The Laconia Daily Sun, March 15, 2011

Japan suspects reactor damage Radiation leak is feared because of effect on containment vessel — Page 2

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By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — After eying nearly $500,000 in budget cuts recommended by City Manager Eileen Cabanel, the City Council, anticipating that the state would further trim revenues and shift expenses to municipalities, directed her to present a second

round of reductions totaling some $400,000 next month, which she said would include laying off city employees.

In preparing the 2011-2012 budget, the council prescribed that the amount to be raised by property taxes should not increase. Consequently, increases in unavoidable expenses, together with any

reduction in revenue from the state, will have to be offset by cuts.

Cabanel proposed a schedule of cuts to all municipal departments to meet the increased cost of employee health insurance and employer retirement contributions, which are projected to jump by $497,000. see LaCONIa page 10

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LACONIA — Mayor Mike Seymour and his counterpart in Franklin, Ken Merrifield, are exploring a closer, more structured and formal, relationship between the two cities.

When Seymour broached the initiative to the City Council last night, all six councilors appeared to welcome it.

As an officer of Franklin Savings Bank, Seymour is familiar with both Franklin and it’s mayor. He said yessee CItIes page 14

Melissa Gulbrandsen is new Belknap County Attorney

Melissa Guldbrandsen is congratulated by her predecessor, Laconia District Court Judge Jim Carroll after being appointed to fill Carroll’s unexpired term as Belknap County Attorney on Monday night in Laconia. Looking on is Gulbrandsen’s son Zander. The Belknap County Convention voted 12-6 to make the appointment. The other finalist was Lori Chandler. Gulbrandsen is an attorney in private practice in Alton and has beeen prosecuting cases, on a contract basis, for the Alton Police Department.

Chandler is a former assistant prosecutor who is now in private practice in Laconia. Carroll resigned his position when Gov. John Lynch appointed his the presiding judge of Laconia District Court. (Alan MacRae/for the Laconia Daily Sun)

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Japan suspects nuclear reactor container damage TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s nuclear safety agency said an explosion Tuesday at an earthquake-damaged nuclear power plant may have damaged a reactor’s containment vessel and that a radiation leak is feared.

The nuclear core of Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan was undamaged, said a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Shigekazu Omukai.

The agency suspects the explosion early Tuesday may have damaged the reactor’s suppression chamber, a water-filled tube at the bottom of the container that surrounds the nuclear core, said another agency spokesman, Shinji Kinjo. He said that chamber is part of the container wall, so damage to it could allow radiation to escape.

“A leak of nuclear material is feared,” said another agency spokesman, Shinji Kinjo. He said the agency

had no details of possible damage to the chamber.

Radiation levels measured at the front gate of the Dai-ichi plant spiked following Tuesday’s explosion, Kinjo said.

Detectors showed 11,900 microsieverts of radiation three hours after the blast, up from just 73

microsieverts beforehand, Kinjo said. He said there was no immediate health risk because the higher measurement was less radiation that a person receives from an X-ray. He said experts would worry about health risks if levels exceed 100,000 microsieverts.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police say the official death toll from last week’s massive earthquake and tsunami has risen to 2,414.

Police said Tuesday that a big share of the deaths were in Miyagi prefecture, where 1,254 people are confirmed dead.

The number of people officially missing is at 3,118. But regional officials said they believe that tens of thousands may have been swept away by the tsunami that devastated a long stretch of Japan’s northeastern coast Friday.

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A Saudi-led military force crossed into Bahrain on Monday to prop up the monarchy against widening demonstrations, launching the first cross-border military operation to quell unrest since the Arab world’s rebellions began in December.

Opposition groups immediately denounced the intervention as an occupation that pushed the tiny island kingdom dangerously close to a state of “undeclared war.”

Bahrain’s majority Shiite Muslims see an opportunity to rid themselves of two centuries of rule by a Sunni monarchy. But Gulf Sunni leaders worry that any cracks in Bahrain’s ruling system could threaten their own foundations. Protests are already flaring in Oman, Kuwait and even tightly ruled Saudi Arabia.

Gulf leaders are also concerned that political gains

by Bahrain’s Shiites might give Shiite Iran a stepping stone to its arch-rival Saudi Arabia, connected to Bahrain by a wide causeway.

Instead, the Saudis and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council sent forces the other way, deploying about 1,000 troops by land and air and cementing the entire six-nation alliance to the fate of Bahrain’s rulers, who are key U.S. allies as hosts of the American Navy’s 5th Fleet.

Shortly after word of the foreign military reinforcements began spreading through Bahrain, protesters blocked roads in the capital Manama. Thousands of others swarmed into Pearl Square, the symbolic center of the monthlong revolt.

“No to occupation!” demonstrators cried in the square.

The worries about Iran have persisted, even though there are no apparent links between Tehran and Bahrain’s opposition.

“The Gulf leaders have tried to legitimize this.

They portray it not as intervention in an internal Bahrain dispute, but rather as an action against an external threat,” said Sami Alfaraj, director of the Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies.

In Tehran, authorities had no comment on the Gulf force moving into Bahrain. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi called on Bahrain to avoid using “violence and force,” according to the semiofficial Fars News Agency.

In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney pointedly did not call on the Saudi-led force to withdraw.

TOBRUK, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s warplanes, artillery and mortar shells can control huge swaths of territory by day, including oil ports, rebel supply routes and even hostile towns. Rebels say anti-government forces can still return in darkness to take advantage of Gadhafi’s own thin supply lines and overstretched ground troops.

The eastern port city of Brega has gone back and forth with the setting of the sun in recent days and

is key to the battle for Libya’s oil centers — so key that both sides claimed control of it nearly simultaneously on Monday. The regime offensive appears to be hampered by a lack of manpower: They can drive out rebels with barrages, but not necessarily hold the territory.

Rebels, on the other hand, didn’t dare come out in the open on Monday in Brega, with a spokesman saying they were taking cover instead in the indus-

trial oil area where they believed Gadhafi forces wouldn’t fire.

Brega and the city of Ajdabiya about 35 miles (70 kilometers) away again came under government bombardment on Monday, freshly exposing their importance as key crossroads for rebel supply lines, a main weakness in the Libyan region that contains most of its oil wealth. To get ammunition, reinforcesee LIBYA page 23

Earthquake death toll stands at 2,414

Saudi-led military force crosses into Bahrain to prop up monarchy

Gadhafi forces control air & ground by day but rebels return at night

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New York officials say Wisconsin unions rush deals ahead of new law driver of bus involved in fatal crash did not have a valid license

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The driver of a bus in a horrific weekend crash that killed 15 people in New York City should not have been able to get behind the wheel because of a driving suspension and several traffic violations, two state officials familiar with the accident probe told The Associated Press on Monday.Ophadell Williams was ticketed in 1995 for speeding and twice for driving without a license, giving police the alias of Erik Williams, the officials said. Williams’ driving privileges were suspended — meaning he couldn’t legally drive in the state — after he failed to address the charges.

The revelations about Williams — a convicted felon with a 20-year-old manslaughter conviction —prompted Gov. Andrew Cuomo to launch a state investigation into how Williams was able to hold a valid commercial driver’s license at the time of the crash early Saturday.

Calls to Williams’ Brooklyn home were unanswered Monday. A spokesman for the bus company that employed him, World Wide Travel, declined to comment, on the instructions of federal investigators.

A 15th person died Monday in the crash of the bus taking gamblers home from a few hours at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut. The bus was sheared in half by a sign pole, killing and maiming people in a jumbled mess on the highway.

Investigators zeroed in on the 40-year-old Williams’ record after his story that his tour bus was clipped by a tractor-trailer fell apart when passengers and witnesses said it never happened.

Investigators are piecing together his trail by matching Social Security numbers of traffic stops under different names, the officials said, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation. Williams also had an incomplete log book, a requirement for commercial drivers, the officials said.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators said Monday they were looking at Williams’ last 72 hours before the crash, checking the casinos’ surveillance video.

“We want to know what he ate, what he drank and how much he slept,” said NTSB vice chairman Christopher Hart.

Williams was convicted of crimes using two aliases. He served just more than two years for manslaughter for his role in a stabbing in 1990, according to state corrections records. He had initially been charged with second-degree murder.

Williams also served about three years, from 1998 to the middle of 2002, for grand larceny for removing an $83,905 check from a Police Athletic League fund, according to Linda Foglia, correctional services spokeswoman.

He also was arrested by New York City police on June 4, 2003, for driving with a suspended license and for possession of three police radios. In 1987, he was arrested on charges of trying to get on public transportation without paying.

There are no federal regulations that would prohibit states from issuing a license to a bus driver with a criminal record, said Duane DeBruyne, a spokesman for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Hart said the tractor-trailer and the bus had a black box-like engine control module that might have stored information. He said the module from the bus had been sent to the NTSB lab in Washington for downloading; the tractor-trailer was impounded.

He identified the owner of the tractor-trailer as Webster Trucking Company of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and said Webster was cooperating.

Hart said officials were bringing in extra equipment to inspect the left front side of the bus to check the driver’s account.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — School boards and local governments across Wisconsin are rushing to reach agreements with unions before a new law takes effect and erases their ability to collectively bargain over nearly all issues other than minimal salary increases.

The law doesn’t go into effect until the day after Secretary of State Doug La Follette publishes it and it doesn’t supersede contracts already in place, fueling unions’ desire to reach new deals quickly. La Follette said Monday that he will delay publication until the latest day possible, March 25, to give local governments time to try to reach agreements.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker had asked La Follette to publish the law Monday, but the Democratic secretary of state said he didn’t see any emergency that warranted doing so. La Follette opposed the bill and said he sat in his office watching parts of a weekend protest that brought as many as 100,000

people out in opposition to the law.

“This is the biggest change in Wisconsin labor management history in 50 years,” La Follette said, describing his reasoning for holding off on its enactment.

The law ends collective bargaining for public workers over everything except salary increases no greater than inflation. It also forces state workers to make benefit concessions that amount to an 8 percent pay cut on average.

Walker also is proposing a nearly $1 billion cut in aid to schools in his two-year budget plan that would take effect in July. He argued that for that reason, districts need to get more money from their employees to help mitigate the loss in aid. Walker also wants to limit the ability of schools and local governments to pay for the cuts through local property tax increases.

The Wisconsin Association of School Boards is see WISCONSIN page 23

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Pat Buchanan

A setting sun?

We can thank Providence that the earthquake was not 150 miles closer to Tokyo, else Japan’s dead might number in the millions.,Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls it the worst crisis since World War II. Yet, horrendous as it is, it does not, thus far, compare with that. For the earthquake dead are not 1-percent of those who perished in World War II. Between 1942 and 1945, Japan was stripped naked of an empire that embraced Formosa, Korea, Manchuria, the entire China coast, all of French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), the Philippines and the Western Pacific out to Guam and south to Guadalcanal.

She sustained 2-million military dead and 500,000 to a million civilian dead under U.S. carpet-bombing that reduced her great cities to smoldering rubble and Hiroshima and Nagasaki to atomic ash.

Yet, 25 years after the most devastating defeat in modern history, Japan boasted the second largest and most dynamic economy on earth.

Under the proconsulship of Gen. MacArthur, Japan rose to her feet, renounced war and reached an annual growth rate of 10-percent by the 1960s, 5-percent in the 1970s, 4-percent in the 1980s. Smaller than Montana and with fewer resources, she created an economy half as large as the U.S. and in many ways technologically superior.

An extraordinary accomplishment of an extraordinary people.

At the end of the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to surpass America.

It did not happen. The last two decades were lost decades, with Japan’s economy shrinking to a third of that of the United States.

Last year, Japan was overtaken as the world’s second largest economy

by China. Beijing now produces more automobiles and has a trade surplus with America that dwarfs that of Japan.

In 1988, eight of the 10 largest companies in the world were Japanese. Today, Japan does not have one company in the top 20 and only six in the top 100. Her national debt is 200-percent of gross domestic product.

Can Japan come back from this earthquake and 20 years of economic stagnation and political malaise to recover the dynamism she exhibited in the decades after World War II? To do so will require a far greater miracle. The reason for such pessimism may be summed up in a single word: demography.

Japan has 127-million people, her highest population ever. Yet, the United Nations projects that 25-million Japanese will vanish by 2050.

Why? Japan is the oldest country on earth, with a median age of 45 and a fertility rate below zero population

growth for 40 years.

To sustain a population, the fertility rate of its women must be 2.1 children. Japan’s rate, 1.27 children per woman, is not two-thirds of what is required to replace her present population.

In 1960, when Japan was striding to overtake West Germany as the No. 2 economy, 49-percent of her people were under 25 years of age.

Less than 8-percent was over 60., Today, only 23-percent of Japan’s population is under 25, more than 30-percent of all Japanese are over 60, and Japan’s median age has shot up to 45. Japan is projected to lose 3-million people this decade, and nearly 6-million in the 2020s.

To put it starkly, Japan is aging, shrinking and dying.

In 2050, less than 19-percent of all Japanese will be under 25, while 44-percent will be over 60. The median age will reach 55, and this assumes a U.N.-projected rise in the fertility rate that is nowhere in sight.

Writing on the decline in Japanese students in U.S. universities, The Washington Post reports: “The number of children (in Japan) under the age of 15 has fallen for 28 consecutive years. The size of the nation’s high school graduating class has shrunk by 35 percent in two decades.”

Where have all the children gone?

Yet what is happening to Japan is not unique to Japan. Russia’s population is shrinking at two to three times the pace of Japan’s. She is losing half a million people a year.

Germany and Ukraine are running Japan a close race. Only immigration from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East enables Britain to project population growth. Native-born Brits are departing and dying.

Indeed, every one of the East Asian and European nations that scored highest on the international tests for math and science has a fertility rate that assures an aging and shrinking population.

Where is world population growth to come from? Between now and 2050, Africa’s population will double to 2-billion. Latin America and Asia will add over a billion people.

Just six nations, Muslim and poor — Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey — are expected to add almost 500-million people to their combined populations by 2050.

If demography is destiny, the sun is not only setting in the Land of the Rising Sun. The sun is setting in the West.

(Syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three presidents, twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in 2000. He won the New Hampshire Republican Primary in 1996.)

LETTERS Republicans, it’s time to move on — create jobs, fix economy To the editor, A few months ago I wrote a letter stating my dissatisfaction with the Republican Party. I stated these people were out of touch with the “real people” of the United States and all they wanted to do was take a way what little the poor and low-income and elderly had by cutting programs.

I stated that these Republicans had no idea of what these people went through in their lives and what this would do to them. I stated that the Republican would continue to attack the programs so essential to the poor.

One local Republican followed with a letter that not all Republicans were like that.

Well I beg to differ because what I see going on right now with the Republican Party is happening all over the USA. They are now attacking the heating program for the low-income and elderly which in this state would be devastating.They want to stop funding the WIC program which provides nutritious food to women, infants and children.. In fact most of the legislation being proposed seems to be a direct attack on women and children.

I am in amazement every time I hear some of the proposed legislation by Republicans and the ones I’ve chosen to talk about are among the worst and all sponsored by Republicans.

In Georgia right now Bobby Franklin, a Republican, has sponsored a amendment to a bill that will make it a criminal action punishable by death if it can be proven a woman miscarries from “human involvement”. However human involvement is not defined. Hypothetically take a pregnant woman in N.H: It is winter and she leaves her home on foot and slips on the ice and miscarries. Is she now guilty of a criminal act because she should have protected her unborn child better and not have left the house? This is absolutely absurd because doctors can’t even tell exactly why woman miscarry.

Presently in Washington they are proposing to cut all funds to Planned Parenthood. The organization provides poor and low-income women with birth control at a very low cost or no cost. Meanwhile, Republican Dan

Burton is sponsoring a bill to fund a program to get contraceptives to wild horses to keep their population down.

So, if I am understanding this correctly, we will pay for contraceptives for horses but not for humans. Now, that makes no sense to me at all.

And, in N.H. right now we have six Republicans who have sponsored a bill that would mandate that any person applying for or receiving food stamps would be subjected to random drug testing. The implication here is quite evident. In their minds all poor and low-income people who receive food stamps are druggies. The worse part of this is that HB-484-FN reads “all applicants of food stamps regardless of age will be subjected to random testing”. This would include children and the elderly. To boot, this bill would not save the state a single cent. In fact it would cost to implement and keep it going. Real cost-effective and real necessary.

Instead of our government, state and federal representative, are spending time and money on rehashing legislation that has already become law.

Why not spend that time and money on legislation to create jobs and boast the economy. N.H. dealt with gay marriage. It passed and there is no need to bring it up again. The federal government has dealt with abortion and we have the Hyde Amendment in place that clearly states no federal funds will go to pay for abortions so why bring it up again? And “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is no more. Leave it alone and lets move on.

If the Republicans would stop giving money to the already wealthy, big banks and oil companies the budget could be balanced. Start by repealing the Bus tax cuts.

It is time to move on and it is time for the Republicans to get on board with the rest of the people in the USA. We want you to create jobs so as strengthen our economy. Stop wasting time and our money writing these foolish pieces of legislation . It is time to see some common sense but I am beginning to think these people don’t have any.

Nancy Parsons Laconia

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LETTERS Contact these senators and ask them to vote ‘no’ on SB-27 To the editor, The right to safe boating on Lake Winnipesaukee, specifically the “Broads” may well be taken away.

Senate Bill 27 (SB-27) is being driven by a small core of go-fast, high performance boaters (Safe Boaters Of New Hampshire). Some feel it is their freedom to go fast, leaving the interpretation of safe speed in the hands of those behind the throttle. These individuals feel their freedom has been violated and they have the right to make their own determination of speed.

What about the vast majority of individuals who have expressed their support for the 45/30 speed limits (a ratio of 3:1 at the Transportation Committee Hearing in Concord on February 24th as well as 80-percent of polled New Hampshire residents)? Don’t supporters of 45/30 have the right to be safe and enjoy a family outing, drifting peacefully in the “Broads”? SB-27 and its amendments ignore safety to accommodate a few thrill seekers. Speed is feeling of power and excitement for some, terror and intimidation for others. There will be NO speed limits, just “reasonable and prudent speed”. This is a personal interpretation.

Please go to Safe Boaters Of New Hampshire’s website at: http:// www.sbonh.org/forums/showthread. php?64-Whats-the-fastest-youhave.... Here, you will find comments from founding members of the organization regarding their experiences

with fast boats: — “21 foot eliminator with big block...just over 100 mph on Lake Winnisquam.. . . 353 formula at almost 90-mph and of course my donzi at almost 75-mph.”

— “Although I don’t think I would do it again, my cousin’s Fountain. It had to be close, if not over 100-mph.

And yes, it was on Winnipesaukee.

We were moving so fast, nobody had enough time to worry.”

Are these examples of reasonable and prudent speed?

The “Broads” is the hub of Lake Winnipesaukee, one of the largest confluences of boats on the lake. To lift the speed limit, or increase limits to 55 mph would designate it “The Kill Zone”.

Please contact the committee senators, especially Chairman Rausch, and tell them to recommend leaving the 45/30 Speed Limits alone, with NO changes! 45/30 works and is safe for the majority of boaters. Safety should come first, not compromise.

— Jim B. Rausch (District 19) 2718630 james.rausch@leg.state.nh.us — James R. Forsythe (District 4) 271-3096 forsytjr@gmail.com — David R. Boutin (District 16) 271-2709 dboutin1465@comcast.net or david.boutin@leg.state.nh.us — Nancy F. Stiles (District 24) 2716933 nancy.stiles@leg.state.nh.us — Molly M. Kelly (District 10) 2712166 molly.kelly@leg.state.nh.us Mark & Nancy Watson Alton Bay

Please make a donation to the Rich Velasquez Foundation To the editor, As we enter a new year, the officers and board of directors wanted to take time to share with friends of the Rich Velasquez Youth Sports Equipment Foundation some of the upcoming developments and past year accomplishments.

As you know, the Rich Velasquez Youth Sports Equipment Foundation (RVYSEF) was founded in 2008 after the untimely death of Rich Velasquez.

Rich was an outstanding member of the Lakes Region community and devoted countless hours to youth sports, as a father, coach, and umpire.

He was involved in many youth sports leagues and enjoyed different sporting activities. He believed children should never be restricted from playing due to a lack of the proper equipment, and he personally sponsored many children. His vision and dedication inspired his family and friends to carry on his legacy with the inception of this needed foundation.

The mission of the Rich Velasquez Youth Sports Equipment Foundation is to assist in providing sports equipment to children and youth of needy families in the Greater Lakes Region community, in an effort to ensure that every child has the opportunity to participate in community sports

regardless of financial circumstances.

In 2010, we supported 22 children in eight different sports and gifted one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars to needy families. As we continue to grow and families become acquainted with our services, demands for those services will grow. Additionally, we are attempting to expand throughout the Lakes Region and are also reaching into other sporting activities.

In an effort to sponsor as many children in the Lakes Region as possible, we invite you to join us in carrying on Rich’s work. Any donation you would like to make to assist us in this endeavor would be greatly appreciated and will put smiles on the faces of children knowing that they can participate with new equipment for the sport of their choice.

We thank you in advance for any donation or support that you may give us for this very worthy cause. Please send your gift today to: The RVYSEF Foundation, 47 St. Catherine Street, Laconia, NH 03246.

Thank you for your ongoing support in keeping Rich’s dream alive, and God Bless!

Jack Batchelder, President Rich Velasquez Youth Sports Equipment Foundation

Thank you for supporting our right to farm in Gilmanton To the editor, As farmers who live in Gilmanton, all of us want to say “thank you” to the voters who supported our right to farm, and helped guarantee our

ability to continue farming, by voting “NO” on Article 12 at the recent Town Meeting.

Frank Bosiak, Daniel Sanborn Tim Towle, Bob McWhinnie

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LETTERS Details in Coast Guard report must be analyzed in proper context To the editor, To Honorable Members of the N.H. Senate and Transportation Committee: During the Senate Bill 27 hearing of Feb. 24, a member of SBONH said that boats traveling over 40-mph accounted for only .9-percent, 9 tenths of one percent, of the total reported accidents in the U.S. Coast Guard Recreational Report for 2009, so excessive speeds were not a major problem. This has also appeared in many letters to the editors of numerous newspapers. While this is a valid statement for a particular speed range as reported it is only part of the story by proponents of SB-27 and the proposed amendment making the area of Lake Winnipesaukee known as the Broads open for 55-mph in an area of 27 square miles.

Another statement by these same proponents is that the largest number of accidents occur at speeds less than 10-mph. This is also true in that particular speed range as reported. Now let me tell you the rest of the story that the anti-speed limit folks seem to disregard.

According to the current law we have a 30 mph limit for night time use on the big lake so we must include the reported number, or at least half, for the speed range of 21 to 40 mph.

When we add that number to the over 40-mph number we find that the accidents reported for excessive speeds account for over 13-percent for 2008 and 2009 in context with the N.H. speed limits currently in place.

Partial data reported by the SBONH

members and those who try to deceive the public by writing to the editors is totally inadequate when it comes to safety. To look at the data yet another way when the 427 accidents reported under the “Excessive Speed” category in 2009 is divided by the total accidents reported, 4730, the answer is excessive speeds are the known primary contributing factor of accidents in over 9-percent of the reported cases total.

Now it appears that the proponents of SB-27 have tried to get at least a protected area where they can exceed the 45/30 mph at their hearts desire, any time of the day or night. The rest of the boating public that has to travel through that 16,100 plus acres to access the abutting properties on islands or in Winter Harbor or sections of mainland will have to have the ability to swing their heads around 360-degrees to watch what’s coming at them day and night. If you believe that they will do just 55-mph you are a bigger fool than I. We suggest that SB-27 and it’s proposed amendment proponents get new batteries for their calculators and maybe even new reading glasses or at least take a reading comprehension course. The details in the Coast Guard reports must be analyzed in the context of N.H. law, completely and thoroughly.

Vote “ITL” on SB-27 and the proposed amendment any other finding does not make common sense.

Bill Bertholdt Gilford

I have the experience & I understand Shaker District’s needs To the editor, This Friday, the voters of the Shaker Regional School District, serving the communities of Belmont and Canterbury, have an opportunity to vote for a school board candidate who understands our school district’s needs. We are faced with federal and state revenue shortfalls, with the local level expected to pick up this shift in funding responsibility. Faced with an uncertain economy and local tax limits, we need to continue to develop solutions to fund our school programs.

I am running for another term on the school board. As a member of the board, I have demonstrated my ability to make sound and responsible fiscal

decisions impacting our students and our taxpayers. My four terms of service on the Board include chairing several committees — building and grounds; finance; collective bargaining — and serving as a former chair of the board, have provided me with the experience to meet the challenges ahead.

I shall continue to be a strong advocate for developing balanced budgets fair to both the district and its taxpayers. I would like to continue to serve and ask, again, for your vote this Friday night.

Sumner Dole Canterbury

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THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 — Page 7

LETTERS Will nuclear power now have less support from Pres. Obama?

To the editor, In 2008 the Department of Energy’s budget was $21.4-billion. Under current Energy Secretary Steven Chu, this department’s 2010 budget more than doubled to $46.3-billion. Pretty impressive for money equating with departmental power! What are the ambitions there?

Atomic physicist Chu came to this position from being director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory. He fit right into Barack Obama’s scheme to increase U. S. nuclear power plants in number. In the first national debate among the primary candidates, held at Dartmouth College, Barack Obama included nuclear plants in his statement of what was fine with him for power production. (Candidate John Edwards was the candidate who didn’t waffle, but famously said only, “no.”)

Now we hear both Obama and Chu labeling nuclear power, “clean nuclear”; Obama also publicly utters, “clean coal” — which makes me think

he’s never witnessed mountaintop removal while coal is mined. On Friday morning, before the bad news from Asia, I’d sent Obama and Chu postcards asking if they aren’t redefining “clean” when they say “clean nuclear” and “clean coal.”

Will nuclear power have less presidential support after the failures of Japan’s nuclear power plants during ongoing tragedy there? Possibly. Or will the majority of Americans remain silent and think of that as, ho-hum, a problem over there? Atmospheric winds may, unfortunately, put the harmful man-made radiation into Americans’ more local news.

Tell Obama on a postcard that you don’t want it: Pres. Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W., Washington, DC 20500.

Your public servant Steven Chu is at: Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, DC 20585.

Lynn Rudmin Chong Sanbornton

What are Ashland selectmen trying to hide? Why change the locks?

To the editor, I would like to ask the question, “What do two selectmen in Ashland have to hide?”

Within 12 hours of the latest election, two selectmen demanded that the locks to the town office be changed.

Within 48 hours the locks were changed, subsequently locking out at least one department head, and a then current selectboard member, and maybe more. At that time, officially Ashland had a five member board.

Three members were not consulted.

The locks were changed, apparently without having a meeting of the board or even including other board members such as the person who was still at that time chairman of the selectboard. RSA 91-A clearly states that, “One selectman cannot act alone” and apparently the decision was made by two, with each one acting independently. (Or did they have an illegal meeting to make this decision?) Board

members do not have the legal right to make an independent decision.

The locks were changed less than two years ago when our previous town administrator and our financial officer left. That is called protocol. What these two board members did was wrong.

Folks, I encourage you to attend all Ashland Selectboard meetings. They are usually the first and third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Ober School Cafeteria. Work sessions are usually the second Monday at 6 p.m. at the Ober School Library.

Please check the posting at the town hall, post office or utilities department as this could change with a new board.

Protect your rights. Do not let anyone violate the Right-to-Know Law. To do that would encourage censorship, and dictatorship.

Keep everyone accountable.

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If just throwing more money at public education would improve the basic competency levels of our students in math and reading then the problem would likely have been resolved some time ago. Currently on national tests, like the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Performance) also known as the Nations Report Card, only about 42-percent of New Hampshire eighth grade students are at least proficient in reading and math.

When adjusted for our racial mix we score slightly lower which indicates (when using 2009 data) that New Hampshire results are roughly the same as the low overall average of most of the other states.

This is not just our problem in New Hampshire. This is America’s problem. If we can not change the trajectory of this situation then most of our grandchildren will likely have a completely different set of job options. We simply must do a better job.

While I have been a New Hampshire school board chairman on two different school boards and a co- founder of New Hampshire’s first Charter School, I have learned much more about high performance organizations as a hospital board member for the last nine years. Health care board members all around the country are rapidly trying to redesign health care delivery as we currently know it. In many cases survivability is not guaranteed so complacency is just not an option. I believe that many of the performance management advances already being achieved in other areas are directly transferable into public education.

Let me use health care as an example.

Solid board governance establishes clear responsibilities for performance improvement. In non-profit health care organizations, the board members are directly responsible to the community stakeholders for the quality of health care and the safety of patients.

The not for profit health care board is also responsible to establish a clear vision, with significant community stakeholder input, of how they see the hospital providing health care value for the community, to identify key community goals and report ongoing progress of the key strategic objectives to stakeholders.

Health care boards are obligated to provide meaningful oversight of the CEO. This usually includes a formal written annual review focusing on the progress of implementing the strategic plan and the measured progress achieved in all of the key strategic objectives. (Clear accountability and oversight.)

Health care boards know that mission performance means that high quality coordinated health care, patient safety, access, and high levels of stakeholder satisfaction are key areas of focus and in many cases even necessary for survival of the organization. Increased stakeholder satisfaction and support is very important in high performing health care organizations. (Transparency.)

are what really matter. Process and procedures are important to the degree that they directly or indirectly support the approved mission and are consistent with the vision, core values and guiding principals of the organization that were approved by the board, as they are obligated to do.

Improved results will not become sustainable without a culture committed to ongoing improvement throughout the organization. This generally takes the longest time to achieve (generally several years) but it is the most important in the long run. A highly trained, satisfied, mission focused and empowered staff is invaluable to any organization committed to becoming a high performing organization. Ideally, everyone understands their part in the success of the organization. The value of mission-focused, empowered employees is that they are empowered to make corrective changes at the lowest organizational levels possible.

In for-profit organizations, most of the board focus is primarily on profitability, sustainability, growth, and customer satisfaction. In not for profit organizations (like school districts) the focus is primarily on delivering some set of educational value contributions to a set of satisfied stakeholders in a manner that can be sustained.

I believe the not for profit framework is a much better example for public education.

Education value in a community is usually a function of quality (improved student outcomes), cost and accessibility. We can now achieve significantly higher quality at essentially the same cost.

(Translate the strategy into operational terms – align the organization to the strategy - establish measurable targets – measure it - transparently report progress to all community stakeholders.

Developing mission-focused, empowered employees is a crucial element in developing a culture committed to ongoing improvement).

There are already a rapidly growing number of significant examples of high performing health care organizations across the country and I expect there will be a few in New Hampshire in the next year or so. There are only a few but some exceptional examples of significant success in high performing educational organizations around the country.

Proven road maps and examples already exist. One of the best examples in the country is The Montgomery County Public School System in Rockville Md. (A Baldrige Award winner in 2010 of the Baldrige Education Award for Performance Excellence).

There is an opportunity to significantly improve the performance of our public education system in New Hampshire. New Hampshire could very well become a national leader in public school performance improvement in a relatively short period of time. This is not about increased spending. This is about improved board governance, clear responsibilities, mission focus, higher standards, transparency, empowered employees and direct accountability to the community stakeholders.

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THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Tuesday, March 15, 2011— Page 9

COUNTY from page one In the end and after two and a half hours of often heated and angry discussion, it was Rep. Bob Luther of Laconia who moved his vote away from those seeking deeper cuts and enabled a county budget of $32,158,768 to pass.

Until then, Luther had supported all of the proposed amendments. But according to parliamentary rule, amendments must pass by a majority so the previous tie-votes to cut the budget failed.

“This is a joke,” said Rep. Guy Comtois of Center Barnstead who supported all of the previous attempted cuts. “We’re trying to help people who struggle. This couldn’t have been worse if we had Democrats.”

Many voters in the over-filled room were inclined to agree with Comtois. During the initial 35 minutes of public comment, those attending urged the delegation to cut spending.

Those who offered suggestions for cuts, including long-standing budget hawk Tom Tardif, wanted to see reductions in the outside agencies because there is no county control over their operations.

For the most part, the comments were respectful, but also included a lead-off statement one by an Alton resident who called all government employees parasites who live off a host organism — the taxpayers.

Others speaking for cutting the budget were the heads of Sanbornton’s Budget committee Earl Leighton and Selectboard Chair Dave Nickerson.

Alton’s newest Budget Committee member Nancy Howard asked that they run the county like a home and check the budget before they go shopping.

After public comment, the move to cut the county budget was led by Rep Collette Worsman of Meredith and Rep. Harry Accornero of Laconia and it was Accornero who got the ball rolling by making a motion to cut the budget by 7-percent even before the subcommittees that had studdied various aspects of the plan put together by the county commissioners had made their recommendations.

Worsman attempted to both clarify and secure the motion by making a proposed amendment to Accornero’s proposal to remove the $1.9-million in federal stimulus money, reduce the budget by 7-percent, and then add the federal stimulus back in.

She also wanted to see the federal stimulus money moved to a separate capital budget that could only be spent with the advice and consent of the delegation.

Rep. Frank Tilton of Laconia said he supported separating the capital budget from the whole budget but said he couldn’t support her motion as proposed because “it was too broad as one amendment.”

“I was fairly certain I was only going to get one bite at this apple,” said Worsman explaining why she lumped it all into one. “Technically it is four separate motions.”

“I’d like to focus on each of your ideas but I hesitate to support the whole motion,” Tilton responded.

“If we had come in at 29 [million] we’d be discussing 25 [million], he said. “I’m happy with what we’ve done.”

After Worsman’s attempt to amend Accornero’s proposed amendment failed, the subject returned to the original movement for the 7-percent cut.

Rep. Bob Kingsbury of Laconia spoke about unions ruining the Lakes Region’s tax base.

Fields said he had difficulty supporting the proposed 7-percent slash because all of the subcommittee’s had reviewed their respective departments and had actually added money to the commissioner’s request.

Many of those who supported the 7-percent cut questioned the wisdom of maintaining a $4-million budget surplus at the end

Four of a group of nine Republican state representatives determined to make significant cuts in the 2011 Belknap County Budget confer in Laconia last night during a recess in a Belknap County Convention meeting. The break was called for in an attempt to find a way out of a 9-9 deadlock between representatives who wanted to approved the budget as presented and those who wanted to cut 7-percent. In the end, Rep. Bob Luther of Laconia was shaken from the pro-cut coalition with a proposed compromise that resulted in a much smaller reduction of $274,000. Pictured here are (l-r) Guy Contois of Alton, Harry Accornero of Laconia, Bob Greemore of Meredith and Bill Tobin of Sanbornton. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Gail Ober)

Worsman said in her mind a budget surplus was tantamount to over-taxing the previous years. She said she wanted to decrease future surpluses by reducing this year’s budget.

Many of the convention members also said they would like to approve all capital spending.

“You do that anyway,” said Commisioner Ed Philpot (D-Laconia) inferring the vote on the budget includes the capital budget.

He said the approval of the budget is the delegation’s responsibility while the day to day responsibilities of running the county fall, by law, to the commissioners.

“So we can have a meeting, but you’re going to spend it any way you want,” asked Accornero.

“No,” replied Philpot, explaining, with some assistance from Commissioner John Thomas (R-Belmont) that it’s simply the difference in the statutory responsibilities.

When Tilton and Rep. David Russell of Gilmanton said they weren’t ready to support the motion because there were no specific recommendations as to cutting, Accornero said they didn’t need to go line by line because the delegation had already been told not to micro-manage the budget.

“We have gone through this department by department and the subcommittees have made their rec-

ommendations,” said Chair Alida Millham of Gilford, who spent most of her night trying to restore order.

When someone called the question, the amendment for the blanket 7-percent reduction failed by a 9-9 vote.

Accornero made a motion to reduce the surplus by 7-percent, Millham said she really needed an explanation.

With every one, except presumably Accornero, confused, Shackett said the 2011 budget included a total of $4.4-million from the surplus (which included the federal stimulus money that came in 2009 and 2010 but was not spent) leaving at a projected $4-million by the end of fiscal year 2011.

Then Luther, who had seconded Accornero motion, said it was all too confusing and removed his second and ended that discussion.

After more discussion, Accornero removed his motion and asked for a recess.

When some members asked why they would need a recess for discussion, another member said to caucus.

“How can we caucus when we’re all Republican?” asked Worsman.

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LACONIA from page one Overtime in the police, fire and public works departments would be pared. There would $15,000 less for book purchases at the library. A comprehensive drainage study would be shelved and street sweeping cut. School crossing guards would be eliminated and lifeguards reduced. The $25,000 annual investment in playgrounds, which Cabanel said represented “the twelfth year of a 10-year plan,” would be dropped.

Altogether the cuts amount to $339,000, which along with $150,000 withdrawn from the undesignated fund balance, would balance the budget without increasing property taxes.

However, in light of measures Governor John Lynch included in his budget address, Councilor Henry Lipman (Ward 3) , chairman of the council’s finance subcommittee, warned that further reductions would be required. “We’ve got more work to do, more choices we’re going to have to consider,” Lipman said. “The governor’s budget was a bad budget and what’s going to come on top of it will be even worse. That’s guaranteed. It’s going to be downshifted in our laps.”

Cabanel acknowledged that her budget does not anticipate incurring further expenses or foregoing further revenues from the state. In particular, she chose not to address Governor John Lynch’s proposal to eliminate the state share of retirement contributions for police officers, firefighters and school teachers, which would add about $415,000 to the city budget.

“If the retirement piece comes down,” Cabanel conceded, “it will be drastic. People are going to lose their jobs.”

Lipman pressed Cabanel to outline a second

round of cuts sooner rather than later, arguing that the council should afford the public ample to time to respond to the cuts and the council sufficient time to make difficult choices. Residents, he insisted, should be informed of the impact deeper cuts would have on municipal services and invited to voice their opinion to the council.

Cabanel countered that if she prepared a schedule of lay offs, the individual employees would know who could be losing their jobs. She said that she did not want employees “on pins and needles” and argued “until it’s knocking at our door, I don’t want to be talking about who will get laid off. I want you collectively to tell me to announce who will get laid off,” she insisted.

Moreover, Cabanel reminded the councilors that the budget includes $424,000 in projected but uncommitted debt service, explaining that some or all of the amount could be applied to avoid more cuts in spending.

Lipman repeatedly urged Cabanel to specify a second round of budget reductions next month, to allow the council enough time to sound the public and make its decisions. He was joined by Councilor Matt Lahey (Ward 2), who suggested that to avoid draconian cuts, both the employees and the public had to be given an opportunity to respond to the prospect. “Just sitting back,” he said “is not advocating for those jobs.”

When Mayor Mike Seymour polled the councilors, only Councilor Armand Bolduc (Ward 6) favored deferring any further proposals to reduce the budget.

Councilors Bob Hamel (Ward 5), Brenda Baer (Ward 4) and Ava Doyle (Ward 1) joined with Lipman and Lahey in asking Cabanel to present recommendations in April.

New Jersey beats Celtics, 88-79 for 5th straight win NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Celtics’ Big Three had never lost in New Jersey, which often feels more like the TD Garden than the Garden State when they visit.

Even they have to admit things are different now from the Nets — who won’t rule out yet having the Celtics back here for the playoffs.

Brook Lopez scored 20 points, Deron Williams added 16 and made the clinching 3-pointer, and the Nets extended their longest winning streak in three years to five games with an 88-79 victory Monday night.

Kris Humphries had 16 points and 15 rebounds, following his strong performance against Blake Griffin by turning in one against Kevin Garnett to from preceding page — $224,000 less than where they started two and a half hours earlier. There was no explanation offered as to how the figure was arrived at.

Those supporting the budget of $32,158, 768 were Reps. Millham, Russell, Tilton, Luther, Bolster, Fields, Jim Pilliod of Belmont, Jeff St. Cyr of Alton, Elaine Swinford of Barnstead and Donald Flanders of Laconia.

Opposing the budget as passed were Worsman, Accornero, Bob Greemore of Meredith, Kingsbury, Comtois, Tyler Simpson of New Hampton, Bill Tobin of Sanbornton and Robert Malone of Alton.

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It’s working. New Jersey has won five in a row overall for the first time since Dec. 28-Jan. 5 in 2007-08 season, the Big Three’s first. And though a huge long shot with a 5½-game deficit to overcome in the last month, the Nets aren’t out of the postseason race yet.

“I think we are playing good right now, we are gelling pretty well, having such a short time together.

We’re having fun,” Williams said. “These games are important right now, not only because we have a chance to make the playoffs, but for the future and going forward next year.”

Ray Allen scored 19 points and Garnett had 18 for the Celtics, who couldn’t overcome horrible shooting nights from All-Stars Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo and fell back into a tie with Chicago for the best record in the Eastern Conference.

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Solid majority of Inter-Lakes voters agree that teachers need a raise

By Ed EnglEr

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

MEREDITH — Raises for Inter-Lakes’ teachers were supported by a solid majority of the roughly 300 voters who showed up at the high school on Saturday for the three-town school district’s annual meeting. The school board negotiated a 12-month deal with the teachers’ union — covering the 201112 school year — that calls for an average salary increase of about 2.7-percent and that proposal was approved on a 175 to 119 secret ballot vote.

Similar majorities of voters later beat back two attempts to reduce the school board’s proposed operating budget for the coming school year. First Don Ewing tried to cut an even 5-percent — about $1-million — from the $20.2-million spending plan but a secret ballot vote of 175 to 119 sent that amendment down to defeat. Then Mark Flanders proposed a more modest cut of $200,000 and his proposal was easily defeated on a show of hands.

Those on-hand for the meeting represented about 4-percent of the registered voters in Center Harbor, Meredith and Sandwich.

More than 450 people attended the annual meeting a year earlier, when voters rebelled against an austerity budget brought forward by the majority of a divided school board and added $766,000 to the bottom line by a vote of 333 to 123. The base of that majority coalition was an unusually high turnout of Sandwich voters, motivated in particular by a desire to keep their communities sixth graders at their local elementary school.

The backlash from the 2010 meeting was significant, especially in Meredith, and divisions within the district intensified over the subsequent months.

Those divisions remained obvious on Saturday, when, on at least one occasion there were harsh, not all-together private words exchanged between members of waring factions.

Chairman Richard Hanson defended the proposal to give each of the 116 teachers covered by the agreed-to collective bargaining agreement a “step” increase on the salary scales, plus increase the values of each of those steps by 1-percent, as “the lowest increase ever agreed to” by the school board.

He said a one year — instead of the normal three year — agreement was negotiated with a “very keen awareness of the economic climate” and the “uncertainty of the times”.

The bottom line cost of the raises was estimated at $267,853.

From the floor, Bob Flanders countered that he didn’t know of anyone in the private sector who was getting a raise this year.

“This isn’t about whether or not teachers are doing a good job,” added Mark Flanders.

“That’s not the issue.”

“Our teachers do a very good job, from what I’ve seen,” agreed Justin Van Etten, before lowering the boom on the school board.

“Just because you guys can’t negotiate (a reasonable contract) doesn’t mean the teacher’s aren’t doing a great job,” he added before going on to point out that his Stewart’s Ambulance Service had dropped the price of its contracted-for service to the Town of Meredith because of the weak economy. “You give two or three times what the state COLA is,” he charged.

Harking back to an earlier reference to the Inter-Lakes High

School LifeSmarts team’s recent state championship performance, Van Etten suggested, tongue in cheek, the school board enlist the students to conduct future union negotiating for them.

Meredith Selectman (and State Representative) Colette Worsman was concerned about the “evergreen” ramifications of the proposed contract and, after much discussion and more than a little confusion, her persistence led to the passage of an amendment that struck a sentence from the warrant article.

School district attorney Barbara Lohman explained the offending sentence, warning voters they would be obligated to pay “step” increases to teachers again in 2012-13, even if a successor contract was not agreed to, was appropriate under the so-called “evergreen” law that was enacted by the Legislature several years ago. Since the warrant was posted, however, that law has been repealed and Lohman advised there would be no harm done by eliminating the wording.

The new salary schedule includes a total of 47 “steps”. A first-year teacher with a Bachelor’s degree will be paid $36,138. A teacher with a Master’s degree who has reached the top step will make $82,662.

In response to a question from the floor, Assistant Superintendent Trish Temperino reported that the average compensation package for an Inter-Lakes teacher, including benefits, was currently about $90,000.

Superintendent Phillip McCormack offered that “very few” teachers ever leave the Inter-Lakes schools for reasons other than retirement.

Hanson reported that negotiations that resulted in the contract agreement had, by prior agreement, been limited to matters of salary. All compensationrelated issues, including health insurance, will be on the table when negotiations on a successor agreement begin later this year.

When attention turned to the proposed operating budget for 2011-12, Hanson proclaimed the adminis-

tration had produced a flat budget that was “as lean as possible given the economic times”. He stressed that members of the board had not personally constructed the budget but were unanimous in their backing of it.

The spending plan called for an overall decrease in spending of $2,400.

Board member Jack Carty warned of significant risks if the budget were to be reduced at the meeting because of the uncertainty of the level of state aid.

Ewing, though, alleged that the district’s cost per pupil was 10-percent higher than the state average and Worsman said that she and other members of the Legislature were committed to producing a budget that did not down-shift costs to local property taxpayers by reducing state aid.

After Ewing’s initiative to cut $1-million from the budget was shot down, Mark Flanders began his push for a more modest decrease with a reminder that the $21.2-million budget proposal was in fact nearly $800,000 more than the one proposed a year earlier — the budget that voters added to at the 2010 annual meeting. “$200,000 (in cuts) can responsibly be found in this budget,” said Flanders. “Unfortunately, it is about the money for most of us.”

In particular, Flanders suggested the number of para-educators (teachers’ aids) employed by the district was “almost a joke” in school circles and could easily be reduced.

Superintendent McCormack responded that most aids were employed in response to individualized education plans that had been drawn up for students receiving special education services.

Special Education Director Chuck Dicecca added that 64 of the district’s 80 para-educators fit that description.

At the end of the meeting, voters agreed to create an expendable trust fund aimed at replacing the playground equipment at the elementary school in Meredith. $50,000 was appropriated as initial seed money.

Laconia pedestrian injured in accident on Court Street on Saturday night LACONIA — A city woman is recovering at home after she was injured in a pedestrian accident around 7:30 p.m. Saturday night.

Police did not say what happened to Kendra Kent, 23, of 11 Sullivan Way but said she was involved in an incident and was being helped by an off duty

nurse when they arrived at Court Street near the Coldwell Banker real estate office.

She was taken by ambulance to Lakes Region General Hospital where she was treated and released.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call city police at 524-5252.

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A police contract that will cost the town $55,800 over the next four years passed without a peep, but townspeople balked at an attempt to set aside $15,000 in merit raises for non-union workers. Curbside recycling won’t come to town next year, but efforts to turn an old Grange hall into a senior center will continue with the help of $20,000 in tax money. The Pines Community Center will also continue to receive town support.

The ongoing problem of Tilton’s cramped police station, however, remains unresolved.

Yesterday was the fourth time town meeting has considered replacing the station, which has been a source of trouble for years. The building is outdated, small and fails to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Prisoners have escaped from the booking area, and there isn’t enough room to store evidence or paperwork.

“We’ve spent over $150,000 studying this thing to death,” said Owen Wellington, a recently retired police officer and a member of the committee that drafted the proposal. “It’s time to act now. We can’t continue to spend money studying something we already know we need.”

Proposals to build a new station have failed for various reasons in the past. Last year, the town was poised to buy land, but the seller - the J. Jill company - backed out at the last moment. Nevertheless the question of where to build a new station sparked hours of debate. And it’s remained a fraught topic in town ever since.

“Everyone realizes we desperately need a new place,” said Chief Robert Cormier. “People really want this to be resolved.”

The current plan calls for borrowing $2.7 million to convert a warehouse on Business Park Drive into a station. The town bought the building in 2008, and a local developer who owns land nearby has offered to pay part of the cost of extending town water lines into the park.

The board of selectmen supports the project; the budget committee does not. Budget committee Chairwoman Toni Belair sympathized with the police department, but said the town should spend

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“We know that it is needed,” she said. “We do not think that this is the time. . . . It’s going to affect your tax rate. It’s going to do it for years.”

As the debate entered its second hour, residents called and sent text messages to friends and relatives in an effort to draw more voters to the meeting at Winnisquam Regional High School.

“Little League,” one man grumbled when someone he’d called was unable to make the trip.

Because the town would have to borrow money for the project, two-thirds of the voters - or 110 of those present - would have had to vote yes for the warrant to pass. Instead, it barely failed, 108-55.

A group of residents asked for a “reconsideration,” the legislative equivalent of a mulligan. But, according to the rules that govern town meetings, only a person on the prevailing side of a vote can ask for the do-over. In this case, that person was Fox, who had voted against the new station.

But she wanted her neighbors to have a chance to tackle the issue again.

“The vote was so close,” she said. “It’s not in anybody’s interest to prevent important things from coming up for discussion again.”

The meeting to reconsider the station proposal will be held on a weeknight sometime in April.

Saturday’s meeting started at 8 a.m. with voters helping themselves to coffee, pastries and copies of the town report before settling into their seats. By noon, they weren’t even halfway through the warrant.

Moderator Charles Mitchell tried to keep the mood light and the crowd orderly, cracking jokes while reminding people to keep their comments short.

Here are some of the other items voters considered: •The town will spend $3,000 to continue operating a seasonal recycling center and to research options for year-round recycling. The warrant originally called for spending $25,000 to start curbside pickup of some recyclables, but it was amended yesterday because the town expects to soon have the opportunity to join with other communities to offer single-stream recycling.

• A request for $20,000 to help turn the Lochmere Grange Hall into a senior center passed after nearly an hour of debate. Townspeople disagreed over whether the article had been properly drafted, how much the renovations would cost and if Tilton actually needs a senior center.

• The Pines Community Center will receive $54,500 from the town of Tilton despite efforts by the board of selectmen to reduce that amount to $47,000.

• The $9.4 million operating budget passed as is, after voters rejected an attempt to add $15,000 for merit raises for non-union employees.

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Season tickets to Muskrats’ games at Robbie Mills Field will cost $75 for adults and $45 for students and senior citizens. Tickets to individual games will cost $5 for adults, $3 for students and seniors and free for children younger than ten and active military personnel. The season, which features 21 home games, starts on Friday, June 10.

If the Muskrats sell 100 season tickets by June 1, the team will donate $750 to the Boys & Girls Club.

If they sell 200 – Crane’s goal – the club will receive

$2,000 from the Muskrats. Crane said a count of season ticket sales will be maintained at www.laconiamuskrats.com. Tickets can be purchased through the website, at Green Monster Sports at the Tanger Outlet Center or in Laconia at Burrito Me. Crane said partnerships with local non-profit agencies will continue once the season begins.

They’ve scheduled six “community partnership nights,” he said, where a selected local charity will receive a dollar from each ticket and will benefit from a 50/50 raffle held during the game.

He appreciates the support the local community showed his team during its inaugual season in 2010, Crane said. “For this year, what we’re trying to do is give back as much as we can... we think helping out these organizations is a small way to give back.”

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Vote to expand Bristol library again falls short

BY RACHEL A. CARPENTER THE CITIZEN OF LACONIA

BRISTOL — Once again, supporters of the proposed expansion of the Minot-Sleeper Library left the Bristol town meeting disappointed Saturday afternoon, following the defeat of an article calling for $1.3-million worth of additions and renovations that would have doubled the size of the existing building and made it more handicapped-accessible.

Despite offering a figure $440,000 less than the 2010 proposal, the article yielded 167 votes in favor out of the 274 cast, falling short of the necessary two-thirds majority for a second year in a row.

Accusations of unaccounted-for expenses in the project and voter fear of a climbing tax rate, alongside a trend of property devaluation in Bristol and town, state, and nationwide financial difficulty appeared to overpower arguments of the need for more space for materials and gathering room.

A motion to appropriate $250,000 toward engineering costs of the Center Square Water and Sewer Replacement Project also was defeated by a ballot vote of 176-97 with one blank vote cast.

The authorization of a lease to Maxton Technology Inc. of town-owned property with the purpose of constructing and operating a wireless communications tower also was defeated.

In perhaps the most interesting portion of the annual meeting, a third ballot vote was cast by motion of 10 members of the community who were unhappy with the defeat of an article by petition that would have reduced the size of the Bristol police force to two full-time officers per 1,000 residents.

The article, that would have cut three officers from the department that currently employs nine, was declined by a vote of hands and was deemed lawfully unenforceable in a written statement by town

counsel prior to the call for a ballot vote. It again failed by a vote of 82 out of 129 votes cast by ballot.

Amin Kalaf, a 20-year resident of Bristol and one of the 10 who stood in favor of the ballot vote, explained that the motion was one aimed at calling attention to the issue, not necessarily of causing immediate change.

“We are pursuing the ballot vote because we would like to send a message to the board of selectmen so as to curtail the way they are spending money. We are not asking for something that is unjustified,” he said.

The only favorably faring article of the meeting, the adopted budget, met several amendment proposals. The sum is 8.5 percent lower than the budget passed last year, arriving at a total of $5,192,780 after an increase of $30,000 by amendment to compensate for the defeat of a separate article concerning the allotment of separate funds toward police special details.

All other proposed amendments, including a $20,000 reduction in the budget for the rescission of a one percent salary increase for town officials and a $200,000 reduction in the budget without description as to where the cuts would be made, were defeated.

An article calling for Bristol’s return to an on-call volunteer fire department was tabled and died with the adjournment of the meeting. Another, concerning funding for the extension of the sewer in the Newfound Lake Project was not addressed.

Following nearly six hours of discussion, the meeting adjourned and newly elected officials were sworn into office.

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91-year-old rep who suggested disabled go to Siberia resigns from N.H. House CONCORD (AP) — A 91-year-old freshman lawmaker who suggested the mentally disabled should be shipped to Siberia resigned Monday from the state House and said he was sorry that his “big mouth caused this furor.”

Rep. Martin Harty’s comments came to light last week during testimony at a hearing on proposed cuts to the state budget. He said he was kidding around with a female caller who supported funding for the homeless when he raised the issue of eugenics and the world’s population growth.

Harty, a Republican from Barrington, said he didn’t know what to do with mentally disturbed people and suggested renting a spot off Russia. He said the woman called him an Adolf Hitler and hung up.

“I was just getting the hang of it some, but with the slightly unfavorable publicity I’ve been getting the last few days, I’ll never be an effective lawmaker,” Harty said in his hand-

written resignation letter.

Republican leaders quickly praised Harty for resigning.

Republican House Speaker William O’Brien said Harty came to see him Monday to offer his resignation in person.

“We both agreed that this is what is best for the House to move forward,” he said.

State GOP Party Chairman Jack Kimball said Harty’s comments were inappropriate and he was satisfied with his decision to quit.

“He failed to represent the sentiments of his constituents and the core values and principles of the Republican Party,” Kimball said.

House Democratic Leader Terie Norelli said Harty’s comments hurt thousands of New Hampshire families. She also criticized Republicans for proposing budget cuts to programs “that will be damaging to the mentally ill, disabled and children.”

CITIES from page one terday that when he ran for mayor in 2009 Merrifield remarked that once he was elected he looked forward to the two “getting together.” Later, said Seymour, “I pushed him on it. I saw it as an opportunity to learn and share and, where possible, to work together.”

Seymour said that he and Merrifield have discussed convening regular meetings, perhaps bi-monthly or quarterly, between themselves and one or two councilors from each city. “I see it as a test balloon to see what can be accomplished,” he said.

Merrifield noted that the two cities have “a lot of common threads.” Their business communities are joined through the Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce. LRGHealthcare provides medical services to the two cities. Both are members of the Winnipesaukee River Basin Project (WRBP), the sewer and waste water treatment system serving ten municipalities within the watershed. They share a common form of government and budget within tax caps. And both are seeking to spur economic development, expand employment opportunities and revitalize their downtowns.

Seymour added that, like all municipalities, Laconia and Franklin are confronted with a series of fiscal challenges posed by the state as it strives to balance its biennial budget as well as reduce its share of the cost of the New Hampshire Retirement System and public school system.

“We have a number of common issues,” Merrifield agreed. We’re not Manchester or Nashua,” he said, explaining that those cities are heavily represented in the Legislature.

Manchester is served by 38 representatives and three senators and

Nashua by 31 representatives and two senators while Franklin elects three representatives and Laconia five and both cities are served by senators serving multiple municipalities. “There may be some strength in unity,” Merrrifield suggested.

In particular, both cities are concerned that the WRBP has developed an ambitious capital improvement program costing between $80-million and $100-million. The Legislature approves the WRBP’s budget, but the principal and interest payments on borrowings authorized to fund the projects are paid through the sewer rates of the member municipalities.

An effort is underway to enact legislation that would afford the member cities and towns a measure of control over the WRBP’s budget. Both Seymour and Merrifield believe that the success of that effort will require close cooperation between their cities.

Meanwhile, Franklin has been chosen as the site of the converter terminal for the controversial Northern Pass hydroelectric power project, which would generate some 1,200 construction jobs and once complete provide permanent employment for 30 or 40 people. Stressing that the project promises economic benefits for the entire region, Merrifield is hoping neighboring communities, including Laconia, will endorse it.

Seymour said that although the two cities are in different counties — Franklin in Merrimack County and Laconia in Beknap County — that should not be a hindrance and could be an advantage to a partnership.

“There is an opportunity to learn how they do things in Merrimack County that could be to the advantage of those of us in Belknap County,” he said.

CELTICS from page 10 kee, the Celtics wasted a good defensive effort with a bad offensive one. Pierce was 2 of 10 for seven points, while Rondo shot 1 of 10 and scored two.

Rondo, who went down after a hard pick in the first half and briefly went to the locker room in the third quarter, missed his first seven shots before

making a jumper with 3:10 left in third quarter. He said he tweaked his ankle but was otherwise fine.

“Obviously we didn’t shoot well. I didn’t shoot well,” Rondo said. “We’ve got to get better looks at the basket. I know we had a lot of wide-open shots, some shots we made, a lot of shots we missed tonight that we usually make.”

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John J. ‘Geovanni’ Varano, 59 MEREDITH — John J. (Geovanni) Varano, 59, of Meredith, died on Monday, February 28, 2011 at Lakes Region General Hospital, of Laconia, after a lengthy illness.

John was born in Boston, MA, on March 5, 1951 the son of the late Francesco Anthony and Elizabeth (Montasano) Varano, both of Italy.

John attended Julliard School of Music in Boston, MA and became a well known pianist and instrumentalist. He also wrote his own music and recorded several of his own CD albums; his wife Marilyn did the artwork. John worked all over New Hampshire and Massachusetts, before regularly working the open stage at Giuseppe’s Pizzeria and Restaurant, in Meredith (using his stage name “Geovanni”) for several years where he became well known and friend to the late Joe Gnerre.

John was predeceased by his sister and her husband, Catherine and George Boucher; his brother, Vido Varano, and brother-in-law, Frank Colantonio

John will be missed greatly by his wife of 17 years, Marilyn I. (Wells) Varano, of Meredith; sister, Rose Mary Colantonio; brother, Frank Varano and wife Marjory (Randall), of MA; sister-in-law, Mary (Hall) Varano, of MA; step-daughters, Melinda Colcord Clancy, Suzanne Murray Boehmer, and Kathleen Murray Laughy, all of NH; grandfather to, David, Eric and Emilee Colcord, William, Meranda and Kristerfer Boehmer, and Matthew and Mallory Laughy, Mack Margaritis, Jr., and James Bannon; four great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 19, 2011, at Mayhew Funeral Home (Rtes.

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The business will be hosting a Grand Opening on Saturday, March 19 10 to 2. Wig & Hair Solutions is located at 7 Hillrise Lane 279-0171 Currently the studio carries a variety of wigs with both human and monofilament hair. Synthetic wigs are lightweight, easy to care for and come in a variety of colors and styles. We also offer a selection of wigs that are produced with human hair blends, utilizing premium human hair blended together with

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‘Spring into Wellness’ open house at Awakening Chiropractic in Tilton on March 19 TILTON — To introduce the community to the abundance and diversity of services offered, Awakening Chiropractic will host a “Spring Into Wellness” open house from 10 a.m.

— 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 19.

Group yoga classes will be offered one hour before the event — at 9 a.m. — by Susie Page and one hour after — at 5 p.m. — by Dr. Jilian Stogniew. Stogniew, a New Hampshire native, had a mission to educate and assist her community in reaching overall health through natural chiropractic care. Now, having just celebrated her first anniversary in business, she has Awakening Chiropractic, owned by Dr. Jilian Stogniew (center), will host a “Spring Into Wellness” open house from 10 a.m. — 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 19. Stogniew’s fellow practitioners (left ro opened a yoga center at right) Mary Jollie, Kelly Lang, Karl Atherton, Angel DeGange, Clare Mallinson, and Kathie Davis will join Awakening Chiropracthe festivities, many offering workshops throughout the day. (Courtesy photo) tic and has welcomed a number of wellness-related practitioners, creating presenting “Why the Weight: When Eating Right and a unique “one-stop shopping” experience of alternaExercise Doesn’t Get You the Results You Want”; and tive healthcare, all under one roof.

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‘Mayors for Meals’ show support for Meals on Wheels during National Nutrition Month LACONIA — Mayors Jim Bouley of Concord, Ken Merrifield of Franklin, and Michael Seymour of Laconia will deliver meals to older adults in support of March for Meals, a national campaign through the Meals on Wheels Association of America (MOWAA) to raise awareness of senior hunger.

March is National Nutrition Month. To encourage local action and support, senior nutrition programs across the country promote March For Meals in their local communities. Elder Services of Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties

is proud to have served 970 Meals on Wheels clients with 221,978 meals from July 1, 2009 — June 30, 2010.

Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Kevin Hayes from Gilford will deliver meals to local Meals on Wheels participants March 16. Mayors Bouley, Merrifield, and Seymour will deliver meals March 23.

In addition to Mayors For Meals, a newer part of the national campaign involves incorporating a pledge to end senior hunger in America by 2020. To sign The Pledge, visit www.mowaa.org/pledge.

Alton youth and families invited to ice-skating event at Laconia Ice Arena on afternoon of March 19 ALTON — The Community Youth Activities (CYA) team and the Centennial Rotary Club will host an ice skating event for Alton’s youth and families from 4 — 5:30 p.m. at the Laconia Ice Arena on Saturday, March 19.

The time reserved is exclusively for the Alton community to come together and enjoy some winter fun.

Barnstead families who have children attending Prospect Mountain High School are also invited to attend.

Although hockey activity cannot be accommo-

dated, the event will feature music and ticket drawings. A box will be available for donations of non-perishable foods for the Food Pantry. Those who donate will receive a free surprise raffle ticket.

Tickets are on sale at the Profile Bank and from Debbie Lane at the Central School Library. The price is minimal per person; youth under age five will be allowed to skate for free. Skates may be rented or sharpened free of charge at the arena. For more information, call Dick Wallace at 875-8221.

PLYMOUTH — Artistic Roots Gallery will host an open house from 5:30 — 7 p.m. on Friday, March 18.

The public is invited to join the Gallery in celebrating its new look, new work on display, new Spring Class Schedule, and new member Jennifer Mattrick, a talented fiber artist. Many of the Gallery’s current members will also be on hand to present and discuss their work.

The open house will include homemade hors

d’oeuvres, champagne and sparkling cider, and hand-made chocolates from Clay’s Chocolate Shop in Campton. Guests may enter a drawing for door prizes donated by the members.

An advance reception, along with an exclusive door prize drawing, will be held for Artistic Roots Supporting Members from 5 – 5:30 p.m. For more information, call 536-2750.

MEREDITH — The first of three parent/player information nights will be held at Inter-Lakes High School from 6:45 — 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16.

A second information night is scheduled for Thursday, March 24; the third will take place Wednesday, March 30.

This will be a time to try on jerseys to confirm size and learn more about the sport, the league, the teams, players, coaching, practices, and games and

field locations. Remote Online Registration will be offered these nights, as well as players can only register through the National Football League Web site: www.nflflag.com/website/home/lrffl.

Registration for Spring 2011 ends March 31. A $50 fee covers all expenses for the season.

Anyone interested in coaching a youth team this fall is encouraged to e-mail lrffl@metrocast.net and attend one of the information nights, as well.

LACONIA — “How to Make Your Own Maple Syrup” will be the topic of a free presentation at Just Maple in Tilton from 1 — 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 19.

How is maple syrup made? What is needed? This workshop will guide attendees through the steps — from the tree to the table.

Conducted by Andy Fast, Forest Resources Educator, Belknap County, the presentation is geared to firsttimers and beginner maplers having less than 75 taps. All aspects of maple sugaring will be covered including equipment and supplies needed, tree identification, tapping and collecting, boiling sap, and

finishing, filtering, and packing syrup.

Registration is not required, but helpful. Call Belknap County Cooperative Extension before March 17 at 527-5475 to register or for special needs requests.

Artistic Roots Gallery to host open house on Friday

Flag Football parent/player information night at Inter-Lakes High School Wednesday, March 16

‘How to Make Maple Syrup’ topic of free workshop

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll find a major source of bonding with a new friend. This is what was needed in order for the relationship to blossom.

Tonight features laughter and possibly dancing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

When it’s your turn to deliver your work, you won’t have the luxury of blending into the group. You’ll be out in the open, all eyes on you. And that’s OK because you shine when the pressure is on.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You’ll walk into a situation that is indifferent and turn it into a friendly environment. Another person will walk into the same place and turn it into a hostile environment. This helps you understand your own power.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

You still think something was your fault, when, in fact, many factors were involved in the situation. So release the guilt and move on. You’ll feel free just as soon as you do this.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You have a sharp sense for finding what’s hidden, uncovering the mystery and solving riddles. Additionally, you might locate something that you thought was lost forever.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 15).

This year brings intellectual and aesthetic growth. You are alert to opportunity, and over the next five weeks you will seize the chance to serve and earn a profit. April brings a run of good luck in your personal life, and your popularity will be on the rise. In June, you will adopt a new role. There’s a special connection with Virgo and Libra people.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). There are primal instincts to contend with.

Perhaps you’ll even be moved to act like a Neanderthal, as someone close to you has a way of stirring an ancient emotion in you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’re always on the lookout for new things that make you happy. Note the sounds of the birds’ calls or the smell of lavender soap balls. These are the kind of details that will send you into a lasting good mood.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You know what needs to be done around your home, and it’s too much for only one person. Consider posting a “help wanted” sign on a local bulletin board, the Internet or your own refrigerator.

You’ll be surprised at who answers.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Moving and changing your environment will bring you luck. Furniture, items on shelves and items in closets are all ideal subjects to be rearranged, reorganized or redistributed to charity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). This is a day to let go. Throw away your bad feelings, and dump your grudges. It won’t be a process. You’ll just do it. You’ll overlook your differences and move to a place of acceptance -- it’s easy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll have new business with old friends and colleagues. When you make an effort to remember only the good things about this person, your business goes smoothly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). In the past, you have given a certain person your undivided attention. Now there are others who need your attention as much or even more. You’ll graciously divide your focus, realizing that it simply

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, March 15, the 74th day of 2011. There are 291 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 15, 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.

On this date: In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

In 1767, the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, S.C. In 1820, Maine became the 23rd state.

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson met with reporters for what’s been described as the first presidential press conference.

In 1919, members of the American Expeditionary Force from World War I convened in Paris for a three-day meeting to found the American Legion.

In 1944, during World War II, Allied bombers again raided German-held Monte Cassino.

In 1956, the musical play “My Fair Lady,” based on Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” opened on Broadway.

In 1964, actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second.

In 1970, Expo ‘70, promoting “Progress and Harmony for Mankind,” opened in Osaka, Japan.

In 1975, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis died near Paris at age 69.

One year ago: Michael Barrett, an insurance executive who’d shot surreptitious hotel videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, was sentenced in federal court in Los Angeles to 2 1/2 years in prison.

The United States demanded that Israel call off a contentious building project in east Jerusalem.

Today’s Birthdays: Musician DJ Fontana is 80. Former astronaut Alan L. Bean is 79. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 78. Actor Judd Hirsch is 76.

Rock musician Phil Lesh is 71. Singer Mike Love (The Beach Boys) is 70. Rock singermusician Sly Stone is 68. Rock singermusician Howard Scott (War; Lowrider Band) is 65. Rock singer Ry Cooder is 64.

Actor Craig Wasson is 57. Rock singer Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) is 56. Actress Park Overall is 54. Movie director Renny Harlin is 52. Model Fabio is 50. Singer Terence Trent D’Arby (AKA Sananda Maitreya) is 49.

Rock singer Bret Michaels (Poison) is 48.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Rockwell is 47.

Rock singer Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray) is 43. Actress Kim Raver is 42. Rock musician Mark Hoppus is 39. Actress Eva Longoria is 36. Rapper-musician will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas) is 36. Rock DJ Joseph Hahn (Linkin Park) is 34. Actor Sean Biggerstaff is 28.

Rock musician Ethan Mentzer is 28.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Workshop focusing on Bank Financing for New & Existing Businesses. Hosted by Lakes Region SCORE and Laconia Savings Bank. 5 to 7:45 p.m. at One Mill Plaza in downtown Laconia. Speaker will be LSB Senior VP Steve Laughlin. $30 registration at the door. www.scorelakesregion.org.

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

Lakes Region Retired Educators meeting. 11 a.m. at the Pheasant Ridge Country Club in Gilford. Speaker will be Lynne Doyle of the Fix-It Program. Luncheon will follow. $16. RSVP to Evelyn Morse at 524-4062.

Philosophy Club meeting at the Gilford Public Library.

6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Contemplate and discuss life’s most pressing questions in a comfortable, friendly environment.

All are welcome.

Free workshop on “Current Use” land conservation program at the Gilman Museum in Alton. 6 p.m. Hosted

by Belknap County UNH Cooperative Extension. Registration required. Call 527-5475.

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

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

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

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

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

Drop-In Rug Hooking at the Gilford Public Library. 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

BabyGarten at the Gilford Public Library. 11:30 a.m. to noon. Babies up to 18-months welcome to sing songs, share stories and move to music. Sign-up in Children’s Room.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 “Sugaring Off With The Bolducs” program at the Goss Reading Room in Lakeport. 6 p.m.Featuring brothers Ernie and Armand Bolduc of the landmark Bolduc Farm in Gilford. All are invited to learn how sap in turned into maple syrup and try and sample of the brother’s legendary brew.

Program on the rich history of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel featuring Stephen Barba, executive director of University Relations at Plymouth State University.

11 a.m. at the Taylor Community’s Woodside building in Laconia. Part of the 2011 PSU Lecture Series. Mr. Barba worded at The Balsams for 48 years.

Irish quintet Altan in St. Patrick’s Day concert at the Silver Center for the Arts at Plymouth State University. 7 p.m. For tickets call 535-2787.

Consume less and make your own hot water from sunshine workshop at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness. 6:30 p.m. For details go to wwww.nhnature.org.

Old School PE session at the Meredith Community Center. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $1 per person, pay at the front desk. 21+ Free Mom & Me screening of “Monsters Inc.” at Smitty’s Cinema in Tilton. 11:30 a.m.

Affordable Health Care at Laconia Family Planning and Prenatal. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 121 Belmont Road (Rte. 106 South). 524-5453. GYN and reproductive services.

STD/HIV testing on walk-in basis from 4 to 6 p.m. only. Sliding fee scale.

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

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

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

Duplicate bridge at the Weirs Beach Community Center. 7:15 p.m. All levels welcome. Snacks. (Every Wednesday) TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) group meeting.

5:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Meredith.

Check out a computer expert at the Gilford Public Library. 9:15 to 11 a.m.

Early Release Craft Time at the Gilford Public Library.

1:30 to 2 p.m. Students in grades 1-4 are invited to bring an extra sock to transform into a stuffed critter to take home with them. Sign-up in the Childrens’ Room.

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‘All-You-Can-Eat’ Pancake Breakfast hosted by Laconia Rotary Club at Belknap Mill on March 20

Rotary Club members don their chef hats in anticipation of their annual “All-You-Can-Eat” Pancake Breakfast, to be held at the Belknap Mill from 8 a.m. — noon on Sunday March 20. Pictured are (front row) Bill Parkinson, Warren Clement, John Moriarty, (back row) Dean Ingrham, John Heise, Craig Sikowki, Rick Leahy, Curtis Stafford. (Courtesy photo)

LACONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY

LACONIA — The Rotary Club will host their annual “AllYou-Can-Eat” Pancake Breakfast at the Belknap Mill from 8 a.m. — noon on Sunday March 20.

Club members will seat guests and serve sausages, pancakes and butter, real New Hampshire maple syrup, fresh orange juice, and hot coffee. The breakfast is made possible by donations from local businesses such as Meredith McDonalds, Contigiani Catering, The Downtown Deli,

Browsing 695 Main Street, Laconia • 524-4775

Visit our website for additional information. www.laconialibrary.org

This Weeks Activities

Children: Preschool Storytime

Wednesday, March 16th @ 10:00 Stories and crafts in the Selig Storytime Room. For more information, call 524-4775 x13.

Goss Reading Room Storytime

Tuesday, March 15th @ 1:00, come to Goss at 188 Elm St. in Lakeport for storytime. For more information, call 524-3808.

Eating of the Green!

Tuesday, March 15th @ 3:30 Selig Storytime Room Join us and be brave! Try new green foods in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. For more information, call 524-4775 x13.

Teen Advisory Council

Tuesday, March 15th @ 3:45 Volpe Conference Room Teens in grades 6-12 get together to discuss programs and materials they would like the Library to offer. For more information, call 524-4775.

Adult: Sugaring Off with the Bolducs at the Goss Reading Room

Thursday, March 17th @ 6:00 188 Elm St. For more information, call 524-7683.

Two Special Programs!

Big Game Hunting

Tuesday, March 15th @ 7:00 Laconia Rotary Hall

Is There Value in Your Old and Rare Books?

Future Activities

Children: Preschool Storytime

Wednesday, March 23rd @ 10:00 Thursday, March 24th @ 9:30 & 10:30 Stories and crafts in the Selig Storytime Room.

For more information, call 524-4775 x13.

Goss Reading Room Storytime

Tuesday, March 22nd @ 1:00, come to Goss at 188 Elm St. in Lakeport for storytime. For more information, call 524-3808.

Teen: Dance Dance Revolution X

Thursday, March 24th @ 3:30 Laconia Rotary Hall The 10th anniversary of DDR brings a new game with a few new steps and some classic DDR tunes, like “DUB-I-DUB” and “Butterfly.”

For ten years, Dance Dance Revolution has been a staple of arcades and homes alike.

People love trying to stomp their feet on the DDR mat’s arrows as the directional indicators scroll across the screen in time with the tunes, and Konami loves to pump out titles in this franchise. The latest installment in this series is Dance Dance Revolution X. So, teens, kick off your shoes and join us for free dancin’ you’re way! For more information, call 524-4775.

Thursday, March 17th @ 6:30 Laconia Rotary Hall Call 5244775 for more information on these and other programs.

Hours: Monday - Thursday 9am - 8pm • Friday 9am - 6pm Saturday 9am - 4pm For more information, call 524-4775.

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Black River Produce, LRGHealthcare, Vista Foods, The Belknap Mill, Woodshed Roasting Company, Uniformly Yours & Mayo’s Signs, Ramsey’s Farm Stand and Maple Producers.

Cost is $5 per person or $20 per family. All

funds raised will be donated to the St. Vincent DePaul Food Pantry. Attendees are also invited to bring a personal care items like soap, shampoo, and toothpaste, which will be collected and donated to the Pantry by the Club, as well.

Lakes Region Golf League plans for 30th season of play at Annual Meeting at Pheasant Ridge March 31

GILFORD — The Lakes Region Industrial Golf League (LRIGL) will gear up for its 30th season of play at Pheasant Ridge Golf Club this spring at its 2011 Annual Meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 31.

More than 100 players participate in 19 weeks of match play, playoffs, and team events. Highlights include the Summer Barbecue, Fall Banquet, and weekly golf prizes such as closest to the pin, longest drive, and best in flight.

League dues are $75. Green fees and cart rentals are separate. Twelve Teams are selected by new captains each year using a draft system to stock positions 1 – 8. This enables player of various handicaps to compete on equal terms each Thursday, teeing off between 3:30 — 5 p.m.

All golfers, regardless of skill level, are welcome to join and play in the LRIGL — and attend the Annual Meeting. For more information, visit www.lrigolf.com.

‘Down Under’ dinner & raffle to benefit student ambassadors’ trip to Australia at Pheasant Ridge on March 19 BELMONT — A “Down Under” spaghetti dinner and raffle fundraiser to benefit two student ambassadors’ trip to Australia will be held at Pheasant Ridge Country Club in Gilford from 6 — 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 19.

DJ Sarah will provide music and entertainment.

Raffle prizes will include gift certificates to local restaurants and a family four-pack to a Manchester Monarchs game.

Cost is $12 per person; $8 for ages six and under.

Proceeds from the dinner will support high school students Samantha Mackes and Bridget Annis, who will travel to Australia as part of the the People to People program.

To purchase tickets or for more information, call Irene at 524-3389 or e-mail spaghetti.downunder@ gmail.com.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our mid-60s, married 42 years. Our marriage hasn’t been great, but it’s also not horrible. About 15 years ago, my husband developed erectile dysfunction and stopped wanting sex. I urged him to talk to his doctor, which he did. The doctor gave him some pills, but he refused to try them. I have tried other remedies on my own, but nothing has helped.

I admit I am not beautiful, and I also am overweight. Still, I’ve always been this way. My husband never cuddles up to me in bed like he used to. He never puts his arms around me, kisses me or shows any affection whatsoever. And he refuses to discuss it. I feel like I’m living with my brother. Our anniversaries come and go with no celebration of any kind. Every little thing he does seems to irritate me, and I can barely speak to him. Of course, when I do, he doesn’t listen. Sometimes he actually walks away while I’m talking. I don’t know what to do anymore. Can you help? -- Tired of It All Dear Tired: A low testosterone count could be responsible not only for a lack of interest in sex, but for depression, as well. This is fairly common and might be the source of your husband’s unwillingness to work on the problem. Ask him to go back to his doctor and get tested. It could make a world of difference to him, and it would help your marriage, as well.

Dear Annie: Ever since my husband and I moved to a resort area, we have enjoyed many family gatherings at our house.

These were invited guests at times that suited our schedules.

Lately, however, the family seems to expect our house to be a spontaneous crash pad because we have “the most accommodating space.” The truth is, almost every visit has become a financial burden and a physically taxing occasion, especially when they linger for days, sometimes weeks. Our utility bills skyrocket, the food costs are insurmountable, and this doesn’t include the unrelenting domestic chores with little or no help.

During their stay, our house looks ransacked, with carpet stains, damaged furniture and tons of laundry.

These are all grown, financially secure, professional adults.

My husband I have tried tactfully refusing them, suggesting other places, and designating meals and tasks, all of which were basically ineffective. Telling them we have other plans is not a deterrent. Our home has turned into a hotel and storage facility. We love them, but we are at our wits’ end. Any thoughts? -- Ocean City, Md. Dear Ocean City: You are going to have to be more firm and consistent. Say, “Sorry, you cannot stay here.” Don’t let them in the door. Don’t give them keys. When they complain, tell them point blank that you love them, but people leave the house a mess, no one contributes a thing, it strains your finances and you’ve had enough. You will invite them when you are ready to have company. Period. They may be upset, but they will only stop taking advantage of you when you insist on it.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Thrown for a Loop,” the wife whose husband was meeting a former co-worker for lunch. She requested a separation since he refused to stop these meetings. Although he should not be keeping these meetings a secret, she should not assume her husband is having an affair.

I am a single woman with many married male friends.

There are no affairs. I treasure these friendships and appreciate the wives who are not suspicious of us. However, if a wife is uncomfortable with her husband meeting me for lunch, she should join us. I would welcome her company and hopefully make an additional friend. -- Monrovia, Calif.

Dear Monrovia: We heard from a great many women, and most of them were furious. We agree that including the wife is a great idea.

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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Animals

Autos

Business Opportunities

For Rent

AKC Cairn Terrier Toto dog. 1 yr old male, neutered, microchiped cream brindle. UTD on vacs, Canadian champion sired. $700. (207)935-1320.

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

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

FRANKLIN 1 bedroom heat & hot water included, $550/ mo. First month rent and security deposit, 630-2614

Golden Retriever puppies: AKC registered, first shots/ health certificate/ clearances. $1,500.

603-267-6404

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

Announcement

CASH FOR junk cars & trucks.

THE Thrifty Yankee- Route 25 Meredith, NH. 279-0607. Open 9am-6pm Tuesday through Sunday. Consignments Welcome!

Autos 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee132K, 4-Wheel Drive, leather, automatic, loaded with options! $2,995 OBO. Call Scott at 603-369-0494 1998 Buick Century- 150K miles, remote start, new tires, $1200 or Best offer, inspectable. 524-9011 1999 Chevy Cavalier, 4 dr, 4 cyc, air, auto, CD, 90K mi., $3,000 obo. 934-2221.

GILFORD, as/of 4/1 Great one bedroom, waterfront apt. laundry, views, balcony, private. $700/ month. 603-393-7077.

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.

GREAT Condtion! 2000 E-350 Box Truck with 7.3 Diesel engine. $5,300. 455-9269.

MUST sell!!! 2004 Buick Rendezvous. Asking $5,600 all offers considered. 455-8844 Top Dollar Paid- $150 and up for unwanted & junk vehiclies. Call 934-4813

BOATS

1999 F-150 4-WD- Extra CabGood Condition, $1,799. Center Harbor. 677-6586

BOAT SLIPS For Rent At the Winnipesaukee Pier Weirs Beach, NH Reasonable rents installments payments for the season. Call 366-4311.

2005 Suburu Forrester 5-speed, Great condition, 190K miles, have all service records. $4,900 OBO. 455-6977

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

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

For Rent $500 OFF FIRST MONTH S RENT at Mountain View apartments. 2-bedroom apartment, $700 + utilities; 2-bedroom townhouse, 1.5 bath, large deck, $775 + utilities; Quiet location with laundry and playgrounds. Integrity Realty, Inc. 524-7185.

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

Lake/Beach access. 365-0799.

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.

ASHLAND: 1-Bedroom, 2nd floor apartment. Only apartment in building. Main Street location.

Utilities & WiFi included. Washer & Dryer. Non-smokers. No pets. $175/week or $750/month. Security deposit. 968-7800.

ASHLAND: One bedroom duplex, 2nd floor, offstreet parking, stove, refrigerator, storage, one/two people, no smoking, no pets, security deposit & references. $675 plus utilities. 603-293-7663 CUTE 1-bedroom remodeled apartment in Tilton. 1/2 month rent free! Heat/Hot Water included. $660/Month. 603-393-9693 or

GILFORD: 1BR apartment over country store. $800/month, everything included. Contact Sara, Monday-Friday, 6am- 2pm for appointment, 293-8400, or leave message after 2pm at 455-0461.

LACONIA 1-Bedroom 1st floor, Bright & sunny newly renovated, new appliances, off street parking. $700/Month, Utilities and Heat Not included. 524-1349 LACONIA NICE 2-bedroom, quiet building. Washer/Dryer hook-ups, no dogs. $650/Month plus utilities.

Plowed parking. 527-1411

For Rent

For Rent

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

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

LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included.

FREE WiFi Internet. $145/week, 603-781-6294 LACONIA- ROOMMATE wanted to share large apartment. 1 private room, washer/dryer, large yard, walk to downtown. $125/Week including Heat/Hot-water. 630-9226 LACONIA-Large 1 bedroom apartment. Newly reduced to $650/Month. Newly painted, off street parking. Utilities not included. Available immediately.

References & Security deposit (1 month rent) required. 1 Year lease. 603-524-3759 LACONIA: 2-Bedroom, 2nd floor apartment. No pets/smoking. $650/month +utilities. Security deposit and references required.

875-2292.

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

524-9665.

LACONIA: Large efficiency, hear hospital, $150/week. Security deposit required. 603-573-5800.

PREMIER Gated Community Meredith Bay. 3500 sqft custom 4BDRM single family home, 2-car garage. Grand Winnipesaukee Views! Beach Club, Pools, Tennis! $3750/mo./yr lease. Call 888-559-4141 or jshea@meredithbaynh.com. www.MeredithBayNH.com

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

LACONIA: Nice, clean 1st floor 3 bedroom with yard, porch, family room, office, Washer/Dryer hook-up. No dogs. $875 monthly.

527-1411 LACONIA: Sunny, 1-Bedroom, hardwood floors, 3rd floor, washer/dryer hookup, heat, $600.

Security & references.

(603)293-7038.

LACONIA: 1-2 Bedrooms starting at $130/Week. Includes Heat/Hot Water & Electric. No dogs.

496-8667 or 545-9510.

LACONIA: 2 bedroom, heat/hot water included. Private entrance.

No smoking/pets. References and security. 524-0329.

LAKEPORT-Exceptional 1-Bedroom 1st floor. Washer/dryer room, gas fireplace, large kitchen/with dishwasher, porches, off-street parking with/snow removal. $875/Month including heat/hot water. NO SMOKING. 366-4712 MEREDITH 1 bedroom first floor, carpeted, washer/dryer hook-ps, parking, near town, non-smoking, $600/Month no utilities 279-7887 or cell 781-862-0123

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.

MEREDITH: In-town 1-bedroom, includes heat, $600/month. Parking w/plowing. No Smoking. No pets. Security deposit. 387-8356.

LACONIA- 1 bedroom next to LRGH. Quiet building, heat/hot water included. $625/month

NORTHFIELD: 2BR mobile home on own land, near Exit 19. Pets considered. $695 per month plus utilities. Call 286.4624.

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

MEREDITH One bedroom apartment on second floor. Open concept, cathedral ceiling, very elegant and rustic. Plowing, parking and dumpster included, Pets? $795/month 455-5660.

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

NORTHFIELD: Large 2 bedroom on 2nd & 3rd floors, $240/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234.

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 Pleasant St. 1-Bedroom, $750. Studio apartment $650. Heat/hot water included, no pets/smoking. 524-5837

LACONIA Waterfront- 2-Bedroom condo, quiet location, Clean/renovated, furnished-optional. No smoking/pets. $895/month, 2nd Month 1/2 OFF. 603-998-9694.

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.

SANBORNTON-1 Bedroom 2nd floor, walk to Lake; all utilites included. No smoking/pets. $650/Month. 455-0910 SUNNY large Victorian, 2 bedroom, kitchen, livingroom, diningroom and den, hardwood floors, tin ceilings, beautiful, $850/ month including heat, 494-4346.

TILTON- DOWNTOWN. Large room in 3-bedroom, 2-bath apartment, shared with 2 other responsible adults, $150 weekly, includes all. 286-4391.

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.

New Franklin Apartments, LLC

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

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

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For Rent-Vacation

For Sale

DREAM COME TRUE Marco Island, waterfront condo/amenities.

SW Florida/Naples area $700/week. 603)393-7077.

RASCAL 326 Power Chair: Like new, $3,900. Includes ramp. Call John at 253-9863 or 455-9863.

For Rent-Commercial EXCELLENT Location! 3,000+ Sq.Ft., corner lot, high traffic count, attractive architecture and great image for your business! $7/Sq.Ft., triple net lease.

528-0696.

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

1500+ Sq. ft., 10X12 overheaed door, security & fire system. $1,900/Month. 603-502-6437 Meredith- Office studio space. 2nd floor 3 rooms, carpeted 1,000 sq. ft. heated, near town, non-smoking. $625/Month.

Cell 781-862-0123 home 279-7887

For Sale 3 Piece sectional sofa includes queen sleeper and 2 recliners for $400. Solid wood oval dining table with 2 leaves and 6 chairs $400.

279-4788 AMAZING! Beautiful queen or full pillow top mattress set $249, king $399. See ad under “furniture”.

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

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

Solid maple, never installed. May add/subtract to fit kitchen. Cost $6,000 sacrifice $1,750. 433-4665 FIREWOOD-FREE-Tree removal Green (Dry when available) starting at $75 1/2 cord delivered.

998-7337. Also easy self-serve smaller quantities. 18 Arlene Dr. Belmont, 1 mile up Union Ave. from Piches.

Generator- 3600 W. Craftsman, used once. $375. OBO. 934-2221 ONE aluminum extension ladder $15, Three unopened boxes 2 ft.X4ft. ceiling panels 36-pieces $15. 527-0873 PARADIGM Studio 100 v.3 full range home audio/ theater tower speakers. $1650. 496-8639.

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

SNOWBLOWER Craftsman 24 inch 7.5 HP, electric starter. Like new, needs lower-unit. $250 OBO 253-7746

Furniture AMAZING!

Beautiful Queen or Full Mattress Set. Luxury firm European pillow-top. New in plastic, costs $1,095, sell $249. Can deliver.

603-305-9763

Help Wanted BUS DRIVERS NEEDED

Full-time positions available for Concord Area Transit, Winnipesaukee Transit Systems, Rural Transportation Services and Head Start Program. Work performed throughout Merrimack and Belknap Counties includes fixed-route and demand-response passenger transit ($10.71/hr, 30 hours/week with benefits. Must be available for a.m. and p.m. shifts.) All positions require CDL B with air brakes and passenger endorsement, DOT medical card and good driving record. Applications will begin to be reviewed on March 14, 2011. Call 225-1989 for an application/information. Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

PROMOTIONAL New mattresses starting; King set complete $395, queen set $249. 603-524-1430.

Free T&B Appliance Removal. Appliances & AC’s removed free of charge if outside. Please call (603)986-5506.

Help Wanted BOOMING INDUSTRY

Instruction FLYFISHING LESSONS

HEALTH care worker, for Monday and Tues., 16 hours, plus more available in summer for male stroke patient. Help with personal care. Very pleasant surroundings.

524-3892 for appointment.

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.

FIVE STAR GOLF CARS has an immediate opening for an experienced mechanic. Must have valid driver s license with clean driving record, strong communication skills and be able to lift 75lbs.

Inquire within, 1165 Union Ave., Laconia, 527-8095.

Join a Retirement Community proudly serving Seniors in the Lakes Region.

Full-time position (34 hours/week) for Family Planning, Prenatal and Teen Clinic Program. Responsible for day-to-day management of busy clinic environment including medical records management, patient and insurance billing systems, patient education, appointment scheduling and general oversight of facility. Previous experience in reproductive health care services working with low--income women and teens. Must be flexible, able to work independently and also function as part of a health care team. AA or BA in Social Services required. Please forward resume to Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc. (FP), P.O. Box 1016, Concord, NH 03302-1016.

E.O.E.

WATER Jet Operator: Successful candidate should possess a strong cad-cam background and have basic machine shop knowledge. Familiarity with water jet operation a definite plus but will train the right person.

Must be able to lift 50 pounds.

Tee Enterprises is a precision machine shop in Conway, NH, featuring climate controlled comfort year round, excellent work environment and a benefit package including 100% paid health insurance for the employee. Apply in person to Carl or Corey at 71 Hobbs Street in Conway.

Small chrome 5 piece kitchen set.

Excellent shape, upholstered chairs with leaf. $100 firm.

528-7984

is expanding due to record high production & demand for more JCS tours! Average rep. pay $21/hr, PT. Night shift 4:15pm-10:00pm, Also full-time available. Must have good communication skills. Lots of fun, no experience needed. JCS is the industry leader, providing tours to Inn Season, Sterling, Tradewind, Windham, and FantaSea Resorts.

603-581-2741, Laconia. Ask for Carlos.

Help Wanted OFFICE MANAGER PLYMOUTH/FRANKLIN

PART-TIME Experienced Mechanic. 15-20 hours/week. Ridgewood Country Club, Moultonboro.

Call Steve 491-3462

STYLIST wanted in downtown Meredith salon: Unique booth rental options available. Call “A Step Up” at 279-6750.

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

Land BELMONT: $54,900 for 3 acres with great soils, no wetlands, driveway already installed to building site. Owner/broker, 524-1234.

Laconia School District Laconia Middle School has an opening for a

Paraprofessional Please send letter of intent, resume, and three letters of reference to:

Group Interviews are held Every Wednesday Maplewood - building on the hill (left) 1:30 pm - Application Completion 2:00 pm - Interview

LNA – Per Diem – All Shifts COOK - Per Diem Other Positions: Exceptional Talent Apply We are located at 153 Parade Road, Meredith. www.forestviewmanor.com

Services

Motorcycles Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

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

Roommate Wanted DANBURY: 1 Bedroom, new $400/ month includes all utilities, no security deposit, references required, no pets/smoking.

290-9200.

Male/Female, clean/sober. References Required, utilities included. $125/Week or $500/Month. Contact 707-9794 WEIRS Beach Area: To share house, $500/month, everything included. Beach rights. 393-6793.

Services AFFORDABLE Handyman: Good old fashioned service at a fair price. Central NH. Call Keith, 603-998-9428.

BRETT’S ELECTRIC Fast, Reliable Master Electricians.

No Job Too small, Lowest Rates, Top Quality. SAVE THIS AD and get 10% OFF JOB. Call 520-7167.

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

Our Customers Don t get Soaked!

528-3531

ALTERATIONS: Spring Special, 2nd alteration 1/2 price. Custom sewing projects welcome. Passion For Fashion, 393-5878.

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

286-4121

This is a part-time position, 25 hours per week for the remainder of the 2010-11 school year.

Our team is always looking for individuals with caring and serving hearts to work with Seniors.

Mobile Homes GILFORD: 55+ Park, 2BR w/carport, beach access, excellent condition, updated furnace, with appliances, $23,900. 524-4816.

Jen Sottak, Student Services Coordinator Laconia Middle School 150 McGrath Street, Laconia NH 03246 EOE

HAN S Hauling: Big and small clean ups. Your job ... name your price. Han, 527-8620.

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Deadline to enter basketball AARP Driver program at Meredith tournament offered by Laconia Community Center March 30 & 31 Parks and Recreation is March 18 LACONIA — The deadline to register for a basketball tournament sponsored by the Parks and Recreation department is Friday, March 18.

Men and women players age 17 and older are invited to enter the tournament, which will be held at the Community Center March 26 and 27. A cash prize will be awarded to the winning team.

The entry fee is $56 per team. A roster of six or seven is suggested to

Services

allow for illness or injury. Entry forms may be obtained at the Community Center Mondays — Fridays from 8:30 a.m. — noon and 1 — 4:30 p.m.

Parks & Recreation is also looking for volunteer referees for this event and teams to help fund the gym floor maintenance and repair. Any additional proceeds will assist the R. Vasquez Youth Sports Equipment Fund To register or for more information, call 524-5046.

Services

Services

HANDYMAN SERVICES Small Jobs Are My Speciality

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277

TAX PREPARATION Individuals and Businesses No return is too small.

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

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

MEREDITH — The next AARP Mature Driver Safety Program will be held at the Community Center from 9 a.m. — 1 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, March 30 and 31.

Conducted in two four-hour sessions, the classroom experience emphasizes defensive driving techniques, new traffic laws, and rules of the road. The course also points out how to adjust driving techniques to

age-related changes in vision, hearing, and reaction time.

No test is given and those completing the course receive a certificate making them eligible for insurance discounts from certain insurance companies serving New Hampshire.

Cost is $12 for AARP members and $14 for others. Registration is required. Call Bob Kennelly at 6777187 or the Senior Center at 279-5631.

MEREDITH – The last session of the Meredith Parks & Recreation Department’s Youth Gym and Fitness Program will begin on Tuesday, March 15. Sessions are hled on Tuesdays from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m. The cost is $12 for residents. Call 279-8197 for

more information.

Additionally, children up to 5-years-ofage may come to the Community Center for Meredith Playgroup activities on Mondays from 9:15 to 11 a.m. Toys, games, cars and a jumpy house will all be part of the program. Parents must supervise.

WISCONSIN from page 3 telling districts to be cautious about approving contracts that will make it more difficult for them to handle Walker’s proposed cuts. Since Walker unveiled the bill on Feb. 11, between 50 and 100 of the state’s 424 districts have approved deals with unions, said Bob Butler, an attorney with the association.

The vast majority of them included benefit concessions consistent with what Walker proposed under the new collective bargaining law, Butler said.

The Madison school board met in a marathon 18-hour session Friday night to reach an agreement with the local teachers union to approve a new contract that runs through mid-2013.

That agreement freezes wages and requires the same pension contribution as state workers will be required

to pay starting later this month under the new law. It also allows the district to require health insurance premium contributions up to 5 percent in the first year of the deal and up to 10 percent in the second year.

The Racine school district voted to approve a new contract with its teachers union on Wednesday evening, as Walker’s collective bargaining proposal was being approved by the state Senate. Several local governments, including the city of Janesville and La Crosse County, also have pushed through contracts in the past month ahead of the new law.

A handful of counties have reached deals with local unions statewide, said John Rhineman, legislative director of the Wisconsin Counties Association.

LIBYA from page one reinforcements and arms to the front, they must drive along open desert highways, exposed to airstrikes. Gadhafi warplanes struck at least three targets Monday morning in Ajdabiya, missing a weapons storage site but hitting rebel fighters at a checkpoint in an attempt to stop supplies, rebels said.

Oil installations — and the ports that allow Libyan crude exports — are just as key as supply lines, and so the government and rebels both went out of their way late Monday to claim victory in Brega at nearly the same time, with a state television reporter in the town going so far as to show the hour on his watch.

Production has been cut drastically since fighting began and new questions arose Monday about whether the OPEC member was still exporting crude at all. Marsa al-Harigah, the last major oil port firmly under rebel control, is not expecting another tanker for a month, said Rajab Sahnoun, a top executive with the Arabian Gulf Oil Co., and its two functioning storage tanks could be full soon, forcing a production shutdown.

The rebels have pleaded for the West to impose a no-fly zone. France and Britain stepped up calls Monday for other world powers to isolate Gad-

hafi, but other countries, including the United States, have been cautious about backing the rebels.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said NATO was drawing up contingency plans for a no-fly zone.

“Every day Gadhafi is brutalizing his own people. Time is of the essence,” Cameron told the parliament in London.

“There should be no let up in the pressure we put on this regime.”

Meanwhile, fighting raged in Brega, said Abdul-Bari Zwei, a rebel spokesman. He said the rebels controlled the neighborhoods, but Gadhafi forces were pounding them with bombs from the air, land and sea. He said the rebels were hiding in parts of the industrial oil area, believing Gadhafi forces would hold fire there.

“They won’t fire at the fuel trucks, they (Gadhafi’s forces) need them,” said Zwei.

Libya’s east is home to roughly 70 to 75 percent of the country’s reserves — the largest in Africa — and Gadhafi has every reason to try to regain control of the region quickly.

Government troops have scored victories using overpowering bombardments with artillery, tanks, warplanes and warships. Such an assault drove rebel fighters out of the oil port of Ras Lanouf several days ago.

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