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VOL. 13 NO. 101
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Apartment building fire near Busy Corner quickly brought under control
LACONIA — The Fire Department last night quickly extinguished a fire that threatened at multifamily apartment building at 223 Union Ave., at the corner of Summer Street. Fire officials at the scene said that a discarded cigarette left on a small secondstory landing at the top of an outdoor staircase apparently see FIRE page 13
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Sealed in an envelope of fog Fog envelops two canoeist as they make their way along the placid waters edge of Pemigewassett Lake in New Hampton on Saturday morning. (Daryl Carlson/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
WLNH Childrens Auction board starting to take poverty prevention view on requests for funding from proceeds BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
LACONIA — The WLNH Children’s Auction, which last year raised over $330,000 for local charities, is taking a longer range view of its funding efforts, which will result in a significant change in the
way proceeds from the region’s single largest fundraising event are divided up. Christopher Boothby, a longtime volunteer with the auction, says that a subgroup of the board of directors of the auction has been looking at the issue since February in an
attempt to develop new criteria for allocating funds. ‘’We’re still going to fund the traditional emergency needs like coats, boots and other winter clothing and toys for kids. But we’re also going to be looking more closely at programs will help prevent
poverty, as well as programs for capital improvements for organizations which serve the youth in our communities. and provide long-term support for children’’ said Boothby. He said that last year some of the auction proceeds went to see AUCTION page 12
Gilford admits sewer billings were screwed up but no abatements coming BY ROGER AMSDEN THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILFORD — Selectmen last evening denied a request from the Gilford Meadows Condominium Association for an abate-
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