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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012
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VOL. 12 NO. 229
LACONIA, N.H.
Rotarians see 10,000 daylilies in Laconia’s future BY ADAM DRAPCHO
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LACONIA — The Laconia Rotary Club has given the city flowers in past years. In 1997, the club helped develop downtown’s Rotary Park and the club continues to sponsor landscaping there. More recently, Rotarians helped the city populate the refurbished Stewart Park with attractive plantings. This year, the club has purchased $1,000 worth of daylilies, and is looking for the public’s cooperation in an effort to plant the flow-
ers from one end of the city to the other. Rotarian Warren Clement, who is organizing the project with help from Dale Squires of Belknap Landscape Company, said the club’s vision is to plant the daylilies, grown by Merrymeeting Garden Center in New Durham, in front yards and along road sides from the Belmont town line all the way to Meredith. “It might take three years, but we’d like to plant 10,000 throughout the city,” Clement said. The flowers will be sold for $1 per plant and see DAYLILIES page 8
Princess Winnifred the Wobegone turns on the charm
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Bullying expert suggests we’re raising ‘meanest generation’ BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — Parents of Laconia Middle Schoolers were told Tuesday night by an anti-bullying expert that there is an epidemic of bullying in American schools that affects 30 to 50-percent of the nation’s school children. “All indications are that we are raising the meanest generation ever,’’ said Dr. Malcolm Smith, a family life and family education specialist with the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Service. “It’s time to get more serious as parents. But it’s not a school problem, or a parent problem or a school board problem. It’s everybody’s problem,’’ said Smith, who said that if the same level of threat was posed by a communicable disease there would be an overwhelming public outcry for action. He said that he was severely bullied himself as a teenager and that 40 years later he can still recall the incident, in which he was shoved to the ground and spat upon by other students at a Kansas high school and called ‘’farm trash.’’ see BULLYING page 14
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Princess Winnifred (Katharina Beliveau) pours on the charm for Prince Dauntless (Mitchell Berry) much to the dismay of Queen Aggrivain (Gwen Hout) with the Jester (Kristian Brown) during a final dress rehearsal on Wednesday for Laconia High School’s production of “Once Upon A Mattress”. The musical comedy built around the story of the princess and the pea premiers tonight in the school auditorium at 7 p.m. Additional performances are on Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. A full pit orchastra is featured. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
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