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Ala. plans to close most hospitals for mentally ill

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ATLANTA (NY Times) — Alabama will shut down most of its mental health hospitals by the spring of 2013 in a sweeping plan to cut costs and change how the state’s psychiatric patients receive treatment, state officials announced on Wednesday.

The decision to close four hospitals and lay off 948 employees is a bleak reminder of Alabama’s shrinking budget. But it is also the latest example in a longstanding national effort among states to relocate mentally ill patients from government hospitals to small group homes and private hospitals. Mental health advocates believe patients often get better care in smaller, less isolating facilities. Since the 1990s, Alabama has closed 10 other mental health treatment centers.

“What’s unusual is how many hospitals in Alabama are being closed so fast,” said Bob Carolla, a spokesman for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “The trend has been to downsize much more gradually.”

By May 2013, the state plans to have two remaining state mental health hospitals, one for criminal suspects and another for geriatric patients.

Nearly all of the 524 other mentally ill patients will get treatment at group homes and community centers, which are less expensive and give more freedom, state officials say.

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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested a man who allegedly was headed to the United States Capitol for what he thought would be a suicide bombing, authorities said. The man had been under surveillance for some time, an agency spokesman said, and was never a danger to the public.

The F.B.I. spokesman confirmed the outlines of an account of the man’s arrest that was first reported Friday by Fox News. The network said the man was in his 30s and of Moroccan descent, and had prayed at a mosque in the Washington area. Fox said he was arrested en route to

the Capitol with a vest packed with what he thought was explosives.

The man had been under surveillance, however, and the people he thought were assisting him on behalf of Al Qaeda were secretly working for the F.B.I., the report said. They had provided the vest, and the bomb it concealed was inert.

Paul Bresson, the F.B.I. spokesman, said he was unable to provide many details about the incident or the suspect’s identity because no papers had yet been filed in court. He said more information would be released once that happened, likely later on Friday.

Congress to sell public airwaves to pay benefits

WASHINGTON (NY Times) — The need for revenue to partly cover the extension of the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits has pushed Congress to embrace a generational shift in the country’s media landscape: the auction of public airwaves now used for television broadcasts to create more wireless Internet systems.

If a compromise bill completed Thursday by Congress is approved as expected by this weekend, the result will eventually be faster connections for smartphones, iPads and other data-hungry mobile devices. The measure would be a rare instance of the government compensating private companies with the proceeds from an auction of public property — broadcast licenses — once given free.

The auctions would also further the Obama administration’s broadband expansion plans and create a nationwide communications network for emergency workers that would allow police, fire and other responders from different departments and jurisdictions to talk to each other directly.

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Payroll tax vote preempts Shaheen’s visit to Kennett

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into the pockets of the average New Hampshire middle-class family. That will inject an extra $600 million into our state’s economy, which will help small businesses gain new customers and hire more employees.

“This extension is not perfect,” she added. “Like many, I am concerned about the growth in our long-term deficits. I would have preferred if this temporary tax relief could have been achieved as part of comprehensive tax reform and a balanced deficit reduction plan that puts everything on the table. But our first priority must be the economy. The middle class tax cut, unemployment benefits and Medicare payments contained in this bill move our economy in the right direction while ensuring those still struggling are not left behind.”

“We’re definitely rescheduling,” Moylan said. “I know Senator Shaheen was looking forward to the visit as we were. We’re looking for a date that works in March.”

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CONWAY — An emergency vote on the payroll tax curtailed Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s planned visit to Kennett High School to discuss the robotics program yesterday morning. She has vowed to reschedule and hopes to meet with the students next month.

“I think we were all a little bummed,” Neal Moylan, principal of Kennett High, said, Thursday evening after just receiving word from Shaheen’s office. “The Senate was called back into session and the senator was needed to vote on the payroll tax.”

The Senate passed by a vote of 60-36 a $150 billion economic package extending a payroll tax holiday for 160 million workers and extending unemployment benefits for the rest of the year Friday morning. Having passed the House earlier that day, the legislation now goes to President Obama’s desk for his signature.

“Getting our economy moving again is my top priority, and a full-year extension of these provisions is a crucial part of getting that done,” Shaheen said in release about the vote.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Cupcake Battle. Valley Promotions will host its second Annual Cupcake Battle at Your Theatre in North Conway. Twenty bakers from throughout the area will supply a display and 15 dozen miniature cupcakes of the same flavor, to be judged by those in attendance. Admission is $10. Guests will sample a cupcake from each participant then drop their ticket in a ballot box for the baker they believe to be best. Doors open from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Votes will be collected at 4 p.m. and the winner announced at 4:30 pm. This is a fund-raising event for Mount Washington Valley Promotions. For more information call Lisa DuFault at (603) 374-6241 or emailed to valleypromotions@ gmail.com.

Spin For the Heart Spin-a-thon.

Instructors and riders of Winnipesaukee Indoor Cycling, LLC, will hold “Spin For The Heart,” a 12-hour Spin-a-thon, to benefit

the American Heart Association. This event will take place from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm, at Winnipesaukee Indoor Cycling, located in the Durgin Stables building, 15 North Main Street, in Wolfeboro, behind The Country Bookseller. For more information, to register for the “Spin For The Heart” Spin-athon, or to tour the facility and see a class in action, call 651-7040 or visit www.winnipesaukeeindoorcycling.com.

Carbon Leaf. Carbon Leaf will perform at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in Fryeburg, Maine at 7:30 p.m. For more informational call the box office at (207) 935-9232 or visit www.fryeburgacademy.org/pac.

‘MOMologues’ Auditions. Arts in Motion Theater Company and director Mary Bastoni-Rebmann are holding auditions for “MOMologues,” a hilarious comedy about the ups and downs of pregnancy and motherhood at 11 a.m. in the basement of the Church of the Nativity on the

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corner of Main and Seavey Street in North Conway. There are roles for four woman ages 20 to mid-40s. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script, which will be made available soon through the Arts in Motion website and Facebook page. The show will be performed as a Mother’s Day event on May 11, 12 and 13. There may be a possibility of an extended run. For more information visit www.ArtsinMotionTheater. com.

February $1 A Bag Sale. The Thrift Shop of the Lovell United Church of Christ on Route 5 in Center Lovell, Maine have a dollar-a-bag sale throughout the month of February. Shop hours are Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon.

‘Glengarry Glen Ross.’ M&D Productions is presenting David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” at 7:30 p.m. at Your Theatre at Willow Common in North Conway. For more information and tickets call 662-7591 or visit www.yourtheatre. com.

Mushers Bowl Sled Dog Races. Sled dog races will be held today and tomorrow at Five Field Farm in South Bridgton, Maine. Up to 50 sled dog teams from the Down East Sled Dog Club will compete for points in races sanctioned by the International Sled Dog Racing Association. For more information go to www.MaineLakesMushersBowl.com, or call the Chamber at (207) 647-3472.

Flamingo Flocking. Flamingo Flocking Is Back. Running through Feb. 26, the Pink Flamingo Patrol will be out in our community planting one or more flamingos in local yards, as a fund-raising event to benefit

Jen’s Friends Cancer Foundation. Visit JensFriends.org for more information or call Ruthann Fabrizio at 374-2434 or Corinne Reidy at (978) 376-9886.

Family Snowshoe Program. Learn the four basic track patterns and enjoy the morning outside with family during Tin Mountain’s winter tracks family snowshoe program 10 a.m. to noon, at the Rockwell Sanctuary in Albany. Families of all ages are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Donations of $5 per family are suggested.

For more information call 447-6991 or visit www.tinmountain.org.

GET WET! Training. Green Mountain Conservation Group will host a training GET WET! training for teachers and volunteers from 9 a.m. to noon at the Freedom Public Library. The training will involve a live Skype session with creator of the program Teresa Thornton, in order to better understand this new program. Following the training, there will be time to ask questions and set the classroom schedule for the upcoming program. Volunteers are needed to help students at both Ossipee Central School and Sandwich Central School on testing day, and on a follow up research day, both to take place in the classroom. The dates volunteers will be needed in the classroom will be determined at the training on Feb. 18.

For more information on the GET WET! program or to volunteer call 539-1859 or email gmcgnh-wqm@roadrunner.com.

Animal Tracking at Pondicherry Park.

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from preceding page Pondicherry Park beginning at 9 a.m. The group will search for animal sign and identify the tracks they find along our way. Hikers should wear appropriate winter clothing, bring snacks, water and snowshoes (a few pairs will be available upon request). Meet Loon Echo staff at the Bob Dunning Memorial Bridge kiosk adjacent to the Depot Street parking lot behind the Magic Lantern Theater at 8:45 a.m. Everyone is welcome. Find out more about Loon Echo by visiting www.loonecholandtrust.org. For more information about hikes, other Loon Echo events, or to reserve snowshoes, contact Jon Evans at jon@lelt.org or call (207) 647-4352.

Contra Dance. A Conway Contra Dance will be held at Tin Mountain Nature Center on Bald Hill Road in Albany.

There will be a potluck supper starting at 6:30 p.m., with the dance starting promptly at 7:30 p.m. and running through 9:30 p.m. Music will be by The Davis Hill Duo, with local stars Peter Kimball on guitar and Ellen Schwindt on fiddle.

Byron Ricker will be calling the dance. This dance series is family friendly and comfortable for the new or novice dancer. Acoustic sit in musicians are more than welcome.

Experienced and beginner dancers welcome; all dances will be taught. Call (207) 625-3334 or (603) 447-2295 for more information. In case of bad weather, call (207) 625 3334 or check out our FaceBook page “Conway Contra Dance” for information on cancellations, which will be posted by 3 p.m. on dance day.

Madison Church Supper. The Madison Church Supper will be held at the Madison Elementary School on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 5:30 p.m. The cos tis $8 for adults and $3 for children under 12. The meal will include homemade baked beans, ham, salads, rolls, brown bread, and an assortment of pie for dessert. For more information call 367-4705.

Family Fun Fish Day. Fryeburg Fish & Game Association is holding and sponsoring a “Family Fun Fish Day” 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, on the ice of Lovewell Pond in Fryeburg, Maine, off the landing on Fish and Game Road. No fishing license is required as it falls on a Free Fishing weekend held a couple of times a year sanctioned by the Maine department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (www. maine.gov/ifw). The event is free including breakfast sandwiches and lunch provided by Fryeburg Fish & Game. For more information contact club president Jim Holt at (207) 935-2625.

Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous is meeting at the Gibson Center in North Conway from 8 to 9 p.m.

Al-anon. Al-anon Family Group meets every Saturday from 8 to 9:15 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church on Whittier Road in Tamworth.

a.m. and at the Conway Village Congregational Church on Main Street in Conway Village, from 7 to 8 p.m.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 AMC Program: Seasons of the White Mountains.

Take a visual journey along trails, brooks and beautiful vistas of the White Mountains through each season of the year at 8 p.m. at the Appalachian Mountain Club Pinkham Notch Visitor Center. Join Dave Smith for his two part program; “History of the White Mountains” chronicles three popular historical stories: The legends of Mount Chocorua, Darby Field and the Willey Family.

These three subjects are at the beginning in the middle and at the end of the presentation, and in between Smith will add other historical events that took place in the time of the early settlers in New Hampshire. The program is free and open to the public. For more information call 466-272 or visit www.outdoors.org.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 ‘MOMologues’ Auditions. Arts in Motion Theater Company and director Mary Bastoni-Rebmann are holding auditions for “MOMologues,” a hilarious comedy about the ups and downs of pregnancy and motherhood at 11 a.m. in the basement of the Church of the Nativity on the corner of Main and Seavey Street in North Conway. There are roles for four woman - ages 20 to mid-40s. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script, which will be made available soon through the Arts in Motion website and Facebook page. The show will be performed as a Mother’s Day event on May 11, 12 and 13. There may be a possibility of an extended run. For more information visit www.ArtsinMotionTheater.com.

Benefit for the Brownfield Public Library. The Sensations will be performing live at the “One Day BPL Cafe” from 2 to 5 p.m. at Brownfield Public Library at 216 Main Street in Brownfield, Maine. The fund-raiser will include music and a bake sale. For more information call (207) 935-3003 or visit www.brownfieldlibrary.com.

Flamingo Flocking. Flamingo Flocking Is Back. Running through Feb. 26, the Pink Flamingo Patrol will be out in our community planting one or more flamingos in local yards, as a fund-raising event to benefit Jen’s Friends Cancer Foundation. Visit JensFriends.org for more information or call Ruthann Fabrizio at 603-374-2434 or Corinne Reidy at (978) 376-9886.

Life and Work at the Mount Washington Observatory.

Every hour, Mount Washington Observatory meteorologists venture into the elements to measure and record weather data—even when temperatures drop well below zero and winds exceed 100 mph! Using videoconferencing technology to connect live to the Observatory’s mountaintop weather station, find out what it takes to get the job done from the real men and women living and working in the “Home of the World’s Worst Weather.” Mount Washington Observatory is offering this free family-oriented evening program at 7 p.m. at its Weather Discovery Center science museum in downtown North Conway.For more information visit MountWashington.org.

Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners. Alcoholics Anonymous beginners meetings are every Sunday at Memorial Hospital in the walk-in clinic from 3 to 4 p.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous is meeting at the Gibson Center in North Conway from 10 to 11:15

Foundation. Visit JensFriends.org for more information or call Ruthann Fabrizio at 603-374-2434 or Corinne Reidy at (978) 376-9886.

Conway Public Library Closed. The Conway Public Library is closed in observation of President’s Day. For more information call 447-5552.

North Conway Public Library Closed. The North Conway Public Library will be closed on Presidents’ Day. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday from 12 to 5 p.m.

Regular hours for the library are: Monday and Tuesday noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday noon to 6 p.m., Friday noon to 5 p.m. For more information, please call the library at 356-2961.

Alcoholics Anonymous. Every Monday, Alcoholics Anonymous meets at the Conway Methodist Church Hall on Main Street in Conway Village from noon to 1 p.m., the Women’s group meets at First Church of Christ, North Conway, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and at the Gibson Center in North Conway from 8 to 9 p.m.

Conway Dinner Bell. A full-course home-cooked community dinner is served every Monday from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Brown Church in Conway Village. The dinner is open to all. To volunteer or for more information call 447-8407 or e-mail mcpond1@hotmail.com.

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an Eastern Interclub Ski League Race and NATO Telemark Clinic March 4. Black features aprés ski at the Lostbo Pub daily throughout vacation week from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The lineup includes: Feb. 18, Chad Verbeck; Feb. 19, Jeff Conley; Feb. 20, Jonatahn Sarty; Feb. 21, Kevin Dolan; Feb. 22, Mountain Dew apres party; Feb. 23, Kristin Corrigan; Feb. 24, Ryan St. Onge; an Feb. 25, Evan Goodrow. Next door, the Shovel Handle Pub at Whitneys’ Village Inn features fine dining and intimate acoustic music.Check out the Family Passport and great food at the cafeteria.

• Bretton Woods (278-3320; 87 trails, six lifts and Midway Terrain Park): February Fun Break offers night skiing Feb. 17 through Feb. 25 until 8 p.m. (Night skiing is featured the rest of the season Fridays and Saturdays through March 11). Other events scheduled include the Bretton Woods’ Adaptive Program’s Winter Blast Feb. 18 (278-3398). On Feb. 24, Bretton Woods presents its Friday Night

Freestyle jam sessions for skiers and riders of all ages. Apres ski entertainment is also highlighted throughout vacation week, with Lauren Smoken Feb. 18 and DJ Brian Sparhawk Feb. 19.

• Cranmore Mountain Resort (356-5543; 44 trails and six lifts; three terrain parks): Cranapalooza vacation week events will feature fireworks at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18 (featuring a Hollywood theme, a live animal demonstration from Wildlife Encounters, and live music from Jeff Conley), and Feb. 25 (Halloween theme; the event will also feature music from Josh Cramoy and entertainment from BoBo the Clown). A special vacation week Cranaplaooza is set for Wednesday, Feb. 22, featuring a Mardi Gras theme with children’s entertainer Marcus Gale, live music and fireworks at 6:30 p.m.

Cranmore will be open for skiing and riding until 6 p.m. nightly from Feb. 18 through 25. The resort’s Mountain Adventure Park will be open until 9 p.m., Feb. 17 through 25, featuring the snow tubing park, mountain coaster and giant swing. The new Indoor Adventure Zone is also open until 9 p.m. during

that period. For those visiting during N.H. School Vacation Week (Feb. 27 through March 1), the park will be open for additional hours Monday through Thursday, 1 to 9 p.m.

Cranmore now offers the KidsRule Mountain Camps at the Arlberg Children’s Center.

Cranmore hosts a fireworks Cranapalooza March 3 (fiesta theme, as part of the MWV Chamber of Commerce’s Chilly Chili Fest and Chilly Stroll in downtown North Conway that day), and holds its last of the season Cranapalooza March 10 (‘80s theme).

Apres ski this week includes: Pete Kilpatrick Feb. 19; Bill Cameron Feb. 20; The Zacalys Feb. 21; Red Gallagher Feb. 23; and the Jeremy Dean Band Feb. 24.

Upcoming events in early March include: EMS Randonee Night Tour March 2, a social nighttime ski tour presented by EMS, and the New England Ski Museum’s Hannes Schneider Meister Cup March 3, a celebration of ski history with a silent auction, ice carving, a vintage attire costume parade and recreational race. It ends with a ski history program at the Eastern Slope Inn at 9:30 a.m. March 4.

To register, call 823-7177.

• King Pine (367-8896; all 17 trails and five lifts; terrain park): Night skiing is featured at King Pine every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, and nightly during vacation week, Feb. 17 through Feb. 25.

Winter Carnival Week 1 is set for Feb. 18 through 25, and Week 2 is scheduled for Feb. 26 through March 4. Events include a silly slalom and belly bag race (Feb. 21 and 28), a family challenge race (Feb. 22 and 29), a gold rush with candy goodies on the mountain (Feb. 23 and March 1), scavenger hunts on the mountain (Feb. 19) and a day with Slugger the Portland Sea Dogs’ mascot, March 3.

A fireworks display lights up the skies at King Pine Feb. 23 at 9:15 p.m. A torchlight parade for kids is set for March 2 at 8:55 p.m. King Pine’s ski and snowboard camps are slated for Feb. 20 through Feb. 25, and Feb. 27 through March 2. A winter tradition see next page

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at King Pine and Purity Spring Resort since 1939, the camps offer a full week of fun for skiers and riders ages 8-16.

Apres ski for the week includes Becky Chace Feb. 18 and Mitch Alden Feb. 25 and March 3.

• Shawnee Peak (207-647-8444; 37 trails, five lifts): Night skiing is featured at Shawnee Peak (207-6478444), Mondays through Saturdays, as well as on Sunday, Feb. 19. Among the week’s highlights are Shawnee Peak’s 24th annual Family Fest Feb. 23 and a telemark ski clinic Feb. 24.

Ski school three-day adventure camps are being offered for children and women’s clinics.

Entertainment at Blizzard’s Pub includes the Kennebunk River Band Feb. 18; Patrick Rune Feb. 19; and Bill Cameron Feb. 25.

• Wildcat (466-3326; 47 trails and two lifts; Lower Catapult Terrain Park): Wildcat and Attitash are now both owned by Peak Resorts and offer many interchangeable tickets.

Events for February vacation week include an EMS Demo Tour featuring the latest in alpine touring gear Feb. 18; a Kastle Skis Demo Day Feb. Feb. 21, a Cardboard “Kitty Litter” Box Race Feb. 21; a Nine Lives Lunch Tray Luge Feb. 22; an WXRV Ski & Ride Team Wildcat Pub Party Feb. 25, and a Sunday Acoustic Jam with Bill Cameron Feb. 26.

Spring is the best time of the year at the ‘Cat, where spring skiing and riding is a celebrated tradition. Early March highlights include an Ability Plus Sk-a-thon March 3, and the ninth annual 100,000 Vertical Foot Challenge to benefit Make-A-Wish of New Hampshire March 12.

Cross country Ski touring highlights include: • Bear Notch Ski Touring and Snowshoe Center (374-2277; 60k open): Guided snowshoe tours and lessons by

appointment. “Even though Mother Nature has been stingy with the natural snow, we have ski conditions that rival good winters. If you are looking for excellent cross-country conditions, we have them,” notes Doug Garland of the down-home Bartlett ski touring center that has many trails along the scenic Saco River and in the Bartlett Experimental Forest. Be sure to try the great homemade soup and fresh baked bread.

• Bretton Woods XC (278-3322; 100k; tubing hill): Located on the grounds of the Omni Mount Washington Resort and bordering the White Mountain National Forest, Bretton Woods Cross Country Center offers wooded scenic terrain in the shadow of the Northern Presidentials. Bretton Woods presents a moonlight tour March 5; the New England Ski Museum’s Nordic Classical Marathon March 10, and the 38th annual Mount Washington Cup Nordic 14k Freestyle Race March 11.

• Great Glen Trails Outdoor Center (466-2333; tubing hill; SnowCoach tours; 18k tracked and 18k skate groomed; 45k for snowshoeing): A beautiful center located at the base of Mount Washington and the Mount Washington Auto Road, Great Glen offers terrain for all abilities. GGT presents a moonlit snowshoe tour Feb. 18 and March 9, skiing with a naturalist Feb. 19, its Penguins and Polar Bears kids camp sessions Feb. 20 through 24, a Family Snow Day Feb. 25, the TD Bank New England Bill Koch Festival March 3, the Carl Johnson Memorial Ski-a-thon March 10; and the Granite State Snowshoe Championships March 11. All eyes at GGT will be watching on March 7, when Muddy Paw Sled Dog Kennel staff and dog teams attempt a historic ascent of the Mount Washington Auto Road. see next page

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• The Jackson Ski Touring Center (383-9355; 86k tracked and skate-groomed; 132.9k open including back country): Come immerse yourself in the Nordic skiing culture of the picturesque village of Jackson. The world-renowned JSTF offers guided snowshoe walks Saturdays, Thom’s Amazing Wax Clinics Mondays, Tuesday Trekkers and Friday Gliders. Be sure the always popular Ellis River beginner trail or for more experienced skiers, the undulating Wave.

• King Pine Nordic Preserve (367-8896; 22k of skate and tracked trails): King Pine offers Audubon snowshoe tours Saturdays at 2 p.m. — meet at the Mill

Fitness Center. Other amenities at King Pine include alpine skiing, tubing, terrain park and Saturday evening sleigh rides (Saturdays from 7 to 9 p.m.).

• MWV Ski Touring and Snowshoe Center (3569920 ): For the weekend, MWVSTA is offering 35k of skate-groomed and 15k of double-tracked terrain in Whitaker Woods and the Intervale network. Guided snowshoe walks Saturdays at 1 p.m. The undisputed sweetest event of the year returns Feb. 26, when the MWVSTA presents its 23rd annual inn-to-inn Chocolate Festival. Chocoholics cross-country ski or snowshoe the trails — or take an afternoon shuttle — to enjoy chocolate prepared every way imaginable.

For updates, visit www.skinh.com or www.skimaine.com.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

The Ham Ice Arena (447-5886) will offer extended public skating all February vacation week, as well as stick-and-puck sessions for hockey players. Helmets are required for those sessions and full equipment is recommended. Rental ice skating equipment is available at the Ham. Skating is also offered at King Pine Ski Area (3678896) in East Madison, at the Nestlenook Farm and Estate (383-7101) in Jackson, and at the outdoor rink (weather permitting) in North Conway Village’s Schouler Park.

For a fun outing with children, be sure to visit the Mount Washington Valley Children’s Museum (3562992). Another great place for families to visit is the Mount Washington Observatory’s Weather Discovery Center (356-2137).

Also not to be missed are Tin Mountain Conservation Center’s Nature Center (447-6991) in Albany, the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Pinkham Notch Visitor Center (466-2727) and Highland Center (2784453) in Crawford Notch, or the Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm (323-7591).

Sleigh rides are offered at King Pine (367-8896), the Farm by the River (356-6640) in North Conway, the Omni Mount Washington Resort (278-1000) in Bretton Woods and the Nestlenook Estate and Resort (383-7101) in Jackson.

For a new way to see the mountains, try Great Glen Trails (4662333) Outdoor Center’s SnowCoach rides up the Mount Washington Auto Road.

SHAHEEN from page three

remarks about her STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) legislation, the importance of STEM education and how the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics program is an important tool in educating students about the STEM subjects.

The Eagles quickly regrouped and made the most of Friday, coming up with Black and White Day for the students and faculty to celebrate the school’s colors and the success of its winter sports team.

Moylan said a White Out was planned for last night’s big hockey game at Ham Ice Arena.

Fans were encouraged to wear white to show their support for Kennett in its rematch of last year’s state championship hockey game against Somersworth.

The Eagles entered the game as the lone unbeaten boys’ or girls’ high school hockey team in the state.

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Week

IN REVIEW

Feb. 11-17, 2012

DIGEST OF STORIES IN THE SUN THIS WEEK

Saturday, Feb. 11 * North Conway has been named one of the World's 25 Best Ski Towns, according to National Geographic. * Lawmakers halt installation of two huge pellet boilers for the county's new nursing home pending proof that the county commission had the authority to award a $375,000 bid for the work. * M&D Productions takes home three awards at the 10th annual N.H. Theater Awards in Manchester.

Tuesday, Feb. 14 * William Ramsey is found not guilty to attempted murder but guilty of four other charges, including kidnapping and second-degree assault, in connection with a 2010 assault against his then-girlfriend. * North Conway Village Association is pressing members to weigh in on what to do about streetlights at Tuesday's selectmen's meeting. * It's State Meet week, and Kennett High is poised to win several team and individual championships. * An Ashland man dies in a two-car crash on Route 16 in Tamworth.

Wednesday, Feb. 15 * Most Bartlett teachers will be getting $2,700 pay raises next year if voters approve a proposed two-year union contract. * The Blue Loon's "flex-route" bus service provided just 50 rides in the month of January, and some lawmakers are questioning whether the number of riders justifies the expense. * Lawmakers vote to move forward with installation of wood-pellet boilers for the new county nursing home. * Kennett High girls win the state alpine championship at Cranmore.

Thursday, Feb. 16 * Walmart is taking the initial steps for a possible major expansion of its North Conway store. Conceptual plans call for a 50,000-square-foot addition to the current 100,000-square-foot building. * Voters at a public hearing Thursday will discuss whether Madison School District should withdraw from

Lucas Tinkham and the Kennett boys’ alpine team repeated as state champions at Waterville Valley Thursday. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)

SAU 13 and rejoin SAU 9. * Local Realtors saw signs of improvement in the real estate market in 2011 and are hopeful the trend will continue in 2012. * Kennett High boys' cross-country team caps off an undefeated season by finishing in a tie for first in the state championships, and Kennett skiers win four individual titles.

Friday, Feb. 17 * A group of elected officials with strong ties to the school have submitted a petition to strip the budget committee of most of its power, but it's unclear if the move is

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IN REVIEW Tele-Talk

Should the budget committee continue to have the power to change budgets, or should it be an advisory board only?

A petition has been submitted proposing to strip the Conway budget committee of most of its power and make it an advisory board only. The petition was submitted by school board member Syndi White. "Over the past few years we have seen the budget committee try to micromanage all departments in town," White said, adding that the change being proposed would prevent "a small rogue group of extremists from destroying the quality of this town." However, budget committee chair David Sordi said the committee provides an important oversight function and that reducing its role would be a "disservice to this town." Still to be determined is whether the petition is legal and will make to the ballot in April.

This week's question is: Should the budget committee continue to have the power to change budgets, or should it be an advisory board only?

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Some of the comments posted on The Conway Daily Sun’s Facebook page this past week: Walmart may be expanding. Would you like to see a Super Walmart in North Conway?

“I’d rather see a Market Basket come.” — Terry Moscone “Maybe it’s too late for North Conway, but many communities sell their souls to big box stores and become generic towns without a real identity. Also, Walmart has a long history of mistreating workers, does not provide that many jobs, sucks money away from locally-owned business and puts local stores out of business.

Dollars spent on cheap stuff at Walmart do not stay in the community. Cheap stuff from overseas sweat shops may seem like a bargain, but at what cost to our quality of life? If you want the story of a town that beat back the largest retailer in the world, google Damariscotta, Maine and The existing Walmart is about 100,000 square feet. A 50,000-square-foot addiWalmart.” — Steve Cartwright tion is proposed. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO) “No. Absolutely not. Walmart is already a huge gets worse every month. Big box stores strip towns of their scar on the face of North Conway and expanding charm and character, and destroy locally-owned small would only make that bigger.” — Ashleigh Nash businesses. Is this really what we want for our commu“I would much rather see a Target replace it entirely.” — nity?” — Syndi Glod White Kelli Quint Airey “I try to avoid shopping at Walmart as much as possible.

“Yes, but would also like to see Target, Kohls, Bed, Bath I’ve found things for less money elsewhere. The prices, to and Beyond. So tired of traveling to go shopping. And a me, are the same or more there.They get everyone to shop Market Basket would be awesome!” — Peg Sanborn Ross there at the beginning and then they slowly raise the prices “No, I like that it’s small an you can get in and out easily. on everything.” — Lisa Weaver They replaced our small Walmart here in Ohio and I never “One has only to look at Gorham to see what happens go. Too overwhelming. No!” — Christy Faber Quigley when Super Walmart comes to town. People from Coos “No. The Walmart we have is sufficient enough for the drive to North Conway to buy decent food — the ones who needs of the people who live in the valley. I’m sure we have can afford to. This Walmart was built on wetlands, after getall noticed how they do try to cram more and more in the ting all kinds of fudged permits and tax breaks. Will that be space they have but honestly, did we ever need them to the case this time around?” — Susan Bruce begin with? While it might cut down on shopping time, “Seems like the right thing to do, unless you would like to there is little there that I can’t get from another store. What see another hotel, fast-food restaurant, low-income housI regret most is the beautiful piece of land that used to ing developments, or convenience store among the many be there before Walmart came. What will happen if they other useless business. Now, speaking of department stores, expand? More of the Redstone forest will be cut down?” face it, this is all we have so why not improve it. Although — Sharla Bailey their prices may not be the best, that is why shoppers need “Their quality has gone from bad to worse yet their prices to educate themselves with what they are buying. If you have been going up along with everyone else’s. I keep don’t like Walmart’s wages that they pay their employees, saying Walmart is getting a little too ‘big for their britches.’” or you don’t like their policies, go somewhere else, but for — Jennifer Andruzzi now this is all we have and is fairly affordable to the people “Those big box stores are all evil — and Walmart is the of Mount Washington Valley.” — Kristen Martin devil. People, wake up. They are sucking your souls. Shop “If they do anything with the Walmart site they should small locally owned businesses if you want to support local come up with better entrance and exit access. Conway’s people.” — Stan Carte strict “one style fits all” regulations on access has created a “I would love to support my town by shopping at small, rat’s nest at the end of the drive. When traffic is even modlocally-owned stores. So where’s the pharmacy? Or the erate, the northbound cars come from three directions and clothing store that isn’t appealing to the tourists with high never let up enough to allow anyone to exit, and the southprices? Or the locally-owned shoe store so I can get my bound traffic is heading for the 302 lights two lanes wide kids decent, affordable shoes? Locally-owned here is a (ignoring the left-turn-only signs) at 40-plus miles an hour. tourist attraction and prices are meant for them, not us.” — It gets to the point where people exiting Walmart resort Annmarie Chavez to desperation and danger to get out. There needs to be a “We need to think of ways to support our local busisecond exit, perhaps onto the side road that used to go to nesses before they are all eaten up by corporate giants Settlers’ Green.” — Brian Gillette like Walmart. Have you seen all the empty store fronts? It

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The Winter’s Tale DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa seems like scorched earth today, and not only because there has been an unusual drought of snow this winter.

The caucuses are over; the candidates are gone.

But a sense of anxiety, even embarrassment, lingers.

Part of the extensive unease here comes from the bungled election count. Iowans and people across the country went to bed that Tuesday night last month thinking that former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts had prevailed, winning a vital political contest that had eluded him four years earlier. Then it emerged that the actual winner was former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, whose great strength so far has been in states contiguous to this one.

Part of the anxiety comes from the shrillness of the campaign rhetoric, which was discordant in this state of unusually high literacy and unusually good manners. The combative language that began here has continued, maybe even grown more coarse, as the contest has moved east, then south and then west. Party leaders across the nation worry that the sticks and stones of winter could end up hurting the Republicans in autumn.

And part of it is the sense of helplessness some Republicans feel as the debate veers out of control.

The party seems to lack ballast, if not balance; one of the principal challengers seems more set on personal revenge and personal redemption than to have the party prevail in November; and the front-runner's campaign seems rooted more in its sense of political inevitability than in its ideological irresistibility. Indeed, 70 percent of those who voted for Romney in the Nevada caucuses said their top priority was his electability.

And so, if the country — with a president with vulnerable poll ratings and an opposition party with no rudder or gyroscope — seems to have a case of political influenza, the seasonal flu seems particularly virulent here.

"Apparently the confusion that occurred with the caucus count happens all the time and it doesn't matter because the caucus results aren't close," says Barbara Trish, a Grinnell College political scientist.

"But this year it was close, and it mattered. We know that this, after all, is a party event, not an election, and there aren't the kind of formalized proceedings you see when a state runs a primary, but it still was embarrassing. At the same time, some of the campaigning turned people off. Activists weren't impressed with the field and were alienated by the fighting and the language."

Sociologists might describe The Winter's Tale here in Iowa and the GOP conundrum across the country as anomie — a social instability or personal unrest growing out of a breakdown of standards or the absence of purpose. It is particularly pervasive here, where Matt Strawn, the Republican Party leader, has stepped down amid criticism, particularly strong among conservatives, that the party was reluctant, and then late, to announce Santorum's triumph.

Beyond providing early political tests in unusually homogeneous settings, Iowa and New Hampshire share many qualities. They both are jealous of their positions at the front of the political parade and exceedingly vigilant about preserving their prerogatives. Iowans, both Republicans and Democrats, are worried that the fumbled January vote count, the lengthy recount, tardy announcement of the new results and the tawdry nature of the campaign could endanger the pre-eminent role the caucuses have played for more than a third of a century.

Any re-evaluation of the place of Iowa inevitably would raise the question of the pre-eminence of New Hampshire. Nobody is ready to touch that issue right now -but almost everybody, including candidates past and present, has been critical of the incivility of the Republican race thus far.

"This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the American people and not worthy of this critical time in our nation's history. This is the most important election of our lifetime," former Gov. Jon Huntsman of Utah said in his endorsement of Romney just before the South Carolina primary.

"The current toxic forum of our political discourse does not help our cause."

While a candidate, however, Huntsman also used strong negative characterizations of his opponents.

Nationally, Republicans have been unusually forthright about the deficiencies of their nominating process, shining a light on the great vulnerability of the American political system: how we choose the finalists in presidential elections.

The Democrats bow to no party in their ability to tinker with, and then comprehensively overhaul their nomination process, almost always making it more inscrutable, more unresponsive to the times and more unlikely to produce a plausible president at the end.

Now the GOP, having fought the equivalent of the 1943 tank battle at Kursk, will end a long hiatus with contests in Arizona and Michigan a week from Tuesday. From the great shouting to the great silence, the Republicans were stuck in midwinter hibernation.

Of course, in other political years, the primaries were fewer and later. In 1960, the Democratic calendar didn't start until March 8 and included primaries in only 15 states and the District of Columbia.

As late as 1976, the Republicans held fewer than 30 primaries, beginning in New Hampshire on Feb 24.

The nomination processes used in 1960, when Sen. John F. Kennedy and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey engaged in a spirited Democratic fight, and in 1976, when President Gerald R. Ford and Gov. Ronald Reagan battled for the Republican nomination, didn't choke off what we now know were important debates about the parties and their futures.

Today's parties shy away from the smoked-filled rooms — like the one at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago where GOP leaders selected Warren G. Harding as their nominee — but party leaders privately pine for the days when a few professionals could bring order to the chaos of a modern nomination process.

You can hear some Republicans yearning for those days, though perhaps not for Harding, at a time when their party members are marching through their political calendar with the nagging notion that their most gifted field generals are on the sidelines — in Indianapolis, Trenton and perhaps even in the antechambers of the Senate in Washington.

Then again, that is the nature of political contests.

Even in years when incumbents are campaigning for a second term, we hold elections to satisfy our desires for what we don't have and think we want.

Then more elections follow.

David M. Shribman is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He can be reached at dshribman@ post-gazette.com. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has a vacation home in Kearsarge.

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How can we protect local businesses?

To the editor: Maybe National Geographic came in the back way, they sure didn’t come down Route 16, because no way could they write: “Much of that old New England character lives on today in the town.”

When I drive down Route 16, I see Anytown USA, and maybe that’s what the town fathers want, if so, we won’t be making the list in years to come. There is no charm on the strip, just a collection of empty storefronts, chain stores, fast food joints, and national hotels. There is still some charm in the village, but in the last few weeks, we have lost three stores.

A lot of family-owned business not only add character to this town but are it’s backbone. There are rumors that another big boy is coming to the old Fandangles spot, just what this town needs, more guest rooms. It seems odd that we can limit the number of flags on a property but not the number of guest rooms in this town.

Other towns have kept out Walmart and McDonalds

and limited the number of building permits a year; why can’t we limit the number of guest rooms? How many rooms can this town support? Less than the number we have now.

How many business have come and gone in the last few years and how many are on the edge? Some of these vacant storefronts have been empty for more than five years. Why do we need four lumber yards in town? Have the town fathers thought what impact another hotel will do to the existing small business owner or are they just looking for additional tax revenue? When is enough enough? How do we protect the local businesses and not close the door on new development?

I don’t have all the answers, but we can’t just say yes to everyone who wants to add one more store, inn, lumberyard etc. Do we care enough about protecting the local business owner or do we just let the guys with the bigger wallet win?

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The outpouring of support at the Cranmore Mountain event and at “Ian’s Endless Hockey game” at the Ham Arena was overwhelming.

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We would also like to thank our family, friends and neighbors who have sent cards, well wishes, prayers, food, and support and provided rides. We are touched by the kindness shown to our family during this difficult journey. It gives us strength to keep a positive attitude!

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My Wars

When I was finishing prep school, I knew what would happen next, I’d be a soldier.

That’s because the United States had invaded Korea, which was a small country in Asia that most Americans had never heard of and those who had heard of it probably couldn’t find it on a map.

Not only that, but no one was sure why we were at war in Korea except, obscurely, that we’d won the First in 1918 and Second World War in 1945 and, following the American tradition of one war per generation, it was time for another one. There was also something about stopping the spread of godless communism. Not many people could explain what godless communism actually was, but that only made it seem more important that it must be stopped.

Every American male older than, I think, seventeen, had to sign up for the draft, then he’d get a number and later on he’d be told that his number was coming up, which meant that he should put his affairs in order, get his toothbrush, and report for basic training. I’d just finished prep school and my number was coming up. This didn’t seem unreasonable, my father and his brother had gone to France for the war of their generation, then my brother had gone for his war, and now it was my turn.

Life as a soldier did not appeal to me, but it was about to happen, and the way the numbers had been going, it looked like I’d be called in April, so I decided to spend whatever remained of my civilian life in the most enjoyable way possible, I’d go skiing in the golden west.

When a draft-age American male moved, he was required to tell his draft board where he was going so they could find him when his number came up. The headmaster of Deerfield Academy was the chairman of my draft board, so I went to his office and told him that I’d be going west and I’d let him know where I was.

Then he wished me good luck and, as a sort of afterthought, he checked my number. Then he said that the calls had been running faster than he expected, so my number would probably come up in January.

My first stop was in Aspen, Colorado, and I informed my draft board about my changed location. This was a reprieve, because it took a month to make the change to a new draft board in Colorado. Aspen wasn’t hiring yet, so after another round of fruitless job seeking, I bumped into Connie Buttinger, who I’d known when she was working for the AMC in Pinkham Notch. She was a rising ski racer and she’d been looking for a job in Aspen and was similarly unrewarded,. More to the immediate point, she had a new Ford station wagon and leaving the next day to see if they were hiring in Sun Valley, Idaho, and she had room for me, which meant another month of civilian life for me while the draft board people changed their records.

They were hiring in Sun Valley and I managed to secure an entry-level position as an evening pin-setter in the bowling alley while I waited a second month for my number to come to the top of the draft board list in Idaho. Then it did, so I went to the draft board office in Boise and an army man drew a number on the back of his left hand. I was #5 and I went through the physical and the mental tests, which were not rigorous. Then we were directed to a line where an army man was checking the numbers and saying, “Accepted ... Accepted ...

Accepted ...” When I got there I said. “Number five.” He looked at the back of my left hand and said, “Physically rejected.”

The reason was two compressed vertebrae that I’d gotten during my over-enthusiastic devotion to packing heavy when I was working in the AMC hut system in the White Mountains, and I had a letter from an orthopedic physician certifying the injury. It didn’t bother me, but the army was wary of invisible pre-induction spinal injuries that might turn into a claim of lifetime disability. There were 34 men in my group and only two of us were rejected, the other one was a rodeo rider who’d been devoted to bucking broncos and Brahma bulls, which turned his spinal column to junk. That was the end of my future as cannon fodder in Korea, but not the end of my duty in war.

One day in the 1960s I was hiking on the Kinsman Range that runs westward from the Old Man of the Mountains, west of Franconia, New Hampshire. The area had been chosen for yet another edition of what are called “war games” in which grown-ups play soldier. One group is the invaders and another is the partisans who are defending their homeland, and the rules were well understood. The soldiers would invade the area, but they were far from their fictional home base and they’d have to live by their wits. And, with luck, a grateful citizenry would help in every way they could, they’d give directions and provide food and let the soldiers sleep in their barns. There would also be skirmishes and even pitches battles with the homeland partisans where they’d go “bang-bang you’re dead” while referees kept score and made sure the fallen warriors did not rise to fight again One day I went out for a motorcycle ride with a fair maiden on the seat behind me. We came to a group of soldiers and we stopped to see what they were doing. They were equally interested in what I was doing, because the fair maiden was dressed in the style of fair maidens in those days: a diaphanous blouse and nothing underneath except herself. The soldiers were overtaken by public relations, they went on and on explaining every piece of equipment they had. More properly, they were explaining it to the fair maiden, who was not interested.

Another day found me on a hike and I came to a fellow who was sitting on a rock and looking confused. He also looked splendid.

He was dressed in a tweed suit with jacket, knickers, and knee socks. Not only that, but he was wearing a matching cape and a deerstalker cap, the kind f fore-and-aft headgear most often seen in pictures of the great but fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

My outfit was cut-off Levis and a sweaty shirt, but this fellow knew quality when he saw it and he said, “Hello, sir!” Then he asked if I knew how to find Kinsman Notch.

I said I did. He asked if I could describe the best way to get there. I said I could, and I gave him detailed instructions while he made notes on his map. Then, in a burst of confidence, he told me that he wasn’t really a hunter, he was an army officer in disguise. I told him his secret was safe with me.

Then he returned to his military duties.

The route I’d given him would get him to Kinsman Notch, but not before he’d conquered the largest swamp in the area. I was, after all, a partisan, and I knew where my duty lay.

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Local mountaineers reach new heights Page 14 — THE CONWAY DAILY SUN, Saturday, February 18, 2012

BY ERIK EISELE THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

This past summer a small team of elite mountaineers traveled deep into the Himalayas. Their goal was to climb the second-highest unclimbed peak in the world, Saser Kangri II, more than 24,000 feet tall.

SK2, as it is known, sits among the rugged Karakoram mountains on the disputed border between India and Pakistan. The area has been restricted to climbers for decades, so few mountaineers have ever caught a glimpse of the mountain. No one had ever stood on its summit.

On Aug. 24, however, a three-man team made up largely of local talent became the first people to reach the top, and now the climb is in the running for one of the most prestigious awards in alpinism: the French Piolet d’Or, or Golden Ice Ax. Freddie Wilkinson, a 32-year-old professional climber and guide from Madison, was the youngest member of the team.

“I was really lucky,” Wilkinson said. “This trip was really Mark Richey’s baby.”

Richey is climber from Massachusetts who has been climbing at the elite level for decades. He was part of Rick Wilcox’s 1991 Everest expedition, has a house on Silver Lake, and can be found on Cathedral Ledge or one of the smaller crags almost any weekend of the year.

Richey had been eyeing SK2 since 2001, Wilkinson said, when he learned it hadn’t been climbed. He tried to climb it in 2009, but he failed, so in 2011 he enlisted Wilkinson and Seattle-based climber Steve Swenson.

Just getting to the base of the mountain was an adventure, both in terms of paperwork and in terms of travel. The team left the United States in early July headed to Dehli. see next page

Mark Richey (left) and Steve Swenson high on Saser Kangri II. Their ascent took four days, plus a fifth day to descend. (FREDDIE WILKINSON PHOTO)

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“There was a fair amount of bureaucratic permitting work we had to do to gain access,” Wilkinson said, which they had to take care of first. From there it was another flight within India, then a day of driving, then a three-day approach trek over a pass just shy of 20,000 feet.

“It took us about 10 days,” Wilkinson said, plus another 10 days of transporting gear “before we could even think about climbing.”

Once the team reached the glacier they would use to access the mountain, however, warm temperatures became a problem.

“It was really hot,” Wilkinson said. “Both our team and the women’s team kind of got shut down at first.”

The women’s team (which included Janet Bergman, Wilkinson’s wife, who is also a professional climber) had plans to try a nearby peak. As the group climbed and waited to for their bodies to adjust to the altitude, Wilkinson said, everyone climbed together.

“In various combinations we climbed four mountains,” he said, all of them over 20,000 feet tall. None of the mountains had been climbed before.

As their bodies adjusted to the elevation, Wilkinson, the focus for the men’s team came into focus.

“It was really timed perfectly,” he said. “Conditions were getting colder.”

“There are no easy ways really up SK2,” he said, but there was a steep line up the southwest face that looked promising. “It was quite an interesting line,” he said, “just a natural straight shot to the summit.”

It was late August, but the team was feeling ready.

Swenson had developed a sinus infection, but it didn’t seem like a problem. They started climbing on the 20th, moving quickly up the 5,500 foot face.

“It was a big alpine face,” Wilkinson said, “a lot of steep snowfields and snow gullies.”

They spent four days climbing upward, carrying their gear as they went. “The higher we got, the more Mark and I were committed to getting this done.”

But there was a problem.

“Steve Swenson got progressively more sick as the climb went on,” Wilkinson said. “He was sicker than any of us wanted to admit.”

The team kept going, reaching the summit at about 12:30 p.m. on the 24th.

“We probably spent 45 minutes on top,” Wilkinson said.

Video from the top shows a haggard Swenson.

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Freddie Wilkinson (right), Steve Swenson (center) and Mark Richey atop Saser Kangri II, the secondhighest unclimbed mountain in the world. Their ascent has been nominated for the prestigious Piolet d’Or award for alpinism. (FREDDIE WILKINSON PHOTO) from preceding page

“By the bivy after the summit the infection was in his lungs,” Wilkinson said. “Back in the tent that night is when thinks really started to unravel.”

Swenson kept hacking up mucus, but due to dehydration and altitude he was having to work harder and harder to cough. The team didn’t sleep that night. The next morning they began their descent, which would take all day.

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“He got there in half an hour,” Wilkinson said. “It took us five or six days.”

Despite the close call, Wilkinson was pleased with the ascent.

“This was the kind of trip where it all really came together,” he said.

And it keeps coming together. Just this week Wilkinson, Richey and Swenson were nominated along with five other teams worldwide for the Piolet d’Or, an award given out by the French magazine Montagnes and the Groupe de Haute Montagne, an association of elite mountaineers. They are up against two Slovenian teams, a Norwegian team, a team from Kazakhstan and another American team. see MOUNTAINEERS page 19

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For months, the county commission has been trying to decide whether its minutes should be long and detailed or short and spartan. Then on Feb. 1, commission chairman David Sorensen announced the commission minutes would no longer reflect comments from the public.

"We find it takes too long to go back and correct them," said Sorensen.

At the next meeting, on Feb. 8, Sorensen explained commission minutes were reaching 17 pages in length.

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Ossipee selectman Kathleen Maloney questioned the commission's decision at the Feb. 8 meeting. She said Ossipee selectmen minutes summarize comments from the public.

"Are you, in fact, practicing censorship by not putting in the public comments?" asked Maloney.

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Climbers with disabilities prove again that where there’s a will, there’s a way

BY ERIK EISELE THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

CONWAY — It looked to be a regular day of ice climbing on Saturday when more than 20 climbers and guides piled into the Cathedral Ledge parking lot.

But it wasn’t. That became obvious when Brian Fountaine sat down and took off his feet. It became more clear when Sean O’Neill rolled his wheelchair over the snow to get his climbing helmet.

By the time Maureen Beck pulled out her prosthetic arm retrofitted with an ice tool there was no doubt something special was happening.

MOUNTAINEERS from page 16

Wilkinson is the third Mount Washington Valley climber to be nominated for the Piolet d’Or in recent years — Kevin Mahoney of Madison was nominated for a 2004 Alaskan climb, and Mark Synnott was nominated for a climb in Pakistan in 2009.

“It’s super cool,” Wilkinson said, but, “I don’t think we stand much chance of

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Maloney's comments weren't recorded in the Feb. 8 minutes but commissioners' responses were in the minutes.

During Wednesday's meeting, commissioner Asha Kenney said it didn't make sense for the Feb. 8 meeting minutes to only include the commissioners' responses to questions from the public.

"Why are we putting in our answers and the questions from the public are not in?" asks Kenney.

Sorensen responded that the minutes could be really simple and only reflect votes that the commission makes and attendance at the meetings. Later, the commissioners seem to

The group — a collection of disabled civilians and veterans — was there with Paradox Sports, a Colorado-based nonprofit, plus a team of volunteers all determined not to let a disabilities exclude people from the outdoors.

At the heart of the effort was Timmy O’Neill, a Colorado-based rock climber and one of the founders of Paradox Sports. O’Neill’s older brother Sean, from Brownfield, Maine, has been in a wheelchair for more than 20 years, but with Timmy’s help Sean has climbed mountains and rock faces from California to Utah to Alaska. see next page

winning.” He’s most excited about traveling to France “on someone else’s dime.”

The team’s ascent is also being celebrated by the American Alpine Club.

The trio will be featured keynote speakers at the club’s annual dinner this March in Boston. Wilkinson will be showing a movie about the climb at the dinner.

It will then go out online, he said, “an expedition, in four acts.”

agree reports from department heads and information from people on the agenda would also be in the minutes.

"We can eliminate that too," said Sorensen of the commission answers to the public's questions.

Effingham resident Henry Spencer urged the commission to consider the fact that some members of the public want their comments recorded. There are times when comment from the public are "critical" to management of the county, he said. The minute-taker asked for clear direction from the commission during Wednesday's meeting.

"I take my direction from all of you and it seems to change," said recording secretary Sandra Twyon.

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“The cool thing about it is the energy of the people,” Timmy O’Neill said, a statement that would prove true time and time again over second annual East Coast Paradox Ice weekend.

“No feet? No problems. Prosthetic crampons exist,” said Stacy Bare, an Iraq War veteran who now works with the Sierra Club, one of the groups Paradox partnered with.

“Can’t use your legs? No problems.

Where there is a will, there is a way.”

The Sierra Club’s Military Families and Veterans Initiative, whose mission is "ensuring those who defended our country and their families get to enjoy the land they served" partnered up with Paradox Sports, the Wounded Warrior Project and Veterans Expeditions to make the weekend happen.

The 20 participants, many of whom had never been on the ice and some of whom had never climbed at all, removed prosthetics, grabbed specially designed equipment, donned harnesses and hiked up to the ropes local volunteer guides had set up.

When the climbing began every so often a cheer would rise from the top, followed by the howl of 19 others far below.

And there was no shortage of successes. Ice axes fell out of hands missing fingers, poorlyfitting boots slipped and slid off prosthetic feet, artificial legs fitted with crampons rotated and twisted, but everyone climbed.

For some athletes just getting to the base of the ice was a challenge, but they persevered all the way to the top. Two participants, Sean O’Neill and Lisa Tharpe, both wheelchair-bound, made it to the ice in sleds dragged by others, but when it came to climbing each of them made it to the top under their own power.

Sean O’Neill, of Brownfield, has been in a wheelchair for more than two decades. He took to the ice however, and proved a handicap is what you make of it. He and 20 other disabled athletes joined Paradox Sports and the Sierra Club for a weekend of adaptive ice climbing.

O’Neill took it one step further, testing a new system he hopes will one day allow him to climb ice on his own with a partner, without the support of volunteers.

The group climbed with the determination of people who had spent too much time lying in hospital beds. On most days many of them would find hiking trails impossible problems, but this weekend the impossible became surmountable, and vertical ice became their playground. For some it was about reconnecting with the home they defended, for others it was about having fun in a way they thought would never be open to them, but for all it was a dramatic, astounding experience.

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end talking about transforming post-traumatic stress into “posttraumatic growth.” By lunchtime of the first day of climbing it was clear that was what was happening — strangers the day before were talking like old friends, and even the introverts were caught up in conversation.

The American Alpine Club supplied hot drinks as volunteers brought gumbo to the base of the cliff. After a hard day of pushing limits most people with fully-function bodies never cross, the smiles were everywhere, all hinting the same thing: Excuses are overrated and disabilities are what you make them. At Paradox, the point is to make them disappear, if only long enough to reach the top.

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For many people, the only time they see Mount Cardigan (3,121 feet) located in Orange and AlexEd Parsons andria, is while driving north from Concord on Route 93. Its bare summit is visible to the west, just before the New Hampton exit.

Even in that short glimpse from the highway, the mountain is distinctive. Why? Because in 1855, a fire swept over its summit, destroying all trees and leaving a dome of volcanic rock. Since then it has been part of that exclusive club of low New Hampshire peaks with rocky summits, many of them my favorites mountains.

In the pastoral farmland of Grafton County, Cardigan was called Old Baldy.

Driving west through Canaan on Route 4 the other morning, I stretched my neck to look back up the valley towards Old Baldy, with its pinprick fire tower on top. It was supposed to cloud in later in the day, but I had hopes that after I finished my business, I would fit in a climb of Mount Cardigan on my way home.

It worked out. At noon, on my way back east, in the village of Canaan I turned towards the sign for Mount Cardigan State Park, and drove about 4 miles out to the park. The 0.75 mile access road to the summer parking lot was unplowed, but there was a pullover for winter hikers across the road from it.

At my car, it felt good to be getting dressed and putting on see next page

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The west side of Mount Cardigan is the quick way to go up. In 20 minutes I was in the summer parking lot, and spied the trail sign: West Ridge Trail, Mount Cardigan summit 1.5 miles.

I started winding up through the green woods. Traction was mandatory on the firm trail, and ice flows grew more frequent as I climbed, especially after passing the turnoff for the South Ridge Trail in 0.5 miles.

It can be fun, with a cautionary note, to see what you can do with MICROspikes — keeping your feet flat on water ice, grabbing trees for safety, stretching for safer footing on snow.

Finally, I approached the gradual transition at timber line, and remembered a couple summers ago when my friend and I climbed this trail, and at timber line heard the constant calls of the white throated sparrow. That had been a blue summer day. This time the outward landscape was bleak, the western horizon dark.

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At tree line I hit the smooth distinctive rock of Cardigan’s summit cone, with the line of tall cairns to the fire tower. I took off my MICROspikes, as the elements had depleted the snow and ice there leaving mostly dry rock.

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The rock found on the forested west flank of the mountain is old sea bed that has been heated or metamorphosed into schist. This transitions on the upper half of the trail to the volcanic rock on the summit, which is part of the largest “pluton” in the state — 90 km long, 20 km wide, and 2.5 km thick.

It was formed 400 million years ago as a molten mass miles below the surface. On the summit cone, interesting white streaks of quartz were caused by irregular cooling in the pluton.

How this is all related to two periods of mountain building, and the creation and subsequent break up of the super continent Pangaea would be up to the geologist/poet to explain.

What would be cool to know is this: if one stood in the same location as the summit of Cardigan during the midPaleozoic era (500 to 200 million years ago), how much of the land you saw to the east of you be in Africa today?

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over the subsidiary ridge called Firescrew after the shape of the smoke rising from it during the 1855 fire. To the north, there was still some remaining blue sky, and the white Franconia Ridge and Mount Washington stood out dramatically.

I turned and walked up to the fire

tower. Initials and dates carved in the rocks a century ago grew in frequency as I neared the tower. Looking out, the landscape to the east and south were also cloud darkened.

I turned and followed the tall cairns down the West Ridge Trail, putting my MICROspikes on at timberline, and heading down the icy trail into the woods below.

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Endangered Wildlife Program has contracted with University of New Hampshire to conduct pre-construction and post-construction research, and track the response of the local marten population. Alexej Siren is the grad student working on the project, and reported that all the martens previously collared had their transmitters replaced during recapture this summer, with some new individuals were captured and collared as well. As mitigation for potential wildlife impact, the wind energy developer, Granite Reliable Power, has partially funded the study.

As part of the work, marten were live-trapped in the fall of 2010 and radio-collared, and also marked with small ear tags. Trail cameras were set up over the winter and baited with sardines or scent lures to attract the martens. This allowed the researchers to document their presence within the study area. It is well known that pine martens are easily trapped, as they are quite curious critters, which allows wildlife biologists to engage them readily in tallying their numbers.

This past spring and summer, these radio-collared martens was tracked on a regular basis with traditional ground telemetry to measure seasonal home range size and habitat use. University of New Hampshire said it was able to observe six martens during the past winter in this way, and summer ranges were analyzed this year. More individuals have now been livetrapped to determine population size and distribution. A total of 12 martens were captured, with five of them being recaptures from last year. Of these

animals, eight were males with one being a juvenile. Four females were obtained, including a single juvenile.

Siren explained that the juveniles were not being used for monitoring because they travel further than the adults. “Young are dispersing and trying to establish their own territory so if we tracked their movement it would appear they have a much larger home range than they actually do.”

Male pine martens are significantly larger than females in both weight and length. She said, “Overall, summer weights were greater than winter and two of the females were lactating, indicating that the habitat is productive for marten.” Siren is continuing to track the collared marten over this 2012 winter season.

“This will be the second winter tracking some of the same individuals from last year and the first winter tracking some of the new animals,” she said. “The increased number of animals will provide more information on winter habitat use, effects of wind development on marten activity and movements, home range size, and will also let us compare habitat use from one winter to the next.” Several volunteers assisted Siren with the pine marten project during summer 2011.

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For some reason, once most new skiers can survive the novice trails, they are done with professional instruction. The funny thing is, intermediate and advanced skiers can get so much more skiing out of a ski day with a few technique adjustments. Think about it: good golfers take golf lessons; good and great tennis players go to clinics and take tennis lessons; excellent baseball players go to hitting, pitching, and fielding coache.

With skiing, you don’t know what you don’t know. There’s no net to clear or score that you wish would improve.

There is a different way to think about it. Imagine you are skiing down the trail and you

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“For freeing me from the lamp, you are entitled to three ski wishes.”

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There are some top flight ski teachers, instructors and coaches in the valley from young, hot skiers

John Macdonald to some old, grizzled veterans that have seen it all for 40, 50 years or more. In fact, one of the top national gurus of skier development has been around town much of the winter, sharing his wisdom.

With all these “genies” available, what is it you wish for in your skiing? Would you like your ski wishes to come true? Take that step — take your advanced skiing self to your favorite mountain’s ski school, buy a lesson, and let one of their Genies help you get even more fun out of your ski day. You’ll be amazed at what you’ve been missing.

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ECOLOGY from page 24

luxuriant, resembling that of the closely related sable in Europe.

They also have pointy noses, black eyes, and rounded cat-like ears. You would consider them about the size of a small house cat if you ever saw one. There has been a decline in their numbers in the Northeast since the turn of the century.

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mendations for future siting of wind energy facilities, and also address further research needs.

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DILBERT

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By Holiday Mathis you like someone, you feel more creative and open around that person. You also feel like spending money. Tonight, saying “no” and sticking to it will save you a small fortune.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Sometimes popularity causes you to seem noncommittal. There are so many faces to greet that you have to keep moving along. Everyone enjoys your company for a short time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The chaos subsides, if only long enough to let you take part in a quiet, gentle pastime. For a while, you’ll find inner peace and change your experience of the world.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You have passion working in your heart, and you’re not afraid to show it. Your conviction is the one factor that will make the difference between getting the job done or not.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll hear news about someone you used to know well. There’s no time to waste in being jealous. Get busy creating the kind of success that is the cruelest revenge!

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 18).

You’ll focus on issues of identity and discover who you are at deeper levels.

You have a knack for surrounding yourself with good people. Partnerships bring pleasure and delight. In March, you’ll do a new job well and be met with approval. You will economize in April so that you can enjoy luxury later.

Capricorn and Sagittarius people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 14, 3, 29 and 6.

Get Fuzzy

ARIES (March 21-April 19). There are things you did because at the time it felt as though it was your only option.

You didn’t know any better then, and now you do. So forgive yourself, and get on with your brand-new day.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Waste no time in wishing you were more like so-and-so. You’re not. You’re you -equally wondrous and different from any person in the world. Each path is unique.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It feels as though you’ve lived many lifetimes.

Friends remember funny incidences from your past. You’ll likely be caught off guard by the memories, which is what makes them so funny.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Theoretical knowledge is just the beginning of learning. You have to experience a task fully to understand how it works.

Make arrangements to get into a job and get your hands dirty.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It’s true that not everyone can wrap their head around who you are. But embrace your contradictions anyway. They make you more attractive. And cherish the person who delights in your complexity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll be like the tortoise now, plodding slowly along. Your pace doesn’t matter as much as your direction and determination. As long as you don’t stop, you’ll be victorious.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). However you think things should be, there will be someone who thinks otherwise. A compromise might work, but you’ll be happier doing things your way today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When

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Today is Saturday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2012. There are 317 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala. On this date: In 1546, Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, died in Eisleben.

In 1564, artist Michelangelo died in Rome.

In 1735, the first opera presented in America, “Flora, or Hob in the Well,” was performed in present-day Charleston, S.C. In 1885, Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in the U.S. for the first time.

In 1930, photographic evidence of Pluto (now designated a “dwarf planet”) was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.

In 1953, “Bwana Devil,” the movie that heralded the 3D fad of the 1950s, had its New York opening.

In 1960, the 8th Winter Olympic Games were formally opened in Squaw Valley, Calif., by Vice President Richard M. Nixon.

In 1970, the “Chicago Seven” defendants were found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968 (those convictions were later reversed).

In 1972, the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty.

In 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden “flight” above the Mojave (moh-HAH’-vee) Desert.

In 1984, Italy and the Vatican signed an accord under which Roman Catholicism ceased to be the state religion of Italy.

In 2001, auto racing star Dale Earnhardt Sr. died in a crash at the Daytona 500; he was 49.

One year ago: The United States vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements as illegal and called for a halt in all settlement building; the 14 other Security Council members voted in favor of the measure.

Today’s Birthdays: Former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown is 90. Actor George Kennedy is 87. Former Sen. John Warner, R-Va., is 85. Author Toni Morrison is 81. Movie director Milos (MEE’-lohsh) Forman is 80. Singer Yoko Ono is 79. Singer-songwriter Bobby Hart is 73.

Singer Irma Thomas is 71. Singer Herman Santiago (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) is 71.

Singer Dennis DeYoung is 65. Actress Sinead Cusack is 64. Actress Cybill Shepherd is 62.

Singer Juice Newton is 60. Singer Randy Crawford is 60. Rock musician Robbie Bachman is 59. Rock musician Larry Rust (Iron Butterfly) is 59. Actor John Travolta is 58. Game show host Vanna White is 55. Actress Jayne Atkinson is 53.

Actress Greta Scacchi (SKAH’-kee) is 52. Actor Matt Dillon is 48. Rapper Dr. Dre is 47. Actress Molly Ringwald is 44. Actress Sarah Brown is 37.

Actor Kristoffer Polaha is 35. Singer-musician Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) is 35. Actor Tyrone Burton is 33. Rock-singer musician Regina Spektor is 32. Actor Shane Lyons is 24. Actress Maiara Walsh is 24.

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3: Valley Vision, 10: QVC, 16: RSN TV16 North Conway, 17: C-Span. 18: C-Span2, 20: HSN, 25: Headline News, 26: CNBC, 32: ESPN2, 36: Court TV, 37: TV Guide, 38: EWTN, 57: Food Network

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AKC German Shepherd puppies. Black & tan, bred for temperament health, beauty & intelligence. 3 year health guarantee. $750. 207-415-3071. brkgsd@yahoo.com.

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Cats Only Neuter Clinic First Saturday of each month for low income families. Please call Harvest Hills Animal Shelter, between 10-3 Tues thru Friday 207-935-4358.

COME & GO PET CARE For when you have to be away!

(Sit and stay overnights also available). Connie Stanford MtnWanderer@gmail.com (603)733-8148.

CONFORMATION DOG CLASSES- FRYEBURG

Conformation Presentation for beginners to advanced as well as Mat Time. Classes start Feb. 20th and run for 3 weeks. Go to www.TellingTailsTraining.com or call 207-642-3693 for details.

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For all ages and abilities. Pet Dog 101 or 102, Reactive Dog, Therapy Dog, Rally, Agility and much more!

Go to TellingTailsTraining.com or call 207-642-3693 for details.

DOGGIE PLAYGROUP at Four Your Paws Only on Rte. 16 in N. Conway. New changes for 2011. 11-12 is for smaller, quieter dogs and puppies. 12-1 is for larger more active dogs and puppies. Playgroups are Free and run every Saturday.

All dogs must be on a leash & utd on vaccinations. call 603-356-7297 fmi or Visit www.fouryourpawsonly.com.

HARVEST Hills Animal Shelter, 5 miles east of Fryeburg, 1389 Bridgton Rd. Rte.302.

207-935-4358. 30 loving dogs and kittens and cats available.

All inoculations, neutered.

10am-6pm, Mon. & Fri., 10am-3pm, Tue., Wed., Sat., Sun., closed Thursdays.

LAB X puppies; black/ blonde; health certificate. $300. Call (603)662-2577.

LABRADOR RETRIEVER Puppies AKC bred for quality and temperament. All 3 colors.

In home raised. Taking deposits. (603)664-2828.

Low Cost Spay/ Neuter Cats & dogs Rozzie May Animal Alliance www.rozziemay.org 603-447-1373

PET DOG TRAINING Golden Paws, LLC. Conveniently scheduled private lessons. John Brancato, KPA training.

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RUBBER DOG SERIES WORKSHOP- FRYEBURG

Freestyle and tricks training.

Designed to improve your dog's mental and physical flexibility with movement, fun and games. Feb. 26th, March 25th and April 29th. Come to one workshop or all three! Go to www.TellingTailsTraining.com or call 207-642-3693 for details.

Autos $799 TO $4999 Cars, trucks, vans, SUVs, 4x4.

No hassle prices. Many to choose from. (603)651-9007.

1983 Chevy half ton, V8 auto, 4wd pick up, 8’ Fisher Plow. runs, drives, plows. First $1000 cash takes it. (603)730-2590.

1995 Chevy 1/2 ton 4x4 pickup.

Looks & runs great. Must see! $2000/obo. (207)935-2060.

1996 Volvo Model 850. 150k miles, great condition $2000.

(603)356-3301, myusedcars.info 1997 BMW 528i, auto, leather, loaded, 170k, $3500.

(603)356-9500, (603)662-8312.

1997 Ford F150 XL, extended cab, 4x4, 5 spd, V8, 200k miles, inspected and runs well $1500 (207)935-4608.

1997 Ford Ranger XLT extra cab. 2wd, 4cyl 5spd, Texas truck, $2500. (603)356-9500, (603)662-8312.

1998 GMC Sierra SLE, half-ton 4x4 pickup truck. 350 V8, extended cab, 83k miles, green, good condition, $5000.

(603)447-3035.

1998 Toyota Avalon, 4dr, auto, new inspection sticker, 155k miles, runs very good. $2800.

(603)986-3352.

1998 Volvo V70R awd wagon, auto, 138k, leather, $3995.

(603)356-9500, (603)662-8312.

1999 Chevy Tahoe LS. Great dependable 4x4 SUV. 25k on new motor. $2200/obo (603)662-6482.

1999 Honda Civic EX, 2dr, 5spd, loaded, 149K $3995.

(603)356-9500, (603)662-8312.

Autos HERMANSON!S AUTO WAREHOUSE, LTD Auto Sales & Repair Eastern Spaces Warehouse East Conway Road Hermansonsautowarehouse.com 07 Chevy HHR, 4cyl, auto, white .. ............................................$7,250 04 Chevy Avalanche, 4x4, V8, auto, black...........................$9,450 04 Chevy Avalanche, 4x4, V8, auto, marron........................$9,450 04 Ford Explorer, 4x4, 6cyl, auto,3rd row, blue ...............$7,450 03 Jeep Gr Cherokee, 4x4, 6cyl, auto, blue.............................$6,900 03 Chevy Trailblazer, 4x4, 6cyl, auto, silver...........................$7,250 03 Subaru Legacy GT, sedan, awd, 4cyl, 5spd, silver.........$5,900 03 VW Jetta SW, 4cyl, 5spd, blue ............................................$5,900 02 Chevy Avalanche, 4x4, V8 auto, copper ........................$8,900 02 Chevy Monte Carlo SS, 3.8 V6, auto, black...........................$5,900 02 Chevy Monte Carlo SS, V6 auto, leather, black..............$5,900 02 Chevy Suburban, 4x4, V8, auto, 3rd row, white.............$6,900 02 Chevy Trailblazer, 4x4, 6cyl, auto green...........................$5,900 02 Mitsubishi Diamante, V6, auto, black....................................$4,500 02 Subaru Forester, awd, 5spd, silver....................................$5,900 01 Dodge Caravan, 6cyl, auto, blue......................................$4,250 01 Dodge Conv Van, V8, auto, high top, white.....................$4,750 01 Dodge Dakota, 4x4, 6cyl, auto, blue......................................$6,450 01 Nissan Pathfinder, 4x4, 6cyl, auto, silver...........................$4,900 00 Chevy Blazer, 4x4, 6cyl, auto, silver....................................$4,450 00 Chevy Tahoe, 4x4, V8, auto, black....................................$5,250 00 Pontiac Bonneville 6 cyl, auto.

Silver ...................................$4,950 99 Jeep Gr Cherokee, 4x4, 6cyl, auto, bronze ........................$4,450 Our vehicles are guaranteed to pass inspection and come with a 20 day plate and 30 day mechanical warranty. In house financing with 50% down payment and a minimum $200/month payment at 0% APR for 12-18 month term.

Please call Sales at 356-5117.

ALWAYS PAYING CA$H

1999 Subaru Legacy Outback, only 26k miles, loaded, awd, $6500.

(603)356-9500, (603)662-8312.

for junk vehicles. Fast and courteous pick up (603)730-7486.

SALE! Puppies small mixed breed. See website for more details: www.mainelypuppies.com (207)539-1520.

1999 VW Jetta GT Wolfsburg Edition, 4 door, 146k miles, green. $1500. (603)367-4543.

BUYING junk cars and trucks ME & NH. Call for price. Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

TOY Poodle pups. Happy healthy easy to train. $350.

(603)487-2418.

2000 Saab convertible 93, 176k miles, excellent condition, just inspected. $3800 firm.

(603)569-9893.

BUYING Junk vehicles, paying cash.

Contact Joe (207)712-6910.

Announcement IF you used Yaz/ Yazmin/ Ocella birth control pills or a NuvaRing contraceptive between 2001 and the present and developed blood clots, suffered a stroke, heart attack or required gall bladder removal you may be entitled to compensation. Call Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800-535-5727.

PELVIC/ Transvaginal Mesh?

Did you undergo transvaginal placement of mesh for pelvic organ prolapse or stress urinary incontinence between 2005 and present time? If the patch required removal due to complications, you may be entitled to compensation. Call Johnson Law and speak with female staff members 1-800-535-5727.

Appliances REPAIRED, tested, clean. Gas dryers $125. each. Maytag 27 cubic foot, side-by-side refrigerator, water & ice thru door, black $250. Kenmore apartment sized stack washer with gas dryer $450. All prices cash & carry. (603)447-3923.

SMITHS Used Appliances. 60 day warranty. (207)595-6957.

Auctions OLD Fashion NH Estate Auction Feb 18th 4pm Saturday by Gary Wallace Auctioneers Inc #2735 Rt16 Ossipee, NH. No additions no Reserves- all from one old home- Paintings, antiques, glass, books, Sterling. Preview 2pm Saturday. See www.wallaceauction.com. Call 603-539-5276 public invited

2001 Toyota Tacoma 4 dr 4 w/d excellent condition $7900. Call 16172931708.

2002 GMC Sonoma pickup. 130k miles, cap w/ rack, new tires.

Just insp.; looks/ runs great. $3500. (207)256-0148.

2002 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport. 5spd, awd, 116k, $4995.

(603)356-9500, (603)662-8312.

2003 GMC Sierra 2500 HD with plow, 33k miles. Needs transmission & drive shaft. Sandwich $8000. (603)476-2200 weekdays.

2005 Explorer XLT 4x4, one owner, 7 pass, a/c, alloys, clean, must see $4800/obo (603)387-7766.

2005 Honda Pilot. Heated, leather seats, third row seating, power everything, rear DVD player, tow hitch, good condition 130k, $9750/obo.

(603)986-9869.

FOR SALE BY OWNER- 2006 Chev Impala, 4 door Sedan, mileage 88,000, new transmission- guaranteed for 3 years or 100,000 miles- $8,500. Call 539-6322- Sue after 5 p.m.

2006 Chevy Express Cargo VanWhite, 98,000 miles. Looks and drives great, used daily, needs nothing. $9900. (603)447-3923.

DODGE Dakota 4x4 pickup Fisher Minute Angle 6.5’ plow $500. Lynn 16’ ladder $30. Fiberglass painted 12’ birch bark canoe $150. Craftsman tools, box, $50. LP tank with turbo tip torch $25. More tools available.

(207)697-2012.

BUYING a car? Selling a car?

I’ve made it easy! myusedcars.info or (603)356-3301.

I have people who want to buy your car. (603)356-3301 or myusedcars.info.

NEED cash? I’ll buy your car, truck or SUV, foreign or domestic, 2003- newer (603)387-7766.

PAY $300 minimum for your junk car/ truck picked up. Also buying junk vehicles, light iron, heavy iron over the scales. We also buy copper, brass, wire, aluminum, batteries and much more.

Call for scale (603)323-7363.

Child Care Center Conway in-home day care has openings for children 6 weeks and up.

Open M-F 7:30am-6pm (603)733-5176.

CONWAY- In-home day care, Full-time, part-time, 6 weeks & up. Lots of TLC. Open Monday through Friday, 6:30am-5:30pm; hours negotiable. State scholarships accepted, meals provided.

(603)447-2664.

OCC Childcare Ctr is a licensed pre-school and daycare center.

Sliding fee scale, state scholarships available. Includes breakfast, lunch & snacks. Openings in all programs. New enrollment specials call 539-6772.

Crafts STUFF & THINGS A unique place to shop. Antiques, furniture, collectibles & more. Group space avail. Consignments wanted. 1470 Rt.16, Conway (one mile south of Kanc). Open Thurs-Sund 10-6pm. (603)447-5115.

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Employment Wanted

For Rent

For Rent

For Rent-Commercial

For Sale

For Sale

HARD working reliable person interest in doing your office/ computer work from my home.

(603)447-6643.

CONWAY- Central location, 2 BR, 1 BA condo. Private 3rd floor, end unit. $750 + utilities.

Call Alex Drummond, RE/MAX Presidential 603-356-9444 x240.

MADISON 2 bedroom, 2 full bath, large deck, laundry room w/d $900/month, 1st month & sec. dep.

Call Dave (508)314-7699.

CUSTOM Glazed Kitchen Cabinets. Solid maple, never installed. Cost $6,000 sacrifice $1,595. (603) 833-8278

USED SKI & SNOWBOARD packages, starting at $79.95. All sizes, used helmets $19.95 at Boarder Patrol (603)356-5885.

CONWAY- Large 1 bedroom $650/mo. Includes heat, hot water, plowing, trash. Deposit/ references required.

(603)447-6612.

MADISON- 4 bedroom, 2 bath home. Woodstove, forced hot air by propane. $1150/mo plus security. Avail March 15th (617)908-2588.

1,500SF or 3,000sf heated machine or woodworking shop with 10x12 overhead doors includes bathrooms. Great Conway location on the Kanc Hwy. $900-$1,600/mo plus utilities.

Call 986-6451.

D&D OIL

WHITE Superlock 2000 ATS electronic serger $250. Sears Craftsman 10” band saw $50/obo. Call (603)367-4640.

2-4 bedroom long term and seasonal. Starting at $750 call 603-383-8000, anne@fgpm.com.

CONWAY: 2 br/ 2 ba home; woodstove. $850+ /month. Call (603)848-4189.

BARTLETT, available immediately, small pets considered. 2 bedroom/ 1 bath duplex home, furnished or unfurnished. Propane heat. $800/mo + utilities.

One month security. References required. Mountain & Vale Realty 356-3300.

CONWAY: Newly remodeled second floor 2 bdrm w/ private entry- $800/mo plus utilities.

Large floor plan ground floor 2 bdrm w/ private entry & w/d hookup $750/mo plus utilities.

(603)356-5168.

NORTH Conway apts. 2 bedroom unit at Outlook; w/w carpet, w/d available, $725 heat included; 1 bedroom apts in town starting at $525. All non-smoking, no pets, year lease required. Call Jenn 356-6321 x6902 or Sheila x6469.

SEMI-RETIRED senior looking to work with Alzheimer’s person.

(603)569-2596.

For Rent

BARTLETT; large 2 bdrm. W/D on site. H/w, trash included. No pets/ smoking. $675/mo.

986-5919.

We have the rental property you are looking for! Look at our full page ad in the real estate section for listings.

CENTER Conway- 3 bd, 3 bath, finished walkout basement; one acre lot. Secluded home, nice neighborhood, off Rt.302. Saco River beach access; Conway Schools. Energy efficient, woodstove, all appliances. Available March 1st. $1375/mo.

(561)373-7183.

CENTER Conway- 1 bedroom, small kitchen, shower, newly renovated, off street parking, snow/ trash removal $620/mo plus utlities. (603)447-2838, (603)662-6402.

CENTER Ossipee (2) 2 bedroom apts. available. Heat included, no smoking in building, no pets, security and references $700-$795 (603)539-5731.

CENTER Ossipee New 3 bed, 2 bath townhouse $1075/mo.

Hardwood floors (617)699-5548.

CHRISTMAS Mountain, Glen- 2 bedroom, 2 bath, fantastic Mt. Washington views. W/d. Unfurnished. Pet friendly. First floor level. $900 + utilities. First month and security. Mountain & Vale Realty. 356-3300. References required. Will be available to show after 2/20/12.

CONWAY 1 BEDROOM 1st floor, $625/mo. Includes heat, plowing & trash. Security, lease, no smoking or pets (603)447-6033.

CONWAY 1 bedroom, heat & h/w included. $550 plus deposit.

Available immediately. Call Dan (603)452-8379.

CONWAY rooms for rent. Fridge microwave wi-fi cable, coin laundry, phones. $125-$175 per week. 603-447-3901.

CONWAY Rt. 16 efficiency cabins. Single room w/ kitchenette and bath. Compact/ convenient.

Starting at $400/mo. plus utilities. No Pets, no smoking.

Credit/ security deposit required. Call 603-447-3815.

CONWAY STUDIO $475/mo. Includes heat, plowing & trash. Security, lease, no smoking or pets (603)447-6033.

CONWAY Village- 1 bedroom apartment, 2nd floor, walk to stores, bank, post office and library. Includes heat, parking, rubbish and snow removal. No pets, nonsmoking. 1 months rent plus security deposit, $600/mo. (603)986-7178.

1 bdrm, Conway, 1st floor. Propane heat, nonsmoking. Includes plowing, electric, h/w.

References, credit check, 1st & sec. 1 year lease. $625/mo.

(603)367-8408.

CONWAY: Rooms for rent. Micro fridge, cable, wi-fi. $150$175 wkly. 447-3858.

CONWAY: living room, kitchen & 1 bdrm apt., w/d hookup.

Heat, plowing, trash removal included. $785/mo. (603)915-6736.

CLOSE to Fryeburg; 3 floors, 1542s.f., 3 bdrm, 2 bath, electric heat, gas back up, laundry room screen house, large yard. $1000/mo. plus deposit. No pets. (603)662-7865.

EATON large 1 BR, 1 bath, recently renovated open floor plan, w/d, water view, Crystal Lake beach rights. $700 plus utilities. 1 yr lease, 1st and security deposit, references (603)447-6720.

EIDELWEISS- 3 BR, 2 BA homefull year rental. $1800/mo. plus utilities. Mountain view, wrap around deck, garage, shed, 3 ponds, 5 beaches. All appliances incl. w/d. Whirlpool tub, A/C, woodstove. Furnished or unfurnished.

Avail 3/15/12.

508-208-1713.

FREEDOM - 1 bedroom, 1 bath plus office. W/D, carpet, 1st floor, no smoking. $750/plus util 301-1220.

FRYEBURG 2 bedroom, 1 bath apt. $675/mo, includes heat & hot water. Call Paul Wheeler Re/Max Presidential 603-356-9444 ext.206.

FRYEBURG Village- Spacious 2 bedroom, first floor, porch, large yard, $725/mo plus, security deposit. (207)935-3241.

1 month free rent! Fryeburglovely 4 bedroom, 2 bath, a/c, w/d hook-up, deck, $1000/mo plus. No pets 207-935-3241.

FRYEBURG: 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath townhouse. Full basement, w/d hook-up, dishwasher, private deck & storage shed. No utilities, $800/mo. (978)580-9607.

FRYEBURG: Just remodeled second floor 1 bdrm apt; heat included $700/mo.

Call (603)356-5168.

INTERVALE 1 bedroom 2 story condo, pets considered, no smoking, heat, electricity and plowing included $750/mo.

Available 3/1 (603)986-1275.

2 bdrm plus loft apt; Intervale location. Full bath, w/d, woodstove $750/mo plus utilities.

Avail.

April 1st.

Call 603-475-3752.

INTERVALE private rooms: 1-2 beds, TV, fridge, Internet, utilities. Kitchen, phones, computers, laundry. $150-175/week (603)383-9779.

INTERVALE, 3 bedroom condo, newly done over. Small dogs okay. No smokers, plowing and water included. (603)356-2203.

INTERVALE- 2 plus bedroom, 2 bath, ranch. Full basement, $1000/mo plus utilities. References. Dan Jones, ReMax Presidential (603)356-9444.

LOVELL- 2/ 3 bedroom apartment above the Lovell Village Store, electricity included, no pets, $650/mo.

Call 207-925-1255 and ask for Rosie.

NORTH Conway charming 2 be carriage house apt. $695/mo including heat. References & credit check. No pets. Dan Jones, ReMax Presidential (603)356-9444.

DOWNTOWN North Conway spacious 1 bedroom apt. Security and references required. $675/mo. heat, plowing, trash removal included. Available immediately (781)686-0511.

NORTH Conway unfurnished 2 bdrm, 1 bath condo. 2nd floor, 1 year lease. No pets or smoking. $700/mo + utility. Security & credit check.

Rich Johnson, Select RE (603)447-3813.

NORTH Conway Village large 1 bedroom apt. $550/mo. 1 month security, no pets, no smoking, call (603)387-3930.

NORTH Conway Village: 1 bdrm apt.; can be office or both.

Charming; new paint, carpet, window and heating system.

Rt.16 above well established business; parking. $695/mo +.

(603)630-5162.

NORTH Conway- Newly remod eled 2 bedroom condominium, $795/mo. Trash, plowing included.

Rinnai heat.

(978)376-9557.

NORTHBROOK Condominium.

2 BR w/ den, 2 bath. Outdoor pool and tennis. W/d, woodstove, views to Cranmore. Attached bath off master bedroom. $900/mo plus utilities.

Furnished or unfurnished.

Available immediately. No pets.

First month and security. References required. Mountain & Vale Realty 356-3300.

RENTALS Wolfeboro, Ossipee, Tamworth, Effingham, Wakefield and Alton Largest selection of houses, apartments, office space, store fronts, storage units and mobile homes.

Short or long term.

No pets please.

See our website for details.

DuCo Property Services, (603)539-5577 Mon-Fri 9-5pm.

ducoproperties@myfairpoint.net,

ducopropertyservices.webnode.com

TAMWORTH apartment for rent, small 1 bedroom, private seperate entrance. No pets. All utilities included. $575/mo. Call for info. (603)323-8852.

TAMWORTH ranch style house.

Newly renovated; 2 bdrm, 2 car carport, nice yard $850/mo plus deposit and references.

603-323-7497.

For Rent-Vacation ORLANDO, FL 1 bedroom timeshare (sleeps 4) for rent- Sheraton Vistana Resort, 4/21 thru 4/28/12. $450.00FMI 603-387-5598 SEASONAL- prime locations 1-4 BR properties. Some slopeside units 603-383-8000, email anne@fgpm.com.

RETAIL & OFFICE SPACE

NORTH CONWAY VILLAGE Options from 200 sq. ft and up Call or email for pricing Sheila 356-6321 x 6469 sheiladuane@attitashrealty.com COFFEE & sandwich shop space for lease at the Eastern Slope Inn: Well established, prime location North Conway Village high foot traffic, great visibility.

Contact Sheila Duane SheilaDuane@AttitashRealty.com

356-6321 x6469

GARAGE/ workshop, 900s.f.

Overhead door; large plowed driveway; personal bathroom; propane heat; in-town location. $550/mo.

Call Jon (603)447-3336.

GROW YOUR BUSINESS HERE! Garden shop & Landscaping?

Christmas Trees? Winter equipment sales? Antiques? Crafts?

Art Gallery? Insurance? Engineering? Food Service? Ice Cream? Retail? Lawyer? Ski Shop? Accountant? What ever you do, a new, highly visible location in the most affluent section of the Valley offers Opportunity! Attractively updated log commercial building in dynamite Bartlett location has 500’ frontage on Route 16 between Story Land and Jackson. 1598 SF. Lease for $1,500/mo. plus utilities.

Rent-to-own? Or purchase now for $219,500 ($22,000+ under assessed value) E-mail interest and references to pinkham@pinkhamrealestate.com

Broker interest. Or call Peter at Pinkham Real Estate 603-356-5425.

INTERVALE, NH Rt. 16A/302“Office space for rent” Single/ multiple rooms. For available rooms and rental price list see Johnsoncpa.com (207)636-7606.

NEW North Conway Village retail space available on Main Street! 725sf. Call Sheila 356-6321 Ext6469 www.AttitashRealty.com/Rentals

NORTH Conway Village- 400 to 1450 sq.ft. Premium office/ retail space. Convenient in-town location (next to TD Bank). Newly renovated, great visibility and access from Main Street or North/ South Road, ample parking. Call Roger (603)452-8888.

OFFICE/ Retail spaces in Jackson, sunny, new interior in Jackson Village available immediately.

Please call (603)986-0295 for details and information.

For Sale 12” Northfield Jointer new $11,500. Excellent mechanical condition, $3500. (603)323-8172.

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

BEDROOM-SOLID Cherrywood Sleigh bed. Dresser, mirror, chest, night stand. New! Cost $2,200 sell $895. (603) 235-1773

CARROLL COUNTY OIL Cash discount, senior citizen discount, prompt deliveries, pre-buy programs. 539-8332.

For Rent-Commercial

CLASSIC Wooden Motorola stereo phonic console LP and 45 player 44”X30”X18” with AM/FM radio from the 1950's still works, $100, 723-4032.

24X36 garage/ workshop/ wood working/ auto body repair shop.

Lovell Village, ME. $350 plus.

(603)828-3661.

COOK Healthy with a Black & Decker Food/ Rice cooker w/ instruction booklet, hardly used, $15, 723-4032.

Fuel oil and Kerosene, great prices. Call (207)890-6616 or (207)935-3834, or visit: dndoil.com.

DRY FIREWOOD $275/cord

WHITE MTN. FIREWOOD 603-356-5521 FIREWOOD cut, spit and delivered. 16”, 18”, 20”, 22” $275/cord. 12”, 14” also available (603)356-5923.

WOOD HEAT Vigas Gasification Wood Boilers Call today for information & to see a live demonstration!

Alternative Heating of Mt. Washington Valley

(603)387-0553 vigasboilers.com

FIREWOOD Green Firewood $195/cord Minimum 2 cord delivery.

Delivery fee may apply.

207-925-1138

westernmainetimberlands.com

FIREWOOD Kiln dried hardwood for sale. $300/cord plus delivery charge.

Call Ossipee Mountain Land Co. 603.323.7677.

FIREWOOD Quality kiln dried hardwoods, guaranteed dry. $325/cord. 1/2 cords available. Call North Country Firewood (603)447-3441 or (603)986-0327.

GUNS, Guns, Guns. I trade, swap, exchange. I do not sell guns. This is a hobby. Please call if you want to trade. Please no junk. Tel. (603)367-8589.

GUNS- Browning BPS 12 gage 28 & 30” barrels, great shape $450.

Call for info (603)387-2548.

GUNS- DPMS Panther Arms A-15 Cal 223-5.56MM, custom painted, one of a kind. Center Point Sniper Scope. Tripod, bayonet, led filled stock for stability, extra clip $1200. Call for info (603)387-2548.

GUNS- Smith & Wesson stainless steel mod #5906 9MM woriginal box. Custom target sights and grips & 2 extra clips $500.

Call for info (603)387-2548..

GUNS- Winchester mod 101 OU 20 gage 2-3/4 & 3” chamber.

26” barrels skeet & skeet, great shape $900. Call for info (603)387-2548.

HAD Accident can't ski! Soloman X-Scream 179 cm skis and bindings $75/BO; Volant Super S 180 cm, w/ Marker bindings, $50/BO; AB Lounger, $20 603-449-2140.

HAY, horse hay $5/bale. Delivery available. 383-8917.

J. GAMMON FIREWOOD Cut and split, 1.5 cord delivery, $220/cord. (603)539-2782.

KENMORE 5 (5 cubic ft) upright freezer, $100.

Call (603)367-4640.

LYMANOIL.COM Save 30% to 60% on all stock pellet stoves from Napoleon, Wittus and Ecoteck. Jesse E Lyman Oil and Propane, North Conway (603)356-2411.

NEED Cash? Sell your stuff on Ebay. We do the work. You get cash! 10 years experience.

ABCybersell (207)925-3135 Mike.

SNOWBOARD- women’s Nitro Fate, new Burton Stiletto bindings; excellent condition. $200.

(603)986-2308.

USED HOT TUBS Starting at $2500, great condition. Atlantic Pool and Spa (603)356-0039.

WOODSTOVE for sale. Garrison model I, good condition. All steel construction, takes 22” logs. Great big heater. $200 Stoveman (603)662-8103.

Found FOUND on 2/7 a Women’s multi stone ring, white gold, found in Conway Village near Valley Travel. Call to describe (603)447-8860.

Furniture AMAZING! Beautiful Queen or Full-size mattress set. Luxury Firm European Pillow-top style.

Fabulous back & hip support.

Factory sealed - new 10-Yr. warranty. Cost $1095, sell $249.

Can deliver 603-305-9763.

CASH & Carry blow out sale!

Chairs $5, sofas from $40 at the Glen Warehouse. 383-6665.

FUTON Queen, Love seat, both have new beige custom slip covers, 2 lamps, maple end and coffee table. Call (508)494-0582.

MATTRESS & FURNITURE CLOSEOUTS AND OVERSTOCKS! 20% OFF ENTIRE STORE! RECLINERS $299, FUTONS, $299 BUNKBEDS, $399 SOFAS, $599 RUSTIC FURNITURE AND ARTWORK TOO! COZY CABIN RUSTICS AND MATTRESS OUTLET 517 WHITTIER HWY. (RTE 25) MOULTONBORO CALL JAY 603-662-9066 WWW.VISCODIRECT.COM OPENING Soon.. Rare Finds Consignment Gallery is now looking for good quality previously enjoyed furniture and home decor. Please call 603-323-8900 for more information.

Free 10 FREE FIREPLATES Save oil & money, make hot water with a Fireplate "water heating baffle for wood stove".

Restrictions apply, Email: info@dearbornbortec.com or Call: 207-935-2502 for complete details.

FREE console piano with bench.

Brown color. Good condition.

U-haul. (603)447-3371.

PAY $300 minimum for your junk car/ truck picked up. Also buying junk vehicles, light iron, heavy iron over the scales. We also buy copper, brass, wire, aluminum, batteries and much more.

Call for scale (603)323-7363.

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

Heavy Equipment 1974 MC80 Massey Ferguson 6cyl diesel loader, 2wd, hydrostatic drive, runs and operates very good. First $4500 takes it.

(603)730-2590.

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Help Wanted

by Abigail Van Buren

MOM STILL WAITING TO MEET HER EX-HUSBAND’S FIANCEE

DEAR ABBY: I am a divorced mother of two incredible children. It took a bit of work but after some time, my ex and I have come around to being civil, if not friendly with each other. He has been dating a woman for more than a year and now tells me they will be getting married in three months.

Abby, I haven’t met her yet. I harbor no ill will toward her and understand through my children that she’s very nice and good to them. My ex keeps telling me they are not ready for introductions. I have no idea what that means, but I haven’t pushed the issue because I want to keep things on friendly terms. My question is, at what point is it appropriate to introduce your ex to your children’s soon-to-be stepparent? -- READY IN HOUSTON DEAR READY: Because you and your ex share custody of your children, the logical time for you to meet his fiancee would have been at the time of their engagement -- if not before. I can’t help wondering why your ex is stalling about making the introduction because, in the months and years to come, it will be important that you and your children’s stepmother can function effectively together.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a coupon clipper. I save our household an average of $30 to $40 a week using them. Sometimes I have a great coupon we can’t use, so I’ll leave it at the store on top of the item it’s for.

When I do, my husband accuses me of littering and merely creating trash for store employees to pick up. I think a stranger finding a valuable coupon for the item he or she wants is a kind way to “pay it forward.” I’m selective about leaving them and only do it when the coupon offers significant savings.

What are your thoughts? AM I being a litterbug? -- CHICAGO CLIPPER DEAR CLIPPER: Of course you’re not being a litterbug.

You’re being generous, and I’m sure many -- if not all -- of the coupons you leave have been put to good use.

Since you asked for my thoughts, I’ll share one: You have a critical husband who is faulting you rather than complimenting you on your generosity. Shame on him.

DEAR ABBY: My grandson and his bride were going through their gift envelopes and found some with nothing in them. They don’t know if there was money inside and it fell out. If they thank a guest for a gift and there was none, it could seem sarcastic. If they don’t thank the person and there was money inside and it got lost -- THEN what? What do they say?

Also, there was a family (mother, son and daughter-inlaw) who attended the wedding. The mother put in a check that was larger than she really could afford, while the son and daughter-in-law left a card with nothing inside. We don’t know what to do, because my grandson doesn’t know if the check was intended to be from the three of them. Abby, what’s the proper way to handle this? -- EMPTY ENVELOPES IN CALIFORNIA DEAR EMPTY ENVELOPES: Your grandson and his bride should write notes to those guests whose envelopes were empty saying, “We want to thank you for being part of our wedding day and helping to make it so memorable and meaningful. Your presence and the fact that you were with us made it extra special. With love ...”

Help Wanted

ATTENTION: Action Taxi seeks local drivers. Clean driving record a must! 3 years min.

(603)986-4298 call between 10am-5pm.

AVON: Earnings great! No door to door necessary. Choose your own hours. For information call 323-7361.

THE Union Leader/ NH Sunday News seeking independent contractor to deliver newspaper for it’s North Conway, Bartlett & Jackson route. Route is worth $330 and requires early AM delivery, 6 days a week. Must have own vehicle with proof of liability insurance needed ($300,000 per accident, $100,000 bodily injury, & property damage $25,000). Also requires collection responsibilities. Contact Jim Paggi at 668-1210 x228.

BLUEBERRY MUFFIN RESTAURANT IS SEEKING AN EXPERIENCED LINE COOK Dependability and weekends a must. Apply within. See Vicki or Eric.

COORDINATOR- INT’L STUDENT PROGRAM

Motivated, flexible, self starter w/ creative problem solving skills. Enjoy teens, community service, PR. Recruit host families, supervise foreign high school students. Comp & travel perks! Part time, flexible hrs.

Contact Annette at annettem@pax.org and see www.pax.org for info.

Summit Achievement Clinical Therapist Summit Achievement of Stow, ME is a residential treatment center combining psychotherapy, wilderness expeditions and academics to adolescents ages 13-21. The therapist will be responsible for providing individual, group and family therapy. Applicants should have a strong background in working with adolescents and families.

Outdoor experience required. Applicants should have M.Ed, MA, MSW or PhD. Independent licensure preferred.

Please e-mail to: nernst@summitachievment.com or fax to Nichol Ernst @ (207)697-2021

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Write Dear Abby at: Dear Abby, c/o The Conway Daily Sun, PO Box 1940, North Conway, NH 03860

Doonesbury

Help Wanted

by Gary Trudeau

Help Wanted

HOUSEKEEPING ASST. MANAGER Attitash Mountain Service Co. is seeking an experienced assistant manager for our housekeeping department. Candidate should have strong leadership skills, strong communication skills (both oral and written), strong hospitality skills, scheduling flexibility, enjoy a fast paced environment, enjoy doing a variety of tasks and do the job with a minimum of er rors. Excellent benefits. Salary commensurate w/ experience.

Confidentiality guaranteed.

Mail your resume to Donna Finnie, Human Resource Dept. at AMSCO, PO Box 826, North Conway NH 03860 or e-mail DonnaFinnie@EasternSlopeInn.com

Help Wanted

Help Wanted Applications Engineer Full Time

Candidate must have knowledge in the machine tool industry as well as a mechanical background. Strong CAD and problem solving skills are required. This is a great opportunity to travel and grow within our company.

This is a full time position with an impressive benefits package available along with paid vacations and holidays. Salary is commensurate with experience. If interested, please send resume to the address below. All qualified candidates will be scheduled for an interview. EOE

Mitee-Bite Products LLC PO Box 430, Ctr. Ossipee, NH 03814 • (603)-539-4538

Excellent Job Opportunity Northway Bank, the largest independent community commercial bank in New Hampshire is looking for an exceptional candidate for the following Career opportunity:

Retail Loan Underwriter N.Conway - Full Time This position requires experience underwriting various loan types for sale to Secondary Market Investors such as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority (NHHFA). Detailed knowledge of secondary market mortgage loan underwriting guidelines, including various mortgage insurance company approval criteria (i.e. MGIC, Genworth and Rural Development, FHA/VA). Organizational, behavioral, technical, mechanical and analytical skills are necessary to perform required duties. Excellent organizational and communication skills are required.

At Northway Bank Full Time Residential Advisor - Candidate will be a

responsible, caring individual who will assist adults in a residential setting. Duties include assisting people with developmental disabilities with daily living skills and community integration. High school diploma or equivalent required. Experience and education in the Human Services field strongly desired, but will train the right candidate. Please send cover letter and resume to: Molly Campbell, Residential Manager, 626 Eastman Road, Center Conway, NH 03813, fax: (603)356-6310 or mcampbell@northernhs.org (10219).

All positions require a valid driver’s license, proof of adequate auto insurance, completion of driver’s and criminal background checks.

This agency is an equal opportunity provider, and employer.

• We focus on our customers and provide excellent customer service.

• We respect, care for and recognize our employees for excellent per formance.

• We actively participate in the communities in which we do business.

• Enjoy working in a team environment.

Northway Bank offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, a positive work environment, and future career growth opportunities.

Interested applicants may view Northway Bank Career Opportunities and apply online via our website listed below.

Northway Bank Human Resources Department Apply Online: www.northwaybank.com Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action employer Women and Minority Applications Encouraged

THE CONWAY DAILY SUN, Saturday, February 18, 2012— Page 35

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

COUNTER HELP

RAFFERTY’S Restaurant looking for experienced Cook, Bartender, Waitstaff. Stop in after 3 or call (603)356-6460.

Low winter rates. License/ insured. No job too small.

(603)356-8253.

SISTERZ SALON

RIDGELINE BUILDERS

Join our dedicated, seasoned team.

Perm. P/T Includes Saturdays Must be dependable.

Apply in person at Bagels Plus 2988 WM Hwy DRIVERS: Getting Home is Easier. Chromed out trucks w/ APU's. Chromed out pay package! 90% Drop & Hook CDL-A, 6mos Exp. (888)247-4037.

ENTRY Level Cabinet/ Woodworker/ Partsmaker/ machine operator. Day time, part time.

Experience helpful. $10-$12/hour. Call for details.

(207)650-0442.

EXPERIENCED, caring and professional Caregivers needed for Conway area and surrounding towns. CNA/ LNA preferred.

Nights/ weekends a must.

Criminal background/reference checks. Email your resume to timberlandhomecare@live.com.

STITCHER WANTED to cut & sew cloth filtration bags at our facility. Commercial stitcher with a working knowledge of straight and overlock machines preferred. Apply in person at Baker Bags, 20 Summit View Dr., Tamworth NH. 323-2000.

VITO Marcello’s Italian Bistro now hiring full & part-time experienced line cooks. Apply in person between 11-5. No phone calls please. Ask for Dave.

Home Improvements

Real Estate

NOTCHLAND INN

AM BUILDERS

Head Housekeeper- Looking for self-motivated and energetic person to direct & supervise our housekeeping functions. Job includes hands-on housekeeping and assisting with breakfast.

Job can be full time with vacation. Weekend work required.

Dishwasher- Weekend & weeknights available. We'll try to work with your schedule to meet both your needs & ours.

Pleasant personality & willingness to work hard a plus! References required. Reliable transportation a must. The Notchland Inn, in Crawford Notch, Hart’s Location. (603)374-6131.

Full service contractor. All types roofing, siding, decks, remodeling, new homes and garages.

(603)323-7519 View our website: www.AddisonMasonBuilders.com

GLEN Ledge saltbox. Attitash views, 3 bdrm, 3 baths, finished walk-out basement, in-law potential, 2 car garage, 2 wood stove hearths, brook; broker/ owner (603)733-7671. Brokers welcome. $264,900.

Looking for full/ part time.

Stylist. FMI please call Marcie (603)662-9928.

Home Improvements #1 Contractor to Call. Home repairs, new construction, solid references, free advice/ estimates. (603)662-7888. www.northconwaybuilders.com

1 CALL DOES IT ALL Ken Karpowich Plumbing and Remodeling.

Licensed and insured in ME and NH. Repairs, installations, demo to finish remodeling. Call for a free estimate. I will call you back.

800-356-0315, 207-925-1423.

GRANITE COUNTERS A quality job for a quality price.

Quality Marble and Granite, (603)662-8447.

We offer competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package!

Please check our website for specific details on each position

OB Nurse - Per Diem Exercise Specialist - Per Diem Primary Care MA - Full Time and Per Diem Respiratory Therapist - Full Time Diabetes RN/LPN/MA - Per Diem and Full TIme Med Surg RN - Full Time Nights 3-5 years exp.

Womens Health Office Assistant/MA - Full Time Controller - Full Time Director of Information Services IT - Full Time Laboratory Med Tech - Per Diem. MT, MLT required Surgical Services, Operating Room RN - Full Time + Call Primary Care RN - Full Time Surgical Services RN Director - Full Time A completed Application is required to apply for all positions Website: www.memorialhospitalnh.org.

Contact: Human Resources, Memorial Hospital, an EOE PO Box 5001, No. Conway, NH 03860.

Phone: (603)356-5461 • Fax: (603)356-9121

WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE??

Join our dedicated staff of highly trained professionals. Offering an excellent benefit package and competitive salary, the Carroll County Complex located in Ossipee, New Hampshire is currently accepting applications for the following positions.

CARROLL COUNTY HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT Human Resources GeneralistThe Human Resources department is now accepting resumes for a full-time HR Generalist. This position is responsible for, but not limited to, all Worker’s Compensation filings, Medical and Dental enrollments, new hire processing, orientation, website maintenance, filing and overall administrative support to the Human Resources Director. This is a full-time 40 hour a week position with benefits

CARROLL COUNTY FARM Seasonal Farm CoordinatorThe Carroll County Farm is now accepting resumes for a seasonal Farm Coordinator. This position is a part-time, approx. 30 hours/week, seasonal position from March-November. Occasional weekends and/or evenings required. This position will be responsible for inmate supervision while working on the County Farm.

Have ability to lift 40-50lbs. Must have a valid NH Drivers license. $11.00/hr.

To send Resume and letter of interest or to obtain an application contact: Robin Reade, Human Resources Director Carroll County, PO Box 152, Ossipee NH 03864 Tel: 603-539-1721 Fax: 603-539-1804 rreade@carrollcountynh.net EOE

Home Works Remodelers

All phases of construction, from repairs to complete homes. www.sites.google.com/site/home worksremodelers/ (603)455-7115, (603)447-2402, homwrksrem@yahoo.com.

RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICAL WORK

For your 2012 home projects!

We do all aspects of Interior & Exterior work. When Quality & Integrity counts! Give us a call 603-630-5023.

ROOF WORK All aspects of roof repair!

Entire roofs to small leaks, shingles, steel or flat roofs. Call Mike Lyons, a fully insured professional, serving MWV (603)370-7769.

Land 5 acre lot next to National Forest, end of Jericho Road Driveway in house lot cleared $69,000/firm (603)986-5974.

CENTER Conway. Location, Location, Location! Jct. of 302 and 113. 78 acres. $299,000.

603-367-8054.

CONWAY LAKE LOT.Will subordinate to construction loan or other offer. 207-754-1047.

CONWAY: Approved 3 bdrm house lot, driveway, well. 1289 Passaconaway Rd, across from Red Eagle Pond, trout stream, Swift River, hiking trails. Excellent location. (207)404-0912.

FRYEBURG 1. acre level building lot, with grat view, will build to suit, $45,500.

Call (603)662-7086.

FRYEBURG 1.3 acre lot, fabulous views, perfect location for your dream home, will build to suit, $69,900. Csll (603)662-7086.

JACKSON 1.1 acre lot on quiet, paved cul-de-sac. Mt. Washington views. Reduced to $86,000.

(603)367-4770.

Looking To Rent RETIRED couple looking for long term lease, condo or house with 2-3 bedrooms, 2 baths, storage. North Conway, Intervale, Glen, area. (603)569-1073.

Lost DIAMOND tennis bracelet sentimental lost Sat Fe 11th 2012 between Hurricane Mt. Rd. and Surfine Plaza, Conway.

(978)745-0647.

SKI equipment lost on Rt16 2/11, 2 bags, between Wildcat and Junction of 16, 302.

(508)667-7771.

Motorcycles

JACKSON NH SPECIAL 4000 sq. ft. home by owner for the discriminating buyer seeking that unique mountain location. Magnificent views, private, unique floor plan, billiard room, hot tub, 3 bedrooms, 2 fireplaces, 2 woodstoves, large 2 story 5 car garage - screen house, many other amenities.

2.2 acres. Fire sale priced: $495,000. Call motivated seller for private viewing.

(603)356-5109 or (603)387-2265.

Real Estate, Time Share RCI Time share at Eastern Slope Inn, week #6. Best offer.

617-997-3414. Or email: rdm24@comcast.net.

TIME share, Eastern Slope, studio- sleeps 4. Week 3, starts MLK. Owners use pool, fitness room year-round. Wi-fi, flat screen, Jacuzzi. Use locally or exchange worldwide. $2800.

(603)986-2562.

WEEK 5, Attitash Mt. Village, 4-sale. Sleeps 4, kitchen, best offer. (860)536-4646. email: bhall4646@gmail.com.

Rentals Wanted FURNISHED house- June thru Sept 2012; 2- 3 bed, 2 bath; Madison/ Chocorua; A/C, internet; retired couple; twoflgulfers@gmail.com LOOKING to rent your vacation property for the season or long term.

Call Anne @ (603)383-8000 or anne@fgpm.com.

Roommate Wanted CONWAY 3 bedroom apartment- 2 rooms available $450/ea, heat included. Kids okay.

Pets negotiable.

603.986.1512.

SMOKE-FREE home- Effingham, share home- utilities included. $100/wk. Art, (603)539-5699.

ROOMMATE wanted to share large new home in beautiful Jackson, private bedroom & bathroom, no pets, no drugs, no smoking. $500/mo (603)383-4460.

Services #1 SANDY'S CLEANING Private, seasonal homes, rentals, commercial, construction cleaning. Security checks, maintenance. 30 years serving the valley. (603)383-9342.

A CLEAN HOME Preston’s Cleaning Service. Fall Cleaning. Cleaning residential/ commercial offices, providing security checks. Free estimates, insured. FMI (603)356-5075.

Affordable Handyman Senior discounts, interior/ exterior painting, windows, sheetrock, carpentry. Insured. Gary (603)356-3301.

BBHS Commercial Cleaning 24-7. Call 603-447-5233.

Cleaning & More

Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

Vacation Rentals Private Homes Offices 24/7 Windows

Recreation Vehicles

Carl & Dixie Lea 447- 3711 ~ credit cards accepted ~ ~ Est 1990 ~

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

2002 29’ Jayflight by Jayco camper, bunkhouse style. Full awning. Toilet, shower, storage tanks, never used. Big enough to live in! Like new condition.

First $6500 takes it.

(603)730-2590.

Services Custom Saw Milling Custom Planing Custom Kiln Drying Call for details Home Grown Lumber (603)447-3800.

EXPERIENCED ELDER CARE PROVIDER

to help you or your loved one maintain independence in your own home. If in need of assistance please contact Amanda: (603)986-7346. Over 20 years of experience; references available.

EXPERIENCED, affordable cleaner. Flexible hours; references available upon request.

Experienced in elderly Care. Call Katie (603)733-8339.

FLOOR STRIP & WAX Commercial, industrial, residential. Maintenance with high speed burnsher. Available nights & weekends. Free estimates; insured. OCD Cleaning Services. (603)340-0111.

HARDWOOD FLOORS C.R. Schneider Hardwood Floors. Installed, sanded, refinished. 35 yrs. in business. Chris (603)539-4015.

HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICES

Specializing in home & condo checks, maintenance, repair work & painting, haul away services, spring cleanups & handyman work. Senior discounts; free estimates. No job too small, call Sean (603)986-3201.

HYPNOSIS for habit change, stress, regression. Michael Hathaway, DCH, certified hypnotherapist. Madison 367-8851. www.whitemountainhypnosiscenter.com.

IPOD FIX IT Not just iPods, but Digital Cameras, Smartphones, Game Systems LCD- TV"S. not listed? Just ask! 603-752-9838.

John’s Cleaning Service Meticulous cleaning for home or business. Also carpet cleaning, windows, floor refinishing.

Local family business (207)393-7285.

Storage Space COMMERCIAL Storage Units, centrally located in North Conway, 200 sq.ft. and up. Ideal for small businesses. Call Roger (603)452-8888.

EAST Wakefield- Rt153- Located close to both Belleau and Province Lakes. Self storage units available 5x10, 10x10, & 10x25. 24 hour easy access. ducopropertyservices.webnode.com

(603)539-5577.

FREE UHAUL TRUCK With move in. Climate Control Storage available. 5x5s all the way up to 10x30s for all your storage needs. Visit East Conway Self Storage 819 East Conway Road. (603)356-8493.

FREEDOM Storage. 5x5, 5x10, 10X10, 10X20, 20X25. We rent for less, Rte. 25. 603-651-7476.

GLEN WAREHOUSE Storage, household, autos, motorcycles, RVs, snowmobiles.

Discounted Penske Truck rentals (603)383-6665 www.valleyauto.us JB Self Storage- Rt5 Lovell, 10x20, 10x24, 10x30, secure, dry, 24 hr access. (207)925-3045.

NORTH Conway Storage; 24 hour access; secure, dry. $35 special 4’x10’ units. Climate controlled units. Larger units available also. Discounted Budget Truck Rentals Call Rachael at (603)383-6665.

STORAGE trailers for rent, 27 to 45’. Good clean dry units. Call D. Rock. 1-800-433-7625.

U-STORE-IT Seasonal Storage Available.

Great rates. 5x10- $39/month; 10x15$89/month Call U-Store-It (603)447-5508.

Wanted $300 & up for unwanted cars & trucks. Call Ricker Auto Salvage (603)323-7363.

BOOKS puchased; AMC Guides, White Mountains, regional town state histories, others. Cash paid now (603)348-7766.

CASH FOR GOLD, silver, platinum, jewelry, flatware, coins, etc. Route 16, 1.5 miles south of Conway Village.

(603)447-8808 (ask for Tom).

KEN'S PLOWING Affordable rates. Ossipee & Madison area. (603)733-7751.

PERSONAL care assistant, respite care, full-time, part-time days, nights, and fill-in. 25 years experience. 207-807-1011.

Property Maintenance Plowing, shoveling & sanding.

Interior, exterior maintenance & renovations, property checks.

Serving Bartlett/ Glen area.

Licensed & insured contractor since 1993. Carr Contracting.

603-383-4334.

SANDING & PLOWING Residential & light commercial.

Conway area. (603)662-6062.

THE HANDYMAN No job too small. Plus interior house painting. Reasonable rates. Conway and Freedom areas.

Call George (603)986-5284.

TOTAL FLOOR CARE Professional Installation, sanding, refinishing and repair of wood floors. 447-1723.

Snowmobiles LOOKING for an old rear engine Polaris all steel snowmobile.

Call Joe, local 603-630-5325.

Storage Space All your storage needs in the heart of the valley. Modern, clean, dry and secure. Mountain Valley Self Storage (603)356-3773. www.mvselfstorage.com.

Wanted To Buy CASH for antiques, gold, silver, coins, furniture, etc. Conway Village Pawn, 150 Main St. Conway, (603)447-2255.

EAST COAST ART & ANTIQUE BUYERS Art, collections, furnishings, books, etc. Professional, discrete.

Marc (603)986-8235.

GOLD OVER $1,600/0Z.!

WE BUY DIAMONDS, GOLD, SILVER, COINS,

Platinum, Jewelry, Watches & Antiques. Free estimates. North Country Fair Jewelers. Established 1969. 2448 Main St., North Conway (603)356-5819.

Yard Sale INDOOR Yard Sale Saturday 9-2. Hundreds of items. Cross Road, Madison, between Rt41 & Ossipee Lake Road. Gray warehouse 539-7054

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8:45 & 10:30 am - Contemporary Worship Service Christ-centered, Biblical teaching Visit www.firstossipee.org for more info.

50 Rt 16B, Center Ossipee • (603) 539-6003

East Fryeburg Church of Christ

(Bible Only) Route 302, East Fryeburg (207) 935-4337

SERVICES:

Sunday: 9:30 AM - Bible School 10:30 AM - Church Thursday Nights 7 PM - Bible Prayer Meeting

GLEN COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH Route 302, PO Box 279, Glen, NH 03838 gcbc9@yahoo.com

Jesus Is Coming Again. Are You Ready? Acts 4:12 Rev. William B. Rose, Jr.

SUNDAY: 9:45am Sunday School 11:00am Morning Worship 7:00pm Evening Service WEDNESDAY 7:00pm Prayer Meeting

Fryeburg Assembly of God Fryeburg, Maine Services: Sunday 10 am & 6 pm Wednesday Evening: 6 pm

Pastor Jim Warnock

207-935-3129

located on 8 Drift Road, just behind Main Street Mobil Station

First Baptist Church Sunday Services

Sunday School...................................9:30 A.M. Morning Worship.............................10:45 A.M. Evening Service..................................6:30 P.M.

Wednesday Prayer, Praise, and Bible Study..........6:30 P.M.

Location: Main Street, North Conway Village across from the North Conway Scenic Railroad.

— Independent, Fundamental —

Church: (603) 356-6066 • Rev. Laurence Brown firstbaptistnorthconway.org When in North Conway Village, listen to our broadcast ministry at 91.1 FM

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Eastern Slopes

“A Welcoming Congregation” Sunday, February 19:

Buddhism

Member Speakers George Anderson, Jim Hunt, and Bill Lotz.

To see a brief video about Unitarian Universalism, go to: www.uufes.org Sunday Service 10am • Religious Education at 10am Nursery Care for Infants and Toddlers The Reverend Mary Giles Edes, Minister 603.323.8585 • 30 Tamworth Rd, Tamworth

Mt. Washington Valley Jewish Community Chavurat HeHarim * Fellowship in the Mountains

We have a worship service the last Friday night of each month.

We usually gather the last weekend for a Shabbat potluck. Inquire about children’s and adult ed.

For info call (603)694-3058

CHOCORUA COMMUNITY CHURCH 10 am Worship and Children’s Ministries Ash Wednesday Service at 7 pm

Christ’s Turning Point Rev. Kent Schneider, 662-6046 Located on Rt 113 east at Rt. 16 www.chocoruachurch.org & Facebook

Holy Epiphany Liberal Catholic Church 15 Washington St, Conway, NH (The Echo Building)

Mass: Monday to Friday 9:00am Sundays 11:00 am

“You Are Welcome!”

Bp. Jason Sanderson, Pastor • (603)-733-6000

You Are Invited

“That in all things Jesus Christ might have the pre-eminence”

Faith Bible Church

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 35 Portland Street • Fryeburg, Maine

Independent * Non-Denominational

Meets each Sunday at 10:00 am

Located at Rt 16A and Dundee Road in Intervale Pastor Bob Novak • 383-8981 • Nursery Provided

St. Margaret’s Anglican Church

85 PLEASANT STREET, CONWAY • 447-2404

Rev. Jeffrey W. Monroe, M.M., Rector Tracy Gardner, Organist and Choir Director

HOLY SCRIPTURE - TRADITIONAL WORSHIP

SUNDAYS: Holy Communion; 9:30 am

All Are Welcome!

Healing Service 1st Thursday Monthly 12:00 pm

AN ORTHODOX ANGLICAN PARISH FAMILY

Sunday Service & Sunday School~ 10:00 am Wednesday Meeting~ 7:30pm Childcare provided for each service

River Church

THE

First Congregational Church of Ossipee

Sunday Celebration Service 10am Wednesday Evening Service 6:30pm

3rd Tuesday: Free Community Dinner— 5-6pm Thursdays: Symphony of Prayer— 6:30pm at the church Breadbasket Food Pantry: Second Tuesday of every month from 4-6pm and by app’t at 447-6633.

Children’s Ministries available during Sunday morning service.

Rev. Henry Snyder, Pastor

Please join us!

2600 East Main St., Ctr. Conway, NH • 603-447-6686 Across from McSherry’s Nursery

St. Margaret of Scotland plans Ash Wednesday and Lenten services CONWAY — St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church will mark the beginning of Lent with a Penitential Service for Ash Wednesday at noon on Wednesday Feb. 22. The service is open to all who will mark the beginning of Lent that day. The service will be held at the church located at 85 Pleasant Street in Conway.

During Lent, the parish will also have noon prayers and Holy Communion in the parish chapel every Thursday and Stations of the Cross on Fridays at 7 p.m. on Fridays.

The Anglican Church in America is part of the worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion, with

members in 44 countries, and seeks to uphold the Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship and Evangelical Witness of the Anglican tradition within the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ. The Communion holds Holy Scripture and the ancient Creeds of the undivided Church as authentic and authoritative, and worships according to the traditional Liturgies of the Church.

St. Margaret of Scotland worships on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. The church is located at 85 Pleasant Street in Conway. The Rev. Jeffrey Monroe MM is Rector. For more information call 447-2404.

Center Conway Baptist Church celebrates 20 years ALBANY — The Center Conway Baptist Church will be celebrating 20 years in the Lords ministry on Sunday, March 18. The church started in 1992 on March 18, the congregation will hold its service at the Albany Town Hall, with a full day of events planned. The day will start with Sunday school at

9:30 a.m., followed by morning service at 10:30 a.m.

There will be a potluck dinner at 12:30 p.m., an afternoon service at 2 p.m. The special speaker is John Barns. All are welcome to come and share this special day. For more information call Dave Wilson at 447-3128.

The Madison Church to hold bean supper Feb. 18 MADISON — The Madison Church Supper will be held at the Madison Elementary School on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 5:30 p.m.

The cost is $8 for adults and $3 for children

Saint Andrew’s-in-the-Valley The Episcopal Church of Tamworth and the Ossipee Valley The Rev. Heidi Frantz-Dale, Rector

Sunday Worship 8am and 10am Child care available at 10am

Join us for Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Tues., Feb 21st at 6pm.

under 12. The meal will include homemade baked beans, ham, salads, rolls, brown bread, and an assortment of pie for dessert. For more information call 367-4705.

South Tamworth United Methodist Church 8:30 AM Traditional Worship & Sunday School It is our mission to bring others to know the love, joy and peace that is found in Jesus Christ.

Come join us this Sunday; Minister: Murray Nickerson, Rte 25 in S. Tamworth Village

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Home of Vaughan Community Service, Inc.

SATURDAY SUPPERS Church Supper 5-7pm Every Saturday in February

Rev. Martell Spagnolo

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church Route 5, Fryeburg, Maine

WORSHIP SERVICE & SUNDAY SCHOOL 10:00 AM FELLOWSHIP HOUR FOLLOWS... ALL WELCOME! CHILDCARE PROVIDED WEDNESDAY MORNING COMMUNION SERVICE 8:00 AM • AIR CONDITIONED •

2521 Main St., No. Conway • 356-2324 churchoffice@firstchurchnc.com

bartlettchurch.net Bartlett Union Congregational Church Albany Ave/Bear Notch at US 302 Phone: 603-374-2718

United Church of Christ (The Little Brown Church)

28 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth Village United Church of Christ • www.tamworthcc.org

(Tune: AURELIA)

230 E. Conway Rd. Located in front of Abbott’s Dairy 603-356-2730 • www.vcc4jesus.org Pastor John Leonard

The Conway Village Congregational Church

All are welcome.

Organist: Floyd W. Corson Choral Director: Richard P. Goss III

Sun., Feb. 19 - Conway Homeless Mission - 12pm Sat., Mar. 3 - Community movie Night “Courageous” - 6pm Thurs., Mar. 22 - “Messiah in the Passover” Presented by “Chosen People Ministries” - 6:30pm

No Matter Who You Are or Where You Are On Your Life Journey

Rev.D r.D avid K em per

Favorite Gospel Hymn:

MONDAY NIGHTS - 6:30 pm

Men’s Bible Study & Women’s Bible Study

YOU’RE WELCOME HERE

M essage: “Relea se From Captivity”

The Church’s One Foundation

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Sermon Title: “A Holy Mantle” This week’s readings include:

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Pauline A. “Polly” DiMatteo

Pauline A. “Polly” DiMatteo, 71, formerly, of Glen, died Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 at her home.

She was born in Arlington, Mass., daughter of the late James and Grace (Boland) Enright and lived in Stoneham, Mass. and Billerica, Mass. before retiring to Glen and most recently to Brookfield to be closer to her family.

She graduated from Matigion High School Class of 1959.

Mrs. DiMatteo worked for six years for the Middlesex County Sheriffs Department before retiring in 2006.

She was a member of the Red Hats Society and enjoyed traveling, spending time with friends and family and her greatest pleasure was being with her five grandchildren and marveling

at all their individual accomplishments.

She leaves one son, John DiMatteo of Gill, Mass.; two daughters, Laura Kaplan, of East Brookfield, Mass., and Jessica Killilea, of Quincy, Mass.; her former husband, John DiMatteo, of Stoneham; one brother, Thomas Enright, of Haverhill, Mass.; five grandchildren and two more arriving in the spring and several nieces and nephews.

A funeral service for Pauline will be held Saturday, Feb. 25, at 10 a.m. in St. Agnes Church in Arlington. There are no calling hours.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in her memory to the Habitat for Humanity, 111 Park Ave., Worcester, MA, 01609.

Michael C. Saunders

Michael C. Saunders, 60, formerly of Manchester, died February 12, 2012, in Las Vegas NV. Michael was bom October 17, 1951 in Portsmouth, graduated from Manchester Central High School and attended New England College. He worked as a sales manager for Office Dimensions in Manchester for over 20 years. After retiring, he moved to Las Vegas to be closer to his sons.

A sports enthusiast and dedicated father, he was always generous with his time to coach youth sports programs in Bedford and Manchester.

He coached the Little League baseball team in Bedford and the Junior Post Legion team in Manchester for many years as well as M.Y.R.A. basket-

ball and hockey teams. His guidance brought his team to the Little League regional championships. His kindness, zest for life,and commitment to his children will he greatly missed.

Survivors include his wife Jean, sons Casey and Jared at Las Vegas; his parents, Robert and Janet Saunders of North Conway, sisters Jam McGuirk of Plymouth, Mass., and Gail Honey of Stuart, Fla.; and a brother, Stephen Saunders of Lakeland, Fla. A memorial service will be held at the Brookside Church, Elm Street, in Manchester on Thursday, Feb. 23, at 11 a.m. Memorial conbributions may be made to the Jutras Post Legion Baseball at 56 Boutwell Street. Manchester, NH 03102.

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Albany Town Column

Mary Leavitt 447-1710/Dorothy Solomon 447-1199

Closing dump store on agenda for Feb. 28 hearing

Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 4:05 p.m. the town of Conway will hold a public hearing to discuss changes in their solid waste program. Among the items on the agenda is the closing of the dump store and fees on items taken to the dump. On March 3 from 11 to 11:30 a.m. the supervisors of the checklist will be in session at Conway Town Hall to make additions and corrections to the checklist. This is your opportunity to correct any problems you may have had at primary time. A sample ballot for town meeting, March 13, is now displayed on the bulletin board at town hall. The planning board’s amendments will also be posted at that time. You can pick up the town report as well.

A representative from Senator Ayotte’s office will be holding public hours on Tuesday, Feb. 21, from 3 to 4 p.m.

Town offices will be closed on Monday, Feb. 20, for Presidents’ Day. Carroll County offers a free service to property owners to protect themselves against anyone who might record a fraudulent document with the registry of deeds office, making it look like they own your home or property. According to FBI, property and mortgage fraud is the fastest growing white-collar crime. You can register on line at www.propertyfraudalert.com or call 1 (800) 728-3858.

Gibson Center: The center is closed on Monday.

Tuesday is Mardi Gras Luncheon. Wear green, gold

and purple and don’t forget your mask and beads. At 2:30 p.m. that day there will be a Mardi Gras Tea. Scones and beignets will be served. Bring your favorite tea cup. Call to reserve your seat: 356-3231. On Friday, Feb. 24, after lunch, it’s time to create your own greeting cards. Bring a scissor and pretty paper napkins. Call to reserve a spot. Blood pressure clinics will be held on the last Wednesday of each month from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. as well as the second Tuesday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon.

Library: The library will be closed on Monday. The Independent Film Series continues with “The Screaming Man” on Feb. 22 at 2 p.m.

UNH Extension: The Carroll County Rabbiteers 4-H Club is broadening their focus to include more than just rabbits. New members are invited to become a part of this group. Youths between the ages of 8 and 18 interested in goats, poultry, pigs, horses, gardening and small livestock are encouraged to join this group. The next meeting will be Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. at the Remick Museum, 58 Cleveland Hill Rd., Tamworth. Call 4473834 for more information. A free workshop, Keeping Your Credit in Check, will start on Tuesday, March 6, at Silver Lake Landing. On Thursday, March 8, there will be another class at the Gibson Center. Call 3563231 to register for this free program.

For all high school seniors planning to continue on to college: It’s time to apply for the Lora Johnson Pierce

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Scholarship. Applications are available at Kennett High School Guidance Office.

Congratulations to Audrey Hansen on making dean’s list at University of New Hampshire this fall.

Keep up the good work!

Condolences to Cheryl Ames on the loss of Brett McDonald, her brother.

Bob and Carol Munroe were paid a visit last weekend by Rick and Pauline Munroe of Rochester, Mass.

They enjoyed a family get together playing cribbage and eating dinner at a local restaurant and, to top off the weekend, they went to the Snowmobile Club’s bonfire.

Sandy Stowell’s best friend of 40 years, Carol Young, is back in NH. They get along famously. Both love to cook, square dance, play games and read. Carol will be staying with Sandy until May, but Sandy hopes she can be convinced to stay forever!

On Thursday, the Red Hats of the Valley had their monthly luncheon. Those of us who are members are led by Camille Rose. Anna Cataldo is the treasurer, so Albany has a big part of what goes on. This month, Michael Kline of Soy Fire Candle and Frame Art Studios was the guest speaker. And, two Albany women were lucky winners of the raffle.

Do you think the winter is over? Feels like that now.

In any case, this will be a big weekend as it is Presidents’ Day, so get out and enjoy! Have a great week.

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Library will begin showing afternoon movies Feb. 22

The Madison Library now has a movie license, and has been showing free movies on Wednesday afternoons at 1 p.m. in the library's Chick Room, featuring Oscar winning movies during the month of February.

Most of the movies being shown are best suited for adults, but on Feb. 22, during school vacation week, the film will be suitable for all ages. Contact the library for the list of films.

From now through the end of winter, the library is offering a babies and toddlers playgroup on Friday mornings from 9 to 10 a.m.

The Friends of Madison Library will welcome Bob

Cottrell as he gives a slideshow talk, "Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire’s State Dog, the Chinook," on Thursday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. in the Madison Library's Chick Room. Historian and dog lover, Bob Cottrell will explain who these dogs are and why are they famous.

The Madison Library's book group is reading "The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot for its next meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. Books are available now at the library, and all are welcome to join this discussion of this fascinating true story of family, medicine, race, and ethics. For more informaNail Envy

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The Madison Church Supper will be held on Saturday, Feb. 18, at Madison Elementary School at 5:30 p.m. Adults are $8 and children under 12 eat for $3. The dinner will consist of baked beans, ham, salads, brown bread and an assortment of pies for dessert. Come one and all for fun and fellowship.

In preparation for Madison's town and school elections, a meet and greet the candidates will be held on March 6 beginning at 7 p.m. in the Madison Elementary School Gym. The annual town report is at the printers and should be available at the library and town hall soon. Ballot voting for town officers and zoning amendments will be held on Tuesday, March 13, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the school gym. To view a sample of the ballot, visit the town's website at www.madison-nh. org, select town clerk, election information, sample ballot. Going to be out of town on March 13? Apply for an absentee ballot by completing an application for absentee ballot found on the same webpage. The traditional town meeting will commence at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 17, in the school gym. The

The winter carnival ride in will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., March 17, weather permitting, at Freedom Town Forest, with a poker run, radar run, food, sponsors, prizes, raffles. Parking available. For more information visit www.sossc.com. town has several boards and committees that need menbers. On election day and again town meeting day, for those voters interested in volunteering in town government, there will be a display with artwork provided by the elementary school students that will have sign-up sheets available. Please visit this display and find out how you can volunteer.

The Madison Recreation Committee is concerned that the public budget hearing discussion may carry over to the town meeting and the rec committee is looking to residents/taxpayers to attend town meeting and support the committee. To anyone who has or does use the services, be they adult events such as yoga, Boston Flower Show, lupine trip, or youth events such as summer programs and sports, parks, beaches, cemeteries, this should be of interest. The recreation committee employs a part time seasonal employee who maintains all properties at all the fields, beaches, etc. Please plan to attend town meeting on Saturday, March 17, to give input on how your tax dollars are spent.

Please remember our military, both at home and abroad. May they stay safe and return soon.

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Effingham Town Column

Henry Spencer 539-4964

Farmer’s market will run Father’s Day to Columbus Day The selectmen’s office is announcing that there will be a property assessor wending his way through town over the month of February. This function often entails that the person walk around individual properties.

A reminder: For all those who are interested in a vending opportunity for farm products and food stuffs as well as handmade crafts, etc., 539-7373 is an important number. Boyle’s Market has been very generous in offering their wonderful location as a venue for Effingham’s Agricultural Commissions Farmer’s Market. The market will run one day a week from Father’s day and run through Columbus Day. Please contact the number to see if what you want to sell to make a little extra money fits within the general plan.

Our library will be hosting an informational series on National Parks starting this week. The series will include both video presentations and discussions. Who knows maybe you’ll find out where you want to go on your next vacation. 539-1537 for more information.

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North Conway Water Precinct NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

VOTER CHECKLIST SESSIONS Supervisors of the Voter Checklist for the North Conway Water Precinct will be in session at the North Conway Fire Department for additions and corrections to the Voter Checklist on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and Saturday, March 17, 2011 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon.

CANDIDATE FILING The filing period to declare candidacy for the following Precinct Office is February 8, 2012 to February 18, 2012 from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p. m at the North Conway Water Precinct Office 104 Sawmill Lane North Conway, N.H. There is a $1.00 filing fee.

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PETITIONED ARTICLE The final date to submit petitioned articles for the 2012 North Conway Water Precinct Warrant is no later than 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 28, 2012.

Petitions may be submitted to the North Conway Water Precinct Office 104 Sawmill Lane, North Conway, and N.H. PUBLIC BOND HEARING & BUDGET HEARING A Public Bond Hearing on the Proposed 2010 Bonding Articles will be held on March 1, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the North Conway Water Precinct Office 104 Sawmill Lane, North Conway, NH. Immediately following the close of the Public Bond Hearing a separate Public Budget Hearing on the 2012 Proposed Budgets will be held at the North Conway Water Precinct Office 104 Sawmill Lane, North Conway, N.H. ANNUAL MEETING The North Conway Water Precinct Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the John Fuller School. The polls will be open for voting at 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. The business portion of the meeting will commence at 7:00 p.m.

Robert F. Porter, John J. Santuccio, James S. Umberger Board of Commissioners

crowds down. There was a lot of gossip about the weather. It seems that the three locally available TV stations all were announcing a snow storm of proportions large enough to keep the trepidations at home.

One can’t blame the stations; what with no snow to speak of this winter and all those fancy productions to announce bad weather, complete with anxious making musical sound tracks, they slightly over played their hands thus turning a flurry into something it wasn’t.

Oh well, it meant more really good food for the rest of us. Thanks to all who supported the group by braving the storm of 0-12. Medals may be available.

A conversation with our fire chief uncovered an interesting fact. Part of the cost of your home owner’s insurance is set by an organization that rates the probability that your local fire department will be able to get to the scene in time to extinguish the blaze before total destruction, thus limiting an insurance company’s payout to the policy holder. A re-evaluation of the firefighting abilities in Effingham has moved the marker for residents in the right directiuon, which could mean that you might be able to get lower rates. The discern-

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The budget committee held their public hearing on this year’s proposed town levy upon your personal income. Attendance seemed low when compared with the all the concern that has been expressed over this year’s property tax increase. But, those attending did ask a lot of questions and it can be said that no one left the hearing thinking that money was being wasted or raised for things unnecessary. Truth be told there were places where the public thought more money should be raised for particular lines, but the ensuing conversations proved that the budget committee had gone through the same thoughts and concerns and due to the pressure on the tax rate caused by the increase in school taxes those lines discussed did not get anything extra. The public ended up agreeing.

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The Town of Conway announces the annual spring posting of Town roads. Effective Friday, February 24, 2012, vehicles exceeding a gross weight of ten tons shall be prohibited from using any Town road until further notice. Questions may be directed to the Public Works Dept. 447-3811, Ext. 123.

Attorney Ed McBurney Free Consultation North Conway • (603) 356-9097

Filing period for Town Offices for the Official Ballot under Senate Bill 2 is February 22 through March 2, 2012 until 5:00 p.m. The following offices have expiring terms: 2 Selectmen 1 Police Commissioner ** 1 Town Clerk/Tax Collector 1 Town Moderator 3 Library Trustees 4 Budget Committee 2 Planning Board 1 Trustee Trust Funds 1 Supervisor of Checklist

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**Candidates for Police Commissioner shall have been a resident of the Town of Conway for at least 5 years immediately preceding the date of their election and shall not hold nor be a candidate for any other political office of the Town of Conway during their term on said commission.

CONWAY SCHOOL DISTRICT 2 School Board 1 Moderator 1 Treasurer 1 Clerk

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All candidates must sign up at the Town Clerk’s Office between the dates of February 22 thru March 2, 2012.

DELIBERATIVE SESSIONS Kennett High School 7 p.m.

SCHOOL: Monday, March 5, 2012 TOWN: Wednesday, March 7, 2012

ELECTION APRIL 10, 2012 Conway Community Building Ctr. Conway 8 AM-7 PM Rhoda A. Quint, Town Clerk

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Town Of Jackson Voter Registration

The Supervisors of the Voter Checklist will be in session at the Jackson Town Office Building on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

They will be accepting registrations of new voters at this time. Also any additions or corrections to the checklist.

As per RSA654:26 the Checklist will be posted at the Jackson Town Office Building as well as the Whitney Community Center.

Supervisors of the Checklist, Barbara Meserve, Karen Amato, Joan Audrey

NOTICE TOWN OF BARTLETT REVALUATION COMPLETED

The Town of Bartlett revaluation is complete and tax bills have been sent. However, it appears that many property owners did not receive their letter regarding their Preliminary Values back in November. If you DID NOT receive the Preliminary Value letter and HAVE NOT filed for an abatement yet but have a question on your new value, we have arranged for Cross Country Appraisal to come and meet with property owners to explain your new value.

Appointments are required and must be scheduled by calling 1-866-415-0130 prior to February 29, 2012.

Board of Selectmen Gene G. Chandler Douglas A. Garland David A. Patch

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BY JASON ROBIE Paper or plastic? Cash or charge? Chicken or egg? Rock or hard place? Rent or buy?

The word around the water cooler (and from an article on CNN Money) is the housing “crisis” will be ending in 2012. Perhaps that is because the world will also be ending and we’ll not be concerned with housing after all. (For those of you unfamiliar with Mayanism, rent “2012”.) I tend to think, as does the article’s author, that it has more to do with banks starting to loosen up their lending standards. Don’t get too excited as those “standards” are still going to have a healthy dose of logic and reason behind them.

But, the amount buyers are able to borrow as well as the LTV (loan to value) ratios are both starting to lean in the favor of the consumer. So does that mean everyone has the green light to buy a home?

The author of another article I stumbled across this week went on record saying that renting is always a better option than buying. Yikes.

Perhaps it is because I’m a guy and naturally fear that kind of commitment, but “always” Jason Robie is a strong word. “Always” is part of the reason the real estate market got in this mess in the first place. Lenders were always saying yes to borrowers. Borrowers were always taking advantage of inflated equity values in their home. Very few people, it seemed, had the sense to say “maybe” or “not right now."

We have been lauding the benefits of homeownership for time indeterminate. But we’d be lying if we accepted the notion that homeownership is always the best choice for everyone. Of course there are financial reasons to rent versus buy.

For example, new business owners are required to be operational and have proof of income for two years before they can be eligible for a mortgage. Also, having a solid down payment is almost always a prerequisite. And, if you have blemishes on your credit, it is imperative to get those remedied prior to applying for a home loan.

“Loosening standards” or not, you really need to have your financial “house” in order before heading down the home-ownership road.

There are a few other reasons that make renting a more palatable option when decision time arrives. The most obvious reason is longevity (or the lack thereof). If you have no intention of settling down in the area you are looking at, it makes no sense to buy a home. The interest and fees you will pay to acquire that home for less than six years will likely not pay off. Of course “life” happens and you are sometimes forced to move away after buying a home. Those little hiccups we cannot avoid. In most cases, the financial commitment to purchase a home is far greater (on the surface) than that of renting. Annually, a homeowner will be responsible for the mortgage, maintenance costs, community living fees, taxes and insurance. This differs from the renter who is only responsible for the rental payment and renters' insurance.

While this may look like an obvious choice, the most critical thing to remember is that all of the money spent by the homeowner for mortgage and maintenance is essentially money going see ROBIE page 44

Privacy with a mountain backdrop This week’s Home of the Week is a three-bedroom cape situated on 2.28 acres on Maple Street in Fryeburg.

FRYEBURG — Tucked in on 2.9 wooded acres with a nice mountain backdrop view of Starks Hill, you will find this lovely two-story, six-room cape just waiting for you to move in.

A bright and sunny kitchen offers 14 solid maple cabinets, a custom-built curved island complete with electric fixtures, work space for food prep and an eating counter.

Solid oak flooring in the kitchen adds a warm note to the stainless-steel appliances and is also tied into the family room and dining area.

Enjoy your meals overlooking local mountains from this unique dining area that angles into the back yard slightly with custom-designed doors and windows.

Bedroom floors have plush and warm wall-to-wall carpet, large double windows for plenty of sunlight, and two bedrooms have walk-in closets with lights.

The first-floor bath features a shower and linen closet while the second-floor bath features a Jacuzzi-style hot tub, a sixfoot-long crisp white Jack and Jill bath vanity with drawers.

The room is finished with bead board.

In the basement is a partially finished 15-by-26-foot area with woodstove hookup and dual walkout patio doors. see HOME page 46

The home has a wrap-around farmers porch.

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back into their pocket. This is where it starts to pay off after six years.

The average homeowner will spend nearly $1,800 less than a renter for each of those first six years. (Data source: Moody's Economy.) That money spent on rent is essentially thrown away. The homeowner is investing in themselves and their equity.

In some areas around the country, the decision to buy versus rent is an obvious financial one. In Minneapolis, the cost to purchase a two-bedroom home is about $150,000. This is less than eight times the annual cost of renting. Economists typically note that anything below 15 times the annual rent is a buyer-friendly city. Alternatively, in Manhattan, the price-to-rent ratio is a staggering 33. Clearly renting is the better option in the Big Apple. In the North Conway area, we seem to be right on the cusp. For folks looking to put down roots in the valley, the choice will have to go beyond the numbers.

There are also a myriad of intangible benefits to home ownership.

Owners tend to feel more grounded and invested in their communities.

They are more likely to join local organizations and become part of the neighborhood. A few weeks back, we even saw direct correlations for inflated crime rates in rental-dominated areas. Clearly the notion of not “messing” where you sleep holds

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true in real estate decisions as well.

There was an article in CNN Money that talked about the perception of single people toward a date who rents their home vs. one who owns it. The study found that 98 percent of women prefer a man who owns his own home and the same was found for 97 percent of men. My guess is the notion of stability is a big factor here. A homeowner is perceived to be more stable and grounded than that of a renter. There were also a large percentage of respondents (62 percent) who prefer the potential date to live alone with no roommates.

Again, I’m guessing this points to a perception of maturity and independence.

As someone who has recently sold their home and is currently a “renter," I have to say the choice to buy vs. rent is not always an easy decision. I am not “married” to the White Mountains, but I truly love living and working here. Having worked in real estate for nearly a decade now, I appreciate the benefits and value of buying a home and am looking forward to the impending day when I sign those papers and can call a dwelling my own. For now, I’ll remain a satisfied and happy tenant and continue “playing the field."

Jason Robie is staff writer for Badger Realty in North Conway.

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As state and federal authorities announced the details of their $26 billion mortgage settlement with big banks recently, millions of American homeowners were hoping that this time they would finally get relief.

Some, like Jessica Cooper of Toledo, Ohio, will discover the program’s limitations.

Since she was laid off in June 2009, Cooper and her husband have been pressing Bank of America to modify the terms of the $112,000 mortgage on their home. But because the loan is owned by the Federal Housing Administration, it is not covered. Similarly, Carlos Sandoval de Leon has been seeking a break HOME from page 43

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There is a single-car garage.

If you love the outdoors, you will enjoy the wraparound farmers porch that is ready for your finishing touches and ideas; a sunny back yard partially wooded that abuts the new Fryeburg Recreation Trail; and a nice-sized year-round pond for skating in winter and listening to the peepers and watching the wildlife in spring and summer.

from Wells Fargo on the $662,000 he owes on a Brooklyn brownstone. But because that mortgage is held by a private investor, it too falls outside the scope of the agreement, which mostly covers loans held by the banks themselves.

The bulk of the settlement, about $20 billion, would go to one million American homeowners who would have their mortgage debts reduced or their loans refinanced at a lower interest rate. It also includes $1.5 billion for roughly 750,000 people who lost their homes to foreclosure between 2008 and 2011, with each receiving between $1,500 and $2,000.

Economists do not expect a big boost for the econsee MORTGAGE PLAN page 48

This home is located right in town, just on the edge of the village, has plenty of privacy and town water plus the Fryeburg Academy school district.

Price is $192,900.

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MORTGAGE PLAN from page 46

omy, in part because the banks have three years to distribute the aid. Some experts questioned whether the accord would do much to stabilize the housing market and its glut of millions of foreclosed homes.

Critics also pointed to the fact that millions of mortgages owned by the government’s housing finance agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, would not be covered under the deal, excluding about half the nation’s mortgages.

“The effect of this settlement will be catalytic,” Shaun Donovan, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said in an interview.

He predicted it would spur more loan modifications through existing government programs as well as principal reductions — when loan debt is written down for borrowers who owe more than their home is worth — as well as additional mortgage relief provided by banks.

“We do believe there should be principal reduction at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” he added. “We’ve been disappointed that this hasn’t happened thus far.” He said the government had proposed incentives for Fannie and Freddie to cut loan balances under an existing program, and the two mortgage giants were studying the idea.

Advocates for homeowners facing foreclosure expressed cautious optimism after the settlement was announced. “We’re hopeful,” said Joseph Sant, a lawyer at Staten Island Legal Services’ homeowner defense project.

“But we had a lot of programs that are good on paper. What will make the dif-

ference is that it’s vigorously enforced.”

President Obama declared the deal the largest federal-state settlement in the nation’s history.

“No compensation, no amount of money, no measure of justice is enough to make it right for a family who’s had their piece of the American dream wrongly taken from them,” he said.

“And no action, no matter how meaningful, is going to by itself entirely heal the housing market. But this settlement is a start.”

Homeowners in two states — Florida and California — will reap more than half of the $26 billion settlement, a reflection of the disproportionate number of loans that are delinquent or exceed the value of the underlying property there, government regulators said.

The amounts from individual banks were linked to their share of the servicing market. The biggest, Bank of America, would provide $11.8 billion, followed by $5.4 billion from Wells Fargo, $5.3 billion from JPMorgan Chase, $2.2 billion from Citigroup and $310 million from Ally. Bank of America would contribute an additional $1 billion for Federal Housing Administration loans.

And if nine other major mortgage servicers join the pact, a possibility that is now under discussion with the government, the total package could rise to $30 billion.

More than just an attempt to aid consumers and stabilize the housing market, government officials cast the settlement as an effort to finally hold banks accountable for their misdeeds, see next page

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more than three years after the mortgage collapse brought on a full-scale financial crisis.

The deal is about “righting the wrongs that led to the housing market collapse,” said Eric H. Holder Jr., the United States attorney general. “With this settlement, we recover precious taxpayer resources, fix a broken system and lay a groundwork for a better future.”

The agreement does not release banks from a variety of other suspected misdeeds. Regulators and prosecutors could still pursue allegations of fraud in the process by which those loans were made, known as origination, and the packaging of those mortgages into securities sold to investors by the big banks.

“We’re going to keep at it until we hold those who broke the law fully accountable,” Obama said. The agreement also imposes new standards that banks will have to follow as they deal with distressed homeowners. Mr. Donovan said the settlement would “force the banks to clean up their acts. No more lost paperwork, no more excuses, no more runaround.”

Though some mortgage advocates praised the settlement as a needed step in the right direction, Katherine Porter, a law professor at University of California Irvine, was more skeptical.

“We have to look at this as being a modest settlement even thought the number itself, the $26 billion, is an eye-popping number,” said Porter. “There are millions of people who have lost their homes and this settlement will only affect a relatively small number of them.”

She was also surprised at the time — three years — that the servicers were being given to put the settlement into effect.

“That reflects to me a lack of urgency. That the banks don’t think it is urgent or they still haven’t gotten the staff, technology, ethos or platforms set up to help people quickly,” said Porter.

“That three-year window makes me really nervous because a lot of people could be out of their homes by then.”

What is more, other critics are raising questions about so-called moral hazard, the danger that more relief encourages homeowners to default in the hopes of getting aid. News of the settlement also reignited resentment from homeowners who are current on their payments, and have shunned government aid.

Some state attorneys general closely involved with the settlement acknowledged that it provided only a small amount of restitution to individuals who lost their homes in foreclosures, even though they said their investigations uncovered rampant evidence of robo-signing and enormous problems with the servicing aspects of the loans.

“This agreement is more important for the foreclosures we’re hoping to prevent,” said Roy Cooper, the attorney general for North Carolina.

For homeowners like the Coopers and de Leon there is still hope, even if it won’t come through the recent settlement. Both Bank of America and Wells Fargo said Thursday they were exploring other options that could prevent foreclosure.

Shaila Dewan contributed reporting.

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This stately home awaits you, in one of the most sought after communities in the Mount Washington Valley; Hale Estates. The vie-vvs from High Point Road are among the best in the valley as well. Attention to detail, brick walkway leads to the front porch. Open concept entry foyer leads to vaulted ceiling great room, country kitchen and master bed room.

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This lovely Cape on well over an acre of land surrounded by woods and lawns is waiting for you to come home for the holidays. This is a great location, just off West Side Road with no association fees and is not tied into the Birch Hill water system. Minutes from Dianaʼs bath, and North Conway shopping district. We have a list of updates culminating in a new kitchen with granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. The first floor is very open with sun pouring in from large windows and sky lights. First floor 1/2 bath, laundry and bedroom all ad to the comfortable floor plan. Make it the best Christmas ever, be a home owner in the M.W.V. Seller will pay $2,000 towards closing cost.

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Charming, wann, comfortable and close to Conway Lake beach. This home sits back off the road on over an acre of land, surrounded by woods for privacy. The house opens up to a beautifully wooded great room with a wood stove and slider to deck for easy grilling and out door meals. Master bedroom and laundry on the first floor for easy living, with a loft bedroom on the second floor. The basement has been studded and is ready to be finished. Great price for a lovely home.

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Walk to Cranmore skiing from cozy, tastefully furnished 3 level townhouse looking up to the slopes from its Brookside location. 2 BR’s plus loft, gas log FP, stainless appliances, brick patio. Pool in summer.

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1.20 acre lot with great views of the Presidential Range from this community. This small very well cared for subdivision off Stark road in Conway has underground utilities, cable and phone. If you are planning retirement in the Mount Washington Valley this lot could be your start. The owner is a builder and would be happy to talk to you about building your dream home. MLS# 4085345

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Have you ever seen the Presidential Range from North of Berlin?? This log home with a huge indoor pool has a spectaQJlar view of Mt Washington from above Pinkham Notch This home could become a high end rental or be just the place you want to spend the next 100 years. Minutes to the Berlin Air port, as well as snowmobile and aoss country ski trails. Rshing, swimming, hiking and white water rafting. Less than 30 minutes to Sunday River and Wildcat Ski areas.

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Northbrook is a beautiful condominium community in the heart of North Conway. This unit is a ground floor corner unit that over looks the Moat Mountains. 2 bedroom 2 bathroom beautifully updated to move in condition. The Vermont Casting wood stove sits on a brick hearth in the living room. There is a laundry room, good size kitchen and dining area. The complex has an outdoor pool and tennis courts.

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TRANSACTIONS from page 49

JACKSON RTE 16, 20733, SALLIE C, FORMAN, LEVINE PROPERTIES INC, LAND, 01/31/12 RTE 16, 39333, SALLIE C","FORMAN, HANA EQUITY PARTNERS LLC, LAND, 01/31/12 MOULTONBORO 392 RED HILL RD, 245000, PETER, VIELE, MARY ELLEN, BRIDGES, L/B, 01/27/12 RUPPERT RD, 195000, ANTHONY R, CAMPBELL ET AL, RICHARD D & KAREN A, FITZPATRICK, LAND, 01/30/12 UNIT 13 VILLAGEHOMES AT WEST WYNDE, 120000, TAYLOR COMMUNITY, JANICE ANN, PLUMMER, COND, 01/30/12 WOLFEBORO 23 PINE HILL RD, 99400,

A good rental history can help borrowers

MICHAEL, STOFFO, FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSN, L/B, 01/27/12

BY VICKIE ELMER

Sales information is published in summarized form for your information only. These listings are not a legal record and do not include all details of each sale. Names shown are usually the first to appear on the deed. Any sale might have involved additional parties or locations. Prices listed are usually based on tax stamps. Prices for sales involving public agencies may not be accurate. Refer to actual public documents before forming opinions or relying on this information. Sales information is published under copyright license from Real Data Corp. (603) 669-3822. Additional information on these and prior sales is available at www.real-data. com Copyright 2012. All Rights Reserved.

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Around 35 percent of households nationwide were renters in 2010, according to the most recent census data, while in parts of New York City, three-quarters or more rent.

Incorporating rental payments into credit scores could affect millions of people who have not established credit histories through credit cards, student loan repayments and other credit sources. That includes recent college graduates, students and some divorced people. “The biggest impact is on individuals who were not previously scoreable,” said Brannan Johnston, the managing director of Experian’s rent bureau. see next page

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Almost half of those higher-risk consumers experienced an increase of 100 points or more after their positive rental history was added, Johnston said. (Those with average or higher scores did not experience major movement.)

CoreLogic said it was too early to show the effects of its new credit report, which began in December. The changes are “intended to allow lenders and consumers to have greater transparency,” said Tim Grace, a senior vice president of CoreLogic, and that could lead to increased lending.

People who have lost their homes to foreclosure and are now leasing may be able to rebuild their credit histories by being “very responsible renters,” Grace added.

But consumer groups and advocates are skeptical, noting that reports are sometimes riddled with mistakes and some landlord-tenant disputes may be difficult to capture in a credit report.

Rent may not have been paid, for

example, because the furnace was left unrepaired for months.

Consumers can dispute any information they believe is inaccurate.

“We check and recheck all the information,” Grace said, adding that consumers could order a copy of their new CoreLogic credit reports online.

CoreLogic’s Core Score will cover about 100 million people. The three other major credit reporting companies, which also include Equifax and TransUnion, have reports on 200 million; their reports are available free once every 12 months at annualcreditreport.com. TransUnion collects rental payment information and shares it with landlords, but Experian is the only one of the three so far to add rental history to credit reports.

Experian has mostly major property managers and apartment companies reporting rent histories, via their accounting software. Most small landlords are not, though Experian is considering a system that could allow more independents to report on-time and problem renters.

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The Snow Report

Plenty of terrain for vacation week fun

BY TOM EASTMAN THE CONWAY DAILY SUN

CONWAY — Ski areas and touring centers enter the first weekend of February vacation week with an amazing variety of terrain.

All local ski areas will be offering tons of activities for February vacation week. Highlights include: • Atttitash (374-2368; 70 trails, six lifts): Attitash and Wildcat are now both owned by Peak Resorts and offer many interchangeable tickets. Events this vacation week include: ATP Freeride Series Feb. 18; U Go Girl Series Feb. 19; and ATP Freeride Series Skier/ Rider X March 3, the final event in the series.

A Kastle Demo Dy is set for Feb. 18 along with a Boston Patagonia Scavenger Hunt.

Attitash’s lineup of music features such great bands as Livin’ the Dream in Ptarmigan’s and Bob Rutherford at the Den Sessions at Bear Peak Feb. 18, Mo’ Blues at Ptarmigan’s and Al Shafner at the Den Sessions Feb. 19; Stas Feb. 20; DJ Kristen Corrigan Feb. 22; This Way Feb. 24; Red Gallagher at Bear Peak Feb. 25; Sauce Feb. 25; and 80 MPH March 3.

The Nor’Easter Mountain Coaster runs daily during February vacation week, Feb. 18 through 27, and weekends thereafter.

For rail park terrain, Attitash has 12 rail/ box elements and five jumps on Thad’s Choice, and West Slope has two jumps and two rollers.

The Bear Peak Terrain Park opens Feb. 18.

• Black Mountain (383-4490; 40 trails and two lifts): Affordable and sunny, Black hosts the Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge Feb. 22; an EMS/Black Mountain All Mountain Race March 3, and see SNOW page six