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LACONIA — The Salvation Army Thrift store at 77 New Salem Street was closed on Friday after store manager Kim Grant arrived to open for business and discovered evidence of a break-in. “I was shocked, completely shocked when I saw what happened, said Grant. “We are here to help the community, and for someone to do this is awful.” The store, which opened at its new location in February of 2011, helps many families and individuals with clothing, furnisee THRIFT page 8
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Fri., July 13 - Thurs., July 19 Now Open Every Night! SCREEN 1
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Ice Age, Continental Drift Pg (Plays 1st) Madagascar 3 Pg SCREEN 3
The Amazing Spiderman Pg13 (Plays 1st) Men In Black Pg13 SCREEN 4
Brave Pg (Plays 1st) Katy Perry, A Part Of Me Pg Box office opens at 7 pm. Show starts at dusk or approx. 8:30 pm. Admission: Adults $9.00 Children 11 & under in cars are free. Minimum 2 adult charge per car. Group rates available. Come early & enjoy a great double feature under the stars, in one of the country’s LAST drive-in theaters.
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Laconia’s hopes for $20,000 education grant riding with the #48 car on Sunday Five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmy Johnson stands next to his #48 Lowe’s Chevrolet yesterday in the pit area at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon. Johnson and other drivers were at the track on Friday qualifying and practicing for Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301-mile race. He will carry the hopes of Laconia winning the speedway’s “Race to Benefit Education”, which carries with it $20,000 grant for local schools. Each of the state’s 13 cities was able to select one of the Sprint Cup series’ top drivers to represent them in the race and if that driver wins on Sunday, their city gets the grant. Laconia City Manager Scott Myers had the third selection in the driver draft and he picked Johnson. After qualifying times were posted on Friday, Johnson will start in the seventh position. See related story on page 11. (Maureen Bieniarz-Pond/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
Center Harbor church will likely be sold to benefit victims of FRM Ponzi scheme CENTER HARBOR — A federal bankruptcy judge has been asked to rule on a proposed settlement and compromise with the Center Harbor Christian Church that would force the sale of the building and land to pay $382,150 to the bankruptcy trustees charged with unraveling the Financial Resources Mortgage Ponzi scheme mess. Bankruptcy Trustees claim the church, whose pastor is Robert Farah the father of jailed FRM owner Scott Farah, received see CHURCH page 9
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LACONIA — The 2013 edition of Laconia football Sachems will not only play on a new gridiron but in a new division following a radical and experimental realignment of high school announced by the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association last month. After the 2012 season the six divisions will be shrunk to three, two with 20 teams and one with 17. Each division will be divided into four conferences of four or five teams. During the season each team
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will play every other team in its conference as well as every team in one of the other three conferences in the division. By rotating the schedule, each team in the division will play every other team once in a three-year cycle. The top two teams in each of the four conferences will play for the division title. The playoffs will open by matching the winner against the runner-up in each conference. The four winning teams will be seeded and advance to the semifinals where the first and fourth seeds and the see FOOTBALL page 10
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