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2 selectmen voted to allow strippers to return to Kings Grant Inn only because they felt they legally had no choice By GAil oBer
THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILFORD — While the owner and comanager of the Lakes Region Cafe & Tavern have secured their town license to operated an “exotic entertainment” dance club and restaurant, the vote was not without controversy. At least two of the selectmen, after making the motion to grant Willard Drew and his business partner Tom Lyons their full live entertainment license, expressed their personal, negative opinions about the operation. “Someone will disagree with some types of businesses,” began Selectman John O’Brien who made the motion to grant Drew his full license see strIPPErs page 8
Monique Lebrecque, of Hermit Brook Farm in Sanbornton, checks on her flock of turkeys. She’s been raising turkeys for Thanksgiving feasts for 21 years. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)
Big week on Sanbornton turkey farm
By AdAm drApcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
SANBORNTON — The last full week before Thanksgiving is always a fretful and busy time for Monique Lebrecque, owner of Hermit Brook Farm. Late November is when she is about to be rewarded for the months of labor and dollars invested into her turkey flock. It’s also the time of year when the predators
of her neck of the woods are instinctively fattening up for the long winter ahead. Black bears are a primary concern, and they’re why she stops allowing the birds to peck throughout her green, grassy fields and keeps them in an enclosure that is secured by wire fencing, an electrified fence and a pair of vigilant Anatolian shepherd guard dogs. “The last two weeks is when I’ve lost
the most of them,” she said. But, with no breaches of security this year, she was happy to begin the processing of her flock at the end of the last week prior to Thanksgiving. Each of her 200 birds will be slaughtered on site by herself. Each bird will be dispatched, defeathered, placed in a chill tank to cool it down, then eviscerated, back in the chill tank, then see turKEy page 11
Hosmer & Forrester confident health insurance for near-poor will get done By michAel Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
CONCORD — Although the effort to expand Medicaid ran aground in the New Hampshire Senate on Thursday, the two senators from the Lakes Region — Democrat Andrew
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Hosmer of Laconia and Republican Jeanie Forrester of Meredith — believe that a compromise will be reached and the program will go forward. “It was the timing we got stuck on,” Hosmer said yester-
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remarked Forrester. “It didn’t work, but I believe we can make it work.” Republicans and Democrats agreed on a plan that would use federal funds to enable some 50,000 residents see MEdICaId page 10