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Woman held on cash bail for alleged theft & assault at Walmart

LACONIA — Laconia District Court Judge James Carroll on Friday ordered a Mirror Lake woman held on $5,000 cash or surety for her alleged role in an robbery and assault at Walmart in Gilford.

According to affidavits submitted by Gilford Police, Angela Shaw, 30, “pushed, slapped and forced her palms” into the face of an employee of the store.

Police said employees at Walmart became see tHEFt page 9

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Stark contrast between candidates in I-L board race By michAel Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

MEREDITH — The two candidates for an at-large seat on the Inter-Lakes School Board — incumbent Richard Hanson of Center Harbor and challenger Mark Billings of Meredith — could hardly be more different.

Hanson, who has served on the board for the past 12 years, is not complacent, but believes that the board, administration and teachers have provided impressive outcomes for students at reasonable costs to taxpayers. “We are always striving for improvement,” he said, “and I see my role as sustaining the

course the board has taken. The reason we exist is for the kids.”

Billings senses a revolution underway in public education, as the proficiency of American students lags further behind that of their counterparts abroad and the costs of school systems “become completely unsustainable.” Insisting that

change cannot be avoided, he believes the school district must “lead that change or fall victim to it.”

The candidate’s contrasting perspectives reflect their different backgrounds. Hanson earned degrees in philosophy and sociology, along with a see INtEr-LaKEs page 11

Former Our Lady of the Lakes Church for sale for $1.1-million

By AdAm drApcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — Kathleen Fortin has lived on Franklin Street in Lakeport since 1990.

Her home overlooks Lake Opechee and was a short walk from the Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church, one of the three

parishes in Laconia that was consolidated in 2008, a consolidation that resulted in the creation of the St. André Bessette Parish.

The final mass held at Our Lady of the Lakes was celebrated in August and as parishoners learned on the weekend of February 20, a decree from Bishop John

McCormack – known as a “loss of blessing and relegation to profane use” – had made possible the sale of the property. The parish has contracted with the Masiello Group, which has listed the property, which includes the church, the rectory, a house see CHurCH page 8

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Texas probes if kids were left alone at time of day care fire

HOUSTON (AP) — A state agency was investigating Friday whether a woman left seven preschoolers alone in her home day care center before a fire broke out, killing three of the youngsters and injuring the others.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, which licenses day care centers, is investigating other possible violations as well, including whether the number of children in the home exceeded the state limit, spokeswoman Gwen Carter said. State regulations allow no more than six children under preschool age — — generally considered 5 years or younger — to be cared for in any 24-hour period in registered child-care homes, Carter said.

Geoffrey Deshano, 18, who lives near the day care, said he and a friend saw the day care’s operator Jessica Tata, 22, arrive at her one-story home in a minivan Thursday and then run out, screaming for help, about 10 to 20 minutes later. Deshano see FIRE page 11

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Protesters in Libya hit by hail of pro-Gadhafi gunfire BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Protesters demanding Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster came under a hail of bullets Friday when pro-regime militiamen opened fire to stop the first significant anti-government marches in days in the Libyan capital. The Libyan leader, speaking from the ramparts of a historic Tripoli fort, told supporters to prepare to defend the nation.

Witnesses reported multiple deaths from gunmen on rooftops and in the streets shooting at crowds with automatic weapons and even an anti-aircraft gun.

“It was really like we are dogs,” one man who was marching from Tripoli’s eastern Tajoura district told The Associated Press.

He added that many people were shot in

the head, with seven people within 10 yards (meters) of him cut down in the first wave.

Also Friday evening, troops loyal to Gadhafi attacked a major air base east of Tripoli that had fallen into rebel hands.

A force of tanks attacked the Misrata Air Base, succeeding in retaking part of it in battles with residents and army units who had joined the anti-Gadhafi uprising, said a doctor and one resident wounded in the battle on the edge of opposition-held Misrata, Libya’s third-largest city, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) from the capital.

The opposition captured two fighters, including a senior officer, and still held part of the large base, they said. Shooting could still be heard from the area after

midnight. The doctor said 22 people were killed in two days of fighting at the air base and an adjacent civilian airport.

In Washington, the White House said it was moving forward with plans to impose unilateral sanctions on Libya in response to the regime’s bloody crackdown in the 11-day-old uprising. Hundreds have been killed, but rebels have taken control of nearly the entire eastern half of the country, as well as cities close to Gadhafi’s stronghold in the capital.

A White House spokesman said it is clear that Gadhafi’s legitimacy has been “reduced to zero” — the Obama administration’s sharpest words yet. The U.S. also see LIBYA page 9

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin school districts are warning teachers that their contracts might not be renewed as Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut nearly all public employees’ collective bargaining rights remains in limbo.

The proposal took a concrete step forward Friday when Republicans in the state Assembly abruptly approved the bill and sent it to the Senate after three straight days of debate and amid confusion among Democrats. But with all 14 Democratic state senators still out of state, another stalemate awaits the measure that Walker insists will help solve budget deficits and avoid mass layoffs.

The legislative gridlock prompted the

Wisconsin Association of Schools Boards to warn districts that they have until Monday to warn teachers of possible nonrenewal of contracts. That’s because if Walker’s bill becomes law, it would void current teacher collective bargaining agreements that lay out protocol and deadlines for conducting layoffs.

New London district administrator Bill Fitzpatrick said he had been authorized by his school board to issue nonrenewal notices to all 180 district teachers, but was negotiating a deadline extension with local teachers union officials to avoid sending the notices en masse.

“It’s like going to the doctor and being told you might have some kind of disease

but that’s the only thing they can tell you,” Fitzpatrick said Friday. “This fear of the unknown, of not knowing the future of your livelihood — that’s what the people in this building are worried about right now.”

Despite the uncertainty created by the absence of the Senate Democrats, who fled more than a week ago to block a vote on Walker’s bill, Marshfield kindergarten teacher Jane Cooper said she blames Republicans.

“They are trying to bust our union,” Cooper said. “That is huge.”

The flashpoint in Walker’s proposal is language that would require public workers to contribute more to their pensions see WISCONSIN page 7

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Republican senators propose N.H. public pension reforms CONCORD (AP) — New Hampshire’s pension system must be changed to spare property taxpayers from the rising costs of benefits for government workers, the sponsor of a pension reform bill said Friday.

State Sen. Jeb Bradley, a Wolfeboro Republican, testified at a Senate hearing on his bill that workers must share in the burden of dealing with the system’s nearly $5 billion unfunded liability.

“We know how we got into this situation. Employers didn’t pay enough for years,” Bradley said.

But Bradley said workers, not just local taxpayers, must share in the solution.

“If we do nothing and continue to kick the can down the road, when we have to take the medicine we have to take, it’s going to be even more bitter and unpalatable,” he said in a room filled without about 350 people, mostly union workers.

Union spokesmen did not object to proposed changes affecting newly hired workers, but they said it wasn’t fair to ask existing workers to pay the pension system’s unfunded liability because that is a bill owed by municipalities and schools. They also said reforms were adopted four years ago to address the unfunded liability by spreading the costs to communities over 30 years.

David Lang, president of the New Hampshire Professional Firefighters Association, said local taxpayers may not like it, but it is their bill.

“I know it’s painful,” he said.

Perhaps the most contentious part of Bradley’s proposal would cut benefits to workers not vested in the system with less than 10 years of service. Bradley argues they should not expect the same rights as vested workers, but a coalition representing employee groups argues they are protected by the constitution.

Bradley’s bill also would raise the retirement age for police and firefighters from 45 to 50 if they are not vested in the system. They also would have to work five years longer to qualify for a pension.

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fighter 21/2 years ago, so the proposed cuts would hurt his family. Morrison, a sergeant with the New Hampshire Army National Guard, said he’s on leave from his third tour serving his country in Iraq.

“When I go back next week, who’s going to fight for me,” he said.

Newly hired workers would pay higher contribution rates under the bill. Police and firefighters would pay 11.3 percent instead of the 9.3 percent current workers pay. Other government workers would pay 7 percent instead of 5 percent.

The New Hampshire Retirement Security Coalition backs retirement age and contribution changes affecting new workers. So does Gov. John Lynch.

In his budget address this month, Lynch proposed eliminating the state’s subsidy for local retirement costs and, in exchange, increasing newly hired workers’ share of pension costs.

Lynch said his proposed changes would save municipal and school employers $1.5 billion over 20 years.

Bradley’s bill goes farther. He also would change the composition of the retirement system board to give employers equal say with employee members.

The coalition supports changing the composition, but not as Bradley proposes.

Bradley also wants to prevent workers from using sick and vacation time and using career buyouts to boost benefits. He would immediately end allowing

police to add overtime from special details to their retirement benefit. The coalition does not support these changes.

Lynch would exclude end-of-career payouts in the final retirement calculation and would increase from three years to five years the period used to calculate average end-of-career pay for new hires.

Bradley said $89 million earmarked for higher benefits would be put into the fund to reduce the system’s unfunded liability — pegged at 58.5 percent as of June 30. The system’s assets were $4.9 billion on June 30 when Fiscal 2010 ended. The coalition argues the transfer of the money is unconstitutional and breaks a negotiated agreement in 2007.

Bradley also would eliminate a 4 percent growth in medical subsidies provided to some retirees to offset the cost of their health coverage. The coalition said the state should wait for a court to rule in a lawsuit over the issue.

Bradley proposes studying whether the public pension system should move from the current defined benefit system to a defined contribution system or 401k system used by the private sector.

The New Hampshire Retirement System covers current and retired teachers, firefighters, police officers and state and local government workers.

The system covers 76,000 active and retired public employees.

Court: N.H. property owners accountable for their trees

CONCORD (AP) — New Hampshire landowners beware: you may be held liable for damage and injuries caused by your trees.

With snow again weighing heavy on limbs, it seems a good time to heed the warning issued Friday by the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Addressing tree damage for the first time, the

court says landowners who know a tree is decayed or damaged can be held liable, even if the tree damages people or property next door.

The court says it’s a landowner’s duty to eliminate dangerous tree conditions.

The ruling was issued in a case involving tree damage to a neighbor’s fence.

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Our war to the death There’s a life and death struggle being fought here in the United States, more sedate certainly, but in terms of human welfare every bit as momentous in the long term as the dramatic rebellions in the Middle East.

The epicenter right now is in Madison, Wis., in American’s upper Midwest. But tomorrow, it could as easily shift east to New Jersey, or west to California. The struggle concerns the future of the labor movement and beyond it, the economic vitality of America’s middle class.

The union demonstrators who have been filling the State Capitol building in Madison with roars of protest this week represent a goodly slice of middle-class America active or retired federal and local government workers, firemen, cops, prison guards, teachers and students.

These days, middle-class Americans are frightened people. They’re being kicked out of foreclosed homes; they can’t afford decent health care; they have no adequate pension, and in retirement, they can be one illness away from destitution and sleeping in a church shelter.

But amid this collective fear, there are vast differences in the likelihood of ruin or severe poverty. A privately employed worker has a 20-percent chance of being fired or laid off in a given year; for a publicly employed one, the chance of being fired or laid off is 7-percent. Four out of five public workers have decent health coverage and traditional pensions plans; in the private sphere, far, far less.

Small wonder that in recent years the rising curve of public employees joining unions has been the brightest spot in the drear twilight of organized labor in America. One in three is in a union. Only 7-percent of privately employed workers are in unions, down from 20-percent in 1991.

Ever since the economic crash 2008, every state and major city in the union has been facing seas of red ink. Money is more expensive to borrow; tax revenues have slumped.

Many states plunging into red ink come up hard against laws requiring them to balance their budgets.

Now add into the mix the Republicans’ triumph in last November’s elections. Many incoming governors are Tea Party types, viscerally antilabor, eager to lay their states’ fiscal agonies at the door of the public unions, allegedly bankrupting state after state with their burdensome pensions and health plans.

Wisconsin’s new Republican governor, Scott Walker, speedily declared war on the public unions, announcing that Wisconsin is bankrupt, demanding state workers kick in more in health and pension contributions — amounting to an 8-percent wage cut. The unions had no problem in agreeing to negotiate, even to concede on these points.

What has produced the biggest ral-

lies in Wisconsin since the Vietnam War is Walker’s intent to end collective bargaining by many public employees in the state.

This is a declaration of war to the death. Back in the 1930s, Wisconsin was actually the first state to pass an unemployment insurance law, in 1932, and the first, in 1959, to give workers the legal right to bargain collectively. Today, right behind Wisconsin, Republican governors of states like Michigan and Indiana, fiscally ruined by collapse of rustbelt industries, are similarly trying to destroy collective bargaining, the all-important weapon of the labor movement.

It’s not just a declaration of war on labor; it’s a dagger pointed at the heart of the Democratic Party, hugely dependent on unions for its grassroots organizing.

Labor unions threw $400-million behind Obama and the Democratic Party in 2008. If the current Republican onslaught on collective bargaining gathers momentum across America, the Democrats — already reeling from the lifting last year by the U.S. Supreme Court of all restraints on corporate campaign expenditures — would see their campaign war chests implode.

It’s for this reason that Obama, usually careful to avoid any displays of public enthusiasm for the labor movement, made haste last week to denounce the Republicans’ assault on collective bargaining as breaching a fundamental human right.

Having said this, he promptly fell silent. His strategy over the next two years is to corral labor support and hence organizers and money, then to woo slabs of the electorate delighted with anyone trying to cut the public unions down to size.

Talk to workers, unionized or not, in the private sector, and you’ll hear plenty of derisive anger at the cushy privileges of local, state and federal employees. In their sights is the incompetent teacher who can’t be fired, the cop who retires at 50 on a full lifetime pension and benefits, the prison guards union in California that has a vested interest in harsh sentencing, since this means more prison construction, hence more guards...

Jerry Brown, now governor of California, is a Democrat. Yet he, as vociferously as Wisconsin’s Walker, says public workers’ contracts have to be renegotiated; otherwise, California will be mired in bankruptcy forever. It is indeed a recipe for a red-ink future if public workers in California continue have the right to retire at 50, get a job in the private sector, yet still pull down full state health and pension benefits. Why not deny these benefits at least until the former state worker reaches the age — over 62 — when Social Secusee next page

LETTERS The traditional town meeting format is working for M’borough To the editor, Traditional town and school district meetings are not out-of-date in N.H. and continue to be the preferred choice of the majority of N.H.’s towns!

According to the latest report (2009) issued by the N.H. Center for Public Policy Studies, 156 (71-percent) N.H. municipalities still hold traditional town meetings compared to 57 (29-percent) that have adopted SB-2.

58-percent of NH school districts still hold traditional meetings.

As individual citizens, our republic form of government does not allow us to vote directly on county, state or federal budgets. However, the traditional town meeting format allows all voters to take action on town and school district budgets in the same manner our elected officials vote on county, state and federal budgets. We have the opportunity to discuss during the meeting the pros and cons of warrant articles and budgets before voting yes or no.

Yes, it may be more inconvenient to attend a town or school district meeting than to make it to the polls on Election Day, but some towns such as Moultonborough have made efforts to make town meetings more convenient. For the fourth consecutive year, the Moultonborough School District and Town Meetings will both be held on a Saturday (March 12, 2011) beginning at 9 a.m.

The N.H. Center for Public Policy Studies has identified a major flaw in the SB-2 form of government as follows, “Although turnout has been high at the polls in SB2 jurisdictions, participation in the required “deliberative sessions” that establish the final wording of the articles on the war-

rant remains low, by most accounts.

A simple majority of those present at the deliberative session can amend the articles proposed by elected school boards and boards of selectmen. Those present…can amend the amount to be raised in any spending articles to zero, effectively defeating the proposal for a year. Thus, very small, unelected coalitions can determine what choices whole communities may consider when they go to the polls. The failure of voters to embrace the deliberative session … threatens the legitimacy of the official-ballot (SB2) process as a tool for democratic decision-making.”

Those in favor of SB-2 claim recent legislation prohibiting those in attendance at deliberative sessions form changing the intent of a warrant article should eliminate the “fatal flaw” as stated by the Center. This is not the case! Those in attendance at deliberative sessions can still change the amount to be raised in any given article to zero dollars with a simple majority vote.

We believe the traditional town meeting format is working in Moultonborough. This format assures voters the right to vote on budgets as prepared by our elected Selectboard and School Board members. A primary responsibility of these elected officials is to develop proposed budgets annually. The traditional meeting format allows open discussion of warrant articles developed by our elected officials, as well as warrant articles petitioned by residents. We encourage Moultonborough residents to vote “no” on the SB-2 warrant articles on both the school district and town warrants.

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Town employee is selectively enforcing the CH sign ordinance To the editor, The Center Harbor Code enforcement officer, Ken Balance, is on the warpath, but at whose behest?

He is scouring the hamlet to check the dimensions of the incumbent selectman’s opponent’s lawn signs to make sure they’re in compliance.

What is telling is that Mr. Balance didn’t seem at all interested in enforcing the municipal sign ordinances during this past November election cycle. The ordinance does not allow

political signs to be erected prior to 30 days before an election and none may not exceed 9-square-feet; there were numerous infractions and no effort by Mr. Balance, then, to bring them into compliance.

The fact that a town employee is selectively enforcing a political sign ordinance just prior to a town election is more than just a little disturbing.

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Cost per child in Inter-Lakes schools has doubled since 2003 To the editor, As a former teacher and museum educator, parent, grandparent, and resident of Meredith, I share your concerns about educating our children. Education is the greatest gift we can give our youngsters in order to face the future prepared with the skills to succeed. It encourages them to become creative problem solvers, to critically evaluate the facts before making decisions, and to have a world view perspective.

The economic facts are clear. The Inter-Lakes School District reports declining enrollment and costs are escalating. The cost per child has almost doubled since 2003. (Check the facts by calling the Inter-Lakes SAU office.) Our common community goals should be to offer the best quality education for our children while evaluating cost effective measures to reach these goals. Being the best, does not simply equate to spending the most.

Education plus thoughtful economics equals positive effective change.

I am proud to support Mark Billings as the At-Large Member position on the Inter-Lakes School Board.

I have worked with Mark on many volunteer projects here in Meredith, particularly the successful Page Pond and Forest conservation effort, and I believe he is a principled, educated, a forward thinker who would bring his professional experience, work ethic, and ability to “work well with others” while making a positive impact on our school board for our students, our teachers, and our community at large.

It is time for all of us to “do our homework”, ask thoughtful questions, respect the opinions of others, and vote with conviction. I urge you, my fellow residents in the Inter-Lakes School District, to attend the Meet the Candidates Forum, Monday, Feb. 28 at the Meredith Community Center at 7 p.m., to vote on March 8th, and attend the School District Meeting on the 12th , 10 a.m., Inter-Lakes Gym. Carol F. Gerken Meredith

Mark Billings will ensure great debate aimed at creative solutions To the editor, A vote for Mark Billings is a vote for excellent education through fiscal responsibility.

We know Mark as someone dedicated to the well being of Meredith and it’s residents. He decided to run for the school board so that he could use his financial knowledge and skills to help create a fiscally responsible but educationally strong school system.

Mark would bring to the Inter-Lakes school board a rare combination of passion for quality education with the financial skills to make it a reality.

He is concerned that America’s children are falling further and further behind their global peers. Mark wants the school board to be a beacon of excellence by making it a forum for the sharing of ideas both local and derived from the wider educational community. He wants to foster transparency and creativity in making our schools centers of excellence. His pas-

sion for educational excellence comes from not only having both a wife and sister who are teachers as well as years of coaching youth athletics.

Mark understands that we cannot maintain a quality educational system without a strong financial foundation.

For this reason he would apply his financial background to making sure that the Inter-Lakes School District will have the economic strength to provide superior educational resources.

Passion for quality without the ability to pay for it cannot succeed. The voters of this district are fortunate to have someone with Mark’s experience in financial management to guarantee that we will continue to have both.

Voters who want to ensure great debate to achieve creative solutions to our educational challenges should vote for Mark Billings on March 8, 2011.

Lisa & Bob Davis Meredith

from preceding page rity can kick in?

The tragedy is that private-sector workers averaging $45,000 per year are denouncing federal government workers averaging maybe $65,000.

Yet $65,000 doesn’t get you that far in today’s America. Republicans would like to get the middle class down at the $45,000 level with nothing much in the way of health benefits, and with a privatized Social Security system, not kicking in until 69 or 70. The public unions stand in the path of this plan.

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, almost his first order of business was to destroy PATCO, the union of the air traffic controllers, which had actually endorsed him over Jimmy Carter.

Reagan fired them for breaching laws forbidding them to go on strike. It was the green light for a renewed war on labor, which continues to this day, part

of the great leveling down inflicted on working people.

In Tahrir Square in Cairo, there was a young Egyptian man with a sign stating “Egypt Supports Wisconsin Workers: One World, One Pain.” In Madison, Egypt’s revolution has been frequently evoked. Two dollars per day in the colony or $45,000 per year in the heart of the Empire — at both ends, people are being pushed over the edge.

The war in Madison signals the onset of a new Republican onslaught on labor — with the implicit aim of destroying organized labor in America. The stakes are very high.

(Alexander Cockburn is coeditor with Jeffrey St. Clair of the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch. He is also co-author of the book “Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils”.)

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To the editor, On separate occasions, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the most dangerous threat to national security is our debt. Yet private economists expect U.S. debt to increase by $9-trillion over the next decade. President Obama plans to add $2-trillion in new taxes while adding a trillion in new spending and declares this will reduce the debt by $1-trillion. Then we’re told that borrowing money to pay interest on debt is not adding to the debt. Now I’m no Marc Abear, but this all sounds like loony tunes math to me, and that is just my honest opinion.

According to Charles Krauthammer, this budget will leave the country with publicly held debt triple what Obama inherited. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asserts that, “the president’s budget is more a political document designed to trap Republicans into going first with serious entitlement reform than a serious proposal”. At which point they will be ridiculed into submission for having no compassion for the elderly, poor and needy. A reliable time honored and time tested Democratic ploy.

How can we adults sleep at night with the knowledge that we are saddling our children with a mountain of debt we never had while offering them far less freedom than we’ve always had? Is there a better time to stop believing in politicians’ hollow rhetoric and stop accepting their gifts of special interest earmarked to elicit our votes? Hmmm, “full of sound and fury and signifying nothing” to quote Shakespeare’s MacBeth. Anyone else feel like current day politicians are

acting out a bad play? Anyone feel like our politicians’ frantic, fiscal, boastful madness is leading this nation into a tragic ending? Well cheer up, as some say, Shakespeare’s message was that we must make our choices rationally and carefully because for every action there will be consequences. So, I would like to echo the comments of Cal Thomas who hopes that Jim Jordan is right in believing that the country is ready for truth, facts and tough love.

There is still time to right this fiscal ship of fools before it crashes into an iceberg of unresolvable insolvency.

Support the efforts of the Tea Party and tell your representatives to tell our government that the answer to more debt is no, period. What better time than President’s Day to quote George Washington: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master”. I don’t know about you, but I’m really beginning to feel the heat.

“The critical responsibility for the generation you’re in is to help provide the shoulders, the direction, and the support for those generations who come behind” as Gloria Dean Randle Scott reminds us. Are we the gutless wonders of a fading Republic or freedom-loving warriors ready, willing and able to save our “exceptional nation” while securing liberty and opportunity for our youth. I pray that we get to strut and fret our hour upon the stage for many generations to come and that the curtain never closes on this Republic for which we all must stand.

Russ Wiles Tilton

Sorry, but I fail to meet any of Mr. Sullivan’s definitions of ‘rich’ To the editor, Tim Sullivan had an interesting letter in the February 18 Daily Sun. I must agree with him on the need for us all to vote for continuing the Gilford Community Band. I really wish he was correct on his perception of how “rich” I was, but I fail all his definitions. Not enough income for last eight years to pay income tax, but despite that our Gilford Property TAX is excessive at about $10,000, for two lots, an under sized camp island lot, used mostly by many friends ($10,000 investment), and our home lot on now unbuildable hillside, with the home I designed and built in 1975, using ALL the savings I had from 20 years employment in aerospace engineering in California.

My home-based business “Warmlite

mountaineering tents and sleeping bags” has continued to earn enough to sustain us, but never enough to pay income tax on. For last 13 years my son William has owned and operated that business, with barely enough income to pay employees.

It seems that Tim Sullivan had extremely rich parents, who, to escape N.J. income tax, moved to a Wolfeboro waterfront property when Tim was 19. Tim eventually got through a college education, and earned BIG bucks in foreign war engineering. Eventually he ended up here in Gilford, at Laconia border. I enjoyed my 45 min discussion with him, and wish him the best.

Jack Stephenson Gilford

My goal is working for higher expectations for our Alton Library To the editor, I, Ruth Arsenault, am running for Alton Library Trustee. I apologize for not attending Candidate Night. Fighting to rid my body of pneumonia is my first priority.

Being the youngest of nine, I put myself through college. Therefor I do know the value of a dollar! I earned a Masters Degree in Early Childhood.

I’m the mother of two grown children living in Alton and stepmother of two in Mass. Until my youngest child entered 4th grade I was a stayat-home mom. Why did I stay home?

Because I know that a child’s first teacher is his/her mother. The most important roots are established in early life. I’ve lived in Alton for 12 years and believe communities operate best, when many types of people volunteer in whatever capacity they can bring to the table Even it it’s just one day a year, such as Clean Up Day. I was a volunteer for Caregivers well over 15 years. It was pretty easy to do and very satisfying. I enjoyed four years on the Beach Committee.

At present, I’m treasure of the Alton see next page

Residents objected to nursing home tax hike for which Taylor Com. would get no return

By Gail OBer

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

CONCORD — A bill that would have increased the state tax on nursing home beds from 5.5-percent to 6-percent was killed by the N.H. House Ways and Means Committee Thursday, but not before some residents of the Taylor Community in Laocnia got to have their say.

Proponents of HB-636 said it would increase the federal Medicaid match to the state while opponents say the bill unfairly redistributes hospital assessment money based on uncompensated care formulas.

According to Taylor Community Executive Director Tim Martin, 11 residents from his community got in a bus and went to last Week’s hearing to object to the increase because of their classification of an intermediate care facility.

For many members of the Taylor Community (in the interests of full disclosure, the author’s aunt lives there), Martin said the community doesn’t participate in the Medicaid reimbursement program but would nonetheless have to pay the tax increase.

“We don’t qualify (for reimbursement) so we don’t believe we should be taxed,” said Martin.

He said the Taylor Community has 40 beds for which they pay the tax. He WISCONSIN from page 2 and health insurance and strip them of their right to collectively bargain benefits and work conditions.

It contains a number of provisions he says are designed to fill the state’s $137 million deficit and lay the groundwork for fixing a projected $3.6 billion shortfall in the upcoming 201113 budget.

Democrats and unions see the measure as an attack on workers’ rights and an attempt to cripple union support for Democrats. Union leaders say they would make pension and health care concessions if they can keep their bargaining rights, but Walker has from preceding page Garden Club.

I retired from teaching in 2003 and found space in my busy life to volunteer for things I feel worthwhile.

Goals: I believe with my past experience I can help bring a new vision to the library. Promoting good established ideas that are already in place,

said the amount of the current tax is roughly $100,000 annually but fluctuates with the census.

According to former New Hampton State Rep. Fran Wendelboe, the socalled Granny Tax passed at an original six percent level.

She said the bill touches on three components: hospitals, nursing homes, and the N.H. State Hospital.

Called the Hospital Enhancment Tax, when originally passed she said the revenue was collected from hospitals, the federal 50-percent match came to the state and the money collected from the hospitals was immediately returned to them.

In the ensuing years, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services said the hospital contributions had to be redistributed according to a formula based on uncompensated care, creating so-called donor and receiver hospitals.

“In short,” she said. “There became winners and losers.”

Rep. Neal Kurk (R-Weare) introducted the bill, but said he recommend to Ways and Means that it not pass because of the inequity in the hospital portion and because he felt the bill was not in the spirit of the promise made by House Republicans to not increase any taxes or fees during the current session of the legislature.

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Fortin said the news made her “very sad. It was nice just to go up the hill and see all the people you know.” She now drives to St. Joseph Church, on Church Street, and said she doesn’t get the same neighborly feeling there that she felt at Our Lady of the Lakes. Asked what she’d like to see happen to the property, Fortin replied that she’d like her local church to come back. “But I know it won’t happen,” she said.

Fortin sees the sale of the property as a result of the The former Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church building in Lakeport has a “for sale” sign up in sex abuse scandals that front. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho) have plagued the Catholic Church over recent decades. “I think they didn’t do the most logical one to close,” Drouin said. right thing with the people that did the wrong thing, The combined Laconia parish still celebrates mass and everyone else is getting hurt now. It’s ricocheted at both St. Joseph and Sacred Heart Churches. all around, when you think of the millions that have The Our Lady of the Lakes property includes the been paid out to the people that say these things hapchurch, which was built in 1965 and was described pened – but nobody’s perfect, I guess.”

by Dennis Corrigan, a volunteer business manager Father Marc Drouin appreciated her regret about for Drouin, as being in “first class” condition. He the closing of the church. A Laconia native, Drouin’s gave the condition of the rectory a “B” grade. The mother was baptized in the Our Lady of the Lakes gymnasium, he said, is in “good” shape but “needs Parish. “It is a closing of a chapter of the Catholic a little updating,” and of the convent he said, “that Church in Laconia,” he said. “There is that emoneeds a lot of work.” tional component.”

The church property is located within the city’s However, he said that the consolidation of the residential zone but is being marketed as a commerparish was a necessary result of the decline in availcial property. According to the city Planning Departable priests, and that it had become impractical for ment, the property could be used for a single-family the parish to operate and maintain three church or multi-family residence. It could also be used for campuses in Laconia. Selling the property, he said, specific commercial activities, such as a school, storis unrelated to the issues that the Roman Catholic age facility or home business. If the owner was sucChurch at large is dealing with and the payments cessful in achieving a special exception from the made to victims of alleged abuse. “Each parish city, it could also be used as a pre-school, an artist’s is responsible for its own finances,” he said. “The studio, funeral home, neighborhood store or assisted declining number of priests is what’s driving the living facility, among others. consolidation of parishes. It’s not to say the scandal Visit www.masiello.com/real-estate/laconia/50has not hurt the church in other areas – it has.” The washington-street/4032657.cfm to see the listing of sale of Our Lady of the Lakes, he said, “has more to the property. do with availability of clergy.”

“The best and highest use of that property would Our Lady of the Lakes was chosen for sale, he be as a church,” said Tracy Emerick, the Masiello said, because it is simultaneously the one that the Group agent handling the listing. He noted that parish could most divest itself of and is the property another church, in Epping, was sold and turned into that would be the most marketable. “That was the a restaurant called the Holy Grail.

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LACONIA — For millenia, human beings would pass a long winter by gathering together and telling each other stories. As Larry Frates observed, that modern electronic distractions have replaced storytelling and he wonders if something has been lost in that trade. To try and re-assert the past time, he’s organizing two local storytelling sessions.

Inspired by the syndicated “Moth Radio Hour” radio program, aired locally on New Hampshire Public Radio on Saturdays at 4 p.m., Frates is organizing an event called a “Moth Up,” where he’s inviting people with a story to tell, or who just want to hear a few good yarns, to attend either a storytelling session on Thursday, March 3 at the Frates Creative Arts Center on Canal Street in Laconia or on Saturday, March 5, at the Riverside Gallery in Gilmanton Iron Works. Each session is scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m.

Admission to either event is a donation of canned or non-perishable food, to be given to a local food THEFT from page one suspicious when Shaw allegedly tried to return items for which she didn’t have a receipt.

When the female employee refused to refund the money, Shaw allegedly became hostile and angry. Before she left the store, she allegedly flipped over her shopping cart on to Angela Shaw the floor.

(Gilford Police photo) Walmart management allegedly asked the female employee and one of her coworkers to follow Shaw into the parking lot and get the license plate number of her car.

While to two female employees were getting the plate number, Shaw noticed their activity and allegedly told one of them, a “visibly pregnant” female, that she would “find her and kill her,” allegedly chasing her back into the store.

The second female employee followed Shaw but when Shaw reached to doorway into the store she allegedly turned around and attacked her.

A police review of the security tape allegedly confirmed the story told by both female employees.

After getting the phone call regarding the incident and the alleged assault, Gilford Police Officer Adam Van Steensburg responded and noticed a vehicle like the one described heading east on Lakeshore Road.

Steensburg stopped the car and asked the driver, Cory Shaw, if he knew why he was being stopped. Cory Shaw allegedly replied “Yes, but nothing happened.”

Sgt. Corey O’Connor saw some silver bracelets “sticking out of Angela Shaw’s pocketbook in plain view.”

He allegedly asked Shaw how much she paid for

pantry. The stories told at the Moth Ups will be recorded and submitted to the Moth website, www. themoth.org.

Frates said the rules are simple. Each story should be between five and ten minutes in duration and must be a true story, although it doesn’t have to be about events that occurred to the storyteller.

“I’d be looking for a wide range of themes,” said Frates. “The stories that are the most intriguing are the ones that describe how people dealt with lifechanging events.”

“It would be a chance to shore some interesting stories with other people. It’s a neat way to get together with a group of people. It would bring the community together in the middle of the winter. If nothing else, it’s a heated building,” Frates said. He hoped the event would be successful enough that others in the community would choose to host their own Moth Up. “It’s worth a try,” he concluded. “Hopefully, people will take the time and be a little more human.”

them to which she said $10. He later learned the price was $19.88 each.

Police also noticed a Shaw’s Supermarket basket filled with items in the back seat, also in plain view.

Cory and Angela Shaw allegedly told him the two purchased the items at Gilford Shaw’s a few hours earlier.

The Gilford Shaw’s manager told police the basket was not from his store but was from the Belmont store. A security tape from the Belmont store allegedly showed Angela Shaw stealing the items valued at $235.85.

She entered pleas of not guilty to one Class B misdemeanor of disorderly conduct; one Class A misdemeanor of receiving stolen property; one Class A misdemeanor of simple assault and one Class A misdemeanor of theft by unauthorized taking.

No pleas were taken regarding two felony counts of robbery for her alleged actions at Walmart. Bail was set at $5,000 cash or surety and the two cases will be bound over to Belknap County Superior Court for further action.

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LIBYA from page 2 temporarily abandoned its embassy in Tripoli as a final flight carrying American citizens departed from the capital.

The U.N. Security Council met to consider possible sanctions against Gadhafi’s regime, including trade sanctions and an arms embargo. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged it take “concrete action” to protect civilians in Libya, saying “the violence must stop” and those responsible for “so brutally shedding blood” must be punished. see next page Meredith Zoning Board of Adjustment NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING MARCH 10, 2011 -7:00 P.M., Meredith Community Center, Circle Drive, Meredith, NH 03253 AMES ASSOCIATES FOR SYLVIE F.ST. HILAIRE: An appeal for a SPECIAL EXCEPTION Tax Map U26, Lot No. 31, located at 104 Cummings Cove Road in the Shoreline District.

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from preceding page But Gadhafi vowed to fight on. In the evening, he appeared before a crowd of more than 1,000 supporters in Green Square and called on them to fight back and “defend the nation.”

“Retaliate against them, retaliate against them,” Gadhafi said, speaking by microphone from the ramparts of the Red Castle, a Crusader fort overlooking the square. Wearing a fur cap, he shook his fist, telling the crowd: “Dance, sing and prepare. Prepare to defend Libya, to defend the oil, dignity and independence.”

He warned, “At the suitable time, we will open the arms depot so all Libyans and tribes become armed, so that Libya becomes red with fire.”

The crowd waved pictures of the leader and green flags as he said, “I am in the middle of the people in the Green Square. ... This is the people that loves Moammar Gadhafi. If the people of Libya and the Arabs and Africans don’t love Moammar Gadhafi then Moammar Gadhafi does not deserve to live.”

Gadhafi’s son, Seif al-Islam, told foreign journalists invited by the government to Tripoli that there were no casualties in Tripoli and that the capital was “calm ... Everything is peaceful. Peace is coming back to our country.”

He said the regime wants negotiations with the opposition and said there were “two minor problems” in Misrata and Zawiya, another city near the capital held by the opposition.

There, he said, “we are dealing with terrorist people.” But he said he hoped to reach a peaceful settlement with them “and i think by tomoorrow we will solve it.”

Earlier Seif was asked in an interview with CNNTurk about the options in the face of the unrest. “Plan A is to live and die in Libya, Plan B is to live and die in Libya, Plan C is to live and die in Libya,” he replied.

The marches in the capital were the first major attempt by protesters to break a clampdown that proGadhafi militiamen have imposed on Tripoli since the beginning of the week, when dozens were killed by gunmen roaming the street, shooting people on sight.

GOP freshman class drawing mixed response back home SALINA, N.Y. (AP) — Newly elected Republican Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, like dozens of other freshman members, was sent to Congress on a promise to slash government spending. And slash it she did, voting last weekend to cut $61 billion from the current federal budget and to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care reform plan.

Now, Buerkle and some of her colleagues who visited constituents this week in their home districts are facing reactions ranging from support to mild worry over just the cuts they promised they’d make.

Even Buerkle acknowledges some of the cuts she supported were “gut-wrenching.”

“It seems as though recent votes taken would unduly give pain to the poor,” said Janet Muir, a selfdescribed fiscal conservative and one of 300 people who attended a town hall meeting Buerkle hosted here Tuesday. Muir said lawmakers should look to the military and other areas to trim spending.

“You’ve cut domestic spending in ways that are going to hurt taxpayers,” Muir said. “I would like to see this burden shared with the wealthy.”

Buerkle, who defeated first-term Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei by less than 600 votes in a district that favored Obama in 2008, is one of 87 House GOP freshmen — six from New York alone — swept into office by voters demanding greater fiscal discipline in Washington. But at town halls and other constituent meetings during this week’s Congressional recess, GOP lawmakers — particularly from swing districts like Buerkle’s — were grilled for making good on that promise.

But others, like Florida Rep. Allen West, won standing ovations from huge crowds. Others, like Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold and Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan, drew parents pushing baby strollers protesting potential cuts to Head Start, the federal school readiness program for young children.

The town hall meetings this week bore little resemblance to those that took place in the summer

of 2009, when voters wary of Obama’s health care proposal shouted down members of Congress at raucous televised gatherings. And while attendees at many of this week’s meetings were largely in favor of lawmakers’ efforts to cut spending, there were plenty of specifics that gave them pause.

West, a tea party favorite who ousted two-term Democratic Rep. Ron Klein to become one of seven Republican freshmen from Florida, saw an otherwise enthusiastic crowd fall silent at a town meeting this week when he spoke of potential cuts to popular entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.

At an otherwise supportive town hall meeting Thursday, Pennsylvania Rep. Pat Meehan, elected to succeed Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak in a swing district outside Philadelphia, was challenged on his vote to repeal the Obama health care plan.

Meehan defended his vote, saying the last Congress “did not do at the outset what they should have done, which is to first and foremost control costs.” He acknowledged there were few easy ways to bring the budget into balance but insisted he and other Republicans had been elected to do so.

“I’m getting calls into my office, ‘How could you cut A, B or C.’ But I think we were sent to try to use ... common sense choices,” Meehan said.

Meehan and others used the meetings to address the looming threat of a potential government shutdown, which could happen in March if lawmakers can’t compromise on a spending plan.

“Nobody, especially on our side of the aisle, wants to shut down the government,” Meehan told his crowd.

“But we also believe that America spoke clearly and they were looking for there to be real efforts to not be afraid to take on these vested programs.”

Republican Rep. Daniel Webster, who hosted four town meetings in his Florida district, said he hadn’t heard much enthusiasm for the government to close.

“There really wasn’t a huge contingency saying ‘Let’s go shut it down,’ he said.

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EIGHTH SUNDAY OF THE EPIPHANY II Corinthians 5: 1-10 “Streaking for Jesus!”

Pot-Luck Brunch immediately following the worship service downstairs in the vestry. Bring a dish to share and your own place settings. Drinks and dessert will be provided. Our Annual Meeting will be held right after the brunch. Copies of the 2010 Annual Reports and By-Laws (Revised) will be available for those who have not received them as yet.

Morning Worship - 10:30am (child care provided) ~ Handicap Accessible & Devices for the Hearing Impaired~ Food Pantry Hours: Fridays from 10am to 12 noon

9:00 & 10:00 Worship Services 9:00 Sunday School

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INTER-LAKES from page one Master’s degree in counseling and a law degree. As a young man he joined Vista, the national service program aimed at addressing poverty, and recently retired after working as a guidance counselor in the Pemi-Baker School District (Plymouth) for 30 years.

A graduate of Babson College, Billings pursued a career in financial sector as an investment banker and asset manager with Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. Since 1999, when he shifted to the investment advisory business, he has served as chief strategist for Hammer Asset Management, LLC of Gilford.

Noting that personnel costs represent 70-percent of the school district budget, Hanson prizes the close relationship between the board and the staff, especially the classroom teachers. “We’re still a kind of family here,” he said. “Teachers are the troops on the ground, our greatest asset.” He counted “sustaining a strong relationship with our staff” among his highest priorities.

Hanson harbors no misgivings about his decision to dissent when, a year ago, the board reduced expenditures to limit the increase in school district budget to 1.25-percent. “I was troubled by the cuts,” he said, recalling that “there were three public hearings and the message was unequivocal — restore the cuts.”

He discounted the vote of the school district meeting to restore nearly $800,000 to the budget as “kind of a non-issue,” explaining that the board’s budget “is the people’s budget. They accept or reject it.”

To those upset by the outcome, he advised “get out and vote.”

At the same time, Hanson acknowledged the need to contain costs, particularly the cost of health insurance, which he described as “out of control.” Noting that in health insurance premiums are projected to climb 14-percent this year, he said that “we can’t sustain that rate of increase. The board,” he continued, “must work with the teachers union in a positive, collaborative way to reduce the cost of their health insurance.”

Although Billings is bent on reducing personnel costs, he insists that he would plow the savings back into the school system. “I don’t want to shrink the pie,” he said. “I want to slice it differently.”

Billings notes that since 2002 the school district budget has grown by 53-percent, from $13-million to $20-million, while enrollment has shrunk by 15-percent. He claims that among district with more than

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1,000 students, Inter-Lakes has the second highest K-12 per pupil costs in the state.

Drawing on his experience in finance, which included working with pubic sector pension funds, Billings takes aim at both the New Hampshire Retirement System and employee health insurance plans. Steps must be taken, he said, to change the retirement system from a defined benefits plan to a defined contributions plan in keeping with the prevailing pension plans in the private sector. While Billings concedes that overhauling the retirement system is beyond the means of a local school district, he believes that the board can contribute to the process by persuading the teachers that the transition would be to their benefit. “I just want to be at the front of the pack,” he said.

Likewise, Billings notes that the cost of a family insurance plan for school district employees is more than $18,000, of which the district contributes

90-percent and the employee 10-percent. He claims that by self-insuring, that is switching to a high deductible plan, for which the district would pay the deductible, the cost could be reduced significantly.

Although Billings has harped on costs, he insists that managing the expense of education offers the most promising path to enhancing the quality of education. He points to “Students First,” the movement began by Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of public schools in the District of Columbia, as the touchstone of his approach to education. “Students First” calls for diverting funds from “bureaucracy” and applying them to programs and teachers that bear directly on the education of children. Billings said that wringing savings from retirement and health insurance would provide resources to recruit, evaluate, reward and retain teachers on the the basis of their students’ performance.

Voters will pick their choice on Tuesday, March 8.

FIRE from page 2 and John Chestnut said they were standing outside and did not see Tata take any children from the vehicle before going inside the house.

Deshano said he heard Tata scream, ran toward the house and saw some grocery bags at the front door. He said he saw a little boy inside and broke a window but couldn’t pull the child out because smoke quickly filled his eyes and throat.

Deshano said he didn’t know Tata and had no idea she was operating a day care. He said he and Chestnut talked to fire investigators, who said Friday they still had not talked to Tata.

Carter said her department was working with other agencies investigating the fire but declined to discuss details.

Tata received a license for the home day care March 1 and no one else worked there, Carter said.

No problems had been reported since the day care was licensed, but it was cited before it opened for not having a fire extinguisher or carbon monoxide detector. Records show the deficiency was corrected, and Carter said staff members saw the fire extinguisher last year before the license was granted.

Emmanuel Kajoh of Cypress, whose daughter Elizabeth died in the fire, told The Associated Press that she had been staying at the day care weekdays since last summer. He said Tata had worked in their church day care, and his wife got to know her when she would drop off Elizabeth before church services.

“She was passionate about children. She would take care of them like they were her own,” Kajoh said, adding that he and his wife held Elizabeth’s first birthday party at Tata’s house last year because the baby was happy with her friends and Tata, who he said was “like family.”

— WORSHIP SERVICES — Weirs United Methodist Church 35 Tower St., Weirs Beach P.O. Box 5268

Rev. Twila Broadway

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First Congregational Church

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Head Pastor: Robert N. Horne If God Loves Me, Why Does Life Hurt So Much?

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Daily Mass: 8:00 a.m.

Mass on Holy Days of Obligation: 7:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Confessions: One Hour Before Each Mass Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and Rosary each Wednesday: 7:00 p.m.

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The Lakes Region Vineyard Church 175 Mechanic St. Lakeport, NH • 603-527-2662

Empowered Evangelicals, who proclaim the Kingdom of God, minister in the power of the Spirit and keep Christ at the center of life.

“It feels like coming home.”

Sunday morning celebration ~ 8:30am & 10:30am Contemporary Worship Sunday School & Nursery • Tuesday night Youth Mid-week Bible studies.

Christ Life Center Food Pantry Thurs. 9 am– 12 noon • 524-5895

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LACONIA — An SAT (College Board) Preparation Class will be offered by the Adult Education program beginning March 16. The seven-week class will conclude on May 4 in time for the SAT Exam scheduled to be given May 7.

SAT Preparation Classes are designed to help students score better on the mathematics, reading comprehension, and written essay sections of the SAT Exam. The SAT

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field, Mass.; his mother-in-law and fatherin-law, Francis & Mary Rivet, of Salem, N.H.; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Christopher and Deborah Rivet of North Andover, Mass., Andrew Rivet of Mississippi, Matthew and Pamela Rivet of North Andover, Mass. and John and Katie Ratka of Salem, NH; many nephews and nieces, aunts, uncles, cousins, and close friends..

He was predeceased by his parents.

Calling hours will be held on Saturday, February 26, 2011 from 3-7 PM in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Patrick’s Church, 44E Central Street, Natick, Mass. on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 10:00AM. Burial will follow in St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Natick, Mass.

For those who wish the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Polysystic Kidney Foundation, 8330 Ward Parkway, Suite 510, Kansas City, MO 64114-2000, the Lupus Foundation of NE, 40 Speen Street, Suite 205, Framingham, MA 01701 or to the Ryan Children’s Education Fund, c/o Laconia Savings Bank, 62 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. 03246.

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

John Everett & Sons Funeral Home, 4 Park Street, Natick, Mass. 01760 is assisting the family the arrangements in Massachusetts.

7-week SAT Preparation Class offered by Laconia Adult Education beginning March 16

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SANBORNTON — Daniel J. Ryan, 50, of Sanbornton, died of a sudden illness at the Concord Hospital on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 surrounded by his family.

Mr. Ryan was born December 19, 1960 in Newton, Mass., the son of Virginia B. (Hurney) and George H. Ryan, Jr. He lived in Laconia before moving to Sanbornton sixteen years ago. He had been employed at Jordan’s Equipment, MB Tractor, Ryan Ford Tractor and Ryan Brothers Painting Co. in Natick, Mass. For the past four years, he had been employed at Genesis Eldercare-Laconia Center.

Dan was raised in Natick, Mass, where he was a former communicant of St. Patrick’s Church. He graduated from Natick High School and the University of Lowell, where he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Dan was a devoted and loving husband and father. Spending time with his family was what was most important to Dan. He was an active participant in his children’s sports including coaching hockey. He was often touted as the “human horn”. Dan also enjoyed spending time at the ocean.

He brought out the best in people and was considered a close friend by many. Dan will be greatly missed by all. “TO INFINITY AND BEYOND”.

Survivors include his wife, Patrice K. Ryan, a son, Thomas D. Ryan, and two daughters, Mollie E. Ryan and Haley A. Ryan, all of Sanbornton; four brothers, George H. Ryan III and his wife, Kathryn, of New Hampton, N.H., Francis J. Ryan and his wife, Leslie, of Brant Rock, Mass., Kenneth A. Ryan and his wife, Lauren, of Natick, Mass, Jack D. Ryan and his wife, Patti, of Brant Rock, Mass.; two sisters, Christine M. Ryan of Natick, Mass. and Ginny E. Ryan of Marsh-

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Exam will test subject areas that students have learned throughout four years of high school.

The SAT Exam is becoming a test of critical reading, comprehensive writing, and higher mathematics in addition to a test of learned skills used to reason.

Students in the Preparation Class will improve problem-solving skills involving basic math, Algebra, Algebra II, and Geometry.

The writing section of the SAT Exam is divided between multiple choice questions on grammar and style and an essay students must write on an assigned topic.

The Preparation Class will prepare students for the different types of questions asked, help them to determine when to guess at a question, and teach them how to pace themselves so as to not run out of time.

For more information or to enroll in the SAT Preparation Class, contact Peggy Selig, director, Laconia Adult Education at 524-5712.

Sunday is registration deadline for Zonta Club’s Women’s Day potluck LACONIA — The Zonta Club of the Lakes Region will host an International Potluck Dinner to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day at the Belknap Mill from 5:30 — 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8.

Dr. Glenda Reynolds will also be honored for her dental work with refugees. Champa Dulal will perform a Bhutanese dance.

All are invited to attend. Immigrants and refugees are encouraged to come in the dress of their native country. Cost for singles is international food to share or $20. Cost for couples is a dish to share and $20. R.S.V.P. to Marcia Hayward at 524-2588 by Sunday, February 27.

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Lakes Region Real Estate Market Report / Roy Sanborn

Deals, deals, deals Residential home sales in the Lakes Region are off to a bit of a slow start in 2011 with only 37 sales posted in the towns in this report. That’s 16-percent off the total of 44 sales posted last January but one month doesn’t make a trend… at least I hope. The average sales price was also down from $377,781 last January to $305,926. This January, as well as last, 50-percent of the sales were below the $200,000 mark, but last January there were four sales over $1-million and this January there was only one, hence the lower average sale price.

Sales were off in every community across the board. Hopefully, this has more to do with the holiday season taking precedence over home shopping more than anything else. Given the extremely snowy January that kept home buyers busy shoveling instead of home shopping, I do expect low sales numbers for February.

There were some great deals on properties last month. Take, for example, the bank-owned home that sold at 9 Olde English Lane in Gilford. This 4,069-square foot-contemporary has four bedrooms, five baths, an open floor plan, maple floors, a first floor master suite, a finished lower level, and a three car heated garage all on four acres in an upscale neighborhood. The property is currently assessed at $548,320 and sold for 62-percent of that at $342,000!

Sounds like someone really got a fantastic deal!

Another Freddie Mac-owned home at 765 Middle Route in Gilmanton sold for $160,000 which was 54-percent of the assessed value of $299,100!

This colonial home was built in 1978 and has 2,076-square-feet of living space, three bedrooms, two baths, and sits on ten acres of land. When you can buy a home for almost half the assessed value there would seem to be some tremendous upside

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If you are looking for a good deal, don’t worry, there are plenty more out there to be found. The other day I found 40 listings in the towns in this report that were offered between 32-percent and 70-percent of their tax assessment. While that alone doesn’t make them a good deal, it is a reasonably good place to start. You have to go look, see what kind of condition the home is , and see if the property fits your individual needs. So what can you buy at, say, 63-percent of assessed value?

Well, there’s a 1,200-square-foot three bedroom ranch at 32 Barbara Drive in Alton for $129,900, a 3,159-square -oot, four bed, three bath home at 37 Penny Lane in Laconia for $233,000, or a turn of the century, four bed, three bath farmhouse at 1071 Suncook Valley Highway in Barnstead for $145,000. These are but a few of the great deals see SANBORN page 18

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Most people don’t listen well, but you’re not most people. By listening well today, you’ll learn a shortcut, save yourself from a futile effort and improve a relationship.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Focus so intently on being upbeat, encouraging and helpful that there’s no room for anything to exist but positivity.

No one is positive all the time, but you can keep this up for longer than most.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You’ll be trying to get to the bottom of a problem. You’ll have to prod a bit to get answers. The one who says “I don’t know” just needs you to ask a slightly different question.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

There’s a pause in the action, and you can use this to your advantage. The in-between moments are perfect for connecting with others and speculating about what’s going to happen next.

You’ll love the anticipation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There will be a degree of social tension to break through. Pretend that the new people you meet are already your friends. When you act as though you’re already friends, you put everyone at ease.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 26). This year you will find tranquility and healing inside a peaceful relationship. Next month resolves an age-old problem.

April frees up some funds so that you can go on a trip. June brings an intriguing mystery for you to unravel. There’s a career shift in July. New friends come along in September. Taurus and Scorpio people will be adoring fans. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 15, 34, 1 and 20.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You want to keep doing more and more with your life. Someone who is happy with the status quo will be inspired by your ambition, and you will be likewise inspired by this person’s sense of inner peace.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your originality is a gift to the world. You will express your love for someone in a way that only you would. This genuine and unique gesture will be remembered and treasured.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Rid your workspace of bad luck items. If you have any bad reviews, get rid of them.

The same goes for pictures of yourself you never really liked, tools that don’t work and outdated information.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You are ready to move on several projects at once. Plan your attack. At least three people are eager and willing to help you out. Earth signs will be especially helpful -- that’s Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You are more impressionable than usual. You’ll be in a position to take on a mindset or a quality of another person. You may be listening to the words this person says, but it’s the overall feeling that you’ll leave with.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may do the same things you’ve been doing, but you’ll increase your focus by at least 10 percent, and this will make a huge difference in the results you are able to achieve.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You don’t have to be a master of feng shui to realize that your environment is affecting your ability to attract the kind of people you want to know into your realm.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2011. There are 308 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 26, 1861, Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., received its initial funding from its namesake, businessman Matthew Vassar, who presented the newly formed Board of Trustees with more than $400,000 in securities. (Although created exclusively for women, Vassar went co-educational in 1969.)

On this date: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba.

In 1870, an experimental air-driven subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, opened in New York City for public demonstrations.

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed a measure establishing Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

In 1940, the United States Air Defense Command was created.

In 1945, a midnight curfew on night clubs, bars and other places of entertainment was set to go into effect across the nation.

In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.

In 1970, National Public Radio was incorporated.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Ham, bean and pasta dinner at Gilmanton Community Church in support of Miranda Bushnell of GIW. $8/ adult, $7/senior. $6/child (6-12). Funds raised will be used to support Miranda’s participation in the People to People Ambassadors Program.

New Hampton School’s annual “Winterdance” program. 7:30 p.m. Featuring dance pieces in ballet, jazz, modern and hip-hop. Open to the public with a suggested donation of $10 for adults and $5 for youth.

Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton.

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

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

Call 645-9518.

Wild Winter Walk at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness. 10 a.m. to noon. A naturalist-guided walk on the Gephart Exhibit Trail. Participants should be prepared for outdoor winter conditions and snowshoeing.

(Snowshoes are available at no extra cost if conditions warrant.) $8/member. $10/non-member. To register call 9687194. www.nhnature.org.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Rollerskating fundraiser for the Laconia Middle School PTO. 1 to 3 p.m. at Skate Escape on Court Street in Laconia. $7/person includes rental skates. Tickets purchased for canceled date will be honored on 27th.

Wild Winter Walk at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness. 1 to 3 p.m.. A naturalist-guided walk on the Gephart Exhibit Trail. Participants should be prepared for outdoor winter conditions and snowshoeing.

(Snowshoes are available at no extra cost if conditions warrant.) $8/member. $10/non-member. To register call 9687194. www.nhnature.org.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Annual Meeting of the Belknap Mill Society. 5 p.m. at the mill in downtown Laconia. Open to all current and prospective members. Brief business meeting followed by sharing of our 40th Birthday Cake. Please RSVP at 524-8813.

Support group meeting for those who are separated or divorced. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of the month at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Belmont. Experience compassion, sharing and affirmation in a confidential atmosphere. You are welcome. Refreshments and free lending library available. For information call the rectory at 267-8174 or Ginny Timmons at 286-7066.

Memory Loss Support Group meeting. 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Forestview Manor (153 Parade Road) in Meredith. For more information call Kathy at 279-3121 or wrtie Kathy@ forestviewmanor.com Affordable Health Care at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453. GYN and reproductive services.

STD/HIV testing. Sliding fee scale.

Laconia Chapter of Barbershop Harmony Society meeting. 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church. Guests and singers of all ages and skills are invited to attend these Monday night rehearsals. For more information call Guy Haas at 279-2230.

Overeater’s Anonymous meeting. 7 p.m. each Monday night at the Congregational Church of Laconia Parish Hall (Veterans Square).

Weight Watchers meetings. Noon and 5:15 p.m. at the Opechee Park Clubhouse in Laconia.

Legendary local aviator Bob Fogg subject of program at Laconia Public Library. 7 p.m. Charles Gerhan, of the NH Aviation Museum, will talk about Fogg’s flying adventures of the 1920s and 30s.

State Senator Jeb Bradley to host forum at Moultonborough Town Hall. 7 p.m. He will discuss the latest issues in our state, including the donor town, retirement system, speed limits on Winnipesaukee, and the state budget. He is also prepared to share information on the SB2 form of government which is now on the ballot in several communities.

A Q&A session will follow his remarks. Contact Barbara Rando for more information at 253-9031.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I am a school coach in a small town. Last week, I walked into our local gas station to pay for my purchase and spotted a woman sitting on the floor. She was inserting money into the instant lottery machine, selecting a lottery card, scratching it off and repeating. I watched her for a few minutes before realizing she was the mother of one of my students. She looked up at me and said “hello.”

Yesterday, I was back at this gas station, and there she was again with her hands full of money, feeding this machine. We exchanged “hellos” again.

It is apparent that she is addicted to this machine. Do I suggest getting some help, or should I keep my mouth shut? -Concerned Dear Concerned: Her addiction is more likely to gambling and not to a particular machine, although she may feel that one brings her luck. If you see her there again, or if you notice related problems, you could gently suggest that she look into Gamblers Anonymous (gamblersanonymous.org).

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Slowly Drowning in Culver City,” whose daughter and son-in-law live in their duplex and refuse to pay rent or help out.

He and his wife need to act now before they are too sick to work and bring in an income. Their daughter and her husband have shown they don’t care about the parents’ welfare.

If the father dies, does he think his daughter and her husband will take care of his wife? I believe Mom will end up homeless.

Just because she is their daughter doesn’t mean they owe her anything more than the good home and education they already provided. I can understand his concern, but get her out now. -- Seen This Before Dear Seen: Most readers agree with you. Read on:

From Kingston, Ontario: I suggest the parents sell their duplex and move into an apartment -- and don’t give out the keys. This will force the freeloaders to do something for themselves, and it may protect the parents from their own overly kind hearts. In the long run, they are not helping their daughter to become independent.

No City: I had a similar situation several years ago. We let my son, his wife and their kids move into our second home until they got on their feet. That never happened. After five years of footing the bill, we told them they had to pay the utilities. After another year, I told them they had six months to get out. In the meantime, they stopped paying the utility bills, and the water and electricity were shut off. I changed the locks, and it cost me $2,000 to have everything turned back on, but it was worth it. “Drowning” needs to get these bums out of there before they do more harm.

Texas: Freeloading children will never change. They manipulate until you kick them out. Offer to help them find work? Ridiculous. That will only make the drowning go a bit slower.

Chicago: I purchased a home for my son, who is handy and felt he could pay the minimal house payment and fix up the place so we could sell it for a profit. However, he let his girlfriend and her brother move in, and no one paid rent. Finally, after talking and begging, I evicted them. We now have a good relationship. He has a job, owns a home and is the master of his own life.

West Virginia: There is no way to salvage what is left of the family. If those kids cared, they would not have put their parents in such a position. They need to be given a 30-day notice by registered mail to move out.

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

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Auctions 1997 GMC Yukon: Blue, diesel, 2-door, automatic, as is, as seen.

No guarantee. 505 Province Road, Laconia, NH. Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 9:30am. Reserve auction, with right to refuse bid.

Autos 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee132K, 4-Wheel Drive, leather, automatic, loaded with options! $2,995 OBO. Call Scott at 603-369-0494 1999 Chevy Cavalier, 4 dr, 4 cyc, air, auto, CD, 89K mi., $3495 obo.

934-2221.

2000 Ford Taurus SE WagonVery reliable, good condition.

104K miles, grey with grey interior. 4 new tires, current on all maintenance. $2,800/OBO. 603-341-1529 2007 Toyota Tundra, dbl. cab, SR5, 65K miles, maroon with black interior $17,500/ bro.

455-8987.

ABLE to pay cash, cars average $300, trucks full-size 4x4 up to $500, truck batteries $8 each, alloy $9 each, in Epping we have scale, $1/ lb. for coded Copper wire, $3.00/ lb. for copper pipe.

(603)502-6438 BUYING junk cars and trucks ME & NH. Call for price. Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

Autos CASH FOR junk cars & trucks.

Top Dollar Paid. Available 7 days a week. 630-3606 CASH paid for unwanted or junk cars and trucks. Same day service possible. 603-231-2859.

Top Dollar Paid- $150 and up for unwanted & junk vehiclies. Call 934-4813

For Rent

For Rent

ALTON/GILFORD Town Line: Studio, $200 per week, includes utilities, cable and internet.

Lake/Beach access. 365-0799.

FOR RENT OR SALE- Weirs Beach Condo. 2-bedroom, 2-bath, fully renovated. $900/Month + Utilities & Security deposit. Or, $1,000/Month utilities included + security deposit. Sale $110,000.

Many amenities. 603-279-5991

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.

BOATS DOCKS for Rent: 2011 season, Lake Winnisquam Point. Parking, bathrooms, showers, launch on site. 603-524-2222.

Business Opportunities LACONIA- Unique opportunity.

Laundromat in well established location; Dryers, some equipment needs repairing or replacing. Free rent to get started. $3,000.

603-455-6662

Child Care

FRANKLIN- Riverfront, 1 Bedroom, 2nd Floor, Storage. $650/mo + Utilities, Security Deposit. No Pets, 387-4471.

BELMONT Condo: 2-bedroom, 2-bath, single-level, washer/dryer hookup, garage. Non-smoker, Near LRCC/LRGH, security deposit. $995/month. 528-1432.

GILMANTON LARGE 2 bedroom Apartment. Easy commute, pets negotiable. $895/Month. 630-6812

CUTE 1-bedroom remodeled apartment in Tilton. 1/2 month rent free! Heat/Hot Water included. $660/Month. 603-393-9693 or 916-214-7733

Laconia 1 room for rent. 118 Court St. 1st floor, $120/Week includes everything. Own bathroom, 524-7218 or 832-3535

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS A Few Units Still Available

CHILD CARE in my home.

Laconia/ Belmont/ Gilmanton. 20+ years experience. One opening. 2 meals, snacks & crafts. Linda 524-8761.

LOCHMERE MEADOWS New Construction Tilton, NH

For Rent

Spacious 2 Bedroom Units 2 Bedroom Handicap Accessible Units Heat & Hot Water Included in rent WD Hookups, Storage And much, much, more!!!

Income Restrictions Apply Rent based on 30% of Households Income Credit, Criminal, & Landlord Checks

BRISTOL: 2BR apt, heat and hot water included. $675 a month.

217-4141.

KEN BARRETT AUCTIONS Monday, February 28, 2011 @ 6pm • Preview at 4pm www.auctionzip.com ID#5134, for 425 photos Coin collection, hundreds of old comics, large selection of Railroad paper, dozens of famous autographs, rifles, RW officers sword, postcards, military, old mags, Lincoln scrapbook, lots of early clown photos & rare set of clown flop shoes, 10 cast Iron banks, mini portrait on Ivory, 3 sets nice snowshoes, glass, china, lots more!

Auction Held at 274 Main St. Tilton, N.H. • 603-286-2028 kenbarrettauctions@netzero.net Lic # 2975, buyers premium, subject to reserves, errors, omissions & Auctioneer’s terms. Catered by Bev.

No Pets Allowed

For Rent

For Rent

LACONIA 1-Bedroom - Washer/ dryer hookup, storage, no pets.

Security Deposit & references. $600/mo. + utilities. 520-4353

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

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

Parking, storage. No smoking 528-3649.

LACONIA ONE bedroom efficiency apartment, partially furnished, second floor, close to hospital. $130/week, Includes heat/hot water, lights. Very clean, owner lives in the home. Security deposit and references required.

No pets/smoking. 524-5437 LACONIA Pleasant St. 1-Bedroom, $750. Studio apartment $650. Heat/hot water included, no pets/smoking. 524-5837 LACONIA Prime 2 bedroom apartment on Gale Ave. Walk to town and beaches. Carpeting, just repainted, private entrance, Garage. $900/month includes heat and hot water. 524-3892.

LACONIA Waterfront- 2-Bedroom condo, quiet location, ample parking, Clean/renovated, furnished optional. No smoking/pets. $850/month. 603-366-4655.

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

LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. $145/week 603-781-6294 LACONIA-DUPLEX 3 bedroom 1/1/2 bath, washer/dryer hookups, garage. $950/month, heat included. References & security deposit. No pets or smokers.

524-7419 LACONIA: Efficiency apartment, $135/week includes heat & hot water. References and deposit.

524-9665.

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

References & deposit required.

387-3864.

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

524-3892.

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

LACONIA: 1-2 Bedrooms starting at $550/Month. Includes Heat/Hot Water & Electric. No dogs.

496-8667 or 545-9510.

Accepting Applications SHORT WAITLISTS Some Immediate Openings Laconia, NH Don’t Miss Out!!!

Spacious One Bedroom Apartments From $575 per mo.

Some with utilities

Spacious Two Bedroom Apartments From $650 per mo.

Utilities Not Included

Large Three Bedroom Apartments Starting At $650 per Month Utilities Not Included Section 8 Welcome Income Restrictions Apply Well Maintained Units Off Street Parking No Pets Allowed CONTACT US TODAY FOR MORE INFO! 1-800-742-4686 The Hodges Companies 201 Loudon Road Concord, NH 03301

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Attractive, Spacious Affordable Housing Unit IMMEDIATE OPENING LACONIA, NH 1BR Mechanic St School $575 Utilities not included No pets please A Beautiful Rustic Brick Building!

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Section 8 Welcome Income Restrictions Apply Well Maintained Units Off Street Parking Credit, Criminal & Landlord References Required

CONTACT US TODAY! 1-800-742-4686 • TDD # 1-800-545-1833 Ext. 118 The Hodges Companies 201 Loudon Road Concord, NH 03301

CONTACT RICK TODAY FOR MORE INFO!

Proudly owned by the

Proudly owned by Laconia Area Community Land Trust

1-800-742-4686 The Hodges Companies 201 Loudon Road Concord, NH 03301

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For Rent

For Rent

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

LAKEPORT: Tiny 1-Bedroom, includes utilities and heat. 1-car parking. $155/week. Leave message for Bob. 781-283-0783.

MEREDITH- In-Town Efficiency apartment. 1-bedroom, 1-bath.

Kitchen, large living room with dryer. Quiet location, no pets/no smokers $800/Month + utilities.

Rick (781)389-2355 MOULTONBOROUGH: 3BR, 1.5BA New England style home.

Walk to Center Harbor proper.

Garage, dishwasher, washer/dryer hookups. Wood & oil heat. No smoking. No pets. $1,150/month plus utilities. 603-253-9446.

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

NORTHFIELD: 2 bedroom, 1st floor, coin-op laundry in basement, $225/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234.

PREMIER Gated Community

SANBORNTON New Large 1 bedroom condo; 2nd floor; parking, plowing & electric included; No smoking/pets. $765/mo. 455-0910

Meredith Bay. 3500 sqft custom 4BDRM single family home, 2-car garage. Grand Winnipesaukee Views! Beach Club, Pools, Tennis! $3750/mo./yr lease. Call 800-559-4141 or jshea@meredithbaynh.com. www.MeredithBayNH.com

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

PINECREST APARTMENTS

Brand New Construction Meredith, NH

Spacious 2 Bedroom Townhouse Style Units Rent $793 Heat & Hot Water Included in rent Section 8 Vouchers Accepted These gorgeous units offer the following…

Neutral Paint and Floor colors W/D Hookup in unit Modern Kitchen w/ Dishwasher and Double Sink Dumpster on site Snow Removal & Landscaping Ample Storage Space & Ample Parking Plus much more!!……

Income Restrictions Apply Credit, Criminal, & Landlord Checks No Pets Please CONTACT US TODAY! 1-800-742-4686 The Hodges Companies 201 Loudon Road Concord, NH 03301 Proudly owned by the Laconia Area Community Land Trust

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Affordable Housing Get your name on our waiting list PRINCE HAVEN or HILLSIDE APARTMENTS All utilities included Plymouth/Meredith, N.H. (Prince Haven has an elderly preference) If you are 62, disabled or handicapped, (regardless of age), and meet annual income guidelines, you may qualify for our one-bedroom apts.

For Rent-Vacation

For Sale

For Sale

Furniture

TROPICAL Paradise: Marco Island, Florida waterfront condo.

Dare to compare, from $500/week and up. 603)393-7077.

Craftsman snow blower $175, Vintage racing snowmobile, extra parts $500. 91 ArtcticCat Snowmobile $500. 603-343-3753

Cole Brook & Co. ladies leather jacket. Size 3X. Black, not worn much. $65. Call 524-8306

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

For Rent-Commercial LACONIA/BELMONT LINE- Retail Showroom at Rt. 106 & Bypass.

1500+ Sq. ft., 10X12 overheaed door, security & fire system. $1,900/Month. 603-502-6437

LACONIA Prime retail. 750 sf., parking, includes heat. $550 per month. Also 1325 sf. $675/month Security deposit & references.

455-6662.

AMAZING Beautiful queen or full pillow top mattress set only $249.

See ad under “furniture”.

Custom Glazed Kitchen Cabinets.

Solid maple, never installed. May add/subtract to fit kitchen. Cost $6,000 sacrifice $1,750. 433-4665

BED- Orthopedic 11 inch thick super nice pillowtop mattress & box.

10 Yr. warranty, new-in-plastic.

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

235-1773

DELTA 3HP 15 Inch Planer. Floor Model 22-785X Deluxe Floor Roller Stand, Dust Hood/Included.

Still in sealed, never opened shipping boxes. $1,535. Original price $3,250. 603-520-1114

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

New-in-boxes cost $2,200 Sell $895. 603-427-2001

FIREWOOD-ALL quantities available. Pick-up/delivery. Self-Serve 1 Mile from Piche!s, Belmont. Off Union Rd. 18 Arlene Dr. 998-7337/Leave Message

Diesel fuel tank with electric pump. $300. 630-0957

KENMORE 30” range, in working order and good condition. $25.

After 6 pm 528-6928.

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

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

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

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

528-5838 Miller Big 40 Welder & Generator powered by 4 cyl. gas motor.

Mounted on 7 X 14 ft. Dual axle trailer. $1,200/OBO. 630-0957 MOVING Sale in Gilford, office furniture, household furniture, books, & etc. Call anytime 524-4740.

PARADIGM Studio 100 v.3 full range home audio/ theater tower speakers. $1650. 496-8639.

RED Sox Tickets: April games, tickets $70-$120 (except New York games). Call for details.

630-2440 ROTEL RB-1090 380 w/ch stereo home audio/ theater power amp $1200. 496-8639.

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

Help Wanted ADVERTISING Sales for tourism publications and website, must have solid ad sales experience.

Lakes Region, North Conway to Canadian Border. Commission only. Resume and references required. (603)356-7011.

Customer Service Help NEEDED NOW With several depts. to fill, we will begin training

Wednesday March 2nd 2011 We're seeking highly motivated individuals that are ready to work hard, and can handle a variety of functions.

Duties & Responsibilities include: • Customer Service • Filling Orders • Client Trial Assistance • Moving Merchandise • Setting up Displays

Entry level positions starting at $460/week (per company agreement)

Signing Bonus (after 60 days)

Interviewing Monday February 28th Reserve your spot

TODAY!

LOOKING FOR HOUSING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, MAINE OR VERMONT? WE MANAGE THE FOLLOWING U.S.D.A. RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROPERTIES: PROPERTY

LOCATION

TYPE

APPLE TREE VILLAGE BELLOW FALLS HOUSING BLACK RIVER OVERLOOK BRIDGEVIEW APTS. BUTTERFIELD ELDERLY CHURCH HILL APTS. COLONIAL COURT I & II CRANBERRY HILL APTS. GILFORD VILLAGE KNOLLS I & II HIGHLAND APARTMENTS HILLSCOMB APARTMENTS JAFFREY MILL APTS. MOUNTAINVIEW APTS. MOUNTAIN VILLAGE ORCHARD CIRCLE PAPER MILL VILLAGE PEQUAWKET VILLAGE POND VIEW APTS. PROCTERSVILLE GREEN PROMENADE COURT ROCKBROOK APTS. UNION SQUARE WALL STREET WENTWORTH PLACE I & II WINCHESTER WOOD

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Call today to see if you qualify.

Elderly - 62 or older, handicapped or disabled Family - families, individuals, elderly or handicapped Applicants must meet U. S. D. A. Rural Development Income Guidelines. In most cases, waiting lists do apply. For more information please contact:

603-224-9221 TDD # 1-800-545-1833 Ext. 118 or Download an application at www.hodgescompanies.com Housing@hodgescompanies.com

STEWART PROPERTY MANAGEMENT P. O. Box 10540, Bedford, NH 03110-0540 603-641-2163 TDD Access

40% of our vacancies will be rented to applicants with Extremely Low Income.

Rent is based on your household size and income.

OR VISIT US AT OUR WEBSITE www.stewartproperty.net

An Equal Opportunity Housing Agent

Twin bed. Head board is cloth with red & white thin stripes. Comes with frame, foundation & mattress. $65. Large living room chair bought at Giever Furniture. Asking $175. Call 524-8306

603-223-0769 LACONIA HARLEY-DAVIDSON is offering an Exciting Sales Opportunity for Motivated and High Energy People. Sales experience is preferred but not required.

Great pay with Benefits available. Please apply online at www.laconiaharley.com.

MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Part-time maintenance technician needed for Wingate Village Apartments in Laconia. Experience in electrical, plumbing, interior/exterior building repair and maintenance. Pay starts at $13.00 per hour, 20 hours per week (Monday – Friday, 8AM-12 PM) With on-call rotation. Previous experience in maintenance preferred. Limited travel for training required. Email resumes to calbert@winnco.com.

EOE. EHO.

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

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SANBORN from page one available right now in the Lakes Region. Spring is coming (I think) and it’s a great time to start thinking about a new home…

Log on to my blog at www.lakesregionrealestatenews.com to see the details of these properties and to leave me your thoughts on this report or the real estate market in general. Roy Sanborn is a REALTOR® for Roche Realty Group, at 97 Daniel Webster Highway in Meredith and can be reached at 6778420. Data was compiled as of 2/17/11 using the Northern New England Real Estate MLS System.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Rowell's Sewer & Drain

SMALL ENGINE TECHNICIAN Tri-County Power Equipment is looking for a part-time, possibly full-time small engine technician to service and repair all types of small engines and equipment.

3 years experience required.

Please fax or email resume, no phone calls please.

Tri-County Power Equipment 385D Union Ave., Laconia, NH Fax: 603-524-3504 rlevasseur@metrocast.net

is looking for 2 full-time/Part-time Sewer Technician/Laborers.

Candidate must be self motivated, professional and avail. to work O/T. Must have CDL Class B and be in good physical condition. Benefits include a competitive salary, 8 paid holidays and IRS retire plan.

Forward Resumes to: mandiehagan@yahoo.com Call 934-4145

SUMMIT RESORT Now Hiring Part-Time Front Desk Nights and Weekends a Must!

Please apply in person 177 Mentor Ave, Laconia

Instruction FLYFISHING LESSONS

on private trout pond. FFF certified casting instructor. Gift cert. available. (603)356-6240. www.mountainviewflyfishing.c om

Birthday party for Dr. Seuss to include cake (but no green eggs) at Gilford Public Library Wednesday, March 2 GILFORD — A birthday party in honor of Dr. Seuss will be held at the Public Library from 1 — 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2.

The celebrated storyteller has served green eggs and ham to generations, introduced children of all ages to the Grinch, and reminded everyone that “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

Mobile Homes

Services

GILFORD: 55+ Park, 2BR w/carport, beach access, excellent condition, updated furnace, with appliances, $25,500. 524-4816.

Services

Motorcycles Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

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

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

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

PIPER ROOFING & VINYL SIDING Quality Work Reasonable Rates Free Estimates Metal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Our Customers Don!t get Soaked!

528-3531

By Owner- 4-Bedroom, 3-season porch, 2-car garage plus shop. 1/2 acre, dead-end street, prime location. 603-528-5254, Leave message.

HANDYMAN SERVICES Small Jobs Are My Speciality

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

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277

New Durham

LOW PRICE ~ QUALITY WORK

Rightway Plumbing and Heating

9 rooms, 2 baths

• Registration Clerk- Temporary F/T and P/T, Minimum two years office experience. Familiarity with healthcare billing and diagnostic coding preferred.

• Clinical Coordinator- Full-Time, RN with Wound Care exp. Resp. to coordinate clinical activities of the Wound Care Center. Must have organizational and leadership skills. Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing pref.

Maintains and demonstrates competency in BLS, infection control, safety and all unit required skill review.

• LNA- Full-time, Provide care and activities of daily living multiple residents of the Merriman House. Experience and NH LNA license required.

• LNA/Unit Secretary- Per Diem, experience and NH LNA license required, weekend availability.

• Clinical Applications Support- Full-time, Support Ambulatory EMR System, RN with IT experience. Clinical Informatics Degree preferred. 5yrs recent ambulatory experience required. Clinical liaison between IT and the clinical practices.

• Diabetes Nurse Educator- Full-time, Involves both individual and group instruction in Diabetes self-management skills. Responsible for the insulin pump/CGSM programs and assist with inpatient hyperglycemic protocols. Needs to be a self-starter and exp. In Diabetes Care/Education. Requirements include CDE, BSN and NH nursing license.

• Biller- Per Diem, Performs billing and collections functions of accounts with balances due from insurance companies. 2 yrs business college or specialized program preferred. Office and hospital exp pref.

• Physical Therapist- Per Diem, Min Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Therapy. Previous inpatient exp pref. Current NH PT License and CPR Cert req. Wknd and Wkday cov.

• RN- Full-time, ACLS, BLS & PALS and some acute care exp and critical care exp pref. Must take rotating call. Positive attitude, team player, computer skills and critical thinking skills required.

• RN- Full-time, BSN or higher pref. Well organized, self motivated, excellent critical thinking and customer service, able to facilitate, collaborate with outside agencies. Prefer Office Nurse exp or equiv. Good computer skills. Hours flexible. BLS A completed Application is required to apply for all positions Website: www.memorialhospitalnh.org.

Contact: Human Resources, Memorial Hospital, an EOE PO Box 5001, No. Conway, NH 03860.

Phone: (603)356-5461 • Fax: (603)356-9121

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

$98,000. $1000 down ARE YOU READY FOR A CHANGE? Enjoy the quality of life found in the Mt. Washington Valley while working in a progressive hospital that matches advanced medical technology with a compassionate approach to patient care.

Join our team and see what a difference you can make!

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer an excellent benefits package that includes health/dental, generous paid time off, matching savings plan, educational assistance and employee fitness program. We have the following openings:

All are invited to join in with thousands across the country for the annual Read Across America Day. The festivities will include cake eating, story telling, and doing as Dr. Seuss recommends, which is try to remember that, “From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”

For more information, call the Library at 5246042.

Over 20 Years Experience

Call 603-397-2694

Fully Insured. License #3647

For more info

Call 393-4949

Roommate Wanted

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

MEREDITH: Private bedroom and bathroom. All utilities included.

Pets allowed.

(603)707-9036.

SWG CONSTRUCTION FRAME • ROOF • SIDE Snow Shoveling • More Fully insured Reasonable Rates

393-6215 TAX PREPARATION Individuals and Businesses No return is too small.

E-Filing available Accounting and Auditing Roger Marceau, CPA 387-6844 or e-mail rlmarceau@metrocast.net

Services CALL Mike for roof shoveling, snowblowing, scrapping and light hauling. Very reasonably priced.

603-455-0214

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

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

REMOVAL: Sheds, garages, junk/trash, fences and cellar & attic cleanups. Laconia/Gilford area. (978)618-3712. Call Tom anytime.

ROOFS CLEARED: 29 years experience, insured. Call Eric, (603)387-4996.

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

No job too small. Mobile service.

393-1087.

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

Snowmobiles 2005 Yamaha Rage: 6,000 miles, runs great! Front left ski & arm need repair. Asking $3,000.

603-387-0147.

Yard Sale CANCELED! EVERYTHING SOLD! INDOOR Yard Sale. Saturday, Feb. 26th. 9am-2pm.

Books, toys, dolls, furniture, dishes, cutglass, folding-chairs, many items priced to sell at $1/ each. 22 Boyd Hill Road, Gilford off Morrill Street.

ESTATE Sale. Saturday, Feb. 26 9am - 1pm. 352 Lower Bay Rd. Sanbornton. Kitchen, diningroom and office furniture, freezer, refrigerator, new men!s big and tall clothing and shoes, vintage women!s clothes, handicap supplies, computer, frames, linens, stereo, cassette tapes, antiques.

Questions? 387-2509 after 3 pm.

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Tai Chi classes on Laconia Adult Meredith Village Savings Bank kicks off travel program with trip Education schedule beginning March 16 to Boston Flower & Garden Show

MEREDITH — Meredith Village Savings Bank (MVSB) will kick off its 2011 Travel Program with a trip to the Boston Flower and Garden Show at the Seaport World Trade Center on Friday, March 18.

A spring tradition, this one day trip to Boston’s biggest horticultural event will showcase the trend of container gardening. A variety of receptacles such as urns, ceramics, and unusual items repurposed as gardening containers will be featured.

Before attending the Flower Show, guests will spend time in Faneuil Hall Marketplace and have the opportunity to enjoy a “Taste of Boston” with an included lunch voucher.

Every year, MVSB partners with

Plymouth Travel to host a number of motorcoach tours and other trips to exciting destinations and cultural events. In addition to the Boston Flower Show trip, upcoming excursions will include the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C., a lobster bake in Kennebunkport, Maine, a concert by cellist Yo-Yo Ma at the Tanglewood Music Festival, a food-lover’s tour of Boston, a performance of “Nutcracker” by the Boston Ballet, and a holiday winter weekend in New York City.

For more details, visit www.mvsb. com/travel. To reserve a spot or for more information, call Plymouth Travel at 536-2403 or Meredith Village Savings Bank at 528-1500.

Watercolor Painting studio class offered

by Adult Education beginning March 14 LACONIA — A Watercolor Painting studio class will be offered by the Adult Education program from 6 — 8:30 p.m. beginning Monday, March 14.

The six-week class, taught by Mary Lou John, is open to students of all levels. No previous watercolor painting experience is required.

Students will learn the fundamentals of watercolor painting, including basic approaches to color and composition. Through a series of landscapes

and other subjects, participants will develop a sensitivity to the medium, and begin to understand how to use watercolor to achieve the best results.

Students attending the first night of class should bring any watercolor painting supplies they might have. Others will be informed by the instructor what supplies are required.

To enroll in this class or for more information, call the Adult Education office at 524-5712.

LACONIA — An eight-week Tai Chi class will be offered by the Adult Education program at the high school from 6:30 — 7:30 p.m. beginning Wednesday, March 16.

Tai Chi is a Chinese exercise system that consists of slow circular hand, foot, and body movements often described as swimming in the air with deep breathing and focused attention.

Originally developed as a martial art, Tai Chi is also performed as a graceful meditative exercise.

Tai Chi, which means Grand or Supreme Ultimate, practice promotes high levels of health, balance, flexibility, strength, confidence, longevity and peace of mind as people age. To enroll in class, call the Adult Education office at 524-5712.

524-6565 Fax: 524-6810

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

VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE AT: www.cumminsre.com

GREAT INVESTMENT

REDUCED

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Separate 4 Car Garage. Across The Street From Lake Winnipesaukee And New Dunkin Donuts. Motivated.

Reduced.. Now..$225,000..Great Neighborhood..Dead End Street And Close To Schools. Pristine Condition Inside And Out..Open Concept Kitchen, Dining And Lr. Sliders To A Private Deck, 4 Br’s, 2.5 Ba’s. Attached Garage And Nicely Landscaped..

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Beautiful Views And Privacy On 5+ Country Acres. 4100 Sf Contemporary Offers 9+ Rooms, 4 Bedrms And 2.5 Baths. Lower Level Finished, Fireplace Lr, Viewside Decks, And 2 Car Garage.

You’ll Appreciate The Condition Of This Charming Cape! A Great Kitchen / Family Rm W/vaulted Ceiling & Cozy Woodstove, Formal Dining W/builtins , Hw Floors, Nice Big Lr , Private Screen Porch , 4 Bedrms, 2 Baths And Playrm On Lower Level. Private Deck And Above Ground Pool. $249,000

Just Reduced...Nice Neighborhood, Close To The Water! Walk To Lakewood Beach On Winnisquam .. Spacious Home With In-law Living Quarters. H/w Floors, 9 Rms, 4 Brms And 2 Baths.

Attached 2 Car Garage, Deck And Great Location. Now $189,500

$299,000

New Listing ~ SANDWICH Instant EQUITY with this spacious Cape priced 30k below recent bank appraisal!

Two large bedrooms, 2 full baths, hdwd flrs, huge livingroom with fireplace, sunroom and large barn on 3 level acres with gorgeous mountain views. Newer siding, roof, windows and furnace.

$179,900

Call Dianne Raymond ReMax Prestige 603-635-3350

Pine Gardens Manufactured Homes Sales & Park

Doublewide

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

$59,900

$299,000

MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE

AT PUBLIC AUCTION March 28, 2011, at 4:30 PM on the premises SINGLE FAMILY HOME 273 LEAVITT ROAD

BELMONT, NH

PER TAX RECORDS: GARRISON STYLE HOME WITH 3 BEDROOMS, UNFINISHED BASEMENT, FINISHED ATTACHED GARAGE AND WOOD DECK ON 3/4 ACRE OF LAND MORTGAGE REFERENCE: Recorded in the Belknap County Registry of Deeds at Book 1987, Page 851 TERMS FOR THE SALE: $5,000.00 deposit must be presented in cash, certified check or banker’s check satisfactory to the mortgagee at the time and place of sale. Balance due within 30 days from the date of sale.

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

www.nationalmultilist.com

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

MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE

AT PUBLIC AUCTION March 17, 2011, at 4:30 PM on the premises SINGLE FAMILY HOME 283 COURT STREET

LACONIA, NH

PER TAX RECORDS: 2 STORY CONVENTIONAL STYLE HOME WITH 3 BEDROOMS, 1 BATHROOM, HEARTH, UNFINISHED ATTIC, UNFINISHED BASEMENT, ENCLOSED FINISHED PORCH, WOOD DECK AND DETACHED GARAGE 0N .23 ACRE OF LAND MORTGAGE REFERENCE: Recorded in the Belknap County Registry of Deeds at Book 2497, Page 260 TERMS FOR THE SALE: $5,000.00 deposit must be presented in cash, certified check or banker’s check satisfactory to the mortgagee at the time and place of sale. Balance due within 30 days from the date of sale.

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

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