The Laconia Daily Sun, December 3, 2011

Saturday, december 3, 2011

VOL. 12 NO. 131

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Burglars target Bristol home while couple is at funeral

By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

BRISTOL — Only a villain would take an obituary to be an invitation to invade the home and steal the belongings of a grieving mourner.

Last Saturday Leslie Sturgeon and her husband attended a memorial service at Hart’s Turkey Farm Restaurant in Meredith celebrating the life of her father Rick Davis, the avid and devoted sportssee OBIt page 10

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A special treat from Elf Linda at Christmas Village Alexandra Fay, Madeline Isabelle and Catherine Fay enjoy a special visit with Grandma Hamel and Nana Parkhurst along with a treat from Linda the Elf as they make their way through Laconia’s Christmas Village at the Community Center on Union Ave. The annual holiday season spectacular is open again Saturday and Sunday afternoons, from 2 to 5 and, as always, there is no admission charge. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)

Lawyer argues city needs to go back to square 1 & make its legal case that Wide Open Saloon needs to be torn down

By Gail OBer

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — The attorney for the landmark Weirs Beach restaurant, bar and hotel that was gutted by fire 15 months

ago said yesterday the city’s real reason for ordering his client to raze her building late last spring was because Motorcycle Week was on the horizon, not because it posed a public

safety hazard.

Friedrich Moeckel, who is representing Wide Open Saloon owner Brandi Baldi, said the city failed to make its case because the wrong laws

were cited in its case in Laconia District Court and he is seeking to overturn Judge Jim Carroll’s May ruling that the building be razed by Baldi. see saLOON page 9

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He was sentenced to a 2-to-5 years in the N.H. State Prison on Sept. 11, 2008 and according to Dept. of Corrections Spokesman Jeff Lyons was paroled on Sept. 10, 2010.

On Thursday, Converse was found passed out in a car in the breakdown lane of Route see CONVErsE page 7

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Europe, facing abyss, embraces German might

BERLIN (AP) — For more than half a century, the legacy of World War II has meant that the mere mention of a new rise of German power sent shudders through European nations. Now, Germany is increasingly calling the shots for the entire continent — and few seem to mind.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski — whose nation lost millions of people in the Nazi invasion and occupation — shocked many this week when he made a dramatic appeal for greater German influence.

“You know full well that nobody else can do it,” he told a largely German audience in Berlin. “I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say so, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity.”

European leaders are panicked over unsustainable debt that could take down the entire global economy. From the streets to the halls of power, all eyes are trained on Germany — see GERMANY page 11

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Unemployment rate drops to 8.6%; lowest since 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate, which has refused to budge from the 9 percent neighborhood for two and a half frustrating years, fell sharply in November, driven in part by small businesses that finally see reason to hope and hire.

Economists say there is a long way to go, but they liked what they saw.

The rate fell to 8.6 percent, the lowest since March 2009, two months after President Barack Obama took office. Unemployment passed 9 percent that spring and

had stayed there or higher for all but two months since then.

The country added 120,000 jobs in November, the Labor Department said Friday. Private employers added 140,000 jobs, while governments cut 20,000.

The economy has generated 100,000 or more jobs five months in a row — the first time that has happened since April 2006, well before the Great Recession.

“Something good is stirring in the U.S. economy,” Ian Shepherdson, an economist

at High Frequency Economics, said in a note to clients.

The stock market rallied at the opening bell, after the report came out, but finished flat for the day. It was still up 787 points for the week. The only bigger point gain in a week was in October 2008, when stocks lurched higher and lower during the financial crisis.

The report showed that September and October were stronger months for the job see UNEMPLOYMENT page 6

ATLANTA (AP) — Rapidly becoming a mere footnote in the presidential race, Herman Cain sent mixed signals Friday on whether he would abandon his beleaguered White House bid on Saturday after a woman’s allegation of an extramarital affair.

He said he would make a “major announcement” on whether he would press on — at an event still being billed as the grand opening of a new headquarters.

It is the latest — and perhaps final —

twist in a campaign saga that has taken the Georgia businessman from unknown longshot to surprise frontrunner to embattled tabloid subject.

He arrived at his suburban Atlanta home on Friday afternoon to talk with his wife of 42 years, Gloria, about whether to press on after his campaign was rocked by multiple sexual harassment allegations and this week’s claim that he had a 13-year affair. He denies wrongdoing. It was their first face-to-face meeting since

the allegation was made public.

As night fell, campaign aides who were optimistic earlier Friday that Cain would press on said privately they expected that he would exit the race.

Earlier, in a speech in Rock Hill, S.C., Cain wouldn’t disclose whether he would drop out but told supporters to stay tuned.

He said he would clarify the next steps of the campaign and assured backers the affair claim was “garbage.” But he also said see CAIN page 12

End of the line for Cain? Campaign to have ‘major’ news today

Ethics panel finds ‘cause’ to believe Jesse Jackson Jr. willing to buy Senate seat

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee announced Friday it will continue its investigation into allegations Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or someone acting on his behalf offered to raise campaign cash for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate appointment in 2008.

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The committee also released an initial report from the Office of Congressional Ethics that said there was “probable cause” to believe that Jackson either directed a third party or had knowledge of a third party’s effort to convince the since-convicted Blagojevich to appoint Jackson Jr.

in exchange for campaign cash.

The report, originally compiled in August 2009, also said there is “substantial reason to believe” Jackson Jr. violated federal law by using his congressional staff to mount a “public campaign” to secure a Senate see JACKSON page 13

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Auburn man get 15 to 30 for beating wife to death after she murdered their son BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man was sentenced Friday to 15 to 30 years in prison for beating his mentally ill wife to death with a flashlight after he came home to find she had strangled their 4-year-old son with a ribbon and tried to kill their 7-year-old daughter.

Christopher Smeltzer, 39, pleaded guilty to killing Mara Pappalardo, who was hospitalized several times for mental illness. Prosecutors say she was paranoid, obsessed with death and convinced her husband and mother-in-law were plotting to take her children away.

Smeltzer initially was charged with second-degree manslaughter. Prosecutors at his plea hearing in October changed the charge to manslaughter by provocation in deference to the horrific scene that triggered his actions.

The 90-minute sentencing took place in a Rockingham Superior courtroom. There was tension between members of Smeltzer’s family and his wife’s. And at one point, a member of her family shouted to Smeltzer that God will be the judge of his actions.

Judge Tina Nadeau questioned whether the outcome would have been the same had Smeltzer not used drugs that night, but she acknowledged that

N.H. revenues off $57M because hospitals started pay tax by different rules

CONCORD (AP) — State revenues are about $57 million below projections due mostly to New Hampshire hospitals using federal guidelines to determine their tax liability.

Administrative Services Commissioner Linda Hodgdon said Friday that hospital tax payments were $50 million less than expected in November.

She said the state expects to get $9 million in hospital taxes next month, which could narrow the gap, but Hodgdon said the state’s hospitals also have asked for refunds for past tax periods using the federal guidelines.

The hospitals had not questioned the state’s guidelines until the budget enacted in June cut $250 million in payments to hospitals. Ten hospitals sued over the cuts.

Tobacco taxes also were below estimates $3.5 million in November.

Counting the reduced hospital payments, the state is $46 million behind revenue projections yearto-date.

Police believe Carroll County jail escapee may have stolen car OSSIPEE (AP) — Police believe a suspected burglar who escaped from a county jail in Ossipee may have stolen a vehicle in New Hampshire or Maine.

Police say two cars have been stolen in areas where police were searching for 33-year-old David Glenn Hobson, who is from Alfred, Maine.

He was reported missing just after 2 p.m. Thursday from the Carroll County House of Corrections.

Authorities on Friday were looking for a blue 2004 Honda Accord with Maine license plate number 1355MV that was stolen in Sanford, Maine.

A second vehicle was stolen in Wakefield, N.H. Police believe Hobson may be responsible for one of the thefts.

Police said there have been no confirmed sightings of Hobson after they searched Alfred, Sanford and elsewhere in York County, Maine, on Friday.

he must have had an extreme emotional reaction to what greeted him when he came home. She said nothing she could do or say would lessen the grief for the families.

Nadeau imposed the sentence the state requested, including a provision that five years will be suspended if he earns his college degree and takes anger management classes. With the suspension and credit for time served since his arrest, Smeltzer could be free in nine years.

Adam Roz, a cousin of Pappalardo who was first to speak for the family before the judge imposed the sentence, faulted Smeltzer for leaving his wife alone with their children that night, and said he failed as a father, a husband and human being.

But Roz also spread the blame more widely.

“In my heart, I feel anyone sitting here today should have, could have, but just plain didn’t act,”

Roz said. “For that, we’re all guilty of this tragedy.”

Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said what happened at the Smeltzer home Nov. 7, 2010 “was simply a tragedy.” The voices of the two survivors of that tragedy — Smeltzer and his daughter — were heard publicly for the first time during Friday’s sentencing. A tape recording of Mercey reading a letter to the judge was played by her lawyer; the girl did not attend the hearing.

Mercey’s young voice hushed the courtroom. “I am mad and sad that my Daddy killed my Mommy and brother Mason,” she says on the tape. The girl, who lives with one of her mother’s sisters, ends by saying, “Please keep him in jail for the rest of his life.”

Young said Mercey’s statement contradicts what she said in the days after the attacks and to her counselor. see SENTENCE page 11

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Alexander Cockburn

The People vs. Europe It looks as though the eurozone may be in a decisive meltdown, which is just fine in my book. The sooner we get back to francs, lire, punts, drachmas and the rest of the old sovereign currencies, the better.

It used to be as much a part of going to France to change money and be handed a bundle of notes featuring the devious Cardinal Richelieu as choking on Gauloise smoke.

Instead, those francs are now replaced by the characterless but somehow always expensive euros.

The argument against the eurozone is that hard-faced Euro-bankers — their killer instincts honed at Goldman Sachs, Wall Street’s School of the Americas — have the power to act as the bully-boys of international capital and impose austerity regimes from Dublin to Athens, scalping the poor to bail out the rich.

Now the end of the eurozone does not mean the end of the European Union. They’re different. There are 17 nations in the former, 27 in the latter. Britain, for example, has never been in the eurozone, which is why the currency exchange in London will, in return for your worthless dollars, hand you bank notes with the Queen’s portrait on them.

At the moment, the European Union has virtually no tax collecting powers. Its annual haul is about 1-percent of the EUs gross domestic product. By comparison, the U.S. government collects about 20 to 24-percent of GDP. Throughout the entire Eurocrisis, there has been a basso profundo chorus from the Eurocrats that what’s needed is a lot more centralizing. In the words of Wolfgang Munchau at the Financial Times on Nov. 28, the EU needs “a fiscal union”: “This would involve a partial loss of national sovereignty, and the creation of a credible institutional framework to deal with fiscal policy, and hopefully wider economic policy issues as well.”

I’ve read many editorial paragraphs with this same bullying timbre — that what the whole European enterprise needs is an impregnable fortress of Eurocrats dispatching its disciplinary legions — first technocrats and then, if necessary, NATOs shock troops to crush all resistance.

Two generations years ago, when Britain shook with acrid debates about the pros and cons of joining the EU, a big chunk of the left was in favor of joining. The notion basically was that in terms of potential for socialist advance, EU membership would at least offer a shot at liberating the sceptred isle from the suffocating, reactionary constrictions of post imperial infarction.

Also, in play, Gaullism — meaning, in this case, defiance of the United States — was translated into a hope that the EU would be a left coun-

terbalance to the American empire.

Here we are 40 years on, with social democrats across Europe toiling even more diligently than their nominally more right-wing rivals to bail out the rich and grind down the poor at the behest of the bankers and panic-stricken bondholders.

Crisis is often invoked as the midwife of revolutionary change, and here are Greece, Italy, Spain and even France at various levels of crisis, with political orthodoxy and the normal order of things increasingly discredited.

Yet perhaps only in Greece and possibly Portugal — both with active Communist parties — is there any organizational vigor on the left. In some sense, one could see some emulation of the glorious path taken by Argentina in 2003 and 2004 with factory occupations and immense popular outrage, combined with decisive leadership by the late President Nestor Kirchner.

The international debt collectors were successfully defied. Maybe in Italy there are some flickers of resistance, but France?

As Serge Halimi, the director of Le Monde diplomatique, put it recently, “There is no reason to believe that Francois Hollande in France, Sigmar Gabriel in Germany or Ed Miliband in the U.K. will succeed where Obama, Jos Luis Zapatero and Papandreou have failed....

In the current political and social situation, a federal Europe would strengthen the already stifling neoliberal mechanisms and reduce the sovereign power of the people by handing it over to shadowy technocratic bodies.”

The EU “project,” a very irritating word that should be tossed in the dumpster along with “iconic,” “meme,” “parse” and “narrative,” is a potential outline of a totalitarian nightmare. Down with federalism!

Remember Simone Weil’s hatred of the Roman Empire and what it did to Europe’s cultural richness and diversity: “If we consider the long centuries and the vast area of the Roman Empire and compare these centuries with the ones that preceded it and the ones that followed the barbarian invasions, we perceive to what extent the Mediterranean basin was reduced to spiritual sterility by the totalitarian State.”

As Weil’s biographer, Simone Petrement, comments, “The Roman peace was soon the peace of the desert, a world from which had vanished, together with political liberty and diversity, the creative inspiration that produces great art, great literary works, science, and philosophy.

Many centuries had to pass before the superior forms of human life were reborn.”

But as Halimi concludes, “But when the people cease to believe in a political game in which the see next page

LETTERS We’re not glorifying war, we’re recognizing uncommon valor To the editor, Too often some clergy speak on Sunday the way Plymouth State University Professor Leo R. Sandy writes his Daily Sun column. They can’t focus on a single point and therefore end up being too wordy and too lengthy.

Hence, a well intending message is usually lost.

Sandy, however, is much different from the clergy. He is a sly-master at wordiness. He uses his length of column to dull the reader by taking a main topic and engulfing it with an array of murky points. His writing is so embodied with twist and turns that his primary purpose for writing seems often lost or rarely appropriately addressed. His columns remind me of long term politicians whose trickery is speaking firmly but never clearly.

Yes, I’ve observed enough of Sandy’s columns to know how good and how vague he can be with words.

There are times when I hear Sandy’s name mentioned in an uncomplimentary manner. However, fellow colleagues see him as a good guy who merely goes about his business seeing things vastly different than America’s working class people. He’s a kind of modern version of Don Quixote.

A more recent example of Sandy’s Quixote-like conduct came earlier this week when he portrayed Americans participating in Veterans Day Parades as being there mostly to “glorify war”.

Sandy is not only wrong, but such a statement is a direct slight on good folks who plan their precious time to show respect for our military. No, people don’t take part in Veterans Day parades to glorify war. As a matter of fact, some go in tears because of the untimely and terribly sad loss of loved ones. Others attend to bring respect and honor to the

“top of the class” young men and women of America who risk their lives in their zeal in assisting hapless people worldwide while limiting the enemies ability to again strike America the way they did in 2001.

Why any professor would take precious time, from his academic schedule, to think suspiciously and negatively about those who participate in a parade to pay respect to the finest and bravest among us is puzzling . Perplexing, because the mighty men and women of our Armed Forces live constantly at risk to, not only protect us from harm, but to protect “free speech”, whether that voice is used by people to applaud them or demonize them. Indeed, they are our most extraordinary men and women.

Thus, Sandy’s idea that most people march in a Veteran’s Parade to glorify war, rather than to honor fallen heroes and show support for active and inactive military servicemen, is a notion I reject.

Students at PSU or readers of The Laconia Sun don’t need to hear the “glory in war” theme from a college professor. All they have to do is drive to Manchester and visit Victory Park.

Here, inscribed on a stone monument memorializing Rene Gagnon (one of the six military men who raised the American Flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima), are two of PFC Gagnon’s often spoken lines: “Don’t glorify war.

There is no glory in it.”

In summary, I believe that people go to a Veterans Day parade, not to defy the spoken words of PFC Rene Gagnon, but go because they recognize “ uncommon valor “and they go to salute it.

Roland Jutras Meredith

Apologist assumes Obama was careless, while ignoring facts To the editor, Is James Ververka telling us that the U.S post office will assign a zip code that does not match the address?

He, like most Obama lovers will distort everything to protect their socialist “savior”. As usual, James is full of insults and short on facts!

When I was 15 I was clearly a LOT

more Intelligent than James. He assumes that Barry Obama was careless and maybe stupid, while ignoring known FACTS. As usual, James tries to make his case with babble and ignorance and gross unrelated insults.

Jack Stephenson Gilford

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LETTERS To prosper, we need to abandon job destroying liberal policies To the editor, Last Sunday’s “60 Minutes” had a heartbreaking episode about homeless American children. The episode didn’t discuss why their fathers were jobless (causing their homelessness).

President Obama promised to focus on jobs. Yet, President Obama’s liberal policies have pretty much ended job creation; the private sector before the public sector.

The media reported thousands of jobs that President Obama directly killed, e.g., 20,000 on the Canadian pipeline, nearly 100,000 related to Gulf drilling, thousands of California farming jobs and mining jobs.

Obama’s liberal policies created so much uncertainty that employers can’t hire and some must cut jobs to save their business and the remaining jobs. The lesson is that vilifying employers and creating unpredictable taxes and regulations kills jobs.

The unemployment rate reportedly dropped to 8.6-percent today so you will hear that President Obama’s policies are working. It would be great if that were true, but it isn’t. Fewer jobs were created last month (120,000) than are needed to employ the new job seekers. Actually, unemployment benefits were exhausted for 315,000 jobless which deletes them from the list of unemployed. So about 300,000 more families face an uncertain future, perhaps homelessness, but the government’s computed unemployment number falls and the media

cheers President Obama’s “success“.

The number of employed Americans drops because of the liberal policies that President Obama has been aggressively implementing. Less aggressive implementations of these same policies have been sending American jobs overseas for more than 50 years.

The result of liberal policies can be seen in countries that have implemented them more fully than we have.

Greece is further along than Italy and others that are having severe economic and social problems. For the end result we can look to the Soviet Union which collapsed (after destroying tens of millions of lives). Or, look at the “thriving” economy in Cuba.

China started thriving when it turned away from liberal economic policies. It is time for America to totally abandon liberal policies and return to the policies that led to our greatness.

Creating good jobs requires policies enabling employers to be successful.

Millions of American jobs show this can be done while treating employees fairly and without jeopardizing our environment.

In two years I want 60 Minutes to scour the country and not find a single homeless child or a despairing jobless parent. This requires a new president, one who abandons job destroying liberal policies and implements policies favorable to job creation.

Don Ewing Meredith

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Be wary of solicitations from Disabled Vets National Foundation To the editor, Please consider this as a “Heads Up” to check out the on-line reviews of the Disabled Veterans National Foundation if you receive any kind of material and/or an appeal for donations from this organization. You will not have to look very far to see information that uses the word “scam”. They refuse to provide any information to the Better Business Bureau so are not rated there. Their own website paints a rosy picture but the links to three years of IRS Form 990s are blank. They actually raised $7.8-million in 2008, but had $14.7-million in expenses. Not bad for a brand new organization. You might ask how is this possible and Google reviews say that the fund raising organization provides the front money and retains a lien on ALL funds raised until their expenses are paid off.

It would take much too long to list all the negative reviews here, but the first one from Charitywatch.org is a good place to start and several more

are on just the first page of a Google search. It states that 100-percent of all donations are assigned to Brickmill, the fund raiser, until their prior and current expenses are paid off.

Since I had never heard of them, I checked them out after receiving a junk desk calculator and small notebook about a month ago. This was quickly followed by a reminder to send money. Last week I received an official looking “Final Notice” that included a sad commentary that I had apparently forgotten all the sacrifices made by the disabled veterans, etc. After two pages of laying on a guilt trip, I was reminded that time was running out and to send my most generous donation NOW !

Don’t just take my word for this.

Spend a few minutes on Google before sending a dime to this outfit preying on our concern for the many veterans in need. Thank you.

Donald Lockwood Laconia

from preceding page dice are loaded, when they see that governments are stripped of their sovereignty, when they demand that banks be brought into line, when they mobilize without knowing where their anger will lead, then the left is still very much alive.”

“What did the Roman Empire ever do for us?” the left nationalist asks in Monty Python’s imperishable “The Life of Brian.” “Roads,” the federalist begins tentatively. My native country

roads, courtesy of the EU. We’ve got enough of them. Europe’s got enough of them. Enough of the eurozone, enough of the “European project.”

Onward down the broad highway to a totalitarian EU? Europe is approaching the fateful crossroads.

(Alexander Cockburn is coeditor with Jeffrey St. Clair of the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch. He is also co-author of the book “Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils”.)

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LETTERS Subversives have long been trying to erase our country’s history To the editor, So now there comes along a retired professor who escaped Nazi Germany and equates pledging allegiance to Our Flag to being back in Nazi Germany. It is alright to burn Old Glory and to spit on it but no . . . no. . . let’s not honor it. Did any dare burn or spit on the Nazi flag in Nazi Germany?

There is another professor who also grew up in Nazi Germany and made this statement in regards to the Obama Administration “I have seen this before” when asked “where?” her response was “in Hitler’s Germany”.

We are hearing recycled rhetoric from past tyrants. Pretty sounding dribble repackaged.

I assure you that “Old Glory” will continue to fly long after those who have conspired to destroy her and this nation have met their own fate. I have an old friend who grew up in Russia. “It was terrible” he says. “We wanted to see our government fall”. He remembers food shortages and his mother standing in food lines. His grandparents telling him of the purges and created famines when millions were starved under the order of Joe Stalin. None dared even whisper their thoughts on the tyrants who ruled over them. Andre’ shares no love of communism. He has seen its terrible effects

upon the masses and is quite aware of the slogans and mottos used by those who sing praises to the “ideology from hell” here in this country.

Those who have no love of their country have no love of their history. Subversives have been attempting to erase our history for over a century. They install our mistakes in the place of the missing pieces and confuse the next generation into thinking there is nothing good about our country. Then it becomes easier to present their indoctrination where our heritage once was.

I will always honor Old Glory. It has been flown in battle throughout the world in order that millions could share the freedoms we have.

She smiles down to all who have gone unselfishly into harms way for those they never met. Many returned draped beneath her.Others afflicted with old age and crippled from old wounds still muster the strength and dignity to stand and honor her.They have not forsaken her and she will not forget them. Her spirit resides in the heart of every patriotic American in every walk of life.

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Gilford schools paying admin team $11k more than peer average To the editor, Well the results are in from the Gilford School Districts Study on Administrative Pay and Benefits and again Gilford comes in WAY ahead of the school districts that they choose to compare themselves against.

From their OWN report “Gilford’s salary/benefits is $11,407 higher per employee as compared to the average of the four local school districts.” See the study here: https://sites.google. com/a/sau73.org/superintendent/ home (then choose November 2011).

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The property values are getting killed by the run up in your spending in years past. Now we are stuck with the highest tax rate for waterfront towns surrounding Lake Winnipesaukee.

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Remember, some of us have lost someone who was here last year To the editor, Well, it is that time of year again.

I have noticed there are some signs around advertising that there are holiday fairs being held at different locations. These are not holiday fairs.

These are Christmas fairs. If it were not December and Christmas being on the 25, there would be no fairs.

Also, what is a holiday tree? Thanksgiving, Valentines Day, Easter, what?

It’s a Christmas Tree! I don’t see any trees being sold after Christmas for the coming holidays. I haven’t seen any ornaments being sold for Valentines Day, Easter, 4th of July to be hung on a green tree.

Just remember that this is a sad season for some. Some of us have lost someone that was here last year.

Give you husband, wife, kid(s), friends and whoever else you care about, a hug and thank God you can do that.

Cherish each day you have with them because you never know what can happen. Christmas is also a happy time. Just remember what Christmas is about and it is not Santa Clause and lots of presents. Take the Christ out of Christmas and you have a “mess”.

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UNEMPLOYMENT from page 2 market than first estimated. For four months in a row, the government has revised job growth figures higher for previous months.

September was revised up by 52,000 jobs, for a gain of 210,000. October was revised up by 20,000, for a gain of 100,000.

Unemployment peaked at 10.1 percent in October 2009, four months

after the Great Recession ended. It dipped to 8.9 percent last February and 8.8 percent last March but otherwise was at or above 9 percent.

The rate fell not just because people found jobs. About 300,000 people simply gave up looking for work, and were no longer counted as unemployed. People routinely enter and leave the work force, though 300,000 see next page

Belmont man charged in Laconia with assault for allegedly choking girlfriend

By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN

LACONIA — A Belmont man, who allegedly choked his girlfriend and sought to flee from police, was charged with second degree assault, a class A felony, three counts of simple assault, all class A misdemeanors, and resisting arrest, also a class A misdemeanor.

Richard Audette, 24, of 269 Horn Road, Belmont was released on $25,000 personal recognizance bail following his arraignment in the 4th Circuit Laconia Court on Thursday. He is scheduled to return to court for a probable cause hearing on the felony charge on December 12 and for trial on the misdemeanor charges on January 9.

According to his affidavit filed with the court, Officer Casey Brennan was parked on Laconia Road shortly after 12:30 a.m. on Thursday when a car slowly passed his cruiser then turned around and parked behind him. One of three women in the car told him she was going to the Police Department to report that she had been assaulted in her apartment on Johnson Street.

Brennan reported that she told him

that she and her boyfriend, who she identified as Audette, had argued and he became violent, grasping her around the neck until she struggled to breathe. She claimed that he also shoved her several times and pushed her to the ground. When she ran to a friend’s car, she said, he again held her around the neck, but relented when he was taken to the ground by her friend’s boyfriend. Brennan said that he observed read marks on the right side of the woman’s neck.

Brennan said that he and Corporal Stephen Akerstrom, who was patrolling on Main Street, went to the apartment on Johnson Street. The man the woman said subdued Audette answered the door, telling Brennan it was his apartment. As they spoke, Brennan said he heard Akerstrom calling “stop, police!” Akerstrom told him that a man, subsequently identified as Audette, ran out the back door of the apartment and disappeared down Church Street. But, not long afterwards Audette returned to the apartment where he was arrested without incident.

CONVERSE from page one home-based alcohol monitor each night. Lyons said 128 by a Massachusetts when he didn’t blow into it State Trooper who stopped at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, his when he spotted the car parole officer was notified. around 5:30 p.m.

“Until this point he The trooper said Conappeared to have been verse smelled of alcohol and doing fine,” Lyons said, had difficulty standing and adding the corrections was arrested. After arrivdepartment tries to work ing at the Concord, Mass. with people with substance police barracks where police abuse problems. notices he was wearing an Timothy Converse Laconia Police confirmed ankle monitoring bracelet (NH DOC photo) yesterday they knew Confrom New Hampshire.

According to Lyons, Converse was on verse, had dealt with him repeatedly parole and has been living in Laconia. in the past but had had no contact He said when Converse was initially with him since he was paroled in Sepparoled in 2010, he was not monitored tember of last year. electronically but in recent weeks had He said parole officers had already exhibits signs of a possible backslide. started tracking Converse to charge On Nov. 21, Converse allegedly him with a parole violation when admitted to his parole officer that he the department was notified he was had consumed alcohol and he was in custody in Massachusetts and fitted with a bracelet and an alcohol charged with his sixth operating monitoring devise in his home. under the influence.

Lyons said the bracelet has a GPS Lyons said he’s not sure what will (Global Positioning Sensor) but that happen next. He said the Massachuit had not been activated because corsetts criminal charges supersede a rections officials were more concerned number of parole violations Conwith making sure he stayed sober. verse would likely face should he be Converse had a 9:30 p.m. curfew returned to New Hampshire. and was required to blow into the — Gail Ober from preceding page is more than usual.

Obama, who faces a re-election vote in less than a year and a presidential campaign that will turn on the economy, seized on the decline to argue for expanding a cut in the tax that workers pay toward Social Security.

The tax cut affects 160 million Americans. It lowers a worker’s Social Security tax by up to $2,136 a year.

Someone earning $50,000 a year saves $1,000 with the tax cut. It will expire Dec. 31 unless Congress acts.

Republicans and Democrats have supported an extension but differ on how to pay for it. The Senate on Thursday defeated plans from both

parties. Republicans had proposed paying for the cut by freezing the pay of federal workers through 2015.

Democrats wanted to raise taxes on people making $1 million or more a year.

“Now is not the time to slam the brakes on the recovery. Right now it’s time to step on the gas,” Obama said Friday.

Inside the unemployment report, one of the most closely watched indicators of the economy’s health, were signs of improvement for small businesses, which employ 500 or fewer people and account for half the jobs in the private sector. see next page

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“At her very young age she has already volunteered in more ways for her school, her church and her community than many adults have in their lifetime,” stated a passage from a letter of nomination for the award.

Jack Terrill, president of the Lakes Region United Way, said “the Spirit of New Hampshire Awards gives us an opportunity to highlight the accomplishments of our local residents in a statewide venue. We felt privileged to have submitted nominations to this year’s event, as this is a positive reflection on our community. We were very proud and pleased when we learned that one of our youth was not only recognized, but was selected as the top in her category.”

“This is also a tribute to Alana’s family for supporting her to give back to her community and is a prime example of what makes the Lakes Region a community where people care for one another,” added Alan Robichaud, United Way’s Community Development Director, who submitted the nomination.

In his letter he wrote: “Volunteerism is not an activity for Alana, it’s a lifestyle. Where others see doors as barriers, she sees openings for new adventures, experiences, and opportunities to give back to others. This young woman is a force of nature and anyone who meets her will find a bright student, an aspiring leader, and as important, a good neighbor.”

Other nomination remarks came from Virginia Babfrom preceding page The government uses a survey of mostly large companies and government agencies to determine how many jobs were added or lost each month. It uses a separate survey of households to determine the unemployment rate.

The household survey picks up hiring by companies of all sizes, including small businesses and companies just getting off the ground. It also includes farm workers and the self-employed, who aren’t included in the survey of companies.

The household survey has shown an average of 321,000 jobs created per month since July, compared with an average of 13,000 the first seven months of the year.

Alana Perrson of Laconia, who was presented with an Outstanding Service Award at the Volunteer NH awards ceremony in Concord, is congratulated by Governor John Lynch. (Courtesy photo)

cock who, as Alana’s Middle School Guidance Counselor, had this to say. “Her willingness to help seems endless and her ability to take on a leadership role is nothing short of amazing. She has a genuine commitment to wanting to make things better for others.”

Robichaud said the Lakes Region United Way’s mission is to advance the common good through thoughtful and sustainable social investment. To learn more about the United Way, go to www.lruw.org.

When the economy is either improving or slipping into recession, many economists say, the household survey does the better job of picking up the shift because it detects small business hiring.

“We might finally be seeing new business creation expand again, which is critical to the sustainability of the recovery,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial, a financial services company.

The National Federation of Independent Business, a small business group, said Friday that its own survey of small companies in November found that more of them are planning to add workers than at any time since September 2008, when the financial crisis struck.

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SALOON from page one Moeckel said yesterday that when attorney Walter Mitchell realized that the city’s April 12, 2011 order to Baldi to demolish the building was “legally deficient” he and former code enforcement officer William Stewart attempted to “cover their tracks” at the trial.

At the May 26 trial Stewart was the only witness for the city. Under cross examination, he said he had never been inside the building and had only assessed it’s viability from the outside.

“The city messed up first,” said Moeckel who basic argument is that the city didn’t present enough facts at the trial justify Carroll’s ruling that the building be razed.

“The city can get another bite at the apple, but they need to do their homework,” Moeckel said yesterday.

In his argument made orally yesterday and submitted in writing, Mitchell said the city drafted a letter on January 20, 2011 informing Baldi that her building violated three specific portions of the International Property Maintenance Code of 2006.

Mitchell said the letter was “hand-delivered” to Baldi on March 4, 2010.

Stewart’s first day on the job as city code enforcement officer was March 14, 2011 and from May of 2010 until his arrival in mid-March of 2011, the city had no full-time, dedicated code enforcement officer.

The Wide Open Saloon burned on Sept. 14, 2010.

On March 25, 2011 Baldi requested a hearing but the request was denied by Stewart on April 4, 2011 as “untimely,” saying the Board of Appeals had no authority to hear the appeal under the International Property Maintence Code cited initially by the city.

On April 6, 2011, Stewart wrote Baldi a letter citing the city’s concerns with having the building located at the foot of Lakeside Avenue remain in its current state for Bike Week and asking for her permission to enter the building and inspect it for soundness and hazardous materials. He noted in his letter that the building was irreparably damaged.

When permission wasn’t given for Stewart to inspect, Mitchell said the city sent Baldi a letter citing RSA 155:B and an order for correction of a hazardous condition. The letter went on the state that if Baldi didn’t raze the building herself, then the city would seek a court order to do its own demolition.

Mitchell contends that Carroll had enough evidence from the pictures of the charred shell presented at trial and Stewart’s expert testimony backed by 10 years of experience in code enforcement that he could see the walls listing from the outside and that it was in danger of collapse.

He also said that the issues Moeckel raised in his motion to have Carroll’s ruling overturned were never addressed at the initial trial and since the matter before the court is not a new trial but a review of Carroll’s ruling it was no place to introduce facts not brought up at the original trial.

Judge James O’Neill said he would consider the arguments and issue ruling at a later date.

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“We were targeted from the obituary,” Sturgeon said yesterday, explaining that their names appeared among her father’s survivors, along with the date, place and time of the service, in the obituary, which because her father was known throughout the state was printed in half-a-dozen newspapers and posted on Facebook. “I even thought to find a house-sitter for my mother that day,” she said, “thinking her house should not be empty. But, I didn’t think of our home.”

When Sturgeon learned from the police that “this is happening more and more” she decided to offer her experience as a caution to others. “In your moment of grief, when you’re distraught and dis-

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“I began telling funeral directors to add securing their home to the checklist when they discuss arrangements with families,” she said. “My mess should be my message,” she remarked, adding “everyone should have a house-sitter.”

Sergeant Kristopher Bean of the Bristol Police said that his department, like most others, encourages residents who plan to be away from home for an extended time to ask the police to check on their home. “The vacant house check form is on our website,” he said, explaining that when a resident requests their home be checked a copy is distributed to all patrol officers, who will frequent the neighborhood during their shift and ensure that the residence remains secured.

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The tax commitment, or total amount to be raised by property taxes, increased by $583,576 from $5,163,474 to $5,747,050, a rise of

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SENTENCE from page 3 “There’s no evidence we have been able to find that supports her statement today that Mr. Smeltzer killed Mason,” Young said. “You heard a reading from an 8-year-old girl who has suffered more trauma than any of us could understand.”

Smeltzer said he wished he had a “rewind button” to go back and change what he did, including leaving his delusional wife to do cocaine and smoke crack with his friends. He came home, prosecutors say, to find his son strangled, his daughter dangling off the bed with a scarf wound around her neck and his wife in the throes of a suicide attempt.

“As soon as I saw my son I knew something was very wrong,” Smeltzer said, choking with emotion. “I knew he was dead and I lost all control.

Enraged, I struck my wife. I did something that was not going to bring my son back.”

Smeltzer believed his daughter was dead as well. Prosecutors say toxicology tests confirm he took a large

quantity of pills in an effort to take his own life. They say Mercey awakened him the next morning and asked if her mother and brother were breathing, and asked her father to make her some tea.

Young said the girl repeatedly told investigators it was her mother who carried her into the master bedroom and it was her father who removed the scarf from her neck.

Defense attorney John Newman asked the judge to impose a 7 1/2 to 10 year sentence, saying he could think of no greater provocation to manslaughter than Smeltzer picking up his dead son, putting his mouth to his son’s mouth only to find it ice cold.

“Mercey is an innocent victim of Chris’s actions as well as Mara’s actions,” Newman said. “Chris is painfully aware his actions were wrong.”

Pappaladro’s sisters spoke of her passion for nature and reading and dreams of writing children’s books one day.

“She believed in God, the saints, the power of prayer and love and even in magic,” her sister, Mona Harris, said.

GERMANY from page 2 by far Europe’s biggest economy — to lead the continent out of crisis.

“Germany should take on a leadership role because right now, economically, it is the one that can,” said Nacho Criado, 31, on his way to his job laying fiber optic cable in downtown Madrid.

On Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed forward with a Berlin-engineered action plan for containing Europe’s crisis, calling for tougher rules to keep national budgets under control. She set the agenda for next week’s critical European Union summit, saying it would grapple with a strategy to make sure countries follow the rules and write those changes into EU treaties.

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any fears of German preeminence in Europe.

“Our guidelines for next week are clear, but it is important for me to say that they have nothing to do with fears or concerns that we are reading about or hear that Germany wants to dominate Europe or some such,” she said. “That is absurd.”

Increasingly, however, such fears appear to be getting more subdued.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, whose nation often lives in the shadow of its giant northern neighbor, dismissed out of hand any worries about renewed German dominance.

“I’m really happy,” he said of Merkel’s initiatives for saving Europe.

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We have some new faces!

Although still seeing patients, Dr. Charles Lambert has decided to reduce his administrative duties and brought on a trusted colleague.

Please welcome Dr. Joseph Cariello as the new owner and dentist.

A little bit about Dr. Joe: He graduated from the State University at Buffalo in 2000.

He has five small children, four boys and one girl.

He knew he wanted to be a dentist when he was eight.

We’re also pleased to introduce Dr. Karin Lamar and Dr. Joseph Williams.

Dr. Lamar was named one of New Hampshire Magazine’s Top Dentists in 2010.

Dr. Williams taught at Tufts University, and earned a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry.

We now provide Invisalign, Zoom Whitening, and multiple implant systems.

For your convenience we have family scheduling and extended hours.

Learn more at our new website, www.interlakesdental.com.

As always, please call us at (603)253-4363 or stop in any time.

You’re in great hands at Interlakes.

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INVITATION TO BID

The County of Belknap invites the submission of lump sum bids from qualified Contractors for the HVAC System Renovations at the Belknap County Superior Court.

1. Bidding Documents for use by Contractors in preparation of bids maybe obtained November 29, 2011 from Signature Press, P.O. Box 16328, 45 Londonderry Tpke, Route 28 Bypass, Hooksett, NH 03106-6328, (603) 624-4025. Bid Documents will not be separately issued to Sub-bidders or others.

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3. Sealed bids clearly marked “ Courthouse HVAC Bid” will be received for the proposed work in the office of Belknap County Offices, 34 County Drive, Laconia, NH 03246 prior to 2 PM, Local Time, December 22, 2011 Proposals will be opened and read allowed. Decisions regarding award will not be made at this time.

4. No bidder may withdraw his bid prior to 45 days subsequent to actual opening thereof.

5. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, the Owner may undertake the work by such means as he deems suitable. The Owner further reserves the right to waive any formalities in the preparation and submittal of proposals.

6. Labor and materials Performance Bonds in the amount of 100% of the Contract price will be required of the successful bidder.

7. A Pre-Bid Conference and Construction Site Walk-Through Inspection will be conducted on December 6, 2011, at 9 AM The location of the conference will be at Belknap County Superior Court House, 64 Court Street, Laconia, New Hampshire.

Questions may be directed to Dustin Muzzey, Belknap County Facilities Manager at 527-5490.

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‘Homes for the Holidays’ tours today & Sunday Left to right, Opechee Garden Club member Debbie Johnson and boutique committee co-chairmen Becky Gage and Eleanor Swain create seasonal arrangements in preparation for the club’s annual “Homes for the Holidays” House Tour on Saturday, Dec. 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The tour will feature five festive homes in Laconia and Gilford. Tickets for the events may be purchased for $10 at the Belknap Mill, the Gilford and Laconia Libraries and at Kitchen Cravings Restaurant in Gilford. The tour will again be headquartered at the mill. (Laconia Daily Sun photo/Adam Drapcho)

CAIN from page 2 he needed to consider what he would do with campaign donations already banked if he dropped out of the race.

“Nobody’s going to make me make that prematurely,” Cain told a crowd of about 100 people. “That’s all there is to it.”

“My wife and family comes first. I’ve got to take that into consideration,” Cain added. “I don’t doubt the support

that I have. Just look at the people who are here.”

Cain had not seen his wife since Ginger White, 46, came forward and said she had a sexual affair with Cain that lasted more than a decade. He has said they were only friends but acknowledged that he helped pay her monthly bills and expenses. His wife, Cain said, did not know of the friendship with White.

from preceding page templated with horror what would happen if Germany got fed up with Europe’s debt shambles and simply walked away.

“What is left of the euro if Germany says goodbye? A house of cards,” Lennart Sacredeus, a lawmaker with the Christian Democrats in Sweden’s governing coalition, wrote in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Throughout the crisis, Merkel has worked closely with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the other heavyweight leader among the nations that share the euro. But Sarkozy, slumping in polls ahead of elections next year, has recently proven much more willing to bend to the chancellor’s way of thinking.

In particular, he has embraced German ideas of countries ceding control of a chunk of their budgets to a central authority, even at the expense of some national sovereignty.

Finance Minister Francois Baroin this week talked about a “FrancoGerman political impulse” to save the euro. He noted Germany’s economic successes compare favorably to France’s debt difficulties, and concluded in a radio interview: “Germany is a model that interests us.”

France’s political opposition, meanwhile, has attacked Sarkozy for letting Merkel call the shots.

“For months, it’s been Madame Merkel who decides and Nicolas Sarkozy who follows,” Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande said this week.

But Europeans seem increasingly inclined to support Germany’s leadership — or at least to go along with it.

“This government is not afraid of Germany,” Italian political analyst

Sergio Romano said of Rome’s new regime of technocrats tasked with solving the nation’s debt crisis.

“It hasn’t said so explicitly, but would say the same thing Sikorski did: We are more afraid of a powerless Germany than a powerful Germany.”

While former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi bristled at German interference, new Prime Minister Mario Monti has called the German culture of stability one of its “better exports.”

“I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but which was rarely meant to be a compliment,” Monti said at a recent event.

Likewise, incoming conservative Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is seen as much more open to Germany’s leadership than outgoing socialist Premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

And newspapers regularly praise the combined Merkel and Sarkozy approach to solving Europe’s problems.

Rafael Gaisse, a Madrid attorney, said Merkel’s guiding role is now one people accept as fact. But he added there is the perception that she too often reverts to negative leadership.

“She is preventing certain measures that could probably improve the situation, mainly with regard to the sovereign debt problem,” Gaisse said.

“Until now, the only thing she has done is say ‘No, no, no’ to everything.”

Experts say that’s because Berlin stands confident in its vision.

“The German administration is very convinced that their intellectual argument has won — you need more stability, more rules, more sanctions,” said Katharina Gnath, an economist and political scientist.

— WORSHIP SERVICES — FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BELMONT 9:00am Sunday School Worship Services at 9:00 & 10:00am

Rev. James Smith - 49 Church St., Belmont 267-8185

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 136 Pleasant St., Laconia • 524-7132 10:30 am Sunday Services 10:30 am Sunday School 7 pm Wednesday Services ALL ARE WELCOME Reading Room in Church Building Open Mon, Wed, Fri • 11 am-2 pm

Weirs United Methodist Church

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Sunday Service & Sunday School at 10 AM

ALL ARE WELCOME! 8AM & 10:15AM - WORSHIP SERVICE Pastor Dave Dalzell 2238 Parade Rd, Laconia • 528-4078

35 Tower St., Weirs Beach P.O. Box 5268

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The Unitarian Universalist Society of Laconia 172 Pleasant Street • Laconia www.uusl.org

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We are a Welcoming Congregation Sunday, December 4th 10:00 am “World AIDS Day” Rev. Kent McKusick, UUSL Minister Music by UUSL Choir Wedding Chapel Available

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Group determined to establish dog park has chin up despite recent setback munity of local pet owners and provide education and opportunities for them to gather together.

Although the first goal has so far escaped them, Happy Tails has already begun pursuing the second.

For example, the organization last month hosted its third gathering of “pet parents.” The event was held at the New Hampshire Humane Society in Laconia and featured a seminar about dog behavior and training. About two dozen people attended. The group is planning to host another social event for the beginning of 2012.

Another plan for the new year is the foundation of a fundraising committee, Clutters said, noting that though the organization’s board members are passionate and dedicated, they are also occupied by the full-time work. “For what we lack in a bank account, we make up with optimism,” she said. If the committee can raise enough money, the organization would like to hire a employee to relieve the volunteer board members of the organization’s administrative tasks.

“It’s not lack of passion or drive, it’s time, that’s our

biggest thing,” Clutters said.

Clutters asked anyone interested in volunteering for the cause to send an e-mail to mistyw@metrocast.net.

The organization’s modest goals for next year are in pursuit of their primary objective, to establish a park for people and their dogs. Clutters said the organization is open to a location in any Lakes Region town.

Though the campaign has been pursued for three years without a park to show for the effort, Clutters said the Happy Tails spirits remain buoyant. “We have just been so blessed that we have received so much love and goodwill and support for the community, it’s kept us going.”

“In today’s society, dogs are really the fifth family member,” Clutters said. The pursuit of their goal is worth the years of toil, she explained, because, “There really is a need for a safe place or people to take their dogs. There’s such a need that we’ve seen.

It’s akin to a child’s playground.”

JACKSON from page 2 appointment.

The report had not been released previously and the ethics committee had delayed its investigation because the Justice Department was conducting a criminal investigation that led to Blagojevich’s conviction on a series of corruption charges including efforts to sell a Senate appointment. The Justice Department recently withdrew its request for the committee to defer its investigation, indicating it is no longer actively investigating Jackson.

The ethics committee had previously said it would determine by Friday what course its investigation would take involving Jackson, a Democrat and son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.

The younger Jackson responded to the committee’s decision to extend the investigation with a statement pledging to cooperate and reiterating that his efforts to be appointed to the Senate were above-board.

“I have said from the beginning that I publicly and transparently sought to have the Governor of Illinois appoint me to fulfill the final two years of then-Senator Barack Obama’s term in the U.S. Senate,” he said. “I did nothing illegal, unethical or inappropriate in that

pursuit and I believe that is what the Ethics Committee will conclude at the end of this process.”

Jackson also released a letter from his attorneys, who wrote that there is no basis for the committee’s investigation and urged the panel to “close its investigation of this matter.”

“Although Congressman Jackson was interested in the appointment ... he was largely focused on his

own re-election and Obama’s campaign,” Reid H. Weingarten and Brian M. Heberlig said in the letter.

Friday’s announcement means the committee will continue looking into allegations involving Blagojevich and whether Jackson inappropriately used government resources to angle for an appointment. It voted unanimously to continue its inquiry and set no timetable for a conclusion.

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BELMONT — A few months ago, things were looking great for the Happy Tails Dog Park of the Lakes Region, the non-profit group seeking to create a place for people to bring their dogs for play and socialization. A land deal was in the works, with a buyer intending to start a business in Belmont and allow the dog park to exist on the same property.

Happy Tails had begun to work on a site plan to present to the town’s Planning Board. Before that could happen, though, the business deal fell through and with it went a great opportunity. However, founding member Lisa Clutters said the group is taking the setback in stride and are gearing up for 2012.

The group that became the Happy Tails non-profit first gathered in 2008. “We’re dog lovers, of course, animal lovers in general,” said Clutters. The organizations has what she called a “dual-pronged” goal. The first is to establish a park where people can legally and safely bring their dogs. The second is to foster the com-

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A Christian & Missionary Alliance Church 115 Court Street – Laconia Pastor Bob Smith A/C

8:00am - Early Worship 9:30am - Family Worship & Church School

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Isaiah 40: 1-11 Social Fellowship follows the service.

Wherever you may be on life’s journey, you are welcome here!

Nursery Care available in Parish House

4 Highland Street, off Main Street, Meredith The Reverend Dr. Russell Rowland Join us Sunday at 10 a.m. for worship Sunday School and fellowship

Sermon - “The Beginning of the Good News” Isaiah 40: 1-5 • Mark 1: 1-8

Evangelical Baptist Church Sundays 8:45, 10am ebclaconia.com

279-6271 ~ www.fccmeredith.org

12 Veterans Square Laconia, NH, Phone 1-603-524-2277

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The Lakes Region Vineyard Church 175 Mechanic St. Lakeport, NH • 603-527-2662

Empowered Evangelicals, who proclaim the Kingdom of God, minister in the power of the Spirit and keep Christ at the center of life.

“It feels like coming home.”

Sunday morning celebration ~ 8:30am & 10:30am Contemporary Worship Sunday School & Nursery • Tuesday night Youth Mid-week Bible studies.

Christ Life Center Food Pantry Thurs. 9 am– 12 noon • 524-5895

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Gilford Community Church 19 Potter Hill Road “In the Village”

524-6057

www.gilfordcommunitychurch.org Childcare in Amyʼs Room The Reverend Michael C. Graham

Join Us for Sunday Worship 10:00 am

LifeQuest Church

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LACONIA

ST. JAMES CHURCH 876 North Main St. (Rt. 106) Opp. Opechee Park “The Episcopal Church Welcomes You”

524-5800

Basis of hope and peace Holy Eucharist at 10AM Sunday School at 9:30AM

500 Morrill Street, Gilford 524-9499 Sunday Mass: 7:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m.

Daily Mass: 8:00 a.m.

Mass on Holy Days of Obligation: 7:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Confessions: One Hour Before Each Mass Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and Rosary each Wednesday: 7:00 p.m.

Marriages & Baptisms by Appointment

THE BIBLE SPEAKS’ CHURCH 40 Belvidere St. Lakeport, NH

Tel: 528-1549

Dial-A-Devotional: 528-5054

Head Pastor: Robert N. Horne PUBLIC ACCESS TV - LACONIA SUNDAY/MONDAY 11AM CHANNEL 25

Sunday School Classes 9:30 am Morning Worship Service 10:45 am Evening Service 7:00 pm

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First United Methodist Church 18 Wesley Way (Rt. 11A), Gilford 524-3289 Rev. Dr. Victoria Wood Parrish, Pastor

2nd Sunday of Advent COMMUNION SUNDAY 9:15AM - Adult Bible Study 10:30AM - Worship & Children’s Faith Quest

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church

(Traditional Catholic Latin Rite) The Traditional Latin Rite Mass has been celebrated and revered by the Popes of the Church from time immemorial to POPE JOHN PAUL II who requested that it have “a wide and generous application.”

St. James Preschool 528-2111

The Rev. Tobias Nyatsambo, Pastor

Sermon - “What the World Needs Now is ...”

“Open Hearts, “Open Minds, “Open Doors”

Music Ministry: Hallelujah Bells & the Wesley Choir Professional Nursery Available

The United Baptist Church 23-35 Park St., Lakeport 524-8775 • Rev. Sharron Lamothe Amy Powell & Ben Kimball - Youth Directors Emily Haggerty - Organist / Choir Director Anne Parsons - Choir Director / Emeritus

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT / LOVE COMMUNION SUNDAY Isaiah 40: 1-11 and Mark 1: 1-8 Morning Message: “Making a Way in the Wilderness”

Morning Worship - 10:30am (child care provided) SILVER BELLS FAIR ... TODAY FROM 9AM -1PM ~ Handicap Accessible & Devices for the Hearing Impaired~ Food Pantry Hours: Fridays from 10am to 12 noon

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CENTER HARBOR — Mary Patten (Patte) Fancher, 83, of Center Harbor, New Hampshire, passed away November 30, 2011, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on March 13, 1928, she was the daughter of Howard and Mary Hawley.

Patte grew up in the Auburn/Lewiston area of Maine, and went to Edward Little High School. Married in 1946, she spent much of her family life in Reading, MA. While raising four children, she returned to school and, at the age of 41, graduated 2nd in her class as an RN from the Malden School of Nursing. Patte went on to become a valued and compassionate visiting nurse working for the Visiting Nurse Association of Lynn, Mass.

After moving to Center Harbor, NH in 1979, she continued her work with the Lakes Region Community Health Agency, the Laconia State School and the Pemi-Baker Home Health Agency in Plymouth.

In her “retirement” years Patte and her husband Frank welcomed many guests to “Hedgecroft,” their

beautiful home turned bed and breakfast.

Patte was a dedicated member of her church community and the Scholarship Committee of the Center Harbor Women’s Club. An accomplished knitter, crafter, avid camper, cook, golfer, skier and swimmer her love for these activities was surpassed only by her love for her family.

She is survived by her loving husband, Franklin C. Fancher, son, Dr. John H. Fancher, daughter and son-in-law, Sandra F. Garron and Michael Garron, daughter, Robin E. Fancher, daughter, Tracey P. Bartel, seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Donations in lieu of flowers may be made in her memory to the Visiting Nurses of Meredith and Center Harbor, NH. http://www.mphna.org/ A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 11:00 am at Trinity Episcopal Church, Meredith, NH. Mayhew Funeral Homes and Crematorium, of Meredith and Plymouth, are assisting the family with the arrangements. www.mayhewfuneralhomes.com

MVSB collecting mittens, making donations MEREDITH — Meredith Village Savings Bank will continue its annual holiday tradition to keep hands and hearts warm by giving new mittens, gloves, hats, and scarves to residents in the local communities.

Now through December 24, MVSB customers and community members can drop off their handmade or purchased mittens, hats and scarves at their nearest MVSB office. The items will be displayed on a special tree in each lobby before being distributed to members of the community who need them.

In addition, MVSB will contribute $2 for every item donated to local community groups and non-

profit organizations. Each person making a donation can choose the way the associated donation will be given from four options: local women’s clubs, senior services organizations, food pantries or humane societies. Last year, the MVSB Mitten Tree Program donated more than $2,500 to organizations in the Lakes Region.

Meredith Village Savings Bank, founded in 1869, is an independent mutual savings bank with 11 offices serving individuals, families, businesses and municipalities in the Lakes Region and the Plymouth area. More information can be found at www. mvsb.com.

Meredith Lions presenting breakfast with Santa Sunday MERDITH — The Meredith Parks and Recreation Department will be hosting its’ annual Holiday Open House in collaboration with the Meredith Lions Club this Sunday, December 4.

The Lions club will be hosting Breakfast with Santa from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. with admission for adults at $7 and children $3. The Meredith Parks and Recreation Department will host a free open house from noon to 2 p.m., with activities including

arts and crafts, jumpy house, climbing wall and spin art. There will be an opportunity to have children’s pictures taken with Santa for free and some goodies to snack on.

People can join Santa at Hesky Park at 5 p.m. for some caroling with the Boys Scouts while enjoying some hot cocoa and snacks while waiting for Santa to turn on the lights at 5:30 p.m.

Pemi-Baker Republicans to elect officers on Tuesday LACONIA — The Pemi-Baker Valley Republican Committee will meet Thursday, December 8 at 7

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Lakes Region Real Estate Market Report / Roy Sanborn

Happy Hubby Homeowner’s Christmas List The number of residential sales last month in the towns covered by this Lakes Region market report were up 16-percent over last October. There were 79 transactions in October 2011 at an average sales price of $300,711 compared to 68 sales October last at an average price of $395,012. For the first 10 months of the year we have had 624 sales at an average $310,684 compared to 651 sales at an average $312,000 for the same period last year. It would be nice if we could have an exceptionally strong holiday season and finish ahead of last year. Maybe Santa will be nice and bring lots of buyers this Christmas season.

Speaking of Santa, Black Friday was yesterday and the holiday shopping frenzy has officially begun. Yeehaaa! Every year I put together a list of home improvement related gifts ensuring that the Mrs. can’t go wrong when she is shopping for her hubby. I consider it one of my many public service announcements. So what would be welcomed under the tree this year?

Starting with some stocking stuffers, over at Sears you can pick up a Craftsman 8 in 1 Ratcheting Rotary Wrench with eight six point sockets sized from 5/16” to 3/4” for only $29.99. Black and Decker also has a similar tool, the RRW100 Ready Wrench, that has 16 color coded (some of us need all the help we can get) metric and standard sizes for only $16.95. Every guy needs wrenches and for these prices you can’t go wrong.

Or how about the Black and Decker Li3100 Compact Lithium-Ion screw driver? Unlike some other cordless screwdrivers it features advanced battery technology that keeps the tool charged and ready for up to 18 months. Its compact design and

LED light are especially helpful in dark or cramped spaces.

A great gift for under thirty bucks.

I have always had trouble finding a good notebook. If you’re like me you need to write everything down. But pages always seem to tear or rip out of those cheap spiral bound notebooks. I stumbled on a highly durable, 3 ½” x 5 ½”, 48 page memo book that is bound with a three staple saddle stitch process. It has a heavy duty cover and 6.5mm paper that won’t tear easily or bleed through. They come with plain, ruled, or graph paper and fit perfectly in your shirt pocket. They are sold in packs of three for $9.95. You can also get a larger 6” x 9” 80 page steno version for $9.95. You can order these on line at www.fieldnotesbrand.com. They’re great for all the “to do” lists you have in mind. You can fill one out so he has some chores to start with.

The Black & Decker TLD100 Thermal Leak Detector will satisfy the guy who likes gadgets.

This handy device will detect areas in your home where you have poor insulation or leaks around your fireplace, doors, windows, electrical outlets, or recessed lighting. Not only will you have him out of your hair for hours, he will then be able to fix the drafts you have been complaining about and save you some money on heating and cooling bills.

He can also use this to check the temperature of the beer fridge. He’ll like that. Find it at Sears for around $30.

The ever popular Leatherman #830846 Skeletool Multitool makes my list once again as it is something that the guys always appreciate.

I know the ladies would rather see a nice set of see next page

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Lakeland School students collect donations for Meredith Emergency Food Pantry Students at the Lakeland School in Meredith started the season of giving by collecting items for donation to the Meredith Emergency Food Pantry. Shown here is the Mrs. Reynolds’ class.

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Central NH Young Professionals Group holding Toys for Tots event PLYMOUTH — The Central New Hampshire Young Professionals Group (CNHYPG), a subsidiary of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, will hold a holiday social networking and community event December 7, at the Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street in Plymouth. There will be holiday musical entertainment and movie

playing in the theatre throughout the night, so there is entertainment for young and old alike.

This event is primarily a Toys for Tots drive which will indeed put some smiles on less fortunate children in area communities this holiday season.

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from preceding page steak knives, but this tool not only will slice and dice with its razor sharp blade, it has needle nose and regular pliers, a bit driver, wire cutters, and a bottle opener which is real handy for that expensive foreign beer. It is available on Amazon.com or Home Depot for around $60. You can’t go wrong here.

I find that I not only can’t remember as well as I used to, but I also can’t see as well either. Especially the sizes that are stamped on my socket sets. (Ladies, those are those little thimble looking things that attached to a handle to loosen nuts.) They were always hard to read even back when I could actually see something. I’m guessing there are a lot of us in the same boat. Well Sears figured that out a while ago and made Easy To Read Socket Sets with numbers you don’t need a magnifying glass for. They offer a variety of sets with prices starting under $20 and proceeding up to several hundred depending on the size of the set. If hubby works on nothing more than the lawnmower he’ll appreciate these.

Things that go “whir-whir” such as cordless drills are always welcome by the home do-it-yourselfer. There seems to be hundreds of cordless drill choices from as little as $30 up to $400. What you should buy your master of the tool universe depends on how much and what he uses it for. Most can get by with a less expensive 3/8” cordless drill like the Black and Decker 20 Volt-3/8” Drive Lithium-Ion Drill/ Driver for just under ninety bucks at Lowes. If he’s into really into making holes, something like the Dewalt 18

volt ½” cordless Lithium-Ion drill/ driver Model DCD-760KL might be the ticket. It has an extra battery, case, and can handle the larger bits.

In any event talk to the salesman at Lowes, Home Depot, or your local hardware store for their recommendations based on your hubby’s needs.

If you have a heated garage at your home you might consider buying your husband a Park-Smart Garage Floor Mat. I know it is not very glamorous but I’ve used them for years and they work great. These vinyl floor mats collect and contain all the snow and mush that melts off your car overnight and keeps your floors clean.

They are made of 20 mil vinyl and have edges that snap on to contain the liquid. They start at $150 for a 7.5’ x 14’ and increase depending on the size you need. For a few bucks more a 50 mil version is available. You can order on line at places like www.autogeek. net or amazon.com.

If you don’t think any of these items will work for your man, just remember, when shopping for tools if it is shiny, or makes noise, or has dials on it, can be used to open something, cut something, or bang on something he’ll probably like it. Happy shopping!

Log on to my blog at www.lakesregionrealestatenews.com for the details on these sales and others. You can also receive these reports by email. Roy Sanborn is a REALTOR® for Roche Realty Group, at 97 Daniel Webster Highway in Meredith and can be reached at 677-8420. Data was compiled as of 11/22/11 using the Northern New England Real Estate MLS System.

Ring in the New Year at Democrats honor Lamb the Historic Belknap Mill LACONIA — The Holbrook Bell in the at the Historic Belknap Mill in downtown Laconia will be rung at the stroke of midnight to welcome in 2012. Doors will open at 11:30 p.m., with light refreshments available. The event is free and open to the public.

“This tradition began over 40 years ago by Belknap Mill Society Founder Peter Karagianis,” indicated Stephen Cotter, current Belknap Mill Society president. “It’s a fine way to welcome in the new year.”

The Holbrook Bell has been housed in the Mill’s bell tower for almost two hundred years. It was originally cast in 1823 by George Holbrook, an apprentice to Paul Revere. The bell is only rung on special occasions such as this.

A “Trees for the Holidays” display of dozens of trees decorated by individuals, organizations, classrooms and businesses will continue through January 6. Visitors can vote for their favorite tree and prizes will be awarded.

For any last minute holiday shopping idea, consider the Mill’s Meetinghouse Gift Shop that has unique items, including a new take on the traditional Christmas stocking to hang on the mantel. There are stockings created by Belknap Mill volunteers on the original textile machines within the Mill that for decades manufactured various textiles. Other items include winter socks and ski socks, books on local and area history for both children and adults, fine jewelry made by local artists, and interesting stationery and notecards.

Founded in 1970, the Belknap Mill Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created to preserve and maintain the Historic Belknap Mill, an important and historic community landmark in downtown Laconia. In addition to its educational exhibits and art gallery, the Mill is available for meetings and events and is open year-round Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday until 3 p.m. It is located in the heart of Laconia at 25 Beacon Street East, next to Laconia City Hall. Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted. For more information, call the Mill at 603-524-8813, email information@belknapmill.org or visit the website at www.belknapmill.org.

Italian Club plans trip to Hub for Pompeii Exhibit LACONIA — The New Hampshire Lakes Region Italian Club is accepting reservations for their upcoming trip to the Boston Museum of Science to view the exhibit ‘A Day in Pompeii’ on Saturday, January 14.

Participants will be picked up in Laconia at 9 a.m. by Premier Motor Coach and will arrive at the museum at 11. The exhibit tour will take approximately two hours and will include an audio presentation.

Following the museum visit, the coach will bring participants to the North End where they will have two hours to have lunch, shop, or just see the sights.

The bus will return to Laconia by 6 p.m. Cost for the day is $55 per person and includes transportation, museum admission and snacks on the bus.

For more information or to make a reservation, call Pat Guevin at 520-1438. Seating is limited and will be granted on a first-paid basis. from preceding page Kevin Lincoln, a lieutenant in the Plymouth Fire Department and the coordinator of Operation Santa Claus for Toys for Tots. This year’s event is also sponsored by the Common Man Family and Northway Bank.

The CNHYPG holds monthly networking events for all local young professionals the second Tuesday of the month at Biederman’s Deli & Pub. Follow them on Facebook to stay tuned on upcoming networking opportunities, events, and photos, or contact Peter Laufenberg at plaufenberg@plymouth.edu.

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re a giver. But you also know that if you give too much up front, no one will be interested. And people would rather pay something than get it for free. So you’ll make people work a little for your offerings, and everyone benefits.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You’ll follow through with a thankless job. You know that no one will give you money, a trophy or even a cookie for this. But you don’t care. You’re doing it for personal reasons, and the reward will be significant, if only to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

There are some behaviors you repeat that just don’t make sense. But you’re about to get to the bottom of this, and you’ll soon exercise greater control over the matter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

Aquarius musician and composer Snuffy Walden said, “Music is the answer.

Does the question really matter?” Today you’ll use music to get into the optimum mood and solve your problem.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You need attention, and you’ll get it. Realizing that you need it (instead of denying this fact because you think you shouldn’t) will help you work in positive and constructive ways for the right kind of attention.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 3). There will be a fantastic addition to your home life. You’ll take your time getting to know people, and much success springs from this approach. In January, you’ll shoot for a particular aim, and it will feel so right. Someone falls in love with your winning ways this coming spring. You’ll love how your work is presented in May. Aries and Cancer people adore you.

Your lucky numbers are: 3, 25, 1, 29 and 19.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). If only you could process information like a robot, without attaching emotional meaning to everything. But it turns out all those feelings, as inefficient as they may be, are what make you irresistible to a certain someone.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You can’t be upset and have hope and optimism at the same time. Let yourself feel the upset and move through it -- it won’t last long. Then you can reclaim your hope and optimism.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll come to a juncture you’ve seen before.

You’ll make a choice that’s better for you this time. It won’t be easier, but it will make everything lighter and brighter in the end.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Peer pressure isn’t just for schoolchildren.

You’ll feel a subtle strain of it among adults. It will appear that many around you share the same beliefs and attitudes -- or do they? Some are merely succumbing to suggestion.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Sometimes it’s OK to stop striving to live up to your potential. What if you simply stayed put?

You won’t be able to relax for too long, but whatever comfort you can manage will give you much needed perspective.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll be given a lot of raw ingredients and not too much instruction as to how they should all go together. This is good news. You’re free to create. It will be what you make it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You respect your elders; you always have.

You may not always have had the proper manners, attention and awareness to express your respect like you do now, though. So in some way, you’ll feel like you’re making up for that.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2011. There are 28 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 3, 1911, Italian film composer Nino Rota, known for scoring works by such directors as Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti, as well as the first two “Godfather” movies, was born in Milan.

On this date: In 1810, British forces captured Mauritius from the French, who had renamed the island nation off southeast Africa “Ile de France.”

In 1818, Illinois was admitted as the 21st state.

In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States by the Electoral College.

In 1833, Oberlin College in Ohio — the first truly coeducational school of higher learning in the United States — began holding classes.

In 1925, George Gershwin’s Concerto in F had its world premiere at New York’s Carnegie Hall, with Gershwin at the piano.

In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway.

In 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the new heart.

In 1979, 11 people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.

In 1991, radicals in Lebanon released American hostage Alann (cq) Steen, who’d been held captive nearly five years.

One year ago: During a surprise holiday-season visit to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama told cheering U.S. troops at Bagram Air Field they were succeeding in their mission fighting terrorism; however, foul weather prevented Obama from meeting with President Hamid Karzai in Kabul to address frayed relations.

Today’s Birthdays: Singer Andy Williams is 84. Movie director Jean-Luc Godard is 81.

Actor Nicolas Coster is 78. Actress Mary Alice is 70. Rock singer Ozzy Osbourne is 63. Actress Heather Menzies is 62. Rock singer Mickey Thomas is 62. Actor Steven Culp is 56. Actress Daryl Hannah is 51.

Actress Julianne Moore is 51. Olympic gold medal figure skater Katarina Witt is 46. Actor Brendan Fraser is 43. Singer Montell Jordan is 43. Actor Royale Watkins is 42. Actor Bruno Campos is 38. Actress Holly Marie Combs is 38. Actress Lauren Roman is 36.

Pop-rock singer Daniel Bedingfield is 32.

Actress Anna Chlumsky is 31. Actor Brian Bonsall is 30. Pop/rock singer-songwriter Andy Grammer is 28. Actress Amanda Seyfried is 26. Actor Michael Angarano is 24.

Actor Jake T. Austin is 17.

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CALENDAR TODAY’S EVENTS Tilton Christmas Parade. 3 p.m. start from Union Sanborn School in Northfield. Route will take parade east from school on Elm Street to the Cannon Bridge, then back west on Main Street in Tilton to the high school. Santa will greet public after the parade at Riverside Park.

Friends of the Meredith Public Library Holiday Open House. 10 a.m. to noon. Home-made goodies, coffee, tea and punch with Friends meeting to follow. For more information contact Beverly Heyduk at 279-1206.

The Streetcar Company presents “The Miracle Worker”. 7 p.m. at the Laconia High School Auditorium. $10. www.streetcarcompany.com.

Christmas Village at the Laconia Community Center open to the public with admission free of charge. 2 to 5 p.m.

Annual Gilford Middle High School Craft Fair. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at both schools. Over 150 crafters from all over New England.

Christmas Cookie Walk and Hot Soup Lunch. Noon to 4 p.m. at the Tilton Episcopal Church on Main Street.

Homes For The Holidays house tour presented by the Opechee Garden Club. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Headquarters and Greens Boutique at the Belknap Mill in Laconia. Selfguided tour of five homes in Laconia/Gilford. $10. For more information call 524-8813 or 524-2555.

Fashion Friendzee Clothing Swap at the Margate Resort in Laconia. 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fashion forward women invited to bring items in for one-for-one swap. $10 admission fee, with proceeds going to local food pantries and the WLNH Children’s Auction. For more information call LeeAnn Fay-Ellis at 393-2190.

Save our ailing roof by entering the Tapply Thompson Community Center (Bristol) Shingle Jingle 5K road race.

9:30 a.m. registration and 10:30 start at Newfound Memorial Middle School (155 North Main Street). Pre-register a www.coolrunning.com or by calling TTCC at 744-2713.

Famous English Christmas Tea and fair hosted by the Gilmanton Community Church (GIW). 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tea in the parlor with a roaring fire in the fireplace. $6.

Fair in the church undercroft.

Christmas Fair hosted by the Gilford Community Church. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evergreen decorations, jewelry, used books, crafts, toys and Santa’s Attic. Baked goods for sale. Lunch.

Lakes Region Youth Hockey’s Learn to Skate program.

9 am. at the Laconia Ice Arena. Registration starts at 8:30.

Sanbornton Historical Society Wreath Sale and Christmas Craft Fair. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lane Tavern.

Also cookie walk and baked goods sale. Free coffee. Hot mulled cider available. Lunch for a nominal fee.

Annual Festival of Trees hosted by the Altrusa Club of Meredith. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Waukewan Golf Club (Waukewan Road) in Center Harbor. $3 admission.

Grammy award-winning Ed Gerhard presents his 20th Annual Christmas Guitar Concert at the Belknap Mill in Laconia. 7:30 p.m. $22 at the door.

Toys For Tots Pool Tournament at Shooters Tavern in Belmont. Registration at 11 a.m. and play begins at noon.

Entree fee is $15 and an unwrapped toy. $150 will be added to purse. For more information call 528-2444.

3rd Annual Santa Land Program hosted by Gilford Parks & Recreation and the Gilford Youth Center. 10 a.m. to noon.

Holiday themed games and activities at the Youth Center.

Breakfast, Book & Bake Sale hosted by the Sanbornton Congregational Church in the undercroft. 8 a.m. to noon. Breakfast buffet, $5.

Christmas Sale hosted by Christ Women’s Fellowship at the Bristol United Church of Christ. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

At the Fellowship Hall on Church Street, off of South Main Street. Decorated wreaths, swags, baskets, baked goods, handmade crafts etc. Santa will have a gift for every child.

Hot spiced cider and donuts.

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Altrusa gives books to jail

GILFORD — The Laconia Altrusa Club donated books and CD’s to the Belknap County Jail as part of “Make a Difference Day.” The CD’s will be used to record the voice of an incarcerated mother or father reading a book. The child will then be given the book with the recorded voice of mom or dad reading and the child can follow along with the story. This is a great way for the child to have an absent parent read them a bedtime story.

The club contacted the county jail and found that there was interest by several inmates to take part, so books and CD’s were purchased and donated.

Altrusa donated books for various ages to accommodate any inmate interested in participating in this program. Several copies of Altrusa’s own “Betty the Bookworm Visits the Library” written and published by the club, were among the donated books.

Altrusa’s hope is that the program will bond parent and child, and the child will receive the gift of their absent parent’s voice as well as an appreciation of reading.

Altrusa International, Inc. is an international association of civic minded women and men who volunteer their energies and expertise in projects dedicated to community betterment. Altrusa of Laconia raises money in a variety of ways, including the now famous “Taste of the Lakes Region”. All of the money raised is given back to the community through scholarships, donations to area libraries, Belknap County Nursing Home, and local food pantries, to name a few. The club’s focus is on literacy.

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CALENDAR from preceding page

TODAY’S EVENTS Bake Sale at the Belknap Mall in Belmont hosted by Lakes Region Gymnastics. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Demonstrations.

Christmas Flea Market at the Masonic Building (410 West Main Street) in Tilton. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Proceeds will be used to support local charities.

8th Annual Christmas Concert presented by the Carter Mountain Brass Band. 7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Gilford. $7 suggested donation.

Silver Bells Fair at United Baptist Church in Lakeport.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fudge, cookies, crafters, second-hand table. Homemade chicken soup and sandwiches for lunch (starting at 11:30).

Annual Breakfast with Santa at the Corner House Inn in Center Sandwich. 8:30 to 10 a.m. Enjoy a delicious breakfast buffet and share your Christmas list with Santa.

Call 284-6219 for reservations. $7/adult, $4/child (plus tax and gratuity). Proceeds to benefit the Squam Lake Area Chamber of Commerce.

Go Wild With Crafts day at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness. 10 to 11:30 a.m. A special program about using natural materials into amazing items to take home. Highlight will be meeting with a creature that depends on its own wild creations to survive. $7/member, $9/non-member. 968-7194. www. nhnature.org.

Santa’s Freight Station Christmas Sale hosted by the Lakeport Community Association. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. behind the Lakeport Fire Station.

Christmas at Canterbury Shaker Village festival. 3 to 8 p.m. For schedule of events and admission information visit www.shakers.org.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 “Deck the Village” festival in Belmont. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Santa will arrive at 1.

The Streetcar Company presents “The Miracle Worker”. 1 p.m. matinee at the Laconia High School Auditorium. $10. www.streetcarcompany.com.

Christmas Village at the Laconia Community Center open to the public with admission free of charge. 2 to 5 p.m.

Homes For The Holidays house tour presented by the Opechee Garden Club. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Headquarters and Greens Boutique at the Belknap Mill in Laconia. Selfguided tour of five homes in Laconia/Gilford. $10. For more information call 524-8813 or 524-2555.

Annual Festival of Trees hosted by the Altrusa Club of Meredith. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Waukewan Golf Club (Waukewan Road) in Center Harbor. $3 admission.

A classical song recital, “The Gift of Song” featuring soprano Jane Cormier and pianist Kathryn Southworth.

3 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church. $10 at the door.

Brunch with Santa at the Meredith Community Center.

10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hosted by the Meredith Lions Club. $7 for adults and $3 for children 10 and under.

Annual Meredith Parks and Recreation Department Open House at the Community Center. Noon to 2 p.m.

Photos with Santa, jumpy house, climbing wall, arts and crafts, refreshments.

Annual Meredith tree lighting ceremony at Hesky Park. 5 p.m.

Alternative Christmas Fair hosted by the Trinity Episcopal Church in Meredith. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. An encouragement to purchase gifts that benefit local and international charities. Also a bake sale and cookie walk and handmade crafts.

Candle Lighting Service of Remembrance and Vigil to commemorate World AIDS Day. 10 a.m.at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Laconia (172 Pleasant Street).

“Joyful Noise” concert featuring the Plymouth State University Chorale and Chamber Singers. 7 p.m. at the Silver Center for the Arts. For tickets call 535-2787.

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Call 645-9518.

Open Door Dinners offer free weekly meal in Tilton.

4:30 to 6 p.m. An outreach housed at Trinity Episcopal Church on Main Street, downtown. provides a free hot meal open to all members of the community. All are welcome to eat and all are welcome to help out. For more information, especially about volunteering, please call Pastor Mark at 286-3120 or e-mail him at mark@trinitytilton.org.

Drop-In Craft Time at the Gilford Public Library. 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Children invited to make and take a craft.

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Annual meeting of Laconia Youth Football and Cheer.

7 to 9 p.m. at the Laconia Police Department’s Community Room (Note change of location). Election of board members.

Sant Bani School (Sanbornton) information session at the Pease Library in Plymouth. 7 to 8 p.m. K-12 day school. For more information call 934-4240.

Overeaters Anonymous offers a program of recovery from compulsive eating using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA. Monday nights at 7 p.m. at the Laconia Congregational Church Parish Hall in Laconia. Call and leave a message for Elizabeth at 630-9969 for more information.

Laconia Chapter of Barbershop Harmony Society meeting. 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. at the Gilford Community Church. Guests and singers of all ages and skills are invited to attend these Monday night rehearsals. For more information call Guy Haas at 279-2230.

Mahjong game time at the Gilford Public Library.

12:30 to 3 p.m. New players welcome.

Men’s adult (18+) pick-up basketball at the Meredith Community Center. 7 to 9 p.m. $1 per session.

Senior exercise time at the Meredith Community Center. 9 to 10 a.m.

THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Saturday, December 3, 2011— Page 21

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I have a 35-year-old daughter with two children (ages 13 and 2), and they all are living with us. “Micki” moved in after leaving her common-law husband a few months ago. He was the third man in her life.

Since Micki has been home, she has been going out every weekend. I am “old school” and believe she should come home from work and take care of my grandchildren. But if I open my mouth, my wife will toss me out. It has already happened once before.

This situation is slowly killing me. My wife tells me Micki is still young. I say, so what? That doesn’t mean she can go to bed with every Tom, Dick and Harry. I don’t know what to do next. Any suggestions? -- One Step from Leaving Dear One Step: Micki is not as young as your wife thinks.

At 35, she is closer to middle-aged. Unless your wife wishes to enable her daughter to remain irresponsible, the two of you need to set some ground rules regarding Micki’s behavior. A social night out once a week is fine. A weekend sleeping around is not. Encourage your wife to put her grandchildren’s welfare first and see if you can come to an agreement regarding Micki’s responsibilities at home.

Dear Annie: My family is dealing with a sad and disturbing situation. My mother died a few years ago, and a mentally ill sibling is still living with Dad. “Joyce” is financially and emotionally exploiting him and is isolating Dad from the rest of the family. The house is full of garbage and is overrun with mice and bugs, and yet my father says if it weren’t for Joyce, he would be in a nursing home. (She threatens him with this every day.)

I don’t understand how he can abandon his children to live in this filth, especially when my mother kept that house spotless. Please tell us what our options are. -- Desperate Dear Desperate: Your father hasn’t abandoned you. He is

frightened and has become dependent on Joyce. Would you or another sibling be willing to take Dad in, at least temporarily, until you can straighten this out? If you want to wean him away from Joyce’s care, you will need to be more directly involved. Call the Eldercare Locator (eldercare.gov) at 1-800677-1116. Explain the situation and see what services are available in Dad’s area.

Dear Annie: I am now a mother-in-law and have a wonderful relationship with my children and their spouses. I am also a daughter-in-law and can tell “Michigan” that the best way NOT to lose her son is to always include the wife as part of the family.

My husband and I have been married for many years, and I have always felt like an outsider in his family. When we married, my mother-in-law tried to undermine our relationship.

According to her, everything in our home is “his,” nothing is “ours.” When she calls our house, she barely speaks to me.

She immediately asks to talk to my husband. She makes it clear that he is her priority and the children and I are just baggage.

But the good part is, she has taught me what not to do as a mother-in-law. I never drop in on my children. I always call first. I spend the same amount of money on my kids as I do on their spouses for birthdays, Christmas, etc. I never ask personal questions about their marriages or finances. If they are not able to come for a function, I don’t get upset or make them feel guilty. I try to be supportive and loving.

It is the small, everyday gestures that will make your children’s spouses feel like part of the family and that will help you maintain a great relationship not only with your own child, but with all the new children that come along through marriage. -- Loving All My Children in Virginia

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

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

524-4294.

Siberian Huskies- 4-6 month old pups. Price reduced. Shots.

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Autos 2000 Ford Taurus SES: 4-door, leather, buckets, moonroof, rear spoiler, 24-valve, loaded, inspected, $2,750. 991-9969.

1996 Dodge Dakota ext cab 4x4, looks and runs good, $1000/or best reasonable offer. 527-8620.

RED Bone Coon Hound PuppiesPurebred, ready for December 17th. Reserve yours now. $200.

528-5057

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

340-6219

Autos 1995 Toyota Corolla LE: 1-owner, 116k, no rust, A/C, inspected, very clean, $2,750, 991-9969.

1996 GMC Sonoma 4x2 Pickup Long Bed: V6, auto, AC, 139k, runs great, $1,850. 991-9969.

1996 Subaru Outback AWD: 1-owner, 129k, S.C. car, no rust, fully inspected, automatic, $3,350.

991-9969.

Autos 1995 Toyota Camry LE Wagon: 4-Cylinder, automatic, moonroof, runs great, loaded, must sell, $1,450. 991-9969.

1997 Chrysler Sebring JXI Convertible: V6, auto, loaded, spotless, leather, inspected, $1,950.

991-9969 1997 Lincoln Mark 8: 112k, V8, auto, leather, buckets, loaded, very sporty, inspected, $2,950.

991-9969.

1998 Jeep Wrangler-6 cylinder, great condition. 69,000 miles, $5,500 or best offer. 455-6296 1998 Saturn SL2: 4-door, automatic, AC, CD, all power, inspected, runs excellent, $1,850.

991-9969.

1999 Chevy Prizm. 68,000 miles.

California car. Excellent condition.

No rust. $3000.

(603)733-6801.

1999 Mazda 626 LX: 4-door, 4-cylinder, 5-speed, moonroof, all power, new tires, inspected, $2,950. 991-9969.

1999 Mercury Grand Marquis-Like new condition. White with blue cloth interior. 87,000 original miles. Remote start & 6-CD player. New tires & battery. Best used car you will find. Must be seen. Books for $4,600. Negotiable. Laconia. Cell 387-7293 1999 Toyota Camry LE: 4-cylinder, automatic, 112k, new timing belt, fully serviced, inspected, $2,750. 991-9969.

2002 Pontiac Grand Am SE: V6, auto, 119k, new tires, like new, in-

2001 Chevrolet Cavalier: 4-door, automatic, A/C, CD, new tires, runs good, highway miles, $1,950.

991-9969.

2001 Chevrolet S-10 pickup extra cab. 2-wheel drive, 120K miles, tonneau cover, runs good! $1,495/BO. 603-848-0530

2006 Dodge Dakota SLT Only 61,000 miles. 4x4, High output V-8, 4 Door, power everything, towing pkg., heated seats, bed cover, 4 new Yokohama tires. Very Clean. $14,500.

528-6570 BUYING junk cars and trucks ME & NH. Call for price. Martin Towing. (603)305-4504.

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

EXHAUST system taken off a 2011 Ford F-15O. OEM sticker still on it. Like new, $195.

603-930-5222 PRICE Reduced! 2002 Audi A-4 Quantra. Excellent condition. $5,500. 569-9615 TOP DOLLAR PAID for junk cars & trucks. Available 7-days a week.

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

GILFORD. 3 bedroom home for Lease/ option to buy, Owner financing available. Big yard, oversized garage. 603-393-5756.

For Rent

LACONIA 1 Bedroom- Washer/ dryer hookup, storage, no pets.

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

ALTON- 3 bedroom home. Close to town & schools. $1,050/Month.

1st. Month + Security. 630-0675 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, 1 bath duplex. New carpet/paint.

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

617-909-9892 BELMONT: Sunny ground-level one bedroom, private road, deck, quiet country setting. Heat included $695/ month. 455-5848.

CENTER Harbor House- One bedroom, year-round, propane central heat, tenant pays all utilities, tenant does all yard maintenance. No pets/Smoking. credit report required, verified income, references. $400/Month, security. Call between 5PM-8PM 603-253-6924.

CLEAN UPDATED studio and one bedroom in Tilton. Heat/Hot Water included. $620-640/Month.

603-393-9693 or 916-214-7733 Franklin-Duplex/Condo- Large 4-bedroom 1-bath, deck, newly renovated, washer/dryer hook-up, 4-season porch, 2-car parking.

Security & references required.

No smoking/pets. $1,050/Mo. + utilities. 978-290-0801 GILFORD 2 Bedroom 2 Bath Condo. Gunstock in backyard.

Fireplace, gas heat, W/D hookup, no dogs/smoking. 1 year lease, $975/month + security. 455-6269.

GILFORD Small year-round wa terview cottage. Beautifully furnished, perfect for one or two people. 2 minute walk to marina, and possible boat slip available.

603-293-8590 or 603-630-1459.

GILFORD, 2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, Balconies, no smoking/pets, $950/month plus utilities, Security deposit and references, 603-455-6662

LACONIA 1+ bedroom apt. available immediately, includes Heat/ HW, washer/dryer. $800 monthly + security. 528-3840.

LACONIA 1-Bedroom Apartment.

Includes Heat.

Hot Water, Electric. Nice location., No pets/ No smoking. $650/month 630-4198 LACONIA 2 Bedroom. $800/Month plus utilities, no pets.

Security Deposit Required.

520-4353 LACONIA FIRST FLOOR Large 3Bedroom 2-bath apartment.

Storage, deck, parking, washer/dryer hookup, No pets/No smokers, security deposit and references required. $900/Month plus utilities. 875-2292 LACONIA One bedroom, 2nd floor apartment. Private setting with front porch. Large living room with eat-in kitchen. $750/Month, includes heat. No smoking, security deposit required. 455-5253 LACONIA Province St. 4 bedroom apartment. Private parking, laundry, bright & clean, no pets. $1,000/Month + Utilities.

508-423-0479.

LACONIA, Clean, 1 Bedroom Apartment, First Floor, Small Porch, Walking Distance to Library, No Smoking, $695/Month, Includes heat. 524-2507 LACONIA- 3 bedroom house, across Street from Leavitt Park, close to school & beach. Efficient heat with new windows. Covered parking with lockable storage. Security & references required. Pet considered. $1,100. per month + utilities. 937-0157 LACONIA- 3 bedroom house. $1,000/Month + utilities. Pets considered, references & deposit.

524-9665 Laconia- Furnished 1 bedroom.

Heat, electric, cable included. $175/Week. 556-9522

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For Rent

For Rent

For Rent

For Rent

For Sale

For Sale

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: Be warm & cozy this winter. 2nd floor 2-bedroom apartment. Walk to all downtown amenities. Ample off-street parking, coin operated laundry, heat & hot water included. $180/Week. Security deposit required, no pets. (603)267-7949.

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

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

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

TAMWORTH- raised ranch 3 bedroom, 2 bath, $1200 plus security, references required. Tenant pays heat and utilities. One mile Village, great School K-8.

Owner (603)323-7065.

Baldwin Piano with humidifier unit & bench. $850. Easily accessible.

253-4850

CHRISTMAS TREES & wreaths.

Now open! Union Avenue across from Belknap Tire. Jim Waldron 279-8066

Laconia-2 bedroom & 3bedroom Townhouses for rent. $825/$875.

Washer/Dryer hookups. Private yard, full basement, dishwasher & A/C in convenient Laconia location. Heat & hot water included. Call us today at 603-524-4363. EHO, FHO. LACONIA- STUNNING 2 bedroom 2nd floor.

Totally redone: Hardwood floors, tin ceilings, new kitchen, dining room, living room, sun room, storage.

Walk to downtown. $900/Month, includes heat, hot water & parking. 494-4346.

LACONIA: 3 Bedroom Apartment, $1,050/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: Large 3-Bedroom Duplex. Large yard, separate parking. Pets Ok. 1st month and security deposit. $950/mo. Call 630-3126.

LACONIA: 1-bedroom for rent, heat/HW/electric included, no smoking, no pets, security deposit required. $750/month.

528-1685.

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

524-5837.

LACONIA: Gilbert Apartments.

Call for available apartments.

524-4428 LACONIA: Newer 3 bedroom 1.5 bath duplex on Valley St. Effecient natural gas heat. No pets.

Sec dep and reference. $1,000 month plus utilities. Available 12/1. Call Mark 387-7349.

LACONIA: NICE 3 bedroom apartment. Clean, quiet, newly renovated, near park, short walk to town and schools. $1,000/month. Heat & hot water, snow removal included. Washer & Dryer hookups, pets welcome.

Call 524-0703.

LACONIA Winter Rental: 3 Bedroom, 2-Bath home washer/ dryer/dishwasher. Weirs Blvd., Laconia/Weirs. $800/month. + utilities. 393-0458.

MEREDITH 1-bedroom apartment. Main St., convenient to all.

Private entrance and parking. $700/Month plus utilities. No Smoking/No pets. 279-6108 between 6 and 9 pm.

Apartments with Rental Assistance Available NOW!

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

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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 MOULTONBOROUGH- Spacious 1 Bedroom $775/month; Includes heat, hot water, electricity, on-site laundry. Security & references required, no pets. 393-8245 NEW HAMPTON: 2-bedroom apartment. Close to Rt. 93. Heat & Hot water included. $750/mo.

279-5577.

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

524-1234.

NORTHFIELD: 2 bedroom, 2nd floor, coin-op laundry & storage in basement, $215/week including heat, electric & hot water, 524-1234, www.whitemtrentals.com.

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.

LACONIA- ONE bedroom apt. 2nd floor, South Main St. $650/month includes heat and hot water. Call 267-5228 Evenings are better.

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PREFERRED RENTALS Long term rental available in the towns of Moultonboro from $650/ mo, Meredith from $1000/mo, Laconia from $1000/mo, Gilford from $1150/mo, West Alton from $1600/mo. Winter rentals also available. Please visit our website at www.preferredrentals.com for a current list of inventory or call 603-253-7811.

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

PRINCE HAVEN APARTMENTS All utilities included Plymouth, N.H. (Prince Haven has an elderly preference) If you are 62, disabled or handicapped, (regardless of age), and meet annual income guidelines, you may qualify for our one-bedroom apts.

Call today to see if you qualify.

603-224-9221 TDD # 1-800-545-1833 Ext. 118

or Download an application at www.hodgescompanies.com Housing@hodgescompanies.com 40% of our vacancies will be rented to applicants with Extremely Low Income.

Rent is based on your household size and income.

An Equal Opportunity Housing Agent

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

Seasonal or long term. Relocate your business or rent a spot for your toys. 603-387-6827 Weirs Beach- Newly remodeled first floor Two 2-Bedrooms Nice, washer/dryer hook-ups. $900/Month, Heat/hot water included, $500/security Call 279-3141.

BLACK motorcycle boots, men s size 12, $75/obo. Uphill Treadmill w/ instruction book, $75/obo.

552-5247.

CABOT Mills Darn Tough Socks-New inventory.

Ski-Sport-Dress. Some discounts.

Gift Shop, Historic Belknap Mill.

524-8813

GREEN FIREWOOD: CUT not split $140, cut & split $185/cord.

Seasoned firewood $250. 1/2 cords available. Also, logging, landclearing & tree work (All phases). 393-8416 LIFT Chair- paid $800. Only used for 3 months. Still under warranty.

Asking $500. 527-0459 LOOKING to start your own salon? Beautiful furniture, everything you need. 15,000 or BRO. Call Jared, 520-6425.

MILITARY Items: Ammo box full includes circa 1943 canteen, mess kit, rations, etc. 293-8237.

PLAYBOY magazines approximately 75; from 70s and 80s.

Make an offer. 524-1583.

Polar Express tickets available for North Conway, NH Contact lcampbell@purityspring.com for details.

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

Please call Wendy at 366-4316.

Dry Cord Wood. $275 per cord.

Doug 393-5163 or 393-9441

SHELTERLOGIC Portable Garage: 12x20x8 feet (new), heavy duty steel frame, all weather cover. $399. 603-520-1607.

For Rent-Commercial 1700 sq. ft space, residential/commerical storage, Belmont. Perfect for boat, auto or construction.

Heat/ Electric available. $750/month. 718-5275.

LACONIA Prime Union Ave Loca tion. 2 room office suite, ground floor. All utilities. included, except phone.

Rent Negotiable.

603-524-0753 WAREHOUSE/SPACE Up to 4,000 sq. ft. available with on-site office on busy Rte. 3 in Tilton.

Seasonal or long term. Relocate your business or rent a spot for your toys. 603-387-6827

For Sale 1996 3' Annalee Reindeer $250, Hand quilting frame queen size $175, 40” Drafting/Art Table $75, Humidifier $50, Company C Rug Ginkgo Patten 6’ X9 ’ Reg. $1,160/Sell $300. Double sided print rack display stand $65, Mitsubishi TV 36” & 9 ” TV Free.

528-1444

4 Tires, used one winter, Mastercraft 94T 215/60 R15, Glacier Grip II. Paid $425 new, asking $200.

737-2040.

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

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

Smoking OK. Contact 707-9794

BEAUTIFUL cherry armoire. 2 drawers, plenty of storage, room for TV, etc. 80” HX20” DX40”W. Moving, must sell. $200. 2- 23” cable ready Sanyo TV s. $35 ea.

Husky Pressure cleaner, 1650 PSI, $50. Antique butcher block 2 ’ X2’, $250. Call 630-0824 or 630-0825, anytime.

WINNISQUAM: Small efficiency and a cottage including heat, hot water & lights. $150-$175/week. $400 deposit.

No pets.

387-3864.

3’x5‘ Solid Oak dining table with 6 matching chairs. Good condition.

Paid $800/Asking $199.

603-387-7177

www.hodgescompanies.com Housing@hodgescompanies.com

Give Yourself a True Gift with Affordable Housing APARTMENTS AVAILABLE NOW! at

UNFURNISHED 3+bedroom, 2.5 bath condo. Central A/C, Master on 1st floor. Washer/dryer hookup.

Water view. $1,200/month plus utilities.

Sharon 603-420-8254.

BAKERS RACK, entertainment center, living room chairs, coffee tables, fabric rocking chair, kitchen furniture, love seat & more! 279-0641

Belknap County Nursing Home has the following job opportunities for motivated individuals who want to make a real difference as a part of a team that promotes our mission of: To care for our residents, as ourselves, with compassion, dignity and respect.

LNA Positions Available: Full Time 40 hours per week with benefits

7am - 3pm & 3pm - 11pm shifts Part Time 32 & 24 hour positions on the 3-11 shift with pro-rated benefits of vacation, sick and holidays.

All LNA positions include schedules of every other weekend.

Laundry Aide Position Part time 16 hours per week, no benefits Thursday & Friday 5:30 am -1:30 pm

Part time Hairdresser positions: 1 – Part time 24 hour with pro-rated benefits of vacation, sick and holidaysMonday – Wednesday 8:30 am -4:30 pm 1 – Part time 16 hour, no benefits Thursday & Friday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm For more information and to download an application, please visit our Human Resource section on our website www.belknapcounty.org or contact Deb Laflamme at 729-1245.

Applications received by December 9, 2011 will receive primary consideration.

An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/DP/V

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Help Wanted

TENTERS or Tailgaters Christmas- Stainless campers kitchen.

Lantern, pans, cook tools & stove. $250 253-4850

WOOD-BLIND: 2” slats, natural stain, brand new, 48 1/8” wide x 38” long, $30. 293-7682.

26" Sanyo TV: Has a horizontal line through the center. If you know how to fix it, you can have it.

You pick it up. 455-3686.

WINTER/ FALL RUSH

Used Andersen Windows. Hot water heater & other miscellaneous items. Cheap! Call Dave 630-3986 USED office furniture-Good Condition, desks, chairs, file cabinets, bookcases. Cash & Carry.

279-4650

BUYING Gold, (scrap rings, jewelry, etc.) Silver, (coins, flatware, etc. )

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

Waukewan Antiques 55 Main St. Meredith

WOODSPLITTER: Electric/Hydraulic, 14”-20” lengths, great for small stuff/kindling. Like new, paid $400, sell $200. 293-8237.

Furniture 3’x5‘ Solid Oak dining table with 6 matching chairs. Good condition.

Paid $800/Asking $199.

603-387-7177

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

Fabulous back & hip support.

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

Can deliver 603-305-9763.

Teacher/Tutor Opening Alton Central School Alton, NH Alton Central School is a Pre-K–8 school seeking a certified teacher for the following position: Title 1 – Reading Teacher/Tutor Saturdays from 9:30-11:00 Please forward your letter of interest and proof of certification to:

FREE Pickup for your unwanted, useful item garages, automobiles, etc. estates cleaned out and yardsale items. (603)930-5222.

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

Help Wanted BEYOND the Fringe Salon is looking for 1-2 booth renters with strong client base. 20+ hours/week.

Please call 528-7735, leave message.

CBH Landscape Contractors, LLC Laconia Looking for Landscape Maintenance Foreman with snowplowing experience.

Also maintenance crew members for shovel crews. These are full time, year round positions. Valid NH drivers license (with clean record) & positive attitude required.

Call 528-6126 for appointment

Pamela Forbes, Director of Instruction SAU #72 252 Suncook Valley Road Alton, NH 03809

Services

Permanent and holiday season help. Start immediately. Due to fall/ holiday season our company is experiencing a massive product demand opening various positions in all departments and must be filled this week. No experience required. Must be at least 18. Positions available: Customer Service/ set up and display/ appointment setting/ sales and marketing. Call today for immediate interview (603)822-0219. Or text anytime (603)930-8450.

Lost LOST Female small Tabby Cat named Rosie. Last seen 11/30 at 11am, Near Exit 20 in Tilton. $100 Reward. 603-738-4431

Motorcycles Buy • Sell • Trade www.motoworks.biz

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

Personals Sol Acupuncture/Sachem Shiatsu Open House

MATURE, semi-retired, wifeless male seeking non-smoking female companion to share in and enjoy life together. I enjoy quiet times as well as various activities: boating, ocean beaches, movies, TV, dining out (or in) & hot weather.

Interested? Drop me a line telling me about you: J.A.C., Box 8, Winnisquam, NH 03289.

Free Acupuncture, Free Shiatsu. Free food. Live music.

Saturday, December 3rd, Noon-4pm.

Fitness Edge Professional Building, 1st floor, at the Meredith traffic circle.

Real Estate

Please call Heidi at 617-894-0178 or Russ at 524-4780 for more info.

LAKEPORT- Sweet 2-bedroom 2-bath top floor suite for sale.

Located near Park, Beach and Elm St. School in historic restored brick schoolhouse on Washington St. $95,000. 279-5787

Application Deadline: December 15, 2011 EOE

NEED FINANCIAL HELP with the spaying, altering of your dog or cat? 224-1361 Before 2pm.

Roommate Wanted

SECRETARY Wanted: Minimum 2 yrs. experience. Must be trained on QuickBooks. Answering Phone, Data Entry, Good Personality. Fast Learner, full-time 9-5 M-F. Pay commensurate with experience. Fax resume to 524-2109.

Email job@totalsecuritynh.com.

Total Security. Laconia, NH. SHOOTERS Tavern is hiring an experienced line cook for full time employment. Apply in person. 190 D.W. Highway, Belmont. No phone calls please.

Services PROFESSIONAL painter seeking homeowners and landlords who are considering a paint renovation. Free estimates, and reasonable rates. 1-802-780-9040

MATURE person to share single family home. Close to downtown Laconia. Non-smoker, references. $500/Month, utilities included.

603-491-3535 leave message.

TILE INSTALLATIONS

Buy your tile from the box stores but have me install it for much less. Mark (603)452-8181 or for pictures visit myspace.com/aptile.

Services

Snowmobiles

PIPER ROOFING Quality Work Reasonable Rates Free Estimates Metal Roofs • Shingle Roofs

SALES, SERVICE, performance parts. New & used parts, complete line of accessories for Snowmobiles & ATV s. Pre-owned sleds.

Lake City Cat House, 283 White Oaks Rd., Laconia. Open 7 days a week. 524-5954.

Our Customers Don!t get Soaked!

528-3531 Major credit cards accepted

Town of Belmont Part Time Clerk Town Clerk/Tax Collector’s Office The Town of Belmont has an immediate opening for a Part-time Clerk in the Town Clerk/Tax Collector’s office (15 hours per week). A strong background in bookkeeping is required and familiarity with computers and common software programs, as well as other standard office machines. The individual must have a High school diploma or equivalent combination of experience and skills. Pay range $11.23 - $13.41. A copy of the job description for this position is available at Town Hall. The Town of Belmont is an equal opportunity employer. Please submit letter of interest and resume’ to: Town Clerk/Tax Collector Cynthia DeRoy Town of Belmont PO Box 310, 143 Main Street Belmont NH 03220.

Application Deadline is Friday, December 16, 2011.

Date of Notice: December 1, 2011

Storage Space

HANDYMAN SERVICES Small Jobs Are My Speciality

Rick Drouin 520-5642 or 744-6277 JUSTICE of the Peace/Notary: We make housecalls, legal documents, weddings, etc. 293-8237.

LOW PRICE ~ QUALITY WORK

Rightway Plumbing and Heating Over 20 Years Experience Fully Insured. License #3647

Call 393-4949

Clean, dry, secure storage for your cars, motorcycles, boats, household items.24/7 access.Call 527-9229.

Wanted To Buy GUNS and ammunition of any type, make or model: 603-930-5222.

Yard Sale Lakeport Community Association SANTA’S FREIGHT STATION XMAS SALE!

M.A. SMITH ELECTRIC: Quality work for any size electrical job. Licensed-Insured, Free estimates/ 603-455-5607

Friday, Dec. 2nd 5-8pm Saturday, Dec. 3rd 8am-2pm

MR. Junk. Attics, cellars, garages cleaned out. Free estimate. In-

BEHIND LAKEPORT FIRE STATION

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