THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Thursday, November 18, 2010 — Page 5
LETTERS
ICE 1/2 PR R DINNE
State has changed no-wake-zones to anything goes a number of times To the editor, Mr. Chase should be nominated for Safety Commissioner or perhaps Hearings Supervisor due to the fact that the present office holders are opening a can of worms that could go back as much as 50 plus years. They seem to think they can change their minds when someone squawks that they didn’t have time to read the hearing notices in the only statewide newspaper and this malarkey about only residents can sign petitions but anybody in the entire state can file appeals against rulings is a drastic mis-interpretation. Many lake users went to the appeals hearing in Tuftonboro but weren’t allowed to speak unless we were appellants and yet we were told that we all own Lake Winnipesaukee. Something is drastically wrong with this picture. As a boater who uses the “Barber Pole” passage on occasion, I believe someone should get out the measuring stick; the channel is not wide enough to allow two vessels going in opposite, or the same, ways the 450-foot clearance to allow speeds up to 45-mph by the current law, nor does it allow PWC’s the 600 foot clearance to exceed headway speeds. However we were not allowed to bring this information forward during the appeals hearing. There are many areas on the lake that don’t allow these clearances and yet the Safety
Department has changed them from “No-Wake-Zones” to do what ever you please zones a number of times. One that comes to mind is the passage in Glendale between Pig Island and Locke Island that for many years was a “No-Wake-Zone”, at least from 1969 through the late 1970s and then one year it did not appear on the chart due to a typographical error so the Marine Patrol removed the NWZ indicators and now boats literally fly through the area defying the 150 foot separation requirement as well as the need to slow to headway speed. This area is just around the corner from Marine Patrol Headquarters. We might ask who verified the signatures for residency that were supplied, by NH Recreational Boaters Association, on petitions for the Eagle Island NWZ that was put into place a year or three ago ? And why aren’t Center Harbor and Wolfeboro bays as well protected with NWZ’s as are Alton and Meredith bays ? If one of the Department of Safety responsibilities is to provide for the safety of all users of Lake Winnipesaukee when and how, other than college kids riding around in patrol boats, don’t they address these issues rather than waiting for the populace to request some actions that are so glaringly obvious ? Bill Bertholdt Gilford
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the Busiel Mill’s Community Room, located at One Mill Plaza (adjacent to City Hall) in downtown Laconia. (One Mill Plaza is the middle brick structure between the Belknap Mill and Laconia City Hall.) I am asking each of you to send a representative of your business, civic organization, church group, school and youth club to this meeting and be prepared to donate your time on Saturday, November 20 to the cause. I firmly believe that we can pull together to send collection crews to every Hannafords, Shaw’s and Market Basket in the Lakes Region to collect soap. We need local businesses to provide trucking; a warehouse for storage and help and materials to palletize and shrink-wrap the soap. Leave all the reasons why this can’t work behind and bring the one reason why it will work, you! Let’s fill a cargo plane! Kevin Sperl Gilford
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United States of ‘parents”’not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen”. We must remember the past for it surely repeats itself. More often that we would like to admit. We have only to research the election of Hitler and of course Joe Stalin to get hints as to how tyrants get elected. Gene F. Danforth Danbury
petuate itself otherwise than by the children of citizens, those children naturally follow the conditions of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights .... In order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country”. The Fourteenth Amendment states “ that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the
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Lakes Region soap for Haiti drive will get started with meeting tonight To the editor, The people of Haiti are dying for a lot of reasons. The earthquake in January and Hurricane Tomas in November has dealt an already struggling country a severe blow. Now, cholera threatens and more people are dying simply because they have no soap and water to wash their hands. There are many reasons to be discouraged by world events and believe that you can do nothing to help. But, as fellow humans, how can we accept the fact that people, anywhere, are dying simply because they can not wash their hands? This event has pushed me over the edge and I need to do something about it. I need your help. I am announcing a new challenge to the Lakes Region: Wash Their Hands, Save Their Lives. It’s pretty simple. I am asking for help in collecting soap on Saturday, November 20, purchased by our fellow residents, to send to Haiti. There is an organizational meeting tonight, Thursday, November 18, at 6 p.m. in
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