The Laconia Daily Sun, December 28, 2011

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Bankruptcy trustee sues to get $58k in FRM money back from Laconia Christian School

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LACONIA — The fallout over the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by two local men continued last week when Federal Bankruptcy Trustee Steven Notinger filed suit against nearly 50 people and businesses that allegedly received money from the defunct Financial Resources Mortgage, Inc. of Meredith.

One of the latest targets of the bankruptcy trustee is the Laconia Christian School — an alma mater of both FRM owner Scott Farah and both of his sons.

Notinger, who is the court appointed trustee for the dissolution of FRM and its servicing arm CL& M have claimed that from November of 2005 through October of 2009 — one month before the two companies collapsed — FRM, either through its New Hampshire office or its office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, unlawfully transferred $58,406 to see FRM page 6

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Drew Swedburg of Moultonborough Academy goes airborne on his way to the hoop during opening day action against Prospect Mountain (Alton) at the 38th Annual Lakes Region Holiday Basketball Tournament at Gilford High School. The Timberwolves won the game, 48-39. Eight local schools are sending both boys’ and girls’ teams to the event. Eight games were played on Tuesday and eight more are scheduled for today, from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The finals will be played on Thursday night. See story on page 11. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)

Brie Dassatti is 24th recipient of Bieniarz Award

LACONIA — College student Brie Dassatti, who decided she would coach girls basketball while still in eighth grade, became the 24th recipient of the Debra Bieniarz Award, given annually to honor an individual’s contribution to enlivening and enriching the Fuel Oil OIL & PROPANE CO., INC. lives of the city’s youth.

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last night, Mayor Mike Seymour said that Dassatti began coaching in middle school and continued through high school. In addition, she formed and coached the Laconia Pride, which competed in an AAU league, as well as teams associated with Project Extra. Dassatti also established, raised funds for and managed a summer girls basketball league for middle see dassaTTI page 6

LACONIA — Many of the misgivings voiced by city councilors when changes in the regulation of vendors during Motorcycle Week were first presented earlier this month were allayed by city officials who appeared before the council last night. However, the council remained cool to a proposal to reassign to public safety the prime space on Lakeside Avenue leased during the last two rallies to Progressive Insurance, a major corporate sponsor of the annual rally.

A public hearing on the changes proposed will be held at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council on January 9.

Initially Councilor Bob Hamel (Ward 5 ) charged that tighter regulations on food vendors to reduce the risk of fire were intended to shut them down.

However, Deputy Fire Chief Charles Roffo explained last night that regulations requiring fire suppression systems and spacing between assembly tents, were imposed by the New Hampshire State Fire Marshall. In the past local fire departments could waive rules or make exceptions, he said, but no longer.

“What can be excluded?” asked Hamel. “Not much. Most of this stuff is pre-existing law,” Roffo replied.

Councilor Henry Lipman (Ward 5) said that “there is a balance to achieved by not causing chaos and undermining the vendors.”

Reminding the councilors that he was a veteran of nine rallies, Roffo said “there are challenges every year, but we mitigate the issues. We don’t shut people down. I haven’t done it yet. We’re going to work with them.”

Police Captain Steve Clarke see BIKe weeK page 11

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Democrats scrambling as Nebraska senator decides not to run again

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Democrats on Tuesday lamented Sen. Ben Nelson’s decision to retire rather than seek a third term in Nebraska, fearing the move could give Republicans a crucial victory in their effort to reclaim control of the chamber next year.

Nelson, the lone Democrat in Nebraska’s five-member congressional delegation, faced a tough re-election campaign against Republicans who believed his support for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul and federal stimulus legislation would spell his downfall in the increasingly conservative state — and help the GOP gain one of the four seats they must net to take back the Senate.

After months of speculation, the 70-year-old conservative Democrat told supporters he felt it was time that he “step away from elective office, spend more time with my family, and look for new ways to serve our state and nation.”

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Indiana mom brought 3 young girls to live in trailer park teeming with sex offenders, including their grandfather; 9-year-old beaten to death FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — To assist her dying father, Tarah Souders made a choice: She moved her three young girls to a rundown trailer park in rural Indiana to help take care of him as his lungs rotted from emphysema.

She knew it could be dangerous. The park of about two dozen homes was teeming with convicted sex offenders, with one living at nearly every address. She worried about neighbors with sex offense records

who had been helping her father get by, according to trailer park residents. And before she arrived, she even asked her father if her children could be at risk for abuse from two specific men — including a suspect now accused in her daughter’s death.

“He said, ‘No. They will not touch your children. They’re doing everything they’re supposed to do,’” said Greg Shumaker, one of 15 convicted sex offenders who live at

the park and the other man that Souders had inquired about.

Weeks later, police say, a horrific tragedy unfolded. Her 9-year-old daughter, Aliahna Lemmon, was brutally killed. Police say 39-year-old Michael Plumadore told investigators that he bludgeoned her to death with a brick, then dismembered her and hid her head, hands and feet at her grandfather’s trailer before dumping the other see INDIANA page 10

NEW YORK (AP) — After a disastrous holiday shopping season, the parent company of Sears and Kmart will close at least 100 stores to raise cash — a move that sparked speculation about whether the 125-year-old retailer can avoid a death spiral fed by declining sales and deteriorating stores.

Sears Holdings Corp., a pillar of American retailing that famously began with a mail-order catalog in the 1880s, declared

Tuesday that it would no longer prop up “marginally performing” locations. The company pledged to refocus its efforts on stores that make money.

Sears’ stock quickly plunged, dropping 27 percent.

The closings are the latest and most visible move by Eddie Lampert, the hands-on chairman who has struggled to reverse the company’s fortunes.

As rivals Wal-Mart and Target Corp.

spruced up stores in recent years, Sears Holdings struggled with falling sales and perceptions of dowdy merchandise.

Some analysts wondered if it was already too late, questioning whether the retailer can afford to upgrade stores as it burns through its cash reserves.

The sales weakness “begins and some would argue ends with Sears’ reluctance to invest in stores and service,” Credit Suisse analyst Gary see SEARS page 6

Retailing giant to close at least 100 Sears & Kmart stores

Mass protests against Assad erupt in Syrian city as Arab League monitors arrive BEIRUT (AP) — Tens of thousands of defiant Syrian protesters thronged the streets of Homs Tuesday, calling for the execution of President Bashar Assad shortly after his army pulled its tanks back and allowed Arab League monitors in for the first time to the city at the heart of

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NE Family Housing eyes 2 Franklin Degradation of Israeli girl highlights buildings for purchase & renovation conflict with ultra-Orthodox extremists FRANKLIN (AP) — A New Hampshire developer is hoping to convert two blighted, barely-occupied brick buildings in Franklin into safe, affordable housing.

The New Hampton-based company New England Family Housing is planning to buy the buildings at 188-198 South Main St. for $615,000 on Jan. 3.

Company owner Kevin Lacasse is applying for a $500,000 federal Community Development Block Grant to renovate the buildings, which were

constructed in the late 1970s, but have not had any capital improvements in decades.

Lacasse tells the Concord Monitor the building is full of avocado green countertops and blue shag rugs.

Only eight of the 30 units in the two buildings are currently occupied.

Franklin police Chief David Goldstein says his officers frequently respond to complaints at the building and the renovations would improve that.

Dover woman arraigned for Christmas morning shooting death of boyfriend

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A Dover, N.H., woman accused of killing her boyfriend on Christmas morning says she accidentally shot him in the head after an argument.

Twenty-four-year-old Jessica Rivera Padilla is charged with manslaughter in the death of 25-year-old Shaheen Michaels, who was found dead Sunday in their Dover apartment.

Foster’s Daily Democrat reports that Padilla admits shooting Michaels but says she was trying to scare him by holding the gun to his head as he was on the ground. Padilla cried hysterically during her video arraignment Tuesday morning.

A probable cause hearing is set for Jan. 6 in Dover District court.

N.H. fugitive shot & killed during Florida arrest attempt

CONCORD (AP) — A New Hampshire fugitive has been shot and killed during an arrest in Florida.

The U.S. Marshals Service says 22-year-old Joseph Cleary of Rochester, N.H., was shot Tuesday after he pointed a firearm at a law enforcement officer.

U.S marshals in Florida were asked to find and arrest Cleary, who was considered armed and dangerous.

Officials say that when they found him in Cape Coral and tried to arrest him, he pointed a firearm at an officer and was shot by a sheriff in an exchange of gunfire. No law enforcement officers were injured.

The Marshals Service said Cleary was wanted in Strafford County in New Hampshire for bail and probation violations, stemming from a 2008 assault with a knife in Barrington.

from preceding page ered headdress, then called for the monitor to walk ahead to “see the blood of my second son” also killed in the onslaught.

“Where is justice? Where are the Arabs?” the old man shouted in pain.

Syrian tanks had been heavily shelling Homs for days, residents and activists said, killing dozens even after Assad signed on early last week to the Arab League plan, which demands the government remove its security forces and heavy weapons from city streets, start talks with opposition leaders and allow human rights workers and journalists into the country.

But a few hours before the arrival of the monitors, who began work Tuesday to ensure Syria complies with the League’s plan, the army stopped the bombardment and pulled some of its tanks back.

The British-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that government forces fired

on protesters while the monitors were inside Homs and said at two people were killed from the fire.

About 60 monitors arrived in Syria Monday night — the first foreign observers Syria has allowed in since March, when the uprising against Assad’s authoritarian rule began. The League said a team of 12 visited Homs.

After agreeing to the League’s pullback plan on Dec. 19, the regime intensified its crackdown on dissent; government troops killed hundreds in the past week.

BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (AP) — A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war.

Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of ultraOrthodox extremists who have spat on her and called her a whore for dressing “immodestly.”

Her plight has drawn new attention to the simmering issue of religious coercion in Israel, and the increasing brazenness of extremists in the insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

“When I walk to school in the morning I used to get a tummy ache because I was so scared ... that they were going to stand and start yelling and spitting,” the pale, blue-eyed girl said softly in an interview with The Associated Press Monday. “They were scary. They don’t want us to go to the school.”

The girls school that Naama attends

in the city of Beit Shemesh, to the west of Jerusalem, is on the border between an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood and a community of modern Orthodox Jewish residents, many of them American immigrants.

The ultra-Orthodox consider the school, which moved to its present site at the beginning of the school year, an encroachment on their territory. Dozens of black-hatted men jeer and physically accost the girls almost daily, claiming their very presence is a provocation.

Beit Shemesh has long experienced friction between the ultra-Orthodox, who make up about half the city’s population, and other residents. And residents say the attacks at the girls’ school, attended by about 400 students, have been going on for months.

Last week, after a local TV channel reported about the school and interviewed Naama’s family, a national see ISRAEL page 9

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Make Congress vote it they want war with Iran Returning from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta dropped some jolting news. Asked by CBS’s Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, Panetta replied: “It would probably be about a year before they could do it. Perhaps a little less. But one proviso, Scott, is that if they have a hidden facility somewhere in Iran that may be enriching fuel.”

Panetta was saying the mullahs are a year or less away from an atom bomb, and if they have a hidden site for enriching uranium to weapons grade, they may be even closer. “That is a red line for us,” Panetta added.

“If we get intelligence they are proceeding with developing a nuclear weapon, then we will take whatever steps necessary to deal with it.”

Panetta is raising the specter of pre-emptive war.

When Pelley’s report hit, however, the Pentagon immediately began to walk the cat back. “The secretary was clear that we have no indication that the Iranians have made a decision to develop a nuclear weapon,” said Pentagon press secretary George Little. “He (Panetta) didn’t say that Iran would, in fact, have a nuclear weapon in 2012.”

Little added that U.N. inspectors remain in Iran and have access to its uranium stockpile, and should Iran attempt a “breakout” by diverting low-enriched uranium to a hidden facility to convert it to weapons grade, U.N. inspectors would instantly detect the diversion. “We would retain sufficient time under any such scenario to take appropriate action,” said Little.

In short, the Pentagon does not believe Iran has made a decision to build atomic weapons, and the department is confident that, should it do so, the United States would have ample warning.

Little’s definitive statement, “We have no indication that the Iranians have made a decision to develop a nuclear weapon,” coincides with the consensus of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, in December 2007. In that report, the entire U.S. intelligence community stated unanimously, with “high confidence,” that Iran had given up its drive for an atom bomb back in 2003.

Yet the Pentagon’s categorical statement this week, and the 2007 declaration by the entire U.S. intelligence community that Iran abandoned its bomb program in 2003, raises a question. How could the International Atomic Energy Agency conclude, as it did last month, that Iran “has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear device”? Did the IAEA discover clandestine bombbuilding that our own intelligence community failed to detect?

If Iran is doing experiments consistent with building an atomic bomb, as the IAEA reports, why does the U.S. intelligence community not revise and update its 2007 report?

Why are CIA and DIA silent? This is no minor matter. For not only have Panetta and Barack Obama talked about “all options on the table” regarding Iran — i.e., we do not rule out military strikes — so, too, have the GOP presidential candidates, save Rep. Ron Paul.

Sen. Rick Santorum says we are already at war: “Iran is a country that has been at war with us since 1979. ... The Iranians are the existential threat to Israel.”

In fierce rebuttal to Paul’s suggestion that the real threat to America is being stampeded into a new war, Rep. Michele Bachmann retorted: “We know beyond the shadow of a doubt that Iran will take a nuclear weapon, they will use it to wipe our ally Israel off the face of the map. ... The Iran Constitution ... states unequivocally that their mission is to extend jihad across the world and eventually to set up a worldwide caliphate.”

But is all this consistent or credible?

If Iran is an “existential threat” to Israel and intends to use a bomb it is now building on Israel, why have the Israelis, with 200 to 300 nuclear weapons, who have bombed both Iraqi and Syrian nuclear sites, not removed that “existential threat” themselves?

Second, assume the Bachmann horror scenario that we know “beyond the shadow of a doubt” that Iran, as soon as it gets the bomb it is building, will use it on Israel. If that is so, who does Bachmann think will then be establishing that caliphate in an Iran that an Israeli retaliatory strike will have reduced to atomic ash?

Lest we forget, the Israelis are a “Never Again!” nation.

And there is another serious matter here. While Obamaites, neocons and Republicans are talking about “all options on the table,” the war option, if we still have a Constitution, cannot be used against a nation that has not attacked us, unless Congress, which alone has the power to declare war, has authorized military action. When did Congress tell Obama or any president he can bomb Iran as soon as he concludes Iran is building a nuclear weapon? If, after leaving Iraq, we are going into yet another war of choice, let the Congress debate and vote on this new war with Iran.

(Syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three presidents, twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the presidential nominee of the Reform Party in 2000. He won the New Hampshire Republican Primary in 1996.)

LETTERS Thank you Republicans for all the wonderful gifts under my tree To the editor, On Christmas Eve I decided Santa might need some bribing so my wife and I baked some fabulous fresh cookies to leave out. I wasn’t sure if Santa considered me a good boy in 2011 so we even left chocolate milk for him!

Whether the bribe worked (it works in Congress!) or I was actually a good boy in 2011 I will never know but when I awoke Christmas morning I was amazed at what lay under the tree! The mountain of presents was matched only by my childhood Christmas mornings. Honestly, I couldn’t decide on which gift to open.

Well, why not open the biggest one first? It was what I always wanted!

The Tea Party GOP brought the approval of Congress to a new low of 11-percent as the president’s approval was rising. The fringe of the GOP was helping re-elect the president! Spending a year fighting a tax hike for every dollar over a million made, the now moldy tea party insisted a tax cut for working families and the extension of unemployment benefits would not help the economy! That is Crazy Talk!

Watching the GOP cave in only made the gift more to be treasured. They had aided and abetted the Occupy movement; the 99-percent!

The next gift I opened was something I had been hoping for recently. Called the “Kiss Heard Around the World”, the U.S. Navy poked right wingers and the GOP field in the eyes! The first-kiss is a Naval tradition for ships returning to port and this year a lesbian couple was chosen. While most of the GOP field gives in to the radical religious funda-

mentalists, the United States Navy moved easily into the future as other navies have. Bravo! Our social conservatives are like the autocrats and religious fundamentalists who fight the changes demanded by the Internet savy students and middle classes of the Arab and Iranian world.

The next gift I opened was splendid. Goodies! Being his turn, Newt Gingrich had floated to the top only to sink under his own weight. Sane Republicans were seeing that the Newt Gingrich of today was the same pugnacious pseudo-intellectual adulterer-in-chief of the past. And like so many on the right, he demonstrated his total lack of constitutional knowledge by suggesting we drag judges before the Congress or just ignore the decision if they didn’t like the ruling.

Heck, let’s just get rid of Article III, Newt. It was 1990s Newt that cured me of ever considering voting Republican again. Newt and Rick Perry also failed to get on the Virginia Primary ballot which just reaffirmed my feeling that this year has been Amateur Hour in America.

After opening many more gifts, I finally made it to the last little box.

Never judge a gift by its size! The federal court of the 9th district joined other courts in making the birthers look irrelevant again by denying them any credence. The court would not waste its time with hearing frivolous birther nonsense.

Happy New Year and heartfelt thanks again to Eric Cantor!

James Veverka Tilton

Mitt Romney will crack down on China’s currently manipulation To the editor, The New Hampshire Primary is fastapproaching, and Granite State Republicans and independents are faced with an important decision. I recommend that they choose Mitt Romney.

Romney has the broadest combination of business and government experience. He was a successful, conservative businessman who turned around struggling companies as well as the Olympics. While governor of Massachusetts, he turned a three billion dollar deficit into a two billion

most comprehensive plan to fix the economy of any candidate running.

One thing that especially drew me to him were his plans to crackdown on China’s currency manipulation.

That’s something you haven’t heard many other candidates talk about. He also believes in peace through military strength. Don’t vote for the flash in the pan or the person with the most fiery rhetoric — vote for the most competent conservative Republican. That candidate is Mitt Romney.

Rep. Dennis Reed

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LETTERS Please stop the closed door meetings and back room tactics To the editor, Deja vu all over again. . . but please keep an open mind.

It was just two months ago that the Moultonboro Board of Selectmen, led

by Betsey Patten, did a major flip flop, seemingly out of nowhere, to bring the question of the long contentious Lions Club/Playground Drive “debacle” back once again to the voters at Town Meeting. This occurred as a non-agenda item and was made to appear as a sudden revelation based upon a document the public has still yet to see.

Now two months later, also seemingly out of nowhere, the Moultonboro Board of Selectmen. again led by Betsey Patten, again in a non agenda item, decided to place a question on the 2012 Town Warrant to form a Charter Commission which could potentially do away with Town Meeting. With little discussion and no dissent from any selectmen, the motion passed unanimously. How do these things happen?

Considering the potential drastic change in town government that a Charter Commission portends, one would expect that at the very least some of the board members would have been taken aback at this proposal. Surprisingly, not one “whoa Betsey”. Does anyone really believe that the Board of Selectmen never discussed this before?

To the Moultonboro Board of Selectmen: please stop the closed door meetings and back door tactics like phone calls or e-mails and such to avoid the spirit and intent of the open meeting

law. Most importantly, please stop the “meeting before the meeting” that occurs literally in the back room before each selectmen meeting. At the very least, when announcements like this are made can some of you act surprised? To then tell the public that you want to conduct this process over the next year in an “open discussion” and expect to be believed is well, unbelievable.

I attended this particular selectmen meeting on Decemeber 15, and due to work committments and the fact that agenda items were complete, I left. I had no idea that this would even be discussed. How about giving us taxpayers and citizens a heads up before bringing up these major issues so that we can have an open discussion? To many of us not on the inside in town, it seems like the fix is in. An end game is already in mind.

I did a little research on Charter Commissions and will continue to do so and talk with other towns and inform the public on my blog, MoultonboroSpeaks.blogspot.com.

I urge fellow citizens to keep an open mind on a Charter Commission as there are some possibilities with a new form of government to improve voter participation and make the decision making process more inclusive.

To do so, we need a blend of citizens, not just the core insiders. If we do this, let’s do it right. If the Town does decide to elect a Charter Commission, I intend to put my name on the ballot.

Paut T. Punturieri Moultonboro

Expect a stock market ‘panic cycle’ roller-coaster ride in 2012 To the editor, 2012 will be a year when markets go a roller-coaster ride that will see many asset classes crater only to be followed by some of the most powerful rallies ever seen. We are likely to see a panic cycle, a type of market volatility that comes along about every 12 years.

The last panic cycle was in 2000, which saw peaks in the DJIA and the NASDAQ and the end of the “peace dividend.” It was also the period that included the World Trade Center attacks. Prior panic cycles, bullish and bearish, were almost as dramatic. This time, the panic cycle of 2012 promises to be magnitudes greater than previous cycles.

The Western world is drowning in debt. The levels are an estimated 25 times worse than anything seen prior cycles. Europe’s experiment with a single currency is failing. There has

not been any recent time in history when so many important cycles have converged at the same time including the 54-year Kondratieff cycle, suggesting chaos in political systems and strong winds of deflation. The Kitchens business inventory cycle, the Juglar fixed investment cycle and more.

The U.S. dollar may open the year with a great rally, then a collapse.

Gold should work just the other way around; first a major correction and then a huge rally. The euro is likely to become a train wreck. Seventeen nations with different cultures, different languages, and different labor laws all barred from inflating their currency to ameliorate their debt. Not a recipe for agreement and problem resolution.

Happy New Year.

Marc Abear

Charette on new Minot-Sleeper Library building will be Jan. 7 To the editor, The year is ending on a very positive note for the Minot-Sleeper Library.

We would like to thank all who have donated time to the library events and the many generous patrons who have contributed to the library building fund by buying bricks and by simple donation. The Minot-Sleeper Library would also like to thank the generous and anonymous donor of $25,000 to the building fund. These donations are wonderful for the Minot Sleeper

that the library is able to continue as a valuable asset to the town of Bristol, and all the Newfound area.

The plans for the proposed new building will be on display at the charrette held at the Tapply Thompson Community Center at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 7. Brackley Shaw, the architect, will be present to answer questions.

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LETTERS Election of 2012 critical to future of our 2nd Amendment rights To the editor, This may be considered, by some, as a recruitment ad for the National Rifle Association and in a way it is. As a longstanding member, I believe the NRA is our best protection against the ever present attempts at removing our Second Amendment rights to private gun ownership and use for any legal endeavor.

I believe that Obama, Clinton and Eric Holder, just to mention the top players, are just marking time, until after the next election, to launch a full scale attack on those rights and, indeed, the Second Amendment itself.

You don’t have to look any further than Obama’s two appointments to the Supreme Court for damning evidence of this fact, not my just opinion. These are two of the most anti-gun justices in American history.

In order to gain Senate confirmation, Sotomayer actually lied, under oath, when questioned about the Court’s 2008 ruling in D.C. vs Heller. This ruling said that the Second Amendment protects an individual right of all law-abiding Americans. Sotomayer dodged the question by saying that she considered the Heller case to be “settled law”, and no attempt to get her to clarify this was successful. Now witness her complete reversal by joining in the dissent of the similar case of Chicago vs. McDonald less than a year later. She joined Justices Beyer and Ginsburg in their written dissent which actually urged the overturning of Heller and stated in part “in sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment to protect a private right to armed self defense.”

Justice Kagan used the exact same code words of “settled law” on this

question during her hearing.

In this regard, here are some chilling excerpts from a speech given by Michelle Obama on September 30, 2011 to a small affluent crowd of admirers in Providence RI. In part, she said that “in just 13 months, we’re going to make a choice that will impact our lives for decades to come”.

I could not agree with her more, especially when she went on to say, “Let’s not forget what it meant when my husband appointed those two brilliant Supreme Court justices... let’s not forget the impact that their decisions will have on our lives for decades to come.” (Not my words, Google them up.)

Now consider the advancing age of several of the current justices. The next president will probably have the opportunity of appointing one or more new justices and the current margin of these Second Amendment votes has been just been one vote, 5-4.

There are many more indications that Obama is operating “under the radar” while setting the stage for an all out assault on our gun rights if he is re-elected. “Under the radar” are actually Sarah Brady’s own words as reported in a Washington Post interview on April 20, 2011 (look it up).

The Second Amendment is actually the one that supports the rest of the Bill of Rights. I sincerely hope that everyone that believes in these rights will not permit this man to win this election and continue to send this great country down his visionary road to nowhere.

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NELSON from page 2 announcing today that I will not seek re-election,” he said in a statement.

“Simply put: It is time to move on.”

Democrats banking on Nelson’s ability to leverage his centrist stances and capture statewide races were left scrambling; many state activists acknowledged being taken by surprise.

While some floated the names of state Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha and Nelson’s former lieutenant governor, Kim Robak, as possible contenders, many said it was too early to know who might run.

“This virtually guarantees a Republican victory in 2012,” said University of Nebraska Lincoln political scientist Mike Wagner. Democrats acknowledged the party will face a steep

uphill battle to hold on to Nelson’s seat, but pointed to a crowded GOP primary field with no obvious frontrunner. The ticket includes Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, state Treasurer Don Stenberg, state Sen. Deb Fischer, and investment adviser Pat Flynn.

National Republican party leaders recently encouraged Gov. Dave Heineman to join the race, but Heineman has said it would take a lot to persuade him to run.

The Senate’s Democratic campaign chairman, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, said she expected that Republicans would “have their hands full with a very divisive primary in the state, which will provide an opportunity for Democrats to remain competitive.”

Keen State College senior Brie Dassatti accepts the city’s 2011 Debtra Bieniarz Award from Mayor Mike Seymour at City Hall on Tuesday night. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Michael Kitch)

DASSATTI from page one school-age students during each of the past two summers.

“She did it on her own,” Seymour said, “because it was something she wanted to do.”

“I didn’t do it on my own,” Dassatti politiely countered in accepting the award. She thanked her parents — Bob and Tracy Dassatti – for their help and encouragement along with the sponsors who have supported her efforts.

A graduate of Laconia High School, Dassatti is a senior at Keene State College, majoring in education and intending to pursue a master’s degree in special education after graduation.

The Bieniarz Award honors the legacy of the late Police Officer Debra Bieniarz, who served the city and its youth with uncommon devotion, dedication and distinction during her nine years with the Police Department before her premature death.

FRM from page one the local school.

Check register memos provided as evidence in the adversarial suit filed by Notinger said the transfers were primarily for advertising and contributions.

Trustees claim the transfers to Laconia Christian School “only benefited the (school)” because the money was co-

mingled funds held by FRM and CL&M that was supposed to be funding “hard money loans” brokered through the two agencies between private lenders, borrowers, and developers.

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SEARS from page 2 Balter wrote in a note to clients.

“There’s no reason to go to Sears,” added New York-based independent retail analyst Brian Sozzi. “It offers a depressing shopping experience and uncompetitive prices.”

Sears and Kmart were both retail pioneers. Sears’ catalog and department stores were fixtures of American life stretching back to the 19th century before being hurt in recent years by competition from steep discounters and by missteps that included forays into financial services and the decision to sell off a lucrative credit card business.

Kmart helped create the discountstore format that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. came to dominate.

Some customers complained that they have a hard time connecting with the Kmart and Sears of today.

Preschool teacher Sara Kriz, picking up hair conditioner at a Kmart on Tuesday in Manhattan, said she used to shop at Kmart often but now goes there only once every few months: “Only when I have to,” she said.

“It seems easier to go to Target and

Wal-Mart to get the same thing at the same price,” Kriz added. “The stores are cleaner and they’re better stocked.”

Sears Holdings has watched its cash and short-term investments plummet by nearly half since Jan. 31, from about $1.3 billion to about $700 million.

The projected closings represent only about 3 percent of Sears Holdings’ U.S. stores. And the company has actually added stores since the SearsKmart merger in 2005. It has about 3,560 stores in the U.S., up from 3,500 right after the merger, thanks to the addition of more small stores.

But the company hinted that more closings could be on the horizon as it focuses on honing the better-performing stores.

The store closings were expected to generate $140 million to $170 million in cash as the company sells down their inventory. Selling or subleasing the properties could generate more money.

Spokesman Chris Brathwaite said the company had not determined which stores would close or how many jobs might be cut. He disputed speculation see next page

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a time, faltered as Wal-Mart and Toy R Us introduced or expanded competing programs. Sears stores reported softer sales of home appliances, usually a strength.

The company predicted that fourthquarter adjusted earnings will be less than half the $933 million reported for the same quarter last year. It also expects a non-cash charge of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion in the quarter to write off the value of carried-over tax deductions it now doesn’t expect to be profitable enough to use.

Part of Sears Holdings’ problem is the weak economy that is hurting virtually all retailers that cater to lowand middle-income shoppers, who are being forced to cut back on spending.

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from preceding page that the company will have problems surviving, noting it still has $2.9 billion available under its credit lines.

“While our operating performance has not met our expectations, we have significant assets,” including inventory, real estate and proprietary brands like Kenmore and Craftsman, Brathwaite said.

Still, the company’s announcements were grim. In addition to the closings, it announced that revenue at stores open at least a year fell 5.2 percent for the eight weeks ended Dec. 25, a crucial time because of the holiday shopping season.

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LACONIA — The lawyer for the owner of the charred remains of an historic Weirs hotel and restaurant said the city is trying to raise issues on its appeal that were never introduced at the original trial in Laconia District Court.

Friedrich Moeckel said the city is “pretending we never objected to any of (the city’s) reasons” for demanding the Wide Open Saloon be razed.

“In this case, the city’s purported RSA 155-B:2 order shall state, in writing, the grounds therefor, specifying the necessary repairs, if any, a providing a reasonable time for compliance,’” wrote Moeckel in his Dec. 5 response to the pleadings and oral arguments presented for the appeal before Judge James O’Neill on Dec. 2.

Moeckel said the city’s trial memorandum unequivocally claims that Baldi did not preserve “any issues it now seeks to raise.”

Moeckel explained that an appeal is a second judge of a higher court reexamining the ruling of a lower court’s judge — in this case 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division Judge James Carroll, who ruled, after a trail held on May 26 the city had met it burden under RSA 155 and that the remains of the building on Rte. 3 North, at the foot of Lakeside Ave., should be removed before a date certain in mid June.

He said an appeal is not place for new evidence or to assert that his client didn’t dispute the allegations made by the city in a series of letters that were sent to Baldi by three different city officials, each claiming a different reason why the building should, come down.

“The city is wrong,” wrote Moeckel.

“Not surprisingly, the city does not — and cannot — offer a shred of proof to back up its assertions. 38 Endicott (the legal name for the property’s owner, Brandi Baldi) properly preserved all of its issues on appeal.

Moeckel included attachments of each and every response Baldi or he made to the city officials who contacted them, first in January about a 2006 International Code Violation and then in March regarding the RSA 155 B claim made by a newly hired code enforcement officer.

Moekel’s attachments show his response to both the International Code Violations allegedly in a letter written by the city on Jan. 20 but never delivered to his client until March 4.

Baldi responded on March 25 but the newly hired code enforcement officer denied her appeal of the earlier order as “untimely.”

When Moeckel successfully argued the January order to demolish the building under the International Property code citing was void because certain provisions of that code were not followed, the city changed tack and issued a second order to demolish the building on April 6 — this time citing the N.H. RSA 155 B provisions.

In so doing, he went on to say that the city itself “recognized that the International Property Code of 2006 is not a valid component of this case.”

“What is a component of this case is the city’s pattern of attempting to enforce rules and laws, not doing so correctly, and them attempting to blame (the Wide Open Saloon) for its own failures,” he continued saying the burden of proof is on the city, that it must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt and has not done so.

He said when the city’s only witness at trial said the real impetus behind getting the remains removed was upcoming Motorcycle Week and it’s response was to blame Baldi for not allowing the city officials access to the inside of the building for examination although the city actually ordered her to tear it down four months before it even asked for permission to inspect it.

At that point, Moeckel said the city only gave Baldi 48 hours to complete the demolition and removal of the debris and this is not consistent with RSA 155.

Attorney Walter Mitchell represents the city and was unavailable for comment yesterday. One of his associates said she didn’t think his office would respond to Moeckel’s Dec. 5 letter to the court but would trust O’Neill to decide on the merits of their memorandums and arguments at trial without further communication.

O’Neill has yet to rule on the appeal.

A ruling can typically take as many as 60 days.

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ISRAEL from page 3 uproar ensued.

The televised images of Naama sobbing as she walked to school shocked many Israelis, elicited statements of outrage from the country’s leadership, sparked a Facebook page with nearly 10,000 followers dedicated to “protecting little Naama” and a demonstration was held Tuesday evening in her honor. As the case has attracted attention, extremists have heckled and thrown eggs and rocks at journalists descending on town.

“Who’s afraid of an 8-year-old student?” said Sunday’s main headline in the leading Yediot Ahronot daily.

Beit Shemesh’s growing ultra-Orthodox population has erected street signs calling for the separation of sexes on the sidewalks, dispatched “modesty patrols” to enforce a chaste female appearance and hurled stones at offenders and outsiders. Walls of the neighborhood are plastered with signs exhorting women to dress modestly in closed-necked, longsleeved blouses and long skirts.

Naama’s case has been especially shocking because of her young age and because she attends a religious school and dresses with long sleeves and a skirt. Extremists, however, consider even that outfit, standard in mainstream Jewish religious schools, to be immodest.

“This is a phenomenon that contradicts Jewish tradition and the spirit of the Bible,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday evening, “with one of the most central and important among them being: Love your neighbor as yourself,” Thousands of secular and religious Jews attended Tuesday evening’s demonstration.

Protesters held signs reading, “Free Israel from religious coercion,” and “Stop Israel from becoming Iran.”

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in ultra-Orthodox areas is nothing new, and critics accuse the government of turning a blind eye.

The ultra-Orthodox are perennial king-makers in Israeli coalition politics — two such parties serve as key members of the ruling coalition. They receive generous government subsidies, and police have traditionally been reluctant to enter their communities.

The ultra-Orthodox Jews make up 10 percent of Israel’s population. In the past, they have generally confined their strict lifestyle to their own neighborhoods. But they have become increasingly aggressive in trying to impose their ways on others, as their population has grown and spread to new areas.

“It is clear that Israeli society is faced with a challenge that I am not sure it can handle,” said Menachem Friedman, a professor emeritus of Bar Ilan University and expert on the ultra-Orthodox, “a challenge that is no less and no more than an existential challenge.”

Most of Israel’s secular majority, in cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa, is not directly affected, but in a few places like Beit Shemesh — a city of 100,000 people that include ultra-Orthodox, modern Orthodox and secular Jews — tensions have erupted into the open.

At the protest, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni said, “It’s not just Beit Shemesh and not just gender segregation, it’s all the extremist elements that are rearing their heads and are trying to impose their world view on us.”

Last week, a young Israeli woman caused a nationwide uproar when she refused a religious man’s order to move to the back of a bus.

In Beit Shemesh, parents in Naama’s school take turns escorting their daughters into school property to protect them. The parents, too, have been cursed and spat upon.

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And on Thursdays she delivers special orders to staff members at schools in Sandwich, Moultonborough and Meredith, 40 or more each Thursday.

Kim Seitzinger of Center Harbor, a special education teacher at Inter-Lakes High School, is high in her praise of Big Love Mexican’s fare.

“It’s awesome, really tasty and wakes up your taste buds,” says Seitzinger.

Rachel says that she’s sold as many as 170 burritos in a day and does more than that when she caters parties and other events.

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Shumaker said Aliahna’s family moved there to help take care of 66-year-old James E. “Shorty” Lemmon, who also was a convicted sex offender and died Dec. 3. He said Lemmon was “getting old” and “had trouble breathing.”

Shumaker said he introduced Plumadore to Lemmon shortly after Plumadore moved into the trailer park, and Plumadore moved in with Lemmon a few days later. Shumaker said he knew Lemmon because they were both sex offenders and were in jail together.

Sheriff’s department spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel confirmed that Lemmon was a sex offender.

Indiana Department of Correction records show he was convicted of child molesting in March 2006.

Paulette Hair, 45, a former manager at the trailer park who lives at a nearby trailer park, said she also knew Lemmon was a sex offender.

“He stayed out of everybody’s way,” she said.

“Shorty couldn’t take care of himself very well.”

Shumaker said Plumadore briefly moved away, but returned when Souders asked him to care for her father.

A man who answered the door at Souders’ home Tuesday afternoon referred all questions to the Allen County sheriff’s department. The home was one of only a few at the trailer park — located off an expressway and across from an open field — that displayed outward signs of children: A small bicycle, play car and cars seat sat on the wooden porch connected to a long wooden ramp.

Aliahna and her two younger sisters were staying with Plumadore for about one week because their mother had been sick with the flu.

Richard Patee, 58, whose trailer is next to where Plumadore was living, said he didn’t think it was odd that Aliahna’s mother had him watching the girls for an extended period.

“They had known each other for somewhere of three to four years, I know that, and he took care of their grandfather,” Patee said. “I didn’t see any reason to question it at all.”

Shumaker said it wasn’t unusual for Plumadore to watch Souders’ children “because the kids liked him.” Souders and Aliahna were listed among nearly 600 friends on a Facebook page listed under Plumadore’s name that said he was “Self Employed and Loving It!”, and enjoyed fantasy novels. from preceding page cago-born mother, an Orthodox Jew who covers her hair and wears long sleeves and a long skirt, says, “It shouldn’t matter what I look like. Someone should be allowed to walk around in sleeveless shirts and pants and not be harassed.”

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He said he later cut up her body with a hacksaw and stuffed her remains into freezer bags.

The next morning, Plumadore made a trip to a convenience store to buy a cigar, according to surveillance video and The Journal Gazette.

Police said Plumadore told them he had hidden Aliahna’s head, feet and hands at the trailer and discarded her other remains at a nearby business.

Police obtained a warrant to search the trailer on Monday and found the body parts.

Authorities didn’t say Tuesday why Plumadore killed the child, but Sheriff Ken Fries said investigators suspected Plumadore was involved since soon after she was reported missing Friday night because of inconsistencies in his story that the girl had vanished while he went to a store that morning.

“Things that were said in 29 years of doing this that just didn’t make sense,” Fries said during a Tuesday news conference. “We needed to get him to talk.”

A judge ordered Plumadore held without bail or bond at an initial hearing Tuesday, Tinkel said. He has yet to be formally charged in Aliahna’s death.

Mike McAlexander, the Allen County chief deputy prosecutor, wouldn’t say whether anyone else was suspected of being involved and said “nothing has been ruled out.”

“How could you live?” asked Hair. “How could you sit in that trailer, knowing what you did, knowing what’s in your household when everybody is out there in the cold and the rain praying to God that she comes home safely and you’re sitting there” A state website shows that 15 registered sex offenders live in the park that numbers about two dozen homes. Self-identified sex offenders living at the trailer park said Tuesday that they were given maps by the Indiana Department of Corrections and a local mission showing them where it was OK to live. The aerial maps show areas legally away from schools and daycare centers and help guide offenders when they are released from prison to new homes.

Plumadore is not on Indiana’s registered sex offenders list. He has a criminal record in Florida and North Carolina that includes convictions for trespassing and assault, and an Indiana conviction for forgery.

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For Margolese, the recent clashes — and the price of exposing her young daughter — boil down to a fight over her very home.

“They want to push us out of Beit Shemesh. They want to take over the city,” said Margolese.

“Many people have asked me if I intend to leave,” Margolese said at the rally Tuesday evening, “and my answer is absolutely not,”

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GILFORD — After 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. action on day one of the 38th Annual Lakes Region Holiday Tournament on Tuesday, eight girls’ and eight boys’ basketball teams return to the high school gym here today for round two.

On the girls’ side, Newfound Regional (Bristol), Kingswood Regional (Wolfeboro), Moultonborough Academy and Winnisquam Regional (Tilton) are still alive in championship play. Newfound will square off against Kingswood at 4 p.m. and Moultonborough will play Winnisquam at 7 p.m. The winners of those two games will play for the title on Thursday night at 6 p.m.

In the boys’ bracket, Newfound, Kingswood, Prospect Mountain (Alton) and Gilford all won first round games. Newfound and Kingswood will play their semifinal contest today at 5:30 p.m., while Prospect Mountain and Gilford will tip-off at 8:30 p.m. The boys’ final

is scheduled for 8:30 Thursday night.

Each team that enters the tournament is guaranteed two games. Consolation round games will also be played today. At 9:30 a.m., on the girls’ side of the draw, Laconia will face off against Belmont and at 12:30 p.m. Prospect Mountain will contest Gilford.

In boys’ consolation round play, Laconia will face Belmont at 11 a.m. and Moultonborough will play Winnisquam at 2 p.m.

Girls’ scores from opening round play were: Newfound 60, Laconia 21; Kingswood 45, Belmont 28; Moultonborough 39, Prospect Mountain 35; and Winnisquam 28, Gilford 27.

Boys’ scores from day one were: Newfound 44, Laconia 43; Kingswood 48, Belmont 36; Prospect Mountain 48, Mouultonborough 39; and Gilford 44, Winnisquam 32.

BIKE WEEK from page one asked the council to consider banning or regulating dyno tuners and burn-out pits, both of which are contrary to the noise ordinance. He acknowledged that dyno-turners served a “legitimate purpose,” (engine tuning) but recommended if they are allowed, operators be required to obtain a permit. The police, he said, consider burn-out pits “inconsistent with what Bike Week is about.”

“I would hate to see burn-outs completely banned,” said Hamel. “That is what Bike Week is — crazy stuff.”

“That is your decision,” Clarke said, recommending that, like dyno-tuners, burn-out pits be permitted.

Lipman feared that if burn-out pits were outlawed, some would perform the stunt elsewhere.

Clarke disagreed, suggesting that if burn-out pits are allowed, “people will leave that location and mimic what they just saw.”

Councilor Ava Doyle (Ward 1), the owner of Sun Valley Cottages, which is across the street from the Broken Spoke Saloon, where a burn-out pit has operated in the past, said “the smoke (from burning rubber) is not contained and neither is the odor.”

Charlie St. Clair, executive director of the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association, agreed that burn-out pits “are a real nuisance, especially if they’re in the wrong place.” On the other hand, he said “I would hate to see a flat no. I like the idea of permitting them.”

Without forbidding burn-out pits altogether, the council agreed that requiring a permit would enable city officials to ensure that they operated in appropriate locations.

The council accepted proposed changes to the traffic order closing Lakeside Avenue to four-wheel traffic after the Friday before the official start of the rally while keeping the Weirs Bridge open to fourwheel traffic at the discretion of the police. Clarke said that the rally has “downsized” and this year the bridge was never closed.

But, councilors were skeptical of the recommen-

dation that the six parking spaces leased by Progressive be designated for police vehicles. Clarke explained that the police no longer maintained Station W, the temporary base at the Weirs Community Center, during the rally. Although the veterans generously provided space for police to muster and relax on Lakeside Avenue, there was inadequate space for vehicles on nearby New Hampshire Avenue, a private road. Without the parking spaces, he said there was no space for cruisers and vans.

St. Clair said that the six spaces to the left of the train station were part of the sponsorship arrangement with Progressive. “I’m aghast at putting police cruisers and vans on those spaces,” he said, adding they should be reserved for a corporate sponsor or motorcycle parking.

“On way or another we need parking on Lakeside Avenue,” Clarke said, explaining that without Station W, people taken into custody are taken to the station downtown and most of the arrests are made in the vicinity of bars on Lakeside Avenue.

Referring to an ordinance requiring vendors to wear “appropriate clothing,” Hamel asked “are we going to be the clothes police?”

Planning Director Shanna Saunders said that “this year we had a problem with women in bikini bottoms and pasties. That’s not appropriate for vendors licensed by the city.”

NOTES: The council designated $30,000 from the noncapital reserve fund to replace the failing shingle roof on the Memorial Park House with a metal roof, leaving the fund with a balance of $140,625. . . . . . . The council also agreed to apply $120,000 in unexpended proceeds from the sale of general obligation bonds in 2009 along with $20,000 from the contingency account to fund the city’s share of the cost of a roundabout at the junction of U.S. Route 3 and N.H. Route 11B at The Weirs. The construction of the roundabout is estimated to cost $1.4-million, of which the city must pay 10-percent. Work is expected to begin in the new year and be completed in 2013.

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TILTON — There’s not much time left to party like its 2011 advises the Lakes Region Tourism Association, which points out that there are plenty of activities planned in central New Hampshire for a variety of ages and interests.

And with New Year’s Eve falling on a Saturday this year, now’s the time to plan and book a weekend getaway in the Lakes Region.

The Margate Resort promises elegance and romance during its celebration. Dine on a five-course meal, dance to a classic rock cover band and raise champagne glasses for a traditional midnight toast. Overnight packages also include a hot breakfast buffet on New Year’s Day, and they begin at $239. The Margate is at 76 Lake St., Wolfeboro First Night is a nonprofit, alcohol-free event, ensuring fun for the whole family. This 16th annual event includes a puppet parade, performers, ice sculptures, fireworks, visits from the Wildlife Encounters Traveling Zoo and the McAuliffe-Shepard Planetarium Discovery Center, and much more. Admission is $7 before Dec. 25 and $15 after; children 10 and younger are free. The celebration takes place in downtown Wolfeboro.

Keep the party going in Wolfeboro at the Wolfeboro Inn. Its New Year’s Eve two-night package includes dinner each night, breakfast/brunch, admission to Wolfeboro’s First Night, and admission to the inn’s own New Year’s celebration, which includes music, hors d’oeuvres, party favors, champagne toast and watching the town fireworks at its private beach. The inn’s party has a $10 cover charge; the New Year’s Eve package begins at

$289 per night. The Wolfeboro Inn is at 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro.

Watch the fireworks in Meredith, with the display beginning at 10:30 p.m. It takes place over Meredith Bay, allowing visitors to see the fireworks’ reflections for twice the spectacle.

Opt to ring in the new year at the Historic Belknap Mill. The Holbrook Bell will be rung at midnight – a tradition going strong for more than 40 years. The bell was cast in 1823 by George Holbrook, an apprentice to Paul Revere, and is rung on special occasions such as this. Light refreshments will be offered. Free and open to the public. The Historical Belknap Mill is at 25 Beacon St. East, Laconia.

Choose to celebrate at the New Year’s Eve Gala at Church Landing over two nights. The formal year-end event includes a champagne toast, horse and wagon rides, dinner and dance music. Packages begin at $319.

The Inn & Spa at Mill Falls is at 312 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith.

Head to the New Year’s Eve Bash at Indian Head Resort. The two-night package begins at $209, and its Dec. 31 party features champagne and a midnight breakfast buffet. There will be live entertainment, as well as an exclusive party just for teens. Indian Head Resort is at 664 Route 3, Lincoln.

The new Inn on Main is also planning a New Year’s Eve party and specials to ring in 2012. The inn is at 200 N. Main St., Wolfeboro.

Many area ski resorts are also offering a night of entertainment for New Year’s Eve: — “New Year’s Eve at the Summit,” Cannon Mountain, 9 Franconia Notch see next page

Blues Jam at Pitman’s Freight Room Jan. 7 will raise funds for police K-9

LACONIA — The Laconia Police Department is appealing to the community, given the economic climate, for help in raising the funds needed for a new K9 unit. Jago, the current K9, will be stepping down from duty in March of 2012. In order to replace Jago the LPD needs to raise approximately $10,000 to acquire and train a new K9 unit.

The L.P.D. has utilized K9 units full-time since 2000, the units have successfully tracked suspects, found missing persons, detected illegal drugs, and augmented officer safety.

Curious Goods and June Garren (Henry’s Pawprints) have organized the Open Blues Jam, hoping to raise the community’s awareness of the

need for it’s involvement.

The Open Blues Jam will be held at Pitmans Freight Room on Saturday, January 7. Music will start at 7 p.m. and run until 10 p.m.

In order to appeal to the whole community, this will be a “chem free” event - meaning no alcohol will be served or allowed.

It is open to all ages with snacks and refreshments available.

Proceeds will go towards the Laconia Police Departments K9 fund. Tickets are on sale prior to the event at Curious Goods, $8 for adults and $4 for seniors and $4 for students with a school I.D. Admission can also be paid at the door $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and $5 for students with an I.D.

Sen. Ayotte’s staff holding office hours in Plymouth on the 1st Tues. of each month

MANCHESTER — U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) announced today that a member of her staff will hold monthly office hours in Plymouth to assist New Hampshire citizens with official business.

Staff will be made available on the first Tuesday of every month

beginning Tuesday, January 3 at the Plymouth Town Hall from 2-4 p.m.

Residents who are interested in meeting with a member of the Senator’s staff should stop by the Plymouth Town Hall during the regular hours or call Michael Scala at (603) 7527702 to schedule an appointment.

from preceding page State Park, Franconia: Reception, dinner, entertainment, tram ride. $100 per person; reservations required.

— “Gunstock Rocks New Year’s Eve,” Gunstock Mountain Resort, 719 Cherry Valley Road, Gilford: Enjoy skiing, riding, tubing, snowshoeing, sleigh rides, fireworks and more. Adults/teens, $48; children 6-12/ seniors 65+, $38.

— “New Year’s Eve Family Celebration,” King Pine Ski Area & Purity Spring Resort, 1251 Eaton Road, East Madison: Skiing, riding, music, games, parade and fireworks. Adults, $24, juniors, $16. Package rates begin at $279 for two nights.

— “New Year’s at the Bunyan Room,” Loon Mountain, 60 Loon Mountain Road, Lincoln: Dancing; proper dress required. $25; reservations required.

— “New Year’s Eve Celebration,” Ragged Mountain Resort, 620 Ragged Mountain Road, Danbury.

— “Town Square New Year’s Eve Celebration and Fireworks,” Waterville Valley Resort, 1 Ski Area Road, Waterville Valley: Family events throughout the day, games, sleigh rides and more.

Reservations required.

— “Starry Nights and Sunnyside Timberlodge,” Waterville Valley Resort: Dinner, entertainment and skiing. $120; reservations required.

— “Dinner and Dancing Gala,” Waterville Valley Resort: Dinner, entertainment and midnight toast.

Kids Bash for children Adults, $75; children 4-12, $20; reservations required.

For more information on these and other New Year’s weekend events in the Lakes Region, visit the Events Calendar on the LRTA website. To learn more about restaurants for New Year’s Eve dining options, visit the Where to Dine page.

The Lakes Region Tourism Association is the official tourism board of the region, representing close to 100 communities, 273 lakes and ponds, and more than 400 businesses in central New Hampshire, including area attractions, restaurants, retail establishments and accommodations. For more information or visitors guides, visit LakesRegion.org, facebook.com/ NHLakesRegion or follow on Twitter.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). No time to stop and assess where you are. Keep going until you get a sense of pride and accomplishment. For you, this will come only at the very end of a project.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You will be the astute one in your group, and they really need you to point out the little signs of improvement you see.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 28).

You promote harmony and cooperation wherever you go. People work together under your guidance. The actions you take in January have unusual and unexpected results, making it a memorable time. February brings freedom, and you’ll adventure on through the spring.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll free your mind from material concerns and embrace a higher mindset. You’ll find this easy to do, especially when you’re in a relaxed environment surrounded by beauty.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You can like and respect yourself even when you wish you would have acted differently or projected a different side of yourself. Your compassionate attitude will help you grow into the person you want to be.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You feel a sense of community around you.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your creative energy will burn bright. Remember that this is not just about being able to paint or write a story. Creativity is what helps you solve a problem or make a relationship strong and special.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It’s not OK to quit when the going gets tough.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2011. There are three days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 28, 1846, Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.

On this date: In 1694, Queen Mary II of England died after more than five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III. In 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down because of differences with President Andrew Jackson.

In 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton (STAN’-tun), Va. In 1908, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated the Italian city of Messina, killing at least 70,000 people.

In 1917, the New York Evening Mail published “A Neglected Anniversary,” a facetious, as well as fictitious, essay by H.L. Mencken recounting the history of bathtubs in America.

In 1945, Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.

In 1961, the Tennessee Williams play “Night of the Iguana” opened on Broadway.

Former first lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington at age 89.

In 1971, film composer Max Steiner (“Gone with the Wind,” among many others) died in Hollywood at age 83.

In 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American “test-tube” baby, was born in Norfolk, Va. In 1991, nine people died in a crush to get into a rap celebrity basketball game at City College in New York.

One year ago: Eight young people were killed in a fire that swept through an abandoned New Orleans warehouse (some of the victims were squatters who had been living inside the building). Agathe von Trapp, the real-life inspiration for eldest daughter Liesl in the musical “The Sound of Music,” died in Towson, Md., at age 97.

Today’s Birthdays: Comic book creator Stan Lee is 89. Actor Martin Milner is 80.

Actress Nichelle Nichols is 79. Actress Dame Maggie Smith is 77. Rock singer-musician Charles Neville is 73. Rock singer-musician Edgar Winter is 65. Actor Denzel Washington is 57. Country singer Joe Diffie is 53. Country musician Mike McGuire (Shenandoah) is 53. Actor Chad McQueen is 51. Country singer-musician Marty Roe (Diamond Rio) is 51. Actor Malcolm Gets is 47. Actor Mauricio Mendoza is 42. Comedian Seth Meyers is 38. Actor Brendan Hines is 35. Rhythmand-blues singer John Legend is 33. Actress Sienna Miller is 30. Actor Thomas Dekker is 24. Actress Mackenzie Rosman is 22. Pop singer David Archuleta (TV: “American Idol”) is 21.

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Lakes Region Tea Party meeting. 7 p.m. at the Moultonborough Public Library. All interested persons welcome.

VacationWeek Camp at the Meredith Community Center. Early drop-off at 7:30 a.m. and late pick-up at 5:30 p.m. available. Call 279-8197.

Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recovery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA. Wednesday nights at 5:30 p.m. at St Joseph Church, 96 Main Street, in Belmont. Call and leave a message for Elizabeth at 630-9969 for more information.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) group meeting.

5:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Meredith.

Free community meal of hot soup and bread at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street in downtown Tilton.

4:30 to 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday. For more information call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at markk@trinitytilton.org.

Free knitting and crochet lessons. Drop in on Wednesdays any time between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at Baby Threads workshop at 668 Main Street in Laconia (same building as Village Bakery). 998-4012.

Laconia Elders Friendship Club meeting. 1:30 p.m. at the Leavitt Park Clubhouse. People 55 and older meet each Wednesday for fun, entertainment and education. Meetings provide an opportunity for older citizens to to meet for pure social enjoyment and the club helps the community with philanthropic work.

Duplicate bridge at the Weirs Beach Community Center. 7:15 p.m. All levels welcome. Snacks.

Make It & Take It Craft at the Meredith Public Library.

Noon to 3 p.m. Drop-in the Children’s Room and create a snowy, winter landscape complete with snowman. Display you work at the library or take it home.

Concord Transplant Support Group meeting. 7 p.m. in Room 5C at Concord Hospital. Open to all pre- and posttransplant patients, friends and family. For more information call Yoli at 603-224-4767.

Drop-In Craft Time at the Gilford Public Library. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For children Pre-K through Grade 4.

Friends of the Gilford Public Library meeting. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Anyone interested in supporting the library is welcome.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29 Saxaphonist Nick Goumas and his quartet entertains at the N.H. Jazz Center at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia. 8 p.m. $10. BYOB. Winter Farmer’s Market in at the Skate Escape on Court Street in Laconia. 3 to 6 p.m. Vendors offering local farm-raised meats, fresh-baked breads, organic tea, cofree, fudge, pastries, pies, cakes, fresh produce, jellies & jams, local wines, herbs, oils, plants, jewelry, wood workers, and fine art.

Winter Solstice Celebration hosted by The Rey Center in Waterville Valley. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Corcoran’s Pond Beach. Hot cocoa and cider provided. Desserts are potluck. Suggested donation of $5 per person. For more information call 236-3308 or visit www.thereycenter.org.

VacationWeek Camp at the Meredith Community Center. Early drop-off at 7:30 a.m. and late pick-up at 5:30 p.m. available. Call 279-8197.

Al-Anon Meeting at the Congregational Church Parish House (18 Veterans Square) in Laconia. 8 to 9:15 p.m. each Thursday. Al-Anon offers hope and help to families of alcoholics. No dues or fees. All are welcome. Call 6459518.

Chess Club at the Goss Reading Room (188 Elm Street) in Laconia. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. each Thursday. All ages and skill levels welcome. We will teach.

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Lesser-known presidential candidates featured in forum airing on Public Access LACONIA — New Hampshire prides itself with its brand of “retail politics” and the season for indulging the voters will shortly be coming to a close when the state conducts its Presidential Primary on January 10.

Even Democratic voters may be surprised on Election Day to find 13 others contesting President Obama to be the New Hampshire nominee.

Republicans may be overwhelmed that there are 30 names from which to choose their preference as the party’s standard bearer. They have seen less than ten on national debates and may have little inkling on what the other 20 on the ballot are for, or against.

Recently the New Hampshire Institute of Politics conducted a forum for the “lesser known” candidates to appear and make their positions known. The New Hampshire Coalition for Community Media (NHCCM) had their crew on the scene and the resulting video is currently being shown on NHCCM member Public Access cable TV stations across the state.

On the western shores of The Big Lake LRPA-TV’s Channel 26 is carrying

the program all this week and will continue showing it through Primary Election Day. The next showing on Channel 26 will be at 8 p.m. Friday, December 30. The program runs one hour and 50 minutes for those who rather record it for viewing at another time.

Of the 30 Republicans on the ballot, 10 appeared at the forum, made their opening statements and then responded to questions addressed to them from two moderators.

Seven Democrats were present to make their case why they should be preferred over the incumbent President. One of these was the perennial candidate, who stands out from the crowd by wearing a black rubber boot on his head. The candidate to his left had pronounced himself against gay marriage. The boot-on-the-head candidate concluded his summary by leaping to his feet, showering “fairy dust” on his opponent and declaring that the glitter now made him gay.

Alton Bay resident Bob Longabaugh filmed and produced the show with considerable assistance from his spouse MaryBee.

PLYMOUTH — Due to incorrect information provided to the Laconia Daily Sun, the ticket prices for the Educational Theatre Collaborative’s January 25-29 production of the Wild Swans which were contained in an article published Dec. 23 were wrong.

Tickets are $26–22 for adults; $22-18

for seniors, $20-16 for youth, all in sections A and B: groups of 15 or more purchased at the same time, $14 in B seating only and can be obtained at the Silver Center Box Office 535-2787 or (800) 779-3869; Mon.–Fri., 11 a.m.

– 5 p.m. or online at silver.plymouth. edu.

Correction: Article contained wrong ticket prices for ‘Wild Swans’

Dog obedience classes start January 4 LACONIA — The next dog obedience class will begin January 4, at the Laconia Community Center.

Beginners from 6-7 p.m., advanced 7–8 p.m. running every Wednesday. The cost will be $50 for the four weeks. Dogs must have all of their

shots before joining the class.

Pre-registration and pre-payment is required. For questions and registration, call Jeanine Beckett at 524-8559 or contact Laconia Parks & Recreation office at 524-5046 for follow up information.

Gay Men’s Chorus holding auditions MANCHESTER — The New Hampshire Gay Men’s Chorus will be holding auditions for its Spring 2012 concert series, beginning on Tuesday, January 10, January 17, and January 24,.

The auditions will be held at 6:30 from preceding page

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28 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.

Wintertime Music and Movement time at the Meredith Public Library. 1 to 2 p.m.

Shake, rattle and roll the cold way with music, songs and fun. In the fuction room downstairs.

Time with Friends at the Meredith

p.m.at Brookside Congregational Church, 2013 Elm Street, Manchester, in the Manning House. All gay and gay friendly men, age 18 years or older, are invited to join. For further information, visit the website: www.

NHGMC.com.

Public Library. 3 to 5 p.m. Meet your friends and play board games, paint, create chalk drawings, do sudoku/crossword puzzles or try stamping. Munchies served.

Young adult program for ages 10 and up.

Winter Nature Exploration of Animal Tracks hosted by The Rey Center in Waterville Valley. 10:30 a.m. to noon from the Curious George Cottage. Dress in warm layers. For more information call 236-3308 or visit www.thereycenter.org.

Drop-In Craft Time at the Gilford Public Library. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For children Pre-K through Grade 4.

Crafter’s Corner at the Gilford Public Library. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Bring your needlework project.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My sister is snide and competitive and makes hateful comments whenever we’re together. She’s a bully who has made my life difficult for the past 10 years. I tried to make things right for my parents’ sake, until I realized they were too spineless to say no to her. These days, I rarely speak to her.

Her wedding is in three months, and I told her I would not be attending. After all, if she dislikes me so much, why would she want me there anyway? Now, of course, she is furious, calling me all sorts of names.

My parents are hurt that I won’t attend, and my grandmother says she doesn’t know what’s gotten into me. Frankly, I don’t care what they think. But I do care what my aunts, uncles, cousins and mutual acquaintances will believe about me if I don’t show up. If they ask what’s going on, I will tell them, but I’m sure my sister will come up with an alternate version, and who knows which one of us they will believe?

They never notice how she treats me.

If I boycott the wedding, a huge number of people connected to my family will look at me as the worst kind of person. What should I do? -- Massachusetts Dear Massachusetts: When you take a stand, you must be willing to live with the consequences: Avoid the wedding and take your lumps from the relatives, or attend and hope your sister will behave. But we also think you should tell your sister how much it hurts when she bullies and belittles you, and ask why she finds it necessary to treat you this way.

If you can get to the root of her animosity, perhaps things could improve.

Dear Annie: I recently moved in with my boyfriend, “Beau,” and his roommate, “Scott.” Scott is usually at his girlfriend’s house, so Beau and I pretty much have the place to ourselves. Scott splits the bills with us while unofficially

living with his girlfriend.

Scott makes the payments, and we reimburse him in cash.

The problem is, on more than one occasion, I’ve noticed he has been late. I just found out that the water bill is three months past due and they are ready to shut it off. We have already paid Scott our share, but I think he expects us to pay two-thirds of the past-due amount.

I refuse to pay for this again, but don’t know how to say it.

Should we let it go? Do we ask him to write a receipt? That seems extreme, and Scott is a close friend. Moving out is not an option. What do we do? -- No Way, I Won’t Pay Dear No Way: It is unfair to pay twice for the same bill.

But it’s also unfair that Scott pays a third of the costs for a place he rarely uses. Offer to restructure your rental arrangements with Scott, and then perhaps you or Beau could take over the bill paying and let Scott reimburse you. And make sure he gets a receipt.

Dear Annie: I disagree with your response to “Grandma in Missouri,” who requested payment for child care for her grandchildren.

The parents now have resources. If they value having family care for their children, they should be willing to pay. The other option is to put the children in day care, where it will cost plenty. No one should expect others to watch their kids for free. -- Paid a Family Member for 19 Years Dear Paid: We are not disputing the merits of paying Grandma. The problem is, Grandma inadvertently pushed the daughter to transfer child care to someone else who will do it for free. Now Grandma doesn’t get to see the grandkids. This is a difficult result, and we feel she should talk to her daughter and see if they can reach some accommodation.

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.

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Animals

Autos

For Rent

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

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TOP DOLLAR PAID for junk cars & trucks. Available 7-days a week.

P3 s Towing. 630-3606

LACONIA(2) 2 bedroom apartments. Heat included, newly renovated. 1 Unit $800/Month, other $850/Month. Available January 15th. 603-759-2895

Belmont- 2 bedroom 2nd floor.

Heat & Electric Included. No smoking/pets. $1,000/Month.

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BEAUTIFUL puppies. Apricot, red, mini poodles.

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

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

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

Employment Wanted

2003 Dodge SLT Pickup: Clean Florida truck, no rust, 5-speed, nice interior, 121k highway miles. $3,995 firm. Call Phil, 393-7786.

RETIRED gentleman seeking part-time job, available early morning until 1pm and after 6pm.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

FRANKLIN 5-bedroom home. $300/week plus utilities Washer-dryer hook-up. No pets.

520-1229

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LACONIA: 2 bedroom, 2nd floor in duplex building. $235/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234 www.whitemtrentals.com.

GILFORD 3 bedroom condo, $1300/monthly. Parking, garages available. Heated pool, tennis court. Close to shopping and lake.

Boat slip available. Washer/Dryer hook up available. NO PETS. References & security required.

781-710-2208.

GILFORD: 1-2 bedroom apartments from $175/Week includes heat & utilities. Pets considered. Security/References.

556-7098.

LACONIA 2 BR Elm Street area, spacious, clean. first floor, porch, parking, washer/dryer hook ups. $825/mo. plus utilities References and deposit required.

603-318-5931 LACONIA Mountain VIew apts. $300 off 1st month s rent. 2BR 1 bath, $700/mo. 2BR & 3BR townhouses, 1.5 bath and large decks. $775 & $850/mo. Quiet location with laundry and playgrounds. No Dogs. Office on site. 524-7185 LACONIA Province St. 4 bedroom apartment. Private parking, laundry, bright & clean, no pets. $1,000/Month + Utilities.

508-423-0479.

LACONIA- Large Rooms for rent.

Private bath, heat/hot water, electric, cable, parking included. Free WiFi Internet. $145/week, 603-781-6294 LACONIA- Messer St. 3 Room 1 bedroom with sun porch. 2nd floor. $165/Week. Includes heat/electric. $500 security.

524-7793 Laconia- Private 1 bedroom with heat, hot water, garage. Easy walk to town. $750/Month. No pets. 603-455-0874 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/LAKEPORT Condo: 2-bedroom, 2-bath. $900/Month, heat & hot water included. Call 603-235-6901.

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

524-5837.

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: Huge, 8-room, 4-bedroom apartment. Heat/Hot Water included. Sunny, freshly painted, updated, hardwood floors, laundry room, new bathroom, sunroom. $1,250/Month 566-6815 LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 LACONIA: Large 3-bedroom apartment. First floor, parking. $850/mo + utilities, security/backgound check required.

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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. 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 Meredith- 2 bedroom 1st floor, nice apartment. Walk to docks/village. Washer/dryer hookups, Non-smoking, unitlites not included. $750. 279-7887 or 781-862-0123 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.

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NORTHFIELD: 2 bedroom trailer in small park with coin-op laundry on site, $225/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

Tilton- Downtown 2 bedroom apartment. $800/Month, Heat & Hot water included. 781 315 2358

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For Rent

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OFFICE/RETAIL Space for Rent: 450 Sq.Ft. Great front building exposure! $850 per month.

Everything included. Busy Route 3, 539 Laconia Road, Tilton. Call 630-2332.

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

SHARED OFFCES AVAILABLE IN GILFORD $425-500 per month Very nice and professional offices with shared common areas in Gilford Professional Park. Nice views, parking and well kept complex. Rent includes electricity, heat, cleaning service for common areas, central a/c and shared kitchen, as well as men and ladies' room. Contact Rob at 387-1226 and leave a message to arrange for a view.

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

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

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LAMB -RAISED locally. Hormone & antibiotic free. Vacuum packed, frozen. Custom cuts available.

528-5838 LOVELY Brown loveseat, opens into single bed. Bought for $1100 will sell cheap. Needs space. BO 528-0482 NEW Toshiba Computer, never used, paid $340, asking $200; New 3-ft. desk/table & swivel chair, $200. (603)677-7203.

PATS Vs Bills Jan 1st. 2 tickets, $100 each. 603-548-8049.

(coins, flatware, etc. )

Antiques & Unusual Items Call 279-3087 or Stop In at

Waukewan Antiques 55 Main St. Meredith

WHIRLPOOL 21 Cu. Ft. White refrigerator, top freezer, only two years old, excellent condition. $350 GE Black Microwave, like new, comes with two tone wood cart w/storage. $350 Call 603-630-2157.

WOODSTOVE excellent condition, Purchased at tractor supply store, 2 yrs old. Heats 1000-1200 sq.ft. and 2 cord hardwood all for $700. 603-520-4709.

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Help Wanted PT Apt. setters needed, perfect mothers hours M-Sat 8:30am-1pm make FT pay with PT hours, avg. rep makes $23 an hour! Fun work environment, no exp required, must have good communication skills. For interview call 603-581-2452

Motorcycles Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

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Real Estate FOR Sale By Owner: 2-Bedroom house, 1-1/4 bath. 180 Mechanic Street, Laconia. 524-8142.

Roommate Wanted

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Ouellette promoted at the Inns & Spa at Mills Falls

MEREDITH — The Inns & Spa at Mill Falls has announced the promotion of Joe Ouellette to Director of Sales.

Ouellette, who has been with the Inns at Mill Falls since April 2004, was most recently Sales Manager.

Ouellette previously worked as Senior Sales Manager at The Margate in Laconia, and was Director of MarketJoe Ouellette has been named ing and Advertising for Director of Sales. at The Inns the NASWA Resort. & Spa at Mill Falls. (Courtesy “Joe brings excepphoto) tional leadership and salesmanship to the Inns,” said Gail Batstone, General Manager of The Inns & Spa at Mill Falls. “He is a constant source of motivation, level-headed thinking, and he strives to take the sales team effort and the Inns to new levels. We wish him much continued success.”

A resident of Laconia, Ouellette has two sons, Cameron and Nicholas.

Seymour promoted at Franklin Savings Bank

FRANKLIN — Laconia Mayor Michael J. Seymour is one of five Franklin Savings Bank employees who received a recent promotion. He is now senior vice president of Marketing and Retail Services for the institution.

Seymour started his career at the bank as a customer service officer 20 years ago. Since that time, he has served in several capacities in business development and retail banking administration.

Seymour is also a trustee for LRGHealthcare, a board member of the WLNH Children’s Auction and a board member of Independence Financial Advisers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Savings Bank. In 2005, he was named a “40 Under Forty” recipient by the NH Business & Industry Association and the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Also promoted were Joseph A. Thornton, to vice president, Retail Sales & Branch Administration; Garrett C. Henry to assistant vice president, Information Technology officer; Dawn M. Phelps, to assistant vice president, Retail Lending officer; and Brian Slipp, to assistant vice president, credit manager.

“I am very pleased to announce the promotions of these individuals, who consistently demonServices strate our standards of excellence in quality service and performance to our customers,” said Savage. “Their dedication and enthusiasm, in their service to their customers and colleagues, is of the highest level.”

Franklin Savings Bank, a mutual savings bank, has provided loan, deposit Snowmobiles and investment services to Central New Hampshire 2002 Arctic Cat ZL 600 EFI w/trailer. 1,770 miles, $3,400 or since 1869. The bank has BRO. Call 393-3635-Leave offices in Franklin, BrisMessage tol, Boscawen, Tilton, New SALES, SERVICE, performance parts. New & used parts, complete Hampton, Laconia and line of accessories for SnowmoGilford. Franklin Savings biles & ATV s. Pre-owned sleds.

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THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Wednesday, December 28, 2011— Page 19

OBITUARIES

Edward L. O’Hearn, 79

WEIRS BEACH — Edward L. O’Hearn, 79, of Pendleton Beach Road, died Saturday, December 24, 2011 at Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia.

He was born in Medford, Mass., the son of Edward L. Sr. and Mary E. (McCarthy) O’Hearn. Ed served in the US Air Force and graduated with his Bachelors in Administration Degree from North Eastern University. He worked for 30 years for AT&T, beginning with Western Electric in Watertown, Mass, retiring as Section Chief . He lived in Tewksbury, Mass for 33 years before moving to Weirs Beach, NH in the 80’s. Ed then worked for 15 years for Irwin Marine in Laconia. He was a charter member of the Meredith Yacht Club, a life member of the American Legion and the Elks, a life member of the Pioneers and a member of the Weirs Beach Community Park Association. He was an avid Ham Radio enthusiast, known by his call sign AA1EO, and formerly WB1FYE. He enjoyed boating and skiing.

He was predeceased by his daughter, Helen Greene in December 13th of this year and one brother, John H. O’Hearn.

He is survived by his wife, Priscilla (Cooney) O’Hearn of Weirs Beach, two sons; Edward L. O’Hearn III and his wife Amy of Center Harbor, NH and Peter L. O’Hearn and his wife Claire of Gilford, NH, one daughter, Suzanne Marie O’Hearn of Weirs Beach, NH, two grandchildren; Emma Florence O’Hearn and Lauren Elizabeth O’Hearn and one sister, M. Patricia Hilsinger of Burlington, Mass.

Calling hours will be held from 2 PM to 4 PM and from 6 PM to 8 PM on Friday, December 30, 2011 in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11AM on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at St. Andre Bessette Parish at St. Joseph’s Church, 30 Church Street, Laconia, NH. Burial will be privately held at the NH State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, NH. 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 .

GILFORD — Geraldine A. (Adams) Moreau, 89, died Monday, December 26, 2011 at the Merrimack County Nursing Home in Boscawen following a period of failing health. She was born in Haverhill, MA, June 22, 1922, daughter of Nahum and Eva (Robitaille) Adams. Geraldine lived in Northfield for 30 years, later moving to Gilford where she lived for 25 years. She and her husband moved to Pittsfield in 2008. She began her career as an operator in the 1940’s with the New England Telephone Company, working in Massachusetts, Laconia and later Concord offices. She retired in 1985 as a customer service representative. Geraldine was a member of the New England Telephone Pioneers. She was a parishioner of St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Tilton.

Her family includes her husband of 60 years, Philip J. Moreau of the Merrimack County Nurs-

ing Home in Boscawen; her daughter, Jean Moreau of Gilmanton; her son, Philip J. Moreau of Northfield; five grandchildren, Aimee Munsey, Norton Munsey, Maxine Munsey, Joshua Moreau and Chelsea Moreau; her sister, Ethel Adams of Raymond; numerous nieces and nephews.

According to Geraldine’s wishes, there are no calling hours planned. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday, December 30 at 10:00 AM at St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Chestnut Street in Tilton.

Spring burial will be in St. John Cemetery in Tilton.

Arrangements are under the care of the William F. Smart Sr. Memorial Home of Tilton.Those wishing may make memorial donations in Geraldine’s name to the Activity Fund, Merrimack County Nursing Home, 325 D. W. Highway, Boscawen, NH 03303 For more information go to www.smartfuneralhome.com

Geraldine A. Moreau, 89

Northern Pass foes plan Jan. 17 information session CAMPTON — An information and update meeting concerning the Northern Pass project will be held at the Campton Elementary School on Tuesday January 17 at 6 p.m. for both affected towns of Campton and Thornton. Other town residents are also welcome to attend.

The Northern Pass project is a 180-mile above ground, high voltage transmission line proposed by PSNH and Hydro Quebec of Canada with towers ranging from 80-135 feet tall. The towers could be built amidst some of the most scenic and tourist sensitive areas in New Hampshire, including a tenmile stretch through the White Mountain National Forest. Both Thornton and Campton are in the

direct path or “preferred route” for the project that will attempt to use the PSNH existing ROW across the state.

Speakers for the evening will be Peter Martin of Plymouth, Holderness resident Michael Merino, and Thomas Mullen of Campton. Those attending will be updated on the efforts of Northern Pass opponents on where the project is headed in regards to eminent domain laws, progress on PSNH efforts to purchase land for the northern route, and information on rights based ordinances for towns along the PSNH ROW. For more information visit www.nonorthernpass.org or write to supportus@nonorthernpass.org for more information.

GILFORD — The twelve days of Christmas end on January 6. This is also the day churches traditionally celebrate the visit of the wise men to the Christ Child, known as the Epiphany.

This year Epiphany falls midweek, so the choirs churches from Gilford and Laconia will join together on Sunday evening, January 9 at the First United Methodist Church at 7 p.m. to share music they have sung over the season in their own churches.

Musicians will be coming from the Gilford Community Church, St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Good Shepherd Lutheran, Laconia Congregational Church, the Gilmanton Community Church, the

Unitarian-Universalist Society and First United Methodist Church. Two churches are bringing hand bell choirs, and there will also be flute and clarinet pieces. The evening of music will end with a massed singing of the “Hallelujah Chorus”.

Offering plates will be available for those who would like to give toward the work of the Carey House in Laconia. The Carey House is a ministry of the Salvation Army for the homeless, and is supported by many churches in the Lakes Region.

For answers to any questions, contact Vickie Wood Parrish at First United Methodist Church, 5243289.

Area churches will celebrate Epiphany with music

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