The Laconia Daily Sun, December 16, 2011

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GILFORD — Gunstock Mountain Resort will open for skiing on Sunday, marketing director Bill Quigley said yesterday. The resort hopes to have three lifts running, servicing four of the mountain’s 55 trails.

Quigley said Gunstock typically plans to open for the first weekend of December. A look through recent history, though, shows that about half the time the weather remains too warm for snowmaking, as was the case this year. He said forecasts are indicating that temperatures will drop enough over the weekend to give skiers something to schuss.

“We’re going to be making snow all day Saturday, we’re going to blow snow at every opportunity we can,” he said. Snowmaking operations run at about 20-percent efficiency at just below freezing, he noted.

Temperatures have to drop into the teens before the process approaches 100-percent efficiency. “We’re all just waiting for the temperature to change, and we know it will,” Quigley said.

Gunstock will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, with lift tickets costing $25. The mountain will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday. Night skiing will begin on Tuesday.

Time for the ‘kids’ to have their picture taken in their holiday finest Brittney Peterson watches as “Moose” and “Dunkin” pose for their Christmas portrait recently at Prescott’s Florist in downtown Laconia. The proceeds from the sittings were donated to the New Hampshire Humane Society . (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)

City receives $150k UNH prof finds Belknap County is last LCHIP grant toward GOP stronghold in New Hampshire purchase & renovation of Colonial Theater

By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

CONCORD — The directors of the New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) announced yesterday that Laconia has been awarded a $150,000 matching grant toward the acquisition and renovation of the Colonial Theater on Main Street.

The city was among 23 recipients of matching grants with an aggregate value of $1,158,308, which will contribute to projects with a total worth of $13.7-million that are projected to support more than 120 jobs with an annual payroll of $3.7-million. The grant to the city was the largest awarded by LCHIP this year.

In July the nonprofit corporation callsee COLONiaL page 13

LACONIA — While the Republican Party’s grip on New Hampshire and its rural counties has steadily weakened during the past half-century, Belknap County has remained a GOP stronghold according to a study by Dante Scala, a political scientist at the University of New Hampshire.

Scala tracked the “political footprints” left by the Republican Party across the state’s 10 counties after the 13 presidential elections from 1960 to 2008. He measured the dominance of political parties by comparing the share of the vote won by their presidential candidates in each county to their share of their statewide vote. A party dominates a county, in Sca-

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By Scala’s standard, in the 1960s Republicans dominated the northern reaches of the state, with the exception of Coos County, as well as in Rockingham and Merrimack counties. While Republican candidates carried the state in the five presidential elections between 1972 and 1988, they lost their dominance in Rockingham and Merrimack counties and by 1980 remained dominant in only two counties — Belknap and Carroll.

Scala suggests that as the population of the state grew and the GOP became more conservative in the 1990s, New Hampshire changed “from a reliably Republican see GOP page 9

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MILAN, Italy (AP) — No murder weapon.

Faulty DNA. No motive.

Even the time of death was wrong by nearly an hour. The Italian appeals court that cleared Amanda Knox in the killing of her roommate explained its ruling on Thursday: The evidence just didn’t hold up.

In a 143-page document that criticized nearly every stage of the investigation that led to the conviction of Knox and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, the appeals court said the lower court didn’t even prove they were in the house when Knox’s British roommate, Meredith Kercher, was killed.

Kercher was found slain in a pool of blood in the house she shared with Knox in the Italian city of Perugia.

Knox and Sollecito, who had just begun dating, were arrested several days later, then convicted in what prosecutors portrayed as a drug-fueled sexual assault. They were sensee KNOX page 9

U.S. formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare BAGHDAD (AP) — Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, U.S. officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict here Thursday, but the debate over whether it was worth the cost in money and lives is yet unanswered.

While many of the speeches painted a picture of victory — for both the troops and the Iraqi people now set on a path for democracy — the gnawing questions remain: Will Iraqis be able to forge their new government amid the still stubborn

sectarian clashes. And will Iraq be able to defend itself and remain independent in a region fraught with turmoil and still steeped in insurgent threats.

Stark reminders of the fragile and often violent nature of the situation in Iraq engulfed the 45-minute ceremony. It was tucked into fortified corner of the airport, ringed with concrete blast walls. And on the chairs — nearly empty of Afghans — were tags that listed not only the name of the VIP assigned to the seat, but the bunker they should move to in case of an attack.

The speeches touched on the success of the mission as well as its losses: Nearly 4,500 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis killed.

Another 32,000 American and tens of thousands Iraqis wounded. And $800 billion from the U.S. Treasury.

On the other side of the ledger, an Iraq free from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, inching forward toward democracy and vowing to be a good neighbor in the region.

“To be sure the cost was high — in blood and treasure of the United States and also see IRAQ WAR page 7

PHOENIX (AP) — A scathing U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday found that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office carried out a blatant pattern of discrimination against Latinos and held a “systematic disregard” for the Constitution amid a series of immigration crackdowns that have turned the lawman into a prominent national political figure.

Arpaio struck a defiant tone in response to the report, calling it a politically moti-

vated attack by the Obama administration that will make Arizona unsafe by keeping illegal immigrants on the street.

“Don’t come here and use me as the whipping boy for a national and international problem,” he said at a news conference.

The government found that Arpaio’s office committed a wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos, including unjust immigration patrols and jail policies that deprive prisoners of basic

Constitutional rights.

The Justice Department’s expert on measuring racial profiling found the sheriff’s office to be the most egregious case of profiling in the nation that he has seen or reviewed in professional literature, said Thomas Perez, who heads the Justice Department’s civil rights division.

“We found discriminatory policing that was deeply rooted in the culture of the see SHERIFF page 13

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — President Barack Obama is standing by his award of the Medal of Honor to a Marine in the Afghanistan war despite a published report Thursday charging exaggerations of the battle.

Obama presented the award to Marine

Sgt. Dakota Meyer three months ago, calling him the “best of a generation” that joined the military after 9/11. He described the day in 2009 when Meyer braved enemy fire in eastern Afghanistan to save U.S. and Afghan comrades.

McClatchy Newspapers reported that its

review of documents turned up numerous “untrue, unsubstantiated or exaggerated” assertions about the firefight. The report by a McClatchy correspondent who was embedded with the military and witnessed the Sept. 8, 2009, battle, based the story on see MARINE page 14

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Michael Barone

Romney’s betting on ‘old rules’ in New Hampshire MANCHESTER, N.H. — “We’re not going to lose in New Hampshire.” So says Mitt Romney’s state coordinator, Jason McBride.

Stuart Stevens, the Romney campaign’s TV ad-maker, expresses similar confidence. Asked if Romney might finish second in New Hampshire, his answer is an unhesitating “no.”

Whether that confidence is well founded may determine the fate of the candidate who has been the onand-off frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

There are four contests in January — the Iowa caucuses, and then the primaries in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida.

Romney currently trails Newt Gingrich in polls in three of the four.

Only in the Granite State does he cling to the lead he has held in every poll there since April 2010.

If New Hampshire follows the pattern of past primaries, Romney should be headed for a win. In 2008, he only narrowly lost the state, 37-percent to 32-percent, to John McCain. He’s been running ahead of that 32-percent in almost all polls this cycle.

He has been building an organization replete with field directors and voter-identification efforts since last May. An absentee ballot drive is getting underway.

McBride is confident that this organizational effort will deliver.

“At the end of the day, the ground game is going to matter.”

Romney has the support of seven of the 10 county sheriffs, of dozens of state legislators, of legions of Republican activists. Romney signs vastly outnumber those of other candidates on lawns and along highways. His ads are on the air on Manchester’s Channel 9 and will start airing soon on Boston stations.

The efforts of other candidates who have followed the traditional playbook so far seem to be falling short. Polling suggests that Ron Paul may double the 8-percent he won here in 2008.

Jon Huntsman may also break into double digits. He has concentrated his efforts in New Hampshire and has put together an organization with six full-time field representatives and a 140-person leadership team. His numerous campaign events attract serious and attentive audiences. But they tend to draw about 75 to 150 people, as compared to 250 for Romney.

By way of comparison, the campaigns for Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann are invisible here. Rick Santorum has an office with two

paid staffers but has attracted just a handful of volunteers.

Under the old rules, then, Romney seems to have constructed an impregnable firewall in New Hampshire, able to withstand the surge — McBride calls it a “bubble” — for Newt Gingrich that has been sweeping much of the country.

But do the old rules still apply?

Sam Pimm, hired a week ago to manage Gingrich’s voter identification and get-out-the-vote efforts in the state, is not so sure. He helped train candidates that enabled New Hampshire Republicans to gain 122 seats in the 400-member state House in 2010.

Pimm says the Gingrich campaign has hired 15 full-time staff, all locals, in the last two weeks and has made 50,000 phone calls to voters in the last seven days. It hired Charlie Spano, who ran field operations for Herman Cain, three days ago.

New technology has made political communication much easier, faster and cheaper than it was even a few years ago. VOIP software makes it possible for volunteers to make phone calls from home in a way that campaigns can control and monitor.

The Gingrich campaign seems to have a more difficult task than the Romney campaign. Polling indicates that Romney’s support has been relatively constant over a long period, making it easier for the campaign to identify and keep in touch with those voters. In contrast, almost all support for Gingrich is much more recent and may be subject to rapid change. Mobilizing that support may be like corralling mercury.

Certainly there is interest in the former speaker. He attracted a crowd of 600 to Windham High School on Monday night and got thunderous applause from the audience. But those proudly wearing Newt 2012 buttons seemed to be outnumbered by those who were still undecided or leaning to Romney or another candidate.

“It’s fluid,” says former state Attorney General Tom Rath, a Romney backer. “New Hampshire is always tight.” But, he adds, “I don’t see any slippage for us.”

Mitt Romney is betting, and betting more than the $10,000 he offered in last Saturday’s debate, that Rath is right — and that the old rules still apply.

(Syndicated columnist Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.)

LETTERS The pipeline is on hold because state’s are concerned with route To the editor, To folks like Don Ewing, a radical environmentalist is someone who doesn’t want their tap water to catch fire, the water to reek of chemicals and their air to be sickening. Recently, in Bejing, the Chinese government finally admitted the fog covering the city was really smog. Duh! Who wudda thunk it? I suppose the Chinese admission was a big surprise to Don. Its harmless! Its just fog! And so what if your water catches fire. Its now sterile enough to drink! And so what if its a little brown; extra hydrogen!

The reason why the pipeline is on hold is because of the pipeline’s route. This delay was initiated by the State Department, not the president. The problem is the educated people in the states where the pipeline passes through are very concerned about the environmental havoc that would be caused by cracked pipes, etc. It would have major implications for the quality of drinking water.

Plus there was leaked from the European Commission a study that says emissions from fuels made with tar sands contain 23-percent more pollutants than standard fossil fuels. That’s good news to Fox News! And we can all wear cool masks!

Mr. Ewing claims 20 jobs bills have been passed by the GOP house and with bipartisan support! Yup, 10 Democrats voted with the kindergarten class this week! Bipartisan! That is not bipartisan but that is the spin the

right wingers put on it. Its a typical right wing lie. Did he also note that 14 Republicans voted with the opposing Democrats? Bipartisan opposition! And I have to ask, what 20 jobs bills? That’s BS. Anything the GOP has offered has been a hostage bill...as usual. This time the hostage was the continuation of the payroll tax holiday.

The real jobs bill; the one supported by a strong majority of Americans, is the plan Mr Obama put forth this fall.

In an October NBC/WSJ poll, 63-percent supported passage of the bill the GOP BLOCKED and 64-percent thought it was a good idea to up the taxes on the rich. Revenue! And listen to what the chief economist at Moody’s says. From Postandcourier.com 9-911: “Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, estimated that the president’s plan would boost economic growth by 2-percentage points, add 2-million jobs and reduce unemployment by a full percentage point next year compared with existing law.”

Mr. Ewing cries about 20,000 jobs when his party of do-nothing brats deliberately blocks the president’s bill that could create 2 MILLION jobs! Its that forest and the trees thing I guess. Its Obama Derangement Syndrome. By the way, Don, 20,000 is 1-percent of 2-million. One percent. Thinkin’ big, eh Don? Be an adult, support the big plan. It won’t hurt!

James Veverka Tilton

All I hear from Obama is that we ‘entitlement’ people are a drag To the editor, Kent Warner, your letter of Dec. 14 in The Daily Sun indicates that maybe you are just too rich to understand why the rest of us can’t enjoy Obama destroying all we have, and the USA. Obama has shown his true Muslim heritage with appointments of dedicated Muslims to our top security posts.

Kent, IF you were paying attention, you would know that those “super rich” have NO control over Congress or Obama, the thief! I strongly suspect your sources are FLAWED and should not be relied on! The so called “super rich” have been hurt MORE by Obama’s wasteful SPENDING than any others, but Obama hurts us ALL! I’m 79-years-old, retired, trying to

my life), and all I hear from Obama is that we are “entitlement” people dragging him down. We all have paid far more than we can ever receive back, then the federalist STEAL most of what we paid in, then claim we are a burden! The Grossly STUPID Thieves in CONGRESS are the BURDEN, STEALING our contributions, then LYING (as usual) and saying we are a burden to them! Kent, when you retire, and 15 years later run out of savings, and Social Security no longer is security, THEN maybe you will understand why we conservatives hate the waste of government, the absolute worst of which is what Obama did to us!

Jack Stephenson

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Friday, December 16, 2011 — Page 5

LETTERS The public sector should never have gotten these high salaries To the editor, The NH Business Review recently reported that the total employment compensation in New Hampshire increased by 1.8-percent in 2010, however it did not increase in two of N.H. counties, Belknap and Cheshire.

Those two experienced a 0.2-percent dip. N.H.’s growth also fell behind the national average of 2.7-percent.

Now if we look at Belknap County and take this down to the local level of Gilford, the story gets even worse.

In the upcoming budget for both the town and the school district we see that the public sector workers in Gilford are getting INCREASES of over $600,000 for compensation and benefits. Do you see anything wrong with this picture? How is it that the people of Belknap County are seeing a decrease in compensation but they have to PAY for the public sector to get raises AND they have to PAY to absorb all of the benefit increases of the public sector. So the private sector gets hit TWICE. The public sector is draining the

resources of the private sector. They do not use the money to guard and enhance the physical assets of the public, they use it to line their own pockets. This then causes the taxes to go up and then the property values to go down. The higher the tax rate the less valuable the private sector real estate assets become. Our elected officials need to step up to the plate and stop this madness. The public sector should never have gotten these high salaries with no co-pay, no deductible health, dental and eye benefit plans fully paid for by folks who can’t even get these plans. Not to mention the fully paid for short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance and health club stipends. It is time for the taxpayers to wake up! Send e-mail to the Gilford Selectmen, School Board and Budget Committee. These elected officials have a duty to act in the best interests of the taxpayer. So far I’m not seeing it happen.

Barbara Aichinger Governor’s Island Gilford

Lawfully carried guns in schools will place no one in danger To the editor, When will the educrats and activist judges learn that THEY, not guns, put young folk in harm’s way?

When “gun free school zones” were created, huge targets were painted on every child and young adult that goes to public school or attends our universities. In some places, since Gun Free School Zones Act took effect persons intent on mayhem have murdered innocent students and teachers. Because of the law, children died, with nobody prepared and able to defend them.

The proof is written in blood; since the law took effect 1/29/1991, and reported through 2010, here in the United States there have been 43 school shooting sites with 312 direct victims resulting in 128 deaths. Universities, colleges and schools with the help of judges intent on legislating from the bench, in defiance of state law, are upholding unlawful bans on firearms that might have saved

lives. Where there is a chance of someone being armed and capable to defend themselves and others, these events do not happen.

Look to Israel, and how they responded to school shootings; teachers were armed (yes, with GUNS) and charged with the safety of the children in their care. They also train the upper classmen in the use of firearms so that they, too, could protect their fellow students. That successfully prevented the kind of bloodshed that America has dealt with. This is how America should have handled school shootings.

People lawfully carrying guns to school will not place anybody in danger. It will make our campuses safer places. It will remove the target that the educrats and activist judges want to keep painted on our most precious resource, our children.

Antonet C Piper Ashland

Nebraskans want pipeline moved away from their water supply To the editor, Not once in Don Ewing’s letter about radical environmentalists’ influence over President Obama did he mention the governor or the citizens of Nebraska. It’s not that they are against the pipeline – they just want the oil company to move the route of the pipeline so it does not run over the most important water supply for their entire state.

Would we not be up in arms if such a proposal for a pipeline over Lake Winnipesaukee was made here in NH? Of

course we would. Would that make us radical environmentalists? Then so be it. . . The oil companies must be sensitive to things such as water supply and not just their bottom line.

Move the route and then build it!

That is what President Obama had indicated he would support. In this case, members of the House of Representatives in Washington do not seem to care about the citizens of Nebraska one bit – shocking!

Charlie St. Clair Laconia

The truth will not take long to correct the secrecy and mystique To the editor, Steve Earl’s letter printed in The Laconia Daily Sun was right to the point and accurate. I thank him for disassembling the Barack Obama Myth.

It has taken nearly half a century to erase the myth of the New Deal and the worship of FDR. The truth will not take that long to correct the B.O. secrecy and

Earle. If one was honest with himself and others he would see the dirty politics played out just like in the FDR administration. The left just cannot see what is right before them.

A lie will always remain a lie no matter how it is packaged and repackaged.

Thanks Steve. Good letter.

Gene F. Danfroth

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LETTERS Legion Post raising funds to purchase new Belmont banners To the editor, An open letter to Belmont residents: American Legion Post #58 is a community oriented post that is working for the betterment of Belmont; we are here to promote Americanism & Patriotism. Post #58 is proud to have donated thousands of dollars to many local organizations. Over the last six years, as noted the town reports, you can see the Post has donated to the two local churches for their food pantries, five hundred dollars in book awards at graduation last year, the new benches at the library and the granite bench at Penstock Park, just to name a few. Most recently our Post was instrumental in getting a new flag pole for the Veterans Memorial at the intersection near the Catholic Church.

As you may be aware, last August American Legion Post #58 in Belmont started a banner project. It will replace all the old flags with banners.

Many of the old flags were a disgrace and we felt as Legion members something had to be done. This brings us to the subject at hand; we are looking for donations to help with the cost of these new banners. Our goal is to have the project completely paid for by donations and the Legion — NO TAX MONEY would be used.

This is our town and we should be

doing everything possible to enhance the appearance of it. As you are aware, each summer we see thousands of race fans going to N.H.I.S. in Loudon and tourists heading to Laconia for Bike Week via Belmont. The banners will be visually appealing, with red and white vertical stripes with a blue field with stars that would be reminiscent of early-American designs. The bottom has a large red stripe that will say WELCOME TO BELMONT in white. We plan to get 12 banners; this would consist of 4-5 along Main Street and a banner on each street coming into Belmont.

When we started this project in August we hope to have the needed $1,800 collected by January 1, 2012 in order to have these installed before Memorial Day. We currently have collected all but $700 and ask that you help us in completing our goal with a donation of monetary value. If you could help, I am sure you would be proud of your contribution and the opportunity to help us complete our goal of enhancing our town. All contributions can be mailed to: Charles Kilborn Post #58, American Legion, P. O. Box 376, Belmont, NH 03220.

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To the editor, I wish to respond to the insulting column by Leo R. Sandy. He had the gall to march in the Manchester Veterans Day Parade. At least, Leo, you were in great company: the Cub Scouts and Brownies are much wiser than you.

Our veterans paid a terrible price but, Leo, they won the battle and we as a nation will never, ever forget our fallen servicemen. Never.

If we had you, Leo, as our president during the first and second world wars — with your passive humanism, etc. — we would be in ashes and ruin today, and speaking German, etc.

Leo, the American people will stand against any evil empire that would try and destroy our people and that includes those responsible for 9/11.

Thank God for our brave soldiers.

Leo, the rich, middle class and poor gladly gave their very best and many

never came home. You seem to have all the answers but run for office and you will see that you’re not what America stands for.

Leo, we as humans are a fallen species and have been at war since Cain killed Abel. Mankind will keep killing until the return of Jesus Christ and his eternal kingdom of peace. Jesus Christ told us as Christians: “And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. Be not troubled for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.”

Leo, the final war will be fought against Satan and only then will the earth have total victory over evil.

Leo, if you want to march, join the Salvation Army. At least you will be marching in the right direction — towards true peace.

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Year again reminded me of enormous generosity of local people To the editor, I’ve spent hours over the past weeks signing “Thank you” letters for contributions to the Saint Vincent de Paul (SVdP) food pantry. Each year this reminds me of the enormous generosity of the people of the “Lakes Region.”

We received all of the turkeys needed to provide over 700 families who signed up for Thanksgiving baskets. It was heartwarming to see individuals and families come in with one, two, or more turkeys at a time and businesses and organization donate up to 100. It is impossible to write a thank-you to each of you, and so I hope you read this heartfelt letter and

know it is written to you.

I’d also like to say a special, “Thanks,” to the many volunteers of SVdP pantry. Only they know how much buying and time goes into preparing for the, “Big Day.” While it may be my name and picture you see or hear it is only because of the volunteer’s dedication that our mission is accomplished.

The monetary contributions will “Help Us Help Others” going into next year. May God bless you and yours as you have blessed us.

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Selectmen add 17th cop to budget; take $34K from clerk/tax collector line

By Gail OBer

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Elders Friendship Club collects food for St. Vincent de Paul pantry Each month, the members of the Laconia Elders Friendship Club collect food to be donated to the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry. This month, one of the club members asked her neighbors at the Mallard Cove housing development to contribute, with great results. Shown here at the Leavitt Park House are (l-r) club members Barbara St. Pierre, Jackie Dion, Gladys Blanchard, Wilma Snow, Ella Trulson, Ann Nadeau and Betty Clark. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)

IRAQ WAR from page 2 the Iraqi people,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the roughly 200 troops and others in attendance.

“Those lives have not been lost in vain -- they gave birth to an independent, free and sovereign Iraq.”

Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said the Iraqi people now have an unprecedented opportunity to live in a relatively peaceful environment, but he also acknowledged it will be a challenging time. And he urged Iraqi leaders to make good choices based on what is best for their people.

“Violence and prosperity cannot co-exist,” said Austin, who eight years, eight months and 26 days ago gave the order for U.S. troops to storm across the border into Iraq. And on Thursday he gave the order to retire the flag of U.S. Forces-Iraq.

The flag was then rolled up, covered by a camouflage colored sheath and will be brought back to the U.S. Speaking to the troops in the audience, Panetta lauded their service and their bravery, adding, “You

will leave with great pride — lasting pride — secure in knowing that your sacrifice has helped the Iraqi people to begin a new chapter in history.”

Many Iraqis, however, are uncertain of how that chapter will unfold. Their relief at the end of Saddam, who was hanged on the last day of 2006, was tempered by a long and vicious war that was launched to find non-existent weapons of mass destruction and nearly plunged the nation into fullscale sectarian civil war.

“With this withdrawal, the Americans are leaving behind a destroyed country,” said Mariam Khazim, a Shiite whose father was killed when a mortar shell struck his home in Sadr City. “The Americans did not leave modern schools or big factories behind them. Instead, they left thousands of widows and orphans. The Americans did not leave a free people and country behind them, in fact they left a ruined country and a divided nation.”

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GILFORD — The cumulative effect of budget moves made this week by the Selectboard was to chop $20,839 from their proposed 2012 spending plan.

At Wednesday’s meeting, the board took $22,035 from the Town Clerk Tax Collector full-time employee line item and added $34,112 to the Police Department bottom line for a 17th police officer.

Earlier in the week, at a special meeting, the board cut more than $30,000, largely because bids for employee health insurance and for heating oil had been firmed up at lower than expected prices.

Selectmen made their final decisions after meeting on some personnel matters in a non-public session that Town Administrator Scott Dunn said needed to be addressed before selectmen could vote on the revised budget.

Dunn said Selectmen will forward the revised budget to the Budget Committee and believes it will be discussed at the next meeting on Jan. 5.

Earlier this month, the Budget Committee narrowly voted to increase the bottom line Police Department budget to add a 17th police officer to the ranks. Traditionally, the police department operated with 17 full-time officers but the selectmen had initially decided to try and eliminate one position.

They took the opportunity when former Chief John Markland retired and initially asked new Chief Kevin Keenan to reorganize internally to make up for being down one person.

In a related matter, selectmen announced Wednesday that the Police Department union had comes to a two-year agreement with the Teamsters but the new agreement doesn’t affect the bottom line.

Selectmen had discussed using a subcontracted police prosecutor but decided to keep the prosecutions internal and eliminate the title of “police prosecutor” from the staff. Dunn said it is still his expectation that adult and juvenile prosecutions will be done by the department’s corporal.

Selectmen were also able to lower some line items by saving $36,000 from other places as was reported in The Daily Sun earlier this week.

Dunn said he expects this to be the final revision to the selectman’s recommended budget. It is the Budget see next page

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from preceding page Committee’s final budget that goes before the voters at the Deliberative Session of Town Meeting.

Voters will be able to see both budgets for comparison before the deliberative session but after the Budget Committee makes it final recommendation in mid January.

Village. Some members of the Budget Committee came forward two months later with a petition to stop the sale and requested the issue go on the town warrant for the voters to decide.

Petitioners claimed the non-profit would be exempt from some or all property taxes — something they said the rest of the tax payers could ill afford — and the town already had more than its fair share of senior housing.

Voters did not agree and in 2009 gave the town the authority to enter into a purchases and sales agreement for not less than $110,000 with Gilford Village Knolls. That was accomplished but Ferruolo was telling the Selectboard his organization lacked the funds to close the sale in the alloted time.

Library trustee Kate Hamel told selectmen the Friends of the Gilford Library would like to see the property sold so the proceeds can be applied to an outstanding loan from Laconia Savings Bank taken by the Friends in order to complete construction work on the new building.

Hamel said the trustees were very sensitive about getting the money but Ferruolo pleaded with selectmen not to put the parcel on the open market.

Selectmen said they saw benefits and pitfalls to both approaches.

On one hand, it would cost the “Friends” money to roll over their note with the bank but, perhaps more significantly, in today’s slow real estate market, the town runs the risk of getting a bid for substantially less than the $110,000 price agreed to by Gilford Village Knolls, and the balance of the “Friends” loan outstanding at LSB. Selectmen wanted to know if the “Friends” were prepared to absorb a significant loss.

“Do you know 10 wealthy people who can buy the land?” asked Selectmen Gun Benavides adding maybe the Gilford Knolls could come up with some kind of fundraiser or someone else could lend them the money.

Hamel said she was worried about the financial situation of the “Friends” and said her board had scheduled a meeting for next week.

Selectmen decided to table the request for the extension until after the Friends board met and reported back to them. see next page

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GILFORD — A non-profit senior housing developer in the historic village area has been rejected for federal funding in 2012 and has asked selectmen to extend for another year the purchase and sales agreement it has with the town for a 3.1-acre lot at 43 Potter Hill Road.

Supporters of the town’s public library, however, would like to see the land sold as soon as possible so that the proceeds can be used to retire debt that has become a burden to its “Friends” group.

Tony Ferruolo told selectmen on Wednesday that this year’s request from Gilford Village Knolls, Inc. has been rejected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The money would have been used to buy the land just up the road from the library for development into Gilford Village Knolls III, a 22 to 24 unit apartment building.

Gilford Village Knolls III has been on the drawing board since 2004 and has often been at the heart of many political debates and deliberative session discussions.

The land was purchased from the late Milo “Red” Bacon in 2004 for $150,000 when the town anticipated using the parcel for a new library. A year later, towns people overwhelmingly voted against the library project and in 2007 local philanthropists agreed to fund most of a new a library on an adjacent lot, located just up hill.

When selectmen then voted to sell the surplus lot by sealed bid for a minimum of the original $150,000 purchase price, Gilford Village Knolls expressed an interest but Ferruolo said he wouldn’t be able to make a sealed bid because he had no immediate money.

No one bid for the land and in May 2008, Selectmen voted to sell the lot directly to Gilford Knolls

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GOP from page one state to a Democratic-tilting bellwether,” at least in presidential elections.

Since 2000, the dominance of the GOP, by Scala’s measure, has been confined solely to Belknap County.

Between 1960 and 1980, Republican candidates polled most strongly in Carroll County, on average performing 22 points better than they did statewide from 1960 to 1968, 17 points better from 1968 to 1976 and 11 points better from 1976 to 1984.

Between 1960 and 1968 Republican candidates performed eight points better in both Belknap and Grafton counties than they did statewide. But, from 1968 to 1976, Belknap County, where on average Republican candidates polled seven points higher than they did statewide, overtook Grafton County, trailing only Carroll County among the three counties where the GOP remained dominant.

From 1976 to 1984, the GOP lost its dominance in Grafton County, leaving Belknap and Carroll counties the two remaining strongholds, where by 1992 Republican presidential candidates performed from preceding page The lot in question abuts the 3.61-acre parcel at 41 Potter Hill Road that houses Gilford Village Knolls II, consisting of 24 apartments. That building, in turn, abuts Gilford Village Knolls I, consisting of 22 units on 8.19-acres at 15 Bacon Drive.

Previously, Ferruolo has indicated there is a substantial waiting list of senior citizens waiting for a vacancy at projects I and II.

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KNOX from page 2 tenced to 26 years and 25 years, respectively, in proceedings that made headlines around the world.

The Perugia appellate court, which acquitted the two in October after reviewing the lower court’s evidence and conducting new hearings of its own, criticized the “building blocks” of the conviction and the failure to identify a motive.

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KNOX from page 2 “or whether one or more people carried out the crime.”

Knox’s family said in a statement Thursday night that they were pleased with court’s findings.

The court’s findings “reiterate and reaffirm what we have known all along, that Amanda had absolutely nothing to do with the tragic and terrible murder of Meredith Kercher.”

A third defendant, Ivory Coast-born drifter Rudy Guede, was convicted in a separate trial of sexually assaulting and stabbing Kercher. His 16-year prison sentence — reduced on appeal from an initial 30 years — was upheld

by Italy’s highest court in 2010.

The appeals court said there was no evidence that Knox and Sollecito helped Guede assault and kill Kercher, and expressed incredulity that they would have committed such a crime with a man they had little contact with. “There is no evidence of phone calls or text messages between the three,” he wrote.

Hellmann also ridiculed the prosecution’s efforts to demonize the 24-year-old Knox because she bought G-string underwear days after the murder instead of more modest apparel, calling it “a garment in style and widely worn by young and not-soyoung women.”

Such a purchase, he wrote, “cannot be considered a show of an insensitive spirit or obscene inclinations.”

He also defended Knox’s behavior at a police station, where she did cartwheels and cuddled and kissed Sollecito while awaiting questioning.

Such displays could not be construed as evidence of guilt, he wrote, adding:

“There are numerous ways ... to react to tragedy. An exchange of tenderness and even an exhibition of gymnastics can be explained by the need to find through gestures and behavior a bit of normality in a tragic situation.”

The only elements of the prosecution case that were proven, the judge said, were a charge of slander against Knox, who was convicted of falsely accusing a bar owner of killing Kercher, and the fact that Knox and Sollecito’s alibis did not match.

That the alibis were out of synch “is very different” from the prosecutors’ claim of false alibis, he wrote.

And as for implicating Diya “Patrick” Lumumba after hours of intense police questioning, Knox did so because “she was convinced that was what the police wanted her to do: to name a guilty person,” he said.

“The only elements that are sustained don’t allow the belief, even when put together, that the guilt of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the crime of murder ... has been proven,” the judge said.

Prosecutors had contended that a kitchen knife found at Sollecito’s house was the murder weapon, saying it matched wounds on Kercher’s body and carried traces of Kercher’s DNA on the blade and Knox’s on the handle.

However, a court-ordered review discredited the DNA evidence, saying there were glaring errors in evidencecollecting and that below-standard testing and possible contamination raised doubts over the DNA traces on the blade and on Kercher’s bra clasp.

The appellate court also contradicted the lower court’s time of death, putting it nearly an hour earlier.

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Laconia Planning Director Obama plan would life wages of home care workers Shanna Saunders named city’s Employee of the Year

LACONIA — Planning Director Shanna Saunders was named “Employee of the Year” at the annual Christmas luncheon for city employees at the Community Center yesterday.

“I could not do the job I do without the cooperative efforts of all the other city departments and their employees,” Saunders said. “They make my job easy.”

Shanna Saunders Presenting the award, (Daily Sun file photo) City Manager Scott Myers noted that Saunders was chosen from among “many deserving nominees.” He described Saunders, who joined the Planning Department in 2004 and soon afterwards was appointed director when her predecessor resigned, as an “excellent ambassador for the city,” which she represents on local, regional and state committees and task forces.

Myers lauded Saunders for procuring numerous grants that have enabled the city to enhance recreational opportunities, improve water quality and and study traffic flows. He said that she understands that the vitality of Laconia is largely dependent on the lakes and works tirelessly to ensure water quality is considered and managed throughout the development process and beyond.”

Calling Saunders “an excellent team player,” Myers said that she “tackles responsibilities with a refreshing vim and vigor and treats department staff with respect and courtesy.”

Dennis Sanborn of the Parks and Recreation Department was recognized for his three decades of service to the city. Jim Rogato of the Licensing Board, together with Earle Walker, Jr. of the Department of Public Works, and firefighters Bruce Barrett and David Jensen were honored for a 25 years of service to the city. Ann Saltmarsh of the Department of Public Works was recognized for her two decades of service.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Workers in the home health care industry — one of the country’s fastest growing professions — would be guaranteed minimum wage and overtime protections under new rules proposed Thursday by the Obama administration.

The move would boost living standards for nearly 2 million employees who help the elderly and disabled with daily tasks such as taking medication, caring for wounds or preparing meals. But some health service companies warned that higher pay could also mean higher costs for clients who can least afford it.

“They deserve to be treated fairly,” said President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony surrounded by more than a dozen home health care workers. “They deserve to be paid fairly for a service that many older Americans couldn’t live without.”

It was the latest in a series of steps Obama has taken to try to boost the economy or help workers without going through Congress, where his jobs bill has stalled.

Home health care aides have been exempt from federal wage laws since 1974, when they were considered companions to the elderly and compared to neighborhood baby sitters. But the number of fulltime home care workers has surged, along with the rapid growth of retirees who prefer care at home instead of at institutions.

As the jobs have evolved, home care providers have greater responsibilities helping clients with physical, developmental and intellectual disabilities and people with chronic or terminal illnesses.

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home care workers live at or below the poverty level and receive public benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid. More than 90 percent of home care workers are women. About 30 percent are black, and 12 percent are Hispanic.

Republican lawmakers said Obama’s plan would result in fewer work hours for home care workers and higher costs for taxpayers.

“Our nation’s elderly may pay the greatest price in the form of more costly services and fewer opportunities to obtain the care they need in the comfort of their own homes,” said a joint statement from Reps.

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BY ADAM DRAPCHO THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — Songs are present from the first days of human life, often introduced as a lullaby sung by a doting parent. Toddlers sing the melody of songs well before they can form the words. Similarly, the value of music remains throughout life, and as the members of the Taylor Community Chorus have found, a familiar song is recognized even by listeners who are afflicted with dementia or other memory illnesses.

The Taylor Community Chorus gives the gift of music to various community groups at certain times of the year, such as the holiday season. On Thursday, the chorus’s holiday tour stopped at the Belknap County Nursing Home.

Shirley Powers has been a member of the chorus since it founded in 1995. Powers, who also sings in the Pemigwasset Choral Society, has been singing since she was a girl, participating in church and school choirs when she was growing up in Alstead.

Being a member of a chorus, she said, is an experience she doesn’t tire of. “It’s really uplifting, doing things together as a group is really a lot of fun.” She enjoys the opportunity to make new friends as well as the chance to share the music with others, such as at the Belknap County Nursing Home.

“You can tell that other people enjoy it,” she said.

Audience members, some of whom might experience limited engagement with others due to dementia, will begin tapping their feet with the music or even singing along, something which is explicitly encouraged. “The music moves them,” she said.

In fact, the Taylor chorus not only performs for audiences that include people with memory illnesses, the chorus has several members with similar conditions. That gives the experience a special value for Powers, “to see them enjoy doing something that they otherwise might not be able to do.”

Jane Ellis, one of the women who lead the chorus for the Taylor Community, said the group is up to about 25 members, more than ever in its history.

Contributing to that growth is Jim Brewer, who moved to the Taylor Community in February and joined the chorus as soon as he could.

For Brewer, the best part of participating in the chorus is the performances. “I think that’s why most of these people are here,” he said. Like Powers, Brewer relishes seeing the music connect with people, whether singers or audience members, who might feel distant from the world around them.

“It’s pretty exciting to watch people latch on to the music,” he said. “Music seems to get under there where language doesn’t.”

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A driver in the next lane is moving his lips. Is he on a hands-free cellphone? Talking to someone in the car? To himself? Singing along to the radio?

If lawmakers follow the advice of a federal board, police officers will have to start figuring that out — somehow.

The National Transportation Safety Board said this week that drivers should not only be barred from using hand-held cellphones, as they are in several states, but also from using hands-free devices.

No more “Sorry, I’m stuck in traffic” calls, or virtually any other cellphone chatter behind the wheel.

Though no state has yet implemented such restrictive rules, the NTSB’s recommendations carry weight that could place such language into future laws, or motivate the federal government to cut funding to states that don’t follow suit.

Many of the men and women patrolling the nation’s streets and highways wonder how they would sort the criminally chatty from the legally chatty.

“It would be almost impossible to determine if someone was talking on a phone or exercising their vocal cords,” said Capt. Donald Melanson of the West Hartford, Conn., police department, which took part in a national pilot program aimed at cracking down on drivers’ cellphone use. “That would be much more difficult to enforce, almost to the point where it would be impossible.”

Officer Tom Nichols of the Port St. Lucie, Fla., police said a law written like the NTSB suggests would be difficult to enforce because so many variables would be at play.

“If you identify someone who has a hands-free set hooked up to their ear that doesn’t mean they are talking on the phone,” he said. “They could be talking to a passenger. They could be talking to a child in the back. They could be singing.”

Police could end up turning to technology for help.

They might even end up with the cellphone equivalent of a radar speed gun.

Fred Mannering, a Purdue University civil engineering professor who is associate director of the Center for Road Safety, said that since all cellphones emit signals, a simple Bluetooth detection device could spot them.

Computers are already common in patrol cars, and Mannering said a relatively cheap add-on could fit them to track cellphone signals.

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The NTSB’s proposal, announced Tuesday as a unanimous recommendation of its five-member board, urges all states to impose total bans except for emergencies. It cited deadly crashes caused by distracted drivers across the country, and noted that many studies have shown that hands-free cellphones are often as unsafe as hand-held devices.

The recommendation poses an astounding number of questions. What about chauffeurs and traveling salesmen who spend their entire day on the road?

And roadside Amber Alert and Silver Alert notifica-

tions that implore drivers to call in if they spot a specific vehicle? What comes of phone lines dedicated to those “How’s My Driving?” signs on trucks? How will you let someone know you’re stuck in traffic?

Joe Schwieterman, a DePaul University professor who studies people’s use of technology while traveling, said he can’t envision a law so restrictive ever hitting the books because phone use has become commonplace for drivers. He called such an approach “draconian” and said that if such a law were passed, the public would despise it as “imperial overreach,” then ignore it.

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The report will be used by the Justice Department to seek major changes at Arpaio’s office, such as new policies against discrimination and improvements of staff and officers. Arpaio faces a Jan. 4 deadline for saying whether he wants to work out an agreement to make the changes. If not, the federal government will sue him, possibly putting in jeopardy millions of dollars in federal funding for Maricopa County.

The fallout from the report was swift. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it is severing its ties with Arpaio, stripping his jail officers of their federal power to check whether inmates in county jails are in the county illegally, a move that was meant to speed up deportation.

Homeland security officials also are restricting Arpaio’s office from using a program that uses fingerprints collected in local jails to identify illegal immigrants.

Arpaio has long denied the racial profiling allegations, saying people are stopped if deputies have probable cause to believe they have committed crimes and that deputies later find many of them are illegal immigrants. He called the report “a sad

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“We are going to cooperate the best we can. And if they are not happy, I guess they can carry out their threat and go to federal court,” Arpaio said.

Arpaio said the decision by Homeland Security to sever ties will result in illegal immigrants being released from jail and large numbers. They will go undetected and be “dumped on a street near you. For that, you can thank the federal government,” the sheriff said.

The Justice Department’s conclusions in the civil probe mark the federal government’s harshest rebuke of a national political fixture who has risen to prominence for his immigration crackdowns and became coveted endorsement among candidates in the GOP presidential field. Arpaio ultimately decided to endorse Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who denounced the findings Thursday as politically motivated.

Arpaio has built his reputation on jailing inmates in tents and dressing them in pink underwear, selling himself to voters as unceasingly tough on crime and pushing the bounds of how far local police can go to confront illegal immigration. He began aggressive sweeps in immigrant neighborhoods long before the state Legislature passed a 2010 law that cracks down on illegal immigrants and is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

COLONIAL from page one itself Cultural Arts Center of the Lakes Region, which is steering the effort to acquire and reopen the Colonial Theater, was awarded $625,000 in tax credits by the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA).

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In a forceful attack, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said Gingrich “had his hand out and received $1.6 million to influence senior Republicans and keep the scam going in Washington, D.C.,” for Freddie Mac, a governmentbacked housing entity.

“Just not true,” Gingrich shot back.

“I never lobbied under any circumstances,” he added, denying an allegation she had not made.

The clash underscored the state of race, with Gingrich, the former House speaker, atop the polls in Iowa and nationally, while Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his other pursuers work in television ads and elsewhere to overtake him in the final days before the caucuses.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who has staked his campaign on Iowa, was quick to challenge Gingrich as a conservative leader. He recalled that Gingrich had to contend with a “conservative revolution’ from the ranks of Republican lawmakers when he was House speaker in the 1990s.

Romney, who runs second in the polls in Iowa, largely refrained from criticism Gingrich, despite increasingly barbed attacks in day-to-day campaigning.

Instead, he firmly rejected suggestions that he had once favored gay marriage only to switch his position. “I have been a champion of protecting traditional marriage,” he said.

Given the stakes, Gingrich, Bachmann and Santorum weren’t the only contenders eager to impress Iowa voters and a nationwide television audience with their conservative grit.

“I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses,” said Texas Gov. Rick Perry, referring to the Denver Bron-

cos quarterback whose passing ability draws ridicule but who has led his team to a remarkable seven wins in eight weeks.

“We’re getting screwed as Americans,” said former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, insisting that he, in fact, was a steadier conservative than any of the others on stage.

“Anybody up here could beat Obama,” said Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, whose views verge on libertarianism and who has struggled to expand his appeal.

And Bachmann, who was quicker than any other candidate to criticize a rival, bristled when challenged repeatedly on the accuracy of her facts. “I am a serious candidate for president of the United States, and my facts are accurate,” she said.

Indeed, the big question in the opening moments of a fast-paced two-hour debate went to the heart of a dilemma that could eventually settle the race — do conservative Republican caucus and primary voters pick a candidate with their hearts, or do they look elsewhere if they judge their favored candidate might not be able to defeat the president.

Those voters begin making that choice on Jan. 3, and if experience is any guide, one or more of the presidential hopefuls on the debate stage will not make it out of the state to compete in the New Hampshire primary a week later.

Gingrich, who seemed an also-ran in the earliest stages of the race, has emerged as a leader heading into the final stretch of the pre-primary campaign.

His decades in Washington and his post-congressional career as a consultant have been the subjects of tough critiques from Romney’s campaign in the past week.

But the former speaker passed up an offer to criticize his rival on the issue of Medicare, saying, “I’m not in the business of blaming Gov. Romney.”

In fact, he said, Romney has made constructive suggestions for preserving the program that tens of millions of Americans rely on for health care yet faces deep financial woes.

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A friend of Meyer’s who attended the Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House on Sept. 15 said Meyer was frustrated by the report because he has used the medal to draw attention to fallen and wounded Marines and soldiers.

“He’s been very clear in almost every interview, he didn’t ask for this.

But he now has learned that it’s his responsibility,” said Chris Schmidt, of Columbia, Ky. Meyer’s grandfather, Dwight Meyer, said he hadn’t seen the story and didn’t know what it was about.

“Dakota just doesn’t talk about (the battle), because he’s had so much on his mind about it, because it’s affected him tremendously,” Dwight Meyer said.

Meyer has been humble about receiving the honor, calling it “the worst day of his life” because his comrades died.

story on analysis of dozens of military documents, including sworn statements by Meyer and others involved.

The story also said Meyer displayed heroism that day and deserves the award.

Obama spokesman Jay Carney said the president “remains very proud” of Meyer and his “remarkable acts of bravery.”

Meyer, a native of Green County, Ky., could not be reached for comment Thursday. He said on his Twitter page that he has received an outpouring of support since the report was published. He posted a picture of the front page of a newspaper that prominently displayed the story.

“I can’t thank everyone enough for the support people on Twitter and other Americans are showing me. So Thank You all,” Meyer tweeted.

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Clifford M. Northup, 61 GILMANTON IRON WORKS — Clifford M. Northup, 61, of 3 Old Town Road, died at his home on Monday, December 5, 2011.

Mr. Northup was born September 25, 1950 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of the late Charles H. and Phyllis (Dalby) Northup. He resided in Lincoln, Rhode Island for many years before moving to Gilmanton Iron Works ten years ago.

While living in Lincoln, Rhode Island, he was employed as a Firefighter, worked for the Water Department and was a truck driver. He was also a Private Eye. Mr. Northup enjoyed hunting, camping and riding his Harley.

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There will be no calling hours.

A Memorial Service will be held at the Lime Rock Baptist Church, 1075 Great Road, Lincoln, Rhode Island on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 6:00 PM. For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Lime Rock Baptist Church, 1075 Great Road, Lincoln, RI 02865.

Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N. H. is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com.

Candlelight vigil planned for those who died homeless LACONIA — A candlelight vigil will be held in Veteran’s Square at 5:30 p.m. on December 21, the longest night of this year and officially the first day of winter.

The vigil is coordinated by New Hampshire Catholic Charities. Individuals will be remembered who died while homeless or recently housed over the past year.

The annual memorial observation is now a tradition among Laconia area faith communities and

community service providers and is held in conjunction with the National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day traditionally held on December 21; the longest night of the year. Laconia is one of more than 150 cities nationwide to observe the memorial.

To learn more about the face of homelessness or to make a difference, contact Leonard Campbell, Parish and Community Services coordinator, 5283035 or www.nh-cc.org.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 16).

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Becoming a superstar depends on completing several actions in the direction of your dreams -- not just one or two. Go over the top wherever possible. Use your imagination.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, Dec. 16, the 350th day of 2011. There are 15 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 16, 1811, the first of the powerful New Madrid earthquakes, with an estimated magnitude of 7.7, struck the central Mississippi Valley. (There were, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, three main shocks in all; the second struck in Jan. 1812 and the third was in Feb. 1812.)

On this date: In 1653, Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.

In 1809, the French Senate granted a divorce decree to Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Josephine (the dissolution was made final the following month).

In 1907, 16 U.S. Navy battleships, which came to be known as the “Great White Fleet,” set sail on a 14-month round-theworld voyage to demonstrate American sea power.

In 1944, the World War II Battle of the Bulge began as German forces launched a surprise attack against Allied forces in Belgium (the Allies were eventually able to beat the Germans back).

In 1951, a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46 Commando crashed just after takeoff from Newark Airport in New Jersey, killing all 56 people on board.

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In 1976, the government halted its swine flu vaccination program following reports of paralysis apparently linked to the vaccine.

In 1991, the U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a vote of 111-25.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS 20th Annual Christmas Concert presented by the Lakes Region Singers. Free. 7:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Gilford. New Youth Chorus will be performing for the first time. Free will offering will be taken to help cover expenses.

Annual Tree of Love and Remebrance Service at LRGH. 1 p.m. in the hospital lobby. All are welcome.

Sant Bani School in Sanbornton presents “Dark of the Moon” at the Studio Theater. 7 p.m. Play not recommended for younger children. For reservations call the school at 934-4240.

“The Homecoming: A Smoky Mountain Christmas” at the Inter-Lakes Community Theater in Meredith. 7 p.m.

The 12th annual One Voice Christmas celebration in music, dance and drama. Free.

Vegan healthy holiday cooking class and dinner at the Pines Community Center in Northfield. 5:30 p.m. $15.

RSVP to louisa@metrocast.net or call 729-0248.

Gingerbread House Decorating Party at the Gilford Public Library. 1 to 2 p.m. for preschoolers, 3 to 4 p.n. for K through 4th graders and 5 to 6 for 5th through 8th graders. Space limited. Sign-up please.

Native American Dinner hosted by the N.H. Intertribal Native American Council. 5 to 8 p.m. at the Laconia VFW Hall at 143 Court Street. $10.

Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church Parish House (18 Veterans Square) in Laconia. 9:30 to 11 a.m. each Friday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

Giggles & Grins playgroup at Family Resource Center in downtown Laconia (635 Main Street). Free group for parents children from birth through age 5. For more information call 524-1741.

Tot Time at the Meredith Public Library. 9:30 to 10:20 a.m. Ages 1 to 3.

Knit Wits gathering at the Gilford Public Library. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Open knitting for all.

Adult (18+) dodgeball at the Meredith Community Center. 7 to 9 p.m. $1 per session.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17 Sant Bani School in Sanbornton presents “Dark of the Moon” at the Studio Theater. 7 p.m. Play not recommended for younger children. For reservations call the school at 934-4240.

Music Clinic Theatre Company presents “A Jazzy Little Christmas”. 7 p.m. The intimate little theater in Belmont is transformed into a retro nightclub with table seating, warm lighting and space for dancing to the songs of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, as well as smooth jazz favorites. BYOB. Tickets at 677-2777.

3rd Annual Holiday Party with the Uncle Steve Band to benefit Bristol Community Services. 7 p.m. at the Mill Fudge Factory on Bristol Square. $7 or donation of food or clothing.

Historic Belknap Mill Holiday Bazaar. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The perfect place to finish your Christmas shopping: fudge, soaps, jams & jellies, boxwood trees, jewelry, embroidered items, holiday greeting cards, glass art, wooden toys, Christmas decorations and much more. 524-8813 “The Homecoming: A Smoky Mountain Christmas” at the Inter-Lakes Community Theater in Meredith. 2 p.m. matinee and 7 p.m. The 12th annual One Voice Christmas celebration in music, dance and drama. Free.

A Christmas play titled “Unexpected Gifts” will be presented by the Praise Assembly of God Church at 180 School Street in Tilton. 6 p.m. All are welcome. Church will be decorated as a winter wonderland to accompany them of the play.

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“Seeking the truth and printing it” THE LACONIA DAILY SUN is published Tuesday through Saturday by Lakes Region News Club, Inc. Edward Engler, Mark Guerringue, Adam Hirshan, Founders Offices: 1127 Union Ave. #1, Laconia, NH 03246 Business Office 737-2020, Newsroom 737-2026, Fax: 527-0056 News E-mail: news@laconiadailysun.com CIRCULATION: 18,000 distributed FREE Tues. through Sat. in Laconia, Weirs Beach, Gilford, Meredith, Center Harbor, Belmont, Moultonborough, Winnisquam, Sanbornton, Tilton, Gilmanton, Alton, New Hampton, Plymouth, Bristol, Ashland, Holderness.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I’ve written you before, but this time I hit the send button.

I have three grandchildren. One is biologically related, and the other two are my daughter’s stepchildren from two previous relationships. The older child currently lives with his father, who has an enormous family. The middle child had no contact with his father until age 4, and then the dad reentered his life and tripled his extended family. They have lots of money and want to make up for lost time, so they shower this child with gifts, toys, clothes and special trips.

We are dreading Christmas. The older boy will get lots of stuff from his paternal family, and the middle boy will get a huge windfall. But the youngest child will get only the small amount we can afford. I will spend the same amount of money on all the children because I treat my grandchildren the same. The problem is, the two older boys look down on the presents from us because they aren’t as good as what their paternal grandparents purchase. And the youngest boy feels slighted because he doesn’t get as much as his brothers do.

The older boys aren’t told to share or stop being selfish. How do we make sure all three boys feel equal? -- Trying To Be Fair Dear Fair: There is no way you can compete with the other grandparents, so please stop berating yourself or the boys for the inequity. Children enjoy presents, but they rarely appreciate them beyond the first few days. Instead of focusing on the material, consider giving the grandchildren the gift of your time. There are plenty of free or inexpensive things you can do with each individual boy that will make him feel special and loved. Present them with a “gift certificate” for, say, a Saturday at the zoo or the park, a camping trip, a special dinner or volunteering. Gear your gifts toward that particular child’s interests, and it will not only become something they

look forward to, but a way to create lasting memories.

Dear Annie: I am a 72-year-old man living in a senior citizen apartment complex. I’m fit, active and in good health, and I still love the ladies. (They outnumber us about 10 to one.)

I always behave like a gentleman when I go out with a lady, and I get along fine with them until the subject of sex comes up. I am sensitive and don’t bring it up until we’ve been out a few times and have gotten to know each other pretty well.

My question is: Why are older women absolutely terrified of sex? To me, it’s the natural thing to do after a relationship has progressed to a certain point. I don’t get it. What are they afraid of? -- Loveless in Spokane Dear Spokane: They may be afraid that you will be disappointed with their aging bodies, that they will feel inadequate and unattractive, that they may contract an STD, or that you will lose interest once you have slept with them. But we suspect you may be misinterpreting their response. They may not be terrified, but rather repelled by the idea of sex.

They enjoy the courting and cuddling, but that’s it. However, not all older women feel this way, so by all means, keep looking.

Dear Annie: Like “Baffled,” we also had an issue with our neighbor when we installed the first fence. The neighbor came out with a ruler and was flipping it end over end to prove our survey was incorrect.

We can laugh about this now, but at the time, it was ugly.

Tell “Baffled” that once the fence is established, the neighbor will get used to it and perhaps, like our neighbor, will actually compliment them on how nice the yard looks. They will soon learn the old saying, “Good fences make good neighbors.” -- B.T.D.T.

For Rent

For Rent

BELMONT: 2-bedroom duplex, washer/dryer hookups, $800/ month, 1st and $500 deposit, non-smoker. (603)455-7942.

LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. Free WiFi Internet. $145/week, 603-781-6294

CLEAN UPDATED studio and one bedroom in Tilton. Heat/Hot Water included. $600-630/Month.

603-393-9693 or 916-214-7733.

FRANKLIN: One bedroom 2nd floor quiet area great for single or couple. $500+Utilities Animals?

934-1252 GILFORD, 2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, Balconies, no smoking/pets, $950/month plus utilities, Security deposit and references, 603-455-6662 GILFORD - Cute 2 bedroom house. Washer/dryer, garage, brookside setting. $1,000/month + utilities. 387-8433 LACONIA 1 Bedroom- Washer/ dryer hookup, storage, no pets.

Security Deposit & references. $600/month + utilities. 520-4353

Laconia 2 bedroom 1 1/2 bath apartment with deck & nice view of Paugus Bay. No pets.

Lowered rent for qualified tennant with good credit.

630-2883 Laconia

LACONIA- VERY nice 1-bedroom apartment in clean, quiet, secure downtown building. Recently renovated. $175/Week. includes, heat, hot water & electric.

524-3892 or 630-4771 LACONIA-2 bedroom 2nd floor. $210/Week, heat, hot water & electricity included.

Call 603-235-6901 LACONIA-DUPLEX 2 bedroom 1 bath, washer/dryer hookups, garage. $900/month, heat included. References & security deposit. No pets or smokers.

524-8886 LACONIA-LARGE 2 bedroom 2nd floor . Quiet, clean, no pets. $800/month, Includes Heat.

556-1310 LACONIA/LAKEPORT Condo: 2-bedroom, 2-bath. $900/Month, heat & hot water included. Call 603-235-6901.

LACONIA: 3 Bedroom Apartment, $950/month, heat & hot water included.

Parking provided.

Washer/Dryer hookup available for stack unit. Section 8 approved. No dogs. References & security required. 603-387-2600.

LACONIA: Gail Avenue, 3rd floor, 1BR heat and h/w included, no pets, no smoking. $725.

524-5837.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

3 bedroom 2 bath apartment with deck & single car garage.

Quiet area with big yard near hospital. No pets. $1,050/Month, plus utilities

$1-A-DAY CLASSIFIEDS • CALL 527-9299

630-2883

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428

LACONIA House for Rent

LACONIA: HUGE first floor, 8 room apartment. 4 bedroom, Heat/Hot Water included.

Updated, New Hardwood floors, new bathroom, Washer/Dryer hookups, $1,250/Month. 566-6815

DOLLAR-A-DAY: Private Party ads only (For Sale, Lost, Autos, etc.), must run ten consecutive days, 15 words max. Additional words 10¢ each per day. does not apply to yard sales. REGULAR RATE: $2 a day; 10¢ per word per day over 15 words. PREMIUMS: First word caps no charge. Additional bold, caps and 9pt type 10¢ per word per day. Centered words 10¢ (2 word minimum) TYPOS: Check your ad the first day of publication. Sorry, we will not issue credit after an ad has run once, and we do not offer refunds. DEADLINES: noon the business day prior to the day of publication. PAYMENT: All private party ads must be pre-paid. We accept checks, Visa Mastercard and Discover credit cards and of course, cash. $10 minimum order for credit cards. CORRESPONDENCE: To place your ad call our offices at 527-9299 between 9 am & 5 pm, Monday through Friday; Stop by our office or send a check or money order with ad copy to The Laconia Daily Sun,1127 Union Ave, Laconia, NH 03246. You can email ads to ads@laconiadailysun.com, we will contact you for payment. OTHER RATES: For information about display ads or other advertising options, call 527-9299.

Animals

Announcement

Autos

Child Care

AKC Registered West Highlands: 7 weeks, white, m/f, intelligent, affectionate, paper trained, $850.

524-4294.

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.

1997 Honda Accord EX Coupe: 1-owner, V-Tech, 4-cylinder, auto, moonroof, rust-free, inspected, loaded, $3,350. 387-2701.

CHILDREN S Garden Childcare: Year-round, reliable, clean, structured, pre-K environment, one acre yard, central location.

528-1857.

BEAUTIFUL puppies. Apricot, red, mini poodles.

Champ background. Good price. Healthy, happy and home raised.

253-6373.

DACHSHUNDS puppies 8 weeks old, health and temperament guaranteed. All shots $450.

(603)539-1603.

ROTTWEILER Pups, AKC Champion Pedigree, tails, shots done, parents on premises, $500-600.

340-6219

Announcement NEED to go to Ft. Myers, Florida?

I will do the driving of your SUV or Van. Want to leave Approx.

December 28, weather permitting, arrive January 5th. 40 years driving experience with perfect driving record. You pay for gas.

286-7720

Autos 1995 Ford F-350 Dump- 4X4, plow, good condition. $5,000.

455-6225 Laconia 1996 GMC Jimmy- Well maintained. $1,100 or best offer 387-4511 1996 GMC Sonoma 4x2 Pickup Long Bed: V6, auto, AC, 139k, runs great, $1,850. 387-2701.

1996 Toyota Camry LE Wagon: 1-owner, moonroof, automatic, s.i. and plate, immaculate, $2,950.

387-2701.

1997 Mitsubishi Gallant ES 4-Door: 4-cylinder, auto, all power, moonroof, 117k, inspected w/plate, $2,950. 387-2701.

1998 Saturn SL2: 4-door, automatic, AC, CD, all power, inspected, runs excellent, $1,850.

387-2701.

1999 Lincoln Continental: 126k, FWD, V8, leather, moonroof, inspected and plate, mint, $2,950.

387-2701.

2000 Dodge Conversion Van. 85,000 miles, 6-cylinder, good condition. Runs great! $4,400.

524-8092 2000 Ford Taurus SES: 4-door, leather, buckets, moonroof, rear spoiler, 24-valve, loaded, inspected, $2,750. 387-2701.

2002 Pontiac Grand Am SE: V6, auto, 119k, new tires, like new, inspected, $3,450. 387-2701.

2003 Chrysler Concorde- Leather, 24 MPG. Runs/looks wonderful.

Great tires. 107K miles. $3,600. densanbean@yahoo.com 569-3290 2003 Subaru Outback Limited: 4-cylinder, 5-speed, leather, 2-sunroofs, 1-owner, spotless, inspected, $4,950. 387-2701.

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

CASH paid for unwanted or junk cars and trucks. Same day service possible. 603-231-2859.

PRICE Reduced! 2002 Audi A-4 Quantra. Excellent condition. $5,500. 569-9615 TOP DOLLAR PAID for junk cars & trucks. Available 7-days a week.

MEREDITH grandmother offering childcare in my child-friendly home. Will transport to and from school. 393-9079

Employment Wanted COMPANION job wanted. Have experience, references, insured vehicle. 603-359-1361, leave message.

COMPASSIONATE LNA/Care Giver. 30 years experience. Great references. Will travel, do overnight. 603-875-1232

Spacious 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bath with washer/dryer.

Completely rebuilt, new everything. Near park & beach. Available mid-December, rent starts Jan. 1st.

$1,300/Month + Utilities

(603) 455-9433 LACONIA Province St. 4 bedroom apartment. Private parking, laundry, bright & clean, no pets. $1,000/Month + Utilities.

508-423-0479.

LACONIA3 bedroom clean, cozy cape near LRGH. No smokers/pets. $950/Month.

528-3789 LACONIA- 2-bedroom first floor.

Onsite laundry, newly remodeled, snow removal. $850/Month, Heat/Hot water included. Call 524-0703 LACONIA- 3 bedroom house. $1,000/Month + utilities. Pets considered, references & deposit.

524-9665

LACONIA: Large 3-bedroom apartment. First floor, parking. $850/mo + utilities, security/backgound check required.

603-781-6294.

LACONIA: Quality, affordable, spacious two bedroom apartment for rent with heat and hot water included. Rent from $697 to $839 per month. Please call Julie at Stewart Property Mgt., (603)524-6673 EHO. LACONIA: Sunny, small 2-bedroom, 2nd floor no smoking/dogs. $200 per week. includes heat/hot water.

455-5569.

MEREDITH One bedroom apartment on second floor. 16X22 ft. deck, Open concept, cathedral ceiling, very elegant and rustic.

Plowing, parking, dumpster & utilities included, $850/month.

455-5660

For Rent ALTON Housemate- Private suite w/use of common rooms in quiet country setting. No drinking/No smoking. $450/Month includes utilities. 875-6875 APARTMENTS, mobile homes. If you need a rental at a fair price, call DRM Corp. Over 40 years in rentals. We treat you better!

524-0348 or visit M-W-F, 12-5, at 373 Court Street, Laconia.

AT Weirs Beach. Nice 2 Bedroom/ 1-Bath. Heat/HW incl Laundry hook-ups. $890/month. $500 security. 296-5314.

BELMONT 2-bedroom. 1st month half off, $425! + Utilities, References & security. No dogs.

630-1296 Belmont- 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex. New carpet/paint.

Washer/Dryer hookups, porch, deck. Private $850/Month.

617-909-9892 BELMONT-3 bedroom, 1 bath house for rent. Large yard, pets allowed. Oil heat. Washer/Dryer hookup. $1,100 per month plus security deposit. References

Apartments with Rental Assistance Available NOW!

LEDGEWOOD ESTATES • Spacious units with a lot of storage area • Low utility costs • On-Site Laundry & Parking • Easy access to I-93 • 24-hour maintenance provided • 2 bedrooms with a 2 person minimum per unit.

Rent is based upon 30% of your adjusted income.

Call today to see if you qualify, or download an application at:

www.hodgescompanies.com Housing@hodgescompanies.com 603-224-9221 TDD # 1-800-545-1833 Ext. 118 An Equal Opportunity Housing Agent

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For Rent

For Rent

For Sale

For Sale

Free

Real Estate

LAKEPORT- Freshly painted, big 5-room, 2-bedroom apartment with lake view. Includes washer/dryer, hardwood floors, cabinet kitchen, 2 car parking, plowing and landscaping. Huge, bright and sunny master bedroom overlooking lake. $185/Week + 4-week security deposit. No utilities, no dogs, no smoking.

Proper I.D., credit check and background check required.

Showings on Friday only. Call Rob, 617-529-1838

MEREDITH: Room for Rent,. $125/Week, utilities included.

Smoking OK. Contact 707-9794

2 Mec reloaders, 20 ga. and 28 ga. Complete with owner’s manuals. Call for details (603)476-2271, (508)243-0349.

HOLIDAY SPECIAL: GREEN FIREWOOD, cut, not split $130/cord, cut & split $175/cord.

Seasoned firewood, $250. Also, logging, landclearing & tree work (All phases). 393-8416.

FURNITURE you remove. Full size bed w/bedroom set, hutch, cedar chest and miscellaneous chairs. Call 934-3749.

LACONIA- 3 bedroom clean, cozy cape near LRGH. Asking less than assessed value. 528-3789

MEREDITH– 2 Bedroom, 1.5 bath, 3 story townhouse style Condo.

Garage, plowing, washer/dryer included.

Non-Smoker. $950/month + Utilities. 603-455-7591

TILTON: 1 bedroom, 1st floor, $195/week including heat, electric & hot water. 524-1234.

MEREDITH Room for Rent- Quiet, beautiful home. Laundry, kitchen, cable TV, porch. $125/Week.

603-689-8683 MEREDITH ROOMMATE: Sunny, clean, spacious, walk to town.

Includes washer/dryer. $350/Month. Call 481-0762.

NEW Hampton- Large 4 bedroom, 3 bath newer home. Finished basement, wood floors and attached 2 car garage. 2 minutes to Rt. 93. $1,400/month plus utilities. 603-455-3762

2 Tires size 225/50R17. Great tread. Rockwell Delta drill press, gas leaf blower, used twice. All best offer. 366-4174 50% off all wreaths in stock, while they last. Jim Waldron, across from Belknap Tire.

WAREHOUSE/SPACE Up to 4,000 sq. ft. available with on-site office on busy Rte. 3 in Tilton.

Seasonal or long term. Relocate your business or rent a spot for your toys. 603-387-6827 WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency and a cottage including heat, hot water & lights. $150-$175/week. $400 deposit.

No pets.

387-3864.

WINTER RENTAL CEDAR LODGE Weirs Beach, Open Year Round ... Studios, 1-bedroom or 2-bedroom condos starting at $575 per month.

Please call Wendy at 366-4316.

NORTHFIELD: 1 room efficiency cottage with kitchenette & private bath, plus additional storage space & access to coin-op laundry. $140/week including heat, electric & hot water.

524-1234.

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Woodland Height School PTO donates to Santa Fund

The Santa Fund of the Lakes Region has accepted a donation from the Woodland Heights Elemtary School (Laconia) PTO. The funds were raised at the PTO’s Polar Express Night on Dec. 2. In the foreground of this photo are Santa and a friend from the school. In back are grateful members of the Santa Fund Board of Directors: (l-r) Janet Brough, Chris Guilmett, Kim Lacasse and Kathy Crane, and Santa Fund coordinator Katy Wells. The Santa Fund works to ensure a Merry and warm Christmas for children from newborn to age 16. For more information call 5243111. (Courtesy photo)

Laconia Savings Bank welcomes Michele Streeter to its Plymouth office

Wheels and is currently a PLYMOUTH — Lacomember of Toastmasters. nia Savings Bank is She resides in Franklin. pleased to announce that Streeter brings more Michele “Shelly” Streeter than 13 years of expehas joined its Plymouth rience in the banking office as Banking Office industry and joins LacoManager. In her capacity nia Savings Bank with a as office manager, Streeter broad knowledge of bankwill be responsible for the ing products and customer overall management of relationship building. She the office’s deposit portfowill be working out of the lio, customer relationship management and new Michele Streeter, Plymouth Plymouth office at 389 Banking Office Manager.

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SATURDAY, DEC. 17 The Beaver in Winter program at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Meet a live beaver and see how it survives over the winter months. $6/member and $8/nonmember. 968-7194. www/nhnature.org. $10,000 Super Bingo in support of the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society.

4:30 p.m. start at Funspot Bingo Hall in Laconia.

Meat Bingo hosted by American Legion Post #33 in Meredith. 3 p.m. at 6 Plymouth Street. No smoking.

Lakes Region Lyme Support Group meeting. Third Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Laconia Middle School. For victims and support people of those with chronic Lyme and other tick-

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Al-Anon Meeting at the Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Saturday in the first-floor confernce room. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees.

All are welcome. Call 645-9518.

Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. An outreach housed at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street, downtown. provides a free hot meal open to all members of the community. All are welcome to eat and all are welcome to help out. For more information, especially about volunteering, please call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at markk@trinitytilton.org.

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Patrick’s 3rd Annual Pub Mania nets $110,770 for WLNH Children’s Auction

GILFORD — Patrick’s Pub & Eatery of Gilford hosted Pub Mania, a 24-hour Barstool Challenge on December 8-9 to benefit the WLNH Children’s Auction.

On the final day of the auction, Patrick’s co-owner Allan Beetle, flanked by Team Captains, participants and volunteers, presented a check to the Children’s Auction for $110,770, the single largest donation ever received by the auction. Pub Mania raised $108,550 in its first two years bring the total money raised by Pub Mania to a staggering $219,320.

“The Children’s Auction is a truly amazing event that brings people to action on behalf of others,” said organizer and Patrick’s co-owner Allan Beetle. “Pub Mania brings out that same spirit.”

Inspired by Laconia Athletic & Swim Club’s “Cycle Mania”, Patrick’s reserved 29 bar stools to teams that agreed to raise a minimum of $2,400. Each Team Captain was responsible for filling their bar stool for 24 hours, with a different team member each hour.

To reach the goal of $2,400 each team member, or “culinary athlete”, needed to raise a minimum of $100.

The most money raised by a single team was $10,108 raised by the team from Dream Team Supreme (Supreme Marine of Gilford) captained by owner Matt Resca. “Our family, friends and co-workers at Supreme Marine really had some fun raising this money for our team over the past year and we are extremely proud of the results and the opportunity to help others in our community” said Resca.

“We are encouraging participants, or ‘Culinary Athletes’ to create fun and unique ways of fundraising through the year” explained Beetle. “Participants held raffles, sold flowers to neighbors, created unique items like crocheted angels and sold to family and friends, held special events (like pie throwing) and much more. Many participants simply share what it is they are up to and ask for a small donation. The numbers really add up.”

Patrick’s provides the venue, event management, food, non-alcoholic beverages and a variety of entertainment throughout the 24 hours to each of the 696 participants, including live music, games and contests. The event began with an opening ceremony at 9 a.m. Thursday, December 8 with Laconia Mayor Mike Seymour proclaiming “Pub Mania Day” and finished on Friday morning at 9 a.m. with an emotional closing ceremony, including a visit by Chil-

Cheers resounded as Patrick’s Pub presented a check for $110,770 to the WLNH Children’s Auction. Holding the check are members of the highest fundraising team “Dream Team Marine” from Supreme Marine in Gilford with Team Captain and business owner Matt Resca seated behind the check. Their team, which was one of 29 teams, raised over $10,000. In the back row is Ed Darling (with beard) of the Children’s Auction with Jennifer and Allan Beetle, fist held high, of Patrick’s Pub next to Darling. (Alan MacRae for the Laconia Daily Sun)

talent, including Don Severance, Michael Bourgeois, Justin James, Paul Costley and Josh Logan, George Lodge, the Eric Grant Band, Paul Warnick with Rick Page and Paul Luff and the Red Hat Band. During the early morning hours a variety of activities were organized for each hour including karaoke, comedy, talent contest, barstool yoga and arts and crafts.

Pub Mania organizers have scheduled an Awards Banquet for January 9 at Patrick’s, where teams will be recognized for their achievements and plans made for next year.

“We’ve set the bar awfully high,” said Jennifer Beetle. “We have our work cut out for us in 2012.”

For more information, visit www.patrickspub. com/pubmania.php or email Allan Beetle at info@ patrickspub.com

MEREDITH — Beth Zimmer of Meredith scrambled to the summit of Mount Anderson on Saturday, December 3 with three other hiking companions, to become one of a small group of individuals to have climbed the 100 highest summits in New Hampshire.

Mount Anderson is a trail-less peak located in New Hampshire’s Pemigewasset Wilderness.

Zimmer and her three companions started the day at 5 a.m. hiking with head lamps through Carrigain Notch to the base of Mt. Lowell. From there they bushwhacked up the south ridge of Mount Lowell,

hitting the summit at 10:30 a.m.

Bushwhack is a term used by trekkers who hike where there are no trails and rely on a map and compass, or GPS to plot and follow their route. From Mt. Lowell they hiked through blow downs and thick scrub of spruce and fur trees to reach their final destination, the summit of Mount Anderson (3740 ft.).

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Zimmer and her friends, one of whom was also a New Hampshire Hundred Highest finisher that see next page

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Ninety percent of the funds raised came from the 29 teams, with additional money coming from sponsorships and T-shirt sales. Pub Mania T-Shirts were created and donated by Body Covers Screen Printing of Laconia. In addition, Patrick’s donated 20% of its gross sales for the day.

“Every team captain worked hard to fill their team and exceed the minimum donation amount of $2,400,” said Pub Mania referee Jennifer Beetle. “We were truly amazed at how much fun everyone had.”

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from preceding page same day, took only a few minutes to celebrate, knowing they still had a long and challenging hike off the summit before dark.

Zimmer is a guidance counselor at Gilford Middle School. She taught in Central America for several years before moving to New Hampshire in 1986 where her love for hiking was re-ignited. Her first hike of a major mountain in New Hampshire was in 1991 with a challenging winter climb up the slide of Mt. Flume.

Her passion continued over the next few years, especially after marrying her husband, Steve, also as avid hiker. She hiked the 48, four thousand footers and expanded her hiking into winter. She began her quest of hiking the 100 highest peaks in 2002, after learning about “the list” from an Appalachian Mountain Club member.

After completing the forty-eight 4,000 foot mountains in New Hampshire in winter she then set her attention to completing the NH Hundred Highest. The list of the NH Hundred Highest varies somewhat according to the source, so Zimmer has climbed 107 peaks to ensure that she has them all. Over a third of these mountains are trail-less and must be bushwhacked. Zimmer said “Bushwhacking in the woods is a challenge and it gives you a sense of remoteness and solitude that only the wilderness can provide. It’s also a mental and physical challenge, and very rewarding.”

One of her more memorable challenges was a climb along Scar Ridge, a series of three peaks located on a ridge in the Waterville Valley area. Zimmer said “Bushwhacking Scar Ridge was a physical challenge because of the

steep terrain, the thick scrub and the large number of blow downs on the mountain. It was a long day. But our finish photo shows all of us smiling.”

She also added that some of her winter bushwhacking trips were extremely challenging because of the likelihood of falling into spruce traps and managing your body temperature. “Using a map and compass are essential,” she said. Zimmer went on to say that she usually hikes with friends. She has hiked solo at times, but emphasizes the need to leave an itinerary with a friend or family.

“Someone needs to know your route in case you are delayed or get lost.”

Zimmer said she will continue to hike the mountains of the Northeast because she loves the sense of accomplishment when reaching a mountain summit.

“The reward for me is knowing that I have gotten there using my own perseverance and skill,” she said.

When asked if there were any special challenges “as a woman,” Zimmer noted, “It is possible that male hikers might initially judge a woman to be a weaker or less skilled hiker, but if you can show you’re capable, gender doesn’t really matter. I have felt no barriers, but you do have to prove yourself and you have to be interested in learning from other more experienced hikers [about bushwhacking].”

She advises others who may be interested in following her path to learn to use a map and compass and to always have them with you; hike with guided groups, such as the Appalachian Mountain Club; take a course in mountaineering; and find partners who are interested in hiking the trailless mountains.

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Disclaimer: Not responsible for typographical errors. Photos for illustration purposes only. Offers subject to change without notice. All payments subject to credit approval. *Impala, Sonic & Silverado payments are based on 72 months @3.9% APR with $3,000 cash or trade equity downpayment. **Cruze, Malibu & Equinox are 39 month lease through GM Financial. 12,000 miles per year. $3,000 total cash or trade equity due at lease signing. 0% APR on select models in lieu of rebates. Current programs expire 1/3/12.