The Laconia Daily Sun, May 18, 2013

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One sweet, baby blue ride to the Gilford High Prom Grace McLaughlin, Will Bash and Karen Clark, chauffeured by Hayden McLaughlin, enjoy a special ride to the Gilford High School Prom on Friday evening. The Grand March was held in the school gym and the glamorous young couples where then driven to the Youth Center for the prom itself. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun) 24 Hour Hotline 366-4723

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LACONIA — The Board of Directors of the nonprofit WLNH Children’s Auction announced yesterday that it has distributed $345,000 of the $416,500 raised in 2012 among 33 charitable and non-profit organizations in the Lakes Region. In a statement accompanying the alloca-

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Used LFD equipment headed for El Salvador LACONIA — Firefighters at the Central Station yesterday piled up protective clothing they call “turnout gear” as members of the N.H. National Guard prepared to load the items into a box truck. The gear is bound for San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador and the “sister see LFd page 14

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tion, the directors explained that last year they undertook a thorough review of the distribution process to ensure that the missions of the agencies being funded matched that of the auction. In the course of the review, the board found that over the years the work of the organizations aligned with the goals of the auction and fell into three general categories.

The first category, designated “A,” consists of organizations that address the fundamental and immediate needs of children for food, clothing, shelter and hygiene. “B,” the second category, includes organizations that provide services and programs to alleviate the conditions and circumstances that breed the need for basic assistance and sersee CHILdrEN’s auCtION page 12

By Gail OBer

ment Director Sheldon Morgan has been with DPW since 1972 and said he remembers Gilford in those days as a very sparsely populated community with mostly farmers. According to N.H. state records, there were 1,271 residents in 1950, 2,043 residents in 1960 and 3,219 residents in 1970. “People just took care of their own garsee GILFOrd page 11

History lesson: how Gilford’s trash collection payment system developed to where it is today THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

GILFORD — From the former gravel pit off Kimball Road through Clinker-Bell on Route 11-B to today’s setup at the Laconia Transfer Station, the town’s trash collection service has been linked with Laconia since the 1970s. Department of Public Works Depart-

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