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Dump ‘pickers’ gain compromise in Meredith

BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

MEREDITH — In response to complaints from residents with a penchant for sifting through the metal pile at the Transfer Station for useful items, the Board of Selectmen last night accepted the recommendation of Town Manager Phil Warren to ease the recent prohibition against picking.

Warren told the board that after listening to the suggestions of residents and researching alternative means of policing the site, he preferred to follow the example of Brewster, Massachusetts and allow picking from the pile with appropriate restrictions. He said that climbing on the pile and rummaging through it would still be forbidden, along with collecting metal to be sold as scrap.

“There will be commercial activity,” Warren said, explaining that pickers would be limited to specific items like bicycles, furniture and tools that could be restored and put to use.

The prospect of pickers compromising the town’s recycling program by removing metals that would othsee DUMP page 8

Joseph & his Technicolor Dreamcoat will return to GHS stage this weekend Joseph (Zack Tousignant) is surrounded by his “Brothers” during a performance of Gilford High School’s production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”.

Two performances of the musical remain, scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights at 7 in the school auditorium. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for students and seniors and may be purchased in advance at the Gilford Village Store or Greenlaw’s Music in Laconia.(Karen Bobotas/for The Laconia Daily Sun)

Selectmen listen but hold ground on town hall position cuts

BY GAIL OBER

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

GILFORD -—After hearing pleas from two department heads, selectmen have decided to continue their budget recommendation that employee positions in the land use and the town clerk’s offices be reduced.

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While both departments spoke to how the cuts could effect their services, at last week’s meeting, Chair Kevin Hayes said selectmen “made it very lean budget (for 2011) with difficult cuts.”

“I would hope that before we change our posture we look for ways to make that change work,” Hayes said.

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Speaking for reinstating one part-time position in the Town Clerk-Tax Collector’s Office, Denise Gonyer said that one recent Thursday the office found itself down to one person and she had get coverage by asking someone to come in who was scheduled to be off that day. see GILFORD page 9

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One-way to Mars

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — It’s usually cheaper to fly one way, even to Mars.

Two scientists are suggesting that colonization of the red planet could happen faster and more economically if astronauts behaved like the first settlers to come to North America — not expecting to go home.

“The main point is to get Mars exploration moving,” said Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a Washington State University professor who co-authored an article that seriously proposes what sounds like a preposterous idea.

At least one moon-walking astronaut was not impressed.

“This is premature,” Ed Mitchell of Apollo 14 wrote in an e-mail. “We aren’t ready for this yet.”

Also cool to the idea was NASA. President Barack Obama has already outlined a plan to go to Mars by the mid-2030s, but he never suggested these space travelers wouldn’t come home.

“We want our people back,” NASA spokesman Michael Braukus said.

The article titled “To Boldly Go” appears in the latest issue of the Journal of Cosmology, which featured more than 50 articles and essays on Mars exploration.

Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University, argue that humans must begin colonizing another planet as a hedge against a catastrophe on Earth. They believe the one-way trips could start in two decades.

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GOP Senate leader signs-on to earmark moratorium WASHINGTON (AP) — In a further tea party win over the Senate GOP establishment, the top Republican in the chamber on Monday unexpectedly fell into line behind demands by House leaders for a moratorium on pork-barrel projects known as “earmarks.”

The abrupt surrender by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell represented just the latest insurgent victory over GOP regulars like the Kentucky Republican, who had backed several establishment candidates — one was in his home state — who lost GOP nominations to tea party-backed candidates earlier this year.

Earmarking is the longtime Washington practice in which lawmakers insert money for home-state projects like road and bridge work into spending bills. Critics say that peppering most spending bills with hundreds or even thousands of such projects creates a go-

along-get-along mindset that ensures that Washington spending goes unchecked.

McConnell has long defended the practice, but now said he’s heeding the message that voters sent in midterm elections that swept Democrats from power in the House.

He said he can’t accuse Democrats of ignoring the wishes of the American people and then do the same thing.

McConnell’s move heads off a battle with conservative Republican senators who had signaled that they would force a vote Tuesday on banning the practice. That vote is now a formality.

“Nearly every day that the Senate’s been in session for the past two years, I have come down to this spot and said that Democrats are ignoring the wishes of the American people,” McConnell said in a surprise announcement from the Senate floor.

“When it comes to earmarks, I won’t be

guilty of the same thing.”

House GOP leaders had already endorsed a ban on earmarking, and McConnell’s move signaled a recognition that earmarks were on their way out.

McConnell, a 26-year veteran of the Senate and longtime member of the Appropriations Committee, had argued in the past that banning earmarks would shift too much power to President Barack Obama and wouldn’t save taxpayers any money.

“I know the good that has come from the projects I have helped support throughout my state. I don’t apologize for them,” he said.

“But there is simply no doubt that the abuse of this practice has caused Americans to view it as a symbol of the waste and the outof-control spending that every Republican in Washington is determined to fight.”

Obama, who endorsed a crackdown on see EARMARKS page 10

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a week before the Thanksgiving travel crush, federal air security officials were struggling to reassure rising numbers of fliers and airline workers outraged by new anti-terrorism screening procedures they consider invasive and harmful.

Across the country, passengers simmered over being forced to choose scans by full-body image detectors or probing pat-downs. Top federal security officials said Monday that the procedures were safe and necessary sacrifices to ward off terror attacks.

“It’s all about security,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. “It’s all about everybody recognizing their role.”

Despite officials’ insistence that they had taken care to prepare the American flying public, the flurry of criticism from private citizens to airline pilots’ groups suggested that Napolitano and other federal officials had been caught off guard.

At the San Diego airport, a software engineer posted an Internet blog item saying he had been ejected after being threatened with a fine and lawsuit for refusing a groin

check after turning down a full-body scan.

The passenger, John Tyner, said he told a federal Transportation Security Administration worker, “If you touch my junk, I’m gonna have you arrested.”

Tyner’s individual protest quickly became a web sensation, but questions also came from travel business groups, civil liberties activists and pilots, raising concerns both about the procedures themselves and about the possibility of delays caused by passengers reluctant to accept see PAT-DOWNS page 24

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Cheese subsidies full of holes How interesting that one arm of the Agriculture Department is promoting sales of cheese as another urges the public to eat less of it for health reasons. Your tax dollars at work fighting other tax dollars.

Dairy Management is a marketing company partly funded by the department. It has done things like advise Domino’s Pizza that it could sell more pies if it piled more cheese on them, according to The New York Times. Over at Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, meanwhile, dieticians fret that cheese has become Americans’ largest source of saturated fat, contributing to heart disease and obesity.

Odd bureaucratic conflicts like these tend to ignite irrelevant debates on whether the federal government is “too big.” Determining a proper size for government is no more meaningful than setting a proper size for a vitamin pill or an air conditioner.

You buy the tablets or cooling unit to achieve certain goals. You may want them as small and cheap as possible, but they must be big enough to do what you want done.

We need an active government to oversee the country’s defense and assure access to medical coverage.

We don’t need such intervention because bigger government is better.

We need it because these are necessities that private markets can’t effectively provide.

This doesn’t mean that every cubicle in Washington needs filling. We all have our little list of programs to chop. For me, the war on drugs is a colossal black hole that sucks in billions annually while making a problem worse. Subsidizing corporations to grow wheat or soybeans also fails the logic test. (Why not subsidize store owners to sell shoes or tennis instructors to teach the backhand?)

Yet many alleged foes of government promote and profit from farm welfare programs. The strange Michele Bachmann — the Republican House member who accused President Obama of making “the final leap to socialism”— has collected a quarter million in taxpayer handouts for her family farm in Minnesota.

Dairy Management is a related example of an unjustified government subsidy. Former Domino’s Pizza CEO David A. Brandon received over $4-million in compensation last year, according to the company’s most recent proxy statement. At least four other Domino’s executives made over $1-million.

They’ve been well paid to manage their line of pizzas. And shouldn’t the money to market them come out of their company’s own budget?

You have to feel for dairy farmers.

Their day is long, and with many Americans switching to lower-fat dairy products, they’re stuck with a lot of leftover milk fat. And they have every right to support Dairy Management’s mission to move it off the shelves. That’s between them and consumers.

But while the industry does pay for most of Dairy Management through government fees, the taxpayers still shovel many millions into the enterprise. Here’s a more appropriate arrangement: Dairy businesses run their own trade association, and they pay for it.

I even question the nutrition police on the other side. The Agriculture Department should have a modest role educating the public on what a healthy diet looks like. But the cause of America’s growing obesity problem goes way beyond the fat content of one or several products.

It’s also about lack of exercise and screwed up eating habits having to do with portion size and the collapse of the family dinner hour.

Sure, let’s argue over which government programs are wasteful or wrong-headed and which are essential. But we should agree that such matters are outside the empty debate over an optimal size for government. The needs of the moment, not a philosophical ideal, should determine government’s size.

(A member of the Providence Journal editorial board, Froma Harrop writes a nationally syndicated column from that city. She has written for such diverse publications as The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar and Institutional Investor.)

2 lcoal business deserve credit for attractive library grounds To the editor, On Monday evening, I watched Mayor Mike Seymour hand out the annual Adopt-a-Spot Awards to the gardeners and landscapers whose creativity and diligence contribute so much to the beautification of our city.

While all of the winners deserve high praise for their dedication to improving Laconia’s public scenery, I want to take this opportunity to thank two local businesses who, for a number of years now, have worked

long and hard to make Laconia Public Library’s lawns and gardens the most attractive library grounds in the state.

So thank you Chris Haddock (CBH Landscaping) and Blythe Caruso (Enchanted Earth Designs) for all that you and your respective crews continue to do for Laconia Public Library. Your efforts are deeply appreciated, and you are richly deserving of your awards.

Randy Brough, Director Laconia Public Library

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LETTERS I don’t have to endorse tea party ideas to applaud their efforts To the editor, Wow, my name in the same sentence with the venerable Professor Sandy, I am truly honored. That is neither a joke, or sarcastic, I feel honored but undeserving. Mr. Meade seems to think I belong to the educated elite, and in that regard Mr. Meade you are woefully mistaken. If you want to call me intelligent, I wouldn’t argue, but I guess that’s just my arrogance talking. My forays into higher education are really nothing to speak off and, I feel, none of your business, I am not asking you for a job, nor would I. I really wish that was the only thing wrong with your letter.

To set the record straight, hopefully for the last time. I never said anything about how I felt or feel about the tea party movement in any of my letters regarding the statement about their civility or lack of civility. I was merely telling a gentleman, that had written a letter to this paper, probably voicing a “liberal” opinion, and had written a follow-up letter bemoaning the vitriol and name calling that had ensued, that that kind of thing was quite normal in these pages. I did say in a later letter that Mr Earle may not

care for my opinion of the tea party, but that I personally had no problem with them whatsoever. The truth of the matter is that I applaud them for their grass roots sort of organization, and just plain getting involved with the political process. I don’t have to like their ideas any more than they have to like mine, I never called anyone any names in a serious letter.

That brings me to my final point.

On several occasions Jack Stephenson and I exchanged nonsensical letters and I played the role of the extreme left winger and he the extreme right winger. He and I have since spoken and both admitted to being facetious in our letters, and I really believe him to be a fine gentleman, with whom I can agree to disagree with and still not resort to name calling. In other words, we can be opposites and still not get nasty. I am a Democrat and proud of it. I personally don’t go in for the negative type of politics where name calling from both sides seems to be the norm, also.

In the words of the infamous Rodney King “Can’t we all just get along” Marty Valengavich Belmont

Asphalt plant will make a wonderful part of Franklin unlivable To the editor, The November 12 Laconia Daily Sun’s article on zoning — “what we want, vs. what we don’t want” — is very timely. Franklin residents need to attend a Wednesday, Nov. 17 Planning Board meeting at 7 p.m. at the Franklin City Hall to hear the “facts” from Franklin citizens on how this asphalt plant proposal by Edmunds will seriously impact on the quality of life in one of the most historic areas of Franklin, South Main Street, Webster Place. Colbrook and Edmunds have been “convoying” 22 wheelers and other trucks with full loads of stockpile materials for this plant, to the Punch Brook site for the past few weeks.

And, this, before any permits are issued? So, for all those residents who want to continue living in a great area — home of Daniel Webster and other notables — please let the Planning Board know that this asphalt plant,

attached to it, among them: Franklin residents’ health and property (devaluation); and traffic congestion from the substantial planned number of truckloads of asphalt will make your commute, and ability to probably egress from your own drive-way, a nightmare. This is just the beginning of a very lengthy, life-time list. The noise pollution from all the events going on right now from the proposed asphalt plant site is probably equal to the sounds of several buildings being simultaneously demolished. Wearing ear-protection in our own back yard, three-tenths of a mile south of this Punch Brook area, is a MUST. Your future Franklin will either me a livable or non-livable one. Please attend this crucial Planning Board meeting, to state your concerns for the Planning Board to hear and take seriously! Thank you.

Jack & Bettey Tobey

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LETTERS BMS Fall Fling was supported by many people and businesses To the editor, The Belmont Middle School PTO is a non-profit organization run solely by parent volunteers for the benefit of students, families and staff at Belmont Middle School. The PTO performs necessary volunteer services and organizes fundraising efforts for the school community. We sponsor several other organizations, including the National Junior Honor Society, the DARE program, speakers to help prevent bullying, and Safety and Arts programs for the students of Belmont and Canterbury. We are not able to continue these efforts without the support of our local merchants.

We would like to thank the following Lakes Region businesses and individuals for their support and sponsorship of

our Annual Fall Fling family event held on October 16: Brookside Pizza – Belmont; Fuller Oil, AppleBee’s – Tilton; Uno’s – Tilton; The 99 – Tilton; Shaw’s – Tilton; Shooter’s, Shaw’s – Belmont; Hannaford – Gilford; Market Basket – Tilton; Osaka; NH Fisher Cats; Patrick’s Pub; Kelly Smart for Pampered Chef; Hackleboro Orchards; Skate Escape; Mix 94.1; JS Logging; TangoWare; Belmont Baseball Organization; Kim and Ed Horan; Patrick Akerman and friends, and Alan Conway.

We’d also like to thank all of the families who attended and the parents who helped to chaperone the Fall Fling. It was a successful event and we can’t wait for next year.

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6 times, N.H. authorities signed off on property tax caps for cities To the editor, The N.H. Supreme Court rejected a property tax cap for Manchester reportedly because it goes against state law on taxes and spending. The SC’s opinion that state law says budgets should pass on a simple majority vote is wrong.

A tax cap amendment does requires a 2/3 vote to override the cap.

The annual budget, of any municipality, historically is overridden by a 2/3 majority. A supplemental appropriation requires 2/3 to exceed the total appropriation, as previously adopted. The same 2/3 is applicable to municipal bonding.

This SC order does not speak well of the N.H. legal system. Six cities and towns have similar property tax caps.

Each of those proposed amendments is required to have a written opinion by an attorney admitted to the N.H. Bar that; “the proposed amendment is not in conflict with the general laws

or the constitution”. Will the six attorney be censured? Will they have to make restitution for the election cost incurred?

The Secretary of State, Attorney General and the Department of Revenue Administration all had to approve those amendments. Will they be charged with a failure to uphold the oath of office by allowing the amendments to be placed on the ballot? According to the Supreme Court, six times the N.H. Attorney General saw no violations of the constitution or law?

Perhaps it’s time the N.H. Bar regroups and gets its house in order.

First, it was innovative interpretation of school funding law, a prerogative vested with N.H. Legislature. Now it’s Charter Amendments regarding annual appropriation that may impact home rule.

Thomas A. Tardif Laconia

Would it help if Obama personally showed you his birth certificate?

To the editor, I have some questions for those who doubt that President Obama was born in Hawaii. Did you doubt the U.S. births of George W. and H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter? Would you be as thorough if John McCain had been elected, especially since he was born in the Panama Canal Zone? What is reliable evidence? Is it not sufficient that on October 31, 2008, the Director if Hawaii’s Department of Health and the Hawaiian Registrar of Vital Statistics both stated that they have personally verified that the Health Department holds Obama’s original birth certificate, and that he was indeed born on August 4, 1961 at 7:24 PM in Honolulu. (All this information

is easily verified via the Associated Press or the Honolulu Advertiser, or more thoroughly through FactCheck. org, my favorite non-partisan source of facts and truths) There is even a photocopy on display. Or, since Hawaiian law prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest in the matter, would you ask President Obama to procure one and show it to you personally, which he did do for the press in 2008.

I suspect, though that doubters would say he somehow doctored it!

Patrick Daniel Moynihan probably said it best, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts”. Grow up!

Dave Kuether Meredith

Rotary raising $4,500 to put wreath on every vet’s grave at Bayside To the editor, Did you know there are 455 veterans in Bayside Cemetary in Laconia?

The Laconia Rotary Club would like to put wreaths on all of their graves for the holiday season! As a part of “Wreaths Across America”, groups all over the country honor our deceased veterans in this way.

We need to raise $4,500 to be able to

and we need your help to reach our goal. Any donation is greatly appreciated and can be sent to Laconia Rotary PO Box 503 Laconia, NH 03247 or dropped off at All My Life Jewelers in Laconia. For more information please visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org or call 528-8541.

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LETTERS Patrick’s fundraiser netted $500+ for GHS performing arts students

Core group of sidewalk builders were amazing & they had lots of help

To the editor, The Gilford High School Performing Arts Department would like to thank everyone who participated in our fundraising event at Patrick’s Pub and Eatery in Gilford on October 24.

We had over $1,000 in sales, which resulted in a check for just over $500 for the students. This money will provide scholarships to musicians who are unable to afford to travel with the band and chorus when we perform

To the editor, A few times in life one has an extraordinary experience. This is how I would describe my involvement in the Gilford Sidewalk Project with my former students. We had a vision to make a positive safety contribution to our Gilford community, by making a commitment to raise money for Gilford sidewalks. It all started in 2005 when my 7th grade students and I began the Gilford Sidewalk Service Learning Project. Every 7th grade student (class of 2010 & 2011) worked on this community service project as part of the Family and Consumer Sciences Service Learning Curriculum, “Solving Real Issues.”

Our project consisted of two sidewalks in Gilford Village Phase IV and Phase V surrounding the schools.

In November 2008, we dedicated the completed Phase IV sidewalk in front of the Gilford Elementary School along Belknap Mountain Rd. to Hawthorne Way to the town of Gilford at no cost. These civic-minded students had raised the entire cost of this sidewalk through fund raising efforts and with in-kind service donations of generous community businesses that worked on the sidewalk.

In 2007, I wrote a Transportation Enhancement grant which the Gilford Middle School students presented to the Lakes Region Planning Commission and the State Department of Transportation in Concord. We were awarded the grant for Gilford Sidewalk Project Phase V for $186,000.

Phase V sidewalk follows Alvah Wilson Rd providing safe access along the side of Gilford High School and in front of Gilford Middle School. A group of twelve dedicated students choose to stay with this project from seventh grade through high school. Calling ourselves the Gilford Sidewalk Project Core Group, we continued to work on the fruition of the completion of both sidewalks. I am very proud of these students making community needs a priority in their lives. They have developed critical skills that will enable them to continue to be concerned, caring, and active community members. In November 2010 we see

this year in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

We would also like to thank Patrick’s Pub and Eatery and its entire staff for hosting this wonderful fundraising event year after year and for providing opportunities like this for school organizations. Thank you all for participating and for your on-going support of the music and drama programs at Gilford!

Lyvie Beyrent Gilford High School

Stay at Balsam’s Grand Resort is prize for I-LHS Giving Tree raffle To the editor, The Inter-Lakes High School Giving Tree Committee is raffling off a two day, one night stay at The Balsam’s Grand Resort. The package includes dinner and breakfast (dinner is coat and tie in the dining room), as well as full use of the resort’s amenities, such as downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, snow shoeing or, if you wait and go in the summer, golf.

The tickets are $5 for one and $20 for five . The drawing will be held on November 30. Please contact Jodi Pendexter at I-LHS (279-6162) for more information. The Giving Tree Committee believes that all students deserve a Christmas and all proceeds from this raffle go to ensuring students in need have a happy holiday season.

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the completion of the Alvah Wilson Rd. sidewalk Phase V! It is with deep gratitude, admiration, and respect I thank and commend the following 12 outstanding students of the Gilford Sidewalk Core Group: THANKS to: MONIQUE BARON, MEGAN BELVILLE, HEATHER BLANDFORD, CHELSEA COSSEBOOM, NICK DENVER, ALYSSA HEMCHER, TIFFANI HEMCHER, AMY MEYERS, TRAVIS RITSON, IAN SHURBERT, JOHN STACY, and MEGAN WERNIG. We leave you with our motto that inspired community service in us and carried us through in hope that it will inspire you too!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead As you can imagine, we had a lot of help from others to reach our goals. We are very grateful for the love and support of our families, a special thanks to my husband Mark; the encouragement of Jim Kemmerer our middle school principal for believing in us from the beginning to end. Thank you Dr. Paul DeMinico, Scott Isabelle and the Gilford School Board. Thank you Sheldon Morgan, director of Gilford DPW and Dustin Mussey for their work on this project from conception to completion, overseeing the project, and continue with on going sidewalk maintenance. Thank you!

Thank you Gilford Community Members, Gilford Rotary, and the following businesses: Gilford Department of Public Works, Lyman Construction (Jack & Jim Lyman), Pike Industries (Christian Zimmerman), NE Laser Grading (Eston Ross), Laconia Monument Co., and Fluet Engineering (Paul Fluet). We thank Ed Engler, editor & publisher, of The Laconia Daily Sun for the continuous coverage and support of the Gilford Sidewalk Project.

Thank you! Thanks to all who worked on and supported this project!

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I have $25 for your favorite charity ready if you can produce evidence To the editor, This is in response to Ms./Mr. L. J. Siden’s letter of Nov. 12. In it, she/he states that I (and others) have labeled people as “socialists”, “communists”, “idiots”, pinheads, “nutty professor”. . . “dump”, “stupid”, and “intolerant, vindictive hateful people”. Well Ms./ Mr. Siden, here is a challenge for you, if you can show where I used any of those terms in reference to any indi-

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I propose a duel, with arms . . . the hugging kind of arms To the editor, I am sensing a strained relationship with Tony Boutin, who probably needs a big hug more than anything else — but more about that later. I have underestimated Tony and will now acknowledge his unparalleled penchant for acerbic wit for which he should be congratulated. It is a true gift. I also thank him for attributing powers to me that I probably don’t have but if I do, I shall have to constrain. Although Tony has never met me or seen me teach, his gift of inferential reasoning may be aware of things about me that I don’t even know. For example, on a conscious level, I believe that I love teaching because of its intrinsic pleasure rather that whatever monetary rewards that it brings. But who knows, deep down inside, I could be in it just for the money. In true psychoanalytic fashion, Tony raises the point about the power of the unconscious and how sometimes we are the opposite of our public behavior, and our repressed selves may emerge later in life. Good

examples of this are Arianna Huffington who became a liberal after years of adherence to conservatism, and Zell Miller, a former liberal, who became a conservative. Given this, I could be a closet conservative Republican and Tony could be a closet liberal Democrat. What prevents the emergence of our hidden selves is the power of the defenses of suppression and repression.

As far as giving up half my pay, it seems that this is no longer an issue since it has been established that intrinsic motivation is only an illusion. Even more important than that is that giving up half my salary would not go over well with my wife, and since I have to live with her and not Tony, I’ll pass on that gesture. I now propose that Tony and I have a duel with arms – the hugging kind of arms – and that whoever gives the biggest hug wins. Maybe the Sun could cover it with a picture under the caption, “Boutin and Sandy Face Off”. What say you to this Tony, you big old teddy bear?

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Not a good time to raise the dump sticker & beach permit fees To the editor, Recently the Town of Moultonborough raised the fee for the Waste Management and Beach Permit from $10 to $20. This does not seem like a big deal. But, when you consider this town raises $23+ million dollars in taxes, this raise in fees seems significant. We have a contractors workforce here in town and right now there is not a lot of building going on and their incomes are dramatically low. Our senior citizens have not had a cost of living increase for two years now and they are having very hard times making ends meet. There should not be any increase either on or of our town taxes and fees.

According to Webster’s Dictionary a tax is charge, a fee is a fixed charge. from preceding page mies list”, that too, is a figment of your imagination. In regards to arrogance being an affliction of the educated elite, a number of letters by some local PhD’s and “educators” provide sufficient evidence to support that claim.

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This $10 increase per dump sticker does not seem like a lot but it is just another tax when all of us are hitting tough times. This should have been brought before the town and given all of us a chance to voice our opinion and allow the selectboard some feedback.

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LRGHealthcare a winner as state approves new Medicaid funding formula But hospital officials warn that one-time payment of $4.3-million does not begin to make up for reimbursement cuts

BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

CONCORD — LRGHealthcare will be among the 19 N.H. hospitals to benefit from revamping the system for reimbursing the cost of uncompensated care. After months of wrangling, the Fiscal Committee of the Legislature yesterday approved a plan proposed by Nick Toumpas, commissioner of Health and Human Services, to address problems raised by a federal audit that threatened to cost the state $35-million.

Henry Lipman, senior vie-president and chief financial officer of LRGHealthcare said, “We’ve taken a number of cuts in Medicaid reimbursement totaling $4.6-million on an annualized basis. . . This is a one-time payment that offsets a relatively small portion of those cuts.”

The issue originated in 1991 when the state introduced its “disproportionate share hospital” (DSH) program. The program was designed to provide hospitals with additional funding for the cost of treating patients without health insurance or covered by Medicaid, but instead was used to help balance the

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state budget. To fund the DSH program, the Medicaid Enhancement Tax was levied on hospitals at 5.5-percent of their net revenues. At the same time, the state filed a claim with the federal government against the tax receipts and in return received Medicaid matching funds equal to half the proceeds from the tax, which were intended for distribution to hospitals to offset the cost of uncompensated care.

Quickly dubbed “Mediscam,” the DSH program has not operated according to design. The proceeds from the Medicaid Enhancement Tax have been immediately returned to the hospitals in the guise of their disproportionate share payments, effectively holding them harmless. And all the federal matching funds have been transferred to the general fund to finance government operations and balance state budgets. According to the New Hampshire Hospital Association, New Hampshire is the only state that has not applied any of its federal matching funds to its disproportionate share program.

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of the uncompensated care they provide, was contrary to the rules of the DSH program. The Center for Medicaid/Medicare Services raised the prospect of seeking to recover $35-million from the state and warned that another $65-million could be at risk.

In an effort to escape these liabilities, the state restructured the program by applying a new formula for distributing payments to hospitals, which matches reimbursement payments to uncompensated care, beginning on January 1, 2011. The Medicaid Enhancement Tax is projected to raise $186.9-million, half of which will be transferred to the general fund. The balance, together with approximately $114-million in federal matching funds will form the uncompensated care fund of $207.6-million. These funds will be redistributed to hospitals, 19 of which are projected to reap net gains and the rest net losses totaling $14-million in the aggregate.

Lakes Region General Hospital and Franklin General Hospital are among those projected to receive payments in excess of their taxes. Lakes Region General Hospital, where $11.1-million of uncompensated care costs represents 10.6-percent of net patient service revenue of $104.7-million, will receive a net payment of $1,308,145. Franklin General Hospital, with $4.2-million in uncompensated care costs amounting to 18.7-percent of its $22.7-million in net patient service revenue — the highest proportion of all 28 hospitals — will receive a net payment of $2,984, 395.

Lipman said that “the relatively favorable treatment of Lakes and Franklin reflects our relatively higher percentage of uncompensated care costs. But, the payments do not represent a significant share of the real uncompensated care costs we’re actually contending with. We are receiving more than we paid in tax,” he continued, “but the payment must be seen in the context of the cuts to Medicaid reimbursement rates we have already experienced and expect to undergo in the future.”

Moreover, Lipman pointed out that the Fiscal Committee approved the formula for distributing the funds on the understanding that the relative shares could change as a number of hospitals gather fresh data and make new calculations. The formula itself, Lipman anticipated was likely to be adjusted in coming years. “This will be an ongoing issue the hospitals will have to deal with,” he said.

In a prepared statement the New Hampshire Hospital Association described the payments to hospitals as “too low to accurately reflect what they spend on uninsured and Medicaid patients” while noting that nine hospitals will suffer net losses. Meanwhile, some $93-million in proceeds from the tax on hospitals will be diverted to the state general fund. “This is simply wrong and will end up costing those of us with private insurance more through higher insurance premiums as those costs get shifted to cover these losses,” the statement closed, calling the plan “an extremely unfortunate outcome for hospitals, their patients and the communities they serve.”

DUMP from page one erwise be sold was among the reasons for the ban.

Meanwhile, those wishing to “pick” the metal pile would be asked to sign disclaimers releasing the town of any liability in the event of injury. Concern that someone hurt while sifting through the disposed metal would sue the town was another reason for prohibiting picking of the metal pile.

Frank Marino, the principal spokesman for those who chaffed at the prohibition, said that he was pleased with the outcome, which represented a reasonable compromise.

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The result was a sharp reversal from the regular season game between the two teams, played just two weeks earlier, which Gilford won 40-20. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)

GILFORD from page one “People deserve their time off,” she said.

“We need that person,” continued Gonyer. “Half of the residents who showed up (in our office) said they were sorry the position was lost.”

The town clerk’s office had a person leave about three months ago. Rather than allowing Gonyer to fill it, selectmen ask that she go without until November and report to them the effects the loss has had on her operation.

Gonyer said she doesn’t believe the “service lost equates to the dollars saved” and said her department, which is responsible for collecting most of the revenue for the town, is down because the economy is down, not because it was over-staffed.

When Hayes asked her if there was a way to increase revenue to the town, Gonyer said adding 50 cents to each car would generate enough revenue to pay for half of the position.

“We should do it anyway,” said Selectman John O’Brien.

“I felt, along with the board, that this was not the time for [increasing the cost] of registrations,”

Gonyer replied emphasizing that her department wanted to continue to provide good service.

“We need to call it what it is, “ said Selectman Gus Benavides. “A tax increase.”

He went on to say hiking to costs of registrations wasn’t part of that meeting’s agenda, but if it was, he just wanted people to understand that, in his mind, an increase in a fee is tantamount to a tax increase.

Gonyer said that if her office can’t do all the functions with which it is charged, like boat registrations, then the loss of the employee could actually cost the town money and force the elimination of services that she is not mandated to do.

“I think my office pays for itself,” she finished.

As part of this year’s budget, selectmen also took a full-time secretary in the Land Use Department and made the position part-time, eliminating the position as one that triggers benefits like health insurance.

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Meredith challenging necessity of expensive upgrades to regional sewer plant MEREDITH — Town officials have questioned the wisdom of the capital improvement plan of the Winnipesaukee River Basin (sewer) Project and in particular are urging reconsideration of a proposal to install an ultra-violet (UV) disinfection system at an estimated cost of $10-million.

The WRBP, which is part of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES), is a stateowned sewer system serving Laconia, Belmont, Center Harbor, Franklin,

Gilford, Meredith, Moultonborough, Northfield, Sanbornton, and Tilton.

The treatment plant in in Franklin.

Each of the members is represented on an Advisory Board that reviews the agency’s proposed budget, but has no authority to amend it. State statute prescribes that DES proposes and the Legislature approves the WRBP’s operating and capital budgets, which are funded by the local sewer rates of the 10 municipalities.

The member municipalities became alarmed when the WRBP broached a capital improvement program costing

from preceding page sion had “evoked some concerns” that “prompted him to do a little research.”

Speaking to selectmen about that memorandum, Ayer said the number of permits are up slightly, phone calls to Land Use have risen consistently and that he needs the full-time position.

He said his research “tried to illustrate how the department would look without a full-time secretary” and determined that even with “considerable juggling” the loss would have “an impact on the service we’re able

to provide.”

Ayre noted that while revenue from permits is down from previous years, the number of permits issued is not.

“We also suspect that [the economy] has bottomed out and things are likely to increase,” Ayre said.

While the department head’s presentations appeared to fall on deaf ears, taxpayers ultimately have the final say and can make their opinions known at the deliberative session leading up to annual town meeting in March.

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Town Manager Phil Warren told the selectmen last night that “there has been some back and forth” and “the funding for the project is unsustainable.”

Warren said that the Advisory Board, chaired by Paul Moynihan, Laconia Director of Public Works, has considered only the UV system, which is almost completely designed, and overlooked less expensive but equally efficient chemical alternatives. “I’m fearful and disappointed they are headed down the wrong track,” he said. “I’m disappointed that the UV program has progressed to where it is.”

Warren, who has worked closely with Dan Leonard, superintendent of the Water and Sewer Department, said

that he believed a chemical system, applying chlorination, could be installed for about $1-million, a tenth the cost of the UV system. Moreover, because the UV system uses significant amounts of electricity and is a proprietary system requiring a service contract, it will have significantly higher operating and maintenance costs.

At a meeting yesterday, Warren said that Camp, Dresser, McKee, Inc., the firm designing the UV system for the WRBP, was persuaded to review alternatives in order for the Advisory Board to undertake a cost-benefit analysis.

Meanwhile, officials from the member municipalities are weighing the prospects of introducing legislation that would afford them more authority over the operations and the budget of the WRBP.

Meredith property tax rate for 2010 projected to come in at about $12.80 MEREDITH — At a workshop yesterday, Director of Administrative Services Brenda Vittner projected the town portion of the 2010 property tax rate at $4.20 per $1,000 of assessed value, three cents less than the 2009 rate.

Vittner reported that the total amount to be raised by property taxes was $7,697,915, or $367 less than a year ago. That figure incorporates $4,510,178 in revenues from sources other than property taxes and applies $500,000 from the undesignated fund balance (rainy day fund).

Vittner explained that the fund balance stood at $3,639,476 when the year began. Moreover, she estimated that by year end, revenues would top estimates by $17,550 and unexpended appropriations would total $425,662.

Consequently, while $500,000 would be taken from fund balance to set the tax rate, $443,211 would be added to it, leaving a balance of $3,582,687 at year end, well about the 7.25-percent of gross appropriations recommended by the financial community and established by the selectmen.

Selectmen Miller Lovett, who each

year admonishes the board for using the fund balance to lower the tax rate, said “this is a good use of fund balance in hard economic times.” But, he added “if you know you can apply fund balance, you’re being as tough on the operating budget as you need to be.”

Selectman Peter Brothers reminded Lovett that the board crafted “a very austere budget” and, anticipating that non-property tax revenues might fall short of estimates, declined to spend almost $426,000 that was appropriated.

Vittner projects the local school portion of the tax rate to climb from $4.54 to $4.95 while the rate of the statewide education property tax drops eight cents, from $2.40 to $2.32. She also projects the county assessment to decrease by a nickel from $1.38 to $1.33.

Altogether Vittner estimates the combined tax rate will rise from $12.54 to $12.80 (2.1-percent). She expects that the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration will set the tax rate in time to mail tax bills before the end of the month, with payment due by the end of the year.

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FedEx doubling number of terminals at distribution facility in Belmont Parenti an estimate of $77,000 to build the cistern.

If built, she said the cistern will enhance fire protection along the corridor and possibly entice more industry to relocate to Belmont.

“It’s a welcome contribution,” Daigle said. “It’s anybody’s guess as to the future.”

She said the presence of a cistern, while not required by law, will save every industry in the area money in fire insurance costs.

Right now, there are four major industries with facilities in Belmont — Fed Ex, Coca-Cola, Bestway and the N.H. Department of Transportation.

The three private entities pay property taxes while the DOT does not.

She said Parenti based the size of the cistern on “current maximum fire load.”

TRB Development Group of Hookset is the general contractor for this project as well as the Fed Ex expansion project in Lebanon.

GILFORD — Police charged a Meredith man with driving while intoxicated after he crashed his car into the Fireside Inn and Suites on Harris Shore Road.

Michael Patsos, 53, of 25 Barnard Ridge Road allegedly was drunk when he lost control of his black 2008 Nissan Pathfinder.

Police said they responded to the crash and found Patsos laying on the ground next to his car. They said he allegedly broke his ankle when he fell out of the SUV while trying to get out of it.

He was taken to Lakes Region

General Hospital for treatment after which Sgt. Corey O’Conner arrested him for DWI. According to police, the crash cause extensive structural and cosmetic damage to the building. The unit was not occupied.

In August, Patsos crashed his motorcycle on Lake Shore Road near the Belknap Point Motel. He was airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

O’Conner said that crash is still under investigation.

— Gail Ober

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“Tomorrow, the Republicans in the Senate are going to start answering that question: Have we learned our lesson? Are we going to go a different way?” DeMint said. “If the Senate Republicans fail to pass a ban on earmarks tomorrow, obviously they have not gotten the message.”

McConnell’s move also forestalls a possible fight with the House, where Speaker-to-be John Boehner, R-Ohio, poised to become the most powerful

Republican in Washington, had put people on notice that there won’t be any earmarks in spending bills.

“House and Senate Republican leaders are listening to the American people and are united in support of an earmark ban,” Boehner said. “This is a strong first step — though only a first step — towards making the tough choices required to get our country back on track.”

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Town Planner Candace Daigle said the Planning Board gave the go ahead for the project on August 23.

While the project spells good economic news for the immediate area, Daigle said the company, working through its Kentucky-based developer, said they would also place $25,000 toward a cistern that, when built, will assist greatly with fire protection along the industrial corridor.

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Court OKs N.H. law allowing ‘God’ pledge in schools BOSTON (AP) — The constitutionality of a New Hampshire law that requires schools to authorize a time each day for students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance has been upheld by a federal appeals court that found the oath’s reference to God doesn’t violate students’ rights.

A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on Friday affirmed a ruling by a federal judge who found that students can use the phrase “under God” when reciting the pledge.

The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison, Wis., educational group working for the separation of church and state; two group members, identified as Jan and Pat Doe; and their three children, who attend public schools in the Hanover school district in New Hampshire and the Dresden district in New Hampshire and Vermont.

The parents, who identified themselves and their children as atheist and agnostic, said the pledge is a religious exercise because it uses the phrase “under God.” They argued the recitation of the pledge at school made their children “outsiders” to their peers on the grounds of their religion.

The pledge, written in 1892 by socialist writer and Baptist minister Francis Bellamy, partly to help heal sectional hatred still lingering from the Civil War decades earlier, is: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

The law challenged by the lawsuit is the New Hampshire School Patriot Act, which was enacted in 2002 months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Under the law, student participation in the pledge is voluntary. Students who choose not to recite the pledge may stand silently or remain from preceding page party in the chamber, by surprise, and top Democrats said they stand by the practice. A spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid, freshly re-elected after a campaign in which he boasted of his ability to bring home the bacon to Nevada, said Reid believes it’s up to each senator to decide whether they’ll seek earmarks.

“From delivering $100 million in military projects for Nevada to funding education and public transportation projects in the state, Sen. Reid makes no apologies for delivering for the people of Nevada,” Reid spokesman Jim Manley said. “He will always fight to ensure the state’s needs are met.”

For his part, Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii — he delivers hundreds of

seated.

In its ruling, the 1st Circuit agreed with a U.S. District judge in New Hampshire, who ruled in October 2009 that the law is constitutional.

“In reciting the Pledge, students promise fidelity to our flag and our nation, not to any particular God, faith, or church,” Chief Judge Sandra Lynch wrote for the court. “The New Hampshire School Patriot Act’s primary effect is not the advancement of religion, but the advancement of patriotism through a pledge to the flag as a symbol of the nation.”

California physician and attorney Michael Newdow, who has fought for years to strip the phrase “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, said he likely will appeal the ruling by asking the three-judge panel to reconsider or to refer the case to the full appeals court for a hearing.

“Once again, we have federal judges doing what is politically popular as opposed to upholding the Constitution,” said Newdow, who represented the plaintiffs in the case.

He said the case isn’t about “whether you believe in God or don’t believe in God.” “It’s whether you believe in the government respecting us all equally or the government favoring your religious views,” he said.

New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Nancy J. Smith did not immediately return telephone calls seeking comment Monday.

The American Center for Law and Justice, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, praised the ruling.

“This appeals court reached a significant and sound decision that underscores what most Americans understand — that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance embraces patriotism, not religion,” the group’s chief counsel, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement. millions of dollars to his state each year — said that the lame-duck Congress should try to pass a huge omnibus spending bill, along with its thousands of earmarks.

“It is vitally important that we complete work on appropriations bills that contain 99 percent of funds that are not earmarked, and only 1 percent that are,” Inouye said.

McConnell’s move came as a relief to GOP colleagues caught in the middle of a behind-the-scenes battle between Senate traditionalists and tea party favorites like DeMint and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who have joined with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in a longtime battle — and thus far a losing one — against the bipartisan practice of earmarking.

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N.H. school districts will only get half of the federal stimulus money aimed at preserving teachers’ jobs; state will keep the rest CONCORD (AP) — A special New Hampshire legislative committee voted Monday to divide $41 million in emergency federal funding intended to protect teachers’ jobs between schools and the state.

The joint legislative Fiscal Committee voted to give local schools half the money and use the rest for other state spending. Republicans tried unsuccessfully to keep all the money for the state.

State Rep. Neal Kurk, R-Weare, argued that the state has fully met its school aid commitment and needs the money to fill looming budget shortfalls.

“The decision leaves the state in a very significant budget hole,” he said after losing his appeal to keep the money.

Senate President Sylvia Larsen, D-Concord, countered that the money will help local schools and the property taxpayers who help pay their bills.

The total school aid distribution for this fiscal year will rise to $978 million from $957 million.

Federal education officials estimated the $41 million would save 700 teachers’ jobs in New Hampshire, but a survey by school administrators last summer determined roughly 200 jobs had been cut going into the school year.

Christopher Clement, director of the state’s Office of Economic Stimulus, said in a report to the committee that the state increased school aid by more than $100 million in the current two-year-budget, which fully funded its aid commitment.

He said the federal law requires schools to use the funds for pay and benefits and other expenses needed to retain existing employees, to recall or rehire former employees and to hire new employees.

Schools that have excess funds at the end of this school year can use the money to hire new teachers through the end of September 2011, he said.

The state’s tactic is not new. The state — with Gov. John Lynch’s support — substituted federal education stimulus funds for state-funded school aid in the current budget. State tax money was freed up from being spent on school aid and used instead for other spending, including state aid to communities.

The federal law calls for the money to be distributed either to schools under the Title I formula — which target schools with high concentrations of low-income students — or through the state’s aid formula. Not all schools receive Title I money.

Nashua police say 14-year-old girl used knife to assault peer NASHUA (AP) — Police in New Hampshire say a 14-year-old girl is facing a felony charge she assaulted a 13-year-old girl with a knife.

Nashua police say the victim suffered an injury to her face Friday evening that was consistent with being attacked with a knife.

Police did not release the names of the girls involved nor did they provide the condition of the girl who was injured or the extent of her injuries.

The girl police say is responsible for the attack was arrested Friday and taken to the Nashua Children’s Home. She’s due in court Monday.

MANCHESTER (AP) — Despite a series of recent high profile violent crimes, New Hampshire remains one of the safest places to live in the nation.

In the last few weeks there have been two killings in Manchester, another in Pittsburg and a mother and a child died in the same attack in Auburn. And last week a man was convicted of killing a Mont Vernon mother in October 2009 and maiming her daughter.

Ted Kirkpatrick of the University of New Hampshire says a series of reports of crimes make people feel less safe.

But in April, the Washington-based CQ Press analyzed crime statistics and found New Hampshire was the safest state in the country.

The New Hampshire Union Leader says it’s the third year the state has had that ranking.

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GILFORD — Calvin M. Tibbetts, 74, formerly of Rochester and a long time resident of Gilford, died at Forestview Manor, Meredith on Thursday, November 11, 2010. He was the widower of Judith A. (Fortin) Tibbetts who died in 2005.

Cal was born July 10, 1936 in Laconia, N.H., the son of Maurice and Demerise (Begin) Tibbetts.

Cal served in the U. S. Navy. He had lived in the Lakes Region for fifty-nine years before moving to Rochester fifteen years ago. He was owner of Tibbetts & Son Electric and had also been employed at Parker & Plumber and Two International, retiring in March, 2010.

Cal was a member of the Laconia-Gilford Lions Club for over twenty years and served as King Lion.

Survivors include two daughters, Shelly A. Middleton and her husband, Craig, of Gilford and Lisa Tibbetts of Moultonborough; a grandson, Kyle Middleton, of Gilford and twin granddaughters, Ashley and Chel-

sea Ratchford, of Moultonborough.

Calling hours will be held on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 from 5:00-8:00 PM in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Andre Bessette Parish, St. Joseph Church, 30 Church Street, Laconia, N. H. on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 10 AM. Burial will follow in the family lot in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Laconia, N.H. For those who wish, the family suggests that expressions of sympathy in Mr. Tibbetts’ name be made to Community Health & Hospice, Inc., 780 North Main Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246.

Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com.

Judith “Judy” A. Bordeau, 62 BELMONT — Judith “Judy” Ann Bordeau, 62, of 24 Randlett Street, died at the Lakes Region General Hospital, Laconia on Thursday, November 11, 2010.

Judy was born June 30, 1948 in Newport, R. I., the daughter of Maxie and Ruth (Christie) Bordeau. Judy grew up in Stratford New Hampshire, and then lived in Laconia for many years before moving to Belmont in 2003.

Judy enjoyed spending time with her loving family and grandchildren. She is survived by two daughters, Rebecca A. Plourde and her husband Jeremy and their children Jordon, Parker and Griffin Plourde all of Gilmanton and Norma L. Kortz and her husband Kasey A. Kortz and their son Kaeden Kortz all of Laconia; two brothers, Bradley Bordeau of Englewood,

Florida and Anthony Bordeau of Morgan, Vermont; a half brother, Clarence Curtis, of Stratford, NH; five sisters; Marilyn Sorrenty of Englewood, Florida, Sally LaCasse of Groveton, N.H., Beverly Greene of Englewood, Florida, Brenda Bryant of Littleton, N.H. and Karen Newton of Sanbornton, N.H. and many nephews and nieces.

There will be no calling hours.

A celebration of her life and burial will be in the family lot in Stratford Center Cemetery, Stratford, N.H., in the spring.

Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www. wilkinsonbeane.com.

Vernon A. Vermouth, 86 BRISTOL — Vernon A. Vermouth, 86, died Sunday, November 14, 2010 at the NH Veterans Home in Tilton. He was born in Springfield, VT, the son of Elwin and Dorothy (Merriam) Vermouth. Following graduation, Vernon enlisted inthe US Army, serving in the China, Burma, and India campaigns during WWII. After his return, he went on to study watch making, and began working for Auchenbach in Glens Falls, NY and Stowell’s Jeweler in Boston.

Later he changed career paths and worked as a supervisor for Discom Computers in Littleton, MA. After retiring, he moved to Bristol where he was a member of the Minot Cavis Post 26 American Legion and the VFW Post 10640.

In his free time, he enjoyed fishing and spending time on Newfound Lake, but, Vernon’s greatest love

was time spent with his family.

Family members include his wife of 64 years, Evelyn (Kelly) Vermouth of Bristol; four sons: Michael of E. Hebron; Peter of W. Brookfield, MA; Thomas of Northfield; and Terry of Northboro, MA; five grandchildren; three great grandchildren.

Services: There will be no calling hours. A memorial service will be held on Friday, November 19, 2010 at 1:00 pm the Bristol United Church of Christ, South Main St., Bristol Interment will be private at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the Bristol United Church of Christ, 15 Church St., Bristol, NH 03222 or the NH Veterans Home, 139 Winter St., Tilton, NH 03276. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Emmons Funeral Home of Bristol.

Belknap Independent Business Alliance invites residents to “America Unchained” on Saturday LACONIA — The Belknap Independent Business Alliance (BIBA) invite Lakes Region residents to participate in “America Unchained” — part of a national annual campaign encouraging consumers to “break the chain (store) habit” by doing business at locally-owned, independent businesses on Saturday, November 20.

Accordint to the American Independent Business Alliance (A.M.I.B.A.), creators of America Unchained, “A study released in 2004 ... found that [the] independents generate 70 percent more local economic impact per square foot than chain stores.

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Summer Theatre in Meredith presenting “Christmas Celebration” featuring music of Bing & Elvis MEREDITH — The Summer Theatre in Meredith will present “A Christmas Celebration” featuring the songs and styles of Bing Crosby, Judy Garland and Elvis Presley on Thursday, Dec. 9 (noon), Saturday, Dec. 11 (6 p.m.) and Sunday, Dec. 12 (1 p.m.).

All performances will be at Meredith Community Center and an Italian buffet dinner will be included.

The show, is being directed by Thom Caska of NYC, who STMV audiences will remember as Lazar Wolf, the Butcher in STMV’s favorite production of “Fiddler on the Roof”.

According to Nancy Barry, producing artistic director, “We have so many folks who are asking us to produce events year round, and this is one of the events that has grown in popularity over the last three years.”

All three performers in the show are from New

York City. One of them, Sheira Feuerstein will be remembered by STMV audiences as Matron Morton in the summers production of “Chicago”. Inhabiting the personae of “Bing” is STMV favorite Cary Mitchell, who appeared in a feature role in every show last season from “My Way” through “Spelling Bee”. Newcomer Nick Miller is a singer/actor who makes his side career impersonating “Elvis”in NYC. “We decided to do the event at the Meredith Community Center this year, in order to bring everbody’s costs down and keep the travel to a minimum for our more mature drivers. We are also so lucky to have Paul Ursillo and Amy Elfline from “The Mug” to cater a tasty Italian buffet dinner”, said Barry with a giant smile on her face.

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SANBORNTON — Pianist Daniel del Pino, with the Iberia String Quartet, will open the eighth season of the Chamber Music series at Sant Bani School at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 19.

Del Pino has established himself as one of the leading Spanish concert pianists on the international scene. Marking the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth, del Pino will perform the chamber music versions of Chopin’s piano concertos. These

“salon” settings were very common in Chopin’s time and the composer enjoyed this more intimate setting rather than a large hall with full orchestra. Joining del Pino is an exciting young Spanish string quartet, the Iberia String Quartet.

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NH Master Chorale to perform “A French Connection” with PSU faculty quartet PLYMOUTH — Conducted by Dr. Daniel Perkins, the New Hampshire Master Chorale (NHMC) will collaborate with the PSU Faculty Jazz Quartet in three performances with “A French Connection” to be held in Concord on November 19, Hanover on November 20, and Plymouth on November 21 in Concord.

“A French Connection” will feature Leonard Bernstein’s French and Latin Choruses from the Lark, which will be performed with selected spoken excerpts from the play about Joan of Arc’s trial. The concerts will also include works by French composers Frank Martin and Maurice Ravel, and American composer John Corigliano, who set an English translation of Baudelaire’s famous poem “L’Invitation au Voyage.” The world premiere of composer-in-residence Jonathan Santore’s setting of a Victor Hugo poem, “Love Always,” will feature PSU professor Rik Pfenninger on soprano saxophone.

The second half of the program will be decidedly lighter, including vocal jazz arrangements of “Michelle,” “Autumn Leaves,” and the premiere of Santore’s “In France” and “The Streets of Paris” for choir and jazz quartet.

“The concert will be a creative blend of music by American and French composers” commented Dr. Perkins. The dramatic Bernstein choruses will foreshadow the Master Chorale’s spring 2011 performances of Richard Einhorn’s “Voices of Light,” along with the projection of the silent black and white film “The Passion of Joan of Arc.” The concerts will be held on Friday, November 19 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Concord at 8 p.m.; Saturday, November 20 at St. Denis Catholic Church in Hanover at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, November 21 at Plymouth Congregational Church at 4 p.m. Tickets are $20 for seniors and students and $25 for all others. Group rates are available. Tick-

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End of life care to be subject of two local discussions on Tuesday

LACONIA — November is National Hospice & Palliative Care Month. On Tuesday, November 16, Maria Babineau from Central New Hampshire VNA & Hospice (also know as Community Health & Hospice) will lead two discussions centered around care at end of life. The first discussion is at 2 p.m. at 780 N. Main Street, Laconia, and the second will be hosted at the Belknap Family Health Center, 238 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith.

Hospice care is the model of high quality, compassionate care that helps patients and families live as fully as possible. All Americans deserve quality care at the end of life – it is a fundamental part of living.

Certified hospice care is recognized as the gold standard for end-of-life care. Considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care at the end-of-life, hospice care involves a team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient’s needs and wishes. Support is extended to the patient’s loved ones, as well. At the center of hospice is the belief that each of us should be able to die pain-free with dignity, and that our families receive the necessary support to allow us to do so. The focus is on caring, not curing.

Many patients experience pain and other distressing symptoms as illness progresses. Hospice staff receives special training to effectively anticipate, assess, treat, and prevent all types of physical symptoms that cause discomfort and distress. Hospice care is a growing and viable option for quality end-of-life care. Clearly, as Americans learn more about hospice, they are recognizing that it’s the kind of end-of-life care they want and need.

“Black Friday” babysitting available at Gilmanton Community Church on November 26

GILMANTON — “Black Friday,” the busiest shopping day of the year, may be a bit less hectic thanks to babysitting service provided by the Community Church from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, November 26.

Parents are invited to do their day-after-Thanksgiving shopping without the kids, leaving them under the supervision of CPR-trained adults and Red Cross-certified youth. Children can purchase a variety of gifts to make for friends and family while in the Church’s care.

Meals and snacks will not be provided.

Pre-registration is required. All proceeds will benefit the upcoming mission trip to LaRomana, Dominican Republic. For more information, call Bethany at 267-1934 or 267-1992 or visit www.gilmantoncommunitychurch.org.

Thanksgiving service at First Congregational Society in Gilmanton will feature music GILMANTON — The First Congregational Society will hold their annual Thanksgiving Service at 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 21.

The Reverend Sidney Lovett will conduct the service. Harriet Coupal is the organist and Tom Kidder will present a trombone solo. All members and friends are invited to come together to enjoy and give thanks.

Meredith Altrusa Club’s spectacular Festival of Trees to light up Waukewan Golf Club in Center Harbor

MEREDITH — The 15th Annual Festival of Trees, sponsored by the Altrusa Club and hosted by the Hale family, will get the holiday season off to a celebratory start at the Waukewan Golf Club in Center Harbor December 2 — 5.

Opening the event will be the Silent Auction and Gala from 5:30 — 8 p.m. on Thursday, December 2. Against the backdrop of this picturesque New England Barn setting featuring a huge rustic fireplace, guests may bid on items generously donated by area businesses.

Radio personality Pat Kelly, a Lakes Region favorite, will be on hand as Master of CeremoA scene from the 20009 Festival of Trees. (Courtesy photo) nies while participants enjoy music, hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and a wine age 5 and under. In addition to viewing the excepand beer cash bar. ‘Tis the Season Raffle tickets will tional collection of uniquely decorated trees, visitors be available for a spectacular tree sure to make the can enjoy tasty treats, purchase products made by season sparkle. In addition, the Noel Shoppe will local artisans in The Noel Shoppe, and take chances feature a book signing with local author and illusto win fabulous raffle baskets. trator Karel Hayes.

Adding to the excitement this year, Colleen Monroe Tickets are now available at the Greater Merwill present “A Wish to be a Christmas Tree,” the edith Chamber of Commerce, Cackleberries Garden magical tale of a pining evergreen tree at 5 and 7 and Gift Shop in Meredith, and Fashion Forward in p.m. Children age 3 — 8, in their PJs, are invited to Moultonborough. Pre-purchased tickets are $12; bring their favorite adults and visit the enchanted $15 at the door.

Woodland Cabin for story time. Pre-registration is From 2 — 8 p.m. on Friday, December 3; 9 a.m. — suggested as space is limited. Admission is $3. Chil5 p.m. on Saturday, December 4; and 11 a.m. — 5 dren age 5 and under will be admitted free. p.m. on Sunday, December 5, visitors may view the All proceeds from the Festival benefit the Interbeautiful trees contributed and decorated by area Lakes Christmas Fund, the Moultonborough Santa businesses, nonprofit organizations, individuals, Fund, area food pantries, and other Altrusa initiatives. and families. Altrusa distributes all donated trees Individuals, families, clubs and local businesses are through area Christmas funds and other outreach encouraged to enter a tree, donate item for the auction, organizations following the Festival. or become a sponsor. Call Hilda Schmidt at 253-7166 Admission is $3 for adults and free for children or e-mail hildacschmidt@hotmail.com.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When your mood drops, your mind fills with concerns that weren’t there when you were feeling up and full of energy. You can keep worry at bay by continuing to do the things that contribute to your good health.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Many around you are noticing a certain problem and are unsure of how to solve it. The more positive you are the easier it will be for you to see a full range of possible solutions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You realize that if you don’t act, others with less experience and wisdom will.

You don’t like to think about where that will lead, so you’ll take initiative. You will make commitments and do what you say you will do.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your ethics are solid, but there’s someone around you who lacks your integrity.

This one could tempt others and bring the group down. Take courage -- stand up and stop those who are on a wrong path.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

Everyone makes mistakes, but you’ve learned enough from yours that if you do mess up again, those flubs will be of a very different variety from any you’ve made before.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 16).

You are curious about the world, and what you learn stimulates your imagination, making you want to learn more.

Through the next two months, it will be lucrative to give your boss, client or customer more than was expected.

You’ll move into a new position. February is romantic, and you’ll revel in the attention. Capricorn and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 30, 1, 23 and 15.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You have a friendly and inclusive attitude.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Sometimes you wonder why you bother upholding stringent standards and such a challenging routine. It’s important that you continue, though. You are a guiding light for those who lack discipline and structure.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Embrace your limitations as creative allies. They force you to use all of your faculties, to work with others and to be resourceful.

You’ll make a thing of beauty, and it will be beautiful precisely because of the way it is made.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your feelings are important, valid and there to help you. Nothing is too small to be aware of. If you are not feeling quite like yourself, there is a reason for it, and it’s worth paying attention to.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ve learned to manage your thinking. In a low mood, you distrust and ignore your negative thoughts. In a high mood, you validate and encourage your positive thoughts. These methods bring you success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You and a partner are very different from each other. In many respects, you could be considered opposites. You don’t always have to please each other or understand each other in order to work well together.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You don’t require that others be like you in order to appreciate them. You like the differences you find. They keep you interested, as you’re just not sure what

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ACROSS 1 Potato or yam 6 Engrossed 10 Taxis 14 Crazy 15 Pitcher 16 Lie adjacent to 17 Official decree 18 Extremely 19 Short letter 20 Sorrowful 22 Stir up 24 Information on an invitation 25 Person in a prayerful posture 26 Oration 29 Fit for a king 30 Certain vote 31 Doctrine 33 Tranquillity 37 Space flight agcy.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Nov. 16, the 320th day of 2010 with 45 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 16, 1960, Academy Award-winning actor Clark Gable died in Los Angeles at age 59 shortly after he completed filming “The Misfits” with co-star Marilyn Monroe.

On this date: In 1776, British troops captured Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.

In 1885, Canadian rebel leader Louis Riel was executed for high treason.

In 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state of the union.

In 1917, Georges Clemenceau again became prime minister of France.

In 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.

In 1959, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music” opened on Broadway.

In 1966, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.

In 1970, the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar jetliner went on its first test flight from Palmdale, Calif.

In 1973, Skylab 4, carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral on an 84-day mission.

In 1982, an agreement was announced in the 57th day of a strike by National Football League players.

One year ago: President Barack Obama, on his first trip to China, gave his hosts a pointed, unexpected nudge to stop censoring Internet access. Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station. British actor Edward Woodward, 79, died in Cornwall, England.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Clu Gulager is 82. Blues musician Hubert Sumlin is 79. Journalist Elizabeth Drew is 75. Blues musician W.C. Clark is 71. Actress Joanna Pettet is 68. Actor Steve Railsback is 65.

Actor David Leisure is 60. Actor Miguel Sandoval is 59. Actress Marg Helgenberger is 52. Rock musician Mani is 48. Country singer-musician Keith Burns (Trick Pony) is 47. Tennis player Zina Garrison is 47. MLB All-Star pitcher Dwight Gooden is 46. Jazz singer Diana Krall is 46. Actor Harry Lennix is 46. Rock musician Dave Kushner (Velvet Revolver) is 44. Actress Lisa Bonet (bohNAY’) is 43. Actress Tammy Lauren is 42.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Bryan Abrams (Color Me Badd) is 41. Actress Martha Plimpton is 40. Actor Michael Irby is 38.

Actress Missi Pyle is 38. Olympic gold medal figure skater Oksana Baiul (ahk-SAH’-nah by-OOL’) is 33. Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (JIHL’-ehn-hahl) is 33. Pop singer Trevor Penick is 31. NBA player Amare Stoudemire is 28. Actress Kimberly J. Brown is 26. Actor Noah Gray-Cabey (“Heroes”) is 15.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS RESPECT Teen Clinic at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453.

Walk-in for teens only, 2 to 6 p.m. GYN and reproductive services. STD/HIV testing.

Boy Scout Troop 143 meets at the Congregational Church of Laconia (across from Laconia Savings Bank).

6:30 each Tuesday. All boys 11-17 are welcome. For information call 527-1716.

Lakeport Community Association meeting. 7 p.m. at the Freight Station.

Parkingson’s Supprt Group. 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Forestview Manor (153 Parade Road) in Meredith. For more information call 279-3121.

Lakes Region Camera Club meeting. 7:30 p.m. at the Meredith Public Library. Business meeting and competition in travel and nature. See images at www.larcameraclub.com.

Hooked on rug hooking session at the Gilford Public Library. 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bring your own project or Carol Dale will provide you with the basic supplies.

Teen Crafter Night at the Gilford Public Library. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. It’s back to beading basics as group learns how to put together a beautiful bracelet. For grades 5-8. Sign-up required.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Free Mom & Me showing of “Ratatouille” at Smitty’s Cinema in Tiliton. 11:30 a.m.

Affordable Health Care at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453. GYN and reproductive services. STD/HIV testing on walk-in basis from 4 to 6 p.m. Sliding fee scale.

Cub Scout Pack 143 meets at the Congregational Church of Laconia (across from Laconia Savings Bank).

6:30 each Wednesday. All boys 6-10 welcome. For information call 527-1716.

Laconia Elders Friendship Club meeting. 1:30 p.m. at the Leavitt Park Clubhouse. People 55 and older meet each Wednesday for fun, entertainment and education. Meetings provide an opportunity for older citizens to to meet for pure social enjoyment and the club helps the community with philanthropic work.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) meeting. 5:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Meredith.

Duplicate bridge at the Weirs Beach Community Center. 7:15 p.m. All levels welcome. Snacks.

Check out a computer expert at the Gilford Public Library. 9:15 to 11 a.m. Mike Marshall will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

After School Craft Time for Grades 1-4 at the Gilford Public Library. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Create a turkey masterpiece to take home for the holidays.

Teen After School Craft Time for Grades 5-8 at the Gilford Public Library. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Preschool Story Time at the Meredith Public Library.

10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Stories and crafts for ages 3-5. Sign-up in helpful.

Lego Club meeting at the Meredith Public Library.

3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

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LACONIA —On Saturday, November 20, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Belknap County Nursing Home will be filled with area crafters, vendors and baked goodies for the Annual Holiday Fair. This much anticipated event has been going on for many years and draws some of the best crafters in the area — over 30 are expected this year.

Area businesses have generously made donations which will be grouped in baskets and raffled off. Raffle tickets will be available the day of the event.

New this year, wonderful baked goods will be donated by the Church of Latter Belknap County Nursing Home residents and staff have been busy preparing to host their annual Day Saints, The Lakes Holiday Fair on Saturday, Nov. 20. (Courtesy photo) Region Community College Hospitality Program and the Huot Technical chase supplies and hold in-house events, such as a Center Culinary Arts Program. Both schools offer Cotillion and Hawaiian Luau. Residents love the culinary classes that produce some of the tastiest activities and the entire staff of the Nursing Home treats in the area. These items may be purchased is dedicated to providing each resident with quality during the event. care and stimulating activities.

All proceeds from the event benefit the Resident There is no admission fee for the fair and the Activities Fund. This fund enables the staff to take public is welcome and encouraged to visit and help residents on outings, hire local musical talent, purmake this a successful event.

Santa Plunge fund raiser to make a splash on Dec. 5 GILMANTON — A Santa Plunge, presented by the Community Church to raise funds for its mission trip to Dominican Republic will be held at Varney Road Beach on Crystal Lake at 1 p.m. on Sunday, December 5.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: “Roy” and I have been married for 43 years.

We have two married children and several grandchildren.

We’ve had our share of problems, but I have always trusted him -- until now.

Roy retired three years ago. Recently, close friends of ours informed me that they saw him at a diner on the outskirts of town, having lunch with a female in a “cozy” booth. Roy didn’t see my friends because he was apparently engrossed in conversation, laughing and smiling. My friends said at one point their hands touched across the table, and the husband said he saw them hug and briefly kiss at the woman’s car.

I checked my husband’s calendar for that day, and it said he’d had a dentist’s appointment. I remember Roy telling me it took a long time because there was a wait and then he went to the hardware store, where he “browsed.” I called our dentist and discovered he had no appointment that day. Annie, he lied to me about that entire day. I felt like I’d been punched in the stomach.

When Roy was still working, I heard rumors that he flirted with a woman in the office who had a thing for him, but I’m the type who disregards gossip. I had no reason to think Roy was being unfaithful, but now I have doubts. I’ve been told perhaps it’s an emotional affair, not sexual, but I don’t even know what that means.

My question is, do I tell Roy what I know? My friend’s husband believes it is an innocent flirtation and thinks I should leave it alone. What do I do? -- Very Unsure Dear Unsure: It could very well be an innocent flirtation, but the premeditated lying is disturbing. Without naming your friends, tell Roy that he was spotted having a chummy lunch with some woman on the day he supposedly had a dentist’s appointment, and ask him what’s up. He needs to know that his tryst hurt you deeply.

Dear Annie: Last night, I went out to dinner with my fiance, “Randy,” my father and my future mother-in-law. We were in the middle of making last-minute plans for the wedding when my father dropped the bombshell that he and Randy’s mother have been secretly seeing each other and are now engaged.

Annie, what do I do? Is it OK for me to marry Randy if my father is married to his mother? I love Randy and cannot stand the thought of breaking off my engagement. I need help. -- Freaking Out in Florida Dear Florida: Calm down. If your father marries Randy’s mother, it does not make Randy your brother. He becomes your stepbrother, which is not a blood relation. You can still marry him. Your father’s timing is rather questionable, so ask him to wait until you and Randy are wed before he makes any sudden moves. But everything else is OK. Dear Annie: “Mourning in Massachusetts” mentioned that she had “followed Al-Anon’s advice” in suspending a relationship with her sister. It is not the practice of Al-Anon to give anyone advice on the choices they are faced with.

Al-Anon has but one purpose: to help the families of alcoholics. The literature says we do this by “practicing The Twelve Steps, by welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcoholics, and by giving understanding and encouragement to the alcoholic.” It is not my goal to bring those who struggle with alcoholism to their recovery, but to work on returning my life to a useful and meaningful one, relieved of the frustration and pain of loving someone who struggles with addiction. Thank you for the opportunity to clarify this point.

-- Anonymous Member of the Al-Anon Family Groups Dear Anonymous: Several readers pointed out that AlAnon does not advise cutting off contact with alcoholics.

Thanks for clearing that up.

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, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

$1-A-DAY CLASSIFIEDS • CALL 527-9299 DOLLAR-A-DAY: PRIVATE PARTY ADS ONLY (FOR SALE, LOST, AUTOS, ETC.), MUST RUN TEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS, 15 WORDS MAX. ADDITIONAL WORDS 10¢ EACH PER DAY. REGULAR RATE: $2 A DAY; 10¢ PER WORD PER DAY OVER 15 WORDS. PREMIUMS: FIRST WORD CAPS NO CHARGE. ADDITIONAL BOLD, CAPS AND 9PT TYPE 10¢ PER WORD PER DAY. CENTERED WORDS 10¢ (2 WORD MINIMUM) TYPOS: CHECK YOUR AD THE FIRST DAY OF PUBLICATION. SORRY, WE WILL NOT ISSUE CREDIT AFTER AN AD HAS RUN ONCE. DEADLINES: NOON TWO BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR THE DAY OF PUBLICATION. PAYMENT: ALL PRIVATE PARTY ADS MUST BE PRE-PAID. WE ACCEPT CHECKS, VISA AND MASTERCARD CREDIT CARDS AND OF COURSE CASH. THERE IS A $10 MINIMUM ORDER FOR CREDIT CARDS. CORRESPONDENCE: TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL OUR OFFICES 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 527-9299; SEND A CHECK OR MONEY ORDER WITH AD COPY TO THE LACONIA DAILY SUN,65 WATER STREET, LACONIA, NH 03246 OR STOP IN AT OUR OFFICES ON 65 WATER STREET IN LACONIA. OTHER RATES: FOR INFORMATION ABOUT CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS CALL 527-9299.

Animals

Autos

AKC Registered English Springer Spaniel Puppies. Shots & health certificates. 603-723-7627

1998 Cavalier-RS, 2-door, sunroof, 121K, automatic, black beauty. Great on gas! $2,000 387-1073 or 267-5199.

CASH FOR junk cars & trucks.

1999 Cadillac Deville Florida car, 65K miles, very clean, loaded with premium features, new tires, well maintained. Must be seen, $4,295 455-7097.

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

NEW! THE DOG WASH WAGGIN! A full-service mobile grooming salon. Easy, convenient, time-saving! Call 603-651-9016.

Announcement

1999 Saab 9-3 turbo, 5-speed, silver, leather, sun roof, 205K miles.

Good condition, snow tires, $1,699/obo. 630-5272 2000 4 door Cavalier- 108K miles, a/c, power-steering, auto-transmission, am/fm/CD-player, current inspection sticker, 4 new studded snows on rims. $3,250. Call after 4pm 293-2060 Ask for Jeff 2001 Dodge Ram Pickup 2500-2 Wheel drive: Red, Quad-Cab with cap, good condition, $2,000 286-8611.

Autos 1987 Olds Delta 88, solid, no rust, FWD, 53,300k miles, $3500, 603-752-5325.

1987 Pontiac Bonneville. Runs good, well maintained. $999 or BO. 524-9537 Leave Message 1993 Jeep Wrangler- 155K, 4 cylinder, 5-speed, hard top. Many extras, daily driver. $2,800 387-1073

2002 Ford Explorer: Great condition, sunroof, running boards, all leather interior, new brakes, 120k miles, $5,200. 707-2343.

2002 FORD RANGER- Standard, 18K miles, 1 owner, like new. $5,500 firm. 290-3232 2006 Toyota Corolla LE, blue/tan, standard, power moon roof, power windows, a/c, 4 brand new tires, 52K miles $8,950. 930-5222 BUYING junk cars and trucks ME & NH. Call for price. Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

Autos Top Dollar Paid. Available 7 days a week. 630-3606

CONVERTIBLE Chevy Cavalier1999 81,000 miles. Front wheel Drive, current sticker/title. $3,500.

Call Laurie 603-630-3058

BOATS 10 ft. Basshound boat. 3 HP Mercury and electric motor. New battery, live well, lights, oars. $575.

Laconia 518-332-7654

For Rent BELMONT 2 Bedroom duplex.

Newly remodeled, no pets. $190/ week + utilities. 603-520-5209 3-BEDROOM 2 bath home on Shore Dr. Immediate occupancy. $1,400/Month + utilities. 536-3620 or 707-7201 ALTON Bay on the lake. Newly refurbished 1 bedroom, 2 bath townhouse apt. All new appliances. All utilities included with Internet. No smoking/ pets. $850/ month. Call Misty 603-234-7651.

Alton- 2 bedroom mobile home. 1 car garage, on own land. $700/Month + utilities. No pets.

Available now. 603-776-7750 Alton- 73 Main St. 2 bedroom apartment. 3rd floor. $850/All utilities included. No pets. 332-4595 ALTON/GILFORD Town-Line: 2-Bedroom house, $200/week +utilities; 3-bedroom apartment, $230/week +utilities; Studio, $200/week, includes utilities, cable/internet.

Lake/Beach access. 603-365-0799.

ALTON: 2-Bedroom mobile home on own land, $600/mo. +utilities.

For Rent APARTMENTS, mobile homes. If you need a rental at a fair price, call DRM Corp. Over 40 years in rentals, 524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at 373 Court Street, Laconia.

BELMONT New 1 bedroom apartment located in quiet country setting in single family neighborhood.

Living room kitchen combo. Separate private entrance. 1 designated off street parking spot.

Heat, electric & cable included.

NO pets. NO smokers. References, 1 month rent & security deposit required. $665/month Available Now. 524-4088 BELMONT, NH - $750.00 a month. 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, W&D hookup, single wide mobile home with yard for rent. Close to school. Call Fairlane Homes at 800-325-5566 for more information.

BELMONT: 2-Bedroom townhouse style apartment, quiet area, big yard. Heat included, $225/week.

520-1431 or 267-0545.

BELMONT: Large 1-bedroom ground floor apartment in 2-family home, just remodeled, washer/dryer hookup, no pets/smokers, $675/month, heat included. 603-387-6490.

BELMONT: 1 bedroom, 2nd floor, coin-op laundry and storage space in basement. $195/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234.

GILFORD– 2 Bedroom house with yard, near Glendale Docks. $1,100 month, security deposit and utilities. Washer/Dryer. No smokers, no pets. info@dsbcpas.com 603-548-2551 Gilford condo- 2 bedroom, 1 bath. $800/Month + utilities. Call 978-774-6674 GILFORD: Cute, updated, clean, private one bedroom HOUSE. Private yard, close to all area attractions. Completely painted inside, new bathroom floor and vanity. Pets considered,

For Rent

For Rent

GILFORD ON Winnipesaukee.

Large 1 bedroom w/loft directly on water. 2-years new, fully furnished/applianced. Split utilities includes cable/Wifi. Ready now until summer.

Affordable summer/year-round rate negotiable. $900/Month. 293-8237

Laconia: Large, 3 bedroom. $1,500/Month, includes utilities.

Washer/Dryer Hook-ups, dishwasher, 1.5 baths, garage, Master bedroom 14 x 36 with/walk-in closet, 2 Living Rooms, playroom, large kitchen & yard, in good neighborhood. Security Deposit required. 524-4428

GILFORD townhouse- 2-Bedroom, 1.5-Bath $900/month + utilities. Deck, newer carpet, dishwasher, stove, washer/dryer. Mark 617-947-7093 GILMANTON: 2-bedroom, 1-bath house, lake access, $1,000/month plus one month security. Includes utilities and snowplowing.

603-267-8970.

LACONIA Large 2 bedroom 2nd floor

$700/month + security Heated - No pets Owner occupied 527-0200 or 556-1310 Laconia 1 Bedroom- Washer/dryer hookup, storage, no pets. Security Deposit & references. $600/mo. + utilities. 520-4353 Laconia Awesome in town 2 bedroom. Porch, hook-ups, no pets. $725 + utilities. 455-0874 LACONIA Clean, newly painted 1-Bedroom. Convenient to hospital/ high school. No smoking, no pets. $150/week, heat/hot water included, security deposit.

630-0140 LACONIA HOUSE- 3 bedroom 1 bath, new open kitchen, washer/dryer, fenced yard, garage and off street parking on dead end. Pleasant Street School. No Smokers. Deposit. $1,200/month + Utilities. 799-3804 Laconia –Large 2 bedroom townhouse style unit, clean and ready for move in! $845/mo. Heat/Hot water included. New England Family Housing 603-744-3551 LACONIA Pleasant St. 1-Bedroom, $750. Studio apartment $650. Heat/hot water included, no pets/smoking. 524-5837 Laconia- Meredith Line, Parade Road: Studio Apartment suitable for one person. First Floor. $550/Month, heat included. No smoking, no pets. Security deposit & references required. Call 603-524-2575 after 5pm.

Laconia- New 2 bedroom condo. $1,100/Month washer/dryer, heat/hot water, cable & high speed Internet included. Call Robert 524-3106 Laconia-3 bedroom duplex. Great yard, quiet, close to hospital. $1,150/month. Heat/Hot water included.

Non-smokers.

603-630-5877 LACONIA: Very nice 1-bedroom apartments in clean, quiet, secure downtown building. $175/week, includes heat, hot water and electricity. 524-3892.

LACONIA: 26 Dartmouth St. 1/2 of a Duplex; 7 Rooms, 3 Bedrooms, 1 Bath. Walkout Basement w/Laundry Hookups. Very clean, hardwood floors, private off street parking. Convenient location, walk to library, churches, downtown, Opechee Park & schools. Available November 1st $1,000/month plus utilities. Owner/broker 524-2999.

LACONIA: 2BR second floor, laundry hookup, 1-car garage, large backyard, Oak St., $750 per month plus utilities, security deposit, references. Call after 4 pm, 520-8212.

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments. Efficiency, 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments available. 524-4428.

LACONIA: Small 2-bedroom house near LRGH. Washer/Dryer, heat & snow removal included. $975/month. No pets. No smoking. 524-5455.

LACONIA: Small 1 Bedrm $135/wk, includes heat & hot water, references and deposit.

528-0024.

Meredith 1-2 bedroom apartments & mobile homes. $650-$750/month + utilities. No pets. 279-5846 Meredith 2 bedroom apartment.

Gas heat, great location between Meredith & Weirs Beach, next to Grouse Pointe. 2nd floor. Available December 1st. $900/Month.

Call Dick at 603-566-5566 MEREDITH- Parade Road- 2 bed room duplex, $800/Month, heat included. No smoking, no pets. Security deposit & references required. Call 524-2575 after 5:00 pm.

MEREDITH: In-town 1-bedroom, includes heat, $625/month. Parking w/plowing. Available first week of November. No Smoking. no pets.

Security deposit.

387-8356.

NEW Hampton - stunning quality!

Immaculate 2+bedroom/ 2 bath exclusive Condo. $1195/ mo. Astonishing open stairwell extending up to the 3rd floor lighted by the skylight in the cathedral ceiling.

Brazilian wood floors, W/D hook up. Less than 3 minutes from I-93.

Call today 603-744-3551.

NEFH...Come on Home!!

New Hampton. Beautiful large 1 bedroom 2nd floor apartment near I-93. $700/mo includes heat. No pets, no smoking. Call 744-2163

NORTHFIELD Are you tired of living in run down, dirty housing, then call us we have the absolute best, spotlessly clean and everything works. We include heat & hot water and all appliances, Townhouses & apartments, in Northfield one block from I-93 Call 630-3700 for affordable Clean living.

NORTHFIELD: 1 bedroom, 1st floor, separate entrance, coin-op laundry in basement. $200/week including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234.

Plymouth 3 bedroom house in Downton Plymouth. $1,100/Month + utilities. 455-0310 RUMNEY –Spacious 1 bedroom!

Heat included, large yard, plenty of parking! Close to PSU $595/month. New England Family Housing 603-744-3551 TILTON- 3 Bedroom house, 2-car garage; near Exit 20. $1,500/Month + utilities & security.

290-9200 TILTON- 3 Bedroom house, 2-car garage; near Exit 20. $1,500/Month + utilities & security.

290-9200 WATERFRONT Townhouse Southdown Shores. 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath, $1,150/ month, + Utilities. (617) 254-3395.

WEIRS Beach 2nd-floor 2-bed room furnished apartment. $800+ utilities. Beautivul view. No-pets.

Security. Available 12/1-5/15.

603-630-5986/603-366-5005

LACONI- Large 2-bedroom 2nd floor, washer-dryer hookups, nice yard w/porch. No dogs, $775/month, Large-private attic for storage. well-maintained.

455-8789.

WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency apartment and a cottage including heat, hot water and lights. No pets. $150-$175/week. $400 deposit. 528-2757 or 387-3864.

LACONIA: 1-2 Bedrooms starting at $700 per month. Includes Heat/HW/ Electric. No dogs.

CEDAR LODGE Weirs Beach Studios, 1 bedroom or 2 bedroom condos starting at $575 /month.

WINTER RENTAL

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For Rent-Vacation

For Sale

MARCO Island, Florida Waterfront condo. $2500/ mo. s/t specials available, great amenities + boat slip, owner 603-393-7077

ALL DRY FIREWOOD

EARLYBIRD FARM 12 or 16 inch, cut and split $275 a cord or $175 half cord with 2 free bags of kindling and free delivery. Extra kindling $5 a bag at our farm stand.

For Rent-Commercial

435-9385 • Pittsfield

Laconia: 687 Union Avenue, 960 ft retail, 1200 ft of storage, $700/Month plus utilities. Security Deposit required. 524-4428

Firewood: All-purpose, hard seasoned (stove wood) $3. Self serve. 18 Arlene Dr. (Off Union Rd.), Belmont.

Laconia: Main Street., 1,000 sq ft, $800/Month includes heat. Security deposit required. 524-4428

FLUE: Direct vent snorkel, 14”, $175; Tub surround with shelves, new in box, $60. (603)860-3067.

For Sale 1ST CUT Hay $5/Bale. 25 bales or more $4.50 524-3832.

Jet 14 inch woodworking bandsaw-$250; Metalworking bandsaw-$150; File Cabinets, 2 & 4 drawer steel-$20 & $40. Oak bevel-glass Mirror-$30. Metal tubing full-bed-$30. 524-7705.

3 TV!s: 26 inch $50, 20 inch $35 & 13 inch $35. 630-7942 4X8 Utility Trailer with lift gate, great condition, $300. 279-5599

BED Orthopedic 10” thick pillowtop mattress & box, new in plastic cost $900, sell Queen $285, King $395, Full $260. Can deliver.

235-1695

5 foot by 5 foot solid wood country style kitchen/craft table. Some surface scratches. $10 366-4969 AIRTIGHT woodstove $125, ma hogany entertainment center $50, Gare kiln $100, Bunn coffeemaker $65. 366-5586

BEDROOM 6 piece solid cherry wood Sleigh bed, all dovetail drawers, new in boxes, cost $2100, sell $750. 235-1773

ATTENTION! HOT tub Mp3/ ipod dock, speakers, led lights, 5/6 person. All options with cover. New in wrapper.

Cost $8200, sell $4200. Will deliver 235-5218.

GENERAL CONTRACTORS RETIREMENT SALE!

November 16th Nail guns, compressors, saws,ladders, etc.

84 Plantation Rd. Laconia

MAPLE/ Antique white and cherry cabinets, never installed, solid wood, dovetail soft close drawers.

Inventory reduction! Cost $7250, sacrifice $1775. 235-1695.

Brand new 4x6 ft. trailer with spare tire & front fold up wheel. $500. 603-219-9002

Seasoned Firewood- Cut, split & local delivery. $260 per cord.

Green, $200. 286-9984

DRY firewood, cut, split delivered, $265/ cord, green $200/ cord, will do half cords, John Peverly 528-2803 and no calls after 8 pm.

Snow tires with rims. 4 Mastercraft 195/60R14. $350 or best offer.

267-6218

FIREPLACE: Hearthstone Tuscon B-Vent gas, like new, $800; (2) 225x75x16 snow-tires, low miles, $60/each.

603-860-3067.

Snow tires- Four Studded 185-65-14 $120. Two 225-60-16 $50. 393-6214

LACONIA ADULT EDUCATION WINTER SEMESTER 2011

Massage • Flower Arranging • Line Dancing Jewelry Making • Furniture Upholstery • Crafts Self Defense • How to Get Debt Free Interior Design • Positive Parenting Techniques Garden Design & Lasting Color German • Italian • French Web Design • Computer • Access & Excel Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Illustrator Computer Security

THREE SPACES AVAILABLE FOR LEASE 2,448 s.f. of distribution/manufacturing/office space available in Lakeport overlooking the lake and including plenty of parking. Location is ideal for companies looking for ease in trucking product in and out of the Lakes Region, with easy access to RTE 3 and 106. $4.41/sf $900/month ***

5144 s.f. of office/retail space with adjacent distribution/manufacturing space available in Lakeport overlooking the lake and including plenty of parking. Location is ideal for companies looking for ease in trucking product in and out of the Lakes Region, with easy access to RTE 3 and 106. $5.20/sf $2,225/month. ***

7200 s.f. of distribution/manufacturing/office space available in Lakeport overlooking the lake and including plenty of parking. Location is ideal for companies looking for ease in trucking product in and out of the Lakes Region, with easy access to RTE 3 and 106. $4.30/sf $2,580/month

For more information please call (603) 528-2944 and ask for Marilyn.

For Sale

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Land

Stanley Wood burning Range.

Good working order, $399.

524-7698

Belknap Landscape Co.

ESTHETICIANS ROOM FOR RENT

BELMONT: $54,900 for 3 acres with great soils, no wetlands.

Driveway already installed to building site. 524-1234

has positions available for hire.

Snow Division WANTED TO BUY Gold, (scrap rings, jewelry, etc.) Silver, (coins, flatware, etc. ) Antiques & Unusual Items Call 279-3087 or Stop In at

Waukewan Antiques 55 Main St. Meredith

Wood Stove- with blower and built-in thermostat. Glass door in front.

Wood/coal. $225.

603-393-1301 YAMAHA RT100, $500 OBO, Po laris 120 XCR Snowmobile, $800 OBO. 603-344-4263.

Furniture Antique claw piano stool $75, rocking chair $75, hardrock maple rolltop desk $325. 2 large intertainment centers $100 & $150, window seat $25, handi-cap shower & toilet chairs $20 ea.

630-7534.

BEAUTIFUL, Queen Luxury Support Pillowtop Mattress Set. New in plastic. Cost $1095, Sell $249.

Can deliver. 603-305-9763 PROMOTIONAL New mattresses starting; King set complete $395, queen set $239. 603-524-1430.

Help Wanted Furniture mover, driver helper and sheetrocker needed. References.

524-0785 or 524-1430

With Winter approaching, we continue to accept applications for snow shovelers. No prior experience necessary! Wage for hired shovelers during storms is $15/hr!

We are also accepting applications for on-call experienced equipment operators for commercial snow removal accounts.

We perform pre-employment drug screen and physical. Must have valid driver’s license and reliable transportation. Must be 18 or older.

Belknap Landscape Co. Human Resources 25 Country Club Rd. 302 Gilford, NH 03249 efredette@belknaplandscape.com

BOOTH Rental: Looking for someone with at least 5 years experience to join our team. We are a centrally located salon with experienced staff and a supportive, welcoming atmosphere. Please call Sue at 527-1172.

HOUSEKEEPERS Wanted: We are looking for hard working people who know what clean is!

Part-time positions, with potential for full-time hours available. Must be flexible, reliable and dependable. Weekends a must. Please apply in person at Fireside Inn & Suites (formerly B. Mae's Resort), Junctions of Routes 11 & 11B, Gilford, NH.

Fully equipped. Upscale, high quality furnishings in an ideal location with plenty of parking.

Large room with sink, bed, towel warmer, lots of cabinet space.

Also, use of large massaging pedicure chair! Bring your own clientele and get referrals from Maui Tanning & Oasis Day Spa. Make your own hours! Rent by the month, hour or by day.

Available immediately. Email mauitanning@myfairpoint.net or call 603 524 7772.

FRONT DESK Fireside Inn and Suites is looking for a person to fil a front desk position. Willing to work full-time in peak season and part-time in off-peak season, weekends a must.

Must be energetic, reliable, flexible and good with people, also must have good skills with calculator, computer and be able to multi-task. Experience in hospitality industry a plus.

Come in and fill out an application today. 17 Harris Shore Rd. Gilford, NH 03249.

PART-TIME Clean-up/labor help needed in Gilford. Painting, raking maintenance, etc. $7.50/hr.

832-3334

Instruction New Hampshire Aikido -Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the Barn, Wadliegh Rd. Sanbornton.

998-1419

Lost REWARD for the safe return of my missing beloved cat, Xander.

Black white patches, short hair w/balck “goatee” under chin, pink nose. Last seen on Province St. in Laconia on October 23rd. Please call 393-1959.

Mobile Homes $19,999 -2 bedroom 1.5 bath on Wiinter St. in Belmont near college. 528-0168

Motorcycles 1995 H.D. Dyna-Glide convertible.

18,000 miles, Hard saddle bags, nice, clean original bike. $5,500.

455-1398.

2001 HD 883 Sportster. Well maintained, high miles. Title in-hand; $2,700 cash. Call for details: 393-8687

Recreation Vehicles 1987 34 Ft. Winnebago Motor Home. Automatic w/2001 Tracker convertible car & tow bar set-up.

57K miles. New: Furnace, 3-way fridge ($1,800), Hot water heater.

Twin beds/bedding, sleeps-6.

Built-in Sharp 3-way microwave oven, 13 inch color TV in bedroom, DirecTV Satellite system.

All tires 2-years old. Needs some outside work. Gets 8 MPG. John Deer Chassis. Ford 460 8-cyl. motor. $8,000/Firm. 603-219-9002

OCCUPANCY MANAGER Laconia Housing Authority is seeking applicants to work in a fast pace environment to fill a new position as the Occupancy Manager.

Must have successful or proven management.

Supervisory experience in subsidized Housing and/or Property Management a plus. This is a full time position with competitive benefits.

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.

Send resumes to: Charlotte DuBois, ED, 25 Union Avenue, Laconia, N.H. 03246

by November 23, 2010

Quality Assurance Manager

Lakes Region Machining Company with 50+ employees requires Manager Quality Assurance. This position reports to the President.

Experience: The successful candidate will be a Quality Engineer/Manager with firm knowledge of Quality Assurance. Candidate will have worked 10 years or more in the mechanical/machining Industry, including development and support of the ISO 9000 standard, (Aerospace, General, Automotive or Medical Devices) and will have machining experience, with “hands on” mechanical inspection experience.

Education: College Graduate in Engineering and/or the Sciences Preferred. ASQ Certifications such as CQE, CQM, CQA, is a strong plus.

Please send resume to:

Baron Machine Company Inc. 40 Primrose Drive Laconia, NH 03246 or E-mail: jthompson@metrocast.net NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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“Warning Signs that Help at Home is Needed” topic for PRCC seminar PLYMOUTH — “Warning Signs that Help at Home is Needed” will be the topic presented at the Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce (PRCC) Brown Bag Seminar to be held at the Pease Library at noon on Thursday, November 18.

Sometimes people won’t admit they need help to stay at home, and others may be unaware that it is time to get some extra help to maintain a healthy

and safe home environment for their loved ones.

Knowing and watching for signs that could indicate extra assistance is needed may well fall to others, including family, friends, or advisors.

Bill York of Live Free Home Health Care located in Bristol will present an information-filled hour discussing the five warning signs, developed at the Mayo Clinic, that help is needed for an elderly

person. Handouts will also be available so an inhome self assessment may be done, providing muchneeded information so help can be arranged and family members can feel secure knowing their loved ones are receiving necessary care.

This event is free, but seating is limited. Reserve a spot by calling the PRCC at 536-1001 or e-mail info@plymouthnh.org.

CENTERHARBOR — The New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) invites community residents and others for a Pre-Timber Harvest tour of Chamberlain Reynolds Memorial Forest from 8 — 10 a.m. on Thursday, November 18.

NEFF is a recognized leader in conserving working forests, educating the public about forestry, and

assisting landowners in the long-term protection and sustainable management of their properties.

NEFF owns and manages over 130 demonstration forests, totaling more than 23,000 acres throughout New England. NEFF also holds 135 conservation easements, protecting 1.142 million acres of forestland.

All are welcome to join consulting forester Peter Farrell for an opportunity to see how the Foundation cares for its forests through both preservation and management. Participants should plan to meet at the kiosk at the main parking area.

For more information,visit www.newenglandforestry.org.

TILTON — Ray Carbone, editor of “The Lakes Region of New Hampshire: Four Seasons, Countless Memories,” will discuss how the book featuring local writers and photographers was brought from

conception to publication, at Mansfields Books and More from 1 — 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 21.

Corbone will offer attendees insights into the contributions of the two dozen area artists whose work

is included in the “coffee table” book. He will be available to sign copies of the book, as well.

For more information, call 455-8826.

Pre-harvest walk offered at Chamberlain Reynolds Memorial Forest in Center Harbor

Ray Carbone to discuss publishing book featuring local writers & photographers

Roommate Wanted

Services

LACONIA off north Main, Share one woman, $450/ Mon. includes heat. Non-smoker, call 527-1474.

PIPER ROOFING & VINYL SIDING

LACONIA 3-roomates wantedClean, quiet, sober environment.

All inclusive, must see, will go fast. $129/week. 455-2014 SANBORNTON: Room for Rent in quiet country home, $595/month includes all. Clean, responsible person. Call 603-630-5264.

Services

Services

Services

HANDYMAN SERVICES

Quality Work Reasonable Rates Free Estimates Metal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Small Jobs Are My Speciality

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277

Our Customers Don!t get Soaked!

528-3531

Services

MOBILE Home Repairs: Roofs, skirting, floors, windows, doors, re-leveling, etc. Reasonable, experienced. Dan, 279-5806.

NEED help with house cleaning, shopping, errands? Reliable and dependable, reasonable rates.

930-5222

CALL Mike for fall clean-ups, snowblowing, scrapping and light hauling. Very reasonably priced.

603-455-0214

Services

MASONRY

Stone & brick, all tyes of masonry. Free estimates. Call John Morris. (603)539-6736.

The Hungry Painter: Painting, small tree work, dump runs, odd jobs, drywall work. 455-6296.

PLOWING & SANDING Commercial & Residential Experienced and Reliable SHUTE CONSTRUCTION LLC

Justice of the Peace Notary Public

Laconia, Belmont, Gilmanton

267-6680

I make house calls, have stamp will travel! Documents, weddings, etc. 293-8237 AFFORDABLE Furniture Repairs & reconditioning. If it!s made of wood, I can fix it! 630-7771

All Trades Landscaping Construction • Irrigation Excavation • Maintenance Spring and Fall • Clean up's.

Free estimates and fully insured

603-524-3969

FALL clean ups, snow blowing, lawn care and tree work. Free estimate. 267-7186

FULL-TIME & PART TIME POLICE OFFICER The Tilton Police Department is seeking qualified applicants for full-time and part-time Police Officers.

NH certified preferred or the ability to pass the NHPS&T academy. Applicants will be required to pass a written, physical, oral board test and a full background investigation.

Both are union positions, represented by a Collective Bargaining Agreement with the New England Police Benevolent Association, Local 29 (An affiliate of the International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO). If you are offered and accept a position, you will be invited to become a member of the union. All bargaining unit positions require membership or agency fee payer status.

Interested individuals must submit an application no later than November 19th, 2010 at 5pm to the: Tilton Police Department P.O. Box 292 Tilton, New Hampshire 03276

HOUSECLEANING-LOOKING for jobs in Lakes Region area. Condos, mobile homes, foreclosures.

Available to help with errands/shopping & baking for holidays. Afternoons or anytime Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Great references. Please call 524-8649.

STEVE’S LANDSCAPING General Yardwork & Fall Cleanups. 524-4389 or 630-3511.

NEED FINANCIAL HELP with the spaying, altering of your dog or cat? 224-1361 Before 2pm.

Snowmobiles 1993 Pantera 550, 1993 Polaris 600, 1989 Phazer 500, Double trailer. BO-on-all. 875-0363 (Alton NH) 2000 Arctic Cat ZRT600, 510 miles, $2,500/obo.; 1991 Polaris Indy SPefi500, 4,712 miles, $600/obo. 387-7876.

Storage Space LACONIA: 2-story barn for rent.

15 ft.x 20ft., 600 sq ft. $175/month including electric. 524-1234.

STORE your car-boat-motorcycle in a clean and secure brick building. Low prices. (603)524-1430 WINTER STORAGE: Motorcycles $35.00/month. Cars, Campers, Boats, call for prices. 527-9229 YEAR-ROUND Storage for small car or household items, with easy access. 524-4465.

Yard Sale E-MAIL YARD SALE mrprojec@metrocast.net Furniture, Tools, Woodstoves, Emergency generator, Building Materials, Tchotchke, Nonfiction Hardback Books, Housewares, Etc. Send for lists and photos.

Page 24 — THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Facebook betting on texting & instant-messaging over e-mail

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is betting that one day soon, we’ll all be acting like high school students — more texting and instant-messaging, at the expense of e-mail.

Facebook unveiled a new messaging system Monday, and while CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t go as far as declaring e-mail dead, he clearly sees the four-decade-old technology being eclipsed by more real-time ways of communicating.

“We don’t think a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail,” Zuckerberg said.

Right now, Facebook’s Messages section is a lot like an e-mail inbox. The overhauled version, which will be rolled out to users by invitation in coming months, brings in cell phone texts, IM chats and e-mails from non-Facebook accounts.

All the messages stack up in one inbox, and they’re organized by the person sending them rather than the type of technology they use. For those who want one, Facebook will hand out facebook.com e-mail addresses — mostly to make it easier to communicate with people who aren’t on Facebook.

“If we do a good job, some people will say this is the way that the future will work,” Zuckerberg said.

By making e-mail part of its communications hub, Facebook escalates its duel with Internet search leader Google Inc., which shook up online communications 6½ years ago with its Gmail service. Google has said it will roll out more social networking features to counter Facebook’s growing popularity, and within Gmail it already lets people chat, e-mail and make phone calls.

Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft are also working on incorporating messages from Facebook, Twitter and other social sites into their main e-mail systems.

What Facebook has that Gmail and others don’t have, however, is people’s real identities, plus a map of their real-life relationships and online interactions — something Facebook likes to refer to as the “social graph.”

PAT-DOWNS from page 2 the new procedures.

“Almost to a person, travel managers are concerned that TSA is going too far and without proper procedures and sufficient oversight,” said Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, an advocacy group representing corporate travel departments. “Travel managers are hearing from their travelers about this virtually on a daily basis.”

Jeffrey Price, an aviation professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver, said two trends are converging: the regular holiday security increases and the addition of body scanners and new heightened measures stemming from the recent attempted cargo bombings. Also, several airports are shortstaffed, which will add to delays, Price said.

Homeland Security and the TSA have moved forcefully to shift airport screening from familiar scanners to full-body detection machines. The new machines show the body’s contours on a computer stationed in a private room removed from the security checkpoints. A person’s face is never shown and the person’s identity is supposedly not known to the screener reviewing the computer images.

Concerns about privacy and low-level radiation emitted by the machines have led some passengers to refuse screening. Under TSA rules, those who decline must submit to rigorous pat-down inspections that include checks of the inside of travelers’ thighs and buttocks. The American Civil Liberties Union has denounced the machines as a “virtual strip search.”

Concerns about both procedures are not limited to the U.S. In Germany over the weekend, organized protesters stripped off their clothes in airports to voice their opposition to full-body scans.

Douglas R. Laird, a former security director for Northwest Airlines, said it’s the resistance to these measures that will cause the most delays. The new enhanced pat-downs, an alternative to body scanners, take more time — about 2 minutes compared with a 30-second scan. Delays could multiply if many travelers opt for a pat-down or contest certain new procedures.

Facebook will use what it knows of these relationships to build a social inbox that not only filters out spam but messages it deems less important from strangers or overly chatty friends, and impersonal messages such as the phone bill. Those lower-priority messages will be tossed in a separate folder labeled “Other.” Users can also tell Facebook to automatically block messages that don’t come from friends.

To communicate with a friend, a Facebook user would click on the friend’s name rather than hunt for a phone number or an e-mail address. If that friend prefers to get text messages, that’s how the message will be seen. If the friend likes e-mail, e-mail it will be.

The messaging system, however, isn’t e-mail. It doesn’t use subject lines or “Cc” fields.

Facebook says it will store every missive sent between two people for eternity, unless they choose to delete it; the company likens it to this generation’s

equivalent of a box filled with years of love letters.

But love letters can sometimes get into the wrong hands. Running a communications service within a social network may increase the chances that sensitive information gets exposed. One of the most common complaints about Facebook is that some updates and photos posted on personal pages are seen by more people than accountholders intended, either because they misunderstood how to program their privacy settings or because of a security breach.

Google learned the hazards of melding e-mail with socializing earlier this year when it planted a Facebook-like service called “Buzz” into Gmail. When Buzz launched in February, it was set up in a way that caused many of its early users to inadvertently open up lists of e-mail contacts to outsiders. The ensuing privacy flap elicited an apology from Google, which also recently settled a lawsuit over the misstep.

— Harry Bryant Laconia Savings Bank Customer

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The people here at Laconia Savings Bank are lovely to work with — really. It’s always a pleasure to come into the bank. We have a lot of laughs and a lot of smiles, and we actually enjoy working together on solutions to my banking needs.

It’s pretty fabulous to be able to call your bank, and you don’t even have to give them your name, and they know how to help you. I believe they are honest and I trust them with my financial needs.

There are a lot of good reasons to live in New Hampshire.

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