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“Thoroughly Modern Millie” (Kate Persson) is surrounded by the cast at Laconia Middle School during dress rehearsal on Wednesday afternoon. The junior version of the Tony Award winning musical will be on stage in the school’s multi-purpose room on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Curtain time is 7 p.m. Tickets are priced at $5 for adults and $3 for students.(Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)

See you in court? Worsman says Belknap Commission clearly in violation of state law by transferring funds to pay for health insurance

BY MICHAEL KITCH THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA —The bell has rung for the final round of the struggle between the Belknap County Convention and the Belknap County Commission for control of the 2013 county budget as the commissioners have shuffled money within

departments budgets to fund employee benefits the convention stripped from the budget.

When the commissioners met last week they approved the plan to fund the benefits, which are included in the collective bargaining agreements with the union representing county employees, recommended by

County Administrator Debra Shackett and Finance Director Glen Waring. Anticipating the benefits would be funded, scheduled payments were made in January and February according to the monthly expenditure reports.

In effect, the commissioners threw down the gaunt-

let, by not only challenging the convention’s opinion of its authority but also undoing the centerpiece of its budget.

On Tuesday, Rep. Colette Worsman (R-Meredith), the convention chair, said that she was not aware of the commissioner’s decision taken a week see COUNTY page 8

Inspection results in long list of health & safety concerns at county jail

BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

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N.H. House easily passes medical marijuana bill

CONCORD (AP) — New Hampshire advocates of medical marijuana won overwhelming support Wednesday in the House for a bill that would sanction five marijuana dispensaries and allow patients or caregivers to grow up to three plants for medical use.

The bipartisan vote of 286-64 marked the fourth time in six years such a medical marijuana bill has won House approval. Two previous measures were vetoed by then-Gov. John Lynch; a third was killed in the Senate.

“The intent of this legislation is to assist a very small minority of New Hampshire citizens who are suffering terribly from cancer, other terminal illnesses and debilitating diseases,” Rep. Steve Schmidt, R-Wolfeboro, said.

The vote spread gives the bill a veto-proof majority in the House, although Gov. Maggie Hassan has said, and repeated Wednesday, that she supports a tightly regulated medical marijuana program.

Hassan said her concern is over the state’s ability to regulate a see POT page 4

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In Jerusalem, Obama & Netanyahu show solidarity on Iran JERUSALEM (AP) — Seeking a fresh start to a strained relationship, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday demonstrated solidarity on the key issues that have stirred tensions between them. The U.S. president vowed he would do “what is necessary” to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, while Netanyahu reaffirmed that his newly formed government seeks a two-state solution to Israel’s decades-long dispute with the Palestinians.

Obama, in Israel for the first time in

his presidency, also pledged to investigate reports that Syria had used chemical weapons for the first time in its two-year civil war. And he sternly warned Syrian leader Bashar Assad that use of such weapons would be a “game-changer,” one that could potentially draw the U.S. military into the conflict for the first time.

“The Assad regime must understand that they will be held accountable for the use of chemical weapons or their transfer to terrorists,” Obama said, standing alongside Netanyahu at a nighttime news conference.

Expectations were low for a breakthrough during Obama’s visit on any of the major issues roiling the region. Instead, the president was focused on reassuring anxious Israelis that he is committed to their security, and on resetting his rocky relationship with Netanyahu. The two leaders have been at odds over Israeli settlements and Iran’s disputed nuclear programs, and Netanyahu famously lectured Obama in front of the media in the Oval Office on Israel’s right to defend himself. see ISRAEL page 8

Chief of Colorado Corrections Department shot dead in his doorway MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) — The fatal shooting of Colorado’s top prisons official when he answered the front door at his house highlights a troubling reality for the nation’s judges, prosecutors and other legal officials: At a time when attacks on them are rising, it’s difficult for them to remain secure, even when they are off duty.

Investigators do not yet know why Tom Clements, 58, was shot around 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday at his home just north of Colorado

Springs. They could not rule out any possibilities, including that it was a random shooting or that it was an attack related to Clements’ job, authorities said.

While small in numbers, similar attacks on officials have been increasing in the U.S. in recent years, said Glenn McGovern, an investigator with the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office in California who tracks such incidents worldwide. He said there have been roughly as many in the

past three years — at least 35 — as the entire prior decade. Revenge is usually the motive, he added.

“It’s often taking place away from the office, which makes sense, because everyone’s hardening up their facilities,” he said, adding that he advises prosecutors in their houses to constantly assess the safety of their residences.

On Jan. 31, Texas prosecutor Mark see COLORADO page 10

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to lock in $85 billion in widely decried spending cuts aimed at restraining soaring federal deficits — and to avoid a government shutdown just a week away. President Barack

Obama’s fellow Democrats rejected a call to reopen White House tours scrapped because of the tightened spending.

Federal meat inspectors were spared furloughs, but more than 100 small and medium air traffic facilities were left exposed to pos-

sible closure as the two parties alternately clashed and cooperated over proposals to take the edge off across-the-board spending cuts that took effect on March 1.

Final House approval of the measure is see CUTS page 5

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Gilmanton burglar sentenced to 1 year in jail

By Gail OBer

GILMANTON — One of three people arrested by police for his role in a burglary ring that was responsible for targeting homes in Gilmanton and Laconia has been sentenced to 12 months in the Belknap County House of Corrections.

Jamie Peterson, 26, formerly of 31 Allens Mill Road pleaded guilty this week in Merrimack County Superior Court to one count of burglary, one count of changing the markings on a gun, and one count of conspiracy to commit burglary.

He will serve 12 months in the county jail in Laconia and is credited with 87 days of pre-trial confinement.

On the conspiracy to commit burglary charge he was sentenced to 7 1/2 to 15 years in state prison — all suspended pending seven years of good behavior.

For altering the markings on a weapon, he was sentenced to 12 months in the Belknap County House of Corrections — suspended pending his good behavior.

Peterson was one of three people who were arrested by Gilmanton Police after a Labor Day weekend surveillance of the house where Peterson, Jacqueline Oliver, 25, of 31 Allens Mill Road and Daniel Roberts, 21, of 31 Allens Mill Road.

Chief Joe Collins began the investigation after being informed of a burglary in Gilmanton in which numerous guns were stolen. He noticed the sliding glass doors had been pried open and after calling Belmont police who sent two detective, they found

sneaker prints.

While investigating that burglary, Collins got a second call from a nearby home reporting a burglary where the owner reported a number of power tools were taken. Police determined the sneaker tracks were similar to those from the first burglary.

After further investigation, police determined the Jamie Peterson (Gilmanton Police photo) burglaries were stemming from 31 Allens Mill Road and watched the home until one of his officers saw a man carrying a shot gun and legging a television into the home.

Police applied for a got a search warrant. Working with the Belknap County Special Operations Group, police surrounded the home, raiding it after the two minor children inside had gotten onto the school bus.

Police recovered 17 shot guns and a number of items of jewelry and tools. Because Roberts allegedly linked the burglaries to those in Laconia, Sanbornton and Belmont, police from all four communities worked together to solve the crimes.

According to Collins, Oliver is scheduled for a plea and sentencing in Carroll County Superior court and Roberts is scheduled to appear in Merrimack County Superior Court on May 7.

POT from page 2 home-grown option.

Senate Republican Leader Jeb Bradley said earlier in the week he believes a medical marijuana bill has enough support in the Senate, but the House version would likely be sent back with significant changes.

The most recent measure to pass the Senate allowed for patients to grow the plant at home and did not provide for any dispensaries.

Schmidt, a member of the committee that drafted the bill, said the legislation would affect only about 600 to 800 residents. Under the measure, patients would have to show they have a qualifying illness and corresponding symptoms as well as a relationship of at least three months with a provider. Some qualifying illnesses include: Cancer, glaucoma, HIV virus or AIDS, Hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, and PTSD. In addition, patients would have to have tried and

not responded to other treatments. No one with a felony or drug conviction could be a caregiver or dispensary employee.

“We think we’ve got a bill here that is among the most tightly controlled in the nation,” Schmidt said.

Rep. John Cebrowski, R-Bedford, argued that legalizing medical marijuana sends the wrong message to young people that marijuana isn’t harmful.

Also, he said, growing and smoking marijuana is not an exact science and better pharmaceutical alternatives exist.

“It would be terribly naive on our part not to realize that scope creep from medical use to full blown legalization of marijuana is the underlying agenda as has been proven in other states,” Cebrowski said.

Recently, the House has shown a willingness to relax marijuana laws. Matt Simon with the Marijuana Policy Project noted that a bill to legalize pot see next page

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from preceding page garnered 112 House votes earlier this year, although it did not pass.

This month, the House also plans to take up legislation that would decriminalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana. Marijuana is decriminalized in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island; similar legislation is under consideration in

Ginny Garver French writes about her memories of growing up in Laconia in the 1960s as Leah McCallum, 6, draws pictures at Family Writing Night at Elm Street Elementary School. (Roger Amsden/ for The Laconia Daily Sun)

Memories of Laconia shared with students at Elm Street Writing Night

BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — Memories of Laconia as it was in the 1960s,70s and 80s were shared with students at Elm Street Elementary School’s Family Writing Night on Wednesday.

The event was held in conjunction with a $50,000 Community Planning Grant which the city received last year to prepare overlay zoning districts for mixed-use development and multi-family housing in the downtown and at The Weirs.

As part of that process meetings are being held around the city in which participants are invited to give their input and last night was an opportunity for long-time citizens of Laconia to describe their recollections of the past and their favorite places in Laconia.

Former Laconia Mayor Karl Reitz said that one of his favorite places was the historic home on Parade Road where he and his family made their home for over 20 years.

He said that the home was one of those listed on the Meredith Parade Historic Trail booklet which Gary Apfel created as an Eagle Scout ProjCUTS from page 2 likely as early as Thursday. Obama’s signature is a certainty, meaning the cuts will remain in place at least through the end of the budget year on Sept. 30 — even though he and lawmakers in both parties have criticized them as random rather than targeted. Obama argued strongly against them in campaign-style appearances, predicting painful consequences, before they began taking effect, and Republicans objected to impacts on Pentagon spending.

Without changes, the $85 billion in cuts for the current year will swell to nearly $1 trillion over a decade, enough to make at least a small dent in economy-threatening federal deficits but requiring program cuts that lawmakers in both parties say are unsustainable politically. As a result, negotiations are possible later in the year to replace the reductions with different savings.

The administration as well as Republicans picked and chose its

ect in the 1980s.

Ginny Garver French, a 1966 graduate of Laconia High School, said that she remembers a bustling downtown Laconia and trips to the Laconia Library as part of her growing up in the city, where her parents operated a driver education school.

Robert McCallum said that The Weirs was a very active and popular area when he was young and that he would like to see it regain some of its former luster as a destination for local people as well as tourists.

Elm Street School Principal Kevin Michaud said that students will be able to write stories that they heard directly from those whom spoke at the meeting.

City Planner Shauna Sanders said that the information which is being gathered will be incorporated in the plan for the overlay districts, which will incorporate guidelines and standards for architectural design, building placement, streetscapes, pedestrian walkways, traffic flow, parking space, common areas and financing options.

spots in arguing for flexibility in this year’s cuts.

“My hope is that gets done,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said earlier in the week of the effort to prevent layoffs among inspectors that could disrupt the nation’s food supply chain.

“If it does not, come mid-July we will furlough meat inspectors,” he added, departing from the administration’s general position that flexibility should ease all the cuts or none at all.

Nor did the White House resist a bipartisan plan to prevent any cut in tuition assistance programs for members of military.

The final vote was 73-26, with 51 Democrats, 20 Republicans and two independents in favor and 25 Republicans and Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana opposed.

Political considerations were on ample display in both houses as lawmakers labored over measures relating to spending priorities, both for this year and a decade into the future.

Vermont. Those states all have medical marijuana laws as well.

Hassan has said she does not support changing marijuana laws beyond its medical use.

A House committee also is to study further a bill to tax and regulate marijuana. Lawmakers are hoping to learn from such systems in Washington and Colorado before taking action.

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Pat Buchanan

Was Iraq worth it?

Ten years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom? Destroy the chemical and biological weapons Saddam Hussein had amassed to use on us or transfer to al-Qaida for use against the U.S. homeland. Exact retribution for Saddam’s complicity in 9/11 after we learned his agents had met secretly in Prague with Mohamed Atta. Create a flourishing democracy in Baghdad that would serve as a catalyst for a miraculous transformation of the Middle East from a land of despots into a region of democracies that looked West.

Not all agreed on the wisdom of this war. Gen. Bill Odom, former director of the National Security Agency, thought George W. Bush & Co. had lost their minds: “The Iraq War may turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in American history.”

Yet, a few weeks of “shock and awe,” and U.S. forces had taken Baghdad and dethroned Saddam, who had fled but was soon found in a rat hole and prosecuted and hanged, as were his associates, “the deck of cards,” some of whom met the same fate.

And so, ‘twas a famous victory.

Mission accomplished!

Soon, however, America found herself in a new, unanticipated war, and by 2006, we were, astonishingly, on the precipice of defeat, caught in a Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict produced by our having disbanded the Iraqi army and presided over the empowerment of the first Shia regime in the nation’s history.

Only a “surge” of U.S. troops led

by Gen. David Petraeus rescued the United States from a strategic debacle to rival the fall of Saigon.

But the surge could not rescue the Republican Party, which had lusted for this war, from repudiation by a nation that believed itself to have been misled, deceived and lied into war. In 2006, the party lost both houses of Congress, and the Pentagon architect of the war, Don Rumsfeld, was cashiered by the commander in chief.

Two years later, disillusionment with Iraq would contribute to the rout of Republican uber-hawk John McCain by a freshman senator from Illinois who had opposed the war.

So, how now does the ledger read, 10 years on? What is history’s present verdict on what history has come to call Bush’s war?

Of the three goals of the war, none was achieved. No weapon of mass destruction was found.

While Saddam and his sons paid for their sins, they had had nothing at all to do with 9/11. Nothing.

That had all been mendacious propaganda.

Where there had been no alQaida in Iraq while Saddam ruled, al-Qaida is crawling all over Iraq

now. Where Iraq had been an Arab Sunni bulwark confronting Iran in 2003, a decade later, Iraq is tilting away from the Sunni camp toward the Shia crescent of Iran and Hezbollah.

What was the cost in blood and treasure of our Mesopotamian misadventure? Four thousand five hundred U.S. dead, 35,000 wounded and this summary of war costs from Friday’s Wall Street Journal: “The decade-long (Iraq) effort cost $1.7 trillion, according to a study ... by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

Fighting over the past 10 years has killed 134,000 Iraqi civilians ... .

Meanwhile, the nearly $500 billion in unpaid benefits to U.S. veterans of the Iraq war could balloon to $6 trillion” over the next 40 years.

Iraq made a major contribution to the bankrupting of America.

As for those 134,000 Iraqi civilian dead, that translates into 500,000 Iraqi widows and orphans. What must they think of us?

According to the latest Gallup poll, by 2-to-1, Iraqis believe they are more secure — now that the Americans are gone from their country.

Left behind, however, is our oncesterling reputation. Never before has America been held in lower esteem by the Arab peoples or the Islamic world. As for the reputation of the U.S. military, how many years will it be before our armed forces are no longer automatically associated with such terms as Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, renditions and waterboarding?

As for the Chaldean and Assyrian Christian communities of Iraq who looked to America, they have been ravaged and abandoned, with many having fled their ancient homes forever.

We are not known as a reflective people. But a question has to weigh upon us. If Saddam had no WMD, had no role in 9/11, did not attack us, did not threaten us, and did not want war with us, was our unprovoked attack on that country a truly just and moral war?

What makes the question more than academic is that the tubthumpers for war on Iraq a decade ago are now clamoring for war on Iran. Goal: Strip Iran of weapons of mass destruction all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies say Iran does not have and has no program to build.

This generation is eyewitness to how a Great Power declines and falls. And to borrow from old King Pyrrhus, one more such victory as Iraq, and we are undone.

(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 I gave Rep. Worsman 3 pennies because she’s pound foolish To the editor, At the March 19 meeting of the Belknap County Delegation, I witnessed the election, again, of the officers. Though Rep. Arsenault reasoned that the election should be run by someone other than Rep. Worsman, whose election along with the others was being re-done due to earlier process failure, Rep. Worsman rationalized that she could run the election because her legal counsel, ironically given the circumstances, had called her “duly elected.” She did not recuse herself. The process was now visible, and fell along the predicted party lines (so all officers are Republicans, though sometimes a Republican crossed over and voted for David Huot). Well, that does clearly lay the blame for disrespect for processes and other woes on the Republicans, should our citizenry realize the budget cuts forced on the County Commissioners could influence our citizenry to want more Democrats in those seats, next election.

Mainly the night consisted of working to correct minutes of three previous meetings, with a half hour in

non-public session to discuss the Tardif v. Convention lawsuit. As representatives, media, citizenry put on their coats to leave, I approached Rep. Worsman and gave her four pennies. I said, “These are for you, because you are penny-wise and pound-foolish.”

She beamed, thinking I’d complimented her, and repeated the “pennywise” part. I said, “But you do know about the ‘pound foolish’ part, don’t you?” She looked confused. I told her, “What you don’t allow paying for now, will still need paying for later, and probably at greater cost.” It occurred to me that she may also not know, “A stitch in time saves nine.” That would cover the stability of the county and maintaining what we have achieved to now — with suitable funding — not lavish, but suitable.

Worsman and her leadership of majority, obedient Republicans there in our Belknap County Delegation, may prove the worse for us all, as her procedures are whimsically set, and the old adages that support wisdom may be out of her reach.

Lynn Rudmin Chong Sanbornton

Let’s all fight pay-as-you-throw to keep it away from Laconia To the editor, We the people need to speak up now or forever hold our peace. With the City Council contemplating payas-you-throw, they better be kicking this can down the road forever. With this economy how can the taxpayers continue to support all? We will be forced to purchase bags at a cost, along with our tax dollars. When will the bleeding stop? What happens to all the trash bags we already have in our households? As I read and heard, these bags that we will be mandatory are made in CHINA, why are going to give our moneys to them? Let’s all

fight for this not to happen. Call your ward council rep and voice yourself.

We in this state have no income/or state tax. . . WE HAVE FEES UPON FEES. . . they always know the loop holes in N.H. government to get all they can out of our wallets. It will only get worse if we do not speak up.

If you need a great talk show to express your thoughts and opinions call Niel Young at WEZS 1350 AM from 9 through 10 a.m. on weekday mornings.

Marty Neylon Laconia

I’m moving forward with fresh ideas & new energy on school board To the editor, Dear Alton voters: I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all of the voters who supported me and other conservatives in the Alton election last Tuesday. I am eager to begin moving forward with

fresh ideas and new energy! It is now time to put ideological matters behind us and begin to have constructive conversation and productive decision making.

Carlos Martinez, Alton School Board

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Thursday, March 21, 2013 — Page 7

LETTERS On recycling, I wish Option 3 would work but I support option 4

Chained CIP underestimates health care spending by seniors

To the editor, Hello Laconia Councilmen and Councilwomen: I’ve just viewed the March 18 City Council meeting on television and again heard all the options and responses for plans to improve recycling. All responses were well-presented and the choices narrowed to Option 3 or 4. I think your choice to put off the vote until you try one more time to educate the homeowner/residents was wise and I know that Ann Saltmarsh and Nancy Brown will continue any informative task expertly. I think it would help to show why and how to properly dispose of our waste — just what is garbage, what is trash, what is recyclable?

Nancy is the greatest with graphics on Laconia Links! Maybe Krista Marrs would publish the public information in a weekend Citizen insert and also Ed Engler in The Sun. As a senior on a fixed income and the only resident in my own home, I will gain the most from the Pay-AsYou-Throw plan. My reduction will appear in my reduced tax bill once this item is removed and since I only need to put out a small amount of garbage, trash and/or recyclables every other week, at a couple of dollars per bag, I won’t go broke and I will no longer be subsidizing others. I also feel the more we recycle it will lessen more harm to our environment. I have been recycling most of my life so it’s the natural order for me. And no matter what the cost, I also try not to waste water, gas, oil or electricity. Conservation is the right thing to do. Both options would be fine with me, I wish Option 3 would work, but I support Option 4.

There should not be any debate about renter vs. homeowner vs. business owner. Whether we pay rent, a mortgage or own is not the issue. We all own our own trash/garbage. A portion that renters pay applies to property taxes.

To the editor, As a veteran and volunteer advocate for AARP, I am very concerned about the attempts to implement the Chained CPI (consumer price index) as the formula for calculating cost-ofliving adjustments.

A little-understood proposal to cut federal spending, the chained CPI is being promoted as a more accurate way to compute cost-of-living adjustments than the current inflation index. This is not true for older Americans, including veterans and those with disabilities, whose hard-earned benefits would no longer keep up with inflation if this proposal takes effect.

Nationally, 23 million veterans would lose an estimated $19 billion over a 10-year period. In New Hampshire,

There should not be any debate about communities that pay taxes yet have their own waste management.

They must not forget why they have their own waste management. It may have been stipulated when their community was developed as an agreement for more density of housing, etc. and in the case of some gated communities, their privacy may have been more important than public services.

Each taxpayer pays for services they use and for services they never use. It’s part of our democratic society.

I do not think 30 percent recycling is an impressive number and therefore do not believe mandatory recycling will work as well or save enough money.

I know that it’s for convenience that stores sell leaf bags but I resent that the bags promote their advertising.

I would rather that all of the profits from selling any bags go to the city.

I have the greatest respect for the men who pick up my trash. They provide an excellent service to me and with a smile or a holiday greeting. I marvel that they have to pick up so much just on my street alone and when we have leaf removal and its 10 bags of leaves, I marvel even more. I can’t image them having to pick up the 64 pound recycle bins at every home on every street.

When I lived in Huntington, we had to separate the glossies from the papers, the clean, colored bottles from the clear, the clean cans separate and no plastic.

So look how easy it is in Laconia!

You are all doing a fine service to your city and I appreciate your dedication to the public you serve. Brenda is right about not being able to hear the audience on some occasions on LRPATV Ch. 26 but even more annoying is the background noise that gets mixed in which I think comes from the music on Ch. 24.

Dorothy Duffy Laconia

My service to the town I love will continue; congratulations Don To the editor, My purpose in writing today is to publicly congratulate Don Guarino on his re-election to the Board of Selectman in the Town of Gilmanton. I sincerely wish him and the rest of the board well in the term ahead. I also want to recognize the many residents who cast a ballot for me. Thank you so much for your vote. While I am very disappointed of course to have not been elected to serve as selectman, it has not diminished my core reason for running — I love Gilmanton.

My service to the town as an active resident will continue and I look forward to attending meetings, advocating for positions, issues, and people in which I believe at public sessions, and

doing all I can to support the selectmen.

These are important times for our community. The challenge of maintaining the quality of our town, its services and its assets under SB-2 and an economic recovery which is yet to fully materialize here will truly test our leaders’ management skills.

With so many critical matters to work through, I encourage each and every one of us to be involved. The board’s work can only be enhanced with our engaged citizenship.

Again, my congratulations to Don and my warmest thanks to those who exercised their right to vote and expressed faith in my abilities.

Betty Ann Abbott Gilmanton

I congratulate Diane Johnson on her election to library board To the editor, As a candidate for the position of Library Trustee for the Belmont Public Library, I sincerely wish to thank everyone who voted for me. I congratulate Diane Johnson and wish

her well in her new position.

I would also like to thank David Morse for his very complimentary letter to the editor.

Sheila Sullivan Belmont

Write the editor: news@laconiadailysun.com

that would translate to a loss of over $75 million for 115,000 veterans over the next decade.

The Chained CPI underestimates the health care spending of seniors and others who may have chronic conditions and disabilities because it is based on a younger, working population. Further, it overestimates the ability of older veterans to substitute services and products when prices rise. That is why more than a dozen veterans’ organizations oppose the chained CPI. Surely, our great nation can find a way to strengthen its finances without taking even more from those who already have given so much.

Chuck Engborg Ashland

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

By virtue of a power of sale contained in a certain mortgage deed given by ERNEST AVERY and JONI AVERY, husband and wife, whose mailing address is 190-192 Franklin Street, Franklin, New Hampshire 03235, to LAKES REGION HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, INC., (hereinafter “LRHH”), a New Hampshire non-profit corporation, having a mailing address of 66 Route 25, #3, Meredith, New Hampshire 03253, dated 27 May 2004, and recorded on 3 June 2004 in the Merrimack County Registry of Deeds at Book 2663, Page 1980, (the “Mortgage”) the holder of said mortgage, pursuant to and in execution of said powers, and for breach of conditions of said mortgage deed, (and the Note secured thereby of near or even date, and related documents) and for the purpose of foreclosing the same shall sell at PUBLIC AUCTION On April 5, 2013 at 11:00 o’clock in the morning, pursuant to N.H. R.S.A. 479:25, on the premises herein described being located at 190-192 Franklin Street, Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, being all and the same premises more particularly described in the Mortgage.

TERMS OF SALE: Said premises will be sold subject to (i) all unpaid taxes and liens, whether or not of record; (ii) mortgages, liens, attachments and all other encumbrances and rights, titles and interests of third persons which are entitled to precedence over the Mortgages; and (iii) any other matters affecting title of the Mortgagor to the premises disclosed herein.

DEPOSITS: Prior to commencement of the auction, all registered bidders shall pay a deposit in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00). At the conclusion of the auction of the premises, the highest bidder’s deposit, if such high bidder’s bid is accepted by LRHH, shall immediately be paid to LRHH and shall be held by LRHH subject to these Terms of Sale.

All deposits required hereunder shall be made in cash or by check to the order of LRHH, which is acceptable to LRHH in its sole and absolute discretion.

WARRANTIES AND CONVEYANCE: LRHH shall deliver a Mortgagee’s Foreclosure Deed of the Real Estate to the successful bidder accepted by LRHH within forty-five (45) days from the date of the foreclosure sale, upon receipt of the balance of the Purchase Price in cash or check acceptable to LRHH. The Real estate will be conveyed with those warranties contained in the Mortgagee’s Foreclosure Deed, and no others.

FEDERAL TAX LIEN: If the property to be sold is subject to a tax lien of the United States of America Internal Revenue Service, unless said lien is released after sale, the sale may be subject to the right of the United States of America to redeem the lands and premises on or before 120 days from the date of the sale.

BREACH OF PURCHASE CONTRACT: If any successful bidder fails to complete the contract of sale resulting from LRHH’s acceptance of such successful bidder’s bid, such successful bidder’s deposit may, at the option of LRHH, be retained as full liquidated damages or may be held on account of the damages actually suffered by LRHH. If such deposit is not retained as full liquidated damages, LRHH shall have all of the privileges, remedies and rights available to LRHH at law or in equity due to such successful bidder’s breach of the contract of sale. Notice of the election made hereunder by LRHH shall be given to a defaulting successful bidder within 50 days after the date of the public auction. If LRHH fails to notify a defaulting successful bidder of which remedy LRHH has elected hereunder, LRHH shall be conclusively deemed to have elected to be holding the deposit on account of the damages actually suffered by LRHH. Upon any such default, LRHH shall have the right to sell the property to any back up bidder or itself.

AMENDMENT OF TERMS OF SALE: LRHH reserves the right to amend or change the Terms of Sale set forth herein by announcement, written or oral, made prior to the commencement of the public auction.

NOTICE TO THE MORTGAGOR, ANY GRANTEE OF THE MORTGAGOR AND ANY OTHER PERSON CLAIMING A LIEN OR OTHER ENCUMBRANCE ON THE PREMISES: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO PETITION THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE SITUATED, WITH SERVICE UPON THE MORTGAGEE, AND UPON SUCH BOND AS THE COURT MAY REQUIRE, TO ENJOIN THE SCHEDULED FORECLOSURE SALE. For further information respecting the aforementioned foreclosure sale, contact James R. St. Jean Auctioneers, 45 Exeter Rd., PO Box 400, Epping NH 03042, (603) 734-4348.

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ISRAEL from page 2 Compared with past encounters, there was a noticeable lack of uneasiness Wednesday, the first time the two leaders have met publicly after both survived elections that will leave them stuck with each other for the foreseeable future. They traded jokes throughout a day of side-byside appearances. And they repeatedly referred to each other by their first names, Obama calling his Israeli counterpart by his nickname, “Bibi.”

On Iran in particular, the two leaders sought to show they were united in their desire to prevent the Islamic republic from developing what Obama

called “the world’s worst weapons.”

Although preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is a priority of both countries, Netanyahu and Obama have differed on precisely how to achieve that goal. Israel repeatedly has threatened to take military action should Iran appear to be on the verge of obtaining a bomb, while the U.S. has pushed for more time to allow diplomacy and economic penalties to run their course.

Obama said he continues to prefer a diplomatic solution and sees time to achieve it. Whether that works, he said, will depend on whether Iran’s leaders “seize that opportunity.”

Although Obama did not promise

COUNTY from page one earlier. But, thumbing through state statutes, she declared that if the commissioners have made such payments, “they are in violation of RSA 24:15.”

Then she read the law stipulating that “no county commissioner, or elected or appointed county officers, shall pay, or agree to pay, or incur any liability for the payment of, any sum of money, for which the county convention has made no appropriation, or in excess of any appropriation so made except for the payment of judgments rendered against the county.”

John Thomas of Belmont, who chairs the commission, said yesterday that “we are not going to sacrifice our employees if at all possible. If we have to go to court and let the courts decide this issue,” he declared, that is what we will do.”

Throughout the budget process the convention and the commission quarreled over their respective authority to allocate funds within various departments and functions. The Republican majority has insisted that the convention possesses the authority to rewrite the budget proposed by the commission by adding or deleting, raising or lowering appropriations for particular line items. In the course of managing the budget, the commission may only move funds between lines with the approval of the executive committee of the convention.

With equal resolve the commissioners claim that the authority of the convention is limited to itemizing appropriations in accord with the “Statement of County Appropriations and Revenue as Voted,” or MS-42 form, signed by the chair and clerk of the convention and submitted to the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration. The MS-42 lists appropriations under 13 categories, encompassing departments and functions, and revenues under five categories. Within these categories, the commission contends it can distribute funds among different purposes without the approval of the convention as long as expenditures do not exceed the total appropriations of the particular categories.

Earlier this month the convention adopted a budget appropriating $26,184,616, or $651,980 less than initially recommended by the commission. The centerpiece of the convention’s budget is the elimination of a merit increase for county employees, together with the associated costs of payroll taxes and retributions, along with bonuses for unused sick time and longevity of service. In addition, the convention stripped funding to defray the cost of 7.3-percent increase

in health insurance premiums.

Meanwhile, the commission and the State Employees’ Association (SEA) agreed to a new contract, but the convention refused to fund it, leaving employees to work without a contract.

However, under state law, in order to ensure employers an incentive to negotiate, the terms and conditions of the prior contract, including benefits that do not have a specific cost attached to them, remain in effect during what is called “the status quo” period. In other words, the bonuses for unused sick time and longevity of service as well as the health insurance premiums, which the convention left unfunded, are contractual obligations, which must be paid for any employees who remain on staff. The only way to honor that contractual commitment and stay within the constraints on an inadequate budget line item would be to reduce force.

Instead, last week the commission agreed to reallocate more than $150,000 within eight departments to fund the benefits eliminated by the convention. In the meantime, by the end of February the commission authorized the expenditure of more than $47,000 in bonuses for unused sick time accrued in 2012 . Likewise, payments for health insurance premiums, which are billed monthly, included the increase.The longevity bonus is paid toward the close of the year.

Apart from restoring funding for the benefits, Shackett said that the commission also reallocated funds within several departments to increase budgets for employee training. As if to underline their point, the commissioners eliminated a line item and with it the funding added to the budget by the convention to reimburse the Register of Deeds for legal fees incurred in a dispute with the commission arising from her reluctance to comply with the recommendations of the independent auditors.

Thomas said that “from the get-go the leadership of the convention has ignored our contractual obligations to keep the status quo. From the get-go they have gone after our employees and their benefits.” He explained that the only alternative to funding the benefits to honor contractual obligations would be to lay off a sufficient number of employees to meet the cost of benefits of those who remained.

Lay offs, together with the cuts to the budget, he stressed would have a severe impact on county services.

Shackett said that with the adjustments made by the commission “there does not appear to be any need for layoffs as a result of the budget process.”

that the United States would act militarily against Iran if Israel decided that must be done, he offered an explicit endorsement for Israel to take whatever unilateral measures it deems necessary to guard against the threat.

“Each country has to make its own decisions when it comes to the awesome decision to engage in any kind of military action, and Israel is differently situated than the United States,” he said. “I would not expect that the prime minister would make a decision about his country’s security and defer that to any another country any more than the United States would defer our decisions about what was important for our national security.”

Netanyahu strongly backed Obama’s efforts, saying he was “absolutely convinced” the U.S. is determined to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

“I appreciate the fact that the president has reaffirmed, more than any other president, Israel’s right and duty to defend itself by itself against any threat,” he said.

The Israeli leader also said that he and Obama agree that it would take Iran about a year to manufacture a nuclear weapon. Obama said there is “not a lot of light, a lot of daylight”

between the two leaders in intelligence assessments about Iran.

The two leaders also spoke firmly about the need to pursue a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, an effort that was stymied during Obama’s first term. The president, who arrived in Israel without a clear pathway for jumpstarting talks, acknowledged that in recent years, “we haven’t gone forward, we haven’t seen the kind of progress that we would like to see.”

Netanyahu, for his part, said he was willing to set aside preconditions in future talks with the Palestinians, adding that it was time to “turn a page in our relations.”

But they avoided tackling any of the intractable issues that have derailed the peace process, including Israeli settlement building and the status of Jerusalem. Obama promised to talk about peace efforts more expansively Thursday during a speech to Israeli youth.

He also was making a quick trip to the West Bank Thursday to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Obama planned to visit a youth center in Ramallah before heading back to Jerusalem to deliver a speech and attend a formal dinner with Peres.

JAIL from page one metal parts connected to the system to become energized, posing the threat of a severe electrical shock to anyone who came in contact the parts.

County Administrator Debra Shackett presented the report to the Belknap County Commissioners at their Wednesday morning meeting, noting that Facilities Manager Justin Muzzey was in attendance for the inspection and will address issues at the jail in a prioritized manner as funding allows.

Another problem the report identified is with the electrically controlled door locks which provide secured access to each area of the building.

There have been issues with the reliability of the system the report notes, adding that in the event of a fire staff are required to access keys to open doors into exterior impound yards. ‘’This may take some time based on existing staffing levels and environmental conditions such as snow and heavy rain. Heavy snowfall may prevent the opening of exterior doors or security access gates.’’ the report says, recommending that any remote doors should be provided with a reliable means to release locks on all doors and that the control system should be remotely located from the resident areas.

There is also a problem with the control room where staff reports that exterior smoke and odors emanating from the main door air intake/vent enter the room, raising the possibility that the control room operator could be incapacitated by smoke or other agents or that the space could become untenable.

There is also a deficiency in that there is no self-contained breathing apparatus for staff to use in assisting with evacuation of the building.

The report recommends that equipment and training requirements for the staff should meet OSHA requirements.

It was also noted that several of the tamper resistant sprinkler heads in the

sprinkler system, which covers 85 percent of the building, have been painted over and should be replaced to ensure that they function properly.

Another area of concern is with the use of circuit breakers to control the operation of heating units in housing areas. ‘’The constant use of these devices as operating switches may limit their effectiveness and cause premature failure’’, which the report says could cause a fire in the building wiring or devices attached to the circuit.

There is also a health issue with inadequate hot water, according to the report, which says that none of the faucet sinks which were checked heated quickly enough or hot enough for proper hand washing. ‘’With these issues it would not be possible for inmates to properly wash hands after using the facilities. The nature of this facility along with the close quarters make the ability for proper hand washing a top priority in infectious control and the safety of the inmates, staff and community at large.’’

There is also a problem with the showers, which have ventilation issues. ‘’Although the staff does a very good job cleaning these areas, it is clear there is a mold like substance in all the areas inspected,’’ says the report.

In other business, Commissioners authorized Shackett to spend funds to become a part of the RDS (Retiree Drug Subsidy) program which is available to groups that provide a prescription drug program to their retiree groups that is equivalent to the Medicare Drug benefit.

It requires an actuarial attestation from the county’s health care provider that the prescription drug program the county provides qualifies for the Medicare Retiree Drug Subsidy. There is a fee for that testing of $1,500 and a monthly cost of $1 per retiree per month. The total cost of the program should be around $2,000 with a the potential subsidy in the $20,000 to $25,000 range.

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(New York Times) The Bay restaurant in Center Harbor is hosting a dinner on Friday featuring some of the recipes out of “The Splendid Spoonful: From Custard to Crème Brûlée,” a cookbook written by Barbara Lauterbach, shown here at right. Also pictured are the restaurant’s chef and manager Chris Lopes and owner Amy Elfline. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)

Themed dinner at The Bay will feature local cookbook author’s custard recipes

By AdAm drApcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

CENTER HARBOR — Restauranteur Amy Elfline knows how tempting it is for her would-be diners to stay home during the cold months and wait for the spring thaw. She and her staff at The Bay restaurant still want to cook and serve patrons, though, so they’ve a “Sampling Series” of occasional themed dinners throughout the off-season, which have proven an effective lure for the winter-weary.

The next dinner in the series is on Friday, when The Bay will feature a fixed-price menu that starts with entrees created and prepared by The Bay’s manager and chef Chris Lopes, then moves on to five examples of the recipes published in Barbara Lauterbach’s fourth and most recent cookbook, “The Splendid Spoonful: From Custard to Crème Brûlée.”

Lauterbach, a Center Harbor resident, traces her culinary career back to the a six year-period she spent living abroad, accompanying her husband when his work brought him to England, Germany, France and Italy. “I started going to cooking school for my ‘R & R’,” Lauterbach explained. “When we got back, I said, I’ve got all this knowledge, I should do something with it.”

Living in Ohio at the time, she began giving cooking lessons. Soon she was running a business that gave lessons in a glass-walled room within a Cincinatti department store. With a teaching career that now spans 35 years, Lauterbach teaches lessons in Norwich, Vt. at the baking education center operated by the King Arthur Flour company.

In between cooking classes, Lauterbach also managed to publish four cookbooks.

“Splendid Spoonful”, published in 2005

by Chronicle Books, explores in its 108 pages both the sweet and savory possibilities of custard. The idea for the book, said Lauterbach, was suggested by a friend and cooking supply store owner, who asked her to show people what they can do with all the ramekins and kitchen torches they get as gifts. She came up with several variations of crème brûlée,

such as lemongrass-ginger, but also found that custards can lend themselves to many savory flavors, too.

The Bay — which was originally named The Mug by the Bay when it opened in April of last year — will be serving five of her custardy concoctions on Friday night as part of a $25 fixed-price meal. For that price, diners will get an entree and a glass of wine, followed by dessert with a drink conceived to match the various custards.

Reservations are strongly suggested; call 677-7141 to do so.

Elfline said her profit margins are considerably leaner during Sampler Series nights. She doesn’t host the events to make a quick buck, though.

She wants to coax local food lovers out of hibernation, and perhaps make a few first impressions in the process. “This is a promotional event to turn people on to the restaurant. That’s one reason I’ve tried to keep the price low.”

Lauterbach eagerly agreed to the dinner when Elfline suggested it. She’s never had the opportunity, she said, to see how another chef would interpret her recipe, and to watch how a restaurant full of diners will react to them.

“This is a first, I’m very excited about it,” she said.

It’s also a first for Lopes, who said he’s never cooked from book when its author is in the dining room. “I’ve been in this business for 22 years and I’ve never done this. I’m actually excited about it,” he said, explaining that most chefs jealously guard their recipes from one another. “The opportunity to be face-toface with someone who create the recipe is very exciting.”

The Bay will host at least one more themed dinner, in May, before the start of the busy summer season. Elfline wasn’t sure if she would continue with with “Sampling Series” through summer, though if she doesn’t it’s likely to return again in the fall.

“We try to give people a reason to come out,” said Lopes.

Elfline added, “How do you conduct business in a resort community in the winter? This is how we address that challenge.”

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The printing/binding equipment has been sold but there are many useful items used in the manufacturing process that are available to the local community. In order to free up space, these items will be available at our

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Jury convicts man who says he was just holding methadone for a relative

BY GAIL OBER

LACONIA — A city man was found guilty by a jury this week on one felony count of unlawfully possessing methadone — a drug he said he was holding for one of his relatives.

Patrick McIntire, 25, formerly of 41A Garfield St. is scheduled to be sentenced on March 26.

McIntire’s attorney requested the jury consider that McIntire had possession of the methadone with the consent of the relative. In a motion made to Judge James O’Neill, he asked that the jury be presented an option for jury nullification — or to acquit even if its verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence.

The premise for Attorney Wade Harwood’s request was that some testimony was given that McIntire was acting as an agent for his relative when he was found in possession of the methadone.

The state opposed Harwood’s motion saying the time for his client to file for an affirmative defense had passed and that during the discovery process, the prosecution learned from police reports filed by investigating officers that at the time of possession, police were responding to the relative’s home to remove McIntire – at her request.

“The affirmative defense cited requires that at the time charged the defendant was acting as an authorized agent for the person holding

the lawful prescription,” wrote Prosecutor Stacey Kaelin, who went on to say that allowing the victim to testify otherwise during the trial would be in violation of discovery rules and should be considered an unfair advantage amounting to ambush at trial.

Although he didn’t rule on the specific motions, O’Neill instructions to the jury was that in order to find McIntire guilty, members must determine McIntire acted knowingly and that he was aware his act would cause the prohibited result.

He told the jury that whether or not McIntire acted knowingly was their decision.

O’Neill allowed that the jury had heard evidence that McIntire was acting as an authorized agent for the relative.

“When evidence is admitted on a matter which is an affirmative defense, the defendant has the burden of establishing such defense by a preponderance of the evidence. O’Neill reiterated that the proffered affirmative defense must be more probable than not.

“The Defendant does not have to prove his claim beyond a reasonable doubt as I earlier defined it,” O’Neill wrote. “What he has to prove is that his defense is more likely than otherwise.”

After the two-day trial, the jury deliberated from 11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. on March 15 and returned with a unanimous verdict of guilty.

COLORADO from page 2 Hasse was gunned down as he left his car in the parking lot to the county courthouse. McGovern also counts the rampage by an ex-Los Angeles police officer who killed the daughter of a retired city police officer as part of a plot to avenge his firing.

In Colorado, a prosecutor was fatally shot in 2008 as he returned to his Denver house. In 2001, federal prosecutor Thomas Wales was fatally shot by a rifleman while he worked on a computer at night in his Seattle home. Both cases remain unsolved.

Attacks on legal officials are still extremely rare, said Scott Burns of the National District Attorneys Association, which counts 11 prosecutors as having been slain in the last 50 years. But he acknowledged that legal officials are vulnerable outside of protected offices and courthouses.

“If someone wants to truly harm or kill them, it’s very difficult, frankly.

There’s not a lot we can do,” he said.

Mike McLelland, the district attorney in rural Kaufman county east of Dallas, is a 23-year military veteran. Since his see next page

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Renowned Irish tenor Ronan Tynan performs free Putnam Fund concert in Laconia on Friday night LACONIA — Ronan Tynan, one of the three famed “Irish Tenors” and a frequent singer at major televised sporting events, will be performing on Friday night at Sacred Heart Church in Laconia. The performance is funded by the Putnam Fund, and as such there is no charge for admission.

Attendees will be seated on a first come, first seated basis.

Ronan Tynan The concert is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

Though best known as a singer and recording artist, Tynan didn’t pursue music as a profession until he was 33.

Born in 1960 in County Kilkenny, Ireland, Tynan was faced with adversity early in his life. He was born with a disability that left his lower limbs underdeveloped. Then, after an automobile accident when he was 20, he had both of his legs amputated.

The disability didn’t slow Tynan down, however.

He went from the operating room to medical school, becoming a physician by profession. He also became a decorated Paralympian, winning 18 gold medals.

While in his residency as a physician, Tynan began to also study voice and began winning prestigious singing competitions in the United Kingdom. After winning the International Operatic Singing Competition, he began a career performing operatic and classical music. He joined with Anthony Kearns and John McDermott in 1998 to form the Irish Tenors.

Also in 1998, Tynan emigrated to the United States, and made his clear voice heard by millions of new fans in 2000 when he first sang “God Bless America” during the seventh inning stretch of occasional home games for the New York Yankees.

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“The people in my line of work are going to have to get a lot better at it, because they’re going to need it more in the future,” McLelland said, adding that he carries a gun everywhere he goes.

Colorado Corrections spokeswoman Adrienne Jacobson would not comment on whether Clements had security at his home. Security was stepped up for other state officials, including Gov. John Hickenlooper, who was ashen-faced as he addressed reporters at the capitol Wednesday.

“Tom Clements dedicated his life to being a public servant, to making our state a better place and he is going to be deeply, deeply missed,” said Hickenlooper. In response to a question, he said he believed the rest of his cabinet was safe.

Clements came to Colorado in 2011 after working three decades in the Missouri prison system. He began a review of Colorado’s solitary confinement system. He reduced the number of prisoners being held in solitary and closed a new prison built specifically to hold such prisoners — Colorado State Penitentiary II.

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Republican governor of Michigan proposes big gas tax hike LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s venture capitalist-turned-governor, Rick Snyder, needed just five months in office to slash his state’s business taxes.

Elected on the downside of the recession, he was among a crop of new Republican leaders eager to show they could boost their states’ ailing economies with lower taxes.

But two years later, confronting one of the automobile-addicted state’s most visible problems — crumbling roads — Snyder has roiled conservatives by calling for a major tax increase.

He has proposed boosting the gasoline tax from 19 cents to 33 cents a gallon and hiking car license plate fees by 60 percent, firmly grabbing what many politicians consider a third rail for consumers — gasoline prices.

“This is common sense,” he declared during his budget proposal, adding, “we need to make this investment.”

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Although a break from the GOP’s anti-tax ideology, Snyder’s move shows a dicey willingness among some Republican officials to begin raising more revenue. They are a distinct minority in the more than two dozen states the party dominates. But those treading this path are governors facing difficulty delivering basic services, especially roads, with budgets that are strained and must be balanced.

They insist there are actually some taxes that government should rely on more — and that even Republicans can embrace.

In Virginia, GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell recently won approval for overhauling his state’s highway maintenance system by raising diesel and retail sales taxes and creating a mechanism for a potential future gasoline tax hike. Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett has called for increasing a wholesale gasoline tax, with most or all of the increase passed to drivers.

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GHS students staging intense drama ‘12 Angry Jurors’ GILFORD — This weekend, the High School Performing Arts Department will present three performances of the classic court room drama “12 Angry Jurors” in the school auditorium. Performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Tickets cost $7 and can be purchased at the door or at the Gilford Village Store or Greenlaw’s Music.

The story considers the case of a 19-year-old man on trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. “He doesn’t stand a chance,” mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case — until one of the jurors begins opening the others’ eyes to the facts.

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The legislation thrust Colorado into the national spotlight as a potential test of how far the country might be willing to go with new gun restrictions after the horror of mass killings at an Aurora movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school.

Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper signed bills that require background checks for private and online gun sales and ban ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.

The debate in the Democratic-controlled Legislature was intense, and Republicans warned that voters would make Democrats pay. The bills failed to garner a single Republican vote.

The bills’ approval came exactly eight months after dozens of people were shot in Aurora, and a day after the executive director of the state Corrections Department, Tom Clements, was shot and killed at his home. Hickenlooper signed the legislation right after speaking with reporters about Clements’ slaying.

Hickenlooper said large-capacity magazines “have

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He also said he realized some gun owners may be inconvenienced but that “the potential for damage seems to outweigh, significantly, the inconvenience that people would have,” he said.

The bills signal a historic change for Democrats in a state where owning a gun is as common as owning a car in some rural areas.

“He just slapped rural Colorado right in the face,” said Republican Sen. Brophy, who represents an eastern plains district. “They are overwhelmingly upset about this.”

Both bills take effect July 1. People who currently own larger-capacity magazines will be able to keep them.

At the signing ceremony, Hickenlooper was surrounded by lawmakers who sponsored the bills, and relatives of mass shootings. Hickenlooper also signed requiring buyers to pay fees for background checks.

Each time he signed a bill, applause erupted from lawmakers and their guests, who included Jane Dougherty, whose sister was killed in the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.; Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was killed in Aurora; and Tom Mauser, whose son was killed in the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve isn’t yet convinced that the U.S. economy’s growth can accelerate without the Fed’s drive to keep borrowing costs at record lows. It wants to see sustained improvement.

That was the message Fed officials sent Wednesday, when they reinforced their plan to keep shortterm interest rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent.

An unemployment rate of 6.5 percent is a threshold, not a “trigger,” for a possible rate increase, Chairman Ben Bernanke said at a news conference.

“We are seeing improvement,” he said. “One thing we would need is to see this is not temporary improvement.”

The Fed will continue buying $85 billion a month in bonds indefinitely to keep long-term borrowing costs down. Bernanke said the Fed might vary the size of its monthly purchases depending on whether or how much the job market improves. The unem-

ployment rate has fallen to a four-year low of 7.7 percent, among many signs of a healthier economy.

Investors seemed pleased with the Fed’s decision to maintain its low-interest rate policies indefinitely for now. The Dow Jones industrial average close up about 56 points, having risen slightly after the Fed’s statement was released at 2 p.m. EDT. The Fed’s statement took note of the global stresses that have been intensified by the turmoil in Cyprus, which is trying to stave off financial ruin.

No longer does the Fed statement say, as it did in January, that “strains in global financial markets have eased somewhat.”

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Smokers may be asked yet again to help pay for spending in New Hampshire’s next budget after the House voted to raise the tobacco tax 20 cents on Wednesday, a dime less than Gov. Maggie Hassan counted on in her budget.

The 193-167 vote sends the bill to the Senate.

The proposed increase would raise the tax to $1.88 per pack of cigarettes.

The proposed increase also would apply to other tobacco products.

The tax is $1.68 now but will rise automatically to $1.78 on Aug. 1 if lawmakers take no action.

House Ways and Means Chairwoman Susan Almy said the primary reason to raise the tax was to pay for state services. She said the tax increase also will discourage teens from starting or continuing smoking.

“When you smoke as a teen, you have a much harder time quitting,” said Almy, D-Lebanon.

Hassan said she will continue to advocate for the 30-cent increase she counted on in writing her budget.

“We want to make sure we have the revenues we need to address our priorities, so I will continue to talk with the House and Senate about that,” she said after the House vote.

Each dime raises $10 million a year.

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shire would have a lower tax than neighboring states. According to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Rhode Island’s tax rate is $3.50; Connecticut, $3.40; Vermont, $2.62; Massachusetts, $2.51; and Maine, $2. New Hampshire’s rate also is lower because it has no general sales tax unlike other states.

Opponents argue it nevertheless puts New Hampshire at a competitive disadvantage in attracting cross border business.

“When you raise a tax, you discourage a certain behavior,” said state Rep. Laurie Sanborn, R-Bedford.

Republicans cut the tax 10 cents two years ago to $1.68 to encourage cross-border shopping. At the time, the New Hampshire Grocers Association and others argued the reduction would make New Hampshire more competitive. House Republican leaders insisted on cutting the tax to encourage people from other states to shop in New Hampshire.

The rate cut was contingent upon revenue not dropping below receipts for the previous two years, but revenue has dropped and the rate is due to rise automatically back to $1.78 on Aug. 1.

Under former Gov. John Lynch New Hampshire raised its tax repeatedly from 52 cents per pack in 2005 to the $1.78 rate in effect until Republicans dropped it a dime in 2011.

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Mr. Collins was born May 29, 1924, in Laconia, N.H., the son of the late Ruth (Osgood) and Ralph J. Collins.

Mr. Collins resided in the Lakes Region his entire life and graduated from Laconia High School. He served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II and attained the rank of First Lieutenant. He received his “wings” at Craig Field in Selma, Alabama and flew the P-51 Mustang and P-40 Warhawk.

Mr. Collins attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Robert’s Technical Trade School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Following his service to his country, Mr. Collins worked the majority of his life in Laconia, including as a timekeeper for Scott & Williams and an auto body manager for Irwin Motors. Mr. Collins also operated an auto body repair shop on Court Street and subsequently on Water Street during the 1960s and early 1970s. Mr. Collins then became an insurance appraiser for Moreau Appraisals of Laconia and later for Casey Appraisals of Franconia, N.H. He also became an independent insurance appraiser

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Calling hours will be held on Saturday March 23, 2013 from 2:00-4:00 PM in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-BeaneSimoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant St. Laconia, N.H. A funeral service will follow at 4 PM at the funeral home.

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David D. DeVoy, 75 DEDHAM, Mass./MEREDITH, N.H. — David D. DeVoy age 75 of Dedham, MA and Meredith, NH passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with cancer on Tuesday March 19th. Beloved husband of 52 years of Evelyn (Poirier) DeVoy. Loving father of David DeVoy and his wife Wendy of Sanbornton, NH, Stephen DeVoy and his wife Patricia of Dedham, Linda DeVoy of Dedham, Robert DeVoy and his wife Christine of Richmond, VA and his nephew Sean Poirier and his wife Jennifer of Norwood, MA. He was blessed with 10 grandchildren, Francis Vitiello, Julie Vitiello, David DeVoy, Stephanie DeVoy, Kyle McGahan, Joshua Poirier, Molly DeVoy, Maggie DeVoy, Jillian McGahan, Ryan DeVoy and great grandson David DeVoy. He was the son of the late James & Ruth (MacKinnon) DeVoy and the brother of Elizabeth Smith of So. Boston, Robert and his wife Vicky DeVoy of Westwood, Ruth Wisnaskas and her husband Bill of Whitman, and the late James DeVoy, John DeVoy, Margaret Picard and Ronald DeVoy of So. Boston.

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Funeral from the George F. Doherty Funeral Home, 456 High St., Dedham, Saturday at 8 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass at St. Mary’s Church, Dedham at 9 a.m. Relatives and friends kindly invited. Visiting hours Friday 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Interment at Brookdale Cemetery, Dedham.

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OBITUARY

Sandra A. Vaillancourt, 76

LACONIA — Sandra A. Vaillancourt, 76, formerly of 25 Union Avenue, died at the Lakes Region General Hospital on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.

Mrs. Vaillancourt was born March 1, 1937 in Waterbury, Vermont, the daughter of the late William and Pauline (Merrill) Mumblo. She was a longtime resident of Laconia, N.H. and had been employed at the Laconia State School, Aavid Engineering and a waitress at King Restaurant and China Garden Restaurant in the 1960’s. .

Mrs. Vaillancourt was associated with the Kingdom Hall in Laconia, N.H. Mrs. Vaillancourt was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars 143 Court Street Laconia, N.H., Post # 1670 Woman’s Auxiliary.

Survivors include two sons, Paul Doherty of Laconia and Randy J. Duquette of Concord; three daugh-

ters, Deborah L. Sturgeon of Northfield, Tammy Johnson of Laconia and Kenna Drouin of Laconia; 11 grandchildren; 11 1/2 great grandchildren; a sister, Jane Hanson, of Laconia and a brother, Gary Mumblo, of Oregon. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Vaillancourt was predeceased by a daughter, Bonnie Johnson, and by a brother, Richard Mumblo.

There will be no calling hours or funeral services.

For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to Wilkinson Beane Inc., P.O. Box 67, Laconia, NH 03247.

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

Shalimar Resort taking part in Maple Weekend

TILTON — The Shalimar Resort will be joining in the celebration of New Hampshire Maple Weekend on March 23-24 by partnering with Abbott’s Farm to provide their guests with complimentary maple syrup from the farm.

The Shalimar will offer a menu of slow roasted maple ribs, maple glazed chicken and an assortment of homemade maple desserts in The Lobster House Restaurant.

The Lobster House Restaurant’s Sunday Brunch, will offer real maple syrup as well as maple glazed homemade doughnuts.

During Maple Weekend more than 100 sugarhouses across New Hampshire will open their doors to the public for tours and sampling. From different grades of maple syrup to delicious maple candy, there will be lots to enjoy over the weekend.

The Shalimar will have a list of all local Maple Sugar Houses for resort guests to visit, tour and purchase.

Youths flipping pancakes to raise funds for Ariz. trip Pemi Youth Center hosts Business After Hours event Thursday

GILFORD — Local youths who are traveling to Black Mesa, Arizona this summer to volunteer at a Navajo reservation are hosting a pancake breakfast this Saturday March 23 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church on Rt. 11A in Gilford.

The team of 11 young people and five chaperones are working hard to raise the nearly $10,000 they will need to cover the cost of the trip for the team.

The pancake breakfasts are just a couple of the fundraisers the youth are holding over the next few months to fund the trip. Riley Alward, 12 of Laconia says that getting there is a lot of work but a lot of the fun too. “We held a move a thon in February and our friends and families sponsored us as we spent 8 hours being active in a lot of fun ways. We shot hoops, danced, did martial arts and shoveled snow.

This weekend we are flipping pancakes.”

The team is an ecumenical group traveling in June includes youth and adults from four local churches including the Gilford Community Church, Laconia Congregational Church, First United Methodist Church of Gilford and the Tilton Northfield United Methodist Church.

While in Arizona the kids will be working to help

rebuild a church kitchen destroyed by fire, doing general labor on some of the tribal homes and working with local youth.

The kids are very excited to be helping others and getting a chance to see another part of the country. For some of them it will be their first trip on an airplane or away from their families. Others are seasoned missionaries who have already traveled to Haiti to help rebuild after the earthquake.

Braden Alward was one of those who went to Haiti last year and says, “Doing this kind of work makes you feel good. You learn how lucky you and how hard other people have it. Seeing some of things I saw in Haiti changed me as a person. I respect a lot more what my folks give me, judge others less and try to be thankful everyday. Once you see the look of gratitude in people’s eyes when you help them in some small way, you get bitten by the volunteering bug.”

Tickets are available for the breakfast by calling the church office at 524-3289 or at the door on the morning of the meal. Donations toward covering the teams’ travel expenses are also welcome and should be made out to FUMC-Navajo Mission Team and mailed to team leader Jessica Alward at 36 Emerald Dr. Laconia NH 03246

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Located at 111 Main Street in Plymouth, the Pemi Youth Center offers the reliance of stability that youth may not receive in a home environment. With its vision to address a safe and caring place to go, they make youths feel at home whenever entering the doors.

The Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce serves the business community by promoting the greater Plymouth area as a unique place to live, work, and play; recognizing its business, social, and economic opportunities. For more information about the Business After Hours, or the Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce contact the Chamber office at 536-1001, or email info@plymouthnh.org.

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In Our War, Mike Pride uses letters, diaries, and contemporary newspaper accounts to shape fifty stories of death, love, bravery, and survival. One story leads to another, and the war unfolds as New Hampshire men and women lived it from the heady days of 1861 to the costly victory of 1865.

This innovative approach allows the people of the Civil War generation to answer the big questions in their own words: Why did they go to war? How did the war play out on the home front?

How did they view the shift in the war’s cause from preserving the Union to freeing the slaves? Why did men fight on despite poor leadership, ghastly car-

nage, and epidemic swamp fevers?

“No historian has been more imaginative than Mike Pride in weaving together the intricate relationships between home front and the army.

Beautifully written and brilliantly researched, compelling and important.” writes Peter Carmichael, Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College Pride is a historian and journalist.

He is editor emeritus of the Concord Monitor, where he ran the newsroom for thirty years. Pride served on the Pulitzer Prize board for nine years.

He has co-authored or co-edited five previous books, including My Brave Boys, a history of Colonel Edward E. Cross and the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers. Learn more about him at http://our-war.com/.

The program is free and open to the public.

LACONIA — Opechee Garden Club members will be thinking spring when they host Linda Zukas at their Monday, April 1 meeting at 1 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church.

Zukas is the Annuals Manager and Container Designer at Churchill’s Gardens in Exeter and has been there for about 25 years.

Along with a degree in horticulture from UNH, Zukas brings her creativity and know-how on award-winning annuals for garden displays. She holds seminars, talks and takes part in many developmental programs.

For her lecture on Planting for Curb Appeal, she will demonstrate and use power point presentations.

Chairs, Judy Nelson and Evelyn Millar and hostesses - Joyce McMath, Patsy Moore, Rosemary Murphy, Pat Pegg, Jean Petterson, Linda Presby,

Joanne Preston, Maurine Bastille and Florence Merrill - will serve refreshments.

OGC member Linda Presby will host members in her home in Sanbornton on Wednesday, April 24, where she show them how to create a Hypertufa trough container which they may take home in time for spring planting. Members will be provided with a supply sign-up list. Call for the time.

The Opechee Garden Club meets the first Monday of the month at 1 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) at the Gilford Community Church, Potter Hill Road, Gilford. New members are always welcomed to join. Write PO Box 6025, Laconia, NH, call 293-7357, email opecheegrardenclub2012@ gmail.com or visit www.opecheegardenclub.com.

TILTON — The Masons of DoricCentre Lodge #20 are continuing their public breakfasts and bake sales on the fourth Saturday of each month from 7 to 9:30 a.m. at the Masonic Building on 410 West Main Street (Rt 3/11 West) in Tilton (where “The Ark “ day care center is located).

This month’s breakfast will be held on

Saturday, March 23. The Masons serve a full breakfast, including eggs cooked to order, and the cost is $7. Proceeds will benefit the various charities the Lodge supports. The Masonic Lodge will also be open for public tours and information. For more information about the breakfasts or about the Masons, contact Woody Fogg at 524-8268.

MEREDITH — The next AARP Mature Driver Safety Program takes place at the Meredith Community Center on Wednesday and Thursday April 3-4 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Conducted in two 4-hour sessions, the classroom experience emphasizes defensive driving techniques, including new traffic laws and rules of the road to name a few. It points out how to adjust your driving to age-related changes in vision, hearing and reac-

tion time.

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

The fee for the two day course is $12 for AARP members and $14 for others.

Registration is required. To register for this course call Bob Kennelly at 677-7187 or the Meredith Senior Center at 279-5631.

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Tilton Masons hold breakfast & bake sale

AARP Mature Driver Safety Program set for April 3-4 in Meredith

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Some suggested food items would be: bottled juice, cereal, breakfast muffin mix, ground or instant coffee, cranberry sauce, turkey gravy, stuffing, canned pineapple, canned peas, canned carrots, canned green beans, canned corn, 1lb boxes of sugar, cake mixes, and frosting.

Some suggested items for the “bunny baskets” would be: jump ropes, play-doh, small balls, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, crayons, colored pencils, coloring books, small cars & trucks, easter grass, and easter candy. We are also looking for monetary donations to purchase the above items we don’t receive and also to purchase the perishable items which go into our food baskets. All items to be included in the baskets need to be received at the pantry by March 22. The items collected for the food baskets will also be counted towards our dollar amount

total in the Feinstein Challenge which runs from March 1 to April 30.

We will be starting out the spring and summer fashion season with a fabulous Our supply of spring and summer clothing and accessories has grown enormously over the winter and we need to thin out, so come on down and grab a $10 bag or 2 of really great clothing and accessories for the whole family.

The spring and summer Bag Sale will run from Monday March 18 to Saturday April 6. Those who wish to make a donation of food or clothing to the GCC Food Pantry and Thrift Shop, are asked to bring it to the shop during our business hours. Food can be left in one of the collection boxes located at the Academy Building, the Gilmanton School or the Year Round Library.

Checks can be mailed to PO Box 6, Gilmanton Iron Works, 03837.

The pantry and thrift shop are located on Rte. 140 in Gilmanton Iron Works, across from the Iron Works Market. They are open on Monday 1-5 p.m., Wednesday 3-7 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

MEREDITH — The February meeting of The Meredith/ I-L Alumni Association was held at the home of Sec. Alison Whynot and the Association continued with plans for this year.

The “Business Sponsorship” fundraiser was discussed as well as The Annual Alumni Gathering at which the 50 year class is honored and three $1,000 scholarships are presented to deserving I-L Seniors who are going on with their education.

Businesses that wish to put an advertisement in the Annual Alumni Program can contact Pres. Beth Dever Colby at 707-1991 or email her at bdever63@yahoo.com This year’s event will be on Sunday, June 2 at Church Landing in Meredith. The social time will begin at 10 a.m. with the Deluxe Brunch Buffet commencing at 11:15 am and the business meeting to follow. The cost is

$27 per person and reservations with pre-payment should be mailed to The Meredith/I-L Alumni Association, PO Box 1076, Meredith, NH 03253. Be sure to include the class you were in and any maiden name when making reservations. Those with questions can call Judy Dever at 279-4845.

This year the Alumni Association will be honoring the 50 Year Class of 1963, and Diana Hatch Thomas is the contact person for her class. Those wanting more information on the reunion plans for the Class of ‘63 can call or email Diana at 279-6157, or diana.thomas1@myfairpoint.net .

Those classes which are celebrating special milestones this year, like the classes of 1973, 1983, 1988 and 1993 are asked to email Judy Dever at judynjoed@metrocast.net with information and it will be included in future articles.

LACONIA — Wilkins-Smith Post 1 American Legion Auxiliary will host a Meat Bingo on Saturday, March 23 at 1 p.m. at the American Legion home on North Main Street in Laconia.

There will be lots of prizes, Easter packages and cash.

Proceeds will benefit veterans and community service programs.

MEREDITH — First Congregational Church, Meredith has announced it’s Holy Week schedule of services that are open to everyone in the Lakes Region.

All events will be located at the church on 4 Highland St, Meredith, except the Good Friday service which will be an ecumenical service held at St. Charles, Meredith.

— March 24: Palm Sunday – 10 a.m., worship — March 28: Maundy Thursday - 7:30 p.m., Communion and Tenebrae service — March 29: Good Friday - 12 noon, ecumenical service at St Charles Church.

— March 31: Easter sunrise service - 6:15 a.m., followed by a potluck breakfast, 10 a.m. - Family worship.

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Maybe time will prove that you indulged in unreasonable fantasies today. But it is better to have expectations and live up to them than to have doubts and live down to them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). If your mojo seems to have slipped out the back when you weren’t looking, no worries. You’ll get it back today after you take a nice, long, unstructured, carefree break.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You’ll feel more in control if you record what’s going on with you now. Take a picture of what you’re doing, write down an idea, or chronicle your day in some other interesting way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You are a riddle. Just by being who you are and doing what comes naturally, you give others the idea that they must figure you out. Of course, they won’t be able to -- at least not today.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll put yourself out there. Start with a sure thing. Try to get helpful, warm, loving people to lend you a hand. This is no day to try to win over the difficult, prickly ones.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 21).

Don’t worry so much about whether you’re doing the right thing. If you’re doing it for the right reason, all will work out brilliantly. Common sense is your greatest asset in the weeks to come.

Follow it to make money in April and to complete a quest in May. Romantic notions are fulfilled in June. You’ll get closure on an old wound, too. Leo and Cancer people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 12, 34, 39 and 15.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Let your natural state overtake you. If your body feels relaxed and comfortable and free, there’s nothing more you need to do for physical health at the moment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You may feel the warmth of love inside you, though that is useless to the object of your affection unless you also express the feeling with your actions. Love is a verb.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Today brings lessons about enjoying the ordinary. Chores are pleasant exercises.

Errands are a chance to connect with the people in your neighborhood who help the community run smoothly.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your magnanimous actions will surprise those around you because they are not the norm for the situation, though they should be. Keep it up, and you’ll start a trend.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll find the strategies that work for you by mentally trying things on to see what feels right. One size does not fit all, and one method does not work for everyone. Do it your way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Sometimes, in order to inject a sense of purpose into your routine, you have to remind yourself that what you’re doing is important. People depend on you.

Your energy and efforts make a difference.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The levity of spring will surround you wherever you go. It’s almost as though you’re the one making the trees bud and the birds sing. There are highlights to this day that will stay with you forever.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, March 21, the 80th day of 2013. There are 285 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 21, 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

On this date: In 1556, Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake for heresy.

In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.

In 1804, the French civil code, or the “Code Napoleon” as it was later called, was adopted.

In 1871, journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous expedition in Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone.

In 1907, U.S. Marines arrived in Honduras to protect American lives and interests in the wake of political violence.

In 1940, a new government was formed in France by Paul Reynaud (ray-NOH’), who became prime minister, succeeding Edouard Daladier (dah-lah-DYAY’).

In 1944, Charles Chaplin went on trial in Los Angeles, accused of transporting former protegee Joan Barry across state lines for immoral purposes. (Chaplin was acquitted, but later lost a paternity suit despite tests showing he wasn’t the father of Barry’s child.)

In 1960, about 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on black protesters.

In 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third, successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. In 1972, the Supreme Court, in Dunn v. Blumstein, ruled that states may not require at least a year’s residency for voting eligibility.

In 1985, police in Langa, South Africa, opened fire on blacks marching to mark the 25th anniversary of Sharpeville; the reported death toll varied between 29 and 43.

One year ago: A Meting out unprecedented punishment for a bounty system that targeted key opposing players, the NFL suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton without pay for the coming season and indefinitely banned the team’s former defensive coordinator; in addition to other sanctions, Commissioner Roger Goodell fined the Saints $500,000 and took away their second-round draft picks for the current year and the next.

Today’s Birthdays: Violinist-conductor Joseph Silverstein is 81. Actress Kathleen Widdoes is 74.

Actress Marie-Christine Barrault is 69. Singermusician Rose Stone (Sly and the Family Stone) is 68. Actor Timothy Dalton is 67. Singer Eddie Money is 64. Rock singer-musician Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) is 63. Rock musician Conrad Lozano (Los Lobos) is 62. Rhythm-and-blues singer Russell Thompkins Jr. (The Stylistics) is 62.

Comedy writer-performer Brad Hall is 55. Actress Sabrina LeBeauf is 55. Actor Gary Oldman is 55.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Program titled “Loons and Lead (Don’t Mix)” presented by the Lakes Region Chapter pf the Audubon Society of New Hampshire. 7:30 p.m. at the Loon Center in Moultonborough. For more information visit www.loonbill.org.

Tall Granite Jazz Band perform at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia. 8 p.m. Admission is $10. BYOB. Lakes Region Builders and Remodelers Association monthly member meeting featuring Paul Morin as speaker. 5 p.m. at the F.W. Webb Bath Center in Gilford.

Dinner buffet included in the $10 fee for members and $15 for non-members. For more information call 415-1594 or email lakesregionbuilders@gmail.com.

Vegan cooking class, dinner, and featured movie entitled ‘Latest in Clinical Nutrition’ Volume 12. 5:30 p.m. at the Pines Community Center in Northfield. Cost is $30/ adults and $15/students. For more information on who to make checks out to or about the class call 729-0248 or email louisa@metrocast.net.

Guy’s Night Out featuring the former Gilford Fire Chief and current Deputy Coordinator of the Lakes Region Mutual Fire Aid. 6 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church.

Dinner served at 7 p.m. Cost $10 per man. To RVSP call 524-6057.

The Inter-Lakes Chem-Free Prom Committee hold 2013 Live Auction schedule. 5:30 p.m. at Mame’s Restaurant in Meredith. For more information or to make a cash donation call 279-6752.

15th season of Advice to the Players featuring Shakespeare’s immortal Julius Caesar. 9 a.m. at Kingswood High School in Wolfeboro. Tickets are $15/adults, $10/ seniors, and $7/students. To purchase tickets or for group rates call 986-6253. For more information visit www.AdviceToThePlayers.org.

16th Annual Meeting for the Annie Forts “UP” Fund Board of Directors. 6 p.m. at Magic Food Catering in Moultonborough. Features cash bar, a Silent Auction, 50/50 raffle, and a buffet dinner. Tickets are $35 each or $65 per couple. Space limited. To RSVP call 253-9976 or email treasuer@anniefortsupfund.org.

Third Annual Taste of the Valley event featuring sample foods from the finest cuisines in the area. 4:30 p.m. at Plymouth State University’s Prospect Hall. For ticket prices or more information call 726-3804.

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

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

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

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

Bingo starts at 6:30.

Knitting at Belmont Public Library. 6 p.m.

Gilford Public Library happenings. Toddler Time (18 mo – 3 yrs) 10:30-11:15 a.m. Conversational French 3:30-4:30 p.m. Crafter’s Corner, 6-7:30 p.m.

Hall Memorial Library happenings. Card class 6 p.m. $5 fee. Temari Ball Class 3 p.m.

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

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

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Bone Builders class is coming to Bristol Honor Flight program for Meredith Lions Club on Tuesday

MEREDITH — The Meredith Lions Club will be having as a guest speaker Joe Byron from Honor Flight New England on Tuesday March 26.

This event is open to the public and will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Room A at the Meredith Community Center. Byron CALENDAR from preceding page

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

Heart of the Lakes Sufi Center monthly class. 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Laconia. Classes are free and run one hour. All are welcome. For more information call 832-3550 or email sufi@ dunadd.net.

FRIDAY, MARCH 22 Teen Movie night at the Gilman Library in Alton. 7 p.m. Popcorn and drinks included. Attendees encouraged to bring chairs or pillows. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information call 875-2550.

The Ton of Blues Band performs at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia. 8 p.m. Admission is $10. BYOB. For more information call 527-0043 or visit pitmansfreightroom.com.

Broadband Stakeholder Group meeting held by the Lakes Region Planning Commission. 9 a.m. at the Humiston Building in Meredith. For more information call 279-8171 or email mtherrien@lakesrpc. org.

Coffeehouse and Benefit Concert featuring pianist William Ogmundson held by the Starr King Unitarian Universalist Youth Group. 7 p.m. the church on Fairgounds Road. Admission is $15 per person, $10 for students. Proceeds benefit the youth groups service trip to NYC in April.

will talk about this group’s beginnings and the goal to take as many living Veterans of World War II to “their” monument in Washington,D.C. He will speak of past trips and answer questions from the audience. This event is free but any donations will be accepted.

Gilford Public Library happenings.

Social Bridge, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Drop-In Storytime (Ages 3-5 yrs) 10:30– 11:15 a.m. Knit Wits 1:30–2:30 p.m.

Free organ concert performed by Robert Couchon. Noon at the Laconia Congregational Church. For more information 524-0668.

Jason Palmer Quintet performs at Blackstones. 8 p.m. at the Margate Resort in Laconia. Admission is $5. Free appetizers served. For more information call 5669070 or visit www.NHJazz.com.

Blood drive hosted by the American Red Cross. 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Lakes Region Community College in Laconia. For more information call 1-800-RED-CROSS or visit www.redcrossblood.org.

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

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

Tot Time at the Meredith Library. 9:3010:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. to noon.

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

Mount Meredith 24ft. high indoor climbing wall open to the public at the Meredith Community Center. 5:30 to 7 p.m. Open to all ages. Admission is $3 for children under 10 and $5 per adult. Family rate is $10 per visit. Equipment provided.

For more information call 279-8197.

Hall Memorial Library happenings. Sit and knit 2-5 p.m. YA Movie featuring ‘Hackers’. 3 p.m. Popcorn and drinks served.

PET OF THE WEEK

MARCO

Marco – other than his

idea that cats might be objects to chase, this handsome little Shepherd mix is the perfect dog for anyone who likes to teach their pet something new on a regular basis.

Marco was surrendered because the living arrangements for his family had changed.. he was initially sad and upset about shelter life but has quickly adapted. His two year old boy has learned so much, this week.. rolling over and spinning left or right. He is so CLEVER! Give a wonderful dog a forever home.. perhaps he will get lucky during the Evening Adoption night Thursday March 21st?

Call 603-524-3252/check www.nhhumane.org for details.

BRISTOL — Bone Builders is coming to town with a new exercise class for Newfound Area residents.

People can attend RSVP Bone Builders classes Bristol, thanks to a collaborative effort between RSVP & The Volunteer Center, Newfound Area Senior Services, and the Bristol United Church of Christ.

RSVP Bone Builders is a no-impact weight training program to help prevent osteoporosis. The program will meet twice weekly for one hour and includes exercises to improve bone density, increase balance, decrease the risk for falls and fractures, and enhance energy and well-being.

Classes will start Tuesday, April 2, 10 a.m. at the Bristol UCC, 15 Church St. Bristol, and will continue to meet every Tuesday & Friday from10-11 a.m.

A proven exercise program, the Bristol program will be lead by the trained volunteer co-leaders, Rebecca Herr and Phyllis Schofield. A $1 donation per week is appreciated to cover administrative costs by RSVP, but not required to participate.

For more information call Teresa toll free at RSVP 1-877-711-7787, Gail Emmons-Shaw at the Newfound Area Senior Services 744-8395, or Rebecca Herr 744-6526.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: Many years ago, my wife and I lived near my parents. After three years of putting up with their too frequent and always unannounced visits, we moved slightly farther away. My Dad is the worst offender. Mom caters to his every whim. Dad is extremely selfish and really never cares whether he intrudes.

After we moved, the drop-in visits became less frequent, but now the constant phone calls drive us crazy. I have nicely explained to Mom that after a hard day at work, we turn off our landline so we can have some quiet time. I told her not to worry if we don’t answer. I also told her that if there is an emergency, she can call our cellphones. The problem is, Dad goes ballistic if he cannot reach us and immediately tells Mom to call our cellphones.

We have been married 29 years and have grown children.

We wouldn’t dream of dropping in on them unannounced or constantly calling when we know they want some peace and quiet. I call my parents twice a week to check on them.

They are both in excellent health. Am I supposed to account to them every single day? Why do they do this, and how can we get some peace while keeping the peace? -- Perplexed Dear Perplexed: You have two simple options: Either call your parents once a day to check on them and let them hear your voice, or turn your cellphones on vibrate and call them back when you feel like it. Both choices are perfectly reasonable. Many grown kids call their parents daily just as a kindness. We think it’s worth five minutes of your day to reassure your folks that you are OK -- and to stop them from driving you nuts.

Dear Annie: For many years, I have used the same beautician to cut my hair. She became a good friend in the process.

However, about a year ago, my hair just wasn’t “cooperating” with her cuts, so I tried a different beautician and loved the results.

Now I’m torn. I’d like to continue with the new stylist, but I don’t want to lose an old friend. How do beauticians feel about their clients when they try someone else’s styles? And how do I tell my friend without hurting her feelings? -- Uneasy About Switching Dear Uneasy: We imagine your friend wouldn’t be thrilled to know you have given your business to someone else, although if she sees you as a true friend and not simply as a paying client, she will get over it. But why don’t you first show her your new style and ask whether she can duplicate it? It could solve the problem with less angst.

Dear Annie: I read all the responses to “Your Husband” about who is at fault in the bedroom. I’ve been married for 27 years. I am in good shape, work 50 hours a week, do a lot of the cooking and help clean. My wife works part time out of the house. Yet, when it comes to a relationship in or out of the bedroom, she ignores me. I have tried to get her to talk, but she won’t. I have tried to do little things to show her that I love and appreciate her, but she always takes them the wrong way. It makes me a little gun shy to keep asking.

Men have feelings, too. We need attention from our spouses as much as they do. I have thought about what it would be like to find a little on the side, but have resisted. There is an old saying that I once read: “A woman makes all the rules, and a man is not to know the rules. If she suspects he knows the rules, she is to change all or some of the rules.” It’s not so funny now. -- Irritated in Clarendon

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

$1-A-DAY CLASSIFIEDS • CALL 527-9299 DOLLAR-A-DAY: Private Party ads only (For Sale, Lost, Autos, etc.), must run ten consecutive days, 15 words max. Additional words 10¢ each per day. does not apply to yard sales. REGULAR RATE: $2.50 a day; 10¢ per word per day over 15 words. PREMIUMS: First word caps no charge. Additional bold, caps and 9pt type 10¢ per word per day. Centered words 10¢ (2 word minimum) TYPOS: Check your ad the first day of publication. Sorry, we will not issue credit after an ad has run once, and we do not offer refunds. DEADLINES: noon the business day prior to the day of publication. PAYMENT: All private party ads must be pre-paid. We accept checks, Visa Mastercard and Discover credit cards and of course, cash. $10 minimum order for credit cards. CORRESPONDENCE: To place your ad call our offices at 527-9299 between 9 am & 5 pm, Monday through Friday; Stop by our office or send a check or money order with ad copy to The Laconia Daily Sun,1127 Union Ave, Laconia, NH 03246. You can email ads to ads@laconiadailysun.com, we will contact you for payment. OTHER RATES: For information about display ads or other advertising options, call 527-9299.

Antiques

Auctions

Autos

BOATS

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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Auction at M a m e ’s to benefit the Inter-Lakes High School Chem-Free After Prom party.

Lots of great stuff! Thursday, 3/21 at 6pm. Preview at 5:30. PK Zyla, auctioneer. Mame’s, 8 Plymouth Street, Meredith.

2002 Chevy Impala LT: 4-door, silver, 108K, fully equipped, all options. $3,900 Must see. 455-0404

BOAT SLIPS for Rent Winnipesaukee Pier, Weirs Beach, NH Reasonable Rates Call for Info. 366-4311

Seatweaving. Classes. Supplies.

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

Announcement

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

P3 s Towing. 630-3606 1976 Chevy C-10 Longbed3-speed on column. Very good condition, $3,000. 603-524-1283 1987 FWD Chevy Silverado with plow. 3/4 ton, 130K, no rust. $2,100/OBO. 603-759-2895 2001 Mercury Sable LS 4-Door Sedan. 3.0L V-6 Engine, 74,400K, Power driver seat, power windows, leather seats, cruise control, sun roof. $3,850. Sanbornton, NH. 603-731-2398 or 603-731-2322

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

Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

2006 Jeep Cherokee Laredo- 17K original miles, V-8 auto, AC, 4WD, Sunroof, White, New MS Tires, Airbags front & sides, CD, Extras. $15,000. 603-524-9491

BOAT Trailer tire ST225/75 D15, LoadStar K550 (H78-15) on new 6 hole rim. $65/obo. 387-3252 SLIPS: Paugus Bay for 2013, up to 18ft. $900. 455-7270.

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

BOATS 36' x 12' Bulkhead Boat slipMountain View Yacht Club - Slip H-17 at MVYC, Gilford, NH, is a bulkhead slip with adjacent parking and lawn space for a grill and/or picnic table. The slip was recently acquired through a bankruptcy sale, and is available for resale. The slip is priced to be the best value at Mountain View Yacht Club. Taxes approx. $1,350/yr Association Fee = $1,500 /yr plus a one time $1,000 membership fee. Visit mvyc.biz for club details. Price = $54,500 firm.

Contact 387-6916.

Child Care ALTON area. Mother of one school aged child would like to care for your child/ children in my home Monday through Friday, full time or part time. Meals included.

All ages. References available.

Activities, crafts and outdoor fun.

Call Mallory at 455-6602

29 slip available for rent at Meredith Yacht Club. $3,000 for season.Call 455-5810.

AUCTION Monday, March 25 @ 6pm • Preview @ 4pm Log on to: www.auctionzip.com ID#5134, for 250 photos 1981 Red Sox signed baseball, Babe Ruth 1933 Goudy card, coins, currency, swords, canes, postcards, old paper & documents, dags & tintypes, 100 jackknives, lots of military, 40 cig lighters, lots of glass, china,pottery, 4 sets snowshoes, beekeeping, political, artwork, rare 34” trench art lamp, books, early pinbacks,thimbles,100 fountain pens, scrap books, lap desk, piano rolls, doll furniture, 4 bureaus and other furniture, 500+ fraternal pins, hundreds of smalls and so much more!

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

603-286-2028 • kenbarrettauctions@netzero.net

Employment Wanted

For Rent

RETIRED gentleman seeking part-time job, available 9am to 1pm and after 5pm. Call 603-524-4406

LACONIA- 2 Bedrooms starting at $800/month +utilities. 3 Bedroom unit $1,000/month +utilities. Call GCE @267-8023. Please No Pets

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

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

AT WEIRS BEACH- Nice 2 Bedroom/1-Bath. Heat/Hot Water included.

Laundry hook-ups. $910/month. $500 security.

279-3141

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Heat/Hot water included. $175/Week.

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998-4728 Available Now BELMONT1 bedroom + loft, private large deck with view, heat/hot water included, $850/Month. 528-3371 Belmont- 2 bedroom in kid friendly neighborhood. $195/Week + Utilities. No pets. Security/references required. 520-5209 BELMONT- 3 bedroom house $1,000/Month & 2 bedroom apartment. $900/Month. Qualified carpenter could have rent adjusted if work is performed.

781-344-3749 BRISTOL- 2+ bedrooms. Large, eat in kitchen, lots of space. 3rd floor with private entry. Beautifully restored building with more renovations pending! May consider a small pet. Unique layout that goes on forever. $750 per month plus utilities. First months rent, security deposit and references. Please call 603-387-6498 for more information and to make an appointment to see.

LACONIA 2 bedroom apartment, 2nd floor. $790/Month, includes heat, close to downtown.

998-0954 LACONIA2-ROOMMATES wanted to share personal home.

Clean, quiet, sober environment.

All inclusive, $140-$150/week.

455-2014 LACONIA Waterfront- 2-Bedroom condo, quiet location, Clean/renovated, furnished-optional. No smoking/pets. $995/month.

603-630-4153.

LACONIA3 bedroom near downtown. $250/wk or $1083/month utilities included.

On-site laundry.

Plenty of parking. River in back yard if you like to fish. Sorry, no dogs.

References & security deposit required. 524-4428 LACONIA- Large 3 bedroom.

Washer/dryer hook-up; parking. $215/wk or $931/month pay own utilities. Natural gas. Sorry, no dogs. References & security deposit required. 524-4428 LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. $145-160/week 603-781-6294 LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 1st floor.

Separate entrance, coin-op laundry in basement. $225/week, including heat, electric & hot water.

524-1234 www.whitemtrentals.com.

LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2nd floor in duplex building. $215/week, including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 LACONIA: one-bedroom apartment. Bright renovated, in-town with heat, cable, parking, yard deck, W/D hookup, non-smoking $800/Month + security/references, 528-2834.

LACONIA: Pleasant St. Studio apartment $650/Month. Heat/hot water included, no pets/smoking.

524-5837.

LAKEPORT229 Elm St. 2 bedroom 1 bath energy efficient home with nice yard. All newly renovated. $1,100/Month + utilities. Call 387-0364 MEREDITH: Small 1- bedroom house, Jenness Hill Road. $625/Month +utilities. 1-Month security deposit. Available now.

Call 279-5674.

MEREDITH: 1-2 bedroom apartments and a 3 bedroom mobile home. $575-$800+ utilities, security deposit required, no dogs, 279-5846.

MINUTES from Concord2-bedroom 1-bath completely renovated energy efficient apartment complex. $795, including hot water w/free WiFi. Secured building access, onsite laundry and more. Military discount available. Convenient Rte 3 location in West Franklin!

Must See, Call today!

603-744-3551 NORTHFIELD: Large, clean 3 bedroom house. $1,250/Month + utilities/security deposit. No pets/no smoking. Convenient, in town, near school/library.

(603)455-8873.

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For Rent

For Sale

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

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

Benjamin Oil, LLC. 603-731-5980

Please contact Mel at

524-0110

Furniture

For Rent-Commercial 1800 Sq. Ft. Building with 2 offices and garage/warehouse space. Conveniently located near Busy Corner. $700/month.

603-998-0954.

For Sale

AMAZING!

DINING Room Set- Cherry table 40X80, six side chairs, excellent condition, $499/OBO 286-4759

7 Sofa, good quality & condition, ivory+, $100/OBO, 5h.p. compressor w/auto rewind hose reel $150., Yotul 602 woodstove $150., Porter Cable paint remover $100. 677-7323 or 455-2187 before 8 p.m.

Lakes Region Answering Service

Looking for enthusiastic person for part-time 3rd Shift.

Must have good typing skills and good customer service skills.

WOOD STOVE Fisher Baby Bear, cast iron, good shape, priced to sell at $375. 387-8051

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

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

603-305-9763

Help Wanted MARINE TECH WANTED

Telephone Operator Position

Wanted for March 30th Sporting auction: Vintage fishing lures, creels, nets, rods & reels, etc. oars, paddles, old ammo, pictures, camp. Call Dave Cross 528-0247 NH Lic. 2487

TILTON: Downstairs 1-bedroom. $600/Month. Heat and hot water included. No dogs, 603-630-9772 or 916-214-7733.

Help Wanted

seeking full-time marine mechanic. Mercury, Volvo Yamaha experience a plus. Lakes Region.

603-279-7921 OWNER Operators Wanted!

85% of Gross, 40% Advance. No forced dispatch, trailer rental program. O/OP's with own authority welcome. Flatbed.

866-572-7297.

JOIN our family. The Fireside Inn & Suites is looking for a Night Auditor. Experience within the field is helpful but not necessary.

Persons should be able to maintain a professional attitude and be self-motivated. To be considered for this job, persons must possess excellent computer skills, knowledge of Excel is a plus, accounting experience or adequate math capabilities. Great communication skills and dependability is a necessity. This is a third shift position; ability to work the overnight shift is required.

Applicants must be flexible and have weekend availability. This position is year round. Please apply in person or mail your resume to: Fireside Inn & Suites, 17 Harris Shore Road, Gilford NH, 03249.

ABSOLUTE BARGAIN! Queen pillowtop mattress set for $150. New! Still in Factory Sealed Plastic! Must liquidate ASAP! Call 603-630-0867 ACCUSMART Treadmill 920 1.5hp 0 to 8 mph with monitor.

Auto-incline, must pickup. $100/obo. 387-3252 AMAZING! Beautiful Pillowtop Mattress Sets. Twin $199, Full or Queen $249, King $449. Call 603-305-9763 See “Furniture” AD. BOWFLEX Treadclimber 3000Like new, only 65 miles. Asking $1,400. Gary 293-4129 or 455-8763 Firewood- $175/Cord. Green ash with some seasoned cherry to improve burning.

Dan 603-455-5848 FIREWOOD- Hardwood, green, split. $180 per cord.

603-703-3668 FISHER Price Basketball Hoop w/NESN Action Sounds, adjustable up to 6 tall, $20; Computer Desk, 53” wide, 28” deep, $15; Large dog kennel, $20.

455-3686.

FOUR B.F. Goodrich R15 Tires.

Great buy $200. 393-7884 or 455-8112 GENTLY used home office equipment package. HP Photosmart All-in-One C6280, Epsom Perfection Scanner 2400, Brother Laser Printer HL2140 $150.

(603)731-6052 HAY for sale- $5 per bale, free delivery. Call 957-7401 LOG Length Firewood: 7-8 cords, $900. Local delivery. 998-8626.

MARTIN HD28 1997 Action, was set up by professional. Beautiful sound, like new condition. Hard Case $1,650. 603-524-9491 ONE man sled-style portable bob house with towbar, $150. Three man Frabill Ranger sled-style portable bobhouse with towbar $250. 524-4445 RIDING Lawn Mower SearsCraftsman LT 2000, with mulching deck - bagging attachment - trailer attachment. Recently serviced. $550 firm. Pick up in Sanbornton.

Call 603-860-6420 SMALL college refrigerator $65, 20 ft. Extension ladder $65, HP Photosmart printer $50, Two professional pool sticks 25oz Break, 20oz Maili $65 each with cases.

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

603-524-1430.

Free FREE Pickup for of unwanted, useful items. Estates, homes, offices, cleaned out, yardsale items.

(603)930-5222.

Help Wanted AM Career Services Career Coaching Resume Writing Cover Letters & More Great Rates - Call Now 603-520-0052

BUSTLING OUTBOUND CALL CENTER SEEKING HIGHLY MOTIVATED AGENTS to schedule appointments for brand name resorts across the country; we are the leading marketing office in the region, constantly growing and seeking new talent to add to our crew! Pay commensurate with production- goal based, average pay $17+ an hour.

We recently moved to a NEW location at the Paugus Bay Plaza, immediate openings are available, 1st shift 8:30am to 1:00pm M-SAT (4 openings), 2nd shift 4:15pm to 10:00pm SUN-FRI (5 openings)

Call now to apply 581-2450 ask for Tina

CHEF NEEDED Awesome work environment!

Seasonal (May - October) Must have valid license, transportation, references, great attitude!

Paradise Beach Club

366-2665

We are seeking a very special Professionals to share our Passion for Compassion.

An understanding of the broader health care system ensures patients /clients receive appropriate services in the environment which best meets the care goals of the patient. Home Care nursing includes caring for and educating family members or care givers in an effort to safely maintain their loved ones at home for as long as possible.

Our environment is very supportive, fun loving, team oriented and above all, caring. We are committed to our mission and we would welcome the opportunity to meet with you if you feel you are a match for our agency.

Previous Home Care and/or long term care experience is preferred.

The positions require weekend and holiday coverage including on-call time per client/agency needs. Creative thinking is highly encouraged, computer experience is necessary, time management is essential and a sense of humor is expected.

Per Diem Physical Therapist Part time LPN / RN (16-20 hrs/wk) in our Long Term Care division Visiting Nurse, Home Care and Hospice of Carroll County.

Box 432 North Conway, NH 03860.

603-356-7006 or email bholmes@vnhch.org

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Help Wanted

Help Wanted

PLYMOUTH/ASHLAND Now accepting applications for grounds maintenance personnel at the White Mountain Country Club in Ashland, NH. Please inquire in person or call to apply.

603-536-3437

TECHNICIAN WANTED

CARE & COMFORT NURSING Hiring LNA s Please apply in person, 102 Court St. Laconia 528-5020 PLATINUM Salon and Spa is looking for an experienced stylist with clientele to join our team. Call 524-7724.

Winnisquam Auto is growing.

Great opportunity for the right person. Must have tools and state inspection license. Great place to perfect your trade and work alongside a Grade A Technician. Must possess a good attitude and ability to work in a fast-paced shop. Looking for a journeyman or apprentice-type abilities. Send resume to frontlinerdy@metrocast.net or call 603-524-7171.

Help Wanted

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LACONIA & TILTON KFC IS HIRING!!

P ART TIME, FULL TIME & SUMMER POSITIONS AVAILABLE We are looking for team members that are: • Team Players with an Outgoing Attitude

• Customer Focused and Dependable

We offer: • Competitive Pay • Vacation Pay for both full time and part time employees Drop by the store for an application and to set up an interview

1315 Union Ave, Laconia & 35 Tilton Rd, Tilton

GILMANTON SCHOOL DISTRICT GILMANTON SCHOOL

Full-Time 2nd Shift Custodian Position Vacancy Please send a letter of intent and resume to: Facility Manager, David Sykie Gilmanton School 1386 NH Rte. 140 Gilmanton Iron Works, NH 03837 Deadline: March 29, 2013

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

Senior nursing students may apply.

Please send resume to: Central NH Kidney Center 87 Spring Street, Laconia, NH 03246 or Call

603-528-3738

Town of Gilford Parks & Recreation Summer Staff The Gilford Parks and Recreation Department is currently accepting applications for seasonal positions of Head Lifeguard and Lifeguards (American Red Cross Waterfront Lifeguard Certification Required, WSI preferred, but not mandatory), Gatekeepers and Maintenance Laborers for summer employment at the Gilford Beach. The beach is open mid-June through the end of August. Good pay and working conditions.

Call the GilfordParks and Recreation Dept. at 527-4722 for an application. Positions will remain open until qualified applicants are found. EOE

The Fireside Inn & Suites located at 17 Harris Shore Rd. in Gilford NH is looking for people to fill the following positions: Housekeeping Personnel, Laundry Attendants, and a Housekeeping Supervisor. All persons applying should be reliable, dependable and know what clean is. Experience within the field is helpful but not necessary. Persons should be able to maintain a professional attitude while at work and be ready for the busy season to come. Applicants must be flexible, weekend availability a must. All positions are year round, part time in off peak season with the ability to obtain full time hours in the busy summer months. Please apply in person.

THE Hair Factory is looking for a talented, upbeat, experienced hairstylist to join our salon. Must have at least 3 years experience and some clientele. Be skillful and advanced in color techniques, perming, cuts, and latest styles.

Booth rent possible. Please call Joanna at 527-1005, or email hairfactory@metrocast.net

ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN Lakes Region Community College in Laconia seeks a part-time Accounting Technician/Customer Service Representative responsible for reviewing, receiving, processing, and recording of monies and performs various financial transactions within the Business Office.

SAU #79 GILMANTON SCHOOL DISTRICT GILMANTON SCHOOL 2013-2014 VACANCY The Gilmanton School is seeking applications for the position of LIBRARIAN Applicants must possess certification in that area.

Please send a letter of intent, resume, evidence of certification and recommendations to:

Carol Locke, Principal Gilmanton School 1386 NH Rte. 140 Gilmanton Iron Works, NH 03837 Interviews will commence immediately.

EOE

Education: Associate’s degree from a recognized college or technical institute with major study in accounting or business management, or completion of two years of college with a minimum of six semester hours in accounting. Each additional year of approved formal education may be substituted for one year of required work experience.

Experience: One year of experience in bookkeeping or accounting work. Each additional year of approved work experience may be substituted for one year of required formal education.

Salary Range: $14.12 – 16.35 Hourly To be considered for this position, please send a completed Community College System of New Hampshire (CCSNH) application, resume, and documentation to:

Karen Kurz, H.R. Representative Lakes Region Community College 379 Belmont Road, Laconia, NH 03246 fax (603) 527-2042, phone (603) 366-5217; or e-mail kkurz@ccsnh.edu.

Applications will be accepted until March 28, 2013. CCSNH applications may be obtained by visiting the website at http://www.ccsnh.edu/. Please reference position #L2R000023.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Home Improvements “DO IT YOURSELF” General Contracting Veteran Construction Manager will ensure that your home repairs, renovations or new construction processes go smoothly. Work directly for home owner as a private consultant. Best material/ labor/ sub-contractor pricing, quality and project scheduling. Free brochure/ discussion. 603-293-8237

TILE INSTALLATIONS

Custom showers, backsplashes, floors, etc. 15 + years installing tile everyday. Mark at American Pride Tile. (603)452-8181. Find us on Facebook!

Land WATERFRONT LAKE LOT125'/SANBORNTON; Septic design completed/Cleared/ Driveway & Dock in. PRICED FOR QUICK SALE! $75K 455-0910

Mobile Homes BELMONT park 14ft. x 60ft., 3 bedroom, totally remodeled, asking $10,500 best offer, must sell.

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Gilmanton Church Food Pantry taking part in Feinstein Challenge

GILMANTON — Again this year, Alan Shawn Feinstein will be dividing $1 million among food agencies like the Gilmanton Community Church Food Pantry in Gilmanton Iron Works. Mr. Feinstein does this each year to inspire the public to donate to local pantries during those months in which food supplies and funds can run very low.

Feinstein’s challenge is very specific and goes like this: between March 1 and April 30 any donations of food or money can be counted towards the challenge if they are designated as such by the donor. In other words,

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Services

any money donated to the GCC Food Pantry must indicate in the check memo that it is for the Feinstein Challenge or if donating cash people must include a note stating it is for the challenge. All donations of food will be counted with each item representing $1. All donations received must be documented with the amount and the name of the person or organization making the donation.

This is the first year that the GCC Food Pantry has participated in this program.

Food donations may be of made at collection boxes located at the Acad-

Services

Services

DUST FREE SANDING Hardwood Flooring. 25 years experience. Excellent references.

Weiler Building Services 986-4045 Email: weilbuild@yahoo.com

HANDYMAN SERVICES Small Jobs Are My Speciality

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277 HAVEN Gleason!s Sharpening Service. Saws, Mowers, reel mowers, scissors, knives, cutters, chisels, axes 455-5638

HOULE!S HOUSEKEEPING Offering office and retail cleaning, house-sitting, house cleaning & pet sitting. Serving the Lakes Region for 8 years with the lowest rates and top quality. (603) 520-0794

MR. JUNK- Attics, cellars, garages cleaned out. Free estimate.

Insured. 455-6296 TELEPHONE Systems Sales and Service Data and Voice Cabling 20 Years in the Business.

524-2214 CALL THE HUNGRY PAINTER: Painting, small tree work, dump runs, odd jobs, water damage/drywall repairs. 455-6296.

WHITE MTN BUILDERS

State registered, fully insured.

Building, remodeling, restoration, concrete work, roofing, painting, home cleaning, etc.

No job too big or too small, give us a call (603)723-4861.

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

Our Customers Don t get Soaked!

Snowmobiles

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2005-900 Arctic Cat- Pull start/no reverse, $2,400 or Best reasonable offer. 603-703-3668

Major credit cards accepted

Storage Space SAVE 30% ON PAINTING SAVE 30% on Interior Painting.

Insured, references. Troy Turcotte Painting 455-9179.

LACONIA: 20' x 18' two car ga rage for rent, $195/month including electric, 524-1234.

emy Building in the Corners, at the Year Round Library and the Gilmanton School will also be collecting food items.

Donations can be made directly to

the GCC Food Pantry during business hours which are: Monday 1–5 p.m.

Wednesday 3-7 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.– 2 p.m.

PLYMOUTH — Burrito Me will celebrate its one year anniversary on the corner of Fox Block in downtown Plymouth on Wednesday, March 27 with a ‘We’re Here to Stay Celebration.”

As a thank you to the public for its support and love for burritos, Burrito Me will be offering many deals for the day including drink, taco, and burrito specials. In addition to these daily festivities at 4 p.m. there will be a burrito eating contest and at 7 p.m. there will be a piñata filled with candy and gift certificates; everyone is invited to swing for the gold.

Owners Reuben and Aaron Bassett and manager Sarah Hancock are determined to provide a comfortable hang out spot for locals and students

alike while providing fresh, local food.

They work hard to give back to the community by participating in many events such as Keep the Heat On and the Artist Root’s Souper Bowl.

Burrito Me is a small taqueria owned by cousins Reuben and Aaron Bassett. Plymouth is the sister location to their original store in Laconia. Opened because the cousins wanted a great place to grab a burrito and a beer it has grown into a loved restaurant by locals, college students, and kids.

Their official celebration will be on March 27 from 11 a.m.-8pm but stop by and celebrate with them any day of the week. Open 11-8 Sunday through Thursday and 11-9 on Friday and Saturday. More information can be found at BurritoMe.com.

LACONIA — The Sixth Annnual Robbie Mills Mmeorial 8-Ball Tournament will be held Saturday, March 23 at the Funky Monkey in downtown Laconia.

The event gets underway with registration at 10 a.m. and double elimination play following BCA rules starts at 11 a.m.

There is a $20 entry fee, which includes lunch, with all of the tournament proceeds going to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of the Lakes Region.

There will be trophies for winners, as well as cash prizes, food and raffles throughout the day.

For more information contact the Boys and Girls Club at 527-0198.

MEREDITH — The Meredith Parks & Recreation Department will hold its annual Easter Egg Hunt & Community Center Birthday Party this Saturday March 23 from 10 a.m. to noon.

The day starts at 10 a.m. with the Easter Egg Hunt on Circle Drive Park adjacent to the Community Center.

The egg hunt will be broken down into age groups with ages 1-2 starting at 10:10, ages 3-4 at 10:20, ages 5-6 at 10:30 and ages 7-9 at 10:40.

People must pre-register on Saturday with registrations strarting at 9:30 a.m.

Each child will receive a raffle ticket when

they register and after the hunt is over the winning raffle tickets will be drawn in the gym of the Community Center.

After the hunt there will be light refreshments and photos with the Easter Bunny at the Community Center. Activities will incude a climbing wall, arts & crafts, face painting and spin art.

Donations from the Altrusa Club of Meredith, Astra girls of Meredith and the Friends of Meredith Parks & Recreation Department helped make this event possible.

For more information call 279-8197 or visit www.meredithnh.org.

ROCHESTER — BootLegger’s Footwear Centers hve been named “Retailer of the Year for 2013”, by the (BSTA) Boston Shoe Travelers Association.

The BSTA is the oldest regional shoe travelers association in the USA representing over 250 sales reps and 600 lines of footwear and accessories.

BootLegger’s Footwear Centers are one of New England’s largest full service family footwear centers with headquar-

ters in Rochester and have eight retail locations in (Rochester, Stratham, Wolfeboro, North Conway, Meredith, Laconia and Keene NH and Greenfield MA) Al Miltner, President of BootLegger’s Footwear Center’s comments; “we are very pleased and honored for this recognition by the BSTA. This year BootLegger’s will enter its fiftieth year in business. We would like to thank our associates, our valued customers, and the BSTA for all their support”.

Burrito Me celebrating its one year anniversary in Plymouth March 27

Sixth Annual Robbie Mills Memorial 8-Ball Tournament at Funky Monkey

Community Easter Egg Hunt at Meredith Community Center Saturday

BootLegger’s Footwear Centers named ‘Retailer of the Year for 2013’

DICK THE HANDYMAN Available for small and odd jobs, also excavation work, small tree and stump removal and small roofs! Call for more details. Dick Maltais 603-267-7262 or 603-630-0121 HANDYMAN for hire, $12 per hour. 293-0683

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