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City welfare expenditures included 10 cremations By AdAm drApcho THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — When a city resident dies and the family doesn’t have the resources to pay for a proper disposal of the remains, the financial burden falls upon the local welfare office. This time last year, the city began to track such occurrences and John Gardner, the city’s acting welfare director, reported that in the past 12 months the city assisted 10 families with the disposal of a deceased loved one. “We go the cheapest route possible for the city,” he explained. That route is cremation, at $750 each. Ashes are released to the family, the funeral home does not prepare an obituary. The city also finances the far less frequent occur-
rence that a resident dies without having made final arrangements and no living kin can be located by either police or the funeral home . These are referred to as “unclaimed bodies,” of which Gardner said there were no such instances in the past 12 months. Craig Beane of Wilkinson-Beane-SimoneauPaquette Funeral Home in Laconia, said that when a person dies and efforts to locate a relative are unsuccessful, the body is cremated and the funeral home makes an effort to find a suitable home for the ashes. “If they have absolutely no family, we work that out.” In some cases, a caretaker can be found who will accept the ashes, in other cases the ashes can be buried with a relative in a nearby cemetery.
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GILMANTON RESIDENTS & PROPERTY OWNERS Gilmanton is in the process of issuing new decals for the recycling center. The new decals are orange, and will have an expiration date of December 31, 2013. Please make sure you get your new decal as soon as possible, as you will need the new decal to continue to be allowed the use of the facility for trash disposal. Beginning September 1, 2011, there will be a $3.00 (Three Dollar) fee for each decal that is issued to you. New decals must be acquired before January 1, 2012. We will be issuing separate decals to property owners who have land only (no building on property). These decals will be a different color and shape from the regular decals, and will allow the owner to dispose of brush only. The fee for this decal is $3.00 (Three Dollars). We will still issue “temporary” permits. These permits allow a non-property owner or non-resident to dispose of household trash while helping a resident clean up their property, or for a resident who has temporary plates until they can get permanent plates for their vehicle. There will be a $3.00 (Three Dollar) fee for these permits, and will be available only in the Town Clerk’s Office. In an effort to make the process more convenient for our residents and property owners, the new decals are available through the Town Clerk’s Office. Photo ID (i.e. Driver’s license) and registrations are required on the new application. Effective September 1, 2011, decals and additional other chargeable items (which you previously had to pay for at the Recycling Facility) will be available for purchase on line via ACH or credit card on the Recycling Facility Section of the Town website. When prepaying for a chargeable item online, you will need to print an additional receipt from your online transaction at that time to bring with you and present to the Recycling Facility attendant with the item(s) you wish to dispose of. Please see the website for a complete list of chargeable items which you may prepay for online.
LACONIA — The public beach at Opechee Cove was posted as a danger area for swimmers yesterday because of high water bacteria levels. The other beach in Opechee Park, on the point behind the Middle School remains open.
The Parks & Recreation Department reported that it will not go to the expense of taking more tests this season at Opechee Cove because of the high number of waterfowl in the area and cost of the tests. People with questions are asked to call 524-5046.
STOCKS from page 2 fell in July for the third time in four months — more trouble for a housing market that can’t seem to turn itself around. This year is on pace to be the worst since 1997 for home sales. — Manufacturing has sharply weakened in the mid-Atlantic states, according to a report from the Federal Reserve. Manufacturing has been one of the strongest parts of the economy since the recession ended in 2009, but its growth has slowed this year. The manufacturing news was especially bleak on an already bad day, said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at brokerage BTIG. He called the Fed report “an atrocious set of numbers.” “That really set the market on its head,” he said. Wall Street and other financial markets have wrestled for several weeks with fears that a new recession might be in the offing. Morgan Stanley economists said in a report Thursday that the U.S. and Europe are “dangerously close to recession.” “It won’t take much in the form of additional shocks to tip the balance,” they wrote. Worries about European debt also hang over the market. A default by any country would hurt the European banks that hold its bonds, plus American banks that have lent to their European counterparts.
Renewing the fears, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that U.S. regulators are looking at the U.S. arms of big European banks to make sure they have enough money for day-to-day operations. “I don’t want to pretend that the market knows what it’s thinking about too much,” said David Kelly, chief market strategist at JPMorgan Funds. “We live in an environment of sell now and ask questions later.” Asian markets started Thursday’s drop. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index fell 1.3 percent. The main stock indexes in South Korea and India each dropped a little more, then Europe more than that — 4.5 percent in Britain and 5.8 percent in Germany. In the United States, the Dow fell 419.63 points, or 3.7 percent, to 10,990.58. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 53.24, or 4.5 percent, to 1,140.65. The Nasdaq composite fell 131.05, or 5.2 percent, to 2,380.43. The Dow is down 13.6 percent since stocks began falling July 21 — four weeks that have rattled Americans watching their retirement savings and other investment accounts shrivel. Lee Applegate, a retired sales executive from Cincinnati, watched the latest market plunge uneasily but said he was planning to stay the course with his investments. He and his wife have several retirement accounts.
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An Old-Fashioned Tennessee BBQ Celebration of Summer at Hesky Park in Meredith Saturday, August 20, 2011 • Music City’s finest ribs and pulled pork smoked low n’ slow and served lakeside with all the traditional BBQ fixin’s from noon into the evening. • 6:30 p.m. local parade featuring antique and vintage autos from the Granite State Nationals Car Show in Sandwich, NH. • 7:30 p.m. dance at Community Park on Main St. Proceeds benefit the Greater Meredith Program and SVMA. Generously Supported by: Meredith Village Savings Bank; Laconia Harley-Davidson; The Common Man Family; Lakes Region Computer; Aubuchon Hardware.