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Heather Albert, 24, of Cottage Street was charged with one felony level charge of drug possession. She stood before Judge Jim Carroll in the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division. Next to her was her lawyer, Matt Lahey, and Belknap County Attorney Melisa Guldbrandsen was the prosecutor.

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AG finds missing N.N. wine Celebrations planned as Washington legalizes pot SEATTLE (AP) — Legal marijuana possession Hempfest director Vivian McPeak. “The whole world wasn’t missing after all becomes a reality under Washington state law on sees that prohibition just took a body blow.”

CONCORD (AP) — New Hampshire’s attorney general says the apparent disappearance of about $100,000 in wine from a state-run liquor store has been solved — it was never missing.

Last December, extra cases of wine were found in the stockroom during an audit at the New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlet in Portsmouth. The wine had no invoice or paperwork, and days later it was gone, with no indication of where it went.

Attorney General Michael Delaney said in a report Wednesday that no wine ever went missing from the store. He said state Liquor Commission employees misinterpreted a spreadsheet created during the store’s move from one location to another.

Delaney said commission employees interpreted the spreadsheet as an inventory of excess wine in the store.

“However, that spreadsheet was not a documentation of actual wine on the premises,” Delaney wrote.

“It was an itemization of sales tags that had no direct correlation to wine actually in the store.”

Delaney said misunderstandings about the spreadsheet were reported up to leadership at the Liquor Commission and led to concerns that excess wine was first present in the store and then subsequently disappeared.

“A careful review of Liquor Commission inventory records dispels this misunderstanding and does not reveal any unaccounted-for wine ever present at the store in the first place,” the report said.

After the wine went missing, the commission and Gov. John Lynch asked the attorney general’s office to investigate. The commission said it was dissatisfied with earlier investigations by its Enforcement Bureau and the Rockingham County attorney’s office.

The attorney general’s report also disputed the actual number of cases of wine found — at one point it was reported as 300 — and their value. It said in the end, the confusion was a result of two separate issues: a “significant amount” of excess wine that was tracked through inventory, but was not planned for the “new set” of wine products to be listed in the new store, and “erroneously sorted” sales tags believed to represent products that were physically present in the store. The issues were “merged” during the store move.

The report said there were actually 2,254 bottles of wine not included in the new set that were initially in shopping carts and on backroom shelves. They were whittled down to about 100 to 200 bottles by the end of the move. The wine was either sold, transferred out of the store, or stayed in the backroom.

Thursday, and some people planned to celebrate the new law by breaking it.

Voters in Washington and Colorado last month made those the first states to decriminalize and regulate the recreational use of marijuana. Washington’s law takes effect Thursday and allows adults to have up to an ounce of pot — but it bans public use of marijuana, which is punishable by a fine, just like drinking in public.

Nevertheless, some people planned to gather at 12 a.m. Thursday to smoke up in public beneath Seattle’s Space Needle. Others planned a midnight party outside the Seattle headquarters of Hempfest, the 21-year-old festival that attracts tens of thousands of pot fans every summer.

“This is a big day because all our lives we’ve been living under the iron curtain of prohibition,” said

Seattle Police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb said he doesn’t expect officers to write many tickets to the celebrants. Thanks to a 2003 law, marijuana enforcement remains the department’s lowest priority. Even before Initiative 502 passed on Nov. 6, police rarely busted people at Hempfest, despite widespread pot use, and the city attorney here doesn’t prosecute people for having small amounts of marijuana.

Washington’s new law decriminalizes possession of up to an ounce for those over 21, but for now selling marijuana remains illegal. I-502 gives the state a year to come up with a system of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores, with the marijuana taxed 25 percent at each stage. Analysts have estimated that a legal pot market could bring Washsee MARIJUANA page 7

ATLANTA (AP) — An elderly man opened fire on a woman after her car came into contact with his motorized wheelchair at a central Georgia service station, authorities said Wednesday. She died shortly afterward at a hospital despite the efforts of a crowd of people to aid her.

Police said Linda Hunnicutt, 65, was driving onto the gas pump bay of the service station in Macon at about 1 p.m. Tuesday when her Buick Lucerne and the motorized wheelchair bumped. Hunnicutt stepped out of her vehicle, and the man in the motorized wheelchair pulled a handgun and fatally shot her, city police spokeswoman Jami Gaudet said.

“The whole encounter, I can tell you, was very brief,”

Gaudet said. “Everybody is just reeling from this.”

The suspect, 73-year-old Frank Louis Reeves, was apprehended in the gas station parking lot.

He made a brief court appearance Wednesday, and authorities said he was being held without bond on a murder charge at the Bibb County Jail. Gaudet did not know whether Reeves had an attorney, and jail records do not list one.

A witness, Melissa Whisby, a former state corrections officer, told The Associated Press that she stopped at the gas station right before the shooting.

She said she saw Reeves back behind Hunnicutt’s car, and that Hunnicutt then got out of her car and see WHEELCHAIR page 11

(AP) — You don’t have to be a jazz aficionado to recognize “Take Five,” the smoky instrumental by the Dave Brubeck Quartet that instantly evokes swinging bachelor pads, hi-fi systems and cool nightclubs of the 1950s and ‘60s.

“Take Five” was a musical milestone — a deceptively complex jazz composition that managed to crack the Billboard singles chart and introduce a

new, adventurous sound to millions of listeners.

In a career that spanned almost all of American jazz since World War II, Brubeck’s celebrated quartet combined exotic, challenging tempos with classical influences to create lasting standards.

The pianist and composer behind the group, Brubeck died Wednesday of heart failure at a hospital in see JAZZ page 9

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Susan Estrich

The miracle of the rule of law It’s easy, as a law professor and practicing lawyer, to take the rule of law for granted and even to question its existence. In my classes, I teach students cases in which courts, on similar facts, reach conflicting results, notwithstanding the fundamental principle that the rule of law means like cases must be treated alike. What’s the difference, I ask my students, knowing that sometimes, the answer is no more than who is sitting in the room.

While judges secure confirmation by claiming to do no more than “call balls and strikes,” no sophisticated student of the law really believes them. It’s no coincidence (albeit an unfortunate reality) that the current Supreme Court splits so often along the lines of party appointment — with four Democratic appointees on one side and five Republican appointees on the other. It’s no coincidence that judges appointed by Democrats tend to be more liberal than those appointed by Republicans, or that Democratic appointees are so much more likely to be prochoice and Republicans more likely to uphold restrictions on abortion.

Politics, we say.

Nor is it just law professors who find fault with courts on a regular basis. In my experience, most of the judges I appear before are careful and principled, even if they disagree with my clients. But there are days when I just shake my head — at a judge who ignores the facts or fails to follow controlling authority or asks the same uninformed questions repeatedly. No names, of course.

I might be before them again. Most of the time, I can see where a case is going, but there are occasions when, frankly, the best (or worst) I can say is that someday the decision may be reversed. Explaining this to a client, particularly one who assumes justice will be done and truth always triumphs, is never easy.

Quality of representation matters — a lot. The better lawyer doesn’t always win, but it certainly helps, and better lawyers tend to be more expensive (admission: I am very expensive) than less experienced or skilled ones.

Middle-class folks — not poor enough to qualify for free assistance, not rich enough to afford my rates — often find the doors to the courthouse effectively closed with-

out regard to the merits of their claim. Representing yourself is rarely a very good option.

So yes, our system of law is flawed.

The rule of law doesn’t always mean we are a nation of laws and not of men. There is so much room for reform, for improvement. Justice is not always blind. I write books about it.

And then I see what is happening in Egypt, and I remember just how lucky we are, just how difficult it is to create a society in which the rule of law stands at least as an ideal. I remember how much of a struggle it can be to establish a Constitution that is as enduring and as brilliantly conceived as our own.

The headlines are both shocking and reassuring. The “democratically” elected president makes a grab for power, putting himself above the law. Judges and lawyers have every reason to be afraid — not for their jobs, but for their lives — if they stand up to the man who claims to be above them.

But they do, protesting the president’s power grab and a Constitution that would not protect the rights of minorities: the essence of a Constitution. After all, powerful majorities don’t need the protections of courts; they have power. It is, as our own Supreme Court recognized a century ago, “discrete and insular minorities” who depend on the courts to protect them from the tyranny of the majority.

It is not easy to establish the rule of law in a country that has never known it. Some of those protesting were doubtless very happy to be part of a government of men and not of laws as long as they were the men in charge. But the broad-based protests in Egypt make clear that the hunger for justice is a powerful force.

And even more, they should remind us that for all the flaws in our own system, we remain, when it comes to the rule of law as with so many things, the luckiest people on the face of the globe.

(Susan Estrich is a professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law Center. A best-selling author, lawyer and politician, as well as a teacher, she first gained national prominence as national campaign manager for Dukakis for President in 1988.)

We’re grateful you opening your heart to our Island Park school To the editor, I want to thank Gilford Middle School, particularly the grade 5 students and teachers, Gilford High School students, particularly Jack Athanas, and the Meredith chapter of PEO (Philanthropic Education Organization) for their wonderful donations to our school and children. I am a teacher in Island Park, New York and our town was devastated by Hur-

ricane Sandy. Our elementary school was flooded with 8-feet of water. We lost all of our computers, all of our instruments, our entire library, and all of the classrooms on the first floor. The elementary students are now housed in the middle school. We are trying to make the best out of cramped quarters. Many of our families are also dealing with damaged homes and see next page

LETTERS N.H. store could use a lessen on quality service & good labor To the editor, “When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.” Confucius In South Korea service is taken seriously — at department stores employees bow to parking customers; in nearly every place of business arriving customers are greeted with a friendly “welcome”; if an appliance or some electronic device goes haywire, the company swiftly facilitates a repair at home or in a service center; restaurants provide numerous side dishes that are refilled upon request, free of charge.

Customers don’t forget these things; quality service is indelible and keeps people coming back. During my years living in South Korea I rarely left a place of business thinking, “I’m never going back there.” Thus, when I returned to New Hampshire some months ago, I viewed things through a different prism.

I never liked the phrase, “The customer is always right,” because, well, the customer isn’t always right — rude, obnoxious, ostentatious, boisterous people are almost always wrong.

Yet the customer is always right when he or she enters a place of business calmly looking for respectable service (or so I’ve always believed). A series of experiences at a N.H. business shot this theory down.

Living out on Long Island — it’s a long way from Seoul — has its bucolic benefits: quiet, a thick forest, stone walls, the Big Lake and an 1825 Cape with a wood stove and fire place. Part of my Thoreau-esque pursuits has been getting the fire wood out of the forest by felling, limbing, bucking and moving several hardwoods. With all this done over the spring and summer, I took to splitting as late summer whispered of autumn’s arrival.

I split a decent cord or two with my ax and then my older brother — who had generously offered me a place in his Long Island home — suggested we rent a wood splitter somewhere (as we’d discussed earlier in the year).

Previously, I’d had my first sour service experience when I entered a store

only to be ignored while two employees at the rental counter carried on their conversation as I stood there.

The store was vacant and I felt like someone in a movie who has to clear his throat to get attention (I didn’t).

Nevertheless, my brother visited the store one evening to check on splitters. Again, the store was empty and no one was at the rental counter. Looking along the aisles, he came across an older employee and asked, “Are you the rental guy?” This was met with a churlish, “Maybe.” Maybe?

The man then informed my brother that only one of the two splitters was working and it had been reserved.

(Seems a good time of year to have your splitters up and running.)

The man said it was possible that a renter might not show up so a call in the morning to check seemed prudent. I made the call. When I finally reached the “rental department” the man demanded that I tell him who I was in response to my question about the splitter: “Who is this...who is this?” he asked. After I told him my name — which he didn’t recognize and consequently seemed more bothered by — he said the splitter was still there. “Can I leave my number so you can call if the person doesn’t show?” I asked. With a disdainful laugh, he said, “Oh, he’ll show...he’s an employee.” I hung up.

“There’s a wedge out there,” my brother proffered as we tried to make sense of the confounding experience.

With that, I headed out to the pile of wood, placed the steel wedge on the edge of a two-foot piece of ash, raised the maul and brought it down. Soon my animosity turned to enthusiasm and I spent the rest of the day splitting the wood. A week later we had our wood split and stacked, months of rewarding work collected in neat rows.

Now, as I sit looking out the window at that finished work, I think the men down at the store could use a thorough lesson on quality service and good labor. Perhaps a look at the South Korean model would help.

John M. Rogers Moultonborough

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LETTERS Why would City Council want to buy 200 acres of that kind of land?

To the editor, My name is Robert Kingsbury.

For the past two years I have been a member of the County Delegation.

During my term of office, one of the other members of the County Delegation suggested that the county, for just a few million dollars, buy the State School property, thereby “saving” several tens of millions of tax dollars in comparison to the cost of the new (and in my opinion, unneeded) county jail, a jail costing maybe fifty million dollars, more or less; for maybe each of the three separate functions (drug addiction, alcohol addiction, and mental illness, with a possible costs of 50 million dollars each), plus a possible 50 million dollar cost of a new county jail, that is being proposed by our County Commissioners. Their “final” report on these costs is due out in another week or two, putting the final report of the costs of a new county jail, which from preceding page weeks of no electricity. Most families still have no appliances. Entire contents of homes are at the curb. Many were displaced by the storm.

Your community has been generous; sending school supplies, books, and money. We are eternally gratefully to all of you for opening your heart and giving us hope during this disaster.

Thank you!

Lori Strejlau ELA AIS 5-8 Lincoln Orens Middle School Island Park, NY

could have been presented maybe as early as last March, to sometime later this December — a delay which put off telling the public, as well as the members of the County Delegation, what the anticipated costs of a new county jail would be until after the election. To paraphrase an old radio show, “Who knows what kinds of numbers lurk in the minds of the County Commissioners?

As a then-member of the County Delegation, I, (along with other members of the County Delegation) was given a tour of the State School property. I was shocked at what I saw.

There are approximately 22 buildings on the State School property. About six of them are in use. Of the other 14, to my recollection 11 of them are unfit for human habitation, because their roofs “leak” such great quantities of rain water into the structure that the ceilings in the rooms below as well as the roofs, have been substantially destroyed. Years ago, the costs of replacing just the roof shingles of one building of the buildings at the State School property, cost in the range of $300,000 per building, just to reshingle the roof.. Today with the need to also replace all of the rusted steel roof supports and all of the rotted out wood rafters and also re-building the ceilings of the rooms below, would be approximately as expensive as building a whole new building.

Recently another N. H. county replaced its county jail for a reported cost of 49 million dollars. There-

fore removing the failed roofs and destroyed ceilings, and replacing them could also be in range of 49 million dollars for each of the eleven buildings. How could Laconia come up with over five hundred million dollars to simply maintain a property that it has no particular use for? Why would the Laconia City Council want to buy into half a billion dollars of that kind of building expense? Not to mention the additional and substantial costs of re-paving and rebuilding the roadways and walkways, many of which are in very poor shape. Others may challenge, my “back-of-the-envelope figurations”, but the total costs of the State School property will still be in the range of half a billion dollars, more or less.

In addition; of the approximately 280 acres of land in the State School

property, maybe 80 of them are in use.

Of the remaining 200 acres most of them consist mainly of some of the rockiest land I have ever seen, with ravines about 50 feet deep “all over the place”. Using those other acres under any circumstances would require an enormous amount, perhaps a trainload or more, of blasting dynamite to level them out, and perhaps years of very difficult bulldozer work, just to get some land level, but even if leveled, land that would be nothing but rocks. and land that even if leveled, land that would still be too rocky to use. And on what basis is it, that our City Council wants Laconia to buy “a couple of hundred acres” of that kind of land?

Robert Kingsbury Laconia

Thank you Bea Lewis for your understanding, courage & caring To the editor, The Northeast POW/MIA Network would like to thank Bea Lewis for her many years of support and effort on behalf of the network and awareness issue. Bea was with us 25 years ago — the first reporter to do an “accurate” story as to WHY we started the POW/ MIA Awareness Vigil and WHY the Freedom Ride started a few years later.

She understood that Faith, Trust and Truth were/are important and “Let Us Not Forget” are truly words to live by. 25 years is a long time to be involved in an issue that is looked at as “Old News” but even today we/ America have an American son/soldier being held POW in Afghanistan

and known as Missing/Captured and NOT ‘POW’ because we are NOT actually at WAR! Something our leaders here in this state and country should explain to our troops and Gold Star families!

25 years ago, three Vietnam Veterans stood on behalf of those who were STILL being held in Vietnam . . . alive. . . knowingly. . . our hope was to bring awareness and to bring a ground swell of support. To also explain that “in the future” it could happen again.

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LETTERS E.M. Heath Market to donate 5% of most sales to food pantries To the editor, Do you want a chance to make a difference? Our local food pantries need your help! Team up with Heath’s Supermarket to make a difference.

Here’s how.

During the week beginning Monday December 10 through Saturday, December 15, E.M. Heath Supermarket in Center Harbor is going to make it easy for you to donate to the local food pantries. All you have to do is shop. E.M. Heath Supermarket is going to donate 5 percent of your purchases including gift cards however excluding (alcohol, tobacco and lottery sales) to the local food pantries in Meredith, Center Harbor, Moultonborough, Sandwich and Tamworth.

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You can also enter to win special prizes and giveaways. On Saturday December 15, WLNH with Pat Kelly will be doing a live remote from our supermarket from 1 1.am. to 1 p.m., urging everyone to come on down and help out you local food pantries. We want to make this a celebration of how our communities can come together to help our friends, neighbors and those in need during this Holiday Season.

Think about it, you can make a difference. Just shop E.M. Heath Supermarket from December 10 through December 15.

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Teachers’ unions encourage mediocrity; no incentive to do better To the editor, Two statements from Tony Boutin’s letter in the Friday, Nov. 23 edition leaped out at me” “American taxpayers nationwide are getting screwed blue between what they are paying for in macro education and what education outputs for results”, and “There is no union mission statement aimed to improve academic performance or improve efficiency to ever control costs.”

These two statements are the truest I have ever heard concerning the union’s role in the field of education.

A closer look at the effects the union’s role produces is very revealing. To begin with, there is a continuous, ongoing, never-ending negotiations process for the sole purpose of increasing teacher’s salary and benefits, resulting in in an overwhelming number of man hours spent in meetings with

no beneficial results to the improved quality in education. This constant request for pay raises totally disregards the economic conditions facing the taxpayers. At no time during the entire negotiation procedures is there any discussion of how to improve the quality of education in our schools.

In most cases, the negotiations usually end up with a wage increase to the teachers which results in higher costs to the taxpayer. The only obvious effect the unions have on education is to increase the cost, and, I challenge anyone to produce just one example where the union’s involvement in the field of education resulted in an improvement in the quality of education. There never has been any correlation between the percentage of salary increases with the percentsee next page

Huot goes right to bat for Marine Patrol

By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

CONCORD — Representative David Huot (D-Laconia) has filed legislation to repeal the reduction of the boat registration fee scheduled to take place on July 1, 2015.

In 2009, the Legislature increased the registration fee for the first time since it was introduced in 1989 by doubling it, but, at the same time stipulated that the fees would revert to their original level in 2015. The fees, which vary with the length of vessels, currently range from $24 for boats up to 16 feet, $34 for those up to 21 feet, $52 for those up to 30 feet, $72 for those up to 45 feet and $92 for those of more than 45 feet. If repealed as scheduled, the fees would be halved.

The proceeds from these fees are applied to the Navigation Safety Fund, which represents more than half the operating budget of the New Hampshire Marine Patrol. The balance of the budget consists of federal funds in the form of an annual grant from the United States Coast Guard. In the past, the Navigation Safety Fund retained unexpended funds in an accrued surplus. However, a provision of the 20122013 budget requires that any balance remaining in the Navigation Safety Fund at the close of each fiscal year be transferred to the general fund. from preceding page have trust in. We never leave Americans behind but evidence say’s otherwise. Ex POW’s and family members have stated otherwise. . . Sgt. Bowe Bergdhal . . . captured, Afghanistan/ June 2009. . . American POW! In order to bring awareness to such an issue it takes media attention. Which often takes courage and caring of those involved. Ms. “B”, thank you for your understanding, courage and caring!

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Huot said yesterday that his bill was intended to ensure sufficient funding for the operating costs and capital requirements of the Marine Patrol. He noted that last year $1 million designated for renovating facilities at Glendale was transferred from the Navigation Safety Fund to the general fund.

When the registration fees were increased, Earl Sweeney, assistant commissioner of the Department of Safety, told the committee that although the fees had not been raised, until about 2005 the steady increase in the number of boat registrations enabled the Marine Patrol to fund its annual operating budgets and accrue a reserve in the Navigational Safety Fund. However, since registrations reached a plateau of about 100,000 boats around, the Marine Patrol has drawn on its reserve to fund its operations from one year to the next.The fund would begin each year in deficit, he said, and, despite hiring fewer seasonal employees and deferring the replacement of older patrol boats, only turn black as the last boats were registered. He said that the increase would add approximately $1.5-million to the Navigation Safety Fund each year, adding that the rates would be sufficient to stabilize the fund for the next five to eight years without further adjustments. The New Hampshire Marine Trades Association, along with several marina owners, supported the fee increase.

In addition, there are five additional charges, called “add-ons,” that accompany each registration. $7.50 is paid to the lake restoration and preservation fund for the control of invasive species, $1 to the search and rescue fund of the Fish & Game Department, $5 to the statewide public boat access fund and, for those choosing not to register with the Department of Safety, $5 processing fee to the authorized agent. Registrations in coastal or tidal waters bear a $2 fee for harbor dredging and pier maintenance. These charges are not set to repeal in 2015.

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GOP senator doesn’t want sale of State School property afforded special treatment

BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

CONCORD — Although Senator Jim Rausch (R-Derry) believes the state should not part with the former Laconia State School site on North Main Street, he said this week that the bill he filed is intended to ensure that if the property is offered for sale, the process set forth by statute is followed.

Rausch has filed legislation to repeal the provision of the 2012-2013 state budget requiring the state to sell the property, which circumvented the process prescribed by law.

In 2010, the Legislature directed the New Hampshire Department of Administrative Services (DAS) to offer the entire site to the city for “not less than $10-million” and the city failed to accept the offer, to offer it to Belknap County “at fair market value.” If neither the city nor the county purchased the property, it would be put on the open market for no less than its fair market value.

However, the law governing the disposal of stateowned real estate(RSA 4:40), stipulates that the department with jurisdiction over the property — in this case the Department of Corrections — must from preceding page age of increase in quality education. Educational results continue to remain at a low level despite the increase in teachers’ wages.

I am against the unions, not the teachers! The union’s influence on teachers is to provide no motivation for teachers to work harder because everybody gets the game pay regardless of effort. This results in encouraging mediocrity in teaching and provides no incentive to do a better job. Even the step increment salary schedule senselessly rewards longevity and not productivity.

I do have a plan that will increase the quality of education, reduces the costs, and eliminates the needs for unions.

Tony Boutin, lets get together!

J.A. Christi, President Jay’s Marina, Inc. Winnisquam

recommend its sale or lease to the Long-Range Capital Planning and Utilization Committee. Composed of legislators together with a representative of the governor, the committee, with the advice of the Council on Resources and Development, consisting of officials of various state agencies, must approve the recommendation and submit it to the governor and executive council. If the governor and executive council also approve the sale or lease of the property, it must first be offered to the municipality or county where it is located and can only be placed on the open market if both refuse the offer.

The sale price may not be less than the current market value of the property as determined by the governor and executive council.

Rausch, who has served on the Long Range Capital Planning and Utilization Committee as a member of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, said that “when we’ve sold tenths of an acre, the sale has gone through the process, but here we’re selling a valuable 200-acre property without following the process. It’s not right in my opinion. I want to make sure it goes through the process and that things are done correctly,” he said, adding that “I believe this kind of transaction deserves more thought and consideration.”

The Laconia State School property, which includes three tax parcels leased to the city of Laconia until 2099 at $1 per year, was appraised for $2.16-million and, discounting for the leased land, offered to Belknap County for $1.7-million.

“I would vote against a sale,” Rausch said. “The price they are talking is ridiculous.” Moreover, he noted that if the property were sold, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) would have to relocate the so-called “Designated Receiving Facility” (DRF), two buildings on the property, housing individuals with developmental disabilities or acquired brain disorders found to have committed sexual offenses. DHHS has requested $775,000 in its capital budget to move the DRF to the Glencliff Home for the Elderly in Benton.

However, Rausch repeated that his bill would only require that any proposal to sell the property follow the statutory process. “I understand Laconia’s interest in the site and they would have right of first refusal,” he said. “If in the end we decide to sell, so be it. I just want to see that it is done right.”

City Councilor Matt Lahey (Ward 2) has indicated that the will urge the City Council to renew its original offer for the property.

MARIJUANA from page 2 ington hundreds of millions of dollars a year in new tax revenue for schools, health care and basic government functions.

But marijuana remains illegal under federal law.

That means federal agents can still arrest people for it, and it’s banned from federal properties, including military bases and national parks.

The Justice Department has not said whether it will sue to try to block the regulatory schemes in Washington and Colorado from taking effect.

“The department’s responsibility to enforce the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged,” said a statement issued Wednesday by the Seattle U.S. attorney’s office. “Neither states nor the executive branch can nullify a statute passed by Congress” — a non-issue, since the measures passed in Washington and Colorado don’t “nullify” federal law,

which federal agents remain free to enforce.

The legal question is whether the establishment of a regulated marijuana market would “frustrate the purpose” of the federal pot prohibition, and many constitutional law scholars say it very likely would.

That leaves the political question of whether the administration wants to try to block the regulatory system, even though it would remain legal to possess up to an ounce of marijuana.

Colorado’s measure, as far as decriminalizing possession goes, is set to take effect by Jan. 5. That state’s regulatory scheme is due to be up and running by October 2013.

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RECOVERY from page one Public Defender Jesse Friedman, Treatment Provider Jacqui Abikoff, Belknap County Department of Corrections Superintendent Daniel Ward and Restorative Justice Liaison Brian Loanes.

In exchange for Albert’s willing participation in the Belknap County Adult Recovery Court, Guldbrandsen agreed to drop felony drug possession charges against her and take her guilty plea for misdemeanor drug possession.

Albert’s sentence is Recovery Court — a grueling two year program that will monitor nearly every step she takes with the goal of freeing her from the drug addiction that she admits has driven her criminal activity. Should she fail, she faces 12 months in the Belknap County House of Correction.

“I think I’m going to benefit from this. I am willing to make that commitment,” said Albert to Carroll and the rest of the team.

“Well we’re willing to work with you as long as long as you’re willing to work with them,” Carroll said.

According the the National Association of Drug Court Professionals Website, the first Drug Court or Recovery Court was in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1989. A group of people, much like the one assembled in Belknap County found a solution for repeat drug offenders by combining drug treatment for non-violent offenders with the structure and authority of the judicial system.

By June 30, 2012 there were 2,734 Drug and Recovery Courts were operating in the United States.

According to the terms of the contract Albert signed, Belknap County’s Recovery Court is no picnic.

Beginning this morning, Albert must report at 8 a.m. to the Nathan Brody Chemical Dependence Program for an intake.

Friday morning she reports to the county jail for a clinical evaluation.

On Saturdays and Sundays she must check in daily with jail officials.

For the first months, every Wednesday she will return to Recovery Court where the team will speak with her and then review her progress. One misstep, which can include anything from a failed urine test to a re-arrest or being fired from a job for cause, can lead to her being terminated from Recovery Court. If terminated, Guldbrandsen can bring forward the suspended sentence.

She has to participate in a community based drug and or alcohol program like a 12-step program such as Alcoholics Anonymous.

And she pays for it all from her own pocket, which according to Gulbrandsen is on a sliding scale and can cost thousands of dollars.

After the sentencing, Gulbrandsen spoke about the program that has, in one form or another, been in the development stages in Belknap County for at least three years.

“She has to show a commitment to recovery,” said Guldbrandsen who, as the chief law enforcement officer in

the county, has to agree to recommend someone to Recovery Court.

Guldbrandsen said since her last arrest for drug possession, Albert has actively sought counseling and so far has been successful. She said she agreed with Lahey and the rest of the team that Albert is a good candidate for the Recovery Court.

She said the research shows that Recovery Courts reduce recidivism.

Successful recovery also means the taxpayers save money on incarceration.

She said everyone involved in a criminal case has to be “on board” with the decision to go to Recovery Court — including the police department where the offense occurred, the lawyers on both sides, and the Recovery Court team. If there is a victim — in Albert’s case there was not — Guldbrandsen said the victim(s) would have to at least have an understanding of Recovery Court. “(Victim’s) have the right to come to court and voice their opinions,” she said.

“It’s a hard balance,” she continued, saying she has to weigh the interests of public safety against those who have reached out to Recovery Court.

She emphasized Recovery Court is not just a way to evade jail time and the team expects to see constant and continual improvement regarding recovery throughout the two year program.

Guldbrandsen said one key to her agreeing to send someone to the Recovery Court is admitting a drug dependency and expressing a real desire to get and stay sober. She said she is looking for serious repeat offenders who face prison time.

“I have a difficult time giving an offender what I consider a huge break,” she said. “I have to find somewhere a significant enough change (in behavior) and history that I am willing to recommend it.”

Abikoff leads the treatment portion of Recovery Court.

Describing her program as “very intense” she said in the first phase an offender will have to attend three days of 3 1/2 hours each of substance abuse counseling. There is a community service component.

These people offended against the community and now they must give back,” she said.

Participants must attend job training and education assessments as well a agreeing to random drug testing.

Behaviors that can earn incentives are honesty, getting a job, completing an education or training program, getting stable housing and taking responsibility for the poor choices that got a participant in trouble in then first place.

The rewards during the program are judicial praise, reductions in court appearances, early advancement through the three phases of the program, and being called at the beginning of the docket for recovery sessions.

“Those who make it through will learn a whole new way of life,” Abikoff said.

Belmont man held on cash bail for 3 court no shows

LACONIA — A Belmont man was held on a total of $2,602.50 cash bail yesterday by a Belknap County Judge for not showing up for three court appearances in Rochester, Plymouth and Franklin District Courts.

Brandon S. Dame, 26, of 141 Main St. #103 appeared in the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division yesterday after being held overnight for an encounter in Belmont on Tuesday.

According to affidavits submitted by Belmont Police, an officer on routine patrol Tuesday morning saw Dame pull into the right hand turn lane at the intersection of Route 106 and Route 140 but instead of turning right, he went straight, jumping before the car in the no-turn lane.

The officer ran the plate number, recognized it as Dame’s girlfriend’s car and went to the address he knew the woman was living.

The officer followed Dame to the Main Street apartment and spoke to him about the traffic violation. When he asked Dame for his name and drivers license, Dame allegedly gave him a false name and birthday.

The officer ran the name and birth date but didn’t find any record of it. He returned to Dame and asked him how old he was and Dame said 28. The officer

said he knew he was lying because the birthday he gave him made him 27.

When the girlfriend came out of the house, the officer kept them apart and asked her what Dame’s name was. She said it was Justin Dame. Knowing he was being lied to, the officer called for backup.

The officer said both were “becoming agitated as they realized their story was unraveling” so he asked “Justin” to spell his last name. When he asked him if Justin Dame was his real name, he allegedly said yes.

When the police officer took him into custody for disobeying a police officer, he found a non-driver’s identification saying his name was Brandon Dame.

Dispatch said he was wanted on three electronic bench warrant including one from Rochester for endangering the welfare of a child.

Dispatch also said Dame’s license was suspended for a DWI conviction and he also faces a charge of driving after revocation from Belmont.

Judge Jim Carroll said Dame could be released on personal recognizance bail on the Belmont charges but would be held on cash-only bail pending successive appearances in in Franklin on December 10, in Rochester on December 11, and in Plymouth on December 13.

— Gail Ober

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LACONIA — Downtown Laconia is a special place, say the merchants who choose to do business in the city’s center. To prove that point, the Main Street Initiative has organized a day of seasonal celebration on Saturday. The Downtown Laconia Open House will feature events from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Santa Claus will be at the Soda Shoppe from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All My Life Jeweler will host a chestnut roast and local wine tasting from 1 to 4 p.m. The Downtown Deli, with assistance from Larry Frates, is hosting a “paint-along and lunch,” for which reservations should be made by calling 528-7651. The

Frozen 5K road race and walk, hosted by Burrito Me and MC Cycle, begins at 10 a.m. Mix 94.1 FM radio will broadcast live from Main Street. Many other storefronts are offering refreshments or will be collecting toys or canned goods for local charities.

“Lots of people are doing something,” said Sue Bullerwell of All My Life Jeweler, adding that the event is planned to get “feet on the street” and remind local residents and shoppers of what a downtown center can offer. “I think downtown Main Street can show how unique it is,” she said.

JAZZ from page one Norwalk, Conn. He was a day shy of his 92nd birthday.

Brubeck believed that jazz presented the best face of America to the world.

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“Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany

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Rhetta Colon, who chairs the trustees, presented the board with a list of projects prepared by Norm Larson of Christopher P. Williams Architects in collaboration with Duncan McNeish, treasurer of the library. The list included cleaning and repointing brickwork, restoring windows, controlling moisture, repairing the roof and chimney, installing one staircase and building another and improving the thermal performance of the attic. Colon noted that the list was “not all inclusive.”

“This is what we need now,” McNeish told the selectmen. “We need to do what we can to preserve and maintain the building now.”

Explaining that in recent years the trustees have spent $113,000 in trust funds for repairs and maintenance, Colon said “we cannot continue to expend money on building costs. It’s irresponsible.” She told the board that the library had two trust funds, one with a balance of about $655,000 and another of about $166,000, adding that the trustees can spend only the investment income from the first.

Miller Lovett, chairman of the Selectboard, noted that the trustees had not submitted a request for a capital outlay and asked “where did you think you’d get the money?”

“We thought you would give it to us,” Colon replied, seemingly at least half in jest.

Selectman Peter Brothers suggested that the trustees were “putting the cart before the horse.” He said that maintenance should be a scheduled item in the annual library budget, representing between threepercent and seven-percent of proposed expenditures.

Moreover, he told the trustees that “it would be inappropriate for the board to try to find a large sum of money without having a master plan for the library.”

“We have not come her tonight to ask for this money,” McNeish said. “We are here to make you aware of the need.” He reminded the selectmen that the trustees raised the condition of the building with the board in June. “it’s not new,” he noted. He said that he was “disappointed” to read that the library was not mentioned among the priorities in anticipation of the 2013 budget.

Brothers repeated that the trustees had neither designated funds for maintenance and repairs in their operating budget nor submitted a request to the Capi-

tal Improvement Program (CIP) Committee. “That would show good planning and common sense,” he remarked. “It’s easy to say it’s town’s problem.”

Lovett suggested that the trustees consider proposing warrant articles either to establish an expendable trust fund, earmarked for maintenance and improvement of the building, or to borrow the funds by selling general obligation bonds. The selectmen would be required to recommend for or against such warrant articles.

Erin Apostolos, the director of the library, said that she has applied to the United States Department of Agriculture—Rural Development for a grant and intends to submit a request for funds to the CIP Committee in 2014.

Brothers recalled the capital campaign mounted by the Conservation Commission to raise the funds to purchase the Page Pond and Forest, indicating that the trustees consider a similar effort.

McNeish assured the selectmen that the trustees intend to commission a consultant to assist in preparing a master plan for the library and have scheduled a special meeting on January 14 to begin the process. “The community will tell us what they want,” he said. Meanwhile, he stressed that the town owns the land and the building and with ownership comes responsibility.

McNeish said yesterday that “what we were asking for Monday night was help. We were saying ‘here are the needs. We need some help. We hope to get some help down the road.’ We hoped to hear ‘we understand your problem and we’re willing to help,’” he continued, “but we didn’t hear that.”

Earlier this year the selectmen and trustees found themselves at odds over the decision of the trustees to reclassify a position and jump an employee three pay grades and increase his hourly wage by 19-percent in the teeth of the Selectboard’s budget directive to the contrary. In ultimately acquiescing, the selectmen conceded that state law provided the trustees a measure of autonomy and authorized them to set the compensation of library employees and ultimately acquiesced.

However, in the course of the discussion Brothers remarked “there are times when it is very convenient for the library to be part of the town and there are others times when it is not.”

from preceding page tion or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.”

The common thread that ran through Brubeck’s work was breaking down the barriers between musical genres — particularly jazz and classical music.

He was inspired by his mother, a classical pianist, and later by his composition teacher, the French

composer Darius Mihaud, who encouraged his interest in jazz and advised him to “keep your ears open” as he traveled the world.

“When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection,” Brubeck said in 2005. “Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.”

Brubeck was always fascinated by the rhythms of everyday life. In a discussion with biographer Doug Ramsey, he recalled the rhythms he heard while working as a boy on cattle drives at the northern California ranch managed by his father.

The first time he heard polyrhythms — the use of two rhythms at the same time — was on horseback.

“The gait was usually a fast walk, maybe a trot,” he said. “And I would sing against that constant gait of the horse. ... There was nothing to do but think, and I’d improvise melodies and rhythms.”

Brubeck combined classical influences and his own innovations on the seminal 1959 album “Time Out” by his classic quartet that included alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, drummer Joe Morello and bassist Eugene Wright.

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College tells Belmont that floor of The Holidays Are Coming mill’s 4th floor needs some work

BY GAIL OBER

BELMONT — After representatives from the Lakes Region Community College Culinary Program told selectmen Monday night the carpet on the fourth floor of the Belmont Mill needs replacing, they asked Town Administrator Jeanne Beaudin to contact three flooring specialist for some preliminary pricing for carpet and possible sub flooring.

Head chef and manager of the Food For Thought Cafe Patrick Hall, who was accompanied by Thomas Goulet, the vice president for Academic Affairs, told selectmen the majority of the Cafe’s clients are elderly and portions of the carpet are bunching and frayed.

Hall also said there is a “soft spot or a dip” in the floor in the center of the dining room. He said his primary concern was someone tripping over one of the bumps in the carpet. He said the carpet is 15 years old.

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Goulette agreed the relationship has been a good one and allowed that recently there have been some delays in the contracts between LRCC and the town but that most of them were contract- and budget-driven and LRCC is powerless to control them.

Town Administrator Jeanne Beaudin noted that the town and the college just signed a new two-year lease agreement.

He said the Culinary Arts Program is “growing by leaps and bounds” and is up to nearly 70 students. He said there was some concern within the program over the space limitations at the Food For Thought Cafe but he also noted there was little other available space in the area.

“I live in town and I’m proud of the Mill,” Goulet said. “For the foreseeable future we’d like to maintain.”

WHEELCHAIR from page 2 walked around to where Reeves was.

“I looked down for a minute and when I looked back she was in a kneeling position,” Whisby said, adding that Hunnicutt then slid slowly to the ground and did not move. “I was like, ‘Something is wrong.’”

Whisby parked her car and went to help, thinking initially that Hunnicutt was having a seizure. People who gathered placed Hunnicutt on her back and that’s when they noticed blood on her chest. She said no one heard the gunshot.

As a group was working to apply pressure to the wound, someone asked who shot her. Whisby said Reeves, who sat in his wheelchair, told them Hunnicutt had tried to hit him with her car.

“It was just horrific. We were working on her the whole time, trying to give her CPR,” Whisby said.

As Reeves spoke, Whisby said, “I just blocked that part out. I was too busy trying to help her. We were so focused on her that we didn’t even hear the police cars.”

Whisby said Wednesday she was still struggling to understand everything she witnessed.

‘I thought about it all night, all day and all night. Is this really real?”

Whisby said. “How can somebody just take someone’s life like that and not show any emotion?”

Police have described the encounter between the victim and the suspect as random.

Hunnicutt, described as a homemaker who lives a few miles from the station, was shot once in the chest with a .38-caliber handgun, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said.

Reeves made a brief appearance Wednesday in Magistrate Court in Macon, and the judge set a Dec.

19 hearing, according to local news reports. Reeves, wearing an orange jumpsuit, was brought to the courtroom in a wheelchair.

Reeves lives behind the service station in one of a cluster of apartments, Jones said. No one answered a phone number listed for the residence on Wednesday, and a family member declined comment when reached by phone.

The gas station is along busy Gray Highway, and the encounter was so brief that many of the customers pumping gas were not immediately aware of what had just happened in one corner of the lot, Gaudet said.

When police arrived, Hunnicutt was in cardiac arrest and officers began performing CPR. She was taken to the Medical Center of Central Georgia, where the trauma team pronounced her dead at 1:25 p.m., less than a halfhour after the shooting.

The suspect gave a statement to detectives, Gaudet said, but authorities are not revealing what he said.

Meanwhile, police were asking for the public’s help in identifying additional eyewitnesses.

Hunnicutt is married, and her husband was on the road for his job with a dental lab company when the shooting happened, officials said.

Jones, who has been with the coroner’s office for 22 years, said he can’t recall a case such as this in the city about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta.

Said Jones: “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Whisby, the eyewitness, said people did what they could to try to aid the victim.

“It did not do any good, but I hope her family knows that there were some strangers there who were very concerned and trying to help her and praying for her to make it,” Whisby said.

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Meredith attorney saluted by N.H. Bar as International Lawyer of the Year for work on behalf of Kosovo He said that when Serbia held its MEREDITH — Robert McDaniel, who recent elections there were polling has spent the last three years in Europe places in northern Kosovo where votes working to help the fledgling nation of were being cast in the Serbian elecKosovo attract foreign investment and tion, which he said is something akin establish trading relationships with the to having elections in New Hampshire rest of the world, was recently honored in which residents of parts of Vermont as the 2012 International Lawyer of the are casting ballots.

Year by the N.H. Bar Association.

He said that the Balkans have been A 1969 graduate of Inter-Lakes High a place of wild extremes and noted that School, McDaniel says that the Latin during the Kosovo War some 12,000 that both he and his wife, Laurie, learned people were killed by Serbians and while in high school still comes in handy buried in a mass grave in Kosovo and in his day-to-day work in Vienna, where that allegations of similar war crimes he is head of the legal affairs for the committed against Serbs in Kosovo are Organization for Security and Cooperaalso a part of the tensions which still tion in Europe, where during the course Robert McDaniel (Courtesy photo) simmer in that area. of a day he will hear as many as eight ‘’At one time people of many differdifferent languages spoken.

He moved to Eastern Europe in 2010 to serve as ent faiths and ethnicities lived here together and an economic and legal advisor to the Kosovo Mintolerated each other. We hope to get to that point istry of Foreign Affairs, just two years after Kosovo again,’’ says McDaniel, who noted that Kosovo is the declared its independence from Serbia, becoming site of many of the religious shrines of what was the the eighth nation which had once been a part of the Ottoman era, which followed the historic defeat of former Yugoslavia to declare its independence. the Serbs in the 1389 Battle of Kosovo in which the ‘’They’ve even coined a phrase for what’s happened Ottomans defeated a coalition of Serbian forces. here, Balkanization, which means the breakup into He says that much of his work today is done from the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, where OSCE offices are smaller countries of what had once been a nation,’’ located and he provides legal and strategic advice. says McDaniel, who said that the current situaThe OSCE is made up of 56 participating countion in the area remains chaotic and that progress tries and serves as a forum for political negotiations toward resolving the issues revolving around politiand decision-making in the fields of early warning, cal, geographic, religious and ethnic differences is conflict prevention, crisis management and post‘’totally complex and confusing.’’ conflict rehabilitation.

He said that Kosovo, with about 11,000 square ‘’We’re working with a dozen or more emergent miles and some two million people, is located south democracies,’’ says McDaniel, who adds that the of Serbia and is bordered on the west by MonteneOSCE works on the basis of consensus in reachgro, in the south by Albania and to the southwest by ing decisions and ‘’moves ahead on the basis of non Macedonia. objection by the many participants. Our job is to Since the late twentieth century, long-term keep the dialogue open and avoid the kind of situsevere ethnic tensions between Kosovo’s Albanian ations which saw 100,000 deaths in the 1999 war,’’ and Serb populations have left Kosovo ethnically says McDaniel. divided, resulting in inter-ethnic violence, including After graduating from Inter-Lakes High School in the Kosovo War of 1999, in which NATO air strikes 1969, McDaniel attended the United States Coast forced Serbian forces to end a campaign of ethnic Guard Academy and became a commissioned officer cleansing and the United Nations took over goverin 1973. He served in various domestic and overseas norship. assignments, graduated from Catholic University McDaniel says that the largely Slavic state of Law School in 1982, and became a federal prosecuSerbia, which has had historic ties with Russia which tor at the United States Attorney’s Office in Washstill continue to this day, doesn’t recognize Kosovo’s ington, DC, a year later. He became an assistant independence and that there are still many ethnic attorney general in New Hampshire in 1987. His Slavs who are Eastern Orthodox Christians in the career then took him into private legal practice with northern part of Kosovo,. The nation as a whole is 90 the law firm of Devine, Millimet and Branch and on percent of Albanian descent and of those 97 percent to top legal positions at international corporations are Muslim, a reflection of the country’s long history such as Presstek Inc,. and IGI. in which it was part of the Turkey-based Ottoman see next page empire for over 400 years.

Congressional report cites wasteful spending on Homeland Security in era of huge budget deficits

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department paid for an underwater robot in a Midwest city with no major rivers or lakes nearby, a hog catcher in rural Texas and a fish tank in a small Texas town, according to a new congressional report highlighting what it described as wasteful spending of tax money intended for counterterrorism purposes.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said in his 54-page report that while much of the spending for the department’s Urban Area Security Initiative appeared to be allowed under the program’s rules, it was still inappropriate in an age of budget austerity and as the federal government faces a $16 trillion national debt.

“Every dollar misspent in the name of security weakens our already precarious economic condition, indebts us to foreign nations, and shackles the future of our children and grandchildren,” Coburn said.

The report focused on UASI spending in the last few years in Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma and the National Capitol Region, which includes Washington and parts of Maryland and Virginia. Among the projects Coburn found questionable were: —$21 for a fish tank in Seguin, Texas, a small town outside of San Antonio.

—$98,000 for an underwater robot in Columbus, Ohio, where there are no major rivers and few lakes nearby.

—$24,000 for a “latrine on wheels” in Fort Worth, Texas.

—A “BearCat” armored vehicle bought with a $285,933 grant in Keene, N.H., a small New England town that is home to an annual pumpkin festival that draws up to 70,000 people.

—$250,000 for security upgrades, including $9,000 in signage, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

The grant program stems from the 2001 terrorist attacks when the federal government pledged to help equip local governments to prevent future attacks and respond if they occurred. DHS has pumped billions to states over the past decade under from preceding page He said that following the 20001 terrorist attacks he and his wife, who is a paralegal and most recently director of the Music Clinic Theatre Company of Belmont, ran a law practice which had a strong international component.

Laurie says her husband’s European work hasn’t been without sacrifice, noting that they were only able to spend 20 days together last year.

That’s going to change this winter, though, as the couple are planning a ‘’Yugoslav Winter’’ in which

the program that puts states in control of how the money is ultimately spent.

The security program is the department’s most popular grant, and guidance for how money can be spent has evolved over the years. During the past decade there have been other examples of questionable homeland security grants, including infamous snow cone machines bought by Michigan officials last year. The department has no way of tracking how the money is spent and has not produced adequate measures to gauge what states and communities actually need, Coburn said.

DHS spokesman Matt Chandler said the department “fundamentally disagrees with the report’s position on the value of homeland security grants and the importance of investments in our first responders on the front lines and the development of critical capabilities at the local level.”

Chandler said the department’s grant programs are evolving and changes proposed by the Obama administration reflect “a more targeted approach” to how federal money will be spent in the future.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, the retiring chairman of the Senate homeland security committee, said while Coburn’s report “makes some good points” the program’s benefits outweigh its flaws.

“The grants, for example, have helped improve first-responder communications between different jurisdictions and levels of government — a lesson learned from the 9/11 attacks when scores of New York City fire fighters died because of poor communications,” said Lieberman, I-Conn.

Congress regularly complains about the lack of accountability of the grant programs but lawmakers are happy to have the federal dollars spent in their districts. And almost from the beginning the program has operated with political considerations.

In 2004, then-DHS Secretary Tom Ridge told a congressional panel asking about allotments to various cities that he was looking for a formula that get “218 votes in the House or 51 votes in the Senate, in order to get it done.”

Laurie will be spending a good deal of time in Europe. ‘’I would like to make a contribution to Kosovo and do something in the arts and theater there,’’ she says.

McDaniel says that he thinks she’ll like it there and says that one of the big advantages to working in Europe is the generous amount of vacation time workers have there. ‘’I get 58 days a year off, compared to the 14 you can expect here. It’s a lot different lifestyle with a lot less stress,’’ says McDaniel.

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The “Fill the Truck” toy drive will be hosted at Tilton and Gilford Walmart, along with more than 2,500 other Walmart stores across the country, on Saturday, December 8.

The “Fill the Truck” event will begin at 9 a.m. and run until 5 p.m. on Saturday and is open to the general public who would like to donate new toys to children who take part in The Salvation Army programs year-round.

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LACONIA — The Laconia Historical and Museum Society will present a Holiday Program on Monday, December 10 at 7 p.m. at the Laconia Public Library.

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The program of Christmas Carols is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Donations are appreciated.

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Annah M. Kavale, 52 LACONIA — Annah M. Kavale, 52, died Monday, December 3, 2012 at the Lakes Region General Hospital following a long period of failing health.

Annah was born in Kitui, Kenya, January 28, 1960, daughter of Mwithi and Tamala Maitha Syuma. She lived in Laconia for six years, having moved there with her family from Ohio, Kentucky and Kenya where she lived for three, four and nineteen years respectively.

Annah was married to Festus Kavale, also originally from Kenya, for twenty-seven years.

Annah is survived by her husband, Festus Kavale, and their two sons, Jonathan and Joshua, of Laconia; four brothers, Mwendwa Mwithi, Tito Mwithi, Japheth Musembi Mwithi and Josphat Muthami Mwithi; four sisters, Peninah Mutethya, Rose Kasyoka, Christine Kathule and Susan Temea; five brothers-in-law, Nicholas Ndambu, Benjamin Ndulu, Harrison Munuve, Benjamin Mbuvi and Stephen Muthinzi; six sistersin-law, Rose Syonzau, Josephine Katunge, Eunice Kathini, Eunice Mumbe, Malia and Agnes. In addition, Annah is also survived by many cousins, nephews and nieces, most of whom live in Kenya.

Annah will be remembered for her childlike faith, her humility, her patience, her kindness and her cheerfulness regardless of the challenges. She totally adored and always supported both her immediate family as well as her extended family.

There will be no calling hours but there will be a Christian Memorial Service at the First United Methodist Church, 18 Wesley Way, Gilford, NH 03249 on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 12:00 Noon.

A Graveside Christian Burial Service will also take place later in the family ancestral land in Kitui, Kenya.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Rev. Festus Kavale c/o Cass Walker, Human Resource Manager, LRGHealthcare, Human Resource Dept., 80 Highland Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246 towards assisting the family to travel and also transport Annah to Kenya for burial.

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LACONIA — Eloise “Peachy” F. Burt, 92, of 30 County Drive and formerly of 13 Lindsey Court, died at the Belknap County Nursing Home on Friday, November 30, 2012.

Peachy was born September 4, 1920 in N. Troy, Vermont, the daughter of Ernest and Amy (Andrews) Kelley. She had been a resident of Laconia for the last seventy-four years and had been employed at various diners, including Paugus Diner and Bill’s Diner. She was a very hard working dedicated employee and had worked at Paugus Diner until she was 78 years old.

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New Hampton Historical Society members Bank of NH sponsoring collecting oral histories from town residents ‘Financial Fitness’ series

NEW HAMPTON — The New Hampshire Humanities Council has awarded the New Hampton Historical Society a grant for training and consultation in a year long project to capture and record the oral histories of town residents.

Jo Radner, Ph.D., former professor of American history at American University in Washington, D.C. will serve as the consultant for the project. The New Hampton Historical Society wants to capture their town’s history through its stories, traditions and culture from the voices of the people who lived that Pictured from left to right are Gordon DuBois, Pat Hoertdoerfer,Carole Curry, Paul MacDonald, Manfred history.

Hoertdoerfer and Bob Curry. (Courtesy photo) Over the next several months board members Bob Curry, Gordon DuBois, Pat Long-time residents of New Hampton who would and Manfred Hoertdoerfer will be facilitating discuslike to be interviewed for this project can call Gordon sions with individuals who are willing to share their stoDuBois at 279-0379. ries about life in their community. People’s stories will be The Historical Society is interested in interviewing recorded on video tape and archived at the Gordon-Nash any and all community members who have a story Library in New Hampton. to tell about their life in New Hampton: attending Paul MacDonald and Carole Curry will be assistschool, working on the family farm, involvement in ing with recording and archiving the interviews. The the Grange, church membership, town politics, etc. eventual goal of the project is to create a documenThe organization is still seeking monetary contributary film on the history of New Hampton. Rebecca tions to support this project and those who would like Rule, noted New Hampshire author and story teller, to donate to New Hampton Oral History Project Fund has agreed to write the script for the film. can contact Stacy Nawoj, Treasurer, at 677-2885.

Moultonborough Historical Society meets December 10

MOULTONBOROUGH — The year 2012 concludes for the Moultonborough Historical Society with the monthly meeting on Monday, December 10, at the Moultonborough Library meeting room at 7 p.m.

This is the annual business meeting, and will include the election of officers. There is no program for the evening, but there will be refreshments and

time for socializing in the spirit of the season.

Members are asked to bring items of nonperishable foods such as canned or boxed meals that do not need to be refrigerated, to be donated to the local food pantries. There are no programs during January, February and March, and the 2013 season will kick off again with the April program.

BRISTOL — The Pasquaney Garden Club of Bristol will end the 2012 program year with a “Holiday Potluck Luncheon” and “Making Christmas Table Favors” with Judy Kraemer & Marcia Anderson.

The meeting will start at 11 a.m. at the Bristol Baptist Church on December 11. It will begin with a short business meeting. Cost of making the table favor will be $5. All members and guests are asked to bring something for the potluck luncheon which

will immediately follow the business meeting and program.

For information on the December 11 meeting contact Rebecca Herr 744-6526. The Pasquaney Garden Club is a member of NHFGC, Inc. District, Regional, and NGC, Inc. Plan to attend this meeting and learn more about local, regional and national events.

After a short break, the 2013 meetings of the Pasquaney Garden Club will begin again in April 2013.

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The Laconia Area Community Land Trust provides financial education on how to people can take control of their finances and assists its participants in reaching their financial goals, whether it’s saving to buy a new home, planning for college or retirement, or reducing debt.

Seminar topics include making a spending and savings plan, managing credit and debt, improving credit rating, prioritizing insurances, taxes, wills, and goal-setting.

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Bank of NH is a longtime sponsor of the Land Trust’s first-time homebuyer seminars, which are designed to take the mystery out of the home-buying process, especially for those with limited financial resources.

The upcoming 5-week session will be scheduled once interest in participation has reached a sufficient number. Typically, classes will be held on Tuesday evenings, 6-8 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information or to register call Debra Drake at Laconia Area Community Land Trust at 524-0747. Seating is limited and advance registration is required.

Coat drive in full swing in Tilton-Northfield, Franklin areas

TILTON — The Coat Drive is in full swing.

Run by local people from Trinity Episcopal Church in conjunction with the non-profit “One Warm Coat” and the local Community Action Program, the drive is collecting clean, slightly used coats for those adults and children in need in our local communities. The collected coats will be dispersed through the local Community Action Program to folks in need in the seven surrounding communities (including Franklin, Northfield, Sanbornton, and Tilton) served by the local C.A.P. This is the third yearof the program, which last year collected just over 250 items, including coats, snow pants and many knitted items donated by local knitters. The C. A. P. says that there is a need for as many or more items than were collected last year. The following establishments have agreed to allow collection boxes in their buildings: Franklin City Hall, Grandma Judy’s and Hannaford’s in Franklin; Hall Memorial Library and The Pines Recreation Center in Northfield; Tilton Town Hall and Market Basket in Tilton The drive finishes up on Dec. 17 and the collected items will be immediately turned over to local C.A.P offices.

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Artisans Depot at Laconia Antique Center decked out for Downtown Open House on Saturday

LACONIA — Preparations are underway at the Laconia Antique Center for Saturday’s downtown Laconia Open House. This year the Antique Center has a new attraction for holiday strollers and customers with their craft gallery, Artisans Depot.

Currently, over 15 artisans – photographers, woodworkers, potters, jewelry-makers, blacksmiths, and fiber craftsmen from across New Hampshire are exhibiting work for sale.

Items include cards, prints, baskets, puzzles, mittens, wooden trays, holiday ornaments, clay pots, earrings, necklaces, felted handbags, framed photos of local scenes, painted woodenware, and more.

Local artisans at the Depot include printmaker Marian Federspiel of Meredith, photographer Bill Hemmel of Laconia, fiber artist Melanie Bennett of New Hampton, jewelry-makers Sue Vachon of Gilford and Eliza Leadbeater of New Hampton.

The Laconia Antique Center at 601 Main Street is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays and until 6 p.m. on weekdays, closed Tuesdays during the winter. While shopping at the Antique Center and Artisans Depot on weekends save time

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be printed and taken to UNO for use with meal or take out.

Zonta is pleased to be able to work with the UNO establishment which has donated nearly $4 million to non-profit organizations like Zonta. The club annually raises funds for the local projects and agencies it supports on a regular basis such as Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation, New Beginnings, Carey House, Boys and Girls Club of the Lakes Region, Circle Program, Community Health and Hospice programs and services, local library programs and the Zonta Young Women in Public Affairs Awards and Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarships.

Committee on Aging hosting holiday party Dec. 14

GILFORD — The Belknap County Area Committee on Aging will host a Holiday Party on December 14, at 10 a.m. in the Wesley Woods Community Room. Wesley Woods is located behind the First United Methodist Church off Rte. 11A in Gilford.

Guest speaker June Howell will be discussing “Handling the Family and Holidays with as little stress as possible” Those who have questions or would like more information can contact Stace Dicker-Hendricks at

BRIGHTEN THE HOLIDAYS SUPPORT MRS. SANTA FUND For several years now the Mrs. Santa Fund has provided gifts for children from Newborn to age 17. This list grows longer each year. Once again Mrs. Santa’s Elves need your generosity. New clothing and toys may be dropped off at the Town Hall until December 21st.

Cash donations are made payable to Mrs. Santa Fund and may be sent to: Alton Town Hall, c/o Sheri York, PO Box 659, Alton, NH 03809.

If you are in need of assistance providing necessities for your children or know of a family who would benefit from this program, contact Mrs. Santa’s Elves by December 7th. Elf #1-Sheri York (875-0204), or Elf #2 –Paulette Wentworth, (875-0203).

Zonta Club holding fundraiser at UNO Chicago Grill

TILTON — The Zonta Club of the Lakes Region will hold a fundraiser in conjunction with UNO Chicago Grill at the Tanger Outlet Mall in Tilton on Thursday, December 13.

The “DoughRai$er” includes lunch, dinner and take out meal orders (gift cards not included). Restaurant patrons who present a donation ticket to their server when paying their bill will have 15-20% of their check total (minus tax and tip) donated back to the Zonta Club by the UNO management. Copies of donation tickets can be obtained by contacting the Zonta Club at ZontaLakesNH@yahoo.com.

Simply put the words “Donation Ticket” in the subject line. The ticket that will be sent back can

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Many will advise you, but it won’t be difficult to know which direction to follow. The wrong way makes you feel stubborn and sluggish. The right way has a nice ring to it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

When opportunities seem scarce, endeavor to deliberately create them.

You may still come up empty-handed, but someone will like your initiative and keep you in mind for the next round.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). In some ways, you’re on top of the world.

In other ways, you’re in the thick of the muckity-muck, fighting your way through. Neither position is better than the other. The fight keeps you strong, and the ease gives you perspective.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 6).

You’ll have excellent timing and a thriving personal life in 2013. Your goals are perfectly aligned with a partner’s, and together you’ll be unstoppable over the next ten weeks. A victory at work will win you money and admiration in February. Those who require special attention will return it threefold in May. Leo and Aquarius people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 13, 20, 41, 47 and 8.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You deserve to work with experienced people who can help you get to the next level. But inexperienced people who rely on you may be an even better bet to inspire your best.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Don’t put too much stock in what people who are in the thick of a crush have to say.

Infatuation is a deceptive state of mind.

The same qualities that enrapture you in one moment could repel you in the next.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Take the advice of those who have “been there,” but come up with your own solutions, too. New connections will come about through unconventional methods.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You could extract a wide range of meanings from your daily interactions, but most of them wouldn’t be accurate, and few of the accurate ones would be of any consequence. So avoid over-thinking things.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Sometimes when you love people, you feel possessive of them. Intellectually, you know that no person can own another, but there’s a territorial animal instinct inside you that seems to believe otherwise.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The moon gives you an extra burst of can-do energy, not to mention a sheen of glamour that the more glamorous around you will notice. It takes one to know one.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You may realize that you’ve been trying to fill a void that was never really there to begin with. Nothing is missing. There are excellent reasons why things are exactly the way they are.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Dec. 6, the 341st day of 2012. There are 25 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 6, 1922, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which established the Irish Free State, came into force one year to the day after it was signed in London.

On this date: In 1790, Congress moved to Philadelphia from New York.

In 1884, Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument by setting an aluminum capstone atop the obelisk.

In 1889, Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.

In 1907, the worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurred as 362 men and boys died in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, W.Va. In 1917, some 2,000 people died when an explosives-laden French cargo ship collided with a Norwegian vessel at the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, setting off a blast that devastated the city.

In 1942, comedian Fred Allen premiered “Allen’s Alley,” a recurring sketch on his CBS radio show spoofing small town America.

In 1947, Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Harry S. Truman.

In 1957, America’s first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed as Vanguard TV3 rose about four feet off a Cape Canaveral launch pad before crashing down and exploding.

In 1962, 37 coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Robena No. 3 Mine operated by U.S. Steel in Carmichaels, Pa. In 1971, the original Auto-Train, which carried rail passengers and their motor vehicles from Lorton, Va., to Sanford, Fla., went into operation.

(Although the privately owned line went out of business in 1981, Amtrak revived the service in 1983.)

In 1982, 11 soldiers and 6 civilians were killed when an Irish National Liberation Army bomb exploded at a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.

In 1989, 14 women were shot to death at the University of Montreal’s school of engineering by a man who then took his own life.

One year ago: Declaring the American middle class in jeopardy, President Barack Obama, speaking in Osawatomie, Kan., outlined a populist economic vision that would drive his re-election bid, insisting the United States must reclaim its standing as a country in which everyone can prosper if provided “a fair shot and a fair share.”

Today’s Birthdays: Jazz musician Dave Brubeck is 92. Comedy performer David Ossman is 76. Actor Patrick Bauchau is 74. Country singer Helen Cornelius is 71. Actor James Naughton is 67. Rhythm-and-blues singer Frankie Beverly (Maze) is 66. Actress JoBeth Williams is 64. Actor Tom Hulce is 59. Actor Kin Shriner is 59. Actor Wil Shriner is 59. Actor Miles Chapin is 58. Rock musician Rick Buckler (The Jam) is 57. Comedian Steven Wright is 57. Country singer Bill Lloyd is 57. Singer Tish Hinojosa is 57. Rock musician Peter Buck (R.E.M.) is 56. Rock musician David Lovering (Pixies) is 51. Actress Janine Turner is 50. Writer-director Judd Apatow is 45. Rock musician Ulf “Buddha” Ekberg (Ace of Base) is 42.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Pitman’s Freight Room presents The Brad Myrick Quintet. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. followed by the show at 8 p.m. at Pitman’s in Laconia. Admission is $10. BYOB. Lakes Region General Hospital Auxiliary Gift Shop Annual Holiday Sale. 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the atrium lobby at LRGH. 25% off selected storewide items.

American Red Cross blood drive. Noon to 5 p.m. at Sacred Heart Hall in Laconia. For more information call 1-800 RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit online at www.redcrossblood.org.

27th annual Rev. Ray Wixson Memorial Gilford Senior Citizen Dinner & Holiday Celebration. 5:45 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church and Community Center. Traditional turkey dinner served and entertainment. Transportation available if needed. Call 524-6057 to make a reservation.

Gilford Public Library Daily Happenings. Gingerbread Houses (Preschool), 10:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.Conversational French, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Gingerbread Houses (Kindergarten – Grade 5), 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Gingerbread Houses (Teens), 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Crafter’s Corner, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Paracord Bracelets, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Food For Friends free meal. 5-6 p.m. at the Tapply Thompson Community Center in Bristol. Call 744-2713 for more information.

Anne of Green Gables Movie night Part One. 6 p.m. at the Gilmanton Year Round Library.

Laconia Indoor Market “Holiday Edition” open house featuring additional one time only vendors. 3-6 p.m. at Skate Escape on Court Street in Laconia. Various farmers, food vendors, artisans, and independent sales representatives will be present. For a full list of vendors and specials go to http://laconiaindoorwintermarket.weebly.com/index.html.

Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church Parish House (18 Veterans Square) in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Thursday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

Plymouth Area Chess Club meets Thursdays from 7-9 p.m. at Starr King Fellowship, 101 Fairgrounds Road. Form more information call George at 536-1179.

American Legion Post #1 Bingo. Every Thursday night at 849 N. Main Street in Laconia. Doors open at 4 p.m.

Bingo starts at 6:30.

Knitting at Belmont Public Library. 6 p.m.

Chess Club at the Goss Reading Room (188 Elm Street) in Laconia. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. each Thursday. All ages and skill levels welcome. We will teach.

Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (719 No. Main Street, Laconia). Free group for parents children from birth through age 5. For more information call 524-1741.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 Winnipesaukee Playhouse presents a youth/teen ensemble in A Very Broadway Christmas musical cabaret. 7 p.m. at the theater in the Alpenrose Plaza in the Weirs.

Tickets are $14/adults, $12/seniors, $10/kids and students and can be purchased by calling 366-7377.

Oscar Night at the Movies held at the Gilman Library.

7 p.m. Popcorn and drinks provided. Camp chairs or pillows recommended for comfort. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

Open House in Center Harbor. 5-8 p.m. Events take place at Heaths Supermarket, Yikes! Gallery, and Bayswater Book Co. Christmas Night in Ashland featuring various family oriented events. Most events take place between 5-6:45 p.m. on Main Street and Highland Street in Ashland. Pictures with Santa available with a $1 donation. For more information on the evenings events call 536-3141.

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NOTICE TOWN OF GILFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE The Gilford Planning Board will conduct a public hearing to consider changes to the Gilford Zoning Ordinance on Monday, December 17, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in Conference Room A at the Gilford Town Hall, 47 Cherry Valley Road, Gilford, New Hampshire. Anyone interested is invited to attend. This is the first public hearing for these items.

PROPOSED ZONING ORDINANCE CHANGES A public hearing will be held to consider the following proposed amendments: 1.

Amend Corner Lot Setback Requirements – Add to Section 5.1.3, Front Setback Area, a new Subparagraph (h) to allow corner lots in residential zones to have side or rear setbacks apply along abutting streets if such lots have no driveway access to the abutting streets; and a new Subparagraph (i) to allow side or rear setbacks to apply to the portion of an interior lot adjacent to a new subdivision road.

2.

Amend Buffer and Screening Definitions – Amend Article 3, Definitions, by changing the definition of “Buffer” in various ways including clarifying and expanding what uses may be located within a buffer; and by changing the definition of “Screen or Screening” in various ways including revising what plantings are required for screening purposes.

3.

Amend Section 6.5, Screening – Amend Section 6.5, Screening, by changing the title to “Screened Buffer”, requiring commercial and industrial uses in commercial and industrial zones to have buffers only adjacent to residential zone boundaries, clarifying a provision allowing the Planning Board to require a screen within a buffer, providing a way for the Planning Board to waive a portion of a buffer through issuance of a conditional use permit, and making other related changes.

4.

Amend Lot Coverage Requirements – Amend Section 5.1.6, Lot Coverage, and Table 2, Dimensional Regulations, to make the maximum impervious lot coverage allowed in the Resort Commercial (RC) and Professional Commercial (PC) Zones the same as what is allowed in the Commercial (C) and Industrial (I) Zones (75%).

5.

Time Limits to Submit Final Plans and to Record Subdivision Plans – Amend Section 22.5, Duration of Permit, by establishing a time limit to submit final plans after they have been approved by the Planning Board, establishing a time limit to record subdivision plans after they have been approved, and reorganizing the section and assigning subsection lettering to other existing requirements.

The exact text of the proposed changes may be inspected at the Department of Planning and Land Use (DPLU) and the Town Clerk’s office in the Gilford Town Hall at 47 Cherry Valley Road, Gilford, New Hampshire. DPLU is open Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Town Clerk’s office is open from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, and until 6:00 p.m. on Thursdays. You may contact the Department of Planning and Land Use by calling (603) 527-4727.

Gilmanton Year-Round Library hosting presentation by Chris Shadler of Project Coyote on December 11 GILMANTON — The Gilmanton Year-Round Library will host a presentation by Chris Shadler of Project Coyote on Tuesday, December 11 at 6 p.m.

Shadler is a wild canid biologist who works with Project Coyote. The organization promotes educated coexistence between people and coy- Living with Coyotes is the subject of a presentation by Chris otes by championing pro- Shadler of Project Coyote on Tuesday, December 11, 6 p.m. at the gressive management Gilmanton Year-Round Library. (Courtesy photo) policies that reduce human-coyote Hampshire, receiving many teaching conflict, supporting innovative scienexcellence and student recognition tific research, and fostering respect awards. She continues to instruct and for and understanding of America’s mentor adult degree candidates in the native wild “song dog.”

UNH System at Granite State ColHis interest in wild canids began in lege.

1980 as a volunteer at the Wolf Park While wolf recovery was the focus in Battleground, Indiana under Dr. of her early work, Chris’ attention Erich Klinghammer. This opportushifted to the eastern coyote when she nity and others inspired an eventual moved to New England. She chose a Masters in Conservation Biology at farm with known coyote problems to Antioch University Graduate School. raise sheep and train her border colHer thesis focused on the biological lies. Using sound livestock manageand social perspectives of natural ment and common sense, she has recovery for the Eastern Timber Wolf avoided any predation for nearly in Michigan. two decades. A peaceful co-existence Beginning in the early 1990’s, she between coyote and livestock has taught Conservation Issues and Wolf grown an attentive audience for Ecology at the University of New humane management.

Pemi Choral Society offering three concerts for 40th anniversary season PLYMOUTH — The Pemigewasset Choral Society will present a threeconcert series for its 40th Winter holiday season.

Concerts will be held starting Thursday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Gilford Community Church. The performance will be followed with concerts on Friday, December 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Franklin at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church and Sunday December 16 at 3 p.m. at Hanaway Theater in Silver Cultural Arts Center at Plymouth State University.

All concerts are open to the public with admission by donation in Gilford and Franklin. General admission at Plymouth State University is $10 tickets are available in advance by CALENDAR from preceding page

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 Blackstones hosts the 6 time Grammy winning baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan. 8 p.m. at the Margate Resort in Laconia. Admission is $12. For more information call (518) 793-3183.

Meat bingo to benefit the homeless veterans at the Liberty House in Manchester. 6:30 p.m. at VFW Post 1670 in Laconia. Pot Luck dinner served.

The Mountain Lake Chorale performs at Sanbornton Congregational Church, UCC. 7 p.m. Free with optional donation box at the door. For more information email

calling 535-ARTS. Remaining tickets will be available at the door.

This program, titled Peace On Earth, under the direction of Leslie McDonnell and assistant director, William Gunn with pianist, Catharine Dorin features songs of peace and celebration from Russia, Africa, Scotland, Austria, and beyond to usher in the holiday season. Traditional pieces like Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring and the 17 th century piece; Let all Nations Praise the Lord as arranged

by Laura Hoggard to the lighter tune of Ding Dong Merrily On High, arranged by Dr. Robert Swift will lift the spirits of all. For additional information, visit www.pemichorial.org. www.uccsanbornton.org.

Gilford Public Library Happenings.

Social bridge 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Knit Wits 1:30 p.m. to 2:20 p.m.

Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church Parish House (18 Veterans Square) in Laconia. 9:30 to 11 a.m. each Friday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (719 No. Main Street, Laconia). Free group for parents children from birth through age 5. For more information call 524-1741.

Sit and Knit at the Hall Memorial Library in Northfield. 2-5 p.m.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My incredible husband of two years has a 4-year-old daughter with his ex-wife. I have actively helped raise “Christie” since she was barely a year.

We haven’t communicated with the mother since the time we took her to court for refusing visitation, but my husband and I have always provided for Christie in every way possible, above and beyond the court-ordered child support. This little girl loves me. I have never tried to replace her mother, encouraged or expected her to call me “Mom,” or even so much as talked badly about her mother in front of her.

But lately, Christie has been questioning my relationship with her father, saying the reason her mommy and daddy are not together is because of me. When I ask her to do something she doesn’t want to do, she says her mommy says she doesn’t have to listen to me because I am not her mother.

Even worse, she’s been told that when my husband and I have a baby of our own, Daddy won’t love her as much as the new baby.

Christie is obviously too young to draw these conclusions on her own, so Mom is giving her these impressions or telling her these things outright. I don’t know why any mother would want to hurt her child this way, but I worry it is going to cause Christie to resent me. How can we handle this? -Stepmom in the Middle Dear Stepmom: Many courts now recognize parental alienation. Suggest that your husband speak to his lawyer about this possibility. In the meantime, when Christie is with you, do your best to counter the negative brainwashing. Let her know how much you love her and always will; that a new baby means she will be more important than ever, and the new baby will need a big sister; that everyone in the house-

hold has chores to do, and you want her to learn to be a big girl. As she gets older, she will recognize her mother’s bitterness, so please don’t play into that drama.

Dear Annie: I am a recent widow in my mid-70s. I decided after the death of my husband a couple of years ago that I would live out my life alone.

I don’t have much of a social life, but I do attend church services regularly. I find myself sitting next to a man who once spoke to me after the service. After several weeks, I could tell he seemed interested in me. After a few conversations, I realized I am 10 years older than he is.

He seems like a kind and polite man, and his wife has been dead for many years. I am flattered by his attention and shocked at this chain of events. I would appreciate your input on the age difference. I am basically a happy, healthy woman, but this is a situation I could take or leave. So if you tell me to come to my senses, I will say “Goodbye, Columbus.” -- California Dear California: The age difference is irrelevant as long as you don’t mislead him about it. If you enjoy his company, we say go for it. There is nothing wrong with a companionable friendship, and if either of you is looking for something more, just be sure you are both comfortable with it.

Dear Annie: You printed several responses to “Looking for a Relationship, Too” and included one from “El Paso, Texas,” who suggested that women take up shooting because “guys like a gal with good aim.”

I laughed, thinking of a song from the Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” which was titled, “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun.” Thanks for a good chuckle. -- Musical Lover

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

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Animals

Autos

Autos

For Rent

BEAUTIFUL Puppies: Apricot and black. Pomapoo Teddy Bears .

Champ background. Good price.

Healthy, happy, home raised.

253-6373.

2003 Silverado LS- Excellent condition, one owner, only 38K miles. 2WD, reg. cab, 8ft bed. $7,900. 524-8745

ANTIQUE 1973 MG Midget$5,200. 267-5456

BELMONT- Renovated, quiet Rte. 3. One & Two bedroom, Include heat/hot water, starts at $685, no pets. 528-1991

2003 Subaru Legacy Outback Wagon- $2,000 as is. $3,200 with minor work done. 267-5456

DACHSHUNDS puppies. Heath & temperament guaranteed.

Parents on premise, $450 (603)539-1603.

2005 Kia Rio, 4 door, auto, a/c, 104K Miles, new timing belt and water pump, great on gas. $3795.

934-2221

LABRADOR Retriever pups AKC. Outstanding English lines, Chocolates/ blacks. Bred for breed standards/ temperament.

In-home raised. (603)664-2828.

2005 Subaru Forester 2.5 XS, AWD, 27K miles, Cayenne Red, Excellent condition, new tires, CD, heated seats, auto, remote starter/entry, car cover, $12,500, 603-528-3735.

Announcement WERE YOU IMPLANTED WITH A ST. JUDE DEFIBRILLATOR LEAD WIRE between June 2001present? You may be entitled to compensation. Contact Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800-535-5727.

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

Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

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

FOR Sale: 2008 Prius Hybrid, 51k miles, light green, good condition. $11,900. 968-7959.

PRE 1972 Classic 4 speed cars wanted. Especially convertables.

978-771-8818.

Child Care CHILD or elder care. Weekends, some holidays, some overnights, in your home. Responsible, 42, own transportation. 630-9969 CHILDCARE in your home. Call 677-6801 CHILDREN S Garden Childcare:

Year-round, reliable, clean, structured, pre-K environment, one acre yard, central location. 528-1857

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

P3 s Towing. 630-3606

Employment Wanted

1998 Ford F150 4X4 Pickup- Ex tra cab, 8ft bed, 165K miles.

Registered, XLT, loaded, runs good. $2,500/OBO. 344-8885 Laconia

KEN BARRETT AUCTION 12/10

Monday, Dec. 10 @ 6pm • Preview at 4pm Log on to: www.auctionzip.com ID#5134, for 250photos Glass & china, sterling, postcard albums, old paper, artwork, movie posters, dolls, books, bottles, clocks, N.H. license plates, swords. Boy & Girl Scout items, tools, cast iron, lots of art glass, stoneware, military cone hat, Concord city reports, transit, and so much more!

Held At 274 Main St. Tilton, N.H. (same location - 23 years!)

603-286-2028 • kenbarrettauctions@netzero.net Lic # 2975, Buyers premium, cash, check, credit cards.

GENTLEMAN with CDL-B and current medical card seeks work.

Also have many years of shipping, receiving, manufacturing, retail and warehouse experience.

Prefer 2nd shift, but can work 1st.

496-8639

For Rent APARTMENTS, mobile homes. If you need a rental at a fair price, call DRM Corp. Over 50 years in rentals. We treat you better!

524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at our new location, 142 Church St. (Behind CVS Pharmacy.)

BELMONT farmhouse 2 bedroom apartment. 2nd floor, large balcony, heat & electric included. No pets/No smoking. $760/Month.

BRISTOL- Available immediately!

Two Bedroom newly renovated, first floor.

New carpet and linoleum, new bathroom fixtures, new appliances and cabinets.

Plenty of closet space! Not a far commute to PSU or I93, right around the corner from Freudenberg. $975/Month, includes heat/hot water/electricity. Will consider a pet. First month plus $500 security deposit to move in.

References required. Please call 603-387-6498.

BRISTOL- Available immediately!

Two Bedroom newly renovated, first floor.

New carpet and linoleum, new bathroom fixtures, new appliances and cabinets.

Plenty of closet space! Not a far commute to PSU or I93, right around the corner from Freudenberg. $700 per month plus utilities. Will consider a pet. First month plus 1 month security deposit, references required.

Please call 603-387-6498.

FRANKLIN: 2 & 3 bedroom mobile homes for rent $700-$725. + Utilities, security deposit required, no dogs, 279-5846.

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

603-366-4468.

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

455-6269.

GILFORD - 1 or 2-bedroom units available. Heat & electricity included. From $190/week. Pets considered. 556-7098.

LACONIA 1st floor 2-3 bedroom apartment on Pleasant St. Walk to town & beaches, recently repainted, carpeting, appliances, full bath. $1,000/Month includes heat & hot water. 524-3892 or

For Rent

For Rent

LACONIA 2-BEDROOM HOUSE

LACONIABeacon St. West Luxury condo. Furnished, washer/dryer, hardwood floors, granite countertops, storage unit, gym included. Very low utilities.

Free Internet & cable.

Non-smoker/No pets. Security, lease & references required. $750/Month. 455-4075

Completely renovated, including new kitchen. Nice house, nice area. 64 Fenton Ave. No pets, No Smokers. $975/Month, plus utilities. 630-1438 LACONIA - 3 BR first floor unit.

Parking and W/D hookups. No dogs. $1,120 includes heat. Call 315-9492.

LACONIA 1-Bedroom Apartment.

Includes Heat.

Hot Water, Electric. Nice location., No pets/ No smoking. $650/month 603-630-4198 LACONIA 2 bedroom house near LRGH. Includes heat & hot water, washer/dryer, and snow removal. $1050/Month. No pets/smoking.

524-5455 LACONIA Almost New Winnipesaukee Waterfront Luxury 2-Bedroom Condominium. W/D, air, large deck. $1,200. No smoking.

One-year lease. 603-293-9111 LACONIA, Messer St., 1 1/2 Br, $150/wk. Utilities not included.

Call 603-512-8722.

LACONIA- $885/Month, heat, water sewer included. 2 bedroom, small pets considered. Charlene Coldwell Banker 581-2885 LACONIA- 1 bedroom home. $850/Month + utilities. $850 deposit, available immediately.

Call 603-340-0936 No calls after 8pm please.

LACONIA- 2 bedroom house with yard, shed, and off street parking. Available January 1st. $750/Month plus utilities.

620-3133 LACONIA3 BEDROOM $195/WK, 1 BEDROOM $160/wk.

Both with sun porch.

Heat included. Messer Street. $600 security. HUD Approved.

524-7793, 344-9913.

LACONIA3 bedroom washer/dryer hook-up, basement storage, off-street parking, 2nd floor, $800/Month + utilities.

455-6983 Laconia- 3 bedroom/6 room apartment. Views of Winnipesaukee, washer/dryer hook-up, garage (1 bay), discounted rent opportunities (grass cutting/walk shoveling). $925/Month + one month security.

Available 12/2/12. Call 486-3966 or 528-1850

LACONIA- Elegant, large one bedroom in one of Pleasant Street!s finest Victorian homes.

Fireplace, beamed ceilings, lots of natural woodwork, washer/dryer.

Walk to downtown and beaches.

Heat/Hot water included. $925.

528-6885 LACONIA- LARGE 2 bedroom 2nd floor. Quiet, clean, no pets. $700/month, Includes heat.

556-1310 or 340-6258 LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. $145/week 603-781-6294 LACONIA-1 bedroom $150/Week, includes heat & hot water.

References & deposit. 524-9665 LACONIA -2 bedroom duplex unit.

Off street parking and W/D hookups. No dogs. $805 plus utilities.

Call 315-9492.

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

LACONIA: Studio apartment, $135/week, includes heat. References and security deposit.

524-9665.

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

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

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 LACONIA: Large 1 bedroom 2nd floor. heat & hot water included. $150/week. 832-1639 LACONIA: Large 3-bedroom, 2nd/3rd floors. Washer/Dryer hook-up.

No pets/smoking. $800/month. 603-387-6810.

LACONIA: Large 3 & 4-bedroom apartments. Parking. $850/mo + utilities. 603-781-6294.

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For Rent LAKEPORT APARTMENT 3 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath. No Pets, $950/Month + Utilities.

1-Year lease & references required.

630-2883 LAKEPORT APARTMENT 3 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath. No Pets, $950/Month+ Utilities. 1-Year lease & references required.

630-2883 MEREDITH, 2 Bedroom, 2 bath mobile home. Utilities paid by tenant. $650/month. 279-4103 MEREDITH- 1 bedroom first floor, walk to village, washer/dryer hook-ups, no smoking, $600/Month no utilities 279-7887 cell 781-862-0123 MEREDITH: 2 Bedroom apartment. Main Street, convenient to downtown and beach.

No smoking/no pets. $700/month + utilites. 279-6108, 6-9pm.

MEREDITH: 2-Bedroom House, 3/4 bath, washer/dryer hookup, oil FHW. $900/month. No pets.

279-8247, Jim. MEREDITH: 2BR, in-town apartment with parking. $700/month includes heat. No smoking. No pets. Security deposit. Call John, 387-8356.

MEREDITH: 1-Bedroom apartment. Main St., convenient to all.

Private entrance and parking. $700/Month heated, No Smoking/No pets. 279-6108, 6-9pm.

MEREDITH: 1-2 bedroom apartments and 2 and 3 bedroom mobile homes, $575-$750+ utilities, security deposit required, no dogs, 279-5846.

NEW Durham- Furnished bed room includes utilities & kitchen privilages. $90/week.

603-978-6416

For Sale

Heavy Equipment

Help Wanted

5 Piece TAMA Jazz/Rock Drum Kit- Black, includes 4 Zildjian cymbals, throne, all hardware.

Like new, perfect for Christmas gift! $350. Call Steve, 293-8985

BLAIS EQUIPMENT- 2008 D6NLGP. New condition. 2005 D5G 1800 hrs. AC, heat, priced to sell. Several late model machines, rentals available. Always buying.

603-765-8217

Mechanic Wated- Experienced, excellent shop. 630-4198

7ft snowplow with lights & hydrolic lift $400. 524-4445

CHINA- Royal Doulton- Tiara pattern. 6 place settings, gravy boat, vegetable bowl & service platter. $400. 603-528-9661

IBANEZ Gio electric guitar $100, Peavey Special 130W amplifier $150. Or both for $225. 286-4012.

JETT III Ultra Power Wheelchair with oxygen carrier, like new. $1,500. 744-6107.

JOHNSTON

LOGGING FIREWOOD

Cut, Split & Delivered $200 per cord, Got trees need CA$H?

455-6100

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

Pair Ski-Doo Flex Skis- Dual Carbide, black w/yellow handles, 40 inches of carbides. Excellent shape, $400/OBO. Paul 603-366-2809 PIANOS: What greater gift to give a child than a piano?

Call 524-1430.

RADIO Shack Custom Tone Syntheizer, Model MD 1121. Stand and music rack included. Like new. $115. 293-0922

SMALL Heating Oil Deliveries: No minimum required. Eveningweekend deliveries welcome.

Benjamin Oil, LLC. 603-731-5980 SNOWBEAR utility trailer 42 inch sides. Asking $750 Call 253-1000 or 361-3801.

TILTON: Large room for rent downtown. $150/week includes all utilities. 603-286-4391.

TILTON/LOCHMERE- Available January 1st. Two bedroom duplex apartment. Garage & washer/dryer available. Just 3 miles from Exit 20. Ideal for couple/single parent. $750/month + utilities. No smoking/no pets.

Call 527-6283.

TILTON: Downstairs 1-bedroom. $620-640/Month. Heat and hot water included. No dogs, 603-630-9772 or 916-214-7733.

WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency and a cottage including heat, hot water, lights and cable. $165-$225 per week. $500 deposit. No pets. 387-3864.

For Sale 4 Karastan Carpets- 10X14 Serapi, 4X6 Heriz. 3X5 Multi-color Panel- 2X4 Rose Sarouk. Call for prices. 603-528-9661 4,000 Watt Generator. $250.

677-2865 Ariens Snowblower- 6HP, $200 firm. Older model, runs good.

Solid wood kitchen table with 4 matching chairs. $125/OBO. 671-3876 TIRES & Rims, like new 235/75-15 for two wheel drive GM. 5 lug. $350. 528-5188 WOOD Stove- Regency, 18 inch wood. 7 years old, burns very clean, $475/OBO. Electric cement mixer, 4 cubic feet. Used 1 job, like new, $250. 393-2632

Furniture AMAZING! Beautiful Queen or Full-sized Mattress/ Box-spring Set. LUXURY-FIRM European Pillow-Top Style. Fabulous Back, Hip and Leg Support, Hospitality A+ Rating! All New Factory Sealed with 10-YR Warranty.

Compare Cost $1095, SELL $249. Can Delivery and Set-up.

603-305-9763 NEW trailer load mattresses....a great deal! King set complete $395, queen set $249.

603-524-1430.

TWO hope chests, $60 each. One kids roll top desk, $150, 6 drawer bureau $50. Three trunks, best offer. 387-6524

Free FREE Pickup for your unwanted, useful items. Garages, vehicls, estates cleaned out and yardsale

PART time Laundromat attendant at Garden Island Laundromat and Tanning, 585 Union Avenue, Laconia. Tanning certification a plus.

Apply in person.

Position to manage all aspects of the Inter-Lakes Senior Center (Meredith). 25-29 hours/week.

Direct day-to-day operations of Center including coordination of nutrition services, transportation, education, recreation and support services. BA or BS degree in Human Services or related field (Master!s preferred), two to five years experience working with older adults, demonstrated supervisory experience, effective communication skills, program development and community relations. Send resume to Joan Barretto, Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc. (ES), PO Box 1016, Concord, NH 03302-1016. E.O.E. No phone calls please.

GREEN Firewood $150 per cord.

Dry firewood $210/cord. Cut, split & delivered. 393-1402

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS needed to deliver NH Union Leader and Sunday news in Moultonborough area. $458 per Week. Early AM delivery, proof of insurance. Laconia resident preferred. Call Jim Paggi 668-4321 ext. 377 KIDWORKS Learning Center is now accepting applications for an Afternoon Float. 12-5:30pm, Monday- Friday, Year Round.

Must have 18 Early Childhood Credits. E-mail resume to: kworks@metrocast.net EOE LACONIA-FEMALE caregiver to provide non-medical services for my wife who has Alzheimer!s.

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This is a part-time position offering 10-20 hours each week, 12:305:30 pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Must be reliable and dependable and able to transfer 115 pounds.

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LOCAL RESORT SEEKS PT BOOKKEEPER Familiarity with payroll, Quickbooks and Microsoft Office preferred. Typing and 10-key skills required. Please send salary history and resumé to Denise McGuire at dmcguiremgr@gmail.com

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NORTHFIELD: 2 bedroom, 1st floor, direct access to basement with coin-op laundry, $230/week including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

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New England Porch Rockers, 10 Pleasant Street in downtown Laconia. Open every day at 10, closed Sunday. 603-393-6451

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PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Full time property maintenance person with 10+ years experience in landscaping, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, heating, plowing and shoveling. Computer and management skills a plus. Must be reliable, a self starter and have a valid NH drivers license. Must live in Laconia/Belmont area. A drug-free environment.

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NURSE NEEDED RN FOR KIDNEY DIALYSIS Dialysis experience preferred, but not a must.

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PART TIME FRONT OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR We are looking for a friendly, personable and confident individual to work part time in our orthodontic practice located in Plymouth. We require excellent communication, organizational and computer skills as well as the ability to multi-task and work independently There is occasional travel to our other satellite offices. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and growing health professional team.

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CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE VNA & HOSPICE ON-CALL REGISTERED NURSES Week Night or Weekend Night This is an overnight position working out of our Wolfeboro office, providing phone triage for client calls, and home visits for emergent needs. Week night position will work Mon.-Thu., 4PM to 8 AM. Weekend night will work Fri.-Sun. 4PM to 8AM. Both positions offer guaranteed hours and incentive pay.

Must be IV and computer proficient; training provided to qualified candidate. Reliable transportation, valid NH professional license and strong assessment and clinical skills required. This is a benefits eligible position.

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THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Thursday, December 6, 2012 — Page 23

Holy Trinity School selling bricks to raise funds for new playground

LACONIA — For the last year, Holy Trinity School has been raising funds

to install a new playground.

Having a playground at Holy Trin-

ity has been a long time dream for faculty and students. To reach that dream, Holy Trinity School is currently selling brick pavers to families, friends and alumni of Holy Trinity School.

Jose DeMatos, chairperson of Holy Trinity School board and father of two current HTS students, says “The Holy Trinity Catholic School playground pavers and bricks fundraiser is a wonderful opportunity for any person or business to show their support by honoring the memory of a deceased loved one, recognizing a former teacher, or graduate of HTS. The brick pavers will be engraved with a personalized

message and become a permanent part of Holy Trinity School.”

The goal is to break ground in the spring of 2013.

The Evos playground design is nontraditional which appeals to all our students (Pre K- Grade 8) and will catch people’s attention as they drive on Messer Street in Laconia. The system was created by kids for kids with the goal of building core muscles and upper body strength for all who play on the structure.

Those who would like to purchase a brick can contact Holy Trinity School and talk with Maggie Gibbs (5243156).

Lakes Region Community College offering student discount program Caitlin Mallahan, Clara Jude, David Plummer, Caden Perry and Elle MacDonald, HTS students holding bricks that will pave the way to a new playground. (Courtesy photo)

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Storage Space

Yard Sale TILTON Moving Sale- Saturday, 12/8, 9am-3pm. 112 School St. Wide variety of furniture and household goods; great deals!

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“COMPASSIONATE CARE You Need, When You Need It” is the motto of Senior Home Care Companions of the Lakes Region (SHCCLR). Services include Meal Preparation, Shopping, Laundry, Light Housekeeping, Transportation, Personal Care, Respite, Overnight and 24-hour individualized assistance. Services are by mature (over 50), screened, interviewed, referenced, experienced and qualifired caregivers. When a family member needs any of the provided services, please call 603-556-7817 for more information or a Free in-home needs assessment. Or, look us up at SHCCLR.com.

LACONIA — ‘’Lakes Region Community College is off to a good start in getting discounts from local businesses to be offered to students using Lakes Region Community College ID’s,” says LRCC Vice President of Student Services, Dr. Larissa Baia. ‘’More than 1,000 students are expected for the spring semester starting January 22 and there is formidable buying power in those numbers. College personnel have always appreciated the support of the central New Hampshire business community; thanks are in order for those responding favorably to the student discount offer. “ Businesses now offering discounts to LRCC students with valid ID’s include My Coffee House, Laconia; Water Street Café, Laconia; Frates Creative Arts Center, Laconia; Prescott’s Florist, Laconia; Lakes Region Party &

Gift, Laconia; Winnisquam Dental, Winnisquam; The Insurance Outlet, Laconia; NAPA Auto Parts, Laconia; and the Irwin Zone, Laconia.

“All types of discounts are welcome,” says Baia. “LRCC is proud to be an active member of the Lakes Region and central New Hampshire community.”

Businesses interested in offering a discount to LRCC students may fax (524-8084), e-mail (rprovencal@ccsnh. edu), or mail the information to Randi Provencal (Laconia) at Lakes Region Community College, 379 Belmont Road, Laconia, NH 03246. A new brochure for the 2013 Spring Semester will be put together and distributed to students including prior and new businesses. Company logos should be included if businesses would like their logos to be used in LRCC’s marketing of the new student discount program.

LACONIA — Writing the Great American Novel – a Journal, a Life, is a program which will be presented Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Taylor Community’s Woodside Building at 435 Union Ave. This entertaining program by Art Deleault, Professor of English at Lakes Region Community College and the 2012 LRCC Instructor of the Year, will help attendees explore how their day-day life and personal background

play a role in all creative endeavors Deleault will also lead the audience through keeping a journal and the importance of writing one’s life’s experiences.

This free lecture is open to the public. RSVP by calling 524-5600 to ensure available seating.

The event is a cooperative effort between LRCC and Taylor Community to provide interesting and informative events to Lakes Region residents and visitors.

‘Writing the Great American Novel’ program at Taylor Community

Capitalism & socialism wed as words of 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Thanks to the election, socialism and capitalism are forever wed as Merriam-Webster’s most looked-up words of 2012.

Traffic for the unlikely pair on the company’s website about doubled this year from the year before as the health care debate heated up and discussion intensified over “American capitalism” versus “European socialism,” said the editor at large, Peter Sokolowski.

The choice revealed Wednesday was “kind of a no-brainer,” he said. The side-byside interest among political candidates and around kitchen tables prompted the

dictionary folk to settle on two words of the year rather than one for the first time since the accolade began in 2003.

“They’re words that sort of encapsulate the zeitgeist. They’re words that are in the national conversation,” said Sokolowski from company headquarters in Springfield, Mass. “The thing about an election year is it generates a huge amount of very specific interest.”

Democracy, globalization, marriage and bigot — all touched by politics — made the Top 10, in no particular order.

The latter two were driven in part by the fight for same-sex marriage acceptance.

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