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ALTON — It might be an unconventional approach to footwear, but Matt Mahmet said his company’s success is due to its ability to reach customers with unconventional tastes. His company, called Wicked Hemp, is making a name for itself by using materials such as hemp and wood pulp in its shoes. see SHOES page 11

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City native Rachel Brown is keeping busy at 100

By Michael Kitch

I had a cart and delivered the clean laundry so we’d have something good to eat. And we had plenty to eat.”

Married at 25, Brown and her husband William, who flew with the United States Army Air Force in World War II, raised two sons, David and Kelvin, born a year apart.

David became superintendent of schools in Derry while Kelvin followed his father’s footsteps by pursuing a career in the air force. Both are returning from their homes in Florida to spend the weekend celebrating their mother’s centennial.

During the war Brown worked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. “I rode a motorcycle,” she said.

“I went all around the yard delivering parts to all the different submarines. We launched 35 submarines, all named after fish,” she remembered. After the war Brown returned to Laconia where she worked at the Scott & Williams Company for 28 years.

Today Brown lives independently in her own unit at the Bishop Bradley Apartments on the campus of the St. Francis Home. “I’ve With a hand from Debbie Sturgeon, Rachel Brown readied to celebrate her 100th birthday at the St. Francis Home yesterday. “They asked me got my right mind,” what I wanted for lunch,” she said, “and we all had Chinese food.” Brown lives on her own at the Bishop Bradley Apartments on the campus see raCHEL page 10 of the St. Francis Home. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Michael Kitch) THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — “I have a lot of good memories,” remarked Rachel Brown as she readied to celebrate her 100th birthday yesterday, then, with a twinkling eye and knowing grin added “but not to put in the

newspaper.”

Brown said that she was born at home on Messer Street. Her father, Milo Saunders, was known as “Squeaky” by his teammates on the local baseball team. During the Depression her mother Louise Mary took in washing. She recalled that “my brother and

Sanbornton fire chief retiring to teach at Suffolk College deputy Chief Steve Surowiec temporarily promoted until replacement for John deSilva is found

By Gail OBer

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SANBORNTON - Fire Chief John DeSilva announced his retirement last week and the Selectmen decided Wednesday to temporarily promote Deputy Chief Steve Suroweic until his replacement can be found.

DeSilva, who came to Sanbornton in August of 2007, will be taking a retirement position at Suffolk College in Massachu-

setts as a teacher. He will leave the fire department at the end of this month.

For Suroweic, a call fire fighter/EMT who farms nearby, this is not the first time he’s stepped into the void to run the department on an interim basis.

He and the department’s other Deputy Chief Scott Taylor co-managed the department from April of 2006 when former Chief Jerry Busby resigned in the wake of allegations that he mistreated his staff until

DeSilva took over in August of 2007.

It took Selectmen 16 months to replace Busby because shortly after his resignation, about 30 residents petitioned the town to return to a part-time fire chief.

After the petition, Selectmen halted their search reasoning that it made no sense to seek a full-time chief if his or her position was to be eliminated by voters.

At the time, Sanbornton held town meetsee SaNBOrNTON page 9

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Iowa wrestler refuses to face girl

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After a standout season in which he went 35-4, Joel Northrup had every reason to dream of winning an Iowa wrestling championship this year, but he gave it all up before his first state tournament match Thursday.

Northrup, a home-schooled sophomore who competes for Linn-Mar High School, said his religious beliefs wouldn’t allow him to wrestle Cassy Herkelman, a pony-tailed freshman from Cedar Falls who is one of the first two girls to qualify for the tournament in its 85-year history.

Northrup issued a statement through his school expressing his “tremendous” respect for what Herkelman and Ottumwa sophomore Megan Black achieved this season, but he said didn’t feel he had a choice.

“Wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times,” Northrup said in a statement released by his high school. “As a matter of conscience and my faith I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation not seen in most other high school sports in Iowa.”

His father, Jamie Northrup, told The Associated Press later Thursday that his son struggled with the decision.

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Lynch opens hearings on nearly $11B budget CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican House lawmakers said Thursday they plan to cut spending at least $300 million below Democratic Gov. John Lynch’s budget and probably more.

They asked Lynch to provide them with a list of cuts he considered but rejected in writing his budget.

Lynch presented his $10.7 billion budget Thursday to House and Senate budget writers. Lynch proposes spending $2.8 billion from general taxes on state programs. That does not include $1.9 billion in state school aid.

House Finance Chairman Ken Weyler, R-Kingston, asked Lynch for proposed cuts he rejected. Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Morse, R-Salem, added that the administration needed to explain to the public its proposed 6 percent cut in state aid to communities.

Lynch defended the community aid cuts and said most government agency budgets would be reduced by 5 percent.

“We also tried to spread the pain,” Lynch said.

But the question of local aid cuts came

up repeatedly after Lynch left. His budget adviser, John Beardmore, remained to answer questions.

Weyler said Lynch needs to tell local taxpayers all of government is being cut.

“They also need to rein in their spending,” he said of communities.

Veteran House Finance Committee member and former chairman Neal Kurk pointed out the House’s revenue estimates are about $300 million lower than Lynch’s and the House plans on limiting spending see STATE BUDGET page 12

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain’s leaders banned public gatherings and sent tanks into the streets Thursday, intensifying a crackdown that killed five anti-government protesters, wounded more than 200 and turned a hospital into a cauldron of anguish and rage against the monarchy.

Bahrain’s streets were mostly empty after the bloody clampdown, but thousands defied authorities by marching in cities in Libya and Yemen as the wave of political unrest continued in the wake of uprisings that toppled leaders in Egypt and Tunisia.

The tiny kingdom of Bahrain is a key part of Washington’s military counterbalance to Iran by hosting the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. Bahrain’s rulers and their Arab allies depict any sign of unrest among their Shiite populations as a move by neighboring Shiite-majority Iran to expand its clout

in the region.

While part of the recent revolt in the Arab world, the underlying tensions in Bahrain are decades old and pit the majority Shiites against the Sunni elite.

After allowing several days of rallies in the capital of Manama by disaffected Shiites, the island nation’s Sunni rulers unleashed riot police who stormed a protest encampment in Pearl Square before dawn, firing tear gas, beating demonstrators or blasting them with shotgun sprays of birdshot. Along with two who died in clashes with police Monday, the new killings brought the death toll this week in Bahrain to seven.

The willingness to resort to violence against largely peaceful demonstrators was a sign of how deeply the monarchy fears the repercussions of a prolonged wave of protests.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Faced with a near-certain Republican victory that would end a half-century of collective bargaining for public workers, Wisconsin Democrats retaliated with the only weapon they had left: They fled.

Fourteen Democratic lawmakers disappeared from the Capitol on Thursday, just as the Senate was about to begin debating the measure aimed at easing the state’s budget crunch.

By refusing to show up for a vote, the group brought the debate to a swift halt see WISCONSIN page 13

Bahrain locked down after 5 killed Wis. lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill

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Susan Estrich

Just judges, not politicians There is a crisis in America’s federal courts that has absolutely nothing to do with politics, although that is its cause.

The figures are familiar: One out of every nine seats on the federal bench is vacant. Half of the vacancies are in districts with multiple vacancies that have literally declared “judicial emergencies” because they have more cases (many of them criminal and thus subject to speedy trial requirements) than they can handle. Only 65 of President Obama’s judicial nominees have been confirmed.

In the past six weeks, one federal judge a week has retired, further increasing the number of vacancies.

Chief Justice John Roberts has warned of the crisis. White House counsel Bob Bauer has warned of the crisis. The Senate even listened enough to actually confirm two judges on Thursday — easy confirmations of well-qualified candidates, both of whom, when they finally bothered to put them up for a vote, were confirmed unanimously.

Roberts’ previous seat has been vacant for five-and-a-half years.

The problem is not that well-qualified people have stopped applying for federal judgeships, though it is hard to believe that the average one-year wait for confirmation doesn’t deter some folks. The problem is that wellqualified people are getting caught in political battles that have nothing to do with them, or with the judiciary for that matter.

There is a myth that seems to animate Senate review of judges: that every day on the federal bench you decide Roe v. Wade, that every day you decide whether gay marriage is lawful, whether Arizona’s immigration law is unconstitutional or whether the president’s health care bill gets thrown out. It ain’t so. Most judges don’t decide a single such case in a lifetime.

Even if they do, unless you’re on the Supreme Court, it’s just backstory.

What federal judges do, day in and day out, has much less to do with politics than with knowl-

edge, judgment, management and discipline.

Managing a criminal or civil docket is a major enterprise. Federal judges do it with the help of a couple of kids right out of law school and a few hardworking clerks. Juggling dozens of cases, motions calendars and juries; ensuring that trial dates don’t slip and speedy trial rights aren’t compromised; making one decision after another, often with little time for reflection, that determine what evidence comes in, what arguments can be made, who gets bail, what charges will stand, what claims get dismissed, whether proper procedures were followed, what damages are justified, whether a temporary restraining order should issue — that’s called Monday.

Good judges do these things well, and it almost never has anything to do with politics. Get together with lawyers to discuss judges, and they don’t talk about who appointed them or how they answered the Roe question in confirmation hearings. It’s about how they run their calendar, whether they are prepared for and engaged in oral arguments, and how long it takes for a case to get to trial.

We have grown used to playing politics with nominees to the Supreme Court, to the point that having deep convictions is seen as disqualifying and confirmation hearings have become a charade.

There are occasions when a highprofile ideologue, left or right, is appointed to an appellate court, and those battles are probably bound to play out again and again.

But most federal judges aren’t there to do politics. And they shouldn’t be demeaned by the political process — or forced to wait a year or longer because of it — when what they are trying to do is serve this country.

(Susan Estrich is a professor at the University of Southern California School of Law. She managed Michael Dukakis’ campaign for president in 1988.)

LETTER Could elitist mentality be motivating opponents of SB-2 campaign?

To the editor, In Laurie Whitley’s letter to the editor, she states that SB-2 is flawed legislation from Concord. Has it not passed challenges? Are “small special interest groups” unlike citizens? Are small groups worse than large special interest groups? We have all seen how town employees pack Town Meeting and School Meeting, what are they but special interest groups?

The hope of those in favor of SB-2 is

that the whole citizenry will be able to vote after due consideration of the issues. Laurie, are you afraid of the great unwashed? Is there an elitist mentality among those who are in positions of leadership in Moultonborough?

There were misrepresentations in the “yellow flyer”, please don’t try to pull the wool over our eyes again.

Mike Brooker Moultonborough

LETTERS Amtrak would be better if given its due of government investment To the editor, As some of you may know, my job has me traveling the country quite often.

My preference for travel in our public transportation system is our national passenger rail system, Amtrak.

Amtrak could and should be a lot better but until the last two years, our government has chosen to mostly fund our highways and airports, much to the delight of the oil companies. If equal funding was applied, then our rail system would be up to par with many other countries and more people would take the train. The Downeaster, which runs between Boston and Portland, Maine, has shown that

right here in N.H. There are those that will scream that Amtrak doesn’t make a profit. I would like those same people to show me any form of public transportation that does, without public funding. Be sure to do your homework.

I don’t doubt Anna DeRosa had a bad experience on the train, so have I. But most of my experiences have been pleasant. Others have had equally as bad experiences on other forms of public transportation but to only try something once and then never again, gives one pause.

Charlie St. Clair Laconia

My heart sure goes out to carpetbaggers buying lakefront homes To the editor, Now we read in the papers that our N.H. property barons are just “Average Joes”. In the recent past both Mr. Stephenson and Ms. Aschinger have had their letters published complaining it seems of the tax burdens the State of N.H. and the town are placing on their wealth. We are supposed to believe that these people who own millions in real estate, have spent thousands on the setting up of trusts and estate planning to maximize their estates so as to pass on as much as possible free of taxation under the law to their heirs, are just “Average Joes”.

N.H. continues to consistently come in by most any measure as a state that is in the top 10 in per capita household income and in the bottom 10 of per capita state and local tax burden.

There are plenty of average Joes who live in “work force” type housing here in Gilford. You can can find them in some of the neighborhoods around the Gilford Tennis Center, or in some of the homes that lie on what Doug Houdsell once described at a public meeting as “that” side of town, west of the bypass in the Houndsell Ave. area. Some of these homes of “Average Joes” are less than 1,500-sq.-ft. on less than 1/2 acre. Most people in these neighborhoods have never been to Governor’s or Camp Island. They get by nicely with enjoying the cries of the mourning doves in lieu of those of the loons.

Nearly 20 years ago a lovely lady who taught at Gilford Elementary School and was a Gilford property tax

payer retired to her family home on Lake Winnepesaukee. She recently passed away but did not leave a large estate. In order to stay in a home that three generations had owned, she was compelled to take out a reverse mortgage to keep up with her property taxes on a school teacher’s pension. This lady was for a time a very close friend of my mother who lived on the lake as well, two doors down.

When my dad retired they were not able to spend as much time together but still remained friends. When the taxes on my parent’s home got up over $4,200 semi-annually, they too found they were no longer able to afford lakefront. They sold their home to a carpetbagger from Chelmsford. The buyer paid cash and refused an offer for a first mortgage from the sellers.

My parents in order to avoid even more capital gains than the +$100K they were hit with on that sale bought a Florida mansion. They were later able to downsize to something more manageable when the capital gains taxes changed. ‘ My heart certainly goes out to these carpetbaggers from other states who come here and immediately get thousands of dollars in tax relief from the state income taxes they were previously paying. They should certainly get and deserve a further break on their property taxes given their special circumstances. After all the promotion of the interests of the oligarchy in America has been an on going process in our country for at least 10 years now. That see next page

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LETTERS Boat speed limit helps protect safe summer camp experience To the editor, As protective stewards of our state’s summer camps and campers, we are writing to request that our legislators support the existing 45/30 mph boating speed limits law for Lake Winnipesaukee with no changes, and NOT to supportSenate Bill 27.

Tens of thousands of youngsters come from all over New Hampshire, other states and the world to our 180 camps. We try to give them a special and protected set of experiences with counselors and other campers, creating friendships they’ll keep for many years, an appreciation for our NH nature, and fond memories that will last a lifetime. Our state’s waters play a major part of their camp life. Our kids learn skills on and in the water, canoeing, kayaking, sailing and swimming. Safety is of utmost concern to us as directors, as it is or would be to you as a parent or grandparent of a camper.

In the past, due to the growth in high speed boating and the associated dangers of being on our NH waterways, we sadly have had to curtail some of our campers’ water activities, for fear of safety for their lives. We have experienced close calls due to boats driven at excessive speeds and have had fear drilled into too many of our campers and staff. We are extremely concerned about their safety and access to our state’s waters to enjoy water activities, as they should be able to do. From a camp standpoint, the 45/30 mph speed

limit law is reasonable and allows NH camps to continue water ski programs and other boating activities.

We all felt safer the last two years on Lake Winnipesaukee because the 45/25, and then, the 45/30 mph limits were in place, and we are interested in seeing those limits remain a permanent part of New Hampshire’s safe environment.

As NH Camp Directors, we fiercely safeguard the safety of our young campers. Our camps are protective cocoons for their positive skills, experiences and memories. These, in turn, help shape the values of these future adults and future parents of more campers and New Hampshire vacationing families, a key component of our state’s tourism dollars.

The value of our campers’ safe, happy times is infinite. The present value of their purchasing power for our state’s water recreational and vacationing opportunities is huge.

Their families’ current and future tourism impact is monumental. Let us protect one of our state’s greatest assets—our summer camps. Let us keep our campers’ lake experiences safe by slowing the boats and maintaining the existing 45/30 mph speed limits on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Please urge your legislators to support the continuation of the 45/30 mph NH boating speed limits law with no changes and not to support SB-27.

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To the editor, Two items in the news seem to require some comment in my opinion.

First, Governor Lynch is faced with a near-impossible problem to balance the state’s budget without massive increases in taxes. I do not envy that task. However, his comments requesting a “moratorium” on new hospital spending irked me with the way it was phrased. If the purpose of the Certificate of Need Board in this state is to decide which projects are necessary and merit approval, then to ask for a “moratorium” is to suggest that either the CON Board is not doing its job or that we don’t need to build critical improvements in the state’s health care infrastructure. Look at the local projects that have been completed or approved lately: LRGHealthcare is building a new project to provide single patient rooms instead of semi-

private rooms, replace a 20 plus year old intensive care unit which has been badly outdated, and provide better facilities to care for short-term admissions and the elderly of our community. Not a single new bed was added.

First major hospital construction here in over 20 years. Huggins Hospital replaced an aging and decrepit facility that dated probably back to the 40s.

How are these two projects examples of unnecessary spending? If the CON Board is a good thing (not conceded by me) then let it alone and let it do its job. Perhaps a target budget for spending instead of a blanket moratorium?

Second issue, Craig Kozens Northeast High School Football Coach of the Year? Craig YOU ROCK! Well deserved.

John M Grobman, MD Sanbornton

from preceding page concentration of wealth among ever fewer Americans has in part brought us this Great Recession where ever fewer real life “Average Joes” have been able to keep up with their property taxes and mortgage payments. It seems to me that the same carpetbaggers who keep coming to Gilford and the rest of the Lakes Region with their deca-millionaire wallets, complaining about their property tax burden are the ones who have driven up the values of lakefront real estate and driven out the natives and others of long standing in our community from their homes. I think they protest too much! It is only right, the

New American Way, that the real Average Joes pay more to subsidize Jack, Barbara and their estates! How can Jack be expected to sub-divide and sell a couple lots given his needs for acreage to support his avowed life style? Congratulations to Jack on his shrewd real estate investing acumen. “20 times” in property appreciation! In 30 plus years my home has not even tripled.

The stock market has now advanced 95-percent off its lows hit in March of 2009. I find some of these assertions of some on our budget committee that so many people have had their 401-Ks and retirement assets see next page

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LETTERS Some budget cuts only pass costs down to the bottom of the heap

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To the editor, Budgets, budgets, budgets. We are being bombarded with tighter budgets, cuts in services, passing financial obligations down to the municipalities and taking insults along with it.

Whether it be the federal, state, or county, it all trickles down to the city or town we live in. The bottom of the heap. We have no place to pass it on to other than the property owners. We all want our federal, state and county budgets brought into line and hopefully done without laying off personnel, but we don’t want it done at the expense of the property owners in any town or city.

Governor Lynch’s budget reduced and cut services in many areas except one, the prisons. Hello! Something is wrong with this picture.

They also are cutting Medicaid payments to hospitals and nursing homes.

All this will do is raise the cost of hospital and nursing home care or put them out of business. On top of this cut, they insult the hospitals and say they can absorb these cuts and they are paid too much. Our hospitals take care of everyone who walks into it, whether they can pay or not, and the cost of that care is absorbed by those that can. Taking away their Medicaid

reimbursements will only add to their financial burden of treating all people.

They criticize hospitals for renovations and additions. In today’s society and ever changing technologies and the increase in the number of patients they treat, our local hospital, LRGH is indeed renovating and making additions — not to be a shining star on the hill, but to allow for better treatment of patients. New, highly technical equipment takes room and access to the patient. They are creating private rooms for each patient. Why? Because studies have proved that a patient in a private room heals faster, rests better, and is more assured of avoiding infection. Infections are a huge problem in hospitals and cost patients huge amounts of money during their treatment. It extends their stay, causes anxiety, and makes them more uncomfortable. These costs merely add to the cost of their insurance and is just one more reason for the rise in cost of insurance. What we want is to reduce the cost to the patient.

We need the room and more doctors to provide care for the onslaught of patients we will see with the new health care plan. LRGH is to be commended for their foresight and putting see next page

from preceding page wiped out as not being fully credible.

Maybe they had their assets managed by the same types of risk managers who managed our state’s pension trust until they were fired? Some of the people I am talking to about their retirement assets are telling me they have more now than in Sept. of 2007, having rotated into Ford stock. Others who say they are just about even and one who is down 6-percent despite a 3.5-percent annual withdrawal against their 2007 peak valuation. I think one tenant of the far right wing is that if you mismanage your own personal affairs it is not the responsibility of your community to bail you out.

Once again Gilford voters have come to the defense of their COMMUNITY interests in restoring money to the budget for Community Band.

Once again some of our selectmen, being carpetbaggers, mis-judged the will of the people of Gilford and unwisely attacked a well loved community institution. The Great Recession may not be over? Still it is time,

as in any time for our community to hold together and advance the agendas that benefit our entire community.

We must step up and pay for the things that are necessary to the common good. Many nearby towns have built new police stations but Wolfeboro has recently built a beautiful new football facility. Which of these best serves the entire community?

Do not be fooled by some of these letter writers and personages of the far right wing politics that we are all going broke. In the past we have voted monies for certain agencies that provide community support. Some did not receive funding. I am happy that the ones I support all passed last year.

Please support our community when you next vote at town meeting. The deca-millionaires and land barons I think will some how scrape by when another few cents is added to the town tax rate. Those reaching out to these agencies in legitimate need could end up being someone in our community who is near and dear to you!

Tim Sullivan Gilford

Labor Board will rule on Laconia police grievance without a hearing

BY MICHAEL KITCH LACONIA — Attorneys for the city and the Laconia Patrolman Association, the collective bargaining unit that represents patrolmen and detectives, have agreed to forgo a hearing before the Pubic Employee Labor Relations Board (PELRB) and asked the board to settle the dispute on the basis of the legal briefs submitted by both parties.

City Manager Eileen Cabanel said that since there was no disagreement between the city and the union on the facts of the case, there was no need to take testimony at a hearing. Instead, she said, the outcome would hinge on questions of law.

According to the complaint, a tentative agreement reached between the association and Police Commission, was presented to the City Council on February 8, well before the most recent contract was set to expire on June 30. City Manager Eileen Cabanel, who negotiated and approved the tentative agreement, later “dis-

avowed” it before the council.

The union claims that both Chief Mike Moyer and Commissioner Warren Clement told the council that “the tentative agreement did not have any financial implications during the negotiated contract period.” Nevertheless, the complaint continues, “the City Council then went beyond the cost items and considered matters beyond its jurisdiction in reviewing the contract” and ultimately declined to vote on the tentative agreement.

Later, the Police Commission reaffirmed its earlier decision to award so-called “step” increases in salary to officers. In response, the complaint states the council “threatened to reduce the budget of the Police Department by $100,000 if the commission did not agree to disavow the vote which would have allowed steps to awarded to certain police officers” and the commission acquiesced.

The association asks the PELRB to find that the city failed to bargain in good faith and order the city to pay step increases to eligible officers.

from preceding page things in place to meet this challenge.

Do we want to see our hospitals cut personnel, services, and raise prices?

I think not.

There is much more to say on the subject of budgets and much more will be said by others, but the last thing I will say is, I hear that the only way to truly bring down the national debt is to cut the entitlement programs, and I agree.

As a 84 year old who receives Social Security, and Medicare, I resent the pundits saying it is the senior voting bloc that keeps government from acting on these two programs. Let me tell you, it is the seniors who will be the first to

stand up and make sacrifices if it helps our country, but everyone else has to stand up too. When you cut Social Security raises and benefits it hurts a lot of people, but to achieve fiscal sanity, it has to hurt everybody and don’t forget Medicare and Social Security and Medicaid are not the only entitlement programs. I never hear anyone on budget committees say we have to cut the new health care program, the biggest entitlement program ever.

We all have voices, let’s use them, but we should all be prepared to share in the pain.

Brenda Baer Laconia

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BY SHIRA SCHOENBERG CONCORD MONITOR

CONCORD — They were gay and straight, Democrats and Republicans, clergy and constitutional activists. Many wore red, symbolizing the color of love and their support for marriage equality. A few wore stickers promoting marriage as between one man and one woman.

Nearly 700 people packed Representatives Hall and the House gallery yesterday to testify on two bills that would repeal same-sex marriage and another bill that would get rid of state-sponsored marriage altogether.

In the first minutes of the hearing, sponsors of both marriage repeal bills urged the House Judiciary Committee to retain their bills until the 2012 legislative session. But that did not stop 8½ hours of testimony touching on God, the Bible, the Constitution, American history and personal experience. Opponents of the bill outnumbered supporters 10-to-1, according to some counts.

Paul Ober, a University of New Hampshire club hockey player, came out to his teammates at the hearing, telling them, and the committee, that he is bisexual.

“It sucks to be gay because of the discrimination,” Ober said afterward. “It’s legally condone-able behavior to make fun of homosexuals, bisexuals, anyone with an alternative lifestyle.”

The sophomore English major said he hopes if same-sex marriage remains in place, people will “come around” and stop discriminating.

“The law was passed originally based on an act of love and kindness to a group of people,” Ober said.

“To take that away is pointless and illogical.”

House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt of Salem said previously that repealing same-sex marriage is not a Republican priority this session. As a result, Rep. David Bates, a Windham Republican, and Rep. Leo Pepino, a Manchester Republican, asked the House Judiciary Committee to delay considering their bills repealing same-sex marriage and defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

“House Republican leadership made clear their main priority is to restore fiscal responsibility to New Hampshire by balancing the budget, creating a business-friendly environment, job creation and tax relief,” Bates said. “I support leadership’s focus. . . . I recommend with leadership that this bill be retained in your committee to be acted on next year after the budget and all pressing matters have been addressed.”

Bates said he has been assured by Republican leaders that they will support repealing same-sex marriage during the 2012 legislative session.

While the bills’ sponsors said they would hold their speeches until next year, paid activists and everyday citizens had no such qualms. Committee Chairman

Robert Rowe, an Amherst Republican, used an hourglass to measure the three minutes allotted to each speaker and joked that he would have to go to confession for cutting off so many clergy members in mid-speech.

Maggie Gallagher, chairwoman of the board of the Washington, D.C.-based National Organization for Marriage, testified that the union of a man and woman should be treated differently because it is the only union that can produce children.

“Why is it that virtually every human society has recognized we need a special institution to bring together the two great halves of humanity - male and female?” Gallagher asked. “Traditional marriage is not discrimination, to treat different things differently.”

Supporters of the bill cited the long history of traditional marriage.

“For millions of years we’ve used the term a man and a woman as marriage. Then one day many religious people, Christians, all woke up and it was over, just like that,” said Londonderry Republican Rep. Al Baldasaro. “The same thing went on in Canada.

They allowed gay marriage, now they’re fighting in courts to get three husbands, three wives.” A British Columbia court recently conducted eight weeks of hearings on the constitutionality of Canada’s antipolygamy statute.

Sen. Ray White, a Bedford Republican, said his views of marriage are shaped by his Christianity and belief in the Bible.

“Thousands of years of human history are being turned on its head,” White said. “Are we so arrogant we know better than millions of people who came before us, that we can change the fundamental building block of our society and not accept consequences?”

White said he grew up in a broken home and experienced the harm to a child when a heterosexual marriage fractures.

“Government should promote only the best, most ideal household arrangement,” he said.

Several religious leaders and adherents also spoke out against same-sex marriage.

“We have to hold to the sacred institutions that make this country great,” said the Rev. Thomas Peetz of the Word of Life Church in Concord. “This Judeo-Christian foundation we’ve been blessed to build on has to stay sacred.”

“For us to deny there is a creator, to flout his rules, namely marriage between a man and a woman, is to say we don’t care,” added Ted Maravelias, a conservative activist from Windham. “Take a step back and recognize the God of the universe said man and woman defines marriage, not homosexuals.”

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SANBORNTON from page one ing in March, so the wait was one of nearly a year. Voters rejected the petition and Selectmen reopened their search, ultimately deciding on DeSilva.

On Wednesday, Selectmen decided to use the same interview and hiring format used when hiring DeSilva and will be creating an ad hoc committee of three state Fire Chiefs, some representation from the town’s fire department and Selectman Andrew Livernois.

This committee will review all applications and send the final three or four applicants to Selectmen for the final decision.

At Wednesday’s meeting, Suroweic said he hoped that someone from the department would be working closely with Selectmen when they make their final choice.

Saying he’d like it to be somebody the department can work with, Selectmen Chair Dave Nickerson said it also has to be somebody the Selectmen, who administer the town, can work with.

from preceding page “God makes people who we are,” said Carol Cusick, a cook living in Hillsboro. “God loves everyone. We need more love in the world.”

Cusick said her best friend, an American nurse, fell in love with a German nurse. Both women had to move to Germany, since the United States would not recognize their marriage for citizenship purposes.

“If former Nazi Germany could show that kind of tolerance, the Live Free or Die state could do a hell of a lot better,” Cusick said.

The Rev. Mary Westfall, a pastor at Durham Community Church, has performed civil unions and same-sex marriages. Westfall said she looks at the Bible in its totality, rather than picking out specific verses.

“It’s about God’s incredible love for humanity and our call to love,” Westfall said. “I know so many dedicated gay and lesbian couples living committed Christian lives.”

The Rev. Caroline Fairless, an Episcopal priest from New London added that in historical marriages, women were considered the property and chattel of men.

“I’m not sure that’s what we want to base our conversation on, the history of marriage,” she said.

Many attendees talked about their personal experiences. Bob Davis, 50, of Concord got married last New Year’s Day. He and his husband have been together for 30 years. Davis worked as a personal caregiver for his now-husband, and they “fell in love at first sight,” he said.

“They already passed the (gay marriage) law, why do we have to go through the ugliness again?” Davis said.

William Fregosi, 65, lives in Raymond and is retired from the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His husband, Fritz Bell, runs an education and conference center. They married in Massachusetts in 2004 and moved to Raymond.

For them, marriage is an expression of their right to equality.

“It’s a dangerous precedent to give rights and then taken them away from someone,” Fregosi said.

Fregosi said he hopes that gay couples living married lives will show communities there is nothing to fear.

“We’re not harming anyone, not corrupting children,” he said. “We’re living our lives as good taxpayers and patriotic Americans.”

A third bill, sponsored by Rep. Peter Bolster, an Alton Republican, would get rid of state-sponsored marriage altogether and instead have the state approve “domestic unions” between two people.

“There are some things that are just too important and personal to be controlled by government, whether it’s faith or marriage,” Bolster said.

Bolster said marriage should be up to cultural and religious institutions, while the government’s role should be only in protecting and recording “freely contracted relationships” for matters of legal protections.

Rep. Seth Cohn, a Canterbury Republican, said he opposes repealing same-sex marriage but supports Bolster’s bill. Cohn said that over the years, marriage licenses have been used by government as a tool to codify racism and sexism.

“It doesn’t matter if you believe same-sex marriage is blessed by God or cursed by God,” Cohn said. “That’s not the purview of the state.”

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Lieutenant Matt Canfield displays a share of the hoard of stolen equipment and tools found this week by police investigating the theft of a snow blower. (Courtesy photo)

By Michael Kitch

Griffin Lahey

Griffin Lahey, 30, of 204 Garfield Street has been charged with receiving stolen property — the snow blower — a class B misdemeanor.

He was released on $1,000 personal recognizance bail and scheduled to be arraigned in Laconia District Court on March 24.

Meanwhile, Captain Bill Clary said that detectives are investigating how the other stolen items, mostly power equipment and tools, reached Lahey’s home from such faraway places as New Mexico and West Virginia and are pursuing leads pointing to several suspects.

The stolen property includes a log splitter, surveying equipment, an outboard motor, lawnmower, shop vacs, a compressor, nail guns, grinders, assorted saws and other tools with an aggregate value Clary estimated came to at least $20,000. “This is a see next page

RACHEL from page one said. “That’s what counts.”

Her secret, she shared, “is eating oatmeal and keeping busy.” Brown said at one time or another she took part in more than two dozen local organizations, including the Grange, to which she belonged for 70 years, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, where she was charter member. “I kept busy working

in the community,” said Brown, adding “I especially like to work with the veterans. I called bingo at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton.”

Recalling her longtime friendship with Esther Peters, who celebrated her 95th birthday last week, Brown remarked “she and I know a lot about Laconia, but that will be for some other time.”

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It remains for the town to formally accept the transfer of the property, by a vote of either the Board of Selectmen or Town Meeting. When two private cemetery associations disbanded, acceptance was voted by Town Meeting. Here, where there is no association, town counsel suggests acceptance by the selectmen is the appropriate alternative.

The cemetery, known as the Besse Burial Ground where Colonel Harry W. Besse and his wife Geraldine are buried, is a 30-foot by 25-foot or 750-square foot section, enclosed by stone walls and reached through a double gate, of 40-acre tract on Hall’s Hill

Road. The headstones are flat and without maintenance would become overgrown. A large boulder bears a bronze marker reading “BESSE.” Nicholas North, the Besse’s stepson, petitioned the town to accept the cemetery on the understanding that no further burials would be permitted and a $5,000 fund maintained in perpetuity to maintain the property. Desiree Tumas of the Land Use Department said that no costs would fall to the town by accepting the cemetery.

The issue was referred to the Planning Board for approval to subdivide the 40-acres to enable the transfer of the cemetery and since the cemetery fell far short of the minimum lot size of two acres, a variance was also required from the ZBA. — Michael Kitch

SHOES from page one fibers that are significantly stronger than cotton, a quality that made it the preferred fiber for naval How’s it working? Very well, thank you very mulch. ropes, sails, even as the material stretched over the “It’s doing great, we had a 40-percent increase frame of a small airplane’s wing. “It’s certainly a from 2009 to 2010,” Mahmet said during an intergreat alternative to cotton,” he said. view on Wednesday. His company is forecasting Also unlike cotton, hemp grows without the need another significant increase in sales this year. for pesticides and herbicides, said Mahmet, making In addition to forecasted growth, Mahmet’s cap it a natural choice for his shoes, which he described has another feather after being given last month the as “eco-fashionable.” Wicked Hemp’s products range “Innovation Rocks” award by the state’s Division of from hiking boots and shoes to casual and urban Economic Development. styles.

Mahmet, 34 years old, grew up in New York and Mahmet said hemp is more widely used in Asia New Jersey. “My father was always in the footwearand that’s where the highest quality example of the apparel business. I grew up in it, it was something I product can be found, which is one reason why the knew,” he said. Mahmet studied business and politidesign and production occur there. Wicked Hemp cal science in college, worked for several years in shoes are sold online, such as through wickedhemp. retail and taught snowboarding at Gunstock. He com, and through small specialty footwear stores also worked for his father’s company, Wicked Roadthroughout the country. warrior, a company that manufactured motorcycle Although he isn’t philosophically opposed to using footwear. leather, and has used it in the past, all of his current It was while working with his father’s company shoes are made without leather, which has resulted that Mahmet learned the business model and gained in the development of a niche within the environthe contacts that currently power the company, mentally-conscious shoe buyer niche: vegans. He which has been doing business as Wicked Hemp since Mahmet moved to Alton and took control of the company in 2006.

Mahmet has about 15 employees, though he is typically the only one who works at the headquarters at his home in a remote corner of Alton. Wicked Hemp’s marketing office is located in Portland, Ore., and there is a showroom and office in New York Ciy. The conceptual design for a new product begins with Mahmet and his associates on this side of the Wicked Hemp, a footwear company headquartered in Alton, has expanded upon its line of hemp shoes Pacific Ocean, but the with footwear made from wood pulp. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho) final designs are created in Hong Kong. The shoes are manufactured in noticed, in his market research, that all the shoes factories throughout Asia. marketed to vegans – who lead a lifestyle without Wicked Hemp, said Mahmet, was created to “provide the consumption of animal products or byproducts – quality footwear, use materials that we know are durawere constructed out of plastics and vinyls, materible and eco-friendly, that’s why we chose to use hemp.” als that aren’t as comfortable as natural fibers.

Hemp, he explained, is not to be confused with Developing the vegan niche, along with his newest its cousin marijuana. Unlike the illegal drug, hemp line of hemp shoe styles, are factors that he said has no intoxicating capabilities. Instead, it features attributed to his business’s recent growth. For future growth, he’s excited to see how the market receives his new innovation – using wood pulp to create shoes. from preceding page Like his hemp shoes, the wood pulp shoes will major theft ring,” Clary told the Police Commission have a conventional rubber sole. However, from the yesterday. Lieutenant Matt Canfield suspected that sole up, his new line of shoes are unlike anything many of the items were taken from construction found in major shoe retailers. sites, including a lock box full of power tools.

Mahmet started experimenting with wood pulp Officer Peter Horan began investigating the theft of in 2008 and a few months ago started selling shoes the snow blower on January 25 and early this week made with the material. The pulp, he explained, is a got an anonymous tip about where he could find it. byproduct of the paper and lumber industries. The When police recovered the snow blower, they noticed fibers are processed and woven into a basket-weave the other items and immediately executed a second pattern. The result, he said, are far from a solid search warrant of Lahey’s property. Clary said that wooden clog. “It feels like putting on a dress shoe,” detectives found receipts from local pawnshops along said Mahmet, “It’s a real soft, flexible material.” with the stolen goods. “This was a very good joint effort see next page between patrol and detectives,” he said.

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Grant aims to put more local food into New England’s schools & hospitals MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A new $250,000 federal grant is aimed at putting more locally raised food into New England’s schools, colleges and hospitals.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, awarded this month to the northeast committee of the National Farm to School Network, will help pay for expanding processing of local food in Massachusetts, opening a new processing project in Maine and setting up a model distribution system.

Proponents say that if New England schools bought just 5 percent local foods, it could boost the region’s agriculture economy by $7.5 million. Now, it’s difficult to track how much local food schools and other institutions buy.

In Vermont, more than 200 schools purchase local

from preceding page Like hemp, the wood pulp part of the shoe will biodegrade if buried in a compost pile. However, Mahmet promised, the shoes have proved durable as long as they’re kept above ground.

He chose not to disclose the number of shoes his company sells, or Wicked Hemp’s net worth, describing the operation as a “medium-sized company.” “I’m just doing my own thing and trying to enjoy what I do and have a quality product. Beyond that. I can’t ask for anything else.”

It’s an unconventional shoe Mahmet makes, but for him it fits.

products, but for many it’s only a small percentage of their total food. A few have reached 20 percent, said Dana Hudson, the Northeast regional project coordinator.

But demand has been rising in the last few years, not just from schools but from institutions like colleges and hospitals as people seek fresh, healthy, safe foods, while supporting local farmers and reducing environmental impacts of transporting foods long distances.

“There’s just a lot of demand for the local product by the institutions and kind of a scrambling in the ag industry to meet that demand because so many of our farmers are not wholesaling any more, they’re selling direct to consumers,” said Kelly Erwin, coordinator of the Massachusetts Farm to School Project, which works to match farmers with schools.

“My fondest hope is it means we’ll have to put more acres into production,” she said.

Since it can’t keep up with the demand, the project will use the funding to hire someone to help.

Some funding will also go toward expanding processing at the Western Massachusetts Food Processing Center in Greenfield, Mass., where some farmers are now flash freezing produce — berries and vegetables — to sell to schools, Erwin said.

Discussions will also be set up with institutions and distributors around the region to identify obstacles to and opportunities for buying local products.

In Rhode Island, where all public schools are buying some local foods, Kids First, a nonprofit focused on improving the nutrition of children and

families, will work with a vendor that supplies fresh produce to New England schools to create a model distribution system so that customers can select certain produce from certain farms.

Vermont plans to use its share of the funding for technical assistance for farmers as well as to support its own Farm to School Network, said Hudson, who added that the panel hopes to raise another $750,000.

STATE BUDGET from page 2 to its estimates, not the governor’s. He said Lynch’s budget also would cut millions more in state aid to communisties — something House Republicans have vowed not to do.

House Republican leaders later released a statement criticizing Lynch’s proposed aid cuts and proposed renewal of a $30 vehicle registration fee set to expire July 1 .

“While the governor’s budget was a good first step in the process, Republicans have made it clear that we will not support a budget that contains new taxes and fees or one that increases the burden on taxpayers of this state through additional downshifting,” said House Republican Leader D.J. Bettencourt of Salem.

The governor’s office released figures showing the total aid distributed to communities, including school aid, in Lynch’s budget is $2.2 billion, $145 million less than was distributed in the current budget.

Republicans argue that figure doesn’t include tens of millions of dollars communities would get without law changes Lynch proposes. They are particularly critical of Lynch’s proposal to stop subsidizing local retirement costs.

The state reduced the state retirement subsidy in the current budget and communities had hoped that cut and others that affected aid levels would be restored to previous levels.

Lynch proposes eliminating the state retirement contribution, not restoring it to earlier levels. Local property taxpayers probably would have to pay higher costs if communities cannot trim local budgets enough to offset the aid reductions.

“The state should not be subsidizing local retirement costs, especially since the state does not have a say in how those costs are driven,” Lynch said.

Lynch told budget writers local aid comprises almost half the state budget and cannot be exempt from cuts.

House Speaker William O’Brien insisted that won’t happen in the House’s budget.

“The House is committed to delivering a fiscally responsible budget without new taxes, fees or by shifting costs to the backs of New Hampshire homeowners,” said O’Brien, R-Mont Vernon.

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Alaska governor refusing to enact health care law JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said he will not implement the federal health care overhaul after a judge in Florida struck down the law as unconstitutional.

It’s not immediately clear what practical impact the unusual move would have on Alaskans, an estimated 14 percent of which are uninsured year-round.

A major expansion of the federal law is still pending, and a legal expert and health care consumer advocate say any refusal by the states to participate in the law is an invitation to the federal government to step in and implement it for them.

Parnell, who sought the advice of his attorney general amid concerns implementing the law would violate his oath of office, told the Juneau Chamber of Commerce the state would pursue lawful, marketbased solutions to making insurance affordable and accessible to Alaskans.

He said the Florida judge’s ruling is the law of the land, as it pertains to Alaska, barring implementation of the federal law here. He said the state will

pursue options of its own instead.

Alaska was one of 26 states that were party to the Florida lawsuit; however, in other cases, two federal judges have upheld the law and one judge ruled a provision requiring citizens to buy health insurance or face penalties — a major point of contention in the Florida case — is unconstitutional but did not strike down the rest of the law.

While the ultimate decision is likely to rest with the U.S. Supreme Court, for now, the overhaul is the law of the land, contends Timothy S. Jost, a professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. “This is one renegade judge that has reached this decision,” he said. In refusing to participate in the law, he said, Alaska “is really the outlier” among states.

Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, said currently states have an “enormous amount of discretion” in how they implement provisions of the law. If the governor refuses to exercise that, the federal government will have the say, he said.

WISCONSIN from page 2 and hoped to pressure Republicans to the negotiating table.

“The plan is to try and slow this down because it’s an extreme piece of legislation that’s tearing this state apart,” Sen. Jon Erpenbach said.

The move drew cheers from tens of thousands of protesters — teachers, prison guards and others targeted by the proposal — who filled the Statehouse during the past three days.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who took office just last month, has made the bill a top priority. He urged the group to return and called the boycott a “stunt.”

“It’s more about theatrics than anything else,” Walker said, predicting that the group would come back in a day or two, after realizing “they’re elected to do a job.”

Walker said Democrats could still offer amendments to change the bill, but he vowed not to concede on his plan to end most collective bargaining rights.

With 19 seats, Republicans hold a majority in the 33-member Senate, but they are one vote short of the number necessary to conduct business. So the GOP needs at least one Democrat to be present before any voting can take place. Once the measure is brought to the floor, it needs 17 votes to pass.

Other lawmakers who fled sent messages over Twitter and issued written statements but did not disclose their location until hours later.

Erpenbach said the group had been in Rockford, Ill., but they dispersed by late afternoon.

In response to a question of where she was, Sen. Lena Taylor sent a tweet saying she was “doing the people’s business. Power to the PEOPLE.”

Sen. Tim Cullen of Janesville said he was back in Wisconsin by Thursday night, but he did not expect Democrats to return to take up the bill until Saturday.

As Republicans tried to begin Senate business around midday, observers in the gallery screamed “Freedom! Democracy! Unions!” Opponents cheered when a legislative leader announced there were not enough senators present to proceed.

The sergeant-at-arms immediately began looking for the missing lawmakers. If authorized, he can seek help from police.

Senate rules and the state constitution say absent members can be compelled to appear, but it does not say how.

“Today they checked out, and I’m not sure where they’re at,” Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said. “This is the ultimate shutdown, what we’re seeing today.”

The Senate planned to try again Friday to convene. It was unclear when the state Assembly would conduct any business.

Elsewhere, some Democrats applauded the developments in Wisconsin as a long-awaited sign that their party was fighting back against the Republican wave created by November’s midterm election.

“I am glad to see some Democrats, for a change, with a backbone. I’m really proud to hear that they did that,” said Democratic state Sen. Judy EasonMcIntyre of Oklahoma, another state where Republicans won the governorship in November and also control both legislative chambers.

Across the Wisconsin Statehouse, Democrats showed up in the Assembly chamber wearing orange T-shirts that proclaimed their support for working families.

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LACONIA — Marie D. Forsberg, 99, of 72 Jefferson Street, Lakeport died peacefully at her home on Tuesday, February 15, 2011.

Miss Forsberg was born October 12, 1911 in Lowell, Mass., the daughter of David N. and Anna A. (Johanson) Forsberg.

Constantly seeking knowledge, Marie received her undergraduate degree from UNH, her Masters degree from Ithaca College, with an additional year of study at Syracuse University. She was an Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts at Emerson College, studied Theatre Design at the University of Pennsylvania and studied at Westbrook College in Maine where her extra- curricular duties were that of kiln keeper.

To add to her knowledge, she took pottery classes from Paul St. Gaudens.

In the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, Marie wrote a column for the Laconia Citizen with advice for women, by women . This was in conjunction with a Women’s Home Show for WLNH. She was a radio personality for more than 11 years, doing interviews, selling War Bonds, discussing new household appliances and a variety of other topics.

Marie had been a resident of Laconia for over 80 years. She taught English and Bible Literature at Laconia High School for 26 years. It was here she began to make the costumes for the many student plays she directed. She also taught English at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, coached field hockey and soccer and worked with special needs children with speech impediments. She also worked as an office assistant for the Belknap County Superior Court,

receiving a certificate of appreciation from the Chief Justice in 1999, and retired in 2003 at the age of 91 with 30 years of service. Never idle, when jobs were tight Marie worked at the Infantile Paralysis Home (where FDR had gone) learning to care for the handicapped.

She belonged to the Pasquaney Snowshoe Club, served twice as president; won many ribbons for her photography with the Concord Camera Club; created artwork worthy of many State Fair ribbons, acted as Chairman of several Red Cross Drives and received a Recognition Award for being a longtime volunteer with the Lakes Region Conservation Trust and enjoyed gardening.

In addition to her parents, Miss Forsberg was predeceased by a sister, Martha A. Forsberg, in 1984 and by a lifetime friend, Walter Avery, in December, 2005.

A calling hour will be held from 2:00-3:00PM on Sunday, February 20, 2011 in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N. H. A Funeral Service will follow the calling hour at 3:00PM also at the Funeral Home.

Spring burial will be in the family lot in Park Cemetery, Tilton, NH For those who wish, memorial donations can be made to Community Health & Hospice, Inc., 780 North Main Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246.

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“We are so very impressed with the artists’ ability to incorporate all of the festival’s many components into one image”, commented Belknap Mill executive director, John Moriarty.

“It takes entirely too many words to convey what the artists convey in a few strokes of their pencils.”

The original hi-resBetter Together Volunteer, MaryEllen Boudmand, far left, commends Laconia High School Art Club olution image will be members Olivia Dean, Maddy Philpot and Alex Sorrell for composing original artwork used to promote used on the badges that Cabin Fever Festival. They are joined by Art Club Director, Allison Witham and Assistant Principal David allow admittance to the Levesque. (Courtesy photo) event. The image was also used in advertising posters, newspaper advertisements and elsewhere to help showcase the collaborative effort between Better Together and the Belknap Mill Society.

“No different than the old adage, that it takes longer to write a short letter than it does to compose a long letter, the students did a phenomenal job of incorporating much imagery into a very limited space.” Moriarty went on to say that, “We are fortunate to have such talent in our community and thank the students for their imagination and effort”.

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MEREDITH — The children of Kidworks Learning Center helped out the Great Rotary Fishing Derby with their baking skills, making brownies for the “Tip Up Talk” that the organization holds each year.

“It was a great project for our School Age Children and we were able to help out a great organization,” said Jen Weeks, Kidworks executive director.

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by Chad Carpenter

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TUNDRA

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 thru 9.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2011. There are 316 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 18, 1911, the world’s first officially-sanctioned airmail flights were completed as Fred Wiseman, carrying three letters, arrived in Santa Rosa, Calif., in his biplane a day after leaving Petaluma (engine trouble having forced an overnight stop) while in India, French pilot Henri Pequet carried some 6,500 letters and postcards from Allahabad (AH’-lah-hah-BAHD’) to Naini (NAN’-ee) in 13 minutes.

On this date: In 1546, Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, died in Eisleben.

In 1564, artist Michelangelo died in Rome.

In 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala. In 1885, Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in the U.S. for the first time.

In 1930, photographic evidence of Pluto (now designated a “dwarf planet”) was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.

In 1970, the “Chicago Seven” defendants were found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968 (those convictions were later reversed).

In 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden “flight” above the Mojave (moh-HAH’-vee) Desert.

In 1984, Italy and the Vatican signed an accord under which Roman Catholicism ceased to be the state religion of Italy.

One year ago: In Austin, Texas, software engineer A. Joseph Stack III crashed his single-engine plane into a building containing IRS offices, killing one person besides himself.

Today’s Birthdays: Former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown is 89.

Actor George Kennedy is 86. Author Toni Morrison is 80. Movie director Milos (MEE’lohsh) Forman is 79. Singer Yoko Ono is 78. Singer-songwriter Bobby Hart is 72.

Singer Irma Thomas is 70. Singer Herman Santiago (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) is 70. Singer Dennis DeYoung is 64.

Actress Sinead Cusack is 63. Actress Cybill Shepherd is 61. Singer Juice Newton is 59.

Singer Randy Crawford is 59. Rock musician Robbie Bachman is 58. Rock musician Larry Rust (Iron Butterfly) is 58. Actor John Travolta is 57. Game show host Vanna White is 54. Actress Greta Scacchi (SKAH’kee) is 51. Actor Matt Dillon is 47. Actress Molly Ringwald is 43. Actress Sarah Brown is 36. Singer-musician Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) is 34. Actor Tyrone Burton is 32.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Free public information program on rain gardens. 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Belknap County Complex in Laconia.

RSVP to the Belknap County Conservaton District at 5275880.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on stage at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse at Weirs Beach. 7:30 p.m. A production of the Winni Players, the award-winning community arm of the Playhouse. Tickets at 366-7377. www. winniplayhouse.org.

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.

Affordable Health Care at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453. GYN and reproductive services.

STD/HIV testing. Sliding fee scale.

Indoor climbing wall drop-in time at Meredith Community Center. 6 to 8 p.m. Climb Mt. Meredith, a 24-ft. indoor climbing wall. $1 per person. Please pay at the front desk.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Lakes Region Girls’ Softball registration. 9 a.m. to noon at the Laconia Community Center on Union Ave. For girls 8-18 from Laconia, Belmont and Canterbury.

Winter Fest at Prescott Farm nature conservancy in Laconia. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Full-filled activities for the whole family. Hot cocoa by the bonfire, snowshoe hiking, sleigh ride, sledding, XC skiing, face painting, crafts, snow sculpture contest and more. $3 per person for non-members ($10 for families with two or more kids.).

Meat Bingo at American Legion Post 33 in Meredith to benefit the Kylee Flint Education Fund. Public welcome.

No smoking.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on stage at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse at Weirs Beach. 7:30 p.m. A production of the Winni Players, the award-winning community arm of the Playhouse. Tickets at 366-7377. www. winniplayhouse.org.

Wild Winter Tours at the Squam Lake Natural Science Center in Holderness. 10 a.m. to noon. A special guided tour of the exhibit trail. Participants should be prepared for outdoor winder conditions and snowshoeing. Snowshoes available at no extra cost if conditons warrant. $8/member. $10/non-member. Register by calling 968-7194. www. nhnature.org.

Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton.

4:30 to 6 p.m. An outreach housed at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street, downtown. provides a free hot meal open to all members of the community. All are welcome to eat and all are welcome to help out. For more information, especially about volunteering, please call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at mark@trinitytilton.org.

Al-Anon Meeting at the Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. in the first floor conference room each Thursday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

Drop-In Crafts Time at the Meredith Public Library.

9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Open to all ages with no sign-up.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: About seven years ago, my ex-wife, trembling and crying, woke me up early one morning to talk about her childhood. She told me she had been molested by her father.

I didn’t know how to take the delicate information I was told, so I said when she was ready to talk more, I had an open heart.

Through 15 years of her childhood, she had not seen or spoken to her father. They reconnected near the beginning of our relationship. I always felt they had a weird dynamic. It seemed that he gave her whatever she asked for.

We spent several years in the military, and when my wife and I came home, her father picked us up from the airport.

She was insistent that I not say anything or treat him any differently. She didn’t want him to know what she had told me.

It recently occurred to me that the reason my ex never brought her father up on charges is because she is punishing him. She is making sure he never forgets what he did and holds him responsible by sticking it to him for money, cars and whatever else she needs at the time. Is that possible, or am I delusional? -- Need Another Opinion Dear Need: Anything is possible. It’s also likely that when she was a child, Dad gave her whatever she wanted in order to buy her silence and cooperation, and this is how the relationship has evolved. Anyone who has been molested can benefit from therapy, and you can suggest to your ex-wife that she contact RAINN (rainn.org) at 1-800-656-HOPE (1800-656-4673).

Dear Annie: My son has been married to “Natalie” for 20 years. Yet whenever she is with her Russian-born parents, she refuses to speak English in front of me. The problem is, now my 16-year-old granddaughter does the same thing. And by the way, my son neither speaks nor understands Russian.

When I go to their home for family gatherings, I feel like a

stranger. Natalie insists these conversations are not about me or other members of my family. She says she wants my granddaughter to learn the language more fluently. But, Annie, my granddaughter attends a Russian school every Saturday. She speaks Russian better than they do.

Because of this, I refuse to be in their company. Enough is enough. My son thinks I should ignore it. My other children say I’m right to stay away. I was taught that it is rude to speak a foreign language in front of someone who doesn’t understand it. What do you say? -- Tired of Walking on Eggshells Dear Tired: It is indeed rude to carry on a conversation in a foreign tongue when others cannot understand, but it doesn’t seem worth an estrangement. Do the Russian-born parents speak any English? If they do not, it is a courtesy for them to be included in the conversation, as well. Ask your granddaughter to translate for you. And you can, of course, talk to your son when Natalie’s parents are present. Better yet, learn a few words of Russian. Maybe they’ll be motivated to practice their English with you.

Dear Annie: “Alone in Casper, Wy.” brought back memories of my own return to the dating scene when I was 51.

It seems the minimum acceptable qualities for a man were to be heterosexual, have a car and be alive. Some women may have accepted less. I was employed and intelligent, but wasn’t much of a hunk. Yet my dates included a state government official, a gymnast and a former beauty queen. It was a wonderful 11 years. I eventually married an engineer.

Like “Alone,” I also cook and can clean a bathroom. I have been divorced twice. He says he’ll have to lower his standards to find a mate, but I suspect what is needed is for the women in Casper to lower their standards to accept him. -- Big Hug in Baton Rouge, La.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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BELMONT: 1 bedroom, 2nd floor, coin-op laundry and storage space in basement. $195/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234 CUTE 1-bedroom remodeled apartment in Tilton. 1/2 month rent free! Heat/Hot Water included. $660/Month. 603-393-9693 or 916-214-7733 LACONIA 2-bedroom 2nd floor apartment. Near hospital, clean, washer/dryer hook-up, heat/hot water included. $850/Month.

524-0703 LACONIA 3 rooms nice quiet area, sunny, 2nd floor $525+.

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LACONIA Weirs Blvd 2 Bedroom, 2 bath, one level newly renovated condo year-round. Balcony with view of lake, pool, no smoking/pets, refs/dep required. $900/month. 366-4341

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LACONIA: Large 4 bedroom apartment. Second floor, new paint and flooring, parking. $850 + utilities, security and references required. 603-781-6294.

STUDIO for 1, Laconia, $310/ bi-weekly includes heat, light water, no smoking, no pets, 603-630-2393

LACONIA: Two 1 bedroom apartments available, both on 2nd floor. $180 & $190/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234.

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LACONIA: Near downtown, 1-Bedroom, $600 +utilities and 2-Bedroom, $750 +utilities.

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LACONIA: 1-bedroom apartments in clean, quiet, secure downtown building. Very nice and completely renovated. $175/week, includes heat, hot water and electricity.

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Laconia- 3-Bedroom, 2nd Floor, Washer/Dryer, Attic Storage, Sunroom, $950/month + Utilities & Security Deposit. No Pets/No Smoking. 387-4471

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LAKEPORT: 3 bdrm, $260/wk, utilities included. References & Security deposit required.

524-4428 MEREDITH 1 bedroom first floor, carpeted, washer/dryer hook-ps, parking, near town, non-smoking, $600/Month no utilities 279-7887 or cell 781-862-0123 MEREDITH One bedroom apartment on second floor. Open concept, cathedral ceiling, very elegant and rustic. Plowing, parking and dumpster included, no dogs. $795/month 455-5660.

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Antique hall tree $600 B/O, Antique vanity $250. Coleman 5,000 Watt Generator $400 B/O. Call 279-0490 BED- Orthopedic 11 inch thick super nice pillowtop mattress & box.

10 Yr. warranty, new-in-plastic.

Cost $1,200, sell Queen-$299, Full-$270 King-$450. Can deliver.

235-1773

Rental Assistance Available LEDGEWOOD ESTATES • Spacious units with a lot of storage area • Low utility costs • On-Site Laundry & Parking • Easy access to I-93 • 24-hour maintenance provided • 2 bedrooms with a 2 person minimum per unit.

Ask about our Referral Bonus Rent is based upon 30% of your adjusted income Hurry and call today to see if you qualify, or download an application at:

www.hodgescompanies.com Housing@hodgescompanies.com 603-224-9221 TDD # 1-800-545-1833 Ext. 118 Equal Housing Opportunity Agent and Employer

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For Sale BEDROOM- 7-piece Solid cherry sleigh. Dresser/Mirror chest & night stand (all dovetail).

New-in-boxes cost $2,200 Sell $895. 603-427-2001 Custom Glazed Kitchen Cabinets.

Solid maple, never installed. May add/subtract to fit kitchen. Cost $6,000 sacrifice $1,750. 433-4665 FIREWOOD-ALL quantities available. Bundles, 1/8, 1/4 & 1/2 cords. Full cord/$180. Pick-up/delivery. 998-7337/Leave Message FIREWOOD: Buy low now, green, oak plus other hard wood, 1/2 cords, $75 delivered.

998-7337.

HONDA SNOWBLOWER: Good condition. Call 279-0641.

KENMORE washer, dryer, 30” range. All in working order and good condition. $25/each. After 6 pm 528-6928.

LAMB -RAISED locally. Hormone & antibiotic free. Vacuum packed, frozen. Custom cuts available.

528-5838 MAPLE dining room table with leaf and four chairs. $20. Call after 6 pm. 528-6928.

MOVING Sale in Gilford, office furniture, household furniture, books, & etc. Call anytime 524-4740.

New snowmobile helmet, size small. $45, 36 in. Toshiba TV (36A11) $175, Weider Crossbow home gym $125. All in excellent condition.

Call 729-0199 Northfield, NH Palmer Scooter Brand new $6,000-OBO. Pace Saver Premier Plus scooter, approx. 4-years old. $600. 528-0788 PARADIGM Studio 100 v.3 full range home audio/ theater tower speakers. $1650. 496-8639.

ROTEL RB-1090 380 w/ch stereo home audio/ theater power amp $1200. 496-8639.

Help Wanted

Have IRRIGATION Experience?

Belknap Landscape Co. is getting ready for Spring and is now interviewing experienced candidates for our Irrigation/ Lighting Division.

Duties include start-ups, winterizations, along with installations and some service calls.

Experience in irrigation a must.

Must be quality-minded with strong work ethic. Experience in wiring a plus. Offering competitive wages and benefits, with seasonal overtime opportunities.

We perform pre-employment drug screen and physical.

MUST have valid drivers’ license and reliable transportation. Must be 18 or older. Apply to Human Resources at:

Belknap Landscape Co. Inc.

25 Country Club Road, #302 Gilford, NH 03249

Phone: (603) 528-2798 x18 Fax: (603) 528-2799

efredette@belknaplandscape.com

Human Resources Representative Belknap Landscape Co, the premier landscape company in the Lakes Region is looking for a qualified candidate to perform their H.R. needs.

This is a part time position to work 32 hours per week. We offer competitive wages and benefits are available.

AMAZING!

Successful candidate will have 3-5 years of human resources experience, strong communication and organizational skills. Must have familiarity with applicable state and federal regulations. Experience in Peachtree is a plus.

Queen or full mattress set. Beautiful Luxury firm European-pillow-top, new in plastic, costs $1,095, sell $249. Can deliver. 603-305-9763

If you are a self-motivator and want to be part of a TEAM that values forward thinking then send your resume by mail/fax/email to:

SEASONED firewood 2 years, hardwood, dry. $265 per cord.

Meredith, Laconia. 440-8292.

Cash only.

Furniture

Help Wanted SALES Representative for the Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra to sell ads for the 2011-12 season program.

April-August, set own hours, 20% commission on ads plus expenses. Call 279-0142.

WAITPERSON: Full-time, nights and weekends. Apply in person, Bobhouse Reel n Tavern, or call 253-1025.

Belknap Landscape Co, Inc.

25 Country Club Road, #302 Gilford NH 03249 Fax 528-2799 leslie@belknaplandscape.com

MEREDITH: Established salon with booth rental available. Located on Main Street. Choose your own hours. Full or part time 731-5041.

PART-TIME COOK/SERVER Part-time weekend hours for a creative individual to cook and serve 60 plus individuals within a community setting.

We are currently looking for Saturdays and Sundays from 7AM to 2PM with opportunity for additional hours. In a small kitchen area, applicant will be responsible for cooking, serving, cleaning after meal and closing of kitchen. Customer service is our highest priority.

Help Wanted

Real Estate

TRANSPORTATION TRAVEL TRAINER

Belmont- 2 Bedroom Manufactured Home on its own 1/2 acre lot Town water & sewer, newly renovated and energy efficient, nice location. For Sale owner financing available call for details.

For Lease - $1000/month. Call 2678023 GC Enterprises Property Management

Temporary (24 hours a week until June 30th) travel trainer needed to work with passengers learning to ride transit service. Flexible hours. Potential growth into full-time position beginning July 1.

BA and 3 year s experience working with senior, low- income, immigrant and/or disability communities preferred. Transit experience and public speaking skills important. Background in ESL a plus.

Salary range $13.00-$15.00 per hour. Send resume and cover letter to Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc. (T/T), PO Box 1016, Concord NH 03302-1016 EOE

GILFORD, Lake Breeze Park, For sale by owner, 12x60! mobile home, fully applianced, deck and shed, nice lot, 2 car driveway. $8900. Call 527-1163.

Services

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PIPER ROOFING & VINYL SIDING

EXTREME ROOF SHOVELING

Quality Work Reasonable Rates Free Estimates Metal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Our Customers Don!t get Soaked!

• Fully Insured •

Ice Dam Removal

528-3531 CALL Mike for roof shoveling, snowblowing, scrapping and light hauling. Very reasonably priced.

603-455-0214

New Durham 9 rooms, 2 baths $98,000. $1000 down

Call 603-397-2694 HEAD COOK POSITION Elder Services Department seeks experienced full-time head cook for busy, centralized kitchen in Concord serving 1,200 seniors daily (Mon-Fri). Ability to supervise team of 4 cooks, follow standardized recipes, plan production and preparation of foods as determined by approved menu, knowledge of and ability to provide oversight for health and safety standards for commercial kitchen.

Must demonstrate a minimum of 5 years experience in high volume production, preferably serving elders, effective communication skills, supervisory experience, reliable transportation. Position is Monday through Friday with excellent benefits. Email questions to kheyes@bm-cap.org. Send resume to Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc. (ES), P.O. Box 1016, Concord, NH 03301-1016. E.O.E.

For more info

Roommate Wanted LACONIA/ GILFORD HOUSEMATE wanted for beautiful home.

Sunny private furnished room, includes all utilities, Wi-Fi, dish, laundry. $125/week, $450/Month.

Call 528-8030.

MEREDITH: Private bedroom and bathroom. All utilities included.

Pets allowed.

(603)707-9036.

Services

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

HANDYMAN SERVICES Small Jobs Are My Speciality

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277 PIECE OF MIND $30/ hour. Let me clean, organize or restyle your home. Dependable and trustworthy, impeccable references. Call Cindy at 520-2150.

Motorcycles Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

Green Valley Lawn Care- Snow removal, roofs, driveways, parking lots. Fully Insured. Dan 524-5295

DESROCHERS Burner Service Meredith, NH (603) 677-2666. Oil Heat Tune-ups, Repairs, Installations Emergency service. Free Estimates.

Part-time Custodian The Town of Sanbornton located in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire is looking for a part-time custodial employee.

The successful candidate will be cleaning floors, windows, bathrooms, kitchen/dining areas, etc. and trash removal. Hours must be flexible, approximately 8 to 12 hours per week.

The applicant will be subject to a though back ground check, including a criminal record check.

Please submit a completed Town of Sanbornton employment application. Applications will be accepted until the position is successfully filled.

Salary is competitive and dependent on experience, there are no benefits attached to this position.

The Town of Sanbornton is an equal employment opportunity employer.

WELDER Lakes-Region small manufacturer seeks motivated and reliable Welder with 3 to 5 years’ experience in TIG and stick welding as well as operating a positioner.

Materials include stainless and carbon steel. Candidate must be able to weld all positions creating nice looking high quality (finish) welds. All applicants will be required to do a test weld when interviewed.

Applications for employment may be obtained at Laconia Housing Authority located within Sunrise Towers, or mail resume prior to February 23rd to: Claire Lemay, Director of Supportive Services, LHA 25 Union Avenue Laconia, NH 03246

For the right candidate, this can be an opportunity for advancement with a steadily growing company.

Benefits include: Paid holidays and vacation, health and dental insurance.

LHRA is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, marital status or sexual orientation.

Quality Controls, Inc. 200 Tilton Road, Northfield, NH 03276

Interested individuals should apply in person Monday - Friday between 9am and 5pm at

Town of Sanbornton Fire Chief The Town of Sanbornton (est. pop. 3,000) seeks a full-time Fire Chief to manage its combination staffed fire department. Duties include oversight of emergency medical services, life safety, fire suppression, fire prevention, in-house training program and budget management.

Applicants should possess a minimum of: 10 years of fire department experience; management experience; EMT Basic and a current CDL. Salary DOQ. Benefit package available.

Cover letter and resumes can be sent to the Town of Sanbornton: Attn. Town Administrator, P.O. Box 124, Sanbornton, NH 03269. Additional information is available upon request.

Deadline for responses is March 4, 2011 by 12:00 p.m.

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U.S. Civil Air Patrol ‘Hawk’ Composite Squadron to host Open House at Laconia Airport March 3 GILFORD — The U.S. Civil Air Patrol’s “Hawk” Composite Squadron will host an Open House at the Laconia Airport from 6:30 — 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 3.

Guests will learn about the Civil Air Patrol and its missions through displays and demonstrations about Search and Rescue, Aerospace, and the Cadet Program.

The Cadet Program, which will be showcased during the Open House, offers a wide range of opportunities and activities ranging from aviation and aerospace education to search and rescue. Boys and girls age 12 and older are eligible for membership.

Receiving advice and assistance from the United

States Air Force and CAP members at national, regional, state and local levels, cadets are exposed to a structured program of aerospace education, leadership, physical fitness, and moral and ethical values. Senior members participate as aviators, ground support, and communications personnel and as Cadet Program leaders.

Founded in 1941, Civil Air Patrol is the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force chartered

by Congress with three missions: Emergency Services, Aerospace Education, and the Cadet Program.

Civil Air Patrol’s motto is “Always Vigilant.” To learn more, e-mail Capt. Eric Perron at capperron@ gmail.com or visit www.nhwg.org.

GILFORD — The Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce (LRCC) has announced that the 14th Annual Lakes Region Sportsmen Show will be held at a new location within the Laconia Airport Authority on March 5 and 6.

“This year’s hunting & fishing expo will be held in a hanger at 15 Aviation Drive in Gilford,” said Karmen Gifford, LRCC executive director. “We are extremely excited about the venue and prospect for this event to become bigger and better. The Chamber is thrilled with this unique opportunity that brings outdoor enthusiasts from all over New England to visit the Lakes Region and at the same time promotes our local aviation community.”

Presenting Sponsor is AutoServ New Hampshire.

Seminar presenters will include experienced guides and trackers including well known television host Bill Saiff of “Country Cabin” and “Rod & Reel.”

The Chamber anticipates more than 1,200 attendees and 40+ exhibitors at this two-day expo. Admission is $5 and children under 12 years of age will be admitted free with a paying adult.

Area businesses interested in participating in this year’s event are encouraged to reserve a space soon. Limited vendor booths are still available. For information, call Kathy Pevine at 524-5531 or e-mail kpevine@lakesregionchamber.org.

14th Sportsmen Show to be held at Laconia Airport

Services

Services

Services

LOW PRICE ~ QUALITY WORK

M.A. SMITH ELECTRIC: Quality work for any size electrical job. Licensed-Insured, Free estimates/ 603-455-5607

REMOVAL: Sheds, garages, junk/trash, fences and cellar & attic cleanups.

Laconia/Gilford area. (978)618-3712. Call Tom anytime.

Rightway Plumbing and Heating Over 20 Years Experience

SNOWMOBILE Repair: All makes & models, 25-years experience.

No job too small. Mobile service.

393-1087.

Elan Publishing Company

Please stop by Mon-Fri, 9-3pm to fill out an application at 492 Whittier Hwy, Moultonborough

HVAC TECHNICIAN - Laconia Foley Oil Co. is looking for a qualified candidate. Must have minimum 5+ years of experience in the residential field. Must be proficient and have strong trouble shooting skills in all areas of residential HVAC equipment i.e. gas, oil, A/C, warm air & hydronic systems. Must be Gas Certified. NATE certified a plus. Will participate in a compensated on-call rotation.

Benefits include 401(k) Plan, health insurance, paid holidays and paid vacation. Compensation commensurate with experience. Please send resume to foco2@metrocast.net or apply in person at 281 South Main St. Laconia.

Doublewide

Two Bedrooms, Two Bathrooms, A/C, Computer Room, 3-Season Room, Gas Fireplace, Deck, Shed & More! K-1

$59,900

Office: (603) 267-8182 • Fax: (603) 267-6621 Route 140E, 3 miles on right from Exit 20, off I-93.

www.nationalmultilist.com

25 Country Club Road, Suite 201, Gilford, NH 603-524-4646 PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE Saturday 2/19/2011 147 Pleasant Street, #3 Laconia NH. From 10am – 2pm

ROOF Shoveling: Usually $50-$100 per roof. 455-6945.

Small printing/book binding company in Moultonborough is accepting applications for our production team for first and second shifts. Applicant should have mechanical aptitude and be physically capable of standing and performing repetitive lifting. Benefit package includes matching 401k, health, life and disability.

Sales & Park

Services

Fully Insured. License #3647

Call 393-4949

Pine Gardens Manufactured Homes

Professionally Redesigned and Decorated Studio Condo in Historic Victorian Conversion, rare opportunity to view and own in highly desirable location.

12 Shore Drive, Laconia, NH Perhaps on of the best

ROOF SHOVELING

values on the Laconia market, this house is sure to surprise, don’t be deceived by the exterior, this home is over 2,200 sq.ft. and offered at $229,000, in arguably Laconia’s most desirable neighborhood.

Call Randy Annis for more information.

Fully Insured Laconia, Gilford, Belmont & Surrounding Areas Residential & Commercial

Howland • 524-2009

651 Shore Drive, Laconia, NH Stately brick home, with solarium and European touches, sits on large lot and offers private back yard. 3+ bedrooms, finished basement and 2 car garage. Offered at $335,000.

Call Mike Gagnon for more information.

ROOF, Deck Shoveling, Snowblowing, Snowplowing. Reliable, prompt professional service.

Residental/ Commercial. Fully insured 387-1073.

MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE

TAX PREPARATION Individuals and Businesses No return is too small.

E-Filing available Accounting and Auditing Roger Marceau, CPA 387-6844 or e-mail rlmarceau@metrocast.net THE HUNGRY PAINTER: Roof Shoveling, Painting, small tree work, dump runs, odd jobs, drywall repairs. 455-6296.

AT PUBLIC AUCTION March 10, 2011, at 4:30 PM on the premises SINGLE FAMILY HOME 274 GILFORD AVENUE

LACONIA, NH

PER TAX RECORDS: RANCH STYLE HOME WITH 4 BEDROOMS, 1 1/4 BATHROOMS, OAK FLOORS, INSULATED VINYL DOUBLE HUNG WINDOWS, ENCLOSED PORCH, FINISHED FAMILY ROOM AND BEDROOM IN FULL WALK OUT BASEMENT WITH ATTACHED 2 CAR GARAGE MORTGAGE REFERENCE: Recorded in the Belknap County Registry of Deeds at Book 2175, Page 125

TERMS FOR THE SALE: $5,000.00 deposit must be presented in cash, certified check or banker’s check satisfactory to the mortgagee at the time and place of sale. Balance due within 30 days from the date of sale.

Attorney Thomas Haughey Haughey, Philpot & Laurent Attorneys at Law 816 North Main Street Laconia, NH 03246

23 THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Friday, February 18, 2011— Page 23

Country Village Quilters Guild delivers new patriotic quilts to residents of NH Veterans Home

524-6565 Fax: 524-6810

E-mail: cummins@metrocast.net 61 Liscomb Circle, Gilford, NH 03249

VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE AT: www.cumminsre.com

New Hampshire Veterans Home resident Bob Kelsey (seated) accepts a new quilt for his bed from Country Village Quilters Guild members (left to right) Ann Wallace, Barbara Kopf, and Wendy Dillingham. The CVQG recently delivered 14 new patriotic and seven repaired quilts to the Home. (Courtesy photo)

TILTON — The Country Village Quilters Guild (CVQG) recently presented 14 new patriotic quilts to residents of the New Hampshire Veterans Home (NHVH).

CVQG president Wendy Dillingham, along with Outreach Committee members Barbara Kopf and Ann Wallace, also delivered seven repaired quilts to the Home.

“Our quilters have made more than 150 quilts for the Veterans Home over the past seven years,” said Dillingham. “They are combinations of red, white, and blue with flags, eagles, or other American themes. They really brighten up the residents’ rooms.”

Wallace added, “We thought our work was done when we covered every bed, but then we realized that the

quilts would wear and need repairs, so we are as busy as ever.”

The 49 members of the Guild, based in Moultonborough, work as a team.

The grassroots effort is supplemented by members of a sister quilting group, “Ladies of the Lakes” in Wolfeboro, who contributed one hundred 12-inch blocks to the Country Village group this year. Saima Davis of the Attic Cat quilt shop in Effingham finishes the quilts with long arm stitching.

The CVQG was founded in February 2000 for the purpose of advancing the appreciation of quilting and the textile arts through education, application, service, and fellowship. For more information, call Dillingham at 253-6646.

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Camelot Homes

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On a knoll overlooking picturesque lake views this custom home has been built w/quality & style. #2801484

Susan Bradley 581-2810

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Views of Belknap Mtns & Gunstock from 1st & 2nd floor. 1⁄2 mile from Gilford Beach. Close to all amenities & schools. #4044803

Dan Littlefield: 603-253-4345

Laconia $184,900

Beautiful updated 3 BR, 2 BA Cape w/ spacious kitchen, slate & cherry floors, & full basement. #4044772

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