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LACONIA — Yesterday, for the first time in at least a decade the mayor, six councilors and eight department heads sat together around the same table. They spent the afternoon in the conference room at One Mill Plaza (Busiel Mill) in the first of two sessions convened to develop a “strategic plan” to set a course for the city during

the next two years.

Two years ago, when Mike Seymour was elected mayor, strategic planning was among the keynotes of his campaign. He said that the appointment of city manager Scott Myers, who as the four-term mayor of Dover presided over a strategic planning process every two years, finally provided the opportunity to take the initiative.

Carmen Lorentz, executive director of

the Belknap County Economic Development Council (BCEDC), who facilitated the session, began by explaining that the plan was designed to identify priorities for the City Council and provide direction for the city manager and department heads. The plan, she said, will set defined objectives and include benchmarks for measuring the progress toward meeting them. see LaCONIa page 12

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THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — The state fire marshal has confirmed that six or seven homeowners in

the Paugus Woods development off White Oaks Road have filed formal complaints with his department regarding allegedly faulty construction.

Kenneth Walsh of the Office of the State Fire Marshall said some of the homeowners have also filed similar complaints with Department of Justice Bureau

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N. Mexico man who foiled kidnapping of 6-year-old reveals he’s in country illegally

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The man who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in state and national immigration debates.

Antonio Diaz Chacon, 23, is married to an American and has been in the country for four years. But Chacon says he abandoned attempts to get legal residency because the process was difficult and expensive.

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Stocks fall again as traders worry about recession NEW YORK (AP) — A growing belief that the U.S. economy may be headed toward recession gave the stock market its fourth straight week of losses.

The anxiety in the market was obvious Friday as the major indexes went from moderate gains early in the day to another sharp loss. The Dow Jones industrial average had its 10th move of more than 100 points in 15 trading days this month.

“We just don’t know whether we’re going to have a recession,” said John Burke, head of Burke Financial Strategies.

There was little news to help investors determine their next moves. However, JPMorgan Chase & Co. joined other finan-

cial firms and cut its forecast for economic growth during the fourth quarter. It’s now predicting growth at annual rate of just 1 percent, down from an earlier forecast of 2.5 percent. That added to the recession fears.

Investors disliked the news late Thursday that Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to exit most of its consumer businesses, including PCs. HP fell 20 percent to a sixyear low. HP plans to transform itself into a company that caters to corporations.

After the market rose early, some investors sold in case bad news comes out of Europe over the weekend. European investors were also cautious — banking stocks fell near two-and-a-half-year lows,

dragged down by rumors about banks’ potential losses on bonds issued by heavily indebted governments.

“These things usually break out over the weekend and then you have a mad dash Monday to react to them,” said Mike McGervey, the head of McGervey Wealth Management.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three people died in a flash flood after heavy rains submerged cars in Pittsburgh, officials said Friday evening.

Numerous vehicles were submerged on Washington Boulevard, which runs parallel to the Allegheny River in the city’s Highland Park neighborhood, after thunderstorms dropped up to 3 inches of rain in an hour, the National Weather Service reported.

Rescue crews used inflatable boats to reach other stranded drivers, some of whom say that the waters near the city zoo were 6 feet deep.

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Protecting landowners from liability at issue when lawmakers meet on Tuesday CONCORD (AP) — Lawmakers worried a lawsuit by a hunter will prompt landowners to close their lands to hunting and other recreational activities will meet Tuesday to discuss how to tighten New Hampshire’s law protecting landowners from liability.

State Rep. Gene Chandler said Friday he plans to introduce legislation but has not yet drafted a bill.

Fish and Game Executive Director Glenn Normandeau said Thursday the Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously to work with the Legislature to strengthen landowners’ protections.

Chandler said several lawmakers will meet with Fish and Game Commission members Tuesday to discuss what needs to be done to alleviate landowners’ fear of lawsuits if they keep their land open for recreation. Another meeting will be scheduled toward the end of August for the public to comment, said state Sen. Andy Sanborn, who is working with Chandler.

They are concerned about a lawsuit by William Jasmin, a 51-year-old Manchester hunter who fell about 20 feet when a tree stand collapsed. Jasmin was severely injured; his lawsuit was first reported by the Concord Monitor.

Jasmin’s lawyer, B.J. Branch, said Friday that Jasmin was scouting land in Epsom in November 2009 when the accident happened. Jasmin claims Charles Corliss, the landowner, gave him permission to hunt on the property as long as he and his friends shot as many coyotes as possible. Jasmin also claims Corliss told him he could use the faulty tree stand.

Corliss denies giving Jasmin permission to be on the property, according to statements to the Monitor

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CONCORD (AP) — Secretary of State William Gardner says he has picked someone to hear a dispute between a nonprofit and New Hampshire regulators over how the nonprofit manages health insurance pools for public workers.

The Local Government Center had offered to split the cost of a retired judge to preside over a hearing on the issue. But Gardner said Friday he had already hired someone and will announce his selection Tuesday.

The center asked the bureau for a neutral and experienced hearings officer, preferably a retired judge, to preside over a hearing resulting from a report critical of the center’s handling of taxpayer money.

Gardner said he felt it was inappropriate for the center to share the cost. He said it is his responsibility to ensure a fair person presides.

N.H. district courts will still enforce small fines

CONCORD (AP) — The chief of New Hampshire’s district courts says those courts will continue to enforce small fines, even though superior courts won’t.

The comments to the Concord Monitor by Judge Ed Kelly come after the head of the state’s superior courts, Judge Tina Nadeau, said those courts can no longer afford to enforce fines and restitution payments under $200.

Nadeau cited cuts at the state Department of Corrections, which collects debts from probationers and parolees. She said after the cuts, corrections started asking the superior court to issue arrest warrants in debt cases, and that was stretching court resources.

But Kelly said district courts will continue to enforce the smaller fines and restitutions orders, because most come from district court, anyway.

nor Corliss returned messages seeking comment Friday.

Branch said the lawsuit is in its early stages and the trial won’t begin for perhaps a year.

Chandler and other lawmakers fear it will prompt landowners to post signs banning hunting and other recreational activities out of fear the state’s liability law will not protect them from being sued. The law limits landowners’ liability as a way to encourage them to keep their land open. The law does not require them to keep the land safe for entry or use or to give warnings of hazardous conditions or structures.

“Everything people love to do outdoors is truly at risk, not just hunting,” Sanborn said.

Branch argues the agreement Corliss made with Jasmin to kill coyotes invalidates the liability protections because Jasmin was required to perform a function as compensation for the right to hunt. He said the tree stand was not protected because it is

not a permanent structure.

“A service was being rendered in exchange for permission,” said Branch.

Branch said that makes the case different from when a hunter is injured while hunting on private land where the landowner has not offered him compensation or suggested using a tree stand that was not safe.

Chandler and Sanborn want to look at what constitutes compensation and when it triggers making the landowner liable.

“Giving someone a blueberry pie shouldn’t make you liable,” Chandler said.

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Following his December 2009/January 2010 inspections, Modular Building Inspector Donald Carpia wrote a letter on Jan. 15, 2010 to then Laconia Code Enforcement Officer Carroll Seigars telling him about the deficiencies and indicating that Brady Sullivan employee Larry LaPierre would be coordinating the repairs.

In at least one instance on Coquina Lane, Siegars signed the certificate of occupancy on Jan. 8, 2010 — a week before the problems were identified by the fire marshal and following a series of inspections performed by the city’s Planning Department, Water Department, Public Works Department Fire Department and electrical and building inspectors between the dates of Dec. 23, 2009 and Jan. 8, 2010.

All of the initial seven homes included in the initial inspection have been sold according to tax assessment information made available on-line by the city of Laconia. It is not known if the deficiencies have been corrected.

As to the complaints filed recently with the fire marshal and the attorney general, the three reports made available by the city are for homes constructed in the second phase of the Paugus Woods build-out.

Two of the homes are on Siesta Lane and one is on Sarasota Lane.

The owners of the three homes have declined to be interviewed by The Daily Sun. Those homes all have certificates of occupancy signed between February and May of 2010 by either former City Man-

At least a half-dozen homeowners in the Paugus Woods residential subdivision off White Oaks Road in Laconia have file complaints with the state fire marshal and attorney general alleging that numerous building code violations have been discovered since they moved in. In each case, the City of Laconia issued an occupancy permit for the structure in question, calling into question the inspection process. The photo above is a general scene along one of the streets in the development. The photo at right is off a new, modular-built home that is for sale at this time. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Ed Engler)

HOMES from page one code violations,” Walsh said in a telephone interview last week, declining to comment on whether or not and contractual agreements between Brady Sullivan and home buyers have been violated.

Asst. Attorney General David Reinzo confirmed there are eight complaints but declined to comment further, saying it is a long-standing policy of the Department of Justice to not comment on open matters.

He declined to either confirm or deny if there is an investigation underway.

Three of the complaints on file with the Laconia Planning Department and made available to The Daily Sun upon request reveal a litany of violations ranging from a lack of fire blocking in the attic walls and basement plumbing connections to uncovered junction boxes and improperly installed gas regulators and vents.

According to Walsh, the construction issues initially surfaced in December of 2009 and January of 2010 when one of the fire marshal office inspectors conducted a random inspection of what was then seven newly constructed modular homes in Paugus Woods.

The homes, two on Sarasota Lane, four on Palmetto Drive and one on Coquina Lane listed 13 deficiencies including improper fire blocking, stair handrails, and

unfastened basement support columns.

To the best of The Daily Sun’s knowledge, none of the above seven houses are included in the recent complaints filed with the Fire Marshal’s Office or the Attorney Generals Office. They were part of the initial or Phase I build-out of the development.

Walsh said the basic responsibility of the Fire Marshall is to inspect modular assembly techniques but when other deficiencies are found, they are included in the report.

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Foreign students protesting working conditions in Hershey reject see the U.S.A. tour idea

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Companies involved in employing foreign students who walked off their jobs in protest at a facility that serves the Hershey chocolate manufacturer on Friday developed a plan to send the students on a trip to see some of the United States’ cultural and historical landmarks, but leaders of the protesting students rejected the idea flatly.

Rick Anaya, chief executive of the Council for Educational Travel USA, the San Clemente, Calif.-based nonprofit company that helped bring the students to the U.S., said the plan emerged after a two-hour conference call with representatives of the other three companies involved in their employment at a chocolate distribution center just outside Hershey.

“We’re actually doing this on our dime,” including paid time off for the student-workers, he said.

“We’re paying for this trip. We’re just fleshing out the details.”

Students walked off the job at an Exel Inc.-run facility on Wednesday, saying the work was so strenuous and low-paying that they were unable to see very much of the country they came to visit and that they were angry at having spent thousands of dollars to participate in the program.

The students hold J-1 visas, which supply resorts and other businesses with cheap seasonal labor as part of a program aimed at fostering cultural understanding.

Exel said Thursday it doesn’t intend to continue

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The e-mail asked that Excel provide all design documents thermal performance calculations, stamped truss designs, quality control inspection reports and all documents pertinent to this complaint and similar models.

“Due to the nature of this complaint, which may involve other modular buildings in this site,” wrote Walsh, “we will need to coordinate logistics for access and inspections by all personnel.”

Walsh said the obvious goal to “minimize any convenience to the homeowners as much as possible” and said Excel’s cooperation could be coordinated through Brady Sullivan.

Walsh said he had hoped to begin site inspections in January of 2011.

According to city Planning Director Shanna Saunders, the goal of the city is to satisfy the homeowners and ensure they are all living in safe and codeapproved homes.

She acknowledged the city has had a great deal of turmoil within the Code Enforcement Office including the sudden departure of Seigars in May of 2010 following his five-year tenure with the city.

Seigars was the former code inspection officer in Somersworth and his tenure there coincided with Cabanel’s time there as finance director. Cabanel never publicly gave a reason for Seigars’s departure.

In March of 2011, the city hired Code Enforcement Officer Bill Stewart who incurred the wrath of some by urging the City Council not to repeal the section of the city code requiring architecturally prepared plans, signed and sealed by a New Hampshire pro-

fessional engineer or architect” for all single and multi-family homes.

The request to repeal the provision came from a local builder who said that it had never been enforced and that it adds about $3,000 to $5,000 to the cost of a new home.

In his statements to the council, Stewart also described the quality of finished home in Laconia as “substandard” saying there is some good quality work being done but “only (by) a few contractors.”

Saunders said Stewart had begun investigating the complaints at Paugus Woods but was fired by Acting City Manager Pam Reynolds in late June.

His departure came shortly after he was arrested in the city for drunken driving. He was not working at the time.

Since then, the position has been empty with Vanvalkenburgh performing code inspections on a part-time basis and Saunders reviewing the work Stewart had done on Paugus Woods, among her other duties.

Earlier this week, Assistant Planner Seth Creighton said a third-party building consultant, hired by the city, but paid for by Brady Sullivan had been brought on board to begin sorting through the complaints at Paugus Woods.

In addition, Saunders said City Manager Scott Myers was actively seeking a full-time city code enforcement officer.

Attorney Marc Pinard, who represents Brady Sullivan, was contacted by The Daily Sun for this story.

He said he would comment Friday afternoon but, at press time, his only communication with the paper was a phone message asking to know who reporters were talking to about the Paugus Woods issue.

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Godwin Efobi, a 26-year-old medical student from Ukraine who’s originally from Nigeria, said the initial reaction by student leaders to reports of the proposal was to reject it in the strongest terms.

“They’re not interested,” Efobi said late Friday.

“If we say yes to this, it means that we were just making noise just so we could get a holiday. Yes, we want that, but there are bigger issues than just a holiday.”

Anaya said the plan was developed during a call with representatives of Westerville, Ohio-based Exel; The Hershey Co., the nation’s second-largest candy maker; and SHS Staffing Solutions, a Lemoyne-based temp agency that employs the roughly 400 J-1 visa holders who work at the Exel facility.

Anaya said the trip was not designed to buy off the students but rather to directly address one of their main concerns. He said their other issues would remain on the table and his organization was committed to dealing with them.

Exel spokeswoman Lynn Anderson described the cultural trip as part of an effort to address the workers’ complaints.

“We’re certainly supportive of it,” Anderson said.

“I think they will play that back to the students who have expressed concerns.”

A spokesman for Hershey, whose sweet treats include Almond Joy, Kit Kat, Milk Duds and Reese’s peanut butter cups, said it was working with the other companies on the issue but offered no details about the cultural trip. A spokesman for SHS Staffing did not immediately return a phone message.

It’s unclear how many of the 400 students have participated in the job action. An organizer has said about 200 continue to support it, but Anderson said a majority of students have showed up for every shift since it began. She said the protest has affected the facility but production has largely continued as expected.

More than 100 students demonstrated in downtown Hershey on Thursday, chanting and holding signs that described themselves as slaves and captive workers and targeted The Hershey Co. in particular. Exel is a Hershey vendor, and SHS supplies workers to Exel.

One protester, Yana Brenzey, a 19-year-old journalism student from Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, said she said she had no idea that she would be lifting 40-pound boxes or netting only about $200 a week when she began working in early May at the warehouse run by Exel.

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Enjoy your vacation, Mr. President As he and his daughters bicycle around the summer playground of the Northeastern elite, Martha’s Vineyard, President Obama is steadily bleeding away both the support of the nation and that of his most loyal constituency.

Several times, his approval rating in Gallup’s daily tracking poll has sunk to 39-percent, with disapproval reaching 54-percent. Support for his handling of the economy has dipped to the mid-20s. Only 11-percent of Americans, says Gallup, are satisfied with the way things are going.

Unemployment remains at 9-percent, as it has for two years. The Dow has lately lost 2,000 points, or $3-trillion in wealth wiped out. All that money the Fed pumped out is now being reflected not only in the price of gold, silver and Swiss francs, but in rising consumer prices — inflation. One in five U.S. children is living in poverty.

Middle America, some time ago, decided the “hopey, changey thing” was not working out for them. Now the patience of African-Americans with a president for whom they voted 24 to one is wearing thin. At a Black Caucus confab in Detroit, Rep. Maxine Waters told an angry audience that if and when Black America demands that they confront Obama, the caucus is ready “to have the conversation.”

A collision between Obama and his base seems inevitable. For Black America’s situation, though tough today, seems certain to get tougher. Why? First, black Americans held a significant share of the subprime mortgages that went sour when housing prices went south, and are thus over-represented among those who lost homes.

Second, black Americans, with a higher rate of poverty, depend more on the entitlement and social programs that Obama cannot avoid hoisting onto the chopping block in any “balanced” plan for dealing with the deficit-debt crisis.

Third, African-Americans are over-represented among the 22-million who work for local, state and federal governments. And while government workers came out best in terms of job security and salary hikes in the stimulus days of 2009 and 2010, in the austerity days of 2011, they are getting their fair share of pink slips. It is almost a truism: Whenever Middle America goes into recession, Black America flirts with depression.

Consider the U.S. Postal Service, with 600,000 employees, running a deficit of $8.5-billion and facing layoffs of 120,000. According to William Burrus, ex-president of the Postal Workers Union, 21-percent of all postal employees are black.

When the cuts come, minorities will take a big hit.

That African-Americans favor a powerful federal government

is understandable. After all, it was the federal government that crushed the Confederacy, freed the slaves, sent troops to integrate the South, enacted the civil rights laws, imposed affirmative action on companies and colleges, and created the Great Society that provided trillions in wealth transfers and welfare benefits and employs a share of the black population that is nearly twice its representation in the labor force.

That African-Americans would see states’ rights conservatives and small-government Republicans as hostile to the one powerful institution most friendly to them should come as a no surprise.

Here we come to Barack’s dilemma.

The nation he leads is facing a deficit-debt crisis that comes of an inescapable truth: Whether we are talking about commitments to go to war to defend scores of nations or commitments to entitlement and Great Society programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, earned income tax credits, food stamps and Pell grants, we Americans have handed out promissory notes we no longer have the means to meet. We can no longer deliver what we have promised.

We are running deficits of 10-percent of gross domestic product with a national debt over 100-percent. We are on the path that Italy is following, which is the path that Greece pursued.

We are an overextended empire and commonwealth facing strategic and fiscal bankruptcy. If Obama is to lead the nation out of the crisis it confronts, he has to preside over a downsizing of the welfare-warfare state — the same state that sustains his base.

Not to worry, we are told. When the lazy days of summer are over, Obama will present Congress with his big plan for resurrecting the economy and ensuring the longterm solvency of the nation. Obama’s September program — indeed, any credible plan to revive the economy and bring our books into balance — has to include a rollback of U.S. commitments at home and abroad.

Yet, domestically, this cannot be done without reducing future Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits, and cutting and capping the social programs of the Great Society. Moreover, half the nation cannot freeload forever, as is the case today, contributing nary a dime in federal income taxes.

And such reforms must adversely impact most Obama’s political and personal base. If he proposes new taxes, Tea Party Republicans fix bayonets. If he proposes downsizing the government and cutting and capping social programs, his most loyal constituents rise up against him.

Enjoy the Vineyard, Mr. President.

LETTERS Speed law is all about one class of users eliminating another To the editor, I would like to take a moment to thank Michael Kitch’s article and Rob Hennessy for supporting my letter that the speed limit law on Lake Winnipesaukee is based on a prejudice of a class of boaters (those that want to go fast occasionally). Every law that you put on the books that takes away some semblance of risk can be considered a “good” safety law. For instance we could, as I mentioned in an earlier letter, require that all manpowered craft be limited to 150-feet of shore when the waves on the lake are greater than 6 or 8 inches. I know we can come up with some facts and numbers to show that this would be a sensible law. The problem is it adds to all the other laws that limit our freedoms in the use of the waterways.

The numbers given in Michael’s article by Lieutenant Dunleavy are interesting. To me they show that the Marine Patrol is stopping more of the larger boats…hum. And what do the numbers of stops tell us about the reason for the law to exist in the first place… nothing. How about putting out some data such as: — Total stops by the Marine Patrol in categories.

— Percentage of total stops and tickets of excessive speed — The Marine Patrols definition of “excessive speed” — Total number of reported accidents on Lake Winnipesaukee for 2008 (year before the trial speed limit).

— Number of accidents reported on the lake in 2008 contributed to speeds over 25mph at night and 45mph during the day.

— The same numbers as the steps 4

and 5 for 2010 and 2011.

— The total accident report for Lake Winnipesaukee on any given good economic and weather year compared to a closely followed bad economic and weather year.

— A corresponding decrease in boat registrations due to economy and weather.

If this law was based on facts in the first place wouldn’t it be enacted on all of the bodies of water within the state?

My point is that you can’t just throw up one type of data and say “yup, the law is working, everyone is safer now”.

Bob Hennessy’s letter says it all.

Apparently his family has abstained from using their paddle boards, sunfish, kayaks and going tubing in the years prior to the speed limit law from fear of the fast boats. Well, Bob I have not so good news for you. More accidents and deaths are attributed to those boat types and activities than those of fast speed. There are absolutely no facts that show that “fast speed” is a significant enough cause of accidents to warrant taking that activity away from the “families” who chose to recreate in that manner. The speed limit law is a prime example of how you can use selective data information and miss-information coupled with uncommitted professional “opinion” and “feel good” testimonials in order to take away a specific recreational use of the lake. This law is about one class of recreational users of Lake Winnipesaukee eliminating another class of recreational users of the lake. And that is the thing that really matters, isn’t it?

Dave Nix Belmont

Democrats & independents will work together to elect Democrats To the editor, I would like to clarify a point in a Letter to the Editor from Jim Mayotte regarding the recent Belknap County Democratic meeting. The original article he referenced (Citizen, August 11, 2011) was not accurate as I did not state that “if I only got one Democrat elected” that I would be happy.

In fact, I did not mention a number, as numbers will always get you into

trouble. I commented that one of my goals was to help get more Democrats elected in 2012 in Belknap County, and I stand by that statement. Democrats and independents will work together and elect Democrats, as we are doing in every legislative special election so far this year.

Liz Merry Sanbornton

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Deb Reynolds & Kate Miller

Let’s solve problem, not lay blame Recently a Republican member of the N.H. Senate stated in a newsletter to constituents that the lawsuit recently brought by 10 N.H. hospitals against the state was “actually over cuts made to provider payments made in 2008 by Governor Lynch and the then Democraticcontrolled legislature.”

First, we would say that this blame game must stop. Our state’s health providers, and therefore all of us as consumers of health care services, are facing a crisis.

Second, we would point out that the crisis that came to a head during the 2012-2013 budget cycle began back in 1991 when the Medicaid Enhancement Tax was first instituted. Additionally, the way New Hampshire has calculated the federal dollar match for this tax has been under scrutiny for many years and was officially called into question by federal authorities back in 2007.

Even more pertinent to this discussion is the decision made by the legislature back in 2005 to allow all Medicaid-related rate setting decisions to be determined by budgetary bottom lines. So the diversion of federal matching funds into the general fund and away from the state’s hospitals has a long and complicated history.

It was the current legislature’s decision — which went way beyond this governor’s budget recommendation — to completely eliminate any MET tax return to half of the hospitals which, in the hospitals’ own words, finally “broke New Hampshire’s hospital system.” Keep in mind that, as recently as FY 2011, New Hampshire hospitals operated with a loss of $300-million for Medicaid and uncompensated care expenses but found ways to stay in business.

With this budget in place, hospital-related job losses are mounting and will continue to do so. If the fed-

eral match projections are revised downward, as many believe they will be, our critical access hospitals’ futures will be in serious jeopardy.

Yes, Governor Lynch let this budget become law. But his remarks that day, June 24, 2011, are instructive: “it is clear that a veto would not lead to a better budget” and, he added, it would make “vital services unavailable to our citizens.”

The governor did not endorse this budget with his signature; he let it become law by not vetoing it.

Several hospitals (in a recent state-level lawsuit preceding the most recent federal case) have already submitted a challenge to the constitutionality of the way the MET tax is levied with a court decision yet to be rendered. If successful, the state’s ability to generate the level of federal matching funds counted on in the 2012-13 budget will clearly be at risk. Additionally, should a federal injunction be issued against the state in the most recent case brought by the hospitals, our state’s entire budget will be seriously out of balance.

This should be the time, rather than pointing fingers and laying blame, that people should come together — hospital administrators and legislators, Republicans and Democrats — to fix the way our state reimburses hospitals for the critical services they provide to countless individuals in our state.

As hospital layoffs mount, as our hospitals tell us they can no longer provide the services we all expect and rely on, isn’t it time to stop calling names and placing blame and find real solutions to the real problems facing us all?

(Deb Reynolds of Plymouth represented District 2 in the N.H. Senate for two terms; Kate Miller of Meredith is a former member of the N.H. House.)

How can we wage war on states trying to enforce U.S. laws?

To the editor, As we expected, slick talking Obama can’t accept criticism, and has totally blown his cool. Everything he says to promote himself drives his rating lower. When will he wake up and realize this is NOT a Muslim nation, and he is NOT the dictator?

As president he is REQUIRED to enforce the LAWS of the USA, but he does NOT! How can he wage WAR on states which try to enforce the legal LAWS of the USA? Are any of you paying attention? Obama obviously intends to overwhelm the USA with illegal Mexicans he has bribed, with OUR money, so they can vote for him next election!

We have a dual problem here: Obama wants to become the supreme DICTATOR, like HITLER, and will lie, cheat, ignore our laws and Constitution in any way. Democrats in Congress will do anything to get re-elected (except be honest), so always support

Obama, when it should be obvious he is destroying the USA! At what point will fair and honest citizens rebel and take back the country? Obama long ago should have been impeached and FIRED for treason against the USA. That would have happened if Congress wasn’t full of COWARDS! The 1st step in solving our spending crisis IS to FIRE ALL the “pseudo government employees” Obama hired without our approval, with outrageously high pay and benefits, none of which have been useful for us!

The next step is to eliminate ALL the “perks” and extra benefits Congress members get, and as originally intended, have them pay for ALL staff and expenses of the position. Next, eliminate “Obamacare” and ALL projects that are being funded but were never directly vote for, or are gifts to foreign countries.

Jack Stephenson Gilford

LETTERS You too can soar eye to eye with an eagle over Franconia Notch To the editor, Try a weekend of exciting adventure sport high in the air.

Sunday morning my Marine buddy Norm and I set off for Franconia and a grass airstrip at the base of Cannon Mountain. We were determined to go gliding in an airplane without an engine. This is considered the ultimate in extreme sports.

Norm’s little open air sports car easily climbed the mountain pass on the Interstate winding through Franconia Notch passing Lafayette, the Basin, Bosi Rock, and the Cliffs, then the trout pond and the turn off at the peak for Cannon mountain ski area.

The trails were speckled with wild flowers. Passing over the crest of the notch the panorama opened making Vermont, New York State and Canada visible we reached the quaint Village of Franconia for breakfast at a clean homey diner. Picturesque private school academy buildings made the area appear an isolated European village; a through back in time.

After a hot cup of Jo and eggs over easy with hash browns we left the cozy diner and in minutes we passed some lovely inns with colorful flowers in front and then there was the grass landing strip with a small brown wooden administrative structure, lonesome against the rising mountains at the edge of the long mowed level field that acted as the launching site for single engine tow plans and their baggage which were gliders. My graceful glider was a long narrow pin pointed smooth fuselage attached to two long, thin, narrow , delicate wings that appeared weightless. These planes are not designed for speed and maneuverability but for efficient flight. The landing gear consisted of a single wheel mounted just below the cockpit and there were small wheels on the end of the wing tips.

The scene reminded me of Snoopy and the Red Baron, and the film the “Blue Max”, which portrayed pilots in black leather jackets, fitting on their thin calf skin gloves and high riding boots, white scarves and skin tight soft leather flying covers climbing into their canvass three wing plan with a mounted Vickers or Krup machine gun and taxi off to conduct aerial duels in the blue. Sun umbrellas fit neatly in the center of round wooden weathered garden tables and volunteers would eventually cook up wurst and hamburgers for flying guests. I expected to see sultry Ursala Andress in an evening gown, stroll over ad take my hand and whisper in my ear “Have safe flight my darling.”

Kinsmen Ridge peak at 4,000 feet was covered in cloud, the sky was deep blue, the green mountain sides draped in lush new growth. Four weather worn wooden tables bleached from the sun, sat on the lawn at 3,000 feet elevation. We were second in line for a trip into the blue.

Norm, a licensed pilot was determined to engage in paragliding in the only sail plane or glider in the state.

The club members wandered in sporadically. The tow plane pilot circled above read the wind sock and came in fast dropped down smoothly on the strip in a camouflaged Cessna or

Birddog which I saw so often on make shift mud strips in N. Laos and Vietnam many during the late 60’s. The former Marine pilot flew his plane out of Laconia up here to volunteer to tow the gliders up to 4000 feet on a thin line and the glider pilot would release and climb on the updrafts . The thermals were what the pilots sought.

The skin of my glider was absolutely smooth with no rivets to reduce drag and allow the plane to slip more easily through the air.

I climbed into a narrow cockpit with joy stick and peddles and sat behind the pilot in a reclined position with my legs stretched out in front of me.

We took off and rose into the air before the tow plan did. My instructions were to lock my harness, and keep my hands off the joy stick and peddles. We rose easily and at about 3500 feet the pilot hit a quick release mechanism in the nose of the glider and the tow line was jettisoned while the tow plane flew down to the right and we climbed to the left toward Cannon mountain’s steep walls . We dropped to trade altitude for air speed and lift. After a few moments we caught a thermal and ridge lift and up we flew along the top of Cannon Mountain’s peaks at an exhilarating rate of speed.

My pilot told me that on one flight he came up on an eagle with a 10 foot wing span and they drifted together, the eagle ignoring him and giving him just one side look and gracefully soaring away. We flew over the Appalachian trail, Cannon Mountain and down the side of the shear silver cliffs.

There is no engine sound just the rush of the wind. Floating in space is enthralling; gravity does not impose its will on you. The clouds evaporated and clarity was perfect. The pilot brought us in close to the peaks where I could see the window panes on the peak lodge of Cannon Mountain‘s tramway buildings.

The gusts of rising warm air carried us to the cliffs where climbers test their courage and skills navigating the shear walls that mark the enormous thrust of ice which worked its way through the massive wall of granite stone which makes up Franconia Notch. Excitement comes when you perform the extraordinary, successfully and like sailing, you are working with the winds being propelled through space unaided by loud piston engines. We were soaring like the eagles, free, uninhibited and absolutely alone.

When landing my pilot lined up the green grass field and his spoilers in the wing tops were engaged which reduced our lift without slowing our descent or altitude. We landed exactly where the pilot planned. I was up in the air for 45 minutes. The pilot said some gliders go thousands of miles on the thermals and we could have stayed aloft for many hours.

Give it a try, the club members are friendly and the thrills are sobering.

The club hands out upchuck for air sickness.

We flew with the Franconia Soaring Association www.franconiasoaring. org Contact Franconia Airport (603823-5034).

Richard Gunnar Juve Meredith

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Ambush on Israel-Egypt border strains tie; violence erupts on several fronts CAIRO (AP) — Egypt registered an official complaint with Israel Friday over the deaths of five of its soldiers in fighting after an ambush targeting Israelis near the border between the two countries as tensions spiked between the two formerly staunch allies.

Retaliatory violence between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas also escalated Friday in the aftermath of the deadliest attack against Israelis in three years. Israeli airstrikes killed at least 12 Palestinians, most of them militants, in the Gaza Strip, and six Israelis were wounded when Palestinians fired rockets into southern Israel.

Egypt’s official news agency blamed an Israeli fighter jet for shooting and killing four Egyptian soldiers and one policeman while chasing militants who killed eight Israelis in Thursday’s ambush in southern Israel.

An Israeli military officer said a suicide bomber, not Israeli soldiers, killed the Egyptian security forces. He said the attacker had fled back across the border into Egypt and detonated his explosives among the Egyptian troops. He spoke on condition of anonymity according to military regulations. Israeli media reported that some of the sniper fire directed at the Israeli motorists Thursday came from near Egyptian army posts and speculated that the Egyptian troops were killed in the cross fire.

It was not possible to reconcile the different versions.

“There was an exchange of fire between Israeli soldiers and terrorists on the Egyptian border follow-

ing the deadly terror attack Thursday morning. We are investigating this matter thoroughly and will update the Egyptians,” the Israeli military said.

Thursday’s attack signaled a new danger for Israel from its border with the Sinai Peninsula, an area that has always been restive but was kept largely under control by former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. The desert area has become increasingly lawless since Mubarak was ousted on Feb. 11 following a popular uprising.

The violence also threatened to further damage ties between the two countries if Egypt’s political upheaval and a resulting power vacuum in Sinai allows Gaza militants, who had been pummeled by a punishing Israeli three-week war 2½ years ago, to open a new front against Israel in the frontier area.

Relations between the two countries have been chilly since they made peace in 1979, but Israel valued Mubarak as a source of stability with shared interests in containing Iran and its radical Islamic proxies in the region.

Anger rose after Egyptian officials said Thursday’s gunbattles killed five Egyptian security personnel. An Egyptian security official said three died Thursday and two others died of wounds on Friday.

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Some argue he is an example of the kind of immigrant the federal government will now largely leave alone. The Department of Homeland Security

Egyptian protesters staged demonstrations after Friday prayers in front of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, and politicians echoed the populist line.

“Israel and any other (country) must understand that the day our sons get killed without a strong and an appropriate response, is gone and will not come back,” wrote Amr Moussa, former Arab League chief and now a presidential hopeful. He tweeted his statement along with, “the blood of our martyrs which was spilled while carrying out their duties, will not be shed in vain.”

Gunmen crossed the border from Egypt on Thursday and set up an ambush along a 300-yard (meter) strip, armed with automatic weapons, grenades and suicide bomb belts, the Israeli military said.

They opened fire on a civilian bus heading toward the Red Sea resort city of Eilat, hitting a number of passengers, then riddled another passing bus and two cars with bullets and rigged a roadside bomb that detonated under an army jeep rushing to the scene. At the same time, Palestinian mortar gunners in Gaza opened fire at soldiers along the Gaza-Israel border fence.

The assailants killed eight people, six civilians and two Israeli troops responding to the incursion.

Israel said it killed seven assailants.

announced Thursday that deportations would focus on criminals.

“As exceptional as his story is,” said Christina Parker, a spokeswoman for Border Network for Human Rights in El Paso, Texas, “it points to the fact that most undocumented immigrants living in the United States are not criminals. He’s more than not a criminal now.

He’s a hero.”

Others used it to blast New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez’s ongoing attempts to repeal a state law that allows illegal immigrants to obtain a driver’s license.

The governor has put the repeal, which was defeated in the regular session earlier this year, on the agenda for a September special session.

“Most are just working to support their families and to take away their driver’s license would be detrimental to that,” Parker said.

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LETTERS Tea Party & other radical Republicans aren’t friends of middle class To the editor, Mr. Stewart’s letter of August 18th repeats the off-the-shelf talking points of those who probably think that anything from publicly paved roads to state colleges is socialism.

Never mind that their promised land looks like socialism for the richest and most powerful, and leftover crumbs for everyone else. And never mind that many of their claims are not true.

Maybe they figure that if they keep repeating the same lines as often as possible, as loudly as possible, and with as many capital letters as possible, that they can fool some people into believing that they must be true.

His first piece of myth-information is that 45-percent of adult Americans pay no taxes. That is simply not true and has been often debunked. About 40-percent of adult Americans pay no federal income taxes. That’s a big difference from paying no taxes at all.

Those folks pay property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline and cigarette taxes, and state and local taxes. If they work, they pay payroll taxes. Three-quarters of U.S. households pay more in payroll taxes than in federal income taxes.

When it looked at the total tax bill, the Congressional Budget Office concluded that the top 1-percent of Americans pay 5-percent of their income while the bottom 50-percent shell out 10-percent — double as much.

Another non-partisan institute found that the average American’s tax bill is 7-percent for the poor, 5-percent for the middle class, and 1-percent for the wealthiest. Over the last 30 years, the total tax rate for the lower and middle income classes has gone up, while it’s gone down for the wealthiest. Of course the majority of people can’t fund political candidates who will do their bidding, or hire well-connected lobbyists to manipulate the tax code.

He also argues that I unfairly attacked the fringe Republican cabal for “simply having an alternative point of view.” Simply having alternative points of view describes letter-writers who disagree. The irresponsible minority in Congress actually took the American economy hostage unless their demands were

met. They left a lot of real wreckage in their wake, as anyone with a 401(k), a mutual fund, or any other investment can attest. This radical bloc took the United States to the brink of default in order to protect every existing tax loophole, tax handout, and tax break.

Their real bottom line was that all Americans must sacrifice — except of course the richest 2-percent and the wealthiest corporations.

Finally, he can’t resist charging after supposed hordes of welfare queens and loafers who are “enjoying the ‘free’ money.” Never mind the welfare for the richest and the greediest, which dwarfs welfare programs for everyone else. Can’t touch that. His claims could lead someone to wonder: if this freeloading life of Riley is so widespread, why does anyone making less than, say, $30,000, bother to work at all when “free money” is available for the taking? If such a life of leisure exists on the dole, why do around-the block lines form for any job fair, and why do a dozen people or more apply for each open minimum-wage job?

Why do Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, and other companies have far more job applicants than they have openings?

The Tea Party and other radical Republicans are no friends of the middle class, or of anyone who wants to work hard, play by the rules, and be treated fairly. Their real agenda is government of the few, by the few, and for the few. It’d be hard to find a better summary of today’s Tea Party policies than something written by Samuel Adams, a real patriot, involved in the real Tea Party (Boston, 1773), and a man considered by his contemporaries and historians alike to be one of the fathers of the American Revolution. Over 250 years ago, he wrote that “It is not infrequent, to hear men declaim loudly upon Liberty, who if we may judge by the whole Tenor of their Actions, mean nothing by it but their own liberty — to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.” As true today as it was then.

Ed Allard Laconia

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Tea Party longs for our country to be strong & light to the world To the editor, Leo Sandy, you never fail to put you left foot in your mouth; you need to move to Iran or India, etc. because your insults to the American people show all of us you are no scholar.

Now, I am not a member of the Tea Party and have not been brainwashed

by Fox News or Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, etc. I do respect them; at least they speak for millions of Americans who are not violent, racists, carry guns, love wars, etc. They will replace Obama and his party for sure in 2012, mark my words. They long for our country to be strong, free of debt and a

light to the whole world.

We as a nation have made mistakes but we learn from them. No, we are not all protestants, but people of all faiths, and believe in God, to lead us to victory.

America is the greatest nation on earth, Our people have helped untold millions worldwide. Name any country that has done what ours has done.

It ain’t China, India, Finland — no, Leo, it’s the brave and the free of the U.S.A. God bless the U.S.A. William “Liam” McCoy Meredith

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LETTERS Liberals have pretty much given up trying to defend Obama To the editor, It hit me over the head like a ton of bricks. The Obama lovers, the socialists, the liberals and the Keynesian economic kooks have all gone underground rather than defend them selves and the failed Obama economic record. The Laconia Daily Sun (op-ed pages) are now pretty well dominated by the conservative thinkers of the Lakes Region, represented by Republicans and the lions share of independents. Any articles defending socialism or Obama’s term are now as rare are as snow flake in July. Even Lynn Rudmin Chong has pretty much moved on to environmental issues and the the rest of donkey train have just pulled the covers over their heads hoping the world will go away. It is amazing what a difference a couple years can make in politics. The mood in late 2008 was the country could not wait to tar and feather Bush and show him the door. That same exact feeling is already beginning to permeate the air now for Obama. When people feel they guy at the top has either used them for political gain, mislead them, lied or is just plain incompetent or arrogant they want the string pulled.

Who can blame them?

America has discovered for the umpteenth time there is “no free lunch” in this world. This discourages the tens of millions who are looking for one and who will follow democratic pied pipers like Obama off a cliff in hopes of getting one. How many times can Americans be hood winked

by Democrats into believing benefits and tangible items can be created for them out of thin air just because they want or even need them. Phrases like “ shared sacrifice” are just code for wealth distribution, not wealth creation. Any country whose entire political focus and energy is consumed 24/7 by dividing the spoils of America’s

economic pie rather than growing it larger is headed for total and complete collapse. The recent down grade of our debt with out question affirms this belief.

We have a leadership failure at the top of the very highest order. As laudable as it is every attempt to bring the less fortunate a better life by reducing the lives of others in the process has been met with resistance and utter failure. The less fortunate can only be helped by a thriving economy producing abundant work and opportunity to assure every one has a path to build their own welfare and security through their own efforts. Welfare only begets demands for more welfare and such welfare harms every person who has worked, struggled and sacrificed that he may be his or her own success story. There is nothing so damaging (or demoralizing) to a successful economy than government forced wealth distribution based on the belief that they are wiser than any of us. If there is a brain trust of exceptional thinkers in America the one place they do not reside is in Washington D.C..

Obama, Democrats and socialists do not TRUST business or free enterprise will do the best job. They always want to reserve the right to second guess the private economy and rearrange the score. There in lies the fundamental, fatal flaw in Obama’s policies and why Barack Obama has failed and will fail again if left to another term. He has zero trust and faith in business and business has zero trust in him — that they will not be taxed to death, regulated to death or just demonized if the polls suggest that is good for his poll numbers. A sure and certain passport to four more years of economic frustration, stagnation and pain for the least fortunate among us.

Tony Boutin Gilford

S&P’s verdict is based on uselessness of American politicians To the editor, I appreciated the letter (August 18) by James Veverka concerning the “In God We Trust” motto. I found his remarks worthy of consideration. I like the present motto, however, I am open to change. The question arises: if not God, then whom can we trust?

Certainly not our elected “representatives”, who have seen fit to spend about the capabilities to pay our own debt, borrowing from a foreign nation, and a hostile one at that! They are the reason we are in the mess we are in.

This suggest the motto: “I.O.U.”!

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Maybe a more appropriate motto would be “The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil”. Or, if that seems too long, how about “Print, Baby, Print”.

Ben Franklin might sum it up with “A Penny Earned Is Worthless”.

Given the circumstances in which we fund our country, at this time in history, I suggest a good old-time Chinese proverb might be timely to adorn our currency. I’d like to hear other suggestions from your readers.

Dave Guyer Belmont

Maybe we should replace ‘In God We Trust’ with ‘I.O.U’?

To the editor, The decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade America’s credit rating was a humbling embarrassment which came at a particularly sensitive time.

Furious administration officials have attacked the ratings agency. They seem to believe that killing the messenger and denial of the obvious somehow changes the reality. Well, it is time to wake up and smell the coffee.

Was S&P justified? The reputations of the ratings agencies are stained by their overstatement of the quality of

mortgage-backed bonds before the credit crisis. A credit rating is far less relevant to Treasury bonds than it is to, say, a corporate bond. The United States government has ample taxing power to repay its bonds, and its central bank, like that of any country that controls its own currency and can as a last resort simply print the money needed. All of which is true, all of which has been argued and all of which is irrelevant.

The reality is that credit ratings are useful for investors. If the S&P did

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Phoenix residents endure 3rd dramatic dust storm in 6 weeks PHOENIX (AP) — A thick cloud of dust has swallowed Phoenix at sundown three times this summer, covering the city with grit and baffling even longtime residents who can’t remember seeing so many dramatic “haboobs” during a monsoon season.

A 1,000-feet-high wall of dust traveled at least 50 miles into metro Phoenix and neighboring Pinal County on Thursday evening before dissipating.

It turned the skies brown, reduced visibility, created dangerous driving conditions and caused some airline flights to be delayed. The storm, also known by the Arabic word haboob, also coated anything left outside in a thin layer of fine dirt and left some people who walked outside for a minute or two with grit between their teeth.

Danny Shepherd, a deejay who was driving to a gig at a coffee house during the storm, has lived in

metropolitan Phoenix since 1989 and can’t recall so many big dust storms in one year. “They’re typical but I also think there’s been a lot more this year — big ones and small ones and the haboob, the granddaddy of them all,” Shepherd said.

National Weather Service meteorologist Ken Waters said the area is experiencing a typical number of dust storms this year, but what sets this season apart from others is the size and power of three of the storms.

“Each year, you are going to get some variety of the dust storms,” Waters said. “We don’t see a single causative factor for why they seem to be stronger this year.”

Waters said thunderstorms moving through southern Arizona supplied winds of up to 60 mph that stirred up fine dust in the agricultural fields and sent

from preceding page not exist, the market would invent them. No matter how much the lead donkey huffs and puffs, a ratings agency’s job is to rate bonds, including government ones, and to speak out when it thinks the least risky asset in the world has become riskier. Therefore S&P was justified if not required to act.

So did S&P get it right? There was some area for political point making as a result of review of the analysis. But it needs to be stated that before S&P released its report the Treasury Department was notified and time for review and rebuttal was provided. No one was hiding the football. There was nothing sneaky or underhanded in the announcement.

The Treasury did discover that the firm had overstated cumulative deficits by some $2-trillion, inflating the debt by 8-percent of GDP in 2021; an error which S&P corrected but still went ahead with the downgrade, revamping the announcement to elevate politics as a main rationale for the move. Critics of the down grade say its timing was suspect.

Though S&P may be a flawed a messenger its message has merit. After cleaning up its math, it concluded that America’s debt is rising unsustainably as a share of GDP. To put this into context; AAA-rated countries in Europe such as Britain and Germany have put in place plans to stabilize that ratio. Something America has recognized no need for and has repeatedly declined to do. As for the timing, the debt ceiling deal in Congress just before the downgrade was plainly inadequate. That inadequacy served as the trigger for the down grade.

Under the deal between the lead donkey and Congress to raise America’s debt ceiling, a panel has to come up with deficit-reduction plans which Congress must accept or reject by December 23rd; if the panel fails to agree or Congress rejects its proposal, automatic spending cuts are triggered in 2013. Moody’s and Fitch, the two main rival agencies, have for now given America the benefit of the doubt though Moody’s has a negative outlook on America’s rating.

The debt ceiling deal focuses its cuts on discretionary spending, which future legislatures can and will, likely easily override. More durable deficit reduction means reforming both the tax system and entitlements such as pensions and health care for the elderly. And there is no guarantee that Congress will allow the deal’s spending cuts to occur. Everyone in the political world knows that the actions of the current congress do not bind any future Congress.

S&P’s verdict is based on the uselessness of America’s politicians; donkeys and elephants alike. Their inability to deal with the budget and their display of political brinkmanship serve to high light their fecklessness. S&P argues that America’s policy making has become less predictable and its finances unmanaged. The threat of default, previously unthinkable, is now a bargaining chip in the Washington political games.

This is not how an AAA-rated country behaves.

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“It was a strong dust storm, but nothing on the order of the big one in July,” he said.

This season’s most powerful dust storm came on July 5 when a mile-high wall of dust halted airline flights, knocked out power for 10,000 people and covered everything in its path with a thick sheet of dust. Another dust storm hit July 18 reaching heights of 3,000 to 4,000 feet, delaying flights and cutting off power for more than 2,000 people in the Phoenix metro area.

Weather experts said such massive dust storms only happen in Arizona, Africa’s Sahara desert and parts of the Middle East because of dry conditions and large amounts of sand.

At a Honda car dealership in Phoenix, a crew of four men used a portable pressure washer to hose down vehicles covered in a thick coat of dust that made the car windows opaque.

Erik Fisher, a new car director at the dealership, estimated his crew will have to wash about 350 cars Friday thanks to the dust storm. “They’ll probably be out there half a day,” Fisher said. “It’s a lot of extra man power.”

Pollution levels skyrocket during dust storms and create even more breathing problems for people with asthma and other conditions.

Dennis Dickerson, a compliance manager at the Maricopa County Air Quality Department, said Thursday’s dust storm dramatically raised air pollution levels. Dickerson said even people without health issues should stay out of severe dusts storms.

Dickerson said the normal level of dust in the air is anywhere from 20 to 70 micrograms per cubic meter.

Thursday’s 24-hour average for Phoenix reached nearly 160 micrograms per cubic meter. That figure was just slightly above what federal standards deem healthy.

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The School District was not represented. Seymour assured the group that both Superintendent Bob Champlin and the School Board wished to participate and explained their absence as the result of a “miscommunication.”

The first session was devoted to analysis of the perceived strengths and weaknesses of the city and the opportunities and threats facing it, or a so-called “SWOT” analysis, which Lorentz described as a conventional starting point of the strategic planning process.

Among Laconia’s assets, the group noted that nature favored the city by lacing it with lakes and emphasized that residents had a strong sense of identity and a ready willingness to volunteer. Lahey, echoed by Erickson, remarked that the city enjoyed creative and prudent fiscal management, which has enabled services to be sustained and projects to be completed without placing onerous burdens on taxpayers. Others said that the city benefited from serving as the county seat of Belknap County and home to Lakes Region Community College and LRGHealthcare.

Turning to weaknesses, Erickson pointed to a lack of vision on the part of some business and property owners, especially those who relied on Motorcycle Week for their earnings, but otherwise did not invest in their enterprises. He was echoed by Woodaman, who said that The Weirs paled as a tourist destination by comparison with Meredith. He also

noted that no space remains in the city for extensive commercial growth.

Acknowledging the prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse, Adams said that the appearance of sections of the city feed its reputation as “a tough town.”

Brough described downtown after dark as “desolate, daunting, scary almost,” particularly for women.

As for opportunities, there was widespread agreement that the most promising were the availability of the former Laconia State School property on North Main Street, the renovation and reopening of the Colonial Theater and the expansion of the Huot Regional Technical Education Center at the High School. Lipman said that construction of a health science building at the community college would strengthen its partnership with LRGHeathcare. Several speakers mentioned the Winnisquam-Opechee-Winnipesaukee (WOW) Recreation Trail and Dunleavy drew attention to the downtown riverwalk and the prospect of developing smaller parks on municipal property throughout the city.

The major threats, or factors beyond the city’s control, everyone agreed lay in the risks of a prolonged and sluggish economic recovery and the federal and state governments transferring more responsibilities and costs to local government.

Asked for the greatest threat to the library, “Kindle,” Brough said flatly, “I don’t have anything to add.”

Lorentz said that she will distill the results of the meeting to provide a starting point for the second session, where the plan will be completed by specifying objectives, priorities and timelines.

Myers, perhaps the person most familiar with the process, said that once objectives are established, the City Council, city manager and department heads will take ownership of different aspects of pursuing them.

“It’s about setting priorities and sharing responsibilities,” he said. The plan, he added, would also serve as a touchstone for the budget process by indicating how limited resources should be distributed.

STOCKS from page 2 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the previous weekend.

The Dow lost 172.93, or 1.6 percent, and closed at 10,817.65. It was down 4 percent for the week. Since July 21 — four weeks and one day — the Dow is down 15 percent.

Companies that rely on an expanding economy for higher revenue fell. Caterpillar Inc., International Business Machines and Alcoa Inc. each fell more than 2 percent.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index fell 17.12,

or 1.5 percent, to 1,123.53. It was down 4.7 percent for the week. All 10 industry groups that make up the index fell.

The Nasdaq composite fell 38.59, or 1.6 percent, to 2,341.84. It was down 6.6 percent for the week.

Although stocks fell, investors did not continue pushing the price of Treasurys, as they have the last three weeks. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was almost unchanged at 2.07 percent, compared with late Thursday’s 2.06 percent. It had been up to 2.11 percent earlier in the day. The yield fell below 2 percent Thursday for the first time as heavy demand sent its price sharply higher.

Investors began the week confident after last week’s volatility, the worst the market has had since the 2008 financial crisis. The Dow rose nearly 215 points on Monday when Google, Time Warner Cable and Cargill were among companies announcing multi-billion deals. The market remained relatively calm the next two days. But on Thursday, a stream of bad economic news in the U.S. combined with worries about Europe’s debt problems and sent the Dow plunging 419 points.

Since July 21, the market has gone from one crisis to another, and the weakening U.S. economy has been at the heart of the selling. In late July, the concern was the debt debate going on in Washington.

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LACONIA — After a months long investigation, city police raided a Valley Street apartment Friday morning and arrested its two residents on a variety of drug charges.

Corri Lyn Shea, 31, and Cheryl Lafoe-Rice, 56, both of 133 Valley St. Apt. 3 are both charged with felony possession of controlled drug with intent to distribute them.

Lt. Matt Canfield said police, armed with a warrant, found “a substantial amount” of cocaine and prescription pills.

He said both women are held on $50,000 cash-only bail, but refused the services of a bail bondsman and will appear in the 4th District Circuit Court , Laconia Division Monday morning.

Canfield said two minor children, ages 3 and 5, were Corri Lyn Shea (top) & Cheryl Lafoe-Rice (Laco- removed from the home and placed in the custody of a nia Police photos) relative.

2:30 a.m. fire at Laconia Transfer Station put out before any building damage is done LACONIA — City fire units were joined at the transfer station off Meredith Center Road by crews from Meredith and Gilford during the middle of the night on Thursday, responding to an alarm from the mail building.

A relatively small blaze was extinguished before any damage was done.

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Upon arrival at the scene at about 2:30 a.m., the first crews observed smoke coming from the building and a first alarm was called in because there are no fire hydrants in the area.

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DES routinely monitors public beaches and public waters of the state for cyanobacteria. Once a cyanobacteria lake warning has been issued, DES returns to affected waterbodies on a weekly basis until the cyanobacteria standards are again met.

Cyanobacteria are natural components of water bodies worldwide, but blooms and surface scums may form

when excess phosphorus is available to the water. Some cyanobacteria produce toxins that are stored within the cells but released upon cell death.

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Signs of a slower economy around the world have only made investors more pessimistic about the U.S. Earlier this week, Germany said its economy grew just 0.1 percent in the second quarter. And Germany is the strongest economy in Europe.

Stocks fell Thursday on news of another drop in home sales, weaker manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic states and an increase in the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits.

The stock market tends to reflect the expectations that investors have for the economy and company earnings six to nine months in the future. So traders are interpreting the numbers they’re seeing as part of a slide in the economy that will continue for some time.

A recession is generally thought of as two consecutive quarters in which the economy contracts, as measured

by a country’s gross domestic product.

With expectations of growth in the U.S. already low, investors worry that the economy can’t withstand another unexpected event like the earthquake in Japan or the string of bad weather that ravaged the South earlier this year.

JPMorgan analyst Michael Feroli said business confidence, household wealth and global growth all look worse than just a few weeks ago. He expects economic growth to be nearly flat into the first quarter of 2012.

Next week is likely to bring more volatility. On Friday, the government will give its second estimate of how the economy did during the second quarter. It said a month ago that the GDP grew at an annual rate of just 1.3 percent during the quarter. Economists expect the government to announce a lower reading: 1.1 percent. The GDP report July 29 contributed to the market’s heavy losses. So did the government’s revised estimate for the first quarter: 0.4 percent.

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The Pittsburgh Pirates’ game against the Cincinnati Reds was also delayed due to rain.

The flash floods hit an area that experienced serious flooding last month, and the road is currently closed to traffic.

Earlier Friday, another storm caused power outages that left most of the University of Pittsburgh without electricity.

Flights at Pittsburgh International Airport were grounded because of lightning just after 3 p.m., said spokeswoman JoAnn Jenny.

Two hospitals operated on emergency power after rains flooded a substation in the city’s Oakland neighborhood.

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So, with a support team led by Gyawali, Szczesny and Lovett began to plan.

Szczesny’s plan is even more ambitious than it sounds, because as part-owner of the weekly Manchester-based newspaper The Hippo, he isn’t able to devote the entire 30 days to hiking. He’s planning to bag all 48 peaks over four four-day weekends.

As a side benefit Lovett, who will accompany Szczesny on much of the challenge, has completed 43 of the state’s 48 big peaks and will complete the list during the month’s hikes.

Plans for the hiking campaign began just a couple of months ago. The plan was to solicit a per-peak pledge — ask individuals to pledge anywhere from a quarter to a few dollars per peak Szczesny was able to complete. What they didn’t expect was that so many people would agree to pledge. In addition, many businesses also agreed to participate, at more generous per-peak levels.

“At first I thought we’d raise a few bucks and have some fun. When the pledges started started coming in, me and Meena were shocked,” said Szczesny.

The Family Learning Center in Manchester provides critical services for refugees. In addition to English language classes and citizenship classes, the non-profit serves as a center for information and a gathering place for the community of refugees.

For pledge information, visit Szczesny’s blog about the campaign, september48.wordpress.com.

Szczesny and Lovett are also welcoming of other hikers who wish to join them on the trail and with the fund raising drive. They caution that they hike at a moderate, 1 to 2 miles per hour rate, and they aren’t inclined to slow that pace and miss out on cresting another peak.

48 peaks in four long weekends sounds difficult, but Szczesny and Lovett think it’s acheivable. Their plan calls for a strong first start, hiking the entire Presidential Range and the Pemi Loop, completing 32 peaks by Sept. 5.

“We can do this thing we love and, at the same time, do it for a cause,” said Szczesny. Although they set out with modest expectations, Szczesny now thinks the September 48 campaign could raise as much as $10,000 for the Family Learning Center.

The pledges are in place, all that’s left is for Szcz-

esny and Lovett to point their noses down the trail.

“In theory, if the weather’s good, and everything goes well, I’ll be able to do it,” Szczesny said.

The thought of that much more raised per peak will be a strong motivator, as will the knowledge of the ordeals that refugees endured prior to settling in New Hampshire, and the struggles that they continue to deal with. Szczesny said, “I’m going to be walking through the beautiful mountains for a few days. Compared to what the refugees go through, my job is easy.”

20 killed in Syria despite Assad’s pledge to U.N.

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian security forces killed at least 20 protesters Friday despite promises by President Bashar Assad that the military operations against the 5-month-old uprising are over.

The killings, which came as thousands poured into the streets across Syria, suggest the autocratic leader is either unwilling to stop the violence — or not fully in control of his own regime.

Assad, who inherited power from his father in 2000, is facing the most serious international isolation of his rule. On Thursday, the United States and its European allies demanded he step down.

Military operations have subsided in the past few days, following a fresh crackdown on major flashpoint cities that started at the beginning of the month to root out anti-government protesters.

But persistent gunfire and shootings, along with Friday’s killings, underscore the difficulty of any kind of diplomatic pressure achieving results in the absence of any appetite for military intervention.

Human rights groups said Assad’s forces have

killed nearly 2,000 people since the uprising erupted in mid-March. A high-level U.N. team recommended Thursday that the violence in Syria be referred to the International Criminal Court over possible crimes against humanity.

“Bye, bye Bashar, see you in The Hague!” protesters shouted Friday in the central city of Homs as crowds filled the streets, spurred on by the international condemnation.

ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he has received reports of atrocities in Syria but has no jurisdiction “at this stage” to open an investigation because Damascus does not recognize the court.

He said he could begin investigating at the request of the U.N. Security Council. Syria’s U.N. ambassador said a U.N. humanitarian assessment team will arrive in Damascus on Saturday.

The International Committee of the Red Cross also said it is optimistic Syrian authorities will grant the humanitarian organization access to all detainees in the country “within weeks.”

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LACLT will be rehabbing some of the scatteredsite duplexes throughout Laconia that were first rehabbed over 15 years ago. Improvements will include new roofs, energy efficient boilers, and new kitchen cabinets, counters, appliances, and flooring.

Funds will also be used to implement renewable energy at LACLT’s most recently completed affordable housing development, Lochmere Meadows in Tilton. Solar systems will be installed to heat the hot water and provide for common area electric use.

It is estimated that the hot water system will save a total of 988 gallons of propane each year, or approximately $3,500 based on today’s propane prices. The array of photovoltaic panels is projected to produce 50,400 KWH per year (92%-100% of the common area electric needs) for projected annual savings of $8,263.68 based on today’s rates.

The 28 units at Lochmere Meadows are already EnergyStar certified homes. The solar systems will be installed by the Plymouth Area Renewable

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Linda Harvey, LACLT execuive director, says “We are delighted to have won this funding in a national competition. Bringing in these dollars allows us to stretch and save our own dollars in the upgrades and allows us to invest in the solar energy that we would not have done otherwise.”

Harvey noted that LACLT also won this funding last year. “Between the two awards, LACLT will have invested well over a half a million dollars in the stewardship of the properties and into the local economy. We use local companies for the labor and supplies for these jobs.”

The Capital Funding for the Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing (CFRAH) grants enable LACLT and other local small- and medium-size nonprofit businesses to develop, or continue to fund: • Revolving loan funds for rehabilitation lending for owner-occupied property; • Rehab of residential rental housing currently owned by local NeighborWorks organizations; • Rehab of residential rental housing that is newly acquired or will be acquired by local NeighborWorks organizations.

LACONIA — With funding from the Endowment for Health, five of New Hampshire’s ten community mental health centers are on their way to implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) system.

Seacoast Mental Health Center, Greater Nashua Mental Health Center, Genesis Behavioral Health of Laconia, Monadnock Family Services and Northern Human Services received a planning grant to support some of the costs associated with an EMR. The five centers have worked collaboratively over the past year to purchase a shared EMR and have

contracted with Lavender & Wyatt Systems, Inc. of Little Rock, Arkansas to implement the project.

The acquisition of the EMR for the five centers is expected to impact behavioral healthcare for over 20,000 children, families, adults and older adults statewide.

“We are so grateful for the Endowment for Health’s support,” said Jay Couture, executive director of Seacoast Mental Health Center, “The EMR will allow us to better serve our patients, improve quality of care and communicate more effectively with other providers. These efficiencies are expected to lead to time and cost savings down the road.”

The support the five centers received from the Endowment for Health comes at a critical time.

“Federal regulations require all healthcare organizations to implement an EMR by 2015, yet community mental health was not able to access the stimulus funds made available,” said Maggie Pritchard, executive director of Genesis Behavioral Health, “Without grant funding, we all face significant fiscal challenges in implementing an EMR at our respective centers.”

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MVSB presents $5,000 grant to Bridge House MEREDITH — The Meredith Village Savings Bank Fund has awarded a $5,000 grant to The Bridge House in Plymouth to supply an additional six inches of insulation to the attic space at the homeless shelter which serves as an emergency and transitional refuge to homeless families and individuals.

“Having the financial assistance to be able to properly insulate the attic of the shelter will help us to minimize the heat loss in the winter months and increase our energy savings,” said Cathy Bentwood, registered nurse and director at The Bridge House.

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The Bridge House was formed in 1989 with the Since its inception in 1997 under the leadership of opening of its first shelter on Green Street in PlymJohn Starrett, then president and CEO of the Bank, outh. Since then, the organization has grown out 184 grants totaling more than $718,000 have been of its first two-bedroom home on Green Street and awarded to a wide range of environmental, social, into a facility on the grounds of the Whole Village educational, and historic projects throughout the Family Resource Center, which was first opened Lakes Region and Plymouth area. Applications for in 2005. Despite their change of venue, The Bridge the next set of grants are due by October 15. from preceding page mental health centers will allow for the smooth exchange of essential health information between mental health and primary care providers.

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• 6:30 p.m. local parade featuring antique and vintage autos from the Granite State Nationals Car Show in Sandwich, NH. • 7:30 p.m. dance at Community Park on Main St. Proceeds benefit the Greater Meredith Program and SVMA. Generously Supported by: Meredith Village Savings Bank; Laconia Harley-Davidson; The Common Man Family; Lakes Region Computer; Aubuchon Hardware.

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11th Annual HK Powersports Poker Run raises near $60k for Easter Seals LACONIA — The 11th Annual HK Powersports Land and Lake Poker Run, held at the Naswa Resort last month, raised nearly $60,000 for Easter Seals programs and services.

Dedicated to Peter Makris and Mike Whalley, the event saw participants collect poker chips from a variety of fun, theme-based checkpoints on and around Lake Winnipesaukee before heading to the Naswa Resort to play their poker hand and enjoy a beach party put on by loaded with an amazing buffet by Sysco, water games by Coors Light and Kids Only, and other family-fun activities.

Participants traveled by car, motorcycle, boats, personal watercraft, trucks and even by seaplane. The money raised included significant revenue from the Lodge at Belmont gaming nights and casino tent.

Keith Hardy of Northfield was the land winner and Steve Puglia of North Andover, Mass., the lake winner, for the best poker hands. Harley-Davidson of Manchester and Nashua sponsored the cash prizes for each winning hand.

Grand prize raffle winners were: Jim Peck, of Londonderry, who received a Polaris Ranger 400 4x4 UTV; Caroline Grady, of Oxbridge, Mass., received

an Old Town guide canoe and Jason Houde, of Littleton, Mass., received an Ocean Malibu 14 foot kayak. The prizes were donated by Polaris and Irwin Marine.

Attending the event were Miss New Hampshire Reagan Hartley and Miss Winnipesaukee Lissa Silk.

In addition to HK Powersports, major sponsors of this event include The Naswa Resort, Polaris, Mix 94.1, Metrocast, Irwin Marine and The Lodge at Belmont. Supporting sponsors include Melcher & Prescott Insurance, Laconia Savings Bank, Zero Waste & Recycling Services, Inc., SYSCO of Northern New England, Inc., Kids Only, Harley Davidson Motorcycles of Nashua and Manchester, Brady-Sullivan Properties, Tanger Outlets of Tilton, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Belknap Subaru, SouthEnd Media, Plastic Distributors and Fabricators, Stonyfield Yogurt, Baron’s Major Brands, Coors Light, Weirs Beach Lobster Pound, Suzuki, Paradigm Plumbing & Heating and Pepsi.

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GILFORD — “Gilford’s Jungle Safari” will be the theme of the annual Gilford Old Home Day celebration on Saturday, August 27.

The festivities include the annual parade at 10 a.m., featuring bands and many traditional floats, the Crazy Maze from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., a Moon Bounce from 9 a.m.–6 p.m., musical entertain-

ers including the Eric Grant Band, a Community Band concert, games for all ages, crafts, live music, lots of food and fireworks and a dance to wrap things.

The majority of activities take place at the Gilford Village Field. Parade applications are still being accepted and can be found at the Gilford Town Hall and the Gilford Library.

GILFORD — The Gilford Town Beach will remain fully staffed through Wednesday, August 24.

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Eric M. James, 50 SCOTT DEPOT, West Virginia — Eric Matthew James, 50, of Scott Depot, WV, passed away Friday, August 12, 2011, at his residence.

Eric was born on June 7, 1961, in Biddeford, Maine and grew up in Kennebunk, Maine. After moving to Gilford, NH, he graduated from Gilford High School in 1979. He went on to graduate from William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law in 1988. Eric was with Spilman Thomas & Battle, WV from 19882004; in 2005, he opened his own firm. Eric was a trial attorney with a wealth of experience in complex toxic tort cases.

Eric was a member of St. Timothy’s-In-The-Valley, where he was active in the vestry and in the choir.

Eric loved boating and singing.

He was preceded in death by his father, Stanley Gladstone James; and sister, Kathryn Susan James Spicer.

He is survived by his loving wife, soul mate and

best friend, Leslie Ann Brkljacic James; daughters, Sarah Marie James of Cross Lanes, Maunda Crosco and Annie James, both of Scott Depot; and son, Eric Matthew James Jr. of Cross Lanes; mother, Lucille Frances Ralph James, and sister, Dana James of Laconia, New Hampshire; and niece, Kerry Spicer Pinto of Dracut, Mass.

He will be sorely missed by his family, friends and faithful companion, Blackjack.

A celebration of Eric’s life was held August 17, 2011, at St. Timothy’s-In-The-Valley Episcopal Church, 3434 Teays Valley Road, Hurricane, with the Very Rev. Cheryl Winter officiating.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to St. Timothy’s-In-The-Valley Episcopal Church, In memory of Eric Matthew James, P.O. Box 424, Hurricane, WV 25526.

Eric’s family was assisted in funeral arrangements were by Chapman Funeral Home, Hurricane, WV.

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GILFORD — Peter A. Dole, 62, of 41 Hazelnut Rd., Gilford, N.H died August 18th, 2011.

Born in Claremont N.H., he was the son of William A. Dole and Charlotte M. Woodman.

Peter had been a resident of Gilford since 1984. He previously resided in Keene and Claremont. He served in the Army National Guard for 7 years with the 744th transportation company.

He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1971 as a history teacher, but shortly thereafter began a life-long career in the grocery business. He worked for P & C Foods, Inc and Wetterau, Inc before purchasing his first grocery store, Farm Fare IGA, in 1984 in Laconia, N.H. His company eventually owned 12 supermarkets, and in 1992 he was voted New Hampshire Retail Grocer of the Year.

He was a member of the Congregational Church of Laconia, and a former member of the Laconia Rotary Club. He served as a Board of Director for the Lakes Region United Way, the N.H Retail Grocers Association, and Associated Grocers of New England.

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He was predeceased by his parents and two brothers, Christopher Dole in 1992, and Jeffrey Dole in 2003.

Calling hours will be held from 4PM to 6PM on Sunday, August 21, 2011 at the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, using the Carriage House entrance. Funeral services will be held at 10AM on Monday, August 22, 2011 at the Congregational Church of Laconia, 69 Pleasant Street, Laconia with Associate Pastor Paula Gile officiating. Burial will follow at Pine Grove Cemetery in Gilford, with a reception following back at the church.

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“The history of the Mount Washington boat is an amazing story of survival against incredible odds,” says Warren, a history sleuth and avid ship modeler whose interest in New Hampshire history grew from his 55-year hobby building ship models.

He created the boat museum’s new Steamboat History Center that includes many of his models of historic boats on Lake Winnipesaukee and the history behind them. His articles have appeared in many regional newspapers and magazines. His current project is a large scale model of the old Uncle Sam mailboat, which he is building under guidance from her former pilot, Vernon Cotton. David lives in Melvin Village with his wife, Rae Lynn.

The presentation will include a brief look at the Mount’s early history, and then concentrate on the many interesting things that happened during the war years. Included is a film made available by Jack Irwin, whose family has a long history on the lake, showing the old Mount in operation and

the construction and launching of the new Mount. Part of the Mount’s story is the fire that destroyed the old Mount and its rebirth as a modern iron hull vessel.

One of the new museum displays include some of the marine diesel engine parts salvaged from the 2009 refurbishing of the Mount’s engine, generously donated by the Winnipesaukee Flagship Company and coordinated by Ted and Robert Valpey.

Guests are welcome to enjoy refreshments after the presentation and view the exhibits on display. This is the last program of the 2011 lecture series and is sponsored by the Wolfeboro Inn and the Taylor Community.

The museum is open daily through Columbus Day Weekend, Monday through Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday 12-4 p.m. Housed in the historic Allen “A” Resort’s original dance hall, it is located at 399 Center Street (Route 28/109 North), two miles from downtown Wolfeboro.

Other upcoming events include the seventh biennial Wolfeboro Vintage Race Boat Regatta on September 16-17 on Wolfeboro Bay. For further information contact the Museum at 569-4554, visit their web site at nhbm. org, or follow them on Facebook.

Electrical & plumbing apprenticeship classes to be offered starting Sept. 12/14 LACONIA — Laconia Adult Education is offering electrical and plumbing apprenticeship classes starting on Monday, September 12 and Wednesday, September 14 at Laconia High School.

The classes will meet two nights per week from 6-9 p.m., for a total of six classroom hours of instruction per week, explained Peggy Selig, program director.

The apprenticeship classes are pre-requisites required for anyone desiring to become a licensed electrician or plumber in the state of New Hampshire. In order to become eligible to take the Journeymen’s Exam, an apprentice must have completed 8,000 hours of “on-the-job” training and 600 hours of related classroom instruction over a four year period at a state approved program.

There is a charge of $975 per year for the classes and books are included in the fee.

The electrician’s “on-the-job” training involves planning layouts, installing and repairing wiring and electrical fixtures, apparatus and control equipment. The apprentice measures,

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The plumber’s “on-the-job” training covers but is not limited to assembling, installing, and repairing pipes, fittings and fixtures of heating, water, and drainage systems according to specifications and plumbing codes, learning how to read blueprints and plans to determine work required and sequence of installations. Pipe bending and fittings, valve installations, working with glass, plastic, steel, brass and welding, in addition to installing and repairing plumbing fixtures, replacing washers in leaky faucets, fixing burst pipes and opening clogged drains are also part of the training.

For more information call the Laconia Adult Education Office at 5245712 or stop by the office in Room 108 at Laconia High School.

FRANKLIN — LRGHealthcare and Laconia Clinic are pleased to welcome Pediatrician Hala Tabbah, MD to the local community. Dr. Tabbah will practice general pediatrics, at Westside Healthcare in Franklin.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

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So when things get too quiet, you’ll find a way to ignite the action. It’s time to plan another vacation, party or other form of entertainment to keep things interesting.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Your goal gleams in the distance.

Though you can see it clearly, it will be several weeks before you reach this milestone. Stick to it until you get where you want to go.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You like to look on the bright side. Doing so will require that you suppress some bit of unpleasantness that others are paying a good deal of attention to. This will work for you. Perception is reality.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You want to connect with the magic in the universe. You don’t have to reach far to do so, because the magic is not “out there.” It’s right where you are. Expect to experience it, and you will.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 20).

You’ll settle a debt and move on. September brings new confidence and a feeling that you are coming into your own. Your relationships thrive, especially if you don’t overanalyze things. In 2012, the people you love will lead you on an adventure as you support them in their ambitions. Aries and Capricorn people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 20, 47, 41 and 35.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll express your creativity through today’s interactions. You have an amazing way of staying tightly controlled and yet simultaneously free-flowing. The effect is mesmerizing.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your comedic instinct is well honed. You’re simply quick to notice what’s funny, and you’ll call it out in a truly original way. You’ll have an appreciative audience that laughs at your jokes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). If you get the feeling that everything about your appearance is crucial now, you’re right. You’re being considered for a kind of “role.” Someone is checking you out and paying attention to the details.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You wisely realize that you can’t be everything to everybody all at once. So you set limits and let go of the less significant responsibilities. Even superheroes need a day off.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Before entering new situations, rehearse in your imagination. Think about what you want to happen, and set an intention. Business and pleasure go better because of this kind of preparation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Not all of your abilities need to be exercised today. You’ll see opportunities that you could easily seize. Whether it would benefit you to seize them is another story entirely.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Trying to be perfect is not only futile, but it can also hurt your popularity. Everyone feels uptight around perfectionists, who are known to be much less fun than the socalled “real” people who aren’t trying to

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2011. There are 133 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History: On Aug. 20, 1911, The New York Times sent a message around the world by regular commercial cable to see how long it would take; the dispatch, which said simply, “Times, New York: This message sent around world.

Times,” was filed at 7 p.m. and returned to its point of origin 16½ minutes later.

On this date: In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.

In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped.

In 1882, Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” had its premiere in Moscow.

In 1910, a series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 people and burning some 3 million acres.

In 1920, pioneering American radio station 8MK in Detroit (later WWJ) began daily broadcasting.

In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force before the House of Commons, saying, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

In 1977, the U.S. launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.

In 1981, Michael Devine, a member of the Irish National Liberation Army, died after a 60-day hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he was the tenth and last hunger-striker to die that year.

One year ago: President Barack Obama invited Israel and the Palestinians to meet face-to-face in Washington for talks aimed at achieving a historic agreement to establish an independent Palestinian state and secure peace for Israel.

Today’s Birthdays: Writer-producerdirector Walter Bernstein is 92. U.S. special envoy George Mitchell is 78. Former MLB All-Star Graig Nettles is 67. Broadcast journalist Connie Chung is 65. Musician Jimmy Pankow (Chicago) is 64. Actor John Noble is 63. Rock singer Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) is 63. Country singer Rudy Gatlin is 59.

Singer-songwriter John Hiatt is 59. Actordirector Peter Horton is 58. TV weatherman Al Roker is 57. Actress Joan Allen is 55. TV personality Asha Blake is 50. Actor James Marsters is 49. Actor Colin Cunningham is 45. Rock singer Fred Durst is 41. Rock musician Brad Avery is 40. Actor Jonathan Ke Quan is 40. Rock singer Monique Powell is 36. Actor Ben Barnes is 30. Actor Andrew Garfield is 28. Actress Demi Lovato is 19.

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Colossal Yard Sale hosted by the Lakeport Community Association. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Behind the Lakeport Fire Station on Elm Street. Rain or shine.

“Steel Magnolias” on stage at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse at Weirs Beach. 7:30 p.m. For tickets call 3667377 or visit www.winniplayhouse.org.

Dessert Theater Music Fest at the First Congregational Church of Meredith. 6:30 p.m. And evening of music and refreshments featuring a variety of musical styles, from folk to Broadway to ballads. Tickets available at the door or by calling 279-7408.

Winni Children’s Museum Rummage Sale and Silent Auction. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 533 Main Streeet in downtown Laconia (parking garage building). World’s largest ant farm will be unveiled.

“The Perfect Pig”, an authentic Tennessee BBQ celebration at Hesky Park in Meredith, hosted by the Squam Valley Masconic Association. Noon until 9 p.m. Proceeds to benefit local nonprofits, including the Greater Meredith Program. Pig fest will feature smoked pork shoulder and dry-rubbed ribs with traditional fixin’s.

9th Annual Granite State Nationals car show. Sandwich Fairgrounds. Up to 800 hot rods, custom muscle cars and classics expected. Parade through Meredith (starting at high school) at 6:30 p.m. $10 admission for adults. www. granitestatenationals.com.

Classic auto cruise parade in Meredith. 6:30 p.m. start at the high school. A joint project between the Greater Meredith Program and the Granite State Nationals car show. Featuring classics, customs, hot rods and muscle cars from all over the country. Parade will be followed by a street dance with City Limits (50s & 60s rock) in the Water Street municipal parking lot.

The Buddy Holly Story at Interlakes Summer Theatre in Meredith. 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $30. For tickets call 1-888-245-6374. InterlakesTheatre.com 2nd Annual Family Fun Day at the Laconia Lodge of Elks on Rte. 11-A in Gilford. 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring the kids and enjoy games and fun. Siimplicity the Clown, bouncy house, money search, football toss, two-legged race. Free hamburgers and hot dogs for the kids at 12:30.

Miss Lakes Region and Miss Lakes Region Outstanding Teen competitons. 6 p.m. at the Meredith Community Center. $12.

Peter and the Wolf at Interlakes Summer Theatre in Meredith. 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $8. For tickets call 1-888-245-6374. InterlakesTheatre.com Lakes Region Lyme Support Group meeting. Third Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Laconia Middle School. For victims and support people of those with chronic Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. Questions? Leave message for Nancy at 1-888-596-5698.

Free outdoor concert at the Winnipesaukee Marketplace at Weirs Beach. 7 to 10 p.m. Crunchy Western Boys (bluegrass).

38th Laconia Farmers’ Market. Every Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to noon in the City Hall parking lot. www. laconiafarmersmarket.com Al-Anon Meeting at Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Saturday in the first floor conference room. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton. 4:30 to 6 p.m. An outreach housed at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street, downtown. provides a free hot meal open to all members of the community. All are welcome to eat and all are welcome to help out. For more information, especially about volunteering, please call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at mark@trinitytilton.org.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I have six siblings. Our childhood was traumatic. My dad was an out-of-control drinker who was frequently violent, and Mom wouldn’t stand up to him. When Dad wasn’t beating us, my parents would pit us against each other by encouraging family gossip, tattling and playing favorites.

Out of all my siblings, I am the only one who never married. Over the years, there have been holiday gatherings at my parents’ home, and my siblings would attend and bring their children. Bedrooms were always assigned to my married sibs, and the additional bedrooms were assigned to their kids. I was told to grab a pillow and blanket and sleep on the couch. When I protested that such a choice was more appropriate for the kids, I was told that they could fit more kids into the bedrooms than on the couch. I told my mother she was singling me out for lesser treatment, but she refused to hear me. My sister’s kids were allowed to treat me with disrespect, so I finally stopped coming to family gatherings.

My parents are now getting up in years and downsized to a two-bedroom house. When I visited a few years ago, I was told to vacate the spare bedroom because another sister and her husband were coming. I left and did not come back.

Dad is now sober and wants the family together again. I have NO interest in rejoining my “loving” family. They assigned rank and decided I was expendable. There are other examples of such treatment. How do I explain that they burned that bridge a long time ago? -- Cold in Michigan Dear Cold: We’re going to assume there are a lot of underlying emotional issues, because giving up your bedroom so two kids can sleep there instead of one on the couch seems a rather petty reason to disown your family. You had a rough childhood and obviously harbor a great deal of resentment not only toward your parents, but also toward your siblings.

You don’t have to attend family gatherings if you feel unappreciated, but please consider counseling to help you deal with the rest.

Dear Annie: Are we the only people who think charitable organizations have gone off the deep end? We don’t want the pins and certificates of appreciation or the plastic membership cards. We can’t possibly use 15 wall calendars, six pocket calendars and four packages of greeting cards. We don’t want T-shirts and tote bags with the organization’s name emblazoned on them.

We also don’t appreciate the envelopes with stamps attached that are apparently intended to produce a guilt trip.

We’ve written to ask them to take us off their mailing list.

What else can we do to stop the waste? -- Disgusted Givers from Illinois Dear Disgusted: Not much. Some of those “gifts,” like tote bags and T-shirts, are a form of advertising for the organization. You can find out how specific charities spend their money by checking with the American Institute of Philanthropy (charitywatch.org) or Charity Navigator (charitynavigator. org).

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Disappointed Grandmother,” whose grandchildren never sent thank-you notes.

When my parents were in their 80s, I helped them mail gifts to the grandchildren. They wanted a thank-you note, not only as an acknowledgement of their gift, but in order to hear from their grandchildren.

I solved the problem. When I sent the gift, I enclosed a stamped, self-addressed thank-you card along with it. It took only one little nudge, and they sent thank-you notes to my parents from that time on. I never told my folks what I did, but they were very proud of their well-mannered grandchildren. -- C.

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Must sell 1995 Larson Bowrider.

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Appliances Frigidaire front load washer, 4 years old, used very little, $90.

Kenmore gas dryer, 6 years. old, $80. $155 for both together. Cash only, call 603-524-4406

Autos 1981 F150 6 ft. bed, 300-6 cylinder, 4-speed overdrive. runs great. Most everything new. $2,000. 603-387-9742 1988 Chevy 1500 305 Liter V8 5 spd, standard, 75k, must sell $2,500/obo. 393-3563.

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2003 Mach I 36K miles, needs very little $7500/ OBO. 528-2294.

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BELMONT childcare available.

Convenient location, affordable rates & flexible hours. Lots of experience. Call 603-568-9548

CLEAN UPDATED 1-bedroom and studio apartments in Tilton.

Heat/Hot Water included. $560-$660/Month. No pets.

603-393-9693 or 916-214-7733

CHILDREN S Garden Childcare: Year-round, reliable, clean, structured, pre-K environment, one acre yard, central location.

528-1857.

COZY 1 Bedroom near Exit 20. ideal for single person, private yard and parking. $170/week includes all utilities. Pet and smoker okay. 528-0761

MEREDITH grandmother offering childcare in my child-friendly home. Will transport to and from school. 393-9079

FRANKLIN: Quiet modern 2BR w/carport. 1st-floor, starting at $765/Month, includes heat/hot water. Security deposit & references required. No pets.

286-4845.

For Rent A STUDIO in Tilton, town parking $15/year, updated, close to everything/ park. $560/ month.

916-214-7733.

ADORABLE cottage in Meredith, 1 BR, study, large living room, kitchen and great screened porch.

Tennis court/beach.. No dogs.

Refs and 1 year!s lease req!d. REDUCED to . $800 month +utilities.

279-6463.

APARTMENTS, mobile homes. If you need a rental at a fair price, call DRM Corp. Over 40 years in rentals. We treat you better!

524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at 373 Court Street, Laconia.

BELMONT at the Bypass, 2 bedroom, outstanding screened porch, basement storage, $865 plus utilities security and

GILFORD Small 1-bedroom house w/galley kitchen, porch & private drive. $600/Month + utilities, no pets. 293-2750 GILFORD Small 1 bedroom house. New carpet and paint, $800/Month + utilities. No pets 293-2750 GILFORD studio apt, ground floor, year round, convenient. No pets, no smokers. $620 a month incl util. 293-4081.

GILFORD Village remodeled cape. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, furnished, garage, new roof.

9-month or 1-year lease. $1400/month + utilities. No smoking, pets. First, last, security.

603-520-2425 GILFORD Waterfront furnished house with dock, 2 bedrms one bath screen porch, Sept. 1- June

6 Buildings comprised of only four(4) units each 2 – two bedroom fully wheelchair accessible units 2 – two bedroom handicapped adaptable units 8 – two bedroom townhouse style units 4 – three bedroom townhouse style units 8 – one bedroom units (4-second floor & 4-townhouse style) Refrigerator, Stove and Dishwasher Washer/Dryer hook-ups Townhouse style units have 1 and 1/2 baths Income Limits Apply

NO PETS PLEASE THIS IS A NON-SMOKING PROPERTY

CONTACT US TODAY FOR MORE INFO! 1-800-742-4686 The Hodges Companies 201 Loudon Road Concord, NH 03301 Proudly owned by Laconia Area Community Land Trust

Rental Assistance Available NOW!

PRINCE HAVEN or HILLSIDE APARTMENTS All utilities included Plymouth/Meredith, N.H. (Prince Haven has an elderly preference) If you are 62, disabled or handicapped, (regardless of age), and meet annual income guidelines, you may qualify for our one-bedroom apts.

Call today to see if you qualify.

603-224-9221 TDD # 1-800-545-1833 Ext. 118 or Download an application at www.hodgescompanies.com Housing@hodgescompanies.com

40% of our vacancies will be rented to applicants with Extremely Low Income.

Rent is based on your household size and income.

An Equal Opportunity Housing Agent

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For Rent

For Rent

For Rent

For Sale

For Sale

LACONIA Province St. One bedrm $500+/month and 2 bedrm $750+/month, private parking, laundry, bright and clean, no pets.

508-423-0479.

LACONIA: 2BR, 2BA fully furnished condo, $700/month, no pets. Available August to June 978-771-7831.

NORTHFIELD Large 1 bedroom, 1st floor, separate entrance, direct basement access with coin-op laundry, $195/week including heat, electric hot water, 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

BOLEN’S 1993 Suburban ST140 tractor. Mower deck 42 inch. 38 inch. snow thrower attachment, utility trailer. $900. Call 528-5440

MOVING: Must sell! Sofa and Loveseat, Floral Pattern, $300; Light Oak Hutch, $250; Light Pine Queen-Size Bedroom Set, including dresser w/mirror, men!s bureau & nightstand, $400; Kitchen Set w/4 Padded Chairs on Casters, Solid Oak, $150; 50 Clay Plant Pots, Various Sizes, $25/all; Panasonic Flat Screen TV, 26”, $100; Tools: Woodmaster 18” Planer w/Pro-pac, $1,800; Drill Press, $100; Bandsaw, $75; Coyote Tractor, 2005, 542 Hours, with Bucket Loader, $10,500; Hand Lawnmower, $50; DR Lawn Vacuum w/Extra Vacuum Hose, $750.

(603)524-0879.

LACONIA small 4 room 2 bedroom, 2 car parking, $175/week, no smoking, no utilities, no dogs.

Leave message for Bob 781-283-0783.

LACONIA- 3 bedroom house. $1,000/Month + utilities. No pets, references & deposit. 524-9665 LACONIA- FURNISHED 2 bedroom $800/Month. Cabin $550/Month. 10 minutes to high school.

603-524-7701 631-665-1997 LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. Free WiFi Internet. $145/week, 603-781-6294 LACONIA- Private, quiet, clean, furnished 1 bedroom apartment.

Kitchen privileges. $500/Month plus utilities. Call 524-9260 LACONIA- Spacious 3 bedroom.

Hookups, garage, 2 porches. No pets. $900/month + Utilities.

455-0874.

LACONIASpacious, newly renovated and energy efficient units with washer/dryer hookups.

2 Bedroom $825/Month, 3 Bedroom $1,100/Month.

BELMONT 2 Bedroom $725/Month; washer/dryer hookup. Call GCE @267-8023 LACONIA: 1 bedroom, 2nd floor, near hospital. $190/week including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234 LACONIA: Large efficiency, hear hospital, $150/week. Security deposit required. 603-573-5800.

LACONIA: Near downtown, 2nd floor, 2BR, $750 +utilities.

References & $750 security deposit required. 387-3864.

LACONIA: 1BR, new carpets, parking, no pets, $150/ week + utilities, security, Sec 8, 387-6810.

LACONIA: 2BR, 2BA fully furnished condo, $800/month, no pets.

Available now.

978-423-2310 LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 LAKE Winnisquam waterfront, Sanbornton, cozy cottage beautiful views, no utilities, no pets no smoking, unfurnished, $750/ month. 524-1583.

MEREDITH 3BR, 2 bath, fully furnished, washer/dryer. $900/mo. plus utilities. Non-smokers, no cats. Beach access, boat slip.

Sept.-June. (508)265-6817.

MEREDITH In Town - Fully Renovated 2 Bedroom 1.5 bath Condo with Garage. Quite location, Energy efficient. $1,095 + utilities No pets No smokers.

Rick (781)-389-2355 MOULTONBOROUGH 1 bedrm cottage, appliances included, large private lot, no pets, no smoking, rental references required, $700 plus utilities, first and security. (603)476-8450.

Nice 2BR duplex in the Weirs $855/Month + $500 security.

Heat/hot water included.

Call 279-3141. nsavoieinc@metrocast.net

NORTHFIELD Are you tired of living in run down, dirty housing, then call us we have the absolute best, spotlessly clean and everything works. We include heat & hot water and all appliances, Townhouses & apartments, in Northfield one block from I-93 Call 630-3700 for affordable Clean living.

New Franklin Apartments, LLC Elderly and Disabled Housing Now Accepting Applications for Project-Based Section 8 Subsidized Apartments HUD Income Limits Apply One & Two Bedroom Units Available Located in Tilton, Franklin & West Franklin

Apartments Available Now For more information, please contact 603-286-4111 Or TTY 1-800-735-2964 Hurry, Don’t Wait!

Rental Assistance Available Section 8 Voucher Accepted At Our Market Rate Unit Make Your Next Home At

LEDGEWOOD ESTATES • Spacious units with a lot of storage area • Low utility costs • On-Site Laundry & Parking • Easy access to I-93 • 24-hour maintenance provided • 2 bedrooms with a 2 person minimum per unit.

Ask about our Referral Bonus Rent is based upon 30% of your adjusted income.

Hurry and call today to see if you qualify, or download an application at:

www.hodgescompanies.com Housing@hodgescompanies.com 603-224-9221 TDD # 1-800-545-1833 Ext. 118 An Equal Opportunity Housing Agent

TILTON- Main St. 1 bedroom apartment $680 per month. Heat included. 393-7935.

TILTON/ LOCHMERE 2 bedroom duplex, garage underneath, fresh paint, 25 min. from Concord, $850 per month plus util. No smoking. No pets. 527-6283 WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency apartment and a cottage including heat, hot water and lights. No pets. $150-$185/week. $400 deposit. 387-3864.

For Rent-Commercial 65 WATER STREET LACONIA First floor roomy 1200+ sq. ft. suite in historic building. 4/5 offices plus common area.

Available 10/1. Great location includes parking. Call 524-7206.

Laconia-O’Shea Industrial Park 72 Primrose Drive •10,000 Sq, Ft. WarehouseManufacturing. $5,800.00 • 3,000 Sq. Ft. Office Space $2,800.00 • 3,340 Sq. Ft. WarehouseManufacturing $1,800.00

FHA Heat/AC 3 Phase Power 72 Primrose Drive, Laconia

(603)476-8933 For Rent by Owner 91 Bisson Ave. Laconia, NH

1700 SF Storage/Shop 12! Drive thru Doors Heat &Elec. $750.00/Month

CASH for antiques, coins, silver & gold, guns, knives, military, etc.

One item or a house full. Dave 528-0247 CULLIGAN used whole house water filter. $225. 603-524-7701 631-665-1997 ELECTRIC wheel chair, 2010 with charger, never used. Full tilt, many extras. $2500. 528-0761 FIREWOOD-CUT not split $140, cut & split $185/cord. Also, logging, landclearing & tree work (All phases). 393-8416 FISHING TRIP- Surf fish Martha s Vineyard in a 4WD, exploring 17 Miles of surf fishing. Stripers, bonito, albacore, blue fish. 7 full days (negotiable). Housing, food, rods & reels all included. Any week September 15th-October 15th. 603-387-7543 FRIGIDAIRE side-by-side refrigerator/freezer with ice maker.

Good condition $500. Kenmore Washer & Dryer. $300/pair.

527-1149

2002 MXZ 600, 1900 miles, good shape, $1100. Complete scuba set up with Dacor regulator and computer, $700. 848-0014 3-AXLE Trailer, 9-ton, 8ft x 20ft, needs redecking, $1,000 or best offer. 527-0800.

42” Yardman Lawn Tractor: Good condition, well maintained w/42” grass sweeper, $400 for both or will trade for gas powered good condition snowblower. 524-7624.

6-FT. Truck Bed: Fits 1988-1999, $400. 527-0800.

AMAZING! Beautiful pillowtop matress sets, twin $169, full or queen $249, king $399. See AD under “Furniture”.

Antique farmers sink, high back, $100. Pop-up trailer frame, good utility trailer $100. 455-9846

SHED: 12ft. x 16ft., 4 years old, $500.

You take it away.

387-3824.

TWO large capacity window air conditioners. Rarely used, $75 each. 267-1935 Used Bicycle Sale. Saturday, 9am-2pm. Over 50 various models all refurbished, reasonable prices. 90 Winter St. Laconia

Jett III-Ultra Power Wheelchair with oxygen carrier. Like new. $2,500. Many power tools.

744-6107

AMAZING!

KENMORE Portable sewing ma chine $25, Eagle Claw Antique Corner chair $75, Feudal Oak (Jamestown Lounge Co.) double pedestal table 82” L x 31” W x 30” H. $300. 528-4029 Large dark green glass Top oval patio table with 6 matching high-back chairs. Excellent condition, $85 firm. 630-5030 LOCKSMITH equipment tools & supplies, ideal for start up mobile business.

FMI (603)624-2424.

Furniture Beautiful Queen or Full-size mattress set, Luxury Firm European Pillow-top style, Fabulous back & hip support, Factory sealed - new 10-Yr. warranty. Cost $1095, sell $249. Can deliver 603-305-9763.

PROMOTIONAL New mattresses starting; King set complete $395, queen set $249. 603-524-1430.

Free FREE Pickup for your unwanted, useful items ... attics, cellars, garages, automobiles, boats, yardsale items & whatever.

Prompt removal. (603)930-5222.

T&B Appliance Removal. Appliances & AC’s removed free of charge if outside. Please call (603)986-5506.

For Sale

2001 Kropf 37! Special Edition Park Model- Exceptionally clean, 1 bedroom. Loaded w/extras, plenty storage, upgraded insulation, appliances, furniture included, Attached 9x16, 3 season finished porch w/ furniture- must move. Currently in lakes region camp -$25K call 508-963-3504

RUSTIC dining room light $25, Slightly used Kohler shower door $75. Sue 524-1896

HODGMAN Quality Hip Waders.

Women!s Size 9. Cushion insoles, fully guaranteed. New in box, never worn. $25/BO. 677-6528

(603) 524-3411

1999 Appliances for sale from our summer home. Kitchenaid dishwasher, top of the line, white, perfect condition $275, GE cooktop coil. $60.

603-253-4064

MOVING: Maytag washer/dryer, like new, $300. Treadmill $200, white sofa $25. Filing cabinets & computer tables $15 each.

528-6451

Help Wanted Steel Buildings Discounted Factory Inventory.

24x36, 38x50, 33x39, 42x57, Misc. Sizes, limited availability. www.utilityking.com 866-609-4321, Source: 1IB

ADVERTISING Sales for tourism publications and website. Must have solid sales experience.

Lakes Region, North Conway to Canadian Border. Commission only. Resume and references required. (603)356-7011.

Help Wanted BENDER/WELDER/CNC MACHINING/UTILITY A growing manufacturing facility in Laconia has immediate 1st shift openings for persons with the following experience: • CNC Bender Setup/ Operators • Aerospace Tig Welder with Tube welding experience • CNC Milling & Lathe Setup/ Operators • Utility/General Shop Help Ability to use measuring tools and read blueprints is a must for certain positions. Starting pay based on experienced ability.

Excellent benefit package, including 401K plan, 10 paid holidays, short and long term disability insurance, life, health and dental insurance and a great working environment.

Please contact: bob.edwards@screwmatic.com

BOOTH AVAILABLE FOR Rent at Deb!s Hair Salon in the Gilford Village Marketplace.

Price negotiable. Experienced stylists with own clientele. Applications available at Pizza Express in Gilford Village Marketplace. Call 630-2212 or email test56@hotmail.com Busy physician s specialty practice looking for an Experienced Medical Assistant and/or Medical Secretary with insurance knowledge, to join our team. Must be able to work independently in various roles and travel to different locations. This position requires 32-40 hours/week.

Please call (603)524-7402 x 210 for more information.

GIUSEPPE!S Pizzeria & Ristorante is seeking Sautee Cooks, Line Cooks and Pizza Makers.

Please apply in person, or send inquiry for interview to giuseppes@metrocast.net.

HOCKEY TEAM VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!

The Laconia Leafs JR Hockey team is searching for qualified volunteers. Experience not needed, but an understanding & love for hockey helpful. Positions Available: game videographer (no equipment needed), game ticket taker, score clock operator. All games are a 3 hour period, approx. 15 games in 2011-12 season from Sept-March at Laconia Ice Arena. For More info contact: Coach Will Fay, 581-7008

Geographic Information System (GIS) Specialist MEREDITH, NH The Town of Meredith, NH is seeking qualified applicants for the position of GIS SPECIALIST. The GIS Specialist is a full time position located within the Community Development Department. Ideally located on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, Meredith offers a high quality living and work environment including a strong sense of community, abundant recreational opportunities and a commitment to community planning.

A Bachelors Degree in Natural Resources, Planning, Computer Science or related field plus four years of GIS-related experience required. Any combination of education and experience demonstrating the necessary knowledge, skill and abilities will be considered. See meredithnh.org/gis.php for additional information. Questions regarding the position should be directed to John C. Edgar, AICP, Community Development Director at jedgar@meredithnh.org or (603) 677-4217.

BERKLINE reclining sofa. Recliners at each end, paisley cloth, 2 pillows, very good condition, asking $499, call 387-6167.

The Town of Meredith offers an excellent compensation package. Applications will be reviewed beginning September 6, 2011. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. An application for employment is available at meredithnh.org/pdfdocs/JOB_APPLICATION.pdf Send application, resume, cover letter, three work-related letters of reference and salary requirement to Trish Laurent, Human Resources Coordinator, tlaurent@meredithnh.org

CALAWAY bag and irons S to 4 and 3 woods. $190/ OBO.

The Town of Meredith is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

BEAUTIFUL sectional couch. Paid $1,200 will sell $600-Best offer.

Moved, must sell. 603-455-9923

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Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

HOUSEKEEPERS Wanted: We are looking for hard working people who know what clean is!

Part-time positions, with potential for full-time hours available. Must be flexible, reliable and dependable. Weekends a must. Please apply in person at Fireside Inn & Suites, Junctions of Routes 11 & 11B, Gilford, NH.

PROGRAM ASSISTANT FOR LACONIA SENIOR CENTER

Taylor Community has an opportunity for

MASON Tenders- Commercial experience only need apply, must have license, own transportation, and be reliable. Job in Wolfeboro, NH. Pay commensurate with experience.

S.D. Szetela Mason Contractor (603)986-5518.

NEEDED CARPENTER to frame garage door rough opening and hire 6 wheel dump truck to haul asphalt, call 203-824-8199.

PART-TIME MAINTENANCE PERSON Please apply in person to:

Robert s Laudromat & Carwash 154 Daniel Webster Hwy. Belmont

Seeking a Program Assistant for Laconia Senior Center – Twenty (20) hours per week to assist Director with daily activities of Center. Successful candidate will have basic computer and customer service skills. Ability to handle busy phone and complete daily reports. Cooperative spirit, flexibility, love of seniors a must.

Contact Tammy Levesque at 524-7689. Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

SCISSORGY DAY SPA Now Has a Booth available For an independent stylist.

Also space available for an independent esthitician & nail tech.

Please call Felicia at 253-7587

Rowell's Sewer & Drain

is looking for 1 full-time Technician/Laborer. Candidate must be self motivated, professional and avail. to work O/T. Must have CDL Class B and be in good physical condition. Benefits include a competitive salary, 8 paid holidays and retirement plan. Forward Resumes to: mandiehagan@yahoo.com Call 934-4145

Services

MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN I This is a part-time seasonal temporary 20 hour position performing routine maintenance services throughout Taylor Community buildings and properties. The ideal candidate should have 2 years experience in maintenance or technical field. If you are interested in joining the caring staff of a well established leader in a smoke free continuing care retirement community services, please apply at our website www.taylorcommunity.org A valid NH Drivers license, criminal background check and drug testing are required. Taylor Community is an EEO employer.

Instruction BALLROOM DANCE

BLUE RIBBON

PAINTING CO. Interior/Exterior Since 1982 ~ Fully Insured

Powerwashing

279-5755 630-8333 Bus.

BOUGHTON Landscape & Construction, LLC: Sitework, Concrete and General Contracting, 267-7129.

Cell

LAKES & Mountain Carpet & Furniture Cleaning & Restoration. Quality service since 1975.

(603)973-1667.

Quality Work Reasonable Rates Free Estimates Metal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

Land

Our Customers Don!t get Soaked!

528-3531 Major credit cards accepted

LOW PRICE ~ QUALITY WORK

Rightway Plumbing and Heating Over 20 Years Experience Fully Insured. License #3647

Call 393-4949

GILFORD: New to the market, 1 1/4 acre building lots, Cotton Hill area. Level, dry, surveyed & soil tested. Two available, $79,900 each. Owner/broker, 524-1234.

M.A. SMITH ELECTRIC: Quality work for any size electrical job. Licensed-Insured, Free estimates/ 603-455-5607

Lost

MINI-EXCAVATOR for hire.

Drainage, grading, handset & machine set stone walls.

Reasonable rates. 25 years experience. Hancock Masonry 267-6048

LOST- Male Black & White Cat. No Collar. Near Lower Bay Rd. Area. Please call 568-0888

Motorcycles

SHORELINE SOLUTIONS Stonework: Bluestone patios, fire-pits, natural walls, beaches, dock removal and installation. 20 years of experience, excellent references, pictures available.

Free estimates, Call Randy (603) 707-6499 Email: jrShorelineSolutions@yahoo.com

2005 Honda VT 600 CD Shadow: Back rest, Viper windshield, low miles, excellent condition. $3,800. Call 603-331-2082.

Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

(603)447-1198. Olson’s Moto Works, RT16 Albany, NH.

SIMPLY Decks and More. Free estimates. Fully Insured. No job too big. Call Steve. 603-393-8503.

Real Estate

NEED FINANCIAL HELP with the spaying, altering of your dog or cat? 224-1361 Before 2pm.

FOR Sale By Owner- 2 Bedroom house, 1 1/4 bath. 180 Mechanic St. Laconia. 524-8142

Tools, housewares, glassware, sports equipment, garden items knick knacks, & lots more!

BELMONT- Saturday 9am-2pm 74 Fellows Hill Rd. from center of Belmont take Shaker Road 2 miles on left. Handyman items, hardware items, misc. Rain Cancels.

COLOSSAL Barn Sale #2 More awesome stuff! Furniture, Tools, Household items, electronics, more lots more. Saturday Only, 8/20/2011, 8am-5pm, Gilford at 88 Sleeper Hill Rd. (Near Piche!s)

North on Main, first road past Laconia Clinic Many antiques, furniture glass tools, yard furniture, entire household. 528-2206

FRANKLIN Saturday, 8/20, 55 Liberty Ave., 8-2. Whole house: furniture, kitchenware, smalls.

GIGANTIC YARD SALE Everything Must Go!!

Lots of good stuff cheap ...

Furniture, clothes, toys, housewares, etc.

49 Avery Street, Laconia Sat. & Sun. ~ 8am-2pm Rain or Shine GILFORD-SATURDAY, August 20th 9am-1pm. Many items, antique steam trunks, Pennsylvania house furniture, lots more!

Make offer! 146 Gunstock Hill Rd. INDOOR Yard Sale High-end electronics, complete computers, laptops, plasma TV with surround sound, sofas, chairs, dining set, household items. Friday and Sat. 8-4pm. 115 North St. Laconia.

LACONIA 4 Family Yard Sale!

Saturday, 8/20 8am-1PM. Drizzle or shine! Tools, recreation, clothes -all sizes, household, plus! Adams Street, behind Wyatt Park.

Laconia- Saturday, 9am-2pm.

Books, household, knick knacks, etc. 35 McGrath St.

LOOKING FOR HOUSE w/garage for long-term rental. 2 bedroom, 2 bath, immaculate housekeeper.

Local retired couple. Call 970-379-0326

Roommate Wanted

Vince Miner Paving Co. Trusted for over 30 Years Office: 603-267-7044 Cell: 603-568-5520 37 Bryant Rd. Belmont NH 03220 VPMPaving@gmail.com

ROOM for Rent: Meredith, quiet country setting, shared living/kitchen, electric/hw/heat/gas cooking included. Smoking ok.

Candidates should be clean and sober.

References required. $125/week or $500/month.

Contact 707-9794.

Services $20 Traditional Japanese Bodywork Treatments

ATTENTION ATTORNEY’ S! VIDEOGRAPHY by Kazolias.

Depositions, conferences, etc.

59 Dutile Rd. Saturday 8/20 8am-2pm

LACONIA Saturday 8am - 12pm, 12 Ivy Court, Multi-family. No early birds and lots of great stuff!

Real Estate, Wanted

Please come and enjoy the therapeutic and relaxing benefits of traditional Japanese body work known as Shiatsu.

Each treatment is performed fully clothed on a comfortable floor mat and takes about an hour.

Treatments are performed at the Sachem Shiatsu office at the Fitness Edge building in Meredith.

Please call Sensei Jones at 603-524-4780 to make an appointment.

Yard Sale BELMONT

ESTATE/ MOVING SALE Sat. 8am-3pm Sun. 1pm-4pm 49 Parker St. Laconia

PIPER ROOFING

Private lessons, couples only.

Professional Instruction, reasonable rates. 279-1329.

BELMONT: 3 acres with good gravel soils, no wetland, driveway already roughed in, owner financing available, $54,900.

Owner/broker, 524-1234.

Services INSIDE N Out Cleaners. Residential homes, small offices, condos and rental units. Fully insured, free estimates. 10% discount for first time customers.

603-393-5220

Wanted To Buy

HANDYMAN SERVICES Small Jobs Are My Speciality

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277 JAYNE ’ S PAINTING is now Ruel ’s Painting. Same great service!

Jason Ruel Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed!

CASH PAID NON-FERROUS METALS Copper, brass, aluminum, lead, aluminum cans, insulated wire.

Also appliance removal provided (call for details)

387-9272 or 267-8963

Yard Sale BEDFORD Ave., Gilford (near Pi che!s) Saturday 8 - 3, rain or

LACONIA: 57 Tilton Avenue (Off Garfield Street), Saturday, August 20th, 8am-3pm. 1700!s hooded wooden rocker crib original finish, dorm size refrigerator, “0” size train track, Imperial Cape Cod glassware, 3 chain saws for parts, mini bike, snowmobile helmets & gear bags, collectibles, books, puzzles, VHS, something for everyone! Priced to sell! Rain cancels.

Lakeport Community Association Colossal Yard Sale in freight house & box car.

Behind Lakeport Fire Station Sat. August 20th 8am-2pm Lots of New Items Rain or Shine!

LAKEPORT- Saturday, August 20th. 9am-2pm. Lots of books, a variety of items. No early birds.

201 Belvidere St. MULTI-FAMILY: 1 Doris Drive in Gilford, Saturday, 10am-2pm. No early birds please.

NORTHFIELD -Saturday, August 20 9am-3pm. 47 Highland Mountain Rd. Household, clothing,

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CALENDAR

Lakes Region Real Estate Market Report / Roy Sanborn

Strong(er) homes sales in July For the month of July, 2011 there were 70 residential home sales at an average price of $309,586 in the communities in this Lakes Region real estate report. That’s actually a pretty good 14-percent bump over the 61 sales last July at an average of $262,390. I was getting a little concerned about the lack luster sales over the past several months, but this is certainly an improvement. On a rolling twelve month basis we stand at 743 sales as of July 31, 2011, with an average price of $338,626, a median price of $196,000, and average time on the market of 147 days. We are down a bit when compared to the 12 month period ending July 31, 2010, when we had 772 sales, but the average and median sales price came in a bit higher than the $307,881 and $191,650 values recorded last year. The average time on market coincidentally came in the same at 147 days. As usual, about half the sales for the month of July were under $200,000. But what else can you tell about the homes that sold?

Of the 70 sales for the month of July, 28 properties are clearly vacation type homes and 42

are what you would usually consider year round primary residences. There were 10 homes that sold under $100,000, three of those are vacation type homes leaving seven as year round primary residences (although that could be stretching things a bit by the looks of some of them.) Of the 26 homes that sold between $100,000 and $200,000 there were five vacation homes and 20 primary type homes.

There were 13 homes sold between $200,000 and $300,000 of which six were vacation homes.

Between $300,000 and $400,000 there were 10 sales with four of those being vacation homes.

Of the 11 sales over $400,000, 10 were vacation homes, although I am not quite sure on the largest sale of the month as at $3-million plus you’d think that the buyer would live there year round — but maybe not! I guess these numbers show that (1) vacation home or second home buyers are a big part of our market and (2) they are the ones with money.

Of those 70 sales in July, it appears that just 11 see next page

TODAY’S EVENTS continued from page 22 Free clothing ministry, Closet 2 Closet. Open the 3rd Saturday of every month. 1 to 4 p.m. at Calvary Assembly of God, 100 Calvary St., Laconia. 524-7559.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 The Buddy Holly Story at Interlakes Summer Theatre in Meredith. 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $30. For tickets call 1-888-245-6374. InterlakesTheatre.com Free outdoor concert at the Winnipesaukee Marketplace at Weirs Beach. 7 to 10 p.m. Boardwalk Jazz Quartet.

9th Annual Granite State Nationals car show. Sandwich Fairgrounds. Up to 800 hot rods, custom muscle cars and classics expected. $10 admission for adults. www. granitestatenationals.com.

Free Don Campbell concert at Beans & Greens Farmstand (in “The Beanery” in Gilford. 6 p.m. BYOB. Deli and bakery will be open. Part of “Nashville Nights”, a songwriter concert series.

MONDAY, AUGUST 22 “Steel Magnolias” on stage at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse at Weirs Beach. 2 p.m. matinee and again at 7:30 p.m. For tickets call 366-7377 or visit www.winniplayhouse.org.

Walk & Talk at Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough: “Nature Under Our Noses” with naturalist and teacher Barry Draper. 10 a.m. Free with grounds pass purchased at the main gate.

Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recovery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA. Monday nights at 7 p.m. at the Laconia Congregational Church Parish Hall, 18 Veterans Square, (for mapquest use 69 Pleasant St). Call & leave a message for Elizabeth at 630-9969 for more information.

Laconia Chapter of Barbershop Harmony Society meeting. 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church. Guests and singers of all ages and skills are invited to attend these Monday night rehearsals. For more information call Guy Haas at 279-2230.

Mahjong game time at the Gilford Public Library. 1:30 to 3 p.m. New players welcome.

Mens’ pick-up baketball (18+) at the Meredith Community Center. 7 to 9 p.m. $1 per player.

Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group meeting at Forestview Manor (153 Parade Road) in Meredith. For more information call 279-3121.

Pine Gardens Manufactured Homes Sales & Park

Yard Sale

Yard Sale

NORTHFIELD- 474 Shaker Rd. Saturday & Sunday, 9-5. Tables, bureaus, hutches & collectibles.

SATURDAY, August 20th 8 am to noon. 38 Gillette Street, Laconia.

Baby toys and clothes, furniture, pet stuff, and miscellaneous items.

Not your typical yard sale! Antiques, collectibles, furniture, old books, glassware, wooden dog house, some tools, fishing poles, clothing, etc., all at reasonable prices. Saturday, Aug. 20, 8-1.

Rain cancels. 1131 North Main St., Laconia.

RUMMAGE SALE And Silent Auction to benefit the Winni Children s Museum 533 Main Street, Laconia Under Parking Garage Saturday, August 20th 9am-1pm

SATURDAY August 20th ~ 9am-1pm 31 Windsong Place Meredith (Off Meredith Center Road) Girls clothes & my daughter cleaned out the toyroom!

Lots of toys!

Other misc. household items. ~ Rain Cancels ~

Saturday, 25 Summer St. Laconia.

8:30-3. Truck, motorcycle, tools, Nascar & more.

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UNH Cooperative Extension moving to new offices in downtown Laconia LACONIA — On September 1, the Belknap County UNH Cooperative Extension office will move to its new home in downtown Laconia.

The new office will be located at 635 Main St. on the third floor above the Family Resource Center, and Greenlaw’s Music. There is an elevator and the space is fully handicapped accessible.

As part of the county budget process last year, UNHCE was asked to relocate its offices from the county complex, where they have been for the past 15 years.

The search for a new home was not an easy one, according to Sue Cagle, Extension educator and county office administrator. “We were working within a very tight budget, but wanted to be sure that Belknap

County residents would still be able to easily access all of the services we offer. We believe our new space meets all of those needs.”

She said the extension service will continue to offer research based education and support in the areas of agriculture, forestry, nutrition, money management, parenting, food safety and 4H youth development.

“During the move, office hours will be somewhat restricted; however, all of the educators will continue to be available to provide needed services,” said Cagle.

She said that the phone number and email addresses will not change and that anyone needing services during the move can contact any of the educators at 527-5475 or by email at belknap@ceunh.unh.edu.

from preceding page of those sales were bank owned properties. I’m not sure what that means other than it is good to see real people, instead of the banks, finding the buyers. Hopefully, those sellers are staying in the Lakes Region, buying another home, and helping to whittle down our huge inventory a little.

I reported a few weeks ago that one of the more knowledgeable and highly sophisticated agents in our office told me that planting red geraniums around a house would make it sell much quicker. “Guaranteed results” he said! I promised to keep you updated on this new technology and the listing that he had just put on the market. The owner planted geraniums all around his home and the place really looks great! Well, after a little over a month on the market the home has gone under agreement. Is

this a coincidence? I think not. There has to be more to this than just luck.

Is there something about the color of red geraniums that is irresistible to otherwise unsusceptible and difficult buyers? The agent told me that buyers viewing the home were overcome with a sense of joy and well being just coming into the driveway! I will be initiating a plan, dubbed “Code Red”, on one of my new listings this weekend. Will be you posted…

Log on to my blog at www.lakesregionrealestatenews.com for the details on these sales and others.

You can also receive these reports by email. Roy Sanborn is a REALTOR® for Roche Realty Group, at 97 Daniel Webster Highway in Meredith and can be reached at 677-8420. Data was compiled as of 8/15/11 using the Northern New England Real Estate MLS System.

Camelot Homes

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Double Wides $55,995

Center Harbor church introducing curriculum to parents of 8-10th graders

CENTER HARBOR — The Center Harbor Congregational Church will hold a parents meeting on Sunday, September 11 at 5:30 p.m. to review the Our Whole Lives curriculum which will be offered to youths in grades 8-10 during the coming academic year.

The course will begin with a weekend retreat October 1-2 at Geneva Point Center followed by one evening class a month on the first Sunday of the month from October to June.

The OWL program was developed jointly by the United Church of Christ and the Unitarian Universalist Church and is a comprehensive educational program that helps participants gain the knowledge, values and skills to lead sexually healthy, responsible lives.

More specifically, the curriculum is designed to help adolescents: • affirm and respect themselves as sexual persons and respect the sexuality of others • increase comfort and skills for

discussing and negotiating sexuality issues with peers, romantic partners, and people of other generations • explore, develop, and articulate values, attitudes, and feelings about their own sexuality and the sexuality of others The two leaders, Dr. Carolyn Crosby and Norman Larson, are parents and church members. They participated in the intense instructor training program held last February in Plymouth and received their certification to teach the course.The only other church in the area that offers the program is Plymouth UCC. The Center Harbor Congregational Church would like to augment the class with other teens (8th to 10th graders) from the community, to make for a better class size and increase discussion. All interested parents and teens are invited to contact the church (253-7698 or chccucc@myfairpoint. net) for more detailed information or for contact information to discuss this program with the leaders.

Moultonborough Rec planning Sept. 7 trip to Boston MOULTONBOROUGH — The Moultonborough Recreation Department is offering a trip to explore Boston on Wednesday, Sept. 7.

A luxury coach bus leaves town at 8 a.m. and will stop first at the Faneuil Hall Marketplace visiting the shops and restaurants and then head over to the New England Aquarium.

At the Aquarium tour participants

will explore many exhibits, including the new Ray and Shark Touch Tank, an IMAX movie and animal shows. Trip goers may then venture to any one of the many restaurants in the vicinity such as Durgin Park or Legal Seafoods.

The cost of the trip includes coach bus transportation and admission to the Aquarium. For more information check out moultonboroughnh.gov. To register call 476-8868

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THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Saturday, August 20, 2011 — Page 27

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Miller & Aceves masterful as Red Sox beat Kansas City 7-1 Royals drop second straight to Red Sox, 7-1 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jeff Francis didn’t give up a run in the first inning for a change.

That was the good news.

The Royals’ veteran left-hander was in plenty of danger, though, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia finally caught up to him with a three-run homer in the fifth. The Boston Red Sox coasted the rest of the way to a 7-1 victory over Kansas City on Friday night.

Francis entered the game having allowed 24 runs in the first inning for a robust 9.36 ERA. Opponents hitting .362 off him, and the Red Sox added to the misery when they loaded the bases in the first inning. Francis (4-14) managed to get out of danger when Ryan Lavarnway grounded out.

Again in the third, the Red Sox filled the bases.

Again Francis retired Lavarnway.

The Royals trailed 2-1 in the fifth when Saltalamacchia hit a changeup out to left field, the ball soaring over the Kansas City bullpen and landing on the concrete walkway.

“Jeff really battled to that point,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “He was in and out of trouble in the first and third innings and able to get out of it unscathed. Saltalamacchia’s home run kind of put it away for them. The ball Saltalamacchia hit wasn’t a horrible pitch. It was down.”

And he went and got it. The homer made it 5-1.

“It was down, an 0-2 pitch where you give the guy an opportunity to put a little more wood on it than you should,” Francis said. “That’s probably what I

did there. He did a good job of hitting the ball.”

That was the turning point.

“We had a bunch of hits and didn’t have anything to show for it, and that kind of opened it up,” Red Sox manager Terry Francona said.

Andrew Miller (5-1) allowed one run on three hits and a pair of walks over 5 1-3 innings, rarely finding himself in any trouble against the Royals’ feeble offense. It was his first start since July 31 after a pair of appearances out of the bullpen, and his first victory since July 20 at Baltimore.

He was pulled after just 83 pitches because Francona knew he’d be short on stamina. Alfredo Aceves followed up with 3 2-3 innings of one-hit relief for his second save.

Adrian Gonzalez added three hits and a sacrifice fly for Boston. Jed Lowrie had a hat trick of singles, and Darnell McDonald had an RBI triple as the Red Sox piled up 13 hits.

Boston (76-48) remained a half-game behind the New York Yankees in the AL East.

Jacoby Ellsbury was hit by a pitch from Royals reliever Everett Teaford in the eighth inning. He walked gingerly to first base but remained in the game, and showed no problem rounding the bases on Mike Aviles’ RBI double. Ellsbury was removed in the bottom half of the inning.

The Royals, with the youngest lineup in the major leagues, are certainly experiencing some growing pains against the beasts from the East. The Yankees won two of three against them earlier in the week, and Boston has taken the first two games of their fourgame set. Kansas City (51-75) has lost 10 of 12 overall and fallen a season-worst 24 games below .500.

NOTES: The Royals were careful with Dustin Pedroia, who entered 12 of 22 against them this season, intentionally walking him twice. He reached on an error that scored Aviles in the eighth inning. ...

The Royals have lost four of five against the Red Sox after beating them 3-1 on July 25. ... Tim Wakefield (6-5) pitches for Boston on Saturday night. He’ll face Felipe Paulino (1-5).

Belichick not content with dominant preseason

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Don’t expect Bill Belichick to be content just because his team outscored its first two preseason opponents 78-26.

He’s not raving about a defense that allowed just one touchdown in those two games or an offense that scored 10 touchdowns.

Not the demanding coach of the New England Patriots, not even after Thursday night’s 31-14 domination of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

“I think the score is a little bit deceiving,” Belichick said Friday. “In the first half, there are a lot of things we need to do better and (in) the second half, I think there are a lot of good things out there. But a lot of those were negated by a few bad things.”

Even those bad things can help.

Rookie Ryan Mallett bounced back from a thirdquarter interception that was returned for a touchdown and made some plays.

“Of course you don’t want to see negative plays happen, but eventually they’re going to happen in this league,” Belichick said. “Seeing how people respond (is significant). Do they go in the tank? Does one bad play become two? Does one missed block become three? Or do they bounce back and right the ship and then settle down and do a better job?”

Tom Brady did his usual outstanding job.

In his first exhibition action, he threw touchdown passes on his first two series and led drives that ended in scoring runs by BenJarvus Green-Ellis on two of the next three. Brady played only the first half, completing 11 of 19 passes for 118 yards.

“There was some good,” Brady said. “There was plenty of bad.” The story was the same a week earlier when the Patriots, using backups for most of the game, scored on eight consecutive possessions and routed the Jacksonville Jaguars 47-12.

But Belichick knows there are plenty of problems to correct. And he has seven more days to address them before the next exhibition game at Detroit on Aug. 27, three days before the first cutdown date when the maximum roster size drops from 90 to 75.

One of the most competitive areas is the defensive line. Defensive end Andre Carter had a strong performance in his first game action since being signed after the Washington Redskins let him go.

The Patriots are loaded on the line with veteran and young talent — and Albert Haynesworth and Shaun Ellis haven’t even played yet.

1914 Arts and Crafts mansion � 5,500 acres of trails and waterfalls Patio cafe with sumptuous view � Gift Shop � Horseback riding

1-603-476-5900 � www.castleintheclouds.org In Moultonborough, N.H., overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee Original Art by Peter Ferber

Tuesdays • August 23rd, September 6th and 13th • 6 - 9pm Chad Porter Acoustic Contemporary Rock and Pop Music.

Cocktails and Carriage House Café menu available.

No cover and no reservations required.