimed in.

Social media activists called for a Million Muppet March on the National Mall to “show your support for Big Bird, Muppets, PBS and all that is good.” The grammar-challenged operatives of George Sorosfunded Media Matters for America lectured “right-wing media” to be “more concerned with Americans having jobs insteading (sic) of obsessing whether or not Big Bird has one.”

Indignant PBS, which employs not-so-neutral debate moderator Jim Lehrer, issued a statement decrying Romney’s failure to “understand the value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers to our nation.”

And President Obama, awakened from his beatdown-induced stupor, scurried the next morning to the safe confines of a campaign rally to mock Romney for “getting tough on Big Bird.”

The kiddie character kerfuffle is a manufactured flap that may play well to liberals in Hollywood and Washington. But beyond the borders of La-La Land, desperate Democrats who cling childishly to archaic federal subsidies look like cartoonish buffoons. Let’s face it: The Save Big Bird brigade is comically out of touch with 21st-century realities.

In 1967, when Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act, family options for quality children’s programming were severely limited.

More than four decades later, there’s a vibrant marketplace for educational broadcasting — on radio, TV and the Internet — that teems with furry friends and informationpacked shows.

PBS speaks of itself with cultish self-reverence: “For more than 40 years,” the government network chastised Romney, “Big Bird has embodied the public broadcasting mission — harnessing the power of media for the good of every citizen, regardless of where they live or their

ability to pay. Our system serves as a universally accessible resource for education, history, science, arts and civil discourse.”

In reality, of course, PBS affiliates have become increasingly corporatized. As GOP Sen. Jim DeMint noted last year, franchises like Sesame Street “are multimilliondollar enterprises capable of thriving in the private market. According to the 990 tax form all nonprofits are required to file, Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 — nearly a million dollars — in compensation in 2008. And, from 2003 to 2006, ‘Sesame Street’ made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales.”

Sesame Street has also become increasingly politicized. Under the Obama administration, Elmo has lobbied for the FCC’s national broadband plan and the first lady’s Big Nanny nutrition bill. Investigative journalist James O’Keefe caught former NPR exec Ron Schiller on tape trashing the Tea Party as “racist” and “Islamophobic.” And the official PBS Twitter account sent a special shout-out to radical leftist group Move On last year for leading the government media rescue charge. Moreover, as I’ve previously reported, NPR and PBS have no problem raising money from corporations and left-wing philanthropists, including billionaire George Soros, whose Open Society Institute gave $1.8 million to pay for at least 100 journalists at NPR member radio stations in all 50 states over the next three years.

President Obama sneered at Romney for daring to mention PBS subsidies in the context of deficit reduction. But Obama’s own BowlesSimpson deficit reduction commission singled out Corporation for Public Broadcasting spending. “The current CPB funding level is the highest it has ever been,” the panel noted after Obama proposed hiking yearly appropriations to $450 million in 2012. Doing away with the appropriation would save nearly $500 million in 2015 alone. Over 10 years, those savings would total $5 billion (or roughly 10 Solyndras). In these tough times, that’s more than chump change and child’s play.

Romney’s right: It’s time for government media to grow up and get off the dole. It’s time for taxpayers to flip the Bird.

(Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin is the daughter of Filipino Immigrants. She was born in Philadelphia, raised in southern New Jersey and now lives with her husband and daughter in Maryland.

Her weekly column is carried by more than 100 newspapers.)

LETTERS WRHS administrators justified in being cautious after suicide To the editor, During the past week there have been a number of news articles about the controversy over including a tribute page in the Winnisquam Regional High School yearbook for a student who died by suicide.

At first blush this may seem like a straightforward request, particularly when fueled by social media support and online petitions. However, Winnisquam High School administrators are justified in being cautious and thoughtful about proceeding with this type of dedication.

Despite the sometimes simplistic explanations offered by the media, the reality is that suicide is complex and there are typically multiple factors involved which contribute to a suicide death. Research shows us that a major risk factor is having known someone who died by suicide.

The increased risk of having knowing someone who died by suicide can result in suicide contagion, a rare event, which can occur when one suicide deaths contributes to another.

While more research is needed in this area, what is known is that youth are particularly susceptible to imitative behavior and suicide contagion.

It is important for family and friends to be able to honor and memorialize a loved one who dies regardless of the manner of death. However with suicide deaths, it is essential to not increase the risk of contagion by inadvertently romanticizing or glamorizing the individual or their death.

National recommendations for schools following a suicide death encourage

schools to be careful regarding dedications placed in yearbooks and other memorial tributes and ultimately to develop a policy regarding these dedications that is consistent for the tragic death of any student or staff member.

Having school administrators carefully review and edit dedications and tributes is an important strategy for minimizing risk.

Suicide is a public health issue that affects people of all ages and is largely preventable when warning signs are recognized and people seek help.

Warning signs for suicide include talking about death or wanting to kill oneself, looking for ways to kill oneself, hopelessness or having no reason for living, rage or uncontrolled anger, dramatic changes in mood or sleep patterns, increased alcohol or drug use or withdrawing from family and friends. If you are having thoughts about suicide or worried about someone you know, help is available 24/7 by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.

The New Hampshire Chapter of the National Alliance On Mental Illness (NAMI NH) provides support education and advocacy to improve the lives of all those impacted by mental illness and also has Connect a National Best Practice program in suicide prevention. More information about mental illness and suicide prevention are available at our website www.naminh. org or by calling 225-5359.

Kenneth Norton LICSW Executive Director NAMI NH The National Alliance On Mental Illness

The Gilford band trip schedule should be made easier, not shorter To the editor, On October 2, there was an article written about the Gilford School Board meeting that I attended the day before. During public comment I spoke on behalf of the Gilford High School Band and Choir going to Washington D.C. I was misheard when I said that I was happy that the School Board was going into further discussion to accept the trip and possibly make it longer to fit everything in.

The reason we would leave for D.C. at 10 p.m. is because we have a concert

that same day. If the concert moved to a day earlier, we could leave earlier in the day on Thursday. This way the band and choir would be more awake and alert during the performance.

What I meant was that I was happy the School Board was trying to find a way to make the trip easier on the students’ schedule. I did NOT mean to shorten the itinerary.

Getting to see the national monuments would be a great experience for the students, plus competing against

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LETTERS ObamaCare is way of taking back system from insurance companies To the editor, There has been a great deal of discussion about the Affordable Care Act — often referred to as ObamaCare. Very little of the discussion has been about the actual impact of the act, although there have been some loud voices calling for the immediate repeal of the act.

While there might be some parts of the act that could be adjusted, here are two very personal reasons why I think the act should be retained.

My 92-year-old mother has been fortunate to have had the benefit of the retirement program from my late father.

That benefit has provided supplemental insurance coverage for her Medicare coverage. This summer, though, the company advised my mother that the company would no longer provide this supplemental insurance but would instead provide her with an annual payment and she would have to obtain her own insurance.

My brother, God bless him, took on the task of reviewing this matter.

What he reported to me is that while there are a number of insurance companies providing this supplemental insurance, all of the policies were the same. So, when reviewing the different companies, he was given information on the retention rate of each of the companies. Based on that data, he has been able to determine which of the companies are providing the best customer care because those companies are keeping their customers and adding customers from the companies who are not doing as good a job.

The Affordable Care Act has required the insurance companies to use the same language and to provide the information necessary to actually compare the companies. Having read many insurance policies over the years, I have been struck by how many different ways insurance companies deal with the same issues. With uniformity of language, there is a real and substantial opportunity to make informed decisions. This is the first reason I do not want the Affordable Care Act repealed

— I do not want to return to the situation where there are dozens of different policies with dozens of different interpretations of what each policy means.

That old system would not benefit my mother, but it did benefit the insurance companies.

The second reason for keeping the Affordable Care Act became apparent last month. My mother ended up in the hospital for two days. The day after she came home she started getting daily visits from a nurse to make sure she was taking her prescribed medications and following her doctor’s advice. In addition, a follow-up appointment was scheduled with her doctor so the doctor would also be able to make sure Mom was doing what she is supposed to be doing.

Prior to the Affordable Care Act, it is unlikely these regular visits and the follow-up appointment would have taken place and the chances that my mother would end up in the hospital again very soon would have increased. Under the Affordable Care Act, there is a strong recognition that follow-up care and attention after hospitalization is critical to help make sure the patient does not return to the hospital for the same reason. That is a major change in how medical care is provided and a real and substantial method of controlling the costs of that medical care for it is obviously considerably less expensive to have a nurse make a dozen house calls than to have a patient in the hospital for two days.

The Affordable Care Act is not a government “takeover” of our medical system. Instead, it is a means of taking back our medical system from the insurance companies and putting it back in the hands of our doctors and ourselves. We have clearer and more understandable choices and we get better and less expensive medical care. For me and my family, these are demonstrable reasons why the Affordable Care Act should be applauded and not repealed.

Patrick H. Wood Laconia

Passage of HB-648 doesn’t outweigh rest of Sen. Forrester’s votes To the editor, When I decide how to vote, I look at the candidate’s voting record. Using the old adage “don’t change horses in mid-stream” as suggested by Barbara Lauterbach last week doesn’t really apply when making critical decisions like electing state senators.

The passage of HB-648 does not, in my opinion, outweigh the rest of Jeanie Forrester’s votes. She made it clear that she favors businesses over public education when she voted to pass, and to override the governor’s veto of, the education tax credit, which will take funding away from our local schools. She from preceding page other bands and choirs from all around the nation. As Mr. Sawyer suggested, visiting the monuments could give the students a better appreciation for our country’s past.

Thank you for letting me clear up the confusion.

Bridget Eldridge Gilford High School

chose to add to the tuition burden of our state’s university students by voting to deprive our university and community college system of $48-million in funding (half of their budget) and to end all state-funded scholarship support (the only state to do so). She voted to cut $200-million in funding to our state’s hospitals resulting in over 1,000 layoffs and many reductions in services. She voted to cut the cigarette tax 10-cents, which caused a $20-million loss in state revenues. In terms of job creation, Jeanie voted against a workforce tax credit which would have helped train workers and give them scholarships.

She voted against maintaining the state minimum wage, giving the federal government complete control over that critical pay scale.

This voting record does not represent the values I hold dear or the best interests of this state. We need different representation in Concord and Bob Lamb is the best candidate for that job.

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To the editor, As a candidate for state representative from Laconia I felt I had to send a response to the recent letter to the editor in The Laconia Daily Sun by Rep. Robert Kingsbury. Beside his peculiar way of trying to compare “military boots” spending and state government budgeting I could not be more offended by his last comment.

It was: “The problems with (excessive spending for themselves) can be corrected by taking care for whom you vote for in November.... and to other of the real needs of the people of the State of N.H.” So we should vote you back into office because you care so much about the “real needs of the people of the State of N.H.” If that was the case then why did you continue to vote against them?

Here is a small sample of the voting record by Mr. Kingbury on budget issues alone.

— Rep. Kingsbury voted for passing a budget that hurts New Hampshire’s most vulnerable citizens and undermines the quality of life in our state.

(HB2, Roll Call #143, 3/30/2011) — Rep. Kingsbury voted for passing a state budget that severely cut essential health services for the elderly and disabled, gutted the state’s college education system, and instead provided corporate tax giveaways to big tobacco companies. (HB1, Roll Call #228, 6/22/2011) — Rep. Kingsbury voted for diverting insurance premium tax revenue into the rainy day fund instead of using the money to restore or fund programs cut in the state budget.

(HB1652, Roll Call #67, 2/1/2012) — Rep. Kingsbury voted against reducing the state waiting list for adults with developmental disabilities. (HB1652, Roll Call #209, 3/29/2012) — Rep. Kingsbury voted for eliminating the successful public-private partnership called the N.H. Healthy Kids program and instead placing the majority of those children into Medicaid Managed Care. (HB2, Roll Call #143, 3/30/2011) — Rep. Kingsbury voted for repealing prevention programs for at-risk children and the incentive grants for those programs. (HB2, Roll Call #143, 3/30/2011) — Rep. Kingsbury voted for cutting funding for the Children in Need of Services (CHINS) program which provides care, treatment, guidance, counseling, discipline, supervision, and rehabilitative resources to help

children and their families be productive, contributing members of society.

(HB2, Roll Call #143, 3/30/2011) — Rep. Kingsbury voted for suspending reimbursements to the foster grandparent program through the senior volunteer grant program.

(HB2, Roll Call #143, 3/30/2011) — Rep. Kingsbury voted for lowering the cigarette tax and providing a corporate tax giveaway to Philip Morris/Altria and other Big Tobacco companies. (HB2, Roll Call #143, 3/30/2011) — Rep. Kingsbury voted for reestablishing a communications tax exemption for land-line users. The legislation would return just 84 cents a month to land-line customers but cost the state approximately $5 million a year in revenues that could support services for the elderly and disabled, or help to expand economic incentives. (HB37, Roll Call #27, 2/16/2011) —Rep. Kingsbury voted for repealing public kindergarten. (HB631, Roll Call #32, 2/23/2011) Sure doesn’t appear to be a voting record of someone who “cares” about the real needs of the people of the State of N.H. Now these aren’t the only votes he and the rest of his elected Republican state reps have voted against.

There are more! They have continuously voted against the middle class, women’s health, worker’s rights, education, the elderly, disabled and children. In case you forgot, Kingsbury is the Laconia rep who received national attention for the “research” he gave the Belknap County Delegation, in regards to his theory that Laconia had a high crime rate because, “We’re taking children away from their mothers too soon.” Maybe this would explain why he voted to repeal public kindergarten because less education is the answer to crime. (http:// www.laconiadailysun.com/index.php/ newsx/local-news/59685-laconia-repkindergarten-causes-crime) Rep. Kingsbury is right when he says, “The problems can be corrected by taking care for whom you vote for in November.” I’d encourage all to take a real look at who you vote for and strongly consider electing a new legislator. One who will represent our morals and values, lead our city down a correct path toward prosperity and not one who puts his own personal views and those of his fellow extremists ahead of the people of Laconia.

Charles Smith Candidate for State Rep. Laconia

LHS Class of 1979 accepts challenge; we’ll raise $1k of our own To the editor, After reading the front page article regarding the Laconia Class of 1971 donating $1,000 to purchase a granite block for the 16.8 million dollar renovation, I was inspired to reach out to my fellow Laconia High School graduates. The class of 1979 has accepted Bill Greeley’s challenge to purchase a block for the renovation of the Huot Regional Technical Educational Center and athletic field. I encourage other classes

to take up the challenge on this very worthy cause. I have posted a link to the article on our class Facebook page and have already received a couple of donations. Any money in excess of 1,000 will be donated to the cause. Fellow classmates please send checks to me at PO Box 1143, Laconia, NH 03247. Thank you.

Mike Moyer Laconia High School Graduate Class of 1979

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LETTERS So, who should get vaccinated this flu season? Here’s the answer To the editor, Every year about this time people ask themselves, “Why should I get vaccinated against the flu?” Naysayers will tell you that deaths from flu are exaggerated, or that the CDC never gets the strain right, or even that you’ll get sicker from the vaccination than from whatever flu strain is circulating this year. Maybe you find these arguments compelling but if you’re like most people you’ll probably remember your grandmother telling you, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.

The simple truth is this: influenza is a serious disease that can lead to hospitalization and sometimes even death. In the last global flu pandemic in 1918 nearly 50-percent of the global population, over 500 million people, were infected and somewhere between 50 and 130 million people died. This strain was particularly deadly because of the movement of troops around the globe during World War 1. In other words, mobility spread the virus more quickly and more efficiently than previous epidemics. Given the dramatically increased global mobility of the 21st century, the question you have to ask yourself is “do you feel lucky?” And even if your immune system fights off this year’s flu strain, what about your family, your children, your parents. Is it right for you to gamble with their lives?

Every flu season is different, and influenza infection can affect people differently. Even healthy people can get very sick from the flu and spread it to others. We haven’t had a global flu pandemic in many years, but according to the Center for Disease Control, over a period of 31 seasons between 1976 and 2007, estimates of flu-associated deaths in the United States ranged 3,000 to 49,000 people, with about 90 percent of deaths occurring in people 65 years and older. The “seasonal flu season” in the United States is from October to May. During this time, flu viruses are circulating in the population. An annual sea-

sonal flu vaccine (either the flu shot or the nasal-spray flu vaccine) is the best way to reduce the chances that you will get seasonal flu and lessen the chance that you will spread it to others. When more people get vaccinated against the flu, less flu can spread through that community. So, the life you save may not be yours, but it may be your child, or grandchild or parents. A little prevention by getting a simple, painless vaccination could save the life of somebody you love, or perhaps even somebody you just shake hands with. What’s the harm in being cautious?

So, who should get vaccinated this season? The short answer is: — Anyone over the age of 6 months — People who have certain medical conditions including asthma, diabetes, and chronic lung disease.

— Pregnant women.

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LETTERS How would Lamb have voted & how would he restore funding?

To the editor, Paul Phillips letter strongly supporting Bob Lamb’s candidacy for New Hampshire Senate District 2 is not one filled with positive attributes of Mr. Lamb and his positions on issues important to voters. Instead it is a negative diatribe against Senator Forrester and her so-called “record” claiming that she is controlled by “shadowy”, out-of-state super PACs and “bullies” within her political party. Nothing could be further from the truth. Jeanie Forrester has truly been a citizen legislator in the true spirit of New Hampshire, whose singular purpose is serve her constituents, listen to and help resolve their problems and concerns.

I have taught several classes on Critical Thinking at Plymouth State University over the years. Such classes focus on evaluating reasoning and evidence to support arguments, and examining flaws in those arguments or conclusions. Mr. Phillip’s letter is replete with reasoning fallacies and distortions while offering little evidence to support his claims. His chief allegation, that Senator Forrester actions are controlled by outside interests and party bullies borders on a personal attack on her character rather than her actions.

Just because one agrees with a philosophical approach of living within our fiscal means and smaller, more effective government does not equate to “signing away her District 2 vote to out-of-state groups working directly against the interests of the voters here in District 2”. Where’s the proof? In attempting to link Senator Forrester to those seemingly unfavorable PACs, Phillips creates a “straw man” that is easy to attack and is a distortion.

Mr. Phillips attack on Jeanie’s voting record ”which hurt us” is filled with appeals to emotions and popularity (eg.”slash”,”decimate”) while omitting significant information and alternative causes to explain her votes. The most significant omission is that Senator Forrester and her colleagues inherited a structural state deficit of between $800 and $900-million. This deficit was created by the Democratically-controlled Legislature over a four year period with excessive spending and unrealistic state revenue projections. Jeannie and others were elected to eliminate that deficit without massive tax increases and balance the state budget. This called for difficult choices on spending amounts and priorities, but the goal was accomplished. How would Bob Lamb have voted and how would he restore and finance funding levels complained about in Mr. Phillips letter?

There are alternative explanations to many of the complaints in Mr. Phillips letter. For example: The state Medicaid reimbursement policy was changed because the U.S. Government sued the state over the previous reimbursement methodology.

State redistricting for representa-

tives and senators was caused by population changes resulting from the 2010 census and the necessity of complying with the federal “one man, one vote” requirement. Bob Lamb did not single handedly restore Holderness to Senate District 2. Senator Forrester worked behind the scenes to accomplish that result. Holderness residents and state legislators know that and have stated that.

The voter ID bill does not disenfranchise anyone. Voters without proper identification will still be permitted to cast a ballot by signing a “challenged voter” affidavit verifying their name and address. This whole issue is another straw man fallacy. One needs an ID for travel, many purchases and admission to federal buildings and sites. It is overwhelming supported by a majority of citizens of all political persuasions.

There is a DMV office in Tamworth.

Not as convenient for some, but the Laconia-Belmont closing was the result of budget balancing which was made directly by DMV. Democrats raised the tobacco tax five times in four years from around $.50/pack to $1.78, but state revenues did not triple. New Hampshire had traditionally priced “sin” products like tobacco and alcohol competitively so that out of state visitors would be attracted to purchase here. The slight reduction in the tobacco tax was an attempt to restore some of that traditional competitiveness.

Jeanie’s votes on “women’s rights” and “worker’s rights” need further explanation. Many feel that waiting 24 hours before having an abortion to consider its ramifications and limiting the medical procedure of partial birth abortion are common sense and humane approaches. Voting for a state “right to work” bill empowers the individual, not the labor unions and increases state attractiveness for businesses. As an adjunct at Plymouth State University, where is my freedom to work free from being forced to join a labor bargaining unit of SEIU representing adjuncts?

Jeanie Forrester is not controlled

by PACs or “bullies”. She voted in the minority (23-1) on the law to permit auto dealers to register cars in favor of towns. Most importantly, Jeanie led the fight to enact legislation to preclude the use of eminent domain by private companies in the Northern Pass project. This action was to protect the rights of her constituents, not to please her legislative colleagues.

Jeanie Forrester is a Senator for all the people. She is one of us, and she deserves our vote.

PS. In the interests of full disclosure, Mr. Phillips is the chair of Plymouth area Democrats and my spouse, Carol (a registered independent) is Jeanie Forrester’s volunteer campaign manager.

Richard R. Gerken Meredith

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LETTERS See if you can guess which ex-president said this about tax rates To the editor, The following excerpts are from a presidential speech regarding the economy. I think these excerpts apply to the economic situation we face today.

I am glad to have a chance to talk to you tonight about the advantages of the free enterprise system.

Less than a month ago, this nation reminded the world that it possessed both the will and the weapons to meet any threat to the security of free men.

The gains we have made will not be given up and the course that we have pursued will not be abandoned. But in the long run, that security will not be determined by military or diplomatic moves alone. It will be affected by the decisions of finance ministers, as well as by the decisions of Secretaries of State and Secretaries of Defense; by the deployment of fiscal and monetary weapons, as well as by military weapons; and, above all, by the strength of this nation’s economy, as well as by the strength of our defenses.

But a leading nation cannot afford to be satisfied, to look back, or to pause.

On our strength and growth depends the strength of others, the spread of free world trade and unity, and continued confidence in our leadership and our currency.

This economy is capable of producing, without strain, more than we are producing today. Utilization of existing plant and equipment could be much higher — and, if it were, investment would rise. There is no need for us to be satisfied with a rate of growth that keeps good men out of work and good capacity out of use.

Our choice, therefore, boils down to one of: doing nothing, and thereby risking a widening gap between our actual and potential growth in output, profits, and employment — or taking action, at the federal level, to raise our entire economy to a new and higher level of business activity.

There are a number of ways by which the federal government can meet its responsibilities to aid economic growth.

But the most direct and significant kind of federal action aiding economic growth is to make possible an increase in private consumption and investment demand — to cut the fetters which hold back private spending.

In the past, this could be done in part by the increased use of credit and monetary tools, but our balance of payments situation today places limits on our use of those tools for expansion. It could also be done by increasing federal expenditures more rapidly than necessary, but such a course would soon demoralize both the government and our economy. If government is to retain the confidence of the people, it must not spend more than can be justified on grounds of national need or spent with maximum efficiency.

The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrents to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system — an acrossthe-board, top-to-bottom cut in per-

sonal and corporate income taxes.

In short, to increase demand and lift the economy, the federal government’s most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

These various exclusions and concessions have been justified (in the past) as a means of overcoming oppressively high rates in the upper brackets, and a sharp reduction in those rates — accompanied by base-broadening, loophole-closing measures — would properly make the new rates not only lower, but also more widely applicable.

Surely this is more equitable on both counts.

Other national problems, moreover, will be aided by full employment. It will encourage the location of new plants in areas of labor surplus — and provide new jobs for workers that we are retraining — and facilitate the adjustment which will be necessary under our new trade expansion bill, and reduce a number of government expenditures.

But our resources and manpower are not being fully utilized, the general level of prices has been remarkably stable, and increased competition — both at home and abroad — along with increased productivity, will help keep both prices and wages within appropriate limits.

In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. And the reason is that only full employment can balance the budget, and tax reduction can pave the way to that employment. The purpose of cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

These excerpts are from a speech to the Economic Club of New York by JFK on December 14, 1962. This is the same plan put in place by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954 and by President Reagan in 1981. President George W. Bush had a slight variation on this plan that kept the recession of 2000 at bay but did not achieve the full measure of results previously seen.

This plan has repaired our nation’s economy each and every time it has been employed and is the same plan that Mitt Romney is putting forward; across-the-board tax cuts; cut the fetters that hold back private investment; and an expansion of the tax-base while closing the loopholes that big corporations and millionaires use to reduce their tax burden.

JFK warns us that the policy President Obama has pursued will endanger our national security and demoralize our government and economy. His policies have lost the confidence of the taxpayers.

President Obama mistakenly calls the plan explained by JFK as the “failed policies of the past” but that claim is not supported by history.

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LETTERS We ask that independents join us in voting for Bob Lamb To the editor, As we approach the upcoming election, the die-hard Republicans and Democrats have surely made up their minds as to how they will cast their votes. That’s why we want Independents to take notice. You may likely be the deciding factor in this close election!

Here’s how we see it. The biggest danger to our state’s economic future is uncontrolled debt and the burden it creates on our future citizens. In a “tax adverse” state like New Hampshire, the best approach to debt reduction is revenue enhancement, and the best source of revenue is a robust business environment fueled by what is typically referred to as the “economic engine.”

Elements of the engine are pro-business policies, a culture of innovation, a strong viable workforce and a location that attracts this workforce.

Decisions need to be made to support the engine, and we are now convinced that over the past couple of years, many poor ones have been made. For example, how does cutting the budget of the university system help produce a strong viable workforce? How does a reduction in funds that focus on physical and mental health entice workers to our state? How does an attempt to use

voter ID legislation to suppress votes help democracy? Jeannie Forrester has supported these unwise decisions.

It boils down to “who do you trust” to work on our state’s issues, keeping in mind that solutions are not just about money but are also about people. The Forrester camp may defend current initiatives by asserting that they are “for our good.” But we don’t see it.

We have talked in depth with candidate Bob Lamb. We’ve heard him explain his rational approaches to solving problems. He’s an intellectual powerhouse tempered by a caring attitude. He has a business sense built on extensive business experience and understands that revenue expansion rather than increased taxation builds a strong economy. He knows the importance of a good K-12 and higher education system. He has refreshing set of ideas plus the willingness to work with anyone to improve our state and the lives of its citizens.

Independents — please join us in supporting Bob Lamb for Senate. We need some real leadership, not just acquiescence to a misguided otherdirected agenda.

Carole & Ken Heuser Plymouth

Mitt Romney is counting on us not being able to do the math To the editor, Has Mitt Romney proposed a $5-trillion tax cut over a decade — during which he also proposes to eliminate the federal deficit — as he repeatedly denied with a smile in the first debate?

It’s really a two part question: Has he proposed the tax cuts? Can he offset them so that he doesn’t increase the deficit?

You can read the tax cuts right on his campaign website, Mitt Romney for President. The non-partisan Tax Policy Center calculated that these tax cuts would reduce what individuals and corporations owe in taxes by $480-billion a year, or about $5-trillion over a decade.

What Mr. Romney would like us to believe is that these aren’t really cuts.

To offset them, he plans to cut spending in a number of ways that he won’t specify but, of course, will harm no voter. His website shows that waste and fraud in the federal government make up only a small fraction of the savings needed.

What he’s really counting on is that his tax cuts will stimulate economic growth so much that more people will have higher incomes and pay enough more taxes to offset the cuts. How well founded is his hope?

A study by the chairman of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers found that Mr. Romney would need 3-percent additional growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to offset his proposed tax cuts, but Bush’s large tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 increased GDP by an average of only 2-percent a year during his presidency and helped to change a budget surplus into a deficit.

Mr. Romney may have some control over enacting tax cuts, but he’s just making a wild guess about economic growth. When he says he can cut taxes and reduce the deficit, he’s not doing the math, and he’s counting on us not doing it either.

Diana Sack Laconia

State now supporting only 6% of UNH’s entire operating budget To the editor, As Election Day approaches, I’m writing to urge all those seeking state office to support restoring state funding to UNH, NH’s flagship public university.

In the last legislative session, state government chopped its contribution to the UNH by 49-percent. There is talk that some incumbents think that it should be cut even more. The fact is that state support for UNH is now only 6-percent of its total operating budget, the lowest of any state public university in the nation.

Less state support has to be made up somewhere and much of that somewhere translates to higher costs for NH families. It used to be that a UNH

education was not only first rate but also generally affordable. No longer.

With these cuts, a year at UNH now costs a whopping $25,000 or more for an in-state student! That’s $100,000 for a degree! Such costs are beyond the reach of most N.H. families and as a result, the typical N.H. student now graduates with $31,000 in debt, $9,000 more than the national average. Such excesses cannot continue.

Trying to solve Concord’s budget problems by shifting them onto N.H. families is hardly a solution. Revisiting state support for UNH is a priority issue that must be realistically addressed.

Joseph Paterno, Ph.D. Gilford

Bomb-like object left on Rte. 104 turns out to be fake

BRISTOL (AP) — Police have reopened Route 104 in after they determined a propane cylinder with nails taped to it was not explosive.

Bristol police said the propane torch and cylinder with multiple nails taped to its side were found near the Alexandria town line Friday morning.

WMUR-TV reports the road was shut down in both directions to allow the state police bomb squad to investigate. Police believe the device was intended to look like an explosive; they called it a hoax.

CO-OP from page one Thursday. That agreement was approved Friday by a majority of Local 1837 members voting at NHEC’s Plymouth operations center.

“This was a long and sometimes difficult process, but I’d like to express my thanks and appreciation to the members of the Local 1837,” said NHEC President/CEO Fred Anderson. “The cooperative spirit demonstrated today will allow us to continue providing our members with high quality, reliable service.”

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ROSS from page one he continued. “Dr. Ross has unique abilities to carry on the multitude of responsibilities required of today’s superintendents of schools with an enormous capacity to do so in a positive and proactive manner. In her absence, SAU 4 Business Administrator Dan Rossner serves as core resource and is funneling all district business through him to appropriate personnel. That also includes the highly competent team of principals and assistant principals within the district at each of our schools.”

Migliore said the N.H. Department of Education has been notified of the Ross’s absence and is working with the board and the SAU to make certain operations continue unimpeded during her extended absence. He reported the board has held a special meeting to address the matter and continues to monitor things, knowing that it may be necessary to appoint an acting or interim certified superintendent to remain compliant with state law.

“We know Dr. Ross realizes this step is necessary, and are confident that there are options both within the district and throughout the professional community to ensure this is the case,” he said. In the meantime, we hope to see Dr. Ross return to us as soon as she deems it possible to do so.”

Vigliore said cards, get-well messages, and best wishes (please, no flowers at the request of the hospital) can be sent to Ross at the following address: Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans St., Baltimore, MD 21287 Ross has been the superintendent of the Newfound district for eight years. Previously she was assistant superintendent in Laconia.

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On Friday, officials said they have found fungal infections in nine sick patients. They weren’t able to identify what types of fungus in every one of those patients, but did distinguish at least two types — Aspergillus and Exserohilum.

In all, 47 people have contracted fungal meningitis, the CDC said. Michigan became the seventh state to report cases, with four. Tennessee’s cases now total 29; Virginia, six; Indiana, 3; two each in Maryland and Florida and one in North Carolina.

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Laconia police end annual auction in favor of online sales LACONIA — The annual auction, when the Police Department sold unclaimed property — mostly bicycles — is a thing of the past. This week the department announced it will auction its inventory through PropertyRoom.com, the largest police auction website in the country.

Captain Bill Clary said yesterday that the annual auction was time-consuming and expensive. “It cost the department manpower and it cost the city money in advertising and administration,” he said.

By statute law enforcement agencies must sell seized, recovered, found and unclaimed property at public auction. Clary said that other than drugs and cash property taken as evidence can be sold after the appeal process is exhausted while other items are generally sold after efforts to identify the owners have failed. Most of what goes to auction, he said, is found property rather than evidence.

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Clary said that the company, which has warehouses in six states and offices in three, handles the entire process, from collecting to selling to delivering the property. “All we have t do is load their truck,” he said.

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UNEMPLOYMENT from page one of the economy as undecided voters make up their minds.

The government calculates the unemployment rate by calling 60,000 households and asking whether the adults have jobs, and whether those who don’t are looking for work.

Those who do not have jobs and are looking are counted as unemployed. Those who aren’t looking are not considered part of the work force and aren’t counted as unemployed.

A separate monthly survey seeks information from 140,000 companies and government agencies that together employ about one in three nonfarm workers in the United States.

That survey found that the economy added 114,000 jobs in September, the fewest since June.

Most of the job growth came in service businesses such as health care and restaurants.

The Labor Department raised its job-creation figures by a total of 86,000 jobs for July and August.

The July figure was revised from 141,000 to 181,000, and the August figure from 96,000 to 142,000.

Taken together, the two surveys suggest the job situation in the United States is better than was thought.

Economist Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors, called the strong employment reports “a shocker” that showed the job market was sturdier than most economists had thought.

Financial markets seemed less impressed. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as

86 points in early trading but drifted lower for most of the rest of the day. It finished up 34 points at 13,610. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index, a broader measure, was down a fraction of a point.

Stock indexes have been trading at or near their highest levels since December 2007, the month the Great Recession began. They have gotten a lift from Federal Reserve efforts to stimulate the economy, and by a European Central Bank plan to buy the bonds of financially troubled countries to ease a debt crisis there.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note climbed by 0.06 percentage point to 1.73 percent, a sign that investors were more willing to embrace risk and leave the relative safety of the bond market.

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By AdAm drApcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

ALEXANDRIA — In 1975, Stephen and Nancy Bleiler purchased a tract of land on Cardigan Mountain Road. Children of suburbia, they were looking for a return to a more traditional lifestyle. The property contained an old farmhouse and three acres of trees, heirloom Macintosh and Cortlands, planted in the 1920s and forgotten shortly thereafter.

Nearly 40 years later, Cardigan Mountain Orchard has blossomed into an enterprise that involves the labor of Nancy and Steve as well as their three adult sons, William, David and Stephen II. The operation now includes more than 1,000 apple trees, on 20 acres, including 80 year-old trees originally planted on the property.

More trees, and many more customers.

The Bleilers now see thousands of visitors per year, people who travel for miles along the back roads of this small town, finally coming across the family-run orchard on a gentle hillside with scenic mountain views. The location provides for more than just a pleasing vista. During the spring of this year, a late frost damaged the blossoms in many orchards. However, at Cardigan Mountain, the cold air flowed like water down the slope, pooling in lower elevations. As a result, the Bleilers are enjoying a good yield this year while many other growers are below average.

On the weekends, cars, many of which will have outof-state plates, will line the side of the road, while their occupants pick apples an pick out pies, jams, pickles or other old-fashioned delicacies in the stand.

Later this year, though, the Bleilers hope to take their family business to a new level. They purchased a two century-old building in nearby Bristol, at 231 Lake Street, which they are in the process of restoring and renovating. By November 1, perhaps a few days earlier, the building will be opened as a store, a retail outlet for their products as well as those of other local farmers and crafters. Once ready, the market will stay open through December, then reopen in time for Memorial Day. They’ll sell stored apples, baked goods, and of course, cider, the unofficial beverage of autumn in New England.

It might come as no surprise, given the rest of the family’s practice, to learn that the Bleilers make their cider the old-fashioned way. Apples that are dropped by the trees and overlooked by pickers are collected, cleaned, cut into chunks and then pressed.

The liquid that comes out, brown and opaque, unlike golden and clear apple juice, is neither filtered nor pasteurized — it’s simply bottled and either refrigerated or frozen. And, though many make cider throughout New England this time of year, the Bleilers think theirs is among the best — and many of their customers agree, vowing never to sip cider from another press.

A good glass of cider, according to Nancy, “tastes like a fresh apple.” Like a blushing Macintosh, plucked right off the branch, the beverage isn’t simply sweet.

The flavor is more complex and nuanced. To acheive the right balance, the Bleilers employ a mixture concocted from among the dozen varieties they grow.

“Not just one variety, gettiing a nice balance of that astringent taste that some apples have, with some of the sweetness that others have,” Nancy said.

And, because different varieties are ripe at different times throughout the year, their cider goes through a progression of flavors. Early ciders see Gravensteins mixed with Macinstosh and Cortlands. Macouns and Spartans will next be added to the mix. Early apples tend to be tart, while the sweetest apples take more time to ripen. She said their sweetest ciders will be pressed around Thanksgiving, when the Empire, Golden and Red Delicious apples are added.

“It’s really what’s fullest ripe, ready to come off the trees,” said Nancy.

Earlier this week, the family pressed about 300 gallons of cider, which they expect to sell by the end of business on Monday. They’ll press the same amount each week, from the last week of September through November. Cider which isn’t immediately sold will be frozen and sold through Local Foods

The Bleilers have been growing apples at Cardigan Mountain Orchard in Alexandria since 1975. This year, they’re planning to open a retail store in Bristol. From left, William, Nancy, Stephen II, Stephen and David. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)

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As proud of the cider as they are, the product isn’t the lucrative way to market apples. For example, they can sell a bushel of apples for $20. If pressed, that same bushel would produce three gallons of cider, which, despite much more labor invested, they sell for just $6 each. Nancy explained, through, that if the apples weren’t pressed for cider, they’d quickly

rot on the ground. “It’s not the best way to make money with apples. It’s very labor-intensive, but it prevents us from wasting the crop.”

After the apples are pressed for cider, the leftover pulp and skins are given to a nearby pig farmer.

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A week of soaring costs has led some stations to close and others to charge record prices — in some places $5 or more — as California leapfrogged Hawaii as the state with the most expensive fuel.

The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded across California was nearly $4.49 on Friday, 32 cents more than a week ago and the highest statewide average in the nation, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge report.

The national average is about $3.79 a gallon, the highest ever for this time of year. However, gas prices in many other states have started decreasing, which is typical for October.

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Thomas Cancelliere maintained he was fired from his job as director of the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in retaliation for alerting his bosses to numerous problems.

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Cancelliere, 67, was fired last month. At the time, his bosses cited cost-cutting, the suit said.

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from preceding page a food production cycle that is much more local and familiar than most can access.

The Bleiler sons, although all have the education to pursue a life away from the orchard, all decided that they like what they already have.

“I enjoy the lifestyle and I want to keep it up,” said David. “I personally believe that this is the most optimistic time in a long time to become a small farmer.”

The profession, his father noted, enjoys much more respect from the general public than it did when he and Nancy purchased their property in 1975. In

addition to respect, said David, the public is more willing to offer their dollars. “People are willing to come out to your farm and look for you, rather than just buying at the supermarket.”

Thanks to the New Hampshire Farm to School program, Cardigan Mountain Orchard directly sells its apples to many nearby schools, private and public. They’ve also supplied local restaurants, such as those in The Common Man family.

For Stephen Bleiler II, the agricultural life is one of independence. “We’re not dependent on anything else. We can pick and choose what we want to do. I just really like growing apples.”

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The part-time preschool teacher said her husband already spends $500 a month on gas, in part because he commutes nearly 100 miles a day to a new sales job after being unemployed for a year.

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GILFORD — For over 35 years, Steve Pierce of One-Off Technologies has been building hot rods, customs, promotional vehicles and even an art deco Delahaye, which were heralded in the 1930s as the world’s most beautiful automobile.

Recognized as one of the leading interior trimmers in the country, Pierce has taught himself nearly every phase of the coach building craft with his work winning awards at auto shows all over the country.

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Four years ago Pierce worked on another car that was entered in the same competition, a 1927 Ford Phaeton Touring Car whose original body was turned into a circa 1964 hot rod for award-winning hot rod photo-journalist Chuck Vranas of Braintree, Mass. That car, a period piece with a flathead theme, was powered by a 1964 Buick Wildcat 425 horsepower engine and was one of the eight finalists for the Most Beautiful Roadster Award that year.

Pierce has already helped turn out three-award winning vehicles for Gilford auto collector Dick Metz, including a 1932 Ford Highboy Roadster named “Oh Boy” which took third place at the Detroit Autorama in 1999 and won the first-ever Sam Radoff’s Yosemite Sam’s Sculpture Excellence award the same year.

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He also built a car for himself that he can drive yearround, a 1932 Ford reproduction hot rod with a fiberglass body, which is and be powered by a 1968 Ford 302 cubic inch engine. The car features a five-speed stick shift, a shift-on-the-fly transfer case and, most unusual for a hot-rod, is a four-wheel drive vehicle.

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LAB from page 2 officials in Boston are “concerned that there may be violence” if other defendants and convicts are released and have discussed intervening in the lives of those who are freed in order to prevent repeat offenses.

“We may be in the position, we undoubtedly will be in the position, to assent to the release of some pretty dangerous people into Boston,” Conley said.

Meanwhile, Mayor Thomas Menino said federal officials should offer support to ensure that those released are monitored so “they’re not back out on the streets doing the same thing they did in the past.”

“Our crime rate in Boston right now is down, but if we’re going to have maybe 1,200 individuals released to the streets of our city, what will happen in the future?” Menino asked reporters during a campaign stop for U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. “It’s an emergency.”

On Friday, Boston Municipal Court held the first special session to handle criminal cases challenged in light of the lab scandal.

Defendants Carlos Colon and Michael Wells were released because Dookhan signed off on or tested their samples.

Wells, 24, was arrested in 2009, then violated his probation with drug distribution charges in 2011.

Dookhan tested the 2011 sample, and Wells has since been in jail.

“He’s exactly that kind of person that needs to be heard today,” defense attorney Jennifer Saunders told Judge Mary Ann Driscoll.

Saunders said Wells was accepted to Le Cordon Bleu culinary school and has a young daughter and fiancee. He was released on personal recognizance and must adhere to a curfew.

Colon, 21, who had a drug distribution conviction in 2011, was released on $500 bail and a curfew.

Three other defendants with cases related to Dookhan were not released while attorneys continue gathering information or because they are serving time for other sentences.

Of the 18 cases heard Friday, only five actually involved Dookhan.

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France looking at tinkering with world’s shortest school year but longest days PARIS (AP) — French children go to school four days a week. They have about two hours each day for lunch. And they have more vacation than their counterparts almost anywhere in the West.

It may sound a bit like the famously leisurely work pace enjoyed by their parents, most of whom work 35 hours per week as dictated by law.

But the nation’s new government says elementary school kids risk classroom burnout, and is moving to help them cope. The issue: French school days may be relatively few, but they are at least as long as a day of work for adults. Even 6-year-olds are in class until late into the afternoon, when skies are dark, attention flags and stomachs rumble.

As a candidate, President Francois Hollande promised to change things by adding a fifth day of classes on Wednesday while shortening the school day. For France, it’s something of a revolutionary idea that would overturn more than a century of school tradition. The thinking is that the days are too full for young children under the current system and that Wednesday free time could be put to more productive use.

“France has the shortest school year and the longest day,” Hollande said at the time, promising change.

His education minister, Vincent Peillon, will decide this month how to carry out the reform. He has said

he may also compensate for a shorter school day by trimming France’s sacred summer vacation. A panel of experts will present their conclusions on Friday, and the president is expected to address the issue on Tuesday.

No proposal affects tradition — and potentially family and municipal budgets — as much as what the French call changes to the “scholastic rhythms.”

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Many long-time visitors to Squam will remember that there used to be a interpretive trail on Moon Island. The trail was created in the late 1980s by Tudor Richards, local ecologist and conservation activist. Now, more than twenty years later, Dan Kemp, in partnership with the SLA, has created and updated the Tudor Richards Forest Ecology Trail. In his research for this project, he uncovered interesting history surrounding both Moon Island and Holderness.

The original signs erected over twenty years ago have mostly disappeared and the island has continued to change. The new trail is in the same general location, and has twelve stations, each with a sign describing some aspect of the island’s trees, ecological processes, or geological history. Most signs include an annotated illustration, further describing the natural processes that have shaped Moon Island.

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today are products of previous land use; locally, previous land use often involves sheep. Between 1820 and 1850, a sheep boom occurred in New Hampshire and Vermont. This was a time when the hills were cleared to the ridge tops and most of our stone walls were built. After the Civil War, human and sheep populations declined, but for the rest of the century, sheep remained an important animal in local agriculture. Could Moon Island have been used to pasture sheep as local lore suggests?

The Squam Speaker Series is a monthly program that focuses on a variety of local/regional conservation and environmental topics. All talks in the series are free and open to the public.

Coming up next month, on Thursday, November 8, the Series continues with a program on invasive plants, presented

by White Mountain National Forest Botanist, Chris Mattrick.

The Squam Lakes Association is dedicated to conserving for the public benefit the natural beauty, peaceful character and unique resource values of the Squam Lakes and surrounding watershed. For more information visit: www.squamlakes.org or call (603) 968-7336.

Winnipesaukee’s underwater history program today at Weirs Museum LACONIA — ‘’The Underwater History of Lake Winnipesaukee” will be presented today at 11 a.m. at the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Museum at 503 Endicott St. North (next to Funspot) in the Weirs.

Hans Hug Jr. returns to the museum with his program. His presentation

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CONCORD — Home fires can become deadly within a matter of minutes and that’s why New Hampshire State Fire Marshal, J. William Degnan is teaming up with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) during Fire Prevention Week, October 7-13, to urge residents to “Have Two Ways Out!” This year’s theme focuses on the importance of fire escape planning and practice. In 2011, New Hampshire fire departments responded to 1,264 home fires. These fires caused forty one civilian injuries, seven civilian deaths, and $13 million in direct damage.

Degnan states that “Fire is unpredictable and moves faster than most people realize. Having a tried and true escape plan with two ways is essential to ensuring your family’s safety should fire break out in your home.”

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· Make a map of your home. Mark a door and a window that can be used to get out of every room. · Choose a meeting place outside in front of your home. This is where everyone can meet once they’ve escaped. Draw a picture of your outside meeting place on your escape plan. · Write the emergency telephone number for the fire department on your escape plan. · Practice your escape plan with everyone living in your home. · Keep your escape plan on the refrigerator and practice the plan twice a year or whenever anyone in your home celebrates a birthday.

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David P. Gates, Sr., 76

BELMONT — David Peter Gates Sr., 76, died October 3, 2012 at Concord Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Dave, as he was known, was born in Augusta, ME on September 18, 1936, the son of the late Ernest H. and Dorothy (Regan) Gates. Dave worked for J. J. Nissen Bread Company for 45 years as a route salesmen covering the Laconia area for the majority of that time. Dave was well known for his friendly smile, outgoing manner and positive outlook on life. In his life, Dave loved his family and friends, loved living on the farm in his youth and later years, and he loved the sport of boxing. As an amateur fighter in the 1960’s, Dave attained a record of 70 wins and 30 losses and was a 3 time Golden Gloves State Champion in the middle weight division. He turned professional in the late 1960’s attaining a record of 17 wins and one loss.

After retiring from boxing, Dave shared his love of the sport with many local youth devoting his experience and time to training and managing many successful protégés toward local and national recognition. He dedicated an endless amount of time training and managing those who shared his desire and love for the sport of boxing knowing that he was coaching and guiding them at the same time to a productive and positive outlet for their youthful aggressions. In order to advance the sport of boxing in the state, Dave became a boxing promoter sponsoring many boxing cards throughout the state. In 2011, Governor Lynch provided Dave with a commendation for devoting his life and time to advance the sport of boxing in NH and for his tireless efforts steering local youth to positive activities.

Family members include his loving wife Tanis (Courtemanche) Gates of Belmont; the mother of his children Joan (Fowles) Prada of Daphne, AL; daugh-

ter, Debra Gates-Kroth and her husband, Bill, of Spring Texas; son, Darrell Gates and his wife Colleen (Stiouphile) Gates of Auburn, NH; daughter, Denise Trexler and her husband Scott Trexler of Moultonborough, NH; and, stepson Jason Summers and his wife Kelly (Steadman) Summers of Tilton, NH. Grandchildren include Alexandria Reitan of Manning, SC, Ricky Wright of Concord, Jeremy Gates of North Haven, CT, Jordan Gates of West Henrietta, NY, Kelsey Gates of Auburn, Stephanie Trexler and Quinlan Trexler of Moultonborough, NH and Cordell Summers and Socorra Summers of Tilton, NH. Dave also has four great grandchildren who he loved and adored. Dave is survived by three siblings, Larry Gates and his wife Terry (Arbour) Gates of Austin, TX ; Ernest “Buddy” Gates of Readfield, ME, and Gloria Gates of Augusta ME. as well as numerous nephews and nieces.

Dave was predeceased by his son, David Peter Gates Jr. and his granddaughter Ashley Gates. He was also predeceased by four sisters, Jacqueline Reichert, Norma Arbour, Katherine Coleman, and Barbara Lombardo-Wilson.

Throughout his life, Dave gave generously to those in need. To those he knew as well as to complete strangers whose plight he would read about in the newspaper. In his memory, donations may be made to the St. Joseph Food Pantry, P O Box 285, Belmont, NH 03220.

Visiting hours will be held Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 from 5-8:00 pm at Paquette-Neun Funeral Home, 104 Park St., Northfield. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 at 10 am in St. Joseph Church, Belmont. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Franklin at a later date.

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At right: In observance of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Irwin Automotive Group, 59 Bisson Avenue, and all 115 employees, will be wearing pink shirts October 1-October 8. (Courtesy photo)

LACONIA — In observance of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Irwin Automotive Group, 59 Bisson Avenue, and all of it’s 115 employees, will be wearing pink shirts from October 1-October 8.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM). The tradition celebrates 28 years of awareness, education, and empowerment this year. Since its inception, the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) organization has been vigorously promoting educational events and programs to encourage and empower women to take control of their own breast health by practicing regular self-breast examinations, getting mammograms as recommended, scheduling regular visits with their physician for breast care, following any prescribed treatment, and learning as much as they can about breast cancer and breast health.

October represents a month of increased awareness and fundraising events for research, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and finding a cure. For 31 days a spotlight will shine on these facets. The color pink symbolizes it all. Chris Irwin stated that, “we are extremely excited to be supporting such a worthy cause, and we hope that our sentiment helps remind every woman who walks through our doors that she too needs to take all the steps necessary to protect herself from this terrible disease”. All of the employees send a special thank you out to LDR Productions of Laconia which provided the shirts, and in turn will help the team make a positive statement of support.

Irwin Automotive Group was founded in 1951 by Robert H. Irwin as a Lincoln Mercury dealership in Laconia. Despite a few tough years getting the business started, Robert added the Ford Franchise in 1955. Peter, second generation, added Toyota in 1979 and then added Scion in 2002. The Irwin Zone’s Used Car Center was built in 1994 and was located at 446 Union Ave in Laconia. In 2009 Irwin’s completed a 12,000 square foot expansion of their Bisson Avenue location which now totals 72,000 sq feet on more than 15 acres and 600 vehicles. Laconia Quicklane Tire and Auto Center was started in the late fall of 2010 and in 2011 the Irwin Automotive Group expanded to include Hyundai. The Used Car Center was converted into a brand new state of the art Hyundai Facility.

Petal Pushers Farm discontinues Fall Festival

LACONIA — Petal Pushers Farm will no longer be holding its annual Fall Festival due to development of their compost operation and vegetable garden.

Last year 4,000 people attended the event, and the ensuing traffic and parking problems are no longer manageable. “We would like to thank all the sponsors, vendors, and families who participated and made the festival such a fun event,” says Patty Gianunzio, owner of Petal Pushers Farm with her husband Pat Gianunzio.

In the future the Gianunzios hope to hold smaller events that their site can sustain. “Community outreach is important to us,” says the Gianunzios. “The Fall Festival was wonderful, and we’re looking forward to hopefully doing new things here in the future.”

Petal Pushers Farm is a family-run garden center located at 2635 Parade Road in Laconia which primarily sells annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees as well as soil, mulch, and gardening supplies.

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OPA’s name change to Advanced Orthopaedic Specialists reflects higher skill level of new team At left: Advanced Orthopaedic Specialists, a department of Lakes Region General Hospital, has offices in Gilford, Franklin, and Meredith. Shown are (left to right; front row): Gary Francke, MD; Werner Muller, PA-C; Timothy O’Brien, PA-C AT-C; Marcelle Zebuhr, PA-C; Glenn Lieberman, MD; Christopher FitzMorris, DO (Back row) John Grobman, MD; Matthew Jensen, DC; Anthony Salerni, MD; Jeremy Hogan, MD; Alexander Hennig, MD and Jeffrey Clingman, MD. (Courtesy photo)

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GILFORD — New physicians, advanced medical training and surgical procedures, and customer service initiatives have led Orthopedic Professional Association, in partnership with LRGHealthcare to update their name to Advanced Orthopaedic Specialists.

Following comprehensive research that included feedback from patients and community members, the name Advanced Orthopaedic Specialists was selected as best describing physicians highly skilled in traditional and groundbreaking surgical procedures, offering patients a broad scope of treatment options.

“We feel that the new name more accurately reflects the experience of our board certified and fellowship trained physicians,” said LRGHealthcare President and CEO Tom Clairmont. “We are fortunate that as top professionals in their field, who have worked in cities like Boston, our physicians have chosen to live and practice medicine in the Lakes and Three Rivers Regions of New Hampshire for the quality of life.”

Founded more than 50 years ago, Orthopedic Professional Association has evolved over time, keeping pace with innovative medical procedures and technological advances to treat the full range of musculoskeletal conditions. New physicians have joined the group and services available to the community have expanded, including direct anterior hip replacement, the new GetAroundKnee replacement, and cutting edge ultrasound. With specialty training in current treatment options involving sports medicine, arthroscopy, back and spine problems, neurosurgery and hip and knee arthritis, patients can expect world class surgical and non-surgical orthopaedic care close to home in the Lakes and Three Rivers regions.

The flagship facility, located at Hillside Medical Park in Gilford offers onsite surgical services, x-ray, chiropractic, as well as rehabilitation services, including a state-of-the-art aquatic therapy pool.

Satellite practices, located in Franklin and Meredith also offer diagnosis and treatment, as well as onsite and nearby surgical and rehabilitation services. As a department of Lakes Region General Hospital, Advanced Orthopaedic Services is backed by the comprehensive LRGHealthcare network, which provides access to advanced diagnostic technology, resources and educational training.

Customer service improvements are underway, including a new and innovative website which offers the latest orthopaedic news and events, as well as patient resources such as online appointment requests. Patient reception areas in all three offices are also being updated.

To learn more, visit www.advortho.org or call Advanced Orthopedic Specialists at 528-9100.

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Red Sox have eye on Blue Jay’s manager

BOSTON (AP) — John Farrell sat in the visitors’ dugout at Fenway Park as talk intensified that he might be working in the other dugout next year.

The Toronto manager looked up at two dozen reporters a month ago and told them that as Boston’s pitching coach for four years under Terry Francona he learned an important lesson: think of the players first in making managerial decisions.

If you do that, he said, “you probably are guided in the right direction to do the right thing.”

Since that session before the opener of the Blue Jays’ three-game sweep of the Red Sox, Bobby Valentine has been fired as Boston’s manager and Farrell has emerged as the leading candidate to take over. But he has a year left on his contract and the Red Sox would have to discuss compensation with the Blue Jays to make him available.

Valentine didn’t always make the players his top priority before he was fired on Thursday after going 69-93 in his only season, Boston’s worst record in nearly 50 years.

He said in April that Kevin Youkilis wasn’t as physically or emotionally into the game as he had been, kept Jon Lester in a game long enough to allow 11 runs and said as the miserable season kept getting worse that the Red Sox had “the weakest roster we’ve ever had in September in the history of baseball.”

Valentine’s predecessor, Francona, rarely criticized players in public.

Management likely is looking for the same from Valentine’s successor.

That’s not the only difference in this year’s managerial search from last year’s, when Valentine wasn’t hired until Dec. 1. That was 64 days after Boston’s last game and 62 after Francona was let go.

BORDER from page 2 David Klinger, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and an expert in police shootings, said investigators trying to determine whether friendly fire occurred in a shooting involving law enforcement would compare the ballistics of officers’ guns with bullet slugs that were either recovered from or passed through an officer’s body.

The officers involved in the case and any known witnesses also would be asked to provide accounts of such a shooting during interviews with investigators. And authorities would try to establish where officers and witnesses were positioned at the time of the shooting, Klinger said.

After a meeting of border governors Friday in Albuquerque, N.M., Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer stood by the criticism she leveled earlier this week in response to the shootings in which she said a political stalemate and the federal government’s failures have left the border unsecured and Border

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“It’s the federal government’s responsibility to secure our border, and they need to do that, and then we can deal with all the other issues that have come about because our border hasn’t been secured,” said Brewer, who plans to attend Ivie’s memorial service Monday in Sierra Vista.

The Border Patrol couldn’t immediately comment on the frequency of friendly fire shootings at the agency, but such incidents appeared to be extremely rare.

Neither George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, nor Kent Lundgren, chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, had ever heard of any friendly fire incidents in the Border Patrol.

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). In groups, the person with the strongest belief in his or her reality will eventually persuade other members to agree with that reality and live there, too. You will now be the strongly convicted person others follow.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). One way to make people feel like they are extremely wanted in your world is to tell them so. You’ll be enlivened by the response, so let your words ring out.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

Lonely people need you. It’s not your job to care for them, but you may find that it’s your pleasure to do so. You’ll gain more than you give in the process.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 6). You will change your requirements of life and people, daring to ask more of yourself tonight. You may even be accused of being “high maintenance,” but you’ll like how asking audaciously often gets you just what you were looking for. November brings a victory for the family. An investment pays in July. Leo and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 24, 29, 50 and 11.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You might regret offering advice, especially if none was asked of you. But you’ll never regret not offering it. In fact, you’ll be proud of how well you stayed within your own boundaries.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Since you can now see how you’ve profited from a difficult situation in your past, you might also assume that in time you will profit from your current dilemma.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It will be important for you to gain deserved recognition for your accomplishments.

It’s not for your ego or for the attention.

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CANCER (June 22-July 22). Environmental triggers will bring you back to a favorite childhood memory or a recollection of one of the best things that has ever happened to you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Is it possible that the positive experiences, feelings and associations you have with another person are the source of your attraction, and not who the person is independent of you?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). No person likes to be interrupted, but some will go on forever unless you find a way to extract yourself from the conversation. Unfortunately, you may have to casually fight for social ease.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You long to be led by someone who is strong enough to make you feel safe, even as you go places you’ve never been.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Oct. 6, the 280th day of 2012. There are 86 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 6, 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer,” starring Al Jolson, a movie that featured both silent and sound-synchronized sequences.

On this date: In 1536, English theologian and scholar William Tyndale, who was the first to translate the Bible into Early Modern English, was executed for heresy.

In 1683, thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America’s oldest settlements.

In 1884, the Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I. In 1939, as remaining military resistance in Poland crumbled, Adolf Hitler delivered a speech to the Reichstag blaming the Poles for the NaziSoviet invasion of their country.

In 1949, U.S.-born Iva Toguri D’Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster “Tokyo Rose,” was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison (she ended up serving more than six).

In 1958, the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged.

In 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

In 1976, in his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was “no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.”

(Ford later conceded he’d misspoken.)

In 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.

In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.

In 1989, actress Bette Davis died in Neuillysur-Seine (nu-yee-sur-sehn), France, at age 81.

One year ago: In a poor quality audio recording, a voice identified as that of Moammar Gadhafi called on Libyans to take to the streets and wage a campaign of civil disobedience against the country’s new leader. The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to psychologist Tomas Transtromer, Sweden’s most famous poet.

Today’s Birthdays: Broadcaster and writer Melvyn Bragg is 73. Actress Britt Ekland is 70. Singer Millie Small is 66. The president of Sinn Fein (shin fayn), Gerry Adams, is 64.

Singer-musician Thomas McClary is 63. Musician Sid McGinnis (TV: “Late Show with David Letterman”) is 63. CBS chief executive officer Les Moonves is 63. Rock singer Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) is 61. Rock singer-musician David Hidalgo is 58. Former NFL player and coach Tony Dungy is 57. Actress Elisabeth Shue is 49. Singer Matthew Sweet is 48.

Actress Jacqueline Obradors is 46. Country singer Tim Rushlow is 46. Rock musician Tommy Stinson is 46. Actress Amy Jo Johnson is 42. Actress Emily Mortimer is 41. Actor Lamman Rucker is 41. Actor Ioan Gruffudd is 39. Actor Jeremy Sisto is 38. Rhythm-andblues singer Melinda Doolittle is 35. Actor Wes Ramsey is 35.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Fall festival ‘Applefest’ held by the St. Joseph Parish in Belmont. 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. The day includes an apple themed breakfast, lunch featuring a chili taste-testing contest, demonstrations, children’s activities, apple pies for sale, and vendors selling various home made goods. Lunch will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Pease Public Library 139th annual Book Sale. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Library in Plymouth. The sale will include books, videos, DVDs, audio books, baked goods, and boutique items.

Breakfast offered by the members of Olive Branch Mount Prospect Lodge #16. 8-11 a.m. in the Squam Valley Masonic Bldg. 1 Route 3, Holderness. Cost is $7 for adults.

Children under 8 eat free.

The Laconia High School Class of 1992 holds its 20-year high school reunion. 6-9 p.m. at Tavern 27 on Parade Road in Laconia. To RSVP call 361-0113 or email ssrossetti@comcast.net. Tickets are $40 per person in advance or $50 at the door. Half-priced golf will be available at for class members on the day of the event. Old photos or memorabilia are encouraged.

Homemade Italian Dinner and program of contemporary folk music presented by Temple B’nai Israel. The dinner buffet will begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by the concert performance at 8 p.m. The entire event costs $27.50 per person or $25 each for groups of four or more. BYOB. For tickets or more information call 524-7044 or go to www.tbinh.org.

Acoustic Bluegrass Band concert featuring The Parker Hill Road Band. 7 p.m. at the Old Town Hall located in the Gilmanton Iron Works Village. Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door. The event is family friendly.

Refreshments and plenty of parking will be available.

The Meredith Historical Society’s Farm Museum is open to the public. Noon-4 p.m. Features exhibits of antique farming tools and early farm life. The museum is located at 61 Winona Road, Meredith. For more information call 279-1190.

The Inter-Lakes professional theater presents the show “Steel Magnolias”. 7:30 p.m. in the Inter-Lakes High School Auditorium. Tickets are $20. For ticket reservations or more information call 1-888-245-6374.

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.

All compulsive eaters are welcome to attend the Overeaters Anonymous meeting held each Saturday morning from 11 to 12 at the Franklin Hospital.

The Laconia Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to noon in the Laconia City Hall parking lot. A variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, natural meats, seafood, home made baked goods, jelly and breads will be available. Accepts Snap/EBT and credit card payments.

Narcotics Anonymous meeting. 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Society (172 Pleasant Street) in Laconia.

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.

Separated/Divorced Persons Support Group meeting. 6 to 8 p.m. on the first and third Saturdays of each month at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Belmont. Compassion and affirmation in a confidential atmosphere. Refreshments. Scholarships available. For more information call the rectory at 267-8174 or Ginny Timmons at 286-7066.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My extended family has always been big on celebrating family birthdays for the adults. Celebrations used to include a meal at a restaurant, but as the families expanded, we began celebrating at relatives’ homes with appetizers followed by cake and ice cream. The problem is, these parties always take place at the homes of grandparents or aunts and uncles. The adult nephews and their wives never offer to host.

They also never offer to bring anything. We have hinted on numerous occasions that it would be nice if everyone contributed, but it falls on deaf ears. There are no financial reasons why they cannot step up.

We have tried to let it go, but at the most recent party, one of the wives stated that giving parties is just too expensive.

She said they would not be organizing any more children’s parties and that “someone else” in the family can throw one for the kids. Two weeks later, we learned that the grandparents on the wife’s side had hosted an extravagant party, and then the parents threw a “kiddo” party for the little ones and their adult parents. Only the adults from our side of the family were excluded.

We cannot tell these wives what we think, because every time we voice an opinion, they go on Facebook and accuse us of “bullying.” We don’t feel the need to give in to their demands, but we also don’t want the children to suffer. We are all -- Going Nuts in the Midwest Dear Going Nuts: These wives do not wish to contribute to or participate in their husbands’ family events, and that’s unlikely to change unless the nephews insist. You can still celebrate the little kids’ birthdays with something smaller. Skip your adult nephews’ birthdays and those of their wives. They aren’t interested.

Dear Annie: Last year, my 91-year-old father bent over to pick up his morning newspaper, lost his balance and fell,

breaking his shoulder. During Dad’s recovery, it became apparent that my 89-year-old mother could not take care of him.

My sister and I made the difficult decision to put both of them into the same care facility.

I’ve been going to my parents’ house once a month to sort through a lifetime of memories, clean and repaint. In an effort to move the old TV console, I kept tripping over the cord.

When I opened the two sliding doors to stuff the cord inside, I saw a bulging envelope. It was filled with smaller envelopes of $100 bills, $50 bills, $20s and singles, totaling $4,000. After I calmed down, I phoned my sister, and we put the money back into my parents’ bank account.

I’m probably not the first child who has found a hidden treasure in a book or tucked away with the clothes. Tell your readers to be sure to take the time to do a thorough search.

-- Learned Something Valuable Dear Learned: You’ve told them, and we are certain they will be paying closer attention now. Found money is always a delightful discovery.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Young Empty Nester,” who said she phones former mom friends for lunch or conversation, but no one returns her calls. She might need to examine her own personality traits.

I had three friends whom I rarely called back. One has mastered the art of eating, breathing and talking simultaneously.

One cried and talked about her latest illness. And the other dominated every minute of every conversation lamenting her three-year-old divorce.

In an effort to be kind, I listened to their woes for years.

But there comes a time when you must pursue more positive acquaintances. Those whose worlds revolve entirely around themselves are draining and have to be cut loose. -- Maine Coast

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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Animals

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AKC Golden Retriever puppies $700 3 girls 5 boys, parents on site. Call 603-998-3393.

2004 K2500 Chevy SilveradoExt. cab plow truck with plow.

Runs/looks great, $11,000.

284-9299

MOBILE shrink wrapping and winterization services. $10/foot.

No gimmicks! $50-100 for winterizations. We cover the Lakes Region. Call John 630-3198

GILFORD 2 Bedroom 2 Bath Condo. Fireplace, gas heat, W/D hookup, no dogs/smoking. 1 year lease, $975/month + security.

455-6269.

2004 Mazda Tribute Small SUV. Low miles, excellent shape, loaded, front wheel drive, $5,995/BO Bob (603) 682-8297

Employment Wanted

2005 Kia Rio, 4 dr, auto, a/c, 104K Miles, new timing belt and water pump, great on gas. $4,000.

934-2221

As a senior myself, I know the value of a good caregiver at a time of need. Over 40 years experience. Many letters of recommendation. 286-2635 Leave Message

GILFORD: 3-Bedroom, renovated 2-Family on 1.7 acres. Hardwood floors. $1,200/month, heat included.

Available 10/15.

524-6789.

AKC Sheltie- Sable & white. 1 male, 10 weeks old, pet only. Very affectionate. 603-455-3802 AUSTRALIAN shepherd pups.

Heath certificates and first shots, 3 left. $500 each. 455-4605 or 455-7463.

FREE. Two cats need a good home.

Owner moving.

603-581-8963.

JERSEY/HOLSTIEN milking cow $1000/ obo. Boar/Nubian goat $100 each buck, $150 each doe.

Call 603-998-3393.

Antiques ANTIQUE Circa 1895 Singer Sewing Machine, 4 drawers, extra bobbins, feet, needles. Fully operational. All original parts. $125 603-293-2003

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2006 Subaru Outback i WagonAll wheel drive, 63K miles, fully equipped, heated seats, remote start. Meticulously maintained, flawless in and out. State inspection included. “You will not find a nicer one”. $13,900.

603-494-8044 99 4 x 4 Chevy 2500, 120Kmiles , nice shape, never plowed with, $2,500. 603-524-9011

Autos

BUYING junk cars, trucks & big trucks ME & NH. Call for price.

Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

$-TOP dollar paid for junk cars & trucks. Available 7-days a week.

P3 s Towing. 630-3606

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

1972 Austin Heally Mini Cooper 850. $6000/ obo. 603-528-3840.

1998 Nissan Altima, 146k, auto, cruise, sunroof, power seats, good tires. Asking $2,650.

393-8996 2000 Toyota Sienna Van for sale.

Good condition, regularly and well maintained. Mileage -196k. Needs ABS sensor and set of tires, BUT has a set of good condition snow tires. $1500. Call 279-9912.

2001 Suburban- 112K miles, $5,800. Loaded, LT, 4WD, 5.3 liter automatic. Very good condition. 603-345-1919 2003 Suburban high mileage, new tires, $1500. Great winter car. Call

For Rent 1 bedroom apartment in Bristol, in grand house with lots of Character, recently remodeled kitchen & bathroom. Nice location on Newfound River with nice yard. 10 minutes to Rt. 93 $600/mo. plus utilities, maybe pets.

603-986-5509 ALTON/GILFORD Line 2BR Cottage w/3-season Porch, $220-235/week +utilities; 3BR Apt. $240-260/week +utilities.

Beach access. 603-365-0799.

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.

BELMONT- Available NOW. 2-bedroom townhouse-style. Quiet area, heat included. $850/mo. All housing certificates accepted.

781-344-3749

BOATS MOBILE SHRINKWRAPPING 25 Years Experience $10 ft. ~ Group Rates 581-4847

Call Marc or Bengi

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.

FURNISHED Room with private bathroom. Heat, hot water & cable included. $150 per week.

GILMANTON: Clean, private, newly renovated, single-family home, 1-bedroom with office, $850/month. Concord, 20 minutes. (603)382-4492.

LACONIA 1st floor 2-3 bedroom apartment on Pleasant St. Walk to town & beaches, recently repainted, carpeting, appliances, full bath. $1,000/Month includes heat & hot water. 524-3892 or 630-4771 LACONIA 2 bedroom apartment on Pleasant St. 2nd floor. Walk to town & beaches, private sun deck, beautiful hardwood floors, appliances, full bath. $900/Month includes heat & hot water.

524-3892 or 630-4771 LACONIA 2-Bedroom House.

Good neighborhoow, easy walk to downtown & Lake Winnisquam.

New bath, kitchen, windows, insulation. Oil Heat & Hot Water. No smokers-No pets. 1-year lease. $1,100/Month + utilities. 630-1438

LACONIA 4 large rooms in private home. New bath, 1st floor.

No Smoking, No Pets

$200/Week Call 524-2947 LACONIA Large Studio Apartment- Newly painted, carpeting and flooring, off street parking. No utilities, lease required. $500 security deposit, rent $140/Week.

For Rent

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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

LACONIA- Wingate Village, 103 Blueberry Lane. 3-bedroom townhouses for rent. $875.

Washer/Dryer hookups, private yard, full basement, dishwasher & A/C, in convenient location. Heat & hot water included. Call us today at 603-524-4363. EHO, FHO.

LACONIA- 2-bedroom 2-bath on quiet dead-end street. $975/Month. All utilities included, Call 527-8363. No pets.

LACONIA- 3 bedroom apartment. $780/Month plus utilities. Security deposit/references. 520-8212 LACONIA- 3 bedroom house, across Street from Leavitt Park, close to school & beach. Efficient heat with new windows. Covered parking with lockable storage. Security & references required. Pet considered. $1,100. per month + utilities. 937-0157 LACONIA- 3 Room, 1 bedroom with sun porch, 2nd floor $170/Week, includes heat. $600 security. 524-7793 LACONIA- Beautiful duplex on quiet dead-end street off Pleasant. 2-3 bedrooms, large kitchen/dining, replacement windows, hardwood throughout, basement/attic/garage, hookups, sunny yard, pets considered.

Non-smokers only. 1600+ sf. $1,000/Month + utilities. References/credit check required.

Security & last months rent.

556-2631 LACONIA- Beautiful, large 1 bedroom in one of Pleasant Street s finest Victorian homes. Walk to downtown & beaches, 2 porches, fireplace, lots of natural woodwork, washer/dryer. Heat/hot water included. $950/Month.

528-6885 LACONIA- Clean, quiet, warm 2 bedroom rental, close to downtown. Security deposit, $185/Week, heat included. No pets. 267-7949 LACONIA- Large 4-bedroom 2-bathroom apartment with Heat/Hw included. Hardwood floors, 8 rooms in all. $1,250.

Also have a 3-bedroom 2-Bathroom for $1,150.

566-6815 LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. $145/week 603-781-6294 LACONIA- Quiet 2 bedroom on water. No smoking. Heat included.

603-387-1606

LACONIA-1 bedroom $150/Week, includes heat & hot water.

References & deposit. 524-9665 LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2nd floor in duplex building with separate entrance. Recently renovated, $240/week including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

LACONIA: Big 1BR, includes washer/dryer, 2-car parking, snow removal. $125 per week. No utilities. No dogs. No smoking.

781-283-0783.

LACONIA: Very nice 1-bedroom apartment in clean, quiet, downtown building. Recently painted.

Nice kitchen and full bath. $175/week, includes heat, hot water & electricity. 524-3892 or 630-4771.

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 LACONIA: Spacious 2 Bedroom, 2-story, 1.5 bath condo. Includes washer/dryer, pets considered. $1,100/Mo. 603-630-5671 or 630-4855 LAKEPORT Small 1 bedroom apt. near park & beach. $800/ month & sec deposit. Includes heat, hw, washer & dryer. Must be responsible, quiet and non-smoker. Cats OK. 603-528-3840 LAKEPORT- Clean 1st floor 1 bedroom apartment. Heat/hot water, no smoking/no pets. $700/Month or $175/Weekly.

References & deposit. 387-9575 MEREDITH ROOMATE to share 2 bedroom 2 bathroom mobile home on own land. All utilities included, available Oct. 12th.

279-7871 MEREDITHSmall ranch. 2 bedroom, 1 acre of land, new floors, $850/Month. Call Mary 603-493-1197 MEREDITH: First floor, 2-bedrooms, livingroom, dining room, large screened porch, near town. $700/month +utilities. 387-2426.

MOULTONBOROUGH 1 bedroom cottage, large private lot, dog negotiable, no smoking, $700 plus utilities. (603)476-8450.

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MOULTONBOROWaterfront winter rental. 2-bedroom furnished apartment, new construction, quiet location, no pets. $1,250.

603-253-8438

BANQUET Stacked Chairs: 125 available, $15 each or best offer; Oversized livingroom armchairs, $25 each. Call Larry, 387-7427.

DESK: 3ft. wide X 6ft. L X 29in. high. 5-drawers, solid wood. Must pickup. 524-8444

COLOR TV: 25” RCA Console Model & Toshiba VCR Player.

Great condition. $50/best offer.

524-5529.

FREE Pickup for your unwanted, useful items. Garages, vehicls, estates cleaned out and yardsale items. (603)930-5222.

MOULTONBOROUGH- Winnipe saukee Waterfront 2-Bedroom Cottage: $1,250, including utilities.

Quiet location No pets. Available now. (603)253-8848.

Drums, Base, 2 Tom Toms CB 700. International -Remo Heads black, excellent condition. Snare with case, stand, practice pad, Holton, never used. $300.

524-5979.

DRY Cordwood: Delivered.

Please call 630-3511.

ELECTRIC Hospital Bed with mattress. Used little, $750/OBO. Used electric wheelchair, heavy duty, very good condition, $550/OBO. Jazzy Electric Wheelchair, excellent condition, $650.

Handicap equipment: Bed trapeze, walkers, tripod cain, pull bars, etc. Best offer. 279-7708 FIREWOOD. You pick up. $30 1/2 cord truck. 293-0683

TILTON Large Studio $575, Heat included. 781-315 2358

With bucket and/or forks.

Rubber tracks. Rent by the day, week or month. $300.00 a day, $1,000.00 a week or $2,500.00 a month.

WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency and a cottage including heat, hot water, lights and cable. $165-$185 per week. $400 deposit. No pets. 387-3864.

TEREX TB50 MAN LIFT

WINTER RENTAL GOODYEAR Wintermark Magna Grip studded snows, 185-65-14 multi-lug wheels on rims. 7/32 tread. $200. 528-2152

CONWAY: 2 bdrm & loft condo close to town & ski areas. Available Xmas week thru March. $750/mo. Call (603)986-5947.

GREEN FIREWOOD- Cut, not split $140/cord; Cut & split $185/cord. Seasoned firewood. $250. Also, logging, landclearing & tree work (all phases).

393-8416.

For Rent-Commercial

INDOOR TREE- 8ft. B. Ficus, loves the sun. $150. 528-5120

LOAM

Beautiful, organic, screened loam. $15/yard.

Call (603)986-8148.

LOG Length Firewood: 7-8 cords, $900. Local delivery. 998-8626.

MOVING out sale! All things must go! Best Offers. Loudon.

267-8880

SHOP/STORAGE

Contact 603-455-6643

For Sale 2 tickets for Pats Vs Broncos, October 7th. (603)356-5775 or (603)548-8049.

4-LIKE new Blizzak/ Artic Snow tires 205/60/R16. $160. Box of ocean fishing equipment 279-5227 90 Gallon marine aquarium- reef octopus protien skimmer- mega flow sump model 3, refractometer, misc. pumps & jets. 986-3540 AMAZING! Beautiful pillowtop matress sets, twin $169, full or queen $249, king $399. See AD under “Furniture”.

AQUARIUM Items, Fresh/salt water fish, 55, 29, 20, 10 gallon tanks, and accessories. 284-9299 AVALON woodstove/insert, fire

HEAVY EQUIPMENT RENTAL

CAT 277B SKID STEER

TILTON- Downstairs 1-bedroom, or upstairs larger unit. $630/Month, heat/hot water included. No dogs, 603-393-9693 or 916-214-7733.

Approx. 1500 sf. of warehouse space near downtown Laconia w/own entrance. Office space w/private entry & 12’ x 12’ Overhead Door. Great shop or storage space. $1700/mo., including basic heat & electrical.

Heavy Equipment

KX161 or KX057 12,000 pound machine. Hydraulic thumb and four way push blade. Rubber tracks & air conditioning. Rent by the day, week or month. $300.00 a day, $1,000.00 a week or $2,500.00 a month.

SINGLE male needs roommate(s) 2 bedrooms available $100+ per week, share utilities. Pets considered. 556-7098

For Rent-Vacation

HIGHEST cash price paid for your scrap box trailers, school busses, heavy equipment. No Campers (207)393-7318.

KUBOTA MINI EXCAVATOR

Roommate: Furnished Room, $125/Week. Near Tilton & I-93. No drinking, no drugs. All utilities. Pet & smoking OK. 603-286-9628

CEDAR LODGE Weirs Beach, Open Year Round ... Studios, 1-bedroom or 2-bedroom condos starting at $575 per month.

Please call Wendy at 366-4316.

Free Scrap & Appliance Removal.

Call Stu Walker 393-6494

SMALL Heating Oil Deliveries: No minimum required. Evening & weekend deliveries welcome.

BENJAMIN OIL, LLC .

603-731-5980 SPRINGFIELD Armory 1911-A1, NIB, 2 mags and leather holster. $650; plus 4 mags, vintage military holster, pouch (1918) belt set, B/0 603-875-0363 TWIN box spring & mattress $20, futon $40., both in good condition.

455-8521 YARD Tractor- Sentinel, 12hp B&S engine. Runs good, mower deck does not. $75. Call 528-4919

Furniture AMAZING! Beautiful Queen or Full-size mattress set. Luxury Firm European Pillow-top style.

Fabulous back & hip support.

Factory sealed - new 10-Yr. warranty. Cost $1095, sell $249.

Can deliver 603-305-9763.

LAZY Boy Recliner- Navy blue leather. Very good condition. $75.

524-4317 Leave Message NEW trailer load mattresses....a great deal! King set complete

50 foot maximum platform height and 500 lbs. maximum platform capacity. Four wheel drive with articulating jib. Rent by the day, week or month. $300.00 a day, $1,000.00 a week or $2,500.00 a month.

CAT 312 EXCAVATOR 28,000 pound machine. 28” tracks & air conditioning.

Hydraulic thumb. Rent by the day, week or month. $500.00 a day, $1,600.00 a week or $4,000.00 a month.

All equipment includes 40 miles total of free trucking, delivery and pick-up, with two or more days rental. After that it is $3 a loaded mile.

603-763-6005

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

2 Part Time Dishwashers Wanted Apply In Person Brookside Pizza II In Belmont, Village Plaza corner of Rte. 140 & 106

EXPERIENCED AUTO RECONDITIONER/DETAILER For busy used car dealership.

Competitive pay. Must have driver’s license & transportation.

Automotive detailing experience a must.

Please email resumé to: lakesregiontrucks@yahoo.com

Belknap Independent Business Alliance (BIBA) Director position available: 20 hours per month. Exciting opportunity to support local independent businesses and the community. Email your resume to info@bibanh.org

FALL INTO A NEW CAREER! A ccepting applications for many full & part time positions that we are looking to fill immediately. Positions require little or no experience as training will be provided.

• Flexible Schedules • Reliable Income • Above Average Pay • Career Opportunities Positions from customer service to sales & marketing!

Please call TODAY as interviews will be held Monday & Tuesday, and that s it!

INSURANCE Inspector wanted.

Part-time, light commercial & residential inspections. Experience required.

Contact michael@uicinspections.com 508-998-6115

Help Wanted Laconia Housing Authority is seeking a part-time maintenance staff. This position involves basic maintenance and repair knowledge, including but not limited to painting experience, operating floor cleaning equipment, various lawn mowers, snow removal, and a variety of power tools. Applicant must be able to lift a minimum of 50 pounds, have a valid driver!s license and a vehicle as LHA!s maintenance staff work at various properties owned by LHA. The Laconia Housing Authority is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, marital status or sexual orientation. Interested individuals should pick up and complete an application at Laconia Housing Authority located within Sunrise Towers, 25 Union Avenue, Laconia, NH 03246 prior to October 12, 2012.

PART Time/Full Time Help.

Experienced in appliance sales only. Please apply in person. 742 Tenney Mountain Hwy. Plymouth

Home Care SENIOR HOME CARE COMPANIONS elder care services. Our caregivers are screened, interviewed, experienced, qualified and over 50. Senior services include mature, caring companionship, meals, shopping, laundry, light housekeeping, transportation, personal care and respite.

Service is provided hourly, overnight or as a 24-hour individualized home elder care service.

Look us up at www.shcclr.com.

Call for a free in-home assessment, (603)556-7817.

Reserve a time to interview ASAP. These positions will not last!

528-2237 “WE’RE HIRING” Call your local Recruiter!

SFC Michael Sullivan (603)731-5505

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Home Improvements

Services

Services

TOTAL FLOOR CARE, TOTAL HOME CARE

Services

Services

Yard Sale

PIPER ROOFING

TILE DESIGN

GILFORD MOVING SALE Sat. & Sun 9am-3pm 416 Weirs Rd.

Quality Work Reasonable Rates Free Estimates Metal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Professional Floor sanding, refinishing. Repair: remodeling, painting, cleaning. 603-986-8235

Our Customers Don t get Soaked!

Mobile Homes

528-3531 Major credit cards accepted

$24,995 14 wides $51,995 44X28 www.CM-H.com

(6) 30-Gallon bags per week

603-986-8149

Rt. 3 Tilton NH

Rte. 11-B at Laconia-Gilford Town Line Microwave, kitchen utensils, dishes, yard tools, entertainment center, canoe w/trolling motor & more!

LACONIA MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALE SAT. OCTOBER 6TH 8AM-12PM 42 FRANKLIN ST.

WET BASEMENTS,

Motorcycles 2007 Honda Metropolitan Scooter.

49cc, 750 miles, mint condition, $1,000. 387-9342

Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

(603)447-1198. Olson’s Moto Works, RT16 Albany, NH.

cracked or buckling walls, crawl space problems, backed by 40 years experience. Guaranteed 603-356-4759 basementauthoritiesnh.com.

LACONIA YARD SALE SATURDAY, 8-2 1136 N. MAIN ST.

Storage Space

Halloween & Christmas ornaments, girls clothes, household items & furniture.

HUGE GARAGE in Gilford for rent, perfect for 2 cars or large boat. $250/Month. 508-596-2600

Recreation Vehicles

LACONIA: 20' x 18 ' two car garage for rent. $195/month including electric, 524-1234.

2002 Polaris ATV- 300 CC, 4x4 w/plow. Only 780 miles, $1,650.

Diamond plate truck tool box $85.

603-387-6969

Home for sale by owner: 3 bedroom, 1-bath, living room, dining room. A block from downtown Laconia. Assessed at $130K, asking $69,500. Principals only, sold as is. Call 603-581-6710

603-293-7501

$45/Month

Camelot Homes

Real Estate

25 Years of Experience References, Insured

WEEKLY TRASH PICKUP

Open Daily & Sun.

BUILDING for sale, 4 unit apartment building in Bristol, N.H. Well maintained. $205.000. Kevin 603-968-5509.

Tile & Marble Installation & Repair Carpentry & Decks Bathroom Remodeling

Wanted To Buy AMY S CLEANING & DOMESTIC SERVICES

Hospital bed wanted to purchase.

In pristine condition. Call 524-1430 or 524-0785 M.A. SMITH ELECTRIC: Quality work for any size electrical job. Licensed-Insured, Free estimates/ 603-455-5607

10+ Years Experience

References

455-6651

MR. JUNK Attics, cellars, garages cleaned out. Free estimate.

Insured.

455-6296

Business Telephone Systems Sales, Repairs Data & Voice Cabling. 20 Years in Business 524-2214

AUTO & TRUCK PARTS

FRANKLIN YARD SALE SATURDAY, 8-3

COUNTERPERSON Immediate opening for full-time position. Experience helpful, but will train the right individual. Full benefit package includes 401(K), profit sharing, monthly bonus, paid vacation & holidays, medical and dental, life insurance, long term disability insurance, employee discount program, paid training and certification and more.

Apply in Person: 580 Union Avenue Laconia, NH 03246

Yard Sale Belmont Garage Sale- Sat. & Sun. 8am-2pm 205 Middle Route.

Softec hockey skates, Morrow snow board, snowboard boots, Kelty backpack, Old Harley parts, trolling motor, 7 1/2ft. Fisher plow, dirt bike boots, video games, go cart, misc. items.

Professional Painting FLUFF !n" BUFF House Cleaning: Call Nancy for free estimate.

738-3504.

Affordable price. Michael Marcotte 455-6296

All kinds of great items!

FRANKLIN MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALES 152 VICTORY DRIVE SAT ,10/6 9-3 LOTS OF STUFF

HANDYMAN SERVICES Small Jobs Are My Speciality

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277

344 NEW HAMPTON RD.

SNOW PLOWING- Reasonable rates, Laconia-Gilford. 455-7897

HARDWOOD Flooring- Dust Free Sanding. 25 years experience.

Excellent references. Weiler Building Services 986-4045 Email: weilbuild@yahoo.com

FRANKLIN YARD/GARAGE SALE Sat-Sun 10//6-10/7 9am-3pm.

Multi-familyRain or Shine.

Under cover. 192 New Hampton Rd.

J & I Landscaping- Fall cleanups, snow plowing & all other landscape services. Call John for free quote. 603-630-3198

FREE PICKUP for useful items after your yard sale. Also estates, garages & houses cleaned out.

603-930-5222 DO YOU NEED FINANCIAL HELP with the spaying, altering of your dog or cat? 224-1361 SPR Property Services Residential & small office cleaning. Mobile home hand washing. Trash & junk removal.

Shannon 998-6858

STEVE!S LANDSCAPING & GENERAL YARD WORK For all your yard needs and tree removal. 524-4389 or 630-3511

LACONIA 154 Washington St. INSIDE/OUTSIDE MOVING SALE Everything Must Go! CHEAP MONEY! Sat.- Mon.Oct. 6-8 8am-3pm '98 White Chevy Blazer 4X4, registered & inspected, in great shape, runs great, lots of new parts $2,500.

603-630-6770 LACONIA COMMUNITY Yard Sale- Sat. 10/6, 8-2 pm. Rear of Southgate Condos. 57 Union Avenue. Quality items.

LACONIA LARGE Pre-Moving Garage Sale- Saturday ONLY 8-2.

20 Rowell Street. Tons of household items, Baby stuff/toys/games, Furniture, Collectibles, Outdoor stuff.

LACONIA MOVING SALE SAT. 9AM-2PM 37 NATURES VIEW DR.

LACONIA Moving Sale Saturday & Monday 8am-1pm 89 Anthony Dr. Toys, clothing, furniture, household goods LACONIA YARD SALE 21 Brigham St. (Dead end street off of Morrill Ave. before Gilford) Friday, Oct. 5th 12-5pm Sat., Sun. Oct. 6th & 7th 10-3pm Books, games, equipment, snow cones.

Call for more info. 630-7634

GARAGE SALE 45 Olde English Ln, Gilford

Saturday, 10/6 8am-2pm Many household items, frontload gas dryer, hockey skates/sticks, skis and boots, car stereos, pool table, Patriot s tickets & more!

GILFORD YARD SALE SAT. & SUN., OCTOBER 6 & 7 9AM-2PM 1200 CHERRY VALLEY RD. HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, GIFTS, ORNAMNETS, ETC.

Gilford Yard Sale Saturday & Sunday, 8am-1pm. 8 Wildwood Rd. GILFORD Yard Sale- Saturday, 8am-3pm. 5 Varney Point Rd.

LACONIA YARD SALE SATURDAY, OCT. 6 8AM-1PM RAIN OR SHINE! BREAKWATER CONDOS 307 NORTH ST.

Follow signs to back of 8 Kristen Dr. Household items, some furniture, some computer accessories.

LACONIA Yard Sale- Saturday, 10/6, 8am-2pm. 179 Province St. LACONIA Yard Sale-Saturday, October 6, 8am-Noon, Rain or Shine. 27 Shore Drive. Craftsmen rolling tool chest, furniture, household goods, tools, collectibles, two featherweights and much more.

LACONIA, (Hack Ma Tack Camp ground) 713 Endicott St. North, Sat & Sun 9am - 3pm. Antiques,

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Lakes Region Real Estate Market Report / Roy Sanborn

Potential bargains As of October 1, 2012 there were 1,230 residential homes available in the Lakes Region communities covered by this report. The average asking price stood at $486,117 and the median price point was $259,450. The inventory level is down from 1,351 homes for sale last month and the 1,336 available last October. The average asking price has also softened from $518,193 last October down to $486,117. The median price point has also dropped about $5,000 from last October as well.

The 1,230 homes on the market represent about a 16.4 months worth supply of property at the current sales rate.

That’s still not great, but better than where we have been!

It’s time to take a look at some of the newer listings that might just possibly be a good deal based on the assessed value compared to the asking price.

The only way to tell if a property is a good deal is by going out to take a look at the property, but at least

this is a good place to start.

There is a three bedroom, one bath, post and beam cape with 1,600-square-feet of living space that has just come on the market at 141 Country Club Road in Gilford. This is a bank owned property and it was built a while ago, actually in 1800, but it has been totally renovated according to the listing sheet. It has new vinyl siding, wiring, and a septic system instead of the outhouse it had way back when! There is a nice fireplace, cathedral ceilings, and wainscoting in the living room. The pictures make the place look pretty nice, but hey, you have to check it out in person as pictures can be deceiving. Anyway, the house sits on a 1.18-acre level lot across from Pheasant Ridge Country Club.

The home is listed for $142,500 and is assessed for $191,700. Maybe you could get a discount on the green fees?

An absolutely great deal can be had at 11 Wakeman Road in Belmont. This one owner, 1,596-square-foot, four bedroom, two bath, water access home was built in 2002 and is in like-new condition. There are two bedrooms on the main level, two upstairs, a family room in the walkout lower level, and a one car garage under. This is a low maintenance home with vinyl siding and a nicely landscaped yard. This property is priced well below the tax assessed value of $219,400 at only $187,000. This home is a no-brainer.

Over at 300 Pine Street in Laconia is a three bedroom, two bath, 1,296-square-foot raised ranch that was built in 2001 on a .26-acre lot. This home is bank owned but should be new enough so as not to have too many issues. From the pictures you can see it has hard wood flooring, a large kitchen, a two car garage under, and an in-ground pool with a large patio area. It is on the market at $194,500 and is assessed for $208,800. This could be a winner...

Up in the acres in Gilford at 44 Deer Run Lane is see next page

CALENDAR from page 25

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 Yard Sale

Yard Sale

Yard Sale

LACONIA- Big Indoor Yard Sale.

229 Messer St. Thursday thru Saturday, 9am-4pm. Next to Messer St. Auto Repair.

LACONIA: Saturday & Sunday, 9am-3pm. 48 Jackson Street, near Opechee Park.

Meredith Yard Sale- Saturday, October 6, 9am-2pm. 54 Oak Knoll Rd. Good stuff & low prices!

Sanbornton Garage Sale- Woodworking equipment & tools, household & misc. items. Children s toys & clothes. 683 Hunkins Pond Rd. Sunday & Monday, 8am-4pm.

TILTON GIANT MOVING SALE! FRI.-SUN. 8-4

LACONIA: 79 Lincoln Street & 72 Leigh Court. Saturday, 10/6, 8am-2pm. Sports cards & memorabilia.

Melvin Village, 534 Governor Wentworth Highway, Sun & Mon 9am - 2pm. Rain or shine. Many items and no early birds please.

LACONIA/WEIRS Beach, 22 Plantation Road, Saturday 10/6, 9am-4pm Wide variety of items, snowboarding equipment, outer wear, housewares, electronics & gaming, motorcycle and more...

MEREDITH: Huge Barn / Yard Sale: 92 Meredith Center Road.

Start Christmas shopping now!

Lots of everything...small and big items. Some old, some newer and some items you will just want to have! We have been collecting all summer and ready to share our finds!

Saturday & Sunday, 10am-2pm. Absolutely NO early birds!!

MOULTONBOROUGH Indoor Yard Sale. 205 Skyline Dr. Saturday, 9am-1pm. Organ, bubblegum machine & lots more!

Rain or Shine!

MOVING Sale, Sat. 10/6 and Sun 10/7, 7:30 am - 4:30 pm. Tools, furniture, misc. items. 3 Beaver Pond Rd. Center Barnstead.

MOVING Sale: Clothes, tools, vinyl windows, household items & much more! 53 Gaslight Road, Village Co-op, Route 3, Tilton.

SANBORTON Yard SaleSaturday, October 6, 9am-1pm.

106 Lower Bay Rd.

86 LANCASTER HILL RD. FURNITURE, HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND MORE!

Pease Public Library 139th annual Book Sale. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Library in Plymouth. The sale will include books, videos, DVDs, and audio books.

Chili contest held to benefit the Alton Food Pantry. 1-4 p.m. at JP China in Alton.

The cost is $5 per person to taste. The event will also include music and raffles. To enter in the contest or for more information call 875-8899.

A Blessing of Animals and Soil held at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Laconia. 11:30 a.m. The public, leashed animals, gardeners and farmers are all welcome to attend. Donations for Good Shepherd’s Hands and Hearts Food Pantry are appreciated.

Ecumenical ‘Blessing of the Animals’ service. 1:30 p.m. in the Memorial Garden at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Meredith. People are invited to bring their favorite animal or pet. This includes dogs, cats, hamsters, birds, fish, teddy bears, etc. Donations for the Human Society are greatly appreciated.

The Inter-Lakes professional theater presents the show “Steel Magnolias”.

3p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Inter-Lakes High School Auditorium. Tickets are $20. For ticket reservations or more information call 1-888-245-6374.

25th annual Poker Run to benefit local charities hosted by the Gold Wing Road Riders Association New Hampshire, Chapter G. Registration is from 9-11 a.m. at Venco Wings located at 815 Route 129 Loudon. Entry fee is $10 per participant.

Guides will be handed out at registration and at other checkpoints along the way.

For more information email nhg-gwrra@ hotmail.com or call 393-5674.

Gilmanton Community Church holds a Pancake Breakfast followed by registra-

information contact Bethany Lavin at 26719314 or call the church office at 364-7891.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 White Mountain Dowsers meeting and evening presentation entitled “Journey on the Sacred Pathways of a Native American Grandmother.” The meeting runs from 6:30 to 7 p.m. and the presentation from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Starr King Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 101 Fairgrounds Road. For more information call 444-5494 or email bigrock86@gmail.com.

Narcotics Anonymous meeting. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 35 Tower Street in Weirs Beach.

Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recovery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA. The program is held Monday nights at 7 p.m. at the Laconia Congregational Church Parish Hall, 18 Veterans Square, (for mapquest use 69 Pleasant St.), Laconia, NH 03246. Use back entrance.

Call/leave a message for Paula at 998-0562 for more information.

Chess Club at the Hall Memorial Library in Northfield. 4-7 p.m.

Adult Pick-up Basketball offered by Meredith Parks & Recreation Department held at the Meredith Community Center Monday nights from 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. $1 per person - sign in and out at the front desk.

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 Harvey Beetle at 528-3073. (Every Monday) Meeting of Lakes Region I.B.D. Support Group for persons with Chrohn’s Disease, various forms of Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. 7 p.m. at the Wesley Woods Community Center at the First United Methodist Church in Gilford. For more information call Randall

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Absentee ballots for General Election available at Gilford Town Clerk’s office GILFORD — Absentee Ballots for the General Election being held on November 6, 2012 are now available at the Gilford Town Clerk’s Office according to Denise M. Gonyer, Town Clerk – Tax Collector.

She provided the following information on qualifying for an absentee ballot: RSA 657:1 Absence, Religious Observance, and Disability Absentee Voting. – Any person who is absent on the day of any state election from the city, town, or unincorporated place in which he or she is registered to vote or who cannot appear in public on any election day because of his or her observance of a religious commitment or who is unable to vote there in person by reason of physical disability may vote at such elections as provided in this chapter. A person who is unable to appear at any time during polling hours at his or her polling place because an employment obligation requires the person to remain physically at work or to be in transit to or from work from the time the

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polls open until after the time the polls close shall be considered absent for purposes of this chapter.

RSA 657:3 Armed Services Voter. – Regardless of whether he is previously registered, any person qualified as an armed services voter as provided in RSA 654:4 may vote absentee at any state election in the New Hampshire city or town which was last his home as provided in this chapter.

RSA 657:6 Procedure by Applicant. – An application form for an absentee ballot shall be mailed or delivered to any person who applies therefore to the secretary of state or to any town or city clerk. It shall be filled out by the applicant and sent to the clerk of the town or city in which he desires to vote. Alternatively, a person may apply for an official absentee ballot by sending to said clerk a written statement containing the information required by the appropriate paragraph of RSA 657:4, or by the federal post card application.

Ballots may be obtained in advance at the Town

Clerk’s Office, filled out and retained with the Town Clerk until voting day. Regular business hours are: M, TU, W & F 8-4:30 – TH 8- 6:00; the office will be open 8-5 Monday, November 5, 2012 to accept absentee ballots (In accordance with NH State Law). Returned ballots must be delivered in person by the voter (no other person may deliver on the voters behalf) or by USPS mail (and received by 11/6/12), according to state law.

Those with any questions can contact the Town Clerk’s Office at 527-4713 or dgonyer@gilfordnh.org.

from preceding page a 2,500-square-foot, 10 room, three bed, three bath, contemporary home that was built in 2005. This is also a bank owned home. It has some nice features including stainless steel appliances, tiled foyer, exterior stone façade, a huge family room with cathedral ceiling and gas fireplace, and a master suite. As with all bank owned properties, it is being sold “as is,” but it is represented as having been well maintained.

This home is on the market for $197,010 (what A parade of open houses featuring beautiful do you think the $10.00 is for?) and is assessed at $265,810. Good deal? new custom and spec homes designed, built Anyway, this is just a few of the potential deals out and decorated by members of the Lakes Region there among those 1,200 homes that are available Home Builders & Remodelers Association. right now. Call your REALTOR® and have him set up some showings. It is a great time to buy!

Please feel free to visit www.lakesregionhome.com to learn more about the Lakes Region real estate 1 market and comment on this article and others. Data was compiled as of 10/1/12 using the Northern New England Real Estate MLS System. Roy Sanborn is 1 22 Round Hill Road, a REALTOR® at Roche Realty Group and can be Sandown, NH 03873 reached at 603-677-8420 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2,300+ sq. ft.

OCTOBER 6-8, 2012 11am to 4pm each day

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OPEN HOUSE

580 Hemlock Brook Road Bristol, NH 03222 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2,500 ft. finished space

SUNDAY – October 7 – 1-3pm

49 Ellis Farm Road Sanbornton

$319,900

For Sale

New Construction Colonial – 3 Bedrooms 2.5 Baths/Optional Bonus Room/2100SF Hardwood/Tile Flooring- Cherry Kitchen Level Lot Abutting Conservation Area.

MLS #4123131

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3004 Parade Road Laconia, NH 03246 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 4000+ sq. ft.

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ANDREA KENNEY - www.NHnewHome.com

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44 Pease Road Meredith, NH 03253 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 5,000 sq. ft.

Office: 603-232-8282 - Direct: 603-582-5166

OPEN HOUSES IN MEREDITH LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE

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224 Krainewood Drive Moultonboro, NH 03256 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 6,000 sq. ft.

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80 Weetamoe Road Ossipee, NH 03814 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,980 sq.ft.

37 Spindle Point Road Sat & Sun, October 6 & 7 • 11am-2pm $3,999,999

64 Wagon Wheel Trail $3,999,000 Sunday, October 7 11am-2pm

A Winnipesaukee Masterpiece! Remarkable Adirondack residence with 230 feet of private waterfront on a total of 1.94 acres. Canopy covered U-shaped dock, stone patios, walkways & beach. Main house has over 6800 SF of pure Adirondack style, 2 master suites, 3 guest suites, a gourmet kitchen, Great Room w/soaring stone fireplace, impressive lower level with 8 seat home theater, game room, wet bar, family room, office & guest room with steam shower, sauna & much more! Also included is a detached 2 bedroom Carriage House w/ 3 car garage under. 2 separate lots both with its own septic, well & backup generators.

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BCEDC from page one each candidate respond to three questions posed by Sean Sullivan, who chairs the BCEDC. They were asked how their background equipped them to promote economic development, what they considered the major economic issues in their districts and how the state and federal governments could contribute to the economy as well as what changes to public policy they would advocate.

All six candidates have business experience. Forrester earned at MBA at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, headed Main Street programs in Plymouth and Meredith and operates a small environmental engineering firm with her husband. Lamb, a graduate of the United States Military Academy, spent 30 years in the financial sector, serving as chief financial officer of FleetBoston when it was the seventh largest bank holding company in the country, and currently is chairman of Allied International Holdings, Inc., an insurance company.

After serving in the United States Air Force, Cataldo worked first in the defense industry then as a nuclear contractor, training personnel at Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power and Pilgrim Nuclear Power, before operating a restaurant and providing computer services. Leonard, a pharmacist, manages the Hannaford Pharmacy in Alton while also tending a 40-acre farm, with an orchard and sugar house, and leasing residential and commercial property.

An attorney by trade, Hosmer served as an assistant district attorney in Hampden County, Massachusetts, prosecuting a wide range of misdemeanors and felonies, before joining AutoServ, the automobile dealership owned by his wife’s family, where he is the general manager of AutoServ Nissan in Tilton. Born and raised in Laconia, Youssef is a self-described entrepreneur, who parlayed his talent as a software engineer, which he honed in his college dorm room where he began his first business, into ownership of the largest computer repair and upgrade franchise in the Northeast.

In response to the questions, the candidates returned again and again to the themes of education, regulation, health care and investment. Noting that her district includes dairy farms and machine shops, Forrester said that employers repeatedly stress the shortage of workers with skills for even entry level positions. She mentioned the career partnership program, which provides internships and mentoring, and called for closer partnerships between individual businesses and the community

college and university systems.

Lamb, her opponent, asked “are we ready to have adult conversation” and said that neither the state nor municipalities had resources to invest in infrastructure, including public education. Instead, he continued, the Legislature reduced funding for the community college and university systems and sought to limit its contribution to elementary and secondary education. “We need for state government to change and take a different perspective” he said.

Acknowledging that education appeared to be a “common thread,” Youssef said that he agreed, but added “we need to focus on small business.” He claimed that “regulation is impeding the formation of of businesses” and called for “restoring a climate of economic friendliness” to encourage entrepreneurship.

Hosmer touted the quality of life, good public schools and sound health care system as significant assets while calling attention to the aging population and labor shortage as challenges facing the region. He emphasized the importance of developing the workforce advanced manufacturers require to grow and prosper and overcoming the lack of access to health insurance that threatens the viability of LRGHealthcare, which is a major source of professional employment in the region.

Cataldo said that “companies are hunting for machinists” and suggested that “the push to go to college” was shrinking the pool of young people with the aptitude and skills to seize the opportunities offered by manufacturers. He remembered programs that enabled students to divide their days evenly between school and work.

“Where to begin,” asked Leonard, noting there were 10,000 fewer jobs in the state this year than last. He too stressed the need for education and training, which he called “critical,” and decried the decision to cut the university system budget. “Not funding education doesn’t help business,” he said, adding that firms seeking to re-locate measure the quality of school systems.

Apart from Youssef, most pictured government as a partner of business in fostering economic development.

“Government is a referee,” Youssef said, “not a player in the game.”

He said that the role of see next page

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FRANCE from page 17 days currently are a blur of sports, music, tutoring for families of means, or a scramble for working parents struggling to get by — who must either find a sitter or send their kids to a full day at a state-run “leisure center.”

Things aren’t exactly easy for French kids.

Despite long summer breaks and the four-day school week, French elementary school students actually spend more hours per year in school than average — 847, compared with 774 among countries in OECD, a club of wealthy nations. But the time is compressed into fewer days each year. The French school day begins around 8:30 and ends at 4:30 p.m., even for the youngest, despite studies showing the ability of young children to learn deteriorates as the day goes on.

France ranks below most of its European neighbors and the United States in results on international tests.

But many parents are afraid that the changes will force them to figure out extra childcare five days a week, especially at schools where the afterschool program amounts to sitting silently at a desk for two hours or near-chaos in the play areas. Under the education proposal, school would end at lunchtime on Wednesday.

“It’s completely unrealistic,” Valerie Marty, president of the national parents’ organization, said of the proposed timetable. “They have to figure out who will take care of the children after school, who will finance it.”

In France, the answer is usually the government.

The state is expected to provide for just about everything education-related: Classes come under the national budget, and lunches and leisure are the domain of municipalities. So if school lets out most days at 3:30 p.m., under the plan most recently floated, more working parents than ever would need afterschool care — and towns would have to figure out what to do with restless children. That would almost certainly involve something more constructive than sitting quietly at desks, kicking around a ball, or playing cards until the evening when parents get out of work.

The Education Ministry has proposed more organized extracurricular activities like sports, theater and art to replace the relatively free-form time children now have after school. But that means trained staff and, of course, more money from local budgets already strained in difficult economic times.

Marty, who has three children, proposes something entirely different: lengthening lunch to three hours.

“After a meal, children have a moment when they’re tired. They’re not ready for intellectual activities and could do something more relaxing,” she said, suggesting theater, or quiet time in a library for others. Afterward, she said, classes could resume until evening. from preceding page government in the economy should be “minimized,” limited to ensuring “a level playing field” to empower the competitive forces of free markets.

Forrester said that extending the tax credit for research and development and preparing a long-term economic development policy, akin to the 10-year highway plan, would be her top priorities. Lamb repeated the importance of investing in infrastructure and favored expanding the Medicaid program, which he said would return $1-billion of federal funds to the state between 2014 and 2020. Explaining that this money would circulate through the economy, he said “we should jump at the opportunity.”

“Business thrives where there is moderate, disciplined, focused government,” said Hosmer, who spoke of “public-private collaboration.” As examples, he offered the prospect of increasing the tax credits for economic revitalization zones and boosting exports abroad, but remarked that budget cuts have shrunk the International Trade Resource Center at the Department of Resources and Economic Development.

Echoing Lamb, he said that “for a prosperous tomorrow we need to make wide investments today.”

“If we build it, they will come,” Leonard said. “Not a building but a relationship between government