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‘LISA’ GOES TO WORK — Kelly-Miller Circus employee Armando Loyal leads “Lisa” the elephant into the big top to raise some poles on Friday morning at Memorial Field in Laconia. Many circus buffs were on hand for ritual raising of the big top. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Circus in town for first time in 50 years By RogeR Amsden FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — A large crowd turned out at Memorial Field Friday morning to greet the Kelly-Miller Circus and watch Lisa the elephant raise the big top for the first circus to visit the city in a half century.
“I’ve been around a lot of years but I’ve never seen this before,’’ said Harold Powell, 66, of Alton, director of maintenance for Belknap County, who said that he took the day off so that he could bring his grandchildren to watch the circus tent being set up.
leave at 6:30 when the camels came in. I’ve never seen a live camel and it was very exciting,’’ she said. “She’s really enthused and was awake at five this morning so she could come here and see the circus arrive,’’ see CIrCus page 11
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LACONIA — Soon traffic should begin moving more smoothly through the busiest intersection in the city, where Union Avenue and Court Street cross Main Street, downtown, following the decision of
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Five-year-old Evelyn Smith of Laconia has never seen anything like it either and was thrilled earlier in the day when she and her father, Glenn, Northfield town administrator, showed up at the park to greet the arriving circus. “We were getting ready to
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