The Conway Daily Sun, Tuesday, September, 13, 2011

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

VOL. 23 NO. 166

CONWAY, N.H.

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Hundreds attend ribbon-cutting for new county nursing home

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From left, nursing home administrator Sandra McKenzie, county commissioner Asha Kenney, county commissioner Dorothy Solomon, nursing home resident Velma Clark, county commission chair David Sorensen, and State Rep. Betsey Patten. (DAYMOND STEER PHOTO)

OSSIPEE — After over a year of construction, the ribbon was finally cut on the county's new nursing home Saturday. The facility will be called Mountain View Community because it will be a home not an institution. Hundreds of friends, family and well wishers attended the ribbon-cutting cer-

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Top: Dozens of valley residents gathered in Jackson to somberly mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by walking in silence around the mile loop while bearing a huge American flag Sunday afternoon. The event started with the Pledge of Allegiance and the unfurling of the giant flag near the covered bridge. The silence during the walk was broken only by a singing of patriotic songs. Participants also stopped in front of the Jackson church for a moment of silence and reflection.

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Right: North Conway Honor Guard members stand guard over the wreath during Conway Fire Department’s 9/11 ceremony commemorating the 343 NYC firefighters and emergency medical personnel and 60 Port Authority police and New York City police officers who died during the terrorists attacks in 2001. Each of the events was marked by the ringing of a bell and a short reminder by Conway fire chief Steve Solomon about what happened at that time of the morning 10 years ago. Solomon also reminded the audience that rightfully most remember those 2,819 people who died in the attacks, but he asked not to forget the over 14,000 who were saved from the Twin Tower buildings on that day. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTOS)

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emony held in a tent in front of the new building. The groundbreaking was held in April of 2010. After the ribbon-cutting, attendees took the tour of the 85,000-square-foot facility — which is twice as big as its predecessor, Mountain View Nursing Home. The former nursing home was dark and cramped but the new home is spacious and well lit. see NURSING HOME page 10


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