The laconia daily sun, december 7, 2013

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UNH professor comes to rescue for Lakes Region EMTs

By Jim Graham

The University of New Hampshire

DURHAM — When some of New Hampshire’s most experienced emergency medical technicians (EMTs) first learned about a tough new national exam they are required to pass, more than a few worried that the strong, steady pulse that had defined their careers was about to flat-line.

“There were a lot of guys who were very

stressed out about the test,” says Shawn Riley, deputy fire chief for Laconia and LRGHealthcare, which serves the Lakes Region, “because they realized if they didn’t pass, it meant a lot of them could lose their jobs.”

As emergency responders across the Lakes Region sought help, Riley called his “911” source for emergency care training: Mary Katherine Lockwood, a clinical associate professor in the Department of Molec-

ular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire.

In addition to teaching at UNH, Lockwood is a highly regarded EMT instructor who has served on emergency medical and ambulance crews for 25 years. After talking with Riley, she created a special one-day seminar last summer covering the toughest parts of the new exam, and delivered see EMts page 11

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LACONIA — The City Council will hold a special meeting on Monday evening, beginning at 6 p.m. in the council chamber, when it will once again consider authorizing a borrowing to undertake a series of projects recommended by the Downtown Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District Advisory Board. The improvements would to be funded by borrowing $1,350,000.

In August, the council approved spending $275,000 to improve the gateway to downtown at the Main Street Bridge, in order to ensure that the improvements were incorporated into the design for the reconstruction of the bridge. In addition to the so-called Gateway Plaza, the board recommended investing $400,000 to extend the WOW Trail between Main Street and Fair Street, $25,000 to add signage and kiosks to the riverwalk and WOW Trail, $181,000 to connect the Main Street Bridge to the riverwalk at the Landsee COuNCIL page 13

With winter on the way, mist rises off Newfound Lake after temperatures fell to single digits on the last day of November. (Daryl Carlson/for The Laconia Daily Sun.

All 4 Executive Council candidates meet with Belknap EDC By roGer amsden FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

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United States unemployment falls to 5 year low of 7%

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market is showing signs of the consistent gains the nation has awaited in the 4½ years since the Great Recession.

Employers added 203,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate fell to 7 percent, a five-year low, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Four straight months of robust hiring have raised hopes that 2014 will be the year the economy returns to normal.

The steady job growth could also hasten a move by the Federal Reserve to reduce its stimulus efforts.

Stock investors were heartened by the report.

The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 198 points.

A steadily improving job market could give consumers and business executives the confidence to keep spending and investing, even if a pullback by the Fed leads to higher interest rates. The Fed has been buying bonds each month to try to keep long-term borrowing rates low to spur see 7% page 4

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Missing Conway teen wrote mom 2 weeks after disappearing FBI won’t even hint at contents of letter other than to say it has been verified; still fear for her safety CONCORD (AP) — A New Hampshire teenager who disappeared nearly two months ago mailed her mother a letter several weeks after she was last seen, law enforcement officials said Friday.

The FBI and New Hampshire attorney general’s office said 15-year-old Abigail Hernandez wrote her mother on Oct. 22.

The letter was postmarked Oct. 23, two weeks after she was last seen on Oct. 9, but the family didn’t get the letter until Nov. 6.

Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said the delay may have been caused by the letter going to a post office box and not the Hernandez house.

Police said they did not disclose the letter

until they could verify it was authentic.

They are not releasing the letter or any of the contents and won’t say where it was mailed from.

Law enforcement officials said the letter, which they called unprecedented in similar investigations, has given them hope though they still have “grave concerns” for her safety.

Abigail was last seen after leaving Kennett High School in North Conway. Police have said she walked her normal route toward home and sent several text messages to a friend between 2:30 and 3 p.m.

At first, police said she made it home but they later said that was untrue. Police also

at first said she made a call about 6:30 that night but later said that, too, was untrue.

The last signal her phone sent was at 3:07 p.m. from the west side of Cranmore Mountain Resort, 2.5 miles from her home.

“Though she could have left willingly, someone now could be coercing her,” said Kieran Ramsey, the FBI special agent in charge who is leading the investigation.

“Someone now may be manipulating her.”

He said one of eight endangered runaways ends up being sexually exploited.

Asked if Abigail had run away before, Young said: “This is not a characteristic that we have seen before from her.” see MISSING page 5

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Themba Radebe spun slowly in a circle.

avert a race war.

“I don’t think Mr. Mandela belonged to black people,” said Alex Freilingsdorf, a Toyota executive at a Soweto dealership.

“He belonged to South Africa.”

Freilingsdorf and other white South Africans mingled among the hundreds of blacks gathered outside a home where Mandela lived as a young lawyer in the rough and tumble Soweto township.

The mood was simultaneously celebratory and somber at the impromptu street festival where Radebe filmed scenes to share with his family.

“I’m sorry, I’m too emotional. The tears

flow too easily,” said the balding 60-yearold, his eyes sparkling with tears as he reflected on how South Africa’s race relations have improved — “not perfect, but much better” — compared with his childhood in the black township.

“This is a celebration of the death, because we knew he was an old man,” Radebe said. “He brought a lot of changes to our community, because I grew up in apartheid. It was a very bad situation.”

At a service in Cape Town, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate like Mandela and himself a monumental figure in see MANDELA page 9

Song, dance & tears for Nelson Mandela in his beloved South Africa

First he pointed his cellphone camera at a group of children chanting Nelson Mandela’s name as they waved posters of the anti-apartheid champion. Then pivoting to his right, Radebe aimed his camera at a swaying group of adults who sang in Zulu while rocking and clapping.

A day after Mandela’s death at 95, South Africans of all colors erupted in song, dance and tears Friday in emotional celebrations of the life of the man who bridged this country’s black-white divide and helped

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Timeline presented to committee shows new jail up & running by fall 2017 (Editor’s note: the following article was originally published on page 1 of our Friday, Nov. 6 edition but an electronic editing error prevented the entire story from appearing in print editions. The entire story is printed below)

By RogeR Amsden FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — A timeline prepared for the Belknap County Jail Planning Committee eyes completion of a new county corrections facility in May of 2017, with the facility being occupied and fully operational

by September of that same year.

The timeline was presented to the committee by Belknap County Administrator Debra Shackett and had been prepared at the suggestion of Rep. David Huot (D-Laconia), who along with other Democrats on the Belknap County Convention have been showing up lately at meetings of the jail planning group.

Shackett said the committee is currently in the fifth stage of the nine-phase facility development process, the design phase, which will take up to a year and require the development of schematic designs, followed by the design of development documents and then construction documents.

That work cannot proceed without approval of more funds by the Belknap County Convention and the committee is looking to present a proposal for a $3.5 million bond issue to the convention early next year which would provide $500,000 for a schematic design for a new facility, as well $1 million for replacing the HVAC system at the current jail and $1.8 million for the three-year rental of 48-bed temporary housing facility.

The convention has not appropriated any funds for the jail planning process since the summer of 2011, when it approved a $160,000 supplemental appropriation sought by the commissioners, by a single vote. The funds were used to hire Ricci Greene Associates, a New York consulting firm which earlier this year presented a conceptual plan for a two-story, 94,450-square-foot facility it estimated to cost $42.5 million. It would have 180 beds, plus five for inmates requiring medical care. A third of the beds — 44 for men and 16 for women — would be reserved for inmates awaiting trial, on work release, undergoing treatment or on electronic monitoring, the so-called community corrections part of the facil-

ity. The remaining 120 beds — 88 for men and 32 for women — would be allotted to maximum, medium, and minimum security inmates as well as those with special needs.

The plan was endorsed by the commissioners but was not well received by the convention and the Laconia City Council, which called on the commissioners to rethink the plan in terms of what was affordable for county taxpayers.

County Commissioner Ed Philpot (D-Laconia), chairman of the Jail Planning Committee, says that he expects that the costs of the proposed facility can be substantially reduced but defends the process the committee has taken to this point. ‘’We took the experts’ recommendations to heart,’’ Philpot told new members of the jail planning group’s advisory committee at Tuesday night’s meeting.

He said that the community corrections part of the proposal represents the best way to have programs in place which reduce recidivism and that having an adequate facility is the key to the entire process. ‘’The building is really a program location, not just a facility for housing inmates,’’ said Philpot.

Belknap County Corrections Superintendent Dan Ward said that even with all of the crowding problems at the current jail there are programs which have been offered in the past which had great success and which could be expanded in a new facility. ‘’I’m confident that we can make these programs work if we have space,’’ Ward told members of the committee, pointing out that a GED program offered over the last four years had seen 83 inmates earn a high school degree with only a 17 percent recidivism rate, compared to 50-60 percent for other inmates, and a zero percent recidivism rate for the 30 inmates who took part in a parenting program. ‘’We will be able to gain support by demonstrating the success of these programs,’’ said Ward.

Ward said that there are currently 140 inmates in the county facility, which is designed for 120, and that the 17 women inmates are housed in the gymnasium, which keeps that part of the facility from being used for recreation during the months when outside recreation is limited. ‘’We’ve been sending upwards of 30 people away (to facilities in other counties) during recent months. If we install a temporary facility we get all of the prisoners

back and get the use of the gymnasium back as well as have some program space,’’ Ward says.

He said that the land where the temporary facility would be located is level and located just to the right (west) of the current jail and that all power, water and sewer lines can be connected directly on site and no changes would be needed to the road which serves the jail.

Ward said that the 50 foot by 100 foot temporary unit provides both fixed cells as well as dorm space and is divided by a middle wall which would allow male and female prisoners to be housed on different sides of the same structure.

“We have 50 employees and 130 inmates and can’t continue to operate the facility this way” said Ward.

He said that the county could be put in a position where it would need as many as four more temporary structures during construction of a facility if it involves extensive renovation or repairs of the current structure.

The county will also need to make major changes in the way it handles its inmate population in order to comply with new federal standards which will take effect at the start of 2014.

Ward said that those standards, developed as a result of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), which was passed in 2003 with unanimous support from both parties in Congress, cover all prisons, as well as local jails, police lockup and juvenile facilities.

He said that were the standards were in place today there is no way that the county facility could meet all of them, particularly a requirement that juvenile inmates be separated by sight and sound from the general inmate population and that they be offered the same level of programs as other inmates.

He said that some of the provisions of the law which require administrative actions such as staff training, naming a PREA coordinator and providing informational material about sexual assaults to inmates can be met. But other areas are problematic due to the configuration of the facility which does not allow line of sight supervision in all areas.

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Mark Sisti to defend Amy Lafond USE IT OR LOSE IT! Flex spending!

By Michael Kitch

LACONIA — Amy Lafond, the woman who struck two teenage girls on Messer Street on April 19, killing Lilyanna Johnson and severely injuring Allyssa Miner, while driving her Jeep Cherokee, has retained Mark Sisti, a prominent criminal attorney from Gilmanton, to defend her against charges of manslaughter, negligent homicide, assault and wrongful possession of a prescription medication.

Sisti will replace John Bresaw and Justin Littlefield of the New Hampshire Public Defenders Office. Justice James D. O’Neill, III postponed a disposition hearing scheduled for December 13, at which the case would be put on track to either enter a plea bargain or go to trial. Currently the case is scheduled for trial early next year, with a final pre-trial conference on January 13 and selection of a jury on February 3.

Lafond pled not guilty to the charges when she was arraigned on September 25 and was subsequently indicted by a Belknap County Grand Jury on October 3. Since her arraignment she has been held in lieu of bail of $50,000 cash or $100,000 corporate surety.

In charging manslaughter, a class A

felony, the state alleges that LaFond recklessly caused the death of Lilyanna Johnson by driving while distracted at an excessive speed after consuming drugs. Manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of 15 to 30 years in prison. Alternatively, she was indicted on two alternative theories of negligent homicide, both class B felonies, one for “failing to maintain a proper lookout” and the other for “failing to pay due attention while operating a motor vehicle after having consumed drugs.” As class B felonies the negligent homicide charges carry maximum sentences of three-and-ahalf seven years in prison.

Johnson and Miner were struck while on the sidewalk at the crosswalk at the south end of the Messer Street Bridge at approximately 2:30 p.m. Lafond was traveling northbound on Messer Street toward its intersection with Opechee Street. A car going in the same direction had stopped at the crosswalk, apparently to enable a number of middle school students standing at the corner to cross the street. Lafond is alleged to have skirted the stopped car, crossed into the southbound lane of Messer Street and mounted the raised sidewalk, hitting the two girls.

7% from page 2 spending and growth.

The celebration on Wall Street suggested that investors think a healthier job market, if it fuels more spending, would outweigh higher borrowing rates caused by a Fed pullback.

“It’s hinting very, very strongly that the economy is starting to ramp up, that growth is getting better, that businesses are hiring,” said Joel Naroff, president

of Naroff Economic Advisors.

The economy has added a four-month average of 204,000 jobs from August through November, up sharply from 159,000 a month from April through July.

“The consistency (in hiring) is actually reassuring,” said Doug Handler, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight. “Slow and steady is something you can plan and build on.” see next page

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$1.4 million for road work tops Laconia CIP list for 2014-2015; fire station #9

By Michael Kitch

LACONIA — The Planning Board this week endorsed the recommendations of the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Committee for capital outlays in the 2014-2015 municipal budget, which will be referred to City Manager Scott Myers for his consideration.

Each year the CIP Committee reviews the requests for capital expenditures presented by each of the city departments then, after scoring each request, ranks the proposed projects in order of priority. The recommendations provide guidance to the city manager in preparing the budget presented to the City Council in March.

Although ranked ninth by the CIP Committee, the City Council has indicated that the renovation and expansion of the Central Fire Station will be among its top priorities in the coming year. The project is estimated to cost $4.1-million, which would be funded by the sale of general obligation bonds.

City Manager Scott Myers said yesterday that the debt service on the borrowing could be financed while keeping total principal and interest payments within the annual limit of $3.2 million set to comply with the tax cap.

A traffic signal at the junction of

Court Street and Fair Street, where the construction of the Advanced Auto Parts store created an opportunity to reconfigure a dangerous intersection, at a cost of $25,000 ranked 12th among the committee’s priorities.

Again this year, street repairs was the highest priority for the CIP Committee, for which it recommended appropriating $1.4 million, $100,000 more than was budgeted this year.

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Even if the Fed does start reining in its stimulus, most economists think growth will accelerate next year. Drew Matus, an economist at UBS, forecasts that growth will top 3 percent in 2014, from roughly 2 percent this year. That would be first time growth had topped 3 percent for a full calendar year since 2005.

In addition to the solid job gains and the drop in unemployment, Friday’s report offered other encouraging signs: — Higher-paying industries are adding

jobs. Manufacturers added 27,000, the most since March 2012. Construction companies added 17,000. The two industries have created a combined 113,000 jobs over the past four months.

— Hourly wages are up. The average rose 4 cents in November to $24.15. It’s risen just 2 percent in the past year. But that’s ahead of inflation. Consumer prices are up only 0.9 percent in that time.

— Employers are giving their workers more hours. The average workweek rose to 34.5 hours from 34.4. A rule of thumb among economists is that a one-tenth of an hour increase in the workweek is equivalent to adding 300,000 jobs.

MISSING from page 2 Police asked people to be on the lookout for the dark-haired girl. They said neighbors should think if a young lady recently moved into the area.

Young said because Abigail has no financial means, police believe she’s getting help “either from a friend or, as we fear, a foe.”

“We implore Abby that if she hears this, if she’s able to see this, contact us,” she said. “We will do everything we can to reunite her with her mother.

If it’s a good citizen, a good Samaritan who has her who thinks you’re help-

ing her, I can assure you, you’re not.”

Since she vanished, police have consistently said they have no evidence to suggest anything suspicious and are treating this like a missing person’s case.

A $20,000 reward and activation of the FBI’s tip line, 1-800-CALL-FBI, have yielded a few leads but no solid information. Her family has made pleas for her safe return and the community has rallied around them, holding vigils, helping search, printing posters and sponsoring billboards seeking information.

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Pat Buchanan

Where are grounds for optimism that we can close American education gap?

The scores are in from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, which, every three years, tests 15-year-olds from the world’s most advanced countries. For the United States, the report card is dismal. The U.S. ranking has fallen to 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math. Florida, one of America’s diverse mega-states, competed separately in the PISA exam, and scored below the U.S. average.

In the academic Olympics, the American superpower is a mediocrity.

Ranked one through seven in test scores in reading, science and math were Shanghai-China, Singapore, Hong Kong-China, Taiwan, South Korea, Macau-China, Japan. Also well ahead of the United States is Vietnam.

By and large, Western Europe has moved out in front of us and our close competitors are the Slovak Republic and Russian Federation.

Fifteen-year-olds in two ex-Soviet republics, Estonia and Latvia, also posted grades in math and science superior to those of America’s young.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan calls the PISA test scores a “brutal truth” that “must serve as a wake-up call” for the country.

Excuse me, but how many wake-up calls do we need?

In October 1957, we got our first when the brutalitarian and backward superpower built by Josef Stalin beat America into space. Two months later, our answer to Sputnik, a three-pound satellite, was to be launched by a Vanguard rocket from Cape Canaveral, to get us back in the race. It got four feet off the ground, when the rocket exploded.

Egg all over our face, we were rescued from national humiliation by the Redstone Arsenal rocket crew of Wernher von Braun who built the V-2s that had rained down on London. Von Braun put an 80-pound Explorer into orbit, and we were back in the game. While the first manned space flight was made by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, America, under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, took command and put an American on the moon in July 1969.

Meanwhile, the country was on fire over the issue of education. In LBJ’s Great Society legislation in 1965 came the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which poured enormous amounts into our pubic schools. In 1983, came “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform,” the report of President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education. Conclusion: America’s schools, even then, thirty years ago, were failing the nation.

Under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, we got another surge in spending with No Child

Left Behind and Race to the Top. How can a lack of money explain our declining test scores when America continues to spend more per capita on education than almost any other country? Yet, the more we spend, the lower the test scores we get back in global competition?

Some insist the persistence of poverty in an affluent America is the cause of these declining test scores.

Yet, have we not fought a 50-year war on poverty since LBJ’s Great Society? And not only have countless trillions of dollars been spent, the poor in America receive benefits of which the world’s poor could only dream. America’s poor receive free food, free health care and free education for their children from Head Start to K-12. The poor get subsidized housing and subsidized incomes. They are exempt from federal income taxes. State programs and private charities pick up where the feds leave off.

Yet, if poverty explains the dismal performance of America’s students, why are they being lapped by Vietnamese 15-year-olds? Do the Vietnamese have a higher per capita income than we? Is there less poverty and more emphasis on education in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City than New York City and Washington, D.C.?

Is home environment behind the disparity in test scores? Forty percent of American children are born out of wedlock, but for Hispanics it is 53 percent and for African-Americans 73 percent.

Looking again at those PISA test scores, other than East Asia — China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam — hardly any other nation of Southeast or South Asia, the Arab or Muslim world, Africa or Latin America, is in the top 40 in academic performance. And, in these test scores from a diverse world, we can see mirrored the academic performance within our own diverse nation.

Just as East Asians and Europeans excel in the PISA tests, so, too, do Americans of East Asian and European descent dominate test scores and excel in educational achievement, while our Hispanic and African-American students trail. At top universities like Berkeley, Stanford and in the Ivy League, too, Asian and white Americans are overrepresented in the student bodies.

Yet, Hispanic and African-Americans are more than 30 percent of the U.S. population and 35 percent of those in our public schools.

Increasingly, these minorities will represent the nation in international academic competitions.

Where, then, are the grounds for optimism that we can turn this around? And if we cannot, ought we not accept the inevitable?

LETTERS You’re just going to love latest folly uncovered about Obamacare To The Daily Sun, Okay, first of all, I must correct my misuse of the term “modern day liberals” because there is absolutely, positively nothing liberal about the paternalistic, socialist policies being enforced by this current lawless administration. The correct description is “progressive”. That would be the maddeningly coercive and oxymoronic term used to describe the “regressive” policies that have infected all areas of our life including the media, academia, entertainment industry and of course our government. Just draw a time line from the Woodrow Wilson administration to the magnificent wrecking ball that is the Barack Obama administration, minus the pause for the Reagan revolution.

Now on to the show and the American version of Kabuki theater starring the “dear leader” himself, Barack Obama. Notice his suave, stylized movements and smooth rhetoric as he just this week assured us that the “Affordable Care Act” is working and will continue to get better. Yes, he actually said that, with squared jaw and firm resolution.

Never mind all the sticker shock of increased premiums, co-pays and deductibles, except for the very poor and those with sizable subsidies.

Never mind that there will not be enough young and healthy folks signing up to pay for the costs of insuring the aged and sick and all the millions of formerly uninsured. It’s new math on statistical steroids ending in a death spiral. Never mind the looming doctor and nurse shortages which will severely hamper the quality of care.

Never mind the exploding medicaid roles and the increasing number of physicians who will not accept medicaid. Never mind understanding this same scenario will soon impact the medicare roles. Never mind the recent revelation that when this medical insurance monstrosity was created, there was little thought given to security concerns. Thus, caveat emptor for the buyers and caviar for the security hackers and identity thieves.

Now on to the feature presentation, “the monetary exploding exchange payment system (MEEPS)”. Yes indeed, the “Improvised Exploding Device” (IED) concealed within the “Obamacare website has been discov-

ered and it is the MEEPS. It seems, who could make this up, that the 35 percent of the website that has yet to be developed, is a way for subscribers to actually pay their insurance company. You’re just gonna love this my beloved and obedient taxpayer. There is no way as yet to actually “cut the check”. So technically, zero folks have officially signed up. Crony capitalism has reached new heights in hypocrisy as President Obama attempts to hit the reset button, again. “Private sector velocity and effectiveness” is most important at the back end where the sale is completed and payment is rendered. Guess the “Signature Achievement Man” (SAM) didn’t understand that when he said the website was now working with the same speed and efficiency as the private sector. Just let the sad irony of that government versus private sector comparison sink in for a moment. And then come January, February and March, close your eyes, cover your ears and jump into a deep foxhole before opening up any government/ insurance company mail packages.

You see, in it’s infinite wisdom, the government has created an illusion that people can pay for their health insurance and just let the insurance companies and the government figure out how much we should have to pay and everything will be hunky dory.

As Meagan Kelly just found on on the eve of December 4th, according to the Reuters news service, the following is the progressive, central planners wondrous plan of action: (1) the insurance companies will just go ahead and estimate what they think is a reasonable fee for service; (2) the feds will go ahead and cut them a big fat check; (3) and then at some point down the road, they supposedly will get around to figuring out what the actual amount should really be and adjust accordingly. When this IED explodes next year, the shrapnel covering the countryside will create severe pain and suffering.

Would the progressive bureaucrats of utopian fantasy land pay for a product in this delusional, rife with potential fraud and waste method?

Of course not. But when they can just use our money, the skies the limit.

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LETTERS A difference of opinion does not mean that one party is just lying To The Daily Sun, Have readers noticed the ongoing trend in L.J. Sidens letters? In every letter lately he brings up the “birthers”, birthers this, birthers that.

Funny thing, Siden is the only one I can recall in two maybe three years who continues to bring up that question. Why? I suppose it’s all he has left to try to deflect readers from the lies, failures, and incompetence of the Obama administration. But you see, Siden is a true believer who has hooked his ego and credibility to a shady politician and is now desperately trying to salvage something, looking for old stories, conspiracy theories — anything to take the heat off his hero. Well too late, Obama is on another campaign-like tour telling the faithful to “get out the word” about his ACA. Problem is the word is out, all over the place, even NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NY Times, well everywhere. The word is the TRUTH, finally.

As for Obama’s school records, they don’t matter, except to highlight the inherent dishonesty of the man’s character. I’m not calling for their release — don’t care — but if he had a 3.7 gpa and all was up and up, he would have released them years ago like the braggart he is. Oh, that’s my OPINION. Another thing, what are all these “lies” I’m supposed to be telling that he keeps referring to? Can it be L.J. still, after having it explained to him many times, cannot separate the difference between a DIFFERENCE of OPINION from his own and thus has to label them “lies” like a truculent 10 year old? Yes, he and Maloof, two of a kind, true believers — any means justifies their ends.

Well good luck trying to put the cat back in the bag fellas because it’s mad as you know what — and has it’s claws out.

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We will never forget how people of Lakes Region made us feel To The Daily Sun, To the citizens of Laconia and the Lakes Region: Thank you for your warm embrace.

The poet Maya Angelo wrote: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said; People will forget what you did; But people will never forget how you made them feel.” from preceding page Never mind that a NY Times study found that between 2009 and 2011 income inequality grew four times faster than under George W. Bush, according to Jonah Goldberg. Jonah calls the ACA, “Slimcare” and says, “it seems like a smashing success so long as the results don’t matter, just like slim liberalism”. Or as I prefer to call it, “slim progressivism”. A recurring theme of socialism rears it’s ugly head once again. Good intentions are what matter. Positive results that actually provide an improved quality of life for tax paying citizens, not so much.

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We leave the city after 4+ years and we will never forget how you made us feel. You welcomed us to the Taylor Community, to your churches, civic organizations, into your homes and made us feel comfortable.

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Tim & Peggy Martin Quechee, Vermont sive “IED”. That will be the earth shattering explosion poised to ignite next November when the employer mandate takes effect. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kathleen Sebelius and of course Barack (SAM) Obama will have been outed as the real terrorists, arsonists and plunderers of the poor and middle class. That’s because Obamacare is not about improved health care. It is about power and control and soft tyranny. Geez, could that be why conservative, tea party types want to repeal this really bad law?

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LETTERS After infiltration of our schools they set out to alter our history To The Daily Sun, In 1920, George Bernard Shaw commissioned a stained glass window in Surry, England. A Fabian coat of arms depicts socialism as a political wolf in sheep’s clothing. Socialist pilgrims kneel in worship. The Fabian window shows two figures that resemble George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb wielding hammers over the globe of the planet; operating the bellows is E.R. Pease, who was the Secretary of the Fabian Society. These people have the tenacity to masquerade as reformers or liberals. Their claim of innovators is fraught with fraud. They are but reactionaries with hopes of turning society backwards with despots like Napoleon and feudal chiefs. Murder is not beyond them.

Millions of deaths at their hands has attributed to their philosophy. Anything to achieve their goal. Bernard Shaw attests to that.

The Nazis, Fascist, the Argentine dictatorship under Peron and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic under the Bolsheviks were socialist governments. The media never mentions that these tyrannies were socialist and their ideology has infiltrated our universities, schools, law courts, government, churches, unions and media. Their main objective is to set up a centralized socialist dictatorship.

They are but wolves in sheep’s clothing. The art of deception is their trade.

Their views are easily understood in magazines such as Science and Society, The Socialist Quarterly, and the Partisan Review. The History of Trade Unions by Sidney and Beatrice Webb was acclaimed by Lenin as a great “textbook” for socialistic communism.

After their infiltration of our schools they set out altering our history. Thus their early target was to infiltrate the History departments in our colleges.

Fabian socialism gained favor at Harvard. Keynes at Harvard became popular. History was perverted into “social sciences” and spread to Ameri-

can schools. They are masters at camouflaging their objectives. Often they refer to sociology as social sciences.

These deal with “human grouping”, which is easy to observe in most school settings where “group cooperation” overshadows the individual capability. Sociology is the old socialist writ.

The last science the socialists bastardized was the law. And most fundamental to capturing the government.

Its start was at Harvard. Harold J. Laski, Morris Cohen and Felix frankfurter were three men who orchestrated the scheme. Roscoe Pound was maneuvered into Harvard Law School where he eventually became the Dean in 1912. Frankfurter states in his autobiography that he was an excellent “Trojan Horse”. Under Pound, Harvard began to teach the “socializing of the law’. Harvard indoctrinated its students that “law is a social study”. Referring to it as “social jurisprudence”. These men later went on to teach future Supreme Court justices.

Pound credits George Howard, E.A. Ross and A.W. Small with the inspiration of his theories.

The University of Chicago established the first chair of sociology in 1892. Albion W. Small, a Fabian socialist headed that department. Lester Ward who penned “Dynamic Sociology” worked with Small to put the socialist creed in colleges under the guise of “sociology”. William Graham Summer taught the first “sociology” courses At Yale from 1876-1880. Their students then fanned out to teach at Columbia, University of Chicago, Yale, Harvard and Wisconsin.

In 1920 the A.C.L.U. (American Civil Liberties Union) was formed.

Felix Frankfurter had much to do in its organizing. Morris Hillquit headed the American Socialist Party and joined the ACLU. Partisans from the Communist Party, such as Elizabeth G. Flynn and William Z. Foster of the Communist Party U.S.A., were allowed to join. Director Roger N.

Baldwin wrote: “We want also to look patriotic in everything we do”. Baldwin helped pioneer the technique of camouflaging socialism. When Felix Frankfurter was a member of the ACLU he drew up their platform that sought protection to those who advocated violent overthrow of our government. He wrote “the advocacy of murder, unaccompanied by any act, is within the legitimate scope of free speech”, also within the text included “the right of persons to advocate the overthrow of government by force and violence.” Frankfurter was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Socialized law got a foot hold over constitutional law.

John Maynard Keynes book published in 1936, “The General Theory of Employment interest and Money”, didn’t take long to sweep through Harvard. Mrs. Joan Robinson was a well-known international Marxist and highly regarded by Keynes collaborated on the project. Socialist economist R.F. Kahn contributed his skills in writing the book. Mrs. Robinson stated that the differences between Marx and Keynes are only verbal.

In the communist journal, “Science and Society”, winter, 1947, p. 61, Mrs. Robinson said, “The time, therefore, seems ripe to bridge the verbal gulf.

The only real difference between the Marxian’s and the Fabians is one of degree and tactics”. Felix Frankfurter and Walter Lippman a Fabian who called himself a progressive were key promoters of Keynes theories. They both were friends with FDR. Over 300 0f Frankfurters students worked in strategic government posts. Following his return from Russia in late 1946, Professor Laski stated that the English socialists and Russian socialists were “approaching the same objective by different roads”. Harry Dexter White, a communist agent and other socialists worked to create what Keynes favored since the 1930s — The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In 1941 Harvard professor Alvin Hansen and Adolph Berle supported Keynes creation of a new international financial instrument to finance their agenda.

Harvard produced Alger Hiss, who was a protege of Felix Frankfurter.

Frankfurter was a close friend of Professor Laski. Frankfurter was a character witness for Hiss during his trials. Dean Acheson, another protege of Frankfurter and former Secretary of State pushed for diplomatic recognition of soviet Russia. Laski wrote, “To take vast powers and legislate under them by ordinance and decree”.

Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Hewart wrote in his “The New Despotism” 1929, “A mass of evidence establishes the fact that there is in existence a persistent and well-contrived system, intending to produce, and in practice producing, a despotic power which at one and the same time places government departments beyond the sovereignty of Parliament and beyond the jurisdiction of the courts”. Sound familiar?

This expansion of bureaucracy aided the communist who infiltrated FDR’s administration. The New Deal was Fabian inspired and offered cover for communist agents who worked into the very center of the Roosevelt Administration. FDR took his slogan “The New Deal” from Stuart Chase, an American Fabian, who wrote “A New Deal” and stated, “Socialism can be enforced by firing squads if necessary.”

Alger Hiss who clerked for Felix Frankfurter at the Supreme Court was a soviet agent and member of the Ware soviet spy cell. Many of Frankfurters proteges were members of the cell. John Abt a soviet courier entered the Department of Agriculture along with other soviet agents. He worked for the federal government from 1933 until 1937, then represented communist fronts. It was Abt who Lee Harvey Oswald asked to represent him. But he could not be found.

Like a jigsaw puzzle the pieces are many and spread out. They are difficult to put into place. By connecting the dots you will find the same names keep popping up. Study your professors and their professors. Learn their ideologies. Then you might glean the problem’s facing this country. Have we seen enough “fundamental changes” in our country to awaken us from our slumber?

Gene F. Danforth Danbury

Ashland tax commitment drops 1.5% ASHLAND — The New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration has set the 2013 property tax rate at $25.12 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, $3.14, or 14.3 percent, more than the 2012 rate.

The amount to be raised by property taxes decreased by $89,158, or 1.5 percent, from $5765,615 to $5676,457, while the assessed valuation shrank by $36,647,116, or 13.8-percent, from $264,315,381 to $227,668,265.

The town tax rose from $8.60 to

$9.15, the local school tax from $9.68 to $11.78, the state education tax from $2.27 to $2.52 and the county tax from $1.43 to $1.67.

Town administrator Paul Branscombe said that the increased property tax rate reflected the adjustment of property values to more closely match market prices, which significantly reduced the assessed valuation of the town. He pointed out that there was no significant increase in municipal expenditures.

MANDELA from page 2 the struggle against apartheid, called on South Africa’s 51 million people to embrace the values of unity and democracy that Mandela embodied.

“God, thank you for the gift of Madiba,” Tutu said, using Mandela’s clan name.

“All of us here in many ways amazed the world, a world that was expecting us to be devastated by a racial conflagration,” Tutu said as he recalled how Mandela helped unite South Africa as it dismantled the cruel system of white minority rule, and prepared for all-race elections in 1994.

In those elections, Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison, became South Africa’s first black president.

At Mandela’s home in the leafy Johannesburg neighborhood of Houghton, where he spent his last sickly months, a multi-racial crowd paid tribute.

“What I liked most about Mandela was his forgiveness, his passion, his diversity, the impact of what he did,” said Ariel Sobel, a white man who was born in 1993, a year before Mandela

was elected president. “I am not worried about what will happen next. We will continue as a nation. We knew this was coming. We are prepared.”

As a dozen doves were released into the sky, people sang tribal songs, the national anthem, God Bless Africa — the anthem of the anti-apartheid struggle — and Christian hymns.

Many wore the traditional garb of the nation’s Zulu, Xhosa and other ethnic groups.

“He will rule the universe with God,” proclaimed a poster raised aloft by a mourner.

President Jacob Zuma announced a schedule of ceremonies expected to draw huge numbers of world dignitaries and ordinary mourners.

Mandela’s body is to lie in state from Wednesday through Friday after a memorial service at the same Johannesburg stadium where he made his last public appearance in 2010 at the closing ceremony of the soccer World Cup. He is to be buried in his rural childhood village of Qunu on Dec. 15, after a state funeral. see next page

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Dunkin’ Donuts told the City of Laconia in 2008, that they would “restore and maintain” the building known as Hathaway House while trying to lease or sell said building. They did neither – in fact, they practiced ‘demolition by neglect’ by letting the building fall in disrepair. The owners of Dunkin’ Donuts lied to the residents of Laconia and are planning to tear down the building. We ask that you support the boycott of Dunkin’ Donuts at the following locations: Union Avenue and South Main Street as well as those locations next to Gilford Mobile Mart and Airport Country Store in Gilford and Alton Bay. If it’s coffee and pastries you want, there are many places here in Laconia that offer great service, here are a few, not including the many fine restaurants around the area:

• Aroma Joe’s on Union Ave. • My Coffee House on Court St. • Circle K on Union Ave. • Cumberland Farms at the Weirs and on Court St. • Awakenings Café on US RT 3 in Gilford • Annie’s Café on Union Ave. Please support us AND Laconia’s history by stopping the destruction of the Hathaway House. It would be nice, if after years of getting monetary support from area residents, if Dunkin’ Donuts gave something back to the community such as, the restoration and use of this landmark.

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In a brief statement, the university did not describe the contact except to say it occurred on the bench during a home loss to Ohio State on Nov. 30.

UNH Athletic Director Marty Scarano says the

university has “zero tolerance” for unsportsmanlike behavior.

The team, which is 6-9-2, will be led by its assistant coaches, Jamie Wood and Stephanie Jones, in two games this weekend against Harvard and Dartmouth.

Conference play resumes Jan. 10, and the school says an interim head coach will be in place.

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DURHAM (AP) — Durham’s town administrator is challenging he University of New Hampshire’s decision not to reopen its 75-year-old outdoor pool.

Town Administrator Todd Selig — in a letter to college officials Wednesday — called the decision premature and inconsistent with terms of a 2006 pool agreement signed by college and town officials.

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Some residents are pushing to save the pool, which opened in 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program.

The university cites health and safety reasons for closing the pool. UNH officials notified the town their decision in a Nov. 1 letter.

from preceding page “We call upon all our people to gather in halls, churches, mosques, temples, synagogues and in their homes for prayer services and meditation, reflecting on the life of Madiba and his contribution to our country and the world,” Zuma said.

The White House said President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama would visit South Africa next week to participate in memorial events, though no precise dates were given.

Mandela was a “very human person” with a sense of humor who took interest in people around him, said F.W. de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid-era president. The two men negotiated the end of apartheid, finding common cause in often tense circumstances, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Summarizing Mandela’s legacy, de Klerk paraphrased Mandela’s own words: “Never and never again should there be in South Africa the suppression of anyone by another.”

In Mandela’s hometown of Qunu in the wide-open spaces of Eastern Cape province, residents consoled each other as they mourned the death of South Afri-

ca’s most famous citizen.

On Vilakazi Street in Soweto, where Mandela lived as a young man, 26-year-old Vathiswa Nongogo brought her 3-year-old daughter Konwabo to soak in the celebratory atmosphere. The crowd was mostly black, but mourners both white and black said Mandela transcended race.

“The feeling is genuinely the same among the white people and the colors,” said Nongogo, who is black. “And the political division doesn’t appear to exist today.”

The late leader’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, said he was strengthened by the knowledge that his grandfather is finally at rest.

“All that I can do is thank God that I had a grandfather who loved and guided all of us in the family,” Mandla Mandela said in a statement. “The best lesson that he taught all of us was the need for us to be prepared to be of service to our people.”

Helen Zille, leader of South Africa’s official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, and premier of the Western Cape, the only province not controlled by the African National Congress party, agreed.

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Members of the Laconia Fire Department who prepared for a national exam with the help of UNH Clinical Associate Professor Katherine Lockwood include, left to right, Deputy Fire Chief Shawn Riley, Firefighter/Paramedic Duane Mann, Firefighter/EMT Ray Bushey and Firefighter/EMT Chris Beaudoin. (Lisa Nugent/UNH Photographic Services)

EMTS from page one it — free of charge — to 55 EMTs from 18 communities in the Lakes Region.

The grade she received: 100 percent of the EMTs who took it rated Lockwood a “5” on a scale of 1-to-5 for outstanding instruction.

“She has a way of taking really complex material and making it simple and easy to understand, and even fun,” Riley says. Even better, he adds, the students in Lockwood’s seminar achieved a high success rate in passing the exam on the first try.

What makes the 135-question test particularly challenging is new material on advanced anatomy and physiology, and biochemistry; taking a step beyond the practical, hands-on clinical knowledge of patient care that defined EMT training years ago.

But while Lockwood earned a doctoral degree in nutrition and biological chemistry from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), many of the EMTs she teaches do not have college degrees.

“A lot of these guys sort of hit a brick wall when it came to science in high school,” says Lockwood, who continues to serve as a volunteer EMT in her hometown of Amherst. “So what I try to do is to make this material interesting enough, and fun enough, that they can see they really can do it. And once they see that, once they break down that brick wall, they

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For Lockwood, the Lakes Region seminar is added confirmation that she was wise to take her first EMT course and volunteer on an ambulance more than 25 years ago — a step she took when she was teaching at UCLA so that she could better understand the needs of her students preparing for careers in nursing, occupational and physical therapy, nutrition and medicine.

Lockwood conducted a similar seminar in Epping, for 33 emergency medical system instructors on strategies for teaching anatomy and physiology to EMT students.

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from preceding page former congressional aide Mark Aldrich, of Lebanon will face off in a primary on January 21 to decide who will be on the ballot for the GOP in the March 11 special election opposing Grafton County Commissioner Michael Cryans,of Hanover., the sole Democratic candidate.

All four candidates agreed that it will be difficult to fill Burton’ shoes but pledged to emulate Burton’s tradition of close ties to the communities in the sprawling district, which encompasses 108 towns and four cities and more than half of the state’s land area.

Sean Sullivan, chairman of the BEDC board of directors, outlined for the candidates the initiatives which the organization is involved in, including workforce development, lending programs for small businesses and educational initiatives for high tech manufacturing.

Boothby, 47, who along with his wife operates Boothby Therapy Services in Laconia, served for 12 years as Belknap County Commissioner, worked as an executive for LRGHealthcare and is president of the board of directors of the Winnipesaukee Playhouse.

He said that the key to economic development for the northern part of the state is quality education, good health care and good roads, along with a cultural enrichment environment which helps provide a high quality of life.

Kenney, who grew up in Wakefield and graduated from Spaulding High School in Rochester went on to attend UNH and spent 33 years in the Marine Corps. He served four terms in the House and three terms in the N.H. Senate. In 2006 he was the GOP nominee for governor and lost to Democrat John Lynch, winning less than 30 percent of the vote.

He praised the economic development plan developed by the Lakes Region Planning Commission for the area and said that those who support his candidacy know that it is rooted in traditional New Hampshire values, Mark Aldrich, 64, was state director for former U.S. Sens. Gordon Humphrey and Bob Smith for 20 years and has headed up economic development efforts in Claremont. He said that his experience in dealing with a myriad of state and federal agencies will help him be a strong advocate for programs that benefit his constituents.

Cryans, 62, lives in Hanover but grew up in Littleton and served 16 years on the Grafton County Commission with Burton, who endorsed him over his GOP opponent in 2012.

He said that Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Hithcock Medical Center serve as economic engines for the Upper Valley area and that it is important to remember that there are other parts of the council district which are really struggling and need attention.

from preceding page of Fire Standards and Training and Emergency Medical Services.

Riley expressed his gratitude for her work in Laconia in a recent letter to Jon Wraith, dean of the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture.

“I cannot thank her or UNH enough,” Riley wrote.

Returning to the fire station after a recent ambulance call, several Lakes Region EMTs who took Lockwood’s seminar say it also gave them added

confidence and inspired them in pursuing additional self-study preparations ahead of the exam. “For her to come up here and cover all that material the way she did, it was great. It really made a difference,” says Duane Mann, a firefighter/paramedic in Laconia.

(This article was originally published in UNH Today. Jim Graham is manager of Leadership Communications at the University of New Hampshire.)

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CONCORD (AP) — A special gambling panel charged with developing regulations for a future casino voted Friday to recommend that New Hampshire legalize one casino with up to 5,000 video slots and 150 table games.

The New Hampshire Gaming Regulatory Oversight Authority voted 8-1 to approve draft legislation that authorizes a new commission to begin licensing a casino. The Legislature will consider the bill next year.

Attorney General Joseph Foster praised the panel’s work to include strong regulations for the casino, but voted against the proposal. Foster said his office will fight the bill when lawmakers consider it next year. He said he recognizes that charities benefit now from games of chance in New Hampshire, but legalizing a commercial casino would foster more social costs.

“We’re going from little leagues to big leagues in terms of the dollar cost of problem gamblers,” Foster said.

The panel was created after the House killed a casino bill that passed the Senate with strong backing from Gov. Maggie Hassan. The bill rejected in May would have allowed the construction of one casino with 5,000 slot machines and 150 table games.

Hassan hoped the special panel would address concerns opponents had expressed about inadequate regulations.

Casino supporters are concerned New Hampshire will lose revenue to Massachusetts, which is licensing three casinos and one video slots parlor. Hassan reiterated those concerns Friday and urged “all leg-

islators, especially those who previously expressed concerns about regulatory oversight, to fully consider the authority’s carefully developed recommendations as they move through the legislative process.”

The panel hired WhiteSands Gaming to help draft the bill, and state Rep. Richard Ames, the panel’s chairman, said he would sponsor it.

The proposed regulations are much more extensive than were in the bill killed by the House, but limits on the number of video slots allowed and other details about a new casino are nearly identical. For example, the new commission could only approve a single casino and charge an $80 million initial license fee — the same as allowed in the defeated bill. Like the Senate bill, the special panel also is recommending a minimum capital investment.

New Hampshire’s House has never approved casino legislation, but House Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff. D-Concord, said that could change with the addition of strong regulations in the new bill.

“It has a better chance of passing,” he said.

Shurtleff said he voted against the Senate bill in May, but he will give the new proposal a careful review.

“If it was the right bill, I could vote for it,” he said.

Two anti-gambling groups announced Tuesday they are joining forces to try to prevent House members like Shurtleff from switching sides. The House vote in May was 199-164, which means casino backers may only need to win over as few as 18 House members for a bill to pass.

COUNCIL from page one mark Inn, $121,800 to extend the riverwalk through the Walgreen’s property, $200,000 to create a pocket park where Water Street joins Pleasant Street and $300,000 to carry the riverwalk from behind the old police station up to the Church Street bridge.

Altogether the estimated cost of the projects totaled $1,550,000.

However, the council withheld its approval of the remaining projects, choosing instead to refer the recommendations to its Finance and Public Works committees. After further review the pocket park at at the junction of Water Street and Pleasant Street was struck from the list while the remaining projects were returned to the council for its approval.

Meanwhile, in October the council approved spending $35,000 to extend a ten-inch water main from Main Street to Veteran’s Square to service the former Evangelical Baptist Church, which is being converted to restaurant. The net effect of shelving

the pocket park and adding the water main was to reduce the amount of the borrowing to $1,337,800.

The projects would be funded by borrowing $1,350,000 against the annual revenue to the TIF account at an estimated interest rate of 4 percent over 20 years. The TIF account has a current balance of $311,353 and projected revenue of $173,687 in 2014 and an additional amount each year thereafter for a total of $4,250,212 during the next 20 years. When the debt is retired, assuming no further borrowing, the TIF fund would be left with a balance of $2,811,654.

City Manager Scott Myers has assured the council that the revenue accruing to the TIF fund is sufficient to service the proposed debt and, within a reasonable time, support another borrowing.

The Main Street Initiative, together with representatives of the Belknap Ecomnomic Development Council and WOW Trail, are expected to offer their opinions on the proposed projects before the council itself begins deliberation.

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Veteran Steele Hill employee Rob Robillard promoted to V. P. of Operations

Rob Robillard has been promoted to the Vice President of Operations at Steele Hill and the Summit Resort. Shown are Doug Cutillo, Justin Cutillo, Robillard and Bill Cutillo. (Courtesy photo)

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SANBORNTON — Steele Hill Resorts has announced that Rob Robillard has been promoted to the Vice President of Operations. As an officer of the company, Rob will be responsible for day to day operations at both Steele Hill Resort and its sister property, the Summit Resort.

With nearly twenty years of experience working at Steele Hill, including previous positions as a member of the maintenance staff, Head of Maintenance and Director of Operations, Robillard has demonstrated dedication and commitment to delivering a quality guest experience.

“Rob has earned the new promotion with his work ethic, attention to

detail and ability to always put the guests first”, says Bill Cutillo, owner at Steele Hill Resorts. In recent years, Robillard has overseen major renovation projects throughout the property.

His project skills with infrastructure improvements are only surpassed by his leadership abilities.

As a newly minted officer of the company, Robillard will be responsible for finalizing the property-wide renovation project the company has committed to. He will also be tasked with overseeing all operations management and systemization as the resort continues to grow into a major player in the Lakes Region hospitality industry.

BELMONT — Friends of Belmont Football is currently hosting its inaugural Christmas Tree Sale at the Gates Farm at 445 Laconia Road ( Route 106 near Country Kitchen Bread Outlet) in Belmont. Members of the non-profit organization will be selling trees from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the weekends and from 4 to 7 p.m. during the week. The sale will continue through Dec. 14, as supplies allow.

All proceeds from Christmas tree sales will go toward the effort of making high school football a reality for Belmont student-athletes. The organization is currently striving to fund raise toward the goal of creating a cooperative team with Gilford.

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Friends of Belmont Football selling Christmas trees on Route 106

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Ray Burton memorial service will be held Dec. 14 at Plymouth State

PLYMOUTH — The public memorial service for First District Executive Councilor Raymond Burton of Bath will be held Saturday, December 14 at 1 p.m. in the Courtroom of Plymouth State University’s Hartman Union Building. Scheduled speakers include PSU President Sara Jayne Steen, N.H. Governor Maggie Hassan, former Governor John Lynch, N.H. U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte, N.H. State Senator Lou D’Allesandro and former Burton intern Trevor Chandler. The Plymouth State University Chorale will provide musical accompaniment and the event will be live streamed by PSU and WMUR–TV. The event is expected to be wellattended and carpooling is strongly encouraged. Parking for the general public is located at the University’s P.E. Center on Route 175-A in Holderness, with shuttle buses available to transport attendees to the service. The parking lots will open at 9:30 a.m. all attendees are asked to be seated by 11:30 a.m.

Burton died Tuesday, Nov. 12 after a

Tilton Masons give to local food pantries Doric-Centre Masonic Lodge of Tilton recently held its annual Special Ladies and Veterans program and also presented donations to three local food pantries. Shown in the photo, from left to right, are Woody Fogg, Past Master of Doric-Centre Lodge; Stewart Aronson, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of NH; Bruce McLaughlin, current Master of the Lodge; Rev. Jim Smith for the Belmont Baptist Church Food Pantry; Bob Presby of the First Fruits Food Pantry in Sanbornton; and Phil Cain of the Twin Rivers Interfaith Food Pantry. (Courtesy photo)

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period of failing health. He was a longtime member of the New Hampshire Executive Council, serving 35 years representing New Hampshire’s First District, making him one of the Granite State’s longest-serving and most recognized political leaders.

Burton, a 1962 graduate of what was then Plymouth Teachers College, began his career as a school teacher and principal. He later became an adjunct faculty member in Plymouth State’s Department of Social Sciences. After becoming a member of the Executive Council in 1977, he established an internship program for New Hampshire College students to learn more about the workings of state government. Plymouth State University has established the Honorable Raymond S. Burton ’62 Public Service Scholarship, an endowed scholarship for PSU students from New Hampshire who aspire to public service. In addition to the scholarship, Plymouth State is establishing a Raymond S. Burton Collection in the Lamson Library’s Spinelli Archives and Special Collections, which will house Ray’s papers and memorabilia.

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We are a Welcoming Congregation Sunday, December 8 Worship Service 10:00am Guest Speaker Rev. Dick Dutton Sermon: “Gather the People, Tell the Story, Break the Bread, Dance”…basis for a church or fellowship…celebrating the Christmas season with joyfulness, outrageous music, laughter, and dancing.

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Belmont American Legion Post 58 Commander Steve Bracy, left, presents a check for $500 to Rev. Jim Smith of the Belmont Baptist Church for their food pantry. The Belmont Legion Post has made donations to both the Belmont Baptist Church Food Pantry and the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Food Pantry for years. This is one of the many ways members of the American Legion continue to serve their community. They also organize and underwrite the Memorial Day Parade every year, provide scholarships and scholar-athlete awards to deserving Belmont High School Seniors, support the Girl and Boy Scout Troops and contribute to the Belmont Senior Center and other local projects and organizations as the need arises.(Courtesy photo)

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Lakes Region Real Estate Market Report / Roy Sanborn

Love it or list it As of December 1, 2013, there were 987 single family residential homes on the market in the twelve communities covered in this Lakes Region real estate market report. The average asking price was $495,189 and the median price point stood at $249,995. Last December there were 1,023 homes on the market with an average asking price of $498,763. The current inventory level represents an 11.5 month supply of homes on the market.

There are dozens of home improvement and real estate shows on TV these days and many of them are generally pretty informative and entertaining. You can learn how to do everything from the common household repair, to totally renovating a home, to making a fortune flipping houses... well, maybe breaking even flipping houses. One of my favorites lately is Love It or List It on HGTV. It is a pretty neat concept where homeowners that have outgrown their current residence have the opportunity to get their home remodeled to meet

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their needs while also shopping for a new home that might work better for them. The show is set up as a competition between the designer in charge of the remodel and the real estate agent charged with finding the homeowners some new and better digs. But rarely does anything go smoothly and there are a couple of flaws in the show that are a little misleading and always make me chuckle.

It doesn’t take long for you to realize that the show is not based in the United States. It’s actually a little north of here, in Toronto and that’s not bad as the Canadian housing market is pretty strong. The Canadian accent is clearly the main tip off along with the architectural style of the homes which is slightly different than down here.

The high prices of the homes might be another giveaway. It seems that most of the homes are in see next page

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Tilton’s Christmas Parade is today TILTON — Tilton’s Annual Christmas Parade is set for Saturday, December 7, starting at 4 p.m. Parade participants and floats will meet at 3 p.m. at the Union Sanborn School in Northfield. The parade route starts at the Union Sanborn School and then proceeds to Elm St., across Cannon Bridge onto Main St. to West Main St.

Santa will arrive in his sleigh at Riverfront Park to greet children. Light refreshments will be provided, along with free pictures taken with Santa. A grand display of fireworks will follow at 6 p.m. For further information see the Tilton Parks Commission’s webpage on the town website.

HOLDERNESS — This winter, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department will once again offer free archery leagues for both beginners and experienced archers who want to learn new skills or improve their current skills. Each archery league will meet one night a week, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. for four consecutive weeks.

The January advanced league will be held every Tuesday evening beginning January 7, 2014. Beginner/instructional league will begin on Thursday, January 9, 2014. The February advanced league is held every Wednesday, beginning on February 5, 2014. The beginner/instructional

league is held every Thursday beginning February 6, 2014.

“This is a great opportunity to get out of the house to participate in an activity that normally takes place in the summer and fall, as well as meet new friends,” said Tom Flynn, Facility Manager at Owl Brook Hunter Education Center. “So, whether you are an experienced archer looking to keep your skills sharp over the winter, or someone who just wants to give archery a try, come join the fun!”

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from preceding page the $750,000 to $1.5 million for something not all that terribly grand.

There doesn’t seem to be a shortage of people that have out grown their homes in Toronto. Seems like storage is always a big issue as stuff is always piled high and rooms are cluttered. There never seems to be enough bedrooms for the kids or bathrooms to go around. Enter Hilary Farr, the designer, and David Visentin, the agent. They get a list of the homeowners’ must-haves for the renovation as well as what they would need in order to be enticed to move to a new home.

They also get a budget for the renovations and for the new home. That’s the easy part. Things generally unravel quickly from there.

Hilary comes up with a renovation plan for the homeowner to approve and sets to work ripping, tearing, and rebuilding. Now Hilary is good at what she does, very good. But I always wonder why she gets herself into the same mess show after show. It seems like in every renovation she does, there are hidden issues that cost more to correct than was budgeted. This leads to her trying to get more money from the unhappy home owner or more likely cutting back on the project which doesn’t go over well either.

Could the lack of proper budgeting be just a ploy to cause television discourse and increase ratings?

Agent David doesn’t have it easy, either. They say he is one of the best real estate agents in Toronto and I believe it. From what I can see he is very personable, works extremely hard, listens to his clients, and does everything to make them happy. I’d hire him in a minute if he could just say “about” instead of “aboot.” His problems usually stem from the fact that only one of the spouses wants to move, neither can agree on a new location, and both have different wish lists (That’s no different down here

south of the border.) So he shows his clients two or three great homes.

Just to make the plot thicker, there’s always one home they really love, but it is way over their budget (it is Canadian money, so it doesn’t seem real anyway.)

Once the renovation work is done everyone meets back at the ranch and the homeowners get to see their newly remodeled home. It is always a stunning makeover and the owners are amazed and thrilled even though she didn’t get that first floor powder room or he didn’t get that office space he so desperately needs.

The homeowners then have to decide whether they are going to “Love” their home “or List It,” but before they do David shows them one more listing; what their own home is worth now that it has been remodeled.

Amazingly, their home’s value always seems to increase about $30,000 more than the cost of the renovations! In the real world you just don’t get over 100% ROI on remodeling your home!

I really think there should be a disclaimer on the show; “Do not try this at home!” Some viewers have blogged that the homeowners don’t pay for the labor costs of the renovations and that could be true, but I’d like to know for sure. I do know that if they “Love” the remodel that’s the end of the story.

But, what happens if they “List It?” Can they actually “Sell It” for David’s quoted new value? And will the dream home that they want to buy still be there if they do? That, I am betting, might even be a better show...

Please feel free to visit www.lakesregionhome.com to learn more about the Lakes Region real estate market and comment on this article and others.

Data was compiled using the Northern New England Real Estate MLS System as of 12/1/13. Roy Sanborn is a realtor at Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty and can be reached at 603-455-0335.

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LRCC’s S.P.E.E.K.S. Club holding conference Friday LACONIA — Lakes Region Community College (LRCC) Scholarly People Educating and Encouraging Knowledge for Society (S.P.E.E.K.S.) Club is holding its first-ever Conference on Friday, December 13 from 6-9 p.m. in LRCC’s Academic Commons located in the new multi-milLRCC S.P.E.E.K.S.’ Keynote Speaker, Robin Chase, lion dollar Health and Founder and CEO of Zipcar, Science Building on is the featured speaker for Prescott Hill in Laconia. the first-ever Conference on The Keynote Speaker Friday, December 13, 2013. is Zipcar Founder and (Courtesy photo) former Chief Executive Officer, Robin Chase (Cambridge, MA), the former

Pasquaney Garden Club plans potluck & carol sing BRISTOL — The Pasquaney Garden Club will be having its last meeting of the year on Tuesday, December 10 at the Bristol Baptist Church. from preceding page or target points will be permitted, no broadheads.

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Other speakers for the LRCC S.P.E.E.K.S. Conference are Vietnam Veteran, Jack Bernard; LRCC Professors Scott Cracraft and Wes Golomb; Psychologist, Dr. Rob McCoul; Medical Doctor, Rick Pollak; and Acoustic Musician, Shana Aisenberg.

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Ellen T. ‘Cookie’ Cook Jacobsen, 94 MOULTONBOROUGH — Ellen Townley Cook “Cookie” Jacobsen, MD, 94, of Cazenovia, NY, and summer resident of Moultonborough, NH died on August 28, 2013, peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones. She was born June 25, 1919, in Painted Post, NY, the daughter of Charles “Doc” Cook and Mary Belle Miller Cook.

Her mother was an early graduate of Cornell Law School and served as Justice of the Peace and Judge in Corning, NY. Her father, also a Cornell graduate, was a founding engineer for Ingersoll Rand. He imparted his love of sailing, fishing, and storytelling to Cookie as her mother imparted a lifelong interest in books and reading.

Cookie graduated from The Knox School for Girls (currently the Otesaga Inn) in Cooperstown, NY where she excelled both academically as well as in swimming and equestrian events. She received her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and went on to receive a Master of Science degree in Marine Biology. Her thesis was entitled “Experimental pancreatic diabetes in the calf.” (Cornell, Ithaca, NY 1945). In a surprise move her thesis professor believing she would make a superb physician submitted an application on her behalf to the Syracuse College of Medicine. She was accepted immediately and entered Syracuse University College of Medicine that became Upstate Medical Center.

After graduation in 1950, Dr. Cook became the first woman resident in Internal Medicine. She joined the faculty in 1953 as the first woman in the department of medicine. She was part of the first cardiac catheterization team with Dr. J. Howland Auchincloss. After observing cases of infected valvular heart disease she was motivated to focus on infectious disease. Collaborating with Dr. Paul Bunn, the Chief of Infectious Disease medicine, she published numerous papers, made presentations, and served as consultant to USAID. The Chair of the Department of Medicine, Dr. Richard Lyons, asked her to establish the first Student and Employee Health Service for Upstate Medical Center. This position led to appointment of the AAMC committee on Student Health Services that influenced the development of student health services throughout U.S. Medical Schools.

In 1958, Cookie met and married the love of her life, Carlyle F. “Jake” Jacobsen, PhD., an internationally known neurophysiologist, leading figure in medical administration, and the newly arrived President of Upstate Medical Center. Jake and Cookie worked tirelessly and effectively to promote academic excellence and a strong sense of community during a period of exceptional growth. As “First Lady” of the medical school, Cookie hosted numerous students, faculty, and visiting dignitaries before catering was readily available and without assistance of household staff. She was incredibly supportive but made it clear she would not be a path to the ear of the president. Due to their joint expertise they were asked to represent USAID on several

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assignments in Lebanon, Iran, and India.

Cookie maintained a lifelong interest in Middle Eastern culture, politics and cuisine and while traveling, developed a worldwide network of friends and admirers. She further extended her network while traveling with Jake on NIH Study section reviews. This knowledge helped enabled her to place students and residents in optimal assignments around the country.

In the role of Director of Student/ Employee Health, Dr. Cook recognized the need for additional training in psychological counseling. In 1967 Dr. Cook took a leave of absence from the faculty to pursue a Residency in Psychiatry. Subsequently she established the Liaison Consultation Service for Psychiatry that provided an interface between Psychiatry and all other clinical services at University Hospital. Drawing on her creativity, ingenuity, and expertise she developed innovative and cogent interaction among departments that improved the effectiveness of delivering good patient care. Additionally, Dr. Cook served on the Psychiatry Committee of the CALGB Cancer Research Group.

As a physician and educator, Cookie has served as an institutional role model for women. She served on the Admissions Committee and Student Affairs Committee helping assure access and fair treatment of women. To commemorate Upstate’s preeminent role in the education of women physicians, Dr. Cook was instrumental in helping the medical school’s chapter of the American Medical Woman’s Association commission a painting of Elizabeth Blackwell, a graduate of Geneva Medical College (now Upstate Medical University) the first woman physician educated in America. At the unveiling of the Blackwell portrait, “Jake” announced the official naming of Elizabeth Blackwell Street and the creation of Elizabeth Blackwell Day. Ellen Cook Jacobsen was a “legend” often referred to as the “Matriarch” of Upstate even after her husband’s death in 1974. She served in many capacities: educator, clinician, and advisor to all. She was a wise counselor to her colleagues, Deans and Presidents of Upstate. Many would say a meal shared with Cookie was better than any professional counseling session.

Few students, residents or clinicians have not benefited from her insight and wisdom. She was a holistic physician before the term was popular. She believed in taking a thorough history, including the individual’s personal and social narrative and complete physical exam. This enabled her to make unique recommendations considering the patient’s values.

Dr. Cook retired in 1990 as full Professor of both Medicine and Psychiatry. She received the SUNY Upstate President’s award for Distinguished Service as well as the Upstate Medical Alumni Association’s distinguished Alumna Award. The Medical Alumni Foundation established the Ellen Cook Jacobsen Psychiatry Fellowship in recognition of her lifetime contributions to resident and student education. During her retirement she continued her avid support for Upstate in many areas. She assisted New York State Senator Nancy Lorraine Hoffman on health issues affecting prison populations, capitalizing on her previous service on the NY State Prison Health Commission and her expertise in the management of tuberculosis.

Cookie’s life has been defined by complete selflessness, fierce loyalty, unparalleled listening skills, and lifelong intellectual curiosity. She always had time to help a friend, patient, or colleague. She had a special gift for nurturing trusting relationships with people of all ages and ethnicities. She has made such extensive contributions to the lives of so many, to say she will be enormously missed, would be a colossal understatement.

There were no services.

In lieu of flowers, if you wish, please make contributions to the Upstate Medical Alumni Association, Carlyle and Ellen Cook Jacobsen Fund, Setnor Building #1510, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210.

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Today’s Birthdays: Actor Eli Wallach is 98.

Bluegrass singer Bobby Osborne is 82.

Actress Ellen Burstyn is 81. Broadcast journalist Carole Simpson is 73. Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench is 66. Actor-directorproducer James Keach is 66. Country singer Gary Morris is 65. Singer-songwriter Tom Waits is 64. Basketball Hall of Famer Larry Bird is 57. Actress Priscilla Barnes is 56.

Former “Tonight Show” announcer Edd Hall is 55. Rock musician Tim Butler is 55. Actor Patrick Fabian is 49. Actor Jeffrey Wright is 48. Actor C. Thomas Howell is 47. Producerdirector Jason Winer is 41. NFL player Terrell Owens is 40. Rapper-producer Kon Artis is 39. Pop singer Nicole Appleton is 38.

Latin singer Frankie J is 37. Country singer Sunny Sweeney is 37. Actress Shiri Appleby is 35. Pop-rock singer/celebrity judge Sara Bareilles is 34. Singer Aaron Carter is 26.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll be reminded of your intellectual standards.

A beautiful face isn’t attractive to you unless there’s also a good brain behind it. You could find what you’re looking for in a Virgo or an Aquarius.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). A certain mysterious and attractive someone has been on your mind. Though difficult to get to know, this person will be wonderful to have in your life, so be persistent. It will pay off.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Pop artist Andy Warhol once remarked that two people kissing always look like fish. And if those two people are you and another Pisces, the kiss will give you a feeling of being mutually caught.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 7). You’ll entertain loved ones who will remember this month as the good times. You’ll start by doing what you can do in 2014, and you’ll wind up doing what no one, not even you, thought you could do. In January, you’ll test authority -- defer only if it passes your test. February shows you surpassing physical goals. Aries and Scorpio people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 5, 33, 21 and 14.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Collective problem solving is a feature of the day. You don’t need to know the answer to chime in.

Each idea builds on the next. The realizations will belong as much to the group as they do to any single person.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Archimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” You will be searching for a point of leverage today. Once you figure out how to position yourself, you’ll be persuasive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Remember the times when you put on a brave face even though you were feeling sad and afraid?

Someone who is having a hard time is doing the same for you now. Be sensitive to what is really going on.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re likely to meet salty characters, and you’ll enjoy them. A captain who has navigated rough waters has more to teach than one who has known only smooth sailing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You don’t expect life to be fair, but you do expect your loved ones to hang in there with you through the inequities. Today you’ll model the principle for a friend of yours who is going through a hard time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). People pay attention to what interests them. Instead of fighting it, you’ll use this knowledge to your advantage, wrapping your message in the packages your loved ones find the most appealing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). If you don’t know what you are getting out of an exchange, you won’t want to go through with it. For the other person’s sake, figure out what’s in it for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your conscience is stricter than the laws or social rules of our time. When you step out of bounds, your conscience makes noise much more alarming than the chirping of a cricket.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Put your projects on the schedule, or they won’t get accomplished. If you don’t fill in the blanks, someone else will. It’s better to be

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Pancake Breakfast and Books, Baubles and Bake Sale hosted by the Sanbornton Congregational Church-UCC. Breakfast 8:30-10 a.m. Sale 8:30 a.m. to noon. Breakfast charge is $5 per person or $15 maximum for family.

Pitman’s Freight Room hosts Tyler Road. 8 p.m. at the Freight Room in Laconia. BYOB. Bearcamp Valley Garden Club Christmas in the Village. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the green in Center Sandwich.

The Plymouth State University Contemporary Dance Ensemble presents an evening of dance at the Hanaway Theater at the Silver Center for the Arts. 7 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for seniors and youth. For more information or tickets call 535-2787.

Saturday Night Meltdown at the Laconia Ice Area. 6-7 p.m. Live DJ, public skating laser light show, games and prizes.

Christmas Flea Market held at the Masonic Building in Tilton from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Features various holiday gifts and goods.

Meat Raffle at the American Legion Post 1 in Laconia. 3 p.m. at 849 North Main Street, Laconia.

Karaoke Event hosted by the American Legion Post 33 in Meredith. 8 p.m. at the Post. $5 donation requested.

Annual Craft Fair at the Gilford Middle School and High School. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Food available at the event.

Proceeds benefit the GHS Senior Class of 2014.

The First United Methodist Church of Gilford holds a Living Nativity at the Methodist Church. 2 p.m. Those part of the performance should arrive at 1:45 p.m. Costumes provided. For more information or to become involved in the presentation call 524-3289.

The Blue Star Mothers of NH hold the Wreaths of Remembrance ceremony at the POW/MIA Memorial in Hesky Park in Meredith. 11 a.m.

Pancake breakfast in the company of Santa Claus and his elves from 8:30-10:30 a.m. in the Inter-Lakes High School Cafeteria in Meredith. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for students and free for kids three and under. Proceeds benefit the ILHS Class of 2015.

Street Car Company will present ‘Seussical Jr.’ 7 p.m. in the LHS auditorium. Tickets are available at the door or in advance by calling streetcarcompany.com.

The Unitarian Universalist Holiday Fair featuring a “theme” basket raffle, gifts, baked goods and a cookie walk. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Laconia. Lunch served beginning at 11 a.m.

Ladies Guild Christmas Craft Fair, Bake Sale, and Chowder Lunch. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Campton Congregational Church. Lunch served between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Friends of the Library Open House and Meeting at the Meredith Library 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friends Meeting at noon follows the Friends Open House The Inter-Lakes Children’s Theater presents “A Charlie Brown Christmas” featuring local teens and tweens. 11 a.m. at the Inter-Lakes High School Community Auditorium.

Tickets are $8. Craft session held for kids before the shows and punch and cookies with the cast after the shows. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 1-888-245-637 or at interlakestheatre.com.

Altrusa Festival of Trees Noel Shoppe at the Waukewan Golf Club . 2-8 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for children.

Annual Christmas Wreath Sale and Craft Fair hosted by the Sanbornton Historical Society. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Sanbornton Historical Society. Wreaths are $12-$42. To preorder them call 286-9590 or download a form at lanetavern.org. For more information call 286-4526 or email info@ lanetavern.org.

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In 1842, the New York Philharmonic performed its first concert.

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In 1911, China abolished the requirement that men wear their hair in a queue, or ponytail.

In 1946, fire broke out at the Winecoff (WYN’kahf) Hotel in Atlanta; the blaze killed 119 people, including hotel founder W. Frank Winecoff.

In 1972, America’s last moon mission to date was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral. Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was seriously wounded by an assailant who was then shot dead by her bodyguards.

In 1982, convicted murderer Charlie Brooks Jr. became the first U.S. prisoner to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas.

In 1987, 43 people were killed after a gunman aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner in California apparently opened fire on a fellow passenger, the pilots and himself, causing the plane to crash. Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Ronald Reagan.

In 1988, a major earthquake in the Soviet Union devastated northern Armenia; official estimates put the death toll at 25,000.

In 1993, gunman Colin Ferguson opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train, killing six people and wounding 19. (Ferguson was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.)

Ten years ago: Allies of President Vladimir Putin won a sweeping victory in Russia’s parliamentary elections. Zimbabwe withdrew from the Commonwealth of Britain and its former colonies, which had suspended it for alleged abuses of civil liberties.

Five years ago: President-elect Barack Obama introduced retired Gen. Eric Shinseki (shin-SEHK’-ee) as his choice to head the Veterans Affairs Department. Actress-singer Barbra Streisand, actor Morgan Freeman, country singer George Jones, dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp and musicians Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who received Kennedy Center Honors.

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TODAY’S EVENTS Lakes Region historian Carol Lee Anderson signs her latest work The New England Life of Bob Montana: Beyond the Archie Comic Strip. 2-4 p.m. at Innisfree Bookshop in the Mill Falls Marketplace in Meredith.

The 2013-2014 Tilton Winter Farmers’ Market opens.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. across from AutoServ in Tilton at the Old Agway Building.

Opechee Garden Club Greens and Gift Boutique, Bake Shoppe and Raffle. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Belknap Mill in Laconia.

Prospect Mountain High School Craft Fair to support the Class of 2014, Class of 2015 and World Cultures Club. 8-11 a.m. breakfast followed by the craft fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Breakfast is $5 for adults, $4 for children ages 12 and under. Trees available at the craft fair from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. for $30 each.

Annual Christmas Fair hosted by the Bristol United Church of Christ Women’s Fellowship. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Tapply-Thompson Community Center holds its third annual 5K Jingle Mingle. 9 a.m. registration and 10 a.m. race start. Cost is $25 the day of the race. Canned good donations accepted.

Inter-Lakes Summer Theater presents “A Broadway Christmas Carol” featuring various parodies of well known Broadway show tunes. 7:30 p.m. at the Inter-Lakes High School Community Auditorium in Meredith. Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased by calling 1-888-245-6374.

Lego Club at the Hall Memorial Library in Northfield.

10:30-11:30 a.m.

22nd Annual Christmas Guitar Concert at the Belknap Mill featuring Ed Gerhard. 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $22 in advance and $25 at the door. To purchase tickets or for more information call 664-7200 or visit www.edgerhard.com.

The Lakeport Community Association holds its Christmas at the Freight House. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. held behind Lakeport Fire Station in the Box Car. Al-Anon Meeting at the Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Saturday in the firstfloor conference room Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome.

Call 645-9518.

All compulsive eaters are welcome to attend the Overeaters Anonymous meeting held each Saturday morning from 11 to 12 at the Franklin Hospital.

Narcotics Anonymous meeting. 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Society (172 Pleasant Street) in Laconia.

The New Horizons Band of the Lakes Region meets every Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Music Clinic on Rte 3 in Belmont. All musicians welcome. For more information call 528-6672 or 524-8570.

Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton.

4:30 to 5:30 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 markk@trinitytilton.org.

Separated/Divorced Persons Support Group meeting. 6 to 8 p.m. on the first and third Saturdays of each month at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Belmont. Compassion and affirmation in a confidential atmosphere. Refreshments. Scholarships available. For more information call the rectory at 267-8174 or Ginny Timmons at 286-7066.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 The Department of Music, Theater and Dance at Plymouth State University offers its annual winter-holiday concert “A Joyful Noise” presented by the University Chorale and Chamber singers. 3 p.m. at the Silver Center for the Arts in Plymouth. Tickets are $15-13 for adults, $13-11 for seniors and $1109 for youth. For more information or to reserve tickets call 535-2787 or visit silver.plymouth.edu.

Edgewater Academy of Dance hosts a food drive “Winter Dancefest” to benefit the local food pantry. 3:305:30 p.m. at the Gilford Youth Center. Admission is a nonperishable food item.

Holiday Open House hosted by the Meredith Parks and Recreation Department. 2-4 p.m. at the Meredith Community Center. Carols performed from 5-5:30 p.m. followed by Santa’s arrival at 5:30 p.m. For more information call 279-8197.

The 2013-2014 Tilton Winter Farmers’ Market opens.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. across from AutoServ in Tilton at the Old Agway Building.

Bearcamp Valley Garden Club Christmas in the Village. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the green in Center Sandwich.

Street Car Company will present ‘Seussical Jr.’ 2 p.m. in the LHS auditorium. Tickets are available at the door or in advance by calling streetcarcompany.com.

Altrusa Festival of Trees Noel Shoppe at the Waukewan Golf Club .10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for children.

The Black Swan Inn’s Holiday Open House. 1-4 p.m. at the Inn in Tilton. Event features traditional holiday music, refreshments, and a visit from Santa.

Inter-Lakes Summer Theater presents “A Broadway Christmas Carol” featuring various parodies of well known Broadway show tunes. 3 p.m. at the Inter-Lakes High School Community Auditorium in Meredith. Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased by calling 1-888-245-6374.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 Monthly lecture program “The Greatest Show on Snow” presented by the Laconia Historical and Museum Society. 7 p.m. at the Laconia Public Library. For more information call 527-1278 or email www.lhmslpl@metrocast.net.

Narcotics Anonymous meeting. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 35 Tower Street in Weirs Beach.

Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recovery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and

Twelve Traditions of OA. The program is held Monday nights at 7 p.m. at the Laconia Congregational Church Parish Hall, 18 Veterans Square, (for mapquest use 69 Pleasant St.), Laconia, NH 03246. Use back entrance. Call/ leave a message for Paula at 998-0562 for more information.

Barbershop chorus meets every Monday at Gilford Community Church, lower level. 7:15 p.m. For more information, call Harvey Beetle at 528-3073.

Chess Club at the Hall Memorial Library. 4-7 p.m.

Free one on one internet and computer instruction every Monday at 10 a.m. at the Tilton Senior Center, 11 Grange Road, Tilton.

Adult Pick-up Basketball offered by Meredith Parks & Recreation Department held at the Meredith Community Center Monday nights from 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. $1 per person - sign in and out at the front desk.

Bingo at the VFW Post 1670 located at 143 Court Street in Laconia. Doors open at 4 p.m. Bingo begins at 6:30 p.m.

Taylor Community hosting ‘Moose Man’ on Dec. 14 LACONIA – Rick Libbey, also known as the Moose Man, will tell the story of his wildlife photos in a presentation Saturday morning, Dec. 14 at 10 a.m. at Taylor Community’s Woodside Building.

Libbey will talk about his adventures, capturing the photos and how important it is to respect wildlife and their environment. Anyone who has an interest in the outdoors, photography or wildlife is sure to enjoy this charismatic speaker.

The event is free and open to the public and is

suitable for all ages. Reservations are requested and can be made by calling 524-5600, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by emailing rsvp@ taylorcommunity.org.

Taylor Community is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community whose mission is to provide the highest quality retirement living options to support the independence, health and dignity of community residents. Visit www.taylorcommunity.org and check us out Facebook to keep up with events.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: Since childhood, my mother has told me she never wanted me. I now have two children of my own. At one point, I became homeless, and my parents took me in. But I became ill and needed major surgery. While recovering, my brother’s son came over often and would constantly pick on my sons. My parents did nothing.

One day, I heard my youngest son screaming, and when I checked, I saw my 10-year-old nephew hurting him and trying to molest him. I confronted my parents and my brother about allowing this behavior to go on, and Mom said to forget about it. Dad said nothing. Now my mother has disowned me and will have nothing to do with my children.

I have no other family, and this hurts. How can I get my parents to admit that my bully of a nephew has a serious problem? -- On the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown Dear Edge: Your nephew does indeed have a problem, but you cannot force your parents to address it. Your job is to protect your children. If that means keeping them away from your brother, your parents, your nephew or anyone else, then that is what you do. If the nephew molested your son, you could report the situation to the authorities.

Please look for “family” in your community and church.

There are plenty of older adults who would love to be surrogate grandparents for your sons and would treat them with the caring and consideration they deserve.

Dear Annie: I taught in the Maryland public school system for many years before retiring 10 years ago. Every year at Christmastime, the students gave me Christmas ornaments.

Some were homemade from individual students, and others were large and from the whole class. Of course, I thanked each of them. But as the years went on, my appreciation grew as I took them out each season to decorate my tree. I wrote their names on the ornaments, so each year I am able to think

lovingly of those children. They continue to make my Christmas special.

To their parents, I thank you for allowing me to teach your children. Hopefully, those children will have fond memories about some way in which I made them feel special. They were certainly special to me. They were one of the reasons I loved to teach. I still think of them and wonder what kind of young adults they’ve become. It was a privilege to help shape their young minds and whet their appetites for learning. I wish them all well and hope they enjoy much success in life. Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah! With much love from their 5th grade teacher -- Mrs. Helen Gromadzki, The Villages, Fla. Dear Helen: Your letter was so sweet, we had to print it.

We hope all of your former students have a chance to see it and possibly reconnect to let you know how their lives have turned out.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Hurting in Miami,” who said her friend of 20 years married some wealthy young man and then cut off contact.

You mentioned in your response that her new husband may be controlling and trying to isolate his new bride. I want to emphasize this point, especially because the woman is young and may have no experience with this type of controlling person. Please tell “Miami” to try to keep in touch with her friend by email or phone and let her know she is there for her.

This same thing happened to a dear friend. Her new husband was wonderful to her before marriage, but afterward turned into a control freak who isolated her from her family and friends. We were trying to get her out of this toxic situation, but before we could do anything, he threatened her with a gun, and it accidentally went off, and she died. -- Cautious in Michigan

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Animals

Autos

For Rent

For Rent

3 AKC female doberman puppies.

Parents on premises Ready to go 12/15. 603-581-9152

2002 Cadillac Seville 72K miles.

Great condition $4,000 Or best offer. 832-3535

ROTTWEILER pups AKC Champion Pedigree, parents on premises $800. 603-340-6219

2002 Jetta New motor, clutch, needs to be key coded. $1200.

(603)524-9011.

GILFORD/ALTON Line: 2BR Cottage, $200-$245 per week +utilities; 3BR apt., $230-$275 per week +utilities. Cable & internet included. Beach access. 1st & security. 603-365-0799.

TWO female aussies. 11 weeks, raised with a toddler, very friendly, alert, fast. $400/each. 455-7463

2005 Chevy Malibu 4-door remote start, power locks windows, sunroof, 66,300 miles, great condition. $6800. 524-4298

BEAUTIFUL/FURNISHED one bedroom apartment. Country setting. Common area kitchen and bath shared with one another.

Second tenant only home 2 weekends per month. Single occupancy only no doubles. $700 per month including everything and cable. 603-759-2895

Announcement GREAT BARGAINS! Thrift & Gift a unique non-profit thrift store. 80 Bean Rd. Center Harbor Christian Church. Bring a non-perishable food item, get 10% off your total. Mon-Sat. 10am-4pm 253-8008.

Autos $_TOP dollar paid for junk cars & trucks. Available 7-days a week.

P3!s Towing. 630-3606 1987 Chevy Silverado with plow.

Excellent shape, tons of work done to it. $1,700 dollars firm. Call Randy 603-759-2895

2005 Mercury Sable LS Premium, moon-roof, 77K, mint condition, custom stereo, new tires. $6,900.

603-253-7015 CASH paid for unwanted or junk cars and trucks. Same day service possible. 603-231-2859.

Employment Wanted CARING mature woman available to help with cleaning, laundry, meal preparation, shopping and appointments. Good references and dependable. Call Joan at 968-7617

Do you need someone to run errands or sit with adult? Call Brenda, Laconia, 207-949-4993

For Rent APARTMENTS, mobile homes. If you need a rental at a fair price, call DRM Corp. Over 50 years in rentals. We treat you better!

524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at our new location, 142 Church St. (Behind CVS Pharmacy.)

2001 Toyota Rav 4 L, 4WD, Automatic, Silver exterior, All Power, Roof Rack, 94,000 miles, Excel-

BELMONT 2-bedroom condo, $865/month plus security and utilities. First month 1/2 off. No dogs.

630-1296.

BELMONT ROOM for rent. Heat, utilities & cable included. $425 month. 630-7325 BELMONT: Two 2 bedroom apartments available. 1 on first floor $225/week, 1 on ground floor with separate entrance $245/week, includes heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

BRISTOL- 2 bedroom. Renovated and sunny, second floor. Good closet space, new appliances.

New, energy efficient heating system. $700 per month plus utilities. Security Deposit and References required. 387-6498

1995 Dodge Ram 4WD Pick-up w/plow, 8ft. bed w/liner. 48K original miles, $5,500. 387-7293 1999 Chevy 2500 4x4, regular cab, no rust. Never plowed with but has plow. New tires, brakes, exhaust, paint. 125K miles, auto. $2500 524-9011

BELMONT 2 Bedroom Duplex on spacious wooded lot with washer/dryer hookup and parking. $850/month + utilities. Call GCE Apartments @ 267-8023 NO PETS

BELMONT 2 bedroom 2nd floor heat & hot water included $800/month. Housing Vouchers

CENTER HARBOR House- 1 bedroom, year round, central propane heat. Credit report required, security, lease, no pets/no smoking, tenant pays utilities. Call between 5pm-8pm. $400/Month.

603-253-6924 GILFORD, 2 BR Condo, fully applianced kitchen, washer & dryer, 1.5 baths. First, last security required. $950/mo. 774-696-6667 GILFORD- 2 Bedroom $600 permonth+ utilities. References, Security deposit, No pets, Laun-

GILFORD: 1 Bedroom (possibly 2) apartment over country store. $900/month, everything included.

Contact Lisa, Monday-Friday, 6am- 2pm for appointment, 293-8400 HOUSESHARE: Belmont, Quiet country-home. Easy commute North and South. utilities/internet included. References required. $600/month. 630-1296.

LACONIA CHEAP TO HEAT!!! 2 bedroom apartment.

2nd floor, $750/Month + utilities.

Washer/ dryer hook-up, Off-street parking. Available Now! 520-4348 LACONIA 1 bedroom $650/Month. $250 credit towards first oil, Freshly painted, utilities not included. 581-6463 LACONIA 1 Bedroom, second floor, $180/Week, heat & hot water included. Non- smoker. One cat OR one small dog. Security deposit required. 387-8081.

LACONIA 1 Bedroom- $600 /monthly + utilities. 3 Bedroom units starting at $950/month + utilities Nice spaces, very clean with washer/dryer hookups Call GCE Apartments @ 267-8023 NO PETS LACONIA 1 bedroom- 3rd floor $150/week includes heat/hot water. References & deposit.

524-9665 LACONIA 2 Br house on large in town lot. Newly renovated, must be seen to appreciate. Hardwood floors, 16! x 14! deck, full basement with washer/dryer hook up. $1150 plus utilities. Non smoking.

603-455-5253 LACONIA 3 bedroom, $920/ month plus security deposit. Include heat & hot water.

For Rent

For Rent

LACONIA Large 2 bedroom 1 1/2 bath, unfurnished. First floor, Gas heat, big yard, close to downtown. $200/week. 1st week in advance with 4 week security deposit.

Leave message for Bob No dogs.

781-283-0783

LAKEPORT: Cute 1BR House, quiet street No Pets/No Smoking 1-month Security, references. $200/week +utilities. 254-6019.

LACONIA- 1st floor 2-bedroom. $175/weekly, you pay all utilities.

Monitor heat, no smoking/no pets, parking, security deposit & references. Call 286-4618 after 5:00pm LACONIA2-bedroom 2-bath apt. on quiet dead end street. $950/Month all utilities included, no pets. Call after 5:00pm.

527-8363.

LACONIA3 bedroom, 1 1/2 baths, $950 + utilities. newpad4u.com, 393-0337 Laconia- 3 room 1 bedroom 1st floor. Completely remodeled, $175/week + utilities. $600 security. 524-7793 or 832-3735 LACONIA- Messer St. duplex.

Second floor one bedroom. Utility room with laundry hook-up. Private outside deck, small pets considered. Utilities and cable included. Security deposit. $175/week. 455-9551

LACONIA/ CONDO Convenient, quiet, 1BR, diningroom, living, kitchen, laundry rm. washer/ dryer included, garage.

No dogs, no smoking, $750/ month, 279-4376.

LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2nd floor in duplex building. $210/week, including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234 www.whitemtrentals.com.

LACONIA: 2-Bedroom, first floor. parking, W/D hookups, no smoking, no dogs, $850/ month + utilities, security/ references.

603-318-5931.

LACONIA: spacious one and two bedroom apartments available.

Heat and hot water included in rent. On-site laundry, storage room and off-street parking.

Close to pharmacy, schools and hospital. Security deposit required. EHO. Please call Julie at Stewart Property Mgt. (603) 524-6673 LACONIA: Cozy 1 bedroom apartment. $775/Month + damage deposit, heat/hot-water included, small pet considered. 520-1179 LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 LACONIA: Huge 3-bedroom, 1st floor. Bonus 3-season room.

Washer/Dryer hook-up.

No pets/smoking. $1100/month.

603-387-6810.

LACONIA: Large one bedroom, second floor, hot water included. $700/month plus security. No smoking. 528-2044.

LACONIA: Large updated, first floor apt. all utilities included.

Lg. master with two lg. closets.

Quiet Bldg. Nice neighborhood. $780. 566-6815

LAKEPORT Exceptional 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 floors, basement w/washer-dryer hookups, private, porch, no dogs, no smoking, $825/ month + utilities, available Jan. 1. 366-4712.

LAKEPORT-UNFURNISHEDSmall one bedroom across the street from lake. Cheap to heat, 2 car parking. Cats allowed, 2nd floor. Sliding glass doors to a deck. $165/week. 1st week in advance plus a 4-week security deposit. Leave message for Bob at 781-283-0783. Friday showings only.

MEREDITH In Town-Fully Renovated

2 Bedroom 1.5 bath Condo with Garage.

Quiet location, Energy efficient. No smokers. $1,095 + Utilities Rick (781) 389-2355

MEREDITH WALK TO DOWNTOWN Spacious One Bedroom with storage area, large eat in kitchen & dining area.

Includes plowing, parking, utilities, beach, dishwasher, & washer-dryer. Cable ready, no dogs, cat ok. No smoking, security deposit, $800/month.

603-937-1354 MEREDITH, NH available Jan 14th this great newly remodeled extra large 2 bedroom apt on first floor with no stairs includes heat & AC, laundry on premise, living room, dining room, kitchen, large walk-in closet with 2 weeks FREE RENT $1075/month Call 603-524-8533 MEREDITH- Great studio apartment. Bright, sunny, clean, walk to town. $500/month +utilities.

520-6931 MOULTONBOROUGH- Winnipesaukee Waterfront 2 bedroom cottage. Long term, $850/month.

Small pet considered.

Available 12/1. 603- 253-8848

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For Rent

For Sale

NORTHFIELD Townhouse style 2 Bedroom on a lovely wooded lot with exterior storage and coin op laundry room on site. $750/month +utilities. Call GCE Apartments @ 267-8023 NO PETS

LOGGING FIREWOOD

NORTHFIELD: 1 bedroom 1st floor $195/week, 2 bedroom 2nd floor $220/week, 3 bedroom trailer $265/week, all including heat, electric & hot water. 4 bedroom house, $1,320/month plus utilities.

524-1234 www.whitemtrentals.com.

TILTON 2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 2nd floor apartment, offstreet parking, locked storage & basement, beautifully renovated including washer and dryer. $975/month includes heat, hot water, a/c & snow removal. No pets/smoking.

934-2788 TILTON: 1-bedroom. Heat, hot water included., great location, no dogs. $630/month.

603-671-7481 or 916-214-7733.

For Rent-Commercial ASHLAND- 8,200sf. storage building with loading dock. 1 Mile off I-93. Rent $2 per square ft. per year. Call 968-9950 ask for Dale LACONIADowntown. Prime storefront. approx. 900 sq. ft., ideal for snack shop, retail, etc.

Good exposure & foot traffic. $750 includes heat. Also, in same building, sm storefront approx. 450 sq ft. $375 includes heat. 524-3892 or 630-4771

For Sale 2004 Craftsman 9hp 2 stage 28in. snow blower. Electric start, canopy, runs & looks brand new. $450. 290-2075 4FT. round oak pedestal table, extension 4 matching chairs, 2 others. Fair condition. $175. Two generators- 4hp Craftsman, 1500 watt. Great for camp/home use.

Asking $150. 10hp Tecumseh 5200 watt, several outlets. $300. 455-5435 AMAZING! Beautiful Pillowtop Mattress Sets. Twin $199, Full or Queen $249, King $449. Call 603-305-9763 See “Furniture” AD. ARIENS 10hp, 28 inch wide, electric start snowblower. $500 or BRO. 387-2900 BLACK powder Jukar Flintlock 45 long riffle $300, Jagar Kentucky Flintlock 44 pistol, $200, Navy Arms 44 revolver $200, All for $600. 875-0363.

CRAFTSMAN Snowblower- 5HP, 22 inch, electric start with cover.

Like new. Cost $500, $250.

528-5202 DRY firewood $240/Cord. Green wood available for $200/cord.

Round wood dry & green. 16-18 cut. Free delivery. 524-9011 FIREWOOD- Approx. half cord, 4ft and 2ft. Oak, maple & ash. $75 707-9365 FIREWOOD : Loads over 3/4 cord, green, cut, split, delivered, $175. STACKED, $200. Call Charlie, 603-455-1112.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

JOHNSTON

MAKITA 10 inch table saw on wheeled stand. Excellent condition. $150. 528-5202 NEW Colpay Overhead Garage Doors. 9ft. X 7ft raised panel, insulated, white. Two for $450.

527-0705 REFRIGERATOR: 25 cu ft. Energystar, $400, Workshop Dustcollector AMT, $175. 630-1296.

SALON EQUIPMENT Full set-up for one person salon, Kaemart & Belvedere, reception desk, wall station, nail station, 3 chairs, dryer chair and shampoo bowl with built-in cabinet, all for $1500. May be sold individually.

744-0200.

SANTA Claus available for your party or home visit. Reasonable rates. 603-930-5222.

SMALL Heating Oil Deliveries: No minimum required. Prompt Service, FREE re-starts.

Benjamin Oil, LLC. 603-731-5980.

WWW.BENJAMINOILLLC.COM TABLE Oak, round, 2 leaves, 4 chairs. $160. Maple coffee table $40. 774-275-0157.

WALTHER TPK-380, black, mags, ammo, holster, reduced to $600.

875-0363.

Furniture AMAZING! Beautiful Queen or Full-sized Mattress/ Box-spring Set. LUXURY-FIRM European Pillow-Top Style. Fabulous Back, Hip and Leg Support, Hospitality A+ Rating! All New Factory Sealed with 10-YR Warranty.

Compare Cost $1095, SELL $249. Can Delivery and Set-up.

603-305-9763

Free DirecTV

Free Installation in ME & NH. 140+ channels at $29.99. NFL Sunday Ticket add $5.

(207)500-3334.

FREE- 27 inch stereo color TV. Excellent picture and sound.

603-387-0533

Seeking a licensed Journeyman or Master Plumber Experience in Residential service and repair, new construction and remodels, and some light commercial.

HVAC experience a definite plus as well as NH Gasfitters license. Professional Work habits Excellent Customer Service Skills Valid Drivers license with Clean Driving Record

Walkway Snow Removal Crew Members Wanted

455-6100

LOG Length Firewood: 7-8 cords, $900. Local delivery. 998-8626.

LICENSED PLUMBER WANTED

Contractors, LLC

Got trees need CA$H?

KERO-SUN Kerosene heater, completely overhauled, works great! $69. Sno-Chief used electric snow shovel, $45. 744-9329

Help Wanted

CBH Landscape

Cut, Split & Delivered $200 per cord,

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FINANCE MANAGER Lakes Region Partnership for Public Health located in Laconia, NH seeks a Finance Manager to oversee, coordinate and manage the financial operations of the organization; reporting to the Executive Director. The organization is a 501©3 non-profit with a $1+ million annual budget and 18 employees. The agency is largely funded by federal and state grants.

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance and a minimum of 5 years experience, including accounting/financial management, spreadsheet software, and strong communication skills (verbal and written). Seeking applicants with experience in grant and fund accounting. Experience with QuickBooks is required.

This is a 20 hours per week position; compensation based on qualifications.

Please send resume, cover letter and compensation requirements to lmorris@lrpph.org

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EXPERIENCED Line Cook, Must Have Breakfast Experience. Apply in person Shooters 190 DW Highway Belmont NH

Lincoln NH CPA firm seeks experienced tax professional for full time seasonal employment with possible year round opportunity. Focus is on individual tax returns, but experience with business returns is a plus. Experience with Ultra Tax CS and QuickBooks preferred.

Please send resume to jrolando@mdccpas.com, fax to 603-745-3312 or mail to: Malone, Dirubbo & Co., P.C. 9 West St. Lincoln, NH 03251

Belmont Elementary School has the following openings for

Special Education Assistants: 2 days per week for 2.5 hours per day.

5 days per week for 5.5 hours per day.

A resume and 3 letters of reference should be submitted to Tonyel M. Berry; Director of Student Services; SAU 80; 58 School Street; Belmont, NH 03220.

A post-offer pre-employment physical and successful completion of a background check are required.

Shaker Regional School District serves the communities of Belmont and Canterbury and is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Newfound Area School District Long Term Substitute for Art We are seeking a long term substitute Art teacher for Newfound Memorial Middle School. The leave will start January 15, 2014 till approximately February 12, 2014. Interested candidates should send a letter of intent, resume and three letters of recommendation by January 3, 2014 to: Eric Chase - Principal Newfound Memorial Middle School 155 North Main St Bristol, NH 03222 Or if you have any questions contact Norma Barney at 744-8162 x: 101 EOE

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Veggie Art Girl and the Habitat for Humanity Sanbornton Public ReStore holding Holiday Open House on Sunday Library hosting Open

HOLDERNESS — Ringing in the holiday season, Veggie Art Girl in Holderness welcomes all for a Holiday Open House on Sunday, December 8. Beginning at 1 p.m. this 5th annual event is free to the public, offering handmade soup, refreshments, live acoustic music, raffles and sales.

“In years past, we have held evening holiday events, but this year we are trying something new,” explains owner Stacey Lucas. “A Sunday afternoon in December seems like the perfect excuse to hang out and listen to great music, sip some cocoa and buy local crafts for great holiday gifts.”

Veggie Art Girl is in its fifth season of business, offering the works of over 30 local artisans.

“We have a little bit of everything,” Lucas continues. “From handmade candles to cards, funky jewelry, a little bit of vintage and my signature handpainted signs and hula hoops, which will all be on sale that day. I will be raffling off one of those giant hula hoop and a couple of pieces of my art.”

A new neighbor to Veggie Art Girl this year is The

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Owner/broker, 524-1234.

Fireside Inn & Suites is looking for a part time Maintenance Assistant. This is a year round, entry level position, weekend and on call availability a must. Some experience in plumbing, carpentry, landscaping, painting a plus as this position is an all-around handyman type of job. We are seeking hard working, reliable, detail oriented persons with the ability to work independently as well as with others. Applicants must show valid driver!s license and pass a background check, they also must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. Please apply in person at 17 Harris Shore Rd. Gilford, NH 03249.

PERSONAL care attendant, Laco nia. Errands and support in the community. Mon & Wed, 4 hours per day. Possible other shifts.

Must be dependable, background checks mandatory. Call Maureen at 603-410-6512

IMMEDIATE OPENING PROPANE DELIVERY REPRESENTATIVE

LACONIA-FEMALE caregiver to provide non-medical services for my wife who has Alzheimer!s.

Services will include but are not limited to personal care, toileting, meal preparation, light housekeeping based on available time.

This is a part-time position, 12:30-5:30 Thursday.-Saturday, Sunday optional. Must be reliable and dependable and be able to transfer 115 pounds. Reliable Transportation a must! Send experience and/or resume to doug.hammond@att.net or phone (978) 807-7470.

LICENSED PLUMBER WANTED Seeking a licensed Journeyman or Master Plumber Experience in Residential service and repair, new construction and remodels, and some light commercial. HVAC experience a definite plus as well as NH Gasfitters license.

Professional Work habits Excellent Customer Service Skills Valid Drivers license with Clean Driving Record Call 603-875-1118 for more details.

PT Bookkeeping & Computer Help needed: Familiar w/uploading onto Ebay & Craigs-List. PDQ 524-1430 .

Pemi Valley Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Newly re-opened in July, the two businesses have found a harmonious balance in working together on events, breaking down the door between the businesses and both offering salvaged goods for creative repurpose.

Typically closed on Sundays, the ReStore will be open during the Holiday Open House for one stop shopping of home renovation supplies, appliances and more.

“We will be offering deep, deep discounts for just those 2 hours,” explains ReStore manager LuAnne Ryall, who plans on coming in to slash prices that day on already marked down goods. “Keep an eye on the ReStore Facebook page for pictures of half price sinks, doors, windows and more that we will be clearing out that day. We’re clearing out and making room for new product.!”

Veggie Art Girl and The Pemi Valley Habitat ReStore will be open on Sunday, Dec. 8 for the Holiday Open House and super sale from 1-3 p.m. Both businesses are located in the plaza at the corners of Rtes. 3 & 175 in Holderness.

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CALL Mike for roof shoveling, snowblowing, scrapping and light hauling. Very reasonably priced.

Fully Insured. 603-455-0214

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SANBORNTON – The community is invited to visit Sanbornton Public Library on Sat., Dec. 14, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the Holiday Open House hosted by the Library Board of Trustees. Enjoy some music and refreshments, talk with staff and board members, and visit with neighbors.

The Library has hung a stocking with care in hopes of gifts of story time supplies (glue sticks, washable markers, and stickers), puzzles and Legos, and gift cards for books and more.

The Library is located at 27 Meetinghouse Hill Road, just off Route 132. Call 286-8288 or visit the website at www.splnh.com. The library staff hopes community members will join the festivities.

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WE buy anything of value from one piece to large estates. Call 527-8070.

Yard Sale GILFORD LARGE INDOOR FLEA MARKET SAT. 8-12 29 GILFORD EAST DR. Anything for every room in your house, and holiday decorations.

LACONIA, 41 Janna Way, Sun, Dec 8th, 8am - 4pm. Garage Sale

Lakeport Community Association Behind Lakeport Fire Station

Christmas at the Freight House Fri. 12/6 5-8 Sat. 12/7 8-2 Inside - Box Car Open

Four students recognized as ‘good citizens’ LACONIA — The Mary Butler Chapter of DAR met on November 18 where the Good Citizen Winners were introduced and honored at the meeting.

The winners include Joe Boles of Belmont High School, Emily Wernig of Gilford High School, John Findlay of Inter-Lakes High School, John Hammond of Laconia High School, and Clark Roberts of Winnisquam Regional High School. The awards Rosalie Babiarz, Regent Mary Butler Chapter DAR, Joe Boles, Emily Wernig, John Findlay, John Hamwere presented by Good mond, Judy Wilson, Chairman of Mary Butler Chapter DAR Good Citizens Program. (Courtesy photo) Citizen Chairman Judy tique, Ironman/Timberman Triathlon, Community Wilson, assisted by Chapter Regent Rosalie Babiarz.

Garden, School Alumni Reunion, and tutoring. He Parents, family members, friends and faculty of the attended St. Paul’s Advanced Studies Program winners were invited to attend the ceremony. during the summer of 2013.

The five seniors were selected by vote of the faculty Winnisquam Regional High School’s DAR Good and senior class of each school for their qualities of Citizen Clark Roberts, is the son of Marcin Roberts of Service, Dependability, Leadership, and Patriotism.

Northfield. Clark is active in Student Council, National Each of the students is an excellent scholar and has Honor Society, class government, football, and spring a record of leadership in school clubs and athletics. track. Treasurer of his class, Clark tutors students of The five winners have also contributed to their comall age groups within his school district. A nine year munities as volunteers on many occasions.

Joe Boles, Belmont High School’s DAR Good Citizen, is member of the Town line 4-H club, he has assisted in the operation of their food stand for the past 6 years. the son of Elizabeth Boles, of Canterbury. Class President Volunteer activities include helping in community from 2010-1013, Joe played varsity soccer, indoor track, and outdoor track all four years of his high school career. soup kitchens, the annual WRHS blood drive, and raking leaves for elderly community members.

In addition to high scholastic performance he started The DAR Good Citizen competition is sponsored his own landscaping business, “JGB Landscaping”. His worldwide by the National Society of the Daughters volunteer efforts were spent as assistant Middle School of the American Revolution. The national winner Basketball Coach, at the Veteran’s Home, at St. Joseph’s will be invited to attend DAR Continental Congress Church and at Youth Soccer. in Washington, D.C. to receive the national award Emily Wernig, a senior at Gilford High School, is of a $3,000 scholarship to be sent to the school of the daughter of Joseph and Jolene Wernig, of Gilthe winner’s choice. To learn more about the work of ford. Emily is a member of the National Honor Socitoday’s DAR, visit www.DAR.org. ety, and the following clubs: Bagel & Book, Amnesty International, Art, Interact, and Red Cross. She participates in field hockey, basketball, outdoor and indoor track. Active in her church as a Sunday School Teacher, she has also traveled to PA, FL, and NJ on Sales & Park three Church Mission Trips, as well as working as a Gilford Youth Center Birthday Party employee.

Used Singlewide John Findlay, of Inter-Lakes High School in Mere14 X 74, 3 bedroom, large deck, dith, is the son of Donna Findlay of Meredith. John’s set up in park on end lot. F-17 passions involve band (clarinet, baritone and alto $12,000 saxophone, drum major), chorus, acting in numerous theatre productions, and working as a member of the Tech Crew. National Honor Society, Destination Imagination, volleyball, track, and Nordic skiing keep him busy as well. His community activities include Shriners Festival of Trees, Inter-Lakes High School Soap Drive, and Friends Assisting Music Education (FAME). He spent the past three summers working at the Interlakes Summer Theatre, See our homes at which was a daunting 78 hours per week. www.pinegardens.mhvillage.com John Hammond, Laconia High School’s DAR Good Citizen, is the son of Valerie Kimball and Gary 6 Scenic Drive Belmont, NH (603) 267-8182 Hammond. His extracurricular activities include: band, soccer, cross country, theatre, Student Council, National Honor Society, debate and math teams, NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING and the following clubs: French, Interact, Key, WoodDecember 19, 2013 working, Hollywood, and Book Club. John volunteers with Streetcar Community Theatre, Kiwanis The Plymouth Planning Board will meet at the Kid’s Bike Safety, Community Center Baby Bou-

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Plymouth Town Hall, 6 Post Office Square on Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. to hold a Public Hearing lic on the following application: 1. Site Plan Review – Riverside Landing LLC for site development on PID 212-046 on Tenney Mtn. Highway in the Agricultural Zone.

More details are available for review in the Planning Office at the Town Hall, 6 Post Office Square, from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday.

Questions? Please contact Sharon Penney, Community Planner at 536-1731 or e-mail her at: spenney@plymouth-nh.org

$139,900 Call Kevin 603-387-7463 88 North, Rt. 132, New Hampton, NH Dir. RT 93 exit #23. Right for 1/2 mile, left at post office for 800’ Mansfield Woods.

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