The Laconia Daily Sun, February 23, 2012

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State’s own appraisal puts value of State School property at just $2.16M Budget writers were counting on $10M

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GILFORD — A few new voices were heard at last night’s public hearing about three petitioned warrant articles that may change how the town does business and most of those are very happy with what they see.

Presented in the form of articles that would enact a property tax cap, take the default budget development process away from the Selectboard and give it to the Budget Committee and change the date of voting day, the decision appears to hand see GILFOrd page 10

By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

CONCORD — An appraisal of the state-owned property on North Main Street that formerly housed the Laconia State School and Lakes Region (prison) Facility prepared for the New Hampshire Department of Administrative Services (DAS) places the value of the site at $2.16-million.

The appraisal is much less than than the $10-million price tag the Legislature put on the property when it included the sale of the site in 2012-2013 state budget and not far from the $1.5-million inferred from a partial appraisal commissioned by the Laconia City Council in 2011.

Following the closure of the prison, a commission, convened by the Legislature and chaired by City Councilor Matt Lahey (Ward 2), studied the property with an eye to recommending how it might be redeveloped. Last April, when the Legislature began discussing the sale of the site, the City Council, at Lahey’s initiative, expressed interest in acquiring it. Then the Legislature directed DAS to sell the property to the city of Laconia for $10-million and, failing that, offer it to Belknap County. If neither the city nor the county purchased the property, it would be put on the open market.

State law (RSA 4:40) stipulates that sales of state-owned real estate “shall be at not less than a current value of the subject property.” see statE sChOOL page 9

Construction of LHS Huot Center addition expected to begin in June

Armand and Ernie Bolduc tap sugar maple trees at the Bolduc Farm in Gilford on Wednesday, There family farm has been producing maple syrup ever since 1779. See story on page 10 (Roger Amsden photo for the Laconia Daily Sun)

LACONIA — The Huot Center Planning Committee last night agreed to invite five contractors to submit bids to undertake the renovation/expansion project with an eye to beginning construction by June 18.

The project includes the construction of some 32,600-squarefeet of new space on two floors along Dewey Street and the renovation of some 17,000-square-feet of existing space as well as relocating the football field and reconfiguring Bobotas Field.

Five city councilors — Matt Lahey (Ward 2), who serves on the committee, Brenda Baer (Ward 4), Armand Bolduc (Ward 6), Ava Doyle (Ward 1) and Bob Hamel (Ward 5) — attended the meeting. Some got their first glimpse of the project, including Hamel who echoed his advice when the Middle School was built by questioning the number and size of windows. see huOt page 9

Laconia native reaches snowboarding’s mountain top By adaM drapcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — The year has gotten off to a great start for snowboarder Charles “Chas” Guldemond. From January 30 to February 5, Fuel Oil OIL & PROPANE CO., INC. 10 day cash price* the 24 year-old Laconia Laconia 524-1421 subject to change native was in Calgary

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where he won the slopestyle competition of the Burton Canadian Open. February 11 and 12 saw Guldemond in Sapporo, Japan, where he earned a second-place finish in the Toyota Big Air competition.

Eclipsing both of those moments, though, was his performance in the TTR World Snowboarding Championship, a onceevery-four-years event considered to be the

pinnacle of slopestyle competitions. Guldemond took the gold.

The term “slopestyle” refers to an event in which snowboarders travel down a slope that is littered with jumps, rails and stairs, features which contestants use to showcase their skill and courage. It’s a competition to see who can accrue the most points in a see Chas page 8

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Va. man’s childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M

DALLAS (AP) — Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later.

On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million.

Wright’s 345 comics, nearly all of which were published from 1936 through 1941, included many of the most prized issues ever, including Detective Comics No. 27, which features the debut of Batman, and Action Comics No. 1, in which Superman’s first appears.

Experts say Wright’s collection, which included 44 of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide’s top 100 issues from comics’ golden age, was remarkable for its number of rare issues, but also because it was compiled by a single person in childhood who kept it in good condition until his death in 1994 at age 66.

“This really has its place in the history of great comic book collections,” said Lon Allen, the managing director of comics for Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, which oversaw the auction.

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Obama wants corporate tax rate cut to 28% & loophole limit WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama rolled out a corporate tax overhaul plan Wednesday that lowers rates but also eliminates loopholes and subsidies cherished by the business world.

A long-shot for action in an election year, the plan nevertheless stamps Obama’s imprint on one of the most high-profile issues of the presidential campaign.

The president’s plan to lower the corporate tax rate to 28 percent came on the same day Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney called for a 20 percent

across-the-board cut in personal income tax rates, underscoring the potency of taxes as a political issue, especially during a modest economic recovery.

Obama has not laid out a plan for overhauling personal income taxes. But he has called for Bush era tax cuts to end on individuals making more than $200,000, thus increasing their taxes, and for a 30 percent minimum tax on taxpayers who make $1 million or more.

Obama decried the current corporate tax system as outdated, unfair and ineffi-

cient. “It’s not right and it needs to change,” he said in a statement.

The president would reduce the current 35 percent corporate tax, which is the highest in the world after Japan but which many corporations avoid by taking advantage of deductions, credits and exemptions. Under his plan, manufacturers would receive incentives so that they would pay an even lower effective tax rate of 25 percent.

His plan would eliminate corporate tax benefits like oil and gas industry subsidies see OBAMA page 11

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The first two cars were packed as usual for the morning rush, so tightly that people stood pressed flesh to flesh, sandwiched between bicycles and the few seats, many without so much as a strap to hold onto.

This train didn’t lurch, though. It had trouble stopping at all, overshooting platform after platform and missing at least one station entirely as it rushed toward the end of the line.

The train didn’t come to a halt until it had slammed into a metal barrier at Buenos Aires’ Once station. With eight cars carrying a mass of steel and humanity — more than 1,200 people on board — the momentum was devastating. Forty-nine people were killed and 600 were injured.

Windows exploded and the first cars were crushed into a jumble of glass, metal, plastic and bodies.

The cause wasn’t immediately deter-

mined, but many pointed to a deteriorating rail system and train cars that lack modern equipment and safety measures. Passengers said the conductor had appeared to be struggling with the brakes before the crash.

The dead included 48 adults and one child — most of whom had crowded into the first two cars to get ahead of the rush-hour crowds on arrival. The injured included 461 who were hospitalized, Transportation see ARGENTINA page 3

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Jurors found a former University of Virginia lacrosse player guilty of seconddegree murder Wednesday in the slaying of his ex-girlfriend that was fueled by jealousy over her relationship with another

lacrosse player.

Jurors met for nine hours in the trial of George Huguely V, rejecting a verdict of first-degree murder that could have resulted in life in prison in the May 2010 beating death of Yeardley Love.

He also was convicted of grand larceny.

The two convictions call for a maximum of 60 years in prison.

Huguely, 24, of Chevy Chase, Md., did not visibly react to the verdict, and there see GUILTY page 11

Buenos Aires commuter trail slams into end of line station, killing 49

Virginia jury finds lacrosse player guilty of killing his girlfriend

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Environmental group calls for end to pesticide use in New Hampshire lakes CONCORD — Toxics Action Center, an environmental nonprofit based here, yesterday released “Chemical Free Lakes”, a new report calling for an end to all herbicide use to treat invasive weeds in New Hampshire’s lakes. The report sites health impacts.

The resource guide provides information on the invasive species threatening New Hampshire water bodies, the health impacts associated with the pesticides used to manage infestations, and the alternative management options are that available.

Included in the report are two case studies illustrating the success that groups from the Squam Lakes and Woleboro Back Bay area have had in reducing or eliminating their use of chemical treatments.

“We at Toxics Action Center believe that everyone has the right to clean air and clean water. To protect this right for the residents of New Hampshire, we believe that keeping harmful chemicals out of the lakes our children swim and out of the rivers that community members enjoy fishing and boating is entirely necessary.” said Kalyn Rosenberg from Toxics Action Center. “Phasing out the use of persis-

N.H. House passes revised method for measuring motorcycle noise

CONCORD (AP) — The New Hampshire House has passed a new testing standard for motorcycle noise in an attempt to curb noisy bikes.

Supporters of the J2825 test from the Society of Automotive Engineers International are enjoying a 261-80 vote of approval. Supporters say the test is more accurate and practical than the test the state uses now, which was intended for off-road bikes.

The new testing standard allows for 92 decibels while idling and either 96 or 100 decibels while revving the engine at a certain speed, depending on the engine type. This is lower than the current 106 decibel standard, but supporters say it is due to increased accuracy in testing protocols.

Supporters say the new test allows for more practical, accurate roadside testing and will help enforce noise regulations.

N.H. House votes to make searches of hunters & fishermen harder

CONCORD (AP) — Conservation officers lose some of their abilities to search hunters and fishermen under a bill passed by the New Hampshire House.

The House has voted 181-165 to change the requirement for an unwarranted search by conservation officers from reasonable to probable cause Supporters say the bill puts conservation officers on the same level as police officers, who they say perform their jobs under the same restrictions. The current statute, they say, violates a person’s fourth amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure.

Bill opponents contend the increased burden of cause for searches makes enforcement of fish and game laws nearly impossible. They cite a variety of regulations that require inspecting a person’s hunting or fishing gear like checking for barbed hooks or the type of shot in a shell.

ARGENTINA from page 2 Secretary J.P. Schiavi said.

Passengers’ friends and relatives were still rushing around the city hours later, checking emergency rooms and the city’s two largest morgues for some sign of their loved ones.

Ezequiel Mercado, his mother-in-law and 10 other friends and family members frantically searched for his wife, Sabrina Espindola, 29, who didn’t show up for work Wednesday. They checked nine hospitals before heading to the morgue.

“I went everywhere. She is always with her Blackberry. We are always in contact,” he said. “This morgue is the last place I thought of, but, well, she’s missing. I call her cell phone, and it rings, rings, but she isn’t responding.”

tent chemicals is essential for protecting the health of our environment and the health of our community members.”

New Hampshire is home to 959 lakes. Of those, invasive species currently infest 76. According to the report, the weeds inhibit boating, swimming, and other recreation and crowd aquatic habitats, threatening the native species of New Hampshire.

However, the report finds that the herbicides commonly used to treat these weed infestations are toxic. Kalyn Rosenberg of Toxics Action Center highlighted the health risks associated with specific treatments. “Exposure to Diquat Dibromide can cause severe long-term impacts such as decreased fertility in males, cataract clouding, and damage to the lungs, liver and kidneys.[i] 2,4-D has been linked to birth defects.”

The group new report, Chemical Free Lake, provides information to residents seeking to manage

exotic weeds without the use of pesticides. The report describes 15 non-chemical techniques, such as aeration, hand pulling, and mechanical harvesting, that can be used to manage weed infestations.

“Squam Lakes Association has currently chosen nontoxic methods for management,” said Rebecca Hanson from the Squam Lakes Association, “Our management model is three pronged: with prevention, early detection and manual removal of weeds.”

The report, “Chemical Free Lakes”, is available online at www.toxicsaction.org or by contacting the organization for a hard copy.

Kalyn Rosenberg commented, “As stakeholders draft the management plan for Lake Winnipesaukee and towns consider how they’ll tackle invasives in local lakes this coming summer, we hope this report compels New Hampshire communities to set aside the pesticides and potentially try something safer and more sustainable.”

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Froma Harrop

Are liberal elites responsible for working class woes?

The white working class is in big trouble, and the liberal elite is largely to blame. So says Charles Murray in his latest book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.” As a scholar at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, and this being an election year, wouldn’t he just.

A new report shows that over half of childbirths by women under 30 are out of wedlock, with the white percentage rising fastest. This is a disturbing trend. And in whose gut does Murray jab the finger of fault?

Into that of college grads, who overwhelmingly do bear children within the confines of marriage. Murray concentrates his wrath on a fictional professor at Columbia University.

As Murray explains, the prof and his ilk look down on the white folk who patronize McDonald’s and watch TV shows not on PBS. Worse of all, they don’t loudly condemn them for having children without marriage.

“If you are of a conspiratorial cast of mind,” Murray writes (perhaps to distance himself from the ludicrous thought to follow), “nonjudgmentalism looks suspiciously like the new upper class keeping the good stuff to itself.” This privileged group, he goes on, “refuses to let anyone else in on the secret” that marriage is the desirable social state.

I have an idea. Have the Ivy professors each call 10 blue-collar guys currently cohabiting with their girlfriends and children. The academics can then lecture them on the benefits of marriage and point to the error of their ways. That should go over big.

Murray industriously studies where the rich liberals live, zeroing in on certain affluent corners of Washington, D.C., Manhattan and San Francisco — of course. He maps where graduates of Harvard, Yale and Princeton reside, and does a “secondary database” of schools just below that exalted level.

Wesleyan University, he tells us, is a good school but “not at the summit.” (Gosh, can’t a girl from NYU play?)

The more densely a zip code is populated by graduates of elite col-

leges, he writes, “the more densely it is populated by overeducated elitist snobs.” Further, these “SuperZips” are surrounded by “elite bubbles” that allegedly buffer the Wine Advocate subscribers from the Pabst Blue Ribbon crowd.

A few problems here. Murray is talking about tiny urban zip codes.

The little island of Manhattan has 41 zip codes. (By contrast, one zip in Nevada, 89049, is bigger than Connecticut.) Uptown millionaires sit next to janitors on the subway ride to Wall Street. There’s no faster way, short of strapping on a rocket backpack and lighting the fuse.

Let’s consider the possibility that the decline of marriage among the working class is at least partly tied to collapsing incomes that make the fellows less desirable as permanent mates. Conservatives will further argue that government programs may discourage marriage. And true, cohabiting parents often say that marriage would raise the official household income to the point that they’d lose food stamps and subsidized child care.

But if subsidized day care is all that keeps working couples from the altar, why not extend this benefit to them?

Rather than fight the irreversible forces of globalization, some economists suggest, let’s ask its economic winners to ease the working class’s lot. Government guaranteed health coverage, for example, ensures that the agony of a layoff doesn’t snowball into loss of medical insurance, as well.

Bah, just what the Columbia professor might say.

Murray holds that $28,000 a year is better than nothing. The stiffs should suck it in, and those who don’t are morally weak. You can hear his bankrollers at the American Enterprise Institute — the financiers and CEOs baying for lower taxes — applauding warmly.

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

3 dates for all Belmont residents to circle on their calendars To the editor, I am writing this short note to the voters of Belmont to let them know that there will be three dates to remember and attend.

On Tuesday, March 6 at 6 p.m. there will be a Meet the Candidates Night at the Belmont High School. It is the day voters have the opportunity to meet and ask questions of the candidate they will be voting for.

On Friday, March 9, between 6 and 7:30 p.m., the Shaker School District voting and SB-2 will be on the ballot at the Belmont High School. The

having its annual meeting.

On Tuesday, March 13, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. is town voting day at the Belmont High school. The time to elect town officials, town budget and warrant articles.

If you are not a registered voter and wish to vote, all you have to do is go to the Belmont Town Hall and provide the Town Clerk with your proof of residency.

I hope to see all of you exercise your right to vote.

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LETTERS Laconia firefighters were promised yearly ‘steps’ when hired To the editor, I am writing in response to Councilor Brenda Baer’s recent letter to the editor.

While I can’t speak for all the city employees, I can speak on behalf of the Laconia Professional Firefighters.

It is implied in the councilor’s letter that the firefighters who do not live in the city, do not have a vested interest in its betterment. That couldn’t be further from the truth, and I would ask Councilor Baer to remember that just because our men and women do not live within city limits, that it doesn’t mean they do not have the city’s best interest in mind. As an organization, the Laconia Professional Firefighters are trying to better the community whenever we can. We do our best to buy local whenever possible and support businesses, sports organizations and other charities. We are more than happy to do this, because we want to see Laconia thrive just as much as our city leadership does.

When it comes to work, I know that all the men and women of the Laconia Professional Firefighters and the Laconia Fire Department come every day ready to perform at their best. Not only are they ready to work, they are ready to answer any call or emergency that may be presented to them that day. As a matter of fact, our brave men and women are prepared, God forbid, to make the ultimate sacrifice if the situation mandates. This is the case whether they live in the City of Laconia or not. I have seen the hard work of these men and women and know that they will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Know this, that when our firefighters respond to an emergency they are acting in the best interest of the city

and the residents within.

Our firefighters are people as well.

That means they have families, and loved ones that they go home to after every tour of duty. The firefighter and his or her family have made a choice for whatever reason to live where they do, and its a shame that a city councilor, an employer in a sense, feels they know better than the employee and their loved ones regarding what is in the best interest of our personal lives.

The Laconia Professional Firefighters are truly just that...professionals. We are performing not only firefighting and rescue duties, but also providing emergency medical services to anyone that may need it. I know that with an excellent cardiac arrest save rate of 24-percent, which is one of the best in the state, that our men and women are worth it. We are performing many of the procedures in the back of an ambulance, or a patient’s home, that are performed at our local emergency rooms by doctors.

I will also say this regarding the City Council voting to give City Manager Scott Meyers his six month increase in pay. It is nice to see that the council honored their word to the city manager and gave him his six month step increase. Well done. The city manager has worked hard and he deserves the increase that was promised to him. I would now ask that they would do the same regarding the step raises they promised their firefighters at our time of hire. Just like the city manager is getting a step increase for his time and job well done, I would ask that they honor their word and give our firefighters the step increase that was promised to us as well. Thank you for your time.

Michael Foss, President Laconia Professional Firefighters

We need to keep working on this milfoil problem in M’borough To the editor, Moultonborough voters: Please support the petitioned article for the treatment of milfoil at this year’s Town Meeting. Protecting the quality of the lake is important to the economic health of our town. A healthy lake will protect property values and maintain vital tourism.This initiative is working. Over the past few years the Lake Host program has been

out of the lake at the staffed ramps.

Also there have been many fewer and smaller pieces of milfoil found floating around on the lake especially after an active boating weekend.

We need to keep working on this problem. No matter where you live in town, this matters to you. Vote YES on Article 19.

Penny Morrison Moultonborough

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LETTERS Why would GSD agree to pay 100% of employee’s insurance?

To the editor, Hello Gilford. In response to the most recent letters concerning the school nurse and her 36.6-percent pay differential over the average pay for nurses here in NH., their letters highlight my point. In the private sector we do not pay more for longevity for the sake of longevity. We pay for the value of that job. For example: If I have an engineer on my staff for 18 years I can’t afford to pay 36-percent (or 53-percent as the case is for the Middle School nurse) above market value for that employees service. The cost to my customers would be too high and my customers would go else where and my business would go under.

In addition, if I have a job that requires a certain skill set and education level I don’t hire someone with a Masters degree and pay more if I only need the skill set of a Bachelors degree. This is the problem that we have with government and one of the reasons why it grows and is bankrupting the private sector under its tax burden. Government has become a very very nice place to work. People gravitate to it and stay there. Last year when leaving Deliberative Session I was approached by a small business owner. They told me they just had an employee quit and go to work for the City of Laconia. The pay and benefits were better there.

I don’t begrudge the work that the school nurses do and I would expect them to do an excellent job and I am happy to hear that they do. What I

have a problem with is when the local government pays above the prevailing wage that the private sector would receive for the same skill. Remember, not to long ago folks who worked for the government where considered public servants. People went to work there because, even though the pay was less, they wanted the satisfaction of serving their community. Now many go to work there because it’s the best job in town.

When I look at the School District’s non-union contracts, which I have posted on www.NHPropertyRights. com, I am amazed to see what our current School Board Chairman Kurt Webber signed. Why did he need to sign a four year contract with the business administrator for a $103,173 salary with 100-percent health and dental coverage? He knew that economic times were tough so why in this same contract did he promise yearly raises and performance bonuses. Who in the private sector would do this nowadays? No one! Why do we pay 100-percent benefits for the Business and Personnel manager and the supervisor of Buildings and Grounds?

So should the district continue to pay some of its employees above prevailing wages and then cut others? It does not make good economic sense. This is why I am running for Budget Committee. We need highlight these issues and right size the local government.

Barbara P Aichinger Governor’s Island Gilford

Many Meredith workers haven’t received a raise in over 3 years To the editor, Just thought I’d pass this bit of information along to the voters of Meredith before they attend Town Meeting in March.

No hourly wage worker in Meredith’s Department of Public Works, Water Department, Building and Grounds, or Recycling Divisions

(including secretaries) has received any step pay raise or cost of living increase (COLA) in over three years.

All other town employees (including teachers) have gotten one or both types of these pay increases. Please think about this before you vote.

Just thought I’d let you know.

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LETTERS February FuelRaiser brought in $10k+; we’ll do it again next year To the editor, On Monday, February 13, a fundraiser was held in Meredith to raise money for fuel assistance to residents of Center Harbor, Meredith, and Moultonborough. Our goal was $10,000 and we exceeded the goal!

Thanks to the generosity of businesses and individuals we raised a total of $10,515 (donations ranged from $15 to over $1,000). Each town will receive one-third of the net profit, which amounts to over $3,200 per town. These funds will be given directly to each town’s welfare assistance department for distribution to those in need.

It was truly heartwarming to see how quickly people stepped up to contribute to this worthy cause. Many thanks to our lead sponsors, The Common Man Family of Restaurants, the Inns & Spa at Mill Falls, New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, and

Municipal Resources, Inc. who contributed $1,000 or more.

Even more heartwarming was the fact that not only did we receive contributions from nearly 100 residents and businesses of Center Harbor, Meredith, and Moultonborough, we also received contributions from residents of Ashland, Center Sandwich, Exeter, Holderness, New Hampton, Wolfeboro, and one resident from the state of Oregon.

Great things happen when communities and people work together and we’re very proud and thankful to all those who supported this effort. Be sure to save the date for next year’s fuel fundraiser, February 11, 2013.

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To the editor, This letter is in response to Nancy Parson’s recent letters and also the responses to those letters. I notice that the majority of those responding negatively are MEN. This strikes me as strange. If you are male, unless it is YOUR body, or YOUR unborn child in that body, KEEP OUT OF IT. You don’t have the right to an opinion!

It also strikes me as strange that all these “right to life” advocates are so hot to protect unborn children, yet let’s ask ourselves what happens when those children are actually here. You will find that all of these upholders of morality are the FIRST ones to cut programs that provide health insurance, heating assistance, and food to children in poverty. Does that even make logical sense?

That just goes to show that men still are obsessed with having control over

women and still feel the need to “keep women in their place.” Otherwise, they would be more willing to help take care of these children they were so keen to “protect” in utero.

As for the Catholic Church, how can any intelligent person even take seriously a religion that won’t allow priests to marry, won’t allow women to attain the position of “priest,” and has the audacity to be against birth control after many of their priests have molested children and ruined countless lives? Who do they think they are?

Nancy, you have many supporters out here, keep fighting for what is right.

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To the editor, As a candidate, our state senator touted her credentials as a job creator: her MBA from the Whittemore School, her stints at the Plymouth Main Street and Greater Meredith Programs, as well as her position in her husband’s business.

But where are the jobs, Senator Forrester? There is a direct correlation between the budget endorsed by the Senate Finance Committee, on which Senator Forrester serves, passed by the full Senate with Senator Forrester’s support, and to which we sustained at least 2,000 jobs lost in this state. At least 58-percent of these foregone jobs are in our state’s hospital staffs: a direct result of the legislature’s $250-million reduction in hospital compensation for indigent and other care.

Where is the legislation that Senator Forrester sponsored to attract industry to N.H. and create jobs in this state? The only bill that might possibly qualify is SB-155, which potentially could favorably impact businesses paying the business profits tax but which would, at the same time, have a negative impact on state

revenues.

Senator Forrester’s support of the 50-percent budget cuts in the state’s university system have immediately impacted in-state tuition (already among the highest in the nation) and vastly increased the debt burden on N.H. students and their families. This state and its employers have always relied on a well-educated workforce.

Now fewer and fewer students will meet their criteria.

As a final blow, Senator Forrester just voted in favor of CACR-6. This Constitutional amendment would limit state spending to no more than the inflation rate. The nonpartisan N.H. Fiscal Policy Institute estimates this will translate into a state spending cap well into 2022, effectively preventing investments by the state in higher education, infrastructure or business tax incentives to bolster the N.H. jobs outlook.

Well into the second year of her term, Senator Forrester has simply failed to deliver on her promise of job creation. In this economy, those promises can’t afford to be broken.

John Scarborough Plymouth

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Spot zoning has resulted from town’s special exception policy To the editor, How would you like to wake up in the house where you have lived for many years to the sound of construction machinery clearing land right next door, and when you go out to ask what is going on, you are told that a warehouse, miniature golf course, restaurant, gas station, truck depot, convenience store, storage units, or some other commercial facility is being built on the residential property next door?

You may think that this can’t happen, since you live in the minimum one acre residential/agricultural zone. But, so long as the Moultonborough Zoning Board can grant Special Exceptions with minimal standards, commercial enterprises can be built anywhere in town. Right now as a home or landowner, you have no protection from this permanent change in land use.

Every one of the commercial establishments described above received a Special Exception from the Zoning Board, despite objections from neighbors and the fact that these properties were zoned residential/agricultural.

Eliminating Special Exceptions for commercial use does not mean that a needed commercial facility can’t be situated in the residential/agricultural zone — all it means is that the applicant will need a zoning variance.

For a variance, the developer would have to show: (1) a legitimate need

for the facility in that location; (2) a meaningful hardship, and (3) prove that the commercial entity would not devalue neighboring properties. This would help to prevent what we have now – spot zoning.

When Moultonborough created a commercial zone on Route 25, it was intended that future commercial development be located there, to protect residential properties and maintain the rural character of the town, as per the desires of residents as intended by the Master Plan. At that time, the town should have repealed such Special Exceptions.

Unfortunately that did not occur, resulting in the proliferation of commercial enterprises described above.

All these businesses could and should have been located in the commercial zone on Route 25, all 17 linear miles of it – from Center Harbor to Sandwich.

This proposed change will rationalize commercial development and eliminate future spot zoning. It will have no effect whatsoever upon existing commercial establishments in residential/ agricultural zones as those properties are “grandfathered,” so long as their use remains unchanged.

Moultonborough voters, please vote yes for Warrant Article 9 on March 13th.

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To the editor, The Advisory Board of Got Lunch!

Laconia has always felt that our program is so much more than distributing lunches to those who need it. At the end of year #1 the family surveys told us loud and clear that those lunches were needed, and very much appreciated. We have continued to try to get more kids involved, and have approached the SAU about that very thing, and have been well received. Last week was our first real evidence that something big, and something wonderful is happening to our kids, as they learn what Got Lunch! is about. They are learning and witnessing what reaching out, helping someone who needs help, and caring for others is all about.

Witness this letter from an Elm Street student received two weeks ago; Dear Got Lunch! Program,

This is Eric Phelps, and I am the Vice President of the Student Government at Elm Street School. The Student Government here would like to help you out and would like to know what we could do to help your program. We have some students that get free lunches, and want to help them out too. Right now we are having a drive to collect jars of peanut butter and jelly. What else can our Student Government do to help out?

Sincerely, Eric Phelps Eric is a 4th-grader. Eric and his classmates have noticed more than a few things around them, and are getting involved. In the fourth grade!

This is truly heart-warming. This is Laconia, and we are so proud.

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We are all much better off for having known Bob Morton To the editor, It’s a sign that we are getting old when we start going right to the obits as we open the paper. The joke is that we do that to make sure they don’t include our names that day. But one thing that is not a joke is how often these days I see names and faces I did know, and that can be very sad. Today I saw Bob Morton in there.

While I hadn’t talked to Bob since Hawkensen’s closed, it was sad to think that he won’t be bending my ear again in this life. Bob was one of those rare individuals that could talk to anyone as if he was an old pal. Sometimes he talked

too much. You’d go in for a chain saw file and have to listen about his weekend or his grandkids. But isn’t that what life is all about? He was never angry about anything… never had a complaint. He was just a great guy with a life full of treasures that he wanted to talk about.

You always left there feeling better than you came in… oftentimes having to go back later to get that file he made you forget.

Best wishes to Bob’s family. There will be huge void to fill. But we are all better off for having known him.

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Guldemond’s name has been prominent in the slopestyle world since he took second place at the U.S. Open in 2006, the same year he turned pro.

A couple of years later, he was the first to land a 1440-degree aerial spin in a competition. While he’s had dozens of podiumworthy performances since then, winning the World Championship title has been a career highlight.

“That was the biggest event of the year, it’s a really big event for snowboarding,” he said this week. “It was an amaz- Charles “Chas” Guldemond, a 24 year-old Laconia native, celebrates after winning the TTR World ing accomplishment and Snowboarding Championship in Oslo, Norway on February 19. He hopes to represent the country in I have that for the next the 2014 Olympic Games to be held in Sochi, Russia. (Courtesy photo) four years.” chasing your dreams,” he said. “Once I was able to The reason that the set my mind to it, I was able to accomplish some TTR Championship is the biggest title in slopestyle amazing things.” is that, until just last year, Guldemond’s chosen dis“If you work hard at it, you can do anything,” cipline hadn’t been included as an Olympic sport.

Guldemond said. “There’s a lot of opportunity, it’s Snowboarding events have been accepted into the whether you want to put the work in.”

Winter Olympics since 1998, when Guldemond was Now that he’s in his seventh year as a pro, his a 10-year-old boy cutting out newspaper clippings career is already much longer than most profesof the events. The twists of fate have him very close sional snowboarders. He thinks he might have five to being the subject of such news articles, as slopemore years in him, though he doesn’t want to constyle events for both skiing and snowboarding will tinue past the point where he can compete for the be included in the 2014 games, held in Sochi, Russia. top spot.

The decision was announced in July of last year. GulThe pro snowboarder’s lifestyle has him jetdemond was the first slopestyle competitor signed to ting around the globe for competitions and, during the U.S. Snowboarding Team. If he continues to ride breaks in the action, going to photo and video shoots the way he has over recent years, he’s in a strong posifor his sponsors. A day where he gets to wake up in tion to be picked to represent his country in two years. his own bed – he and wife Drea live in Reno, Nev. – “Everybody has the Olympic dream, so few get to chase are a rare luxury. that dream in their lifetime,” he said.

From before his pro career began, Drea has been Thinking back to his youth in Laconia, though, a believer and supporter of Guldemond’s. For examGuldemond said he didn’t expect to ever have a ple, this season had gotten off to an ignominious chance to compete for gold. “I didn’t start snowstart for him. He didn’t do well in the Winter Dew boarding because I wanted to go to the Olympics,” Tour and at the X Games, which he was favored to he said. Instead, the sport was a means for him to win, an equipment failure kept him from flying to follow his passions and bypass distractions. his usual, gyroscopic heights. The next event on his “I was in Laconia High School, just getting by, getcalendar was the Canadian Open and Guldemond ting in trouble sometimes,” he said. By focusing on would have skipped it if not for Drea’s encouragesnowboarding, Guldemond was able build a life for ment. His win in Calgary gave him an injection of himself that most would only be able to dream of. momentum that carried him to his world championIt’s a message he’d like to share with kids who are ship a few weeks later. where he once was, those who are presented with He’d like the chance to return the favor for Drea temptation and opportunity. The decisions they and push her toward her dreams. He also would make in their youthful years will set them up for like to make up for lost time with his family. “Settle what comes next, be it greatness or self-destruction down and do something completely different,” is how or something in between. “Nobody starts off as a he describes his post-snowboarding chapter. Startsuperstar. It’s all about effort, enjoying yourself and ing a family, building custom furniture, a simpler existence seems attractive to him.

“This has been a crazy life,” Guldemond said. He loves it, he insists, but he won’t hesitate to leave it behind once he feels he’s over the proverbial hill.

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STATE SCHOOL from page one Lahey said yesterday that he was encouraged by the relatively narrow difference between the appraisals commissioned by the state and the city.

In anticipation of disposing of the property, the Bureau of Right-of-Way of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation appraised three adjacent parcels. Parcel A consists of 202-acres bounded by North Main Street to the east, Meredith Center Road and Eastman Road to the north and Ahern State Park to the west and south and divided roughly in half by Right Way Path. There are some 26 buildings, all in varying degrees of disrepair, most of them on its western half.

Parcel B refers to an undeveloped 10.4-acre lot at the junction of Old North Main Street and North Main Street that houses a state-owned sewer pump station and North Main Street. Parcel C is an unimproved wooded lot of 7.5-acres at the corner of Lane Road and Meredith Center Road. Both Parcels B and C were leased to the city in 2000 for 99 years at $1 a year. Parcel A is appraised at $1,760,000, Parcel B at $300,000 and Parcel C at $100,000.

The city expressed interest only in acquiring Parcel A, not Parcels B and C, which it leases. In fact, Lahey has suggested that the city might surrender its leases on the two parcels as part of the consideration to purchase Parcel A. Alternatively, if the state insists that the city purchase all three parcels, B and C could be sold to defray the cost of Parcel A. The appraisal includes the caveat that “any current valuation is based primarily on speculation.”

It describes the marketability of Parcel A as “very poor.” The appraisal assumes that residential development represents the highest and best use of the

site, which would carry 75 units on two-acre lots as it is currently zoned. The report concludes that it is unlikely that the high costs of rendering the site suitable for redevelopment could be recovered in a reasonable time through the sale of units in the prevailing real estate market, which is very sensitive to pricing.

Among the 26 buildings on the site, the appraiser found less than a handful salvageable and estimated the cost of demolishing the rest at more than $2-million. The report notes that the cost of renovating the building would run between $60 and $100 a square foot compared to $6 per square foot for demolishing them and cautions that removing asbestos and other hazardous materials would increase the cost.

Russ Thibeault of Applied Economic Research, who appraised the property for the City Council, excluded the 75-acres where most of the buildings stand. His appraisal included the 77-acres north of Right Way Path and 60-acres at the northwest corner of the site known as Risley Field.

Thibeault placed the value of the 77-acres at $676,200 and the value of Risley Field at $396,000, for a total of $1,063,200, which represented a value of $6,100 per acre. Applying the same land value to the remaining 75 acres, they would have a value of $457,500, excluding any value in the buildings.

Therefore, the total value of what the state designated as Parcel A would be $1,520,500, or $239,500 less than the value calculated by the state.

The original timeline prepared by DAS to dispose of the property called for offering the property to the city for $10-million this month. It is not clear what impact the appraisal will have on the process of disposing of the property.

HUOT from page one School Superintendent Bob Champlin said that a formal presentation outlining the scope and budget of the project will made to the council at its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, March 12.

Two local firms — Bonnette, Page and Stone Corporation of Laconia and Conneston Construction, Inc. of Gilford — together with Harvey Construction Corporation of Bedford, Hutter Construction Company of New Ipswich and Eckman Construction of Bedford will be asked to prepare bids, which will be opened on May 18.

Champlin reminded the committee that “the low bidder gets the job,” adding that he anticipates receiving very competitive bids from all five firms.

He assured the committee that “all five companies can do the project.”

Meanwhile, Chad Montrose of Rist, Frost, Shumway Engineering, which has designed the new and renovated space, said that the equipment for the new boiler plant will be ordered next month to ensure that it will be installed in time to heat the high school by October 1.

The timeline calls for the work to proceed in three

stages. The new addition, along with the boiler plant, is scheduled to be completed between Between June and April 2013, while the renovation of the pre-engineering, manufacturing and automotive, and build trade space at the existing Huot Center is expected to be finished by this August.

The second phase, beginning in April 2013, will include the renovation of the plumbing and heating and biotech labs as well as the high school science labs.

This summer work will also begin on the athletic fields, though the football field will remain playable until November 1, 2012. The plan calls for radically altering the terrain east of the football field by removing the hill and creating two terraces stretching from the rear of the school building to the far side of Bobotas Field, which is in Gilford. The first 350 feet between the school building and first terrace would be divided between a parking lot with spaces for 140 vehicles and a green space of 35,000-squarefeet. A berm would divide the parking area and green space from the first terrace, which would hold the football field. The work is scheduled to be complete by August 2013.

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By RogeR Amsden GILFORD — Ernie and Armand Bolduc were out Wednesday tapping maple trees at the Bolduc Farm, continuing a tradition which dates back more than two centuries.

The brothers say that the farm can lay claim to being the oldest continual producer of maple syrup in the state, perhaps in the entire country, dating all the way back to 1779 when it was the Jewett Farm.

It was bought by their grandfather in 1916 and both brothers can remember helping their father and grandfather run the maple syrup operation more than 50 years ago, using a team of mules to haul the collected sap to the sugar house.

The farm is one of many small to medium size operations around the state and usually produces somewhere between 60 and 80 gallons a year. Last year was a good year with 102 gallons and the brothers are hoping that this year will match that.

Armand says that at one time the farm’s maple orchards stretched all the way to the Persons’ Ramblin’ Vewe Farm and as many as 400 gallons a year were produced. But when the Laconia Bypass was built in 1964 the orchard was reduced to about 100 trees and production was cut sharply.

Armand says that the evaporator at the farm was made by the Leader Evaporator Company of Burlington, Vermont in 1859 and may be the oldest in continual use in the country.

“When we had repair work done on it a few years ago they said it was the oldest one they know of,” says Bolduc, a former Laconia mayor and long-time member of the Laconia City Council.

The current Bolduc sugar house was built in 1983 with an addition in 1991 which allows more visitors

to get a view of the syrup making operation.

“We’ve had visitors from as far away as China,’’ says Ernie Bolduc, who says that a large display of maple syrup items ranging from galvanized buckets, wooden and metal spiels used in tapping trees and maple syrup jars and containers help spark the curiosity of the many young children who visit the sugar house each year.

He says that unlike the old days, the sap is now collected in plastic tubes which feed it into two large holding tanks, which together hold 1,400 gallons.

The brothers use three-foot long pine wood to fire the boiler and typically go through at least five cords a year.

“Pine gives a quick, hot fire and that’s just what you want for making syrup,” says Ernie, who says that when the boiling sap hits 218 degrees it is ready to be drain off, strained and then bottled.

He said the season usually begins in mid-to-late February and can last to mid-April, about six weeks.

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Asked what he expected for a crop this year, with its unusually warm weather and scant snowfall, Ernie said he’d make a prediction ‘’at the end of April.’’ ‘’You never really know how it’s going to end up,’’ he said, noting that in 1989 only 19 gallons were produced while 2004 was the best in recent years with 122 gallons.

New Hampshire has about 900 maple syrup producers who turn out about 90,000 gallons a year, adding $3-million to farm income in the state according to Gale McWilliam Jellie of the N.H. Department of Agriculture.

GILFORD from page one on whether or not the government officials who are elected at the local level are there to protect the interests of the taxpayers or to protect the government and all that it does from the taxpayers.

Last night arguments were made on both sides.

Budget Committee member Kevin Roy said he thought the proposed tax cap was “something the town didn’t need” because the “Board of Selectmen and the School Board have done a good job over the past few years...in reducing the budget.”

The elected officials for the School District and the town government reduced both of the budget from 2011 to this year. The School District went down about 1.67-percent while absorbing about $700,000 in health insurance and fuel increases to $24,142,615. The Board of Selectmen reduced their budget in 2012 from $11,552,239 in 2011 to $11,303,115 in 2012 while absorbing increases in similar cost items.

Barbara Aichinger, the candidate for the Budget Committee who spearheaded the drive to get the articles on the warrant and who spoke to them last night, thinks the cuts to spending weren’t deep enough.

She told the joint School Board and selectman’s public hearing that support for the petitioned warrant articles is a symptom of overspending. She said the value of a community lies in the value of the land and a rising tax rate destroys that value.

For Budget Committee members Kevin Leandro, David Horvath and David “Skip” Murphy and former Budget Committee member Terry Stewart, the issue is one of cutting spending but also a matter of trusting the local government to do what it’s elected to do.

“If someone has brought a tax cap forward it means the citizens have lost trust,” said Murphy who read initially form a prepared speech that hearkened back to the days when the city of Laconia enacted see next page

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OBAMA from page 2 and special breaks for the purchase of private jets — two provisions that Obama has long targeted — and do away with certain corporate tax shelters.

In addition, Obama also would impose a minimum tax on foreign earnings, a move opposed by multinational corporations and perhaps the most contentious provision in the president’s plan.

“It’s a framework that lowers the corporate tax rate and broadens the tax base in order to increase competitiveness for companies across the nation,” Obama said.

Romney has also called for a 25 percent corporate tax rate, in line with what some congressional Republicans want. Campaigning in Arizona, the former Massachusetts governor said that if elected president he would propose lowering the top personal income tax rate to 28 percent from the current 35.

In Congress, Republican reaction was mixed. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., said he appreciated the administration’s plan, though it set a corporate tax rate that is higher than the 25 percent he has proposed. He faulted Obama, however, for not offering a wholesale overhaul of the tax system for businesses and individuals.

“While this is a good step by the administration, I

will borrow from the president’s own words to Congress from just yesterday: ‘Don’t stop here. Keep going,’” Camp said in a statement. But Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, dismissed the president’s plan as a “set of bullet points designed more for the campaign trail than an actual blueprint for fixing our tax code.”

The issue of taxation has been a recurrent theme tUnder the framework proposed by the administration, the rate cuts, closed loopholes and the minimum tax on overseas earning would result in no increase to the deficit.

That means that many businesses that slip through loopholes or enjoy subsidies and pay an effective tax rate that is substantially less than the 35 percent corporate tax could end up paying more under Obama’s plan. Others, however, would pay less while some would simply benefit from a more simplified system.

Obama’s plan would result in about $250 billion in additional revenue over the next 10 years. But that money would be used to pay business tax credits that are currently temporary and that Obama would make permanent, administration officials said.

GUILTY from page 2 was no overt sign of emotion in the courtroom, which included families of the victim and the defendant.

Jurors who convicted Huguely immediately began hearing testimony in the sentencing phase, which included a tearful response from Love’s mother, Sharon Love.

The jury of seven men and five women had to decide whether Huguely battered Love to death in a jealous outburst or if his intent to talk with her spiraled out of control, leaving her bleeding and dying in her bedroom.

The jury heard from nearly 60 witnesses over nine days to determine what happened to Love on the night of May 2, 2010.

That night, the women’s lacrosse player was found face down on her pillow. Her right eye was swollen and bruised, she had marks on her chest that suggested she was grabbed and had injuries around her jaw and inside her mouth and neck. Jurors heard several potentially lethal consequences of such injuries. A coroner concluded the young woman from suburban Baltimore died of blunt force trauma.

from preceding page its tax cap in 2005 and David Stamps said then the cap wasn’t needed because the citizens could trust their government.

“What do you say when a board ignores the will of the citizens?” he asked going back to the decision by the School Board to adopt all-day kindergarten when the voters voted against it.

Long-time School Board member Paul Blandford, remembers it differently. He said he voted against all-day kindergarten because he initially thought it would cost the district more money.

He and School Board Chair Kurt Webber said the vote against was a vote against spending more money to do it.Since it actually saved money to have all-day kindergarten, the board, relying on educational and empirical data that says students perform better with all-day kindergarten, they said they voted for it.

“Maybe some of you should think about the kids instead of your pockets,” said one woman who was a seeming newcomer to the political arena and who

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Sandra Morrissey said she also agrees the power still lies with the deliberative session of Town Meeting and who is elected to be a town official.

“Just because we can (have a tax cap) doesn’t mean we should,” she said. “We have an elected government.”

And many of those who are for further tax reductions have put their names into consideration for elected office or already serve on a board. Aichinger is a candidate for Budget Committee, Murphy is running for a third term of the BudCom and Leandro and Horvath serve on it now.

Lambert is a candidate for School Board and served on the Budget Committee until 2009. Webber and Sue Allen are running for new terms and Blandford is still on the board.

Joe Hoffman is Selectman Chair John O’Brien’s opponent for a second three-year term as selectman.

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Arthur J. Temple, 85

MOULTONBOROUGH / N. ANDOVER, Mass. — Arthur J. Temple, 85, passed away on Monday, February 20, 2012 at the Golden View Health Care Center, in Meredith, NH. Arthur was born on December 14, 1926 in North Andover, MA, the son of Elizabeth (Ellis) and Arthur C. Temple. He grew up in North Andover, MA, and was a 1944 graduate of Johnson High School.

Arthur joined the Army in March 1945 and served as a sergeant in the 19th Troop Carrier Squadron, Asiatic Pacific Theatre where he drove heavy trucks and did minor repairs. Following his discharge, he worked as a spray painter at Craig Systems, Inc., Lawrence; following that, he became co-owner of the North Andover Service Center on Main Street where he handled vehicle repairs. Arthur then when on to work at Berube Auto and Trailer Sales where his love of motor homes and travel was formed. He went on to work in the Motor Vehicle Department of New England Telephone Company and retired from Verizon as a Heating and Air Conditioning Technician.

Arthur married Jane A. Loring on October 7, 1955.

In 1960, they bought a camp in Moultonborough, NH. When their daughter Nancy A. Temple married Gary E. Woods and moved to Concord, NH in 1978, they left North Andover and moved to North Swanzey, NH. After retiring, they traveled the US in their motor home and took cruises in Alaska and through the Panama Canal. Eventually, they started spending the winter months in Myrtle Beach, SC, and summered in Moultonborough where they worked for the Castle in the Clouds. Arthur drove the tram to the various attractions at the Castle.

In October, 2003, Arthur bought a home in a Jensen’s Residential Community, Garden City, SC with his companion Melba “Chris” Moore of West Virginia.

They took part in many activities at Jensen’s including the annual community yard sale where Arthur was in charge of the electronics booth. Arthur became an

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He and Chris took many cruises; their last to Hawaii in February, 2010. Arthur had cancer surgery which lead to a stroke in February, 2011; his family brought him back to NH in March.

Arthur was a Master Mason for 57 years and a member of the Cochichewick Lodge A.F. & A.M., in North Andover, MA; he was also a member of several organizations: The Northern NH Life Member Club, Telecom Pioneers, The American Legion Post 0178, Murrells Inlet, SC, The B.P.O.E., Murrells Inlet Lodge #2797, and he was also a member of The Church of the Resurrection, Surfside Beach, SC. Arthur is preceded in death by his beloved wife, Jane A. (Loring) Temple, in 1999; his loving companion, Melba “Chris” Moore, in 2010; his sister and brotherin-law, Winifred Stuart and husband Walter, formerly of Methuen, MA; and brother-in-law, Joseph Buturlia.

Arthur is survived by his daughter, Nancy A. Woods and husband Gary, of Moultonborough; three grandsons, Eric Woods and his wife Jennifer, of Derry, Michael Woods and his wife Lisa, of Woodbury, MN, and Norman Woods of Charlotte, SC; sister,Elizabeth Buturlia, of North Andover; two great-granddaughters, Isabella and Lillia; two great-grandsons, Edward and Wesley; numerous nieces, a nephew and their spouses.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Arthur’s memory to Dana Farber, or a charity of one’s choice.

A calling hour will be held on Monday, February 27, 2012 at Mayhew Funeral Home (Rtes. 3 and 104) Meredith, from 10:00 am to 11:00 am. A funeral service will be held following the calling hour in the funeral home at 11:00 am. Rev. Robin Soller, Rector of the Trinity Episcopal Church, of Meredith, will officiate. Interment will be private.

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Stephen Viano, 50 MOULTONBORO — Stephen Viano, 50, of Moultonboro, passed away Saturday, February 18th, at his home.

He was born in Laconia, NH July 25, 1961. He was the son of Jean H. Viano and the late John J. Viano of Moultonboro, NH. Stephen was one of twelve children. He was predeceased by his brother, Christopher Viano.

Stephen grew up in the Center Harbor area and attended grades 1 to 3 in the Center Harbor School.

He also attended Inter-Lakes High School, Meredith. He has been a resident of Moultonboro most all his life.

Stephen was a very talented plasterer. His work can be seen in many of the finest homes in the Lakes Region.

He will be remembered for his avid love of motorcycles, his love of animals, especially his dog Bones, his love of anything with a history from antiques to old tools to cellar holes. He had many great friends from far and wide. He will be missed by many.

Survivors include his mother, Jean H. Viano, William E. and Valerie Viano of Chicago, IL, John P. and Kathy Viano of Plymouth, NH, Kenneth and Cathy Viano of Moultonboro, Paul Viano of Alexandria, VA, Peter Viano of Holderness, NH, Elaine V. and Ramsey Willett of Meredith, NH, Nancy T. Howe of Meredith, NH, Sheila F. and Craig Heald of Center Sandwich, NH, Barbara and Tom Colangelo of W. Simsbury, Ct., Virginia V. and Ward Bird of Moultonboro, NH, numerous beloved nieces and nephews and his sister in law Rebecca Viano of Chicago, IL. Calling hours will be held on Saturday, February 25th from 1:00 to 3:00 at Mayhew Funeral Home, Route #3 and #104, in Meredith, NH. A celebration of life will be held in the Spring.

Faith, Hope & Love foundation holding annual Gowns for Girls event March 31 MEREDITH — The Faith, Hope and Love Foundation will be holding its 6th Annual “Gowns for Girls” event on Saturday March 31 at the Meredith Bay Colony from 1-4 p.m. This event is open to all high school aged girls to pick out a prom dress free

of charge for their special night.

The Foundation will soon be accepting gently worn and/or new formal dresses and accessories (shoes, handbags, jewelry) for this event. Those who are donating a dress or gown that has been “gently worn”, please

make sure it has no visible marks, tears or stains, as these dresses must be in wearable condition.

The annual Dress Drive kicks off Monday, February 27 and will end on Friday, March 30. Those able to donate a dress(es) or accessories can drop them off at one the following locations: 1. Pemi Youth Center, Plymouth, Monday through Friday, 2-6 p.m.

2. Sunday’s Salon and Spa, Downtown Laconia, Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

3. DressBarn at the Tanger Outlets in Tilton, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. All donations made at dressbarn will receive a 15% off coupon to use at the store.

4. Franklin Parks and Rec Center, downtown Franklin - Monday through Friday, 2-6 p.m.

5. The Barn Doggie Daycare, New Durham, (next to the fire station) - Monday through Friday, 7 a.m.-6 p.m.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your emotional evolution is in progress. This could be the day you make peace with what you cannot understand, an act that will free up your energy for truly fulfilling pursuits.

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You’ll distinguish yourself as a person of exemplary character and talent.

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You’ll be assimilating bits of inspiration that have been coming to you over the past few weeks. The process results in highly original thinking. Write down some of those interesting ideas.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Get some exercise, and you’ll be unstoppable, especially professionally and socially. What you don’t accomplish with good manners you’ll make up for with fast reflexes.

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Today is Thursday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2012. There are 312 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 23, 1942, the first shelling of the U.S. mainland during World War II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, Calif., causing little damage.

On this date: In 1685, composer George Frideric Handel was born in Germany.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Better Together monthly meeting. 4 to 6 p.m. at Laconia Middle School. New member orientation from 4 to 4:15 p.m. Action teams currently meeting include: mentoring, Got Lunch!, New Americans, Welcome Baby, Stand Up 4 Drug Free Laconia and Local Events & Activities. For more information call Shannon Robinson-Beland at 524-1741 - X15.

The Chronicles entertain at the N.H. Jazz Center at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia. 8 p.m. $10. BYOB. “Meet the Candidates” forum in Meredith. Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium. Town candidates from 6:30 to 7:30 and Inter-Lakes School District candidates from 7:45 to 8:45.

Alton Candidate’s Night hosted by the Centennial Rotary Club. 7 p.m. in the Music Room at Alton Central School. Candidates for town and school offices have been invited to participate.

Winter Farmer’s Market at the Skate Escape on Court Street in Laconia. 3 to 6 p.m. Vendors offering local farmraised meats, fresh-baked breads, organic tea, cofree, fudge, pastries, pies, cakes, fresh produce, jellies & jams, local wines, herbs, oils, plants, jewelry, wood workers, and fine art.

New Hampton Historical Society meeting. 7 p.m. at the Gordon Nash Library. Program will feature stories from the Civil War-time letters of Betsey Phelps, offering insight into New England life in the 1860s.

Community forum on the state of health services in the Lakes Region. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Busiel Mill in downtown Laconia. Hosted by the Belknap County Democratic Committee.

Open House and wine tasting hosted by Wesley Woods in Gilford. 5 to 7 p.m. at 7 Wesley Court. Featuring wines from Gilford’s own Stone Gate Vineyards. Light hot & Cold appetizers will also be served. RSVP to Stace at 5282555 or sdhendricks@wesleywoodsnh.org.

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

Bingo starts at 6:30.

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

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

Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (635 Main Street). Free group for parents children from birth through age 5. For more information call 524-1741.

Toddler Time at the Gilford Public Library. 11:30 a.m. to noon. Songs, a story and movement to music for ages 18-36 months. Sign-up in the Children’s Room.

Book Discussion at the Gilford Public Library. Brown Bag session from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and evening session from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. “Claiming Ground” by Laura Bell.

ABC & ME time at the Meredith Public Library. 1 to 2 p.m. Crafts, songs and games geared toward ages 3-5.

Children are encouraged to bring an item from home that starts with the letter of the week — “N”.

Knotty Knitters group meeting at the Meredith Public Library. 10 a.m. to non. Open to all experience levels.

Brown Bag Book Group meeting at the Meredith Public Library. Noon to 1 p.m. “Dragonflight” by Ann McCaffrey. Pick up a copy at the main desk. Dessert and beverages will be furnished.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 Gilford Community Ice Skating Party. 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Arthur A. Tilton Ice Rink on Varney Point Road. Family oriented event (no sticks and pucks) with music and hot chocolate.

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“Seeking the truth and printing it” THE LACONIA DAILY SUN is published Tuesday through Saturday by Lakes Region News Club, Inc. Edward Engler, Mark Guerringue, Adam Hirshan, Founders Offices: 1127 Union Ave. #1, Laconia, NH 03246 Business Office 737-2020, Newsroom 737-2026, Fax: 527-0056 News E-mail: news@laconiadailysun.com CIRCULATION: 18,000 distributed FREE Tues. through Sat. in Laconia, Weirs Beach, Gilford, Meredith, Center Harbor, Belmont, Moultonborough, Winnisquam, Sanbornton, Tilton, Gilmanton, Alton, New Hampton, Plymouth, Bristol, Ashland, Holderness.

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Project EXTRA! 100 Dresses Club collecting supplies for Humane Society

Project EXTRA! volunteer Kacey DiDonato of Laconia Middle School and 100 Dresses Club students Cierra Huston and Megan Gaspa proudly pose in front of their collection display at Pleasant Street School for the club’s current project “Standing up for those without a voice”. The club will be collecting supplies and donating them to the Humane Society in Laconia. (Courtesy photo)

Tilton-Northfield Methodist Church Holds fundraising dinner for Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity TILTON — The Tilton-Northfield United Methodist Church recently held a benefit dinner which raised $556 to support the efforts of Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity.

T-N UMC has a long history of providing support for LR Habitat – participating in its annual Walk-aThon, providing meeting space for committees, hosting work groups, as well as providing miscellaneous labor for various building projects in the area.

T-N UMC is involved in numerous mission projects. At the local level, it is actively involved in the Twin Rivers Interfaith Food Pantry, Bread & Roses Soup Kitchen, and supports the Northfield-Tilton Food Pantry with weekly donations. On the international level, it will send a mission team in April to assist with re-building efforts in Haiti (its third such mission in three years). It also provides financial support for the Wilkos family – missionaries serving in Guinea, West Africa.

For more information on T-N UMC and its active mission efforts, visit its website (www.tiltonumc.org) contact Pastor Preston Fuller at 286-4443.

Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity is celebrating its 30th year of providing decent, affordable homes for those in need in the Lakes Region. Homes are built/ rehabbed using volunteer labor and provided at cost to selected partner families with a no-interest mortgage.

Most recently these efforts have been related to the rehabilitation of a home in Franklin (LRHFH’s 30th) for the Breton family of Belmont. Partner families are required to attend first-time home buyer and financial fitness classes as well as commit to 500 hours of “sweat equity” associated with the building of their home-to-be. To learn more about volunteer opportunities with Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity, contact Marilyn Deschenes, President at 279-4820, find them on Facebook, or visit their website (www.lrhabitat.org).

Fundraiser Sponsored by Kiwanis to Benefit “Gt Lunch!”

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! March 17, 2012

Dinner and Entertainment Corned Beef Dinner

$20 per person; cash bar 2 Seatings: 5:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m. Children’s Dance performed by Broadway North 7:00 p.m. Big Band and American Standards with Jaylene and Phil

Beane Conference Center, Blueberry Lane, Laconia Tickets available at Greenlaw’s, NAPA, Sunflower Natural Foods

“Gt Lunch!” Feeding Laconia’s Children: A healthy Summer Lunch Program

LACONIA — The Project EXTRA! 100 Dresses Club at Pleasant Street School is at it again.

Project EXTRA! Site Director Kelley Gaspa, PSS Guidance Counselor Anne Barach and students are currently working to raise money and collect supplies for the New Hampshire Humane Society in Laconia. Their hope is that their efforts will not only help the animals living in the shelter but to also promote awareness about responsible pet ownership and taking care of those who do not have a voice of their own.

The 100 Dresses Club has helped on both a global and local level. Past efforts include a dress drive for a girl’s orphanage in Haiti and a Pencils for Pakistan walk to send school supplies to students in need in Pakistan.

In December this group also collected supplies for homeless veterans at the Liberty House in Manchester, NH. The 100 Dresses Club students are working hard to make a difference one project at a time. All items collected over the next few weeks will be delivered to the Humane Society by Ms. Barach at the end of February.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 Legislative Advocacy Breakfast hosted by the Family Violence Prevention Council. 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Parish Center in Laconia. Scones, coffee and tea served. Registration appreciated at 528-6511.

Family Movie Night at Gilman Library in Alton. 7 p.m.

“Mars Needs Moms” (PG) from Walt Disney Pictures.

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

Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (635 Main Street). Free group for parents children from birth through age 5. For more information call 524-1741.

Warm & Snug Tot Time at the Meredith Public Library.

9:30 to 10:20 a.m. For children to 3 years old. Meet downstairs in the function room.

Drop-in Storytime at the Gilford Public Library. 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Songs, a story and crafts for ages 3-5. No sign-up required.

Knit Whits gathering at the Gilford Public Library. All knitters welcome.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: For the past year, my wife, “Janie,” has been getting hot flashes. She is always broiling in the house while the rest of the family freezes. She insists on keeping the temperature at 70, while the rest of us are most comfortable at 74.

She recently purchased warm slippers for everyone and suggested we wear long sleeves.

Annie, I like to wear T-shirts and walk barefoot. I work long hours, and when I come home, I like to shed most of my clothes. I pay the mortgage and should not be freezing in my own home. Our family doctor said the hot flashes could last for years. I say she is disrespectful to all of us. She says I am insensitive. We are at an impasse.

I found out she is looking for an apartment. I love my wife and beg you to help us before it’s too late. -- Upstate New York Where It’s 20 Degrees Outside Dear New York: You think you’re uncomfortable? Imagine how your wife feels with an internal thermostat that periodically sets her on fire. The U.S. Dept. of Energy recommends that your home thermostat be set at 68 degrees in winter (78 degrees in summer). You can warm up more easily than your wife can cool down.

We recommend a compromise. You offer to be comfortable in sweats if she will speak to her doctor about medication to control her hot flashes or visit a health food store for more natural remedies. A pair of slippers and some hot cocoa seems a small price to pay to save your marriage.

Dear Annie: My mother has three brothers. My grandmother’s eyes are blue, and my grandfather’s are blue-gray. My mother and two of her brothers have brown eyes.

From my college biology class and some Internet research, I understand this is genetically impossible. This leads me to believe my mother and uncles may not be my grandfather’s children. I also know that my grandmother had many mis-

carriages and a stillborn. My grandparents also have marital issues and have come close to divorcing on a few occasions.

Should I speak to my mother about this? I’d like to know my biological family. -- Brown-Eyed Girl Dear Brown-Eyed: Eye color is very complicated. While not common, it is indeed possible for blue-eyed parents to produce brown-eyed children. And if your grandparents carry a mutation, it would make sense that more than one child would have brown eyes. So please don’t jump to any conclusions. If you are concerned that your genetic background is inaccurate, speak to your mother.

Dear Annie: You printed a letter from “Put Out in Peoria,” whose sister boycotted the nephew’s wedding because her children were not invited.

I’ve photographed weddings for 15 years and can relate numerous accidents that have happened while parents were ignoring their children at receptions. I have seen cake tables topple because kids were playing underneath. They slide across the dance floor while their ignorant parents think it’s cute to see them knock people over.

Once, a toddler ran up behind my husband, who stepped back and fell over the boy. The kid wasn’t hurt, but my husband tore a ligament in his arm. I’ve seen children run into stone walls and glass doors and need to be transported to emergency rooms. Take it from me. If you want an enjoyable evening, leave your children at home. Everyone will be safer.

-- Photographer in Houston Dear Houston: Not all children are so wild, and not all parents are so negligent. And often, the bride and groom want their little nieces and nephews in attendance. To avoid disasters, we recommend that bridal couples who wish to include young children hire babysitters to entertain and watch the kiddies.

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

$1-A-DAY CLASSIFIEDS • CALL 527-9299 DOLLAR-A-DAY: Private Party ads only (For Sale, Lost, Autos, etc.), must run ten consecutive days, 15 words max. Additional words 10¢ each per day. does not apply to yard sales. REGULAR RATE: $2 a day; 10¢ per word per day over 15 words. PREMIUMS: First word caps no charge. Additional bold, caps and 9pt type 10¢ per word per day. Centered words 10¢ (2 word minimum) TYPOS: Check your ad the first day of publication. Sorry, we will not issue credit after an ad has run once, and we do not offer refunds. DEADLINES: noon the business day prior to the day of publication. PAYMENT: All private party ads must be pre-paid. We accept checks, Visa Mastercard and Discover credit cards and of course, cash. $10 minimum order for credit cards. CORRESPONDENCE: To place your ad call our offices at 527-9299 between 9 am & 5 pm, Monday through Friday; Stop by our office or send a check or money order with ad copy to The Laconia Daily Sun,1127 Union Ave, Laconia, NH 03246. You can email ads to ads@laconiadailysun.com, we will contact you for payment. OTHER RATES: For information about display ads or other advertising options, call 527-9299.

Animals

Announcement

Autos

BOATS

LABRADOR RETRIEVER

PAT is back! Superclean Laundromat. Clean & Restored.

Right next to LHS. 7am-7pm, 7 days.

2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GT 4-door, 160K runs great, good shape, $2000 takes it. 393-9954.

DOCKS for Rent: 2012 season, Lake Winnisquam Point. Parking, bathrooms, showers, launch on site. 603-524-2222.

Puppies AKC bred for quality and temperament. All 3 colors.

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

Announcement $100 Reward for information re: who shot my windshield in Tilton, the 26-year-old using my name, who ordered break-in to my Belmont home, any known relationship this has to unlisted pedophiles. Information re: abuse in institutions by police & courts.

Janine Wallace, 4 Brookside Circle, Belmont, NH 03220 or PO Box 1555, Avon Park, FL 33825.

SCUBA LESSONS! Start now with online videos and pool sessions. Great exercise! Call Central NH Divers 279-9099 WE Pay CA$H for GOLD and SILVER No hotels, no waiting.

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

Autos

IF you used Yaz/ Yazmin/ Ocella birth control pills or a NuvaRing contraceptive between 2001 and the present and developed blood clots, suffered a stroke, heart attack or required gall bladder removal you may be entitled to compensation. Call Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800-535-5727.

2002 Mazda B-4000, pick up, 4 wheel drive, 4 door, auto, 56K miles, cap with rack, all power. tow package, excellent cond.

Book value $10,200 will sell for $9,500. 603-279-5599.

2002 Nissan Sentra Spec-V, 4 cylinder, 6-speed, good gas mileage, $2995/ obo. Call Shane 603-848-0530 2003 Dodge Dakota SLT 4x2: Single cab, V-6, 5-Speed, red, Florida truck with no rust. Great shape, 121k miles. $2,995. Call Phil, 393-7786.

ALZHEIMER SUPPORT GROUP Looking to start Alzheimer patient group to meet, to eat, to talk and to have some fun. Need a place to meet.

Call Jordan at 603-968-4088.

2001 Dodge Maxi-Van. 15 passenger, 126K miles. Asking $3,995. 520-4864

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

1985 Ford van 85,000 miles F-350 Diesel fuel tanks, $1800.

524-6592 or 455-5436.

1993 Dodge Ram Wagon B350 Van Towing package, 43,000 miles, $3000. 524-6592 or 455-5436.

1997 Volkswagen Golf. Runs good, great on gas. $1,895 or best offer. 630-0957

KEN BARRETT AUCTIONS Monday, February 27 @ 6pm • Preview at 4pm Log on to: www.auctionzip.com ID#5134, for 300 photos Selling a MASSIVE amount of Jewelry, 5 Amos C. Brinton [1888-1982] watercolors, 50 wood carvings, Fire helmets, 2 pedal cars, 6 military helmets plus patches & insignias,lots of ephemera, old lamps & lighting, postcards, coins, 30 Hess trucks, trains, country primitives, Railroad, and much more!!

Auction Held At 274 Main St. Tilton, N.H. (1 mile off I-93N) 603-286-2028 • kenbarrettauctions@netzero.net Lic # 2975, Buyers premium, cash, check, credit cards.

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

For Rent

For Rent

For Rent

CENTER Harbor 1-bedroom apartment. Includes utilities, washer dryer. Quiet neighborhood. Dog/cat okay $775 mo.

254-9551

LACONIA Newly renovated, Sunny, clean, 3-bedroom apt, private parking, wash/dryer hookup, $950/month heat/ hot water included. References required, 524-2507.

GILFORD Lease to Own - $1,100/Mo. 5% or $10k Down 3 bedrooms, oversized garage/ workshop, need 5% or $10k down and owner will finance the rest.

For pictures and more info, Call 393-5756.

GILFORD 3 bedroom condo, $1,300/monthly. Parking garages available. Heated pool, tennis court. Close to shopping and lake.

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

781-710-2208.

GILFORD- One-bedroom, second floor includes heat/HW, electricity. $740/Month. One month!s rent & security required. 603-731-0340.

Gilford- 1 bedroom, includes all utilities, washer/dryer. TV, Internet. Great view! No smokers/pets. $850/Month. 293-8976 GILMANTON Iron Works Village.

One bedroom apartment, second floor. No pets/smoking, includes basic cable & utilities. References & security deposit required. $700/Month. 603-364-3434 LACONIA Beautiful 2-Bedroom, 2 Bath condo, screened in patio on Paugus bay. Private beach 50' from your door.

Parking,plowing,landscaping and sunsets included. $1000/month plus utilities, references, 1 month security required. No pets, no smoking. 393-5349 LACONIA - 26 Dartmouth St., low traffic area near schools, park & downtown. 1/2 of a duplex, 8 rooms, 3 bedrooms, walk-out basement w/washer-dryer hookups, large open porch, level lot for outside activities & ample off street parking. On the sunny side of the house, clean w/hardwood floors.

Non-smoking. $1,000/month plus heat & utilities. Call owner/broker 396-4163 LACONIA 1 BR, heat & electricity included. $750/mo. 603-781-6294.

Laconia 1 room for rent. 118 Court St. 1st floor, $125/Week includes everything. Own bathroom, 524-7218 or 832-3535

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

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

LACONIA 3-bedroom apt.near park & Beach. Washer/dryer hook-up, off-street parking. $900/Month + utilities. 455-6983

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

LACONIA Large 2-bedroom, WD hook-up, no pets/smokers. References & security, parking & storage. $850/month +utilities.

528-5945

BELMONT-Available Immediately.

2-bedroom townhouse-style.

Quiet, heat included. $225/week.

All housing certificates accepted.

267-0545-or 781-344-3749 BELMONT: 2BR, heat included, $820 per month plus security deposit. No dogs. 630-2614.

LACONIA Lg. 3-room refurbished, 2nd floor apt. inc. heat/ parking, $175 week, no pets/ smoking.

Refer. & Security deposit required.

524-1874 or 524-4590 LACONIA Newly renovated, clean 2-bedroom apt., private parking, washer/ dryer use available, $850/ month heat/ hot water, references required, call 524-2507.

LACONIA Union Ave. 3 Bedroom, fresh paint, urethane hardwood floors, private entrance, on-site plowed parking, private playground. Heat/ hot water incl. No pets. $210/week. 455-6115 LACONIA- BIg 1-bedroom close to downtown. Includes plowing, 2-car parking & washer/dryer.

Plenty of closet space. 2nd floor. $200 heat credit, no dogs/smoking. $170/Week + 4-week security deposit. Credit & criminal background check required. Section 8 approved.

Leave message for Rob 617-529-1838 LACONIAGreat downtown Location. Rooms for rent. Share kitchen & bath. Utilities included. $107-$115/Week.

524-1884 Laconia- Lakeport Area, 4-room apartment. 2nd floor in quiet neighborhood. Off-Street parking, storage area in attic. No pets/smoking. $750/Month plus utilities. 603-293-0393 LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. $145/week 603-781-6294 LACONIA- Very nice one bedroom apartment in clean, quiet, downtown building. Carpeting, completely renovated. $175/Week, includes heat, hot water & electricity. 524-3892 or 630-4771 LACONIA-DUPLEX 2 bedroom 1 bath, washer/dryer hookups, garage. $900/month, heat included. References & security deposit. No pets or smokers.

524-8886 LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2nd floor in duplex building. $230/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234 www.whitemtrentals.com.

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

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

LACONIA: 1-bedroom, $135$150/ weekly includes heat & hot water. References and deposit.

528-0024.

LACONIA: 2+ Bedrooms, washer/dryer hook-up. $225/Week includes heat and hot water.

References/deposit required. No pets/No smoking. 528-6205.

LACONIA: 2-bedroom $180/ week includes heat & hot water. References and deposit. 524-9665.

LACONIA: 3-bedroom house. $1,000/Month + utilities. Pets considered. References & deposit.

524-9665.

LACONIA: Charming sunny small 2-bedroom, 2nd floor no smoking/dogs. $200/week. includes heat/ hot water.

455-5569.

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 LAKEPORT- Freshly painted, big 5-room, 2-bedroom apartment with lake view. Includes washer/dryer, hardwood floors, cabinet kitchen, 2 car parking, plowing and landscaping. Huge, bright and sunny master bedroom overlooking lake. Section 8 approved. $185/Week + 4-week security deposit. No utilities, no dogs, no smoking. Proper I.D., credit check and background check required. Showings on Friday only. Call Rob, 617-529-1838 MEREDITH convenient to downtown, 2 bedroom, small neat & clean unit. Washer/dryer on-site, no smoking, no dogs, $750 plus

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For Rent

For Rent-Commercial

MEREDITH: 2-bedroom, 1st floor, nice apartment. Walk to docks/village. Washer/dryer hookups, Non-smoking, utilites not included. $750. 279-7887 or 781-862-0123.

DESIRABLE location, easy access, good traffic count, many national franchises +/-950 SF attractive Laconia building Lease $800 mo. (603)528-0696.

NORTHFIELD: Large 2 bedroom on 2nd & 3rd floors, $245/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

LACONIA - 1,200 Sq. Ft. of light and airy 1st class, 2nd floor professional office space with exposed brick walls and beamed ceilings; in downtown overlooking the Winnipesaukee River and Rotary Park in the Historic Belknap Mill. $1,400/mo. plus electricity and A/C. Call 524-8813 for an appointment to see.

NORTHFIELD: 3 bedroom trailer with additions and storage shed in small park with on-site laundromat, $230/week including heat, electric & hot water.

524-1234. www.whitemtrentals.com.

LACONIA: 1-bedroom apt., 2nd floor, South Main St. $650/month includes heat and hot water.

Security deposit required.

267-5228, evenings. Leave message.

LACONIA- Prime Location. 1200 sq. ft., with heated garage showroom/office. $650/month plus utilities, parking. 455-6662.

LEASE OR SALE Commercial Building

New, never installed, complete with paperwork.

model# CL3-140-PWT-TBWIZ Serial # 65232257

$1,800 O B O MUST SELL! 707-9879 nyboiler123@gmail.com QUEEN-SIZE Bed w/Boxspring & metal frame, Lady Englander, Model 1650 1, Dacron, rated firm, excellent condition. $250.

496-8639.

For Sale

Free

SNOWBLOWER, rear mount for tractor, 7-ft. wide, adjustable chute, $1900. 387-1367.

FREE Pickup for your unwanted, useful item garages, automobiles, etc. estates cleaned out and yardsale items. (603)930-5222.

SOLID Oak 6! Hutch: Beveled glass, lighted top, best offer.

524-6082.

Help Wanted

SPEAKERS: Paradigm Home Audio/Theater, Model Studio 100 V.3, (3)7” Woofers, (1)7” Mid-Range, (1)1” Dome Tweeter, 44Hz-22kHz +/-2dB, light maple color (must see), dark brown removable grills, excellent condition. $1,250/pr. 496-8639.

AUTO technician, Full time, for small busy shop, must work independently, NH state inspection license, ASE credentials and alignment experience a plus, but not necessary. Holidays and vacation.

Send resume or drop off to 651 Union Ave. Laconia.

TILTON

934-2788

TILTONTWO CLEAN, UPDATED one bedrooms.

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

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

TILTON: 3-bedroom spacious apt., 2nd floor, convenient location, no pets. $850/mo. plus utilities. Security deposit, references.

286-8200 WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency and a cottage including heat, hot water, lights and cable. $160-$185 per week. $400 deposit. No pets. 387-3864.

Job is temporary starting end of March 2012 and running into Mid June 2012 pay $10-$11 hour based on experience.

Must be able to pass background check. Preemployment drug test also required.

Please apply on person to: Quality Insulation 1 Pease RD Meredith, NH 03253 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!!!!

WOODSTOVE, Vermont Casting Defiant $800, large soapstone $500 or $1000 for both. 387-1367.

8,950 Sq. Ft. / 2 Acres Busy Route 3 Across from Belknap Mall LACONIA Current Market Pricing

Riteway Air Tight wood stoveGood condition, takes up to 24 ” logs. $400. Ken-Coal stove, $250. Franklin fireplace stove $150. 603-235-1519

FULL-TIME year-round office position, 9am-5pm. Will need to perform light bookkeeping, purchasing, filing, customer service, etc. This is a fast-paced business, that requires an energetic fast-paced employee. Quick Books and Customer Service experience are a huge plus.

Health insurance is offered.

Email resume to bodycovers@metrocast.net NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

(603)387-2311

SLEEPER Couch: 3-seats wide, jewel pattern (have to see), 80”W x 34”D x 32”H, very good condition, never used as sleeper. $250. 496-8639.

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

Fabulous back & hip support.

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

Can deliver 603-305-9763.

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

BIO - MED TECHNICIAN

BEDROOM-SOLID Cherrywood Sleigh bed. Dresser, mirror, chest, night stand. New! Cost $2,200 sell $895. (603) 235-1773

needed for a Dialysis Center. Experience preferred, but not a must.

Dialysis experience preferred, but not a must.

Senior nursing students may apply.

BUREAU: Maple, 11-drawers, comes with large matching 3-sided mirror, quality construction, 66”W x 19”D x 34”H. $250.

496-8639.

Please send resume to : Central NH Kidney Center, 87 Spring Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246 or call 603-528-3738.

Please send resume to Central NH Kidney Center, 87 Spring Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246 or call 603-528-3738.

Candidate must have knowledge in the machine tool industry as well as a mechanical background. Strong CAD and problem solving skills are required. This is a great opportunity to travel and grow within our company.

This is a full time position with an impressive benefits package available along with paid vacations and holidays. Salary is commensurate with experience. If interested, please send resume to the address below. All qualified candidates will be scheduled for an interview. EOE

Coca-Cola Canoe one of 50 made for New England. Excellent Condition $1,200. Coleman canoe, $300. 603-235-1519 COOK Healthy with a Black & Decker Food/ Rice cooker w/ instruction booklet, hardly used, $15, 723-4032.

Mitee-Bite Products LLC PO Box 430, Ctr. Ossipee, NH 03814 • (603)-539-4538

CUSTOM Glazed Kitchen Cabinets. Solid maple, never installed. Cost $6,000 sacrifice $1,595. (603) 833-8278

Alton Central School

FIREWOOD: Green. Cut, split and delivered (Gilmanton and surrounding area). $190/cord.

(603)455-8419.or (603)267-1934.

Alton, NH ANTICIPATED OPENING FY12/13

FIREWOOD: 1/2 cords seasoned, split wood. $125 cash and carry.

Delivery extra. 524-8028.

Alton Central School

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

Please call Wendy at 366-4316.

LARGE LOT women!s clothing, brand new with tags, mostly plus sizes, 600 to 700 pieces, racks also. Retail value $16.000 sell for $1200. 603-930-5222.

K-8 Spring Coaching Position

For Rent-Commercial

MILWAUKEE 0-500 rpm right angle heavy duty drill: Brand new, in box, $125. Call 293-2026.

AFFORDABLE upscale new Laconia space +/- 400 SF over Subway. Heat, elec., a/c included Lease 1 year. (603)279-6463.

RUGER 10-22: Stainless steel rifle with scope, in original box, new. $275/best offer.

Call 293-2026.

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

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

NURSE NEEDED RN FOR KIDNEY DIALYSIS

Applications Engineer Full Time

CLASSIC Wooden Motorola stereo phonic console LP and 45 player 44”X30”X18” with AM/FM radio from the 1950's still works, $100, 723-4032.

I buy old stuff. House, barn, attic contents. 528-0247.

WINTER RENTAL

looking for temporary office person for light office duties including answering multiple phone lines, filing ,etc.

TIRES: (4) Michelin Harmony 89T, 3k miles, P195/65R15, $480 new. Asking $300. 524-5117, days.

CHILD S DRUM SET: Purple, great condition.

Paid $130. $50/best offer. 455-3686.

2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 2nd floor apartment, offstreet parking, locked storage & basement, beautifully renovated including washer and dryer. $975/month includes heat, hot water, a/c & snow removal.

No pets/smoking.

Help Wanted Construction Company

Former Hyundai Dealership

For Sale

SECTION 8 welcome 3 bedroom on route 106, Laconia, N.H. parking, garage, large yard, includes utilities. $1050/mo. 528-2227

For Sale New Yorker Cast Iron Oil Fired Boiler

Alton Central School is seeking qualified applicants to coach the following sports for the 2012 Spring season: • Girls' Track and Field • Boys’ Track and Field (for grades 5-8) • Boys’ Baseball (for grades 6-8) If interested please submit a letter of interest and resume and three letters of reference to: Alton Central School, c/o Steve Ross – Interim-Athletic Director, PO Box 910, Alton, NH 03809-0910.

Deadline March 2, 2012 EOE

Administrative Assistant to the Special Education Director Full time, year round position Position requires excellent organizational, verbal, written communication, 21st century technology skills, and knowledge of Medicaid reimbursement and SPEDIS a plus.

Ability to work independently in a fast paced environment. High understanding of confidentiality. Associates degree preferred.

Please forward your letter of interest, resume, and three current letters of reference to:

Catherine Dix-Herndon, Special Education Director SAU # 72 – Alton School District 252 Suncook Valley Road Alton, NH 03809 603-875-7890 Application Deadline: March 15, 2012 EOE

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Thursday, February 23, 2012— Page 19

Help Wanted

Currently seeking positions for customer service, kitchen help and gaming dealers • Competitive salary • Full and Part-Time positions available • Must apply in person Lakes Region Casino is an exciting place to work. Under new ownership and looking for hard workers who are willing to work hard and have fun at the same time.

Lakes Region Casino takes pride in its customer-focused service culture of hospitality and generosity.

FITNESS Instructor for Tue/Thur morning SPINNING class at Gunstock Inn & Fitness Center, Gilford. Certification preferred, but experience acceptable. Call Martha, 998-0989 or Email swim2bfit@gunstockinn.com

Help Wanted

Real Estate

PART TIME ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERK wanted for busy Belmont Steel Distributor. Duties include verifying daily receiving and matching with invoices, entering invoices into A/P and preparing weekly check runs. Please send resume to:

WANTED: Plus 55 couple relocating to the Meredith area seeking to rent or purchase waterfront home or land within 15 minutes of Meredith Center. Please call 860-874-6936

hpaiva@allmetind.com

Services

Roommate Wanted

PART-TIME LNA to work with an elderly male veteran in the Gilford area. Hours Mon-Sun 6:30-8:30 am or 4:30-6:30 pm, at $18/ hour.

Call Sandi 524-2328.

GUNSTOCK Acres Home: Private entrance, deck & livingroom.

No pets or smoking. $525/month.

603-759-2895.

PHEASANT Ridge Golf Club.

Seasonal positions Available. Full time Snack Bar Supervisor, Full & Part-time Snack Bar staff, Full time Golf Course Maintenance.

Call 524-7808 or pick up application at the golf club, 140 Country Club Rd. Gilford.

LACONIA 2-roomates wanted clean, quiet, sober environment.

All inclusive, must see, will go fast. $110-130/week. 455-2014

Services

HANDYMAN SERVICES

PURCHASING/SENIOR BUYER wanted for growing New England Industrial Supply Distributor. Experience is helpful but no necessary. Please forward resume with references to:

Small Jobs Are My Speciality

jjones@johnsonsupplycompany.com

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277

BLUE RIBBON PAINTING CO. Interior/Exterior Since 1982 ~ Fully Insured

OFFICE ASSISTANT/ RECEPTIONIST High-volume law firm seeks experienced OfficeAssistant/ Receptionist for 30 hours per week. Duties primarily include handling phone calls, file management, word processing, staff support and client interaction. Candidate must possess strong office skills, confidence on the telephone, complex filing capabilities, word processing skills, and be reliable, accurate, organized, detail oriented and able to work independently. Must be a team player. We are a professional office with a casual atmosphere.

Please send your resume and letter of intent to: Laconia Daily Sun Box A 1127 Union Avenue, #1 Laconia, NH 03246 PAINTERS: Experienced with own transportation. Part/Full Time.

Call 279-5755.

Paper Hanging

279-5755 630-8333 Bus.

Motorcycles Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

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

Real Estate FOR Sale By Owner: 2-Bedroom house, 1-1/4 bath. 180 Mechanic Street, Laconia. 524-8142.

Cell

$20 Traditional Japanese Bodywork Treatments Please come and enjoy the therapeutic and relaxing benefits of traditional Japanese body work known as Shiatsu.

Each treatment is performed fully clothed on a comfortable floor mat and takes about an hour.

Treatments are performed at the Sachem Shiatsu office at the Fitness Edge building in Meredith.

Please call Sensei Jones at 603-524-4780 to make an appointment.

Nominees sought for Annette P. Schmitt Unsung Hero Award

LACONIA — Nomination packets are now available for the Annette P. Schmitt Unsung Hero Award, presented each year by the Lakes Region United Way. The award honors an individual who has shown a long-standing commitment to children and families in Belknap County through behind-the-scenes activities without any expectation of recognition. Eligible candidates include those who volunteer on behalf of children and families or non-volunteer individuals who provide exceptional service to children and families beyond the scope of their employment.

The 2012 recipient will be announced by Retired Family Court and Special Justice Willard Martin in late spring. The winner will receive an individual award and his or her name will be engraved on a plaque that hangs in the United Way office. Additionally, a monetary award will be made to a favored charity of the winner.

The Schmitt UnSung Hero Award honors New Hampshire resident, the late Annette P. Schmitt, who left a generous bequest to support programs and projects that improve the lives of children and families in Belknap County and the sate. Over the past several years this fund has been the primary resource for sustaining a number of comprehensive systemic changes in Belknap County and Carroll Counties.

Over the past years, previous winners of the Schmitt Unsung Hero Award have included Warren Sommers (Laconia), Jean and John Provencal (Gilmanton), Leo Sanfacon (Gilford), and the late Dave Tryon (Tilton), Dawn McCartney (Barnstead), Paul Plimpton (Belmont), and Doug Whittum (Laconia).

Sommers was recognized last year at the Boys and Girls Club in Laconia where he contributes many hours of service in tutoring youth.

Nomination forms are available at the Lakes Region United Way website, www.lruw.org, or by calling Kathy Calvin at 527-9182. Completed nomination forms are due by Friday, March 30.

Salvation Army Christmas program helped more than 700 people Storage Space GILFORD garage for rent near Airport. One large lighted garage. $170 monthly. 781-710-2208.

Wanted PIPER ROOFING Quality Work Reasonable Rates Free Estimates Metal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Our Customers Don!t get Soaked!

528-3531 Major credit cards accepted

Yard Sale VENDORS wanted for indoor yard sale. Sponsored by the Belmont High School French Club.

Saturday, March 17, 2012 8 am to 2 pm Belmont High School Cafeteria. $10 rental fee, donatioms of items accepted. Contact Wendy Bordon at 387-4234 or email: wjb9kahnesan@metrocast.net

LACONIA — Last Christmas the Salvation Army in Laconia provided 243 families, consisting of 460 children, with toys, clothing and food. This Christmas 219 families, consisting of 414 children and 309 adults were helped. They once again received toys, stocking stuffers, hats, mittens, clothing and food.

Captain Sally Warren said that none of this would have been possible without the support of many local individuals, businesses and fellow non-profits.

“We would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to all the businesses that allowed us to hang ‘angel tags’ at their locations. Another a big thank you to the businesses, non-profits and individuals that so generously adopted families, providing all the toys and food that their adopted families needed. Thank you to everyone that donated food during the holidays and helped restock our food pantry shelves; especially All-Brite Cleaning which donated around 5,000 food items, Shaw’s Belmont and the ‘Spirit of Giving’ campaign and the employees at AAVID Thermally who helped raise $880.00 towards food and turkeys. Your generosity will keep us going strong for many months.’’ said Warren. ‘’We would like to send out a big thanks to WLNH for partnering with us to help make this event possible, as well as donating $5,000 from the Children’s Auction; and all the “elves” that worked many hours in the “toy shop” getting everything ready for the children before and during the distribution,’’ said Warren.

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